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Chapter 9 - Chapter 9 completed the task, but the popularity is still too low!

However, based on the current situation,

Fly is fully capable of meeting Arsène Wenger's strength requirements for starting players.

In this match against AC Milan, Fly scored one goal and provided one assist, directly contributing to two goals.

For a young player playing in the first team for the first time, you couldn't ask for more from him.

However, Arsène Wenger won't be so decisive as to immediately make Fly a starter.

After all, this was just a friendly match, and even though the opponent was a top European powerhouse like AC Milan, the warm-up nature of a friendly match cannot be overlooked.

Arsène Wenger still needs time to verify who will start in the League, domestic cups, and even the Champions League later.

Fly can only be considered to have had a successful debut, but it's not guaranteed that he will continue to perform excellently.

However, Arsène Wenger will give him enough opportunities, more than the average newcomer!

This can also be considered a privilege brought about by Dad Li's acquisition of Arsenal.

On the field, Fly didn't know the calculations Arsène Arsène Wenger was making in his heart, and even if he did, he wouldn't care.

Because such thoughts can help Fly establish himself in the first team faster, which is purely a good thing!

Fly just doesn't want to be seen as someone who got in through connections by outsiders, but that doesn't mean he would refuse some shortcuts.

In Fly's opinion, refusing to take a shortcut and insisting on proving oneself is either crazy or foolish.

As time passed,

Pato took another sudden shot in the final moments, and the ball grazed the post and went wide.

This shot made Fly, who was up front, break out in a cold sweat.

It was too scary!

If Pato's shot had gone in, Fly would have lost big time!

"Beep beep, beep---"

With the sound of two short whistles followed by a long one, the pre-season friendly match between Arsenal and AC Milan ended.

Thanks to Fly's one goal and one assist, Arsenal defeated AC Milan 2:1.

The moment the match ended, the pleasant system notification sound rang out:

[Detected that the host has successfully completed the task issued by the system, completion level: 3/3]

[Task Completion Reward: 300 Intermediate Soft Rice Points, 100 Advanced Soft Rice Points]

Perfect!

He directly received 400 points in one match, which means he can increase his specialized ability value by 4 points.

Fly said it felt amazing!

Bring on more tasks like this!

However, Fly also knew that this idea wasn't very realistic, after all, the reason he got so many points in this match was entirely due to it being his professional debut.

Otherwise, for a mere friendly match, unless they were playing against aliens, the system wouldn't issue a task at all.

After the match, Fly didn't accept interviews but went straight home with Taylor.

There was no strict requirement for interviews in a friendly match of this warm-up nature.

Arsène Wenger stayed behind and said a few words, emphasizing his praise for Fly's performance:

"As everyone saw, after this child came to the first team, he still showed excellent competitive standards. It's obvious that he is not a fake genius who is only suitable for youth training matches, but a true genius player."

"Yes, I will give him enough opportunities in the new season, and I believe he will have an excellent performance in the League."

The media quickly reported Arsène Wenger's words and the outcome of the match.

Fly's debut performance was the main selling point.

In the past few years since arriving in England, Fly has been under constant external scrutiny due to his identity as the son of a super-rich man.

After all, people had never seen the son of one of the world's richest men come to play football!

Many people wanted to see Fly make a fool of himself, as there are plenty of people who resent the rich in this world.

Even those who don't resent the rich are happy to see a lucky person born in a Roman palace perform poorly, just to provide some entertainment for their boring lives.

In addition, after announcing his relationship with Taylor last year, Fly's level of attention rose another notch.

It can be said that Fly is the only player in all of Europe who had already gained considerable fame before even officially playing a match.

There were even quite a few sponsors offering endorsement contracts, but they were all rejected by Fly's agent.

Nonsense, how big could an endorsement contract for a youth training player be?

Fly's agent, Allen, was personally arranged for him by Annie, and his professional ability is beyond doubt.

He would absolutely not let his employer suffer such a huge loss!

As Fly's professional debut performance against AC Milan, with a goal and an assist, was spread by the media, many more people began to pay attention to Fly.

When Fly returned home and opened his Twitter, wow, his followers had increased by 10,000 in just three hours.

You must know, this was 2010, not the later era where accounts could easily have tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of followers.

Currently, the celebrity with the most Twitter followers was Lady Gaga, whose Twitter account had over 7 million followers.

Close behind were Britney Spears and Justin Bieber, both with over 6 million followers.

And Fly's superstar girlfriend, Taylor Swift, had over 4.7 million Twitter followers.

Comparing these numbers, you can understand the concept of gaining 10,000 followers in three hours.

Fly's accumulated Twitter followers over the years were less than 200,000, and this was after the surge in followers brought about by announcing his relationship with Taylor.

If you only counted before the relationship announcement, Fly's Twitter followers were a pitiful less than 40,000.

"Sigh, it seems the path of living off a woman is long and arduous!" Fly sighed involuntarily when he saw his Twitter followers.

After several years of exploration, he had figured out one thing, which was that the system's point judgment was closely related to fame.

The reason he chose to bind Taylor as his target for 'soft rice' was partly because he liked her, and another reason was that Taylor's fame met the requirements.

The Soft Rice System has a very high threshold for the "social fame" of the bound target.

Otherwise, Fly could have found a top wealthy woman to be his sugar mommy through his parents' connections as soon as he got the system years ago.

That wouldn't have been difficult for Fly.

But sorry, the system stated that although these wealthy women indeed surpassed Taylor, who was a singer and had just debuted, in terms of wealth,

Their fame didn't meet the standard and they couldn't be bound.

Fly had no choice but to carefully select, and finally chose Taylor as his 'soft rice' target, who was both to his liking and met the system's requirements.

Furthermore, Fly was well aware of Taylor's future development.

With the unprecedented Eras Tour, which can be called the greatest tour in human history, his wife's future fame will only be Leagues ahead of everyone else.

He just needs to comfortably rely on her and eat 'soft rice' diligently.

Fly had roughly calculated that with his girlfriend's development speed,

In at most a year, Fly's 'soft rice' points would skyrocket.

Every task reward would also be much more generous.

Based on Fly's current strength foundation, he might completely take off in just one season.

What Fly needs to do now is wait patiently, hone his skills, train diligently, and give his all in every match.

The rest, leave it to time... wait, no, perhaps leaving it to the cheat would be more appropriate.

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