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#198657 Itchygon
itchycoo
Thanks Dan, looking forward towards next season.
#198609 Itchygon
itchycoo
The most important first! I got my first trophy in the Netherlands as we won the Dutch Cup (KNVB Beker). Absolutely delighted! This also means we get to play the Europa League, without having to play the play off thing.
A good second half of the season which saw us lose only two games.
We finished 7:th, no major surprise there, but there were a major surprise in the league - Sparta Rotterdam won the league! Predicted to finish 14:th, they really came from nowhere. They must have been very lucky (or good) in the loan transfer market - their seven best players (AR-wise) are all loanees. So they might fall fast next year. They do however have a player called Yaya Banana...
This is how our players did. Noone really stand out, maybe Tonny Trinidade deserves a special mention. Some good goal scoring from both Iheanacho and Mehmeti in the end.
#198573 La Isla Bonita : My Spanish version of Mission Impossible
itchycoo
#198572 Gloria al Sammarinese...and myself
itchycoo
#198258 Gloria al Sammarinese...and myself
itchycoo
#198185 Itchygon
itchycoo
Thanks guys for the support. That really make me want to go on with Breda, I was starting to glance towards the Ajax job after De Boer was named as a possible candidate for some job in Italy or Spain or something.
I am of course delighted to have Iheanacho back, and he is good and getting better! His first months in Europe hasn't been the best, sort of like the whole team's efforts. 5 goals in 16 appearances is less than I had hoped for. But I will of course stick with him, and keep starting him every match.
Grimaldo might be hard to sign. HE wanted over 50 000 a week, and I can only offer about half of that, but I haven't given up hope yet.
#197575 Fola: Improving Britain
itchycoo
#197486 Gloria al Sammarinese...and myself
itchycoo
#197481 Itchygon
itchycoo
A mixed bag of results, mostly quite poor. I have struggled to find a formation that work, so I have been fiddeling about quite a lot, and that doesn't do much good in terms of consistency...
The fact that it took Iheanacho 7 matches before he scored his first goal didn't help.
We have to face the fact that we are still a middle of the table team. Let's just quickly move on to the next half of the season, before this gets boring.
#197181 Itchygon
itchycoo
Here he is. Now aged 22 and ready to take on Europe!
The other big coup for this season. Grimaldo is a class player, and will slot in perfectly on the left flank. His contract with Barcelona is up at the end of the season, and I hope I can manage to sign him then.
Not as good as Frimaldo, but he'll do a good job rotating with Mansou on the right hand side.
Found this guy at the same time as Grimaldo in Barca's B team. Will rotate with Izuchukwu as the ball winning midfielder. For 250K, he looks a bargain.
#197119 Itchygon
itchycoo
Thanks Kez, I always try to re-sign players I like when I move clubs. But often you're not able to do that, so I'm happy to have brought two players and two staffmembers from Nigeria!
#197110 Fola: Improving Britain
itchycoo
#196956 The Chairman(ager) Game
itchycoo
Ha ha. Pretty good I think. But he started it a couple of seasons in, when the squad was already the best in Sweden and there were a lot of money from European football in the bank. I think he decided to start it after a board take over.
#196908 The Chairman(ager) Game
itchycoo
#196852 Itchygon
itchycoo
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No, the second half of the season was not good enough.
We finished 7:th which meant we got to play a Euro Place Playoff. But we came up short against Vitesse, after a 3-1 loss away, we couldn't get a win at home.
After two seasons on loan we signed Izuchukwu. As it was on a free transfer nothing will go to our old club Bayelsa. He hasn't been very good, but I like him, and he's still young and can hopefully develope further.
#196832 Itchygon
itchycoo
#196621 Itchygon
itchycoo
Two record fees, one after the other. During the last day of the transfer window, Shalke made an 5.5M Euro bid for our promising striker Holmberg. That's the kind of bids a mid-table side in Holland struggling with finances can't turn down. (We aren't exactly struggling finacially any more, since I took over we're on the black in every column that matters. But money is always needed.)
Later Spartak Moscow came in with a big bid for Bakambu. He scored 36 league goals over the two seasons he spent with us. Now we look a little thin on the forward side, but that will be fixed, come next season:
YES! And Kelechi, the admiration goes both ways.
#196558 Fola: Improving Britain
itchycoo
Good reading this. I hope you can take another step closer to CL every year.
Good money for that youngster!
#196313 Itchygon
itchycoo
Some really good results, the wins over Ajax, Vitesse and Feyernoord especially. And some horrid ones. The 5-0 humiliation by PSV I will try to forget as soon as possible.
