Just finished the 2009/10 season, beating Real Madrid 3-2 after extra-time to win my third consecutive European Cup (four in all but the first is obviously the one we won back in May). Drew 0-0 with Inter in the Coppa Italia final but won 3-1 on penalties and finished 19 or so points clear of Lazio and Inter in the league but again failed to go unbeaten, going down 3-1 to Roma in the second half of the season.
I've just signed Ahmed Barusso, Bojan, Okaka, Robert Acquafresca, Fernando Forestieri (all on free transfers), Claudio Marchisio (£6m for outright ownership at the end of a co-ownership deal) and Per Mertesacker (£30m) while sending Pichu Atienza out on co-ownership for £2.4m, Alessandro Tuia on co-ownership for £825k and Arouca to Lazio for a total of around £13m (just more than I signed him for) as they paid me £7m at the end of his co-ownership deal to take him outright having given me around £6m to start the co-ownership in the first place. I've sent Okaka and Acquafresca immediately out on loan with Barusso and Forestieri to follow. Triestina have a total of about ten players loaned from me to them due to our link and yet I still think they'll find a way to screw up promotion. Idiots.
In the World Cup, my Czech boys beat England 4-3 (all four goals from Baros) and Bolivia 2-0 before drawing 0-0 with Australia. In the second round I drew 2-2 with Ivory Coast who had 38 shots to my 18 :shocking: and I beat them 4-2 on penalties. Finally got knocked out in the quarter-finals, losing 3-1 to Brazil. Turkey beat Spain on penalties in the final, Brazil beating Argentina to finish third. Resigned after that as there are barely any Czech players coming through at all and I'd prefer to manage particular nations. Benitez replaced the sacked Steve McClaren as England manager and Arsene Wenger is the new French manager.
Over in Russia (second manager still at Amkar), Alexander Gatkan who was my second most impressive player in my previous season is doing incredibly while Sergey Volkov isn't quite as consistent as he was. Ronaldo has already left, £1m to Fiorentina
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after four goals in five games for me and I'm two points clear of Saturn with a game in-hand (they've played 13). Want to leave there as soon as I get an international job but while manager one was asked to reconsider his decision to leave the Czech post, manager two was turned down for the job despite also having a "world class" reputation.