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#204604 [FM14]Johno's career
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Maurin and Kasmin looks real interesting!


I got high hopes for Maurin, hopefully I can turn him into world class striker like I did with Verhappen at Ajax.

Piaggio looks amazing!


I agree Surprised to see him joining us instead of big boys.
#204463 Choko's Career
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No idea. Sometimes it just crashes in the middle of saving and then you can't load it again!


Are you using any transfers updates? they tends to cause the game to crash.
#204459 Choko's Career
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What caused the game to crash?
#204454 The La Masia Challenge
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Big wins there I think you will finish top of the group with ease.

Tough game coming up especially Real Madrid away.
#204308 [FM14]Johno's career
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FC Shakhtar Donetsk

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Pre season results

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Didn't get off to good start against Augsburg, Went 2-0 down on 38th minutes, with their on loan striker from Schalke getting brace. Captain Benitez pulled one back for us before half time approached. Told the team that I expect a better performance in second half which they responded with 2 goals. Benitez level the score with a bullet header inside the box. The guy who scored 2 goals against us ended up making a mistake after mistiming his header and Diego, headed it in from corner to give us the win.

Tough match against CSKA Moscow, and they was the better side against us. Went into half time, 0-0. They took the lead on 51 minutes after Diego failed to clear the ball and Thalles took advantage to score. Benitez, level the score 7 minutes later with an strike outside the box. We up the game with last 20 minutes with 2 late goals from Palacios and Vasiljev whom both has a great game on the wing for us.

We played brilliant against Atlante and we was guilty of missing chances in front of the goals despite scoring 3.

Completely destroyed them with 6 goals in first half, Palacios was immense for us, disappointing not to score in 2nd half.

We ended up doing an Arsenal , raced to 4 goals lead and fell apart in 2nd half Defence was pathetic especially Leo who ended up having rating of 5.0 when he has 7 in first half.

Transfers

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Spent over 6M on 8 new players which I am quite please about.

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Rolando Moreno - Came across him after his agent offered him to me.

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Kang Jong-Duk - Mainly for merchandise option. will be back up.

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Dmytro Grechyshkin - this transfer was already pre signed before I took over.

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Anthony Maurin - This guy came through OGC Nice when I was there, been keeping an eye on him over the years and decided to take him to Ukraine.

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Nabil Kasmi - Took him with me to Ukraine, I felt we was lacking few good left back and he has improved a lot.

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Nikita Fedotov - Took a look at our feeder club link, Shakhtar Football Academy and came across him and signed him up for the future. Currently being tutored by Grechyskin.

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Olexandr Severyn - Looked at scout report and saw him and I thought he looks pretty good will be back up to our defence.

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Guillermo Piaggio - Saw him by pure luck News popped up about FIFA U's20 World Cup and he has most assists and so I took a look at him and was impressed and he was wanted by 12 clubs!! including Inter, Bayern, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Man Utd, Wolfsborg, Arsenal. He was in talks with Barcelona and Real. Offered him a contract after they accepted my bid and next day he wanted to join me Will be rotating with Telles and Kasmi.

Staff transfers

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You can see I have been busy bringing in new staffs Delighted to bring Eduardo back to the club. Still looking to bring in more scouts to boost our knowledge.
#204266 Die Königsblauen
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Good to see you have linked up with Spartak Moscow They tends to produce cracking regens.

Fantastic to see you have signed Allione for another 4 years
#204261 The La Masia Challenge
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Good challenges Looking forward to this

You could take a look at Bojan
#204260 [FM14]Johno's career
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Thanks

Almost done with pre season which It will be up later
#204259 Choko's Career
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#204141 A Little Bit Of History Changing
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Good signings especially Milner and Bender
#204134 Gloria al Sammarinese...and myself
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#204090 Gloria al Sammarinese...and myself
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What the hell has happened there
#204081 [FM14]Johno's career
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Good move! Ukraine is a really fun league to manage in!


Cheers I enjoyed managing in Ukraine league on FM13 so hopefully I will enjoy it.
#204036 The La Masia Challenge
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Interesting challenges you have set yourself out to do

Good pre season
#204013 Die Königsblauen
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Haha!!

Well, it disrupts the harmony within the squad, no? Out of all that you can control on FM, training is not one of the things I bother with, I leave it up to my staff usually, and I've got a pretty good staff at Schalke...


Rarely happens. I do tends to listen to backroom staff advice on players on what area they needs improving on or tutoring the youngsters.
#204010 [FM14]Johno's career
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FC Shakhtar Donetsk

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Sponsorship deals

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I'm not sure if that makes sense? Our sponsor going up but we lost 22K?

