Chapter 12: What the **** is there to be happy about?

Before the 21st club training day, Aldridge received Jenson and his party from London to London in London. A total of 13 new coaches will join the Millwall club.
Aldridge took this pedestrian to visit the club, and then established a new club coaching staff, two new youth team coaches, two reserve team coaches, 9 people remaining, Jenson is Aldridge’s assistant coach, front line The team coach left four more people, and four others formed an intelligence gathering group.
This group is dedicated to observing the opponents of the team’s league, researching the opponents of the next game, including the status of the opponent’s players, the pros and cons of the skills and tactics on the field, at least three days before the start of the game, Aldridge must receive such a report .
After setting up the coaching staff, Aldridge came to a converted hotel not far from the team's training ground, accompanied by Adam and other club staff.
This hotel was bought in the name of the club. It will no longer be open to the public. The interior decoration is simple. The facilities required by Aldrich are all available. The team's new medical department and restaurant are in the hotel.
Even in 1994, it is difficult to imagine the neglect of medical treatment in English football. Many traditional and powerful club team doctors, or sports trainers, are mostly loyalty rewards given to employees by the club for working all year round.
Even as a fan, who can imagine that a worker who manages turf will become the "team doctor" of the top team after he gets old?
This is naturally related to the football club's consistently conservative style.
Later, Redknapp Jr., who played for the Red Army for ten years, was abandoned by the team, but he chose to go out for medical treatment because he could not stand the team's "quack doctor". This behavior is "apostate" for the traditional English football club. Therefore, the heroes of the ten years were abandoned and left.
Aldridge does not have the conservativeness of the English club in his heart, nor does he intend to integrate into the wrong tradition. He needs the most advanced and professional medical department to ensure the health of players worth millions and millions of pounds now and in the future!
It is unreasonable to give players worth hundreds of millions of pounds to someone who is not even mediocre, but it is still a common phenomenon in English football.
After visiting the hotel, Aldridge left Adam and planned to talk about the construction of the future team. Although everything was empty talk before the result, he needed to give Adam a reminder.
"I saw the situation of the new stadium that has been put on hold. I have an idea. That stadium has not yet been formed. It is better to transform it into a new training base. The new stadium is looking for another place. And the construction scale must accommodate at least 50,000 people. , The surrounding area should be able to drive commercial development..."
Aldrich’s words made Adam unable to take it. In the end, he could only helplessly say to the young boss:
Sir, I made a budget. To be honest, as of now we are not doing any unplanned construction to maintain the ball. The current operation of the team is up to two years. The current team funds can only maintain the team’s operation for two years. Even if it is promoted to the Super League after two years, we still cannot operate. Of course, if the Hall family will have subsequent capital injections, Everything is another matter."
After Audridge heard his thoughts, he was still anxious.
The current salary level of the team is already the top team in the Premier League.
Although the Premier League has the highest weekly salary of tens of thousands of pounds, but more players are only a few thousand pounds, most of them are even less than a thousand pounds. In general, Aldridge’s first-team players, plus have not been sold With more than a dozen players left in the reserve team, the salary burden over the year is probably in the top ten in England, and Millwall's ability to make money is certainly not one-tenth that of Manchester United.
Relying only on selling tickets, I am afraid that the small stadium will not even have 3 million pounds of income in a year. As for the sales around football, the sales channel that can’t even go out of East London, how much can you expect to make?
TV broadcasts, game bonuses, which are pitiful in the League One.
Therefore, Aldridge has only one way left.
Not even like what he said to Barnett before. In three to five years, he has only one year. If he can’t be promoted next season, he will not only lose Makelele, Thuram, Lal with zero return. Sen, top players like Nedvide, I am afraid that even the funds for the comeback are gone.
Aldridge didn’t talk to Adam about any future plans anymore, and it seemed to be a long way to go. Let’s wait until next time this year.
In recent days, Andrew has been very busy. He has left the Millwall club and worked intently as an agent. He signed a lot of players at a stretch. These are also new players of Millwall. As an agent, He already knows the responsibilities of this line, not only to extract players' transfer income and salary commission, but also to provide players with legal obligations, financial management, life, and future planning.
