Rekindling The Love Affair

As you can see Lewandoski was the star man again this season scoring a massive 30 goals and assisting 7. Mats Hummels was our next best player being the classy centre half he is. Also chipped in with 7 goals himself.

Mario Gotze starting to become the player we know he can be and his stats are starting to prove it. Watch this space next season. In the 16 games Blaszazckoski played he had incredible stats and if wasn't for the mean competition for those wing positions he would have played far more.

The main core of my team all had a very good season. I was however disappointed in Maher this season. He had an OK season but for the stats he has I expect better next season. Lietner is proving to be the most ridiculous bargain ever.

Hopefully with another year under their belt this youthful Dortmund side will really show thier class in the Champions League next season.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Vivalona signs Neymar then moves on to the Spain Job.

Only in FM

With a heavy heart we have seen long serving Captain and leader Sebastian Kehl retire from Football. Not really featuring in the first team and coming to 36 years of age and the end of his contract it seemed like the right choice. I'm sure we will see him back at the club in some way in the future. he spent 18 years at Dortmund, that is some Career.

We also saw alot of deadwieght leave the club on frees and freeing up some wage budget. very happy with the state of all levels of players at this club now. First team, Under 23's and 18's all have some talent in there.

Now thats the departures lets have a look at the players coming in this Summer.



Romario



Now in FM12 this guys was well and truly over hyped by FM. Becomes the best right back in the game. It looks like they have toned him down abit this year but still at the age of 19 and for 350k he looks like he is well worth the punt. Have loaned him out to Cottbus for the year and will be keeping a very keen eye on his development.



Yassine Benzia



Lyon you silly, silly club. Letting this little gem slide on through on a free. Had my eye on him since January as he kept turning down offers from Lyon for a new contract and as soon as he announced he would be leaving on a free just about every club in Europe offered him a contract. Amazingly we were first to punch and he chose us over the obvious choice of Juventus and Man City. Have loaned the gem back to France for the year as we have both Lewandoski and Ademilson here. Will be more than happy watching him bang them in for Lorient.



Kurt Zouma



My only signing this season of any expense, and quite an expense too. The wonderkid from Saint Etienne cost us 7.5 million with 15 million over 24 months but he is well worth the price. I currently have to top centre halfs in Subotic and Hummels but nothing after that. I realised last season that my form dipped abit and I believe this was because of the jaded performances from Hummels and Subotic. Both playing over 45 games its going to take its toll on them. Now we can slowly introduce Zouma into the team and have 3 top class centre halfs to rotate. With some individual training and tutoring from Hummels this boy will be good.


Not a huge Summer only 1 big signing but I am quietly confident about my cheap young boys. Hopefully Zouma can be gradually developed into a top class player. Happy with my business this summer and looking forward to the new season.

So we begin pre season with a few friendlies and Sandwiched in between is the Supercup against Hoffenhiem.



A fairly good pre season and a good win in the Supercup. Always nice to get a trophy under your belt before the season begins. One of many hopefully.

Obviously disappointed in the 2-0 loss against Bastia... have no idea what happened. Suppose anything can happen in pre season.

Another rough CL group again this year. Both Juventus and Atletico Madrid are going to be very difficult and Prague are not going to be a pushover.

An awesome start to the season sees us not drop a single game. Progression in the DFB Pokal as well as a brilliant win in our first CL group game.



Sitting pretty at the top 6-0 4 points clear is not a bad way to start the league campaign. Even better to see Bayern in 6th.

Onwards and upwards.

Again I have got ahead of myself so I will do an update from the midway point of the season.



Only 1 loss in the run up to the mid way point. Brilliant form which sees us move clear at the top of League. Lewandoski still banging them in all day and we are just really playing well. Maher is turning into the player I wanted him to be 2 seasons ago and he has the bets form bar Lewandoski.

We are also finally giving the DFB Pokal cup a good go as this were we have faltered in previous years.



As you can see we have a fair gap between us and Leverkusen in the League and our GD is brilliant. Bayern still struggling and Benitez actually got the boot so now I can hate them with my full force again.

The one bad point, our loss against Bremen. Was not deserved how we didn't win 8-1 I will never know. Just one of those games...



Again another hard CL group and again we have proved what we can do. We finish comfortably top and didn't lose a game. Great results and a fantastic 4-2 against Juventus to secure the top spot of the group.

We now go into the Winter break and well on song to take the rest of the season by storm.

So I have never had any problems with the board. Tbh I havent really involved them that much.

Anyway was poking around in the trasnfer market and clicked on the transfer list. Was very surpirsed to see Oscar on there. Requested by him as Chelsea were in very poor form and wanted a move away. Anyway I wasnt consiering it that much but he looked like he had devloped well. His listed for 18 million. Scouted him and added him as a 'transfer target' as I do with a few people I wanna keep an eye on.

Continued the game next thing I know the board have had an offer excepted and have signed Oscar for me



I would have liked more control over the contract and such but I cannot fault the board for going for it with this. Unreal

Oh come on, how is this fair. I went unbeaten in a very tough group and get rewarded with a match against the English Champions. Cool.

I hate February. What a shite month. We went rhrough Januaury fairly well. 2 draws but that was OK. Then Januaury hit and shit hit the fan. Not only the 2 losses but we just played generally bad.

Apart from the 5-0 we played very poor. We did however manage to get ourselves into the semi finals of the DFB Pokal thanks to a victory over Frankfurt.



Bayern will just not lay down and die. Thanks to that win against us they are now just only 4 points behind us... They are also out of both the CL and the Cup so will be much more prepared than us for the run in.



As you can see we did not get the result we were looking for against City but we did pick up that oh so important away goal that gives us a chance of qualifying for the Quarters.

Have hit a very poor run of form at the very wrong time of the season... Don't get me wrong City played well but we played bad. Its not like we were at our best.

We are struggling playing 2 games a week for the past 4 months and we just don't have the squad to cope with it.

Hopefully we can go on and get our league form back on track and not forgetting the Semi Final of the cup against Koln.

So after the disappointment of the CL exit we focus on the Cup and getting our league form back on track. As you can see we took an easy victory against Koln to take us into the final of the Cup for the first time at Dortmund against Kaiserslautern.



I league form however has not improved that much and we are now only 3 points clear of Bayern who have a game in hand...

With 3 games left I would have never have thought I January it would be this close...