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those signings are fantastic! Balanta for £4.5mil? wow..
Can't wait until your next youth intake.
Can't wait until your next youth intake.
Wolfsburg FC - The German Youth Challenge
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Wolfsburg
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February 2015
Balanta Given Leave Of Absence
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Its a big worry that Balanta has failed to settle in Germany, Im hoping he comes back in a better mood if not he will have to be let go of in the summer.
Champions League 1st Knockout rnd
1st Leg V Galatasary - Away
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An impressive win away from home with Arnold and especially De Bruyne in fine form with RB Trasch getting a late rare goal to seal the win and all but cement our place in the next round.
February Fixtures
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So we start the month with impressive wins over Freiburg and Furth with Dzeko getting his first goals for the club since his recent return.
Maybe the Hannover game was what made Balanta want to go home after he scored the opener before scoring an own goal and then fluffing a clearance to see us lose the match.
We then turned our fortune back around with not only the win in the Champions League but two good wins in the league with Dzeko getting a hattrick against HSV and scoring agains Leverkusen in the 3-1 win were Rode was on fire.
League Table
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12 points behind Bayern with a game in hand but the league is all but lost but Schalke have fallen away in recent weeks now 4 points behind us in 3rd place.
Player Stats
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Its still Lewandowski dominating with Luis Gustavo joint top of the most yellow cards chart and Perisic in the top 5 for assists still.
Player of the Month - Edin Dzeko
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February 2015
Balanta Given Leave Of Absence
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Its a big worry that Balanta has failed to settle in Germany, Im hoping he comes back in a better mood if not he will have to be let go of in the summer.
Champions League 1st Knockout rnd
1st Leg V Galatasary - Away
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An impressive win away from home with Arnold and especially De Bruyne in fine form with RB Trasch getting a late rare goal to seal the win and all but cement our place in the next round.
February Fixtures
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So we start the month with impressive wins over Freiburg and Furth with Dzeko getting his first goals for the club since his recent return.
Maybe the Hannover game was what made Balanta want to go home after he scored the opener before scoring an own goal and then fluffing a clearance to see us lose the match.
We then turned our fortune back around with not only the win in the Champions League but two good wins in the league with Dzeko getting a hattrick against HSV and scoring agains Leverkusen in the 3-1 win were Rode was on fire.
League Table
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12 points behind Bayern with a game in hand but the league is all but lost but Schalke have fallen away in recent weeks now 4 points behind us in 3rd place.
Player Stats
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Its still Lewandowski dominating with Luis Gustavo joint top of the most yellow cards chart and Perisic in the top 5 for assists still.
Player of the Month - Edin Dzeko
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Thanks mate, couldnt believe getting Balanta on the cheap, youth intake had a couple of decent players will post up next
Wolfsburg
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Youth Intake - March 2015
A couple of decent looking prospects this year, they seem to be getting young as well with two 14 year old's our best prospects in the latest bunch.
Jorge Kunze - DC
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Jannis Krull - CM
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Wolfsburg Under 19's
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Youth Intake - March 2015
A couple of decent looking prospects this year, they seem to be getting young as well with two 14 year old's our best prospects in the latest bunch.
Jorge Kunze - DC
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Jannis Krull - CM
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Wolfsburg Under 19's
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Meyer has been quality so far, i think its going to take a while to challenge Bayern but i will be happy with second this year, Want to get far in Europe and hope to win the German Cup in the next few years to get some silverware. thanks for readingGood work so far mate. Mayer looks like a quality signing.
The title looks unlikely this year, but I'm pretty sure you will get 2nd.
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youth squad is looking good now, lots of potential! Shame that this intake wasn't as good as the last. Got any youth players on your radar that you might bring in?
I dont really like buying loads of youth intake players because you end up with so many that they never reach their potential but players im interested in under sort of 21 are Goretzka, Kempf, Tah, Stark, Matthias Ginter, Rani Khedira and Bittencourt, theres so many decent young Germans but it seems the clubs want big money for them.
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How about Avdijaj?
