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Season 2

Preseason

We start off preseason with a bit of news that the chairman is looking to step aside and sell the club so hopefully it doesn't drag out over the next few months hampering us in the transfer window

Transfers Out

We only had the one player leave the club for a transfer fee this summer as Corentin Jean moves to Troyes for £1.1 million

His contract was going to expire in 2025 and at 29 it made sense to bring some money into the club to help balance the books and we can replace him with a younger player. He scored 8 goals for us from the right wing last season and was a key player but his time is up.

Transfers In

Dies Janse

We wanted to bring in a new defender who could fit our philosophy of young players getting first team football as he joins from Ajax for £180,000

Camil Jebara

Even though he's not the most technical player in the world but we needed to replace Jean and he should hopefully develop and worse case we can make a profit off him if we sell him as we spend a whopping £1.7m to sign him from IF Elfsborg.

Jesse Benet

I have decided to bring in a bit of experience this time for the middle of the park as Liénard retired at the end of the season and he will be coming in to the middle of the park to try and run the game. He joins from Grenoble for £950,000

Lenny Pirringuel

Again we splash the cash here on an exciting young player from Quevilly-Rouen who have just been relegated from Ligue 2 for £1.5mi as he will be utilised in all 3 positions he's able to play.

Gaizka Ayesa

A new keeper was a must this season to be our final line of defence as Ayesa is a big step up as he joins on a free after his contract expired.

Squad

We have a very young squad with some of last seasons youth intake making up the numbers as we look to integrate them into the 1st team while they are still available for playing for the U19's as well to ensure they aren't missing out on match fitness to continue their development. We are still quite weak in a number of areas but thats the fun of this type of save as we don't want to go mad in the transfer windows and not let our players get their chances to develop. It does mean we won't tear the league up but we're playing the long game here.

Tactic

I've decided to go with a DM this time instead of an AMC to try and keep us a bit more sturdy at the back this season as teams will probably be able to overrun us in the middle of the park as they have much stronger teams.

Expectations

The board want us to finish mid table this season which would be around my expectations as well. Even though we still have plenty of money to spend we don't plan to spend it unless its on some youth players for the future or injuries come up and players need to be replaced.

August

Its a busy and difficult start especially with newly relegated Reims as our first match so lets get the season started and see how we do.

May

SO Cholet v Soxhaux

Its great to be getting a guard of honour before the games and we need to make sure we don't switch off and what an end to the first half here with 3 very quick goals in the space of 5 minutes to get the 3 points

Soxhaux v GOAL FC

We are just making things look easy now as we run riot here with 3 goals in each half.

Soxhaux v Nancy

Final game of the season as we get a huge win over our divisional rivals to finish the season well in front of our own fans.

League

Well we win the league by 13 points which isn't as comfortable as we thought it might have been but we win the league and now get to get set for next season.

We will be looking to bleed in our new youth players into the first team next preseason along with looking to bring in a few new faces as well to help out to make sure we don't get relegated.

April

Sochaux v Chateauroux

Daho has shown great composure down the left wing this season for somebody so young and has been key for us there as he scores a wonderful brace from cutting in from the wing for both goals.

Valenciennes v Sochaux

Our first chance to tie up the title and we manage to blow it here with two terrible own goals which severely cost us. 

Sochaux v US Boulogne

And we go an secure the title with a very gritty 1-0 win over 4th placed Boulogne as our AMC scored a curling shot from just inside the area to send the fans wild.

Sochaux v Le Mans FC

The guard of honour walking out to the pitch really fired the team up as Fatar who was coving the injured Jean showed he was up for it with a goal after 9 minutes and then we left it late to secure the win with Koffi producing another 2 tap ins.

League

Well the season is all sorted now as we had a great season and ended up running away with the title in the end even though it was very close over large parts of the season

Budget

A great budget for us considering we'll be promoting some of the regens into the senior squad for next season and we will be looking to bring in a few players as well

May

​The title is in the bag so its time to go out and just enjoy the football and give some players who haven't featured much over the season a run out

March

FC Rouen v Sochaux

We knew a tough game was coming here but we manage to hold on as Koffi has really excelled in our system this season

Sochaux v Niort

​A much better game here as Dacosta makes a great run and is able to tap in at the back post after just 3 minutes to set us on our way.
 

US Orleans v Sochaux

A pretty fair result considering it was the top 2 teams facing each other, we could of done better in the opening minutes but we're happy to walk away with a point.

