Mister Legend

Chapter 608 A Genius Once in Decades
Anyone who has played the Champion Football Manager game should be very familiar with the term "Swipe Mavericks". When the situation arises, the production facility has set up a mechanism for adding random fictional players to fill the vacancies of personnel loss.

Specifically, in the FM game, it is a relatively fixed period of time each year that a group of young players joins the team's football school or youth training camp.The abilities of these small players are randomly arranged under certain calculation conditions, but generally it is based on the team's youth training facilities and recruitment capabilities, that is to say, the better the youth training management, the better the team. The more chances there are for high-potential demons to appear.

And through the S/L style of play, players who coach top giants such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​and Manchester United have a great chance to spawn talents with a potential of 180 or even 190 or more. This is also the high degree of playability and freedom of this type of game. A kind of expression.

Of course, the real football world is definitely more complicated than the game. The process of recruiting outstanding young players is a hard work that needs to be accumulated over the years. Every prodigy who is favored by the club, regardless of whether he can be signed in In the early stage, a lot of manpower and material resources will be consumed for investigation and even tracking.And even when great efforts have been made in this area, the results are often disappointing.

There is an old saying in China called "Three-year-old is old", but in the football world, it is often impossible to judge the future development potential of a player at the age of 16. Naturally, there are countless cases of treating waste wood as treasure Yes, but it is the most distressing to regard Mingzhu as a fish.

It is better than the Arsenal scouts who are recognized as super-sighted in the world. Didn’t they also miss the cornerstones of the team such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Drogba, Ronaldo and Harry Kane? Naturally, other wealthy teams cannot escape the fate of being teased by the outside world for their blindness.

As far as Real Madrid is concerned, they have let go of Eto'o, Juan Mata and many other talents in the youth academy for nothing over the years, and they have tried out young David Silva and Pedro ( The Saber who played for Barcelona and Chelsea) made serious mistakes, which caused a large number of stars who could have been the pride of the Bernabeu to become iconic figures of other teams, and thus became "blind" in the outside world typical.

However, if you really have a deep understanding of the specific process of finding new people, you will know how difficult those practitioners face every day.Judging what a person's future will be is the most unreliable thing in the world, unless there is enough time to conduct a close inspection, or the talent of the player has reached the level that anyone will have no doubts at a glance degree, otherwise any evaluation would be slightly hasty.

It’s just that super talents are a very small number after all, and a long and detailed inspection of every young player will cost the club an unbearable huge amount of money, neither of which can become a regular situation.That's why there will be misjudgments one after another, and these mistakes will continue until football and other sports completely die out.

And on this point, the effect of the plug-in that Li Modi wears with him is so powerful, it can be vividly displayed.

There is a scouting tool that can directly detect the potential value of players, although it can only be used twice a year, and the value of young players will frequently fluctuate up and down due to changes in their own and external conditions, resulting in evaluation errors. There is still some error in the accuracy.However, compared with the traditional scouts in reality, the Real Madrid coach can obtain such information almost without any effort, and already has a great first-hand advantage. The benefits are also difficult to describe clearly in words.

Whether it was in Turin or London, Li Moody had signed a number of good seedlings with high development prospects for his team many times with the help of plug-ins at a relatively low price, and finally realized his own The commitment made by the team to the club's top management and the fans brought the youth training camps of the Red Bulls and the Gunners to a new peak period. strong competitiveness.

From this point of view, even without considering the outstanding results of leading the team in those years, the salary paid by the two clubs to him is not a loss.After all, in today's world football full of utilitarian thoughts, there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to patiently do this kind of thing that is very likely to become a wedding dress for a latecomer. The odds of winning a head coach are not much higher than buying a lottery ticket, each of them is a priceless treasure!

It's just that after taking over the Bernabeu, Li Mudi has not personally scooped up any potential calf in a strict sense in the past year and a half, because there are a group of talents in the Real Madrid youth training camp. Especially outstanding young players have potential values ​​above 150 or even 160. Among them, the "three young players" who were transferred to the first team last season are above 170. Therefore, young players who are not high enough outside will not be able to enter the eyes of the Real Madrid coach.

As for those good seedlings with similar potential, firstly, there are not many of them (after all, reality is not a game, and the chance of prodigy is still very small), secondly, they are basically the key training targets of other teams, and it is really difficult to find them. .Under the premise that the future development is full of huge uncertainties, the return on investment ratio is still relatively low. It is better to wait for the players' abilities to be basically developed and then spend a high price to bring them in. Anyway, it's not that they can't afford that. money.

It's just that this calmness after returning to Spain was suddenly broken before New Year's Day in 2026.At that time, when I used the scouting tool to search the list of those under the age of 18 and with a potential value of more than 160, I suddenly discovered a talent who had not been in my sight before.

A young man named Fernando Riverola Lopez, who was born in the suburbs of Madrid in December 2010, ranked first on the list with a potential value of 12, which made the Real Madrid coach's heartbeat at that time There was a sudden stop to a beat.

It has been introduced before that those whose potential value can get a rating of 190 or more in the FM system are all super geniuses who come across only once in ten years. It is difficult to achieve because of the timing and timing, but it is very easy to become the top existence in the world for a while.If it happens that there are no other superstars who can compete with them, it is not impossible for Melo to dominate for a period like the two.