Just checked him out, looks pretty good but Schalke will want big money for him has 18 goals in 23 games for Schalke 2
Wolfsburg
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March 2015
Champions League 1st Knockout rnd
2nd leg v Galatasaray - Home
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2-2 draw at home after we completely capitulate in the late stages of the game. We were 2-0 up on the night and 5-1 up on aggregate before we had 2 players sent off late on and Drogba smashed in 2 quick goals but it wasnt enough and we make the Quarter Finals.
Champions League Quarter Finals Draw
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So we get drawn against Bayern Munich in a big all German tie! I just cant see us beating them over two legs, im gutted we got drawn against them as i feel we could have given a few of the other teams left a good game.
March Fixtures
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So we got Bayern in the Champions League after facing them twice this month, we managed to beat them in the German Cup setting up a Semi Final against Hertha before losing to them at the end of the month in the league.
In between all of the tough matches we did manage to destroy Augsburg and Dusseldorf smashing 5 goals past both of them.
League Table
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So Bayern are all but Champions again whilst were on the same points as Schalke but do have a game in hand with only a handful of games left this season whilst Dortmund are well out of it down in 4th.
Player Stats
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De Bruyne shoots up the assists chart this month after starring in a couple of the big wins in the league with Perisic in 3rd.
Player of the Month - Edin Dzeko
(9 Goals In 9 Games Since Re-Joining)
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March 2015
Champions League 1st Knockout rnd
2nd leg v Galatasaray - Home
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2-2 draw at home after we completely capitulate in the late stages of the game. We were 2-0 up on the night and 5-1 up on aggregate before we had 2 players sent off late on and Drogba smashed in 2 quick goals but it wasnt enough and we make the Quarter Finals.
Champions League Quarter Finals Draw
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So we get drawn against Bayern Munich in a big all German tie! I just cant see us beating them over two legs, im gutted we got drawn against them as i feel we could have given a few of the other teams left a good game.
March Fixtures
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So we got Bayern in the Champions League after facing them twice this month, we managed to beat them in the German Cup setting up a Semi Final against Hertha before losing to them at the end of the month in the league.
In between all of the tough matches we did manage to destroy Augsburg and Dusseldorf smashing 5 goals past both of them.
League Table
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So Bayern are all but Champions again whilst were on the same points as Schalke but do have a game in hand with only a handful of games left this season whilst Dortmund are well out of it down in 4th.
Player Stats
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De Bruyne shoots up the assists chart this month after starring in a couple of the big wins in the league with Perisic in 3rd.
Player of the Month - Edin Dzeko
(9 Goals In 9 Games Since Re-Joining)
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Wolfsburg
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April 2015
Champions League Quarter Finals
1st Leg V Bayern - Home
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Right so Dzeko is cup tied for the Champions League and it hurt us big time with Batshuayi not in good form at the moment, We actually had the better chances and possession but Bayern just had the better finishers with Robben and Lewandowski getting the all important away goals.
2nd Leg V Bayern - Away
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Batshuayi had another poor game but we did take the lead thanks to a Perisic wonder goal just before half time but we couldnt hold onto it as Bayern come back with goals from Robben and Thiago seeing us crash out of the Champions League.
Benaglio Becomes Wolfsburg All Time League Appearance Holder
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Balanta Out For 4 Months
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So only a few games after returning from his leave of absence after Homesickness his season is ended with a bad 4 month injury.
April Fixtures
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So along with the losses to Bayern in the Champions League we won 4 league games out of 5 drawing against bogey team Mainz and beating close rivals in the league Schalke thanks to a Dzeko brace. We also dispatched of Hertha Berlin comfortably to seal a big German Cup Final against Hoffenheim, a team we just beat in the league thanks to an early Dzeko goal.
League Table
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10 points behind Bayern with 2 games to go but we have all but secured an impressive 2nd place after the win against Schalke as were 6 points clear.
Player Stats
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De Bruyne is hanging on in there but none of our players have really shone this season in the league but it does show we must have a good team workrate to come second still. In the 3 full months Dzeko has been here he is already up to 6th in the goalscoring charts in the league on 13 goals already.
