First Friendly

Hello all, you’ll be pleased to hear that the operation went well, and I’m back at home, limping around and blogging.

Without delay, I was whisked off to meet 4 journalists, who asked what questions you’d expect, including about any potential language difficulties

Awkwardness aside – I then had a cursory glance over my squad, who were running around the pitch doing push ups, squats, sit ups, and not really kicking many footballs. I asked them why? They said they needed to be big and strong to win football games. I assured them I’d be bringing some culture to the south of France, and that no team of mine would play “English hoofball”. They looked confused, and even more confused when I asked them to do simple ball drills, of which many of them were incapable. Alors, I muttered to myself, I must improve this squad if I am to fulfill my promise to the board.

So I sent out my scouts, knowing that my weakest positions were centre back, the centre of midfield and the left of midfield. Equally, I lacked cover in the fullbacks. So with no transfer budget (I cancelled those in the pre-game settings) but a fat wad of wages to spend I sent out my scouts to look at a few players my coaching staff had recommended:

and then happily went in search of some others.

To date, I have only signed Ibrahima N’Diaye who I happily unveiled to the waiting media pack of 3.

Before unveiling my first signing, however, I played in a friendly loss to Besançon RC, a CFA side, losing 1-0 but I learnt a thing or two about my playing squad (and who needs to join my playing squad).

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