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Discussion in 'Competition Corner' started by Slaw, Mar 1, 2024.

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  1. Could’ve possibly been bad morale in the squad? Was your squad too big? Or players not getting their promised playing time? Can be worthwhile to change important players to squad players etc if possible if you don’t think they’ll play most games
     
    #41 Slaw, Mar 8, 2024
  2. Don’t think they were happy about a few things. Konate wanted a new contract which I patched accidentally and they didn’t like that. Nothing major though.

    Onwards and upwards.
     
    #42 MacEwan, Mar 8, 2024
  3. Yeah pain in the * when * throw the toys out the pram. Might need to take a smaller job and rebuild your reputation
     
    #43 Slaw, Mar 8, 2024
  4. Just wait till season 4 is posted. Blagged myself a big one, promised them the world mind you.
     
    #44 MacEwan, Mar 8, 2024
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  5. Season 4

    I’ve been a wee dirty in the Summer, applying for Bayern, Inter, PSG, even Las Palmas and Angers for a project if I don’t get the big boys.

    Declared interest in Roma, Spurs and Bilbao too, to see if they will budge. Sorry Ange.

    PSG fans consider me the leading candidate, they really are a dim fanbase.

    Angers and Bayern came in with interviews first. I told Bayern I’d withdraw from other jobs to join them. Became the leading candidate with bookies. Definitely living off the CL win.

    Signed a deal at the beginning of July. HWG.

    Bayern Munich time.

    Transfers In: Tchouameni (£65m + £25m add ons), Grealish (£45m), Hakimi (£65m), Arda Guler (Loan)


    Transfers Out: Coman (£75m - Al Hilal), Gnabry (£30m - Spurs), Jurrien Timber (£35.5m - Man City)

    Leipzig are a force. Pushed me all the the way to to last day and they won the league by 3 points. They also put us out the Pokal in the Semi’s. Chelsea knocked us out the CL in the last 16.

    Not ideal. Guler was unreal and might tey keep him. Doku is in the squad and he was also very good which I didn’t anticipate. Grealish was a risk but I needed a cheaper option, chipped in with 12 goals and 8 assists so a good signing. I need a keeper, got a guy called Alvaro Valles in goal.

    A keeper and Wirtz is the aim.

    * I’ve just noticed Kane is going to Real Madrid and Kimmich doesn’t want to sign a contract. I keep missing these big contracts.

    Running total: 3/14 trophies
    (Premier League) x2
    (FA Cup)
    (Champions League)
     
    #45 MacEwan, Mar 9, 2024
  6. Season 5

    2nd season with Bayern. The board weren’t happy with the first season but it was an improvement on their previous, told them we’d win the league so kept them from sacking me.

    Transfers In: Arda Güler (£70m), Moises Caicedo (£85m), Dennis Seimen (£74m), Ousmane Dembele (£40m), Baleba, Buonanotte and Barco all on loan from Brighton

    Transfers Out: Kimmich (Free), Kane (Free), Sane (£50m - Arsenal), Wanner (£41.5m - St Etienne), Stanisic (£47.5m - Real Madrid), Hennig (£15m - Sociedad)

    The 3 Brighton boys on loan might seem strange but I had about £14m left and a tiny squad. Really needed some decent depth and they were all listed, all around 2.5 Stars in terms of current ability with really positive stats. They all played ok when needed.

    Got Güler in permanent, he’s excellent 28 goal contributions in 40(4) games. Mathys Tel filled the Kane role well with 26 goals. Hakimi and Caicedo averaging a 7.2 over the season, two best out the starting XI.

    Won the league by 7 over Dortmund after Leipzig fell off. Won the Pokal, possibly a favourable draw with Kaiserslautern in the final. Although we beat Leverkusen in the QF.

    CL didn’t go as well, out to Man City in the last 16.

    But Germany complete after 2 seasons, not sure I’ll have the same luck getting a top job but my reputation must be high now.

    Running total: 5/14 trophies
    (Premier League) x2
    (FA Cup)
    (Champions League)
    (Bundesliga)
    (DFB Pokal)
     
    #46 MacEwan, Mar 9, 2024
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  7. Season 8

    Applied for the Newcastle and Chelsea jobs to see what kind of budget they were offering. Got offered both jobs but decided to turn them down, for better or for worse. In it with Nice til we topple the Parisian Parasites. But.. hold on..

