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[FM17] Saving Crotone


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Crotone surprisingly won promotion from Serie B last season despite having one of the weaker squads in the division, and unsuprisingly are the favourites to be relegated from Serie A. The club isn't doing very well in it's first season in the top flight, being 5 points off safety with 6 games to go. In FM17 life in Serie A isn't going to be any easier with a tiny budget and second division quality team filled out with many loans. The goal is to build a young, capable side, leading to club's stability in the top flight.

 

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In terms of finanances, the club isn't in bad shape with projection to be even better, but that is mostly due to the fact that the club isn't spending too much on wages and the Serie A TV and prize money.

 

 

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While the team has some decent players, good enough for the top flight, the depth isn't great and most of the good players are loanees. The side needs improvement to be competitive and with a tiny budget it's not easy.

 

Key players:

 

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Cordaz is the best goalkeeper in the side and it's not hard to see why with his 15 handling and one on ones, as well as 16 agility and reflexes, adding that to his decent(-ish) height, you can see that he's one of the few players good enough for Serie A.

 

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15 passing, decent physicals, capable playing as cm, cdm or cam with well rounded stats. Quality young playmaker, who sadly is on loan from Sampdoria.

 

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The 25 yo striker has great pace, finsishing, heading, off the ball, penalties and flair. An all-round beast of a striker.

 

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The Aston Villa legend, might not have the greatest of stats, but he posses good pace and is either footed, capable of playing on both wings. His technicals are ok and he has a good trait in shoots with power.

 

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The less said about the budgets, the better. I might be able to get some loans and free agents, but don't expect anything crazy.

 

 

So I'm gonna leave it here, next update will be after i finish pre-season.

 

 

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Thanks guys ;)

 

Pre-season + transfers:

 

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Some mixed results, the highlight of the pre-season being 6-0 thrashing of lower division side Real Roccabernanrda. The defeat to Atletico was to be expected, we held on till the start of 2nd half, where their quality was just too much for us, against Cagliari it was dissapointing to go down 3-1, but we were better and if we are going to play like this in Serie A we will have a chance of beating the drop.

 

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Pirlo who? We've managed to pick up an amazing play-maker for free, look at those stats: 16 passing and 17 vision! He's also an excellent set-piece taker with 19 free kick taking, 18 corners and 18 penalty taking!

 

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The young Serbian comes in on loan from Genoa as a squad rotation player. He's going to come in handy with his decent pace, techincals and versatility

 

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Appiah was transfer-listed by Palace for 500k, so i decided to take a gamble on him. Low wages, good pace, strength, finishing, decent in the air, shoots with power. Sure his technicals are laking a bit, but for 450k you can't really complain.

 

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Tactic wise i'm going to play a high-presssure tactic, using the full width of the pitch. We have plenty of pace in the side out on the wings, and with good playmakers in the middle hopefully they can get the ball on the break and feed it to the striker. Our defence conists of good, strong, tall CB-s alongside quick full-backs can hopefully prevent opponents from scoring (how can we get out paced with Ferrari in the side? :D ).

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August

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We managed to beat second division side SPAL on penalties, i was dissapointed that we couldn't beat them in 90 mins, considering we were heavy favourites, but whatever. Overall the month was terrible with a 3-0 loss to Fiorentina showing how poor we are, we managed to get a point against 10-man Juventus which is great.

 

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Cordaz was awful letting in 2 **** goals, The 2nd Babacar goal was an amazing long shot so no complains. Our defence acted like an bunch of *******, we defended like an sunday league team not a Serie A team, We did nothing going foward, our only real chcance was a corner, but the shot from it was wide. Our shots were mostly from long rage and Fiorentina's keeper had no trouble saving them. Our loanee (Ninkovic) had a great debut, picking up a red for a stupid foul :/

 

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For this game I switched to 4-5-1, to be more solid in the middle, solidity which we lacked in our 2 previous games. They dominated us in the 1st half, we started to play better after Dybala was sent off, at one point we went 2-1 up, but no, of course we blew the chance to get a famous victory.

 

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We're in 19th due to our **** goal difference. It's going to be a long season and I'm not confident whether we can stay up.

