Chapter 5: Benny Blanco

He is thinking that once he integrates this template, he will give his player and comrade in arms more confidence.

He said: "I want to integrate this template."

[Okay, but know that the transformation will happen only when you are sleeping.]

Alex thought about it: "Well, I understand and hope this seemingly unreal thing happening is truly the reality."

Originally, he was planning to spend all the journey at his new office, burning his head thinking of all solutions, but now, with this unexpected surprise, he plans to relax today and postpone his plan until tomorrow to see if he wasn't hallucinating and, of course, what his new attributes will be if it's true. Anyway, he plans to change the classic 4-4-2 of the team.

Since it's only morning, he thinks it's better to go for coffee, but on his way, as he has to pass the training ground, he was surprised to find a player training. You have to know that due to the dismissal of the first team coach, whether for the first team, reserve team, or youth team, they have training suspended for 2 days, so it really is a little surprising.

After recognizing who the player was, Alex couldn't help but have a complicated expression. As someone who knew the future star player, of course, he once wanted to gather those young players who would later become superstars and dominate the football world, but things were more complicated than he thought.

The management of the club would never allow a player to interfere with the team's policy; that was one of the hidden rules. Even star players can only recommend. By the time he had those privileges, Southampton was already in League One.

Nevertheless, in 2014, that was the first time he wanted the team to recruit a player, but he was warned by the manager: "Trust me, never try to interfere with the team's management. It's a huge interest that's involved here, from head coach, scout, sports director, chief scout, etc. I'm telling you this because I watched you grow and know what a good lad you are. I will only recruit this time because it's you, but you have to know that you're crossing a border, so don't do this again."

What's so funny about this is that Sunderland was a Premier League club at that time. Alex was just 21 years old, and only five years have passed. Sunderland, who had been in the Premier League from 2006 till 2016, was relegated twice in a row and is now a League One club. Only five years have passed, and now they have to let Alex take charge of the team, which is quite ironic.

After one year in League One (third division), all the arrogance of being a big club was reduced, especially when most of the players abandoned the team. Alex is now the team's soul. In addition to being the coach, he already has some power for transfers, but he now thinks it's better to use it after convincing everyone and being promoted to the second division.

So, seeing the only player he has recommended training hard, he was happy and planned to observe him. He put on his headphones and quietly came to a place shadowed in the stands where the player couldn't notice him. Just like that, he spent three hours listening to music and watching the player train.

If someone was watching the player's training, they could notice that this player actually has pretty solid basic skills. Although not like those Brazilians who seem to be born with the ball, it's already exceptional to make the ball go where he wants easily. If it's an expert, what they would see is simply material that could be made into a good or even top midfielder.

This player is a central defender, in fact. If Alex remembers correctly, in his original world, this player would explode in the 2019-2020 season by first winning the player of the month in the Championship (2nd division), then being named in the 2019-2020 English Second Division Team of the Season. He was later bought for €50M by Arsenal. It's Ben White, also nicknamed Benji.

Jack (ex-coach) never used him, even though Benji was brilliant enough in the reserve team because, in his words, "he isn't good enough and can't adapt to the intensity of the first team."

When Alex was bored, he finally decided to leave, but he took his phone and sent a message to the reserve team head coach: "Let Ben White come to the first team the day after tomorrow with the training reprise."

The biggest problem of the first team right now is that it needs rejuvenation. You have to know most of the players are in or above their 30s.

After he left, he decided to go home to play some games. Anyway, his girlfriend isn't home for the past few days, so better profit from it and spend some quiet time.

End of the chapter

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Sorry for being late. I was burning my head thinking about which player should be more appropriate that Alex helped recruit. It was difficult choosing between Julian Alvarez, Bellingham's brother, Declan Rice, Haaland, etc., before settling for Benji.

Also, do you think I should add some butterfly effect he caused? If yes, Big change or some Small change?