From September, or whenever your Leeds game fizzles out, the next Football Manager 2005 PC game challenge is VERONA in Italy.

Usual rules - you may sign 3 players per season.

Are Verona the Hellas ones?

Yep, Hellas Verona, the other ones are Chievo Verona, known simply as Chievo.

Nice place, Verona. I was there for half a day at the end of July.

yes, Verona are a pretty hellish team....

If you do 1 thing, and 1 thing only DO NOT SELL Adailton, he is a Verona legend, and scores plenty goals if you play him up front!

Yes Adailton is great.

He is Forward Left, so did not work in my 4-5-1 formation.

I changed to 3-5-2 and Adailton is doing great now.
Seems happy at a smaller club as well.

500k transfer budget was a susprise at a smallish club.
Defence is the priority to strengthen up a bit.

Formation 3-5-2 or 3-4-3 is my Verona preference.

Promotion looks likely, but a more conservative 4-1-3-2 formation could be required in Serie A.

I failed to get Verona promoted,
so another long season in Serie B ahead.

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

yeah mid table mediocre for my Verona team too.

any tips of sound player acquisitions to help steady the ship?

my game is only functioning with leagues serie B upwards as options, so who knows where we will go should we be 'relegated'

just finished my first season. Promoted in 2nd place, made it through the group stage of the cup but out in the first knockout round.

Signings for this season were Freddy Guarin (DMRC), Emanuele Calaio (SC) and Andre Cruz (DC)

Onwards in to Serie A then!!

Christmas season 2 - Sitting 10th in Serie A and Board and fans delighted!

signings:
Martin Laursen DC
Claudio Ferrarese AMR
Joe Cole AML

How is Serie A treating you then ?

Keen to see how Freddy Guarin (DMRC) is doing, as he is a star in FM.

And Emanuele Calaio must be banging in the goals for you now?

Any screen prints to post?

Use ALT key and 'Print Scrn' tab together,
then paste in to a photo program and save as jpeg and post image on the forum here.

Joe Cole should be a good signing, Nice one Mr Commish!

To be honest i havent played it since i last posted. Been away for a couple of weeks so havent had chance. i'll get back in to it this week tho and make my assault on the serie A title, look out Meeeeeelan!!

Gaurin was very useful in Serie B but we'll have to see how he gets on higher up. Same for Calaio really. I'll post back when i see how things are panning out.

Season 2 finished 9th, and got an Inter Toto place (Euro Vase)

St Gallen 6-0, 4-2
Villareal 2-3, 2-0
Fulham 1-1, 6-3
Lens 3-4, 3-0

Winning Euro Vase earned me 100k

However, now all the big clubs are after my players all of a sudden!

This is as far as we can take Verona I fear.
The only way is down now as half the squad UNH and want a transfer.