The system alerts – Chivu's move to Monaco, the 'Priority Recruitment Protocol' targeting him – felt like glitches in the matrix, cracks in the beautiful, simple reality Leon was trying to build. He stood in his small office at the Apex FC training ground, the celebratory noise from the Macclesfield victory a distant echo, his mind a quiet, buzzing hive of disbelief and a strange, almost detached, sense of impending chaos.
He had slammed the digital door shut on Chivu's earlier 'Mentorship Request'. He had sent his polite refusal. But this 'Recruitment Protocol'... it felt different. More official. More… persistent. Was Chivu using the mysterious 'System' to actively try and pull him back into the high-stakes circus of elite football? The thought was both flattering and deeply unsettling.
