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AUGUST
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Time to see if rejecting Malaga was a good decision...

DFB-POKAL FIRST ROUND
Holstein Kiel 0-1 FC Inoglstadt
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Murphy, Bache, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, Fels (van de Beek 60), Wilson, Trifunovic, Delaney (D'Souza 60), Spörl, Behrenz
That was f*cking dreadful. We were absolutely awful today and were lucky to sneak past Kiel into the next round

BUNDESLIGA
FC Ingolstadt 2-2 Hamburg SV
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Murphy, Karadeniz, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, van de Beek (Millar 57), Fels, Biskup, Delaney, D'Souza (Adlberger 57), Behrenz (Beckhof 79)
A very good performance from us almost ended in a massive first day win at home to a decent side in Hamburg. Unfortunately we couldn't hang on but this is promising

BUNDESLIGA
Red Bull Leipzig 1-2 FC Ingolstadt
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Murphy, Karadeniz, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, van de Beek, Fels, Wilson (Golob 60), D'Souza, Adlberger, Behrenz (Beckhof 60)
We fell behind early on but rallied and began to dominate the game before Robin Adlberger won us the game with a final, dramatic, important touch. Yes Robin!

BUNDESLIGA
Borussia Dortmund 2-1 FC Ingolstadt
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Jermol, Karadeniz, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, van de Beek, Fels, Wilson (Golob 62), D'Souza, Adlberger (Beckhof 62), Behrenz
A spirited performance that was all in vain as we just didn't start quickly enough and allowed Borussia Dortmund to overrun us in the first 20 minutes

LEAGUE TABLE
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1 of each at the start of the sesaon​
 
SEPTEMBER
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Can we improve on last month's shaky start?

BUNDESLIGA
FC Ingolstadt 1-0 Wolfsburg
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Murphy, Karadeniz, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, van de Beek, Fels (Golob 75), Wilson, D'Souza (Beckhof 75), Adlberger, Behrenz
This was a very even game that needed a bit of magic, fortunately we were the team to find such magic as Peter Behrenz continued his decent early season form to give us a big win over Wolfsburg

BUNDESLIGA
Borrusia Mönchengladbach 2-1 FC Ingolstadt
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Murphy, Karadeniz, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, van de Beek, Fels (Golob 66), Wilson, Delaney, D'Souza, Behrenz (Beckhof 66)
Our poor start cost us once again as we failed to switch on early in the game and found ourselves 2-0 down before we even noticed we were playing football

BUNDESLIGA
FC Ingolstadt 1-0 Augsburg
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Murphy, Karadeniz, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, van de Beek (Golob 78), Fels, Wilson, Delaney (Beckhof 63), Adlberger, Behrenz
DIRK BECKHOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFF!!!!! With his first goal for Ingolstadt being the winner in the biggest derby we have, the young lad really has endeared himself to the Ingolstadt faithful

BUNDESLIGA
Werder Bremen 1-1 FC Ingolstadt
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Murphy, Karadeniz, Lemos, Arnason, Wittek, van de Beek, Fels, Wilson (Beckhof 76), Delaney, D'Souza, Behrenz
Well that was disappointing

LEAGUE TABLE
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Not a bad start​
 
Have you been tempted to try and bring O'Neill to the Bundesliga?
Also curious to see if the former St Pat's players in your team are now getting international call ups?
 
osullm said:
Have you been tempted to try and bring O'Neill to the Bundesliga?
Also curious to see if the former St Pat's players in your team are now getting international call ups?
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Actually I was about two clicks away from signing O'Neill from Brentford for €12m. Unfortunately we couldn't afford his signing on fee

In terms of international call-ups, I'll have to take a look but I know that Gavin Delaney is an Ireland regular, Tony O'Neill, Scott Wilson and Barry Keane are all Northern Ireland regulars, Greg Murphy warms Northern Ireland's bench and Kevin Morgan occasionally plays for Wales
 
OCTOBER
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Goals have been hard to come by for us this season, can we rectify that?

