With eleven hours left until the final roster is announced, the liquid-cooled servers in London's underground data center begin to boil. As Isakson's neural reaction speed (0.129 seconds) collides with Maksic's recovery speed limit (35.1 km/h) in virtual space, the blue arcs flashing across the holographic screen form the face of a sixteen-year-old goalkeeper from Southampton's youth academy. His shot-prediction model displays a 91.7% quantum entanglement state with Pickford's 2018 World Cup data.
The medical alarm at Stamford Bridge once again pierces the night sky, but this time it's a carefully planned smokescreen. The moment winger Meeks's metabolic monitoring curve reaches its theoretical limit, his agent receives an encrypted location signal on his phone: nanobot surgery records from an orthopedic clinic in Munich. Translated into scouting-code jargon, the string of characters is the seventh name on Bayern's winter transfer shortlist.
"Brain-computer interfaces? My players aren't robots."
