The summer transfer season has kicked off and Millwall, as always, have been frighteningly quiet when it comes to signings.

The fans are used to it, and so is the media.

Few are expecting Millwall to bring in a heavyweight in the summer.

In the past few years, it has been proven that many giants have not been able to buy famous stars, and Millwall has also shown a position from the operation of the transfer market to the outside world that has been interpreted as adhering to the policy of youth development.

Aldridge actually wants to buy some stars who can play and have an immediate effect.

But after a lot of research in the transfer market, I always dismiss the idea.

He doesn't like it when he's old, and he's too valuable.

Younger people don't sell it.

Even if the young stars that may be brought by spending money may not necessarily have a positive effect on Millwall.

Some stars don't feel good, a talented shooter like Owen, a pure shooter, if Millwall spends money to buy him, why let Vanney go?

Some stars are bought as a bomb, Anelka has to make an ambiguous declaration in front of the media from time to time, Aldridge is not interested in spending money to buy guilt.

And like some hopeful stars who can't stay in other giants, such as Kanu, Aldridge doesn't want to grab it with others, and if you really grab it, how much money you spend is secondary, which may make the players feel very proud of themselves.

In the end, he found out the reason, not that he couldn't find the player he wanted, but that the player he wanted had already been recruited by the youth team, and if he couldn't dig it, it was basically labeled as not for sale by other clubs.

After Manchester United reached the Champions League, Schmeichel left Old Trafford for the Portuguese Super League, and Ferguson bought Bosnich as his successor. At the same time, it also poached the new French star Silvestre. Plus the transfer of Ruud van Nistelrooy. Manchester United spent almost £20 million.

Arsenal have spent a lot of money this summer, Pennant, Kanu, Diawara, Luzny, Mars, Silvinho, Suke. Arsene Wenger spent almost £20 million on the Gunners' squad.

Tottenham still gives people a chaotic attitude, buying some "broken copper and iron" from the middle and lower teams, and investing a total of 10 million pounds to give the fans an explanation.

Chelsea's "superstar policy" is still continuing, Deschamps, who is over 30 years old, came to Stamford Bridge, Sutton, who once had a brilliant record with Shearer, also wore the Blues shirt, plus Melchiott, Ambrosetti, Tomei and others, Bates wrote a check for 20 million on reinforcements, but I don't know how far Chelsea's financial deficit has become.

Liverpool has been sinking for many years. This summer, Hollier not only started cleaning up the hot buddies. The club has also given a big budget, Husky, Hamann, Smitchell, Westerved, Hencauer, Kamala Liverpool have spent more than 35 million pounds! The net investment also exceeded 20 million pounds.

With other clubs making waves in the transfer market, Millwall does seem unattended.

But one day in mid-July, Millwall and Leeds United officially announced a transfer news at the same time, shocking England.

"Sixty million pounds! Ten Millwall players move to Leeds United! ”

As soon as many Lions fans who lived their lives step by step heard the news, they burst into smoke in their nostrils!

Sixty million pounds!

How much beef can you buy?

Ten players transferred away?

Simply change Millwall's name to Leeds United!

But calm down and think about it carefully, and the fans themselves will think that maybe there is a fuss.

I used to live a poor life, and it was no problem to buy one Millwall for 60 million pounds, but three for it.

But now it's completely different, sixty million? Even if it's in the main lineup, at best, there are three or four people.

Fans took a closer look at the official announced deals, especially the 10 players who left.

There are basically only three players who are familiar to most fans.

Ferdinand, Duff, Mills.

As for the youth team, the U20 players in the reserve team, many fans don't know each other, and they don't usually go to the reserve team or youth team games, of course, there will be a sense of strangeness.

After learning the details, the fans were relieved.

None of the main players left, they all went as substitutes, and it was good for the long-term development of the team to get 60 million pounds.

And some high-profile young players have not left, such as Joe Cole, Villa, as for the same period of comparison to feel like Miguel and the like of the green leafy role, the fans directly ignored it, and the green field is afraid of contrast and foil, young players like Paulson, Dunn, Vassell, etc., put them in the reserve team or youth team of other Premier League teams, that must be the focus of cultivating potential new stars, but in Millwall's youth team, sorry, the sense of presence is slightly weak, and there are people who are more brilliant than them.

The transfer news caused a stir not only in England, but also in European football.

People are curious, Leeds United almost bought a set of Millwall 2 + 3 team integrated team, such a transfer strategy is effective?

Millwall's youth training is well known, but some semi-finished products are packed and taken away, can they be trained and formed?

If Leeds do manage to achieve breakthrough success with this summer's sensational signings, other clubs will certainly follow suit.

This sparked a wave of public opinion on Fleet Street.

Some industry insiders believe that Leeds United is gambling on their lives!

