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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Only in FM

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.

Game didn't save for some reason and went back to March so I holidayed back to the end of the season.



Final League standings. Very strong season would have been even better had I not lost 2 months. Still a cracking season and plan to keep the League title for a very long time.

Probably my worst couple of months of the season. First of all I would like to vent my anger at the fact that the Pokal Quarter Final took place while 8 of my players were on International Duty! Fucking 8! I had to play with half a youth squad. No wonder we lost against Bayern.



A last minute own goal saved us from losing only our second game of the season against Bayern. 3 draws aswell but i can accept them as we were focused on Madrid and Bayern. Thankfully though with 3 games to spare we have taken the Bundesliga title from Bayern and I plan to keep it for a very long time. Lets just hope Bayern don't win anything.

Madrid stepped it up in the second leg and unfortunately we couldn't match them. They were solid from start to finish and we couldn't break them down.

Would crack me up if Celtic went on to win it but I would prefer Juventus out of everyone to win it.

An awesome away performance puts us on the front foot for the home tie. I swear Madrid came out looking to hurt us. Nasty tackles flying in everywhere and taking Gotze out the game was just cheap. Thankfully hes only out for a week. Same for Bender.

We played swift counter attacking football and apart from a hell of a strike from Ronaldo they never threatened and 1-1 was probably a far result.

We just need to make sure we don't concede and early away goal and we stand a strong chance of progressing.

Well at least its not Bayern...





Damn...

At least we got the away fixture first. We are good enough to do this.

We continued our amazing form into the new year and pulled further ahead in the title race.
One of the bets things about this month is only 1 goal conceded in the league. Everything is starting to look very, very good.



11 points clear now and its looking like we are all but there. Need a huge slip up now to let it slide.

Forgot to mention we did make a small transfer in Januaury. Lorenzo Cristeg from Parma.



As Kehl is getting on I needed to look for some cover to develop in the Defensive Midfield position. We have Sven Bender but he isn't going to be playing 50+ games a season and Kehl is 35 and coming to the end of his contract.

Cristeg looks like a decent buy and for 3.5 million It was a steal.

Trying not to get ahead of myself here as I don't want to fall behind on updates. We drew FC Twente is the first knockout stages.

A good draw and I was very confident of making it threw to the Quarter Finals.



A comprehensive 4-2 win at home against them and then we played out a 2-2 draw to secure passage threw to the Quarter Finals. The surprises were Celtic and Newcastle knocking out Athletic and Shakhtar.

Hopefully we pick up an easier draw for the Quarters but the way we are playing I am confident no matter what.

Not a point dropped in December and those green circles look damn sexy. Lewandoski picked up a knock and was out for a month but no worries as Ademilson decided to take his chance with 3 hands and started banging them in!

A good win against Nurnberg sees us through to the Quarters of the DFB Pokal Cup where we have of course been drawn against Bayern,



We are sitting pretty at the top of the Bundesliga 7 points ahead of Bayern as we enter the winter break. Its all looking very nice for us. Our unbeaten run is now at 22 games.



And if that wasn't enough for the month we repeated the score against Madrid at home and finished comfortably top of our group. That should give us a nice draw and hopefully look at progressing further.

Now we head into the Winter break will play a few friendlies. Doubt we will make any signings as I'm not a big fan of January transfers and we did alot of business in the Summer but I will keep my eyes pealed.

So we come into October looking strong but we had the tough task of going to the Bernabau to face Madrid.





Then again who are Madrid when we are turning them over 3-1 in their own back yard. Unreal. We were amazing and deserved everything we got from that game,

We don't do quite in the CL apparently with the other group games of these months being an amazing 4-4 draw with Spurs. Just a 92nd equaliser from Hummels. No worries not like I needed to live to 25. Thankfully the Prague game was a bit quieter with a 2-1 win taking us top of the group.

We strolled through to the 3rd round of the DFB Pokal Cup thanks to a 4-1 win over Frankfurt.

Now to an amazing run in the league were we dropped only 2 points in 2 months. The highlight of October. Another 92nd goal. This time the winner against the old nemesis Bayern. I did enjoy that from Blaszczykowski.

We are now 4 points clear at the top and the unbeaten run does not look like its coming to an end any time soon™

A good solid start sees us sitting in 2nd place in the league 2 points behind Frieburg who have had a strong start.



Lewandoski has continued his top form and hasn't given Ademilson a sniff of a chance. Just one silly loss against HSV apart from that we are looking strong.

A good start to the our Champions League with a 2-1 victory over Spurs to put us joint top with Madrid who smashed Prague 4-0.

Cheers UEFA. Spurs, Madrid and Prague. Nothing like an easy passage through to the knockout stages...