We still score a lots of goals, which is always fun - Bakambu and Mehmeti have scored 30 goals between them in 18 matches. And Tonny Trinidade has proved to be a splendid simning as well. Sometimes we just fall apart in defence though. The teams that can get wide players in between our wing backs and central defence tend to hurt us enormously from time to time.
¨Still, 8:th in the league isn't that bad.
I won't be any big changes to the squad during the January window, I think. I happy with the team.
#196311 Itchygon
itchycoo
I think Rojo and Blind will be solid enough. As I believe they can both be used both as wing backs and central defekters.
#196281 The Ganja Trail - A Caribbbean Adventure
itchycoo
Ezra looks quite interesting. Adding some flamboyance to Aruba.
#195690 Itchygon
itchycoo
#195591 Itchygon
itchycoo
#195566 Itchygon
itchycoo
The squad
Before going into the new season I will go through the squad that I have assembled to guide NAC Breda to, hopefully, a top half finish this year.
Goalkeepers
ten Rouwelaar has been in the club for over a decade, which eared him a Testimonial match this year. He's 37 years old and still a solid, if unspectacular player. Kadú is a player who has been on a free for quite a while since getting released from Porto. The Angola international will rotate with ten Rouwelaar this year to eventually take over the number 1 shirt.
Central defenders
As you can see a pretty young bunch, with Kappelhof as the only experienced player. Narsingh is an own product from the academy, so I'm delighted that he will feature regularly this year. I picked up Souttar for free from Dundee United and has featured three times for Scotland.
Wing backs
Mansou and Ritzmaier are the starters with the two loanees as back up.
Central midfield
Two new faces here: Quickly snapped up Tonny Trinidade after he was released from Feyernoord, actually I have to praise my scouts for it, because they recommended him, and I acted imediately. Very happy with that piece of business. The other new man is Irishman Paul Kerr who I bought for 450K from Ross County.
The two French loan players I've got from our parent club Bordeaux, but they didn't start enough games and have been sent back to France.
Strikers
Bakambu and Mehmeti are the starters. Scored tons of goals together last season, and I expect the same this year. Sosa is a young player with lots of potential, who arrived on a free from Penarol in Uruguay. I also have academy player Holmberg who could get a cup match or two.
If you're interested in a screenshot of any of the players, just give me shout!
#195298 Your plans for FM15
itchycoo
#194968 Itchygon
itchycoo
We managed some good results against the top clubs. We are not that good against the team similar to us in strength though. Hopefully I can give Holmberg som first team football this year. Probably send him out on loan, I got quite a few promising strikers.
#194846 Itchygon
itchycoo
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A pretty good second half of the season, including an eight matches unbeaten run in the league.
Ajax walked the league, and we finished as expected in an uninteresting 13:th place.
One thing we're good at is scoring goals (unfortunately we leak in defence just as much):
I'm most pleased with Ritzmaier, the Austrian wing back was sitting, transfer listed, not needed, when I got the club. Now he's the fans' player of the year.
Here's the best picks from the youth intake. Pretty pleased tht one of them's Swedish!
#193077 Itchygon
itchycoo
Maybe we can fool someone. I might also mention that his agent is called Tom Jones!
#193066 Itchygon
itchycoo
Yea, Envoh isn't a starter, that's for sure. He is a good goal getter, though: 3 starts and 6 sub apperances and scored 4 goals. And he didn't cost us much. I'm pretty pleased with the deal.
Here's Izu:
#193058 Itchygon
itchycoo
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The club isn't in great shape. Not financially and not playerwise. We do have great facilities so I hope for som good talents to come. Here are three of my more important transfers during the summer:
Instead of Iheanacho this French striker joined for free from a relegated Socheaux, where he had spent his entire career.
Bought in from Groningen who was relegated from the Eredivisie for a small fee, about 2.7 M if I recall correctly. A great passer who I really believe can do a lot now and in the future.
A Man City product who was released without making a single apperance for them. Hopefully he can develop into a leading center back for us. 9 caps for Wales.
I also brought in two ex Bayelsa players. Striker Tony Evoh will be a handy back up, and I have loaned in Olajide Izuchukwu who I sold to Toulouse a couple of years ago.
On to the fixtures.
Nothing to brag about. Struggling to find the the right formation and playing style. Now I have settelde for a 5-3-2 counter attack version which seems to work quite well. And a bit of bad luck as well, losing a lot of games by one goal. We're doing fine in the cup, though.
I hope we can grabb a bit of form and maybe finish around 12:th place. That would do.