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[Sammuthegreat]

Oof, guess the lack of a top class protecting midfielder is hurting you... tough to see your old club top, too...

 

[yescomeon]

Borussia Dortmund - German Bundesliga - 2035/36 Season
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October 2035

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A good win this, a game we really should be winning though. Hopefully this will be a boost to morale. Peruzzo scored a nice free-kick, I’ll be taking Dabrowski off free-kicks and replace him with Peruzzo.

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A great result inspired by Poirier who is the undisputed main man now.

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After the disappointment of the Bayern game I decided enough was enough with Aldunate and decided to bring in a replacement. I wanted Kose but didn’t have the E112m minimum I’d need to sign him. In truth there isn’t much between Mac Allister and Kose, but there was in the price. The deal to bring him in was E38m up-front, E12m over 48 months, and E5m after 50 league appearances and again after 10 league goals.

To free up the cash, and because I don’t really want him I offloaded Aldunate for E40m up front and another E5m over 12 months.

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For the first time this season it feels like we are building up a bit of momentum. Yes, we were helped by an early red card today, but you can only play what’s in front of you, and we played well. Managed to get young Miranda on for his debut too.

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A good win in one of the biggest games of the Europa league with a rotated side. Janicki played well and grabbed a goal, and Baumer was man of the match with 2 assists.

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Great first half, bad second half. Really annoying to throw away the win like that. At least it’s not a loss. Grassi was man of the match in this one with 2 goals.

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A rotated side played again today and the performance and result was good. A rather routine win and into the 3rd​ round.

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A big draw for the 3rd​ round of the cup, Wolfsburg away. It’ll be tough getting to the next round.

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Not out of reach of Wolfsburg yet. We’ll try to stay in the race as long as possible, see what happens.

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A 100% record in Europe, one more game win and we can play a rotated side for the remaining matches.

 

[yescomeon]

Borussia Dortmund - German Bundesliga - 2035/36 Season
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November 2035

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A good solid win, Grassi was fantastic in this game and scored a real worldie.

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We hammered Zenit here, away from home, with a rotated side. A brace from our second choice left winger and striker.

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Another good result. Peruzzo got things started with one **** of a goal, it was comfortable from there on in. They scored from a mistake from Cantu in goal, but to be fair he has been phenomenal after a bit of a shaky start.

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A really annoying result, perhaps a bit of a freak one. At the end of the day we weren’t clinical enough. Yet more ground lost on Wolfusburg, who, at the moment, look like winning the league with the side I built, the coach I brought in who took over for me is having an easy start to his managerial career.

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Last game of the month, and the second European match. We sign off with a win. Even the goalkeeper was rotated in this match and we still won with ease.

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Down to 3rd​ now on goal difference, a large 7 point gap between us and Wolfsburg now. Just as important is Bayern 2 points behind us in 5th​.

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We’re through with ease in Europe, not sure I’ve even had to put out a full strength side yet.

 

[issteo]

Goodluck with the new adventure at Dortmund!

 

[yescomeon]

Sammuthegreat, I've really struggled to find anyone there for a reasonable price. Was really blessed with Gouveris, who I think now will go on to be the best in the world in that position.

Thanks issteo, I think it's going to be a much bigger challenge than I thought when I applied for the job.
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Borussia Dortmund - German Bundesliga - 2035/36 Season
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December 2035​

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A good win to bounce back in the league. Another good performance from Benteke, and a goal from Poirier. Unfortunately Alves picked up an injury to keep him out for a while.

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A disappointing result and performance against a tough Schalke side. More annoying as Wolfsburg lost unexpectedly to Augsburg.

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We see out the Europa league group stages in style. A rotated side dispatched Bursaspor with ease.

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Really pleased to win this, coming from behind with a man down. Delighted in fact. Baumer was sensational in this game, dragged the game out of the embers.

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A decent draw in the first knock out round. I fancy us to get through.

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Just a terrible showing. Took us till almost the end of the match to get a shot on target, we were completely dominated by Wolfsburg. I seem to have created a monster, I maybe shouldn’t have left.

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Despite the disappointment in the cup we have closed the gap between us and Wolfsburg in the league a little.

 

[yescomeon]

Borussia Dortmund - German Bundesliga - 2035/36 Season
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January 2036

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Cantu has been absolutely class since coming in, a few dodgy moments at the near post but I think that is more the game than Cantu. His performances have won him north American keeper of the year.

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Here's Mac Allister in the football manager equivalent of holding up the shirt. I feel the biggest problem this season has been the lack of a real quality striker. At some point in 2009 an Argentine shagged a Scott (presumably) and produced this mutton-chopped monster who I hope is the solution to that problem. He’s very similar to Kose who is tearing up the league, so I’m hoping for the same. A big outlay at E50m but mostly offset by selling Aldunate, who was in the discussion for world player of the year funny enough.

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Alverez comes in on a free and is a bit of a punt, not expecting much.

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Budget restrictions meant 2 moves for a more defensive midfielder fell through. I managed to talk the board into giving me a little more wage budget which I was able to put into transfer budget to bring in Mboyo, who will play the attacking midfield advanced playmaker role. With Fillipe Rennan playing a central midfielder defend.

I actually had a bid in for Macho, but Stuttgart wanted too much.

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We played two friendlies, both wins, both against easy sides.

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I just happened to be looking at the club information screen and I noticed that Aldunate was down as a club legend. So I looked at his record for Dortmund and had a bit of a surprise, he was REALLY prolific. Perhaps I shouldn’t have given up so soon with him, but he was really poor.

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A gutting start to the second half of the season. One of those games where your players are skying shots from 5 yards out or taking long hopefuls from 40 yards no matter what. They scored a corener and we could have played another 90 and not scored. A poor debut from our new striker, marginally better from Mboyo.

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A much better performance in the end, inspired by Mboyo. Mac Allister wasn’t great again, needs a goal to get him started I think. I tweaked the tactic to make it more attacking as it wasn’t creating much. I will stick with the changes now for now.

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It’s been a busy transfer window as I have looked to shape the squad more to my liking.

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The Koln result was a real blow to any faint hope of a title challenge. Still too early to rule us out of it, but we’ve now dropped to 3rd​ behind in form Bayern.

 

[Sammuthegreat]

Oof, Aldunate has his first 5-game barren spell for 6 years and he's straight out the door! Haha. There's ruthless and then there's RUTHLESS... hopefully Mac Allister comes into some form.

 

[yescomeon]

Yeah, I reallised as soon as I saw that I'd ballsed up. I've told myself since that I needed a striker better in the air to play on his own up front. That partially true, but for him it might have been worth adjusting the system.
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Borussia Dortmund - German Bundesliga - 2035/36 Season
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February 2036​

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Really annoying, Mac Allister ***** again. Bayern and Wolfsburg dropped points but we couldn’t capitalise.

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Grrr, relegation battling Dusseldorf got a point off us. Shouldn’t be happening.

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More like it at Stuttgart, Mac Allister FINALLY gets his first goal for the club.

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A strong side this time for the first knock out round of the Europa league. A win and two away goals should see us through.

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Another nice win, second 3-0 on the bounce in the league, two more goals for Mac Allister. He still missed a penalty, but glad to have him in the goals.

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I rotated the side for the home leg, perhaps a little too much. We’re through however which is the main thing. Miranda’s first goal for the club which I’m pleased to see.

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A pretty though draw for the second round, Valencia are a good side. Most of the sides still in the competition are good though, so it’s going to be tough.

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Still in the champions league places. We play Bayern next and can go within a point of them if we win. Next month we have Wolfsburg too so the opportunities are there if we can take them.

 

[yescomeon]

Borussia Dortmund - German Bundesliga - 2035/36 Season
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March 2036​

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The first of our many huge game this month. The first half couldn’t have gone better. Second half, we hit the post twice they scored, then got a fluky goal, I went for the win, they got the win.

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Abysmal performance, their first goal highlights one of the main things we are missing, aside from a top goal scorer, a top free kick taker. We had both at Wolfsburg and looking back it was a major part of winning the league, at Dortmund, we’re desperately trying to cling on to 4th​ place.

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A much better performance in the Europa league against Valencia. As you can see we dominated the game, should have scored more, but Poireir was poor (Mac Allister couldn’t be registered, nor Mboyo).

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I’ve never seen a player hit the post as much as Mac Allister, twice I recall in the Bayern game, thrice today. Had a 0% shot on target ratio, could have had a hattrick. We got the win though which is the main thing.

