Gloria al Sammarinese...and myself

Made an amazing start to Seire B man!

Fantastic start!

Yeah man! thanks Dan!!



Couldn't have said it better myself!

A decent performance away against Montenegro. I mean, no goals or points, but we held out for pretty long which is nice I suppose, even some pops at goal. Still, a 4 out of 10 performance in the grand scheme.



Hapless at home against France. I mean, not too much I could do. After saving this result, did some demos with different tactics and players, shellacked every-time. Just one of those games where the gap is too monumental for me to even consider a result in the form of a goal or points. 1.5 out of 10 Our qualification for a major tournament will continue to elude us for another decade probably.

Almost dropped points at home to Virtus....lost a 3-0 lead and Tomassini saved our blushes. An unconvincing performance to start off a month that would be rife with disappointment.

A fucking SHIT performance at home against Pisa. Starting to drop points and feel the twinge of FM annoyance due to poor performances

Dammit. Should have picked up something away at Bari. But it was a decent performance and we outplayed them, just couldn't put it in the back of the net as many times as they could. shit...

A nil-nil draw away at Cremonese is a poor performance, but I suppose aside from dropped points, at least it isn't a fucking loss. blagh

play a sad song for me susie, looks like it's about to get rough. hahah

Meh, an okay performance in the 2-5 loss at home to Hungary. Balázs Dzsudzsák did a number on me throughout the game. A bright spot is Tomassini did get himself a solid brace against some pretty good competition!



Awesome! An AWAY victory!!! Two Apriliani (albeit one on loan) men scoring the goals for the Sammarinese natty team!!! What a feeling to cap our international year off with an AWAY victory! Woo!!!!

Continued our poor fall form with the first two games of November ending 0-1 and 0-3. scorless home losses make me want to weep.

But then, we followed up these results with their exact opposites! a 1-0 then 3-0 victory! Hopefully the turnaround is upon us and winter comes in the mose glorious of fashion!

P.S. Apologies on the lack of updates recently, been swamped with work! Hopefully will get back in the groove soon.

Great win over Malta mate! form in the league a little rocky but nothing tow orry about!

Great win over Malta! And 2 goals against Hungary! Decent league form too very good for your first season!

Thanks Dan! Certainly was! Yeah, I suppose it's tough here up in Serie B haha


Thanks Geroge! Yeah, look at us! 4 goals in two international games! Decent is spot on haha

Fantastic start to your life in Serie B \o/

Started off frustratingly not being able to hold onto the win at home against Andorra, then another "blood boiler" doing nothing against Kuwait at home, one where I legitimately hoped for an upset. Then, a garbage performance for the 2nd loss to Lithuania in my tenure. 2 European thrashings at the hands of Montenegro and France, although the Montenegro game saw us keep them out of the goal for 70 mins away, but still we couldn't get anything done competitively against European competition. The 2-5 performance against Hungary had its positives and yes, a victory AWAY at Malta to finish the year.



1st Best Elevevn without Simoncini in the net. The times they are a changing.

An okay 2018, definitely our best year since 2014, so things may finally be on the up!!! Must keep the faith!

Thanks Johno, it is certainly a treat!

Ugh....a terrible away performance at Parma saw us lose a a game 0-2. Another worrying scoreless performance at this level.

A decent performance in the TIM Cup saw us lose just 0-1 away at Fiorentina. We weren't quality enough to make a run at the Coppa Italia so I was satisfied by how far we got.

A quality 4-1 home victory against Latina! Needed this one to turn around our December, that has started the Apriliani winter off rough

A lucky 1-0 victory at Vicenza but 3 points nonetheless. I'll take it as we make the push to establish ourselves in the Serie B.

A shocking home draw against Modena at home, need to be rescued at the end by Graziano Pellè (SOUTHAMPTON'S NEW SIGNING IRL ). We outplayed them and this was definitely one where 2 points were left out there on the field that we should have taken.

A shit away performance saw us lose 0-3 away at Cesena. I don't even know what happened...just awful.

Wow. That 1-6 HOME loss to Cagliari. Geez. They are 1st in the league but what is this, San Marino vs. France. Come on. PATHETIC!

MUST step it up in 2019 to finish in a decent position in the league. Also may have to strengthen a bit in January and definitely will over the summer.

The lone January performance was a trash home 1-3 loss to Benevento. A shit start to 2019...not what we needed nor what I had hope for. Need to turn la primavera around guys or we will be in for a rough end of the season



Signed some solid Sammarinese youth to train up. Sunday is a solid German/Nigerian RB for this level. Needed some young cover for the position as I am letting Vandenbroeck go at the end of the year; the Belgian is a rotational player who can cover either fullback that I signed a few years ago. Büchel is an Austrian CM I loaned from league leaders Cagliari, as I need cover for the position since I am allowing Sala to leave at the end of the year to Cremonese, and I don't play a player when they reject a contract from me and sign with someone else in the league; so Sala will wallow in the reserves until June 30th when he can bugger off. Additionally, I may need to revamp the whole center of my park in the coming seasons, and who better to anchor it than an older John Obi Mikel on a free! A fantastic signing for my club!!!

