The System's Reward Standards

Seeing Messi's surprised expression, Xavi and the others were also a bit taken aback.

Even he himself thought it looked similar?

"How is it, what do you think? Does it really resemble your playing style?"

Little White Iniesta came up and asked.

Messi nodded seriously:

"It's very similar, I'd even say his dribbling skills are no less than mine!"

This evaluation left Xavi, Iniesta, and the others extremely surprised—Messi actually rated him that highly?

"Which team does he play for? He looks familiar, like I've seen him somewhere..."

"He's Coach Guardiola's foster son, one of our Barca youth academy players. He used to play in the youth team, was loaned to the Bundesliga two months ago, and is currently playing for Werder Bremen."

The eldest of the three, Xavi, explained.

The others might not be very familiar with Lin Quan, but as the team's designated successor for himself, Xavi had been keeping an eye on this junior from the youth squad.

"Our player? I don't remember there being such an impressive winger in the reserve team?"

Messi asked in confusion.

Because of his own explosive rise, many players in Barca's youth academy had drawn massive attention.

Among them were players like Bojan, who performed exceptionally well in the youth team but failed to break through into the first team.

If Barca's youth team really had such a talented winger, he should have been famous by now, and Messi wouldn't have never heard of him.

"Ahem, he used to play as a defensive midfielder. He only switched to winger after joining Werder Bremen."

Xavi explained.

Everyone was speechless. Could that even work?

A defensive midfielder and a winger are completely different types of players—how could he just switch like that?

Equally speechless were Barca's sporting director Subizarreta and the youth team's head coach Enrique.

"Thomas Schaaf actually moved him from defensive midfielder to the front line as a winger?"

On the TV in front of them, the replay was showing the friendly match between Werder Bremen and Cottbus.

Since Lin Quan only came on as a substitute in the second half, they skipped the first half and started watching from the second.

Seeing Lin Quan take the field not as a defensive midfielder but positioned as a winger, Enrique was completely stunned.

"Hmph, that shows Schaaf has good judgment and knows how to use players. Look, this kid is thriving on the wing. I have a feeling his market value is about to skyrocket!"

Subizarreta had clearly already watched this match, so he fast-forwarded straight to the part where Lin Quan went on a solo run, dribbled past the entire defense, and scored.

"Check this out!"

After watching it, Enrique was dumbfounded.

If he had any doubts before about whether Lin Quan could play as a winger, now he had none at all.

The winger position seemed tailor-made for him.

Lin Quan showed no signs of discomfort in that role; instead, he was thriving.

This even made Enrique start to doubt himself:

Could it really be that I lacked the insight to recognize talent and misused him?

"Coach Enrique, I have to remind you that Lin Quan's contract with the club has less than a year left, and his release clause is only five million euros.

Once he performs this well on the Bundesliga field, buyers will be lining up at Barca's doorstep. Unless the player himself chooses to stay, we won't be able to hold onto this rising star!"

Calsada, the head of marketing and operations, said sternly to Enrique and Subizarreta.

He didn't understand how the two of them had handled this—why hadn't they renewed his contract before loaning out a youth academy player?

Now the kid was about to take off, and they were stuck in a passive position contractually.

"Don't panic, Manager Calsada.

This is just a friendly match. The real Bundesliga is completely different from this level of exhibition game. Lin Quan won't have such insane performances!"

Enrique was actually panicking inside, but he forced himself to stay calm and said:

"Once he hits a rough patch in the Bundesliga and fails to deliver such outstanding performances, the media and public won't pay him as much attention.

Then we can extend an olive branch, call him back with the promise of a first-team substitute spot, and he'll definitely choose to return to Barca and renew his contract!

After all, no one can refuse Barca's call!"

He said this with full confidence and conviction, and no one present refuted him.

Barca's results over the past few years spoke for themselves. Since the 07-08 season, Barca had won the Champions League twice and never fallen out of the top four.

In La Liga, Barca had even achieved three consecutive league titles.

Even though they lost the title last year, that was just a momentary slip!

Given Barca's current squad depth, no one doubted they had the strength to win the Champions League again.

With such a dominant record, plus the pull of a Giant Club like Barca, there was no worry the other side wouldn't be tempted.

Biersada was convinced; the ones handling Lin Quan's loan were Enrique and Subizarreta.

Since neither of them was in a hurry, he didn't need to get worked up either.

The day the match ended, Lin Quan lay in bed and opened the system with his mind.

Pulling up the system's shop interface, he saw that the Points column, which had been zero, now showed the number one.

Because of the change in Points, some items in the system shop had their exchange permissions unlocked.

Lin Quan gave it a rough scan—aside from the Energy Drink that lasted half an hour, which held some appeal for him, everything else was useless.

That Energy Drink required one Point to exchange, which felt a bit too expensive for Lin Quan.

With his entire net worth being just one Point, he obviously wasn't willing to spend it on a Stamina Potion.

Besides, the coach currently had no intention of letting him start.

As a substitute, his current stamina was enough to handle the matches, so he didn't need to exchange for that either.

Compared to consumables like Stamina Potions, Lin Quan wanted the top-tier talents and some luxurious equipment more.

For example, he had his eye on the Injury Immunity talent—speed-type players feared getting hurt the most.

Once injured, if their explosiveness dropped, their threat would be greatly reduced.

Messi wasn't a speed-type player, but his dribbling also required strong explosiveness.

Without that explosiveness, Messi's dribbling ability would noticeably decline.

This was very obvious before and after Messi's injury in 2013.

If he could get this talent, Lin Quan wouldn't have to worry about injuries, and he'd have fewer concerns when breaking past opponents.

During tackles, he could even dare to contest some fifty-fifty balls.

But this kind of top-tier talent was extremely expensive—it cost 100 Points to exchange.

Lin Quan's current Points were only one percent of the purchase requirement.

This made Lin Quan feel a bit wistful: So far off!

"System, do I only get one Point for every match I win?"

If that were the case, he'd have to win a hundred matches.

Even counting all the friendlies, cup games, league matches, and so on.

It would take at least two or three years of playing before he could exchange for this talent.

If the team's results were bad, that time would be pushed back even further.

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[Different levels of matches give different Point rewards. Winning a Top Five Leagues match rewards 2 Points.]
[Winning a Champions League match rewards 3 Points!]
[Winning a World Cup match rewards 5 Points!]
[Additionally, the Golden Boot and assist king awards for the league, Champions League, and World Cup each have their own rewards.
Specifically: League Golden Boot rewards 20 Points, assist king rewards 10 Points;
Champions League Golden Boot rewards 30 Points, assist king rewards 20 Points;
World Cup Golden Boot rewards 50 Points, assist king rewards 30 Points.]

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