Chapter 10: Lend money before lending an individual

Millwall's signing work is far from over, and even Andrew is more active than Aldridge. After leaving Italy, he went to Northern Europe to take a turn, bringing Aldridge back two who have not signed an official player contract. Players.
21-year-old Ole Solskjaer and 17-year-old Jesper Grenchar who have not debuted in Molde.
There are a few more candidates to add to the Aldridge lineup, and a heavyweight transfer is still in the pipeline.
Although there are already two people in the goalkeeper position, the first-team regular configuration of three talents is considered insurance, so Aldridge picked a 17-year-old Richard Wright.
In the rougher League One, it is normal to save a few more strikers. Aldridge used only 10,000 pounds to discard the Saint Southampton youth training from the English semi-pro club Podick. Ven Phillips took to the Lion's Cave Stadium.
Bradford is still fighting in the second level, Aldridge poached their central defender star Dean Richards for 250,000 pounds.
Long before the World Cup kicked off, Aldridge sent the second offer to other clubs after finalizing Southgate's transfer. He asked Feyenoord of the Netherlands for the other's striker: Henrik Larson.
Although Feyenoord is regarded as the top strong team in the Dutch First Division, it is financially unable to compete with a club like Ajax. It is not good to say that they are only smaller than the mainstream league. The team has a glorious facade.
Aldrich's first purchase price was 500,000 pounds, and the other party refused, but the tone was not very certain. When Aldridge raised the price to 1 million pounds, the other party immediately started further negotiations on the price, and the final transfer price was fixed at Over £1.25 million.
The price of this agreement was set half a month ago, after the World Cup kicked off.
If it was early July now, Feyenoord would definitely strike Aldridge hard, and at least fix 2 million pounds.
When Millwall officially announced a lot of heavy signings, especially Southgate, Thuram, and Makelele were all transfer prices of more than 2 million pounds, those hindsights sold players to Austria. It was only at the club of Delige that the 18-year-old upstart was a silly bonnet!
A year ago, the British transfer record was just created by Manchester United with £3.75 million in Roy Keane.
You know, last summer, the total investment of 22 Premier League teams in the transfer market added up to no more than 60 million pounds!
Aldridge is in charge of Millwall's Premier League team, almost topping the transfer of three Premier League teams!
But this transfer is in a stalemate phase. On the one hand, Larson is playing for the World Cup on behalf of Sweden. On the other hand, he is hesitant to join a club in the English second-level league, even if Aldridge opened. Generous salary contract and termination clause.
Larsen's wait-and-see and hesitation gave Feyenoord a chance to repent. After the World Cup ended, Feyenoord immediately sent someone to Sweden to privately express his hope that he would refuse to transfer.
At the same time, Aldridge also went to Sweden. He didn’t need to tell Larson that it was a mess. Millwall’s investment in this summer has shown the ambition of this team, and it is mainly based on the youth army. Sen is about to turn 23 years old. Although he is definitely a young player in other teams, there is no doubt that in Millwall, he will be an important player of the team, and in terms of fame and strength, it will also be this. The backbone of the team.
The Feyenoord club turned out to be clumsy. If they didn’t send someone to persuade Larson, perhaps Larson might not have joined Millwall, but they allowed the players to go back after the transfer, just to knock on Aldridge. For a sum of money, this is very disgusting to Larson. Players are commodities. This is a cold fact, but no player will really treat himself as a commodity, especially a famous player.
Aldridge finally reached a handshake with the humble and low-key striker in Sweden. In the new season, the Swedish striker will win the wall for Millwall!
Since the Ligue 1 kicked off on August 12, the team’s training session was in late July, and Larsen, who participated in the World Cup, Aldridge informed him that he could come to the team to report in the first week of August .
On July 19, Aldridge looked at the list of players in his office and felt that the signing was over.
Goalkeeper:
Catherine Keller.
Hans Yogel Boot.
Richard Wright.
Guard:
Gareth Southgate.
Yap Stam.
Dean Richards.
Marco Materazzi.
Lilian Thuram.
Gianluca Zambrotta.
Lucas Neal.
Midfielder:
Patrick Vieira.
Pavel Nedved.
Gnarro Ivan Gattuso.
Claude Makelele.
Michael Ballack.
forward:
Robert Pires.
Jesper Grenchar.
Bernd Schneider.
David Trezeguet.
Luca Tony.
Luther Van Nistelrooy.
Henrik Larson.
Kevin Phillips.
Ole Solskjaer.
There are 24 players in the first team.
