Sheriff Skacel
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5 shots all game, 3 on target and Chelsea leave our place with a 3-1 win. Jammy gits, just one of those games. Least its not in the knock outs
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Damn, off the back of that game Romario is now out for 3 months with an ankle injury. He's averaged a 7.97 across seven league games this season so far, huge loss, hopefully Alexandre and Artoumian can step up
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Still can't get the board to budge on the new stadium, we're playing in a 36k, 125 year old stadium. Basically the Palermo colosseum, we have a 96.3% average attendance by capacity and we're only pulling in about £6.5m on season ticket sales each season. The potential is there, the demand is there, the money is there to build it.

Bloody Americano's. Don't understand how much pride Italian's take in their stadiums, if there is one thing you'd never see in Italy it would be a crumbling, dated football stadium.

http://www.thefootballstadiums.com/uploads/data/other/5138_Sassuolo%2002.jpg

http://cdn.forzaitalianfootball.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Empoli-stadium.jpg

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#AgentWind

I take solace in the fact that if this had been a knockout we'd have went through 4-3 on agg
Sheriff Skacel
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Just been offered the Croatia job, its the first international job I've been offered and actually stopped to think about. International management could be a good option post-Palermo, will give my loaded leagues a chance to settle down and me a break from club management. If I were to do it I'd look for a medium to smaller sized nation, nothing with the big boys as that would be piss easy.

For now I've turned them down, perhaps call me back in a few months Mr Croat.
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We were unbelievably lucky finishing top, not happy at all with the last two results. In both those games the opposition pulled off more possession and shots than us, for the first time the 4231 looked suspect. May revert to the 433 for the CL knockouts and keep the 4231 domestically
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A January signing, 1.9m from Inter. Seems a risk worth taking, usually don't sign U18 players but with the Italian youth lacking its something I'm willing to go with.
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God Mauro's agent is a right bastard. After a 4-3 win vs Bologna in which Mauro scored 2 his agent came looking for a new contract. It can't have been more than 18 month since his last one which saw him pull in 110k a week and a near 5m agent fee.

I tried to resists but the squad ended up approaching me unhappy over the treatment of Mauro, I can't afford to have a mutiny on my hands as we are going strong in the league. So to the negotiation table we went

135k a week and a 3.5m agent fee. Screw that agent.
Based Jorge
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Download some badges you mongo
Sheriff Skacel
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Just had a 10m uptop, 13m over 12 month and 7m in clauses offer for Garofalo (my starting LB). I want 35m+ for him in hard cash if he's to leave this month, he averaged a 7.49 last season in the league and is doing a 7.28 this. I may look to ship him at the end of this season for a fee closer to 25m but I don't want to lose him mid-season, tried to renegotiate the Barca deal to 35m cash and end of season Italy but they pulled out.
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Fuck you Georgie, in my mind this is some CM 01/02 shit. Cherno Samba and To Madeira up next.
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This is the kind of consistency which has been missing over the past seven or eight seasons. Still a long, long way to go but I can only see injuries stopping us at this point. The 4231 is in full flow and everyone is playing well
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Aye I'm wary of doing everything I fancy doing at the end of FM15 and having nowt for the start of FM16. Eastern Europe and Asia will be high up my to do list, chances are I'll go unemployed Sunday league rep and look to land in lower Eastern Europe in my first job. From there we will see where I end up.

I haven't been in Africa for a few FMs, if SI pulled their finger out and got some new African leagues in I'd definitely go on an African adventure.

What you planning? I could do with some inspiration / fresh ideas, might make a thread for it to see what others are planning

Yeah it makes sense man! I've rarely played fm since I lost motivation on my long journeyman save and don't fancy starting something new now.

Looking at either an FC United save, they're now in the player leagues. Build them up not only to the BPL and CL but trying to overtake United and city on each trophy won, BPL, FA Cup etx!

Or head to Wales and try to improve that leagye, take over team. Build them up, financially, facilites. Try to win the CL then rinse and repeat with the next team
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Yeah it makes sense man! I've rarely played fm since I lost motivation on my long journeyman save and don't fancy starting something new now.

Looking at either an FC United save, they're now in the player leagues. Build them up not only to the BPL and CL but trying to overtake United and city on each trophy won, BPL, FA Cup etx!

