Millwall's recruitment efforts are far from over, and even Andrew has been more active than Aldridge, who left Italy and then went around the Nordics, bringing back two players who have not yet signed a formal contract.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who is 21 years old and has yet to make his debut in Molde, and 17-year-old Jesper Glenschal.

There are still a few candidates left to add to Aldridge's squad, while a heavyweight transfer is in the pipeline.

Although there are already two people in the goalkeeper position, the regular configuration of three in the first team is considered safe, so Aldridge picked 17-year-old Richard Wright.

In the more brutal League One, it would be normal to stock up on a few more strikers, and Aldridge spent just £10,000 to bring Saints Southampton academy shootout Kevin Phillips from English semi-professional club Podick Town to the Lions' Den.

Bratford are still struggling in the second division, with Aldridge poaching their centre-back star Dean Richards for £250,000.

Long before the start of the World Cup, Aldridge made a second offer to another club after finalising Southgate's transfer, and it was to ask Feyenoord of the Netherlands for the opposing striker: Henrik Larsson.

Feyenoord are a top team in the Dutch Bundesliga, but they can't compete with clubs like Ajax in terms of financial resources, and to put it mildly, they just have a glorious façade compared to the smaller teams in the mainstream league.

Aldridge's first offer was £500,000, but the other party refused, but the tone was not very sure, when Aldridge raised the price to £1 million, the other party immediately launched further negotiations on the price, and finally the transfer price was fixed at 1.25 million pounds.

The price of this agreement was set half a month ago, after the start of the World Cup.

If it were the beginning of July, Feyenoord would definitely knock Aldridge hard, at least £2 million.

When Millwall officially announced a lot of blockbuster signings, especially Southgate, Thuram, and Makelele all had transfer prices of more than 2 million pounds, those clubs that sold players to Aldridge realized that the 18-year-old nouveau riche was a spendthrift fool!

A year ago, the British transfer record was set by Manchester United, with £3.75 million Roy Keane.

You must know that last summer, the total investment of the entire 22 teams in the Premier League in the transfer market did not exceed 60 million pounds!

Aldridge is at the helm of a League One team at Millwall, almost as much as the transfer investment of three Premier League teams!

But the transfer has stalled, with Larsson playing for Sweden in the World Cup and hesitant to join a club in the second tier of England despite Aldridge's lucrative salary contract and termination clause.

Larsson's wait-and-see and hesitation gave Feyenoord a chance to repent, and immediately after the World Cup ended, Feyenoord sent someone to Sweden and privately expressed to Larsson, who had returned home for vacation, that he hoped he would refuse to transfer.

At the same time, Aldridge has also gone to Sweden, he does not need to talk to Larsson, Millwall's investment in the summer has already shown the ambition of this team, and it is mainly in the youth army, Larsson is about to turn 23 years old, although he is certainly a young player in other teams, but there is no doubt that at Millwall, he will be an important player in the team, and in terms of fame and strength, he will also be the backbone of this team.

Feyenoord FC is clumsy, if they don't send someone to persuade Larsson, maybe Larsson may not necessarily join Millwall, but they reversed themselves after allowing players to transfer, just to knock Aldridge for an extra amount of money, which makes Larsson very disgusted, players are commodities, this is a cold fact, but no player will really treat themselves as commodities, especially players with fame.

Aldridge finally shook hands with the humble striker in Sweden and agreed that the Swedish striker would be attacking Millwall for the next season!

With the League One kicking off on 12 August, the squad training camp was held in late July, and Aldridge, who was involved in the World Cup, informed him that he could report to the team in the first week of August.

On July 19, Aldridge looked at the roster in his office and felt that the recruitment was over.

Goalkeeper:

Kaseli Keller.

Hans-Jörger-Bout.

Richard Wright.

Fullback:

Gareth Southgate.

Yaap Stam.

Dean Richards.

Marco Materazzi.

Lilian Thuram.

Gianluca Zambrotta.

Lucas Neal.

Midfielder:

Patrick Vieira.

Pavel Nedved.

Genaro Ivan Gattuso.

Claude Makelelele.

Michael Barak.

Striker:

Robert Pires.

Jesper Glen Shire.

Bernd Schneider.

David Trezeguet.

Luca Toney.

Luther van Nistelrooy.

Henrik Larsson.

Kevin Phillips.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

There are 24 players in the first team.

Aldridge looked at the list and fell into deep thought, the full-backs seemed to be a little weak, there were only three people in the concept, but Lucas Neal and Zambrotta were both two-sided, Makelele also played full-back at first, and later switched to midfielder for the national team, but Aldridge wanted to make him a full-back directly, otherwise it would be too wasteful.

