Watching his teammates perform so bravely on the field, Snuffy happily idled and zoned out on the bench.
He continued to allocate the six skill points gained after the last match against Frankfurt and the skill points acquired from training over the past two days to the Body Coordination attribute.
After a refreshing warm current flowed through his body, Snuffy smiled contentedly, seeing that the Body Coordination attribute was only three points away from being maxed out.
Just as Snuffy was happily slacking off and strengthening himself, Perisic, sitting beside him, looked at his comfortable expression and brilliant smile.
He felt inexplicably bewildered, like a black man with a question mark face.
He kept muttering to himself, "Why does Snuffy seem a bit off today? How can he look so ecstatic just watching a game from the bench?"
"I heard that geniuses always have a little bit of eccentricity. Could Snuffy have some strange quirks too?"
Snuffy sat there, still eagerly thinking about finding more videos of van Nistelrooy's peak performances to watch after today's match.
He thought to himself that if he watched them a few more times to deepen his impression, he might be able to imitate them and display some real skill if the right situation arose during a match.
Therefore, he completely failed to notice the strange look Perisic was giving him.
Looking at the one-sided match on the field, Snuffy's thoughts wandered again; if he remembered correctly,
the next away match against Leverkusen would not be easy to play.
As a traditional strong team in the Bundesliga, Leverkusen's performance this season was not bad; they currently ranked fourth in the League.
The team included two players who would become very familiar to everyone in the future: one was Hakan Çalhanoğlu, later known as "Cha Torres."
The other was the superstar in the mouths of the Koreans, the future Premier League Golden Boot winner, Son Heung-min, King Son.
Excluding their character and focusing solely on their football skills on the field, Leverkusen, led by these two players who were nearing their prime, was indeed very strong.
In his memory, this match saw a goal-fest, with Dost's four-goal haul ultimately overshadowing Son Heung-min's hat-trick in ten minutes.
Wolfsburg defeated Leverkusen five to four.
Thinking of this, Snuffy couldn't help but glance at Dost on the field.
Dost has been performing quite fiercely in the recent matches, hasn't he?!
If he didn't know that these few matches were his most brilliant performances of the season,
Snuffy would have almost suspected that Dost also had some kind of system!
With the end of this match against Hoffenheim, Wolfsburg also achieved their eighth consecutive win in the Bundesliga.
Just as Snuffy was returning to the locker room with everyone, the assistant coach ran excitedly towards them, holding up his phone.
"Bayern Munich drew with Schalke 04 in this round of the League!"
What? Bayern was held to a draw by Schalke 04.
Hearing this good news, everyone immediately started dancing in the locker room.
In just three League rounds, the points gap between Wolfsburg and Bayern Munich had narrowed to just 2 points.
A points difference that could be erased in just one match.
Given that the next match was on February 14th, with six days of adjustment time in between, and carrying the joy of a winning streak and Bayern Munich dropping points,
head coach Dieter Hecking waved his hand and gave the entire team three days off to relax their tense nerves.
The players, naturally overjoyed by the holiday, with a few veterans even preparing to go out and party that night.
However, they were scared back by Dieter Hecking's murderous gaze. They obediently and quietly returned to their respective homes.
When Snuffy finished packing and was about to leave, Dieter Hecking called him aside.
"Snuffy, I want to talk to you?"
"Coach, is it about a match?"
"No, it's about your new contract."
"A new contract?!"
Snuffy was extremely surprised. He had just signed a new contract during the winter break.
Only three matches into the second half of the season, and he was a full-time substitute for today's match, not even playing, and now they wanted to give him a new contract?
"Coach, I haven't decided whether to sign a new contract yet. Can you give me some time to think about it?"
"Of course, Snuffy, with your current worth, you should have found a professional agent to manage your professional contracts long ago, instead of wasting your time thinking about it!"
"Although they take a cut, they can maximize your commercial value!"
Snuffy nodded. As a reborn person, he, of course, knew how important it was for a professional athlete to have a good professional agent.
"Coach, I understand. I will discuss it with Zhao's father when I get back and start looking for a good professional agent."
After a brief conversation, Snuffy found Zhao's father waiting for him outside the stadium and told him about the new contract and finding an agent.
Having frequent contact with football, Zhao's father naturally readily agreed, but they were very cautious about the choice of Snuffy's agent.
After all, a good agent can elevate a professional player's career to the next level, while a bad one will become a vampire sucking blood from the player.
Zhao's father planned to go to the best sports agencies in all of Germany and top law firms specializing in handling various issues for athletes in a couple of days.
He wanted professionals to recommend suitable agent options for Snuffy.
Having professional companies and law firms handle this issue was clearly much more effective than trying to contact people on his own.
As time passed, it was the day of the match between Leverkusen and Wolfsburg.
On this Valentine's Day weekend, there was no hint of a Valentine's Day festive atmosphere inside Leverkusen's Bayern Arena.
Because they had lost to Wolfsburg in the first half of the season, the entire Leverkusen team, now back at their home stadium in the second half of the season, wanted to use the home advantage to return the favor to Wolfsburg.
Leverkusen's head coach Roger Schmidt's little calculations were clicking away. Although both teams had Europa League matches to play after this game,
Wolfsburg had a Europa League knockout match to play in the midweek, four days later.
Leverkusen's Champions League knockout match, however, would only officially kick off nine days later.
Leverkusen, clearly having the advantage in the schedule, therefore believed that Wolfsburg would have some reservations and would not dare to go all out against them.
And his Leverkusen could field their full strength and defeat Wolfsburg.
However, what he had not yet realized was that in Dieter Hecking's eyes, the importance of the Europa League was far less than the allure of the League for him.