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Chapter 5 – Reckless
Suggestion: Blogs aren’t made to be read in Twitter WordPress reader – click here to read in it’s original format if viewing on a mobile device. The madness continues but before we go into that we have important business to attend to. Having lost Assistant Manager Michael Laudrup after he got the manager job at Newcastle, we decided to try and bring in someone with a bit more local knowledge and our hunt brought us to a man I’d never heard of previously but one look at his track record and I could tell he must be a friend of one Patrick Vieira. Christian Lattanzio arrives as our Number 2 having spent 5 years in the backroom staff at Man City (originally arriving with Roberto Mancini) and obviously becoming best buds with Vieira considering he went on to be his assistant at both NYCFC and Nice (let’s ignore that neither went very well for the ex-Arsenal legend but I’m quite happy with his appointment overall). Picture the scene. Our transfer budget is announced – £7.5m stretching to £14m with some adjustments, and myself and Christian are sipping a Birra Moretti in Bologna’s Piazza Maggiore wondering how on earth we will fund the transfers we need to kick on again this season and continue the batshit mad rebuild that we started last year. While thoughts of extravagant friendly competitions, minimal prize bonuses, ridiculous loan signings and even selling Tomiyasu to Tottenham all crossed my mind it was Lattanzio that slammed his 7th beer on the table and said “Fanculo Madd, sell them all“. Not one to argue with a semi-drunk Italian man, I decided to take his advice and we hit the fax machine hard. No calculator? From the end of Season 1 to the beginning of Season 2 we managed to raise £65m in transfer revenue, 75% of which made it’s way straight back into our budget. While losing the likes of Dominguez, Dijks and Skov Olsen was never originally part of the plan, the cash was too hard to turn down and once the wheels came off it was all sell sell sell at Bologna. I’ll say one thing though, it was worth it: If this were real life then Fabrizio Romano’s Twitter would be in overdrive. Whether tremendous or absolute turmoil, the Bologna fans can’t even keep up with all the transfer activity as we spend the best part of £100m on signings (ignoring the already pre-agreed £12m for Musa Barrow), many of which involve us paying 50% up front and the remaining in 3 annual installments but overall both Christian and I are sitting rather pleased by the end of it as we continue to boost the Birra Moretti share price single-handedly. In Stengs and Hagi we bring much needed Flair and Creativity into the forward line wherein Hauge and Soriano struggled last season. Simeone will bring experience, power and composure to the lone striker role and hopefully hold up the ball and bring more players into the attacking third. At 17 we hope Nnamdi Collins will be at the heart of our defence for years to come, while we also snap up Nico Williams on a free transfer to bring youth and pace from the bench in the latter stages. Mingueza and Correia both arrive on loan with optional fees and you would expect both to compete for a first team spot, while I hope that our most thought-through arrival and record signing Orel Mangala will have the biggest impact in match situations as we look for a strong, powerful and athletic ball-carrier (think prime Blaise Matuidi) who can ferry the ball up the field while also lasting the full 90 mins with high Stamina and Natural Fitness. As said before there is method to the madness, and these signings most certainly elevate our playing squad as we enter Season Two – the big question will be, can we fit it all together on time for our league opener against Benevento Calcio? Benevento vs Bologna FC Sunday 22nd August 2021 We decide to start the season slightly more conservatively, fully conscious that we have a completely new forward line and 7 of our 8 new signings included in the match day squad meaning the dynamics will be almost non-existent as the team continues to gel and we gain more squad/tactical familiarity. Debuts for Giovanni Simeone, Ianis Hagi, Calvin Stengs and Orel Mangala as well as a return to the squad for Stefano Denswil who returns after a loan spell at Club Brugge last season, Mingueza not fully fit and Nnamdi Collins out injured. Tactically we look to play a fast Counter Attack with this approach, with a High Tempo and quick passing out from the back and using width to advance the ball and create chances in the box while defensively the strategy is to press urgently (more so in our own half) and quickly break when possession is won. It worked at times last season however we didn’t really have the personnel to execute effectively throughout, we have to be more confident this time round surely. Ok so not the most convincing performance but a win is a win and we will take the three points away from home. Despite all our new attackers on display it was substitute Musa Barrow that broke the deadlock from a cracking delivery by Takehiro Tomiyasu (further justifying that switch to right back) and Simeone was also very unlucky with 6 shots on target and a goal disallowed by VAR for offside. Defensively we looked solid as a rock, however we were perhaps a bit limited in attack with both Musah and Mangala in deeper midfield roles – a home game against Fiorentina next will see what we are really made of, not to mention a tough run of games against Sampdoria, Lazio, Torino, Inter and Napoli all in our first 7 games! Serie A is 🔥 🔥 🔥 . Until next time, MaddFM. Don’t forget – if you would like to get involved and catch real-time updates and sneak previews I will be doing so via the WeStreamFM Discord (#scudetto-gospel) and via FMSlack (#MaddFM). You can also hit the Follow button below as well as hit me up on Twitter if you have any thoughts or recommendations for this save, and catch me most Mondays talking FM nonsense on the 5* Potential Podcast.
