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#51267 Travelling across Europe - proving I'm better than Dan!

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05 Feb 2013 15:29:57

Not sure he will Dyrim. Dinamo is a hard nut to crack even for Dan. Think I will win some years here

#51192 Travelling across Europe - proving I'm better than Dan!

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05 Feb 2013 11:24:18

Indeed 3th place would be difficult. 4th Place is more likely but also hard to achieve. Good luck with it.

#290939 Keeping up with Shedender and Dan - If it's not to late!

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05 Feb 2013 07:26:18

Another try for the title. Last year was good but not good enough.

Arthur is the fast striker I was looking for. And one good thing he is from Belarus. He played in Brazil somehow but I brought him back home to bring me the needed extra goals. Most of the other players I brought as back up since the other back ups where moaning or something. Three players where different. Hao Junmin is an experienced rightwinger and for the money I couldn't resist to bring him in. On my leftwing I brought Pintinho. Last season the leftwing was sometimes underperforming and I sold as I see it now the best leftwinger last year. Matheus I brought because my board sold Marcus Vinicius because the money was to high to resist.

I think the board wanted money back since I spend so much the last few years. The sold my striker as said, a leftwinger and my goallie that was now ready to start. He hadn't even played a game yet and was sold behind my back. I understand they did but was not happy with it. Most of the other players I didn't need and had to leave to lower my wage bill.

A great first half of the season. One loss and one draw against BATE and many goals from Arthur and Marcus Vinicius. It almost sounds like a Roman Comic or something. In Europe I lost my first leg to Panduri. It's not a goal but I didn't feel happy with it.

The second leg also lost and Europe was over for me. I also lost one matchto Naftan and Dinamo Minsk and one draw to BATE.

So I had only one point less than BATE had last year in there perfect season. I guess mine was perfect too with a goal difference of plus 69 I was really happy.

The high league is in the pocket and Arthur was the big man for me. One title down in Belarus and 3 to go. I am still in the cup. I missed it last year. Don't know why but it just didn't start. The cup run is different than the league. It starts in June and ends in May. I also qualified for the Supercup.

I almost forgot to post my squad that brought me the title. It is after all the transfers of last season.

#51145 Getting Around Europe Quicker Than Shedender

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05 Feb 2013 06:57:34

Still in the lead. Good job. And you also had a hard time in Europe just like me with Gomel. Good luck after the winterbreak.

#290938 Keeping up with Shedender and Dan - If it's not to late!

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05 Feb 2013 06:43:00

After the second place last year it tasted like more. With Bate and Dinamo Minsk I had two huge rivals for the title. The last one is in real a Rival and each match is hectic with lots of cards in it.

My squad was getting pretty strong already but I felt like I needed some more. Mainly in the midfield I had to bring some experience. I found that in Sivakov. Had traveled a lot in Europe (Italy and Belgium) and was on his way back to his country of nature. With Marcus Vincius I found a diamond I guess. A great striker. Strong and scores a lot of goals. Pyatigoris is my new Goalkeeper. For Ly I can say the same as for Marcus Vincius but he is my new lead central in defence. Gabriel on Leftback and Wojchiekowski right on the midfield. In the winter break I also brought in Pedro Oldino. He is almost done with his career but he wanted to score some more goals for me. The other players are talented back-ups with grow potential.

I also needed to unload some players. Not for much money. I also loaned my talented goallie to Partizan.

To give you an idea my squad was like this after the transfers. Pedro Oldino is not on the screen. So I think I took it to early before he signed or to late after he retired.

Happy with the first half of the season. Only 4 draws (and one in Euro), but I couldn't get grip to BATE this season.

Second half of the season was something worse but not much. Still couldn't beat BATE and lost once to Dinamo Minsk but with 4 losses and 4 draws it was not bad.

Only BATE was special this season. Unbeaten and 7 draws they were a real champion. If I had won 3 times from them I still was 1 point short to claim this title.

But again I was qualified for Europe. At one hand it feld like a lost year but on the other hand my team was stable. My topscorer Pedro Oldino is retiring and Marcus Vincius is ready to take his place. The only thing I really missed was a fast second striker who scores a lot of goals. This season only one striker scored for me and the other goals were from the wings and tall players at corners. Will invest in that next season.

#50855 Keeping up with Shedender and Dan - If it's not to late!

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04 Feb 2013 11:17:56

Thanks for the comments Dan and Dyrim. Sure I can catch up with Shedender and (maybe) also with you Dan. England can be a long difficult country to win all promotions and trophies. I have to write some updates soon, but have trouble with internet connection now. I will write the updates as soon as its stable again.

#50836 Travelling across Europe - proving I'm better than Dan!

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01 Feb 2013 10:01:42

By Miimaa | Permalink | On 01 February 2013 - 09:43 AM

It looks like some bug, how big is your reputation? I am glad you enjoyed the Czech leagues so much; can't wait to see your career there. GL with finding job in Denmark.

I doubt its a bug. Smaller clubs will look for managers with local reputation and not for managers with high reputation in other countries and some world reputation. The top clubs will look also to your European reputation. What do you think if Guardiola walks in to the office of Harkemase Boys and says he wants to be the new manager.