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Thank you. :)

 

September

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Very good month for our standards :) only 1 loss in 4 games is amazing and for once it wasn't a thrashing :p The highlight of the month was by far the 4-1 win over relegation-threatened Empoli.

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The month began with an 2-all draw with pre-season title candidates Napoli. An exciting game with plenty of chcances from both sides, in the end draw was the fair result. We went behind, but managed to get a 2-1 lead, before Dries Mertens denied us the vital 3 points in 85th minute.

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Onto the next game, we were taking on Bologna. The game ended as a 0-0 which was really annoying as we were by far the better side, we just couldn't beat Mirante

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In our 3rd game we took on 1-st placed Inter Milan. They really dominated us and deserved the 3 points, we're lucky to lose only 2-1. We took one of our few chances, only if our finishing was this good against Bologna :rolleyes:

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Christmas has come early! We've won! (Ignore the fact that we were taking on bottom placed Empoli :p). Both sides had their fair share of chances, but we were clinical in front of goal and Cordaz saved our asses couple of times, including a penalty save, denying Maccarone (great name :D)

League table:

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:hammer:Can we end the season please? :D

Player of the month:

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Our best player this month by far was Lodi, scoring twice in 3 games as a midfielder! (Better than Falcinelli and Appiah all season!) The gamble paid off as the former free agent has an average rating of 7.01!

 

 

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October

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A very good month with us picking up 7 out of 15 possible points. Solid wins over Pescara and Genoa, only bad result this month was against Udinese we lost 5-1.. yeah..

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Solid start of the month against our parent club Sassuolo, we should have won this game in fact, but a point is a point, and that's crucial at the end of the season.

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We followed that up with a 3-1 defeat to 2nd-placed Lazio, a deserved result, really, they were far better in this game, our goal came through a mistake from their cb- Bastos, other than that we were shocking in term of creating chances.

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Solid 2-0 win over fellow strugglers Pescara, we had better chances overall and we were clincal for once, with Appiah starting to put in some impressive performances in front of goal

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:eek: A 3-0 WIN AWAY can't believe this happened! 3 shots on target :D Genoa got FM'D :D

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The less said the better.. :ackter:

League table:

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12th in the league with 5 points above the drop!!! We aren't that bad!!! (if you ignore the udinese result of course...)

POM (PLAYER OF THE MONTH):

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The Romanian winger put in some impressive performances racking up 2 goals and assists this month, averaging a whooping 7,42!

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November

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We slipped to 15th, however we are still 4 points above the drop, so I'm not complaining at all!

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Good to see that board believes in our chances of beating the drop :thup:

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2 losses and 1 win, you win some you lose some but of course we had to lose more than we win didn't we? :rolleyes:

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I still don't know how we threw this lead away, we controlled the entire game but Torino went mental in the last 20 mins leading to our defence opening up

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We bounced back with a win against newly promoted side Cagliari, after we went in front 3 mins later we had a man sent off so we parked the bus till the end of the game and it worked! I have a feeling that these 3 points will be crucial when it comes down to the wire the bottom half of the table is tight as hell!

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Sadly we lost to 10 men Milan, we started to create some chances after they got a man sent off, but sadly our finishing was trash :(

 

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December

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An excellent month with us winning 3 out of 5 games this month, we picked up 9 out of 12 possible points in the league, i honestly have no idea how this happened, but I'll take it!

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To start the month we beat Atalanta 2-0 in an excellent performance, we dominated them the whole game and deserved to win

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We managed to get back to back wins beating struggling Chievo 2-1 and honestly I have no idea how we turned this game around, we scored twice in 9 mins with 10 men! We didn't even deserve a point here but hey, I'm not complaining!

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We went 4-5-1 this game and just parked the bus and hoped for the best, my plan with Appiah (use his pace on the break) worked but sadly of all pepole Manolas scored a brace against us :(

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We beat Palermo 2-1 in what was a very tight game. It could have gone either way and fortunately it went our way

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9th place! We are flying high and at this point I think we are going to keep our Serie A status

Player of the month:

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Appiah really started to find his scoring form, getting 7 goal this season so far. This month he scored twice and got 1 assists so I think he deserves to be POM

 

 

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January + Transfers

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This was a decent month with us recording a shock 2-0 win over Fiorentina and a 2-all draw with Napoli. Sadly we were thrashed by Juventus and lost to Sampdoria

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This match was tight with plenty of chances for both sides, sadly we got beat.

