In Gateshead : Season 2 | @Taitanator

We 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.

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In Gateshead : Season 1 | @Taitanator

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:

  • How far can you get in five seasons, starting with a team full of grey players?

Rules:

  • PSR, I can only spend 75% of the money I make through player sales and prize money.  I’ve made a handy little spreadsheet to ensure compliance.
  • No using the loan trick to mitigate the big club release clause.
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I think we’re Cologne now – Part 11 : A miss from a Rose | @Matt_C_Wills

Hello everybody and welcome back to Germany where my Cologne team have had to become tight at the back and protect the fraud that is Oliver Kahn in goal. Here’s a quick overview of the squad as it stands

No real superstars ,are there? Bierfhoff has been our main goal threat but he’s knocking on 33 years of age now, while Purk’s goals have shrivelled up.

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The Ross County Challenge: A Highland Fling, Part Nine | @TJMitcham1983

Welcome back to Dingwall, where season three has begun with a sense of quiet purpose. Six games in, Ross County sit top of Division One, five wins from six laying solid foundations for what we hope will be another step forward. The goals are coming, the defence looks settled, and there’s a reassuring rhythm to the early weeks that suggests this side knows what it’s about. Ayr and Airdrie will have their say, of course, but for now there’s momentum, belief, and the faint sense that three promotions in a row might not be a foolish thing to imagine.

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Basque Boys Deux – Part 10: Bordeaux battering | @NTR9798

Bonjour and welcome! You join us fresh off the back of our best season to date, as we finished fourth, and secured European football for the first time. However, a pathetic £325k prize money won’t even take the bank balance out of the red, and once again there’s no cash injection, so I’ll spend yet another summer rummaging in the bargain bin…

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I think we’re Cologne now – Part 10 : Kahn you smell the glove tonight? | @Matt_C_Wills

Hello blog readers, it’s Tuesday and as I contemplate my impending 45th birthday, lets swing back to the year 2000, where we’re entering season 4 with Cologne.

I start pre-season with an Austrian signing to Purk up my attacking options, to add to my close season capture of Oliver Kahn on a free transfer to try and stabilise my defence.

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