The Young Lion

Before Millwall's preparations for the new season arrived, they had already made a lot of moves in the transfer market, and they were in line with their usual development policy, and plan ahead!

Different from bringing players back to Leo Training Base in the past, the players that Luozhi basically bought this summer and then rented them out. The club has scouts to track the player's performance throughout the process and regularly report to the club.

But at home, Millwall made a deal that surprised the outside world.

Bell, who had just turned 16 in the summer, came to Millwall for training. He basically passed the assessment of the Millwall coaching staff. Although it does not seem that he is particularly outstanding, only the speed item is outstanding.

Millwall accepts trial training from many players from all over the world every year, so even if Bell passes the trial training, it is just the one who looks inconspicuous.

However, after returning to London, Aldridge selected a number of players who passed the trial training and selectively signed the contract. Bell was specially marked with a work instruction focused on cultivation.

So Millwall asked the Southampton Club for a price of 3 million pounds, and finally sold for 5 million pounds. With additional terms, this transfer may reach 8 million pounds.

Fleet Street's assessment of this transfer is divided into two factions. One faction praises Southampton for making a good deal, earning a net £5 million at no cost, and possibly earning an additional £3 million.

The other faction praised Millwall in advance, and believed that Millwall had made a good deal, and Bell, who hadn't had much dazzling aura, was put on a genius hat!

No way, Fleet Street has been hit by numbness in these years. Mill Walken spent more than 5 million to buy a 16-year-old "child". If this "child" is not a genius, no one will believe it!

Half a year later, Wenger took away another "genius" from Southampton for almost the same price: the little tiger Walcott.

Millwall's summer preparations will go to Asia for training. This is a tradition of Millwall. In the summer of the competition year, players need more time to rest, and non-competition years can be commercialized.

The first team assembled and left London on their own plane.

All of a sudden, Leo Training Base changed from Mentingruo to Mencora.

In fact, there are fewer paparazzi!

The most-watched first-team star players are not here. Who still runs here to find news?

Bell's transfer received great attention from the outside world in the early stages of its finalization.

However, when broadcasting news, most of the media did not know the child, and did not understand it at all. He generally knew that he was a full-back when he received youth training in Southampton, and he was immediately in awe.

Because Millwall does not lack a full-back, the young ones include Ram, Ramos, Baines, veterans Schneider, and Neil.

Regardless of how much attention Bell has given to the outside world, in fact Millwall treats young players in addition to spending different energy on training, but can maintain the same posture in attitude, no one is special.

This could not reduce Bell's excitement. He came to London with his family and settled happily, and began his football career in Millwall under the supervision of his family.

Even if he was not interested, he could not affect his enthusiasm.

Two days after the first team went to Asia for training and commercial promotion, Bell came to the club to report.

For a 16-year-old child, Millwall didn't even hold a transfer ceremony for him, just officially released a message. After all, he didn't have a jersey in the first team. The youth team was waiting for him.

Bell was very excited, so he came early.

When he proudly told the guards that he was a Millwall player and came to the training base for training, he didn't mind the guards preventing him from inquiring.

After confirming his identity, the guards let him in and pointed him in the direction of the youth team.

Bell trot and waved: "Thank you, but I admit the way, I've been here before!"

It seems that in the minds of many young people with dreams of football, as long as they have been to this prestigious "superstar cradle", it is a great honor.

When he came to the training ground of the youth team, he only reacted: came too early!

The training ground was empty.

But there was still a figure on the sidelines that caught his eye.

Large trees will be planted on both sides of the training ground for wind protection.

On the big tree near the training ground, a car tire was hung. At this time, a small young player was wearing a training suit and practiced his footwork. He naturally kicked a ball more than 15 meters away to the center of the tire. .

Bell trot past, ready to say hello, but in the process of running past, he was surprised that the small player's footwork is particularly good, almost ten shots, can hit the tire center 8 times.

You need to know that the tire is suspended, and the ball is placed in front of that person at different angles and in different directions.

Bell is excited!

This is Millwall.

Where seemingly insignificant, there is always a blockbuster manifestation.

The man started to pick up the ball, and Bell also ran near, he beckoned: "Hi, I'll help you!"

