The Young Lion

Yue Lang star is sparse, late at night, Aldridge and Carter sit opposite each other in the back garden. With the dim light, the outside world does not know that the two most important characters of the Millwall Club are brewing. A storm that shakes Europe and the world!

And this is the prologue to the changes in the pattern of European football collapsed into the new century!

"What is far?"

Carter and Aldrich have discussed the club’s response to the match after the event. It is conceivable that all members of the duty referee team will be investigated for a long time in the future once they report the case to Europol, and their lives will be in the microscope. Next exposure, it's turned upside down!

After being silent for a short period of time again, Aldridge said: "Even if you go to protest, prosecute, and investigate the game, it is difficult to change anything in the short term. How long will the lawsuit last? One year? Two years? Three years? No I know, but Millwall still has to continue to develop, but I don’t want to have any involvement with UEFA, and I don’t want to have fans in the future or we will fight against UEFA for a long time. It’s meaningless. People are disgusted. I only need a fair and just playing environment. Since UEFA can’t give me, I quit, I decided that Millwall will quit all UEFA clubs’ intercontinental events. In the future, we will not go to the Champions League, no longer to go Playing the UEFA Cup, because even if it is a momentary success, it is necessary to beware of whether it will be calculated tomorrow."

Carter was shocked, and then he also fell into a long silence.

After a long time, Aldrich asked: "Why not talk?"

Carter raised his head and said in a deep voice: "Intellectually, I should persuade you to dispel this idea, because, when you do this, you are ruining Millwall! You will bury the crazy lion you built! There is no possibility of income from the Champions League. It’s a secondary factor, but a world-class player, unable to refuse the temptation of the Champions League! They have left Millwall, and no world-class players will be willing to join Millwall in the future! The Champions League is the club’s World Cup! However, emotion I can’t persuade you anymore. I’m not the head coach. I know you must be very painful in your heart. You have to work hard and be cruelly trampled on by someone! Damn it, a man can’t tolerate it, a man can’t compromise. No man can hypocritically raise his smile and pretend that nothing has happened before moving on!"

Aldridge closed his eyes and smiled self-deprecatingly.

It's nice to be proud and dignified.

The unpleasant point is that you have to face yourself and ask for your suffering!

When you take a nap, nothing happens, everything will soon be back on track, and the season is almost over.

And it has been hacked once, will UEFA be open to Black Millwall next season?

Continue next season?

That's unlikely.

But Aldridge couldn't let go.

And it will make people have a shadow in their hearts, there is an inexplicable fear and suspicion.

Maybe in the future, if he encounters a controversial penalty in the UEFA Champions League, he will wonder if UEFA is **** against Millwall again?

Aldridge does not want to live that kind of life.

Carter stood up, took a deep breath, and continued: "And, once you make this decision, the pressure from yourself will be greater! In a sense, Millwall is not entirely yours!"

Aldridge nodded in approval.

From the perspective of ownership, Aldridge fully owns the Millwall Club, where every piece of grass and a nail belongs to him.

But emotionally, the club does not belong to him completely, it belongs to the majority of Millwall fans.

Whether the club will compete in the European arena, this decision really should not be Aldridge alone.

but……

"I spent more than 12 years serving fans, accommodating fans, envisioning them, and also for their success. Millwall’s tickets have always been outside the top three in the Premier League, even if we are in the decent London, Our emergency rescue team of the fan service department is also the most Premier League, the most in Europe, and even the world. I have done so much, so much, I think, let me be willful once and make my own claims once."

Carter looked at Aldridge who made these remarks, and knew in his heart that Aldridge had already paid too much to the club.

Because the fate of this club was rewritten by Aldridge, the flesh and spirit of the crazy lion were all created by Aldridge!

Carter said in a deep voice: "I get it. Okay, I don't persuade you in this matter, so let's decide this matter. For our short-term future, the good news is: Last summer, the first team Players have renewed their contracts, and it is a long-term contract. Unless we are under financial pressure, we can keep all players strong and maintain our influence and attention brought by many stars. In terms of revenue and influence, Millwall will only gradually decline in strength. Even if he does not participate in the Champions League, 10 years later, we may not have the strength to compete for the championship in England, because this is a bad cycle."

Carter started pacing, frowning, worried about Millwall's development strategy after making such a decision.