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April 2015
Champions League Quarter Finals
1st Leg V Bayern - Home
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Right so Dzeko is cup tied for the Champions League and it hurt us big time with Batshuayi not in good form at the moment, We actually had the better chances and possession but Bayern just had the better finishers with Robben and Lewandowski getting the all important away goals.
2nd Leg V Bayern - Away
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Batshuayi had another poor game but we did take the lead thanks to a Perisic wonder goal just before half time but we couldnt hold onto it as Bayern come back with goals from Robben and Thiago seeing us crash out of the Champions League.
Benaglio Becomes Wolfsburg All Time League Appearance Holder
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Balanta Out For 4 Months
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So only a few games after returning from his leave of absence after Homesickness his season is ended with a bad 4 month injury.
April Fixtures
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So along with the losses to Bayern in the Champions League we won 4 league games out of 5 drawing against bogey team Mainz and beating close rivals in the league Schalke thanks to a Dzeko brace. We also dispatched of Hertha Berlin comfortably to seal a big German Cup Final against Hoffenheim, a team we just beat in the league thanks to an early Dzeko goal.
League Table
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10 points behind Bayern with 2 games to go but we have all but secured an impressive 2nd place after the win against Schalke as were 6 points clear.
Player Stats
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De Bruyne is hanging on in there but none of our players have really shone this season in the league but it does show we must have a good team workrate to come second still. In the 3 full months Dzeko has been here he is already up to 6th in the goalscoring charts in the league on 13 goals already.
Wolfsburg
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May 2015
End Of League Season Fixtures
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So we managed to comfortably beat Weder Bremen before going 2-0 up against Stuttgart and then 3-2 down before centre back Naldo popped up with a late equalizer.
League Table End
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I felt like we had a really good season but Bayern are just too formidable in defence and have an unbelievable attacking force, We came 7 points clear of 3rd place with the big surprise being Schalke dropping to 4th with Dortmund's late surge into 3rd place.
Player Stats
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So despite coming second in the league none of our players really stood out and that was shown in the fact we didnt win a single award or even have a player in the Team of the Year with 8 Bayern players and 3 Dortmund players i was shocked that Schalke didnt have a player in their either.
3rd German Cup Final For Wolfsburg - Lost Other 2 Finals
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German Cup Final V Hoffenheim
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Rode scored a goal in the opening seconds to give us the lead but in a game we dominated it wasnt until the closing moments when Arnold stepped off the bench to smash in 2 late goals and seal our 1st Ever German Cup and my first piece of silveware with Wolfsburg.
German Cup Won!
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May 2015
End Of League Season Fixtures
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So we managed to comfortably beat Weder Bremen before going 2-0 up against Stuttgart and then 3-2 down before centre back Naldo popped up with a late equalizer.
League Table End
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I felt like we had a really good season but Bayern are just too formidable in defence and have an unbelievable attacking force, We came 7 points clear of 3rd place with the big surprise being Schalke dropping to 4th with Dortmund's late surge into 3rd place.
Player Stats
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So despite coming second in the league none of our players really stood out and that was shown in the fact we didnt win a single award or even have a player in the Team of the Year with 8 Bayern players and 3 Dortmund players i was shocked that Schalke didnt have a player in their either.
3rd German Cup Final For Wolfsburg - Lost Other 2 Finals
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German Cup Final V Hoffenheim
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Rode scored a goal in the opening seconds to give us the lead but in a game we dominated it wasnt until the closing moments when Arnold stepped off the bench to smash in 2 late goals and seal our 1st Ever German Cup and my first piece of silveware with Wolfsburg.
German Cup Won!
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Wolfsburg
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May 2015
End Of Season Stats
Summary
So the big story this season was the German Cup win a huge achievement especially as we beat Bayern Munich on the way to winning it.
We managed to reach the Champions League Quarter Finals and i feel could have gone one better if we hadnt have met Bayern Munich in an all German Quarter Final.
