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The moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and in the middle of the night, Aldridge and Carter sat opposite each other in the back garden, and by the hazy light, the outside world did not know that these two most important figures in the Millwall club were brewing a storm that shook Europe and the world!

And this is the prelude to the changes in the pattern of European football after entering the new century!

"What's far away?"

Carter and Aldridge have discussed the club's response to the game after the incident, and it is conceivable that once the case is reported to Europol, all members of the referee team on duty will be investigated for a long time to come, and their lives will be exposed under the microscope and turned upside down!

Aldridge was silent for a long time, and then said: "Even if you protest, prosecute, and investigate the game, it is difficult to change anything in the short term, how long will the lawsuit last?" A year? Two years? Three years? I don't know, but Millwall still wants to continue to show, but I don't want to have anything to do with UEFA, and I don't want fans or us to fight UEFA for a long time in the future, it's pointless, it's just disgusting. ◆ I just want a fair and just playing environment, since UEFA can't give it to me, I quit, I decide, Millwall withdraw from all UEFA club continental competitions, in the future, we will no longer play in the Champions League, no longer go to play in the League Cup, because even if we have achieved temporary success, we have to sleep to watch out for whether it will be calculated tomorrow. ”

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

It's been a long time. Aldrich asked, "Why don't you speak?" ”

Carter looked up. He said in a deep voice: "Intellectually." I should advise you to dispel this thought, for by doing so you are ruining Millwall! Bury the lion you've created! Whether there is income from the Champions League or not may be a secondary factor, but world-class players cannot refuse the temptation of the Champions League! They have left Millwall, and there will be no world-class players willing to join Millwall in the future! The Champions League is the World Cup for clubs! But. Emotionally, I can't persuade you, I'm not the head coach, I know that you must be very painful in your heart, and the hard work you have put into your work has been brutally trampled on! Damn, it's a man who can't tolerate it, a man who can't compromise, a man who can't hypocritically smile and pretend that nothing was born and move on! ”

Aldrich closed his eyes and smiled self-deprecatingly.

It's a bit of pride. Dignity.

The ugly part is that you have to die to save face and suffer your guilt!

When you don't do anything, you will soon be back on track. The season is also coming to an end.

And it has already been hacked once, will UEFA blatantly black Millwall again next season?

Next season?

That's unlikely.

But Aldrich couldn't let go.

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

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

Aldrich, who doesn't want to live like that.

Carter stood up, took a deep breath, and continued: "Moreover, once this decision is announced, the pressure from your own people will be even greater!" In a sense, Millwall isn't exactly yours! ”

Aldrich nodded in agreement.

From an ownership point of view, Aldridge owns Millwall FC outright, and every plant and nail here belongs to him.

But emotionally, the club doesn't exactly belong to him, it belongs to the majority of Millwall fans.

Whether the club will play in Europe or not, this decision should indeed not be made by Aldridge alone.

but

"I've spent 12 years serving the fans, accommodating the fans, thinking for them, and standing up for them, Millwall's tickets have always been outside the top three in the UK, even if we are in London, where every inch of land is at a premium, our fan service emergency rescue team is also the most in the UK, in Europe, and even in the world, I have done so much, so much, I think, now let me be willful and make my own decisions once."

Carter looked at Aldridge, who said these words lightly, and knew in his heart that Aldridge had given too much to the club, and he had the right to be willful once!

Because the fate of this club was rewritten by Aldrich, the flesh and blood and spirit of the mad lion were all created by Aldrich!

Carter said in a deep voice, "I see. Okay, in this matter, I don't advise you, then let it be decided. The good news for us in the short term is that last summer, the first-team players were renewed, and it was a long-term contract, unless we have financial pressure, we can force all the players to keep and maintain the influence and attention that we have many stars, but it is not a way to go on in the long run, without the income and influence of the Champions League, Millwall will only gradually decline, even if we do not participate in the Champions League, in 1o years, we may not have the strength to compete for the title in England, because this is a bad cycle. ”

Carter began to pace in place, frowning, worried about Millwall's strategy after making such a decision.

