Chapter Four: Selling Tomorrow's Stands

Fishmongers, shipyards, and a night bakery could tie spending to real customers. “What if you never win?” asked the fishmonger. “You lose the least,” Gu said. “We lose the most.” Eleven businesses signed. Su opened Thursday training to the public: five euros to enter, ten including a tactics session. The board accused them of turning a professional club into a market. Two thousand tickets sold in three hours. As the cash arrived, the Silverstar cartel struck again. The league moved Lanhaven's away match against Bluebridge from its unsafe grass pitch to a narrower artificial field. Meanwhile, every regional scout working with Lanhaven received an agents' association warning: continue supplying information and lose all commissions from the giants.