Bonjour! Welcome along to a seventh season of the Basque Boys’ French invasion, which has to date been fruitless, but having reached a domestic cup final, and the UEFA Cup quarter-finals, is there evidence to suggest that we’re not too far away, and that season seven might be a lucky one?
Continue readingSeason four, most likely the penultimate season in this adventure/challenge. We started with Gateshead in Division three and a team full of greys. We have made it to the Premier League after back to back to back promotions. Worrying about big club release clauses are a thing of the past but we still have our PSR rules to worry about.
I find the regens of Trevor Steven and Gary McAllister on free transfers. I’ve had my eye on a guy called Tarantino from Italy who can play behind the front two for a while and he finally joins for £775k. I also find the regen of Thomas Ravelli (I think) and get him in for £110k. Currently my most expensive purchase is 5000 plastic seats so I change that by bringing in another ex-Man Utd youngster E. Nev, for £2.9 million.
I counterbalance all this by selling M.M.Ipintza for £4.6 million who has decided he “wants to move to a bigger club” and attracted attention after his solid end to last season.
Some of this transfer business wasn’t concluded until after our first few games of the season, hence Ipintza’s presence of the score sheet in out first Premier League match, away at Spurs and our first home match against Crystal Palace.
Day 46 of 2026 and its still raining. I’m not sure what the weather was like in Cologne back in 2001, but given how things have been going, it’s likely to be highly changeable. This is the middle section of season 5 and my penultimate post of last years secret Santa blog squad adventure. So far, our limited border transfer exercise has only yielded one Pokal Cup victory, but it has taken us into europe. Before that though, a reminder of where we stand…
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.
