Chapter 421: 5 minutes to **** and heaven

From Melanie's due date is getting closer and closer, the days of Millwall's pre-season training are also in sight, and Aldridge will be absent for a while during the team's summer training.
Club CEO Adam came to Liverpool with a guilty face to meet Aldridge.
"Sorry, boss, I failed to convince them to stay."
Adam was angry and frustrated that Ferdinand and others left the team.
Almost since June, his work has focused on retaining Ferdinand, Duff, and Mills, but the efforts for more than a month have not achieved any results.
Aldridge warmly entertained Adam in the living room at home. Although Melanie stood her belly, she also took the style of a hostess to treat guests. Both of them liked this feeling and made them look like ordinary couples. the feeling of home.
"Don't care, our conditions are too far away from the conditions of Leeds United. They choose to sign a better contract, which is natural."
Aldrich no longer wanted to think about why Ferdinand, Duff, and Mills were determined to transfer.
Maybe it's making a lot of money, maybe it's not wanting to play in Millwall.
Regardless of him, just leave.
not give a about.
"Boss, we should make a decision on the preparations for the summer."
Adam put the teacup behind his depressed mood and turned to the topic of the conversation.
"Well, say sorry to Inter Milan, Ajax, and Dortmund. The plan discussed last year was temporarily canceled, but it can be carried out in the future. In addition, help the club contact Atletico Lisbon, Feyenoord, Lever Kusen, the Genk Four Club, invited them to play pre-season warm-up in London. Tickets can be divided into more. We will move into the new stadium next summer. We can arrange as many games as possible at the Lion’s Cave Stadium. Come on, there are still quite a few of the fans who are hard to give up on the old stadium."
Adam remembered everything Aldridge said.
In fact, at the G14 summit last year, Aldridge had some ideas with some of the rich family members, that is, the European giants organized a team to play pre-season friendly games on other continents. They had agreed with Inter Milan this summer a few months ago. Ajax and Dortmund went to North America for a turn. Although it may not have an immediate market effect, it is good for the future to lay the popularity base in advance and have a familiar face.
When UEFA has not fully entered the capital era, some old ideas and hypocritical arrogance still hang over the heads of many giants. They believe that Europe is the center of the football world, representing the top level in this field, at the club level. If the backward countries or regions do not send invitations, they will seldom take the initiative to promote their own brands, and even if others come to ask, they will also ask for a high appearance fee, which makes some sponsors or organizers retreat. In the era of rapid development of media consulting, many quasi-majors with outstanding performance and some giants lag behind their competitors at the same level in the market share, especially the influence of global international reputation. Until ten years later, this gap is reflected in business operating income. In the middle of time, many giants began to catch up in the global strategy.
Millwall has always focused on international publicity. Taking the United States as an example, Americans may not care about football. Football does not even rank in the top five in American sports, but there are still football fans in the United States, and these care about football or love football. Of the fan community, which is their favorite club? Millwall! why? Because in the US Internet, all the websites that are linked to football, throughout Europe, only Millwall is promoting, and the fans of other teams are mostly attracted by sports brands such as Nike and Adidas.
Due to the rapid development of Millwall's business operations in recent years, other giants have heard Millwall initiate such business operation proposals and want to give it a try. Millwall does not want to go to other continents to engage in preseason games and become a unicorn. Like last year’s trip to Asia, it was almost all the way to abuse vegetables, and the influence of manufacturing is really limited. If you find a few giants to go together, its sensation, influence, and attention will bring you the same, cake. Very large, one person can't finish.
Aldridge can't get away at this time, and the plan to prepare for the preseason will also change.
"Boss, that club's summer signing plan?"
Adam is still more concerned about the construction of the club lineup. The only thing he is criticized in the industry now is that he is not like a football manager, but more like a simple businessman.
It's not that he didn't want to intervene in team building, but in this respect, Aldrich was in the dark. Players' introduction or transfer was decided by Aldridge. Adam wanted to find a newcomer, but what did he do? In vain.
"You don't have to worry about this. I have called the club's negotiating team. They have already started work. I want to talk to you about another thing."
Aldridge talked to Adam in the living room for an afternoon.
Three days later, Millwall officially announced that the Lion’s Cave Stadium will undergo small-scale reconstruction after they move into the new stadium. In the future, it will be used as a venue for the youth team and the reserve team, and will not be abandoned or auctioned for other uses.
Once the news was announced, the fans of the Lions, especially the local fans, were extremely excited and applauded the club’s decision.
They still have feelings for the old stadium, even though the club is now famous in Europe and has won a lot of honors, but the lion cave stadium symbolizes the past and is an indelible part of their club history and fans' memories.