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Talk about shock! We beat Fiorentina 2-0 who beat us 3-0 at the start of the year. An deserved result we completely outplayed them

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I just parked the bus and hoped for the best. Didn't work out, did it?

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I'm proud of this result. We somehow snached a point from a game where we desrved to lose. Napoli didn't beat this season!

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That leaves us in 10th with 12 pts above the drop zone, we are staying up, say we are staying up!

Transfers:

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We sold Simy who wasn't in plans and was the 4th choice striker and Nicoletti our youth prospect for 2 mil rising up to 3 mil with 50% pertencage of proft from next sale. We signed Capuano from Cagliari as we needed depth in CB and he was transfer listed by Cagliari

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He's got some solid stats for 375k he's a steal!

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We are also getting this Colombian gem for almost nothing! He'll joins us on 7/1/2019

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Thanks, nice to see you following :)

February,March,Youth Intake and Trials Galore

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This month I'm focusing more on our new regens rather than results, but our results considering our tough fixture list were decent(-ish) and leave us in 10th place it'd take a disaster for us to go down now

Youth Intake:

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I wasn't expecting much due to our below average facilities, however we got one player who will be getting a deal and he's born in Crotone so that's nice I guess. He has some good mentals, physicals and finishing and he's tall so he can play some roles ex. poacher or target man. The only bad thing is that his determination is really **** but I can tutor him at least.

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They all interested me so I offered them trials before I sign them. Anyway that cm from TNS looks class so I think he'll stay, not sure about the rest though, that georgian looks decent but he's got probably the same pace as mertesacker and we don't want that and he's short for a cb so I don't know maybe you guys will help me out? I also have a player from Gibraltar! With decent potential! Sure his determination and technicals are pretty bad but he's from Gibraltar! Should I sign him just because?

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I'm not going to do monthly updates until the end of THIS season, the next update will be at the end of the season where i show you final league table results etc. Oh and I signed Steve Hirst from TNS for 3,5k pounds :)

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End of the season

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After we managed to get 40 points i started rotating the side and because of that we had a bit of a slip-up in form, but still I'm really proud of the team

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We finished in 11th! I did not expect us to beat drop with such ease but thankfully our team proved everyone what we can do. Inter won the league, Juventus only in 3rd! Chievo, Pescara and Empoli will all have to play in Serie B next year

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In terms of highest scorers and assists we didn't have anyone on the list, however Falcinelli scored 15 goals and was unlucky not to be even in the top 8

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As previously said Falcinelli was our top scorer with 15 and Acosty had the highest amount of assists with 7

Player of the season in my opinion was Falcinelli he found his scoring boots in the 2nd half of the season and was vital in leading us to 11th place well above the drop

Goals for next season? Stay up again and get more Serie A quality players and most important try and get Falcinelli on a pernament deal!

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Also here are the stats for the rest of the team

 

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New force in Italian football rising? The money in this message is low, but it also says tycoon so things could become interesting..

The full detailed update will come after the deadline day, I've mad some interesting transfers, I'll tell you that! :)

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Aaand it's gone.. However, the head of the consortium, Walter Taccone remains interested in pursuing other opportunities in the Italian football market.. Well maybe it's time to buy Crotone Mr. Taccone? ;)

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Start of the season

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I'm delighted with how the things are going, we had an amazing pre-season, losing only 1 game (againt serie b side that's kinda bad) and winning the rest. We beat recently relegated side Chievo 2-0 they weren't much of a threat as you would expect from a second tier side. We face Inter and Roma and somehow picked up 4 pts! How did this happen? I don't know, I don't care let's be happy with how the things are going because it's not long until we slip up i feel

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In our first Serie A game we faced last season's champions Inter! And we drew! Inter were all over us, we just sat back and tried to hit on the break, in the end it worked, but inter scored an own goal and I feel they should have won this game

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Talk about undeserved! We somehow beat Roma away, when they well all over us, we had a man sent off but we managed to hit them on the break, the highlight of the game being a Cerri's screamer from 21 meters out! After we went 3-0 up we just sat back, they got 1 back but we held on!

