We spent some time discussing what team we should pick, we had to evaluate each team by their strengths and weaknesses because we didn't want to suck but at the same time we didn't want to pick the best of best. We made a short-list of the teams that we felt would be god to play a whole manager mode campaign with, on that list were;
- Real Madrid
- Barcelona
- Manchester United
- Arsenal
- Ac Milan
- Inter Milan
- Juventus
- Bayern Munich
- Schalke 04
- FC Porto
- Fenerbahce
We wanted a team that were good but still had room for development so we promptly agreed that Barce and Madrid were far too good. We also wanted to play as a team that were in Europe but played outside of the Barclay's Premier League, so we narrowed it down to the Italians and the Germans. I made the point that if we chose Munich then we wouldn't have much competition as they are the undisputed best team in the Bundesliga, narrowing it down again, to the Italians. After about an hour of analysing each of these teams we opted for AC Milan, mainly for their incredible attacking talent (Ronaldinho, Alexandre Pato, Zlatan Ibrahimavic, Robinho) yet they still have a questionable defence and midfield, so that was something to work on.
So we started our manager mode campaign and named our manager Robert Higgins (as it was nice and easy to remember). We discussed who we wanted to bring in and which players were surplus to requirements, so we swiftly sold Filippo Inzaghi and 11 year Milan vet Gennaro Gattuso. This ruthless move showed our intent but also made room for some new faces; Jose Bosingwa (28) from Chelsea for £12,000,000 and Daniele De Rossi (27) from Roma for £18,900,000. After this we agreed that our team was strong enough until at least January to match the big teams in the league.
We started pre-season in exceptional form winning 4 out of 4, all decent results with the pick of the bunch being a 1-4 victory away at White Hart Lane to Tottenham Hot Spurs. This confident pre-season lead us to believe that we were serious title contenders for this seasons Serie A Trophy..... we thought wrong. Slumping to 2 straight draws as the season kicked off, this wasn't the start we were looking for but still, we had to give it time. As we predicted, we picked up the pace going on to win our next 5 matches, a 0-0 draw to the European Champions and our arch rivals Inter Milan wasn't so hard to take, but this triggered a fall in our form as we then drew 3 in a row and then loosing our first of the season to top of the league Sampdoria. This defeat seems to have snapped the players back into form though as we have gone on to win the remainder of the matches in December.
It is now January and the Transfer window is open so we're looking to bring in some new faces and maybe get rid of a few. There are a few players that we have in mind;
- Arjen Robben (Bayern Munich)
- Franck Ribery (Bayern Munich)
- Diego Forlan (Athletico Madrid)
- Gael Clichy (Arsenal)
- Emmanuel Adebayor (Man City)
- and we're looking into bringing the iconic Brazilian midfield ace, Kaka, back to the San Siro.
We're 3rd in the league at the moment with 11 wins, 7 draws and only the 1 defeat, but our position as manager is already in question as we're not top of the league, so the question is.. Do we stick with the current crop and hope our good form continues, or move quickly to sign up some more players??
more on our AC Milan season soon...............
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