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#325998 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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Haluk is scoring again!
#325997 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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So, we're selling 27000 season tickets for our 32000 capacity arena, and the board is still worried about our fan base not being big enough for a bigger stadium.
#325996 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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As the stats show, we should have won by more.
#325825 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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Clearing out.

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No big sums, but gives us more wage space. And they both wanted out. They have both been great servants to the club. I almost managed to sell Powell to Freiburg, but he snubbed them.
#325821 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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Five years in a row. We missed three out of four penalties (Bayern scored them all, ofcourse). Quite a way to introduce yourself, Krivov. Assisted Haluk for the first goal, scored the second himself, and the getting sent off. I like this guy already!
#325819 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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Adding some quality to the right wing back spot. Means we can move Oesterhelweg to central defender if we want to. I was pretty please with the price of 4.4 M (since his value rose to 14 when he arrived), but the press were of a different opinion:

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#325818 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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It's Spanky time...

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#325814 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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Say hello to The Signing of the Season!

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Not a bad free transfer, I'd say. Now valued at 38 Millions.
#325813 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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The transfer circus has begun. I am trying to offload quite a few players. We have lots of decent rotation players, but to move past Bayern we need a more edgy squad. It's not easy though.

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First one out. A good player, but would have needed lots of first team fotboll here, and was never gonna be.

We have had bods for De Groote and Sosa from PSG, Chelsea and Barcelona, but they were all far too low for this kind of players. The players is likely to be upset, though, when not accepting bids from the giants.
#324994 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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Sosa took Haluk's place up front but again it was Mr X who ran the show. And as you could have guessed our loaned out striker Mahmoud scored his first goal for Wolfsburg to spioled the fun.

Xavier Richard has now played three matches in the league for us this season, and has been named MoM in all three of them. And with an AR of 8.90, he will be pretty hard to move from his place.

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It looks like this wasn't our season after all. But beware Bayern, we have @Cymro !
#324993 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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This is very worrying. Haluk has yet to store in the Bundesliga this year.
#324992 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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The X with another fine game from central midfield. Otherwise nothing to write home about.
#324991 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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Xavier Richard did his first start of the season as PJ De Groote sprained his ankle and is away for a couple of weeks. And what away to introduce oneself. Within the first five minutes of the game he scored one and assisted Grealish to the other.
#324989 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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Very disappointing. We were in complete control for 50 minutes nad then lost concentration and were punished. I'd say we still have a good chance with @Cymro playing we away game in his first match.
#324988 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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Cerri baby equalized before Sosa came of the bench and scored the two last goals to win us the match.
#324812 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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I. HATE. BAYERN.
#324811 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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Grealish scored two identical goals. Lurking outside the area and a shot from outside after a cleared corner (the first one deflected off a defender).
#324808 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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Only major transfer in the January window. He came in on a free from Inter and had a good first season, this season he didn't play much and complained about it. Back to Italy, and a good profit made.
#324807 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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The only game in January and we played it safe. Leicester style.
#324806 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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Nice acknowledgement for one of our young players.
#324789 Succession Game Abroad // Folge Spiel
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And of course Volland scored after 1 minute against us...
#324397 Boldklubben Frem- Fremtastic
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Well done staying in the league. Frem now on, the only way is up.
#324298 The Stockholm Syndrome
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Our finances are terrible. We just don’t make any money. With a stadium capacity of 3000 and an average attendance of about 2000, ticket sales isn’t a bank filler. No great sponsors, no TV money, no valuable players to sell, and so on… We need European football, and we need it fast. I had to sell Daniel Ring, our top scorer last season, for a massive 50K.

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So this is what the first team will look like as we start the 2024 campaign. And a screen shot of the ones that weren't included last year.

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13. Gustav Jarl. With our first choice left back Rodriguez injured for a couple of months Welén moves over to the left and Jarl takes the right hand side. He played a lot of games last season and did well.

24. Christoffer Johansson. I send Randy Keizer back to Holland, as he didn’t impress me enough. Like Jarl, Johansson played quite a few games last season.

7. Frédéric Bertrand. With Bergendahl Kärki out injured for the first half of the season I will play the French loan player in the central position.

22. Nem. Skilful player who I hope can produce a fair amount of points.

9. Felice Manfrin. Italian striker who I hope can score around 15 goals.

18. Benito Langil. And a French one on the bench who’s injured at the moment. But would probably have started if fit. Now it depends on how good Manfrin starts.