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That leaves us in 5th after 2 games! This the highest position in Serie A we've ever been! Let's just enjoy this while it last not long until we start losing (Hope not :D but it'll happen)

Transfers

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We did some very interesting transfer deals! Leitner and Keane all used to be called as promising young talents, sadly injuries and lack of game time stopped them from progressing, I hope they can progress in our side. Recognise this kid? Cerri? We signed an absolute wonderkid, he already is great as a target man and can only get better at 21. We also got some experience in form of Reyes and De Guzman

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Oliviera was signed on a free from Uruguayan side Nacional. He has solid deffensive stats, he's got decent height and pace and can play either as a CB or LB and adds depth which we really need espacially after lots of our loanees came back to their respective parent clubs. He doesn't have good accelaration, but let me tell you even without it he's been doing a fine job at LB.

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Now this guy is the real deal! Alberto Cerri in Crotone would you belive it? 15 finishing, 14 heading, 14 penalty taking, 15 determination, 16 jumping reach, 15 strength, already one of the best players in the side and he only can grow. He's also 194cm tall and has decent pace to go with it and at 3,2 milion he's a steal!

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This guy is utter **** and I know it, he's only brought in for cover and to be honest our scout has lied about him saying he's got 3 ability but turns out he's not good enough I guess I can always sell him off and get profit as he came in as a free, so that's good?

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Meggiorini joins us from Chievo for 425k which is really cheap for a player of his quality. He's decent in physical department and mental and technical as well. He's good really good work rate and team work with great stamina and determination so he'll be useful for tutoring as well. He's also got decent height (notice how all of our strikers are tall?)

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Moritz Leitner the former Dortmund man joins us from Augsburg for 2 milion pounds. A failed prospect who still has something left in him but he's got to step up this year. Amazing technical ability with high flair and agility, he's also not that slow either. Capable of playing defenive midfielder, central midfielder and as well as an attacking midfielder who can also play out-wide if required. The only downsides are that he's not really tall for a cm and his determination is awful, so he might not grow at all.

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A bit of a weird transfer for an Italian side to say the least. Keane was transfer-listed by now Championship side Hill for 250k and I managed to get it down to 200k. He's a hard working player with excellent finishing ability, as well as heading and penalty taking with high determination so he can always tutor our youth if required. He's only a back-up but he might break into the team as he looked sharp in pre-season as well as that he scored twice in the Italian Cup against Chievo Verona

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The Canadian-born Dutch international joins us on a free after being released by Chievo. A player with excellent technique and flair, he's a good distance shooter as well as a dead ball specalist. Capable of playing as CM, CAM or even out-wide. The only bad thing is his stamina, but for free he's an amazing pick-up.

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Anyone remember this guy at Arsenal? Anyway Reyes joins on a 1-year deal after being released by Espanyol. The flamboyant winger (he's never going to play out wide with that pace let's be real) has amazing technical ability as well as good mental stats. His key stats Technique, Vision, Decisions, Passing as well as free kicks. He's going to play as a CAM, but he can play as a winger if we REALLY need him to.

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We signed an young prospect from Inter on loan. He's going to provide depth for free (we don't have to pay his wage) and has some decent all-round stats to go with it. Decent.

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Last, but not least here is Stevie Hirst who joined for 3,5k from The New Saints. He already looks like a classy playmaker with good vision, passing, tackling, team-work, natural fitness and free kicks. For this cheap he's a no-brainer. His downside is his personality and determination, he is being tutored but so far with no effect :(

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The man who really is benefiting from tutoring is our first intake's star Valerio Calvaruso (not really a star with 4* potential and 1* CA) but you know what I mean.

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He started out with 5 (!) determination and within a couple of months with a tutor he has now doubled his determiantion!

