The Young Lion

In European football in 2006, the most sensational thing was not Italy's aspiration to the World Cup, nor Millwall's seventh title in the Champions League, but the "telephone door" incident in Serie A.

On the eve of the start of the World Cup, beginning in May, the "telephone door" was disclosed to the investigation, and then the preliminary penalty results were announced. In more than two months, the Italian football has experienced turbulence.

The chairman of the Football Association resigned, the Juventus board of directors resigned collectively, the prosecutor intervened in the investigation, the collapse of the GEA Group, the brand value of Serie A that began to decline since the beginning of the new century, after the "telephone door" incident broke out, Serie A averaged Attendance fell below 20,000!

In the process of continuous fermentation and upgrading of this series of eye-catching events, the Italian transfer market was ushered in by the collapse of GEA Group in Italy, and Juventus general manager Mogi announced that he would withdraw from football and will face prosecution. It also marked the end of the years of Cold War between Millwall and Juventus.

The grudges between Aldridge and Mogi were well known.

And as long as Mogi stays in Juventus, Millwall will not have any contact with Juventus, including player transfers, friendly matches, the same commercial activity, etc., which are all opposing content of the Cold War. Now, Mogi leaves With Juventus, it seems to be very difficult to resume normal communication between the two clubs. After all, the relationship between clubs and clubs was changed, not individuals.

Juventus have been deprived of the league title for the past two seasons, and AC Milan has almost missed the Champions League next season. Fortunately, in the final decision of Italy, AC Milan's penalty was reduced to allow AC Milan to participate in the Champions League next season.

When such a catastrophic situation came, Lippi led Italy to win the World Cup championship, which is not a small miracle. After all, when the head coach understands that if the people are scattered, the team will not be easy to bring, and the panic of Italian football, There are also international football teams facing investigations and being accused of being suspected in the national team.

On July 25th, Millwall's new season preparations have begun. In the summer of the competition year, Millwall will not go outside to play commercial games. Instead, he organized a small friendship cup titled by the sponsor at the Lion King Stadium. Inter Milan, Bayern Munich, Lyon came to participate.

At this time, Aldridge was still paying attention to the Italian football, and did not rush.

On this day, the result of the judgment of the telephone door in Italy (second trial) announced that it could almost be said that the telephone door had settled, and the penalty was not allowed to turn over.

Among them, Juventus was the worst. Not only were they deprived of two league titles, but they were directly shot down to the second level!

The fine imposed on Juventus is only a small amount, not worth mentioning, but the negative impact of the accusations suffered by Juventus is difficult to describe. With the fall from Serie A to Grade B, the future financial revenue will be greatly reduced, and not only Only one season.

It is conceivable that last season, Juventus had the league and the revenue of the Champions League.

Next season, only the second division.

Even if he returns to the first division next season, there is still no Champions League income.

The lowest buffer is two years.

But it also counts the losses caused by sponsors abandoning them!

In May, Juventus' stocks began to depreciate rapidly, and when the penalty was irreversible, it was almost a pile of waste paper.

In order to ease the huge financial pressure, Juventus had to sell the star.

At the end of July, Aldridge led the Millwall negotiating team to board the club's exclusive flight to Turin!

As soon as he got off the plane, the Italian media reporter who got the news came to the airport to "greet".

Recently, Turin has been very lively, and has almost become the European player trade market.

Teams interested in the players in Juventus sent representatives to flock.

After many reporters took photos and wanted to meet the interview, Aldridge steadily walked outside the airport. Before getting in the car, he received a call and saw a caller ID, he couldn't help smiling.

"Hi, old friend, every time I come to Italy, you always greet me first, ha ha."

The caller really surprised him: Galliani.

AC Milan also suffered punishment. Galliani, as one of the accused, was not allowed to participate in football affairs within a year before the final penalty was reduced, similar to "a year of suspension."

"Oh, I saw the news, but I didn't expect that you would take the initiative to go to Turin. Oh, the relationship between Millwall and Juventus..."

"At this moment, I don't have any revenge. Even Juventus always fight against Millwall at the G14 summit, but we have to show some demeanor. Anyway, they are also allies of our G14 group. Now Juventus Mills is in trouble, and of course Millwall is coming to send warmth."

