Started as Vigor Lamezia, in the Italian Serie C2/C.
First season, surprisingly won the league, lost in the first round of all cups as I played reserves and had a low bonus set. I then moved onto Serie C1/B where I finished 4th, narrowly missing out on promotion, finished top the following season though, moving up to Serie B. However a job offer from Liga Adelante club Cordoba tempted me to pack my bags and move onto Spain.
First season, the team was a bit of a mess and was aging rapidly. After bringing in loads of young bargain regens, and getting rid of the old deadwood eating up the wages, I improved our financial situation and finished 7th, narrowly missing out on the play-offs. Second season at the club I let go the rest of the big earners and let a lot of players leave after their contracts expired, again I brought in young exciting players, for small wages and transfer fees, along with the obvious loan deals. Finished 2nd in my second season, winning promotion to La Liga. I got job offers from Blackburn, Everton and Nurnberg, but declined all three, opting to attempt to keep Cordoba in La Liga. After a lot of transfer activity, and the inability to sign loanees for nothing my financial situation worsened and I was in the relegation zone come January. I did pull it back however, eventually finishing 13th in my first season in La Liga. In came the job offers, 9 clubs offering me a managerial position, Wolves, Newcastle, AS Monaco, Frankfurt, Bayer Leverkusen, Bologna, Deportivo, Real Sociedad and Real Betis. After long thought, I narrowed it down to Newcastle, AS Monaco and Leverkusen and eventually decided on a move to Germany.
Leverkusen were in pretty good shape, a lot of players in their prime, and a few decent youngsters, they never had many poor player to be honest. First season was a good 2nd place finish behind Dortmund, and after bringing a bit of quality in I comfortably won the league 2nd season along with the German Cup, being beaten in the semi's of the Champions League. I then received the most tempting job offer of my career, Liverpool, I did reject though. I had to win the treble with Leverkusen. 3rd season after net spending almost 65 million I won the league and the Champions League (beating Bayern in the final
) but the treble eluded me as I was beaten in the German Cup final (Bayern beat me in the final
).
Still, I decided I had delivered for Leverkusen and moved on again, this time to current English champions Arsenal, who had just lost Mancini to Inter Milan. The squad was actually very good, and the board offered me a transfer budget on 75 million! I never spent much though, bringing mainly young stars in, I spent around 50 million but sold about 25 million worth of players. I won the league and the FA Cup, missing out on the Champions League (R.Madrid beat me in the semi's) and the League Cup (Q.P.R beating me in the Quarter's). Second season after using a large part of my spending power I won the quadruple, beating Spurs to the league by 7 points, beating Liverpool in the FA Cup final, beating Bolton in the League Cup final and beating Lyon in the final of the Champions League. Just starting my 3rd season, hoping for more success.
