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1.6. Trouble in Paradise ☀️
Contents: Canary Islands Derby, transfer window antics, goalkeeping howlers, training analysis, first ever youth intake (newgens! 🔥) and quite simply – the goal of the season . 🎵 Suggested tune: “Dick Dale & Del Tones – Misrlou“🎵 In the last post we discussed the Canary Islands Derby against UD Las Palmas. The history books state that Las Palmas have historically been the more successful team in this fixture winning 29 out of 64 games played versus our measly 14, so the plan was to gain revenge and defend our legacy in this epic clash. Both teams come in to the game in polar opposite form – Tenerife arrive in Gran Canaria following back to back victories against Rayo Majadhondra and Albacete, while Las Palmas have lost their last 3 league games to Cadiz, Real Zaragoza and Deportivo La Coruna. Despite being away from home and without the injured Mauro Dos Santos and Borja Lasso, Tenerife are considered favourites for what will hopefully be an epic clash at Estadio de Gran Canaria. Sadly – epic the clash was not! Despite making what I considered to be an inspirational team talk to the lads coupled with what I hoped would be an effective tactic away from home (more to follow) – we absolutely bottled it on the day and despite having far more shots on target and slightly more possession throughout the game, we failed to make our chances count and David Timor’s 67th minute goal condemned us to a 1-0 defeat in our first ever Canary Islands Derby. Disaster!! Sadly our first Canary Islands Derby ends in defeat and Las Palmas take home the bragging rights as we depart for our return flight to Tenerife – we welcome them back to Estadio Heliodoro Rodríguez López in the final game of the season on 9th June 2019 where hopefully we can put things right and restore ourselves as the pride of the Islas Canarias. Training A few people had asked me about training and I have read a lot of blogs / articles about different approaches and training methods. Training is something which I have traditionally left to the Assistant Manager however with the changes to Training in FM19 I have tried to be more hands on with training schedules as well as with Individual Training and Mentoring. With regard to training schedules – I have tried to keep this relatively simple and focus on the type of football we wish to play this season. I broke this up mainly in terms of assigning a schedule depending on who we are playing each week, and then dividing the week up in to specific units to cover tactics, technical skills, defending, transition, attacking etc. @FMSamo‘s training article was an excellent analysis of how you can adopt a similar type of approach, whereby training is broken down in to units and cycles (check out his article here) – our training schedule is something akin to this but instead of fortnightly cycles, it changes depending on whether we are Home or Away and/or due to face weaker or stronger opposition. We usually adopt a more forceful Gegenpress style in games where I feel we are the favourite, and a quicker Direct Counter Attack style away from home where we expect a tougher challenge (which they all are at this level): Most people will have also read @Cleon‘s excellent piece about the new Training feature in FM19 – what I really like about this is that it talks about tactical familiarity and dynamic match preparation, which is basically what we are trying to achieve at Tenerife by building training schedules based on the tactics we employ, and then adapting the training units depending on who our opponents are each week. Again, it is difficult to measure the effectiveness of these (and I am certainly no expert!), but as this article eludes to – there isn’t really a right or wrong approach to training, and it’s all down to what suits you and how you want your team to play. I definitely recommending reading the full article which you can find here. What’s also interesting about the new FM19 training feature is training ratings – it is evidently clear that some players seem to excel in training over others, and the challenge (in my opinion) is to try and target players in order to boost their training ratings. This for me is probably the best way to measure training effectiveness – what’s interesting about this save is that it has constantly been our new signings that have trained consistently at the higher levels; whether that is down to the fact that I have signed them, their age or that I have really focused on integrating them in to the squad through mentoring is still unclear, but nevertheless the results are there and now the challenge is to try and have the same impact on