We finished second in the league so were one place higher up than last season and what was expected of us but i feel as if next season we need to finish closer to Bayern and at least mount some sort of title challenge.
Transfers wise im really only looking at a couple of players as we have a lot of young players in the side and need to get rid of some deadwood before bringing in just one or two quality signings.
Wolfsburg Squad In Order Of Most Apps
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Top Goalscorer - Maximillian Arnold - 20 Goals
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A brilliant season for the young German who mainly plays at AMC/CM to get the top goalscorer for us with 5 goals in our Cup Run triumph and 3 more in the Champions League, He set up 9 more goals aswell.
Player of the Year - Edin Dzeko
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I had to give it to him as he made our second half of the season, 15 goals in 18 games and 7 assists shows why he is considered Wolfsburg's best player ever and a full season with him next year will surely see us take Europe by storm!
Young Player of the Year - Ricardo Rodriguez
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10 assists and 4 goals for the young Left Back who played almost 50 games this season for us with an incredible average rating of 7.41.
Bayern Munich Won Champions League
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Wolfsburg Named Biggest Overachiever In German League This Season
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Wolfsburg - Best Eleven - This Season
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May 2015
End Of Season Stats
Summary
So the big story this season was the German Cup win a huge achievement especially as we beat Bayern Munich on the way to winning it.
We managed to reach the Champions League Quarter Finals and i feel could have gone one better if we hadnt have met Bayern Munich in an all German Quarter Final.
We finished second in the league so were one place higher up than last season and what was expected of us but i feel as if next season we need to finish closer to Bayern and at least mount some sort of title challenge.
Transfers wise im really only looking at a couple of players as we have a lot of young players in the side and need to get rid of some deadwood before bringing in just one or two quality signings.
Wolfsburg Squad In Order Of Most Apps
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Top Goalscorer - Maximillian Arnold - 20 Goals
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A brilliant season for the young German who mainly plays at AMC/CM to get the top goalscorer for us with 5 goals in our Cup Run triumph and 3 more in the Champions League, He set up 9 more goals aswell.
Player of the Year - Edin Dzeko
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I had to give it to him as he made our second half of the season, 15 goals in 18 games and 7 assists shows why he is considered Wolfsburg's best player ever and a full season with him next year will surely see us take Europe by storm!
Young Player of the Year - Ricardo Rodriguez
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10 assists and 4 goals for the young Left Back who played almost 50 games this season for us with an incredible average rating of 7.41.
Bayern Munich Won Champions League
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Wolfsburg Named Biggest Overachiever In German League This Season
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Wolfsburg - Best Eleven - This Season
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Cool update once again using the galore tactic at Achilles'29 at the moment but its freaking hard with my team defensie suck als **** onley have 4k wage budget so pretty hard my team is onley semi prof in THE league
Thanks mate, Yeah im not sure what the tactic will be like for not so good teams as i have only used it for this save and Man Utd and Limerick were i was dominating by that point.
Wolfsburg
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Summer Transfer Window
July/August 2015
Season Expectations
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Oooh yes please £50Million transfer budget is just what i needed, not much in the terms of extra wage budget but im sure i can sell a couple of players first.
Players Out
So there was a lot of youth players going out on loan along with Ochs and Sissoko leaving on free transfers as i struggled to sell them. I sold a backup player called Fagner for a few million who never played for me but the only big transfer out was winger Perisic.
He did very good for us in the past couple of seasons but with the players i have brought in this window and the previous ones he is seen as the 3rd best right winger and 5th best left winger so i thought i would cash in while i could and got £12Million from Roma.
Players In
Well i only brought in 3 players but still managed to spend £52.75Million! Its not so much about bringing in a shed load of players now but more about quality.
Julian Draxler - AMRLC - £38.5Million
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Hes set to become one of the best players in the world and not only strengthens us seriously weakens Schalke whilst fitting in nicely with our project of young German players.
Matthias Ginter - DC/CM - £14.25Million
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He was awesome for me on some previous saves and again is a young German with plenty of potential he can play in midfield but i see him playing alongside Balanta at the back when Naldo retires or leaves.
