Hi all. I have enjoyed reading through many of the stories on here so I decided to have a bash at making one.
I decided to choose Palermo as they are not a massive team but not a over daunting challenge and have a good solid base to build a team from (a bit like Birmingham). I inherit a team with £55million debts, a strong youth set-up and good facilities. But overall Palermo has an average squad with only 2-3 real stand out players.
Upon taking the Palermo job I stated that I felt I could attain a mid table finish with my current squad. The Palermo board gave me an £8million (which could be boosted by selling players) to match my ambition and to help me attain this goal.
Transfers:
With the money I made the following transfers:
As you can see - the transfers I have made are players that will develop into good players in 2-3 seasons time. I am very happy with the capture of Gago at a relatively small fee of £4.5million. Verratti also looks like he will develop into a world class player.
Gago:
Lacina Traore:
Jorgensen:
Adrien:
Muniesa:
Verratti:
and his potential
Along with brining these players in I have also made wholesale changes to my back-room staff - laying off most of the initial Palermo staff.
Even though it is not up to the standard of Manchester United etc - The coaching I feel is at a good standard for a club of Palermo's stature - with all of the coaching level being 3.5 stars or over. It is a massive improvement over what it used to be and I am very happy that the club is able to attract staff like Arsenal's Steve Bould.
Hopefully, next season I can add HSV's Moniz to my back-room staff.
Tactics and Training:
I will be using Kris' Ancelotti tactics as a base. I normally chop and change these tactics to suit my team but Kris' tactic provides my team with a solid base, which I can adapt to fit around my team.
I will be using Dan's training. A lot of people seem to be using Dan's over Tug's now so I will be giving Dan's a bash with my Palermo team.
Kris Ancelotti Tactic can be found here: http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/f72/kris-ancelotti-tactic-t26902.html
Dan's Training can be found here: http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/f72/dans-training-schedule-fm2010-t23818.htmlMy team will line up like:
As you can see the team is nothing special. But we have a team that has a lot of potential to grow. Pastore, Kjaer are 2 very exciting prospects in addition to the players that I have purchased. The mid table expectation will allow me to blood my youngsters into the team without too much pressure on results and hopefully they will grow into good players.
Pre Season:
The team breezed through pre season. They did well in adapting to the tactics that I am employing and played some very nice football in the process.
The pre season results were:
Palermo: Set-up and Pre Season
I decided to choose Palermo as they are not a massive team but not a over daunting challenge and have a good solid base to build a team from (a bit like Birmingham). I inherit a team with £55million debts, a strong youth set-up and good facilities. But overall Palermo has an average squad with only 2-3 real stand out players.
Upon taking the Palermo job I stated that I felt I could attain a mid table finish with my current squad. The Palermo board gave me an £8million (which could be boosted by selling players) to match my ambition and to help me attain this goal.
Transfers:
With the money I made the following transfers:
As you can see - the transfers I have made are players that will develop into good players in 2-3 seasons time. I am very happy with the capture of Gago at a relatively small fee of £4.5million. Verratti also looks like he will develop into a world class player.
Gago:
Lacina Traore:
Jorgensen:
Adrien:
Muniesa:
Verratti:
and his potential
Along with brining these players in I have also made wholesale changes to my back-room staff - laying off most of the initial Palermo staff.
Even though it is not up to the standard of Manchester United etc - The coaching I feel is at a good standard for a club of Palermo's stature - with all of the coaching level being 3.5 stars or over. It is a massive improvement over what it used to be and I am very happy that the club is able to attract staff like Arsenal's Steve Bould.
Hopefully, next season I can add HSV's Moniz to my back-room staff.
Tactics and Training:
I will be using Kris' Ancelotti tactics as a base. I normally chop and change these tactics to suit my team but Kris' tactic provides my team with a solid base, which I can adapt to fit around my team.
I will be using Dan's training. A lot of people seem to be using Dan's over Tug's now so I will be giving Dan's a bash with my Palermo team.
Kris Ancelotti Tactic can be found here: http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/f72/kris-ancelotti-tactic-t26902.html
Dan's Training can be found here: http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/f72/dans-training-schedule-fm2010-t23818.htmlMy team will line up like:
As you can see the team is nothing special. But we have a team that has a lot of potential to grow. Pastore, Kjaer are 2 very exciting prospects in addition to the players that I have purchased. The mid table expectation will allow me to blood my youngsters into the team without too much pressure on results and hopefully they will grow into good players.
Pre Season:
The team breezed through pre season. They did well in adapting to the tactics that I am employing and played some very nice football in the process.
The pre season results were:
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