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And here is a transfer window round-up, with the biggest moves being Bernardo Silva (who broke the world record in terms of transfer fee), Griezmann to Arsenal of all clubs and Higuain to Manchester United (hopefully i now have a better chance of keeping a clean sheet against Juventus)

 

 

 

 

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September

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7 games into the Serie A and we still are undefeated! We are playing some very nice football at the moment, our signings have quickly adapted to my tactics, everything seems to be going our way now!

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We weren't clinical enough in front of goal, we dominated Udinese, we took the lead early on but of course we had to throw away our lead, didn't we? We had a sending off, but it was so late that it didn't have effect on the game.

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We had just about more chances than the newly promoted side and just managed to win the game. Too bad that one of our goals had to be an own goal :rolleyes:

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We followed that up with a goalless draw against Atalanta, both teams had their chances, but neither could score (what a surprise)

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Talk about exciting game, this a prime example of it. We went behind but managed to get ourselves into a 2-1 lead, they got 1 back, we made it 4-2 and they made a late comeback with the tip of the iceberg being the fifa legend Mr. Victor Ibarbo scoring to make it 4-4

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However after that Crotone recorded their largest win with me in charge thrashing Genoa 5-1, Leitner played a huge part in it happening with a goal and 3 assists talk about making an impact!

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That leaves us in 3rd, many teams below us are yet to play their 7th game but it's just amazing to see us so high up the table

Player of the month:

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It had to be the former Lazio man who got 2 goals and 3 assists this month with an average rating of 7.16!

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And here are the stats of the rest of the team

 

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3 minutes ago, BoxToBox said:

Interesting transfer window, Cerri is a monster, brining in Will Keane is a risk, but I guess a fairly small one for 200k.

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October

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To be fair these results where predictable and to be expected (aside from the Milan game). Feels good to beat my parent club in Sassuolo

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We started off badly with a 3-0 thrashing from Juventus, our team couldn't really do much in this game, Juventus were all over us and deserved this margin of victory.

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After that we won 4-2 away against 5-th placed (at the time) Sassuolo. I'd say we deserved it, we had better chances, Cerri made the real difference with a hat trick as well as an assist

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Talk about unexpected we beat AC Milan would you believe it? Milan scored 2 goals in space of two minutes, too bad for them that one was an own goal, after the red for them we started attacking, creating chances and right after the sending off Cerri sealed us the 3 points

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Let's forget about this result.. 3-0 loss against Lazio, an undeserved margin of victory, we should have had at least one goal back, depsite the fact this isn't reflected in the stats

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This set of results leaves us in 4th place, i did not think that we could be so high up the table, I thought that the best we could do is mid table, thankfully so far I'm wrong!

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Player of the month has got to be Cerri 4 goals and 1 assist is way more than enough to be the Player of the Month in my eyes

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And here are the stats of the rest of the team

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ANOTHER british player i know, i know, but it's only a trial. Should I sign him can you guys help me out I think I can get him for free should I do it or should I give Calvaruso (the star of first intake) the chance?

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5 minutes ago, BoxToBox said:

I'd go for him, even if you want to give Calvaruso the chance, there's no harm in the academy having depth.

Thanks ;) Also I'm wondering if brexit occured would my british players go up in price as they are homegrown or would they be homegrown in Italy?, talking about the youngsters

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3 minutes ago, BoxToBox said:

Not sure where they'd count as homegrown, but they'd surely still not need a work permit to play in the UK, so should be quite valuable.

Well that's great news :) Thanks :)

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November

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We beat 2 out of our 3 opponents in the Serie A. Kinda dissapointed with the Napoli result, not too upset about going out of Coppa Italia, as we put in our back up team against Bologna so I can't really complain

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Pathetic. We went to 2-0 up thanks to goals from our youth intake's star and former Villa man Tonev, we were dominating them for the first 20 minutes but that somehow motivated Napoli to make a come back, I went defensive after we went 2-0 up but nothing could stop us from collapsing :(

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Talk about an exciting game 4-3 to Crotone. Bologna tried to come back to their credit, they a scored a goal every time we went up by 2 goals, but for them that wasn't enough as Meggiorini finished their hopes off in 76th minute. A tight game, have to say our opponents were sightly better than us and deserved at least a point

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Now that's how to make a comeback! League leaders Fiorentina went 3-0 up inside 12 minutes at that point I went overload and it worked as we turned the game on its head from 0-3 to 4-3!