the rest of the squad. Transfer Window Shenanigans The fixture against UD Las Palmas also coincided with the reopening of the January Transfer Window in Spain which finally saw 22 year old Norwegian Goalkeeper Sondre Rossbach complete his much anticipated move from Odds Ballklubb for a fee of €1.1m (€650k up front), after being recommended by @daveazzopardi on the 5 Star Potential podcast. He looks like a really decent keeper all round, still only 22 and hopefully he can develop and live up to his 4 star potential here at Los Chicharreros. This move comes at a good time for two reasons, both of which are our current Goalkeeper Dani Hernandez who is a 33 year old Venezuela International. Hernandez showed himself to be quite competent in the first half of the season, however recently and in true FM fashion he has made quite a few costly errors that have cost us games and more importantly points in our quest to return to La Liga: To add fuel to the fire, Hernandez has also been linked with a move to promotion chasing rivals Real Zaragoza, who we initially didn’t consider as a title contender however their recent form has pushed them up in to the Top 4. Whether he goes or not remains to be seen however we expect that Rossbach will be an extremely efficient replacement if called upon. Unfortunately we have no transfer budget to work with during this window after the arrival of Rossbach, which means our main goal for the month is to try and hold on to all our players if we are to have a realistic chance of getting promoted this season. The most challenging part of this is that all player contracts in Spanish football must legally have a Minimum Fee Release Clause (Buy Out Clause), which is fine if you can set it at €500m as Real Madrid did with Gareth Bale (see here for some interesting reading) however here in Secunda Division 2, clauses are much more reasonable meaning there is a constant fear that your best players can be snapped up without the manager having any say in the matter. This combined with the fact that our board now only give us 50% of all incoming transfer revenue will make it a nervous few weeks for the rest of January. In other news – while all is quiet on the transfer window front in SD2, the same cannot be said with regards to Manager Movements in this league where a number of high profile appointments have been made for this level. January saw Las Palmas replace Paco Herrera with former Sevilla, Tottenham and R. Madrid boss Juande Ramos; Granada replaced Diego Martinez with previously mentioned former Tenerife manager Pepe Mel and Sporting Gijon sacked Gregorio Manzano in favour of former Middlesbrough and Nottingham Forest afficionado Aitor Karanka. The defeat at Las Palmas led to mixed form for Los Chicharreros for the rest of January, with Tenerife needing an own goal to beat Elche CF away before being held to a scoreless draw at home to Gimnastic de Tarragona meaning they took 4 points from us this year! This rollercoaster of form means that we sit in 2nd place in the third week of January, level on points with top of the table (and surprise package) Real Zaragoza – an interesting point to note here (and something I fondly remember debating with @FM_Guru88 in an online league previously) is that Goal Difference is not the determining factor if teams are level on points, but rather it is based on Head to Head form. Zaragoza’s 2-0 home win over us back in October means that they pip us for 1st place despite our slightly superior goal difference – definitely a change to what we are used to in the EPL and good to know going forward! The one piece of positive news to come the end of the month was that both Dani Hernandez and Mauro Dos Santos decided to stay at Tenerife at least until the end of the season….oh, and this: GOAL OF THE SEASON CONTENDER Having gone a goal down on the brink of half time, Tenerife had to dig deep in order to get back in to the game against a strong Albacete side who have been performing far above their original media prediction of 18th and are currently sitting comfortably in the playoff zone. Carlos Alena equalised for Los Chicherroros with a calmly taken penalty on 71 minutes, before Right Back Luis Perez wins the game for Tenerife with a glorious perfectly taken strike from 30 yards out: 🌍⚽ Around the World⚽🌍 At this point, lets have a quick look at what is happening around the other main European leagues now that the transfer window has closed and we approach the business end of the season. Tottenham sit at the top of the English Premier League after 24 games, just 2 points ahead of London neighbours Chelsea – it looks like a standard season of FM disappointment for some of the more high profile