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#192866 [FM14]Johno's career
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A great way to end your reign at Ajax, unbeaten in the league. Interesting move to Lyon, looking forward to see you compete with PSG. How are the other teams doing in France?
#192359 2014/15 Fantasy Football
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ItchycooPark Rangers
#192318 The Ganja Trail - A Caribbbean Adventure
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A well earned holiday, to say the least. What's your plans for the future? Explore other countries in the Caribbbbian?
#191608 Itchygon
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After another couple of months in Nigeria, leading Bayelsa to a top spot in the league table and guding them to the group stage of the Champions League I saw an opening:

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Holland bound!

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YES

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AND YES

BUT
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NOOOOO! How could you, son?
#191607 Itchygon
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Unlucky with the jobs itchycoo


Luck's gonna change...
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FIFA Club World Cup

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After 17 minutes Pohang had shot four shots. All of them in goal.

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5-2 was the result of this cup for us. I think this meant we finished 5:th in the Club World Cup.

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Hello Mr. Top Scorer!

The job hunt hasn't proved to be easy...

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I think I will wait till the summer to see if there are any jobs available in the new leaugues I've added. Until then...

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Let's see what the top Nigerian team can do in the league.
#191128 The Ganja Trail - A Caribbbean Adventure
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Good start, lots of goals from both Lake and Escalona.
#191116 There and back to see how far it is
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Doing the same as Rick in his Maldini career - destroying Serie A! Looking good.
#191113 Maldini - A Father & Son tale
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The league title seems to be as good as yours already. Petr Vlcek looks promising, he might lack a few vowels though.
#191111 Itchygon
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The aim for this career has to be "Get Iheanacho to follow me another club" (as Eric P stated above). However I don't have that many leagues loaded as would be a suitable step. I guesss he won't be interested to move anywhere but to Europe and the only European leagues I have loaded are Sweden and The Netherlands. Holland seems to be the only choice here. I have added Russia, Greece and France and they will be playable June 2017 (half a year from now).

So I will stay at Bayelsa until something interesting pops up. The Groningen job is insecure...
#190971 Itchygon
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It's a bit sh*t that you lost your best striker for a Champions League final, poor scheduling if I ever saw it! Good work though fantastic win, you going to stick around?


Imagine the European CL-final including, say Bayern at the same date as Germany plays a Qualifying match...
#190872 Itchygon
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Yeah I should probably leave, there are not that many interesting jobs out at the moment though. I think I will play the Club World Cup first.
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Season Review

I will start by some Bayelsa statistics.

Top scorers
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Top assists

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Average rating
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The top guys
I have been rambling on about these three strikers, but just look at them!

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I don't really know what to do now. Should I stay, and try to win the league? Or should I head out in the world, trying my hands on another team and continent?
I have four massive transfers already arranged. Three top players from Heartland joining on a free, and the league's top passer from Kano Pillars.
#190853 Itchygon
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The Final

Leg 2

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Well, that was easy. With Kelechi away with the Nigeria squad, it was time for Terry Envoh to step up yet again. Left winger Ovoke scored two in the first half and then it was just for me to sit back and enjoy the show.
And some nice money to come with it.
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#190850 Itchygon
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In between the two final matches Kelechi was involved in a Cup of Nations qualifier against Mauritania:

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Four goals from the Bayelsa Bomber!
#190847 Itchygon
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The Final


Leg 1

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Tony Alegbe. A straight red card in the 6:th minute. Smart. But we have the Top scorer in this tournament: Kelechi Iheanacho has so far scored 19 goals in the Champions League. But we couldn't hold them off the entire game, they scored a lucky goal in the 93:ed minute to make the next leg really interesting. Can't complain, I would have taken that result any day of the week. And with a man short - I'm delighted.
#190842 Itchygon
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August - October 2016

The League

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So, I ran through the games in the league, and we did quite ok. Problem was both Heartland and Enyimba were far better. The fact that both out starting goalkeeper and Opara was out injured for about six weeks didn't help either. Good thing I have Terry Envoh to fill in for my strikers. I'll show more stats in a review post later.
In the Cup we played Heartland in the semi final, and we equalized in stoppade time only to see them score in the 120:th minute...

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The Champions League

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We're in the final. I'm shocked. I thought this would be a learning year for us and that we would get absolutely demolished by the teams from Egypt, Algeria and South Africa. But no. We bossed our group, secured the first place with two games in hand. Then we rather easily went passed AS V.Club from the DR Congo in the semi final. So now we will face Orlando Pirates again, a team we beat at home 2-0, and lost 3-1 away in the group stages.

On to the final!
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May - July 2016

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No rest here! A lot of games, and unfortunately a lot of draws. Opara just keps on scoring, now about 20 in some 30 matches! And Kelechi Iheanacho is having a good season as well, just been handed a full international cap for Nigeria, he didn't make the 2016 Olympic team though. But this year's high light is ofcours the Champions League. We beat Kabuscorp to enter the group stage, and once there we started off by smashing Egyptian champions Ismaily 4-2. Then we faced Ashanti Gold from Ghana, and we recorded another win. Delighted with that.