A solid start to the shortest month of the year with a home 4-2 victory on the back of an Isoufi hattrick. One of his goals this game would go on to be the goal of the month!

Blagh gave up a 2-0 lead at home to Sassuolo for another 2 points left on the field.

.....After such a quick start, I should have figured we'd end up losing away at Siena. A frustrating 1-2 loss.

Wow. Another SHOCKINGLY SHIT home performance. 1-4 Home loss to parent club Palermo; a garbage performance in front of our own fans justified such a blowout at home. So a poor February means we continue to shit on our gleaming early season form.

NEED TO TURN IT AROUND! La primavera MUST give birth to better performances for the Apriliani or this season will end in shambles.

Unlucky with recent form mate. But still getting some wins here and there, great signing in Mikel! Please can I see a screenshot of the table thanks!

Unlucky Hopefully you can turn the team around!

Started off with an OKAY (at best) 1-1 draw away at Lanciano. Casieri is starting to come into his own for me which is promising!

A poor, scorless 0-1 defeat at home against Empoli. This month looked to be another in shambles.

Huzzah! A 2-0 victory away at bottom club Virtus with Casieri continuing to showcase with the brace of goals scored in the match!

A much needed home victory over Bari, with some of the seasoned guard getting on the score-sheet and leading us to the 3 points.

YES! A revenge away victory over Pisa! It was a real back and forth game and I'm not sure we deserved anything out of it,much less the 3 points, but Sessa's first goal of the year gave us possibly the three points to help us finish the season strong!



After an unbelievable start, then a very believable fall, we are back amongst it! Sitting in 5th with a chance to really decide our own fate up here at the pinnacle of the Italian 2nd division!

Good March month few points off the first place!

Yeah man, hopefully it all comes good. Yeah, he has to play well for the salary I'm giving him! It's up there now



Thanks! I know, it's crazy!!!!!!!

Positives to be taken from this 3-9 away defeat to Romania. As it has been noted on this sntallment of FM, Romania get godly as the years pass, and this save is no different. Despite this, we went into halftime 0-5, I reamed em, came out and Peluso, an Apriliani man to make it 2-5, before more scoring was done including Tomassini continuing to add to his international strikes to end at a disappointing scoreline of 3-9, but a game full of positives!



YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! GET IN! A 4-2 Home victory over fellow European bottom dwellers the Faroe Islands! Tomassini with an international hat-trick!!! When's the last time you saw a Sammarinese player net an international hat-trick against real competition?!

Dat April run in. wow.




Red cards galore in these games in addition to being as porous as your grandmother's sponge that has been drying on the corner of the sink since 1978. THESE ARE THE TYPES OF GAMES THAT MAKE ROOKIES SAY FUCK FM AND QUIT, I JUST SAY FUCK FM AND LOOK TOWARDS NEXT SEASON! FUCK YOU FOOTIE MANAGER

Welp....that run in.

Very solid home victory over promote Parma gave me hope it just may be on the cards a magical season, however after relinquishing a 2-0 lead to draw Latina I started to have my doubts.

A clutch 3-2 home victory over Vicenza would be the last points picked up by the Apriliani in the 2018/19 season, their first in Serie B.

The garbage run in started out with a 0-1 away loss to Modena, a game in which we dominated but in the end poor finishing cost us.This was followed by a 1-2 home loss to eventual champions Cesena. The icing on the shit cake that was our run in, was the 2-5 away defeat to Cagliari it goes great with their 1-6 defeat of us at our place



Meh, considering our 2nd half of the season, I suppose 11 isn't too far off of what we deserve, although I can't deny wanting a higher spot finish due to our hot start!

Oh well, on to next year!

What the fuck has happened

Don't fret! Recall that I didn't need the promotion to Serie A brcause of finances. What happened was the goals dried up from my key men: Isoufi, Pellè and Barbato. Also we were hit with some significant injuries and I just didn't have the quality depth to continue competing at the highest level! I will be making enormous moves this summer, stay tuned!

Well you blew that! form sort of disappeared it seems man, hopefully next season you will be a playoff contender

Indeed haha. It certainly did. We'll see, remember I sacrifice a bit of club quality and ambition by giving my Sammarinese boys playing time.

Ass man handled. Okay showing for preseason. Time to get down to business though, after last season's meltdown I decided to go for some solid tranfer pickups.



Was very pleased with the intake of a couple Sammarinese youngsters. Messaoudi is a solid (but slow) French/Moroccan ST who was brought in to give depth to the position since I let both Pellè and Florian go; those who once owned for me are now gone. In addition to the two up front men, Sala the MC left after I wouldn't pay him out the ass, Vandenbroeck just wasn't getting any games so I decided to let him ply his trade elsewhere, Rante hadn't gotten a game in a while even though he was so crucial in my early years with Aprilia, and the other two were young squad midfielders.

Pritchard and Silvestri were the two pickups to slot into the starting line-up and give us some power on a weakened defense and midfield. My Sammarinese boys can put up a fight, but I need some actual fighters to make it an Apriliani Serie A!

Here they are for anyone wondering:

Unlucky mate tough end to the season, nothing wrong with 11th in your first season! Hopefully you can finish a bit higher this season! Some good signings too!