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Another loss. This one was deserved although we did take the lead, through none other, than Benjamin Koglbauer - the man who has been at the club since the Landesliga days, and he is still good enough to compete for a starting spot. He also came through the ranks at Austria Wien, but never made and impact and was released. However we were denied a famous point by a 2 minute double by Alexander Gorgon.

We lost to second placed, Austria Lustenau, 2-1. We went ahead through Ismael Tajouri, but were unable to hold on, and ended up losing in an unfortunate manner. We still sit in 4th, but Rapid Wien are only a point behind us, and our next game is against top of the league Austria Wien

Another, in a string of difficult games, but this time we lost. Adeleye scored an own goal on the turn of the half, and we stay in 5th, when we had the opportunity of moving up to 4th

Why Roy left Sterling on, and even Lallana on for so long, I don't know. Harry Kane was unconvincing as well, but you could see them scoring like that from a mile off

Former Austrian international, Christoph Leitgeb, is now the Head of Youth Development.



With the injury to Bill Barnett, we needed a new striker. Ismael Tajouri comes in. He will compete with Hylton, who is also injured at the moment

We hired a DoF. I'll be honest, I'd never heard of him. But he made 100 appearances for Germany, scoring 34 times. He was also a Bayer Leverkusen legend after making almost 350 appearances scoring 181 goals for them..



This is getting slightly concerning now. The 18 year old is beginning to show signs of an injury problem. He is now out for 3-4 months. Not good

The inevitable has occured. Ibrahim left for Benfica for £1.1m. It has shown me the talent that we actually have, and that I have to make sure to remove clauses from contracts.



Here is his replacement; Ismail H'Maidat. The 23 year old has Crystal Palace, Anderlecht and Roma on his CV, and he played 6 times in the league for Roma last year, before being released.



An interesting transfer for the future. Amine Monnin comes in for free from Anderlecht. The 17 year old, for some reason, was not offered a contract by Anderlecht, despite being in the first team this year. He is on quite a big wage for a 17 year old, and will probably start next year.

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Unfortunately Alex Ibrahim's interest has increased, with 6 teams now wanting him. I have said if they met the £1.1m buyout clause, they could have him; which each of them did. So it looks like he will be on his way out to a big European club

More Injuries...





A more significant injury, as we are down to our last striker. Hylton is out for 4-5 weeks, meaning Koglbauer will have to come in for a rare start. Yousfi is coming back, however, so we'll have 2 strikers

Potential Departures



Yousfi just doesn't play enough. He had a great season last year, but is surplus to requirements now. I will look to sell him as I think we can get a small sum of money



He was a very promising youngster when we signed him, but due to a combination of better players in his position, and me just not giving him a chance, he hasn't reached that potential.



Someone I didn't expect to be including on this, but Wolfsburg came in for the 19 year old. He has a £1.1m release clause, and if they meet that, I don't get a say in the transfer. However I will look to tie him down for another 5 years.

Transfer Targets



One player that has really caught my eye is Ismael Tajouri. Can play left or right wings, centre midfield or striker. Not only that, but he looks really good, and a better version of what Sharifi was in the lower leagues, as them both being Libyan.



With it looking ever more likely that Cy Goddard will leave at the end of the year, we need a new backup defensive midfielder. Sandor Torok was released by MTK in Hungary last year, and is only 19, so will improve.



Finally, Nikola Storm is on the fringes of Club Brugge. He'd mainly operate as a right back should he join, and would take the starting spot of Mathis. However as you can see from his positions, he can play a range of attacking roles too. The only problem is his wages. He wants £3k, which we can't afford, so maybe I'll wait until he is released and I will see if his demands have been reduced.

Although I said I was expecting a positive result, I certainly didn't expect it. We were on top for the entire game, and finally capitialised on it when Jermaine Hylton got his 17th goal of the season, in a week he signed a new deal. Alex Ibrahim got a knock so I took him off at half time, and 2 minutes into his game, Arthur scored to double our tally and fire us towards an unlikely victory. Noel Soumah got sent off in the 65th minute, so I sat back, and looked to defend, which we did. It is worth mentioning in the 6 games Van der Linden has played, he has kept 5 sheets, however the one game he did concede in, was a cup game. So, in other words, in the 4 league games he's played, he has kept a clean sheet in each.

Here is the retained list as it stands.



The two highest profile names set to depart on a free are Njongo Priso and Abderrahmane Yousfi, however as I mentioned earlier, with the injury to Gerritsen, I may reconsider the Priso decision. Yousfi is now a 4th choice striker, and isn't playing, leading him to become a forgotten man in many ways. Hammouti may also leave, as he is 5th choice centre back. Cy Goddard, Florain Uhlig and Maximilian Berghold are all also set to leave. Goddard has been unable to secure a starting spot and has complained a few times, Uhlig has been on loan for the last two years, and on the fringes for that time too, and finally Berghold. After 99 games for us, the 22 year old will leave. He is one of the first signing I made as the manager of Ostbahn, and it'll be sad to see him leave. I may look to find him a new squad so he doesn't just leave on a free.
All our staff members have been offered new deals except for, assistant manager, Dennis Zilavec. He wants £1.2k per week, which I don't want to pay, as most of the first team aren't on that much, and he isn't even that good anyway.

