Titan Sports Weekly Reporter? Su Bai is on fire?

"Hi! My dear Hanks!"

"Welcome to the best club in Argentina!"

Before long, a bearded, overweight man emerged from the River Plate club.

The man was named Ravitch, the manager of River Plate.

"Hello, my old friend! It's really hot here!"

"Haha, that's South America for you. But you'll feel much cooler at night!"

The sleazy-looking fat man patted Hanks on the shoulder and led him into the club building.

"Let's get down to business first! Our boss said that Romero is too old. He's already twenty-two, and his skills have already plateaued. Isn't six million a bit too expensive?"

The moment they entered the office, the practical Hanks got straight to business.

"Stop!"

"Hanks! You're my friend! We can talk about that crap in a few days! You haven't even experienced Argentina's most beautiful coastline yet!"

Hanks had originally planned to wrap up the deal directly and take Romero away within the week.

But unexpectedly, Ravitch, who had sounded so forthright on the phone, seemed like a completely different person now.

They talked for a full half hour.

Yet that damned fat man simply refused to discuss the transfer.

What Hanks didn't know was that River Plate's situation wasn't all that good either.

Romero might only be decent, but he was undeniably River Plate's starting winger.

When the club prepared to sell Romero, the team's head coach had nearly smashed up Ravitch's office.

The Super Derby against Boca Juniors was just around the corner.

At such a critical time, they were actually going to sell the team's starting winger.

That really was going too far!

In the end, with no other choice, Ravitch had to promise the enraged head coach Montgomery that Romero would only be sold after the Super Derby.

"This weekend is the most important holiday for us at River Plate!"

"You've come all the way to Argentina, so you have to watch the Super Derby, right? You know, the Super Derby between River Plate and Boca Juniors is the fiercest derby in the entire world!"

"And you'll be able to watch up close as our River Plate genius Romero toys with Boca Juniors! He'll definitely be the superstar Tottenham Hotspur needs most!"

To keep Hanks around, Ravitch put his silver tongue to work.

But the upright Hanks was completely unmoved.

He kept insisting on lowering the price.

With no other choice, late that night, the helpless Ravitch had his most capable secretary go to Hanks's room to sound him out for fifteen minutes.

Only then did Hanks reluctantly agree to Ravitch's request.

Tottenham Hotspur's recruitment plan was also delayed slightly.

While Hanks was enjoying the Argentine atmosphere, Su Bai was still grinding for training points on the practice field.

Five days!

Su Bai stayed cooped up at the club and went nowhere.

After five days of insane, life-threatening training, Su Bai had finally accumulated enough training points!

Friday night, twelve o'clock!

On the empty Boca Juniors first-team training ground!

After hearing the system's notification that his training points had reached the maximum, Su Bai finally could not hold on any longer and collapsed exhausted onto the turf!

There was still one rest day tomorrow.

With 80 shooting, it should be enough to handle Sunday's match.

Besides, he still had his secret free-kick weapon!

However, what frustrated Su Bai was that after his shooting stat reached 80, the previously green attribute bar suddenly turned gray.

Gray!

Wasn't that the same as being locked?

Damn system—after training like his life depended on it, he could only reach 80 at most.

Couldn't it be more generous and let him train all the way to max level? Then he could unleash rockets the moment he crossed midfield!

Just imagining that scene!

Sigh!

Helplessly, Su Bai staggered back to the dormitory.

Before long, the exhausted Su Bai was snoring away!

Meanwhile, on the other side of the club!

Inside Xie Luotuo's office.

Old Xie and Almeida sat at the desk, frowning as they studied the tactical arrangements for Sunday!

"Boss, we've trained for a week already. There shouldn't be any problems!"

Seeing that Xie Luotuo still looked worried, Almeida tried to reassure him.

"River Plate are still one point ahead of us! And in this match... their frontline is a huge problem!"

Just like that!

The two men sat shoulder to shoulder in the office, staying up the entire night!

The tactical board in front of them was covered in dense markings!

Sunday!

Monumental Stadium, River Plate's home ground in Belgrano District.

More than fifty thousand River Plate supporters had already entered the stadium early!

And outside Monumental Stadium.

The crowds were even more overwhelming!

Countless River Plate fans in white-and-red shirts desperately waved River Plate flags.

And it wasn't just flags. Quite a few excited fans had already set off fireworks in advance, as though they were celebrating the victory they were about to claim.

Su Bai and his teammates sat on the team bus as it slowly moved forward.

Crackles and bangs echoed outside the windows!

The fanatical River Plate supporters began hurling all sorts of things as soon as they saw the bus bearing Boca's emblem approach their stadium!

Stones, liquor bottles, and the like.

However, none of it could penetrate this specially made bulletproof bus.

"Su, you'll get used to it. Compared to these guys, our Boca fans are way crazier!"

Seeing that Su Bai seemed somewhat surprised, Barrios immediately patted Su Bai on the shoulder and said!

Amid this feverish atmosphere.

The five-hundred-meter trip took the bus a full twenty minutes before it finally reached the stadium.

The moment they arrived, Xie Luotuo hurried off to the press conference.

As Argentina's most explosive Super Derby.

The eyes of all Argentina—and even all of South America—were focused here.

Once Xie Luotuo and River Plate manager Montgomery had both taken their seats, the heated press conference finally began.

"Mr. Xie Luotuo, Boca lost both Super Derby matches against River Plate last season. Do you have the confidence to take a point away from Monumental Stadium today?"

It was that familiar face from last week's press conference again.

A diehard member of the River Plate camp.

Xie Luotuo gave him a cold look!

The bastard really knew where to stick the knife!

Were Boca's two losses last season his fault?

It was because those damned club executives had sold off his starting defensive midfielder right before the derby.

Without the core of their defense, Boca had been torn apart by River Plate's relentless attacks.

If he hadn't been a club legend, he would have been fired long ago.

This guy had started by bringing up old grudges, but the most infuriating part was asking whether he could take away a point?

That was simply an insult to great Boca!

"Victory!"

"That is the only thing Boca needs to take away from Monumental Stadium today!"

"We will let all of Argentina know that Boca are Argentina's strongest team!"

Xie Luotuo's words instantly silenced every reporter!

This...

Was this really something Xie Luotuo, the man everyone always called a coward, would say?

He had always said things like football was unpredictable, there were wins and losses in football, the opponents were strong, and the match would be difficult!

But what gave him the nerve to say something like that at Monumental Stadium?

"Mr. Xie Luotuo! Hello, I'm a reporter from China's Titan Sports Weekly. Will China's Su, who scored four goals in the last match, be starting today?"

Just as everyone wondered why Xie Luotuo had suddenly changed his tune today, a beautiful black-haired reporter stood up and spoke!

Titan Sports Weekly?

A Chinese national?

At that moment!

A notification suddenly popped up on the homepage of Titan Sports Weekly's Chinese website.

<Argentina Super Derby: The young Chinese-descended player who scored four goals last match has once again been named in Boca Juniors' squad!>

Li Feng sat before his computer at home, opened a bottle of chilled beer, and happily took a sip.

After three days, he had finally gathered all the video footage from Su Bai's matches in Argentina.

Then, he sent all the material to Titan Sports Weekly.

As China's most football-focused media outlet, he refused to believe that, at such a dark time for Chinese football, they would not care about a Chinese-descended player like Su Bai.

Sure enough!

Titan Sports Weekly had already made its move.

Not only had they reported it on their homepage, they had even thoughtfully arranged a livestream!

The Football Association's celebration for its overseas player recruitment plan was about to begin.

He wanted to see how the Football Association would end up wrapping this mess up!

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