He muttered to himself: "If we don’t participate in the European competition, we have more time, then the income can be filled through more business activities, but this is another knot, not to play in the Champions League, the sponsors themselves The sponsorship fee will come down..."

"Hey, hey..."

Aldridge called Carter several times in a row, before attracting his attention. Carter turned to look at Aldridge. At this time, Aldridge also stood up and put one hand on Carter’s shoulder, his eyes suddenly became Sharp and divine, he said, "Remember Edwards?"

Carter frowned: "Former Manchester United boss? That old pervert?"

Aldrich nodded and said in a deep voice: "The establishment of G14 is inseparable from the contribution of Edwards. Before the establishment of G14, he had been promoting an ideal at the Premier League boss round table, because there was no reform in the Champions League at that time, even It’s Manchester United, and it’s difficult to ensure a stable and huge profit from the Champions League. His assumption is that after the Champions League reform, the number of giants participating in the Champions League will increase, and the voice will become smaller after the income becomes relatively stable, but after the economic crisis a few years ago, In order to get more benefits from the Champions League, he reiterated the old things and received wide support in the G14, but in the end, with the further concessions of UEFA, he failed to take action. You know, what is that ideal ?"

Carter’s pupils shrunk, his heart shook, and he wondered: "Is it?"

"Yes!"

"European Premier League!"

The two shared the same dream of a giant who is not a secret in UEFA!

Carter took a step back and re-examined Aldridge, then a hint of wry smile appeared.

At that moment, he blamed Aldridge wrongly.

He thought that Aldridge let Millwall withdraw from the Champions League, is a simple retreat, to escape!

Now it seems, no!

Not at all!

UEFA dare to provoke Millwall!

Aldridge's counterattack is to break the root of UEFA!

UEFA’s main sources of revenue are sponsorship advertising costs and TV broadcast costs.

This is of course related to football games. The two brands, the first is the European Cup once every four years, and the second is the Champions League every season!

Although the income of the European Cup is very expensive, it is once every four years, the span is too long, don’t look at the European Cup to make hundreds of millions of euros, but now the “poverty reduction policy” implemented by UEFA, especially Platini came to power The latter is to directly send the money to the small football countries, similar to football development subsidies, such a flat, once every four years of the European Cup, it is not enough to make a profit.

The main source of stable and growing income is the Champions League.

The sponsor of the Champions League is to sign an agreement with UEFA.

The same is true for TV broadcasting.

Most of the income here belongs to UEFA, and the club can only be divided into a small part!

Therefore, only the emergence of the fight between G14 and UEFA.

G14 is the protagonist of the Champions League, but can only get a small part of the income.

When the economic crisis came a few years ago, the G14 was discussed at the summit. Please come to the German football economic agency to help make a prediction. The conclusion is that if the G14 set aside the other European clubs and get rid of UEFA control to establish the European Super League, The overall benefit income obtained will be ten times that of the income at that time!

This is still a conservative estimate.

And that time of struggle, UEFA has further improved the benefit of the Champions League to the club, including match bonuses, broadcast fee income, etc., only in the context of the economic crisis, the football industry’s money-burning behavior has not stopped, but instead "Price" is still growing.

But the formation of the European Super League will have a great negative impact!

This will make G14 completely the public enemy of other European football clubs and all first-tier clubs!

It is conceivable that the G14 independently organizes the European Super League and the Champions League will be worthless!

While getting rid of UEFA, it will also make G14 and UEFA become endless enemies.

Secondly, with the huge economic benefits, and the G14 controlling the ticket qualification of the European Super League, they will monopolize the elite players in Europe and even the world football!

They can pay a higher transfer fee, and can give players a salary that is completely one-by-one compared to other clubs!

In contemporary European football, the dispersion of elite players is about 8:2, that is to say, the overall strength of active players is ranked. About 80 of the top 100 players are giants or quasi-strongmen playing in the mainstream league, but still There will be about 20 elite players playing for first-tier clubs, like Totti in Rome.

But once the European Super League is born, the attractiveness to elite players and the huge gap in income will make elite players further monopolized by G14!

It can be said that this will completely change the pattern of the UEFA mainstream league. Those first-tier clubs will have a significant drop in the challenge to the status of the giant clubs, and they will never even turn over!

Taking a step, maybe it will create a brilliant upper-level football competition, but it will also become a "sinner" in the eyes of all other clubs!

Because the strong, ruthlessly abandoned the weak!