“I’m saying all this just to tell some people that it’s not that anything you don’t like is filler, nor does it mean that everything you think you can find on Baidu is filler—if you’re willing to spend five or six hours switching back and forth between dozens of search pages to summarize the content of the latter half of this chapter, that’s your skill, and if you know all about Freiburg football without using Baidu, that’s your ability. But that doesn’t mean that when I get to this part, I only need to write a sentence saying, ‘Please search Baidu yourself using the keywords xxx.’”

“This principle also applies to Chapter 3, ‘So-Called Physical Fitness,’ and Chapter 29, ‘Strength,’ in this volume. At that time, some people said they spent money to read Baidu Encyclopedia, and I was really wronged—that’s really not what I copied from Baidu Encyclopedia. In order to understand the football movement system, I also spent a long time in the most upscale bookstore in Chengdu, and only found a book about football, which was a professional book called ‘Football Movement System Training.’ The content of those two chapters was basically adapted from this book. People who said they read Baidu Encyclopedia really couldn’t find it on Baidu…”

“Please respect the effort an author puts in. Don’t just say ‘filler’ the moment you see the plot isn't progressing as you wish. The content that I spent so much effort finding and writing is negated by you with a single word of ‘filler,’ don’t you think I feel terrible?”

—This is the content of a single chapter after Chapter 50 of the second volume, the German Youth Cup chapter. I originally thought I had explained it very clearly there, and you all saw and understood it. I didn’t expect that some people would still be harping on about filler today.

Then I have to repeat it again, it’s not that something some people don’t like or something they understand very well is called filler. Some people know a lot about football, so they say that my writing about football is not professional, not realistic, and not good at all, that it’s just filler. Should I just not write football novels at all?

Some people said that today's chapter is filler because most of it is professional material. But it took me two days to write this chapter, the first day to research the material, understand the material, and the second day to start writing, and I wrote it on the plane from Shanghai back to Chengdu, enduring the motion sickness caused by the weightlessness and bumps.

I know some people don't like to read this stuff, but I've said before that some people who don't like to read it can choose not to read it themselves, but I can't choose not to write it, because any part, even the material, is part of the world of this novel.

I also hope to introduce more knowledge to everyone through this novel.

Of course, it’s still the same sentence: professionals with a lot of knowledge who understand a lot can choose not to read these things they already know.

But I still want to write, not only will I write this chapter, but I will also write these contents in the future.

However, I will learn from the experience and remind professionals at the beginning of this chapter that they don’t need to read the following chapter because they already understand it. But I still have to write it, and I still have to publish it, because there will always be others who want to read it, it’s just that they are more silent and less willing to express their attitude than those who shout filler.