    PSG offered me an interview out of nowhere

    My interview was unsuccessful

    Now I’m really in it with Nice til the death

    Unless..

    Real Madrid offered me an interview

    .. but it was also unsuccessful.

    Nice it is.

    Transfers:

    In: Skrinraer (34yo, £21.5m), Calvert-Lewin (32yo, £21m), Jurrien Timber (£84m), Ter Stegen (37yo, £7m), Darwin Nunez (30yo, £83m), Valverde (30yo, £28m), Gouiri (£10m loan fee)

    Out: Simeone (5m), Lacroix (40m), Zouma (free), Rosario (5m), Santi Mina (500k), Kelleher (20m), Ze Carlos (27.5m), Vitinha (with a very heavy heart, 60m)

    Went absolutely balls out on transfers. Put the club in a decent bit of debt. I was actually seriously considering turning the psg job down when they offered me the interview. Changed formation to a 433 except no wingers, just 3 pressing forwards.

    25 wins, 8 draws, 1 loss over the league season. Some outstanding performers over the season:

    Nunez: 33 goals, 20 assists in 50(1)
    Sesko: 31 goals 9 assists in 31(8)
    Gouiri: 24 goals 17 assists in 46(5)
    Valverde: 5 goals 27 assists in 52

    Lost the cup final 2-1 to Monaco
    Knocked out of last 16 CL by Napoli 4-3 on agg

    but won Ligue 1 by 5 points, beating 3rd place PSG by 6.

    Bayern job is insecure. Chelsea job is available and they’re in the Europa League next season. Very interested in both but would rather the Bayern job for sure.

    Running total: 6/14 trophies
    (FA Cup, Champions League x2, Carabao cup, Conference League, Coupe De France, Ligue 1)

    Required: La Liga, Copa Del Rey, Serie A, Coppa Italia, Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, Premier League, Europa League
     
    #47 Slaw, Mar 9, 2024
  8. Impressive, love that.
     
    #48 MacEwan, Mar 9, 2024
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  9. Cheers mate, was buzzing when I saw I won the league. When I started simming I had drawn 3 and won 1 in the league against mediocre sides. Thought I was headed for about 4th/5th place to be honest! Of my 7 signings they all started the vast majority of games except Calvert Lewin who did damage off the bench, that did it for me
     
    #49 Slaw, Mar 9, 2024
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  10. Gonna join in mate?
     
    #50 Slaw, Mar 9, 2024
  11. Season 9

    Got the Chelsea gig. Going for the Europa League and the prem. plenty of work to do on the squad

    Transfers:

    In: Timber (£98m), Dyche (regen LB £75m), Sesko (£74m), Valverde (£53m), Kimmich (£30m), Scalvini (£15m), Hezze (£12m), Meslier (£7m), Moussa Diaby (£11m loan fee), Gakpo (£8m loan fee), Jose Cordoba (£4m loan fee)

    Out: Lacroix (£50m), regen (£45m), Wharton (£43m), Nkunku (£30m), regen (£30m), Cucurella (£20m), regen (£20m), Hall (£12m), regen (£8m)

    raided my last club Nice for Valverde, Sesko and Timber for a combined £220m+

    Set up with a standard 433:

    Meslier
    James Fofana Bastoni Dyche
    Timber
    Kimmich Valverde
    Pino Vlahovic Sancho

    Bench contained the likes of Chilwell, Scalvini, Bellingham, Enzo, Diaby and Sesko.

    Won the Carabao Cup, beating Liverpool, Spurs and then United 2-1 in the final

    Won the Premier League with 87 points, 6 clear of United

    Won all 8 Europa League games, scoring 48 and conceding 3. Then beat Motherwell (lol), Rennes and Spurs. Met Monaco in the final, who started Nkunku up top who I just sold to them in the summer

    Was missing about 4 starters, including Vlahovic who was only fit enough for the bench. Kimmich smashed in 2 free kicks and we won the Europa League 5-0 to secure the treble. Vlahovic ended the season on 49 goals

    Running total: 8/14 trophies
    (FA Cup, Champions League x2, Carabao cup x2, Conference League, Coupe De France, Ligue 1, Premier League, Europa League)

    Required: La Liga, Copa Del Rey, Serie A, Coppa Italia, Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal


    /////

    Won’t be nearly as active on this after today. Will try to get one or two seasons a week played if I can. Going to be much busier
     
    #51 Slaw, Mar 10, 2024
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  12. Loving reading these guys.