He muttered to himself: "If we don't participate in European competitions, we will have more time, so the income can be filled by more commercial activities, but this is another dead knot, if we don't play the Champions League, the sponsorship fee brought by our own sponsors will be reduced"

"Hey, hey"

Aldridge called Carter several times in a row to attract his attention, Carter turned to look at Aldrich, at this time Aldrich also stood up, put one hand on Carter's shoulder, his eyes suddenly became sharp, and said, "Remember Edwards?" ”

Carter frowned: "The former owner of Manchester United? That old pervert? ”

Aldrich nodded and said in a deep voice: "The establishment of G14 is inseparable from Edwards' contribution, and before the establishment of G14, he has been promoting an ideal at the British Boss Roundtable. Because at that time the Champions League had not been reformed. Even if it's Manchester United. It is also difficult to ensure that he can get a huge benefit from the Champions League, and his idea is that after the reform of the Champions League, the number of places for the giants to participate in the Champions League has increased, and the income has become relatively stable, but after the economic crisis came a few years ago, in order to get more benefits from the Champions League, he brought it up again, and it was widely supported in the G14. It's just that in the end, it didn't work out with UEFA's further concessions, you know, what that ideal is? ”

Carter's pupils shrank, his heart was shocked, and he wondered, "Is it?" ”

"That's right!"

"European League!"

The two said in unison that this dream of a giant club that is not a secret in European football!

Carter took a step back and re-examined Aldridge, a wry smile on his face.

In the previous moment, he had wrongly blamed Aldrich.

He thought that Aldridge's withdrawal from Millwall from the Champions League was a simple retreat and escape!

Now it seems. No!

By no means!

UEFA dares to provoke Millwall!

Aldridge's counterattack is to break UEFA's roots!

UEFA's main sources of revenue are sponsor advertising fees and television broadcast fees.

This is of course related to the football game, the two brands. The first is the quadrennial European Cup, and the second is the Champions League every season!

Although the European Cup has a lot of income, after all, it is once every four years, the span is too long, don't look at a European Cup to earn hundreds of millions of euros, but now the "poverty alleviation policy" implemented by UEFA, especially after Platini came to power, is to directly send money to those small football countries, similar to football exhibition subsidies, such a flat share, the quadrennial European Cup, the income is not enough to divide out.

The main source of steady and growing revenue is the Champions League.

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

The same goes for televising.

Most of this income goes to UEFA, and the club can only get a small share!

That's why the G14 vs. UEFA fight emerged.

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

When the economic crisis came a few years ago, the G14 held a summit and invited the German football economic agency to help make a prediction, and came to the conclusion that if the G14 set aside other European clubs and get rid of UEFA's control to establish a European league, the overall profit income would be ten times that of the income at that time!

This is still a conservative estimate.

And that time of the struggle, UEFA further increased the Champions League's profit share for clubs, including event bonuses, broadcast fee income, etc., which is why in the context of the economic crisis, the football industry's money-burning behavior has not stopped, but the "price" is still growing.

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

This will make G14 completely the public enemy of other clubs in European football, all first-line clubs!

It is conceivable that if G14 organizes a European league independently, the Champions League will be worthless!

While getting rid of UEFA, it will also make the G14 and UEFA an undying enemy.

Secondly, with huge economic interests and the G14 holding the ticket qualification for the European league, they will monopolize the elite players in European and even world football!

They can offer a higher transfer fee, and they can offer players a salary package that is completely different from other clubs!

In contemporary European football, the dispersion of elite players is about 8:2, that is to say, the comprehensive strength of the active players is ranked, and about 8o of the top 1oo players are giants or quasi-giants who play in mainstream leagues, but there will still be about 2o elite players who play for first-tier clubs, like Totti in Rome.

But once the European league is born, the attraction of 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 mainstream leagues in European football, and those first-tier clubs will have a significant decline in the challenge to the status of the giant clubs, and even never turn over!

One step may create a brilliant competitive landscape in the upper echelons of football, but it will also become a "sinner" in the eyes of all other clubs!

Because the strong mercilessly abandoned the weak! (To be continued!)

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