Sochaux v FC Villefranche

We bounce straight back as Koffi gets another brace. We could struggle to hold onto him in the summer. A rare clean sheet always helps as well

Nimes v Sochaux

Our 3rd clean sheet this month along with another brace from Koffi. Lienard has also been a key player for us in the middle of the park all season at the age of 35

League

​We have increased our lead again this month as it looks like promotion and the title are in the bag for us.
 

Youth Intake

We are living the dream here with this intake with no less than 6 players who make up the golden generation coming into the club

Sami Brun

A big defender coming in as Brun looks like he should turn into a decent player at 6'4" at only 15 and having a high work rate.

Eliott Benoit

A nice versatile player who we are looking to improve his role in the middle of the park as we could do with him in central midfield going forward

Yaw Yeboah

Another good defensive midfielder coming in with a high work rate but with his high tackling and at 6'1 he could do well at CB where we are lacking number at the moment.

Ali Mze Issa

A new exciting striker is on the books, he doesn't look like he'll set the world alight with some pretty poor technical stats but but we'll see how he develops.

Kevin Berger

Yet another defensive midfielder and he looks the most exciting of the players and he will be getting game time next season as we look to develop him to be a key player for us going forward.

April

The league should be sorted this month if we get a couple of resorts going our way meaning we can start planning for next season very early

February

FC Versailles 78 v Sochaux

The month kicks off in a usual fashion with a nice win over Versailles with a rare clean sheet as well.

Coupe de France 11th Round

Sochaux v Avoine Chinon

Well it looked like it was going as expected as we raced to a 3 goal lead in 30 minutes but with half an hour to go it looked like it was going to unravel but we manage to hold on just to get through to the Quarter Finals.

Sochaux v Paris 13 Atletico

A really poor result here with Paris being in the relegation zone but we know we're going to drop points at times but wish it was against teams at the other end of the table

Dijon FCO v Sochaux

A similar story to the last game where we just weren't good enough.

Sochaux v Aubagne FC

We get back to winning ways here which of course is against a top 6 side but we get the 3 points 

Coupe de France 12th Round

Sochaux v Rennes

Our cup journey comes to an end but we did extremely well to get to this stage of the competition thanks to favourable draws the whole time and don't expect it to be replicated again next season

League 

Even dropping points this month we have managed to increase our lead at the top of the table to 6 points now to have a 2 game buffer and more importantly have a 9 point gap over 3rd as well/ 

March

With just the league to concentrate on now its time to get through to the end of the season

January

Coupe de France 9th Round

Sochaux v US Thionville Lusitanos

We really stuggled here against a team in the leagues below us and thankfully we managed to hold onto our slender lead in the 2nd half after losing our left back and having to rearrange things at half time.

GOAL FC v Sochaux

It seems to be our thing just now conceding early in games and then having to wait until half time to fire the players up and then get quick results with 4 goals in the space of 13 minutes for a very good win, if only we could perform like this over the whole 90 minutes.

US Avranches v Sochaux

A really poor result here given how well we performed in our last game as we have to settle for a point.

Coupe de France 10th Round

US Concarneau v Sochaux

The first time we have a faced a team in one of the two leagues above us who have been struggling as there is a chance if we go up they will come down as well. They seem to have underestimated us here though as we still went out playing attacking football and got a very good win thanks to Koffi poking it home twice from inside the 6 yard box.
 

League

We increase our lead at the top of the table to 5 points now but its still close as only 11 points between us and 5th as we pass the halfway mark.

February

Another great draw for us in the Coupe de France as we draw one of the two teams still left in the competition that are playing beneath us but it gives us a great change to get through again. A lot of good fixtures in the league now as well with all the reverse fixtures.

December

Le Mans FC v Sochaux

A very tough game here as with neither side taking chances until right before half time where Vincent scored a lovely shot from outside the area for the only goal of the game.

Coupe de France Eighth Round

Sochaux v GOAL FC

It was important that we bounced back straight away here to continue our cup run going and it didn't look good for us after 9 minutes and it took some choice words at half time to turn things around and it was Corentin Jean who stood out again here with some great goals along with an assist for Koffi as we move to the next round.

Sochaux v SO Cholet

Of course we struggle against a team right at the bottom of the league but it takes a late goal from our veteran midfielder here to get us 3 points.

League

with the loss in the league our lead is only cut to 4 points now as we're just 1 game short of being half way through the season.

Youth Preview

With an important part of this save being youth development then this is a vital part of the season as we get a small insight into what the youth intake will be and if we can get one decent prospect we'll be happy but by the looks of it we could have a few if its true.

January

Another short month here thanks to the winter break. It will also give us some time to scout some players to see if there is anybody that meets our needs to add to our squad for the rest of the season.

November

Coupe de France 6th Round

US Ploeren v Sochaux

We expected an easy game but decided to take no chances here as we put out our strongest XI as we run riot and Corentin Jean gets a rare goal from the right wing showing the flashes of brilliance which got him his move to Monaco all those years ago.

Chateauroux v Sochaux

Chateauroux have been struggling so far this season but we got very lucky here with a late penalty to get us the 3 points.

Sochaux v Valenciennes

What an end to a really boring game for the first 85 minutes as it looked like Valenciennes had won the game with a tap on with 4 minutes to go before Koffi strikes home from a lovely pass into the 6 yard box from Jean

Coupe de France 7th Round

FC Bassin Arcachon v Sochaux

We went big again here as we want to progress as far as possible and even though we got a fright when they pulled a goal back, but at leas tit spurned us on to get another easy win.

US Boulogne v Sochaux

We're being made to work in the league now but vetran midfielder scored a belter of a goal where he took it past 3 players before curling it into the goal from outside the area to secure the 3 points

League

We're still not running away with the league which adds some healthy competition for us

December

Yet another team hit by financial troubles over the years with Lens and with them 3rd in the league will be another tough game and we have to face Goal FC who we haven't faced yet in the league in the cupp.

October

Sochaux v US Orleans

We knew  a defeat was always coming but I didn't expect to be so one sided over a 4 minute period where it seems like half the team walked off the park but at least we stemmed the flow after 3 but weren't able to get back into the game at all.

FC Villefranche v Sochaux

A game we really expected to win but its still taking us a bit of time to get over the last result it seems and at least it was only the one goal we conceded this time.

Sochaux v Nimes

We finally bounce back with our only win of the month as we have to rely on a free kick and a corner to get the goals but no matter how they come we'll take them.

League

A poor month see's US Orleans close the gap on us to 4 points and even 3rd is only 5 points behind us now as well to keep it interesting

November

The cup game has been pushed back into November due to a waterlogged pitch so that will kick us off before getting back to the league with some more tough games as we won't be taking any of them for granted after this month

September

Paris 13 Atletico v Sochaux

Koffi hasn't scored since the opening day of the season but at 21 consistency will come with the more experience he earns as he gets a 2nd brace.

Sochaux v Dijon FCO

Not a fun game to watch until the end after conceding a penalty from a terrible challenge and we were lucky to still have 11 men on the park but in the dying minutes of the game we rallied and with 2 goals turned a poor game into a comfortable win.

Aubagne FC v Sochaux

Thankfully back to a much more comfortable win here as all the goals come from our midfielders here thanks to two penalties for Lienard.

Sochaux v FC Rouen

Its the top two facing each other here and Koffi is at it again as the stand out player here with two great goals from just inside the 6 yard box

Niort v Sochaux

Koffi looks like he is deadly when he gets the ball within the 6 yard box and if he keeps getting in the right positions the goals will come easily for him. More importantly we keep our 4th clean sheet of the month.

League

8 games in and we have a heafty lead as it looks like we're going to run away with the league early on.

October

There are so many ex Ligue 1 teams in this league as Nimes were only there 3 seasons ago and US Orleans were there 5 seasons ago which shows how competitive this league actually is

August

Sochaux v US Avranches

Perfect start for us in the league campaign here as we get off to a great start in the opening 20 minutes before going a bit cold for the next 55 minutes but with 20 minutes to go we made sure we were going to get the 3 points with some great team performances from our young players.

Nancy v Sochaux

A much tougher game here against another team who are down here due to financial issues but we hold our own and make an opening just outside the box for a great strike that finds the bottom corner from 30 yards out. We then scored from a lovely set piece routine from training

Sochaux v FC Versailles 78

A bit of a scare here going into the final 5 minutes after looking comfortable at 2 up before they got a goal back before halftime. The stand out performer here was Dacosta who looks like he's going to be a great attacking full back after his 2 goals here.

League

We're one of two unbeaten teams so far but its not much to brag about after only 3 games into the season.

September

We get stuck in properly now to the season with 5 games and what is another tough game against Dijon who have come down over the last few seasons as well.

Preseason

Well a very mixed preseason here as we started off very well and got a great win over Metz to give us a good confidence boost but it then went downhill quickly but it was against stronger opposition so wasn't too bad well until the final game which was arranged to get us back to winning ways but it backfired as we lose to a much weaker team so now its onto the season.

