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Scottish Cup Final

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From Hampden Park






Aberdeen Vs St Johnstone

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Team News




Aberdeen
Only one player missing out and thats by choice Lluis Juste has been sold and was told he wouldnt play for us again so Finnish defender Jarno Ekam steps up


St Johnstone
Max Lecomte, on loan from Aberdeen is unavailable. Attackers Ali Crawford and Craig Sutherland are both out injured





The Match




27 - Aberdeen goal - Josep Cabestan
Our early domination is rewarded with the opening goal




HT - Aberdeen 1-0 St Johstone




FT - Aberdeen 1-0 St Johnstone




A long way from being a classic but its still enough to give us our 2nd Scottish cup in 3 season


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Just read my targets when i started the game. I aimed to have won the league by 2015 and here we are going into 2017/18 still without a league win. and a singe group appearance in the champions league does'nt make up for this
 

Season 2016/17 Season review




SPL - 2nd
Scottish Cup - Winners
League Cup - 3rd Round
Champions League - 4th in group



Season Stats
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Celtic were a class apart all season and despite our improvement over the years we weren't close all season. Europe was a obvious high point




Final team talk
"This season had our greatest moment against Porto and our best league finish but we still need to do more to win this elusive title"





SPL

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Celtic won the league after having the most impressive season in the league so far. We had our best season which would have been enough to win the league over 2 of the previous seasons.


The highland battle for survival went Inverness's way after there form picked up through the relegation group matches


Livingston return to the SPL after 1 season away and St Mirren won the 1st division play off to survive




Scottish Cup


Aberdeen 1-0 St Johnstone

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Despite using cups for back up players outside the Semi's and final we regain the Scottish cup






Scottish League Cup


Partick 0-1 Motherwell

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After a few close calls David Moyes takes his 1st major trophy beating Partick who beat Aberdeen, Celtic and Dundee Utd


Aberdeen went out to the runners up where we played a awful team while fighting for success in the League and Champions League





2016/17 awards



Footballer of the year
Joe Ledley




Writers footballer of the year
Derek Sneddon
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The Don retains his award as the writers player of the year




League Player of the year
Semith Kaya


Top scorer
Bjorn Siguroarson - 23 Goals


U19's Player of the year
Craig Crawford
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Last season it was a former player winning this award but this time its our former No1 Crawford




Young player of the year
Josep Cabestany

Third year in a row one of our players wins this award




Team of the season
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Soldan, Cabestany and Sneddon are in this years team




Manager of the year
Neil Lennon - I came 3rd, Ryan Esson 2nd




Match of the Season
31st December 2016
Aberdeen 3-2 Dundee
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The whole world was against us on New years Eve until Cameron Smith came off the bench to hit a 7 minute hattrick and turn the game on its head and get us the win




Signing of the season
Josep Cabestany
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Josep was my favorite kind of signing a youngster on a free from a big team. Josep has a bright future at Pittodrie if he wants it!




Player of the season
Esmael Goncalves


This was a big fight between Goncalves, Sneddon, Cabesany, Juste and Pierce but in the end i felt it had to go to the player who got the vital goals






Champions League final
Real Madrid 1-3 Barcelona
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After a 2 season break Barca were back on top by beating there biggest rivals




Europa League final
Stuttgart 0-2 Galatasaray
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One of the weaker Europa leagues in recent times. Biggest teams in the competition Arsenal, Athletico Madrid and Inter all went out in the last 16




Other Euro leagues


Man Utd regain the Premiership
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Bayern destroy all comers
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Juventus won Serie A again
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Real may have lost the champions league but destroy all comers in La Liga
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Going into the summer


Celtic kicked on to another level this season and it will be down to us to do the same. We'll be doing it without our captain and leader Lluis Juste so we'll have to see how that and potential replacements get on
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Season preview 2017/18
If you can't buy success, Loan it!




Targets


Win the title. That's all i really care about yet again this season. Getting to the group stages of the champions league would be nice too


League - Winner
Scottish Cup - Semi Finals
Scottish League Cup - Semi Final
Europe - Group stages of Champions league or Europa league




Transfers
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In


Two more Spanish freebies and The next Yaya Toure sign on while we loan in 3 players for depth




Araud Bamba - MC
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The African Midfielder will add a bit more competition to my midfield. Already picked up 14 caps for the Ivory coast




Elias - MC
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Yep its another brilliant Spanish regen off the dump heap. Elias will add some attacking umph our teams lacked in my time at Aberdeen and will start with Soldan after being released by Real Madrid




Manuel Montero - DL
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Didnt really need another defender but following Rene Anderson putting in a few really bad performances last year i thought Montero would offer some competition for the position so we'll see which one can cement a place at the team and who will be sold off in future season




The Loan Warriors


Stewart Milne "Can't find me a parent team for loaning players" well i got 2 players in from Man Utd, sound familiar


Mats Daehil can play in the middle of the park, Joe Moncrieffe will add competition to Goncalves and FC Twente winger Brett Archer has been on my shortlist of years now so maybe i can get him on side and buy him if Steve "De" McClaren isn't to stingy






