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Shedender
Cheers folks, seriously can't believe how lucky we were though.
Question for Cymro, do you get points if you win the European Super Cup or not on this journey?
Dan
Tommo.
willz121
Transfers
Not massively important to the challenge, but thought I would post them anyway:
Mama Diouf was our only signing in the summer window for £5m to compete with Cardozo and Rodrigo up front. He looked like a good signing at the time, but it didn't work out as well as I'd hoped. Manoel signed in January for £5m from somewhere in Brazil, thanks to our scouting team, and played well alongside Luisao and Garay throughout the season. Ezequiel Rescaldani arrived from Malaga on a Bosman, but we paid to bring him to the club early, and Javi Garcia signed on loan.
We have Tom Ince (free), Matej Vydra (free) and Nicusor Stanciu (£3.8m) arriving in the summer after the World Cup.
Players
A quick look at the players, and the wingers were king! Gaitan was brilliant, whilst Luisao scored 9 goals from defence. Cardozo topped the scorers with 14, whilst Diouf could only manage 4.
Liga ZON Sarges
Table:
Won the league quite comfortably in the end, despite some poor performances against our rivals towards the end of the season.
Results:
Taca de Portugal
Disappointed to lose at the semi final stage, but it was a decent effort from the side. We suffered with injuries late on, but we should really have done better!
Taca da Liga
One better than the Portuguese cup, but we lost in the final to rivals Porto. Very disappointed to be beaten by them, especially with the points on offer!
Champions League
We qualified first from our group alongside Schalke, with Zenit 3rd and Napoli last. Very pleased with our showing in the Groups, but we still ended up with Atletico Madrid in the next round.
A 4-2 win on aggregate gave us the lovely tie against Barcelona in the Quarters, and whilst we got a good draw at home, they were too much for us away, and the dream was over.
Rivalries
Time to see if we can get some points back here.
Porto:
Two wins, and a defeat against Porto, but unfortunately for us, the defeat came in the cup final which was very disappointing.
Sporting Lisbon:
A win at Sporting was a good result, but we lost the return leg in the final game of the season where we simply had run out of steam unfortunately.
Belenenses:
As expected, six points off these guys this season, and they were also relegated which sees our potential points tally falling for next season.
League - 1st = 25 points
Taca de Portugal - Losing semi finalist = 5 points
Taca da Liga - Losing finalist = 10 points
Champions League - Losing quarter finalists = 10 points
Porto = 10 points
Sporting = 5 points
Belenenses = 6 points
So that's us, a grand total of: 71 points
Dan
tongey
Result of the season was definitely the 5-0 against Barcelona!
Anyway Here are my points:
League - 1st = 25 points
Taca de Portugal - Winner = 15 points
Taca da Liga - Winner = 15 points
Champions League - Winner = 30 points
Rivalries:
Porto: 3 wins: 2 in Taca De Portugal Semi (3-1,3-2) 1 Taca Da Liga (3-0) = 15 points
Sporting = 2 wins: 2 in League (2-0,3-2) = 10 points
Belenenses = 3 wins: 2 in League (4-1,5-0) 1 in Tace De Portugal (2-0) = 9 points
Overall for Season 3 = 25+15+15+30+15+10+9=119
Overal Total for Combined Seasons = 74+100+119=293
Transfers:
League:
Fixtures (League)
Fixtures (Cups)
Fixtures (Champions League)
Dan
In my game I've just gone a calender year unbeaten in the league
Cymro
tongey
Dan
Porto are keeping up with us toe to toe!
NiceLad
Also well done everybody, some good scores coming through
Tommo.
Yeah there's a few on high wages. I got rid of all the high earners
willz121
They also had about 15 players out on loan to their various feeder clubs. Plenty of deadwood to sell.
NiceLad
I had 44 returning players after the 1st season, was a challenge sorting through them all
Shedender
£75k p/w but I couldn't care less as I'm only here until the end of the season. Free transfer and a hat trick on his debut, not bad.
Tommo.
Tommo.
Tried saving money by only going for loans. Glad I got Adnan again as he dominated.
League win = 25
Rivals wins = 21
Champions League Win = 30 Barcelona decided to play there back up goalie in the first game for some reason.
