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January and February 2025 Only one defeat in 8 games and that was against mighty Barcelona. Still 7th. The remainder of the season is going to be a real tough fight for us. ...and suddenly we were in the final of the Copa del Rey! How did that happen? We mostly had "managable" opponents on our way and Strand Larsen scored... ...seven goals in one match! We will meet Athletic Bilbao in the final. Still no defeat in Europe for us. We qualify undefeated. Our opponent in the next round will be Bodo/Glimt from Norway. The End of a Legend Celta Vigo legend Iago Aspas tore his achilles tendon a second time in 2 years and it looks his career is coming to an end.

Ending the Year No consistency at all in the league. Only Strand Larsen scored consistently. The fight for Europe is a rather tight affair. Barcelona excluded. Strand Larsen leads the goalscorers chart. We keep up our good form in Europe. Among the best in europe. Two games to go.

Hi @Raycast Nice to have you here Champions League would be nice, but I don´t think we are already up for it yet...

The Start of the Season We won the first three games straight, then our bogey team Valladolid defeated us again. We nearly clinched a draw against Barcelona at home but Kingsley Coman scored the winning goal for them. The next home game against Osasuna was a disappointment but we made up for that with winning in Bilbao in the next match. Both our strikers were able to score some goals which is nice to see so early in the season. 4th. What is our bogey team Valladolid doing up there? Fantastic results in Europe. We just love playing there. Still 6 games to go but we are among the best 8 teams in the table.

The Transfer Window Players out Newcastle made the release clause bid for Fran Beltrán and we could do nothing to counter it. Sad to see him go but we were under no illusions there. The three central defenders had to leave as they were just not good enough anymore. Marchesin was a good soldier for us in the last years but we have to look to the future and he got a nice move to Roma. Players in Two new wingers - Nam Tae-Hea and Bernard, both with a lot of experience. Pablo Mari improves our quality in defense immensely. Catena is not on his level but will be a good backup. Chiarodia is a CD talent but will be loaned out immediately to get match practice at Pisa. Ball winning midfielder San Emeterio had a great season at Cadiz, hopefully he can keep that up. Drena Beljo is a nice striker talent from Croatia. The Team Hedl at the back gives us a more secure feeling. Pablo Mari might be our most important transfer this season. We needed more quality in defense and he definitely plusses it up. There are more options now for us in midfield too, especially on the wings. With Aspas maybe playing his last season, we definitely needed bolstering there. Also Bernard of course is a big name signing. Young croatian striker Drena Beljo is an interesting talent, excited what he can bring to the table, maybe he can even challenge Strand Larsen. Key Players He is still so young (23) and already so good. The new leader in our defense. His Jumping Reach (17), Heading (16) and Strength (16) help a lot. A prominent name in our squad. His Dribbling (16), Technique (17) and Flair (17) make him the best dribbler in our team. Pre-Season Friendlies Our tour of Germany ended with 2 defeats and one win. A new mode in the Europa League. I favor the old mode.

MY team would be: The whole German team, by a mile

Loved it!

End of the Season Well, that was a shocking defeat at Rayo Vallecano! Nothing worked and we were trashed. We deserved it. The important thing is, we didn´t stay down but recovered and beat Levante in the next game. AND rivals Villareal at their place! The defeat against Sevilla didn´t matter anymore. A 6th place finish for us. We qualify for Europe again. A successful season. Season Stats Again, a great team effort, although Strand Larsen easily was our player of the season. Scoring 39 goals in only 48 matches, wow! Miguel Baeza also impressed both with goals and assists, even eclipsing oldtimer Iago Aspas with that. New number one keeper Niklas Hedl took some time to adapt but he is getting there and is already a strong addition to our squad. Manu Sanchez on the left back position has proven a great signing. New central defense signings Helander and Roco didn´t do anything special to impress, we will look to load them off and try to get in better quality in defense. Aidoo and Mingueza are doing well though. Renato Tapia once again proved he is one of our key players, as did Franco Cervi. Efficiency has a name: Tomas Chory. Our tank played only 4 games this season but managed to score 3 goals. Impressive! Strand Larsen all the way. A great season for him. And us!

You are right. Ok, this makes more sense then. Thanks for clearing that up

Approaching the Summit Only two wins in the last two months. We concede quite a few goals, but I don´t blame our new keeper Hedl for that. I think the players are just tired after the long season. We sit in 6th with a slight chance of reaching the Champions League in 4th place and seven points ahead of non-european places. Our last four games of the season. Especially the two last ones look very hard. The Youth Intake A fantastic intake, although I don´t understand why half of them are from the UAE. All of them get a contract though.

Livakovic definitely is the better keeper. My FM saves prove it too

January and February 2024 The new year starts promising as we win 5 out of 8. The defeat against Real was a tough one, showing that we still have to learn a lot but apart from that we were very convincing. Still a tough race for the European places. Champions League maybe beckons but we will have to work a lot for that. We mostly let the bench players compete in the cup and it showed finally when losing against Valladolid. But still, quarter final! We fail to score more than one goal at home in the 2nd leg and therefore go out deservedly. January window transfers Our keeper Marchesin is already 36, has no future at our club and therefore we won´t extend his contract which is running out after the season. So we bring in 22 year old Austrian national team keeper Niklas Hedl for a bargain 7M. Reflexes, Jumping Reach, Positioning and Determination all at 16 show his potential. He will become our new number one instantly. Backup keeper Ivan Villar goes the other way and joins Girona on loan.

Winter Wonderland It was a tough game against Elche, but we won it in the end. Then followed a great match for our fans against Real Madrid, but we still lost it. After that we achieved a credible draw against Sevilla and won at Levante. We go into the new year as 5th. Amateur side Mirandés was tough to crack but we did it. In the next round we will face another amateur club, San Sebastian de los Reyes. We deliver. Next opponent will be Club Brugge.

