Only a week after returning from holiday, I am offered an interview and role at the superbly named Super Nova from Latvia.
This actually presents a fantastic opportunity straight off the bat as Latvia is a summer league, so I have 3 months before the season starts to rebuild. In addition, it's a 10 team league and incredibly 4 of the 10 teams actually qualify for European football.
Sk Super Nova finished 9th out of 10 teams last season, but came through the playoffs and now I have 3 months to rebuild. The outlook is as basic as basic gets:
No history, no money, basic everything. The 'stadium' only holds 648 people, so not entirely sure that even counts as a stadium.
The squad view is even worse, with no striker and seemingly half my team about to depart for Ventspils (am I a reserve team or feeder club?! One to check)
My brief is to utilise the youth team and grow the club reputation, without overspending:
Potentially the only saving grace is that there is actually room in the finance to replace the departing players:
The supporter profile is certainly something I'll look to improve:
This is a new occurrence for me. The aim of skipping to mid-December is so that I can take control of a team that is in the mire who I could possibly save. I've been gifted a full pre-season from the off. Let;s go.