Chapter 370: Toyota Cup is here

The movie I was going to watch in the evening was Leonardo starring "The Iron Faced Man" which was released this year. Audric sat on a seat with a bucket of popcorn waiting for the movie to start. De Rossi sat next to him. Messi and Agui Luo and the two boys are not interested in the movie. After sitting down, they are drowsy, and may also be caused by too much food.
At the beginning of the movie, De Rossi came together and grabbed a handful of popcorn and asked, "Boss, is this movie telling the truth?"
Aldridge shrugged and said, "I don't know. I don't have a high degree of education. I don't know anything about French history, but the movie is definitely different from history. At least the background of the movie is wrong. The time in the movie is 1662. This group of people is in the Palace of Versailles, which is nonsense. The construction of the Palace of Versailles only began in 1664."
"Eh? Don't you understand history?"
"But I have been to the Palace of Versailles."
He and De Rossi chatted while watching, the two spoke very quietly and would not disturb others.
Talking and chatting, De Rossi suddenly said: "Boss, are you going to Japan at the end of the month?"
Aldridge replied, wondering: "Yeah, who doesn't know about it?"
At the end of the month, Millwall will leave for Japan to participate in the Toyota Cup.
De Rossi turned his head to lick his face and smiled, "Bring me too! I want to see the world."
Aldridge looked weird and said, "Do you think that going to Japan is called meeting the world? Isn't it because you want to be lazy to travel and play?"
De Rossi was broken through his mind, but he was also thick-skinned, saying: "Of course not! I am a training model! Haven't Japanese football been very popular in recent years? Didn't England famous Reinkel play in Japan? Brazil Isn’t Captain Dunga also in Japan?"
Aldrich said with a curse: "Don't think that you can cover up your evil thoughts by saying a few star names. Rest assured, going to Japan will of course take you."
De Rossi's eyes lit up and asked, "Really?"
"There is no need to lie to you, not only you, your teammates will go."
Drosie's face didn't taste right, and sighed: "I can go in the original plan? I knew I wouldn't tell you."
"Ha ha."
When the movie ended, Aguero woke up confusedly, yawning, his eyelids still fighting, and stood up and walked out. Aldridge grabbed him, crying and laughing: "You are going to get lost yourself Rhythm."
The exit is on the left, but Aguero turned to the right...
Messi was awoke after being hit by Aguero and got up and rubbed his face and said, "The movie is so beautiful."
Aldridge pulled Messi's wrist up, put his hand on Aguero's shoulder, and said, "Don't lose it."
He and Aguero are now more of a joke, Aguero has eyes and shit!
When he walked out of the cinema, Aldridge took the three boys to get back in a taxi. As a result, several reporters snapped and snapped in front of them with the camera. After the shooting, he smiled at Aldridge and waved goodbye.
Saying goodbye, actually just covering up, the paparazzi ran to the corner to hide and continue to observe Aldridge where they would go next, even if Aldridge got in a taxi, they followed closely until Aldridge 4 was confirmed People return to the club community before they give up tracking.
Originally, Aldridge didn't worry about it, but the news he saw the next day made him almost spit out blood!
Lace Tabloid vaguely pointed out that Aldridge has a "pedophile"!
Some of the big newspapers that also got this news still have professional ethics. From Aldridge to take young players out to dinner to watch movies and in-depth analysis of Millwall's youth training success.
Aldridge had to ask Andrew to come and help send lawyers letters to some newspapers.
No way, the young man's private life has begun to be suspected.
The outside world thinks that his girlfriend is just a shield. He is either or really pedophile.
Another day later, Millwall held an official press conference.
Club CEO Adam Public announced that all echelons below the Millwall first team have reached a sponsorship agreement with the British company Umbro. The reserve team and youth team training competition clothing and equipment are provided by Umbro.
This news shocked the English football, and even made the entire European football closely watch.
Millwall even the reserve team, the youth team can be favored by the sponsors?
The sponsorship contract is two years, £1 million per year!
This fee is already higher than the sponsorship fee of many first team teams in the Premier League!
Umbro's business representatives are full of confidence in this cooperation.
They believe that Millwall's success is due to the success of youth training. Statistics from the past two seasons show that the number of spectators in the Millwall youth team and reserve team is between twice and twice the average number. .
In addition to Millwall's fans' support, other fans also have the interest to spend low prices to enter to watch their games, and may have admired a future superstar before he became famous.
The Millwall reserve team has won the reserve league championship consecutively. The youth team’s three consecutive championships in the youth league plus the two wins of the Youth FA Cup is an important reason why Yinbao is willing to invest in them. The team will also play against the powerful European youth team when playing in the European War. It has a lot of influence and topics.
All the giants were shocked.
Millwall even packs reserves and youth teams to generate benefits, and it is not a small profit.
Other giants were jealous, but even Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Bayern and so on, such as the excellent youth, they dare not say that the youth team record and the number of talented talents can match Millwall.
The most important thing is, maybe there is still chaos inside the giants. The first team is worried about the pressure of performance. Who cares about the youth team?
