trying to make something special with average team

[DidierDrogba]

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Club information

Nation : Italy
Founded : 1913
Status : Professional
Reputation : National
Chairman : Tommaso Ghirardi
Chairman status : Loves the club
Legends : Luigi Apolloni, Nevio Scala , Lorenzo Minotti
Club Icons: Alessandro Melli, Fabio Cannavaro, Pietro Carmignani, Arrigo Sacchi, Hernan Crespo,
Antonio Benarrino Adrian Mutu, Cesaro Prandelli, Luca Bucci, Massimo Paci, Stefano Morrone
Favoured personel : Mauro Tassoti
Derbies : Piacenza , Modena, Reggiana
Fierce derbies : None
Other derbies : Cremonense, Juventus, Vicenza, bologna, Genoa
Finances : Okay
Average ticket price : 45€
Season ticket price : 704€
Season ticket holders : 8200
Estimated Value : €40,5M (Loan debt = €107M)
Continental competition : None
Squad personality : Highly ambitious
Captain : Stefano Morrone
Vice-captain : Danielle Galloppa
Facilities : Top training facilities & good youth facilities
Stadium : Ennio Tardini (23945)

Goals for Parma side:

Win Serie A for the first time
Win Uefa Champions League for the first time
Become strongest team in Italy , and to have biggest reputation
Have highest coefficient in Europe

Preseason

Transfer Budget : 2,5 M
Wage budget : 21k pw

Transfers in :

Gonzalo Jara - Im dellghted with signing wing back from chile on a free transfer, definetly weakest position until now
Jones Okore - young 19years old centreback from nordsjelland with 4* ability and 4,5* potential is and will be one of key players on my path ; bought from Nordsjelland for €2,4M
Ivan Kelava - backup goalkeeper bought from Grenada for 800k (he was transfer listed and is my favourite goalkeeper)
Maxi Moralez - after failing on buying Leonard Kweuke, Vaclav kadlec and Alessandro Diamanti, Maxi was best option for left winger and he costed €5,75M from Atalanta

Transfers out

David Lofguist
Raffaele Palladino
Aleandro Rosi

Interesting but all 3 players sold to same club? (Fiorentina) and for same reason (wages bigger then ability and potential)

List of all transfers
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Key players :


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Results :

Parma 1 - 0 Parma reserves
Amauri

Parma 1 - 0 Braga
Paletta

Leixoes 0 - 0 Parma

Ravenna 0 - 7 Parma
MacEaechan, Amauri 2, Coda, Valdes, Parolo, Belfodil

Parma 1 - 0 Bayern Munich
MacEachan

Modena 0 - 2 Parma
Valdes , Boniperti

Best Scorer : Amauri 3
Best Player : Gabriel Paletta

Amazing Preseson with 5 wins including unexpected victory against Bayern Munich and one draw and most important thing is that we didnt concede single goal

Biggest transfers other teams made :

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Youth facilites are planned on imroving , started in july 2012 , finishing in august 2013

This is my first story so you all are welcome for feedback and suggestions

 

[DidierDrogba]

September/October

September

Parma 2 - 0 Chievo
Valdes , Biabiany

Verona 1 - 3 Parma
Ninis, Biabiany, Amauri

Parma 1 - 0 Genoa
Biabiany

Sampdoria 2 - 0 Parma

Best Scorer : Jonathan Biabiany 3
Best Player : Jonathan Biabiany

Good start for Parma so far, still waiting on Belfodil and Parolo to return from injuries

October

Parma 2 - 0 Milan
Ninis, Amauri

Inter 3 - 2 Parma
Parolo , Moralez

Parma 2 - 1 Torino
Morrone, Valdez

Best Scorer : 6 different scorers
Best Player : Stefano Morrone

Generally great start for Parma (better then i expected). Amazing victory against Milan and heartbreaking loss from Inter ; We had 1-0 and 2-1 till last 10 minutes when we got 2 goals from corners. Belfodil is still injured and Parolo scored goal in his first appearence

 

[DidierDrogba]

November/December

November

Juventus 2 - 0 Parma

Parma 4 - 0 Bologna
Belfodil, Ninis 2, Mesbah

Atalanta 1 - 1 Parma
Belfodil

Parma 2 - 1 Fiorentina
Ninis, Belfodil

Livorno 4 - 4 Parma
Ninis 2 , Belfodil, Olivi OG

Best Scorer : Sotiris Ninis 5
Best Player : Sotiris Ninis

As its very noticable away form is awful 1 win , 2 draws and 3 losses...On good hand Sotiris Ninis had a great month and Ishak Belfodil scored in 4 of 5 games he played.

