The Young Lion

As the old saying goes, the New Year and the new weather, the time spanned from 1999 to 2000, this is more than a new year, a new century, a new century!

At such a historic moment, the Arsenal club also has a historic big move.

Vice Chairman Dane and head coach Wenger proudly announced: Arsenal is about to build a new stadium!

Many Gunners fans rushed to celebrate each other, quite a lot of flowers to celebrate the momentum of the popular Daben, after all, Highbury's capacity makes gun fans who appreciate the "beautiful football" gradually get a ticket.

I just don’t know how much sadness and tears are hidden behind the pride of Wenger and Dane.

Arsenal can’t do without building a new stadium or a stadium with a larger capacity. Gradually, Arsenal will fall from the Premier League championship group to the middle reaches. This is not alarmist. As prices rise, stadium tickets also increase. Arsenal Even in London, the ticket income gap between Manchester United and each season is gradually widening. This season, it is conservatively estimated that the gap has been widened by more than 10 million pounds!

The gap of tens of millions of pounds, and then develop further, may be 20 million pounds, 30 million pounds.

If there is no new stadium, Arsenal and Manchester United are only the revenue of the stadium tickets, there must be a gap of hundreds of millions of pounds within ten years.

What can hundreds of millions of pounds bring to the club?

The most intuitive is competitiveness.

In view of such a brutal competitive situation, Arsenal's new stadium plan is imperative.

Of course, they don't have to compare with Premier League champion Millwall. They can't compare it. Millwall has earned a new stadium as a trafficker, and the team not only has a guaranteed record, but can check the new stadium in another month.

In other words, Arsenal, a traditional giant, has fallen behind Manchester United and Millwall for at least five years.

Why is it five years?

Because Millwall's new stadium started breaking ground almost five years ago.

Arsenal just announced that it will build a new stadium. The specific stadium design, site selection, sponsors, loans, and other specific businesses are still under preparation. However, their words are better than those of other mid- and downstream club presidents. It’s more reliable.

Like Chairman Everton said every year to build a new stadium, toffee fans know he is farting.

Among the Premier League bosses, Aldridge is certainly not the richest. He can’t say too much than he is rich, but there are still a lot of big money. For example, Arsenal’s major shareholders are all richer than him, and even some are Bihuo. The whole family has money.

But on the plan to build a new stadium, they are all following the most basic principle of operating a business: living within their means.

This directly led Wenger and Dane to understand that in the next few years, no, and for many years, Arsenal will have to cut down on food and clothing, and open source to cut costs!

As a result, Wenger sent a bench lineup in the FA Cup quarter-finals as a guest at the Lions Den Stadium.

There is no way. The war between the 3-6 Premier League players for the last two Champions League places is too fierce. There are 6 rounds left in the league. Wenger must make a choice.

In the first half of the season, he met Millwall in the League Cup, chose to play against the main force, and eventually eliminated Millwall.

Then, the league was defeated by Tottenham, the rival of North London. Then, the League Cup did not go to the finish line. Martin O’Neill really created a magic, leading the small city of Leicester to win the 21st century in England. A champion.

Probably influenced by the lesson in the first half of the season, Wenger simply sent a bench to play today, concentrate on playing in the league, and enter the Champions League to get the benefit of the Champions League, it is more important than anything.

As the countdown to this season enters the countdown, Millwall’s attendance at any home game is bursting. The FA Cup may be related to the second half of the game. However, in the league, Millwall’s successful defending has almost no suspense, but the fans Still pouring into the stadium on every home game day to support the team, and save the day's tickets as a souvenir.

Because Millwall's first team at the Lion's Cave Stadium officially played one less game. In the summer, if there is no accident, they will move to the new stadium. Now, it is at the stage of bidding farewell to the Lion's Cave Stadium.

In the quarter-finals of the FA Cup with Arsenal, Aldridge and Wenger were sitting on the coach seat, the lion’s stadium shouted loudly, and the fans’ energy was used in singing and shouting. Concerned about the progress of the game, just to be here at the end of the Lion's Cave Stadium and enjoy the atmosphere here. In the next season, everything will be different.

In the first half of the game, Millwall basically locked in the victory. The goals of Ramall and Glencharr made the gap between the two teams' benches more intuitive.

Wenger is helpless in the game, the main lineup still has many hidden dangers, and the bench lineup is even more embarrassing.

Look at Millwall's backup lineup, change the team logo, change the name, it is estimated that he can play the Premier League and enter the middle reaches!

He turned his head and complained to his assistant: "Why did Millwall have so many good players who don't need money?"

Most members of the Arsenal coaching staff chose silence.

Envy doesn't come.

Someone said seriously: "Hall's insight into talent and the ability to train players are indeed rare in the world."

"Is there any trick inside?"

Wenger racked his brains to learn the secrets of Aldridge's training of players, no, it should be the secret of digging up good seedlings.

Cultivating players, he believes that he is not under Aldridge.

The key point is, where to go to cultivate so many good seedlings to cultivate it!

