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#508679 Lets go on a European journey, man!
Dan
Playoffs is the minimum expectation @VP.
Thanks @r96Skinner
Thanks @SirWerGaming, hopefully we can pick up some English trophies over the years.
Fulham - End of season Round Up - May 2023
Having swapped Belgium for England it was time to get stuck into life in the capital city, London. Fulham took the chance on me, having won a few domestic trophies in Belgium but very little other progress, it seemed a risk for them. Their aim was to finish in the playoffs and I had started off well having beaten Bolton in my very first match in charge back in January. Could we continue to build on that? Whilst the automatic promotion spots weren't out of the question, it seemed a big ask. We also had a big FA Cup tie to play...
Wow, that was a complete drubbing at Stamford Bridge as Premier League giants Chelsea put us to the sword big time. Losing seven one as they took their chances. Didn't really want an FA Cup run anyway.
Our form was pretty good since I took charge it has to be said. Shame we couldn't beat Charlton in my second game in charge as they're struggling so I thought we'd be on to a strong start. However five wins and a draw from my opening six games In charge was a statement for sure. However we then hit a slight loss of form, four defeats over the following six games. However we soon picked things back up to remain unbeaten in our final seven matches, picking up five wins and two draws. Adam Idah was in some superb form since I took charge that's for sure.
Of course that form would never of been good enough to seal an automatic promotion spot, but we did meet the boards objectives and secure a spot in the playoffs this season. We take sixth place, a whopping nineteen points off league winners West Ham who topple the hundred points barrier. Nottingham Forest in second just three points off the top spot and go up to the Prem. We'll be joined in the playoffs by Birmingham, West Brom and Southampton, with the first of those three our opponents in the Semi Finals.
A nervy but very full Semi Final first leg. We perhaps had the better chances throughout the ninety minutes and had plenty more of the ball at home, but it proved to be in vail as we played out a goalless nil nil draw. Neither side wanted to throw away the first leg, that was for sure.
Promotion wasn't to be for us this season. Taking the trip to St Andrews it showed that we needed to take our chances in the first leg. Birmingham dominated this game on shots, despite us having the lying share of possession. The host took the lead two minutes before the interval. An aggressive team talk got the boys back out on the pitch firing, levelling through Idah in the fifty fifth minute. But we soon fell away again, conceding two more and ultimately slipping out of contention for a spot in the Playoff Final. Onto next season...
Next Post: Fulham pre season Round Up - August 2023
#508674 VP's Journeyman Career
Dan
#508673 The 'Worldwide' Win It All Journeyman
Dan
#508556 VP's Journeyman Career
Dan
Strange with only League 2 and Championship winners medals to be in charge of such a big job now, but thats the beauty of FM! Big question I'd have is, where would you look to go from here
#508544 The Pride of Nottingham: A Notts County Tale
Dan
#508543 VP's Journeyman Career
Dan
Cracking couple of seasons in the prem with Forest, to take them into Europe until you rage quit from them....again! haha!
Good to see such an increase in your rep to move to the big clubs now, should be an interesting stint at Madrid, Greenwood on fire!
#508541 The 'Worldwide' Win It All Journeyman
Dan
Been waiting for this one! Shame to be relegated but as you previously stated, it could be a blessing and a good chance of ticking the lower league off slightly easier! Looks like you're in for a battle though for that top spot.
#508539 Newcastle - The Road Back To Success
Dan
League is looking solid to date.
#508538 Saturn Ramenskoye - The Alien Invasion
Dan
#508534 [FM17] Climbing Jacob's Ladder (Part Deux)
Dan
#508532 [FM20] Earth Trip
Dan
#508531 (FM20) - Hometown Hero
Dan
#508530 FM20 - York City - A MinsterMen Journey
Dan
#506919 VP's Journeyman Career
Dan
#506901 Lets go on a European journey, man!
Dan
I was tempted @DNZY but wanted to see the season out as the options elsewhere were limited.
Moving on...January 2023
With my bags packed from my apartment in Belgium, it was time to hit the job centre. I took a little bit of time out, get myself together and see what awaited me. At first, there weren't many jobs available that really attracted me. The Basel and Dinamo jobs popped up, but they didn't pull me in. Eventually a couple of opportunities popped up that began to interest me, with the bigger leagues now loaded in as playable, it was time to see what would be offered...