BUNDESLIGA
FC Ingolstadt 1-0 VfB Stuttgart
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Murphy, Karadeniz, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, Wilson, Fels, Golob (van de Beek 75), Delaney (D'Souza 75), Beckhof, Behrenz
Once again we found goals hard to come by as we tried with two strikers and only managed a goal through a penalty

BUNDESLIGA
Bayer Leverkusen 3-2 FC Ingolstadt
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Murphy (Jermol 45), Karadeniz, Brosque, Arnason, Siordia, Golob (Biskup 78), Wilson (van de Beek 61), Fels, Delaney, D'Souza, Behrenz
I'm gutted. We'd done so well to come back from 2-0 down against runaway leaders Leverkusen only to have a well-earned point snatched away from us in a cruel counter-attack. Murphy is out for 6 weeks with a broken hand.

BUNDESLIGA
FC Ingolstadt 2-0 Eintracht Frankfurt
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Jermol, Karadeniz, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia (Wittek 63), Golob (Beckhof 63), Wilson, Biskup, Delaney, D'Souza, Behrenz
A somewhat fortuitous win against lowly Frankfurt as Beckhof gave us an undeserved lead late on before Gavin Delaney smashed one in from 65 yards as Frankfurt threw their keeper forward

DFB-POKAL SECOND ROUND
FC Ingolstadt 1-0 VfL Osnabrück
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Jermol, Karadeniz, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, van de Beek, Wilson, Trifunovic, Delaney (D'Souza 61), Esajas, Behrenz
Our lack of goals is getting a tad annoying now

LEAGUE TABLE
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We need more goals.​
 
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HAWKINS SPOTTED ON MERSEYSIDE
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FC Ingolstadt manager Matthew Hawkins has been spotted this week in Liverpool as Everton's search for a new manager continued

Hawkins, 29, was reportedly in Liverpool to discuss the managers job vacated by Koeman following his sacking and leading bookmakers have been quick to make him their favourite for the job

The Welshman has enjoyed a successful managerial career so far, winning trophies wherever he's been having managed Loughgall FC, St Patrick's Athletic and Royal Mouscron-Peruwelz in his meteoric rise up the footballing ladder

Hawkins claimed he was only in Liverpool "for a concert"
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NOVEMBER
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We need more goals

BUNDESLIGA
Bayern Munich 2-0 FC Ingolstadt
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Jermol, Karadeniz, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, Fels (van de Beek 64), Wilson, Trifunovic, Delaney, Esajas, Hiemeleers (Behrenz 64)
We did incredibly well to hang on in the game for as long as we did but we made one crucial mistake- we attacked, they countered and we were punished for our insolence

BUNDESLIGA
FC Ingolstadt 1-0 FC Schalke
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Jermol, Karadeniz, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, Fels, Wilson (van de Beek 62), Trifunovic, Delaney, Esajas, Hiemeleers (Beckhof 62)
Gavin Delaney finally finished one of the numerous clear cut chances we create for him, fortunately this was late on in a big game

BUNDESLIGA
Hoffenheim 0-0 FC Ingolstadt
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Jermol, Karadeniz, Brosque, Arnason, Siordia, Fels, Wilson (Behrenz 63), Biskup, Delaney, D'Souza, Hiemeleers (Beckhof 57)
I feel sorry for the poor sod who has to piece together the highlights reel for this one...

BUNDESLIGA
FC Ingolstadt 1-0 FSV Mainz
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Murphy, Karadeniz, Lemos, Arnason, Wittek, Fels, Wilson, Trifunovic, Delaney (D'Souza 65), Esajas, Hiemeleers (Beckhof 65)
19 shots, 7 on target, 1 goal, 0 sense

LEAGUE TABLE
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A decent season on the face of things, but we need more goals​
 
DECEMBER
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Festive fun?

