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Dan
BOWC
8.5million transfer is just wow for that league!
itchycoo
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FC Red Bull Salzburg
As the league was nearing its end it was all about four teams. With 4 matches to go we all had 60 points (+/- 1), and things looked like they would slip out of my hands as we not only lost at home against Sturm Graz, we also got our goalkeeper and two starting central defenders injured for the rest of the season. But my old friend, Swedish veteran keeper Eddie Gustafsson, 39, played the last games of his career with total confidence. And as the other teams stumble, we did not.
In Eddie’s final match, where he was named captain, he lifted the ÖFB Cup trophy after an overtime goal by Salbitzer.
Austria is completed; I will now hunt Dan and Shedender in the Belarusian leagues.
Auf Wiedersehen Österreich! - Добры дзень Беларусі!
Dan
itchycoo
Cheers! I did actually load Belarus at new year, as I was hoping on moving there during summer/early autumn. And by September 2016, I've already got myself a new job! I will write about it tomorrow, hopefully.
PeterGriffin
itchycoo
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I have landed safe and sound in Belarus, and directly I saw a job opening – Granit. But when I saw that it was a semi-professional club, I hesitated, there was some professional clubs where managers seemed too be on the verge of getting sacked, so I turned them down. My next target was Pinsk. They sacked their manager after I declared my interest in the job, I applied for the job, but they never returned my call…
A week later things happened fast. Another manager with a status of “very insecure” – I declared interest, he got sacked, I applied, I got the job!
I am now the manager of:
Khimik Svetlogorsk
Looking at Dan’s and Shedender’s careers, Khimiki looks like a top team, if it wasn’t for the fact that almost half the team are out injured, I would be totally thrilled. Now I’m just thrilled…
Pinsk is still without manager.
Dan
itchycoo
I joined Khimiki in September 2016, now I am in November with two matches left to play. No cup until 2017 here either. It might have something to do with Belarus starting the season in the spring and ending in December.
itchycoo
Khimik Svetlogorsk
My first couple of months in Belarus have been quite all right. After the first 21 games Khimiki was in 12:th position, after my 9 matches we landed a respectable 8:th place with only 8 points to the top.
Now I will leave my computer for the entire holiday, and will rebuild this Khimiki squad next year.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everybody!
Dan
Have a good one!
PeterGriffin
To_Madeira
Good luck in Belarus.
itchycoo
Thanks a lot, Dan, Zan and To_Madeira for following. One more week of holiday, then I will start playing again.
pisto
Marras
itchycoo
Thanks lico, glad you like it. Hope you keep reading and posting.
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Khimik Svetlogorsk
After a perfect start with a good preseason and three straight victories and no goal conceded and a Syrokvashko on fire, things were looking really good for Khimiki. Then our fortune change in the Slutsk match. It started as usual with Syrokvashko scoring two to give us a 2-0 lead after the first half, but the second half was horrible, and we let the Slutsks score two easy goals to tie the game.
Then it continued that way, we just couldn’t pick up wins anywhere. Only one defeat, but no wins in 6 matches. The only thing that stayed the same was Syrokvashko. The 32 year old striker scored 6 goals in 25 games last season, and has never scored more than 11 goals in a season, now he’s netted 16 times in 15 matches!
Our goalkeeper didn’t really impress me, so after the two 3-3 games, as the transfer window opened, I decided it was time for action. The Smorgon keeper Vladimir Zhurov had only conceded 3 goals in 9 matches and I used my whole transfer budget (9K) to bring him to Svetlogorsk. The best thing with this deal was that we faced Smorgon the day after his arrival, leaving them without their number 1. He kept a clean sheet against his old team and didn’t concede until his fourth match, when Torpedo’s Yakubovskiy scored after 12 minutes.
We finally lost, as we couldn’t stand up to league leaders Vitebsk with Bokhan sent off early in the second half.
With half the season played, we’re 3:rd in the league, and promotion does not seem unrealistic. The league is very tight and a couple of wins will see us sail up, but a some more bad results and we’re mid-table.
Dan
bloodshed
PeterGriffin
itchycoo
Khimik Svetlogorsk
Despite a pretty decent second half of the season we couldn’t cope with Vitebsk’s 9 straight victories and Torpedo’s unbeaten run of 12 matches.
And after a loss in our historic first Cup final, I feel I need a break from this. I don’t really enjoy the FMC mode either. I might return here later on, we’ll see.
Thanks to everyone who has read and commented in this thread.
Dan
I do hope this isn't the end pal, but I understand with the whole 'FMC' problem. It does annoy me to!
Benniewijs
I hope you will continue the run (or start a new one in normal mode) because I enjoy reading these stories with there successes and luckely also failures. Because you won't enjoy successes if you never fail once in a while.
itchycoo
I agree, it takes a different approach to the game, and I have enjoyed it from time to time. But in the end of this season, that was very tight, I missed the team talks and the closer feeling you get to your team in the "real" mode. I don't really mind not winning every year. And I certanly enjoy reading about other peoples "failure" (even if I do enjoy reading about Dan's success as well
Well well, we'll see. Now I'm managing in Chile - a parallell game with Bloodshed, let's see how that turns out.
And thanks Dan for the constant comments, I'll keep following your and Shedende's march through Europe!
PeterGriffin
itchycoo
Khimik Svetlogorsk
While managing in Chile, I got some ideas for how to play Khimiki, so I just had to try them out. And this is how we fared:
My first Belarusian trophy in the cabinet (though it’s not a trophy, really). That leaves me thinking about not aiming for ALL the trophies in Europe but only the top league one. To be able to say, “I’m the champion of Austria, Belarus, Belgium…” etc, and not care about the lower leagues and cups. We’ll see.
To my delight Syrokvashko continued his impressive form from last season by scoring 29 goals in 30 matches including the two winning goals in the play offs.
And here he is:
Dan
itchycoo
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Khimik Svetlogorsk
Going into our first season in the highest league we needed to strengthen the team. And with no money we need to find free players. And I can tell you, finding free players that want to join Khimik Svetlogorsk who are good enough to play in the top division in Belarus ain’t easy. So I went through all the teams in the league to see whom they released. So now I’ve got a team mainly consisting of BATE, Soligorsk and Dynamo Minsk rejects. Lovely.
But they did their job brilliantly the first third of the season.
Then I realized that now that we are in the highest league we are allowed to sign foreigners! I immediately signed three exotic guys, two from Russia and one from Ukraine!
Dan
PeterGriffin