The Young Lion

After winning the Toyota Cup, Millwall set off on his way home. The players had not rested for a long time on the plane. The quality of the rest was not high. Returning to London, Aldridge took another day off for the team. They did not return to training until two days before the weekend of the league. field.

After jogging with Ewen in the morning, Aldridge had breakfast with her. Something went wrong with her car and sent it for repair. Aldridge drove her to the club with her.

On the way, Yiwen asked curiously: "Is Japan fun?"

Driving the car, Aldridge shook his head and said: "I didn't go to play, it was either a commercial event or a game."

"Don't you have an affair?"

"Oh, huh, no."

"Find time to go to Japan and have fun once?"

"Without this idea, there are too many people in that country. I have to work in a stadium of tens of thousands of people every week. When I travel, I must first try to be quiet."

"Eh? Is this crowd phobia?"

"Two things, I'm not afraid to communicate with people."

The two chatted happily along the way, the club arrived soon, Aldridge came early, had a rest yesterday, and wanted to get to work early today.

At the gate of the club, he stopped the car and looked curiously at the gate security guard and a little girl in a confrontation.

The little girl looked about ten years old, with a beautiful appearance, good facial features, plain dress, and no fancy visual sense of boys and girls.

"What happened?"

Aldrich export inquiry.

The person on duty at the door is Berry. He is in his thirties and has worked here for more than four years. He is a veteran employee of the Aldridge era. He can often chat with Aldrich.

The conscientious man replied: "Mr. Hall, this kid said he was going to find coach Fiona, but coach Fiona has not yet come."

Aldridge looked at the little girl, his mouth flattened slightly aggrieved.

Taking out his mobile phone to find Fiona's phone, Aldridge dialed and found the other party's phone turned off, so he smiled and asked, "What is your relationship with Ms. Fiona?"

"She is my mother."

"What's your name?"

"Rosie Whitley."

Aldrich thought about it, and security guard Bailey was afraid that Aldridge mistakenly thought he was not close to humanity, and explained: "Mr. Hall, she can't prove this, I can't let her in."

Aldridge nodded with a smile, understanding Bailey's difficulties.

Two years ago, little fans posing as club staff or relatives of players mixed into the club just to get close to idol stars.

At that time, there was a farce still fresh in memory. An Eastern European immigrant posing as Nedved’s younger brother... The club staff was really deceived at the time, and received the other courteously and courteously. When Nedved came, the so-called "" The half-brother directly threw himself up to hug Nedved, and Sergey told his admiration in his ear.

"Get in the car, I'll take you in, and Ms. Fiona will come to work within an hour."

"it is good."

Whitley glared at the security guard Bailey before getting on the bus, and was very dissatisfied with the behavior that Bailey had rejected her just now.

Bailey pouted, little child, not as general as her.

"You get on someone else's car so easily, don't you have no sense of crisis?"

Ewen turned his head in the co-pilot position and smiled at Whitley sitting in the back seat.

Whitley didn't take it seriously: "I knew him, I saw it in the newspaper, and my mother also talked about him, Aldridge Hall. I'm not a stupid kid, I came to London from the country alone, There is no danger!"

Aldridge drove to the parking lot and smiled: "Ms. Fiona has talked about me? What did she say about me?"

Whitley rolled her eyes and said, "She praises you and says you are a great person!"

"Ha ha ha ha... Yi Wen, she is an elf ghost, where is the simplicity of the countryman?"

Yiwen also smiled.

Who would just praise when talking about others in private?

Still great?

Yiwen said to her, crying and laughing: "You talk to please him, he won't give your mother a salary increase or a bonus."

Whitley's eyes rolled again, a serious one: "Actually my mother said that he is sometimes rigid."

"Very good, your mother's salary this week is gone!"

Aldridge said solemnly with a stretched face.

Whitley was anxious and shouted, "Hey, why are you like this? Praise you, you don't appreciate it, just say a little bad things, you are so bad!"

Aldridge replied unkindly: "You have a lot of thoughts, why should you deliberately be hypocritical?"

Whitley groaned her cheeks and said, "My dad told me, let me come here to talk to adults and have a sweeter mouth."

"What is your father?"

"Run my family's farm."

"Don't listen to your father, people in the city are not stupid, and flattering is not as direct as you."

When the parking lot arrived, Aldridge got out of the car. He touched Whitley’s head and smiled: "This sister will take you to wait for your mother. If you want to visit here, we are very welcome. Let’s get acquainted. Aldrich Hall."

Aldrich probably used to be in an equal posture with the child, the big hand touching her head fell, and bent down to shake her hand.

Whitley stared at Aldridge's face up close, seeming to become a little nervous, his hand reaching slightly cramped.

When the big and the small hands were held together, Aldridge could not help but say: "This is the first time you shake hands with others?"

Whitley nodded embarrassedly and said, "Yeah, so grown, someone shook my hand for the first time."

"Big? How old are you, don't say it, bye."

