ChristopherWH
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My name is Vincenzo Motisi and I just came back to Palermo, Sicily.
Due to some difficulties with the government, my family had to leave when I was still young.
Now, 10 years later, things have calmed down and I have decided to move back, back home.
It is like a dream come true to me you know, I always remembered the people, the food and my love, calcio.
Of course there is only room for one club in my heart, the team of my hometown, U.S. Città di Palermo.
After getting settled in one of my family's estates here on the island, I asked two of my most trusted employees to get me a meeting with Maurizio Zamparini, chairman and owner of the rosanero.
He invited me to have dinner with him the very next day.
It was late, but still light out, after all it was only june.
Zamparini stood outside his door as we drove through the gate to his house.
Maurizio Zamparini: Buona sera signore Motisi!
Vincenzo Montisi: Buona sera Maurizio.
As I expected, dinner was already served and he invited me to sit down at the end of the table.
My two employees stayed outside to sherish the view, as per my instructions.
After a good meal I decided it was time for business.
Montisi: So, Maurizio, I have a proposal for you.
Zamparini: Yes, what kind of proposal?
Montisi: I want in on the club, well actually my father wants in on the ownership, I want to manage.
Zamparini: Uhm well, it's not up for sale really...
Montisi: Oh well I think it is, don't you agree?
Zamparini: I guess... Well yes of course! It's too much for me to handle to be honest. Heh...
Montisi: Good, we do not want all of it, you will still be kept as chairman and the board will stay as it is, we just want in on the profit and will mostly leave it up to you to see to it.
Zamparini: Yes of course. You also said you wanted to manage, what do you mean?
Montisi: I want to lead the team, I want to coach them.
Zamparini: Well I guess that can be arranged, we will just have to contact our current manager and discuss it with him.
Montisi: No need, I have already taken care of it, he is at the airport leaving sicily as we speak.
Zamparini: Very well then I guess there is a vacancy then, you got the position.
Montisi: Great, my lawyers will go over the buy with you later this week. It was a lovely dinner, I will leave now. Ciao!
I am glad the deal was done as smoothly as possible, he looked a bit sweaty but that is normal. As I stepped into my car and I was taken back home, it was finally getting dark out, the sun setting to a black and pink sky.
The following weeks, everything was set in place, I took over as manager of the club in my heart.
I got rid of a lot of coaches and staff that I deemed surplus or useless, and brought in some new faces to assist me in getting this team on the right track. A bit annoying that I could not travel to see them face to face, the ones I wanted to hire. It is not good for me to make that kind of impression all the time I guess, this meant we did not get the best, they were not interested as we were not a top team at the moment, something I hoped to change. We got some decent men helping out though, they will go whenever someone better is available to us though, business you know?
In the past couple of seasons two of our star players have left us, Edinson Cavani and Javier Pastore, so I'm left with what is left.
Hopefully my scouts will be able to find me a new star in the next couple of seasons.
Until then, we will have to make due with a pretty low amount of money for transfers. My father was not very keen on helping out seeing as the club is in heavy debt, and he would prefer not to have too much capital in Italy at the time being.
These are the transfers we have finished this window.
Out
Rubinho - Lazio €1 Million
Giacomo Brichetto - Bari Loan €40K
Matías Aguirregaray - Inter Co-ownership €750K (Stays with Palermo)
Edgar Barreto - SLB €6.75 Million
Nicolás Bertolo - Fulham Loan €875K
In
Marco Di Vaio - Bologna €1.2 Million
Marco Verratti - Pescara €3.3 Million
Federico Casarini - Bologna €4 Million
Alphonse Areola - PSG €3 Million
Galhardo - Flamengo €3 Million
Players were sold because they were not in my future plans and we needed the money.
Players that came in are all young and here for the future, except Di Vaio whom I signed because he's a proven goal scorer, we might need one of those. All these players will add some much needed depth to my squad.
As you might already know, we qualified for the UEFA Europa League last season, and that's what we started off this season with.
We had to play in the 3rd qualifying round against some Icelandic team.
It went pretty good.
Palermo 6 - 1 ÍBV
Fabrizio Miccoli (29, 38, 48)
Ezequiel Muños Own Goal (35)
Marco Di Vaio (85, 88 Penalty)
Abel Hernández (90+2)
ÍBV 0 - 1 Palermo
Fabrizio Miccoli (35)
As I said, no problem. After we crushed them at La Favorita we did not really bring our A-game over to iceland. It was cold and wet so we just played the game out and were happy to be over with it. It was never a competition really and now we are off against yet another team I have never heard of, in the fourth qualifying round.
Some Isreali team called Bnei Yahuda from Tel-Aviv. After watching videos and having a scout over there, all I can see is that they have one decent argentinian player and nothing else. Should be a walk in the park.
That is all from me for now. I will bring you up to speed in a couple of weeks or soo, we have our Serie A premiere to look forward too. We are up against Atalanta first, over in Bergamo, and then we will host a game against Napoli in our home premiere.
Ciao!
good stuff