December

Parma 2 - 0 Napoli
Moralez, Belfodil

Udinese 0 - 1 Parma
Belfodil

Parma 3 - 0 Cagliari
Belfodil, Gobbi, Valdes

Sassuolo 1 - 3 parma
Amauri 3

1st round Coppa Italia
Parma 1 - 2 Siena
Amauri

Best Scorer : Amauri 4
Best Player : Gabriel Paletta

Tough loss in first round from Siena, cup was big chance for Europe next year but reserve squad couldnt handle Siena players. Gonzalo Jara; player with which i was delighted when i snapped him on a free transfer is far from good buy, in 3 months he got injured 3 times and now i will be without him for 5 months and his new replacement is 16 years old player valued 30k . Beside that 4 wins in 4 matches including 2 away games and win against big squad (Napoli) is boosting cnofidence that we will manage to get in Europe next season and Ishak Belfodil is continuing with amazing performances and constant scoring.

 

[bindie]

Will definitely be following this. The teams I hate the most in the Football World is Juventus and A.C. Milan. I am a Borussia Dortmund fan and I would rather see Bayern Munich win a football match then see those guys win, that is how much I hate them.

I am always a sucker for the underdog, so I wish you luck and hopefully we will see Parma mount a challenge

 

[DidierDrogba]

January/February

January

Transfers in

Alessandro Diamanti - finally bought for €5,75M one of best Italian wingers available for Parma, i expect very much for him and he could be one of my key players for next 2 years

Transfers out
Amauri - sold to Roma for 2,3M he was good backup with big wage so this was irresistable offer especially when Diamanti can play a striker and Belfodil is in awesome form (im playing most games with only 1 striker)
Danielle Galloppa - sold to Lazio for 6M what is amount big enough to sell solid CM and give more chance to Parolo who will sadly leave as after this season (return to siena) because he dont worth 7,5m what is asking price and soon to join wonderkid Alen Halilovic

Awards

Serie A Goalkeeper of the year : 1st - Samir Handanovic 2nd - Antonio Mirante 3rd - Mariano Andujar
Serie A Defender of the year : 1st - Leonardo Bonucci 2nd - Andrea Ranocchia 3rd - Giorgio Chiellini
Serie A player of the year : 1st - Leonardo Bonucci
Serie A Italian player of the year : 1st - Leonardo Bonucci 2nd -Andrea Pirlo 3rd - Andrea Ranocchia
Serie A foreign player of the year : 1st - Fernando Llorente 2nd -Marek Hamsik 3rd - Sotiris Ninis
Serie A young player of the year : 1st - Sotiris Ninis 2nd - Miralem Pjanic 3rd - Pedro Obiang
Serie A fans player of the year : 1st - Arturo Vidal

European best young player : 1st - Eden Hazard
World Player of the year : 1st - Cristiano Ronaldo 2nd - Sergio Aguero 3rd - Andres Iniesta
World Golden Ball : 1st - Cristiano Ronaldo 2nd - Robin van Persie 3rd - Andres Iniesta

Results

Parma 2 - 1 Catania
Biabiany , Santacroce

Parma 1 - 0 Roma
Parolo

Lazio 0 - 1 Parma
Valdes

Parma 2 - 0 Lazio
Diamanti , Parolo

Chievo 4 - 1 Parma
Frey OG

Best Scorer : Marco Parolo 2
Best Player : Gabriel Paletta

Great month ended with awful 9 man lose from Chievo, Juventus is still unbeated and we are currently standing high on 2nd place

Biggest transfers of Winter transfer market

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February

Parma 3 -1 Verona
Belfodil, Morrone , Valdes

Genoa 1 - 2 Parma
Belfodil 2

Parma 0 - 0 Sampdoria

Milan 1 - 2 Parma
Belfodil 2

Best Scorer : Ishak Belfodil 5
Best Player : Ishak Belfodil

Still on 2nd place but Juventus started drawing more , as it is seen Ishak Belfodil after scoring 2 goals in 3 games for Algeria on Africa cup of Nations scored 5 goals in 3 games for Parma.

 

[DidierDrogba]

Will definitely be following this. The teams I hate the most in the Football World is Juventus and A.C. Milan. I am a Borussia Dortmund fan and I would rather see Bayern Munich win a football match then see those guys win, that is how much I hate them.

I am always a sucker for the underdog, so I wish you luck and hopefully we will see Parma mount a challenge

thanks mate and im fan of yours 2 manager story and wish you all luck on the world
this is only start of my challenge , first season just to see where am i at , very soon i will expand my story

 

[DidierDrogba]

End of season

March/April/May

March

Parma 1 - 1 Inter
Battaglia

Torino 1 - 1 Parma
Okore

Parma 0 - 2 Juventus

Parma 3 - 2 Atalanta
Belfodil 2 , Canini OG

Best Scorer : Ishak Belfodil 2
Best Player : Ishak Belfodil

This is time which i was waiting to happen, long season bring some bad results in a row, to many injuries and bad match fitness and fight is a little harder with juventus but we still have 6 points more then 3rd Napoli.And biggest news are injuryof Jores Okore for a month.

