Fly wanted to become the GOAT of football, and individual highest honors like the Ballon dOr, which are related to popularity, are indispensable.
It was precisely because of the "popularity" attribute of the Ballon dOr.
Fly had to seize every moment to increase his fame.
And his girlfriend's songs were an excellent medium for dissemination!
Not to mention that Taylor herself would proactively write songs for the two of them; even if Taylor didn't, Fly would beg her to write them.
He knew perfectly well how wide the reach of Taylor's songs would be in the future!
In his previous life, how many completely unknown minor artists became known to the public simply because they were Taylor's ex-boyfriends, and Taylor had written songs for them.
Then these people became known to the public.
Even on the Baidu personal information pages for these people, the relationship network section only showed Taylor Swift, the ex-girlfriend.
Nothing else at all!
No parents, siblings, or anything like that!
It was as if the only reason these people had any information on Baidu was because of that one woman in their relationship network.
A minor artist with little fame became known to the world just because he once had a relationship with "Taylor".
So what about a football superstar dating global pop queen Taylor?
Just think about it for a moment, and you'll know that this kind of cross-field relationship is absolutely explosive in terms of popularity!
Piqué, a player who at his peak could barely be discussed in the top three defenders in the world, gained widespread fame globally thanks to Latin pop queen Shakira.
Fly, a super striker, the world's best player, combining forces with Taylor, should at least be stronger than the former Beckham + Victoria combination, right?
At this level, when Fly competes for individual awards with Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, even if his fame can't completely crush the latter two, he definitely won't be at a disadvantage!
Walcott probably never dreamed that the young man in front of him, who was humbly giving him the match ball, was already contemplating matters concerning the Ballon dOr selection.
Because in his eyes, the Ballon dOr, the highest individual honor in football, was something completely unattainable for a player of his level!
Walcott didn't dare to even dream of it, and didn't even think it was possible to make it into the Ballon dOr thirty-man shortlist, let alone win the award.
One can only say that a person's strength determines his vision.
Walcott's strength was not enough to raise his vision to the height of the Ballon dOr.
But Fly could, even though his current strength hadn't even reached the standard of a world-class player!
That didn't prevent him from planning for the future.
After all, with his growth rate, reaching the strength level of a Ballon dOr caliber player wouldn't take too long...
Moreover, winning the Ballon dOr doesn't necessarily require the winner's ability to reach a Ballon dOr level standard.
He just needs to be better than other players in a given year to win the Ballon dOr.
This 'better' doesn't simply refer to "player strength," but rather honors.
As long as Fly can win the most team honors in a year, especially the two major club honors, the Premier League and the Champions League.
And he also has decent personal statistics.
Combined with a media offensive, that would be completely enough to kick Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo down.
Fly wasn't like Wesley Sneijder, Ribéry, Van Dijk, and others who didn't have media support.
From the moment he arrived at Arsenal at the age of 14, the efforts to build hype around him never stopped.
Otherwise, why would a youth player have such high attention?
Never underestimate the power of a super-rich person worth tens of billions of US dollars in modern society; a little bit of support from Dad Li to his son, perhaps inadvertently, could achieve an effect that the teams behind Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo would struggle to achieve even with painstaking effort.
This advantage is determined by birth, it's innate, and it is indeed very unfair, but Fly didn't feel there was anything wrong with it.
After all, if you, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, can steal the Ballon dOr from others with the advantage of public opinion and platform.
Then Fly can naturally also steal the Ballon dOr from your hands with the advantage of his background.
None of them are good people; it's just about who has the stronger backing and who has the more powerful methods...
At the post-match press conference.
Blackpool's head coach directly chose to evade; he really didn't want to face the difficulties and ridicule from Fleet Street.
Arsène Wenger, as always, summarized the match, and didn't change anything because of the big win in this game.
Perhaps it was because this was a match they were expected to win; even a 9:0 thrashing of the opponent was, in the end, only worth 3 points, nothing to be particularly happy about.
"If possible, I would prefer to convert this 9:0 score into nine 1:0 scores, because that would mean we could get twenty-seven points, while a 9:0 is only three points."
"Of course, I know this is impossible, so it's just a hypothetical."
When asked about Walcott and Fly's double hat-trick, Arsène Wenger said:
"This is not surprising; Theo (Walcott) and Fly's strength is already like this, they just did what they were capable of doing."
"I am quite confident in our season; Arsenal can win the League title this season."
In the end, Arsène Wenger directly expressed his determination in front of the media.
The reporters from Fleet Street were used to this, because in the past few seasons, Arsène Wenger had always made such statements at the beginning of each season.
But the final outcome was invariably a failure!
Even the process was carved from the same mold.
Fierce as a tiger at the start of the season, crushing opponents in various ways, a string of victories.
Then, when the devilish fixture list arrived in late December, they would habitually collapse.
This collapse would usually last for one to two months, and by February of the following year, Arsenal would basically concede the title race and start focusing on securing a Champions League spot.
This whole process was so familiar that the media workers on Fleet Street were already numb to it.
The same vows repeatedly made, yet never fulfilled, Arsène Wenger's ambitions had long been doubted.
Otherwise, Henry wouldn't have left Arsenal back then and transferred to Barcelona.
It was because the King of Highbury saw through Arsenal's outward strength but inner weakness, and the hopelessness of competing for the Champions League.
Even when they were undefeated for 49 games across seasons, they couldn't reach the pinnacle of Europe, let alone when they were no longer competitive even for the League title.
The final outcome also proved that Henry's choice back then was correct.
He transferred to Barcelona and within just two years, he won a Champions League title with the Dream Three.
It really goes to show that choice is more important than effort!
Although the current Arsenal hasn't yet experienced the Fabregas defection incident.
But given Arsenal's almost blank record in recent years, media reporters find it hard to believe that this season's Arsenal can achieve anything significant.
After all, they didn't even have much transfer fee, and didn't sign any big-name players.
The reporters didn't think that relying solely on a newcomer like Fly could bring any qualitative improvement to Arsenal.
Again, no matter how stunning Fly's performance is right now, in the eyes of industry insiders, he is just a genius.
There have been countless talented players who burst onto the football scene and shone brightly for a while!
But ultimately, very few have truly grown into legendary players!
Whether Fly can become a superstar still needs time and continuous matches to test.
At least at this stage, in the minds of industry insiders, Fly cannot bring substantial reinforcement to Arsenal.
With Arsenal's current squad, wanting to compete for the League title is perhaps a pipe dream.
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