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They were better than us in this game to be fair and deserved to knock us out. Cerri gave us a bit of hope when he came off the bench and made it 3-1, but they managed to make it 4-1 and put the game to bed. Not too fussed about this as I played our back-up side

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We're in 5th place after 4 months of the season! Can we pull of a shock and grab an place in European cups? Bloody hope so! But I feel like we will slip up don't know why we don't have a lot of cover for our strongest team, hence why we are predicted to finish in 17th

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Player of the month goes to Bulgarian international Aleksandar  Tonev! 3 goals and 1 assists and an average rating of 7.31! And as usual here are the stats for the rest of the team

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December

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Decent month saw us pick up 9 out of 12 possible points, we came up against sides which we expected to beat and did almost perfectly

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We started the month off with a solid 3-1 victory over second bottom Ternana. In the game which we dominated, the absolute beast that is Cerri grabbed himself yet another hat-trick and he looks like he could finish as the top scorer

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We followed that up with a narrow 1-0 victory over bottom SPAL. In truth we didn't deserve to win this game as the newly promoted side simply out-played us, but they weren't clinical enough, which proved to be the difference.

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In our last game of December we smashed 8th placed Torino 3-0 with Will Keane scoring his first hat-trick in Italian football, I absolutely love the guy, who doesn't love a bit of willy :p

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That leaves us in 4th place with half of the season played, we have a decent chance of making the Champions League, the confidence and the form is high, anything is possible, our form could dip just like at the end of last season

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Cerri grabs himself another Player of the month award, scoring a total of 4 goals this month, what a player and what a bargain at 3,2 million pounds!

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January

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13 points out of 18 possible, an amazing month which sees us remain in 4th place, the result against Inter was perhaps the worst team performance I've seen under my managment

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January began with a 1-1 draw away against mid-table Palermo, a deserved result, both teams created around the same amount of chances

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This is quite possibly the worst result in my 4 years of playing Football Manager, we didn't register a single shot, an embarrassing performance really, we played like a bunch of sunday league footballers instead of a Serie A side trying to get into Europa League

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Lose 5-0 to Inter, then beat Roma 4-0. Ok. That was our best result ever, we absolutely smashed Roma in this side, we played better, had much more chances, as reflected in the scoreline. Cerri scored 4 goals, give this man some pasta

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We followed that up with an undeserved win over struggling Udinese. They were the better team, but we just took some of our few chances and fortunately it was enough to secure the three points.

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Then we beat our rivals, newly-promoted side Benevento 4-1, this time the scoreline was justified, we were far better side, the difference in class was noticeable, with us playing to our full potential, and Benevento playing like they still were in Serie B

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Talk about dramatic, a 4-3 win for us, we were 3-2 down in 79th minute, but we somehow found the back of the net twice to make an unbelievable comeback. We were very clinical, that's something new, 5 shots on target, 4 goals!

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That leaves us in 4th, with 4 months left to play, we definitely are going to be at least in the top 9-8, but I think we can get into Europa League, the Champions League I think for now is out of our reach, sadly :( 

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The former Manchester United man had a great month, finding the back of the net 3 times, I bet Hull are regretting getting rid of him, especially for this cheap.

I didn't do an update on transfer window, because we haven't brought anyone into the club, no one left either.

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Febraury

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We picked up 4 points out of 12, a pretty poor month, we should be getting at least 7 points from this month if we want to keep our European dreams alive.

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We faced 19th placed Cagliari, the game started off well for us after cerri put us 1 goal up in the 7th minute, but the visitors responded quickly with a goal from Marco Sau, fortunately we found a winner through a goal from Tonev. We deserved to win this game we were by far the better side.

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We're a bunch of ****ing bottlers aren't we? We lost at home to Genoa a side that is staring the drop in the face, i thought we'd control the game afer going 1-0 up, but no Genoa made an comeback, we had much more chances than they did, they punished us for not being able to finish anything.

