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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Basque Boys Deux – Part 8: The Loin King | @NTR9798

Bonjour, and happy new year! Bienvenue to season four, our third in Ligue 1. If you’ve forgotten where we left off before Christmas, we finished eighth, which sadly wasn’t enough for European football, but we do seem to be heading in the right direction. Let us resume…

Manolo hangs up his boots. I had high hopes for him, but he was plagued by injuries…

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Basque Boys Deux – Part 6: Kai and mighty | @NTR9798

Bonjour! I guess if you’ve come back again then you must be enjoying this series slightly, so I thank you. Anyway, having achieved the first season objective of staying in Ligue 1, let’s see what we can do with the squad over the summer…

I finally make a sale, as my one of my backup keepers generates £180k for the coffers…

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Basque Boys Deux – Part 4: In a different Ligue | @NTR9798

Bonjour! and welcome back to Bayonne. Last week we won promotion at the first attempt, but can we strengthen the squad over the summer to make it capable of surviving first season relegation from Ligue 1?

First business is cup draws, and it’s non-league Gueugnon in the Coupe de France…

And because we’re now a top flight team, we can play in the League Cup…

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