Financial Fair Play
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Lucky escape

Transfer budget..
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Not bad transfer budget despite having pre signed 2 players for this season plus compensation for staffs, which will be in next update, also in talks with couple players to join the club, hoping to sign few Ukraine nationally players. Selling couple players who on high wage or old.

Have also been busy revamping our backroom staff
#203983 Itchygon
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Great run in the World Cup
#203982 Die Königsblauen
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I have a huge problem with my players not coping well with extra load of individual training. Any tips? Everytime I have a staff-meeting and I have players from the first team on individual training-setup, I get feedback from my staff that the players involved is unhappy with the training-load.

I just can't figure out how to get it done without upsetting them. Tips?


I put them on heavy training load and I do get complaint now and again about it but I ignore them.
#203981 Gloria al Sammarinese...and myself
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Good to see you're starting to picking up wins with San Marino

Such a shame the club finances is in poor state
#203979 [FM14]Johno's career
Johno
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Are they having a firesale? GRAB ALLIONE!!!!


I have no idea But I can't see us signing him He'll probably go to Barcelona if anything happens.

Fucking love the move. Always enjoyed the Ukraine. Esp Shakhtar.


Cheers I was surprised to see they haven't won the league in 2 seasons.
#203944 Die Königsblauen
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Hansen looking brilliant Maybe training him on jumping reach?
#203939 [FM14]Johno's career
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Great career dude, been reading this since the beginning. waiting for the next update already


Thanks! Hopefully you don't have to wait for next update

Congratulations on your new job, glad to see you took my advice Heh!

I've never managed in Ukraine myself, but I fancy it to be a good challenge


Thanks I do feel that Lyon will be selling key players tho I can see them selling Allione.

I haven't manage in Ukraine since FM13 I believe We have got couple good youngsters to keep an eye on in the academy.
#203821 [FM14]Johno's career
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And now it's almost guaranteed Monaco will have a shockin' season and you'll regret the move.

Good luck at Shakhtar though, haven't managed in Ukraine in ages myself so it'll be interesting to see how you fare at a side who haven't won the league in a few seasons and finished last season third - I take it they're in Europe though at least? Good luck mate.


Time will tell

We will be in Europa League.

Thanks
#203814 [FM14]Johno's career
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I'd stick at Lyon for at least another season to see if you can crack Monaco.


I was tempted to stay but I felt Shakhtar was too good to turn down.
#203812 [FM14]Johno's career
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Wow tough choice! Its what you're feeling now though, are you feeling that its going to be too tough to crack Monaco within say the next couple years? or is that the challenge you thrive upon? Or would you like an easier challenge and a few league titles under your belt with Shakhtar and a return to France in the near future!?


I think it will be tough to knock Monaco off the top. Decided to take it in the end as I felt Shakhtar will be a good challenge especially with the history with the club and trophies. They have fallen behind Dnipro and Dynamo Kiev and have struggled to get between them.

I would like to return to France at some point.
#203809 [FM14]Johno's career
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FC Shakhtar Donetsk

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Decided to take the job, I enjoyed my time with Lyon but I always wanted have a crack in Ukraine league, right time to take over Shakhtar Looking forward to rebuilding the team back to former glory, few good players and youngsters in the team.

Current team players
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As you can see there few old players in the team which I will be looking to replace in the summer.

Formation - I will probably go for 4-2-3-1 or 4-5-1 or 4-1-2-1-2. I will use the pre season to see which will suit the team.

Will also be looking to revamp backroom staff too
#203794 [FM14]Johno's career
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They just offered me the job other thing is missing from the list is increase junior coaching budget.

#203790 [FM14]Johno's career
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#203783 [FM14]Johno's career
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Take the Shakthar job, bring Allione with you


I don't think Shakthar can afford him They did offer me 15M budget if I'm interested in taking over.

One of the two, maybe three, careers I actually still follow now, very good job last season mate, little disappointing being behind PSG at the end but a Europa league crown will do nicely!


Cheers Dan! I was disappointed too! I think it was in our hands to finish 2nd but our matches against Sochaux, FC Metz and Saint Etienne didn't turn out the way we wanted to.

Delighted to win the Europa League, one of my objective this season was getting a cracking run in Europa League Before the match, Spurs has never lost to Lyon past 2 games. Spurs fielded this XI against us, Pretty scary eh

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#203658 [FM14]Johno's career
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Slight increase on our sponsorship

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Decent transfer budget, hopefully I can bring in few players to improve the squad.

I'm still undecided on Shakhtar job if they offered me the job