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We came with a game plan, and executed it to perfection. We sat deep and went long on the counter. Worked like a dream, with Wolfsburg up next in the league I will take this system into that game.

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The draw for the quarter-finals sees us go up against Porto, a good side don’t get me wrong but we can beat them. I think we can beat any of the sides still in the competition at this stage on our day.

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Well that didn’t work, my old team are just too **** good. They got a fluky goal to get them started. They dominated but that was down to how I set the team up. I instantly went 433, Kose dribbled through my whole midfield and defence and slotted home. We were much more in the game with the 433 but we don’t have any goal threat, Kose finished us off by pouncing on a terrible back pass. I don’t know how to topple this Wolfsburg side, but according to my scout all their players could be bought, most of them for over E100m, but maybe they will be picked apart over time. All told, I'm not too annoyed with the loss, it puts Wolfsburg back top and I’d much rather they win the league than Bayern.

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Luckily Schalke weren’t able to capitalise on us losing again, but BMG move within a point. After a terrible month in the Bundesliga we are 10 points off Bayern and 13 off Wolfsburg. It’s about hanging on to 3rd​ from here on in.

 

[Sammuthegreat]

Wow... you've definitely created a monster, that Wolfsburg team looks immense, Kose especially. Are you going to stick by Mac Allister? It might be his adaptability stat isn't very high so it might take him a while to settle and hit his straps. I had a Serbian guy on a long-term save who I picked up when I was in the Championship - he only scored a few in his first season but then hit 20 the next season once he'd adjusted, 30+ the one after in the Premiership and since then he's been scoring literally 60 goals a season in the league. So it's not too late

 

[yescomeon]

I decide to stick with him, and let's just say his form improves in the last few months of the season...
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Borussia Dortmund - German Bundesliga - 2035/36 Season
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April 2036​

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Terrible AGAIN! Mac Allister picked up an injury on international duty so Kuqi started as Poirier is out of form Kuqi had to come off second half as he was terrible. Porier managed to grab us a goal, but Augsburg scored a long hopeful shot from distance. So annoying, no matter what level the team they always seem able to do that, whereas there’s no hope of any of my players pulling something like that off.

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We played on the counter this match as it was away and coming home with a draw and an away goal puts us in a good position for the next round.

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Great performance here, Mac Allister looking good too. Bit of a reshuffle in midfield, Freiburg are bottom so difficult to know what to make of the good performance.

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An own goal won it for us, but they all count. Good professional performance and we’re into the semis.

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Decent draw for the semi-final, I’d prefer Shaktar, but should be able to beat either.

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An awesome, Mac Allister inspired win. His first hat-trick, he’s really picked up recently, long may it continue.

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Again, a good win. Mboyo with a brilliant strike to get us started. Dedic confirmed the win.

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Cut Bayern’s lead over us to 6 points, would take a spectacular collapse by Bayern for us to finish 2nd​. More importantly our lead over Schalke in 5th​ is 9 points. With 3 games to go the champions league is pretty much guaranteed.

 

[yescomeon]

Borussia Dortmund - German Bundesliga - 2035/36 Season
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May 2036​

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I made a bad choice here starting the match on counter. They got a goal and half time I changed it to 433 and we got 2 goals to win it. Great character, really pleased. A lead and 2 away goals. We should get through to the final from here.

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A great result and performance in the derby with Schalke (although most games seem to be derbys at Dortmund). Both Mac Allister and Grassi were excellent today.

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Objective 1 this season qualify for the champions league. That objective was completed in the Schalke game. We can’t catch Bayern but we can be caught, so we need to win our games to stay 3rd​. This was so important as Alves, Boucher, Peruzzo, Loureiro, Vieira, and Cantu would have wanted to leave had we not qualified.

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Very disappointing budget, although the finances are in a real bad way. The club is haemorrhaging money and only 30% of received transfer fees will be reinvested. Really we need a centre back a defensive midfielder and an attacking midfielder. Obviously that wont be happening, maybe we can get one.

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Not a particularly good performance, but we go the win and we’re into the final…

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…which is a huge derby against Schalke. Obviously we will be without Mboyo and Mac Allister but after our last result against them, I feel there is a chance for a trophy here.

