Sleeping Giant

So my first adventure as a manager starts in the beautifull city of Split in Croatia, with Hajduk Split a strong team in the 1970´s. A former yugoslavian club that when it was all apart of the same championship was a very strong one with the likes of red star, partizan and dínamo, all former european cup winners and also finalists.
I arrive in Split to see a team hardly with no experience players and also old players apart from my captain Mario Maloca, no one knows what it is to play for hajduk for more than 2 years at a senior level. The fact of the croatian league has no competition, no known players and there is no Money, good players are difficult to attract to my team. But i will employ my own scouting abilities and with my calendar of friendlies along side, i will put a strong team to attack the league and go for financial survival and therefore be abble to buy medium high quality players next season. GO HAJDUK

Exciting league, exciting team... Good luck!

thanks. . preseason is going well. lost loads of times on getting my tactic done. i play in 4-2-3-1. got some interesting players. will post results of preseason and transfers on next update.

As a Croatian and an ex-dinamo fan (it's really complicated, will explain if you want), I am really excited you started your game with croatian league Looking forward to see your progress. Good luck ! Keep a good eye on Andrija Balić and Vlašić.... They are future stars in the making IRL if the REAL Hajduk doesn't f*ck them up. Also Elvir Maloku.

(@brunofilipe28) Good look on the saga, I'll follow

(@sanka) Ex fan? That sounds interesting'

well. the problem is , our league is pretty much corrupted. The chairman of Dinamo Zagreb Zdravko Mamic is the boss in croatia football. He's the vice president or a member of the board in croatian football federation (conflict of interests). Dinamo's affiliated club Lokomotiva plays in the same division as Dinamo. It's totally against the rules and numerous times they just let Dinamo win, they had like 3 goal lead and they still lost. Also, there have been several peculiar transactions between dinamo and lokomotiva. Dinamo bought one player and paid him twice ! The ref's that are assigned on the biggest derbies like against Hajduk or Rijeka are know for being friends and partying with Zdravko Mamic. Needles to say, the refing on those games was terrible and always on the side of Dinamo. Let's move on. Zdravko Mamic's brother is the manager of dinamo, Zdravko is know to come down to the dressing room and order which player need to play (the ones that have to sale for big bucks). His son, Mario Mamic is an sport's agents and he has had hand in all of Dinamo's major transfer. Mario Mandzukic, Dejan Lovren, Luka Modric, Mateo Kovacic, Eduardo... All of those players are in the agency of a guy, who's father is the chairman of the club... If that's not conflict of interest , I don't know what is. Lets move on... All of those major players , when they were playing for Dinamo, they signed a legal document which states that they will pay Zdravko Mamic 5% of their month salary for the rest of their careers. Imagine that. This is why Dinamo plays their games without any fans. The Bad Blue Boys (supporter of DInamo Zagreb) cant stand him and they will ignore the club as long as he's there. There are a few fans on Mamic's payroll so Dinamo "has fans" but they're mercenaries. Noone can stand those guys, they've been seen getting money in envelopes on Dinamo's games... Sickening.... And also, Zdravko Mamic has connections in the police so he can harass the real dinamo fans with raids, arrests and not letting them enter the stadiums on matchdays. Even though I said they ignore Dinamo, every now and then they come to the game to protest against Mamic family, but they get arrested and beaten up.

So preseason went well, i know the teams i played against were not of a big challenge, but did managed to put a good performance on the 1st friendly against karpaty of ukraine and win 3-1.
My tactic is now set, players seem to like and to be adapted as you can see from the results. I score a lot of goals, but also concede due to my young age defenders and lack of experience. The only defeat so far, was against rudar on the 2 leg of 2 round of europa league after i win 5-0 at home. I put a second line team to give them minutes.
Got to say that the 3-3 open day fixture against Rijeka was na epic.

Manage to due some nice signings but due to the precarious financial situation of the club i cant afford to do any more players in, because i have the risk of bankrupcy upon me. Did some fast sales to get some easy Money, all with players that the bili supports would not mind seing going away from hajduk.

A good surprise has been Elvir Maloku, 17 years old and seems to be my star player if he can handle the pressure during the season.

Could you post a screenshot of Elvir Maloku's stats please man?