Ricardo van Rhijn - DRC - Free
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We need a new backup RB and Trasch is usually seen as our weak link by other teams in the media so it was definitely an area that needed strengthening.
I put an offer in for Sebastian Jung a young German and it was accepted at around £11Million but he wanted silly wages of around £140k a week so i decided against it.
Transfer History
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Starting 11 and Tactic For New Season
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I would say GK and RB are our weak links now but im sure by the next Summer Transfer window we can have that sorted, we have 6 Germans in the starting lineup and 8 of our starting lineup are under 24!
Look at the attacking front though! Draxler, Meyer and De Bruyne supporting lone striker Dzeko! That should destroy a few defences.
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Summer Transfer Window
July/August 2015
Season Expectations
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Oooh yes please £50Million transfer budget is just what i needed, not much in the terms of extra wage budget but im sure i can sell a couple of players first.
Players Out
So there was a lot of youth players going out on loan along with Ochs and Sissoko leaving on free transfers as i struggled to sell them. I sold a backup player called Fagner for a few million who never played for me but the only big transfer out was winger Perisic.
He did very good for us in the past couple of seasons but with the players i have brought in this window and the previous ones he is seen as the 3rd best right winger and 5th best left winger so i thought i would cash in while i could and got £12Million from Roma.
Players In
Well i only brought in 3 players but still managed to spend £52.75Million! Its not so much about bringing in a shed load of players now but more about quality.
Julian Draxler - AMRLC - £38.5Million
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Hes set to become one of the best players in the world and not only strengthens us seriously weakens Schalke whilst fitting in nicely with our project of young German players.
Matthias Ginter - DC/CM - £14.25Million
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He was awesome for me on some previous saves and again is a young German with plenty of potential he can play in midfield but i see him playing alongside Balanta at the back when Naldo retires or leaves.
Ricardo van Rhijn - DRC - Free
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We need a new backup RB and Trasch is usually seen as our weak link by other teams in the media so it was definitely an area that needed strengthening.
I put an offer in for Sebastian Jung a young German and it was accepted at around £11Million but he wanted silly wages of around £140k a week so i decided against it.
Transfer History
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Starting 11 and Tactic For New Season
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I would say GK and RB are our weak links now but im sure by the next Summer Transfer window we can have that sorted, we have 6 Germans in the starting lineup and 8 of our starting lineup are under 24!
Look at the attacking front though! Draxler, Meyer and De Bruyne supporting lone striker Dzeko! That should destroy a few defences.
Wolfsburg
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August 2015
German League Title Odds
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So were seen as 3rd favourites again by the media behind favourites Bayern Munich and Dortmund, they dont give Schalke much of a chance at all.
Right lets go through the other teams transfer business.
Schalke - So with the money they received from selling us Draxler they brought in Christian Benteke and Gary Medel
Dortmund - They could struggle big time this year as last season they spent £70Million and finished 3rd and this year they have only spent £4Million on 2 players and sold Reus in the winter transfer window to Bayern.
Bayern - They brought in players called Vesteegaard and Kampl for almost £40Million in total whilst selling on former Barcelona defenders Bartra and Montoya for £20Million plus each.
German Super Cup V Bayern
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Dominated, It shows how much we had to rely on our defence to keep it to losing 1-0 with Benaglio getting the man of the match award.
Champions League Group Stage Draw
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Another tough group draw with the likes of Barca and AC Milan but were going to be getting these whilst were still 4th seeds in the draw, we have moved up around 15 places in the rankings but were still 57th in the club rankings.
August Fixtures
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So after the cup loss to Bayern we beat a little known team to make the next round of the German Cup and then went on to win our first 4 league games of the new season with Meyer, De Bruyne and Dzeko in fine goalscoring form with Draxler setting them all up
League Table
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Surprise package HSV top the table at the moment whilst Bayern pull a shocker and drop points early on to Freiburg.
