"Kai is a once-in-a-generation genius who forms his own complete system. A talent at this level can adapt perfectly to any team, no matter where he goes."
"This is also one of the reasons why Kai now stands at the very top of world football's market value rankings!"
"System players always have limitations—switch them to a different team, and they lose their spark."
"But a self-sustaining system player is second to none in football! Wherever he goes, that team becomes strong!"
"That is Kai!"
In the Chinese broadcast room, the atmosphere was electric!
On the commentary desk, Zhan Jun was beaming with excitement.
Headlines flashed across screens:
"Nearly 100 Goals Created in Half a Season! Where Is Kai's Limit?"
"Lifting the Premier League's Ceiling! Europe's Most Lethal Attack Force!"
"Mid-Season MVP! The Most Undisputed Award!"
"Winter Window Nears, Giants Begin to Stir!"
After the match against Manchester City, heated debate erupted across European football!
Nearly 100 goals created in half a season.
Dominating both the scoring and assist charts by a huge margin!
Any one of these feats, in today's game, would be enough to shake all of Europe.
"Forty-three goals in just half a season, plus 50 assists—what kind of concept is this?!"
Media outlets across Europe were stunned.
43 goals?
In the past, if a player scored that many across an entire season, he'd already be hailed as the next Messi or Ronaldo!
And 50 assists—not even across one season, but two seasons—averaging 25 assists each year would still be enough to crown him as the assist king of any of the top five leagues!
But now, both of these numbers belonged to one player.
And he achieved them in just half a season!
This was beyond comprehension!
Even more frightening—this was happening in the Premier League!
"The Premier League is the most competitive soil of the top five leagues—this has long been an undisputed fact!"
"In La Liga or the Bundesliga, scoring 30 goals in a season makes you a great striker. But scoring 30 goals in the Premier League makes you a true world-class phenomenon!"
"30 goals is only a few short of the all-time Premier League record for a single season."
"And yet now, Arsenal's young captain, the first player ever valued at €100 million, the 17-year-old favorite for the Ballon d'Or—Kai—has completely shattered all preconceived notions!"
"As a midfielder, he has fired in 43 goals and delivered 50 assists in half a Premier League season, single-handedly raising the league's standard to an entirely new level!"
A Sky Sports pundit spoke into the camera, trembling with excitement.
"No one knows where his ceiling lies, but what's certain is that whichever team has him will undergo a complete transformation!"
"He alone is an army—capable of lifting a weak team to miraculous heights, or reviving a fallen giant, restoring them to the peaks they once reached only with their utmost effort!"
As the first half of the Premier League season came to a close, there was no winter break.
Next month, the second half of the league would begin without pause.
But in the meantime, the winter transfer window opened as usual.
This was the most turbulent period in English football!
Following Manchester City's 1–4 defeat at home to Arsenal in the half-season finale, rumors quickly spread among fans.
"Flush with wealth, City's backers can't sit still! They're planning to bypass negotiations entirely and trigger Kai's release clause directly, forcing him away!"
This news sent shockwaves through English football.
Everyone knew that Kai's release clause was an astronomical figure for this era.
€500 million!
Who would dare spend €500 million to forcibly buy a single player?
Arsenal fans were outraged.
"Our King of the Gunners will never go to City! City only rose to the top in the last two years because of financial backing. Manchester doesn't have nearly the influence of London!"
"Can't beat us, so they want to throw money and steal him? Shameful! The Gunner King is Arsenal's priceless treasure—no amount of money could buy him!"
The entire English football world was in uproar.
Though it started as just a rumor, many media outlets and fans began to realize something.
€500 million sounded terrifying in this era.
But there was no shortage of clubs backed by massive financial conglomerates.
What seemed astronomical to most was, for these mega-rich owners, justifiable.
Given the dominance Kai was showing, to these financial giants, €500 million was nothing but profit!
Meanwhile, with the FIFA Gala only two weeks away, voting for all the awards entered its final stage.
For the Golden Boy Award, Borussia Dortmund's wonderkid Mario Götze was the frontrunner.
Thiago and Hazard ranked second and third in the odds.
But this year's Golden Boy Award failed to stir much heated debate in the media.
The reason was simple.
The previous Golden Boy winner, Kai, had been far too dazzling.
As a result, this year's candidates like Götze and Hazard appeared particularly mediocre in comparison.
As for the Puskás Award, however, it gave this year's selection committee quite the headache.
For most players, scoring even one goal in a year worthy of Puskás consideration would be cause for celebration.
Yet Arsenal's captain, Kai, had scored countless breathtaking goals throughout the entire year!
Which one should they pick to represent him in this year's Puskás competition?
That question left UEFA's panel of judges scratching their heads.
After much deliberation, they finally settled on Kai's solo run in the League Cup knockout match against Tottenham — an unstoppable, eighty-meter slalom goal, a true ride-alone-for-a-thousand-miles strike!
But almost immediately, some judges raised objections.
In Arsenal's just-concluded Premier League mid-season finale against Manchester City, Kai's rabona worldie seemed even more spectacular!
The judges were left in utter dismay.
And then came the most anticipated award of all — the Ballon d'Or.
This year's top three for the Ballon d'Or were essentially beyond all doubt: Kai from Arsenal, Messi from Barcelona, and Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid!
Every other player lagged far behind these three, bowing out of the race for the podium early.
With the first half of the season across the top five leagues now concluded, the Ballon d'Or betting odds told the story.
Kai remained firmly at the top.
Messi was second.
Cristiano Ronaldo trailed the two by a slight margin.
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