Season 10
Inter Milan
Fresh from 3 titles in 5 seasons 70-year-old Rafa Benitez leaves to take over the long-vacant Tottenham job and with this Inter became the first and best Champions league challenge club to come available. Villa came up later in the window and is in decent shape but Inter along with Bayern, Real Madrid & Barcelona are the only win now teams left. The other 3 still have their starting managers.
Squad
Inter already had a really good squad before i added Nianzou & Sancho from Liverpool later added Kessie and a few backup players.
Champions League Draw
Man Utd will be a fantastic barometer of where we stand.
What an awful result and an awful game/ Not sure why we were so hopeless. Very worrying like
2nd Leg Inter 4-0 Atletico
No problems in the 2nd leg. We had the tie won in the first 13 minutes
QF Draw Inter vs PSG
The dream of drawing Arsenal or Wolfsburg never came through and if we beat PSG we'll get Real or Juve. The Real job will be up this summer as Carlo is finally retiring now in his 70s
League
The title is almost wrapped up so full eyes on Europe.
We were so unlucky to somehow not score after total dominance after we went behind
2nd Leg
Inter 3-1 Real Madrid Inter win 3-2 on Agg
We dominated the game but spent 80 minutes waiting for disaster till Barella scored in stoppage time to secure the win despite Jose Alberto's goal with the last kick of the ball
Arsenal makes it to the final. Their team is not great but it's a final and it's a must-win for us
We were 1-0 up and cruising. 12 shots to 1. Then Barella got sent off just after halftime. I moved to a 4-4-1 where it was a counterattack of death with Casati & Vergine both sneaking goals to give us a 3-goal lead. We got more and more defensive by the time Arsenal finally got them a goal but it was all too late and the best team of the year won out.
Serie A
Disappointed about that about the single defeat but another league title in the bag. Please Real Madrid. Make my day
Made it at last after Don Carlo finally retired. This is by far the strongest side I've taken over and led by Mbappe i had only one ambition in the transfer window in this save and that was to combine the world's two top young talents in 2022. Haaland joins from Juventus for more money than you knew existed
Squad
Haaland didn't finish his first game and is out for 2-3 months......
Champions League Draw
Get last year's runner-ups in the group. That's fun!
Champions League Q/F
1st Leg
Newcastle 2-2 Real Madrid
The Geordies put up more of a fight than i expected but we twice threw away the lead and even against 10 men couldn't get the job done. A few dodgy performances creeping in at the business end of this season
2nd Leg
Real Madrid 3-0 Newcastle Real Madrid win 5-2 on Agg
We turned up for the 2nd leg and punched Newcastle out, Although it's our turn to get players sent off.
Arsenal awaits in the Semis. There will be a Manchester team in the final.
Domestic
The title won, Cup won. All one Europe and the league goals record.
What a horror of a game. A red card in the first 20 minutes for Ivanov made worse for the second leg that Tonali could be done for the season. Before the second even we had lost the lead a feat we enjoyed so much we did it again in the 2nd half before missing a 96th-minute penalty that leaves the game all tied.
2nd Leg
Real Madrid 4-0 Arsenal Real Madrid win 6-2 on Agg
The result almost flatters us with 3 of them coming right at the end. Haaland gave us the lead and we totally controlled the game but couldn't find a goal to secure the tie then 3 came at once.
The dream of getting to Mbappe's Madrid was to put him & Haaland together for one season of magic. Injuries got in the way but they did brilliantly as you'd expect and they scored all the goals in a convincing 3-0 win over Man City. Now time to move on. Might be a late-summer move as there are Euro's on the way.
La Liga
Points record, MOTM record, Assist record, Most wins in a season, Most Matches won in a row, most goals
Off to Portugal for the first time. Juventus, Inter & Dortmund came up in the summer but Porto was the only team i hadn't managed yet so i took the only job going.
The squad is awful. I hardly had 2 weeks to put a team together and if you think it's old now then wait till i tell you I've moved on five 32+-year-old players. My biggest shock was when i went to register the Champions League squad and for out i ZERO Portuguese players in the 1st team and the same amount of players that had played 3 seasons in Portugal. Finding this out the day after the window closed is not the best but this is the first of many building seasons as the 6 teenagers i brought in will attest to.
Champions League group
How the **** are we no1 seeds and get given this horror show of a group.
Red cards & injuries cost us in our first two games before we got schooled by Barcelona
League
We make a stonking start to the league but the defence has been a bit leaky
SPEAKING OF BARCELONA
I am stunned! Can't believe that only 4 months after leading their greatest rivals to Champions League glory i got the job at Barca.
On the face of it Barcelona made a dismal start down in 10 places but they are only 3 points from the Champions League spots and only 7 off the top spot. Thanks for getting sacked Luis Enrique
Squad
A handful of superstars that should see us walk to 2nd place. Champions League will be a bit hard than my last 3 teams but i expect myself to challenge here.
We did enough to secure the top spot while Porto are out of Europe
Last 16 Draw
Dynamo Kiev - Barcelona
One of my best knockout draws so far
League
5 Points to the top and our form has been fairly good. Were out of the Spanish Cup but i had no desire for that trophy will the smaller squad we have.
We dominated the game and feel quite hard done by that Liverpool scored with there only 2 shots on goal. Thankfully we got the lead back up to 2 with the last touch of the ball
2nd Leg Liverpool 1-1 Barcelona Barca won 5-3 on Agg
We played far better at Anfield and the draw was the least we deserved in qualifying for the final 4
Man Utd awaits in the semi-finals after they beat Bayern.
League
We fall back to 4 points due to me resting the best 11 for Europe