Football: From the Start, I Snap Up Four Continents and the Giants Are in Tears

Signing Miroslav Klose for £30,000, snapping up Dimitar Berbatov for £20,000, landing Ruud van Nistelrooy for £280,000, and beating everyone to Ronaldinho for £550,000... While the world laughed at newly relegated Nottingham Forest, Chen Mo built a dream team worth more than £400 million in the future, spending less than a million pounds. “Are you crazy? A German carpenter, a lazy Bulgarian, a has-been from the Dutch second division. How are you going to compete with the Premier League giants?” “With the ball at their feet.” After transmigrating to 1997 and binding himself to the Champion Manager System, Chen Mo became the debt-ridden Chinese chairman of Nottingham Forest. The team had just been relegated from the Premier League, its top scorer was on strike and demanding a transfer, its captain had lost heart, the bank wouldn't stop calling about the debt, and fans were burning shirts outside the stadium. Everyone urged him to sign the bankruptcy papers. He tore them up, kicked open the locker-room door, and put the cancerous troublemaker up for sale for £4.5 million. Then he crossed four continents with his financial director, picking up one dusty diamond after another wherever others saw trash. The Eye of Truth saw through every player's potential, while the Aura of Might crushed all dissent. From the mud of League One to the summit of the Champions League, from the brink of bankruptcy to football's greatest club... He would put Nottingham Forest's name back on the trophies at the pinnacle of Europe. “There's no such thing as an absolute guarantee in football, but I can guarantee one thing: everyone who follows me will become a legend.”