Chapter 569: The Golden Boy and the Loser
After scoring two spectacular goals in quick succession after less than 10 minutes as a substitute and helping his team to an away win over a mighty Manchester United, Rodrigo Jr. finally got the world to remove the word "little" from what he called him, because no one remembers the big Rodrygo who announced his arrival at Real Madrid at the same time as him.
Just as Ronaldo Jr. and Ronaldo Jr. got their names out of the shadow of that alien through their outstanding performances, at the end of September 2022, there is only one Rodrygo in the world, and that is the new No. 14 of the Arsenal team.
Although he has only broken out so far, judging from the performance of more than ten minutes, Rodrygo's talent ceiling does not make Real Madrid's 45 million euros that year and the Gunners' 68 million pounds investment this summer seem too exaggerated, or if he can really cash in most of these potentials, then his new club can be said to be a big profit. After all, judging from the current environment, an excellent striker is still very valuable, and it is difficult to buy a star of this level without 100 million euros.
Of course, it's still the same sentence, the performance of a game can't say much, who doesn't eat dumplings during the New Year, and it is not an isolated case that everyone will be confused after the outbreak once, so after the battle of the gun demon, the media's praise of the gunner striker is still relatively rational and not too exaggerated.
But when Rodrygo added eight goals and three assists in six appearances in all competitions in the seven games leading up to the break in late October, the short-lived comments faded from the outside world's mouths, and people finally began to associate him with the names of the legendary superstars, bringing a different kind of heat to this slightly chilly autumn/winter season.
The new Thierry Henry is the most recognised nickname for the Brazilian at the moment, as the two have followed a very similar trend before and after joining Arsenal in their first season.
The King of Highbury was a left-winger both when he was playing for Monaco and when he played for Juventus, but Arsene Wenger had the wisdom to transform him into a central striker, and it can be said that he has unearthed a legendary superstar who can represent an era.
Rodrygo has also been fixed as a left winger by managers in Brazil and Spain, and although he is not low in adaptability to the center forward (the FM system gives a rating of 18 and a full value of 20), everyone thinks that he is too short in height and has a physical confrontation deviation, and is not suitable for the front of the team to attack the city. But they all ignore the speed and technical advantages that this youngster has, and what kind of super effect he can play in combining the ball attack, because from the physical point of view, Aguero is only 1.73 meters, but he is already one of the iconic figures in Manchester City and even the entire Premier League history.
Due to being held back by the national team's results, Ah Kun's status in football history is naturally not comparable to those football kings or quasi-football kings, but just looking at the club's achievements, there are really not many players who can match it. In terms of templates, Rodrygo and the Argentine big air wing are like carved out of a mold, with similar characteristics, and even the potential value of 183 and 4 is extremely close.
But in the tone of Li Muddy. The new No. 14, who still has the opportunity to change the direction of his own development (including the growth of potential and the distribution of various technical capabilities), undoubtedly has more uncertainty and a higher ceiling, which is the charm of football, because it is full of suspense all the time, making these men who love excitement and adventure at heart want to stop.
With Rodrygo's perfect integration, Arsenal's results have also improved significantly on the basis of their already excellent results, not only rushing the opening streak of the league to 16 games, but also accumulating the unbeaten record in all official competitions in the new season to 25, both of which are undoubtedly the top in the extremely competitive Premier League.
In the 2001/02 season, the professor led the Gunners to a 14-game winning streak in the middle of the season, setting a new Premier League record at the time. Sixteen years later, however, Pep Guardiola and his disciples raised that record to 18, which at the time was considered unbeatable in a short period of time. However, just five years later, Arsene Wenger's successor once again launched an assault on the mountain, which the British media dubbed as revenge for his predecessors.
However, it is unclear whether Arsenal will be able to regain that record for the time being, as the last weekend of October will bring the leagues around the world, including the Premier League, into a period of rest, leaving plenty of time to prepare for the World Cup, which will start in a month's time.
Therefore, the result of the Gunners' new record will only be known after the league restarts after New Year's Day next year, and the London media and Gunners fans are still very helpless about this situation. No one knows what the players will be like in two months' time as Arsenal's current good momentum has been interrupted, but the only thing that is certain is that at least it won't be any better than it is now, which has had a negative impact on the team's new winning streak and it seems that luck is not on their side this time.
However, apart from the local newspapers, which are concerned about the future of the club, the entire world football has been drawn to the upcoming World Cup in Qatar. With the group draw coming out in the spring, and the summer being a crucial time for players to rest and prepare for the club's new season, all the news about this football event has exploded at this time.
The most interesting thing is definitely the 23-man squad of the participating teams, which is also the most controversial event before the previous tournament, almost every country is full of slots, and there is almost never a scolding without being scolded.
Li Mudi, who has nothing to do with the national team, naturally does not bother to study whether the registration of the 32 teams is reasonable, his motherland unsurprisingly fell on the qualifiers again, and failed to achieve the goal of "rushing out of Asia and going to the world", and Spain, Italy and England, the three countries that have coached or are coaching, do not need him an outsider to point fingers, so compared to those national team coaches, the coaches of each club are surrounded by reporters without those reporters, and it is a lot quieter.
