Editors note: Cagiva once again has produced a work of great tactical analysis of his current game. This time he manages in his home country of Bulgaria where he takes on a team with huge expectations in their domestic competitions - but in Europe are seen as the underdogs. He will show how he balances these two expectations tactically. Here is his introduction and we will post his analysis throughout the week.

Some of you may know, some of you may not, but in Bulgaria the two biggest clubs are Sofia Levski and Sofia CSKA . I opted to take over the latter, because of their problems in the past few years are bigger than their arch-rivals, creating for a more thrilling challenge.

The Goals

No matter what the current situation in the clubs, these two clubs have similar goals every year – to be champions, to win the domestic cup and to qualify as far as they can in the Europe. So, as manager of CSKA, I have this goals set by the club’s chairmans.

The Squad

After a quick review of the squad, I discover that this is one of my biggest problems. The squad really isn’t good enough for the expectations of the board. I have 34 players at my disposal, most of them completely lacking key aspects of the footballing skill. Even worse 21 of these 34 players are new to the club. The conclusion ? These bunch of players are completely lacking team cohesion on and off the pitch. Most of them don’t share a common language.

The Tactical Dilemma

As managing one of the two biggest clubs in the country, I should expect almost every domestic team who plays against us to park the bus and just counts the minutes till the end of the match. So have to break “brick walls” match after match I should build solid attacking tactical set-up which can win us these games. The problem is with these players it’s far more easily to said than done.

The other side of the coin is that in the European matches we will be facing much, much more stronger oppositions, which will requires completely different tactical approach, we should be the team, that parks the bus.

And that is the tactical dilemma which I faced immediately. How to learn my squad well enough to attack teams in at the weekend and then in Thursday to defend well enough, to be not be humiliated? Moreso when the squad I have at my disposal is completely lacking key footballing skill, not to mention flexibility and intelligience to be tactical flexible and knowledgable enough to understands what I want from them in completely different tactical setup.

To make things even worse in our pre-season I have only 30 days to set-up some friendlies and see my tactical preferences in action. After these 30 days we have our first European match, and there is no time to build a cohesion and a knowledgable enough team to face such teams. But that’s the life of the football manager, isn’t it?!