Evolution of the football manager

Good strong man!! Wilshere's stats look crazy good!!


Great Stats but poor performances Sitting on a 6.92 and only 1 assist from his 14 appearance to date.

His report card will certainly read "Must do better"
 

March



- Still unbeaten and on a 10 match winning run in LA LIGA
- Chelsea shock me at least by knocking us out of Europe in a shoot out
- Espanyol sack long serving Marcelino




Fixtures




Granada V Real Madrid - Liga


Granada 2-3 Real Madrid
Di Maria
Ronaldo - 200th Real Madrid Goal
Higuain


We were 3-0 up and almost threw it all away with a very sloppy 2nd half display




Real Madrid V Mallorca - Liga
A rare week off in the run up to this game. Iker Casillas reaches his 725th league game and Ramos his 475th


Real Madrid 2-0 Mallorca
O'G
Higuain




Real Madrid V Chelsea - Europa League last 16 1st leg
Were back in Europe to face old foe's Chelsea and old friends 37 year old center back Nemanja Vidic


Real Madrid 0-2 Chelsea


This was disgusting! Chelsea stole the lead before half time and then 8 on target efforts later we conceded again with 5 minutes left to leave us with a massive challenge for the 2nd leg




Hercules V Real Madrid - Liga


Hercules 0-1 Real Madrid
Ronaldo


A dubious 86th minute penalty turned in by Ronaldo got us a ridiculously earned 3 points "I expect the polar opposite against Chelsea" This was also our 50th game in a row where Madrid scored a goal




Chelsea V Real Madrid - Europa League last 16 2nd leg
"We couldn't get the result or performance at home so now you all have to put in the performance of the season to get us our of the hole were in"


Chelsea 0-2 Real Madrid
Criscito
Ronaldo


AGG
Chelsea 2-2 Real Madrid


--- Chelsea win 5-4 on Pens ---


Nothing is more devastating than going out in penalty's especially when your wonderkid missed the decisive kick. Almost forgot we need 2 goals in the last 3 minute to force extra time as it was!




Real Madrid V Espanyol - Liga
"Just the Spanish double for us now boys"


Real Madrid 4-0 Espanyol
Rodrigo 4


Rodrigo was well on his way out and only got a game today as i was totally stuck for strikers. Looks like he's earned himself a 2nd chance




Betis V Real Madrid - Liga


Betis 0-1 Real Madrid
Di Maria








Europe
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Pretty gutted to be out already but that's all thanks to a dodgy night in our own stadium






League
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Barca's challenge hasn't just fell its totally collapsed. There now even behind Villarreal 15 points back down the road




Player of the Month
Domenico Criscito
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France


France V Andorra - Euro Qualifier match 3
Were missing 6 starting players through injury but i still expect us to win easily here


France 8-0 Andorra
Benzema
Cisse 3
Griezmann 2
O'G
Sanogo


No problems as we perform a utter walk over

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April

- Win the League very comfortably in the end
- But no unbeaten season as we loose at Zaragoza 1-0 to also end our long scoring run




Fixtures




Real Madrid 6-0 Levante - Liga
Higuain 3

Correale
Jorge
Fellaini


Higuain ended a 275 minute goal drought




Real Sociedad 0-2 Real Madrid - Liga
Iglesias
Wilshere


Casilla's 700th league game for the club




Real Madrid 2-1 Malaga - Liga
Di Maria
Higuain


Zaragoza 1-0 Real Madrid - Liga
Fair to say i swore A LOT after this result "We were S**t there performance was disgusting" Lost our 53 match scoring run as well as out unbeaten season. From now on were playing more youth players




Osasuna 0-1 Real Madrid - Liga
Di Maria


This result was enough to secure LA LIGA with 4 games to go




Real Madrid 3-0 Villarreal - LIGA
O'G
Iglesias
Molina


I hope the Copa Del Rey final is this easy








League
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We won the league and Elche went down. Barca looking good for 2nd while Athletico Madrid and Valencia have some work to do to secure European football next season and for relegation its Granada v Espanyol V Osasuna v Hercules






Player of the Month
Angel Di Maria
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Sticking to the left wing but the attacking side of it this month. Di Maria found a good time to start scoring




Did i mention i was devastated to have lost our unbeaten record?