Sixty million pounds in transfer spending, what are you kidding, do they have sixty million pounds in net income a year?

Two years ago, the club with the highest operating income in Europe was Manchester United, how much did it earn? It's more than 50 million pounds, and if you count the expenses, you can only earn more than 10 million pounds a year.

Millwall have made a lot of money every year in the past two years, in fact, operating income and expenditure are in a state of balance, and the money they make is to sell people in the transfer market, but their prospects are worth looking forward to, because their income on match days is not even in the top 10 of the Premier League, and when they move into the new stadium, they dare not say that they have usurped the throne. At least the top five in Europe are fine.

Chelsea's debt problems have started to surface. Leeds United have followed Chelsea's example of the big borrowing spend. Many are not optimistic about Leeds United's prospects, even predicting that Leeds United and Chelsea will go bankrupt within four years.

Not only the transfer fee of 60 million, but also their sudden increase in salary expenditure, which is the same problem as Chelsea, in order to recruit high-level players, the salary package must be higher than the normal level, and when it is difficult to return, the club has fallen into the dilemma of making ends meet year after year.

But a significant portion of the industry believes that a big investment like Leeds represents their ambitions. Ritzdale and O'Reilly have teamed up to make a real move in the Premier League or European football!

Didn't they qualify for next season's League Cup?

It is imperative to expand the squad and increase the thickness of the bench.

Among these 10 people, only three can challenge the main team, and the others could not play as a substitute at Millwall, and if they can get a substitute position at Leeds United, it will be considered that their career is going up.

As for the £60 million investment, it sounds shocking, but in fact Leeds United can't afford to spend so much money year after year, they are spending money for the future, assuming that they only invest £5 million per season in the future, then looking back at this account after four seasons, they only invest an average of £20 million in the transfer market every season.

That's compared to Tottenham. Compared with Liverpool's transfer policy of buying a few unpopular players every year in the past few years, spending 10 million to 15 million pounds per season, Leeds United faces only one test: improve their performance as soon as possible!

Any club that invests heavily in the club. They don't just want to make a difference in the Premier League, but they also want to carve up the big cake of the Champions League.

The Champions League has expanded to 32 teams this season, and the number of places in the mainstream league is also increasing, and there are only three teams participating in the Premier League this season, but with the points earned by Manchester United and Millwall in Europe in the past three years, by next season, the Premier League will definitely be able to get four Champions League places.

Did Ritzdale put pen to paper?

Is Liverpool's spending of more than £30 million in the summer a brain drain? Their chairman even smashed the pot and sold iron to the club and paid the club himself, is it just pure love?

Can't Bates see Chelsea's rising debts?

Arsenal have plans for a new stadium, but they have spent £20 million on expanding their squad in the summer.

All kinds of heroes have come up with money to improve their strength, and everything is to obtain greater benefits.

It would be a fool's dream to say that Leeds United will challenge the order of the Premier League powerhouses in the next two years, but as long as they can enter the Champions League and are not playing soy sauce, then Leeds United's investment today may be the foundation of the next decade's glory.

Admittedly, there is no guarantee that Leeds will definitely play the high expected record, but if Leeds are to make a difference, Ritzdale will have to give O'Reilly a better hand.

Turning decay into magic is not a common thing in football, and the magic of turning stones into gold, now only Aldridge-Hall is recognized by the media as a typical, but if O'Reilly wants to break through in the new season with the deck of cards from last season, it is not that the outside world looks down on him, but the law of the Premier League is like this, but if a team performed very well in the previous season, if there is no significant improvement in strength in the second year, it cannot be said that it was beaten back to its original shape, but the predicament encountered is obvious, Those first-year men who were defeated will not be willing to be knocked out in a row on the same enemy.

Yorkshire's white roses were in full bloom and O'Reilly was excited to hold a press conference to welcome the new signings and show off their new shirts in a high-profile manner.

Ritzdale was also red-faced in an interview, and the spring breeze was proudly talking.

'Leeds already have a great squad of players, great coaches, and our loyal fan base, so I am confident that Leeds will be an unshakable force in English football in three years' time, bringing back trophies for the fans and returning to the glory of Leeds United as they climbed to the top level."

Leeds United have been in the spotlight in England this summer, and their move deal with Millwall is destined to go down in the annals of history, with success and failure being a summer that will be talked about for many years to come.

Many people wondered what Aldrich thought of Ritzdale's statement.

Millwall made money, Leeds United got good players, did Millwall erect a strong opponent for themselves?

Aldridge didn't have time to deal with the public opinion turmoil in the outside world, the people who were going to leave the club had already been clean, and Millwall was a little chaotic in the first half of the summer, but everything came to an end with a group of players led by Rio Ferdinand switching to Leeds United, and Millwall was on track and started the summer recruitment. (To be continued......)