Dear journal,
The first month at Cunturipa has passed and I'm currently reviewing the team's performance with the team's assistant manager and with the board (not that I asked them to do so, it's just the board who mandated this boring and pointless meeting). We're currently 9th in the league, with four points out of three matches. The good news is that we're pretty efficient with the buildup: we throw away way too many chances, but at least we're consistently getting there near the opponents' goal.
No player of ours has been selected for the team of the month but hey, many of thema re still adapting to the way I want them to play. There's a player though that stands out a lot and it's Lucas Cazals. When I joined, he was playing as a right back and he was really reliable: you gave him the ball, he would deliver it back to you near the opponents' goal line no-matter-what. He was a train, and his next stop would always be the goal line from which he’d unleash one of his legendary crosses. But there's more than that: he can play as a defensive midfielder too and it's in such a position that he is showing the biggest potential. He's still a diamond in the rough, and it will have to be me to polish his playing style and to let him shine as I know he could do. A couple of teams made inquiries about him during this transfer window but we've always declined any offer.
We let another player go though, and it's Albelda: after several years at the club, he felt like he had to move to find some playing time elsewhere and, seeing that we also bought Devecchi, it was about time to let him go. I didn't expect him to thank us with so kind words though after we let him reach his new club:
Letting Albelda go allowed us to buy another player, which I can't wait to see in action. Ladies and gentlemen, be ready to welcome Nicolas Gaultier, a French centre back that just arrived from WE United. Born in 1995, he's not really pacey but his defending and physival skills already stand out. He could likely become a fundamental piece of our defence in the next years, mark my words.
This is not the transfer market I became used to as a player, dear journal: we're far away from the Beckhams, from the Zidanes, from the Cannavaros... But we'll get there sooner or later.
For now, we just have to accept that we signed the players we really needed, not necessarily the ones we would've wanted.
Gavin