 

May





Fixtures




Elche 2-0 Real Madrid - Liga


The team that's rooted to the bottom and relegated easily beat the team who won the league by a mile






EL Classico
Real Madrid V Barcelona
What a place to have this fixture! Bit of a shame were so far ahead and the match is just for pride "Well still send out our strongest team"


Real Madrid 2-2 Barcelona
Higuain
Fellaini


Would usually but designated to have dropped a 2 goal lead to Barcelona but the only bad thing to come of this is that we will not hit the 100 points we expected




Sevilla 3-1 Real Madrid - Liga
Higuain


Put out a semi strong team so this result is pathetic. One highlight Higuain scored on his 350th appearance

 

Copa Del Rey Final 2019






Real Madrid V Villarreal

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1993, 2013 that's all we have to show for Spanish Cup success. "Tonight we must make up for loosing in Europe and loosing our undefeated streak in the league by winning the Spanish cup and doing the double"




Team News


Real Madrid
Our worst match of the season for fitness issues. Luis and Criscito injured while Fellaini, M'Villa and Cermeno are all out injured


Villarreal
Andres Sanchez has been a long term injury along with Dani, Siem De Jong, Matilla and the suspended Bruno Tarres






The Match



7 - Real Madrid 0-1 Villarreal - Suso
Could a shock be on the cards? Are we throwing away another Spanish cup!


24 - Real Madrid 1-1 Villarreal - Higuain
Our pressure has payed off and were back in the game through our main striker


27 - Real Madrid 2-1 Villarreal - Di Maria
And we striker again almost immediately to take the lead


35 - Real Madrid 2-2 Villarreal
Oops getting a bit ahead of ourselves! Villarreal's main forward Joselu pulls it all level




HT Real Madrid 2-2 Villarreal




66 - Real Madrid 3-2 Villarreal - Di Maria
We push on adding Galim to the frontline and going more attacking and it pays off as we go ahead for the first time


72 - Real Madrid 3-3 Villarreal - Joselu
Villarreal are far from caving in here and led by Joselu and are right back in the fight


82 - Real Madrid 4-3 Villarreal - Wilshere
Sorry to spoil it for everyone but Jack Wilshere has his first meaningful moment of the game and are well on the way to lifting the Spanish cup




FT Real Madrid 4-3 Villarreal

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The Spanish double is complete. In less than 12 months I've turned this Madrid team from a failing team of failures dropping out of the top 4 in Spain to running away with the Spanish League and adding the Spanish cup. Still a long way to go but a great start!



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"Caption contest Any suggestions?"

 

Season 2018/18 Season Review




Liga - Winners
Copa Del Rey - Winners
Europa League - Last 16






Season stats
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A big turn around from the disasters of the season past




Team talk After the Copa Del Rey


"Brilliant stuff guys we've won everything we can domestically but I've seen enough from you all to see that next season we can challenge for the Champions League and possibly go unbeaten in the league all season!"






League

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We won the league and from December onwards it was so easy it was ridiculous. Barca fell out of form as did the rest of the teams who finished above us last season
Barcelona turned it on through April and May to secure 2nd while Villarreal and the seasons surprise package Betis will be in the Champions League. Sevilla, Malaga and Athletico Madrid made it to the Europa League while Valencia miss out on Europe all together
Elche were down so long ago its hardly a memory, Osasuna and Granada followed suit and also went down after Espanyol crawled out of the bottom 3 at the last
Returning to La Liga are adelante winners Deportivo and play off winners






Europe

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Im very surprised we went out so early even if it was to Chelsea! We have to do a lot better in the Champions League next season






Copa Del Rey

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Real Madrids record in this competition is simply awful so I'd made it a priority that we won this first time out and we did








2018/19 Season Awards


LA LIGA Awards


Player of the year - C Ronaldo - R Madrid
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Top Scorer - R Gomez - Mallorca
GK of the Year - I Casillas - R Madrid
Manager of the year A Moreno - R Betis - huh?
Team of the year - 5 players from Madrid - Messi on the bench!

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---- Match of the season ----
29th May 2019 - Neuvo Mestalla
Real Madrid 4-3 Villarreal


Impossible to pick any other game!






---- Signing of the season ----
Mario Correale
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Despite all the big money spent it was the freebie released by Man Utd after i left quickly fought his way into the 1st team and has already started to chip in with goals and assists




Real Madrid Player of the season 2018/19




3rd - Gonzalo Higuain
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The veteran Argentinean forward scored more than a goal every game in the League and in all competition proving to be a pivotal point in our team




2nd - Cristiano Ronaldo
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There is no stopping the old man. Turned 34 mid season just as he hit top form winning consecutive player of the month awards




1st - Angel Di Maria
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The winger was a monster this season. Instantly fitting into my system like a glove Angel has no problems scoring or making goals as part of being out star player






Champions League Final


Man Utd 1-2 Paris SG

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Shocking! Simeone may have won the league but only i loose to rubbish in finals!



