The Godfather of Greenery: from English League Two Team to European Giants

In the summer of 2002, football commentator Lin Yuan traveled through a parallel world and took over not a billionaire but Reading United, a English second division club with a debt of 3.8 Million pounds and on the verge of dissolution - leaky stands, unpaid players, and an empty transfer budget. It was a hellish start. But he holds the biggest trump card: the complete script for football over the next two decades. When the whole of Europe disliked Ribery's scar, he signed the "Scar Man" with a signing fee of 5,000 pounds; when Crouch was sitting on the bench at QPR, he loaned the future aerial dominator for 10,000 pounds; when Carson was still a U17 player at Leeds United, he locked in England's future international goalkeeper for 80,000 pounds. From relegation in League Two to breakout in League One, from relegation in the Premier League to competing for four titles, from the first cry of the UEFA Cup to winning the Champions League - he relied on 150,000 pounds of sponsorship to tide over the difficulties, relied on precise poaching to earn his first pot of gold, relied on the youth training system to cultivate local superstars, and turned the King Power Stadium into a place of pilgrimage for fans around the world. Some people say that he is a gambler with great luck, until Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Neymar put on Reading United jerseys one after another, until the club's valuation exceeded 3.2 Billion euros, until the fireworks of three Champions League trophies bloomed over Wembley—— Lin Yuan stood on top of Europe and looked at the camera with a smile: "How can there be any luck? I just put every forgotten genius in the right era." This is a legendary story of starting from the mess of English League Two and personally creating a century-old giant in football.