Out


Our Captain and star defender is the only major departure with fellow 1st team players Alex Manninger and Jonny Hayes were sold as they fell down the pecking order and to give youths more opportunity. Paul McCann wasn't developing so he was let go while 3 youth players were loaned. While i wrote this Ricardo Seabra was sold to Kilmarnock for £150k as he was off the radar for the 1st team






Summer news
Big Jobs in Scotland and Europe up for grabs




Manager changes
Stuart McCall - Hearts, Gordon Strachan Sacked
Steven Calderwell - Ross county, Derek Adams sacked
Lucien Favre - Athletico Madrid, Simeone sacked
Frank De Boer - Bilbao
Erick Mombaerts - Lyon
Ronald Koeman - Dortmund
Marcelino - Feyenoord
Diego Simeone - Benfica
Marco Van Basten - Valencia



Top Transfers
Anass Achahbar - Dortmund - £27.5m
*Edgar Restrepo - Arsenal - £22.5m
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Viktor Fischer - PSG - £21m
Jonatas - Marseille - £21m
Maxym Koval - Fulham - £17m
Guido Marilungo - Roma - £15m
*Jamie Bailey - Arsenal - £14.75m
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Kara - Marseille - £14.25m
Mateo Kovacic - Leverkusen - £13.75m
Andre Santos - Lyon - £13m


* Regen




Top SPL Transfers
Not involving Aberdeen


George Boyd - Celtic - £1.7m
Tim Arnott - Hearts - £925k
Matthew Kennedy - Motherwell - £775k
Declan McManus - Hibs - £575k
Kris Vigures - St Johnstone - £375k
Michael Feistammel - Livingston - £240k



First team 2017
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Jarno Ekman is promoted to replace Juste
Elias starts in the middle with Darren Hughes and Arnaud Bamba will have to work hard for there chance.
Nando Vaz comes in to replace Simao who i will transfer list as soon as the window closes as like Juste he wasn't willing to sign a new contract.
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August


Return to the Champions League group stages again taking out Ajax and Fenerbahce on the way
100% record in the SPL with half the games played by our back up 11.
League cup draws us with St Mirren
Manager of the month




Fixtures




Aberdeen 4-0 Kilmarnock
Goncalves 3
Pierce


A hattrick of goal for Goncalves and a hattrick of assists from Sneddon. What a start!




Fenerbahce 0-1 Aberdeen - Champions Cup best placed Qualifier 1st Leg
Cabestany


We went out to stop Fenerbache from scoring and try and sneak one on the counter and we did which sets us up well for the 2nd leg




Aberdeen 1-0 Fenerbahce - Champions Cup best placed Qualifier 2nd Leg
O'G


AGG Aberdeen 2-0 Fenerbahce


We took control of the 2nd leg and restricted Fenerbahce to 1 chance and they even helped our progress by scoring the only goal for us


--- Final playoff draw pairs us with another team with European history Ajax ---




Livingston 0-5 Aberdeen
Sneddon 2
Goncalves
Kardum
Cabestany




Aberdeen 4-2 Dundee Utd
Flavio
Kardum
Keogh
Daehil


Rested my best 11 and we made a terrific start however by half time Dundee Utd had pegged back our lead to 2-2, Fortunately they couldn't do it in the second half




Ajax 2-3 Aberdeen - Champions League playoff 1st leg
Elias
Pierce
Moncrieffe


What a night in Amsterdam. Ajax started out on top and for the first 40 minutes were the better team but we were still in the fight at half time and a inspired second half comeback puts us ahead heading into the pittodrie leg




Hearts 0-1 Aberdeen
Simao


The first star player i brought in probably wont have many more chances to score the winning goal, Training Bamba to play DM




Aberdeen 2-1 Ajax - Champions League Playoff 2nd Leg
Goncalves
Cabestany


AGG Aberdeen 5-3 Ajax


We scored with our two first attacks and that had us well in control all we had to do was hang on and not make any stupid mistakes and we made to to the group stages again!






League
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Perfect start 4 wins, top of the table and lots of goals






Player of the Month
Derek Sneddon


Goals and assists and a near 8 average rating all while playing through the pain barrier






Champions League group draw


Group E
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Paris SG
Juventus
Trabzonspor
Aberdeen


As the 4th seeds were about to be drawn this was one of the two weakest groups that i wanted us to be drawn in. Should have no problems against Trazbonspor. Top two should be far to good for us






August transfers
All the big money moves went on in August
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SPL Transfers
Same can't be said for the SPL
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Just read the entire thread and great job you are doing with Aberdeen. I currently have a save in the SPL going but with Celtic and Aberdeen are close to being relegated in 2016 in my save.
 
iArsenal said:
Just read the entire thread and great job you are doing with Aberdeen. I currently have a save in the SPL going but with Celtic and Aberdeen are close to being relegated in 2016 in my save.
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Thats quite realistic on the Dons current form. How are you getting on with Celtic? My favorite save back in the champ manager days was with them. Became the best team in the world and had Crespo up front
 
stonecold said:
Thats quite realistic on the Dons current form. How are you getting on with Celtic? My favorite save back in the champ manager days was with them. Became the best team in the world and had Crespo up front
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I am having a great time with Celtic. I am dominating the league but am having extreme difficulties in Europe. I haven't qualified for the knockout round of the Champions League yet and I am finisihing up the 2015/16 season. I have beaten the likes of Arsenal, Man City and Man United but the best I have done is finished 3rd in our group twice.