The man turned his head to look at Bell, exposing his thoughts, and seemed to think Bell was familiar to him.

Bell also froze, shouting: "I know you! We played hands a few months ago."

The person who trained here alone is Aguero.

He didn't enter the first team, so he didn't follow the first team to Asia. Today, with nothing to do, he came to the training base early to start training alone.

His mood has been a bit low recently.

Aguero, who stood on the spot, tried hard for a long time, and he saw that the reason Bell felt familiar was simple.

Bell's appearance is easy to remember.

That is definitely not a public face.

Aguero confirmed where he had seen this face, and more than once.

When Bell said they had played, Aguero was even more entangled, and could not remember it.

"Hello, my name is Gareth Bale."

Bell extended his hand first. He was more impressed than Aguero because he came here to play a few months ago. Aguero is the most dazzling star on the field and looks like his peers.

Aguero reached out and asked in doubt: "Garez? Is Gareth Southgate's Gareth?"

For a moment, Bell didn't expect the other party to say such things. After thinking about it, he replied: "Uh, it should be right."

"Oh hello, my name is Sergio Aguero, and my friends will call me KUN, um, I remember, Gareth Bell, you just joined Millwall, right? You? Where to kick?"

Aguero’s mood is not high, one reason is that he has come to London for many years, from the moment he came here, he was branded with Millwall, and in his growing years, the club’s hero Naturally, they are the objects of the most admiration and longing to fight side by side.

However, he didn't wait until he could enter the first team, but some seniors have already retired, which makes him very sorry.

It’s also instinct to ask Bell where to play.

Even if Aguero knew in his heart that his opponent was going to compete, the figures to be chased were Henry, Villa, and even Ronaldo, Messi, but there were newcomers, just to find out if the other party was in the same position with himself, There is a competitive relationship.

Bell scratched his hair and seemed a little embarrassed: "Uh, fullback. You should know."

He felt embarrassed, because the opponent's words obviously didn't remember the last match between the two sides.

They had a head-to-head confrontation, er, Bell defeated.

Aguero sorted out his mood and smiled at Bell, saying, "Welcome to Millwall."

After all, he continued to pick up the ball, intending to continue his foot training.

Bell really helped him pick up the ball, but he talked a lot, and a curious person was interested in everything.

"Coach Najib told me to train with the youth team, how about you? Are you also on the youth team?"

"I was in the youth team last season. In the new season, I should be promoted to the reserve team. After all, the Youth League, the UEFA Youth League and the Youth FA Cup seem to have no challenges."

"Uh... can I go to the reserve team? I want to play with you."

"It shouldn't work. There are rules here. Those who came to the team under the age of 18, no matter what your ability, at least stay in the youth team for the first half of the season.

"why?"

"The tradition of Millwall, you must first learn everything here, plus, no one knows you, you can be recruited into the first team at any time, you have to let everyone know you anyway, The coaches will allow you to enter the reserve team."

Bell held two footballs in a state of distraction.

It seems that he really came to Millwall and found that his vision was not the same as reality.

Aguero set the ball again and was ready to continue training, but he saw Bell in a daze and called out: "Garez, you come and try."

Bell was embarrassed and walked past with a scalp and tried to shoot a two-footed ball, but he failed to hit the bullseye. He said embarrassedly, "Uh, I rarely practiced like this before."

Aguero shrugged: "I have seen a lot of players in England, they rarely practice technology, the full-back can play like you, it's not bad."

The gap between Millwall and the traditional training system in England has become apparent in recent years, and even the quality of training in other countries has declined.

Because there is a clear trend in football training, that is, industrialization, as if football players are beginning to be produced on the assembly line.

So much so that now the German football emperor Beckenbauer claims to promote street football, and the Dutch celebrity Cruyff is also attaching importance to street football in traditional training programs.

European football itself lacks aura and freedom compared to South America, but in technical training, this can be improved.

Millwall has insisted on strengthening the technical training of players for many years, and regularly participates in street football games every week, in order to improve the technology, and to prevent the thinking of playing football from becoming rigid. Unfortunately, Millwall is still relative to the entire English football. Very small, and technical training is closed. Street football is also considered as homework, and it is difficult to attract the attention of the outside world.