Betis have moved in with a late bid for Thiago Silva and Benfica have had an offer accepted for Belletti who is already on loan with me. Worst case scenario is I fail to get Thiago Silva and Chelsea recall Belletti - assuming they can - and he goes to Benfica. Mamadou Sakho, as I now recall from the demo, would cost more than my budget. Oh dear.
My tactics from FM 2008 work in FM 2009 so clearly the demo was a pile of crap.
I doubt they can recall him - when you go for a loan contract, usually the "Can play against own team" and "Can play in cup matches" boxes are ticked, but the "Can be recalled" isn't, unless you change it. Like with Sneijder, I unticked "Can play against own team" as an incentive for his club (PSV I think) to agree to it, but left the cup one ticked... and it paid off in the League Cup...
Journalists have asked me if I am gonna sign Sneijder, I said I am very much planning to. I might ask the board for more funds for players.
EDIT: just asked them, they said I have adequate resources with which to do my job. £675K is adequate??? Grrr...
Planning on selling Degen in the transfer window, he's only got bad ratings thus far. Actually I'll probably give him til summer, since he's new.
Drew Ipswich in the cup, which is good, another run out for my young'uns