What they are going to is the SI company's branch in Milan. At that time, a senior executive from the headquarters will come to meet Pan Yi in person and listen to Pan Yi's opinions on the game.
Seeing Pan Yi hurriedly coming out of the apartment door, Valentina also pouted: "Huh, isn't it said that people from the Dragon Kingdom are more punctual than us Italians?"
But Pan Yi chuckled and said: "Didn't you make an appointment to arrive before 3pm? As long as you arrive at that time, you are still on time."
Valentina snorted: "Then the date with me doesn't count? If we date in the future..."
"What?" Pan Yi didn't hear clearly.
"It's nothing." Valentina's face turned slightly red, "Anyway, you are late. Don't think that I will forgive you if you help me get Messi's jersey, hum!"
"Okay, okay, okay, I'll treat you to dinner tonight and apologize to the head office, right?" Pan Yi showed a sly smile, "It's still that noodle shop, how about you show me spraying noodles through your nostrils again?"
Valentina: "..."
The Milan branch of SI Company is about ten kilometers away from Pan Yi's apartment, so the two of them called a taxi to go there.
The taxi driver is a veteran who looks to be in his fifties or sixties.
As soon as the two got into the car, he kept looking behind him through the rearview mirror.
Is it because the combination of handsome men and beautiful women like Pan Yi and Valentina are particularly eye-catching?
Pan Yizheng was muttering in his heart, but the old driver couldn't help but speak:
"Forgive me for asking, are you Pan Yi?"
He is actually a fan who knows himself?
But before Pan Yi could reply, Valentina, who was sitting next to her, answered first: "No! He is just a little bastard from the Dragon Kingdom!"
The old driver showed a hint of disappointment on his face and said:
"I'm so sorry. I think all East Asians look similar...so I thought you were Pan Yi."
At this time, Pan Yi smiled and said: "Don't listen to her nonsense, I am indeed Pan Yi."
At this point, the old driver's eyes suddenly lit up: "Really? Are you really Pan Yi? Our assistant coach at Milan?"
"Yes." Pan Yi nodded, but Valentina snorted and looked away: "It's amazing, even the taxi driver knows you now, so you are acting like a big name in front of me!"
But this sentence is equivalent to admitting that Pan Yi is the coach that the veteran driver knows.
The old driver's tone immediately became excited: "Oh my God, you are really coach Pan Yi! I was just talking to some of my old friends about you. Since you came to Milan, our entire tactical system
There have been earth-shaking changes..."
The old driver was chattering, but Pan Yi didn't interrupt, just listened quietly.
But in his heart, he actually started to stir up some small waves.
A few months ago, how could Pan Yi have imagined that he could go from a little transparent person whom no one knew to a well-known figure that even taxi drivers are familiar with?
And he doesn’t do it through the roles of players and head coaches who often appear in the spotlight.
The popularity of an assistant coach is often not very high, even in a big club like AC Milan - unless you were a famous figure before becoming an assistant coach, such as Henry or Zidane when he became an assistant coach. p>
For example, if you ask me right now, about the home team you support, or any big team like Manchester City, Manchester United, Bayern, Barcelona, Real Madrid...who are their assistant coaches and what they look like? You can answer immediately without checking.
Come out?
Not to mention those small and medium-sized clubs, they may not even know the head coach.
Although in Italy and in Milan, local fans will definitely be more familiar with their home team, but as an assistant coach, it is not easy to be recognized by passers-by.
This further illustrates how successful Pan Yi’s work has been in recent times.
This also made Pan Yi feel proud in addition to the satisfaction of becoming famous.
……
The SI branch will arrive soon.
The old driver happily asked Pan Yi for a photo and autograph, and then he didn’t want any money for the ride. He just hit the accelerator and left, leaving only one sentence:
"This is my respect for you as an old Milan fan!"
Pan Yi shook his head helplessly and pulled Valentina into the building.
The SI branch rented an office on the first floor here, and the decoration inside is similar to that of an ordinary IT company.
The person who came to receive Pan Yi and the two was an executive named Jack.
He didn't have too many polite words. When Pan Yi sat down, he pushed the open notebook in front of Pan Yi:
"Our company will officially launch FM2012 around the 20th of this month. This is the numerical information of some major players in the current database. We have just adjusted the numerical values of these Milan players. Do you think it is still realistic?"
Pan Yi looked at the laptop screen.
It was a table with a lot of player information densely written in it, including various specific values such as shooting, passing, dribbling...
There is also a lot of hidden information, such as Ibrahimovic in the first line of the Milan tab, his ambition 20, loyalty 5, controversy 18...
His current ability is 173, and his potential ability is 185. He is a world-class star and the thigh of Milan.
(Note: In the FM game, the full value of each value is 20, and the full value of the total value is 200.)
Pan Yi looked at a few players whose colors were specially marked.
These are the players that Milan just introduced this year, which makes SI company undecided.
"Salah, current ability is 128, potential ability is 155."
"Mane, current ability is 135, potential ability is 166."
"Kante, current ability is 132, potential ability is 153."
"Van Dijk, current ability is 144, potential ability is 170."
"Aubameyang, current ability 126, potential ability 145."
(Note: For young players, FM games will also give potential abilities with random values, but in order to be more intuitive, we will not do this here)
Pan Yi pointed at the screen and said to Jack: "I won't say the current abilities or specific values of these players of mine. You can adjust them according to the actual game conditions in the future. But the potential abilities will definitely be lowered." p>
Jack was slightly surprised: "Is it too low? We gave Van Dijk 170..."
"It's all too low." Pan Yi shook his head and said decisively, "At least it will be above 180."
In Pan Yi's previous life, by FM2022, most of these players' potential abilities were indeed above 180, and they eventually realized their potential.
Among them, Aubameyang and Kanter are slightly lower, probably around 170, but Pan Yi is too lazy to distinguish that much. They can't be 140 or 150 anyway.
But for Jack, it is indeed a bit difficult to give so many young players potential abilities of more than 180 at once.
You know, this means that they can all become stars like Ibrahimovic in the future!
There aren’t many in the entire game.
Just when Jack thought that Pan Yi was being a bit unobjective, Pan Yi pointed at the screen and said: