Furiously Flowing River

By: Samir | November 8th, 2009

4-1 Days: 20-27 July.
Currently Managing: Villareal
Status: Preseason, with transfer (hopefully) coming around.
In-game Ass.Man: Aspiazu.
In-blog Ass.Men: Weston, Sam, Dhaw, Thomas, Stefan, Will, Zizou, Lord Quas, Vlad. (Everyone who will submit a comment about the game will automatically be an ass.man.)
Next game: Friendly against Taranto in four days, away.

20 July 2009.

Training has been getting everyday more important. But for now I can avoid to select specifical technical trainings for my players, for now I can let them have physical training and see them kill theirselves running throughout the pitch. I rejected all Rossi offers, just to give him an opportunity to show himself. But, guess what? He’s unhappy, and, while hoping his morale will change one day, I offered 6mil for Delfouneso, hoping Aston Villa accept, but I don’t think they will.

21 July 2009-22 July 2009.

Thinking on who to buy is not everything, because I got to think also on who to sell. Aspiazu and T’OM, told me to sell Escudero, and 2mil is the price I have set for him. And I have offered a contract to Senna, whom I will make stay at El Madrigal, as from a Vlad suggestion. While in the 22nd, I told my players to get a relax day, in which I needed to stay alone and think of tactics, obviously watching at the videos of the trainings I told my son to make. He was really more than excited to film everything, as he loves to film.

23 July 2009.

We’re back to the training pitch and I decide to talk to my players. I tell them somehow what will be the formation that will play against River, but changes can be made. We also talked about specific trainings, but the only ones I specified which training to make were Rossi and Cani. Both should look to a movement in the centre. Meanwhile, Aston Villa (as I knew they will) rejected the offer for Delfouneso. Aspiazu was the one to give me that news. I am becoming extremely irritated for his fault in these days, and told him to leave in that moment and send Racing a 1mil offer for Bolado. I really think Dhaw and T’OM are a very better ass.men than Aspia!

24 July 2009-25 July 2009.

This morning, I can finally be happy, even if the first offer for Bolado was rejected, with 1.8mil they accepted and I offered him a satisfying contract. Cordoba and Tenerife both made loan offers for Flores, and I accepted. The day was incredibly getting better, as Rossi seemed to sympathize with me, and was evidently happy! And in my first airplane trip with my players, heading to Argentina, my son seemed to be the happiest person in the whole plane, were he socialized with Ibagaza, Rossi, and specially Cani. I personally sleeped almost all the trip, and didn’t have the time to make my long speech to the players. And for that, the players need to thank me, because it would have taken at least one boring hour.

26 July 2009.

River-Villarreal:
As I already said, I will try a 4-3-1-2, specifically with a balanced philosophy, short passes, playing narrow, and drill crosses. This was the formation:

In some sense, it was a good night, because I understood my team plays good narrowly. In all other senses, it was a nightmare. We lost 4-1. At 13th Buonanotte scored the first just out of the box. Llorente equalized with a great Ruben header through ball. Then Buonanotte, three minutes later, scored another one with a header. Gallardo in a counter closed the game and in the second half Blanco got the 4-1.

After the game I just told my players nothing bad happened, that it was only a friendly and bla bla bla. But I know no one likes to lose 4-1. I know my ass.man. Dhaw told me not to care of friendly results, but I am still unhappy.

And, when I thought it couldn’t get worse, guess who came to talk to me? The bad luck guy, Aspiazu. He told me Bolado accepted the offer, but he got injured for 9-10 months and won’t arrive. Fuck. Aspiazu is really getting me to the nerves.

27 July 2009.

Today I woke up with a bad headache, and called Aspiazu to tell him that we will all get a day off. I thought over what happened the day before, and decided the next game’s formation against Taranto will be a 4-2-3-1. And, when I turned on the TV, I saw a very interesting player, Soldado. Here you got his stats:

And here you got Ruben’s stats, my 22 year old striker:

Ruben stats

So, here is what I want to ask to my (good) ass.men: (Remember, answer them in the comments).

1. Anyone of you got an idea of a good young cheap striker to buy? Or should I look for Soldado, whom I could get for around 6mil? (Nsue can’t be bought because he’s in loan to Mallorca).

2. Do you think 4-2-3-1 is a good formation for my Villarreal?

3. Is Ruben good enough to fight for his place in the team?

4. Do you like my new form of posting, like a diary?

In the next post the Ups and Downs of the River game.