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The Pitbull-Stories Transfers Summer 2023 First of all, this are the three lads, which our DoF brought into the club by himself. With that three transfers i'm not that happy. Dejan Stojanovic is a needless signing. With Friedrich we have the best keeper from the past season in our squad. Behind him we have a talented youngster. So another keeper with regular player potential only brings conflicts and bad mood. Ondrej Petrák is a decent and routine option, but also more a nice to have than a necessary option. Especially since we brought in a new formation and don't need the DM in every game. And Pesic? Well certainly a good striker for Eredivisie, but overaged and overpaid. The board wants us to sign players under 23, not over 30, like our DoF does it. A quick look to the other new signings. Johnston the urgent necessary third option for the CD spot. Krastev and De Winter are two loan incomings. De Winter can play in CM or RB and Krastev is a brilliant option for the APM-spot. With Kavic we signed a talented bosnian striker with huge potential. He comes with the recommendation of 20 goals in the last season at Nurnberg. Saku Ylätupa, a former Ajax-Youngster will be the back up for Nunnely on the right wing. And for Etienne Amenyido we smashed out the most money. He can play on the left wing or as striker. Out Only mentionable is the sale from Saglam to Fenerbahce. After a brillant season he goes back to Turkey and brings us close to 10 Millions in. Squad Goalkeepers Friedrich has the place in goal, after his brillant past season. Stojanovic finds himself first on the bench. That will probably get spicy. Schut i actually wanted to loan out, but no club had interest. Loans are actually quit frustrating in this FM. Not one side from the dutch second tier ever shows interest. Just offers from portugals second side-teams or from germany are coming in. Defenders Next to Nuhu are Johnston, Oikonomou and Petrák battling for the second spot in CD. On the wing back nothing has changed. Midfielders Saddiki, de Sart, Krastev and Casap (which reject an offer from Union Berlin) are good options for the central midfield. As backups Petrák and De Winter can play there also. On the right wing we have with Nunnely and Ylätupa very well options. On the left wing can play Svensson, Meerveld, Obregón and Amenyido. Strikers A bit too much players for just one spot. That's why Obregón and Amenyido will mostly play on the wing.

thanks! was also a bit surprised i will stay, at least for one more sear. had an offer from slavia prague (played there already in fm18), but declined. will try to get some more success with willem, even its really hard to be competitive with ajax and psv.

Quick look at my former club Jeunesse Esch. A german guy was the successor of Edgar Davids. In the league they played well and became champions again. So lools like, we built up a good fundament. International they qualified for European Conference League again. Beat even Anderlecht, but lost all the other games and withdraw.

Congratulations! Would be interesting to see you in France, think it would quite be more challenging than germany. Once played in france in FM and failed hard on PSG. They sold Mbappe and bought Kane, Grealish and Haaland as replacement but maybe in 2031 they're not that strong anmyore

The Pitbull-Stories End of Season-Review As you can see, we have four players, which have an important pillar in the team with an average rating over 7,00. But lets take a closer look to the squad. Goalkeepers Ricardo Friedrich, a brillant sweeper keeper, made 16 clean sheets in 34 league games! I was actually planing to give talented Maarten Schut some play-time this season, but the brazilian then played so well and was a strong back, that i couldn't made changes on that position. So Schut only played three cup games. Aiming to loan him out next season. Defenders Musah Nuhu was a really good signing from the old management. A strong tackler with high jumping reach. Alongside the ghanaian mostly played Marios Oikonomou, another decent new signing. Dimitris Goutas was okey, but didnt catch up for a new contract and is leaving now. Di'Shon Bernard was a winter loanee from our new affiliate club Manchester United. On the left side, Derrick Köhn and Raoul Petretta wer rotating. Their performances were okey, but i hopped for some more assists. On the right side the same issue. Owusu and Sidler were decent, but not more. Midfielders In the middle, Görkem Saglam and Carlo Casap were very important. The rumanian made good performances as B2B-player and scored 8 goals. Saglam was more the creative part, assisting 13 goals. Behind them Driess Sadiki was the one for the robust things in the defensive part. De Sart was okey, but couldn't leave a lasting impression. Merkel will leave as a free agent. On the right wing, Che Nunnely probably was the player of the season. A really quick winger with a good finish. Behind him i wanted to build up youngster Hafid Jahaoui, after Shengelia left in winter. But hell, that lad is unfortunately more injuried, than he can play. Left wing was all to Max Svensson. Probably one of the best players of the league, if he wants. But his performances were unfortunately only rarely outstanding. From a player like this i expect more than just four goals and one assist. Forwards Obregón had a good start, but after the winter break he had help out on the wings and lost scoring power through that. Okyere Wriedt was our best scoring player. A really good striker with no cons and just pros. Luckly he signed a new contract. Pfeiffer wasn't able to set some good impressions. We want to get rid of him in summer. Misidjan is a nice prospect, which i wanted lead in to the squad, but obviously he isn't ready for Eredivise-Football yet. Through the cup-victory and the 4th place we also get a little financial boost. Five millions for transfers and 165K wage budget. I think, we can work with that!