Taça de Portugal and rival win = 20
Taça da Liga Semi = 5
This 25 + 21 + 30 + 20 + 5 = 101
95 + 81 + 101 = 277 Final Score
Poe
Cymro
This leg closes at 12:00pm BST so ensure that you have your game completed, or as far as can be done by then.
Dan
The 6th of April yeah? not tonight!
Well done on a great final season Tommo! I'm hoping for similar success in Europe, just knocked Barcelona out the First Knockout ROUnd
Cymro
Ice Man
Transfer History
I was very happy with my signings. I decided straight away that I wasn't going to be using wingers so off went Gaitan & Salvio. I then went and stocked up of center mids for very reasonable prices I think. I did try to buy Mohamed Diami but he decided to go to Monaco instead. I was always going to bring in another center back but once I got a decent price for Garay it meant that I had to step up my quest in getting Doria (so worth it!) My most pleasing signing was getting Fernando in on loan from rivals Porto with an agreed price of £4.5m. Papadopolous came in on loan during January to add some much needed quality backup. Hopefully I can bring him back next season.
Player Stats
Not really a great deal to be said here. Everybody was quality all year. A couple of standouts were obviously Cardozo with just over 30 goals in the season. Doria and Luisao were phenomenal together and only missed games when rested. Artur was very reliable in goal and although he is getting on a bit single handidly kept us in about 5 important games last season.
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League Table
It went down to the last game of the season but I was never really nervous. We were always in control and it should be the same next season. If we can make some of the draws into wins especially against Porto then it should be another title to Benfica. Disappointingly Belenenses have been relegated this season and with it goes some extra points.
League Fixtures
We had a very good season apart from the 2 losses to just random teams. The second was disappointing although understandable as I was resting players in between the Man Utd matches. Just need to learn to beat Porto in the league and it will be even better.
Taca da Liga Fixtures
This was the perfect competition for us, only playing Belenenses would have been better for points! We were able to rotate players all the way through this competition and finished with a comfortable victory over sporting. The run was made a little easier by Porto & Sporting being drawn in the same group.
Taca da Portugal Fixtures
Another cup run that went swimmingly. The first 3 rounds were very easy and in fact the under 19's probably would have beaten them all. Sporting proved a little tougher but we had enough to see us home. The semi final was made easy by a thumping 5-1 away win and then we beat Porto for the first time all season in the last game of the season and this was enough to give us the domestic treble that we desperately wanted.
Champions League Fixtures
We had great success in this competition. We had a very favourable group and although it was quite tricky we came through undefeated although Bayer pushed us hard both times. We got lucky again by drawing Celtic in the first knockout round. I didn't ever feel under threat from them despite what the scorelines were we just never got going in either legs. The next game was my best yet. We outplayed Barcelona at home. We managed to keep Messi out to the game for the whole 90 mins and thankfully we manged to take a 2-0 lead to Barcelona. We lost 1-0 but played ok. The games against Man Utd just came at the wrong time as we were in the middle of the final league games and Porto weren't losing. We gave it our best shot at home but we really needed a goal. At Old Trafford we were torn apart by Nani. (YES NANI!!) We made it 3-1 at half time and we went all out in the second half but couldn't score again.
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Total Points
Liga ZON Sagres: 1st = 25 Points
Taca de Portugal: Winner = 15 Points
Taca de Liga: Winner = 15 Points
Champions League: Losing Semi Finalist = 15 Points
Rivalries;
FC Porto: 1 Competitive win, 1 in the Taca de Portugal Final (3-1) = 5 Points
Sporting: 3 Competitive wins, 1 in the League (3-2), 1 in the Taca de Portugal 6th Round (2-1), 1 in the Taca da Liga Final (3-0) = 15 Points
Belenenses: 2 Competitive wins, 2 in the League (2-0, 2-0) = 6 Points
Total for Season 1 = 25+15+15+15+5+15+6 = 96 Points
Now onto Season 2!
AS4
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Dan
AS4 seeming you posted that three times of course you can, just remember the cut off for this leg is thie Sunday and then a new leg will begin!
tongey
Cam3012
Shedender