alexcharliemann Posted July 20, 2012 Author Share Posted July 20, 2012 Cofidis Cup We recorded a comfortable win to take the cup for the 11th time in the club's history and to complete the domestic double, to crown a very good first full season in Belgium. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Northernpilgrim Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Stay put if I were you Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexcharliemann Posted July 20, 2012 Author Share Posted July 20, 2012 I'd initially asked for a week's delay, and after a day decided to resign from Brugge, see what other offers come in, but probably go to Everton. To my horror, after accepting the delay, Everton appoint someone else the next day, Crap! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
judkilm34621 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Most English are just crap at wearing clothes. To match our weather people love wearing grey and dull brown outfits. If they look like this on the outside you can imagine what these people are like on the inside - yep, dull! The men go to work nowadays dressed in 'Business Casual'. In England this means that the guys simply wear the same suits and shirts they have always done but without a tie! Bloody hell guys that's pushing the frontiers of fashion and non-conformist behaviour. We now have a working population commuting to the office everyday looking as though they all woke up too late to finish getting dressed. Keep safe! Have a good day ^_^ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexcharliemann Posted July 20, 2012 Author Share Posted July 20, 2012 Most English are just crap at wearing clothes. To match our weather people love wearing grey and dull brown outfits. If they look like this on the outside you can imagine what these people are like on the inside - yep, dull!The men go to work nowadays dressed in 'Business Casual'. In England this means that the guys simply wear the same suits and shirts they have always done but without a tie! Bloody hell guys that's pushing the frontiers of fashion and non-conformist behaviour. We now have a working population commuting to the office everyday looking as though they all woke up too late to finish getting dressed. Keep safe! Have a good day ^_^ .......... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northernpilgrim Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 A little surprised you chose to resign when things were going so well. What's prompted your decision? You obviously expected Everton to act honourably, which they haven't. Any ideas where you'll be heading next? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexcharliemann Posted July 20, 2012 Author Share Posted July 20, 2012 Well I'd already won the league and cup double, there is nothing else to win domestically. I could have stayed to win some european stuff but that would have taken a few years and I'd rather move on and win in another country. I have a few offers: will compile them all and leave them here over night while I think about it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexcharliemann Posted July 20, 2012 Author Share Posted July 20, 2012 My Options They are still an awesome club so might be a good stepping stone. They have just been promoted to the Swiss first tier, might be an interesting challenge. Top tier in Spain, with an English chairman! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northernpilgrim Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 In demand, eh? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexcharliemann Posted July 20, 2012 Author Share Posted July 20, 2012 Have won the Swedish top tier 7 years in a row but have had a nightmare start to this season and are in 12th. Would get Champions League football. Top tier football in Italy. Championship football again but with a big club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northernpilgrim Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 If I were offered that selection, it'd be a straight fight between Rayo Vallecano and Elfsborg. I'd rule out Barcelona B on the grounds that league rules mean you can't be promoted. Palermo's budget is too small. Do you really need to go to the Championship when you have top flight offers? Bellinzona does also look interesting though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexcharliemann Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 Club Brugge Season Review - 2018/19 Juliper Pro League - Champions Juliper Pro League - a very good season in which we dominated all the way through, taking the lead right from the start. We almost conspired to throw it away at the death, but we held on to win the title for the first time since 2005. Cofidis Cup - we completed the double despite having to play a top flight team in every round bar the first. Almost made it without conceding a goal. The final was comfortable again. Key Players Bob Martin - Break through season for the young Belgian, a tower in defence. Will be a big star and made it into the national team. Kristof D'Haene - Really consistent season at left back and added some more width to our attacking line up, overlapping the inside forward well. Wouldn't sign a new contract and now departs for Hoffenheim. Alejandro Gomez - Was adamant at the start of the season he wanted to leave, glad I held onto him! Played across all 3 inside forward positions and netted 18 goals and numerous assist. Starting to age a bit though and is still angling for his big money move. Joeri De Bruycker - Signed in January for £7.5m from FC Utrecht and was the difference maker that hauled us over the line. Played as the central IF and scored 11 goals in 22. Phenomenally quick. Carlos Gonzalez - Signed from Boca at the start of the season, I think he is the best player in the league by a distance and were it not for injury would have romped to the Golden Boot from left IF. The ball stays glued to his feet. Lost count of the goals he scored starting on the wing, before