"Haha, it's okay, not too much." Although Taylor on the other end of the phone was very modest in her words, Fly could clearly hear the smugness in her voice.
Obviously, the results of the new album really made Taylor very satisfied.
"Elder sister, you are so amazing, when can I be as amazing as you!"
After hearing her boyfriend's voice, which sounded like a little puppy, Taylor's heart melted, and she quickly comforted him: "Darling, don't worry, you've just debuted, you won't be that popular for a while."
"You need to know one thing, fame also requires time to accumulate slowly."
"The reason why I, your elder sister, have today's popularity is because of the accumulation of the past few years."
"Fly, my younger brother, your fame has grown very quickly, it's only been three months, and you already have over 1.5 million Twitter followers."
"You know, I, your elder sister, have worked hard for so many years and only have over 6 million followers."
"Darling, you should be content."
Fly knew he was being greedy, like a snake trying to swallow an elephant; his fame was rising as fast as a rocket.
But he still wanted to go further, because the people who would compete with him for the Ballon dOr in the future were Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
These were two people who looked at the whole world and were world-class superstars with great fame!
If Fly wanted to compete with them for the Ballon dOr, he absolutely couldn't fall too far behind in terms of popularity.
In terms of platform alone, Arsenal is definitely not as good as Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Even though the exposure of the Premier League is far greater than La Liga, Arsenal still can't compare with Real Madrid and Barcelona, these two top European football clubs.
So he had to find a way to make up for it elsewhere.
Of course, if Fly were at Manchester United, then he wouldn't have to worry about the platform disadvantage.
Today's Red Devils are not the internet celebrity club of more than ten years later.
Under the leadership of Sir Alex Ferguson, today's Red Devils are the top club in all of Europe.
Whether it is competitive strength, commercial value, or popularity, this is the case.
But this was a kingdom that Sir Alex Ferguson spent more than 20 years building, compared to it, Arsenal is still quite a bit behind.
After all, Arsène Wenger's coaching record, resume, and influence are still far behind compared to the Scottish red-nosed old man.
Fly couldn't change these objective conditions, so he could only make up for the gap between club platforms from other places.
And his girlfriend Taylor could play an important role in this.
As long as Taylor's popularity and influence increasingly approached the 'World Number One Female' in his memory from his previous life, as her boyfriend, Fly would also get more attached fame bonuses.
There is already a precedent in the football world, those who understand, understand what level of popularity the combination of Beckham + Victoria made Beckham's popularity reach.
Although when Beckham and Victoria were together, the former's popularity was higher.
But without Victoria's subsequent management of Beckham, Beckham's popularity would not have reached the level of crushing all football superstars of the same period.
Not to mention Zinedine Zinedine Zidane, the quasi-ball king only known to football fans, even Ronaldo, in terms of fame and popularity alone, couldn't compare to Beckham.
While other players were still fighting on the field and competing for honors.
With the help of Victoria, Beckham walked an unusual path, allowing him to instantly shake off all players of the same era and dominate.
Since he was not an opponent of Zinedine Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldo on the football field, then he would achieve transcendence off the football field.
It must be said, the path Beckham blazed indeed pointed out a clear path for later players.
However, Fly's ambition was not just this little, he not only wanted to achieve transcendence off the football field, but even on the football field, he wanted to be number one!
After chatting with Taylor for a while, Fly asked when Taylor would come to see him.
Taylor helplessly said that her new album had just been released recently and it was the time when she needed to run around everywhere for promotion, she could only come to London after this busy period was over.
Fly could only give up on this, after all, his girlfriend was very career-oriented, and it was impossible for her to abandon her career to accompany him.
Unless Fly was injured, or sick...
But faking an injury or lying about being sick, when facing his own girlfriend, Fly couldn't do it.
Taylor wasn't an Football Association official, she was his family, when facing family, how could he do such a shameless thing?
After hanging up the phone, Fly came to a collection room, a pile of empty glass cabinets appeared before his eyes, this was the place he used to store his honors.
Now there were only two water bottle-shaped trophies in the glass cabinets, which were the Premier League Player of the Month awards for August and September that Fly had won.
Such minor honors would definitely not be qualified to be placed in the glass cabinets in the future.
Now it was just because the glass cabinets were too empty and didn't look good, Fly put them here to decorate a bit.
Right next to the area where Fly stored his trophies, there was also a similar trophy collection area, and there were far more trophies here.
Looking around, there were trophies shaped like golden microphones, golden small trumpets, and so on.
These were all Taylor's trophies, since Fly came to London, Taylor also moved all the honors she had won here.
Because this villa located in London would be the place where Fly would live for many years in the future, Taylor naturally also regarded this place as their home.
After all, to make music, you only need a professional equipment room and some professionals as helpers, there's no need to stay in one place all the time.