Europa League final
Chelsea 1-2 Aston Villa


Chelsea were rewarded for knocking my current team out by loosing to my first team Villa






Affiliated clubs




Castilla
1st in Spanish second division B3



Were stuck mid pack at the half way point but i sent out some better players and from then on there was nothing to stop them winning the league to reach Adelante






France Review

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The new generation are still settling in but were top of the league as it stands






Going into the summer
With a satisfactory first season which could have been so much better leaves me in a tricky spot of whether to tinker with the team or just bring on gentle progression? Guess we'll see soon!
 

Season preview

Back in the Champions League






Targets

Season 2 at Madrid follows a stunning debut season where we dominated Spain and showed promise to go undefeated in the league. Again i made 2 world record offers and again they were rejected




La Liga - Winner
Copa Del Rey - Winner
Champions League - Final


Media prediction is to be runner up again which is fair enough as Barca have a very strong team and if they hadn't fell apart after Christmas the league could have been very different






Transfers

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Similar to last summer i spent big but not the record numbers or very top drawer players i wanted who are still not keen on the move till were back to being the top club in the world.




In




Two big money moves to replace the aging players in my squad and another pile of youths to make up for the rubbish we got in our youth intake




Dimitri Van Duren
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The 2019 galactico is signed by me for the 3rd time. Every time I've picked him up he's done a job for me and been better and better each time I've had him. "Like Galim last summer Dimitri has the skills already to be a star in this team for the next decade"




Andrew Doyle
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£50m went Newcastle's way for the former St Mirren left back. Found him in the Scotland squad while looking for good u19's. "Both our wing backs are in the latter stages of there career so its time for Doyle to come in and take over on the left wing. How good can he be over time?"




Other 1st team signing

Another old friend the original "Next Ronaldo" Ricardo Oliveira. Never really took off after i left Villa but will be good back up to RonaldoView attachment 280342 View attachment 280343






Youth players


5 youth players to top up the squad as most of the team are still in the u19s Santano came from Bilbao

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Promoted to the 1st team are Donev and Larsen

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Out


No big name players leaving this time but we made £47m from selling 7 back up 1st team players. Rodrigo going to Bayern for £24m helped after only a few appearances last season. Jesus and Iglesias was not performing and i want to give others a chance on the wings and Sahin was unlucky as we took in Van Duren and promoted star u19 player Donev






Loan watch

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6 left on loan​
All players went out to get 1st team experience except Wilfred Zaha who will be sold in January or next summer




Other summer news


Real Madrid are adding a few seats after we sold out 19 times last season. New capacity to be announced at a later date




Manager changes


Steve Keane - QPR
Otman Bakkal - Sunderland
Mauricio Pocheettino - Stoke
Liam Ridgewell - Bolton
Marcelino - Levante






Top 10 Transfer
Not including Madrid Deals


Only Nkoulou and Rafael arent regens




Mohamed Camara - Man City - £24m
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Mustafa Amini - Man Utd - £22m
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Rafael - Barcelona £21.5m
Nicolas Nkoulou - Ath Madrid - £19.25m
Juan Balbuena - Barcelona - £17.25m
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Bodao - Chelsea - £16.75m
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Kostas Tzortzis - Chelsea - £15.75m
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Marko Livaja - Villarreal - £15.25m
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I Osmanov - Arsenal - £14.25m
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G Garcia - Chelsea - £14m
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Real Madrid First team 2019

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Second season and i feel were stronger again. Loosing some of the useless flab around the side and brought through some more youth and brought in world class players like Van Duren and Doyle




France Update
Euro Qualifyers



Poland V France - Group E match 4
Top of the table clash. This should be the hardest match we have so a win here should set us up to get through easily


Poland 0-1 France
Galim


Result doesnt look pretty but we totally bossed the match so im happy




Bosnia V France - Group E match 5
Moussa Sissoko starts to get his 75th cap


Bosnia 0-0 France


Ok not the most positive summer of football but there was a positive sign for the future of France with the U19's winning there European Championships

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The Kings Cup


1st leg


Real Madrid V Villarreal


"A win here and we are on the way to adding the final piece of Spanish silverware"


Real Madrid 1-0 Villarreal
Fellaini


A worrying performance even for our first game "We've a lot of work to do to secure the trophy on wednesday night"




2nd leg


Villarreal V Real Madrid


"We let the fans down last time out tonight we must bring it for the millions of fans expecting us to win"


Villarreal 1-2 Real Madrid
Di Maria
Higuain




Agg
Real Madrid 3-1 Villarreal


Final title we needed in Spain is in the bag leaving me with a small correction to make.


Now Ronaldo now you may lift the King Cup!

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Wow cograts on last season.

£50m on a right back?!?! You're crazy lol
 
And so ends my favorite story of 2012. With FM and WWE 13 out on friday im having a short break from games. Yep 2 nights haha. Thanks everyone for all the comments and input to the story. See you all in FM 2013
 
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