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Can I settle in Italy? As the 80's Liverpool () and Wales legendary goalscorer said of his season at Juve, It's like living in a foreign country.
6.0.1-6.0.2, Large DB, Italy (all divisions), Portugal (all) and England (L2 and up) active.
Season 05-06
Italy Serie C2/A Montichiari
This is my first time managing in Italia. After an aborted familiarization game, I settle in at Montichiari for the long haul. I have to get adjusted to the Intertoto style Serie C cup, which cuts into preseason and leaves the players knackered for the first few weeks of the season.
We're poor early, but I bring in a couple of players in Jan and we improve to midtable. Our top scorer is a 35yo veteran SC, who I give a new contract to at the end of the season as he's done a fine job. We lose our second highest scorer, an AM/FRC who was on loan for the year but isn't interested in a permanent move. A good young MC returns to us after a fruitless year on loan at Inter :eek:
C2/A: 11th .Safe Midtable as we improve in the second half.
Cup: Win our preliminary group, get through qualifying round and go out in Round 1.
01-08-2006, 02:16 AM
"It's like living in a foreign country..." Post #2
A poor, poor season. Patternwise it's the same as last year, with a January improvement, but we're bottom at that point and are relieved to escape via a win in the relegation playouts in the end. My gamble on the veteran SC fails. His powers are waning, but a youngster target man we had on our books last year steps up and does well, and a new guy signed on a Bosman almost singlehandedly gets us out of trouble when the team starts getting him the ball regularly, top scoring for us.
C2/A: 14th. Relegation playout, won 4-1 on agg (3-0 away, 1-1 home).
Cup: Win our preliminary group, and go out in the qualifying round .
01-08-2006, 02:20 AM
"It's like living in a foreign country..." Post #3
A better start, I feel due to my stressing the importance of the cup less. We sit in the playoffs at the end of the autumn, but fall away into December. Our star striker demands a new contract, 3 times what we can afford. In probably the most ruthless act of my management career, I simply offer him to other clubs and collect on his 450k value to get his clearly disruptive influence out of the squad. The fans think I got the shaft, but I with the cash I cut the burgeoning debt and add a new SC and bring back the AM/FRC we had on loan in the first season. Both do well, notching 7 and 4 goals each behind the young target man who came through last year.
C2/A: 9th. The midseason slump as the SC got stroppy disrupted our form.
Cup: I treat the group as friendlies, as I'm of the opinion the fixture congestion has contributed to our poor starts the last two years. Out in the group stage.
I've had to sell to finance my purchases thus far (12 out, for 525k, 17 in for 130k), and we're losing 40k a month despite being well under budget. Could be a vicious cycle, as I need to keep the quality to get promoted, but can't add any unless I sell some. Oh for an academy...
01-08-2006, 02:27 AM
"It's like living in a foreign country..." Post #4
"It's like living in a foreign country..." 
) and Wales legendary goalscorer said of his season at Juve, It's like living in a foreign country. 
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