Now my backroom is full of great staff that I am familiar working with and ones who I don’t but hold some great CV’s, I am looking forward to working with them all. I accepted their offer and was asked if I wanted to bring in any of my staff from Dusseldorf, I took them up on this offer and made some essential additions. The interview went swimmingly and within a day they offered me the job, a 3 year deal at the carnival club. Mainz on the other hand offered me an interview within the next couple of days, filling me with confidence that someone could actually see past the slight negative and look at my achievements and potential to grow. Koln straight out refused my application filling me with no confidence and that I may have to wait until people have forgotten about my failure earlier this season. I applied for all 3 jobs in Germany hoping that perhaps 1 would forget about my recent sacking and give me a chance. Bundesliga), Parma (Serie A) and Koln (Bundesliga) all became available within a week of each other. Metz (Ligue 1), Crystal Palace (Prem), Rayo (La Liga), Mainz (Bundesliga), Frieburg (2. My luck was certainly in as quite a few clubs were taking action on their coaches within this period, so opportunities were quickly coming available.
Plus I get to watch some entertaining Bundesliga football too. I turned straight back around not wanting to mix with the majority of Walcot and Penhill (my fellow Swindon readers will know exactly what i mean there), so decided I will fly back Germany and use that as my central ‘hub’ and wait for any potential job opportunities to arise. The job centre back home in Swindon was filled with drunks, druggies and creatures that can only be described as ‘dog rough’. So unemployment is something very new to me, I like to stick around with jobs and have very rarely been unemployed in FM, I flew back home for a quick break to see what was available. The club has never been in a better position, so what better way to stick two fingers up to the trigger happy chairman. I truly believe that I would have turned things around at Fortuna but the board showed a complete lack of respect and patience with the man that got them promotion, 4 consectutive campaigns in the Bundesliga and Champions League football.
Last update was the last in the Dusseldorf Diary, where after a turmoil season the board decided to give me the boot.