A Michael Ballack - Bayer Leverkusen Story

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I had a very good reason to, mate. I'll post the update soon. Just waiting till Window gets over, I'm most probably done with transfers but can never rule out surprise decisions (I won't sign, but PSG and other clubs are sniffing around my players).
 
Transfer News

In

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[TR]
[TD]Player[/TD]
[TD]Fee[/TD]
[TD]Club[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Nico WeiB[/TD]
[TD]475k[/TD]
[TD]Bielefeld[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Fabian Schar[/TD]
[TD]6.25M[/TD]
[TD]FC Basel[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Louis Schaub[/TD]
[TD]1M[/TD]
[TD] SK Rapid Wien[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Alexandru Maxim[/TD]
[TD]8.75M[/TD]
[TD]VfB Stuttgart[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Alexandros Tzorvas[/TD]
[TD]200k[/TD]
[TD]Apollon[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Lewis Holtby[/TD]
[TD]10M[/TD]
[TD]Tottenham[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Lazar Markovic[/TD]
[TD]18M[/TD]
[TD]Benfica[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Per Mertesacker[/TD]
[TD]8M[/TD]
[TD]Arsenal[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

Total Spent: 52.87M
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Out

[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500, align: center"]
[TR]
[TD]Player[/TD]
[TD]Fee[/TD]
[TD]Club[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Sidney Sam[/TD]
[TD]6.25M[/TD]
[TD]Dinamo Moscow[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Son Heung-Min[/TD]
[TD]15M[/TD]
[TD]Liverpool[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Robbie Kruse[/TD]
[TD]2.7M[/TD]
[TD]Metalist[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Junior Fernandes[/TD]
[TD]2.4M[/TD]
[TD]Mainz[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Roberto Hilbert[/TD]
[TD]350k[/TD]
[TD]Nurnberg[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Omer Toprak[/TD]
[TD]12.75M[/TD]
[TD]PSG[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

Total Received: 39.35


In

Nico WeiB

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Scouts showed him 4 star potential, oh well.
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Fabian Schar

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Much needed reinforcement in defence, had to play defensive midfielders last year when someone was injured.
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Louis Schaub

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What a bargain, look at his current value. Left footed, will train him to be inside forward at right wing.
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Alexandru Maxim

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A great playmaker, but since I'm a hypocrite, I'll retrain him as striker and play as Trequartista. I'm retraining Werner on the left wing, He'll operate better and exploit space out wide.
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Alexandros Tzorvas

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Still a better goalkeeper than Victor Valdes, Jk. I didn't feel too confident with Palop as backup goalkeeper:
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Lewis Holtby

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I snatched him from the hands of moneybags PSG. Rolfes is getting old, I needed a box to box midfielder.
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Lazar Markovic

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My Marquee signing this summer, He can play anywhere in the attacking midfield position, a player with potential to be World Class. I was short in wide options after the sale of Sidney Sam, Son Heung-Min and Kruse.
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Per Mertesacker

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Omer Toprak submitted transfer request after PSG came for him, Arsenal transfer listed Mertesacker, Welcome back to Germany, pal.

Out

Sidney Sam: He'd been inconsistent all year, tries a lot of wayward shots. Nobody came in with a higher bid, sold.

Son Heung-Min: Liverpool and FC Porto were lurking around him, he also had an inconsistent season and I'm planning on playing Timo Werner on left wing now, sold him for good profit.

Robbie Kruse: Thought he wouldn't get minutes since my new tactic requires players with more vision for a pass, was sad see such a good squad player leave.

Junior Fernandes: Was underwhelming on loan last year at Dinamo, sold him to whoever bid highest.

Roberto Hilbert: Was signed on free last year, never played for first team.

Omer Toprek: I didn't want to sell him, but PSG bid and he started causing trouble, also put in a transfer request. He was my mos pacey defender.


Miscellaneous

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This is why I had a great transfer budget.
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Hopefully Markovic won't leave us like Schurrle.
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I signed a 3 year extension, I'm not going ANYWHERE.
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He put in a transfer-request after PSG's first bid, good riddance.
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I was extremely delighted by last year's performance in the league, we were very much in title race until the end, progressed in Europe too. I knew I can dream big this time around, board gave me a delightful surprise with the transfer budget.
 
July 2014

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Friendlies review

We faced European Champions, and they've strengthen a lot in summer, scoreline would've looked better if we hadn't conceded a goal just in last minute. Sidney Sam tried his best to prove I was wrong selling him playing for Dinamo, but his wayward shots proved me right instead.

German Super Cup

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Conte is no Guardiola, Bayern signed Reus (Who again signed from rivals), sold Shaqiri to City, but they were toothless going forward. Conte played narrow 4-2-3-1, I played 4-3-3 to overload the midfield and shut down their creative players, and also he used attacking Wingbacks, I had feeding frenzy down the flanks.



German Cup Draw, Round 1

SSV Reutlingen 05


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August 2014

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2nd August, 2014 | Saturday

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Had 18 shots on target, 8 CCCs, the opposition Goalkeeper was on form, could've easily been 8-1, they scored from their only shot, of course! Timo Werner is enjoying the space out wide, scoring a brace.
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9th August, 2014 | Saturday

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A very equal game, I'm now going into games attacking teams rather than hitting on the break, while we also do that. Timo Werner snatching 3 points during dying minutes, the kid has started this season brightly.
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16th August, 2014 | Saturday

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Despite the scoreline and scorer being same, this was one sided match against newly promoted side Dusseldorf. They had 25 fouls, parked the bus.
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24th August, 2014 | Sunday

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Woowie, this was complete madness, quite opposite to last two games. Ji Dong-Won scored a goal in 11th second of the match. We dominated match mostly, but they troubled us as well. We hit woodwork 3 times, at least 2 of them were clear cut chances, would've loved 7-3 thrashing.
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31st August, 2014 | Sunday

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What a way to end a superb month, a victory over rivals Gladbach. Werner again scored, He's linking up well with Maxim playing as striker, who has supplied 3 assists to Werner. Keissling came off the bench to score a goal to make it 2-0.