But Li Mudi's mood is also not happy, because Arsenal's outstanding results in the past two or three years have made the value and status of the players in the team rise a lot, and they will naturally be favored by their respective national teams.
Even if you don't count players such as Leno, Llorente, Maguire and Torreira, who were originally the main players of their country, even the likes of Bazol and Begovic, who have not played much, have also appeared in the squad. Especially the latter, who has reached the age of 37, even wore the No. 1 shirt of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team, and it is likely that the country's head coach will also serve as the starting goalkeeper in the World Cup, which also makes him basically lock in the title of the oldest starter in this tournament.
Coupled with Balco and Moussa Dembele, who returned to the national team with their performances in the club and established themselves, Arsenal contributed a total of 18 of the 23*32=736 players who participated in the Qatar World Cup, accounting for nearly 2.5% or one-fortieth, although it is not as big as Real Madrid, Bayern and Juventus, but it is also firmly at the top of the second echelon of this list, and it is second only to Manchester City's 19 in the Premier League.
If we add up to the number of main players who can secure the appearance, then the Gunners can properly squeeze into the top three, which makes the club's supporters very proud, and also adds a wave of admiration and gratitude to the team's manager, Li Moody.
However, some media have previously broken the news that the Gunners manager has eight months left in the contract, and the contract renewal negotiations with the club are not smooth, judging from the information provided by insiders, the two sides are still very far from reaching an agreement, which also brings huge variables to the next stage of the team's development.
Fortunately, the excellent results and the arrival of the World Cup have covered up this hidden danger, and not many people are enthusiastic about this issue for the time being, but the news about Arsenal still occupies an important position in the major media outlets, and the focus is still the Brazilian youngster who has repeatedly stormed the front page in the past month.
On November 2, Samba coach Fabio Carrile announced the final squad for the Qatar World Cup. is known for teaching the team's defense, so there are more midfielders in the team, and the forward line only occupies six places, of which there are only two Firmino and Jesus in the center forward position, which has become the object of dissatisfaction and even criticism from Brazil's own people.
Not to mention the former Vasco da Gama striker Paulinho, who has been very consistent in the Bundesliga team Bayer Leverkusen in the past two seasons, after all, he has not been tested by the world's highest level of league, and it is not yet known whether he can play a certain level in the competition. But Rodrigo, who has been "open" in London for a month, was not selected, which is intolerable to the media and fans.
Robinho, a retired veteran who was once considered to be a model for Rodrygo, expressed his doubts in an interview with local reporters, saying that it was definitely a major mistake of the national team coaching staff not to bring Arsenal's No. 14, who can play in multiple positions in the forward line, to the Middle East. The Brazil side could have added an insurance policy to their somewhat thin frontline, with a trusty substitute on the bench to be on the bench when the form of Neymar and Malcom went awry. But now, there are only Nelles, who can't even guarantee a stable rotation position at Inter Milan, and Kennedy, who has no aura, which really makes people doubt the criteria for being selected for the national team.
Another former god Ronaldinho also euphemistically said that Rodrygo is the most potential striker in Brazil today, and his single-round scoring ability has even surpassed Firmino, who relies more on team cooperation, and if he is recruited into the team, the team's offensive ability should be more secure.
However, if none of the players on this list have major injuries 24 hours before the World Cup starts, the hottest Gunners striker will be left to sit at home and watch live on TV for the next two months.
But even so, the media did not let go of the heat on him. On the first Sunday of November, Torino Sport announced the winner of this year's European Golden Boy Award, with Alberto Felis, a right-winger who plays for La Liga giants Valencia, winning his first major individual award from a pool of 40 candidates.
On this somewhat special day, it is inevitable that the outside world will re-examine the current situation and development prospects of past winners, including last year's winner, French striker William Goberts, who has just been selected for the Gallic Rooster World Cup squad. Born on August 16, 2001, the Monaco striker is one of the continent's most anticipated new generation of players, and although he has yet to show his talent in the bigger clubs, he is still expected to become the next top superstar after being rumored to be the next top star with Barcelona and Bayern Munich this summer.
However, the world is unpredictable, and no one expected at the time that Rodrigo, who had not even been able to squeeze into the preliminary list of 40 players for the Golden Boy Award, would use a month of crazy output to close the gap with the best players in his age group.
And in terms of maturity and ball sense on the field, the Brazilian, who is seven months older, is obviously a step higher, and the club and league that the two players play for are also more challenging than Rodrigo, which makes the original loser surpass Goberts, who has always been named a genius, in terms of development prospects, and also slapped the judges who participated in the European Golden Boy Award last year a resounding slap.
In short, when the national teams are in full swing for the final joint training and warm-up matches before the competition, it is also very strange that a player who is basically destined to miss the biggest event in football has occupied the focus of attention of the outside world for a long time.
As the head coach of the club team, Li Mudi also did not only care about his wife and children during this very strange holiday at this point in time, but often went to the Kearney training base to visit other players who were not selected for the national team, especially expressed his love for his lover Rodrigo. The young man's mood must have been a little bad, but after being persuaded by his family, agent and team boss, he slowly accepted the reality and made up his mind to continue to be in good shape in the club, so that those who looked down on him would have nowhere to find the regret medicine.
From this point of view, the Brazilian coach has done Arsenal a big favor.
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