My new football life

Decided to leave OHL after extremly crappy start to the new season,5-0 and 2-0 loss against Anderlecht and Antwerpen. So at the moment only japanese national manager and qualified for the World Cup in Qatar and were drawn into group with Columbia,Germany and France and lost 5-2 against Columbia and lost 6-3 against Germany so are going home to Japan after group stage

After a disaster at World Cup 2022 I decided also to resign from the job as japanese national manager so at the moment unemployed.

After some time unemployed I decided to take over as manager of Cruzerio in Brazilian best league on a 2 year contract.

And paid 35 million swedish crowns for Gaetan Laborde to get him to leave OHL for my new club Cruzeiro. at new year 2023.

Decided to leave Cruzeiro fast and went to Bursaspor in the best turkish league. And that was a good decision,ended 3rd in the turkish Super Lig which means team will get to play UEFA Europa League 2024/2025.

In June I will get Jordan Larsson from Samsunspor for 25 million swedish crowns.

Another signing I did for the 2024/2025 season was to get Daley Blind to Bursaspor

The new season in Turkey will start against Samsunspor 1st of September. On my birthday the 1st of August the first match in 3rd qualifying round for Europa League will be played against either Neman Grodno or Aab. So going either to Belarus or Denmark,I would absolutely prefer a trip to Aalborg over Grodno.

Europa League 3rd round qualifier ended in a home loss for Bursasport 2-3 against Aalborg. A week later Aalborg were embarrased at home by Bursaspor winning 7-1 and by that going through to next round by a 9-4 win in total. In the playoff round Bursaspor will get two matches against PAS Giannina F.C which I believe Bursaspor should be able to send easily out of the Europa League qualifier. FC Copenhagen will get Deportiva de la Coruna and Malmö FF gets Feyenoord,AIK Stockholm gets Apoel Nicosia to beat to get into the group stage in Europa League. Apoel Nicosia were sent out of Champions League qualifier by Bröndby IF just to run into the next scandinavian.

Won 4-0 at home against the greeks,but lost 4-3 away,so total 7-4 for Bursaspor. Day after a quite intresting draw for group stage of Europa League ended up with Metalist from Ukraine,Red Bull Salzburg from Austria and Dordrecht from Netherlands starting with Metalist at home on Timsah Arena. Will be a intresting fall of 2024.

I like this career, its old school and modern. Like an FM twitter kind of vibe.

I also enjoy the fact you are now managing in Turkey, a league I feel I need to venture into in the near future.

First match in the 2024/2025 season against Samsunspor ended in a 0-0 draw.

Seems like I am very popular manager in FM15,now been offered interviews in Troyes,Empoli and Malaga and got job offers in Troyes and Empoli,both with 3 year contracts. Think I have to give that a thought before saying yes or no.

Decided to decline both offers eventhough they would give me more money,as I felt it would be more fun to try and continue my work in Bursaspor,at least till my current contract ends and then maybe leave them or sign a new contract.

Got interviewed for job at Rennes,that job Henning Berg took instead,got offered interview at Torino at the bottom of Serie A. So must be doing something good since so many clubs want me to go to interview at them. Now only one match left in Europa League groupstage,that being against Red Bull Salzburg

Now Torino came back with an job offer,3 year contract,I decided to let them wait as Feyenoord now also offered me an interview

Maybe one should start a betting on if I will stay in Bursasport 2024

Last groupstage round in Europa League Group J ended with a 2-0 to Bursaspor against Red Bull Salzburg and then Metalist Kharkiv won over Dordrecht 1-0. Those two results resulted in Metallist and Bursaspor going through to the next round.