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Chapter 4 – Relegation?
Suggestion: Blogs aren’t made to be read in Twitter WordPress reader – click here to read in it’s original format if viewing on a mobile device. How did our first season go at Bologna I hear you ask? Ok, let’s rewind a little. When we last left off, we were approaching the end of the January transfer window with intent to go out and sign some form of Winger or Inside Forward to help create some badly needed chances for the likes of Adam Idah and Raul Ruidiaz up front. With about £9m to spend, what did we come back with? A CENTRE HALF. Just like when Jack went out to buy a cow and came back with magic beans, so too did we end up spending £9m on the button for RC Lens Defender Loïc Badé. Badé is a player I’ve been following a bit in real life and on whom I’ve heard a lot of positive commentary of late (Cc: Scouted Football). In FM terms, he is probably what I would call a middle-of-the-road Centre Half at the start of FM21 but as good as we might attract at Bologna in our current state, however my main reason for bringing him in is that I can’t ignore the fact that we are consistently playing Takehiro Tomiyasu out of position and I’m keen to see what he can bring as a Right Full-Back or Wing-Back – dreams of himself and Aaron Hickey bombing down the wings clearly impeding my judgement in the transfer market but fear not, there is method to our madness as we still manage to squeeze in one last bargain before the end of the transfer window: Ajax youngster Brian Brobbey arrives on loan until the end of the season and better still, he also agrees to sign permanently when his contract ends in the summer – I’m not entirely convinced he is as good in-game as he is IRL for Ajax however he will bring some much needed strength and firepower in the Inside Forward position, hoping the Serie A defenders wont know what hit them with his sheer power and decent finishing ability. Let the games begin. Wow. No, seriously – wow. Let’s not forget we lost 3 games in January, meaning we went a grand total of FIFTEEN games without a win. FIFTEEN. That’s 1,350 minutes without a victory, and although Brobbey proved to be a vital addition scoring 4 goals in 4 games amidst a horrid run wherein we faced Lazio, Roma, Milan and Inter, we suddenly found ourselves in the muddiest of muds embarking on a relegation dogfight with just 5 games to go. Will we even see a second season at Bologna?! It took us until May to finally find a win. With morale in the toilet we headed away to Torino and it was Adam Idah who rose to the occasion and finally started to repay some of the £12m fee we paid for him at the start of the save. It’s also worth pausing for a moment to revel in the fact that Adam Idah absolutely LOVES playing against Juventus with 3 goals in the two draws earned against the Italian giants this season. This seemed to light a flame under the Bologna boys as we pulled out all the stops to stay unbeaten in May and seal our survival with wins against Spezia and Napoli, and in the end we somehow finished in 12th place which all things considered was a pretty decent finish when you look at our form in the second half of the season. Milan romped home to steal their first Scudetto title in 10 years, and overall I think remarkable is a fair assessment of the season overall. Some particular highlights included getting into heated arguments with Gennaro Gattuso….. …finding out that Stephen Kenny had been sacked by Ireland only to be replaced by this man….. Having none other than my beloved Newcastle swoop in to ruin the bromance and poach our legendary Assistant Manager…. …who then proceeded to return and try to snatch our best player…. Positively I had my best Youth Intake in FM21 so far, with two really good prospects coming through the ranks… …while our U20 team won the Primavera 1 title, steamrolling ahead of the likes of Inter, Juventus and Milan… Sticking with youth, somehow Yunus Musah managed to finish 3rd in the NxGn awards behind Saka and Camavinga depsite only putting in a 6.73 average rating and waiting until the last game of the season to score his first goal for the club… ..while our board are clearly loving the youth success, agreeing to improve both our facilities and recruitment ahead of Season Two.. What a season! Our 12th place finish brings in a measly £5m in prize money, however with circa 20 players returning from loans and a lot of deadwood to offload in the summer, our mission will be to bring in as much cash as possible to continue the Bologna revolution and keep rebuilding this aging squad as needed (not to mention keeping our fingers crossed that Ricardo Orsolini gets picked up from Chelsea for a bagload of cash with that 50% next sale clause firmly waiting to be activated). Priority for us will be some additional quality in midfield with Soriano and Musah lacking the vision and creativity needed to ignite our counter-attack philosophy, while a Striker will also be on the cards with Ruidiaz proving to be a poor signing overall contributing just 7 goals in 27 appearances. Normally I would say tune in next week to see how our summer activity goes however to make up for lost time it is already written for you: Chapter 5 – Reckless, live now. As always, thanks for reading – feel free to get involved in the comments below, on Discord (#scudetto-gospel), on Slack (#MaddFM) or of course on Twitter where all the cool kids hang out. Forza Bologna! MaddFM. Be sure to hit the Follow button below to be notified of new blog posts, you can also catch some of my other Football Manager content either on WeStreamFM.com as well as most Mondays on the 5* Potential Podcast.
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