I'm heading home! Back to England I go as we head to London and more specifically Craven Cottage to take control of Championship side Fulham. As you can see on the fifth line down, I did have an offer to head to France and manage Lyon, who offered me a transfer kitty of fifty one million pounds, a budget I'm sure I could use to compete with giants PSG. But I felt like heading to England. After delaying the offer for a couple weeks, the club had improved and already sat up in seventh place having won three of their last five games.
Here is what the board have come up with for their plans over the next five years. Of course I need to work within the wage budget and aim to sign first team quality players who are under the age of twenty three, that could be tricky. For this season they wish to reach the playoffs as a minimum expectation, reach the Fourth Round of the FA Cup (which they already have) and the Third Round of the Carabao Cup, its January, the club were out of this before I took control. Then rather unambitiously, the board just want us to reach the Championship playoffs for the next four seasons.
So this is the scene we walk in to midway through January. A point outside the playoffs and sixteen points off the top spot which sees Nottingham Forest in complete control. The Championship is a funny old league, very competitive where anyone can beat anyone, bar maybe Bolton and Wigan looking at their form. We are joined by West Ham in the league, they currently sit third. Top two is unrealistic for us this season, the main aim is to meet the boards objectives and finishin in the playoffs.
Here is the club I inherit too, its definitely not too bad considering the league we're in. I've already shipped out Ezeh and Dave Allen who just don't look the grade, Allen could potentially in a few years but he was unhappy to be here and we don't need that negativity. Both left for small fees. We won't be making improvements in January simply due to being given just two and a half million pounds to spend, I'll wait till the summer and see what coups we can make. I'm also happy to see what the squad can do.
Not a bad game to get myself started here in London. My first game in charge was away at twenty third place, struggling Bolton and we put them to the sword which is great to see. Idah got us off on the right foot with a goal just fifteen minutes into my reign. A brace from Ewing which included a superb solo effort and a good drive saw us lead three nil. Unfortunately we couldn't hold on to a clean sheet, conceding eighteen minutes from time. This climbs us up to sixth and into the Playoff spots.
Next Post: Fulham End of season Round Up - May 2023
#506778 Lets go on a European journey, man!
Dan
KRC Genk post season stats and awards - June 2022
Three seasons done, three league titles won, two Belgian Cups, two Belgian Super Cups, but absolutely no progress made in Europe left me questioning if my time here in Belgium has been successful to date. However one thing was for sure, the players here were succesful at the end of season awards.
Coucke doing Coucke things. A third year of claiming the pair of goalkeeping awards which saw him play thirty nine of the forty league games, conceding twenty seven goals along with keeping twenty two clean sheets. Absolute quality from our number one shot stopper once again.
I have a feeling this kid may need a very, very big trophy cabinet. Another three awards for the season as Haaland completely wraps up the award ceremony. He takes three awards this year, scooping both the 'Pro of the season' and 'Rookie of the season and of course, top goalscorer. With thirty one league goals in his thirty nine appearances this season he fully deservers it, finishing eleven goals clear of the next closest man.
He even breaks his own club record. Having scored forty three goals across all competitions this year, beating his previous best of thirty five goals.
I went on to win manager of the year for the second time of the three seasons I've been here, but a couple days later, handed in my resignation to the board. I probably didn't really do enough with the money available to strengthen the squad enough. We sat on a very healthy budget both the last two transfer windows and not spending much of that left us short in Europe as it showed in the Champions League. I'll head off and look for a new club, the big five countries have now also been added in, here comes the waiting game for the right offer...
Next Post: A new venture - ??
#506762 VP's Journeyman Career
Dan
Not seen that one before, looking at his potential, its no big loss! strange tho
#506722 (FM20) - Hometown Hero
Dan
#506721 [FM20] Earth Trip
Dan
#506685 Lets go on a European journey, man!
Dan
KRC Genk end of season Round Up - May 2022
Season three has come to an end it'll likely be my last one here in Belgium. Things had been going well, maybe not in Europe, but domestically we were dominating at least. However the board have began to annoy me especially accepting a stupidly low offer for our central midfielder Berge. The ice began to crack and I wasn't prepared to be over ruled by them. Anyway, I was content to continue doing my job until the end of the year and go from there, we were still in the hunt for two trophies.