The Pitbull-Stories KNVB beker Final So we get surprisely through to the final and face PSV. "The only chance is, that we don't really have a chance", was Davids message to his team. And they didn't show any fear or respect to the big opponent. After four minutes Saglam brought a free kick from the right side into the penalty box. There was a big mess, but Nunnely kept the overview and smashed the ball into the net! Really early lead for us! But PSV suddenly stroke back. A long ball from Diomandé took Antonisse volley from the penalty box border and hammered the ball into the goal. 1-1! Nice goal, but not good for us. Afterwards the game was even, like its normal in a thrilled cup final. After a bit more than half an hour it was again Saglam, who had a brillant idea. Getting the ball in the midfield, he played a long ball to Svensson, who was entering in the penalty box, shot and placed the ball in the bottom short corner! Then the game went on both sides. We had in total 14 shots on target - PSV 11, but wasn't really dangerous. In the end we also had a bit luck. Five minutes before the whistleblow, substituted Nelson Monté scored the equalizer. But the goal didnt count, because he was offside! In the last minutes nothing happened anymore and Willem and Davids won their first throphy! It was actually the first Trophy for Willem since 1963!

The Pitbull-Stories April - May 2023 We take another point against Ajax! But they were allready champions and spared some important players. We still had trouble against the young and scored a really late equalizer. Better it went in Twente, where we could win with 3-0. Against Feyenoord it followed a goalless draw, before we lost against Emmen and Alkmaar. In Eindhoven we made a heroic comeback in the second half. But PSV also spared some regular players, because they were allready save on the second place. The season we finished, like we mostly played in this year: With a 1-0 win over Heerenveen. Ajax played in their own league this year. For us, the fourth place is a brillant result! On the other end of the table, Sparta Rotterdam, NAC Breda and Go Ahead Eagles face relegation. With 16 clean sheets. Ricardo Friedrich absolutely deserved the Goalkeeper of the season award. Youth Intake With Schoonbrood we get a really good future prospect!

The Pitbull-Stories March 2023 Unfortunately a loss in Groningen, but the team reacts with three wins in a row. Nunnely and Wriedt carry this team! We're tumbling out of the european qualification places. But still a really solid season so far. Semifinal in Alkmaar, and again, Nunnely is balling. Scoring two goals in the first 25 minutes that brings us into the final! Didn't expect that on the beginning of the season. Now we face PSV - a though match.

The Pitbull-Stories January - February 2023 Ajax probably still was recovering from the new years party, so we could steal a point from Amsterdam. Zwolle and Utrecht afterwards were good games with no goals conceded. Against PSV we were without a chance, and in Heerenveen and Sparta we showed again our minimum performance with two 1-0 wins. Probably our most played result. In Sittard we surprisly scored three goals. A hattrick from Casap with two goals at stoppage time secured us a win. But then nothing worked anymore. Against Almelo we draw at home and a week after we lost to Vitesse. Also in Breda, which we smashed with 4-0 on the first game, we couldn't score. The low point was then a 0-3 loss in Zwolle. But we are lucky, that our opponents also play very inconsistently. So we can keep the good 4th place so far. Two players left us in the winter, due to we still have to make some wage cutes to stay within the budget. Captain Freek Heerkens left to China. Levan Shengelia plays now for Hajduk Split. For both players we get a good value. In the cup a 1:0 win is also on the daily order. Against league 2 side Dordrecht, we win through a late penalty. In Sittard we needed a goal in the extension and in the quarter final again a late goal from Casap secured us through to the semifinal. There we face Alkmaar!