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Can't blame the boys here, a 4-3 loss to Juventus away is not that bad. I thought we could make an comeback after we scored twice to make it 4-3, but sadly it wasn't to be. I'm not complaining as Juventus were clearly better and deserved this win.

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We finished off the month with a 2-2 draw against Sassuolo, we threw our lead away again! We went 1-0 down very early on, but goals from Steve Hirst (!) and Cerri put us 2-1 up, we were controlling the game, had better chances, more chances, but they punished us with a set-piece from which Cannavaro scored to make it 2-2 :mad:

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This leaves us in 6th, with not too much to split the sides from 3rd to 6th place. Look at Cerri's amount of goals! What a guy!

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Player of the month without a shadow of a doubt goes to Cerri who scored 4 goals this month.

 

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YOUTH INTAKE DAY

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No way a generational talent :eek::eek::eek: This is quite possibly the best youth intake I've ever had!

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Now here is the main guy Emilio Tortora remember the name! 15 tackling and 14 marking for a 15 yo is just insane! Too bad he's only 177cm (5'9") but he can grow? right?

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Zanon is also an absolute monster for his age, good crossing, technique, first touch,flair, he's fast, he's agile and has decent stamina to go with it, he can also play as striker so that's really handy!

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His technicals aren't quite here, but he has good mentals and physicals for a 16 year old.

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Ok pace for such a young player, good dribbling, first touch and stamina

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Insane bravery, aggression, natural fitness, good pace, balance, flair, leadership. Technicals aren't there yet, but we can work on them.

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Has good handling, reflexes, positioning and jumping reach. He's also pretty tall for a gk, especially tall for a 15 year old. Has 1,5* CA right now, I think we might have our future first/second choice goalkeeper on our hands! He's also born in Crotone, always nice to see a good local lad.

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Good acceleration, agility, decisions, teamwork, vision and free kick taking. He can also play out wide which is nice.

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We got that intake with facilities like this! Unbelievable.

 

 

 

 

 

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4 hours ago, deltablue said:

Good luck clinching a European place. 

 

37 minutes ago, BoxToBox said:

That intake is off the chain! At worst, Tortora has just enough technique and first touch, that if his height doesn't shoot up enough he could make a cracking holding mid.

Thanks :) I think I'll leave him at cb for now I don't play with a formation with a CDM

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END OF SEASON 2017/18

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We're going to Europe next season! I thought that this season we would be in an relegation battle, how wrong I was! The boys played great, very consistently, the highlight of the season being a 4-0 win over Roma, we played very exciting football with us scoring 87 goals in 38 games! But we were also 18th in terms of conceded goals, who needs a defense when you can outscore the opposition? :lol:

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Juventus won the serie A with ease as expected, we came very close to making the Champions League we missed out in the end by 2 points :(

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PLAYER OF THE SEASON

It has to be Cerri he was the Serie A top scorer with 33 goals, 5 goals clear of second placed Ciro Immobile. Overall he scored 34 goals in 30 games with an average rating of 7,56! What a steal for 3,2 milion

The aim for the next season? I'd say top 7 considering the fact that we will have many more fixtures and a busy transfer window upcoming so it'll take time for new players to settle. Next update will be at the end of summer transfer window :)

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18 minutes ago, Kubson said:

I think I'll leave him at cb for now I don't play with a formation with a CDM

Definitely see if he grows in to it, but by holding mid I meant any defensive mid, for example in your setup I'd call Palazzi a holding mid.

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5 minutes ago, BoxToBox said:

Definitely see if he grows in to it, but by holding mid I meant any defensive mid, for example in your setup I'd call Palazzi a holding mid.

Oh ok I though you meant pure defensive midfielder  :p

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4 minutes ago, Keano16 said:

Great year. Regarding Deportivo, do you feel like you want to go to Spain or stay in Italy?

I'm not sure, at Crotone I don't have a lot of money to play with, I can only buy cheap youngsters for the future, cheap players for first team and rely on loans and free agents, while Deportivo have a good budget and some good youngsters. Then again I also have cracking youngsters at Crotone and I play in Europa League while Deportivo aren't involved in European competitions.

