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The room was thick with chatter when Scott stepped in, the kind that always buzzed after training and was filled with a different kind of energy, the energy of a season well done and dusted. Boots scraped against the floor, tape was ripped from ankles, and the smell of sweat clung to the air...

Scott didn’t knock, he pushed the office door open like a man carrying a weight he couldn’t set down anywhere else. Slawomir Sobczak was behind his desk, papers stacked neatly in front of him, glasses perched low on his nose. He looked up, and for a fleeting second, Scott thought the chairman...

The season was over, but the silence in Scott Lanowski’s flat felt louder than any stadium. The league table said another third place finish, overachievers by anyone’s measure. But numbers didn’t soften the ache of falling short, nor did they answer the question gnawing at him; what now...

Young players for stupid money also dominated the summer transfer window. Carlos Artola, the highly rated right back from Real Sociedad, packed his bags for Champions League runners up Juventus in a deal worth a jaw dropping €87 million. Yes, that’s €87 million for a defender who has got a...

The first big move of summer 2021 saw Karol Linetty head to Manchester City for a staggering €86 million, more than double what Paris themselves paid just three seasons ago. Clearly, financial fair play is just three words on a piece of paper. To cover the loss, PSG splashed €65 million on Saúl...

The 2021 Champions League final saw Manchester City face off against Juventus, and things went brilliantly for Juve….. for about two minutes. That’s when Pierre-Emile Højbjerg decided the occasion called for a straight red card, and off he went. City, perhaps more out of politeness than...

Summer 2021 With two games left in the 2020/21 Premier League season, Newcastle sat top of the pile on 75 points. Manchester United lurk just behind on 74, while Liverpool, now led by self proclaimed defensive mastermind and top ******* John Terry, are third on 72. Spurs, in a shocking plot...

Chapter 60 Bytovia made them fight for everything. Ninety minutes in a cramped little ground where the grass looked tired and the stands felt closer than they should. Ślęza never found rhythm, never found air, but they found enough grit. A scrappy tap in from Szymczak in the first half, an...

Chapter 59 The form had stuttered, five wins from ten since that hard fought triumph over Wisła Płock. Enough to keep them in the race, not enough to run away with it. A stretch that included three losses in a row had drained the wind from Ślęza’s sails just as the home straight loomed into...

The match started like a punch thrown in the dark, quick, desperate and looking to land early. Sleza won a free kick barely a minute in, a scuffle in midfield leaving a Płock defender a fraction too slow. Glanowski stepped up, cool as midnight, and bent the ball over the wall and into the...

Been away from the forums for a while, you know how things are (not looking for sympathy) with life, work, kids you get it. But I've written up more of this story and played a bit more so will be back to posting on here. == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == ==...

The call came early the next morning. The kind of hour that made men nostalgic or reckless, depending on how their week was going. Scott was in his office alone, the murmur of the squad arriving to training drifting faintly through the cracked window. His phone lit up. IVAN VASILEV He stared...

Chapter 57 It was early when Scott arrived, the kind of early where the day still felt undecided. Scott was in the office nursing a lukewarm coffee and staring at a whiteboard that had once felt full of possibility but now just looked like a list of names fading in dry ink. A knock came, two...

Chapter 56 The call came just after dusk, that pale blue hour when the city forgets itself for a while and everything is calm and serene. Scott was still at the office after everyone had left for the day just taking in the silence, mentally preparing himself for the second half of the season...

Chapter 55 The office was quieter than usual. Just the soft hum of the small coffee machine in the hall and the occasional knock of wind against the window panes. Scott leaned back in his chair, the light from the desk lamp slicing a warm, narrow path across the paperwork he wasn’t reading. He...