Aldridge looked at this list in deep contemplation. The full-back seemed to be a little weak. There were only three people in the concept. However, Lucas Neal and Zambrotta both eat on both sides, as did Marklele. Playing as a full-back, and later changed the back to play for the national team, but Aldridge wanted to directly play him into the back, otherwise it would be too wasteful.
And the team's three-line general on the center line of the front and back three lines is what Aldridge can rely on. Southgate on the back line, Nedved in the midfield, and Larsen is naturally on the front line.
It’s just that the position of the wing forward is slightly weaker, Glenn Carre is still young, if Pires and Schneider are injured, Nedved can take care of on the left, but there are fewer attack points on the right, Aldridge Thinking about it, he really doesn't want to focus his hopes and energy on some talented players.
In the transformation of the team, it is necessary to go step by step. In the league such as the League One, the side pass is unsuccessful. If you want to play technical flow, the rough foul will suddenly make the team collapse, so the traditional side Road 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 pass is gradually shared from the traditional full-back and the full-back, which is also the development of modern football Trends, diversification and comprehensiveness of player roles.
Aldridge was talking about the right road, right road, right road, and then, he remembered a person, although it is impossible to dig, but he can borrow it first.
If you want to do it, Aldridge intends to visit the old Scottish man who was proud of last spring.
Recently, the Millwall Club has gradually calmed down. This month has been a roller coaster for fans.
First, the club took the team to the coaching staff, and then went to the first team for a big wash.
Then, the news of the club’s signings came one after another. Although for Millwall fans, only stars like Southgate were familiar with the signings, but it was enough to inspire. What is better than stealing the derby The opponent's captain is even more crazy?
Aldridge did a business that was fast enough to get him support from fans!
This is similar to the star that later Frentino came to the stage to dig up the enemy.
And some fans have roughly calculated the capital that Aldridge invested in the transfer this summer and got an amazing number: £12.6 million!
This is an exciting number!
How much did Manchester United invest in the summer transfer market last year? District 3.75 million.
What about the year before last?
1.1 million.
Obviously arithmetic can’t be done like this, because Aldridge is to overthrow the entire club and rebuild. The Premier League team transfers every summer as a supplementary lineup. It’s rare to see a broken lineup that is only as big as Blackburn. Spreading money is a big deal, but it is also just introducing a few stars whose strength is confirmed.
Aldridge's investment this summer will have any results. At least the authors of the football column are not optimistic. Originally, Millwall was nobody's attention, but Aldrich's repeated moves have made people have to pay attention.
Aldridge waited outside the club, intending to let Andrew lead him out of London, and Aldridge knew the way better than tourists.
Soon, Andrew drove a luxury car to the front of the club and smiled at Aldridge: "Where do you want to go?"
"Manchester, I want to visit Manchester United's coach."
Andrew looked surprised, shook his head after a moment of pondering, "It's not easy, I'll get someone to help you first."
After he finished, he got out of the car, went to the club to make a call, and then took Aldridge to the train station in London.
I bought three train tickets to Manchester at the train station. Although Aldridge was curious to whom the third train ticket was prepared, he did not ask.
In the waiting room, Aldridge saw a man in a suit and leather shoes, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, but his hair was curly but not sloppy. He looked gentle and courteous, and came to Andrew and hugged with a smile , And then formally walked in front of Aldridge and smiled: "Jason Ferguson, fortunately, before I could always hear Andrew mention you, you are a legend of the Hall family."
This compliment was too explicit. Aldrich reached out and shook his hand and smiled: "Audrich Hall, Jason, Ferguson, don’t, oh, Mr. Ferguson is your father."
Jason Ferguson nodded with a smile, and then extended his hand, the three of them were ready to board the train to Manchester.
"I called the family just now, and my father just had time to see you."
Aldridge smiled and thanked, 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 careful recollection, he probably knew the reason.
Jason Ferguson is Ferguson’s favorite son. After the establishment of the Premier League, Jason worked on Sky Sports. However, in the football circle, he was just Ferguson’s son. When he left the football circle, Jason was worthless. Compared to the Hall family who has real money, Andrew also has an independent brokerage company. In London, it is not surprising that Jason and Andrew know each other at the same age. It can even be imagined that Jason is the one who fought Andrew.
Aldrich knows how this Jason Ferguson will come. Even the time and space that Aldridge has experienced, after the Manchester United Board of Directors was informed that Ferguson will sell Stam, Stam will turn. Meeting Lazio, which made the Manchester United Board angry and shocked, even Sir Bobby Charlton was dissatisfied with Ferguson, and behind this transfer, there was a figure of Jason Ferguson when he had left Sky TV joined a Manchester brokerage company. Although it caused a lot of trouble to Ferguson, it was subdued by the affection of Ferguson.