ManUtd1 Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 19 hours ago, kidthekid said: Congrats on your win, but great to see Kobenhavn win the league ahead of Brondby. Great day for football all around. Football is saved. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 20, 2018 Author Share Posted October 20, 2018 December 2019 Great month, Dolberg keeps scoring like a madman and we had a fantastic victory over Milan which secured the knock-out rounds! Chelsea up next, normally the end for us - but you never know... mostly usual suspects elsewhere. Our domestic dominance is crazy! Got my first two job offers in. Rejected them, of course, but always interesting to see. Also this is now my life, january is going to be insane. The amount of news I'm getting about clubs wanting to buy De Ligt alone.... I mean, I understand why... Luis Suárez won the 2019 Ballon d'Or, while Messi won the World Player of the Year. Bit strange, as Barca aren't really even doing that well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 20, 2018 Author Share Posted October 20, 2018 January 2020 Two new signings, Trapp the new #1 GK with Onana moaning about leaving, although he hasn't gone yet this month. Silva another Portuguese talent. The month wasn't actually that exciting, only some offers for Onana and Pereira (who got angry because I didn't accept a loan offer from Milan. A loan?!). No idea why Liverpool would want van Leer, at most a mid-table Eredivisie GK. Some of the players impressing for Jong Ajax got loans to Eredivisie sides. Still going very well. I was kind of shocked to see PSV at 7 points distance, I hadn't noticed they had a couple of games in hand so now that's done and it's a little bit less of a 1-club-league, even though it still kinda is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Tough draw in CL knockout round! Decent in the league, surprised you got 7 points gap even PSV got 2 games in hand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 20, 2018 Author Share Posted October 20, 2018 26 minutes ago, john1 said: Tough draw in CL knockout round! Decent in the league, surprised you got 7 points gap even PSV got 2 games in hand. Yeah too bad about the draw... cheers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 20, 2018 Author Share Posted October 20, 2018 February 2020 Defeated 1-0 by Chelsea which was a bit dissappointing but expected, but more shocking were two defeats in the league! We did beat PSV at the start of the month though. We dominated the league matches we lost, the main issue I think is I lost Dolberg to an injury for a few weeks - although to be fair, his replacement Sierhuis did get three goals in this month. Still got a 8 point lead though, which should normally be fine if we don't get into some crazy slump of form. (probably making sure that happens by pointing it out!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Hope you can turn Chelsea over at their place! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 20, 2018 Author Share Posted October 20, 2018 March 2020 + Youth Intake We did perfectly well domestically but it just wasn't to be against Chelsea. Not quite there yet. League should be safe now, but PSV has done a remarkable job really this season. A pretty decent intake, van Dijk looks interesting at the very least! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 20, 2018 Author Share Posted October 20, 2018 54 minutes ago, john1 said: Hope you can turn Chelsea over at their place! Wasn't to be, I'm afraid! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Not bad to lose 1-0 in both legs Decent intakes, and Van Dijk looks superb with those attributes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidthekid Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Van Dijk looks like the next great Dutch left back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
withnail316 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 I developed a bit of a love affair with Utrecht after a glorious run with them a few years ago, so this hard for me to say...but good luck with Ajax. You seem to have made a bright start! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonadias Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Turkish League 18/19 or 19/20 ranking pls thank you good luck! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 13 hours ago, john1 said: Not bad to lose 1-0 in both legs Decent intakes, and Van Dijk looks superb with those attributes That's true, I suppose! Very curious to see Van Dijk's development. 9 hours ago, kidthekid said: Van Dijk looks like the next great Dutch left back. I hope so, I will definitely need a new player there in a few years with Blind in his thirties and Tagliafico at 27. 