Forgot to take a screenshot of the Semi Finals, we won them, will update this bit when I can.
Oh dear oh dear oh dear! The less said about this the better. Thats now two of the three trophies we've won both previous seasons gone. Anderlecht completely ruined us. Dominated the game and deserved the win, it could of even been more for them. We did have a goal in the opening couple of minutes ruled out through VAR and things then turned sour. Not happy to miss out on this one, especially after the last two seasons dominantion.
Two points clear going into this run of games and we had to try and be at our best if we were to come out on top going into the Champions group. Two defeats, against the big two in Anderlecht and Club Brugge, as well as two dropped points against Carleroi could see us rue missed chances. We led three nil against the latter of the three after half an hour, and somehow drew 3-3! Haaland among the goals, what else do you expect! Would our sloppyness cost us...
Well, its at least cost us this far. We head into the Champions group trailing Vincent Kompanys league leaders by a single point. In very much a two horse race, Anderlect have the advantage with two matches to be played. A massive sixteen points then open up to third place AA Gent. Club Brugge have never really got going this season, twenty three points off the lead with giants Standard thirty points away from Anderlecht.
Chasing league leaders but not really improving much. We beat Anderlecht in the opening game of the stage which put us as the leaders with a Haaland brace. A man that enjoyed this group. Three draws, two more defeats (including to Anderlecht) and another to Club Brugge really left us scratching our heads as to where it all went wrong this season. Had we done enough to get over the line though this season...
Champions! No idea what Anderlecht got up to in the run in but they finished five points adrift of us despite our dodgy form. It looks like we'll sign off with a trophy at least, making it three league titles on the bounce. We'll shortly review the season with the awards but after that, who knows.
Next Post: KRC Genk post season stats and awards - June 2022
#506605 VP's Journeyman Career
Dan
#506221 Lets go on a European journey, man!
Dan
KRC Genk mid season Round Up - January 2022
January 2022, happy New Year. Lets see how the season has been going to date with us in search of a third league title and Belgian Cup on the bounce. We had already been beaten to the Super Cup at the start of the season, meaning there would be no treble treble this time around. But could we put together a strong enough domestic performance in the other two competitions. What about Europe, I felt this would be my best chance of progressing from a Champions League group, even if its just to head to the Europa League from finishing third in the group...
I'm just not getting the nack of this Champions League football it woudl seem. Another group stage, another exit. Finishing bottom of the group for a third year running. We had expectedly heavy defeats against Juventus both times. Atletico we nearly stole a point from in our first head to head and did grab a one all draw with in Spain. We didn't make the most of the games vs CSKA Moscow however. Losing 2-1 at home was a blow, we had a late goal ruled out in the 1-1 draw in Russia too which ultimately cost us third spot.
A third Belgian Cup on the bounce? Right now its looking doable, but its been the nervious run of our time to date. An easy 5-0 win away at Virton kickstarted our defence of the cup brilliantly as young Haaland fired home a hatrick. Away to AA Gent in the next round but a comfortable 2-0 win with both goals in the opening eighteen minutes sent us on our way. Quarter Finals almost caused problems, with us requiring extra time to get passed Eupen. We went on to win the tie 3-1 with Haaland netting twice and Kenedy also on target.
Once again, our league form is looking pretty strong with just the one defeat coming so far and that was a narrow three two defeat to struggling Club Brugge, despite Haaland grabbing two. Three draws also in the first half of the season but I feel there is nothing to worry about again so far this season. Haaland still finding the net regularly.
Top of the tree at Christmas and heading into the New Year once again. Its only a two horse race this year it would seem. With us just two points clear of chasing second place Anderlecht. They then open up an eleven point gap to AA Gent who are a further six points clear of fourth place Charleroi. Slightly strange to see Standard (currently 20 points off) and Club Brugge (21 points off) so far off the pace and down the table this year. But its good for us. We just need to stay consistant and make our match against Anderlecht count. Both of us losing just once in the first twenty league games. Twenty to go, all eyes on the top two!
And to end this post, some sad news. Real Madrid have completed the signing of £23.5million man Sander Berge and I am extremely disappointed by this. Last summer I turned down bids of £64million for the midfielder. But the board went ahead and accepted this offer, which completely stunned me. Fuming!
Next Post: KRC Genk end of season Round Up - May 2022
#506138 VP's Journeyman Career
Dan
#506026 [FM20] Earth Trip
Dan
Great start to this mate, good form early on.
#505809 Lets go on a European journey, man!
Dan
KRC Genk pre season Round Up - August 2021
I think this could prove to be my final year here at Genk and probably in Belgium. Unfortunately we've struggled in the transfer window somewhat, attracting bigger names isn't really happening. And therefore we're making no strides forward in Europe. I've had instant success here domestically in Belgium, which has been grand and won more in my first two seasons than I thought I would, but we shall see what happens. Here is a quick round up of whats happened this summer.
No real 'big' departures this summer with just Folic leaving for a fee of £775k. The rest leave on free deals or loans to improve. On the other side of the table, just one new face joins the club in the summer. Former Southampton man Callum Chambers who cost us just under seventeen million pounds. He was transfer listed and interested in joining, adding a bit of versatility in defence and holding midfield roles. I missed out on goalkeeper Sergio Rico, who left PSG for Bordeux in the summer whilst having an offer for Maximilliano Wober accepted but he wasn't interested in joining my Belgian revolution!
Made sure I had a few more friendlies arrange this summer than I did last and the boys coped very well in all of them. Played five, won four and drew one as we faced a few 'medium' sized European teams such as Rangers and West Brom. Stick us in the Europa League and I think we'd cope very well. However it proves the Champions League is too tough for us at this stage.
Well, this is slightly unusual. We lose the Belgian Super Cup for the first time in my reign, it won't be three times of asking as we have a howler. Infront of a small crowd of just 20,296 Club Brugge take home the trophy following a penalty shootout. We had the better chances throughout the game but never really a clear cut chance. With the score still level at the end of ninety minutes, we headed for a penalty shootout where we failed to show up. Unusually for him, Haaland missed the first of the shootout, and that set the tone. Club Brugge convereted all three of theres, with only Kenedy scoring during our four, handing the trophy to the opposition.
Our Champions League group for this season has been drawn and its probably our most favorable draw we've had to date. Despite facing Italian Serie A giants Juventus and Spanish La Liga side Atletico, we are also drawn besides Russian Premier League side CSKA Moscow, a side I'm confident we can beat in both head to head ties. This 'should' see us aiming for third place and then we can head to the Europa League knockout rounds, thats the plan anyway. We shall see in a couple of months when I bring you the next update.
Next Post: KRC Genk mid season Round Up - January 2022
#505795 Banned From The Discord
Dan
Unfortunately @jackoco91 this is the process we run over on Discord, why should we not ban people who are claiming (joke or not) that they have a pirated copy of the game whilst the rest of us are spending money to buy the full version and supporting the developers. If you can DM proof of purchase for the game then I will happily revoke the ban from the page.
#505794 Lets go on a European journey, man!
Dan
KRC Genk post season stats and awards - June 2021
With season two now done and dusted, there was just the award ceremony to come here in Belgium and following a second successive season in charge, scooping back to back trebles with the club domestically. It was time to see what awards the boys could scoop this season around.
For a second season running there is a brace of goalkeeping awards for our number one between the sticks Coucke. Keeping twenty four clean sheets in the forty league games this season, conceding just twenty for the year. He retains both the Goalkeeper of the season and Golden Glove award for a second season running.
I wasn't expecting this man to scoop this award. Summer signing, free transfer Kenedy takes the 'best average rating' winner award, narrowly pipping Club Brugge' Jean-Eudes Aholou and then our own Erling Haaland in third to the title. He featured in twenty nine of our forty league games this season, scoring ten goals and assisting five on his way to an average 7.36 rating.
A brace of awards for our record summer signing, young 20 year old Erling Haaland. The striker featured in all forty of our league games this season on his way to the brace of awards. He scored twenty nine goals and assisted four on his way. Winning the top scorer award by a massive twelve goals! Haaland also takes the award for Rookie of the season with his rating averaging out at 7.32. In all competitions he scored thirty five goals for the club this season, which smashes the previous record, set a couple seasons ago by Mbwana Samatta by nine goals. Superb first season for the youngster whos only going to get better.
Final piece of news coming out the season, I've successfully agreed a new contract, Commiting to another four years at the club (however I'd be surprised if I stayed for another four years) as my new contract now runs up until the end of June 2025. I missed out on the manager of the year award this season, surprisingly. I was also linked with both the Arsenal and Lazio vacancies this summer, replying to both saying I would be interested, however nothing developed of these two. I'm not set in stone to stay here forever, so I'll see what opportunities arise, there are a few clubs I've got a goal to manage throughout this save but no time frame in doing it.
Next Post: KRC Genk pre season Round Up - August 2021
#505792 VP's Journeyman Career
Dan
Looks like there was never anything to dread! look very good in league one so far!
#505599 Lets go on a European journey, man!
Dan
Don't we just @Grimnir hopefully soon we can move to a third seed rather than 4th seed side, might help!
Bit of both really @VP. they were dominant but took the chances.
Thanks for the kind words @GreenFront I appreciate you catching up. We're definitely still in the league fight, more than can be said about the PSG game haha!
Indeed, the first season seemed a breeze @tongey but its good to see we're being challenged again for the league this year. Haaland was always on the cards for me, and paying us back, just depends how long we can keep him happy here for.
KRC Genk end of season Round Up - May 2021
And that is season 2 done and dusted! We've wrapped up the competitive side of football for the year and its time to have a quick review on how things got on in the second half of the season. I had originally hoped to get this update posted a couple days ago, but I still had a couple of games to play to finish the league season and then never had enough time to get them done, but alas, we're here now! With the treble still on the cards, but a tight fight in the league, it was on us to come back at Club Brugge. *I lost the screenshot of the youth intake, I think we only really had one player who would likely make it to the top of this league again.
League leaders at the time Club Brugge awaited us in the Belgian Cup Semi Final and we managed to ease past them over both legs. We traveled to them for the first of the two semi Final legs, beating them one nil thanks to a lone Hagi goal. Back at home we were stil just as strong defensively, keeping another clean sheet and beating them two nil, three nil on aggregate. First half goals from Hrosovsky and Borges saw us qualify for the Final, where we'd face KV Kortrijk in four months time.
Champions! For the second season running with us at the helm, we scoop the Belgian Cup, setting us up for the double at least this season, whilst we dominated the game, it could of gone another way on another day. We lost Dewaest in just the eighteenth minute to a straight red card in what turned out to be a very card happy game for the referee who went on to brandish thirteen yellow cards and one red! It proved to be the late, late show that won the game though. Ismael Saibari scored a simple finish from close range in the 91st minute, reviewing my VAR but the goal stood.
With us going into January trailing league leaders Club brugge it was important we had a good second half of the league season and that we did, unbeaten in our eleven games picking up nine wins and three draws along the way. We conceded just four goals in those eleven games and once again, no more than one per game we did concede in. We also picked up a vauable win over Club Brugge away from home, meaning they'd need a near perfect record to stay top of the pile before heading into the Champions Group.
And they weren't too far off it in all fairness. We took the top spot of this stage of the league tace with twenty two wins, six draws and just the two defeats from our thirty league games, scoring fifty four and conceding just fourteen goals along the way. Top for now and only by three points over Club Brugge, who as I said, ran us the whole way and our win over them proving vital. Standard again, not ffar off the pace just seven points behind us, before a nine point gap opens to fourth place AA Gent.
The Champions Group gave us a further ten games as always in which we won seven, drew twice and lost once, a loss to Club Brugge which could go on to prove vital if they could produce a strong run of results after we beat them in the opening game. Once again Haaland contributing with goals. Eight for him in the ten matches with Kenedy and Berge also netting a few for us along the way.
Champions! Treble confirmed for a second season running and Belgian domestic football is just looking too easy for a side of Genk' caliber right now. We win the Champions Group/League in the end by five points over runners up Club Brugge who will also head to Champions League football with us next season. Very little more to say, conceding just twenty goals in forty games this season shows wht a force we've been at the back.
Next Post: KRC Genk post season stats and awards - June 2021
#505396 VP's Journeyman Career
Dan