BUNDESLIGA
FC Ingolstadt 1-0 Hannover
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Murphy, Karadeniz, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, Fels, Wilson (Golob 56), Trifunovic, Delaney, Esajas, Hiemeleers
Our shot conversion ratio is probably the worst in the league

BUNDESLIGA
Hertha Berlin 2-2 FC Ingolstadt
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Murphy, Karadeniz, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, Fels, Wilson, Golob, Delaney, D'Souza, Hiemeleers (Beckhof 85)
*See above*

DFB-POKAL THIRD ROUND
FC Ingolstadt 2-4 Hannover
After Extra-Time
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Murphy, Karadeniz, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, Fels (Golob 65), Wilson, Trifunovic, Delaney, Esajas, Hiemeleers
We battered them, this is so frustrating

BUNDESLIGA
FC Ingolstadt 0-0 FC Köln
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Murphy, Bache, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, Fels, Wilson, Trifunovic, Delaney (D'Souza 61), Spörl, Hiemeleers (Beckhof 61)
*Sigh*

LEAGUE TABLE
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Somehow we're still within touching distance of Europe
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I feel your pain. Really struggling for goals on my save despite having double figures of shots and the majority on target in most games. Really frustrating!
 
Ralph2211 said:
I feel your pain. Really struggling for goals on my save despite having double figures of shots and the majority on target in most games. Really frustrating!
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Its very frustrating! Missing chance after chance only for the opposition to score worldies
 
JANUARY
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The winter break is over, Europe, we're coming for ya

BUNDESLIGA
FC Ingolstadt 3-2 Red Bull Leipzig
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Murphy, Bache, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, Fels, Wilson (van de Beek 61), Govedarica, Delaney, Esajas, Hiemeleers
Phew! We were on top for most of the game, but Leipzig had us pinned back in the final 15 minutes as they pushed forward for their equaliser

BUNDESLIGA
Hamburg SV 5-2 FC Ingolstadt
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Jermol, Bache, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, Fels, Wilson, Trifunovic (van de Beek 62), Delaney (D'Souza 80), Esajas, Hiemeleers
Simon Jermol and Davit Siordia really let me down today, they were awful

BUNDESLIGA
FC Ingolstadt 0-2 Borussia Dortmund
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Jermol, Bache, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, Fels (Golob 62), Wilson, Govedarica, Delaney, Esajas, Hiemeleers (Beckhof 62)
Dortmund were very comfortable, we couldn't get near them

LEAGUE TABLE
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We're slipping away from the European spots​
 
FEBRUARY
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A poor month last time out, we need to get back on track

BUNDESLIGA
Wolfsburg 3-1 FC Ingolstadt
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Murphy, Bache (Karaeniz 74), Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, Fels, van de Beek, Trifunovic, Delaney, Esajas, Hiemeleers (Beckhof 74)
Wolfsburg were good, we were poor, so they won

BUNDESLIGA
FC Ingolstadt 1-0 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Murphy, Bache, Lemos, Arnason, Celik, Fels, Wilson (van de Beek 64), Trifunovic, Delaney (D'Souza 77), Esajas, Hiemeleers
We defended well, and hit them on the break, classic underdog tactics

BUNDESLIGA
Augsburg 1-1 FC Ingolstadt
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Murphy, Bache, Brosque, Lemos, Celik, Fels, Wilson, Trifunovic, Delaney, Esajas, Hiemeleers (Beckhof 73)
A tight derby that was on a knife's edge for the whole 90, fortunately we managed to grab a goal out of nothing to force a draw

BUNDESLIGA
FC Ingolstadt 2-0 Werder Bremen
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Murphy, Bache, Brosque, Lemos, Siordia, Fels, Wilson (van de Beek 69), Trifunovic, Delaney (D'Souza 76), Esajas, Hiemeleers
A confident, assured performance ended in a confident, assured victory. Not had one of those in a while

LEAGUE TABLE
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Hmmmm......​
 
MARCH
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As the run in draws ever closer, the press are asking me about the league title. No chance.