The team's central axis of the three lines of the front and back will be Aldridge's reliance, Southgate in the backline, Nedved in the midfield, and Larsson on the front line.

It's just that the full-back position is a little weak, Glen Schal is still young, Pires and Schneider can be juggled if they are injured, Nedved on the left can be both, but there is less attacking initiation point on the right, Aldridge thinks about it, he really doesn't want to put his hope and energy on some players who are not talented.

In the transformation of the team, we have to go step by step, to deal with a league like League One, the side cross is tried and tested, if you want to play the trick flow, the rough foul will collapse the team at once, therefore, the traditional side tactics can never be abandoned, even in the Premier League, this is also one of the important tactics in the next two decades, but the role of the side cross from the traditional full-back and full-back gradually shared, which is also the trend of modern football development, the diversification and comprehensiveness of the role of players.

Aldridge muttered about the right, the right, the right, and then he remembered a man who, though impossible to dig up, could borrow and use first.

Aldridge plans to visit the old Scottish man who was proud of last season.

Millwall FC has been on a rollercoaster ride of events in recent times.

First of all, the club went up to the coaching staff and down to the first team for a big purge.

Then came the news of the club's signings, and while only Southgate's share was familiar to Millwall fans, it was inspiring enough to be more insane than poaching the captain of a derby rival.

Aldridge made a deal that was enough to get him the support of the fans quickly!

This is similar to the stars of later generations of Florentino who came to power to poach their sworn enemies.

And some fans roughly calculated the transfer funds Aldridge invested in this summer, and got a staggering figure: 12.6 million pounds!

That's an exciting number!

How much did Manchester United spend in the summer transfer market last year? A mere 3.75 million.

And the year before last?

1.1 million.

Obviously, arithmetic can't be counted like this, because Aldridge is tearing down the entire club and rebuilding, and the Premier League team transfers every summer to supplement the squad, and it is rare to have a broken squad renewal, and only a big money like Blackburn is considered a big deal, but it is only the introduction of a few stars whose strength has been affirmed.

What will be the result of Aldrich's investment this summer, at least the writers of the football column are not optimistic, Millwall was originally no one paid attention to, but Aldridge's repeated big moves made people have to look sideways.

Aldridge waited outside the club, intending to let Andrew show him the way out of London, Aldrich knew the road no better than the tourists.

Soon, Andrew drove a luxury car to the front of the club and smiled at Aldrich: "Where do you want to go?" ”

'Manchester, I want to visit the manager of Manchester United.'

Andrew looked surprised, pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "It's not easy, I'll find someone to help first." ”

With that, he got out of the car, went to the club to make a phone call, and then drove Aldrich to the train station in London.

Bought three train tickets to Manchester at the train station, Aldrich, although curious about who the third train ticket was for, he didn't ask.

In the waiting room, Aldrich saw a man in a suit and leather shoes, wearing a pair of trimmed gold wire glasses, his hair curly but not sloppy, he looked polite, came to Andrew and hugged him with a smile, and then formally walked up to Aldrich, stretched out his hand and smiled: "Jason Ferguson, fortunately, I have always heard Andrew mention you before, you are a legend of the Hall family." ”

This compliment was too explicit, and Aldridge reached out to shake it with the other party and smiled: "Aldridge-Hall, Jason, Ferguson, is it, oh, Mr. Ferguson is your father." ”

Jason Ferguson smiled and nodded, then reached out and the three of them prepared to board the train to Manchester.

"I called home just now, and my father just had time to see you."

Aldrich smiled and thanked him, and couldn't help but think a lot after getting on the train.

He didn't expect Ferguson's son to meet Andrew.

But after recalling carefully, he also roughly understood the reason.

Jason Ferguson is Ferguson's favorite son, after the establishment of the Premier League, Jason worked at Sky Sports, but in the football circle, he is just Ferguson's son, and leaving the football circle, Jason is worthless, compared to the Hall family has real money, Andrew has an independent agent company, in this place in London, Jason and Andrew are not strange to know each other of similar age, and it is even conceivable that Jason is the same age Andrew.

Aldridge knows how good this Jason Ferguson is, and even in the time and space that Aldridge has experienced, from 6 hours after the Manchester United board of directors was informed by Ferguson that Stam would be sold, Stam transferred to Lazio, which made the Manchester United board of directors angry and shocked, even Sir Bobby Charlton was dissatisfied with Ferguson, and behind this transfer, there was Jason Ferguson, who had left Sky TV and joined a Manchester agent. Although he caused a lot of trouble for Ferguson, he was calmed down by Ferguson, who loved his son.