7 hours ago, withnail316 said: I developed a bit of a love affair with Utrecht after a glorious run with them a few years ago, so this hard for me to say...but good luck with Ajax. You seem to have made a bright start! Haha, cheers anyway! Going pretty well so far! 5 hours ago, Leonadias said: Turkish League 18/19 or 19/20 ranking pls thank you good luck! I'll post them in the season recap for you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 April-May 2020 And that is a double! Not our best performances of the season, honestly, but we did enough. Jong Ajax won the second tier again! (I have no idea what happened with the relegations, there should only be one relegated side, and no reason at all that I can see why Helmond should get relegated - I posted it on the bugs forum to be sure) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 Season Review 2019-2020 + Look at the game world Dominated the league from the start, although PSV had a great season as well after a poor start. Champions League just not possible for now. The big four - De Ligt, Dolberg, De Jong and van de Beek - those really are the core players that I want to keep around for as long as possible. Let's see what happens with transfers... This is nice, the first step forwards. As far as the rest of Europe is concerned.... Liverpool won their second straight champions league - what a ridiculous end to the game. Spurs won the Europa League, so it's really a case of English domination so far. These were the national champions: Austria: Red Bull Salzburg Belarus: Dinamo Brest (2019) Belgium: Club Brugge Bulgaria: Levski Sofia Croatia: Dinamo Zagreb Czech Republic: Slavia Prague Denmark: FC Midtjylland England: Liverpool Finland: HJK (2019) France: PSG Germany: Bayern Greece: Olympiacos Hungary: Honvéd Iceland: FH (2019) Ireland: Dundalk (2019) Israel: Hapoel Be'er-Sheva Italy: Juventus Northern Ireland: Glenavon Norway: Molde (2019) Poland: Legia Warsaw Portugal: FC Porto Romania: CFR Cluj Russia: Spartak Moscow Scotland: Celtic Serbia: Partizan Slovakia: Trencin Slovenia: Olimpija Spain: Real Madrid Sweden: Malmö (2019) Switzerland: Young Boys Turkey: Galatasaray Ukraine: Dynamo Kyiv Wales: TNS (Turkey 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 @Leonadias) As always, if you want to see any tables or anything else just let me know and I'll do my best. The first international tournament of this save happened - not great for the Dutch as they were beaten in the second round, while Macedonia (!!!) made it to the quarter finals! Spain won the thing in the end. Liverpool the dominant team of this save so far. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonadias Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Thank you bro , come on now, the champions league ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Decent season Think you need to report as a bug to SI on Liverpool winning back to back CL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 6 hours ago, john1 said: Decent season Think you need to report as a bug to SI on Liverpool winning back to back CL Haha yeah it's kind of crazy, if they win another time I'll have to... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 Pre-Season + August 2020 As you would expect. Let's see if Feyenoord can at least prove they are still a sub-top team this season. Very busy again - a few incoming talented players with all of them except for Arnaud actually joining the first team squad as I'm looking to rotate a bit more in the Eredivisie. Outgoing the main transfer is obviously Wöber to Bournemouth, he has done okay for me but I thought the offer was pretty good and there are plenty of central defenders at the club who can fill his spot. Before the season even got started there were two interesting job offers - at some point I will probably take the Dutch national team job but I am not looking to do it quite yet. I had to deal with a bunch of my players: being away at the olympics, which wasn't ideal for pre-season, they also missed the Johan Cruyff Schaal. Not that it mattered, as we beat PSV 5-0. The jokers at the Dutch FA arranged PSV away as a start to the league, but as we beat them away the joke's on them... We also made it comfortably to the CL groups. Man.... I guess third place just will have to do. In first while we played a game less than the rest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Decent start Tough CL group, but I am sure you can get 2nd place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 6 minutes ago, john1 said: Decent start Tough CL group, but I am sure you can get 2nd place. Thanks mate... I was a lot more pessimistic than you but the first games have gone quite well... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 September 2020 Insane - still all wins this season, but look at those Champions League games. We started at home to Olympiacos - a game we had to win. A Matthijs de Ligt hattrick???? What?! Okay. Oh, we also beat Man City at their stadium. Well, not in first anymore only because we are lagging behind in games played! Feyenoord is having a better season at least. Their poor city compatriots Sparta are having a mare of things, though.... Those of you who have read my threads in previous FMs might know why I screenshotted this. Derby time! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Wow, what have De Ligt, been eating on the day you play Olympiacos?! Superb win over Man City, in their own backyard Ah, AFC Hope you let them beat you Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 8 minutes ago, john1 said: Wow, what have De Ligt, been eating on the day you play Olympiacos?! Superb win over Man City, in their own backyard Ah, AFC Hope you let them beat you Hahaha yeah I know right! Let's see what will happen on that day.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 Transfers! Just as a note; I missed the two biggest transfers yet -- both this year. 140M is now the record for who else than Dybala... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 October 2020 No longer 100%... but still unbeaten in the CL after we faced all the opponents in the group. Crazy. Dominated AFC, but the score doesn't tell the whole story... After we beat PSV in the opening match they went on a 8-game winning streak! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 November 2020 Oh dear, disaster strikes! Totally against the run of play, but we were smashed by Olympiacos. Back down to earth... Still toe to toe with PSV! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 December 2020 Just so disappointing, we were so close! Perhaps we can have a run in the Europa League... Not too pleased with that cup loss either. FM'd. Luis Suárez won the Ballon d'Or for the second straight year... Kevin de Bruyne won World Player of the Year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 January 2021 This month took a long time as certain clubs just wouldn't stop offering for Frenkie de Jong and Donny van de Beek. Also this. I know this is extremely unrealistic, but no way am I letting Matthijs de Ligt leave the club if I have anything to do with it. This is how he looks when I got the offer. These are the players that ended up leaving - we made enough money as it is. Pereira did well in his first season at the club but this season he was a bit of a disappointment so not too bothered he left for that amount of money. Decent money for Onana as well, and a bunch of Jong Ajax players get their first moments of Eredivisie football. I signed two new players - Gaspar is a box-to-box midfielder with potential for a very cheap price and Rajkovic is a direct replacement for Onana as second GK. We went on with what we were doing, dominating in the Eredivisie - happy to see bench players performing when asked to do so. Next game will be PSV at home, if we can beat them an unbeaten season might be possible... The second most expensive transfer so far happened this month (record is still Dybala with 140M). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 February 2021 We weren't able to beat PSV, but unbeaten still the same! Also beat RBL, one of the teams who wouldn't stop offering for my players in January. It wasn't easy though. Legia is next, seems theoretically like the kindest draw possible. Look at those teams in the Europa League by the way. PSG, Roma, Monaco, Sevilla, Napoli, Arsenal... Interesting to see PSV do so well for themselves really, if you discount the 3 points they lost to us they only dropped 5 more points than we did throughout the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 March 2021 + Youth Intake Only a few games but did very well, easily dealt with Legia. Next round will be the end of things, though. A decent youth intake, a few players that start out pretty strong although their attributes aren't exactly in the right place for the roles I would want them to play and the low-end is really low this time around so only signed up half or so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Cactus Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Going great in domestic football, hopefully you can put down a marker in the Europa, if you can find a way past PSG then going the whole way isn't beyond you. Any chance of a look at van de Beek? I got him for about £13mil on a network game and was wondering how he'd look that far in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 1 hour ago, King Cactus said: Going great in domestic football, hopefully you can put down a marker in the Europa, if you can find a way past PSG then going the whole way isn't beyond you. Any chance of a look at van de Beek? I got him for about £13mil on a network game and was wondering how he'd look that far in. Cheers! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Cactus Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Thank you! he looks very well rounded, have you trained him on anything specific? I'm tempted to utilise him a bit deeper so might invest into his tackling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 1 minute ago, King Cactus said: Thank you! he looks very well rounded, have you trained him on anything specific? I'm tempted to utilise him a bit deeper so might invest into his tackling. I have not used much of a specific focus apart from him training for the role of ball-winning midfielder, perhaps I should've done so though now that you mention it... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 So this happened the 5-0 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 April 2021 Incredible stuff overall and especially against PSG, did not see that coming. Of course we then screw it up against Marseille... still a theoretical chance to turn things around of course. One more game to get that unbeaten season! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MarcxD Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 May 2021 We did it again in the final, dominated what has to be on paper a better side by a margin. Unbeaten season == imagine being PSV's manager and not winning the title with 88 points... Jong Ajax won the league again as well - although they had to overtake Jong PSV on the last matchday! As you can see there were indeed two promotions last year around, with one of them now going back down. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 2020-2021 Season Review + Game World Update Unbeaten in the league and Europa League victory, it's getting kind of crazy - especially as PSV have been doing really well for themselves in the league as well. If they can do something in Europe and some of the sub-top clubs can catch up even a little bit... that would be nice. I also have to say Gegenpressing seems to work a little bit too well This was the first time I won a manager of the year award! Incredible stuff from Cosimo, Dolberg now played a lot of games as AML but did very well there too. Fantastic first season for Luiz Gustavo too. Good mix of players that have been here in the start and some new blood, excitingly also players like Schuurs and Gravenberch who have made the step from Jong Ajax to first team squad, what Jurriën Timer already did last season. Game world... Liverpool made it to the third CL final in a row, but were duly embarrassed by rivals Man Utd! National champions: Austria: Red Bull Salzburg Belarus: Dinamo Brest (2020) Belgium: Club Brugge Bulgaria: Ludogorets Croatia: Dinamo Zagreb Czech Republic: Sparta Prague Denmark: FC Midtjylland England: Liverpool Finland: HJK (2020) France: Monaco Germany: Bayern Greece: Olympiacos Hungary: Ferencváros Iceland: Stjarnan (2020) Ireland: Dundalk (2020) Israel: Beitar Jerusalem Italy: Juventus Northern Ireland: Coleraine Norway: Stabaek (2020) Poland: Jagiellonia Portugal: FC Porto Romania: FCSB Russia: Spartak Moscow Scotland: Hibernian Serbia: Crvena Zvezda Slovakia: Slovan Bratislava Slovenia: Rudar Velenje Spain: Atlético Sweden: Malmö (2020) Switzerland: FC Basel Turkey: Besiktas Ukraine: Dynamo Kyiv Wales: TNS Amazing stuff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trilderos Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Just caught up, absolutely brilliant thread! Hopefully you can kick on in the CL next season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillHoward42 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Following Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Congratulations on winning the league and the EL. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minuy600 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Congratulations on the EL win, brilliant humiliation of Marseille at home. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 16 hours ago, Trilderos said: Just caught up, absolutely brilliant thread! Hopefully you can kick on in the CL next season. 15 hours ago, WillHoward42 said: Following 14 hours ago, Rikulec said: Congratulations on winning the league and the EL. 10 hours ago, Minuy600 said: Congratulations on the EL win, brilliant humiliation of Marseille at home. Thanks guys, really appreciate it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 Pre-Season + August 2021 Still a no. Signed him on a new deal until 2026. Busy... poached some more talents, some for the first team and a new goalkeeper in Schwolow as I sold Trapp to Liverpool. The other big sale was young right back Timber, as I don't think he's quite worth that much. Elsewhere there were two transfers over 100M. And one over 200M!!!! And Christensen of all players - not saying he's bad, but the most expensive player.... We started pretty well, but we were shocked by Man Utd in the super cup, still a gap there. After last year's success though, we did have a nice jump in the European coefficients. PSV already lost 5 points... Should be a relatively safe qualification for the next round alongside Arsenal, normally. But you never know... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
uddag_s Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 Any chance you could post what transfers Liverpool have done? - winning 2 Champions League & 2 Premier Leagues over your save so mighty impressive Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 On 24/10/2018 at 15:13, uddag_s said: Any chance you could post what transfers Liverpool have done? - winning 2 Champions League & 2 Premier Leagues over your save so mighty impressive Of course. The number of transfers hasn't been crazy but they've pretty much only did big deals. Also noteworthy that this summer Klopp left after winning those trophies, Allegri is the new manager. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 September 2021 Fantastic start to the Champions League, two 3-0 wins, including over Arsenal. Wow! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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