Suddenly, like a spring breeze in the night, it was as if the whole world had begun to target Millwall.

After the Champions League group stage, Fleet Street itself was calm and focused on competition in their home league, the Premier League.

However, other European media have released heavy news one after another!

First of all, UEFA officials of no low status publicly made remarks and attacked Millwall!

"The European Cup, the highest honour and most influential competition for a football club on the planet! In the last ten years, Millwall Guò has gained great benefits, influence, honours, attention, market development, monetary benefits, etc., but after ten years, they have begun to lack respect for the competition! It's easy to think of Millwall becoming arrogant, look at how they approach this season's Champions League group stage! Of the six official games, there were only two games, and they sent out the strongest squad, and then three games were played by substitutes, and one was even more blatant and perfunctory, UEFA's position encouraged clubs to pay attention to youth training, but Millwall's approach has greatly hurt the Champions League, which is an extremely glorious competition, and I think Millwall need to reflect on the fact that they have gained too much from the Champions League, but they are not willing to give more when they can, which is disappointing for UEFA. ”

To say that UEFA has a dissatisfaction with Millwall may have been subtle in the past!

After all, since the second generation of the Wild Lions opened up a dynasty, Millwall has often treated the Champions League with contempt for taking care of the league, not only in the group stage, but also in the knockout stage. The expectation of the game has been lowered.

Can be past Millwall. is in a publicly accepted model.

That's on the bench. It must be a situation where the prospect is comfortable.

For example, the first 4 games of the group stage won all the qualifiers, and the last 2 games, not the main team, who can blame Millwall?

In the first leg of the knockout round, he won by more than three goals, and in the second leg, there was not much suspense left, and Millwall appropriately sent some substitutes, and the outside world took it for granted.

But this season. Millwall's Champions League group stage, when the prospect of qualifying is not clear, is to directly use substitutes to fight for the right to qualify for the group, so that in the most suspenseful stage of the game, when the outside world is full of interest, Millwall poured cold water on the outside world.

The reason is also very simple.

Next, the six major sponsors of the Champions League also stood up and commented on Millwall's approach in a complaining tone.

"UEFA has been trying to promote the UEFA Champions Cup as a brand to the world, and the first focus of football is of course the stars! Millwall has the highest club influence in the world. For Asia, Africa. For fans in many countries and regions such as North America, they watch the Champions League and watch Millwall's games, the biggest pleasure is to be able to enjoy the performances of Ronaldinho and Henry, who have great prestige, but Millwall hid them in the Champions League, 6 games, Ronaldinho only played 2 games, he was not injured, and he has an incredible magical watch in the Premier League, but he disappeared for a long time in the Champions League, which makes many fans feel lost! We hope that Millwall will improve this phenomenon and meet the expectations of the outside world as much as possible! ”

Because Millwall is the most successful team in the Champions League in the past decade, the sponsors of the Champions League itself do not have direct financial interests with Millwall, because Millwall is sharing the cake with everyone, but it can be said that as the most dazzling protagonist, the appearance rate of the superstars in the Millwall team has a direct impact on the interests of the Champions League!

These sponsors are understandably unhappy.

Fleet Street was surprised!

Sponsors are understandably dissatisfied.

After all, when people pay money, they are actually buying your brand influence, and Millwall can't give full play to all the value influence in the Champions League to stimulate the Champions League market, which has a direct economic impact on sponsors.

But UEFA has also issued a warning against Millwall.

This was a surprise to everyone.

It doesn't make sense!

The rules are set by UEFA.

Millwall is not a passive game, they have ensured their own interests, they play under a rule that everyone agrees on, there is neither cheating nor breaking the rules, why should they be blamed?

Two days before his visit to Crystal Palace, Aldridge was in his office scanning the comments from major European football media outlets about Millwall's recent criticism.

There are countless media that watch good shows, and there are not a few who fall into the well.

Now that the "black boss" UEFA has come forward to open fire, then others can naturally come forward and step on Millwall with a legitimate.

The outside world knows that some Millwall have a good relationship with the head of UEFA, and Aldridge has a certain personal relationship with Johansson.

Strangely, at this time, Johansson, as the head of UEFA, was silent and did not come forward.

After reading all the news, Aldrich lit a cigarette in his office.

Carter sat across from him with a thoughtful expression, and when Aldrich's half cigarette turned into soot and smoke, Carter raised his head and said, "Why don't you pour bitter water on the outside world and use the Club World Cup as a shield?" ”

Millwall itself must have been aggrieved.

