Just as Aldridge personally brought back Nesta from Italy four years ago, Aldridge brought back the world's No. 1 goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon from Italy in the summer of 2006!

This transfer shook Europe!

The contemporary king, Millwall, has finally strengthened the weak links that have been criticized by the outside world for a long time, which can be called the last piece of the puzzle of the perfect lineup!

Nessa and De Rossi, Barzagli and other Italian players in the team openly expressed their welcome to Buffon, and Buffon soon entered the role, Aldridge wanted to give him some more vacation, but he refused, as if to make a good impression on the fans and the outside world, when the Lion King Stadium played a friendly cup match, he made his debut, and his appearance was eye-catching!

The goalkeeper is going to be eye-catching, and there must be a defensive problem.

Indeed, Inter Milan, Bayern Munich, and Lyon came to the Lion King Stadium to attach great importance to this friendly match, and the sponsor gave him an appearance fee!

Millwall, on the other hand, was more restrained, after all, there were too many players in the team to participate in the World Cup, and Nesta was still recovering from injury, so the defense was not very satisfactory, so Buffon was given a chance.

As the new season approaches, Aldridge reviews the team's lineup, and in the new season, he needs to focus on developing the top players are Messi and Ramos, and the players in other positions can almost be said to have no hidden talent in 3 to 5 years, and Millwall's strength will be stable in a big cycle in the future.

The European media is a little pessimistic about the pre-season tour of the new season: no matter how many strong giants, top teams. There is a sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of these teams, and that is Millwall, the super-first-class king team!

It is unknown how long the reign of the Wild Lions will last, but they show no signs of decay in despair!

A team consists of only about 25 players. Millwall tonguò players of different quality levels form a whole, which makes them internally balanced, that is, compared to the main players, their main players are the best of European talent, and their substitutes are much better than those of other teams. More than in the future, they have a pool of young players that are coveted across Europe.

A team can't have 25 world-class players, even if it buys 25 world-class players. It will only form a chaotic team, and Millwall's team building model makes this clear, reducing intra-team conflict and providing a good competitive environment. This is also the conclusion that has been summed up by the experience of constantly letting go of potential new stars over the years.

Before the start of the new Premier League season. Chelsea have a new manager, Abu not only funded the Russian Football Federation to hire Hiddink, but also gave Hiddink a part-time job to coach Chelsea!

In response to the doubts of the outside world, it is believed that Hiddink's dual-mindedness is not good for the team, and Chelsea has implicitly stated that there is a precedent of success in England!

This makes the outside world laugh.

Chelsea actually used their arch-rival Millwall as a shield.

Of course, that recent example, and successful. Naturally, it's Aldrich.

Aldridge was unconcerned about the news of the change of manager at Chelsea, even if Fleet Street brought up Aldridge's attack on Guus Hiddink's South Korea team at the World Cup four years ago. Trying to add to the highlights of the Premier League manager confrontation in the new season, Aldridge and Hiddink have not yet played each other, and they have been described as "sworn enemies" by the outside world.

This is in line with the relationship between Millwall and Chelsea.

At the start of the new season, Millwall did not launch a devastating campaign against the heroes from all walks of life as expected by the outside world, and even had a significant decline in sharpness compared to last season.

Throughout August, they won 1-0 in the Community Shield and league games, including one on penalties, and in the UEFA Super Cup, they struggled to beat Sevilla 2-1 in extra-time.

It is not surprising that Ronaldo's form has declined, but Henry also seems to be in a state of malaise, which catches Aldrich by surprise.

The Europe's No. 1 striker for more than five years, who may have also won the Champions League six times, has seen his ambitions plummet, and the heavy blow of the World Cup final has made the key determination that players need most in the game, and Henry has begun to shed the cloak of mythology.

Aldridge had to let Villa start replacing Thierry Henry, and at the same time, Ronaldo's difficulties in England exceeded Aldridge's expectations.

In England, if Millwall plays away, from the beginning to the end of the game, as long as Ronaldo touches the ball, the opposing fans will definitely send a piercing boo, and if he is violated by the opponent, the opposing fans will also applaud.

Aldridge has done enough to defend Ronaldo in front of the media, and he is unwilling to keep spreading his wings to give him shelter, so he began to remain silent and let Ronaldo get out of such a predicament by himself.

In October, the Champions League away Millwall suffered a heavy defeat to Bayern Munich, 1:4!

In that game, although there were three main defenders who were absent due to injury, Xiao Luo and Henry's table was like sleepwalking, and Aldridge also criticized the team's table after that game, and in anger, he completely put Xiao Luo and Henry on the bench.