#290937 Keeping up with Shedender and Dan - If it's not to late!

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01 Feb 2013 09:54:54

Not strange that the former manager of Gomel got sacked. The results where bad the whole season but after the run of 5 losses the directors decided it was time for change.

I decided that the material I had at Gomel wasn't good enough to complete my final goals to win the title, the cup and the supercup. So I decided to bring in a complete new team of players. Only a few former players are still in the first 24 of my team.

For the other players I tried to find a (temporary) solution with a transfer or a loan.

This is the squad I am working with now in a flat 4-4-2 system. I decided to keep things simple at this club. I changed a lot of players and didn't want to learn a complex system.

Started with two matches against the teams in Minsk. I was very happy my team won right away. The second match was very lucky but I am happy with it. I am also happy with the run that is still running. No defeat ! I had 5 draws and was doing a good job I guess.

Another century done. Nothing important but still fun.

I think the board didn't expect this was still possible this year. Until the lost 4 or 5 matches I even considered the title as possible. The other teams on the top Minsk, Bate, Brest where fooling around and lost points almost every week.

Very happy with the final league table and getting ready for the next season. I have a long break now until the end of March to get my team ready too.

#49800 Keeping up with Shedender and Dan - If it's not to late!

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01 Feb 2013 07:28:06

By DanW19 | Permalink | On 31 January 2013 - 16:00 PM

Another fine season buddy, shame you didnt load belarus a little before, remember that next time! keep it going buddy

I will remember that Dan. Thanks for the advice. In FMC everything is faster anyway so I can load more leagues easily.

I promised to upload some statistics. You can see I have a very different approach than Dan.

#49799 From Bottom to Top

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01 Feb 2013 07:24:07

Good luck with your career in England. Will follow your story!

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01 Feb 2013 07:15:44

With this message I ended in Austria and started in Belarus. Smorgon a club never heard of but that counts for the most clubs in Belarus.

Happy as I was I filled in some forms and waited for a reaction.

Didn't see that coming...... a club from the second division that has problems with winning and scoring laughs me after winning the double two times in Austria. Never mind I will find another job.

I wasn't sitting still. No successes here yet.

Strange. This club is in the Higher league and they want me, where lower clubs don't want me. Never mind. This is a good club for me. I start at the top and later I will get the promotion I need to finish this country. So Gomel it is.

Just a quick look at the squad to see what need to be done. I have 15 days in the transfer period left to do some improvements.

31 Jan 2013 15:24:25

Finished in Austria I am, but it came totaly unexpected to me. The league in Belarus has to be loaded in februari to receive a job application and at that point I was still more than 10 points behind Rapid Wien on the league table. So I didn't load Belarus yet. A said before I decided to stay with Sturm Graz for one more year.

So I accepted this offer.

Strasser and Suarez are there to strengthen my midfield, Molinaro is an experienced leftback, Guiberti is experienced on the rightwing, Dzyuba is an experienced striker and two talented defenders to refresh my squad Mancini and Kovacevic.

Again I sold a lot of players to strenghten my squad and to refresh the age of my players. I got some good offers for Bodul, Janssen and Montana. Bodul and Janssen weren't first choice anymore and Montana was a good offer with Guiberti as a free signing to replace him. My top transfer was at the end of the season Erivaldo for 11.000.000. Simply couldn't refuse that offer.

After the transfers my squad was looking like this. I am happy with it.

CL was simply amazing this year. I don't know much about Israel soccer but didn't see the 5-0 and 9-0 wins coming. It was simply a goal galore. After that I won from Kopenhagen and qualified for the group stage. The group was easy with ManU, Schalke and Sporting as other teams. I was lucky to make a draw in this group. Still it was a good experience for my team. In the league I had decent results too. I had a busy program and some draws and losses after CL matches but with 3 losses and 2 draws I was top of the league and still in the cup.

In second half of the season I had 5 draws and 2 losses. My season was just as good as last season but with less pressure. Rapid Wien couldn't keep pace with me this year.

So I won the league with quite a big gap to Austria and RBS. Rapid wasn't even qualified for Europe.

A double double for Sturm Graz ! (Don't know if this term is correct but it sounds got to me) Altough it was not part of the challenge it was not a complete lost year.

Didn't I do anything in Belarus this year? Well not active but I decided to put some pressure on the trainer of Smorgon.

The board wanted me to stay. Of course after winning al this silverware.

After this season this are the all time best players at Graz. Good to see I brought 7 of the first eleven players to the club. They won't forgot me soon here.

Some messages I received after this season. (sorry for bragging)

Due to my CL run and the sale of Erivaldo I brought Graz back in black figures before I left the club. Finally there came this message :

Finally a job availabe in Belarus. Not a great job but I wanted to start somewhere.

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By loscules22 | Permalink | On 30 January 2013 - 14:24 PM

nice story so far mate, you already have chalked off Austria. Are there any good jobs available in Belarus?

To bad there are no jobs available now. I will start in Belarus but it will take a year to find a job there. I will tell more in my next update.

Good luck in Belarus! what a fantastic season you just strung together!

Thanks again Dan!