BUNDESLIGA
VfB Stuttgart 2-3 FC Ingolstadt
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Murphy, Bache, Brosque (Arnason 62), Lemos, Siordia, Fels, Wilson (Golob 85), Trifunovic, Delaney, Esajas, Hiemeleers (Beckhof 62)
We played very well, conducted a perfect away performance and came away with the three points

BUNDESLIGA
FC Ingolstadt 2-1 Bayer Leverkusen
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Murphy, Bache, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, van de Beek (Bosque 86), Fels (Delaney 75), Wilson, Trifunovic, Esajas, Hiemeleers
We changed tactics to a 4-5-1 with a defensive midfielder and, well, it worked as we dominted the league leaders and bagged a top win

BUNDESLIGA
Eintracht Frankfurt 3-1 FC Ingolstadt
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Murphy, Bache, Lemos, Arnason, Siordia, Wilson, Fels, Biskup, Trifunovic (Beckhof 61), Esajas (Behrenz 61), Hiemeleers
To take the lead with 8 minutes to go and lose 3-1 is a disgrace. I'm disgusted.

LEAGUE TABLE
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Its tight at the top​
 
I was perfectly happy in Ingolstadt, its a lovely place to live, its basically a model village, someone's taken a look at a postcard and gone "I want that, but bigger", that is Ingolstadt. We had a young team who could be one or two signing away from greatness. I was perfectly happy. Was.

That was, until, I received a phone call from Sven Ammon, president of Borussia Mönchengladbach, inviting me up to the Rhineland for an interview for the job as manager. I went up, had a look around the place, had the interview and made my way back to Bavaria

That's when my opinion changed, I realised something, Ingolstadt cannot compete, were too small and it'll take years of saving and financial prudence to be able to compete with the likes of Borussia Mönchengladbach, never mind Bayern Munich. The trip to the Rhineland really opened my eyes, one or two signings from greatness? Who am I kidding? We're a bang average team punching above our weight and we'll soon be found out

Players like Marc Fels and Rouven Hiemeleers wouldn't want to spend the best part of 5 years waiting for the club to develop, they'll go, they want championships and European nights now, not when they're in their late twenties, they'll be picked off by clubs like Mönhcengladbach and I'll have to start again on a tighter budget than the rest.

I want trophies, I want to challenge the supremacy of Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund et al and Mönchengladbach have the infrastructure to do just that, we're extending the Audi Sportpark to 23,000, Mönchengladbach's stadium holds 54,000. Its those differences that are insurmountable for a club like Ingolstadt

Then there's the playing staff, good God I thought we had good players, Mönchengldbach **** all over us, its embarrassing. They have reserves that are better than our starters for God's sake.


Ingolstadt, I wish you well
 
There were 111 people there to witness my first ever game in management, a 3-3 draw between Armagh City and Loughgall FC, now, almost 10 years on, I'll be stepping out into a stadium of 54,000. This is the stadium I'll be calling home for the foreseeable future

Its been a rapid rise up the divisions, actually, scratch that its been meteoric. Its taken me less than 10 full seasons in management to go from being a 20 year old kid managing a village team to a 29 year old who's stock is rising faster than a man with *ahem* certain "medical" helpers

And lets not beat around the bush, Borussia Mönchengladbach are a massive club. 5 time Bundesliga champions, 2 Europa Leagues and 4 DFB-Pokal trophies, sure they're no Bayern but the trophy cabinet's a **** sight fuller than Ingolstadt's

I could see the enormity of the club from the second I walked through the door and watched training for the first time, this lot were born winners and it was my job to fulfil that potential.
Mönchengladbach haven't been at it recently and the season hasn't gone to plan, they currently find themselves in 8th, below my former club FC Ingolstadt and looking like they have a struggle on their hands to even achieve a Europa League spot this season, but that's a struggle I'm confident of taking on and overcoming Sure this lot are a far bigger club than anyone else that I've managed, but I've always made a leap for every club

Everyone expects me to fail, but everyone expected me to fail at Loughgall, they all expected me to fail at St Patrick's, at Royal Mouscron-Peruwelz, even at Ingolstadt! I think now its time for them to properly eat their words. I have 6 games to do that in. Wish me luck
 
APRIL
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New Month. New club. The aim? Europe.

BUNDESLIGA
Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-0 Hannover
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Cavicchioli, Vasquez, Darasila, Kempf, Cantu, Weigl, Manzi, Galiardo (McCann 62), Fritsch, Biberoglu, Torin
We went with a 4-1-4-1, with Julian Weigl as the holding midfielder and, well it worked! My last minute decision to put in Sven Fritsch ahead of Kuki on the right wing paid dividends also, as he ran Hannover ragged and scored his first Gadbach goal!

