Serie A
I have the Salary Budget now, but no Transfer one and there's no one worth selling, my team is literally 19 players

I decided to sign some free agents. Bonazzoli isn't a big cheat I think. Renato Sanches was best available Free Agent, and given his troubled past I think it can be justified story-wise, he's lost his shit again and wants to recover somewhere. It's alright!
I also had a look into my youth team and promoted a prodigious, 16 years old Italian striker Felix Maria Quagliarella, who is he? Can't find any info on pesmaster or transfermarkt, is he some sort of in-game supertalent or something? I haven't a clue I swear
We bump into Superstar and holy shit. This. Fucking. Game. I only played a few matches, and I admit Sampdoria pissed me off once with their kick off watashi wa football tsubasa san fantasy shite, but this was only once. Games are diabolical, incredible pace, teams pressing the shit out of me, closing me inside me own box, not allowing to spread the wings...I know I am still one of lowest rated teams in Serie A with 2,5 stars, but look at me, I won Eredivisie with fucking Go Ahead Eagles on Superstar in 2015 ML with barely any transfers, I won Champions League in 2017 with three stars rated Spezia, I am, I am...absolutely surprised!
I just got this feeling I haven't had in PES for years now...damn, I need better players! It's not the time to look into developing them and just letting the time do the thing, I need amazing players and I need them now! I can't wait for next transfer windows. So far I am on 10th place, and the goal is to not get relegated, I'd love to secure any Eurospot, I usually do, but will I be able to this time? Hell if I know and I ain't even mad!
Crossing my fingers entire season will be like this. LIke that game with Genoa, where I scrambled a manual bitchstrike into low corner with Moncini very early on. Jumped the fuck up and recorded it. These morons just got ass blasted into space!!! And rest of the game was this horrible wrestling, and no one could break through and we got a W
San Marino Days
I took the job of San Marino NT boss in the second season and it's such a pleasant break from all that heat and gunfire on San Siro. We are playing some crazy, pingy pongy cunt football out there and we're not even sorry about this!
I love how instant the difference is, you notice it right away, in positioning, in player movement, in their horrendous passing and shooting...I have only two games under my belt, historic 1-0 against Liechtenstein, with a dramatic goal in 89th minute after a frantic counterattack, and then heroic draw with North Korea, where we also equalised in last five minutes

It's totally different game, and I can't wait for San Marino games. Next two will come up tomorrow, exhibitions against LIthuania and Lebanon. And then WC 22 Qualifiers, we have Belgium, Denmark and Czechia, yeah I think we can do it!
Initial verdict after 1 and 1/10th of a season
Very decent Master League. As long as nothing gets messed up (I hope I'll never see scripts again) and hopefully, in a long run, KONAMI patches the game (player awareness remains a very, very bad joke), we have one hell of a year ahead of us. Once I'm done with MIlan, I'd assume in a month or two? I want to remaster my old PES 6 Phoenix 10/11 Master League with Dinamo Moskva, it was probably by far the most overpowered team I've ever had, with Dzudszak and Ryazantsev on the wings being on the level of CR7 and Messi, I will never forget them, it was so filthy I was winning CL Finals by six goals lol.
Fingers crossed we keep going like this!!! And where's all my Serie A bois at!!!
