Dear Diary…

By: Samir | November 6th, 2009

Hey guys! Guess what? New changes for my blog! Now it will be a sort of diary, and you will be my official ass.men! It should look something like this:

3-1 Days: 15-18 July.
Currently Managing: Villareal
Status: Still preseason, transfers on their way.
In-game Ass.Man: Aspiazu.
In-blog Ass.Men: Weston, Sam, Dhaw, Thomas, Stefan, Will, Zizou, Lord Quas. (Everyone who will submit a comment about the game will automatically be an ass.man.)
Next game: Friendly against River Plate, away.

Dear Diary,

The new fm8 type of blog is finally started.

15-16 July 2009.

My debut game has just finished, I applaud my players and talk to each of them. Diego Lopez and Gonzalo Rodriguez seem hurt, my physio comes immediately to take charge of the situation, and after a while he tells me they are both injured, Diego for from 12 days to 2 weeks, and Gonzalo for at least 2 weeks. Not good. After that, we head home. When to finish a long cell phone chat with Aspiazu, he tells me James Rodriguez can be bought, but one player between Nilmar, Godin, or Escudero needs to be unregistered for the incoming season. As it is late into the night, I tell him we will talk about it tomorrow. I turn on my brand new PC, and get to my gmail. And then came the surprise. Ferguson sent me a mail, he wanted Rossi, Giuseppe Rossi. He said he could even pay 30mil for him. I was shocked, and easily told him I will only sell him at the right price. Tired, I just turned off the PC and went to bed, thinking on my team’s future. Waiting for the 17th, when I will see my players again.

17 July 2009.

Good morning. That was the first thing I said to my players that day, but I knew it would have been a day plenty of decisions. After the training session, Aspiazu approached me, and told me he called James Rodriguez agent, ready for the offer. I didn’t even decide on what player I will unregister, but Aspiazu urged me to, so I looked at my three non-EU players and thought, if I am going to buy James, I will need to sell the other attacking midfielder, and that took me to the conclusion of unregistering Escudero. He’s very fast, but I really want James. His agent was very polite, and we got to the conlusion, 7.000 an year for James. So, it was only left that Banfield accepted the 1mil offer. Aspiazu made a fast call, and it was done. James Rodriguez is my player, my first player bought for Villarreal.

18 July 2009.

After having slept well that night, and having completely forgot about the Rossi thing, I got an early call that mostly ruined my day. Escudero said that he didn’t like my decision of unregistering him for an 18-19 year old player, and that he wanted to leave. I really liked Escudero, maybe could have unregistered Godin in the next days, you know, change my decision, but now Escudero was mad with me, and there was no way changing that. When I got to the training pitch, mad at Aspiazu for splitting everything to Escudero, told him to make a deep scouting with his player databases for young good strikers. And that evening he satisfied me. Here are the players he proposed. What do you think, in-blog ass.men?

Nsue:

Bolado:

Delfounseo:

Now, I prefer that you answer to my questions in the comments, so I can add you to the ass. men. Who should I buy of them: Nsue, Bolado, Delfouneso. Feel free in the comment to write your own opinion of a young striker I should buy.

And what do you think, what is my team’s part I should buy more players for the defense, the goalies, the midfield, or the attack. Please specify the type of player I should buy. For example a right full back.

In the meanwhile, Aspiazu (why does he bother me everytime??) told me that we just got two offers for Rossi, Chelsea 13,5mil and Man.Utd. 16mil. Do you think I should sell him?

To close this first diary entry, I must say I offered Senna to clubs for 5,75mil. Let’s just see what happens in the next days.