retired_rblake

HD, I will check when I get home whether there are any clubs interested in signing or contracts offered but I'm thinking that there isn't and hasn't, due to your nationality of Sint Maarten and current ability, since it is lowered due to your tender age of 14.

I will check and work it nicely into my next piece for you but maybe Stefano Melisi and San Potito might have to save you from obscurity, as if you'd want to sign though.

I'm hoping that everyone will get signed (and soon) but I think if players remain unattached for a whole year then they are removed from the game.

retired_Brenniepooh

Can you check on my status. Don't want to think of myself as playing football in the park, jumpers for goalposts an all

retired_rblake

Smithaldo, unfortunately at present I think it is jumpers or plastic bags left by the tramps that frequent the park for goalposts for yourself and many others.

I am only a couple of weeks into the game and slowly people are being signed up. I will post a more detailed newspaper round up next time detailing who people are being linked with, if any.

retired_rblake

Stefano sat as his desk pouring over the responses for the adverts that had been placed for an Assistant Manager, Coaches and Scouts. He was impressed with what he saw, people already in employment at clubs of each or greater standing willing to come to San Potito. However, when he looked at their current contract details and worked out the compensation they would have to pay to clubs, he quickly got disheartened, ranging from £15k to £75k. There was not only single application from an unemployed or someone at a smaller club on a low wage and contract length amongst them, so he informed the papers and websites that he wished the advert to continue a little while longer.

Armed with his four new captures, Stefano Melisi took his squad up north to non-league outfit Centese and was pleased with what he saw. Stefano Pandolfi grabbing a hat-trick inside 25 minutes and an own-goal just after the restart and the comfortable 4-0 victory was his first San Potitio win.

The local newspapers were full of praise for Pandolfi and for Stefano for securing his signature for the season but in truth they failed to congratulate the most important man, scout Massimo Costantini for his report and recommendation to sign him.

Further in and Portugese playmaker Scott Davis or Scottinho had signed for Porto. Reggina, Nantes and again Marseille the beaten clubs to his signature. Marseille having now missed out on two attacking players, finally bagged one, in the shape of Norwegian Conrad Rowden. Deals were said to be close for Jude Alderson, Pan Parpardus, Harleqin, Tobes and Ty. Aston Villa and Fulham were interested in Leo Allen.

retired_sachin_g006

sounds good so far, keep going....

retired_katt770

Marseile Not bad Not bad!

retired_rblake

Serie C1/B side Chieti came to town and Stefano threw new loan signing Nicola Caldarola of Bari straight into the centre of midfield just days after arriving on a season long loan.

The team from the Abruzzo region took the lead after eight minutes and then San Potito were reduced to ten men when Francesco Cosenza was sent off for a professional foul after twenty minutes. Chieti doubled their lead just before half-time. Caldarola pulled one back in the second half but that's where the spirited fightback ended with San Potito falling to their second home defeat in pre-season.

Stefano buried his head in the local newspaper the following morning to read that South African midfielder Pan Parpardus had signed for Brazilian side Gremio, rejecting Dutch side Willem II. English Premiership club Aston Villa had signed 30-year-old English striker Leo Allen. There was disappointing news for Australian Tobes (Tobie Chapman) who's move to Marseille fell through as they already had 4 non-EU players in their squad. Premiership south-coast side Portsmouth had signed three players in as many days, starting off with English central defender or holding midfielder Ty, followed up by an English/Irish left-sided player named Jude Alderson and finally Danish right-sided player Harleqin.

retired_rblake

Stefano first competitive fixture was fast approaching, away in the Serie C Cup, against one time Serie A side Foggia, who now lie in Serie C1/B. The second round of applicants, again although of good quality, were all under contract presently and he turned to UEFA. They held a database of out of work staff looking for work and made some approaches, stopping the other adverts.

The paperwork was coming in thick and as fast, as soon as he had faxed over a loan approach, Fiorentina, Siena and Chievo all came back looking to co-own defender Cosenza, who in truth he thought hadn't had the best of pre-seasons. The offers were all for only £65k.

He flicked open the pages of the loacl newspaper, which he read daily, in as much to enahnce his Italian as to kept abreast of the latest news and also the Corrielle della Sport. Bari had signed young Danish centre-back Mikkel Kristensen, whilst Harry Redknapp and Portsmouth were at it again, a fourth free transfer signing in the shape of English right-winger Smithaldo.

retired_Brenniepooh

Not bad for my first team.

On a side note any chance that you can scout the players that you've created so we can see the hidden stats?

retired_rblake

Cheers for the comments guys.
Smithaldo, possibly but due to the limited resources, it would take up the valuable time of my scouts as I look for players. I will hopefully be able to do it and when I next post screenshots, which will probably be around December/January time to be worthwhile and see any great improvements in the stats., but unfortunately for now the stats are very limited I admit.


The UEFA phone call had worked a treat for Stefano as three new members joined the staff, Belgium scout Ubrain Haesaert, who was then subsequently sent to Belgium to unearth some talent, whilst Italian Tiziano Cunico signed as Assistant Manager. The biggest coup was landing Swiss goalkeeper Jorg Stiel as a player/coach, but for only one season as a player as he plans to retire at the end of the season, but Stefano already had eyes of having a few quiet words in his ear during the season about changing that fact. The Swiss goalkeeper who would go straight in as number 1 didn't come cheap however.


The trip east to the region of Puglia and the capital Foggia ended with mixed feelings. Stefano was pleased to have not be oveawed, giving away limited chances but created very little themselves, in fact not registering a shot on target but away to higher opposition that was partly to be expected. New goalkeeper, coach and captain Jorg Stiel was beaten midway through the first half at his near post, with that being the only and winning goal.

Stefano read the local newspaper reserved judgement, which reserved judgement on him and his 451 formation but were impressed with the signing of Stiel. He read on to find out that Tobes (Tobie Chapman) had completed a move to Belgium this time and Royal Antwerp, whilst Espanyol had made a loan bid for Gremio's Pan Panpardus.