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#262749 Arsenal ft Bale, Neymar, Ozil, Sanchez & Messi.
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As Dan said, spending the £££ is always fun and usually gets you plenty of goals, but it'll being interesting to see how FFP and the Arsenal board deal with the finances.

Also Messi must have some agent if he got all those bonuses!
#262733 Barclays Premier League 2014/15
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Need goals, brings on Soldado. Brilliant.
#262729 On a quest to be the best. [FM15]
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PAOK are beatable, but you'd imagine someone tougher will be waiting after them.
#262726 Barclays Premier League 2014/15
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A point would be good. As long as it doesn't end up 5-0 or something like that again.
#262725 The Lower League Thread
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Oyston's are in a league of their own tbf.

Definitely think Blackpool fans should just fuck off from Blackpool, either make a new club or support a different one.

Why should they just leave and stop supporting their team? Its not their fault Oyston is doing what he is doing. Would you stop supporting Newcastle and go to Gateshead because of Ashley? I doubt it very much.
#262722 Very nice!
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January - May

No transfers in January, but lots of matches! I continued to field reserve teams in the League Cup and FA Cup but we still managed to make it past Newcastle and into the League Cup final. The FA Cup didn't go so well as we lost to Leicester in a replay in the 4th round. The reason for not taking the cups too seriously was becuase we have already won them in recent years and the league and Champions League were far more important.

In the league we continued to be in top form and won every game until the Man City game in February. Just before that we beat RBL in the Champions League first leg 3-1. We went to Germany for the second leg and won by the same score to take us into the quarter finals. Inbetween those RBL games was the League Cup final. It was a nervy game against Liverpool and the full time score was 0-0. While in extra time though, we exploded into life and ended up winning 3-0. Yet another trophy!

Next up in Europe were Portuguese side Benfica. The Lisbon side actually took the first leg 3-2 but with no fixtures until the second leg, we were able to rest and prepare for their visit to the Riverside Stadium. Thankfully we managed to overcome the one goal defecit and progress to the semi finals for a second straight year. After those games, we beat QPR and Newcastle without conceding to head into the Champions League semi against Chelsea full of confidence. Once again though, we suffered a defeat in the first leg, going down 2-1. Shortly afterwards we got beat heavily by Man Utd leaving confidence low right before the return leg against Chelsea. A tight and hard fought game took place, but we were able to once again come from behind to beat Chelsea on away goals. This meant a Champions League final against Real Madrid would take place at the end of the season!

Before we played Madrid, we still had the league title to be decided. Going into the last day of the season, we were three points behind Chelsea but had a superior goal difference. To win the league we would have to go and win at White Hart Lane and hope Chelsea lose at already relegated Brentford. Sadly for us, neither of those results happened. We drew at Spurs after being 2-0 down but Chelsea won 2-0 at Brentford to claim a fourth straight title.

We couldn't dwell on that for too long. Real Madrid, who beat us three years ago in the Europa League final, were quickly approaching. They were the clear favourites, but with our form both this year and last year in Europe, we knew we would have a chance. The first half was 50-50 until Salah gave us a 1-0 lead in the final minute of the half. Naturally, for a team that has never been in this position, it was all a bit nervy in the second half. But as Real continued to struggle, our confidence that we could actually do this grew. Then with just 14 minutes left on the clock, Robert scored a second goal to put the trophy almost in our hands. I had wanted us to defend this out and win 2-0, but the players had ideas of their own and added further goals in the 80th and 81st minute to eliminate any remaining hopes of a Madrid comeback! Revenge for the late goal Rodriguez scored three years ago! Middlesbrough, Champions of Europe!

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UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

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The final league standings. Obviously it was annoying to miss out on the last day of the season, but we will be back stronger next season.

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My first job as Italy manager was in the Nations League against England and Belgium. We secured progression to the next round with eight points and went on to beat Russia in the semi final. We also had a couple of European qualifiers against Cyprus and Wales which we won. The Nations League final was against France, who have been in both previous finals. It was an extremely difficult final, but we managed to steal the win in the 122nd minute when Romagnoli scored his first ever goal for Italy to give us the win.

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About a month after the final, I resigned as Italy manager. Initially it had been something I wanted to do, but international management just wasn't exciting me. It was good while it lasted though and at least I can go forward with a taste of what its like on the international stage.

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#262707 Grand Theft Auto V
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Mods are already getting weird but funny!

#262702 Barclays Premier League 2014/15
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Can't see us getting anything from Man City today. Dier, Fazio, Vertonghen and Rose vs Aguero and Silva is going to be painful to watch.
#262683 Official Boxing Thread.
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I don't understand how Mayweather is a big star.

He is more 'boring' than Chelsea. Far from the greatest ever too.
#262672 Official Boxing Thread.
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I didn't stay up to watch it, but from what i've been reading, i'm glad I didn't.
#262670 Domination
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Getting a "Whoops, something went wrong" whenever I add a season to this story. Can anyone shed any light regarding why this is happening?