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Bit of a crazy game this but I’m really pleased to have come away with a win as I feel this is the kind of game we would have lost earlier in the season. Two more goals from Mac Allister 13 in 15 games since arriving, had a poor start too. Think he will be a big player next season.

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Fine end to the Bundesliga season this was, Mac Allister signed off in style, 4 goals. Takes his tally to 17 goals in 16 games, will be very happy to see that kind of return next season.

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We end the season in 3rd​, 10 points behind Wolfsburg. There’s some catching up to be done next season.

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A more dominant win than the scoreline suggests, think we would have battered them with Mac Allister in the side. Suddenly, this has turned into a decent season, 3rd​ in the league and winning the Europa league ain’t bad at all.

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Suddenly, this has turned into a decent season, 3rd​ in the league and winning the Europa league ain’t bad at all.

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Best 11 for the season, stand out players for me are Cantu, Grassi and Mac Allister. If we can keep the side together I think we can push a little harder for the title next season.

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Benner (CB) won player of the season, a weird one as far as I’m concerned. Mac Allister got signing of the season.

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Despite only being here for half a season, getting off to a slow start and not being eligible for the later stages of the Europa league, Mac Allister was top scorer. Dedic, our young player of the season got the most assists and our left back got the highest average rating. Mac Allister and Grassi shared the most man of the match stat.

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Our old boy Juarez was player of the season, with Grassi coming second.

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But Grassi did win Players player of the season.

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Despite what I saw as a pretty poor season in the league we had 7 players in the team of the year. Only six in players team of the year, with Grassi, Dedic, Peruzzo, Loureiro, Vieira and Veidamenidis in both teams.

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The club made significant losses, mostly down to my transfer activity, but lack of champions league can't have helped. Despite the squad needing a few additions, I will have to be a little more responsible next season.

 

[Sammuthegreat]

Niiiiice

Europa League is a ***** to win, that's a good job

 

[yescomeon]

Thanks mate, chuffed to have won it.
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Borussia Dortmund - German Bundesliga - 2036/37 Season
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Pre-Season​

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Man. Utd. Have come in and met Vieira’s E116m release clause, so I will have to replace him. I made a bid for Leontjev last season but couldn’t find the money to complete the deal. With only around E30m of the money from Vieria leaving being added to my budget, he is about the best I could afford.

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He’s not a bad player by any stretch, but I would have sooner had him alongside Vieira than replacing him.

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I also sold our reserve ‘keeper who was an agreed transfer before I came in and was on E90k a week. I got nearly E10m for him in addition to dropping his wages. To replace him I brought in Ekame for less than E1m, on a fraction of the wages. Not that much between them, so I’m happy enough.

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Confirmation of the Vieira deal. Sad as I am to see him go, it’s completely sorted our finances him leaving.

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El Sayed forced through a transfer. I promoted a youth player to act as backup but brought Suarez in for £3.3m for a little extra competition.

Having sold or released a few high earners I have freed up a lot of space in the wage budget, which I can convert to just under E30m in transfer budget.

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And with that money I have brought in Herrera, a player I was keeping an eye on all last season. As far as I can tell there aren’t any other realistic transfer targets out there better for the ball winning role. I will be an important part of next season I hope, it was something that was desperately needed last season.

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Fillipe Rennan goes to Barcelona for E28m, this is part of a reshuffle of the squad due to a another big deal going through in the future (and that I’m only getting 30% of transfer fees).

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Here it is, absolutely gutted about this as he is a brilliant player. He ended up handing in a transfer request, and I wont get enough from his fee along to bring in his replacement.

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Here is Roger Loureiro’s replacement, he’s not as good as him, but he’s the best left back in the world so no-one is. Marcelo is a decent player though so lets see how he gets on. Perhaps a little suspect defensively but not bad for E21m.

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Yet another blow, from Manchester again. Man. City met Peruzzo’s release clause. There isn’t really the money available to properly replace him so we will get by with what we have for now. I would have liked to have brought in Macho but city have bought him too. The squad is certainly weaker than last season now. I wouldn’t have let Fillipe Rennan leave if I thought for a second Peruzzo would go, I need to keep a better eye on release clauses as this is a steal for City.

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There hasn’t half been some money exchanging hands this season. Our money troubles are behind us, but very much to the detriment of our squad. In the end dropping out of the champions league last season has really hurt Dortmund.