Aldrich adhered to the development of the youth training policy and committed to it. After four and a half years, he has laid the prototype of a complete system. As long as the first team can continue to succeed, it will also drive the future business of their reserve team and youth team. income.
CEO Adam is ambitious. He plans to at least double the price of the sponsorship contract with Umbro when Millwall moves into the new stadium two years later!
The club can earn an extra income, Aldridge is naturally happy to see, although Millwall's profit report last season made 14 million pounds, this season will definitely make more than 60 million pounds, because they just sell people in the summer It has earned more than 80 million pounds. Although the salary of the players has been increased and the cost of expenditure has been increased, as long as the record can be maintained, the club's revenue and expenditure can be balanced by excluding transfer income.
But this is not enough, far from enough. The current scale of the club can no longer support the huge consumer market. After the new stadium is built, the overall diversified business chain attached to the new stadium will make the club's income a qualitative leap.
After announcing a new sponsorship contract, Millwall immediately announced his itinerary to Japan at the end of the month, not only to play in the Tokyo National Arena finals, but also against the South American Libertadores Cup champion, Vasco da Gama from Brazil. .
At the same time, Millwall and the Japanese Football Association reached a friendly match agreement. When Millwall went to Japan, he would bring two echelons, a youth team, and a junior team to play two friendly matches on the day before the Toyota Cup. The opponents were Japan. The U21 and the National Junior Team.
In recent years, Japanese football has been vigorously revitalized. In addition to attracting late twilight stars to join the league to increase public attention and enthusiasm, the focus on youth training is coming step by step.
Perhaps these two youth and junior team friendly matches have little intuitive value, but the influence behind them cannot be evaluated with monetary benefits, including incentives for young people, stimulation of football thinking for the public, and so on.
Among them, the sponsor’s behind-the-scenes matchmaking is indispensable. The Millwall youth team played against the European giants’ team. That was Aldridge’s initiative to apply for a match with the other party, but with the Japan Football Association, he really did not want to let Millwall young players use the Japanese youth echelon to train their troops. It feels unnecessary. Even though Japanese football is developing at a high speed, it is not strong enough to be impressive. Millwall is also a tourist mentality.
However, the other party offered an invitation, and some companies gave sponsorship, and Aldridge had no reason to refuse.
Before leaving for Japan, Millwall still has another league game to play, still the London Derby, and the opponent is Tottenham in the north.
The London Derby was rendered as a confrontation between the "Lost Hero" and the "New King".
Fleet Street likes to make eye-catching news.
This does not mean that between Millwall and Tottenham, Tottenham itself can not be called the king of the old era.
It's a comparison between Tottenham's new coach George Graham and Audrey Hall.
Almost when Aldridge was in charge of Millwall, Arsenal, the master of Graham’s creation, entered the stage of decline. The last game played by Arsenal with Graham was the British League led by Aldridge. Millwall was eliminated after defeat.
Then Graham was dismissed. After being banned from coaching by the FA for a year, Graham returned to the Elland Road stadium, but unfortunately the heroism no longer, Leeds United’s record is also very ordinary. When playing with Millwall, As Millwall is in full swing, Fleet Street can't create much topic.
Moreover, Millwall and Leeds have a contradiction. When Aldridge hits Leeds, he always treats the opponent's coach with color.
The reason is that Leeds United fans made racial discrimination against Millwall players when Millwall first appeared in the Premier League season, and it was very serious. There was a large amount of racial discrimination in the stands.
Like Makelele, he still holds his arms. As long as he plays Leeds United, he will be particularly active. Even if he eats on the field and the red card goes off, he doesn’t matter. Aldridge never accuses him. He will defend him after the game. Players It's also a person who needs to vent when he is angry. Under certain circumstances, Aldridge will keep his eyes closed.
Although Millwall fans used to be troublesome, they were very open on racial issues, because East London was originally the region with the most immigrants. Everyone is used to friends with different skin colors, although there are very few extreme fans who have a racist tendency. .
Over the past two years, Aldridge hasn’t said anything to Graham, and he hasn’t shaken his hand. Aldridge is because the opponent is the Leeds United coach. Graham is probably because Aldrich was Saliva humiliation.
Before the Fleet Street game, the flames ignited the two's former hatreds. After all, the two people's positions are different now. London Derby!
Unfortunately, Aldridge is not fooled, Graham is in a worrying situation, Tottenham's bad luck is ranked in the second half, and he has no capital to provoke Millwall.
In such an over-rendered "war", Millwall sat at home with a bloodless edge to defeat Graham's Tottenham, and Fanny staged a hat trick in the game. It is probably that Henry's injury came back and gave him pressure In the game, he defended the main position with a bursting state.
Millwall went to Moscow after winning the fifteenth round of the Premier League. He came off the bench and held a draw. The UEFA Champions League group stage 5 wins 4 draws 1 draw, leading the group stage second place 5 wins 4 wins 1 Negative Inter Milan announced their qualifying ahead of schedule.
After the end of the European War, they began to prepare to travel to Japan to participate in the Toyota Cup itinerary.