BUNDESLIGA
Borussia Mönchengladbach 1-0 Augsburg
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Cavicchioli, Vasquez, Darsaila, Kempf, Cantu, Manzi, Wiegl, Kuki (Fritsch 45), Schenning, Biberoglu, Torin (Selke 72)
We dominated proceedings today, bossed Augsburg around the pitch and probably should have score more, but points are all that matter at this stage of the season

BUNDESLIGA
Werder Bremen 0-2 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Cavicchioli, Vasquez, Darsaila, Kempf, Cantu, Weigl (Schenning 74), Manzi (McCann 74), Galiardo, Fritsch, Biberoglu, Torin (Kuki 82)
We reverted to the 4-1-4-1 as we put in yet another solid performance and begin to frighten the teams above us in the European spots, this could get interesting

LEAGUE TABLE
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A 100% start to life in Gladbach as we begin to threaten the European spots​
 
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MAY
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Three games away from a potential European spot

BUNDESLIGA
Borussia Mönchengladach 2-2 VfB Stuttgart
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Caviccholi, Vasquez (Lafon 63), Darsilia, Kempf, Cantu, Weigl, Manzi, Galiardo, Fritsch (Kuki 63), Biberoglu, Torin
We lost the lead, TWICE, against ****** Stuttgart. We dominated play and should have won, this could prove costly

BUNDESLIGA
Bayer Leverkusen 1-1 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Caviccholi, Lafon, Darsilia, Kempf, Cantu, Weigl, Manzi, Galiardo (Schenning 66), Fritsch, Biberoglu, Torin (Kuki 66)
A solid away performance means we leave Leverkusen with our European hopes intact

BUNDESLIGA
Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-1 Eintracht Frankfurt
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Caviccholie, Lafon, Darsilia, Kempf, Cantu (Gheorghe 82), Weigl, Manzi, Galiardo, Fritsch, Biberoglu, Torin
A solid performance and a good win to end the season, but was it enough?

LEAGUE TABLE
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Nope. If we'd held on against Stuttgart we'd be in the Europa League.​
 
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GLADBACH BRING IN FIVE
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Borussia Mönchengladbach seem determined to leave the disappointment of last season's narrow miss behind them as they've jumped straight into the transfer market, bringing in FIVE players

The first player brought in was Emre Can, who's joined Gladbach on a free transfer from Arsenal

Can, 31, had agreed to join the club before the arrival of new manager Matthew Hawkins so it is unknown how the veteran utility man would feature in Gladbach's plans fro the coming season

Can, who's racked up 413 league appearances in the Bundesliga and Premier League, has come back to Germany to end his career in his homeland
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The second player to join Die Borussen was 26 year old centre back Aaron Armstrong for €9.5m

New manager Hawkins has been known to be att odds with his coaching staff over the number of centre backs at the club, with Hawkins believing Gladbach need more depth at the back, and that is where the Scottish international comes in

Worrying, Mönchengladbach have become Armstrong's FIFTH full-time club, with the Nottingham-born Scot playing for Oldham Athletic, West Ham United, Middlesbrough and Southampton
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Next up was Mexican midfielder Manuel Chan, who's joined from Deportivo Guadalajara for €8m

Chan, 20, is held in high regard in his homeland and has made 15 appearances for the Mexican national team, as well 76 league appearances in Liga MX

Chan, who appeared at the recent World Cup, is thought to be one of the world's emerging "Wonderkids"
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Next up is Gladbach's most expensive signing, Icelandic midfielder Jonas Bjarnason

Bjarnason, 22, has come in from Serie A side Napoli for €20m and is expected to become Gladbach's engine in an ageing midfield alongside Julian Weigl and Emre Can

The box-to-box midfielder already has 34 Iceland caps as well as 30 Bundelisga appearances from a loan move with Schalke 2 years ago
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Last but not least is Daniel Bauer, who's signed from FC Ingolstadt for €700,000
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