And if the reference is today's world football, among the famous stars who have the opportunity to touch the important node of 190, only Mbappe is one, and the upper limit of the rest of the top players is not so high.It is not that there have been young people rated as high potential by the system before, but most of them are around 180. This is the first time that Li Modi has discovered such a talented genius since he used scouting tools for ten years.

Of course, the above-mentioned bright prospects will only come true after he can fully transform these potentials into his own strength.Otherwise, in reality, even though the ratings are not as high as in the game, young players with a potential of more than 190 will not be so rare. It is almost certain that most of them have wasted the precious talents bestowed by God , In the end, they failed to reach the level that they should have been able to reach.

Here I want to explain why Li Modi, who uses cheats once in half a year, failed to find this child prodigy before, and why it is so difficult to find a little demon with a potential value of more than 190 through the search of scouting tools.

Different from the setting of the game, there is a floating system or a random system for evaluating the potential of young players. Every time a player opens a file, the potential value of the little monster will change, and generally it will still be at a certain level. within range.But in reality, such an unreliable situation is impossible. Basically, everyone's talent is determined after birth, which can be regarded as a basic value of potential value.

As a person continues to grow, his IQ and physical development will have a great impact on his talent in the football industry. Therefore, the younger the person, the greater the possibility of a large change in the potential value in a short period of time. bigger.This situation will be maintained until he grows to 22 or 3 years old, and when the development process is basically over, it will not appear again.

In order not to cause unnecessary interference to the host due to a high potential value in the case of little reference value, the plug-in version of the scouting tool generally does not give too high a player’s age before the age of 18. In my opinion, this is the reason why Li Mudi has never encountered a Xiao Yao who has the talent of a quasi-ball king in the past so many years.

As for why Fernando Riverola Lopez (hereinafter referred to as Riverola) suddenly appeared in front of the Real Madrid coach, it was also because of a regulation in the scouting tool or FM system.Their display and detection range only include professional players, semi-professional players and young players who have signed youth contracts, which cannot be retrieved for those who are not yet sure that they will embark on the road of professional football.

For example, if you search for Andy Lau—the one who is not from Africa, you will definitely find no such person. Even if this king of the Chinese entertainment circle may have a talent comparable to Maradona hidden in his body, as long as he is not engaged in this industry , it will not appear in the system database.

Riverola belongs to this situation, because he just signed the first officially recognized contract in his life with his current club, Valladolid U17 youth team, in September last year. included in its scope of management.Before that, the lad had been practicing or playing three times a week as a hobby at the non-professional club San Cristoforo in the Madrid area.

This information was obtained after Li Modi discovered this genius on the eve of New Year's Eve, and immediately contacted Ye Luo by phone, asking the latter to arrange a special person to conduct a careful investigation.This can also explain why the Real Madrid coach, who has always boasted that he has seen the world, attaches so much importance to a young man who has just turned 16 years old. Such a high evaluation is enough to prove how amazing his talent is.

For such a super little demon who may become the next generation leader in world football, Li Modi will never allow him to slip away from his nose, and must be decisively taken down.It's just that the feedback from the scouts also brought some bad news, which made the Real Madrid staff who were about to start poaching immediately faced a lot of difficulties.

First of all, the reason why the young man left his hometown, where he has lived since he was born, and went to the capital city of Castilla-Leon, 190 kilometers away, was because his widowed mother had just found the second wife in her life. My partner and stepfather's house is in the city of Valladolid, so Riverola, who is underage, naturally has to move with him and change schools.

But for him, the benefits of "leaving his hometown" this time are also very obvious, because with the encouragement of his stepfather, he finally made the decision to join the youth training camp of a professional team, which also completely changed his life. trajectory of future life.Henceforth, an ordinary man who might have spent most of his life as a product salesman (a job that Riverola, in his later autobiography, believed himself to be very good at communicating with other people, would have liked to do) found Opened the door to the road to world-class football superstars.

However, he has just adapted to the new family environment. Whether he is willing to leave his family and return to Madrid alone at this time is not a problem that Real Madrid can solve by providing a dormitory and transportation to and from school. Laura's parents are also objects that need to be spent on convincing.

As for whether Valladolid will agree to transfer the star of hope they just signed, there is no need to worry too much about it. Although the youth contract is also legally binding, facing the rich and powerful Galaxy Battleship, the economic situation can only be reduced. They are barely able to make ends meet, and when faced with a check of millions or even 1000 million euros, they will not have a lot of greedy thoughts.

However, being willing to sell Riverola for funds does not mean that the buyer must be Real Madrid, because according to the staff sent by Hierro, Barcelona, ​​Atletico Madrid and Baron were also seen on the sidelines of the Valladolid youth team's training ground. Scouts in West Asia, it seems that there is no need to describe what this means.

Although the competitors do not have external support, but only relying on professional ability, it is not difficult to see what kind of talent this young man who plays the midfielder has in many abilities such as ball control, speed and overall situation view. Li Mudi thought It is far more difficult to get it into the account smoothly than he had imagined before.

(End of this chapter)