Good Showings in Europe Five wins and only two defeats. But the result that sticks out is our 2-1 win against mighty FC Barcelona! The unlikely hero was our winger Franco Cervi with 2 goals, maybe they had underestimated us. But right after this glorious win we lost against their little brothers, Espanyol. Thats typically Vigo for you. We stay up there with the big boys. We defeat Feyenoord but fail to do so with Kobenhavn. A draw in the last game against Osijek will be enough to see us reach the next round.

The Start of the Season Three wins in the first 7 league games is no small feat for a club like us. Given, those were not the creme de la creme of spanish clubs, but still. And Strand Larsen continues to score. A good start to the season. First starting eleven appearance for Chory and he delivers, scoring two goals. It´s only one game, sure.

No surprise when you got Walter Samuel as a coach

1986 was way better

Giroud is a legend.

The Transfer Window Players out We already knew that Galán would join Real Madrid and that the loan players would return to their clubs. Then Manchester United came and paid the release fee for Swedberg. Sad to see a big talent go. Kevin was not really a first teamer so we were happy to ship him off to Levante. Paciencia had a good season but then we took the money from Granada. Ruben Blanco just came back from his loan at Marseille and must have impressed the Troyes scouts there so they snapped him up for a nice sum. Players in A successor for left back Galán? We went and signed Manu Sanchez from Atletico. He is not quite his level, but comes close. Our defense also needed bolstering and in came central defenders Helander and Roco, two solid tacklers. Josep Martinez will be our backup keeper, he joins from RB Leipzig where his contract ran out. And he already got a cap for Spain! Another keeper, Lucas Canizares joined from Real Madrid but got loaned back for the season as he is only 17 years old. He looks like a good talent. For our attack we signed Tomas Chory, formerly at Viktoria Plzen. Tomas who? I thought we needed a tank up front to throw in when we need a goal in the last minutes. His attributes and his height tell the story: A real tank. The Team Sergio Carreiro, Jose Fontan, Orbelin Pineda and Miguel Beaza are players who were loaned out last season and got back now. Siaka Cissé joins from our B team. We got more possibilites now in defence, and finally we got two (!) left backs! Our midfield is still the best part of the team obviously. In attack, Strand Larsen is developing into a fine player. Hopefully Chory can make the impact I intended when signing him. Key Players Back after his achilles tendon injury and still going strong. The anchor man in midfield. The Peruvian national team regular destroys our opponents attacks early. Aggression (16) and Work rate (17) are his best attributes. Back from his loan at AEK Athens, the Mexican fits right into our first team. Nice Technique (16), Agility (16) and Dribbling (14). The Other Player As mentioned earlier, there is another player in our team who is unavailabe. In real life, this guy was sentenced to 4 years in jail, thats why! He will never play for Vigo. Facilities get upgraded The new board fulfilled their promises. Pre-Season Friendlies Not looking good to be honest... Our EL group is looking managable.

Thank you, although this finish was rather unexpected Welcome to the show, @Jogo Bonito Galan had outgrown our club, we have to be honest. Now we need to grow ourselves.

Thank you Nice to have you on board

It definitely was... interesting... And guess what? I found another player on my team (he was loaned out for the season so I didnt recognize at first sight) who is unavailable, but until 2026!! But more on that in the pre-season update next

End of the Season Thanks to an unreal five-game winning streak (actually six, if you count the Girona game from the last update too) we made it to the promised lands! And all without long-term injured Iago Aspas! It surely helped that Strand Larsen found his scoring boots again (2 goals), but the most prolific goalscorer was our loan winger Oscar who scored 8 times in the last 10 matches. I guess, someone had to get into Aspas´ shoes. And a nice 3-0 win against Elche in the last match of the season for a happy ending to a great season. In the end we finish two points ahead of Atletico Madrid and nine points ahead of Villarreal (sorry, MattyLewis11!), but they can celebrate as well, as 7th place also leads to Europe this season. FC Barcelona easily win the title with Robert Lewandowski on fire who scored incredible 39 goals. Season Stats A great team effort, thats what I would call it. Everyone contributed accordingly. Players standing out were our left back Javi Galan, providing 12 assists from that position is quite something. A pity he is leaving for Real Madrid after the season. Our loan players Nunez, Perez and Oscar (the latter especially in the last 10 matches) did a good job and we are sad to see them leave but it´s not my squad politics to rely on loan players so their contracts were not extended. Our attacking players fired with all they had we could always rely on at least one of them scoring when it mattered. Aspas missing the season from mid-february on was a blow but Strand Larsen and Paciencia showed we can still survive without him. He is 36 now, so we need to look for a successor in the near future. Another good things is that our loaned out players will return soon and we will have more options for the new season. Oscar will return to his parent club Sevilla after the season. Takeover completed And they even pumped some money into the club and promised to improve the facilities. Well... we will see.

Looking good, on our way And yeah, seems like @MattyLewis11is doing an excellent job chasing us

Our Form Drops Our form has declined, you gotta admit that. Only lately we found the key to scoring goals again. Gabri Veiga scored the winner against Cadiz. We finally gave him a new contract with a salary above 13K, so we were finally able to register him in january. He seems to pay us back since then. Young striker Strand Larsen though went into a goalscoring crisis and it was time for Paciencia again to show what he can do. And he did. He scored 3 goals in the last 3 matches. Looks like the pendulum swung to his side again, especially after key player Aspas tore his achilles tendon and will be out for the season. 6th still would have us qualify for Europe. But we can feel the breath of Villareal in our necks. Ten games to go. And our Spanish Cup run ends An extra time win against Levante got us into the two semi final legs, which we predictably lost against giants Barcelona.