Di Maria on the transfer list... unbelievable. United offered £28m for him in my second season and it wasn't enough.
Bit of an update on my game.
First Season at Real Madrid, I posted my tactic earlier, it worked wonders, won the Champions League and the League with Ronaldo beating the all time scorer record by 1 goal(39) which had stood since 1950. Dumped out of the Spanish Cup Final by Atletico Madrid but 2 league wins over Barca, 4-1 at Home and 1-0 away, Luck played a big part though, Villa, Messi, Iniesta, Puyol and Xavi missed huge parts of the season with injury and Barca got knocked out the champions league by AC Milan in the last 16 as a result and only just hung onto 2nd place with Atletico 3rd.
Highlight of the season was the Champions League Semi Final with Man U. 2-2 at Home with Ronaldo, Benzema and Higuain missing the next game due to suspension but remarkably managed to draw 3-3 away with a last minute screamer from Xabi Alonso putting us through.
Mancini's job was in doubt, only just got 4th place and consistently buying bad players. I declared interest but they knocked me back and decided to give him another shot. I decided I'd stick with Real for another season and then try again. All was going well in the league but Barca were back on top form, by the start of December, I had lost 1 game out of 16 and it was to them, they had lost 0 and were 2 points ahead. Mancini gets the sack and I decide to cut my ties with Real Madrid and jump ship to City, few unhappy directors, upset fans and most of my staff deciding to leave with me.
Off to Sunny Manchester to try and resurrect City's failing season, they are through to the knockout stages of the Champions League but sit 12th in the league with a Media Prediction of 1st.
First things first, get my backroom staff in, Brian Kidd is promptly sacked(sorry :() and my right hand man Franco Baldini takes his place :) with all my other Real staff(who btw are now being managed by Arsene Wenger with van Gaal taking the Arsenal job).
Now, to fix this £3.1M wage bill, some players had to go including Nigel who was unhappy :(
All of these guys were on more than 80k a week with Adebayor on 150k
I put my tactic in place and the results are as follows: 16 games, 3 draws, 0 losses
I signed 3 players, Kaka for £38M, I am one of his favoured personnel so he was happy to come(for 220k a week...), He was necessary as the team lacked a really good playmaker(Silva is a better winger in my tactic) and he already knew how my team worked so would fit into the role with ease.
Thomas Muller for £26M, Ideal striker in my tactic, poacher who can hold up play and supply to the wingers(Tevez and Silva) as well as score goals on their own(scored 4 against Everton on his debut(as a winger))
and Javier Pastore for £34M, Kaka's eventual successor, backup for now.
So, onto my first Champions League game with Man City against Bayern Munich... look who their manager is :P
So, I'm happy so far.
