Buying a League Two Club to Build Europe's Black-Shop Giant

The 7-1 Brazil thrashing at the 2014 World Cup overturned the landscape of football and completely changed Chen Fan's life.

A Chinese-descended fringe player struggling in Germany's second division and on the verge of unemployment, Chen Fan has decades of football history from his past life at his fingertips. He wagers everything he owns at impossible odds of 500 to 1, raking in nearly two billion euros and transforming overnight from a down-and-out player into a top-tier financial mogul.

With his foresight cheat, he buys up every future gem in football at rock-bottom prices! He snaps up 15-year-old Mbappe, the young Haaland before his rise, and countless other future superstars and promising young talents.

He clears out deadweight veterans, sharpens his tactics to perfection, builds an invincible youth academy system, and improves every aspect of club operations. Starting in the depths of the English League Two table, he climbs one division at a time, even leaping three tiers in a single year, sweeping across English football as a dark horse and crushing one established powerhouse after another.

From an underdog nobody believes in, to a rising giant dominating the Premier League, then to sweeping the Champions League and reaching the summit of the Club World Cup! With capital as his foundation and memory as his blade, Chen Fan builds a football dynasty that rules an entire era, forging a legend without precedent or equal.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.