Are you trying to enter the 2017 season? If you are, the error message is probably because you've already entered it. When I clicked on 'Manager Stats' at the top of the page above your OP, the 2017 season is there if you scroll the page down.
#262667 Dans Journey Around The World [FM15]
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Good job on the League title. Lets hope you get it done at the start of next season!
#262588 Official Boxing Thread.
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Yeah, I think Mayweather will win, but you never know.
#262547 Fola's Career [FM15]
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Survived comfortably in the end!
#262544 Very nice!
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Tough Champions League group

It was Johno, but we did reach the semi last year so we wont be ideal opposition for them.


August - December

First off the transfer business. As i've already posted, Cristiano Ronaldo has joined us at Boro. The only other signing was Malcom for £6m from Fluminense. As you can see from his attributes, £6m is a real bargain!

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We began the season with a date at Wembley against Chelsea for the Community Shield due to our FA Cup win last season. We beat them and added another trophy to our growing collection.

For the rest of August and the whole of September, we won all of our games. That included a surprise mauling of Barcelona in the Champions League. We had a slight dip in form after that game as we won just twice in seven outings. Not great when a top of the table clash with Chelsea was coming up. Before that though, Ronaldo showed us all that he has still got it by scoring a hatrick against Hull. The Chelsea game followed that and we won it too. Going into the away game at Barcelona, the sixth group game, a win would guarantee us top spot and qualification to the next round. We were winning 2-1 but Barcelona scored a late equaliser to make everything complicated. Both of us and PSG finished with 11 points. But PSG won the head to head with us, we won the head to head with Barcelona and Barcelona won the head to head with PSG. Im still not sure how it was decided who went through, but in the end we came second behind Barcelona.

We remained unbeaten in the league until boxing day when we lost 3-2 to Spurs. We haven't beaten them since 2018 which is a worry. In the League Cup, I have been playing a reserve side in every round so far and amazingly, we are still in it. The run includes a win over Man Utd.

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As you can see, it couldn't be any closer! We will face Red Bull Leipzig in the first knockout round.

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Despite that great league form and beating Chelsea, they are still ahead of us in the league. They are only two points ahead though so we are still very much competing for the title.

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#262533 Very nice!
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Have now reached January and the global awards threw up some surprises. Will post the results in a bit, but for now the awards.

Unexpectedly Will Hughes won both the main awards and also made it into the team of the year alongside Renato. I was very surprised as Hazard, Neymar, Renato, Kenedy and Munir were the clear favourites for the award.
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#262494 Barclays Premier League 2014/15
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Love that stat on Final Score just then. Everton's back four have scored more than Liverpool's four strikers
#262488 The Lower League Thread
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They may as well just give the three points to Huddersfield, there's absolutely no point in replaying it. It'd move Leeds down a place too. And well done Blackpool fans, something drastic had to be done so fair play to them.

3-2 win for us today, Rhodes and Gestede at it again. Last game for David Dunn, he's been a superb player for us and he still stands out every time he plays as the most technically gifted player on the pitch. Top man Dunny!

David Dunn, the man that executed the greatest ever rabona!
#262486 The Lower League Thread
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Norwich - Ipswich should be good in the play offs.


I disagree, they've got every right to do it. They love their club and their owners are treating it like shit, it shows what fan power can do.

Agreed. They shouldn't just sit there watching their club get beat every week while the club is being ruined by Oyston.
#262481 Newcastle Thread
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Carver suggesting Williamson got sent off on purpose. Wow.
#262479 Barclays Premier League 2014/15
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And that pretty much ends any Burnley hope of staying up.


As shit as Newcastle are they're probably still safe.

Can't see Sunderland, QPR or Burnley getting enough points to catch them.

If Sunderland and Villa win today, Newcastle are in serious trouble. I can see them losing their last 3 games as well.
#262463 Barclays Premier League 2014/15
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I love watching Newcastle, they're so bad it actually makes me laugh sometimes.
#262391 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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For some of the locals around where I live that would be "Meets girl on dating website" "She is inbred/has a penis"
#262381 Dans Journey Around The World [FM15]
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Good start to the season

Please tell me Billy Kidd's middle name is "The"
#262379 Very nice!
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Just saw a surprising result in the Champions League.

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#262373 Very nice!
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Tough Champions League draw. Anderlecht should finish bottom though. It'll be hard but we can definatly progress judging by last seasons performances.

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#262363 Very nice!
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37 year old Ronaldo still looks pretty good!

Indeed! His passing could be better though. I'm quite happy that I managed to get him to accept such a low wage as well!
#262360 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Looks as if I'm going to be a daddy by the end of the day, came to Birmingham for a scan today and the fluid level around baby had dropped significantly from the last scan a fortnight ago. Doctor thinks the waters broke but slowly rather than a big gush. They have decided to induce her today. I'm waiting for a train back home to go and get the suitcase, shaking a little as I write this.


Good luck man!

Here comes the first of the Susie Youth camp!


Rick going to call her Susie in honour?
#262358 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Sort of, he should be hung from a tree by his balls in a lion enclosure.
#262355 Very nice!
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I had been looking at going for the Brazil job, but I doubt they would've taken me on. Then out of nowhere I get an offer to take over Italy after Frank Rijkaard's sacking. I accepted the offer, although I will still be managing Middlesbrough, i'm not bailing out now!

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