"This, uh, I did a survey. Players like Nedvide, Glenshare, Solskjaer, etc. in the first team were all excavated from second-tier leagues. Players were discovered by Hall when they did not enter the regular youth training system, such as Villa, Brazilian Ronaldinho, Vicente, Joaquin. There are also some places that are incredible to us, Klose This year, Phillips, who has ranked third in the Premier League scorer list and has scored nearly 30 goals, was discovered by Hall from the amateur league. Some players who have not yet made a name, such as Ribery, Drogba, one Was abandoned by Lille, one was rejected by Paris Saint-Germain, the one who just scored, Lamore, he was also a player who was abandoned by Liverpool, but these were all taken by Hall to Millwall."

Wenger couldn't figure it out.

Amateur league, abandonment of other clubs, gold in second-rate league.

This Nima, it’s nice to say that it’s Aldrich’s eyes and eyes, it’s hard to say that this man is a wonderful flower that specializes in collecting scrap copper and iron and turning waste into treasure!

Wenger has been a bit nervous lately.

I thought about how to improve my hematopoietic ability, but after a couple of months in the youth team, he was a bit discouraged. The processing procedures were fine, but the texture of the material itself was not enough, and the quality was not too bad. ?

Now you have to spend a small amount of money to do big things.

The murderous Barcelona recently seduce Ovimas, and even Ovimas himself lamented the team's two Champions League experiences in the interview, wanting to change the league to meet the challenge.

Wenger couldn't sit still, but he didn't have the strength to keep people. The club could not be indifferent to the transfer fee, but the team's season was not over yet. The league had to compete for four. There was a rumor that the general was leaving the team first. No, it wasn't a gossip. It did matter. Peter Pan Ovimas has already expressed his position.

Arsenal is good, but I can’t wait for the Champions League!

Wenger is thinking about how to collect more star seedlings, while Aldridge is thinking about how to accelerate the growth of young players on the team.

Successful teams do not take the initiative to seek change, but they must strengthen the stimulus of internal competition to maintain a high level of competitiveness and even self-improvement through internal competition. AC Milan is a counter-example this season. After winning the championship last season, there is a lack of internal strength. In addition, it is more obvious to lag behind in the league, and Juventus and Lazio were thrown out of the championship group.

Aldrichto looked into the court with his chin, wondering if he would loan some players to the first-line club for exercise next season.

Like Klose, Glenshare, you can stay in the team, as long as the main injury occurs, you can immediately go up.

But players like Vicente, Joaquin Gold and Villa can't rely on the Cup alone to accumulate enough experience.

Aldrich’s most feared situation is that it’s easy to go out on loan. After the loan, the players are reluctant to come back.

Klose scored twice in the second half, Van der Mede staged an assist hat trick, Millwall came off the bench 4-0 and scored a hearty victory.

However, the live commentator criticized the two teams mercilessly at the end of the game.

"Millwall, Arsenal, what did the oldest and most influential FA Cup in England do? This is the quarter-finals. Everyone is looking forward to the top match between the two teams. As a result, the two teams have a tacit understanding. He sent a substitute lineup to fight this peak matchup, the peak substitute matchup! The FA should punish these two teams, they lack respect for the FA Cup, lack respect for fans, and lack respect for all spectators!"

Aldridge certainly did not know what the narrator said. He shook hands with Wenger calmly anyway after the game. Wenger lost the game. It seemed that his mood was not greatly affected, but there should be a lot of losses. , At least his face should show up.

It’s not that they don’t respect the FA Cup. Before the 1990s, the FA Cup did have more influence than the English Premier League. But in the Premier League era, what is the FA Cup broadcast fee? How much is the bonus? Can I win the Champions League?

Each team should be more pragmatic. To put it bluntly, it is to keep up with the money. Wherever we make more money, we will focus on it.

Aldridge was asked about the anger of the speaker after the game, and he looked baffled.

"I don't have sleepwalking? Millwall seems to have won the game and advanced to the semi-finals. If we lose the game and hear someone accuse me, I think it's normal, but if we win the game, will we be scolded? What makes sense?"

Aldridge scoffed at the unprovoked accusations.

There is only one truth on the football field: winning is everything.

Laozi led the team to win the ball, you should give praise, criticism, embarrassment, because Laozi won the ball, so you can not buy it, get out!

The next day, after the Millwall FA Cup semi-final opponent came out, the fans of the crazy lions cheered.

The FA Cup is so lucky.

The opponent in the semifinals is Aston Villa!

The FA Cup substitute battle ended, and Millwall's eyes turned back to the European competition.

In preparing for the second round match with Bayern Munich, Millwall has always been mysterious and declined training interviews, as if to do some secret experiments.

At the press conference before the Champions League, Aldridge also said that Millwall would strive to end the suspense quickly at home. He talked a lot and said that he was extremely public and confident.

"We scored one goal at Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich had to score three goals to pull the game back to the starting point! We scored two, Bayern Munich scored four, we scored three..."

"Cough, Mr. Hall, we all understand what you said."

The reporters had to interrupt Aldridge who was "declaring war" with physical movements.

Aldridge paused, then said quietly: "Since you all know, then I have nothing to say, goodbye."