These players are not well-known in England. Even Southgate is only a standard capable player. Andrew and his staff are busy in East London. Fortunately, the Hall family invests here and some real estate It is very convenient to deal with business, install comfortable apartments for these new players, and provide translators for players who do not understand English. As long as the players have needs, even if they are call girls, Andrew will help arrange after the admonishment.
With Andrew's meticulous help, the young players who have made "big money" start to feel the benefits of the agent.
The World Cup has just ended, but Larson did not return to the team according to the date after Audridge extended the holiday. On the 21st, the player admired by the young players appeared on the team's training ground.
Aldridge’s team can be said to be newly formed, but no one feels lonely. The German players include Bout, Schneider, Barack, the Netherlands, Fanny and Larsen from the Dutch League. , Several young players in Italy will not feel lonely, only Nedved from Eastern Europe may be difficult to integrate into the team, but because he is already a member of the national team, plus being gentle, many players are around Beside him.
Aldridge took the coaching staff towards the training ground. Like other coaches, he wore the club's traditional dark blue sportswear.
Andrew next to Aldridge is in a suit and leather shoes. He came here to complete some work procedures with Aldridge. There are several translators to be arranged into the coaching staff to help players who do not understand English in the team quickly integrate into the team environment.
"Is the FA team going well?"
"Well, Pavel is already a member of the national team, and he doesn’t need to be a famous guest to be a lobbyist. He has submitted the materials plus 100,000 pounds. Everything is done. Rest assured, there is no trace left. As long as Pavel performs well, nobody Check the old case."
Andrew whispered in Aldrich's ear.
Aldridge is relieved that Nedved does not have an EU passport, so he needs a labor certificate to transfer to England. Although he is a member of the national team, his appearance record obviously does not meet, but in fact that 75% of the appearance standards are not rigid, there are With a lot of flexibility, and now that English football is still filled with countless black gold, Aldridge submits materials to the FA, while allowing Andrew to operate from the side, it is a matter of course.
If Nedved is a youth team player, even if there is more black gold, I am afraid that the transfer will be difficult, but after all, a member of the national team, the future is great, even if the Czechoslovak disintegration two years ago. But Aldridge believes that Andrew’s 100,000 pounds of black gold has played a key role. The small temple of Millwall has a negative reputation for the entire English football, and there is no attraction in the game. .
Naturally, no one cares about the introduced players.
Before entering the training ground, Andrew explained a few sentences to several translators, and then waved goodbye to Audridge.
Seeing Aldridge come with a group of people wearing coach shirts, the players on the training ground automatically stood in two rows, many of them were young players aged 17-18, full of hope for the future, but did not Yuncai's enthusiasm, facing the young head coach and boss, each is respectful.
A bit like a gang fight, Aldridge brought the coaches to the players, the coach behind him also fought in a row, Aldridge seemed to stand alone in front of him, he looked calm, the first time with the entire ball The team meets collectively and Audridge needs a fresh start.
He looked like the head of the review troops. He walked from the left to the right of the two rows of players. After making eye contact with each calm-looking player, he nodded gently.
After this lap, Aldridge came directly in front of the players and spoke softly.
"Millwall has a 109-year history, and in this 109-year history.
English Premier League Championship: Zero.
English League Cup: Zero.
England FA Cup: zero.
And, have never participated in the three European Cup.
Congratulations, you have come to a club with a hundred years of history but zero championships! "
Aldridge's words were very light and slow. Only the last sentence was said in a very solemn tone, and he deliberately used the simplest English to narrate, which allows players who have just learned English to understand.
Of the 26 members of the first team, only Beckham and Phil Neville appeared absent-minded. They were loaned here for exercise, and they naturally looked down on this century-old club with no reputation and notoriety.
But the other 24 players had different looks. The young players looked at each other, it seemed that they realized what kind of club Millwall was.
Aldridge suddenly opened his hands solemnly and asked, "Aren't you upset?"
The players are stupid.
What the is there to be happy about? !