Anyone who has played the championship football manager game will be very familiar with the word "farm calf", in this kind of game with an almost infinite timeline, in order to avoid the situation that the player is unavailable after the retirement of real players, the production convenience has set up a mechanism to add random fictional players to supplement the vacancy of personnel loss.

Specifically, in the game FM, it is an event in which a large number of young players join the team's affiliated football school or academy at a relatively fixed period of time each year. The abilities of these young players are randomly arranged under certain operational conditions, but in general, they are still based on the team's youth training facilities and recruitment ability, which means that the better the team in terms of youth management, the more likely it is to appear as a high-potential demon.

Through the S/L style of play, players who coach top giants such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Manchester United have a great chance of brushing up on the potential of 180 or even more than 190 talents, which is also a reflection of the high playability and freedom of this type of game.

Of course, the real football scene is definitely much more complicated than the game, and the process of recruiting outstanding young players is a hard work that needs to be accumulated all year round. And even when much has been done in this area, the results are often disappointing.

There is an old saying in the Celestial Empire called "three years old looks old", but in the football world, it is often sixteen years old who can not easily judge how much potential a player's future development is.

For example, Arsenal scouts, who are recognized as super-poisonous in the world, have missed the cornerstones of Ibrahimovic, Drogba, Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Kane, and other giant teams naturally cannot escape the fate of being ridiculed by the outside world in the future.

As far as Real Madrid is concerned, over the years, they have let go of many talents in the academy such as Samuel Eto'o and Juan Mata, and made serious mistakes in the trial of David Silva and Pedro (the Sabres who played for Barcelona and Chelsea) in their youth, resulting in a large number of stars who could have become the pride of the Bernabeu have become iconic figures of other teams, thus becoming typical of the "blind" in the mouth of the outside world.

But if you really get to know the process of discovering new talent, you can see how difficult it is for those who work in the industry to do so on a daily basis. Judging what a person's future holds is the most unreliable thing in the world, and unless there is enough time to get up close, or a player is so talented that anyone can look at it without a doubt, any assessment is a little hasty.

It's just that super-talent is a very small minority, and a long and detailed examination of each young player can cost the club a huge amount of money that it is difficult for the club to bear, neither of which can become the norm. That's why there will be one miscalculation after another, and these mistakes will continue until football and other sports die out completely.

And at this point, how rebellious Li Mudi's plug-in effect is when he wears it, it can be vividly displayed.

Although a scouting tool can only be used twice a year to detect a player's potential, and the value of young players will fluctuate frequently due to changes in their own and external conditions, resulting in a certain error in the accuracy of the evaluation. However, compared to the traditional scouts in reality, the Real Madrid manager can obtain such information almost without much effort, which is already a huge first-mover advantage, and the benefits this has brought to his coaching career are difficult to describe in words.

Previously, whether in Turin or London, Li Muddy has repeatedly signed a number of good seedlings with high development prospects for his team at a relatively low price with the help of plug-ins, and finally fulfilled the promise he made to the club's senior management and fans when he joined the team, so that the Red Bulls and Gunners have both ushered in a new peak of their academies, and at the same time, these two teams can have strong competitiveness for many years to come.

From this point of view, even if you don't take into account the excellent results he has achieved in those years, the salaries paid to him by the two clubs are not a loss. After all, in today's world football, which is full of utilitarian ideas, 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 the latecomers.

It's just that after joining the Bernabeu, Li Mudi has not personally poached any potential calves in the past year and a half, strictly speaking, because there are a group of talents in the Real Madrid academy, and the potential value of several particularly outstanding young players is basically above 150 or even 160, among which the "three small strong" who were transferred to the first team last season are above 170, so the young players who are not of enough grade outside will not be able to enter the eyes of the Real Madrid coach at all.

As for those good seedlings with similar potential, first, there are not many of them (after all, reality is not a game, and the probability of a prodigy is still very small), and secondly, they are basically the key training objects of other teams, and it is really difficult to dig them up. Under the premise that how it will develop in the future is full of great uncertainty, the return on investment ratio is still relatively low, so it is better to wait for the player's ability to be basically developed and then spend a high price to bring it in, anyway, it is not that you can't afford to spend 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 searched the list of people under the age of 18 with a potential value of 160 or more through the scouting tool, I suddenly found a genius who had not been in my sight before.

A young man named Fernando Riverola Lopez, who was born in December 2010 on the outskirts of Madrid, topped the list with a potential of 194, causing the Real Madrid manager's heart to stop a beat.

As mentioned before, the potential value can be evaluated more than 190 in the FM system, all of them are super geniuses that only come in ten years, and if this talent can be fully realized, the qualification for promotion to the king of the ball is likely to be difficult to achieve due to the environment and timing, but it is still very easy to achieve the world's top existence for a while. If no other superstar can compete with it, it's not impossible for the two Mero to dominate a period like the two.

