Bonjour! We’re halfway through season six, and a formation change has seen us pick up some much-needed consistency. We’re fourth in the league, still in both domestic cups, and have made it to the quarter finals of the UEFA Cup. Let’s see if we can kick on from here…
Following two straight promotions, scoring over 100 goals in each season, gaining 100+ points and winning the Auto Windscreen Shield twice we embark on life in Division one aiming to go three for three and maybe another couple of 100s in the bag.
The rules are simple, we can only spend 75% of the money we make, and we can’t cheat the game using the loan trick to circumvent the big club release clause. Our aim, to see how far we can get after five seasons starting in Division three with no players.
Some sad news breaks in the close seasons as we say goodbye to three good, if not slightly ill-disciplined eggs.
Welcome back to our latest venture into how competitive the best Scandinavian sides from CM9798 are against each other. It’s fair to say that since we started there has been a major divide in the league with the bottom three generally cut a drift. Has the transfer window had an impact on reversing anyone’s fortunes yet? Can it?
First up, you guessed it, it’s a cup game. Can Deano’s IFK make it beyond the semi-final against a strong Rangers side? In short, no.
Hello and welcome back to Germany where my Cologne cup winners are entering season 5 and probably the final season for me on this Blogsquad Secret Santa odyssey. A reminder of my self imposed rules – i can only sign German players and those from countries that border Germany, but only one each from France, Belgium and Holland. The issue all along is that my team is quite crap and German players in general are crap in this save, which means in four seasons we have achieved:
1 Pokal Cup win
1 Pokal Cup runners up spot
1 Bundesliga runners up spot
It’s been so crap, Dirk Schuster has had enough
Welcome back to Dingwall!
Fourteen games to go, and a pack of rabid Scots hunting us down. Let’s dig in.
Bonjour! You join us at the end of season five, where after sitting in second at the halfway mark, a horrible dip in form saw us lose over half of our games in the second half of the season, but we managed to finish fourth despite the wobble. Let’s see what another summer with no money brings us…
Continue readingWe begin season two/end season one of our five season challenge by making a couple of key signings. Croatian legend Slaven Bilic joins on a free, I think because Everton were relegated and Azerbaijani international Demis Ohandjanian signs from Macclesfield, the club I replaced in Division three. I make another couple of signings, Andy Tennant for £190k, I think he is Maurice Malpas’s regen and aging Belarussian AMC Sergei Gerasimets for free. I try to sign the Icelandic regen but he’s not interested.
Hello everybody, we’re back again to catch up with my Cologne pretenders as we approach the fag end of season 4. Success has been an illusive mistress so far, but we have made it to the Pokal Cup semi-finals, so anything is possible.
In the league, we’re very much amongst the also-rans
Bonjour to you! Welcome back for the second half of season five, where we’re out of Europe, but still have both domestic cups and the league to compete for, although the latter will be a challenge with a nine-point deficit to try and overturn. Anyway, let us crack on…
As has become tradition, well, for the second year running, the blog squad bought each other random football shirts for Secret Santa. I was lucky enough to receive this beauty from King of the Rook (Andrew Chapman), a Gateshead keepers jersey.
Along with the gift, I now needed to create a blog. Gateshead are non-league on CM9798, so I moved them into Division 3 to replace Macclesfield (I think) and begin my five-season adventure. The rules and challenge are simple enough:
Challenge:
Rules: