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#330652 Casual Gamers
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Fair play @Shedender it took me 4 seasons until I got the CL title I believe!

Cheers pal. I was more surprised at how poorly PSG played rather then how well we done. Great achievement in my first season.

I've also done my transfer business for my second season in charge of Real Madrid . . .

In:
Andrija Zivkovic - Partizan - Free
Alvaro Morata - Juventus - £21.5m (buy back fee clause)
Timo Horn - Koln - £6.5m
Juan Mata - Manchester United - £70m
Aymeric Laporte - Manchester United - £60m
Ki Sung-Yeung - Chelsea - £4.8m (signed to potentially 'boost' shirt sales in South Korea)
Federico Valverde - Penarol - £3.6m (was already arranged, may never actually play for us)
Mario Balotelli - Liverpool - £9.5m (was desperate for a back-up striker, obvious much?)

Out: (major ones only)
Karim Benzema - Manchester United - £70m
Casemiro - Arsenal - £32.5m
Denis Cheryshev - Zenit St. Petersburg - £2.5m
Pepe - Tottenham Hotspur - £1m
Alvaro Arbeloa - Newcastle United - £775k

I've already won the European Super Cup this season as we beat Tottenham on penalties but we completely battered them and perhaps should have won it inside the ninety minutes but a goal in stoppage time from I believe Dele Alli denied us but we beat them on spot kicks. We also won the Spanish Super Cup with an easy enough victory (4-0 on aggregate) against Valencia while, as expected, we've had a promising start to the season including a 7-0 win at home to Espanyol - Alvaro Morata bagging four goals and Cristiano Ronaldo a treble in his first game back since the Olympics.

Don't know if we're going to retain the Champions League this season but we'll give it a damn good go.
#330647 Gendo, We're Coming For You - A Dan & Shedender BSC Succession Save
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And the last signing of the transfer window has seen me complete the purchase of former Birmingham City right back Adam Todd for a fee that'll rise to £20 million pounds. Todd's 26 years old so has good enough experience and will be first choice.

Now with the business all done, the main question needs to be asked - how quickly will the players gel?
#330646 Gendo, We're Coming For You - A Dan & Shedender BSC Succession Save
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Yet again the cash has been 'splashed' as I've purchased another centre back left back as Welsh international (well, at least I hope he's an international) Greg Collins has arrived from Southampton for a fee believed to be around thirty five million pounds. He's only twenty so he's got around fifteen years at the club, if he performs well.
#330645 Gendo, We're Coming For You - A Dan & Shedender BSC Succession Save
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We both agreed that a new shot stopper was a must and I've splashed more cash to bring in England's first choice goalkeeper Gary Swift to the club for a fee that'll raise to £44 million pounds but I feel he'll be well worth the dosh. He's 27 years old so has good experience at not just club level but international level too.
#330644 Gendo, We're Coming For You - A Dan & Shedender BSC Succession Save
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Cheers @javier_83. It's going to be interesting to see how quickly the team gels together.

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For some reason @Dan forgot to sign a left back so I've brought in Conor Mitchell from Scottish side Inverness.
#330501 Casual Gamers
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Just won the Champions League for the first time since I won it with Rangers on a previous Football Manager game (2014?) after we beat French side Paris Saint-Germain 2-0 in Milan. Thought I'd post it in this thread because we completely dominated the final as PSG had zero attempts on target. An own goal from shotstopper Kevin Trapp and a Gareth Bale goal sealed an eleventh Champions League trophy. Marcelo was sent off but c'est le vie.
#330499 Gendo, We're Coming For You - A Dan & Shedender BSC Succession Save
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Even though I only played two games since arriving at Tottenham but I'm uploading the game to @Dan who'll get to finish the campaign and start our quest of trying to get an entire squad of British and Irish based players. We are in fourteenth place but we've played two games more than third bottom West Brom.
#330498 Gendo, We're Coming For You - A Dan & Shedender BSC Succession Save
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Out of the bottom three after a deserved 2-0 win away at Swansea thanks to a goal in either half.
#330496 Gendo, We're Coming For You - A Dan & Shedender BSC Succession Save
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Yeeeah, couldn't have asked for a tougher first match as we lose 3-0 at home to Manchester United. Darren Ford, who complained about wanting first team football, decided to get sent off (as you f*cking do!) but yeah, this season is all about finishing as low as seventeenth and then next season we can try and build an British/Irish side.
#330495 Gendo, We're Coming For You - A Dan & Shedender BSC Succession Save
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Sounds like a plan then @Dan.

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#330478 2016-17
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Yes I'm sure they'll be an update.
#330470 Gendo, We're Coming For You - A Dan & Shedender BSC Succession Save
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WE GOT OFFERED A JOB!

Now they're sixteenth in the Premier League and have quite a few foreign based players in the squad now the question needs to be asked @Dan, do we use them until the end of the current season before making wholesale changes in the summer? We're unable to delay it until the end of the season due to being unemployed.
#330458 Gendo, We're Coming For You - A Dan & Shedender BSC Succession Save
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And we've just had a third unsuccessful interview, we'll never get another job at this rate. Heading 2 years unemployed.
#330456 Gendo, We're Coming For You - A Dan & Shedender BSC Succession Save
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Imgur's down so I'm needing to use tinypic for the time being.

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Double f*ck. Who the f*ck is Jordan Cousins?
#330453 Gendo, We're Coming For You - A Dan & Shedender BSC Succession Save
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#330429 Two Saves Simultaneously
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Kinda. It's maybe not proper but I've decided to begin a save with Real Madrid while I wait for @Dan to send me the save for our succession game, the same way I'm sure he plays his save (when he's time as well) when he's waiting for me to send him the save. But when it's two saves on my own then I find it hard to keep both going as I'd either get hooked on one of the other.
#330401 was this a joke?
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Now even though we're already champions, this result was hard to take . . .

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Completely battered Getafe on the road, having 40 shots with 12 of them on target but yet we lose 2-0. Frustrating stuff!
#330400 The Lower League Thread
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And now next weekend, absolute party down at Wembley again for our last ever non-league game!

For at least a season.
#330398 Casual Gamers
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Don't question @Dan's transfer business @Suffolk Seasider because sometimes it makes sense.

An update on my game and we've been crowned La Liga champions but that's not overly surprising as we were 20-odd points clear at the summit but we've also progressed in the Champions League after seeing off Juventus 2-0 on aggregate (2-0 at home, 0-0 in Turin) before beating Arsenal in the quarter finals 4-3 on aggregate (lost 2-0 at the Emirates but won 4-1 back at the Bernabeu while we'll face Valencia in the Spanish Cup final so a good chance of a domestic double in my first season at the club - not bad.

Still don't know who I'm going to end up buying at the end of the season although another centre back (or two) is a must.
#330345 Gendo, We're Coming For You - A Dan & Shedender BSC Succession Save
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I've went through another three months and we still remain managerless. Bloody hope we find the correct job and soon . . .
#330344 Casual Gamers
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Who did you sign for Barcelona @Dan? I'd love to spend big this coming summer depending on my transfer budget.
#330328 The Lower League Thread
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Good to see Grimsby back in the Football League.

Plymouth have booked their place in the play-off final, beating Portsmouth 1-0 in the second leg (3-2 on aggregate) but the main question now needs to be asked - who will they face at Wembley - Wimbledon or Accrington? Great chance to finally get promoted.
#330318 Gendo, We're Coming For You - A Dan & Shedender BSC Succession Save
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Well that's the end of my stint and unfortunately @Dan I was unable to find a job that was suitable for us to progress in this save and that's unfortunate. I've also accidentaly played the game over my finish date but that's the curse of being unemployed, the game progresses faster. I've had two job interviews, one at Hamilton and the other at Hull but those were 'dead end' jobs so didn't even consider attending.
#330302 Gendo, We're Coming For You - A Dan & Shedender BSC Succession Save
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Sigh. Didn't even manage to get an interview and that's a damn shame.
#330218 Casual Gamers
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Started a new save t'other day, managing Real Madrid as I wanted a game that'll just be a 'f**k about' game until the new one is released - whether I purchase it or not remains to be seen - but yeah we're cruising towards the La Liga title as we're something like 20-odd points clear at the top, losing just the one game so far to Villarreal but we should have won that with ease and we're also in the semis of the Spanish Cup after just about seeing off Rayo Vallencano.

But while things are going swimmingly domestically, we struggled to get through our Champions League group alongside Benfica, Basel and Monaco and only progressed to the first knockout round because of Basel's single goal win at Monaco as we lost our last three group games - 2-1 away to Monaco, 2-0 away to Basel and 1-0 at home to Benfica which was frustrating. We've got Juventus in the first knockout round so dramatic improvement is needed.

Made no signings this season and as expected Cristiano Ronaldo has been immense. Gareth Bale not as much, scoring just three goals in the league so far.

Starting XI is:

Navas
Carvajal - Ramos - Varane - Marcelo
Kroos - Modric
James - Isco - Bale
Ronaldo
#330189 The French Football Thread
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That's so cringe-worthy.
#330165 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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English motorcycle rider Malachi Mitchell Thomas has died at the North West 200, only 20 years old.

RIP.
#330083 2015/16 Barclays Premier League Thread
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Can Newcastle do one good thing for once this season and batter Spurs or something

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#330060 The Lower League Thread
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Lucky to finish with 11 men, mind. Our striker put his head to the back of a Portsmouth defender (I wouldn't really call it a head butt) which should've gotten him a red. It did start a touchline scrap though where their manager and our coach got sent off! Cracking atmosphere though, evenly poised for Sunday, 6pm (thanks Sky)!

Should have been a red card for the foul that led to the Portsmouth spot kick as well, don't think there was any covering defenders.
#330053 Gendo, We're Coming For You - A Dan & Shedender BSC Succession Save
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Although it seems pointless (and perhaps is), the game is switching hands with just one league game remaining in the current season but I'm really hoping @Dan can extend the season for his sake. Like I said in the previous post, I feel we must win our last game as all three play-off chasers travel on the final day.

Final Day - 10 October 2036

U.C.D - Longford Town (A)
Shamrock Rovers - Shelbourne (A)
Cobh Ramblers - Drogheda United (A)