MAY
Fixtures
A vs Ingolstadt
I went back to the team that had mostly got me this far vs Ingolstadt- Elyounoussi, Volland, Oviedo all came back into the team. Anything but a win was not an option. And we started well, Elyounoussi finishing a great Óliver pass from just outside the 6 yard...
APRIL
Fixtures
H vs Hertha
Wanting revenge against Hertha and needing the win to have any chance of staying in touching distance of 4th I made no changes, trusting the team to be hurt enough and angry enough to bounce back. We started with intent, Zuber then Volland shooting narrowly wide...
MARCH
March- the month of the youth intake. Ours, as you can see was good but not fantastic, the best player being Omer Bojanic. I’m intending to try to buy the best youngsters I can afford, develop them then sell them on for money.
Fixtures
H vs Hamburg
The first game of the month...
FEBRURAY
Fixtures
H vs Köln
Into February and into the most eventful month yet Hoffenheim went and I was not really overly optimistic. Bayern would be a loss and Gladbach away screamed 5-1 loss to me. But first was Köln which was not too bad. I kept faith with the XI that got a point at...
JANUARY
So January rolled into town with Hoffenheim looking to offload Szalai and sign a new striker who could share the goalscoring burden with Volland. No one else had more than 3 goals in the rest of the squad and Volland had 11, a good total but in need of more goalscoring help as...
DECEMBER
Sitting pretty 7th in the table with a 3 point gap to nearest side Wolfsburg I was hoping the crunch month of December would be a positive one for us. Also knowing that we faced the 2 newly promoted sides within the month gave me confidence that we could easily keep ourselves in...
Sorry about forgetting to screenshot that Hamburg game, I play this ahead of time and screenshot things I need to post in the story along the way. Unfortunately it means I may miss bits like this from time to time and I can't go back and get them as my game doesn't store the fixtures that far...
NOVEMBER
A interesting set of fixtures. Given our current form all of them are winnable but the superior quality of Leverkusen, Schalke could see us on the end of a pummeling if we are too expansive.
H vs Hamburg
First up in the crucial month of November was bottom side Hamburg at the...
OCTOBER
A much kinder set of fixtures this month- if we have any aspirations of European football then it should have been an 9 points from 9 in October.
A vs Mainz
After the tradegy of the Bayern game only Baumann, Óliver, Süle and Volland survived the cut to start vs Mainz. And the...
SEPTEMBER
Not an easy month of fixtures, we'll be lucky to get half of the available 12 points from these I thought going into the month.
H vs Dortmund
One of the biggest games of the season as first up for Hoffenheim in September as Dortmund visited the Rhein-Neckar Arena. Buoyed by the...
DEADLINE DAY
So Deadline Day, for some clubs a day of panic as they scramble to find last minute deals and replace their best players who suddenly decide to leave. For other clubs it's a very dull day in which not to much happens. For us I hoped it would be the latter after this happened...
AUGUST
Fixtures
A vs Darmstadt
The first game for Hoffenheim under my leadership was at home against the newly promoted Darmstadt in the German Cup. I fielded the 1st team in all areas except at the back, where I gave 17 year old Jesus Vallejo a debut. However this decision proved to be...
PRESEASON
I forgot to put this in the main update so I'll put it here, sorry :). Preseason was relatively uneventful except for shock away losses to Wolfsberger and Mirandes. However I was experimenting a bit with the lineup and formation so I wasn't necessarily expecting domination but I was...
TRANSFERS
As you can see through my earlier posts I was working on a shoestring budget with very little money. As a result I couldn't target the generic signings (Balanta, Romero) for any club as I simply lacked the funds. Instead I had to abuse the loan market a tad to find players who were...
By the way if anyone wants any additional info posted that I haven't posted already please ask and I may post it separately or include it in the next update