Juventus' downgrade, in addition to the earthquake effect in Italy, also has a certain impact inside the G14. Since it was not for the European war, plus the "telephone door" incident, Juventus's position within the G14 is bound to plummet, and The power of Italy in the G14 will be jointly supported by AC Milan and Inter Milan, although Inter Milan is the biggest beneficiary of the "telephone door", but in G14, Inter Milan’s status will not be greatly improved, resulting from the European War In any case, Inter Milan can't be compared with AC Milan's reputation and influence, but fortunately, Millwall and Milan have a good relationship. They only need to support Millwall.

"Ha, haha, cough cough, send warmth, send warmth, um, which player Juventus did Millwall look at?"

Galliani also stopped talking and went straight to the subject.

Listening to his tone, Aldrich guessed that AC Milan also seemed to be planning a deal with Juventus.

Let's send warmth together.

"Old friend, if the content of your conversation with me is exposed, is it bad for you? You seem to be banned from participating in football affairs? Why? It’s uncomfortable if you don’t work, right? Or you say first, AC Milan Which player of Juventus."

The other end of the phone was silent for a long time.

AC Milan really wanted to take some players from Juventus, including 28-year-old Buffon!

Galliani called to have a spying military idea, and turned back to AC Milan to quietly report a letter.

But he really can't guess which player Aldridge was aiming for when he came to Turin this time.

Maybe you want to bring Trezeguet back to Lion King Stadium?

Camoranesi is not bad.

Buffon...

Galliani was really a little bluffed by Aldridge. If he and Aldrich discussed the transfer of players, the content of the phone was exposed. In this sensitive period, he is in the top of the crime. For the case being appealed There is no slight benefit.

"Haha, old friend, I was kidding. If you want to know, then I will tell you."

"Don't, don't, I just called to say hello! Just a simple greeting!"

"Hi, just chat, don't worry. To be honest, Millwall's goalkeeper position needs to be changed, so I'm here to see if I can invite Buffon to join Millwall."

"Oh, oh, good, good, then I won't disturb you, all the way."

"Thank you, if you have time to come to Turin, we can have dinner together."

"No, no, I've been busy recently, busy."

Aldridge hangs up the phone with a smile after getting on the bus.

Whether AC Milan is interested in Buffon, he doesn't care.

He just came to make trades normally and didn't want to be involved in too many intriguing games.

The team from Millwall arrived at the Juventus Club in the storm.

The former chairman has become an honorary chairman. With the collective resignation of the board of directors, Juventus' management also ushered in a major reshuffle.

The new chairman is Geely.

This is an open and formal player transfer negotiation.

Millwall didn’t hide, and Aldridge’s personal presence represented the club’s ambitions.

In front of Geely, after the initial exchanges between the two parties, Aldridge went straight to the theme, and immediately showed that he wanted to buy Buffon. The transfer fee was priced at 25 million euros!

As Buffon, who maintains the value of the world's first goalkeeper transfer, this price is low.

However, as analyzed by the Italian media, even if Buffon transfers to AC Milan, the latter will not be able to withdraw more than this amount of cash, and may even have to use players to offset the price.

After several hours of negotiations, Millwall finally raised the offer to 35 million euros!

Faced with this very attractive price for Juventus, Juventus' new management did not agree in a single word. They just took a step back and gave Buffon the choice. If Buffon was willing to transfer, then The deal was negotiated. If Buffon did not want to, Juventus would have to spend most of his time trying to get rid of the iron and sell the iron.

It is undeniable that Buffon is 28 years old this year, and his appearance rate is not stable, always accompanied by minor injuries and illnesses.

Juventus is now considering that as one of the biggest heroes to win the World Cup, Buffon's worth is now the highest, and the more he will be, the cheaper his worth will be.

Second, how many years does Juventus need to return to Europe's top ranks? Juventus management is not aware of it now, nor dare to have too optimistic illusions.

Two or three years later, Buffon is over 30 years old. What will happen to the level of competition?

No one dared to pack tickets.

In terms of playing in the second division next season, Buffon’s stay at Juventus is definitely an overkill.

The price given by Millwall is very sincere.

The difference between the 51.4 million euros spent by Buffon’s transfer from Parma that year was only 16.4 million euros. Moreover, the transaction was also liquidated in Italian football that year. How much money Tus spent, only this year's party was aware of this account.