Tactic

We've decided to try and not do anything too fancy here playing a simple 4-2-3-1 which the players can hopefully adapt to it but we will probably change it up over the season.

Expectations

We all knew that promotion was going to be the target for everybody but at least we just need to be competitive in the cup and hopefully we can go on a run or get a decent draw to bring some cash in.
 

August

A nice start for us with a game against US Avranches before a game that our fans want us to win against Nancy away from home before a game against Versailles which could go either way

Its time for a new save since we're not getting fm25 until March 25 so I've download an updated database from Sortitoutsi. I'm wanting something to get stuck into that will keep me going for a few months and will hopefully keep people interested in the save as well. I've put a lot of thought into what to do with even trying to do a poll on here with very little success there with interaction. Looking to try and stay away from England and Germany as the money just makes it a lot easier when you get to the top. I'm wanting to do a mix of promoting youth players through to the first team and trying to conquer Europe.

With that I've decided to go to France and start in the lower leagues with FC Sochaux-Montbéliard.

Sochaux was founded by Jean-Pierre Peugeot, a prominent member of the Peugeot family, and is one of the founding members of the first division of French football. The club has won both Ligue 1 and the Coupe de France twice and have also won the Coupe de la Ligue. Sochaux's last honour came in 2007 when the club, defeated favourites Marseille 5–4 on penalties in the 2007 Coupe de France Final

Sochaux is known for its youth academy, which has regularly finished in the top ten rankings of youth academies in France.  The academy has produced several notable talents, such as Yannick Stopyra, El-Hadji Diouf, Jérémy Ménez, Bernard Genghini and Benoît Pedretti, among others. The club were a regular in the top flight, until relegation in 2014 to Ligue 2.

The club was sold by Peugeot in 2015 and financal problems which all caught up with them at the end of the 2023 season where the DNCG confirmed the administrative relegation of Sochaux to Championnat National due to their financial crisis. The club is now back under Frech ownership and we will look to take them back to the top of French football utilising the youth academy to get us there as we will look to overthrow PSG as the power house of French football before conquering Europe.

Board Vision

The board seem to want us to try and rise up the leagues quite quickly which is fine for this season but will make things interesting the following couple of seasons as we look to try and bring through young players into the fold so hopefully this doesn't upset them as I certainly see it as more of a long term project.

Supporters Vision

Well the fans want the same as the board this season which will be the main objective to start our journey back up and they want us to develop players as well which is going to be the key thing for us this season.

Squad

Its a very young squad but there is pockets of experience which are going to be vital this season as we could definitely do with stronger players across the squad but we will take the hand we've been dealt and take it from there as we enter the transfer window with no expectations to bring in anybody else unless we really need to
 

The Start

Bursaspor v Sivas Bld.

What a start to the season as we run out well deserved winners as well as Sivri having a dream debut with an excellent brace to get him off the mark

Arnavutkoy Bld. v Bursaspor

A poor game defensively as we seemed to turn off at the end of each have but luckily we were able to outscore them with Aslan repays our faith in signing him with another brace before Sivri scores an excellent lob over the keeper..

Bursaspor v Bayburt Ol Spor

We struggled here for a while as it looked like it was just going to be the penalty that separated us before a 2nd yellow card and late goal secured it for us.

Amed SK v Bursaspor

Guler comes into the starting line up as Srivi is injured for a couple of days and again he gets a brace for the club. Sahin also scores his 3rd penalty in 4 games for us as well as the decisions are going our way at the moment.

Bursaspor v Duzcespor

Aslan was brought into the club to cause the defence problems down the wing and he's doing exactly that with his 4th goal in 5 games to show he should be playing at a higher level.

Isparta 32 Spor v Bursaspor

Our first game where we've had to fight back from behind but we did really well to take the lead before a disastrous piece of goalkeeping saw us conceding to drop points and draw the match

League

We're 2nd on goal difference after 6 games as we've managed to concede a lot more so maybe some defensive work to do and try and tighten up back there

Transfer Embargo

Well this has made things even more difficult as we've been hit with a transfer embargo for the next season and a half so its going to be important to tie our new signings down to another season with us at least.

October

Another 6 games in the league to look forward to this month but we also get our first taste of cup action as well against Usak Spor who play at our level but are in the other league

Season 1

Transfers

With only having 12 first team players available this was going to be a major window for us as we need to sign enough players to be able to try and compete in the league and we were hampered by the fact that we are only able to sign Turkish players as well. We went all out and signed a further 12 players to greatly improve the squad. I won't go into every player at this stage but will introduce you to the 3 I'm most excited about. We even spent some cash with a total of £250,000 on 4 players as well which also weakens other teams in the league around us. The only issue is most players have only signed with us until the end of the year for some reason as we couldn't offer any more than that.