My finances have been the main problem I think as the SPL is horrible for income. I am in the Europa League round of 16 though against Roma so hopefully we can go far in that and I am currently unbeaten in the SPL at the start of March.
 
iArsenal said:
I am having a great time with Celtic. I am dominating the league but am having extreme difficulties in Europe. I haven't qualified for the knockout round of the Champions League yet and I am finisihing up the 2015/16 season. I have beaten the likes of Arsenal, Man City and Man United but the best I have done is finished 3rd in our group twice.

My finances have been the main problem I think as the SPL is horrible for income. I am in the Europa League round of 16 though against Roma so hopefully we can go far in that and I am currently unbeaten in the SPL at the start of March.
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Yeah the money in the SPL is pretty poor. Until i got money twice for reaching the Champions League group stage i was always floating around breaking even and without that cash i could never have the squad depth i have. Could not really have more than 18 1st team players then rely on youths for back up.

I really need to keep raising cash in the bank through TV money and player sales till i get a new stadium built to get more cash in through attendance so we can have a sustainable squad in place to the standard of Celtic without having to always sell our best players.

On that note have you been forced to sell anyone due to them wanting to move to a bigger team or the chairman accepting on your behalf?
 

September


Almost keep our winning run in all competitions going till the mighty Dundee beat us 2-0
Trazonspor easily beaten in our 1st Champions League match
Simao set to move to Schalke in January




Fixtures




Aberdeen 2-1 Rangers
Goncalves
Cabestany


Phhhew that one almost sneaked away from us when Ian Black got Rangers equalizer with 15 minutes to go but Cabestany came up with the goods at the end to keep our winning run up




Inverness CT 0-2 Aberdeen
Flavio
Kardum


Back up players were at it again and although it wasn't convincing we did manage to win again




Aberdeen 3-0 Trazonspor - Champions League Match 1
Cabestany 2
Keogh


A very easy win in our opening game puts us good shape to stay in Europe beyond Christmas but very early days




Motherwell 0-3 Aberdeen
Goncalves
Flavio
Keogh


Finally it seem were going to be able to make a solid challenge for the league. Higdon usually manages to break us down but he had no answer to us today




St Mirren 0-1 Aberdeen - League Cup 3rd round - AET
Kilin


Our winning run goes on but only just. Needed Extra Time to finally get the better of the 1st division outfit




Dundee 2-0 Aberdeen


Well i certainly didn't expect our 100% record at the start of the season to end like this to Dundee. Had the strongest team i could put out on display too






League
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As our winning run ended at 7 matches away to Dundee unbeaten Celtic close the gap to 1 point






Player of the Month
Flavio
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The back up winger did a great job when called upon after Cabestany picked up a injury in the Champions League


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October


Remain unbeaten in the Champions League
Beat Celtic in the SPL
Further International misery as Steve Clarke is sacked and replaced by Danny Lennon who's accolades consist of Getting Relegated with St Mirren and being unemployed for 5 years




Fixtures




Juventus 1-1 Aberdeen - Champions League match 2

Goncalves


When Llorente scored the opening goal after 5 minutes i thought we were in for a rout but after Goncalves quickly equalized there was no more goals and we got a brilliant result. Pizza's all round!




Aberdeen 1-0 St Johnstone
Cabestany


A win we needed and deserved




Aberdeen 2-2 Hibs
Archer
Kardum


Both the title rivals draw in today's rounds of games, Celtics draw was away to Rangers so a chance was missed by both




Paris SG 2-2 Aberdeen - Champions League match 3
Cabestany
Goncalves


We twice threw away the lead in Paris as we couldn't quite live up to a former Scottish performance in Paris. Pretty delighted to still be unbeaten halfway through the group. Tonight was Pierce and Butler's 100th Aberdeen appearances with Pierce having one of his best matches for the club




Celtic 0-1 Aberdeen
Moncrieffe


The better team won at Parkhead. Came out top on all the stats, a very satisfying day






League
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The first top of the table clash of the season went our way and the gap at the top is now 4 points






Player of the Month
Josep Cabestany
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Our player of the year so far. Keeps scoring important goals






Europe

Brilliant first half of the group. Right in the battle for the top 2 spots and with Trabonspor still on 0 points its looking good for European Football next season.
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I actually haven't had to sell anyone due to wanting to move to a bigger club. I have plenty of interest in my players (Wanyama, Hooper, Watt, Ledley, Forster) but I have set asking prices and some players have release clauses that are throwing some teams off. Although I am quite surprised that teams haven't taken a punt on Wanyama for his £10m release clause like they due in some AI controlled games.
 
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