Logically speaking, as long as they "reason" with UEFA, they should be more confident!

However, in this world, many times it is not who is justified and who can not be bullied!

Isn't it self-inflicted to reason with a three-way institution like UEFA?

UEFA itself holds the "truth"!

Aldridge shook his head and said, "Remember Manchester United in '99? ”

Carter frowned, not quite understanding, and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Aldridge spat out a puff of smoke and said lightly: "In the summer of '99, Manchester United won the Champions League at Camp Nou, and it was normal to go to the Toyota Cup at the end of that year, and they did go to Tokyo and successfully won the championship, and then what?" FIFA held the first Club World Cup in South America, and Manchester United didn't want to go, but, in the words of the Manchester United players themselves: the FA pointed a gun at Manchester United's head, forcing Manchester United to run to the other side of the world after the cruel Christmas schedule to participate in the boring Club World Cup, and because of this, Manchester United was forced to give up the FA Cup directly! Hear me clearly, I'm talking about giving up, and that United didn't play in the FA Cup that season at all, rather than sending a group of obscure minions to lose the game and be eliminated. ”

There is also a "political-political game" in the football circle, and the outside world thinks that Manchester United is very strong, but in the "football political-political circle", the club has always been subject to the upper level of institutions such as the Football Association.

The FA coerced Manchester United to play the Club World Cup, first of all, it was a great honor for Manchester United to represent England, and secondly, the FA at that time was a bit "crazy", because the FA was trying its best to win the 2006 World Cup, and it was very necessary to have more image projects and improve its influence around the world!

Don't want Manchester United?

That would almost be tantamount to making a mistake before the unambiguous question of bidding for the World Cup!

The reason why Millwall has a huge influence in the Premier League is naturally inseparable from Aldridge's contribution to English football, and the other part is that although Millwall is a Premier League team, the interest groups represented by Millwall are always somewhat antagonistic to the English Football Association, because the Premier League was separated from the FA's control on the day it was established, but Millwall played in European competitions and repeatedly won the European Super Cup, Toyota Cup and other honors that can make the FA benefit.

So when the media from outside the UK were attacking Millwall, Fleet Street and the FA would come out to defend Millwall and defend Millwall.

Carter understood what Aldridge was referring to after listening to Aldridge's explanation of United's past history.

If Millwall expands the problem and involves FIFA in a thankless way, it will not only officially offend FIFA, but may also displease the FA.

The English football team always wants Millwall to play in the Club World Cup!

You know, whether it's the Club World Cup or the previous Toyota Cup, there is only one quota in Europe every season!

It doesn't have to be from England!

It's the Champions League champions who are going to compete, in other words, Millwall doesn't just represent England, it's the whole of Europe!

And the team that can represent Europe is from England, and the FA has a bright face!

If Millwall complains about the Club World Cup, it may be interpreted as a boycott of this FIFA event, offending FIFA, and making the FA unhappy, not human inside and out!

Carter spread his palms and asked helplessly, "Then how do we respond?" ”

Aldrich thought for a long time, and finally said: "I see, there is no need to respond. At this point in time, the negative impact on us is minimal, the Champions League will be suspended and will not return to the public eye in a few months, and secondly, the winter transfer window is about to open, and more news will wash away the news that is now surrounding us. ”

One way to do this is to respond to changes with no change, to respond in silence, and to wait for time to offset the negative impact.

Carter had no opinion, but he saw Aldrich thinking for a long time, and then asked curiously, "What are you thinking?" ”

Aldrich frowned and said, "I think things are a little strange. ”

Carter tentatively asked, "UEFA? ”

Aldrich nodded.

For no reason, UEFA began to make things difficult for Millwall, and because Millwall was so high-profile, it didn't matter whether UEFA was in charge or not, the point was that it represented a voice, coming from within UEFA.

Carter was very sensitive to this, and said in a deep voice: "I think it's normal for a complex institution like UEFA, with some different voices, although Johansson is in charge of the overall situation, he can't make everyone submit to him, and people are separated from each other, but if UEFA is really determined to target Millwall, why isn't it the UEFA president who stands up and speaks?" ”

Aldrich just thought it was strange here.

If UEFA is targeting Millwall, then Johansson doesn't have to hide it, but if a member of the UEFA executive committee comes out to make a statement, if it doesn't represent Johansson, won't it anger Johansson? (To be continued......)