This first player I'm excited about is Ahmet Sivri from Ankara D.S. for a whopping £90,000 and he'll be leading the attack for us and still has some room for improvement as well for the rest of the season

The next player is Emre Aslan who again is a very exciting young player that will be starting down the left wing and can hopefully cause some real issues this season.

Finally its Furkan Balaban who actually looks like he should probably be playing in at least the league above us in a massive coup and he even wanted to sign a 3 year deal with us as well. He's going to be the rock of this team in the centre of defence.

We did even manage to sell a player who fell right down the pecking order after all the new signings came in

As part of the transfers we also did a complete overhaul of the staff at the club as well but the one I'm most impressed with is our new HOYD who use to be Dinamo Zagreb and can hopefully find bring through a few gems over the next few seasons as we welcome Romeo Jozak to the club

The Squad

The squad is looking a lot better now with all our signings and it definitely looks like this team could make a real push now after being touted as finishing mid table.

Tactic

I've decided to try and keep the tactic simple as at this level I don't think the players are really capable of doing anything too fancy just now.

Preseason

It wasn't the best preseason for us at all but I didn't really expect much else with the number of players I signed as we tried to get them to gel as well but onwards and upwards now

The Start

I don;t know too much about any of the teams in this league so we'll just crack on and see how we get on.

Introductions

The Squad

Well there is going to be a hell of a lot of work to do here to get this squad up to a standard where we're even going to be able to compete in this league as we only have 12 players in the first team squad. We are severely lacking in every area of the park apart from in goal where it looks like we have a cracker of a keeper. Our best player is easily our right winger in Enver Cenk Sahin who is on a whopping £4,100 a week so do we keep him for the season and hope he has the goods or cash in on him and sell him to free up his wage from the budget. Its going to be hard to come up with any sort of tactic for the team just now until we can see who we can bring in which is also limited this season as it turns out when in this league we can only sign Turkish players.

The Boards Vision

The board aren't expecting too much from us this season and just expect a mid-table finish which I think will be impressive with the 12 players that we have at the moment. They also expect us to work towards repairing the financial damage of the club which will hopefully go hand in hand with increasing the reputation of the club.

The Supporters Vision

We have a very large core supporter group which is good as they will fill nearly half our stadium. They are a bit more demanding than the board with expecting a top half finish along with playing entertaining football which is something I'd expect to do anyway. The one downside to them though is they have a high influence on the board meaning that we are going to have to keep the fans happy to keep the board happy. We have plenty of space to be selling more season tickets as well with only 3,052 sold so far so it can grow significantly over the years.

Budgets

We have a decent transfer budget for this season considering the shape of the squad and we will be looking to move a good chunk of that into the wage budget as we need to get that increased so we can actually look to bring some players in.

Other Changes

We will be looking to do an over hall of our staff as well as we will look to get the best out of our players and youth intakes going forward.

The Big Reveal

Name: Bursaspor Kulübü Derneği
Nickname: Yeşil Timsahlar (Green Crocodiles)
Stadium: Bursa Büyükşehir Stadium
Capacity: 43,761

Training Facilities: Excellent
Youth Facilities: Excellent
Junior Coaching: Adequate
Youth Recruitment: Basic

Honours;
Spor Toto Super Lig: 2010
Ziraat Turkiye Kapasi: 1986
TFF 1.Lig: 2006
TFF Super Kupa: 1986, 2010, 2015

Bursaspor Kulübü Derneği commonly known as Bursaspor, is a Turkish sports club located in the city of Bursa. Formed in 1963, the club colours are green and white, with home kits usually featuring both colours in a striped pattern.

In the 2009–10 season, the club's men's football team won its first Süper Lig title after finishing with 75 points, one point ahead of the runners-up Fenerbahçe. Bursaspor became the second club outside Istanbul to win a Süper Lig title, joining Trabzonspor who won the first of its six titles in 1975–76. The club has also won the Turkish Cup once and the Prime Minister's Cup twice, as well as the First League twice. The club's first, and most successful foray into European competition came in the 1974–75 European Cup Winners' Cup when it reached the quarter-finals. Bursaspor also took part in the 1986–87, losing in the first round, as well as the 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup, where it lost in the quarter-finals.

