The news landed like an anvil dropped from a very great height. Cristian Chivu, the master tactician, the tactical ghost, his old coach, his new rival, his girlfriend's terrifying father, was coming to the Premier League. And he was taking over Newcastle United.
Leon just sat there in the quiet of his living room, the phone pressed to his ear, a single, looping thought playing in his mind:
Of course. Of course he is. In a season that had already been a rollercoaster of impossible, beautiful, and utterly insane plot twists, this was the perfect, inevitable next chapter.
"So," he said finally, a slow, slightly hysterical laugh bubbling up from his chest.
"My life is officially a soap opera."