In the two months, I have reached 200 games as manager of the mighty Ostbahner.



There weren't any really challenging fixtures that I haven't already shown you, however we did lose twice, to the two better teams; SV Reid and Wolfsberger. The first loss, we were ahead in, through two own goals, however they came back, and their star man Silvio, scored in the last minutes to snatch the 3 points. The SV Reid game was another we failed to score in as it was another own goal. It came in the 89th minute to make it 2-1 however the player scored the own goal scored at the other end to make it look more convincing. We're also into the 8th round of the cup, despite a slip up against Linz in the second leg of the 7th round.



We currently sit in 5th, and the next game is against Rapid Wien. At the start of the season, I would have never given us a chance, however, with them sitting a point behind us, I am hoping we can get a positive result at least, to consolidate our 5th place position.



Finally the stand out player in these fixtures is Vanzo; he was initially signed as a striker, however, he wasn't scoring. I didn't want him to just sit and rot, but he was never going to fit into any other position in the team. We were short on central midfielders, and he didn't have central midfield as one of his listed positions. For some reason I began playing him there, and it's working.

A 3-0 win against a surprisingly poor Wacker Innsbruck side, has now put us in 5th and well in contention for European qualification

Another two significant injuries, to two of the brightest talents at the club:



Firstly Bill Barnett. He is the starting striker now, but is out for 5 weeks. Jermaine Hylton is our top scorer despite half of his 14 goals coming in two of the cup games. Anyway, he should step up.



At the start of the season, I was considering loaning him out, with Bearzotti underperforming, and Priso declining as his age takes its toll, he earned a starting spot and has been incredible. However in the game he got injured in, Priso scored off the bench. Priso has requested to leave, which I am not against allowing him to do, but he will have 3 months in the starting line up, so maybe he can take the chance and prolong his career. If not, Bearzotti will have a lot to prove to live up to last seasons form.

The worst injury that we could have got, however it comes at a good time only a few games before the transfer window. I may look to bring in a keeper on a short term loan depending on two things; how Van der Linden performs, considering he is really not a Bundesliga standard goalkeeper, and how Dioudis recovers

With us flying high in the league, the board rewarded me with a new contract.



As usual I asked for the smallest wage they'd offer to save some extra money

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sorry, didn't realise, I just saw it on the internet and it was missing in my game

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We were on a great run of form before this, but we lost to second bottom of the league, SV Ried, 3-1. We controlled the early stages of the game, but we weren't creating enough chances, so I changed the instructions to make us go more direct, and it backfired. They scored almost immediately afterwards, from a 30 yard longshot. Raul Rusecu, formerly of Sevilla and Steaua Bucharest, doubled their lead. We got one back in the 89th minute through and own goal, but the same guy redeemed himself by scoring their third. We still sit in 7th which is 2 positions away from Europa League knockout qualification, which, as it stands, is still likely.

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There was only one game after the Wiener Neustadt game, which was against RB Salzburg, which we lost 2-1, but we were in the game for its entirety, and their goals came from us, as we scored two own goals. Two games before that, we lost to, arguably, the best team in Austria, by only a one goal deficit, which I wasn't too disappointed with. Other than those, we had a very disappointing defeat to Ritzing, where we were completely dominated. We also played two games which we broke our 'goals scored in a game' records. We beat Natternbach 7-0 and 9-0, and therefore a 16-0 aggregate score. The following cup game, we won 19-0 on aggregate, with Jermaine Hylton, coming in from the shadows, to score 7 in the two legs.



After these results, the table stands like so:



We sit in 11th, which is pleasing, as I expect that we'll narrowly avoid relegation at best. SV Reid have sacked their manager with them sitting in last place

I wasn't really intending to carry on with this, down to a general lack of enjoyment with FM, so I started playing this again, and I am enjoying it, so I should be continuing it!



To begin with, we got our most convincing win of the season so far, in the league, with a 4-0 demolition of Wiener Neustadt. Youngster, Richard Gerritsen grabbed a brace, and Njongo Priso and Navarone Foor also scored. It was a great result as this is the sort of team we need to beat if we want to stay in the division



The only negative is Jhoao Rodriguez got a 6 week injury, unfortunately.

I tried to start a save that I haven't played in about 2 weeks and this appears



I have moved the most recent fm.exe file from the folder, but it still happens. Does anyone know what causes this or how to fix it?

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