The Pitbull-Stories November - December 2022 No matches in this two months due to the World Cup in Qatar. So lets have a look, how the tournament ended. None of our players had participated. Group A Switzerland and Ghana through. The US-Boys are narrowly eliminated. Group B Easy group for Brazil. Senegal also gets through. Group C Croatia and Mexico gets through. Danmark has to go home. Group D The ultimate death group. With Argentina we have the first big team, which is eliminated in the group stage. Group E Both european teams are out. Ivory Coast and Colombia in the knockout stage. Group F The two big favorites without problems. Group G Also no surprise. England and Belgium qualifies without problems. Group H This is probably the biggest surprise. South Korea and Poland qualifies for the knockout stage, while France and Uruguay has to go home. Knockout Stage No big surprises here (England once more lost a penalty shootout), except Senegal, who made it through to the semifinals. Germany and Spain meet again in the final, while the germans win the last normal World Cup. Next one comes with more teams and a new group stage. One christmas info from Willem, but unfortunately not a good one. We will have a pretty bad Youth Intake.

Looks like Germany and France are calling

Nice choice with Napoli. Curious about, how the squad looks like. And italy is always nice to play

The Pitbull-Stories September - October 2022 So after our furious start, september proofs, that we're still human, and i'm almost a little happy for that. In Alkmaar we take the lead, but AZ can turn things around. The defeat against FC Eindhoven would not have been necessary then, but after Nunnely scored the opener, we stopped playing, conceded the equalizer and Said scored the late winner (90.) for the hometeam. At least the team showed a reaction with two wins over Groningen and Twente. The last three points were particulary important, because Twente showed good performances in the weeks before. October was not really good. We can secure a good win against Sparta, but then we draw goalless against Sittard. Against Feyenoord we didn't had the slightest chance and the loss in Arnheim was avoidable. So, after all, we're still in a good position, but the other clubs are catching up. In the KNVB beker we faced non league side Barendrecht. Time for a big rotation. Wriedt was in a excellent form and scored six out of the ten goals. Also Shengelia convinced with a hattrick. In the second round we now meet Dordrecht. But first we have now a two month winter break, due to the world championship in Qatar. But sadly, the netherlands weren't able to qualify for the tournament. In the group-round they became second behind Austria. In the playoffs they first beat Bosnia, before they lost 2:1 against Poland in the Final.

The Pitbull-Stories July - August 2022 Pre-Season A good pre-season, but no surprise because we played against three kosovarian sides, which were not really competitive. After the impressions of the three games, we decided to play with a 4-3-3 on wing play. We didnt had the strongest start program, but i was still impressed about our performances. NAC Breda we smashed on an early season opener with 4:0 away. Casap scored allready after ten minutes from the penalty point. After an hour Obregón and Nunnely increased to 3:0 before the substituted Wriedt provided the final score. The ghanaian striker was also the hero against Almelo, scoring seconds after his substite the only goal of the match. Also with 1:0 we won again Go Ahead Eagles and Emmen. No footballing treats, but effective results. They bring us on the top of the table for now.

The Pitbull-Stories The Team This is the team, which i found in the middle of june. It's more or less the same, like it will be on the start of the new season. Goalkeepers Brazilian Ricardo Friedrich will be our number one. A proper sweeper keeper. Behind we have with Maarten Schut a young talent, which has massive potential. Defenders On the right side we have with Leeroy Owusu and Silvan Sidler a good duo. Left will Derrick Köhn an Raoul Petretta rotate. Both are on the same level. In the center Musah Nuhu and Marios Oikonomou are the first options. Captain Freek Heerkens, Dimitris Goutas and Ulrik Yttergard Jenssen will challenge for some minutes. Midfield Solid options in midfield. Driess Saddiki is one of the stars in the team. But also Carlo Casap, Görkem Saglam and Julien de Sart are decent options for the three spots in the middle. Alexander Merkel and Eden Shamir are backups. On the offensive wings we have with Che Nunnely and Max Svensson two other important players. John Yeboah is a very quick player and Levan Shengelia will be the backup on the right side. Young Ringo Meervald is recovering from a long injury and will be no option for now. Offensive Jorge Obregón and Okyere Wriedt will battle for the one attack spot. Luca Pfeiffer is only option number three. Finances Finances looks ok on the first look. But now comes the point: The former management has pulled all the buying clauses from every loan player of this season. So Pfeiffer, Nuhu, Petretta and Oikonomou will all stay here and the transfer and wage budget is allready usep up or overdrawn. So we will have a hard year incoming or sale some players in winter, because in summer there was no big interest.