strikers in the PL, with Aubameyang leading the goalscoring charts on 15 goals ahead of Chris Wood and Callum WIlson on 14 and 12 respectively. Keeping an eye on my own team Newcastle – not only are they echoing real life performances and sitting in 14th place at the end of January, they also look to have secured the signing of the transfer window in Nicolo Zaniolo from Fiorentina for what could be a bargain transfer fee of €5.5 million. Also echoing real life are the number of manager departures in the Premier League with 4 dismissals having already occurred at the time of writing – most interestingly the arrivals of Marcelo Bielsa at West Ham and AVB at Wolves. Real Madrid currently occupy top spot in La Liga on 45 points, level with arch-rivals Atletico Madrid and only 1 point ahead of Catalan giants Barcelona. Youth Intake Thanks for reading so far! Before we finish, it is worth mentioning that we just had our first intake of youth players in the squad which means our first batch of newgens here at Los Chicharreros. We haven’t yet made a huge impact on youth training, recruitment and facilities at the club apart from hiring a new Head of Youth Recruitment (Domingo Grau) and boosting our Youth Coaching team by adding former World Cup winner Bixente Lizarazu and former Celtic, Barcelona and Man Utd Striker Henrik Larsson to the coaching ranks (focusing on Spanish speaking former players where possible as per our objectives) – however I was hopeful that we might be able to unearth one or two youngsters whom we could start to try and develop right away as we build our Roy De Los Rovers project. The reality was that overall the intake was fairly average, however one player in particular stood out in the form of Yeray Padrón who at age 15 has decent attributes for a DMC (looking at Positioning, Agression, Tackling and Bravery) and hopefully is someone we can push on and develop in the coming months…
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1.5. Spanish Omelette for Christmas?
Contents: an obscure 90’s legend, Los Vengadores (The Avengers), a dream debut for a 17 year old, comical free kick taking, Irish youth prospects and of course some festive Christmas cheer. 🎵 Suggested tune: “Feliz Navidad – Jose Feliciano“🎵 They say if you want to make an omelette, you have to break a few eggs – that pretty much sums up the first few months of our first season at Los Chicharreros a.k.a. CD Tenerife. Our fantastic 6-1 win in the opening game of the Secunda Division was quickly forgotten about with a 0-1 defeat away to Gimnastic de Tarragona – a team from the Catalonia region predicted to finish 17th in the league at the start of the season. If I wasn’t already feeling the heat in Tenerife, I was feeling it now! While I would love to blame it on the fact that they had Luis Suarez playing for them (albeit a different Luis Suarez to the one we all know and loathe), it was a 91st minute goal that condemned us to an earlier-than-expected first defeat of the season. On the topic of media predictions, I am conscious that we haven’t yet analysed any of our competition in this league – particularly looking at who we expect to be our main rivals in our quest for promotion to La Liga, so allow me to do an extremely brief overview of those that I expect to be challenging with come the end of the season: Malaga CF – having just been relegated to Secunda Division after finishing bottom of La Liga last season IRL, Malaga are the odds on favourite to bounce back up at the first time of asking having spent the past ten successive seasons in the top tier of Spanish football – even finishing 4th in 2012 and reaching the quarter-final of the UEFA Champions League after topping a group that contained Italian giants AC Milan, before narrowly being knocked out by Dortmund 3-2 after a 0-0 draw in the first leg. Not only are Malaga renowned for producing top quality talent and developing a number of players who went on to succeed at the highest level – Saviola, Hierro, Isco, Cazorla, Demichelis and Monreal to name a few (as well as my current Newcastle hero Salomon Rondon) – they probably hold one of the stronger squads in the league this year including familiar names such as Dani Pacheco (formerly of Barcelona & Liverpool), Javi Ontiveros, Alex Mula (wanted by Chelsea and Newcastle as we speak) and Alfred N’Diaye who fans of English football will remember had spells at Sunderland, Hull City and Wolves. Fully expect they will be challenging come the end of the season – watch this space. Deportivo La Coruna – another cracking team during the 90’s with FM and real-life legends such as Bebeto, Diego Tristan, Djalminha, Coloccini, Mauro Silva, Valeron, our blog patriarch Roy