And if the reference is today's world football, Mbappe is the only one who has the opportunity to touch the important node of 190 among the famous stars, and the ceiling of the rest of the top players is not so high. And it is not without that there have been young people who have been rated as high potential by the system before, but most of them are around 180, which is the first time that Li Mudi has found such a talented genius embryo since he used scouting tools for ten years.

Of course, all of the above wonderful prospects can only come true after he can fully transform these potentials into his own strength. Otherwise, even if the reality is not as inflated as in the game, there will be no shortage of young players with potential to exceed 190, and it is almost certain that most of them have wasted God's precious talents and ultimately failed to reach the level they should have reached.

Here's why Li Mudi, who uses the plug-in once every six months, couldn't find this prodigy before, and why it's so difficult to find a demon with a potential value of more than 190 through a search of scouting tools.

Different from the game's setting, there is a floating system or random mechanism for the potential evaluation of young players, and every time the player opens the file, the potential value of the little demon will change somewhat, and it will still be within a certain range in general. But in reality, it is impossible to have such an unreliable situation, basically everyone's talent is determined from birth, and 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 football, so the younger the person, the more likely it is that the potential value will change greatly in a short period of time. This will continue until he is 22 or 3 years old, and the development process is almost over, and then it will not appear again.

In order not to have a high potential value and bring unnecessary interference to the host when the reference is not significant, the plug-in version of the scouting tool is generally not easy to give an overrated evaluation before the player's age reaches 18 years old, which is the reason why Li Mudi has not encountered a demon with the talent of a quasi-ball king in the past so many years.

As for why Fernando Riverola Lopez (henceforth referred to as Riverola) appeared so suddenly in front of the Real Madrid manager, it was also because of a provision in the scouting tool or FM system. Their range of appearances and scouts only includes professional players, semi-professional players and young players who have signed youth contracts, and it is not retrievable for those who are not yet sure that they will embark on a career in professional football.

For example, if you search for Andy Lau - if it is not from Africa, there must be no such person, even if the king of the entertainment industry of the Celestial Empire may have a talent comparable to Maradona hidden in his body, but as long as he is not engaged in this industry, he will not appear in the database of the system.

This is the case for Riverola, as he signed his first officially recognised contract with his current club, Valladolid Under-17s, in September last year, which was recognized by FM and brought under its purview. Until then, the lad had been practicing or playing three times a week as a hobby at the amateur club San Christopher in the Madrid area.

After Li Mudi discovered this genius on New Year's Eve, he immediately contacted Hierro by phone and asked the latter to arrange for a special person to obtain it after careful investigation. This also explains why the Real Madrid manager, who has always prided himself on seeing the big world, thinks so highly of a young man who has just turned 16, because the fact that Riverola has not undergone the most professional training is so highly rated by the historically rigorous FM system, which is enough to prove how amazing his talent is.

For such a super demon who has the potential to become the next generation leader of world football, Li Mudi will resolutely not allow him to slip out from under his nose, and must be decisively taken down. However, the feedback from the scouts also brought some not very good news, which made it difficult for the Real Madrid staff who were ready to start poaching immediately.

First of all, the reason why the young man left his hometown, where he had lived since he was born, and went to the capital city of Castilla y León, 190 kilometers away, was because his widowed mother had just found a second partner in his life, and his stepfather's home was in Valladolid, and the underage Riverola naturally had to move and change schools with him.

However, the benefits of this "uprooting" are also very clear for him, as he finally made the decision to join the academy of a professional team with the encouragement of his stepfather, and at the same time completely changed the trajectory of his future life. From then on, an ordinary person who might have spent most of his life as a product salesman (a job that Riverola later considered himself to be very good at communicating with other people, so he would have liked to do it) finally found the door to the path of a world-class football superstar.

However, he has just adapted to his new family environment, and whether he will be 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, and Riverola's parents are also the ones who need to spend energy convincing.

As for whether Valladolid will agree to the transfer of the star of hope they have just signed, there is no need to worry too much about this, although the youth contract is also legally valid, but in the face of the deep-pocketed Galaxy Battleship, the economic situation can only barely reach the balance of payments, and they will not have a lot of greedy thoughts when facing a check of millions or even ten million euros.

However, the willingness to sell Riverola for the sake of money does not mean that the buyer will necessarily be Real Madrid, because according to the staff sent by Hierro, Scouts from Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and Valencia have also been seen on the sidelines of the Valladolid youth team's training ground, and it seems that there is no need to describe what it means.

Although none of the competitors have external support, but with professional ability alone, it is not difficult to see what kind of talent this young man has in many abilities such as ball control, speed and overall vision, and it is far more difficult for Li Mudi to successfully include him in the account.