Aldridge hadn’t thought about how to deal with the Lion’s Cave Stadium before. He envisaged learning from Arsenal, after moving into the Emirates Stadium, to convert Highbury into a special residential area for sale...but it seemed to have lost hundreds of millions of pounds.
Now that he has money and the club has sufficient funds, Aldridge hopes to preserve Millwall’s historic buildings intact as a heritage of memory. After ten years, twenty years, fifty years, whether it’s Fans are tourists. When they come here, they can walk through these buildings, look for traces of the past, and explore the historical context, so that their club culture is more complete and continuity.
At the same time, Millwall is also building new football schools in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Each school has 10 free learning places each year, and rewards the most talented ten young players in the summer training. .
This is not only a strategic plan for the club to expand the material selection channel to promote the club brand, but also expand the club's influence in various fields of the football circle. For example, if they build a football school, there will be more coaches, but not all coaches are in line with Mil. Wall’s requirements, so the coaching textbooks written by Aldridge last year became a must-have for Millwall’s training coaches. Millwall not only cultivates excellent young players every year, but also trains many young coaches. In Wall's future global promotion plan, they will all be useful.
Fleet Street was shocked by Millwall's big moves.
David Miller ridiculed in the column: someone spent a lot of money only to build a comfortable house, but Hall wanted to build a skyscraper.
France, Lille Youth Football Academy.
A young boy with a scarred face walked out of the academy with a backpack and lost his soul, looking back at the academy signboard reluctantly.
He was abandoned.
After spending three years in this college, at the age of 16, he became an "abandoned child".
He walked on the street aimlessly, not knowing where the road was. Maybe, he should go home and start again.
When walking across a street corner, a grand car stopped in front of him. A young man in a suit and leather got out of the car and stood in front of him, blocking his way.
Poorly born, he subconsciously gave way and didn't even raise his head to look at the other party.
"Hi Frank, can we talk?"
The scar-faced teenager raised his head in surprise, looking at the well-dressed young man, very puzzled, why would the other party know me?
"Introduce myself. My name is Clayton and I work for the English football club Millwall. We have been following you for a long time. Now we are inviting you. If you want, you can go to London with me now. The club manager Mr. Hall said However, you don’t need to try out the training, just enter the team’s youth team."
The scar-faced boy was shocked and speechless.
He had just been abandoned by Lille Youth College, less than 5 minutes out of the door, but Millwall, a four-time champion in Europe in four years, took the initiative to invite him to join? !
Is this prank?
"Frank, oh, maybe I am too presumptuous, Ribery, can we find a place to sit down and talk? If you need your family to be with you, you can call them now, and you can also consult the Millwall official , To verify my identity, find a computer with Internet access, log on to the official website of Millwall, you can find the contact information of the club, it will never be faked, if you are not at ease, we can contact French acquaintances to let you I believe, for example, Lear’s new coach Harry Hotzic, Mr. Hall and he are old friends, but Mr. Hall specifically said, try not to alarm Mr. Harry Hotzic, otherwise, Lille may prevent you from leaving."
The young Clayton was the first time to persuade players to join the club on his own. He didn't want to mess up. He opened his mouth and played all the cards.
If Aldridge is present, he must be scolded.
You say this, if 16-year-old Ribery is a personal elite and doesn’t want to leave France, he goes directly to Harry Hodzic and tells the other party: Millwall is interested in me. Will Lill still want me now?
In 1996, Harry Hodzic, who was watching European Cup together with Aldridge, occasionally chatted with Aldridge over the phone over the years, especially when he led a team to France, so his friends are still in a circle. As for disassociation, it is the norm of communication.
With Harry Hodzic just taking over Lille in the French second division, it is estimated that his eyeliner can not reach the youth college. It really let him know that Millwall sent an invitation to Ribery, and it is estimated that Ribery will definitely be left. And focus on training.
Fortunately, 16-year-old Ribery didn't have so many flowery intestines, and followed Creighton cheerfully to the nearby cafe to learn more about joining Millwall.
Ribery is concerned about money, he can’t afford to go abroad to play football, but Millwall will give him a professional contract, and the advantages of the English football are directly reflected. Although he can’t earn big money in London, he has enough food and clothing. No problem, it can grow in a better environment.
Clayton was relieved, and the invitation to Ribery did not fall into his hands.
Two days later, he took Ribery back to London. Club CEO Adam personally signed a contract with Ribery, leaving a commemorative photo, and then Ribery entered the youth team.
PS: Harry Hotzic, the coach who led Algeria to a 4-2 victory over the stick a few days ago, is well known for his iron fist, and he was very tough after winning the stick game...