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In the league game against Deportivo de La Coruña we had put a truly international lineup on the field but also a lineup without a Spaniard. We had two Dutchmen, two Italians, a Croat, a Brazilian, an Argentinian, a Norwegian, a German a Belgian and finally Cavani from Uruguay in the starting eleven. On the bench we had two Spanish, two Germans and another Brazilian.
We were a long way away from the team of mostly local Mallorca players I took over back in 2012. The salary budget had also changed a bit from the €2.5K pr week back then to a total salary budget of €400.000 pr week for this season.
I made a note to tell our chief scout to step up the scouting of young Spanish talents. It would hopefully also help that the board had decided to invest another €4M in upgrading the youth facilities. I hoped it would soon pay off and we would start producing some talents of our own, something we had completely failed to do this fare in my tenure as the ?C.D. Constància manager.
Everybody got to play their part. With games in both the Europa League, Copa del Rey and LIGA BBVA and with injuries starting to pile up we needed all the fresh players we could get.
We tried to keep the backline of Lucas Hoyos, Caio César, Raimond Zonneveld and Cihan Polat intact for most of the games only having young Spanish DCL Manuel Elizalde replacing Hoyos and Caio only when needed.
The rest of the team were rotated heavily to keep the players in the field fresh and to keep everybody happy. For many of the positions there were not much separating the starter and the backup. I of cause had my favorites I went to in the critical situations but I just had to admit that without a B-team to keep the backups in match-shape I had to take a different approach than what I normally would.
The rotating of player’s inn and out didn’t affect the results as we had a run of fantastic results to start the season.
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After the first 15 games the standing was surprising to say the least.
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In Italy many of the big name clubs were going thru a rough stretch and fired their managers. Napoli, Inter and AC Milan all were looking for a new people to manage the team and wrestle Juventus away from their stronghold on the scudetto.
This was possible the biggest team/contract offer I had received yet. I ?took a ?quick look at the AC Milan roster ?and saw a heavily overpaid team with a lot of old players in the twilight of their careers and a board delusional about the teams imminent potential.
A quick look at my bank account showed that i had made a total of €3.1M in the 10 years i had now coached ?C.D. Constància?. The €15.000 per week i was making today was of course a joke compared to the €190.000 per week José Mourinho made with Real Madrid and what the top coaches was paid in Italy.
But I could not remember the last time I had paid for a meal in Mallorca since ?C.D. Constància moved up into the LIGA BBVA and if I had been in it for the money i would have moved a long time ago.
I ?once again ?declined.
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Even with our early success in the LIGA BBVA and in Europa I still had two players handing inn transfer requests because they meant that we had failed to improve?
I was not surprised to see the agent of Andi Qosa turn in a transfer request.
The player from Albanian had scored after 39 seconds in his first ever game for ?C.D. Constància and that was almost also the same amount of time it took before he started to complain. Almost from day one he had been a diva, complaining about everything and everybody.
Andi Qosa was a fantastic player with a huge potential I would like to have kept but enough was enough. I granted him his transfer request and started to look for suitable clubs
The other transfer request was a lot more troubling. Club legend David Karg also wanted to leave. With Sergi Campoy already gone it was a tough blow to see Karg also wanting to leave. I called him in to my office and managed to talk him out of leaving now. The deal was that if he was not satisfied with the clubs progress at the end of the season he would be allowed to leave.
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q173/Nordskov_dk/CD%20Constancia/82D_zps6b51dc6c.jpg
In the league game against Deportivo de La Coruña we had put a truly international lineup on the field but also a lineup without a Spaniard. We had two Dutchmen, two Italians, a Croat, a Brazilian, an Argentinian, a Norwegian, a German a Belgian and finally Cavani from Uruguay in the starting eleven. On the bench we had two Spanish, two Germans and another Brazilian.
We were a long way away from the team of mostly local Mallorca players I took over back in 2012. The salary budget had also changed a bit from the €2.5K pr week back then to a total salary budget of €400.000 pr week for this season.
I made a note to tell our chief scout to step up the scouting of young Spanish talents. It would hopefully also help that the board had decided to invest another €4M in upgrading the youth facilities. I hoped it would soon pay off and we would start producing some talents of our own, something we had completely failed to do this fare in my tenure as the ?C.D. Constància manager.
Everybody got to play their part. With games in both the Europa League, Copa del Rey and LIGA BBVA and with injuries starting to pile up we needed all the fresh players we could get.
We tried to keep the backline of Lucas Hoyos, Caio César, Raimond Zonneveld and Cihan Polat intact for most of the games only having young Spanish DCL Manuel Elizalde replacing Hoyos and Caio only when needed.
The rest of the team were rotated heavily to keep the players in the field fresh and to keep everybody happy. For many of the positions there were not much separating the starter and the backup. I of cause had my favorites I went to in the critical situations but I just had to admit that without a B-team to keep the backups in match-shape I had to take a different approach than what I normally would.
The rotating of player’s inn and out didn’t affect the results as we had a run of fantastic results to start the season.
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q173/Nordskov_dk/CD%20Constancia/82C_zpsb520263b.jpg
After the first 15 games the standing was surprising to say the least.
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q173/Nordskov_dk/CD%20Constancia/82A_zpsa99ab8dd.jpg
In Italy many of the big name clubs were going thru a rough stretch and fired their managers. Napoli, Inter and AC Milan all were looking for a new people to manage the team and wrestle Juventus away from their stronghold on the scudetto.
This was possible the biggest team/contract offer I had received yet. I ?took a ?quick look at the AC Milan roster ?and saw a heavily overpaid team with a lot of old players in the twilight of their careers and a board delusional about the teams imminent potential.
A quick look at my bank account showed that i had made a total of €3.1M in the 10 years i had now coached ?C.D. Constància?. The €15.000 per week i was making today was of course a joke compared to the €190.000 per week José Mourinho made with Real Madrid and what the top coaches was paid in Italy.
But I could not remember the last time I had paid for a meal in Mallorca since ?C.D. Constància moved up into the LIGA BBVA and if I had been in it for the money i would have moved a long time ago.
I ?once again ?declined.
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q173/Nordskov_dk/CD%20Constancia/82B_zps37a0fa02.jpg
Even with our early success in the LIGA BBVA and in Europa I still had two players handing inn transfer requests because they meant that we had failed to improve?
I was not surprised to see the agent of Andi Qosa turn in a transfer request.
The player from Albanian had scored after 39 seconds in his first ever game for ?C.D. Constància and that was almost also the same amount of time it took before he started to complain. Almost from day one he had been a diva, complaining about everything and everybody.
Andi Qosa was a fantastic player with a huge potential I would like to have kept but enough was enough. I granted him his transfer request and started to look for suitable clubs
The other transfer request was a lot more troubling. Club legend David Karg also wanted to leave. With Sergi Campoy already gone it was a tough blow to see Karg also wanting to leave. I called him in to my office and managed to talk him out of leaving now. The deal was that if he was not satisfied with the clubs progress at the end of the season he would be allowed to leave.
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q173/Nordskov_dk/CD%20Constancia/82D_zps6b51dc6c.jpg