The European media began to clamore that Ronaldo and Henry would be purged by Aldrich, but Aldrich came out to deny this.

In November, Nesta returned, and Messi completely established the main position.

Millwall's new attacking group up front has taken shape.

The attack group with Kaka, Ronaldo, Villa, and Messi as the main force began to burst into power.

Although Ronaldo is still in adversity, after Villa, Messi, and Kaka have gone through the run-in period, they began to attack Millwall and continue to sweep Europe.

The Champions League away defeat in October was accidental, it happened suddenly in the context of Millwall's surge in the league, in the league, in the first half of the season, Millwall laid the lead, but they did not rely on attack, the attack will always give people the feeling of instability, Buffon only joined the team for three months, and was concluded: a great deal!

Millwall have a stunning record of 12 clean sheets in the league and from mid-November onwards, the number of goals has started to pick up, and the attacking power has exploded again.

At the end of November, Buffon won the appreciation of the judges with his outstanding performance in the World Cup and his eye-catching performance after joining Millwall, especially when he first arrived in the Premier League, he wrote a record for the longest time without conceding a goal, which won the appreciation of the judges and won the annual Ballon d'Or award by a narrow margin over his national teammate Cannavaro!

Aldridge missed a weekend league game in December, and assistant coach Villas-Boas replaced him.

Because he took his family and Nagy to Budapest, Hungary, to attend Puskas's funeral

Aldrich was not in a good mood during this time, and the departure of the deceased would always make the sadness that could not be dissolved in his heart continue to exist.

After 2006, in the first half of the new season, Millwall still led the Premier League with an unstoppable momentum, and despite a sudden defeat in the group stage, the Champions League still beat Bayern Munich to advance to the top of the group.

Aldridge is pleased with Messi's rising momentum, especially in the context of Fleet Street's "denunciation" of Ronaldo, Fleet Street is inseparable from Millwall, they need to report Millwall, and they need to track Millwall for a long time, because this is the pride of English football, and English clubs are based on the flag of the world, so in the report, there is obviously a tendency to suppress Ronaldo and praise Messi, trying to make Ronaldo lose his influence and suppress him as much as possible.

And it seems that a "battle of kings" is brewing between Ronaldo and Messi!

It's good to have a fight, healthy competition will promote the team's aggressiveness, but if it's a bad fight, it can lead the team into internal friction.

In January 2007, the most watched event in European football was the upcoming UEFA presidential election!

Between the 77-year-old Johansson and the 52-year-old Platini, there is a battle between tradition and newness, old and young!

G14 despite the full support of Johansson for another term!

But compared to UEFA's voting structure, the G14 has too little say in the matter.

For example, Millwall and Manchester United, behind the scenes, can only push England's representatives in UEFA to support Johansson!

On the Italian side, there are Milan and Juventus, but in fact, the only force that can be used is the representative of Italy.

The G14 is an elite group, and the elite means that it is a minority!

Under a broad "democracy", minorities are not in power.

In the end, Johansson lost to Platini by a narrow margin of 23 votes to 27!

At the same time, FIFA Guò decided to appoint Beckenbauer as a member of the FIFA Executive Committee.

Beckenbauer's wishful thinking was completely frustrated!

You know, just half a year ago, when he changed his strategy, he even communicated with the German government and obtained the support of the German government, prompting German Chancellor Angela Merkel to award FIFA President Blatter the highest honorary medal in Germany: the National Cross!

But Johansson failed to hold on to Europe, and when Platini became the new president of UEFA, Platini automatically became the vice president of FIFA!

Originally, in Beckenbauer's plan, FIFA vice president would still be Johansson, he became a FIFA executive committee member, and he and Johansson worked together to put pressure on Blatter, and the next FIFA president was replaced by Beckenbauer.

Now, it's all over!

This also caused Beckenbauer to be disheartened, and he announced his retirement for family reasons within a few years of becoming a member of the executive committee.

Throughout January, UEFA was in the midst of a war of fire.

The G14 is on the verge of unprecedented turmoil and division!

Externally, led by Millwall, Manchester United, AC Milan, and Bayern Munich clubs, they solemnly warned Platini not to come nonsense!

Internally, the G14 wants to suppress the "traitors" from France!

During Platini's campaign, the owners of Ligue 1 giants Lyon openly supported Platini, while Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain then chimed in!

Obviously, Platini's French background makes the French team, which has not had a voice in the G14 for a long time, ready to hug a thick thigh! (To be continued......)