Possiable opponents in next stage of Europa League are as follows :

Dortmund and IFK Göteborg from group A
PSV and RB Leipzig from group B
Bordeaux and FC Köbenhavn from group C
Sporting Lissabon and Dinamo Kiev from group D
VfB Stuttgart and PAOK from group E
Dinamo Zagreb and Feyenoord from group F
Mechelen and Zenit St.Petersburg from group G
Lazio and Braga from group H
Real Socidad and Lokomotiv Moskva from group I
Metallist from group J
Crystal Palace and Panatinakos from group K
Porto and Besiktas from group L

Could be very intresting draw for next stage in 2024/2025 Europa League

Will be hard round for me in Europa League as Bursaspor were drawn against PSV,will start at home,if I send PSV out I will get either PAOK or Vitesse at next stage before quarterfinal. First match against PSV Thursday the 13th of February 2025. at Timsah Arena and 20th of February the return match at Philips Stadion in Eindhoven.

Ended 2024 by winning 3-1 against Fenerbache,quite nice to end 2024 on the 28th of December and first match in 2025 will be on 2nd of January.

Now also been at job interview at Liverpool FC and I would say that if I get offered job I will probably take it,eventhough Liverpool in 2024/2025 season only at number 12 in the Premier League,but would be nice challenge

My Europa League life in 2024/2025 ended against PSV after 1-1 at home and a 3-1 loss in Eindhoven

30th of June 2025 I decided to take the offer I got from Le Havre AC who in the 2024/2025 season ended number 4 in Ligue 1.

In 2024/2025 season in Bursaspor I ended as number 7 in the turkish league

Got off to a perfect start at Le Havre,won 5-3 on penalties in the 3rd qualifying leg to Europa League 2025/2026 against Baia Mare from Romania after two times 0-0. Then three league matches in Ligue 1,all won by me,even against PSG.

Bought Jordan Larsson from Bursaspor for 85 million swedish crowns but at least till now in season it looks like a good buy.

In Europa League playoff to get to the group stage I now get 2 matches against Bröndby IF with first match at home

First match against Bröndby IF ended 1-1 and in the away match in Bröndby I won 3-1 and thereby qualified for the group stage in Europa League. The draw for that ended up with Le Havre going to Panatinatikos,Athletic Bilbao and Standard Liege and that also cause 6 Ligue 1 matches to having to be rescheduled.. Match 4 in Ligue 1 was against Nancy and that I also won so now back at number 2 spot and only two teams who haven't lost any match this season,being S:t Etienne and Le Havre Athletic Club. Quite nice start to my life as manager in Le Havre

After the first 5 matches in the Europa League group stage Atheltic Bilbao leads the group before Le Havre who has also 7 points just as Standard Liege. Last group leg are Athletic Bilbao against Le Havre and Standard Liege against Panatinakos. With help of Panatinakos and maybe also a point against Bilbao my Le Havre could qualify for next stage in Europa which would be very cool. Sadly it's not gong that well in Ligue 1 now but at least we met Andre Schurrle in Lille and sent him home without any points against us plus also sent Lyon home without points so now about number 9 in Ligue 1

Any bets on how the group stage at World Cup 2026 in Mexico will go after this group draw :

Group A:

Ghana
Iran
Mexico
Switzerland

Group B :

Costa Rica
England
Turkey
Uruguay

Group C:

Chile
Netherlands
Jamaica
Romania

Group D :

Brazil
France
Austria
Saudi Arabia

Group E:

Norway
Germany
USA
Zambia

Group F:

Algeria
Columbia
Italy
Trinidad & Tobago

Group G:

Argentina(denfending champions with chance to get the third title in a row)
Ivory Coast
Japan
Portugal

Group H:

Spain
South Korea
Czech Republic
Tunesia

Opening match will be Switzerland-Mexico at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City

Lost 2-0 in Bilbao but with the help of Panatinakos won beat Standard Liege 3-2 I was able to go to the first knockout stage after the group stage in Europa League 2025/2026. 19th of December 2025 I will know who the opponents will be

Europa League draw ended up with Le Havre against AZ Alkmaar.If my Le Havre wins that then Basel or Werder Bremen awaits.