going on a mazy wing and heading for the near post to blast it in. Squad - As you can see, strength in depth, with a number of players reaching double figures. And all 3 of our top scorers were midfielders. Next Season I thought about staying for a Champions League campaign, but I want to win titles in as many different countries as possible. I fancied a new challenge. Belgium was nice while it lasted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexcharliemann Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 Career Overview Season Club Country Division Position Other ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2012 Frigg Norway Second Division Group 4 2nd None 2013/14 Crewe Alexandra England Blue Square Premier 1st Promotion; FA Trophy Runners Up 2014/15 Crewe Alexandra England League Two 2nd Promotion 2015/16 Crewe Alexandra England League One 2nd Promotion 2016/17 Crewe Alexandra England Championship 11th None 2017/18 Crewe Alexandra England Championship 11th Resigned 18th November 2017/18 Club Brugges Belgium Juliper Pro League 3rd None 2018/19 Club Brugges Belgium Juliper Pro League 1st Cofidis Cup Winners Youth Products YP1 - Jan Morten Kjolberg - Moved to another Norwegian lower league club and is back up. YP2 - Dom Yoffe - Second season at Watford as they finished 12th. Didn't score many goals but has established himself in the England squad. YP3 - Martyn Brunskill - Led the Crewe line well with 15 goals in 30. Has a continental reputation but no signs of leaving them yet. YP4 - Michael Hill - A poor season again only 5 goals at Crewe. Not turning the attributes into performances. YP5 - Tom Dunne - A big season for him as he got a move to Manchester United for £5.25m and won the title. He was mainly a squad player but they seem to hold him in high regard and he made his England debut. YP6 - Patrick Challinor - Got a £5m move to Premier League Leicester but struggled to break into the first team and is already looking for a move away because of it. Former Club Watch Frigg - Bounced straight back into the Adeccoligaen (second tier) by winning their third tier league at the first attempt. Crewe - Sold 5 of their best 6 players for £22.5m but only spent £1.8m. Finished 12th in the league. I can't see them going any further as they're a selling club. Entirely depends if they spend the money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cerud Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 You did well in Belgium and leave on a high! Look forward to where you end up next Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexcharliemann Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 2019 Elfsborg Allsvenskan Elfsborg are the undoubted new kings of the Swedish game, as they have won the Allsvenskan 7 years in a row now. However, with their legendary coach retiring soon, they were on the slide and have had a very poor start to the season that sees them well off the pace, out of the title race, and in 9th place. Coming in it is clear why: the best of their squad has been cherry picked by big foreign clubs, but these players have not been replaced, and so left behind is an ageing squad with all the championship quality players long gone. This is going to be a re-building job and a massive clear out will be required. I takeover in July, and this is a league that runs from April to November, with 16 teams playing each other twice. In addition to the title, the top team qualifies for the Champions League, and second, third and fourth for the Europa league. As we won last year, we are in the Champions League starting at the Second Qualifying round. We have only ever made the group stages once where we bottomed out. The Swedish league isn't awash with money as the league winners only get £555,000 prize money. The bottom two teams are relegated and a third enter a relegation playoff. The current league leaders are Malmo by some distance. My task this season will be to get us back into the European places, and start building a squad for next season. Our big rivals are Göteborg and they are in second. The league is currently ranked 38th (down from 26th) with two and a half stars. That is the same as Belgium, but the big difference here is the clubs do not do well at all in Europe. Manager wise things have been stable as the last guy had been here for a decade. There is very little backroom staff so I will be trying to bring in a lot of my own guys. The chairman Bosse Johansson is a Swede and has been here from the start with no sign of leaving yet. Financially the club is doing well with £7m in the bank, the majority of which is available to me for transfers. As I am finding though it is unlikely I will be able to even come close to spending it as very few players are interested in a move to Sweden and building a squad capable of competing in Europe is going to be incredibly difficult. The first thing I did was release 22 players in the youth team were awful, and put half the first squad up for sale. They had about 50 players on the books, and only 12-15 of those do I really want. The wage bill is around £58k - very small! We don't really have a recognised goalscorer or midfield. The defence at least looks decent. I'd normally put some key player profiles up but it's all going to change this season so I won't bother for now. Facilities wise things are ok. We play at the Boras Arena with a capacity of 16894 (12000 seated), with under soil heating. The pitch is synthetic (!). We have top training facilities, good youth facilities, average junior coaching and above average youth recruitment. We have 5 feeder clubs in Sweden, Iceland, Albania, Ghana and Brazil but I can't see that we've ever used them. This is going to be a fun little challenge! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cerud Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Congrats on the new club! You have more than enough time to get this club turned around this year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexcharliemann Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 Not sure about that Transfer window doesn't open until August, by which time we'll only have 10 games left! Next season is the goal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltablue Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Good double in Belgium. Sweden is cool. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexcharliemann Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 June - August 2019 Having already been knocked out of the domestic cup when I took over, it was straight into an away match with the runaway league leaders, which ended badly. With morale rock bottom it took us a few games to get going. The fact that in my first month I either sold or released 37 players tells you how bloated and unfocused this squad was, so getting a sense of a first choice XI and working on teamwork was on the priority list. Slowly, we started gelling and scraping together some results, mainly by one goal margins. This has hauled us up into eight, and if we win our games in hand, back into the hunt for a European spot, although the title is beyond us. The season is short though with only 30 games, so we need to keep the run going. Our Champions League run has been a highlight, although hardly challenging given our opponent's included the champions of Estonia, Moldova and Bosnia. Still, we dispatched them easily, and earned ourselves not only the £6m for getting to the group stages, but an amazingly tough group with Bayern Munich, Inter Milan and Liverpool. Ouch. Six defeats there without question but the money is good. I've never played in Europe from Scandinavia before though so playing Europe in the close season will be odd. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexcharliemann Posted July 28, 2012 Author Share Posted July 28, 2012 September-December 2019 We couldn't finish the season with any sort of form and so just hung around in mid-table and we finished in 8th place. Disappointing given how dominant this club had been in Swedish football, but the team just isn't good enough. I will look to re-build in the close season and start completely afresh. Unsurprisingly we were completely outclassed in the Champions League. We did decently enough though and didn't get utterly pasted in any of our games. No European football next year though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexcharliemann Posted July 28, 2012 Author Share Posted July 28, 2012 Career Overview Season Club Country Division Position Other ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2012 Frigg Norway Second Division Group 4 2nd None 2013/14 Crewe Alexandra England Blue Square Premier 1st Promotion; FA Trophy Runners Up 2014/15 Crewe Alexandra England League Two 2nd Promotion 2015/16 Crewe Alexandra England League One 2nd Promotion 2016/17 Crewe Alexandra England Championship 11th None 2017/18 Crewe Alexandra England Championship 11th Resigned 18th November 2017/18 Club Brugges Belgium Juliper Pro League 3rd None 2018/19 Club Brugges Belgium Juliper Pro League 1st Cofidis Cup Winners 2019 Elfsborg Sweden Allsvenskan 8th None I am not going to do a season overview for Elfsborg as I joined halfway through, and honestly, none of the players are worth introducing to you! It was in fact so despiriting that if any good job offers came I'd probably consider them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cerud Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Tough Champions League draw. Guess with that group, it was always going to be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltablue Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 It was to be expected in Europe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyosullivan Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 I'm surprised to see that AIK is quite far down that league table, they're usually one of the top teams in Sweden along with your club IF Elfsborg ( well at least in my save ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexcharliemann Posted July 31, 2012 Author Share Posted July 31, 2012 Yeah AIK are normally right up there doing well, bit of an odd 'changing of the guard' season in Sweden. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexcharliemann Posted July 31, 2012 Author Share Posted July 31, 2012 March - May 2020 Fixtures Tables Another disappointing start to the season despite a pre-season full of promising young talent. Unfortunately we just aren't consistent enough, and so we are down in 8th. I seem to have transformed a team who won the league 7 years in a row into mid-table cannon fodder! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cerud Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 They were in the middle of the league when you took over so don't blame yourself You just have a bit of work ahead. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRL88 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I think you have made a good move to Sweden. Im looking forward to you stamping your mark on the club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexcharliemann Posted August 4, 2012 Author Share Posted August 4, 2012 The save game files have corrupted Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltablue Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Thats a real shame Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyosullivan Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 Hate it when that happens Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cerud Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 The save game files have corrupted Tough break... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRL88 Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Corrupted saves . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iHeadHunta x Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Happened to me before, hate it :/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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