"Damn, Matt, why are your dark circles heavier?" When colleague Harry Speed saw Matt Dawn in his office, he exclaimed.

Matt replied weakly: "Because I didn't go to bed until half past four this morning, and then I got up at eight o'clock......"

"Oh my God, Matt, even if you gave your life for the club, you can't afford to ...... any of the stands that bear your name," Harry said in an exaggerated tone.

"Then maybe you can name a toilet after me? If that's the case, I hope it's a women's toilet ......"

Harry laughed, "Well, when I heard you still joke, I knew you couldn't die." The boss told you to come over, and he probably has a new job for you. ”

"Okay, thank you Harry, I'll go now." With that, Matt got up from his seat, then grabbed his tablet and walked towards the head coach's office.

Looking at his colleague who had floated out of the office, Harry shook his head helplessly, but at the same time, he also sighed in his heart, fortunately Matt was a twenty-six-year-old young man who could bear it. If I stayed up so late for two days in a row, I couldn't stand it.

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"Boss, are you looking for me?" Matt knocked on head coach Tony Clark's office door and pushed the door inside.

I saw a middle-aged man with a full beard inside, stood up, and opened his arms to him: "Ah, dear Matt, you're here...... Hey? Why the hell do you look like this? ”

Apparently he had noticed Matt Dawn's languishing appearance as well.

"Well, I've slept less than eight hours in the past two days......"

"Ah, I'm sorry, I didn't expect that analysis video I asked you for yesterday would cost you so much energy......" Tony Clark said as he looked back, "No, wait, you gave me the video yesterday morning, so why did you stay up late last night?" ”

"Uh, that's right, boss, I was playing CGF yesterday." Matt explained.

"The Godfather of Champions?"

"Yes, it's The Godfather of Champions."

"Matt, it's not the first day we've met, I know you're a crazy CGF player, but I've never seen you play like this. If I hadn't known you very well, I would have even suspected that you had ten shots each of you and twenty women yesterday, ha! Tony Clarke grinned.

Matt Dawn rolled his eyes at the manager's boring joke: "Actually, if I hadn't thought that I would have come to work today, I probably wouldn't have chosen to go to bed at half past four in the morning, but would have continued to sleep." ”

"The Godfather of Champions is out again? No, didn't it come out in October? ”

"Well, here's the thing. I stumbled upon a post in the popping community......"

Matt Dawn told Tony Clark everything that had happened to him yesterday.

“…… So you're saying you found a talented player on the Internet and decided to check it out in the game, and it turned out that it was really like that guy said, who didn't look good at his attributes, but he was really good at scoring goals? Tony Clarke summed up the big bunch he had just said in a concise and concise way, and succeeded in smashing the author's conspiracy to take this opportunity to water the word count.

"Yes, I switched teams in the game and played for many seasons, all of them. Especially the second team. He even helped the team reach the Europa League. Boss, do you know which team I'm coaching? ”

"I don't know......" Tony Clark shook his head.

"Hammond Castle!"

Tony Clarke was stunned for a moment, then suddenly asked as if he remembered something, "Wait, you coached my team?" ”

"Yes, ...... boss"

"And where did I go?" The bearded Clark pointed to himself and asked Matt Dawn.

"Uh...... I don't know, sir. Every player who enters the game will not care about the fate of the ex who has been replaced by him...... On the other hand, do you care about the wrong point? The point is that the young player is good? Matt was baffled.

"That player, of course, he played really really well in the game. But Matt, you know, games are games after all, and no matter how real they are, they're games. And the database that Godfather of Champions is most proud of is actually only true enough for players in the Europa League. As for a young player from China...... God, the only thing I've had to do with China so far in my life is the Chinese restaurant in Portsmouth, where I've eaten......"

Matt interrupted Clark by pointing to the clothes on his body, "Clothes, boss." ”

"What's wrong with the clothes?"

"Your clothes, your jeans, your sneakers on your feet, this coffee mug on the table, this pair of sunglasses, your sun hat...... Oh yes, and this, the carpet you're stepping on......" At this point, Matt got down on one knee, leaned down and lifted the corner of the carpet, and found the label to confirm it, "Well, that's right, the carpet, all of this has something to do with China, and what they all have in common is that they are all 'made in China'." ”

Matt stood up and spread his hands to his boss.

Tony Clark was speechless: "So I'm almost like I'm standing on top of China now?" ”

"You can think so, Boss, that your life is full of Chinese elements." Matt said and suddenly pointed to a player-shaped knick-knack on his table and said, "And this, boss, this is also from China." ”

"What are you kidding, Matt? This is my decommissioned memorial figurine at Hammond Castle, and it's me, you see, how vivid, it's as if I had shrunk down and stood on it! Tony Clarke picked up the player figurine and put it next to his face to show Matt Dawn.

"Oh, that means the Chinese factory that produces this is very good in modeling." Matt took the statue from Clark's hand, then flipped it over and pointed to the label below and said to him.

Clark took it and took a closer look at the label that Matt was pointing to:

Made in China

His eyes widened: "Holy! Old Tom told me at the time that it was handmade and that it was the only one in the world! ”

Tom Chichester "Old Tom" Chichester is the chairman of Hammond Castle and when Tony Clarke retired from the club four years ago, he received the statuette from the club's chairmanship as a tribute to the player who had only played for Hammond Castle in his career.