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Thanks @Fola and @Dan!
#324240 The Stockholm Syndrome
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Enskede’s first venture in the top league in Sweden was a bumpy ride. We were predicted to finish bottom of the table, and in the beginning of the campaign it looked like the pundits were right. We weren’t playing badly; we just weren’t good enough when it came to taking our chances. But in the later part of the season we started to find the net a bit more often, and Daniel Ring showed why he should have been first choice striker from the beginning scoring an impressive 13 goals in 22 matches. With three games to go, after our ninth Stockholm derby of the season we received the message we had been hoping for all year:

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In the end we did it with an eight points margin. Unfortunately we have to say good-bye to AFC United who never left the relegation zone in all season. That means five Stockholm teams in Allsvenskan next season.

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Bergendahl Kärki was once again superb, and together with Sabovic was able to control most games from the middle of the park. What a player, and what a career he's had at Enskede. Long may it last!
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#324231 The Stockholm Syndrome
itchycoo
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the swedish barcelona you have done well to find a player even remotely capable of the false 9 role at that level, will be interesting to see how you get on in the top division...

We'll see about that Barcelona thing... And actually Teddy B couldn't do it, I think he started 7 matchas without scoring and after that he had to stay on the bench.

This is interesting @itchycoo and I will be following. KIU.

Thanks Shed!
#324168 The Stockholm Syndrome
itchycoo
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Quite an interesting concept this. I might steal it but with the English Midlands instead of Stockholm.
Keep up the good work!

Thanks! Steal away.

Brilliant idea @itchycoo, good luck with this. I will be a regular reader

Thanks, good to have you on board, sir.
#324144 Boldklubben Frem- Fremtastic
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Well done Fola! Are you cheating and passing the save file to @Cymro ? Good luck in the Superliga!
#324140 Boldklubben Frem- Fremtastic
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#324119 The Stockholm Syndrome
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Team presentation

This is the team that will be my first choice pickings going into Enskede's very first season i the Swedish top flight.

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Goalkeeper
25. Hennie Versteeg. An 18 year old goalkeeper might seem risky, but the loanee from Ajax is already well suited for Allsvenskan fotboll, and I will try too keep him around for as long as possible.

Defenders
16. Albin Welén. A club legend after first spending three seasons on loan in the second and first division, then returning to Djurgården for three solid seasons in Allsvenskan before joining us again at the begining of this year.
14. Andreas Holmström. Doing his sixth (!) season on loan at the club, and has been with me every year at Enskede.
12. Randy Keizer. Another loan player from Holland, this time from AZ where he actually played 12 games in the Eredivisie last year.
5. Francisco Javier Rodriguez. The Spanish left back arrived on a free from Malaga after playing 24 games there last season in La Liga. He has also made a couple of u21 appearances for Spain.

Midfielders
6. Jörgen Wilhelmsson. The heart, the rock, and the captain of the team, despite being on loan. It is however his seventh season here, and I have tried to sign him permanentely for years but he keps on signing new deals with Malmö FF.
15. Besard Sabovic. Club icon who has been with us for a long time. First he made six seasons on loan before joining last year. In his worst season he had an average rating of 7.42 in 27 games!
10. Alexander Bergendahl Kärki. This club legend also started his career at Enskede on loan from Djurgården, and then joined on a free after two seasons in 2020. He has done six seasons in a row with an AR above 7.5 (including two 8.02 seasons)!
17. Noel Holm. Sixth season on loan from Djurgården - do you see a pattern here?
20. Saman Ghoddos. A new signing this season and a player who has done almost ten seasons in Allsvenskan with Hammarby and Östersund.

Striker
18. Teddy Bergqvist. This has been the most difficult position to fill. I want to play with a false nine and there are not many Messis for hire if your are a small, unknown Swedish club. But Teddy, going into his third year here, will do for now.
#324104 The Stockholm Syndrome
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As this career is not just about my own team, I will from time to time do a presentation of the Stockholm teams in Allsvenskan. And this year, 2023, there are more teams from the capitol than ever. The three big ones – AIK, Djurgården and Hammarby are there as they should be. But this year we have three more! It’s talent factory Brommapojkarna, ACF United (former known as Väsby United) and us.

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