The Pitbull-Stories Edgar has a new job! After two years in Luxembourg he moves back home and become the new coach of Willem II. A beautiful club, lets see, if Davids can bring them joy and victory. Last season Willem finished on 10th place, the season before 11th.

The Pitbull-Stories April - Mai 2022 Well, what should i say. We were dominating till the end. The championship we secured allready on 17. April with a win over chaser US Mondorf. The rest was just a show run till the end of the season. In the final of the Coupe de Luxembourg we faced our rival Fola Esch. It wasn't a easy game, bot teams neutralised each other. Goal chances were rare. But five minutes before the whistle, the substituted Gent Dinaj started a solo and hammered the ball into the left corner. What a goal from the kosovarian which secured us the double! Player Stats Turpel and Dinaj, two players with the lowest salaries, delivered this season. Nouvier wasnt that good like in the season before, but had still a good round. Witte was a brillant signing in the goal and Vaccaro and Gustavo dictated the midfield. Even if important players like Nouvier, Kyei and Tutu didnt wanted to sign a new contract and leave for free now, the team is well positioned. Also the club is on a solid foundation. The ECC run this season brought incomes from close to five millions. With this starting position Jeunesse could become champion over the next years, if they keeping up the work. For Davids the work in Luxembourg is now over. Jeunesse wanted to renew his contract and offered him two million euros as transfer budget - but he declined. The dutchman wants to start a new chapter and proves himself somewhere else. The ink is not yet dry, but for Edgar its time to go back home.

Good start, i think Gijon is also done soon But interesting table. Has Getafe a sugar daddy or are they just having a very good season so far?

The Pitbull-Stories January - March 2022 Because of the winterbreak just five games in three months. But Etzelle Ettelbrück inflicts us the first defeat this season. Weeks before we were allready a bit lucky, when we won 4-3 against Rümelingen, which is battling relegation. Seven games to go and a gap of eight points to Mondorf. Looks like we're on track. Without any problems we go through to the semifinals. Wiltz is a good opponent for us this season. In the first league game, we allready beat them 6-1. Youth Intake One really great player with Contini, who's allready playing on Nationaldivison-Niveau. But obviously on a position, we dont have in our system... Job-offers Edgar Davids was invited to some Job-Interviews. FC Basel, AEK Athens, Austria Vienna and FK Rostow all wanted the Dutch-Pitbull on the bank. But none of the clubs really interested Davids, but still he went to each interview, just for fun. Therefore Basel, Athens and Vienna decided, to take an other coach. Rostow still showed interest and wanted to engage Davids. But he wasn't interested in a move to russia and declined the job.

Hey all! Decided to do a journeyman-save and jump into the role of one of my childhood-heros: Edgar Davids! A legendary dutch midfielder, who spoke his mind and didn't take any sh*t. Davids was a hard working midfielder, playing for Ajax, Milan, Juventus, Barcelona and Inter. For years he was an important pillar in the dutch national team. But he was also known for his escapades. His former coach Louis van Gaal once dubbed him as «The Pitbull». But so far a mediocre trainer with one spell at Barnet as playing coach and a short time as Manager in Olhanense, Portugal (and since a month assistant from Louis van Gaal in the dutch national team). Let's see, if we can change that. Here's our man: Looks like he's ready for work. We're starting unemployed and will look, where the journey will bring us. The Database is quite big, so everything is possible. Selected Nations / Leagues - Argentina (viewable) - Austria -Belgium - Brazil (viewable) - Bulgaria - Croatia - Czech Republic - Danmark - Germany - England - France - Greece - Israel - Italy - Luxembourg - Netherlands - Norway - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Russia - Serbia - Spain - Switzerland - Turkey - Ukraine Carreer-Stations AS Jeunesse Esch (Luxemburg) 2020 - 2022 2x Winner Nationaldivison (2021 / 2022) 1x Winner Coup de Luxemburg (2022) Willem II Tilburg 2022 - 1x Winner KNVB beker (2023)