"Haha!" Matt laughed, "Congratulations, Chief." Maybe when you travel to China in the future, you will see a lot of 'you' ...... in the store."

Clark was also amused: "Then it looks like I should go to China, where I am already a household name, and everyone has a statue of me in their home...... Oh, it's wonderful to think about! ”

After laughing, he straightened his face again, grinning at Matt: "But Matt, the Tony Clark statuette in 'Made in China' is not the same as the player in 'Made in China." The former has only one task, and that is to put it on a table, a shelf, or something else for people to admire. And the latter, you need to play football, do you think there are good players in China? At least I haven't heard of it...... And, moreover. ”

Seeing that Matt seemed to have something to say, he hurriedly raised his hand to stop him, and continued: "And, Matt. As I said, in the major European leagues, sports rangers can guarantee that their player databases are authentic, but what about in the far east, where sports rangers have no time to take care of them? We don't know anything about what's going on there, so how can Sports Ranger guarantee that the player stats there are authentic? The Chinese player you love so much in the game, he looks like a 'genius'......"

At this point, Tony Clark raised his hands, each with two fingers, and made a "quotation mark" gesture.

"But it is also possible that the national pride of the local investigators is just a problem, and in reality, the Chinese players cannot reach this height, so they can only satisfy themselves by exaggerating the reported data...... Remember those top demons of GF in the past? There are a few young demons in the game whose stats are as beautiful as the most perfect players you can imagine, and the result? In reality, they were found to be just ordinary players who were so mediocre that they couldn't be mediocre anymore. So, Matt, don't take it too seriously, it's just a few lines of game code. ”

Of course, Matt Dawn knew the stories of the demons that his coach told, and he was even familiar with them.

But he still felt in his heart that the influence of "The Godfather of Champions" was still very limited at that time, and Sports Ranger was just an independent game studio working in a garage, because there was no way to collect player data from mainstream European leagues, and many attribute values could only be imagined out of thin air, which led to the jokes that some of the top geniuses in the game were unknown in reality.

But now, Sports Ranger has a large number of volunteer investigators in many countries, such as himself, who believes that in faraway China, such a large market, it should be impossible to do without conscientious investigators......

Of course, now is not the time to argue with the boss about this, he remembered that the boss called him for something wrong, so he asked, "Boss, did you call me here to discuss the game with me?" ”

"Ahh Tony Clark patted his head, "You've made me forget about business." I was hoping for you to help me make an analysis of our next round opponents, York United, but I see that you are in your current state of mind, so I'd better find someone else to do it......"

Matt hurriedly said, "No, I'm fine, boss." Actually, my brain is so clear, I just look tired......"

Tony Clark looked at his young video analyst and nodded in agreement: "Indeed, you can discuss with me here for a long time a country that none of us have ever been to. Okay, then I'll need this video this afternoon when the team finishes training. ”

"No problem, boss!" Matt took the order and left.

As he walked out of the office, Tony Clark, the thirty-eight-year-old head coach, picked up the figurine on his desk again and carefully examined his miniature self.

So realistic and lifelike...... It was actually made on an assembly line?

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Not long after the afternoon practice, Tony Clarke returned to the head coach's office when Matt knocked on his door again.

"Boss, you want a video." He placed the USB drive in his hand on the desk in front of Clark.

But instead of leaving, he handed his phone to Tony Clark again.

"What is this ...... 'transfer window'? Why are you showing me this? Tony Clark looked up at Matt Dawn suspiciously.

"Transfer Window" is an internationally renowned football data website, which contains almost all the data about football in the world, from players to staff, from clubs to national teams, everything related to football can be found on this website.

Of course, now is the era of mobile Internet, and this old website has also launched a mobile APP client, allowing people to easily query the player information, transfer trends and other information he wants to query directly on their mobile phones.

Matt Dawn showed Tony Clark the mobile interface of the site.

“Lai Hu！ That's the Chinese player I'm talking about to you. Matt Dawn said, pointing to a player mugshot on his phone screen.

Tony Clark looked down at the smiling young player on the phone screen, with a childish look, and he raised his hands: "Yes, a real player." I didn't say he made it up, Matt. ”

"No, not this. You look down and look at his record of play, which is his record for this season's Chinese Football League...... By the way, the Chinese league is different from our side, they start at the beginning of the year and end at the end of the year, not the New Year. This year's league has played eight rounds, and he has scored seven goals in the league......" Matt swiped the screen of his phone to introduce Tony Clark.

"He didn't score in the first three rounds of the league and didn't play, and that's because he went to an international tournament called the East Asian Cup. He made three appearances for the Chinese national team, scored five goals, and won the top scorer of that tournament. He has scored seven goals in the league since his return, and three in their domestic cup competitions – similar to our FA Cup – have also been tally. That means this season, he has made nine appearances in all competitions and scored a total of 15 goals. ”

Matt Dawn held up his phone screen in front of Tony Clark's eyes and listed the numbers in a calm tone, like the day-to-day work of a data analyst.

"I don't know if the Chinese investigators are overstating the numbers, and I don't care if the flooding community posts are exaggerated, I just trust the data, boss. That Lai Hu, who was only nineteen years old, was selected for the Chinese national team, and he participated in international competitions...... No matter what game he played, he scored a lot of goals. That's what the data tells us, and the data doesn't lie. ”

Tony Clarke stared at the tables and numbers on Matt Dawn's phone and didn't speak.