Vitesse ,a guide and results

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So as some of you may know the first team i always play is my favorite club vitesse .
I will do a short guide on tactics and the club itself .
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Founded: 1892

League: Eredivisie

Arena/Stadium: GelreDome (25.000 seater) View attachment 460764

Location: Arnhem


Start :
At the start you will notice you will have a completely different team compared to the 2013/2014 season .Alot of players have joined but your 2 key players have left .
Wilfired Bony :View attachment 460747 the ivorian striker who left for about 14 million to swansea
Marco Van Ginkel:View attachment 460746 the huge talent who went to chelsea and replacement for the curren playmaker Theo Janssen View attachment 460745

The players :View attachment 460740

You still have a couple of gems in the first team , including Gael kakuta (on loan from Chelsea) Renato Ibarra and Davy Propper.

Your biggest weakness is your defense , even though you have Guram Kashia , Leerdam and Van Aanholt who are pretty good in the real game you dont really want them as your defence in game .

Your midfield is actually pretty good you have got alot of wingers of whom ibarra and kakuta are exactly the top of the league .And your playmakers propper Vejinovic and Janssen are great as well so no worries there

Your attack is pretty avg with Havenaar ,Reis and Kallon (big prospect) but as you dont get a big kitty to spend on the beginning (more about this later) youll have to make due .

And your goalies are pretty good as well for the Dutch league .Piet Velthuizen (noone even dare say a bad thing about him :) ) is a great goalie and Jeroen Houwen is a great prospect for the future as well .

Chelsea link :

As all the followers of the Dutch Eredivisie know there is a huge link between Chelsea Fc and Vitesse some even say that Abramovich is secretly pulling the strings of Vitesse and that Vitesse is a Chelsea B or something .
If this is true or not its great for the Fm save of Vitesse because well there are alot of loanies stalled here
Van Aanholt , Kalkuta , Piazon ,Sam Hutchinson , Christian Atsu and Christian Cuevas .
Now all for Kakuta and Van Aanholt they are all bench quality players in my first Year but its great to have them with you for rotation purposes .

Finances :
The finances havent been that great this year .Were last year you could get about 15 mill to spend on players and about 450k(?) to spend in wages this is alot less now View attachment 460732 This is prolly because of the fair play thingy .You wont get any money from your chairman either wich is 2 bad (last year about 20 million per half year if you were in the red)

Goals :
My first season i went for top half finish .The money difference wasnt that huge it was worth the risk and for the transfer money that was available i didnt really find anyone who could make a huge difference in the squad .

The Transfers :
As i said you lost 2 big players for your team and you dont have alot of money to replace them so i didnt , i worked on my defence and i said this before as well in my opinion this was the weakest link.
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So i got 2 players with alot of experience and decent stats to fill in the wholes .Mensah was a bit of a let off he didnt agree with my half time speeches and got injured alot (as expected by my backroom staff :( ) vilchez was really good LB and wasnt bad as a CD either . But as you can see didnt spend alot of money on the transfers .

The backroom :
This is something that you should improve immediatly ,it isnt great you have only 2 scouts and not enough trainers so you should focus on this b4 you start signing players .

The tactics :
I always believe in build up play and wingers and this is the perfect team for that .
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As you can see a pretty basic tactic and conservative but with attacking aspirations (just like the real squad plays)
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(backs wingers cd etc all have the exact same instructions)

The results :
Well the results were beyond my wildest dreams , when i started with the job and looking over the my own and other squads i expected to finish with alot of luck 3rd or 4th ,but something incredible happened and the name was MIKE HAVENAAR god among men (well not really but you get what i mean :D)
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And mainly because of him the results were amazing :
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So i won the League (really close up to the last day and with alot of luck and late goals from Havenaar) and went on to the semi finals of the uefa cup (grp stage is a thumb ,) while winning from lazio ,hibernian and PAOK (lucky draws i know) and losing from Arsenal with 2-0(A) and losing 2-3(H)

Conclusion :

If you want a save with a decent squad in a decent competition without lots of money and a challenge then Vitesse is a really nice save .
 
Great First Season

This is a phenomenal first season dude. That 7-1 lashing of Twente and getting to the Europa League semi-final with no transfer money spent is amazing. One question though, how did you get Velthuizen (a name spoken in hushed tones in my presence) and Havenaar to perform so well? Since FM12 whenever i played a Vitas saved they always proved to be my weakest players.
 
Well velthuizen has always been good to me he is a really underrated player in real life and in game .Havenaar was a complete fluke i didnt expect this either .But my philosophy was that he was tall and he should be able to get a couple of crosses in and well he did superb .
 
I love playing with Vitesse! Last year's game was great because of Bony and Van Ginkel, as well as the constant funds. Tried again this year and found it alot harder...
 
It is indeed alot harder im now halfway through the 2nd season and ive found even though im tied in the lead with ajax now im not dominating as i was last year .Mostly because of the funds from Jordania , but also it seems the AI has gotten alot better and seem to adjust very fast to my changes during the game .But ill keep you guys updated and ill post my 2nd season in 2 days or something.
 
Competition :

So my 2nd season was really hard as i said .ALot of injuries alot of late winning goals and a really tough draw in the champions cup.
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As you can see i had no shot ,Chelsea was superior and cska was too good for me to .The quality between the 3 teams was huge (dzagoev is a beast) luckily zurich wasnt that great.

The competition was really tough as well .Ajax had a great team and they were really consistent so i finished 2nd there :(
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Oh and the uefa cup i got kicked out by OM in the 2nd knockout round so not that great and the cup i was semi finalist and got defeated by psv .
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Transfers:

And again i didnt get alot of money in the 2nd season i chose for a title challenge and got 5.3 mill Transfer kitty and 600k salary (was using about 500k p/w) so i didnt get much options and my stature didnt grow as much as i liked
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Turned out i had 2 bad buys (Johansson and Otsu) and 2 good buys Rygalka and Salgado so i free and 1 bought player sucked .wich was kinda dissapointing as the stats shouldve been good enough for the lvl vitesse is playing at .]
Most of the money i spend into staff wich are all 4 stars and higher now .

Summary :
So basicly it was a lost season still pretty good results but it wasnt as good as i hoped but mostly because of alot of injuries with a relatively small squad and at the end (as you can see) alot of fatigue wich made me lose alot of matches :(.


Spoiler for next season :

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Uhmm does anyone know how i can remove the attache thumb its from the 1st season and doesnt belong there?
 
I just signed your keeper as a back up for my Ajax squad he had the most clean sheets in the Dutch league in my first season got him on a free cause he was out of contract
 
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