Aldridge made eye contact with Ewen for a moment, then waved his hand and turned away.

Whitley stared at his back thoughtfully, and Ewen then took her to the club's office building, and along the way, Whitley Twitter asked Ewen about Audric.

When the training time was approaching, the players came to the training ground one after another. Aldridge and Klinsmann were exchanging the training plan. The team’s laborers returned from the expedition. The training intensity is usually not good. Adjustment.

The fitness coach Fiona was late and walked in front of Aldridge as soon as she arrived, saying earnestly: "Audrich, sorry, my daughter came to London to visit me and caused trouble for the club."

Aldridge waved his hand and said, "What trouble? Without any trouble, she is very sensible and a good boy."

Fiona didn't say much anymore. After working with Aldridge for more than three years, she knew that Aldridge's temperament was not the kind of selfless and impersonal guy.

Under the warm-up of mature fitness coach Fiona, Millwall's new day of training began again.

The weekend league opponent is Leeds United. Millwall not only has more away games after the European War, he even has to play away after playing a Toyota Cup. This schedule is really bloody!

At Elland Road Stadium, Aldridge stood on the sidelines to direct the team. He felt a sense of powerlessness from scalp to ankle.

The team played so badly!

Obviously, a pair of opponents can't beat the opponent's visual sense, and the success rate of passing and receiving has also dropped significantly.

In the 41st minute of the game, Schneider made a direct pass in the backcourt to find the winger Glenchard. The result was a little light. Glenchard wanted to be behind the ball. As soon as the ball came out, he rushed forward and found the ball in two steps. He couldn't get through at all, so he wanted to go back and catch it, but late, Leeds United full-back made a quick counterattack after grabbing the ball.

Australian star Kewell took the ball on the wing and cut in directly and then hit Matrazi behind. Hasselbaink pushed the goal diagonally and shot the far corner of the goal.

"Leeds United led Millwall at home 1-0. This goal came from Schneider's passing error. After being counterattacked by Leeds United, the cooperation between Kewell and Hasselbaink was impressive. David O'Reilly's team is much better than people expected. Does anyone still miss Graham on Elland Road? They already have a young coach O'Reilly, er, sorry, with Hall present , The word marshal really shouldn't be used on other people."

David O'Reilly, who played Arsenal's legend for more than 15 years, spent the last two years of his career at Leeds United. After Graham's Spurs, he took the pointer and led Leeds United in the Premier League for a while. The youth storm, its momentum is not inferior to that of Millwall's time-honored debut.

Aldridge was helpless on the sidelines.

In the past week, the team spent nearly 30 hours on the plane, two days of business activities, one day from the preparation to the end of the Toyota Cup, the most terrible thing is to pour two jet lag, adjust the body clock, the players are not here today State, he was prepared, but he did not expect the gap to be so great.

The reason for the poor performance is clear at a glance, but the head coach's adjustment on the spot can't make the player's extremely poor physical condition full of blood.

Originally, Millwall was playing anti-anti, deliberately strengthening the defense, but there was a desperate Sanlang Alan Smith in the opposing team. The youngster who just got a contract in the new season will never stop running on the court. It is not to say that other Leeds United players are not as hard as he is, and the key is his position. O'Reilly made Smith a partner for Hasselbaink. Smith is more like a defensive striker, tirelessly harassing Millwall's defense.

Schneider's passing error came from Smith's aggressively killing him, and the pressure of the pass was not well controlled under pressure.

In the box at Elland Road Stadium, Leeds United Chairman Ritzdale and his assistant watched the game here. After Leeds United scored a goal, he celebrated. When the score at the end of the halftime did not change, he turned his head and started to communicate with the assistant. Human expressions are a little serious.

"In a recent football professional agency evaluation report, Millwall's club value reached 170 million pounds."

His assistant said.

Ritzdale was thoughtful.

Before 1994, or before the summer of 1995, how much was Millwall Club worth?

Worthless, and still lose money!

Because they defaulted on the new stadium plan, the contract with the contractor was nearing the deadline for breach of contract.

If there is no capital injection from the Hall family, Millwall must be on the road to bankruptcy or borrowing debt.

But in just a few years, Millwall's value has soared, and it is now second only to Manchester United, Liverpool, and Arsenal.

"What is the focus of this value assessment?"

Ritzdale asked quietly.

The assistant quickly replied: "Player value accounts for more than 70%."

This is not surprising, Millwall’s club infrastructure is not worth much at all, and even Leo Training Base surpassed the Lion’s Cave Stadium in its asset evaluation.

And when their players are included in the club's asset evaluation, their value will not be held high. Larson is valued at 10 million pounds, Nedved is also 10 million pounds, and Henry is devalued, 6 million pounds.

The reason is that the value of the players fluctuates too much. In addition, there is a relationship with the contract period. In case the players transfer freely after three or four years, the club will not receive a penny, so the value of the players will be discounted in the evaluation. .

Ritzdale murmured: "If there are no good players, how much is Millwall worth?"