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Bit late for that now.

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Good performances from the friendlies, and what is left of the squad are looking fit and ready to go for the season.

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We were very unlucky in this match. I would have said we were the better side, but our finishing was poor, theirs was good. We weren’t helped with so many players away at the ****** Olympics.

So after a pretty bad pre-season for everyone but the Dortmund bank manager our first 11 looks something like this:

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Hoping from more of the same from Cantu this season, as he was really solid last season. That 18 in command of area has been so handy, at times he just runs into the crowd and inexplicably comes out with the ball in his hands, love it.

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One of the few survivors from our defence last season.

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Still in defence at 35, but Brenner is still good enough. I would have liked to replace him this summer but the money had to go elsewhere.

Leontjev DCL

Marcelo DL

Herrera BWM

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Mboyo will fill the void left by Rennan and Peruzzo. The midfield is probably weaker than it’s ever been during my time here, but perhaps better balanced in terms of the positions I want to play.

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Right wing is one of our strongest positions, we have 2 world class players there but Dedic is the better of the two.

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After a season a loan spell at Everton I think Janicki is ready to be the main man in attacking midfield, he better be as we don’t really have anyone else there.

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More of the same please from Grassi who was one of the best players in the division last season. Again we are quite strong here so he will be pushed for his place.

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With all the departures Mac Allister is the undisputed main man. There are rumors that Utd. are after him. If he went it would be an absolute disaster.

 

[yescomeon]

Borussia Dortmund - German Bundesliga - 2036/37 Season
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September 2036​

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A real thumping of Inter Leipzig with 3 goals a gashed head and a substitution in 40 minutes for Mac Allister. A further 2 goals from Grassi, and one from each of Leontjev, Poirier, Janicki and Alves.

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A nice draw for the champions league, as top seeds go you can’t do much better than Club Brugge.

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A really tough start to the season, away to Bayern. It proved just too much for us, although we were a little unlucky and neither side would be too disappointed with a draw.

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We were the big story of the transfer window, but not for the right reasons. We spend E103m but we made a E152m profit in the window.

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We bounced back in our second derby in as many Bundesliga games. Kuqi coming off the bench to win us the game.

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An exciting start to the champions league, and a win in what is most likely going to be our toughest match. A real tactical battle here.

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This is as good as I have seen Dortmund play whilst I’ve been here, scary good. Let’s keep it up. Goals from Grassi (2), Leontjev, Benner, Janicki and Mac Allister.

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Another solid win and clean sheet sees us continue our pretty good start to the season.

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A tight match but a really good win as Hamburg have started really well and were top going into this match.

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I made 9 changes for this match as I considered it our easiest of the group and we have a game against Wolfsburg coming up. A 41st​ minute red card for debutant Angel made it a much tougher game that I was expecting.

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A pretty good start. Wolfsburg kicked off with two draws which means we are top for now, but they are right on my ****.

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Two from two in the champions league putting us in good shape to make it out of the group.

 

[yescomeon]

Borussia Dortmund - German Bundesliga - 2036/37 Season
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October 2036​

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I started on the counter, after going two down I went 433 and we were much more in the game. It was too late to come back and win, Wolfsburg continue to get the better of me.

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A routine win, a clean sheet too.

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A good performance against the actual strongest side in the group (after us) from a second string side.

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We gave Kaiserslautern and absolute hiding here. The second hammering we’ve handed out this season. We are looking strong this season, I we can get the results against our rivals we might have a chance of a title challenge.

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A run out for the second string again, and a good performance again.

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A good start, defeats to Bayern and Wolfsburg but all wins aside from that. We keep the pressure on Wolfsburg both in points and goal difference.

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All very easy as predicted in the Champions league so far.

 

[yescomeon]

Borussia Dortmund - German Bundesliga - 2036/37 Season
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November 2036​

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Inspired by Mac Allister we come from behind in this match to take home all 3 points.

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Away from home the seconds made the most of their chances to batter Brugge.

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A good win here and we looked really good when we got going. Herrera is doing a really good job as a ball winner in midfield and with Mac Allister we have a real top striker and a decent free-kick taker too.

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Not to be out done but the first string our reserves but on a good show in an effort to stake a claim for a starting spot.