But it's different when you're a professional football player, the club's stadium and training ground are in a fixed location, so players can only live around here.
This is also why it has always been Taylor who comes to London to accompany Fly, instead of Fly going to Nashville to accompany Taylor.
It's not because Fly's feelings for Taylor are not as strong as Taylor's feelings for Fly, but because the limitations of his profession restrict this.
After dinner, Fly opened his phone and checked the latest match results of other teams, this had almost become something Fly had to do after every match.
He had to constantly pay attention to the real-time match situation of his competitors.
The match between Arsenal and West Ham United was the first match of the tenth round of the Premier League.
The matches of other teams started later, Fly only saw Chelsea's match report that evening.
2:1, Chelsea narrowly defeated Blackburn Rovers away.
This was naturally not good news for Fly.
And in the afternoon of the next day, Fly also got the result of Manchester United's League match this round.
2:0, Manchester United easily defeated visiting Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford Stadium.
In other words, Arsenal's two biggest direct competitors for the League title this season all won.
Seeing this, Fly couldn't help but feel a little scared, luckily, his teammates were strong against West Ham United, otherwise, a draw for Arsenal would have narrowed the gap with these two teams behind them again.
"We can't relax, our opponents are Chelsea and Manchester United, coached by Ancelotti and Sir Alex Ferguson, we are not qualified to relax." A sense of crisis rose in Fly's heart for the first time.
Perhaps it was because he and Arsenal had played very smoothly in the past three months, which led to Fly subconsciously having the thought deep down that 'the Premier League title this season is already secured'.
But upon closer calculation, now Arsenal has 28 points from ten matches, only leading Chelsea, who have 22 points, by 6 points, and leading Manchester United, who have 20 points, by 8 points.
Of course, in this round of matches, the Blue Moon Manchester City began to fall behind, they lost 1:2 away to Wolverhampton Wanderers, their current points are still 17, 11 points behind Arsenal.
From this perspective, Arsenal's competitors have also decreased by one, currently only Manchester United and Chelsea are keeping up.
However, Fly had never considered Manchester City as Arsenal's competitor this season from the beginning.
Because his memory from his previous life told him that Manchester City this season was still some distance away from the League title.
Taking a deep breath, Fly felt that he still couldn't slack off, he couldn't really think he was some extraordinary person just because the media had praised his performance lately to the sky.
He was nothing right now!
Adjusting his mindset and moving forward was what he should be doing now.
....
November 4th.
Fly followed the team's plane to Donetsk city, Ukraine, to play away at the Donbass Arena and challenge the home team Shakhtar Donetsk.
Arriving outside the Donbass Arena, Fly looked at the five-star stadium in front of him, which could accommodate 50,000 people, and couldn't help but sigh that he wouldn't see this famous stadium in Ukraine in a few more years.
According to Fly's memory from his previous life, the Donbass Arena would be shelled 4 years later, in 2014, due to armed conflict in Ukraine.
Shakhtar Donetsk also began multiple relocation journeys as a result.
This stadium, which was completed last year, in September 2009, was essentially completely scrapped after only five years of use.
Because of Taylor, Fly remembered that her peer Beyoncé held a concert here as part of her global tour last year when the stadium was just completed.
Looking at the sea of black and yellow on the stands, Fly felt that the home atmosphere of Eastern European teams was indeed a bit intimidating.
He didn't know how to describe this feeling, anyway, it was a smell of gunpowder that made people feel like 'dark clouds are pressing down on the city, and the city is about to crumble'.
Perhaps because of historical reasons, Eastern Europe, where Ukraine is located, has always been one of the most unstable regions in the world in the 21st century.
Only regions like the Middle East and North Africa could compare with it.
For Fly, who was already used to a comfortable environment in both his previous and current lives, it was indeed a bit uncomfortable.
Not to mention in his previous life in the China, as a post-2000s person in his previous life, Fly had not even experienced the 'era of firearms' in East Asia.
After all, East Asia had already implemented a comprehensive gun ban in 1996, which was 4 years before Fly was born.
In Fly's impression, apart from seeing homemade guns a few times at other people's homes when he was a child, he had no other memories of firearms.
Although he lived in the United States in this life, Fly's family background also destined him not to be exposed to the scenes of street gunfights.
In addition, Fly's personality also disliked going to unsafe places, for him, who had always lived in a wealthy area, he had not even heard gunshots more than a few times.
After coming to the United Kingdom, he knew even less about the smell of gunpowder.
This time, following the team to Ukraine, where the war had not completely stopped, Fly suddenly felt a little unaccustomed, always feeling like someone would suddenly pop out from somewhere and shoot him.
If it weren't for his professionalism, Fly even wanted to ask Arsène Wenger for leave and not play this match.
He really didn't like this area of Eastern Europe, he was physically uncomfortable.
"Hope everything goes smoothly..."