Since winning the league title in 2010 the club has faced financial difficulites and now finds itself sitting in the 3rd tier of the Turkish football pyramid and is even now only classed as a midtable team showing how far they have fallen in just 12 years since winning the title and competing in European football. The downfall all happened from 2015 when the club started to try and spend big to be able to compete in Europe and it cost them as they ended up being relegated in 2019 before a second relegation 2 years later in 2021.

Stadium

Now this really is worth a google are you really need to see for yourself as its been designed with the clubs nickname in mind and there is a crocodile head on the outside of the stadium.

In 2015, it was time for the Bursa side to bid farewell to their historic Atatürk home, and move into their brand new Timsah Arena. Its imposing construction with plus 43,000 seats made it to the third largest in the league. “Timsah” is Turkish for “crocodile”, which is one of the team's two nicknames (“The Green Crocodiles”).The clubs downfall happened just after the opening of the new stadium sadly so not been able to fufill the full potential of it.

The Why?

So why have I decided to pick Bursaspor well its a number of reasons really. The first being that the Super Lig sits all the way down in 19th spot meaning it has a massive amount to grow which is the same as the national team sitting all the way down in 40th spot with their best finish in an international tournament being 3rd in 2002. Next the save lets me focus on bringing players youth players through the ranks making use of the clubs facilities once we improve the coaching and recruitment but hopefully we can still unearth the odd player before that. Finally its restoring a team back to the top of the country but can we do it quicker going back up than the fall down which is the main question. I've also never managed in Turkey before so getting to grip with the rules should be interesting as well.

The Big Reveal

Name: Bursaspor Kulübü Derneği
Nickname: Yeşil Timsahlar (Green Crocodiles)
Stadium: Bursa Büyükşehir Stadium
Capacity: 43,761

Training Facilities: Excellent
Youth Facilities: Excellent
Junior Coaching: Adequate
Youth Recruitment: Basic

Honours;
Spor Toto Super Lig: 2010
Ziraat Turkiye Kapasi: 1986
TFF 1.Lig: 2006
TFF Super Kupa: 1986, 2010, 2015

Bursaspor Kulübü Derneği commonly known as Bursaspor, is a Turkish sports club located in the city of Bursa. Formed in 1963, the club colours are green and white, with home kits usually featuring both colours in a striped pattern.

In the 2009–10 season, the club's men's football team won its first Süper Lig title after finishing with 75 points, one point ahead of the runners-up Fenerbahçe. Bursaspor became the second club outside Istanbul to win a Süper Lig title, joining Trabzonspor who won the first of its six titles in 1975–76. The club has also won the Turkish Cup once and the Prime Minister's Cup twice, as well as the First League twice. The club's first, and most successful foray into European competition came in the 1974–75 European Cup Winners' Cup when it reached the quarter-finals. Bursaspor also took part in the 1986–87, losing in the first round, as well as the 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup, where it lost in the quarter-finals.

Since winning the league title in 2010 the club has faced financial difficulites and now finds itself sitting in the 3rd tier of the Turkish football pyramid and is even now only classed as a midtable team showing how far they have fallen in just 12 years since winning the title and competing in European football. The downfall all happened from 2015 when the club started to try and spend big to be able to compete in Europe and it cost them as they ended up being relegated in 2019 before a second relegation 2 years later in 2021.

Stadium

Now this really is worth a google are you really need to see for yourself as its been designed with the clubs nickname in mind and there is a crocodile head on the outside of the stadium.

In 2015, it was time for the Bursa side to bid farewell to their historic Atatürk home, and move into their brand new Timsah Arena. Its imposing construction with plus 43,000 seats made it to the third largest in the league. “Timsah” is Turkish for “crocodile”, which is one of the team's two nicknames (“The Green Crocodiles”).The clubs downfall happened just after the opening of the new stadium sadly so not been able to fufill the full potential of it.

The Why?

So why have I decided to pick Bursaspor well its a number of reasons really. The first being that the Super Lig sits all the way down in 19th spot meaning it has a massive amount to grow which is the same as the national team sitting all the way down in 40th spot with their best finish in an international tournament being 3rd in 2002. Next the save lets me focus on bringing players youth players through the ranks making use of the clubs facilities once we improve the coaching and recruitment but hopefully we can still unearth the odd player before that. Finally its restoring a team back to the top of the country but can we do it quicker going back up than the fall down which is the main question. I've also never managed in Turkey before so getting to grip with the rules should be interesting as well.

(Thanks Wiki for the help)