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Wolfsburg played first and dropped points, unfortunately we weren’t able to captitalise…

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…but they dropped points earlier in the month and we did capitalise on that so we finish the month top. Very long way to go but we look much better than last season, add Loureiro, Vieira and Peruzzo to this squad and we would be scary.

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Dortmund 2nds with a 100% in the champions league.

 

[yescomeon]

Borussia Dortmund - German Bundesliga - 2036/37 Season
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December 2036​

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An easy, and what could be important win against stuggling Stuttgart. Bayern beat Wolfsburg presenting us the opportunity to extend our lead at the top, which we took.

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Disappointing result this, Cantu ballsed up for their goal but it was fortunate too. Just to remind us we are in a fight Wolfsburg beat Schalke 6-1 away.

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A bit of a struggle but reserves maintain our 100% record in the champions league, seeing us qualify as top seeds.

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A good draw in the Champions League, possibly the best we could have had? Anyway, a nice opportunity to make it to the next round.

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We gave Bremen a bit of a tonking here impressive as we went a man down at 1-0.

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Another absolute destruction in the Bundesliga. Serves them right for trying to go 433 against me Mac Aliister either scored or assisted all the goals today.

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An even better result again today. Two hat-tricks on the bounce for Mac Allister.

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That epic performance against Koln sees the team of the week all but one Dortmund players, Herera misses out but ball winners never get that good ratings, but he is super important to the side.

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We go into the winter break top of the table with a 3 point gap and a huge lead in terms of goal difference.

 

[yescomeon]

Borussia Dortmund - German Bundesliga - 2036/37 Season
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January 2037​

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Clearly the board are happy with my work as they give me a new 3-year contract with a E7k pw pay rise. Still a way of Pep Guadiola's E325k a week, but my wage is moving in the right direction.

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Twice in a row now for Cantu.

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One of the names always in the discussion for player of the season in the Bundesliga the last few seasons, Murat Esroy, arrives from rivals Schalke for an initial fee of E35m possibly rising to E46.5m. Capable of playing on the right left or up front, he will provide competition for all 3 places.

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We didn’t need to sell anyone but Poirier wasn’t getting game time as it was, so I thought I might as well cash in on him. To get E22.5m for him is pretty decent too.

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We bagged the bargain signing of fellow Welshman Brian Veale for E6.75m as his contract is up at the end of the season. He comes in as replacement for current backup centre-back Hubert Malkowski who has asked to leave.

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Confirmation of Malkowski leaving for E11m with a younger centreback of similar quality coming in for almost half the price and considerably lower wages, good business in my book.

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Not particularly impressive in the winter friendlies, but I was using the games to build the fitness of players needing it.

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A huge win this, my first against either Bayern of Wolfsburg. It sees us maintain our lead at the top of the table.

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A really tough game this was. I thought I’d ballsed it up after going counter at half time to protect our lead. I went back to normal control after they equalised and Grassi bailed us out.

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Table stays as is.

 

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Borussia Dortmund - German Bundesliga - 2036/37 Season
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February 2037​

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A pretty routine win here with some familiar names on the score-sheet. Marcelo got himself sent off again on the 75 minute but we were never threatened even with 10 men.

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Some gentile rotation for the cup game. Debuts for Beale and Esroy, unfortunately Esroy went off with a twisted ankle in the 10th​ minute, having arrived with an injury this was the first time he could play. Unfortunate for him. To accommodate Esroy I moved Mac Allister to attacking midfield just to have a look at him there. Didn’t do much, not figured the role out there at Dortmund.

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Easy draws for both us and Wolfsburg in the cup.

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Wins like this are becoming very routine now, dare I say, a little like the title winning side with Wolfsburg. The last time we conceded more than a single goal in any competition was against Wolfsburg 21 games ago, we’ve only conceded 7 goals in that time.

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Still solid at the back but without the cutting edge here, disappointing dropping points.

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Same again in the champions league. It’s the away leg so not the end of the world but we have to be better at home.

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It’s the big one, and it was another big result. Perhaps a title decider, a little early for that maybe. We came from behind again here, and it was the 433 with us looking much better with this formation against Wolfsburg.

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The win against Wolfsburg sees us go four clear at the top. A good few games left to go yet but looking in pretty good shape.