Player Stats
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Thats what i like to see! After 4 games we have Dzeko topping the Golden Boot chart with 6 goals and Draxler topping the assists charts with 6 too.
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August 2015
German League Title Odds
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So were seen as 3rd favourites again by the media behind favourites Bayern Munich and Dortmund, they dont give Schalke much of a chance at all.
Right lets go through the other teams transfer business.
Schalke - So with the money they received from selling us Draxler they brought in Christian Benteke and Gary Medel
Dortmund - They could struggle big time this year as last season they spent £70Million and finished 3rd and this year they have only spent £4Million on 2 players and sold Reus in the winter transfer window to Bayern.
Bayern - They brought in players called Vesteegaard and Kampl for almost £40Million in total whilst selling on former Barcelona defenders Bartra and Montoya for £20Million plus each.
German Super Cup V Bayern
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Dominated, It shows how much we had to rely on our defence to keep it to losing 1-0 with Benaglio getting the man of the match award.
Champions League Group Stage Draw
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Another tough group draw with the likes of Barca and AC Milan but were going to be getting these whilst were still 4th seeds in the draw, we have moved up around 15 places in the rankings but were still 57th in the club rankings.
August Fixtures
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So after the cup loss to Bayern we beat a little known team to make the next round of the German Cup and then went on to win our first 4 league games of the new season with Meyer, De Bruyne and Dzeko in fine goalscoring form with Draxler setting them all up
League Table
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Surprise package HSV top the table at the moment whilst Bayern pull a shocker and drop points early on to Freiburg.
Player Stats
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Thats what i like to see! After 4 games we have Dzeko topping the Golden Boot chart with 6 goals and Draxler topping the assists charts with 6 too.
Wolfsburg
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September 2015
100th Game In Charge Of Wolfsburg
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76 wins out of 100 games is a very impressive stat whilst in just over 2 seasons we have won the German Cup and gone from 5th favourites to second whilst spending big bucks on the likes of Meyer, Draxler and Dzeko, will be interesting to see where we stand in another 100 games.
September Fixtures
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So we started the month well with a decent win against rivals Schalke before getting dominated by group favourites Barcelona in the Champions League.
We then struggled to a draw against bogey team Mainz coming from 2-0 down to draw with Dzeko scoring a brace. After that match we managed 3 straight wins beating Hertha Berlin in the German Cup and then seeing Batshuayi break his 11 hour goalless streak in getting the only goal against Dusseldorf.
The final match of the month was an impressive win over AC Milan in the Champions League with a shift in personnel and tactic at half time seeing us score 3 quick second half goals.
League Table
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I know were only 7 games in but nobody expected HSV to be topping the table whilst we both have 3 points more than Bayern and Dortmund are struggling down in 6th place.
Player Stats
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Dzeko still tops the Golden Boot chart with 9 league goals in his opening 7 league games with Draxler having set most of them up with 8 assists.
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September 2015
100th Game In Charge Of Wolfsburg
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76 wins out of 100 games is a very impressive stat whilst in just over 2 seasons we have won the German Cup and gone from 5th favourites to second whilst spending big bucks on the likes of Meyer, Draxler and Dzeko, will be interesting to see where we stand in another 100 games.
September Fixtures
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So we started the month well with a decent win against rivals Schalke before getting dominated by group favourites Barcelona in the Champions League.
We then struggled to a draw against bogey team Mainz coming from 2-0 down to draw with Dzeko scoring a brace. After that match we managed 3 straight wins beating Hertha Berlin in the German Cup and then seeing Batshuayi break his 11 hour goalless streak in getting the only goal against Dusseldorf.
The final match of the month was an impressive win over AC Milan in the Champions League with a shift in personnel and tactic at half time seeing us score 3 quick second half goals.
League Table
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I know were only 7 games in but nobody expected HSV to be topping the table whilst we both have 3 points more than Bayern and Dortmund are struggling down in 6th place.
Player Stats
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Dzeko still tops the Golden Boot chart with 9 league goals in his opening 7 league games with Draxler having set most of them up with 8 assists.