Well, this is awkward. I'm managing Lazio, and my players had already gone on their end-of-season holiday when I suddenly find I'm in the Club World Cup (which strikes me as oddly similar to the old Cup-Winners Cup). My board has no expectation (not even a "not important"), and I've had no prior indication that this might happen. My players had only a few days to train and had already lost fitness, matches are only two or three days apart, and, as I've made it to the semi-final, it's now June 29 and I'm welcoming the players back to get ready for the next season (even though that wasn't supposed to happen until July 21. I have no idea how I'm supposed to handle training camp now. Maybe at July 1, everything will reset (although I doubt it).
Has anyone had similar problems? How do you cope?