German Cup Draw, 2nd Round

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Champions League Draw

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Bundesliga Table

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Bayern are playing much more attacking football under Conte, though it seems. Golden boot race already seems over with Mandzukic showing no signs of slowing down.

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Podolski is injured for 2 months has 2 of his goals were penalties, Gladbach pair only scored in one game, an 8-0 win over Hertha Berlin.


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September 2014

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13th September, 2014 | Saturday

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Per Mertesacker was an absolute [fun]ing warrior in this game. Stafylidis got sent off and then Luan got injured in 10th minute, I had to make 2 substitutions and was already down to ten men, Werner set the platform in 20 mins for us to defend, Mertesacker just didn't let any get past him. MOTM.
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16th September, 2014 | Tuesday

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Pathetic from SLB, they had 9 of their players in defensive half, booooooring. They scored from their only corner of the game, Cardozo's leap was amazing to score the header, no one could've stopped him. Markovic earned MOTM against his former team, he played a through ball to beat 6 players for Werner's goal.
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20th September, 2014 | Saturday

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I struggled to break down the parked bus, they had no shots at all, not even long shots. Mertesacker's aerial dominance meant we scored two from set-pieces. He was the one with Captain's armband today.
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24th September, 2014 | Wednesday

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We were cruising till half time, then just got complacent. A parked bus again, Werner creates and scores, incredible.
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27th September, 2014 | Saturday

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This is playing on the counter, Benfica. I hope Jorge Jesus watched this match. Both of my defenders scoring, Maxim hit the woodwork twice. Keissling with a poacher's goal.



End of the month thoughts

And the perfect start continues, Werner has been the breakthrough this year, already scoring a total of 10 goals which he scored last year in around 3 times appearances. He has won us some games single handedly, 100% record so far. Werner has 10 goals in 11 games, 2 assists. Wollscheid has been performing incredibly well at the other end, with the Mertesacker. That reminds me, I absolutely love Mertesacker, I can't believe Arsenal let him go, good for us.

Misc

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German Cup, 3rd Round

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European Cup, Group B

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Bundesliga Table

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Bayern are scoring for fun, but leaking goals too. They lose the odd game whenever they face a team which plays 4-3-3 and exploits wings, like Gladbach did recently.
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Advanced Forward when I expect to dominate, Target Man when playing Counter-Attacking, sometimes Trequartisa just for the **** of it, despite his creativity and passing stats being horrible, he plays great ball for other players in the game. :D
 
October 2014

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1st October, 2014 | Wednesday

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Celtic battered us left and right, 2-1 loss makes it look like close battle but could've easily been 5-1 loss, lucky to get away.
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4th October, 2014 | Saturday

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Ouch, two back to back loses against sides we should be winning. We had surprisingly more fouls and that's second sending off of this season already, I don't like this.
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18th October, 2014 | Saturday

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Markovic is back from injury and Werner starts scoring. These two are **** of a partnership on the wings, I missed Markovic a lot in last few matches.
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22nd October, 2014 | Wednesday

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Oh for ****'s sake, how did I not win this? HOW? 8 Clear cut chances yet we managed to put 2 away, they had only 1 and scored two. Maxim might have scored once but fluffed 4 chances.
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25th October, 2014 | Saturday

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Timo Werner does not like losing to his previous side. Donati send off again, fking *****. My team didn't use to foul this much even when playing on the counter. After the sending off they caused us a lot of trouble, Schar rescued a late win.



Manager's thoughts

No fairytale can last forever, a bad month where a draw against Stuttgart was quite possible until Schar rescued 3 points for the team. Extremely disappointed with Donati's discipline, he'll be riding the bench for quite a few games now. Timo Werner has been excellent in some games, but went invisible in a couple. He's in running for Golden boot, 9 goals to Mandzukic's 12.



Champions League, Group B

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Bundesliga Table

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Still top of the table but Bayern and Dortmund aren't too far off. Dortmund are showing no signs of slowing down, thumping teams 4-0/6-0/3-0.
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Okay so I just punched my Laptop's screen, it was getting frustrating in a home game, couldn't get a ******* a shot, let alone on target. When a cross was going out Leno tried to catch and it hit him, got into patch of opposition striker he scored, I managed to pull 1 goal and they scored 2.

Next game, I was 2-0 up then lost 3-2, no tactic I have seems to be working anymore, and there hasn't been a patch update either.

I'm not blaming SI or anything, I just want to update I just broke my Laptop's screen and there won't be any updates for a while.
 
LOL oh man I've been there!

Booooo @ Kruse! :P

Werner is killing it! You playing him up front?
 
AayushCFC said:
Okay so I just punched my Laptop's screen, it was getting frustrating in a home game, couldn't get a ******* a shot, let alone on target. When a cross was going out Leno tried to catch and it hit him, got into patch of opposition striker he scored, I managed to pull 1 goal and they scored 2.

Next game, I was 2-0 up then lost 3-2, no tactic I have seems to be working anymore, and there hasn't been a patch update either.

I'm not blaming SI or anything, I just want to update I just broke my Laptop's screen and there won't be any updates for a while.
Click to expand...

Ive only just came back and the tactic that I use is perfectly fine for me
 
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