Chapter 140 - 140

"Ling is like me," Jose Mourinho had once told Jorge Mendes over a bottle of wine. "He craves challenges from his very core. He isn't satisfied with just being good; he wants to conquer. But I think he has even greater ambitions than I did."

Back then, Mourinho had stunned the world by leading a Porto squad of cast-offs and aging veterans to the pinnacle of European football.

Now, Mendes looked at the eighteen-year-old sitting across from him and wondered: Could Ling do the same? Could this teenager challenge conventional wisdom, rewrite the landscape of world football, and create a new era defined by his name?

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