Makaay and a pre-Barcelona Rivaldo – Deportivo are another example of a fallen giant who will surely be in contention for the promotion places at the end of season. Despite Diego Rolan currently out on loan at Alaves, they look strong with players such as Valencia graduate Fede Cartabia, 4 star ability Borja Valle, former R. Madrid midfielder Pedro Mosquera and new signing Pablo Hernandez from Leeds who has picked up 4 goals and 3 assists in his first 6 matches. UD Las Palmas – our main rivals who we will face in the Canary Islands derby for the first time since 2015, Las Palmas also look like they will challenge to bounce back to La Liga after last year’s relegation disappointment. Slightly less renowned for producing world class talent (although they did have former Everton Striker Vinny Samways for a 6 year stint in the late 90s – WTF?!) – they definitely have the quality to mount a serious challenge this year with Sergio Araujo their main goal threat and arguably one of the best strikers in the league this season. Las Palmas have won 29 of the 64 derbies previously compared to our 14 wins so we will certainly have some avenging to do in a few months time. Apologies, I’ve literally gone completely off topic – back on point we go. Following our shock defeat in Game 2, we then went on an absolute bender of good form – going 6 games unbeaten where we picked up 5 wins (including a victory in the Copa Del Rey 2nd Round vs Cueta FC) and a draw against a decent Almeria side who had Pogba in their starting eleven (thankfully Florentin, not Paul). The highlight of this run was not only beating promotion rivals Deportivo away from home at Estadio Riazor, but the winning goal which came in true FM fashion: By the end of September we were joint top of the league with surprise package CD Lugo, and even better still receiving the Manager of the Month award for our troubles: That run came to an end at home to Cadiz (where our favourite FM legend Cherno Samba spent a couple of seasons back in 2004-2006), which then opened the floodgates to 3 straight defeats in total with subsequent losses to Real Zaragoza (away) and Almeria again proving to be our bogey team knocking us out of the Copa Del Rey on penalties much earlier than planned in the 3rd round. A series of aggressive and assertive rants/tyrades to the lads during this period seemed to do the trick to get us back on track however, as we then went on an absolute belter of a run winning a record 7 games in a row which propelled us back to the top of the league by the end of November and another Manager of the Month award in the back pocket: The highlight of this and one of the most rewarding moments for a “Football Manager Football Manager” (how else do you describe yourself? 😋) was the unexpected early debut of our 17 year old newly signed German CB Yann-Aurel Bisseck, who not only started in a 2-0 away win at Extremadura due to injuries, but also bagged a brace with two spectacular headed goals from set pieces – both delivered by Xadas. Speaking of youngsters (and with the January transfer window approaching) – as well as some of our objectives being to develop young talent and to one day manage the Republic of Ireland national team (much to @Shrewnaldo‘s disbelief 😆), a suggestion from @FMEdmundo was also to try and sign/develop a young Irish player at Los Chicharreros seeing as Tenerife do of course have an Irish Manager ☘️☘️). Let the research commence! So far I have identified two potential targets below to help achieve this objective (two Ryans in fact) – Ryan Johansson of Bayern Munich who was born in Luxembourg to Swedish and Irish parents, and Ryan Nolan of Inter Milan who became only the fourth ever Irishman to play in Italy after Paddy Sloan, Liam Brady and Robbie Keane. Time will tell if we can attract either of them and whether they will develop into Irish legends – hopefully we can at least avoid a Declan Rice situation with both of them in the near future 🙊. By Christmas, the Spanish Omelette is cooking pretty well with us sitting joint top of the league with Real Zaragoza and the league table looking as follows: In my next post we will have the first Canary Islands derby against Las Palmas, along with analysis of training and tactics used so far, a review of all the Ins and Outs of the January Transfer window and we will take a look at progress across the other main European leagues and competitions as we move towards the business end of the season. Thanks for reading as always! Thoughts, feedback and retweets are always appreciated – feel free to drop some comments below if you are enjoying this blog! Forca Los Chicharreros!! MaddFM.
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