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#482528 Saving Newcastle United (with no coaching license) - Failed
The OG KiKo
Good luck, will be following
#479577 VP's Arsenal Career - A New Direction
The OG KiKo
Dominant! What went on with the Leicester game?!
#478714 New Save Advice
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Despite all of the noise, suggestions and distractions in here - this may well be the choice!
#478579 New Save Advice
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Welcome all suggestions for anywhere and everywhere
Cheers
#478369 The Lille Dream
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#478215 VP's Arsenal Career - A New Direction
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#478213 [FM17] Climbing Jacob's Ladder (Part Deux)
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#470618 FM19 - Southend Utd
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#466888 FM19 - Southend Utd
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#466340 [FM19] KEZ - Von Vorn Anfangen
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Well, we continued into the league season in great fashion, only really slipping up in October as we headed towards the odd mid-season World Cup. Dortmund knocked our confidence, going down 2-0 very early so I ended up very happy with the draw. In the table, we keep on track for the CL spots, but Bayern pulled away once we started to drop points.
Not a lot more to report aside from this:
#466332 FM19 - Southend Utd
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#466016 FM19 - Southend Utd
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#465598 [FM19] KEZ - Von Vorn Anfangen
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Well, as I stated we needed the summer to be very busy and as you can see it was...
Buzzing to bring Goretzka back to Schalke and almost had Max Meyer too... getting the old band back together it seems! Kehrer and Nubel are also Schalke academy graduates and I'm hoping that helps to mend a bit of the dynamics in the squad. Adding Diaz on a free I think could be tidy as he hopefully solves the problem of the number 10 spot, as he slots in-between Draxler and Lozano. Aside from the lad from RBL - everyone else drops into our youth teams but seemingly have great potential.
Hopefully, we've set off as we mean to go on in terms of results. We played against a load of dross in preseason but it seems to have given the side a confidence boost as we won all of our competitive games to start the season, with some tough opposition in there. Diaz the highlight, but it's also nice not to be conceding many goals.
Haway the blues.
#465413 [FM19] KEZ - Von Vorn Anfangen
The OG KiKo
So um... after 90 minutes we were beating Darmstadt 2-1 and then we lost which took them into the playoff which they won... doesn't look suspicious at all
#465405 [FM19] KEZ - Von Vorn Anfangen
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#465398 [FM19] KEZ - Von Vorn Anfangen
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So first things first 3 pre-Santa games where we covered all 3 kinds of results and then we went straight into the winter break. I'll show you those results soon... but first the transfers!
A lot of movement and a lot of unhappy players but it was needed and probably still is. Lozano is hopefully going to be the attacking threat we need, Aboubakar is the attacking threat I wanted - though way too expensive to keep a hold of and Wober is hopefully going to sure us up at the back. I was gutted to lose Harit to China and it caused a lot of unrest in the squad but the money was too good to turn down as we find ourselves in a surprising bit of financial trouble...as do the rest of the league somehow. Bentaleb going was intended to bring in Holtby from HSV but we couldn't do it quick enough for the wages to be available to negotiate with him... a typical piece of FM given that he was game to come and we had the bid accepted.
The biggest result to mention here is the 3-3 with Dortmund... we were 3-0 up with 10 to go and the players blamed ME?! ME?! - If you can't tell already, these jokers are killing me and so there'll be a big turnover in the summer! I'll post the table next update as I'm currently mid-April so it's out of sync a couple of games.
Never seen this before so thought I'd share it... maybe it explains our money troubles.
#465396 [FM19] KEZ - Von Vorn Anfangen
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So after much deliberation, soul searching or er,... mainly not playing FM - I ended up taking the Schalke job. As attractive as the others were, I quite enjoy the short season in Germany and I actually follow Schalke quite closely (thanks to a network game on FM10) and I'm off to see them IRL in April. This just saves me making a save as them later in the year!!
So here's the squad to start:
It was brilliant to see they'd brought Draxler back as he's been one of my favourite players on FM for years (also a reference to that network game) but personally I think he's on too much dollar and not effective enough - he's also a bit of a whinge which I'm guessing he picked up from Neymar.
Sitting in 11th I feel like Europe could still be achievable which is why I've taken the job. You'll also notice that Kaiserslautern are getting absolutely hammered, which is a shame but I also feel vindicated that maybe I was having a good effect on the team?!
Finally - finances aren't brilliant which I think is down to so many older players being on big wages... hopefully I get the time to sort that out
One minor point is that
#465283 FM19 - Southend Utd
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#464371 FM19 - Newcastle Utd (SACKED)
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Art immitating life
#464368 FM19 - Newcastle Utd (SACKED)
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#463835 FM19 - Newcastle Utd (SACKED)
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#463446 (FM19) Worldwide Journeyman
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#462127 FM19 - TONGEY travels the world.
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#461877 A Cardinal Sin - Woking our way to the top
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#461869 The New Ferguson - Man Utd (FM19)
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#461868 Manchester Central FC
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#461514 Sporting CP - The Resurgence
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#461467 [FM19] KEZ - Von Vorn Anfangen
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So - I felt the need to split this save and don't know where I'll take it from here, meaning the updates may stop at least for now. After holidaying without getting a job until November 2021, here are my options moving forward and I welcome all of your thoughts (including if you think I should stay!). I do have a preference which I'm going to try, but welcome anything you think.
??
#461454 [FM19] KEZ - Von Vorn Anfangen
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To finish the season we played league winners Hertha - who battered us and European contenders Hannover, who stole a win but couldn't break into the top 4. 2 shoddy games which I think could have made my mind up about the new season.
Very happy to come 13th - something so far from anything I thought we could manage this season, it almost gives me the hope to continue.
Ah. Maybe this gives me hope too...
#461450 [FM19] KEZ - Von Vorn Anfangen
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WELL! March saw all-but-confirm our place in the Bundesliga next season as we picked up another big win against Wolfsburg, right before the horrible trio of Leverkusen (who beat us to keep the manager in a job), - a strange fixture gap which I didn't see coming - Dortmund (who we were awful against) and then Bayern (who tore us apart with Memphis and Bailey) - thankfully, however, results elsewhere meant we secure the place with games to spare! Frankfurt tied us up, as they continue their charge toward the Champions League, whilst fellow strugglers Freiburg did the same.
What a season - for all there are 2 games to go, a lot of what's going on is settled and I never thought I'd see a table looking like this. Hertha (who we face next by the way) have raced to the title, despite finishing down in 9th last season, before we arrived - they do have Malcom on loan from Barca which I am sure is helping! On a similar note, 2nd place Frankfurt were 11th last season WHAT IS GOING ON?!
Future
For all I don't know what I'll be doing for this coming season, I've made sure that 2 of the clubs best players are staying put!