I talked about winning titles with Rijeka? Having money to spend? Oh yeah, how funny.
Soon after my arrival at my new club I checked the finances and got shocked. Insecure finances, 40M Kuna in the red. Several players on the wage list earning 75000 Kuna per week EACH!. My highest paid player in Krajina was on a 9000/w contract
Okay, I decided for some tactics, thinking about playing offensively with all these stars present (during the season when scouting Imotska my scouts said that they had not a single player with a 4-star or higher rating
) but it all came back on me.
Defeat after defeat and lots of goals leaking brought me nearly to the point of resigning and leaving for a different country. But hey, failure is sweet and as long as I'm not fired I'll try and ruin the club even further
After the season I finished 9th, being the worst position Rijeka ever had. I put all players who earnt more than 20 000 Kuna per week on the transfer list and in the reserves and will try to compete this season with some hungry youngstars! (not hungry for success but hungry because they don't get paid!)
Final tables:
<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">********************************************* ************************************************** * Croatian First Division - Wednesday 25th May 2011********************************************** ************************************************** ================================================== ============================================== 2010/1 Table============================================= ================================================== =Pos Team Pld Won Drn Lst For Ag Won Drn Lst For Ag Pts--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1st C Hajduk 30 9 6 0 30 12 11 2 2 29 9 68 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2nd Slaven Belupo 30 10 2 3 28 14 7 3 5 19 17 56 3rd Hr. Dragovoljac 30 12 1 2 28 14 5 4 6 27 27 56 4th Mosor 30 9 5 1 30 14 6 5 4 24 24 55 5th Osijek 30 10 2 3 28 17 6 4 5 25 23 54 6th GOSK 30 9 2 4 24 15 4 2 9 13 21 43 7th Dinamo 30 8 5 2 17 10 3 4 8 17 22 42 8th Zagreb 30 6 2 7 18 13 5 6 4 19 18 41 9th Rijeka 30 8 2 5 24 21 1 8 6 15 24 37 10th Marsonia 30 6 5 4 20 16 2 6 7 14 22 35 11th Uljanik 30 7 2 6 20 19 3 1 11 14 31 33 12th Varteks 30 6 3 6 22 17 3 2 10 9 21 32 13th Vukovar '91 30 5 6 4 16 14 3 2 10 10 26 32 14th Graficar Vodovod 30 5 6 4 27 22 2 4 9 13 27 31 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------15th R Imotska Krajina 30 6 2 7 21 30 2 2 11 16 33 28 16th R Segesta 30 3 5 7 24 28 2 1 12 12 32 21 </pre>
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