My First Susie Adventure - 16/17: With Leverkusen To Glory?

And that's the standing on christmas 2016:



We're leading in Bundesliga two points ahead of Schalke. Bayern was weak as f*ck and sacked Ancelotti after just half a season. Darmstadt is surprising everyone. They have a squad that's not much better than the team of 15/16. But they're winning...
In Champions League we got a group that was simply to hard. We beat Rapid Vienna two times but in the four games against Man City and Juventus we got only 1 point with a nil nil against Juve. The game in Turin we lost 0:3 and against City we got smashed to times. 0:3 and 1:4...

Kyiv in Europa League is a very tough opponent. Last year we had them in our CL-Group and it was very hard to play against them. If we win this we'll play Wolfsburg or Arsenal (!!). But I think the squad developed very well so I'll see what's possible...


Here you can see the squad. Before the season I sold Calhanoglu and Bellarabi for together about 80 Million €. So I had the money to sign high talented players like Embolo or Tielemans. After good first displays Youri is out for the season with a cruciate ligament rupture... I hope he'll develop good after his comeback anyway. I have a budget of 68 Million € but I'm completely satisfied with the squad. I only want a Back-Up for Captain Lars Bender. He has to play nearly every game because I'm playing a Guardiola 4-1-2-2-1 and he's the only very good player for the position behind the playmakers. Meffert or Ramalho aren't really options. Meffert I signed last winter because we had a clause to get him for 400k. He's worth more than that but now he's just not good enough. I'm looking for Julian Weigl or William Carvalho. Will see who signs...

Yeah... Wasn't the plan to sign both... First of all I wanted Weigl but his Agent killed the negotiations whyever. Then I signed Carvalho as alternative. After that Weigls Agent wanted to resume the negotiations, I thought "f*ck off" and signed him to. Weigl is just to good... Now I'll see. Pretty sure that either Meffert or Ramalho will leave the club in January.

FFS... We're not able to score a second, then Junuzovic scores a freekick. Next up are Dortmund in the league and Bayern in the Cup. And Schalke is now equal on points.

Had to be done... At least he's going to Brasil and not to a league rival.

Annoying... We dominated Dortmund in the cup two months before (indeed at home) and won by penalties. Now like multiple times before we're not able to win away from home against a big side. Schalke is two points up now. We have to win fast, otherwise Dortmund, Darmstadt, Bremen and Mainz are waiting to overtake us.

Good luck with this, made a more than steady start thats for sure.

Thanks Dan, I really appreciate it when a "legend" like yours is interested in my save

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To give you an idea, here a screen of my transfer history. As you can see there is plenty of talent out on loan, hopefully some of these guys are already useful next season. Also Meffert got out on loan on Deadline Day. I don't think that he'll get a place in my squad again but no one wanted to pay the money I want for him at this time.

Allow me to present you my future Number 2... Only 9 Million € for a keeper like Horn isn't that bad I think. I know that he'll probably not be satisfied with the role of the "Cup Keeper". But when he leaves he should bring a little bunch of money. But that's not for sure. Probably Leno leaves this summer, who knows?

Timo Horn is a superb addition, should look into Simone Scuffett too, he turns into a grande keeper and as far as I'm aware is usually cheap to pick up.

Yeah, he really has amazing stats. For the release clause of 9 Million I had to buy him, especially because the contract of my Number 2 Niklas Lomb expires at the end of the season.

Bayern sacked Ancelotti and Conte took over. However we were the dominating force in that match but failed to make our chanches pay. Julian Brandt seems not to like German Cup Quarter Finals against Bayern, missing two CCCs. 2015 (real life) he could've scored the lead for us in the 90th minute, finally we lost at penalties.

Again we should have won this game. But it was little bit lucky anyways that Leno hold Selkes penalty. Problem is that the league is so tight from positions 1-8 that one further draw or lose could mean that we fall out off the European positions completely.

We're back winning! Away goal upsets a bit but I'm confident.

Always love a German career. Love the country as go every year on holiday!

As Dan said, Horn turns out to be a top draw keeper! not bad for 9M.

Keep up the good work!

Yeah, as said before, Horn looks very great by the attributes. But I think it will be a difficult decision what I'll do. Either I'll sell Leno (if I get good money for him) or I'll do a model like Barcelona with one keeper for the League and one for Cup and (hopefully) Champions League.

Good win away from home. Chicharito scores whenever he wants.

We're through... After the two nil we protected some guys and conceded an annoying goal..

After the the heavy defeats in the CL to Man City and Juventus I'm not very confident before this matches...

At home we're nearly unbeatable. Ingolstadt didn't make big problems.

Tight game against Hoffenheim. Fortunately we win it at the end.

Better than in Champions League. Good position for the 2nd leg but I'm not really confident. The draw was really lucky.

Boring draw against the surprising team of the season.

Wendell IS A F*CKIN' IDIOT. We give Arsenal a big fight, Hilbert even has the chance to win it for us a few minutes before the end of regular time. The rest leaves me speechless.

Unlucky against Arsenal mate, the red card ultimately cost you

Right mate, that lose was very disappointing for me I've to say, The thing is I wanted to play Carles Planas instead of Wendell in the 2nd leg but I brought him on in Emirates for two minutes or so to play out time and he managed to get a yellow card in this few minutes so he was banned. But now we at least can focus on the league.

Match one after the European knock out. Solid win.

Solid win #2. A little bit to thrilling for me but our performance was okay.

Important! Schalke is besides Dortmund and Bayern our hardest challenger for the title and this win distances them a little bit.

Boring nil nil against our rivals.

We're back winning! 4 games to go and seven points up. Bayern now needs a little miracle to stop us. But we're playing against them on Matchday 33, so hopefully it's done then.