Or head to Wales and try to improve that leagye, take over team. Build them up, financially, facilites. Try to win the CL then rinse and repeat with the next team


On the Wales front I can confirm that you can forcibly drag a league kicking and screaming from the doldrums of kick and rush. I won the CL with a team from Iceland, the quality of player slowly improved. During my CL runs I was never signing players from my domestic rivals unless they were Icelandic hot prospects, but after I left the quality kept going up to probably Championship level and the odd CL quality player would pass through the league. The facilities have also improved, last time I looked 5 teams had new 20k+ stadiums. That's huge, I saved the game before I resigned incase I ever wanted a brief return. I may do that at some point to see just how far Iceland could have went
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Didn't really want him to leave but he wanted out for first team football, shame as he's a club grown player, could play AML, AMC and FC and had some great mental stats. We move on though, I won't be replacing him in this window as I reckon we have enough options to pull through.
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On the Wales front I can confirm that you can forcibly drag a league kicking and screaming from the doldrums of kick and rush. I won the CL with a team from Iceland, the quality of player slowly improved. During my CL runs I was never signing players from my domestic rivals unless they were Icelandic hot prospects, but after I left the quality kept going up to probably Championship level and the odd CL quality player would pass through the league. The facilities have also improved, last time I looked 5 teams had new 20k+ stadiums. That's huge, I saved the game before I resigned incase I ever wanted a brief return. I may do that at some point to see just how far Iceland could have went

Yeah I know it's achievable and would br a long ass save trying to do it with several different clubs! Just mot sure which career people would.prefer and I'd prefer to play!
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Played a backup team for this match and we coasted it, never looked in doubt. Only scraped the first leg 2-1 too, that was mainly due to the game following a shocking 3-0 defeat to Genoa that came from absolutely nowhere. Rebuilt our confidence in a 5-0 smashing of Verona and entered this 2nd leg sky high.

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Next three games?

Juve away
Liverpool away
Inter home

Huge, I'd take 2 league wins over victory vs Liverpool and only one of Juve/Inter. I want my scudetto,
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Not had enough sleep to comprehend this shit.

Although I can confirm I did forget to switch my 4231 back to my 433 before the game. May keep the 4231 for leg two, just to see how many goals we can get (expect a 0-0)
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Why don't they just back off, go away, let me have my title and let me have my moment?
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Look at this for an embarrassingly poor, shitty faced, useless, Shola Ameobi style youth batch. Abysmal. What am I meant to do with this crap? They aren't even fit enough to clean the boots.
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Train them as assassins and take out the Juve squad once and for all.
Sheriff Skacel
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Train them as assassins and take out the Juve squad once and for all.


Already started my slow plot to bring Juve down through lacing their protein powder with Cadbury's hot chocolate.
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Meh, Liverpool can suck it, that youth batch can suck it, I want Serie A. Give me my scudetto.
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FORZA ROSSONERI

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Also, great turn around for them this year
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MAUROOOOOOOOOOOOO
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My 8th full season in charge brings me my first Serie A title. Great performance in this game and its fitting that Boukhari delivered the final blow to Juventus in the title race with this performance.

Where does this leave me and Palermo? I'm not sure, I've won my title, all that remains in the CL. Is that enough to keep me interested? I'm not too sure. I'm going to finish up the season, analyse the squad and see what I could potentially do over the summer.

The squad is ridiculously young, we could go on and win plenty more Serie A titles but its all about my own interest levels. China or the MLS would be my most likely destinations if I do depart
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League + the Italian cup, great season for us. Takes the club value up to £700m too, £315m more than Juve and the 8th highest in the World.
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The 4231 was the real catalyst for winning this season, in Europe it made us flimsy, in the league it helped us find consistency and the wins we needed against our fellow title contenders. I do think the time is now right for me to leave Palermo, I've won the title I wanted to win. The chase for the CL or a new stadium just won't be enough to keep me interested, I've already won the CL in this career and I've already had two new stadiums built during my stints at clubs in the career too. Both were nice Palermo aims, but I'm more than happy with the league win and the manner in which we did it.

I went down a massive youth route and its more than paid off, just look at these squad values now;

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There's some serious sell on value amongst that lot, but I shall not be here to see it.

Gonna decide on what new league to add in place of Italy and pick pastures new.

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