Introduction
Hello! I've been reading stories on this site for a few years now and I've finally decided to write out a story of my own.
My favourite team to play as on FM is Athletic Bilbao purely for the challenge of developing youngsters, however I've decided to play as my favourite foreign team, and that is Napoli.
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To give myself a challenge I am going to create Napoli's very own version of the Athletic's Basque only policy, this shall be called the Campania policy- Campania is the region in Italy where Naples is situated.
I have given myself a few exceptions though:Hello! I've been reading stories on this site for a few years now and I've finally decided to write out a story of my own.
My favourite team to play as on FM is Athletic Bilbao purely for the challenge of developing youngsters, however I've decided to play as my favourite foreign team, and that is Napoli.
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To give myself a challenge I am going to create Napoli's very own version of the Athletic's Basque only policy, this shall be called the Campania policy- Campania is the region in Italy where Naples is situated.
- I can sign players who have previously played for the club if I want to- eg Lavezzi or Cavani.
- I can sign Argentinian regens born in the same city as club
legend Diego Maradona (say this is the equivalent of the extended Basque region in France lol)
- I can sign any Italian 16 year old if I want to, I'm going to try avoid this though
- And finally, I can sign Marco Verratti if I wish (this breaks the first rule but he is one of my favourite Italians and this is the only exception haha!)
Obvious aims are to bring back the glory to Napoli, knock Juventus off their perch, European domination etc etc. However I would eventually like to win the World Cup with a Campania only Italian side!
Anyway, that's the general idea of the save. I hope you'll all enjoy it. I'm new to this so hopefully I will get better at presenting as I go along.
Ciro Ferrara returns to Napoli
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Who better to bring success back to Napoli than iconic former player Ciro Ferrara?!
Here's some information of Ferrara:
Born in Naples on 11/2/1967
Napoli playing career: 1984-1994
247 League Appearances, 12 Goals
2 Serie A Titles- 1986-87 & 1989-90
1 Coppa Italia- 1986-87
1 UEFA Cup- 1988-89
1 Supercoppa Italiana 1990
Despite the Ma-Gi-Ca trio taking all the plaudits for Napoli's success, Ciro Ferrara was a rock at the heart of Napoli's defence
(He also spent 10 years playing for Juventus for some reason but we won't mention that haha!)
After arriving at the club the first thing I notice is how healthy the finances are looking, Cavani's huge summer sale is obviously a reason behind this, but the main reason is because of how well Aurelio De Laurentiis is running the club.
I promise the board Champions League Qualification and create a philosophy promising to develop my youth players. The board hand me a huge transfer budget and I immediately go and bid for Marco Verratti. PSG were very reluctant to sell but I eventually got my man for an overall ?41.5M with monthly installments. I can safely say that will be my most expensive acquisition on this save!
After purchasing Verratti PSG came in with a ?15M bid for Blerim Dzemaili which I accepted.
These were my only summer transfers except for sending a few youngsters out on loan.
My next job was to revamp the coaching staff. After sacking everyone I considered unworthy I brought in several staff members including Rene Meulensteen and David Platt.
My best staff acquisition was my new assistant manager though. He originally wanted to be my U19s manager for some strange reason but I sweet talked him into being my assistant!
Napoli fans may have heard of him...
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That's right!! Diego Maradona is officially Napoli's assistant manager!
Couldn't believe it when he was interested in joining the club, should make the fans happy anyway!
Tactics
I have created a few tactics which I'm looking forward to using, but for the time being because of the players at my disposal I'm going to be using this tactic:
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I'll change the player roles to suit the player I pick for each position and I'll be tweaking the instructions until I find the right balance.
Key Players
I am really happy with the current Napoli squad, the money made from the Cavani sale has been wisely reinvested.
I'm looking forward to playing Mertens, Callejon and Higuain, and I feel Raul Albiol adds some quality to the defence.
With Reina and Rafael I'm unsure who to make my number 1, Reina is currently better but only on loan, Rafael has the potential to improve and would benefit from being first choice right away.
I'm a big fan of the Swiss duo Valon Behrami and Gokhan Inler, really enjoy using them on FM.
The two players I'm most excited about though are the crazy haired Slovakian Marek Hamsik and Naples' very own golden boy Lorenzo Insigne! I feel these two have the ability and potential to lead this club to glory and become true world class players!
The only youngster I'm really excited about is Lorenzo's younger brother Roberto Insigne, he has 4 1/2 star potential and is currently out on loan to Padova, I'll be keeping track on his progress there.
So there we have it, apologies for the ridiculously long post, the ones in future will be much more to the point and hopefully more interesting!
Constructive criticism is more than welcome!
Next update will be up to the end of September, it's been an interesting start to the season!
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Good luck, mate! Always liked Napoli, hopefully you will reproduce the MaGiCa success - the current team certainly has enough potential for big things!