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PRE-SEASON 2018/19

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We had a very solid pre-season, which saw us win 6 out of our 8 friendlies.

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In terms of transfers we had a total revamp, with us signing a total of 12 players with a total fee of 3,2 milion pounds. Out of 12 signings, 8 of these will be going straight into the first eleven. We released one of our new signings, as my scout lied about saying he has 4* potential, so I thought we might as well take a gamble, but as it turned out he only had 2* potential :mad:

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Our first signing was Cristante from Benfica, he's got an excellent technical and passing abilities, as well as solid team work. He can play either as an cm or cdm, and will slot straight into the first team

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Our second transfer was Uchida from Schalke 04, the 30yo right-back, is solid defensivly, with an excellent work-rate, team work,agility as well as solid physicals stats. A solid free transfer if you ask me

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We also got Rebic from Fiorentina also on a free. He can play either out on the wing or as a striker, with his main stats being finishing, dribbling, first touch as well as that he has solid pace, bravery and flair, he should provide solid cover imo.

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Romano comes in from AlbinoLeffe for a fee of 120 thousand pounds. He has decent pace, excellent technique, and great first touch. The left-footed tiny attacking midfielder has some significant potential and once he improves his determination, I think we can expect some great progress from him.

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Riccioli has decent bravery, he is ok in terms of defending and posses good determination, we're working on his speed and once he improves in that department he can develop into one solid leftback or maybe even an cb if we decide to train him to be capable of playing there. He didn't cost that much, 135K to be precise.

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Coeff joins us on a free after being released by Udinese. A very good player with good physicals, with natural fitness standing out, has good work rate and team work, as well as that he is solid in defensive area and has good passing ability. He's also versatile, capable playing as a rb and cdm in addition to cb.

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Young Tello joins us for a fee of 1,2 milion after being transfer-listed by the Italian powerhouse that is Juventus. A very well rounded player with good technichal ability and defensive capabilities, and in mental as well as physical department. He can play as a cm, cdm, rm or rb, meaning he will come in handy this season.
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Di Tommaso joins us for 170k from second division side Avellino, he's a good youngster with bags of potential. The stats aren't quite there yet, but with tutoring and training in the right department he might break into the first team very soon.

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Diakhate joins us on a season-long loan from our divisional rivals Fiorentina. A physical monster, who is also great in mental and technical areas as well. His finishing is also pretty good, as well as long shots meaning that he'll be useful offensively as well as defensively. We only pay 5,75 k/pw, this transfer was a no-brainer in truth.

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The Atletico Madrid flop joins us on a free after being released by them. He has great flair, great passing, good physicals. He's an great all-rounder in terms of offensive capabilities. He's also versatile, capable of playing on the right as well as left wing and also as a stiker.

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Bardi joins us from Inter Milan for a fee of 1,5 milion pounds. He's a good all-round goal keeper with good agility as well as being pretty tall, I'm confident that he's an improvement on Cordaz and I hope that for once we will have an reliable goalkeeper.

I think we've done really well in terms of transfers, bringing in some quality players for very cheap.

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We are predicted to fight relegation with media saying that we will most likely finish the season in 16th, only two places above the drop zone. However my board don't agree with this saying that they want me to finish in the top half

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Bit ******** isn't it?

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And this how our Europa League group looks like, it's not that bad in truth and I think we should be finishing in 2nd spot.

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And this is how our team looks like for the 2018/19 Serie A season, it's not bad and I think we should finish in the top 10, as well as that, i feel we should go on a bit of a cup run in both Coppa Italia and Europa League

In terms of the Deportivo job, I've decided to delay the offer for a week and it should come back to me pretty soon and I'll let you know in the next update who I'll be managing next season.

 

 

 

 

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Shame you released that 40k lad, would have been interesting to see who was correct, your scouts or your coaches. Also, could have just trained him for a season or two, then sold him for a profit.

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41 minutes ago, BoxToBox said:

Shame you released that 40k lad, would have been interesting to see who was correct, your scouts or your coaches. Also, could have just trained him for a season or two, then sold him for a profit.

I can resign him as he wants to join, but he really doesn't look great

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But you know what I'll resign him we'll see what happens

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