Very nice!

Decided to come back to this again, I just couldn't resist it!

January - May

The form towards the end of the first half of the season was a little bumpy, but thankfully it didn't carry over to the start of the second half. We began it with eight wins from nine in all competitions including a 2-0 win over Chelsea with Jonas Hoffman grabbing seven goals in that run. The second leg with Chelsea was a draw, sending us into the Champions League quarter finals against Fenerbahce. By the time we faced the Turkish outfit, we had strung together the start of another unbeaten run by winning four league games, so we went into the game with confidence. It turned out to be a pretty easy couple of games against them as we won 6-2 on aggregate, but rather annoyingly we did lose 3-2 to title rivals Dortmund inbetween those Champions League games.

We would face Bayern in the Champions League and DFB Pokal semi finals, meaning three games in two weeks against the Bavarians. The Champions League games would both come first and to my surprise, we won the first leg 2-0 at home! I fielded a reserve team against Stuttgart in a 4-1 win before we played out the second leg. One away goal would probably be enough to secure a place in the final, but it all looked to be going wrong when Bayern raced into a 3-0 lead. Thankfully we pulled ourselves together and stopped the goals going in. Then in the second half Ricken grabbed that crucial away goal for us to level the scores on aggregate and give us the advantage. Bayern kept coming forward, but we held out and claimed a spot in the Champions League final against Man Utd I played the reserves again this time against Bremen to keep the players as fresh as possible for the German cup semi final. Bayern were obviously still suffering from that defeat in Europe as we outplayed them all game and could've easily scored about ten. 5-1 the final score and a game against Freiburg in the final the prize.

Back in the league, we continued to win games. In fact we dropped just nine points in the entire second half of the season. Amazingly despite finishing on 78 points, which would've been enough to win the league in each of the last six seasons, we came third. Bayern and Dortmund were just unstoppable. Nevermind though, we still had two finals to look forward to. First up was the German cup which looked to be heading to extra time until Gaudino and Dahlmann scored two late goals to give us a 3-1 victory and my first "great success" in the German Cup. Next up was the big one against Man Utd. European finals are always something to look forward to...usually. But this one saw all the action come in the first 25 minutes. January signing Renatinho gave us the lead on 12 minutes before Bagayoko, the best player in the world, equalised 10 minutes later. The third and final goal came in the 25th minute, scored by.........another SCHALKE January signing Carlinhos! We dominated the rest of the game, but literally nothing much happened. My second Champions League trophy with a second team, what a way to end the season!



As said previously, the top two were just too good this time.



Schalke, the 2028 Champions League winner!




One final thing, I am thinking about leaving Schalke and Germany after that perfect end. My contract is about to expire and Barcelona have just sacked their manager. I am also the bookies favourite to get the job so I think you can see what i'm about to try and do

congrats