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#190611 Itchygon
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Flying, Opara has kept himself busy there! Keep it up

Cheers! He's been absolutely brilliant.
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March - April 2016

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16 games in two months! (You only see 15 here, because the Super Cup was mentioned in the February report.

After some big games, we had somewhat of a hang over in the opening of the league losing 1-0 to Sharks. But after that we only lose points against Heartland. Or that point we actually won, scoring the 2-2 goal in the 94:th minute, although only 2 minutes was added on by the ref.

In the Champions League we knocked out Coton Sport from Cameroon with a 4-2 on aggregate. And have played the first leg against Kabuscorp from Angola. We had a really lucky draw there, we could have gotten Orlando Pirates (RSA), ES Sétif (ALG), Ismaily (EGY) or one of the Casablanca teams (MAR). Hopefully we can get a win at home to secure a place in the group stage.

As you can see our new striker pair (Iheanacho and Opaka) are really finding eachother. Iheanacho has 12 goals and 8 assists in 16 games, and Opara has 14 goals and 6 assist in 16. Amazing!
#189894 Itchygon
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February 2016

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In the Preliminary round we easy went past Civics from Namibia. Opara with a hat trick on his debut!

And then our first trophy under my reign.
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As requested earlier, the ranking of the African league:
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#189891 Itchygon
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Pre Season 2016


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As there are Champions League qualifyers coming up, we didn't play as many friendlies as usual. Three good wins, nothing out of the ordinary.

[b]Transfers[/b
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First the outs: Akanji was the left winger / scout I had as a back up. I would have liked to keep him, but he wasn't interesred in a new deal. I couldn't get Malian midfielder Traoré to sign a new deal either which was a big blow, he later signed for Dolphins with only 200 € more per week than I tried to offer him. Well Dolphins are in the relation zone at the moment. Ha ha. Barnabus Imenger is sharing Traoré's faith. Afolabi is an aging central defender, who is actually still quite good, but I have signed a couple of new ones so I thought I could let him go.

The ins (the interesting ones):
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Shola's replacement. Has scored a lot of goals in Azerbaijan...

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New starting center back. Last year we struggled a bit due to too slow defenders, Ali's a lot quicker than the others. Solid.

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Young, pacey, good tackler. I like this one. He can also do a job as a winger.
#189882 Susie FC - The start of something great!
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Injured again!? And without it's leader the team falls apart
#189777 The Ganja Trail - A Caribbbean Adventure
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Wow, you really destroyed them in the play offs! Great job.
#189669 Itchygon
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Pity about Kelechi's injury. Be really interesting to see how he develops.


Indeed. He only played 10 games last season, and I'm really looking forward seeing him fit for a full year.
#189662 Itchygon
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Gutted Few draws went in their favour Hopefully you will win it next season!

Gutted to see Shola retiring.

Yeah, it was shocking. Shola remains in the club as a (really good) youth coach. I have found his replacement, I can't remember his name but he's Nigerian and was a big star in Azerbaijan...

Yeah tough luck that getting so close. Pity you cant try and talk a player out of retirement either.

Any chance of a screenshot of the african leagues rankings? Would imagine Nigerian would be in the top 3 with South African and Egyptian.

Oh how I searched for chat that could keep him playing...

If I remember right, the Nigerian league is 6:th in Africa with Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and South Africa in top five. I'll post a screen shot when the computer's up.

Thanks for the comments guys!
#189495 Itchygon
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Started the month by getting thrashed in the Cup final. They scored two from corners and one from a free kick. I need to get a set piece player in.
We drew to Shooting Stars in the second to last match of the season, and that was enough for Heartland who won their last 10 games in the league. Gutted.
But look at that come back from Shola Ameobi! He came back to play the last three games and scored 4! It's so sad that it was his last matches in his career, he could have a couple of good seasons left.

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Heartland, champions for the third year in a row.

But good news:

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Not as good yough intake this year, but this one could be alright.

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#189494 Itchygon
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Well, we blew it.

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Season review's coming up.
#189436 Itchygon
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July - August 2015

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Lots of games played during these months, with a mixed bag of results. Heartland keeping the pace and is now only one point behind us with six games to go. The first game next month will be the cup final against them - it could be a double, and it could be nothing. Iheanacho has returned from his injury, and played the last two games. He looks rusty, as you could expect.

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Sold another young player for a good fee. Hopefully we get an equally good intake next time. He will not leave until March however, needs to be 18.

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#189224 Itchygon
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He might have low adaptability, they don't tend to react well with positions they aren't familiar with.

Do what I do and continue doing it - if you try and push a square peg through a round hole long enough you'll eventually get through, even if it means breaking one or both items or your hands.

Will do! He's only a back up, so I don't care much. And I'm not about to change my tacticts to suit him.

Good June month Will the new owner going to pump the money into the club?


Thanks Johno! It doesn't seem to be any money unfortunately. Just a loan to be payed... But come January, my young midfielder will leave for France and the money problems sgould be solved.