    Sorry not able to take part in this one, although tempted to start a United save and follow suit with this.
    No promises though, nor a timescale due to life.

    Sent from my M2012K11AG using Tapatalk
     
    #52 Peej, Mar 10, 2024
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    Best of luck for the job mate, hope all goes well.
     
    #53 MacEwan, Mar 10, 2024
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  14. Cheers mate :50:
     
    #54 Slaw, Mar 10, 2024
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  15. Season 1

    Scrapped United effort quickly as that club is just too much of a basket case.
    Went with Spurs instead.

    Main thing to do was streamline the first team so my AssMan would have a fair selection to pick from.
    Only two major out going transfers and one incoming transfer.

    Out
    Skipp - £18.25m west ham
    Richarlison - £33m Al-Ittihad

    In
    Moukoko - loan with option to buy at £99m

    Simmed it for the entire campaign (before window closed). Keeping an eye on the results as it loaded through, I was second for large parts of the first half of season. Got to first, dropped to 6th. Eventually secured 4th slot by end of the season and UCL spot.

    Got booted out the Carabao by Fulham.

    Managed to beat City in the final of the FA cup though, so first trophy in the bag.

    Stupidly, I didn't set any specific player to play most of the season, so my loan deal for Moukoko was near pointless.
    Last 4 games (3 in league 1 final) he bagged 3 goals and I went to trigger the buy option only for the board to refuse to sanction the value.

    Werner finished my top scorer with 19 int he league, seconded to Halaand, and I've snapped him up for £14m for the next season now.

    Going to stick with Spurs.

    1/14 trophies.
    Fa cup

    Sent from my M2012K11AG using Tapatalk
     
    #55 Peej, Mar 10, 2024
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  16. Well played to pick up a trophy
     
    #56 Slaw, Mar 10, 2024
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  17. Season 6

    So after completing Spain, I resigned to try somewhere else. Applied for Lyon, Marseille...and Bayern.

    Like @MacEwan, I ended up in Munich!

    They'd just finished 3rd, behind Dortmund and league winners Leipzig. Kane was pretty much done physically. No Kimmich or Goretzka. Bit of a rebuild required.

    Transfers

    In: Owen Butler (£80m - regen), Emil Larsen (£45m - regen), Pietro Bruni (£41m - regen), Callan McKenna (£50m).
    Out: Angelo Stiller (£48m), Boyomo (£24m), Mason Greenwood (£40m).

    Spent a * load, mainly on regens. Butler is * unbelievable though - finished the season with 25 league goals in 27 games and is now one of the best strikers in the world, if not the best.

    On to performances...

    Won the league by 11 points, ahead of Dortmund! Leipzig fell off a cliff and finished 5th.

    Somehow I got knocked out of the Pokal in the 2nd round by Karlsruher. Raging at that.

    But most importantly...won the Champions League! Beat City in the final, 1-0, with my two first choice full backs out injured (Davies and Kayode).

    Absolutely brilliant season, with Butler, Doku and Sucic being the standouts.

    Only pain is I have to stay in Germany for another season (hopefully just once) just to win the Pokal.

    Trophy count - 6/14

    Serie A and Coppa Italia
    La Liga and Spanish Cup
    Bundesliga
    Champions League
     
    #57 Officer Doofy, Mar 10, 2024
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  18. Good luck with the job mate @Slaw :50:
     
    #58 Officer Doofy, Mar 10, 2024
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  19. Get Butler’s stats posted I’m intrigued :giggle1: I always go for a big quick and strong striker

    Great season btw.. although I’m glad you didn’t sweep it in one season :giggle1:
     
    #59 Slaw, Mar 10, 2024
  20. On PS5 so can't send a screenshot, but...

    16 composure and flair.
    17 dribbling, technique, decision and anticipation.
    18 finishing, acceleration, pace and stamina.

    And a bunch of other 16s and 15s.

    Only 5'7 though, but everything else is insane. And he's still only 21 with 15 determination.
     
    #60 Officer Doofy, Mar 10, 2024
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