The Championship side ended Gary Rowett’s four-year reign as the Lions’ boss last month and appointed 37-year-old Edwards as their new manager this week.
Edwards was coach of Chelsea’s Under-18 and Under-23 sides before he was assigned as the senior team’s assistant under Frank Lampard in 2019.
In 2022, the 37-year-old followed Lampard to Everton where the Toffees were fighting to stay up in the Premier League.
Aldridge believes that Edwards has seen different circumstances working with the Blues and the Toffees and the pressure at Millwall will not faze him.
“Part of the academy work at Chelsea is not just to bring players through for Chelsea but to bring them through to sell them, there is pressure there”, Aldridge told the South London Press about Edwards when was at Chelsea.
“It was a different pressure when he went to Everton.
“At the time they were struggling at the bottom of the Premier League.
“They had to fight, scrap and do everything they could to stay up.
“He’s a 37-year-old coach who has had more background in development but he’s had plenty of pressure to work under and I don’t see him being fazed by that.”
Edwards will look to win his first match as the Lions boss when his side travel to Hillsborough to face bottom-of-the-table Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday.