April - Month of Decision

Bologna 2 - 3 Parma
Biabiany, Belfodil 2

Fiorentina 2 - 2 Parma
Belfodil, Ninis

Parma 3 - 0 Livorno
Parolo 2 , Valdes

Napoli 3 - 0 Parma

Parma 3 - 0 Udinese
Belfodil 2, Morrone

Best Scorer : Ishak Belfodil 5
Best Player : Ishak Belfodil

Good month, still in fight with Juventus for first place, most credits goes to Ishak Belfodil and just incredible performance in few games for Mirante. Worst thing is injury of best young player of the year Sotiris Ninis till the end of season.

May

Cagliari 1 - 0 Parma

Parma 5 - 0 Sassuolo
Belfodil 3, Parolo, Ampuero

Catania 0 - 2 Parma
Diamanti, Biabany

Roma 2 - 1 Parma
Mesbah

Best Scorer : Belfodil 3
Best Player : Jores Okore


FINAL STANDINGS

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Final look back at first season

Parma tied their best finish in Serie A what was by media pretty unexpected (11th on media prediction), so in their first season with new manager Marcijan Pavlovic they qualified for UEFA Champions League , improved their youth facilities and can look forward with smile on their faces even tho they dont have trophie yet.

Ishak Belfodil was best scorer of club with 22 goals, Sotiris Ninis was best assistant wih 9 assists and added 9 goals too, Maxi Moralez had 5 goals and 7 assist jamie valdes had 5 goals and 7 assists too, marrone and parolo added nice performances too parolo with 6 goals and 6 assists and marrone with 6 goals and 3 assists. Diamanti scored 8 goals and assisted 5 times, from defenders Gabriel Paletta had average rating of 7,57 and he was best in club belfodil had 7,56 , Jores okore had great first season for parma too , he had 7,30 average rating and scored one goal.Antonio Mirante had clean sheet in 15 games (2nd in the league , only better was Abbiatti) and had average performance of 7,05.

Juventus won Serie A and they didnt lose first 21 games, Cagliari made big suprise finishing 4th in league, Inter finished 7th and Milan 10th but Milan won Coppa Italie by beating Juventus in final 1 - 0 with goal by mario Balotelli in extra time , but 2 biggest suprises were Livorno who didnt win single game and Fiorentina who were relegated what means that players like Stevan Jovetic,Giuseppe Rossi, Adem Ljajic,Gonzalo Rodriguez and Khouma Babacar are on sale and this could be great chance for Parma to become little stronger in next transfer market with additional funds because great season.

Next update will come in 2 weeks

 

[MANUMAD]

Nice one, well done.

Parma has a very good (and big - which means additional funds second season) squad. They always seem to do well in the league in FM13.

Diamanti is quite good (had him in Bologna for a season before replacing him with the much better ASPAS). But somebody like Fabbrini would be a much better option (esp if you factor age in ).

 

[DidierDrogba]

Nice one, well done.

Parma has a very good (and big - which means additional funds second season) squad. They always seem to do well in the league in FM13.

Diamanti is quite good (had him in Bologna for a season before replacing him with the much better ASPAS). But somebody like Fabbrini would be a much better option (esp if you factor age in ).

Fabbrini was stolen from me by Roma, so far Diamanti is playing adequat but will buy replacement for him in January

 

[bindie]

Well done, congratulations on coming second, I know it is not first but you beat the likes of A.C. and Inter to get to where you are congrats.

 

[bindie]

Now forward and onwards march to the Champions League!!!!!

 

[MrStu01]

Brilliant thread mate. Only 3 or 4 defeats is quality for a club considered mid table by many. I'm a huge Serie A and Italy fan and i want to start an Italian save myself just unsure how low down to start so any tips or advice would be great. Keep this save going i definitely want to see more!

 

[MANUMAD]

Well done, congratulations on coming second, I know it is not first but you beat the likes of A.C. and Inter to get to where you are congrats.

From my extensive experience with the Italian leagues AC MILAN and Inter almost NEVER do well (and both but especially AC Milan are two of the easiest "top" teams on FM to beat).

Much more difficult to beat are: Napoli / Juventus / Parma

 

[bindie]

Ok, I only thought that because everytime I sim a league Juventus, A.C. Milan and Inter are always in the top 3. Mind you this season Inter are close to relegation whilst Genoa and Fiorentina are fighting for top spot each week.

 

[MrStu01]

From my extensive experience with the Italian leagues AC MILAN and Inter almost NEVER do well (and both but especially AC Milan are two of the easiest "top" teams on FM to beat).

Much more difficult to beat are: Napoli / Juventus / Parma

Gota agree. I struggle against Juventus in particular while Inter i find comfortable to play against at home in particular. Looking to start an Italian game so my try and make one of these teams better. Not sure who though