DesolateCreator

November was a shaky month as predicted. Injuries played a large part in these results, but I have made a HUGE signing as well. I saw he was available and could not pass it up when I could make the deal work. Sad game, horrible finishing. The American scored a 94th minute penalty to send us home with no points... It is unfortunate because we probably deserved the win, but shout out to their keeper as he had a tremendous game. Donny Van de Beek is our big signing. He was willing to take a pay cut for a TON of bonuses, however, he comes back home and will be the leader that this team needs. Hopefully he will stay with us for a while, or maybe bring back his value and get another good resale for a dutch club. Disappointing result against Go ahead. We really should have won this game. Our front three did their job, but our defense let the team down. Hopefully we will soon be able to get youth into the first team as well, but as of right now, none of them are good enough to help us. We will see how the season goes, and if we are secure, I will probably be putting some into the first team.

The month of October, had a ton of injuries, and still some decent results, but I feel that the next month will be the bad one because of these injuries. Great game from our team. N'Dri showed why we brought him in this game. This was an expected loss. We have alot of injuries where our 5th choice striker up top. With a team of Feyenoord's quality, no way we win this game. The team played okay, but N'Dri was quality again but he was taken off because I saw the writing on the wall. Another horrible game for us in a Derby, but we still won. They could not finish chances and we just got super lucky. Diomande was class however, finishing shots that looked hopeless.

Through the month of September. We were dominate and finished our chances. Not much else to say outside of that. Nothing spectacular. Another dominate game for us. Groningen is looking good so far early into the Eredivisie season. We are looking good so far. Our new signings are doing their jobs and filling the holes! Another good result against a good team. This PSV team is loaded with talent as they have added in Jonathan David as well. Hopefully we can build on this win and steal one from them later on. Although the reason we scored is because their Goalkeeper fluked. Getting one over on one of the other newly promoted team. Venlo was a hard team to beat last year, and we looked better than them from the first whistle. AZ Alkmarr is another good team that we drew with. Our defense had to play well this game as they were dominate, we had some great flashes of talent but other than that it was a slog.

First run of results in the Eredivisie are not bad. Actually pretty encouraging. The Vitesse game went well. Theo showed out. 2 goals on Pens and 2 assists. The NEC game was a game we should have ran away with, but unfortunately we could not get the win. This home fixture against Ajax was probably our best chance to beat them, unfortunately the game was pretty stale. They stalled us out and we just kinda let them tbh.

A couple of more big signings and an outgoing! OUTGOING: Spezia bought Nordin Musampa for 1mil, he was going to be on the fringes anyway, and I do not think he was going to develop well enough anyway. INCOMING: Rabby Mateta Pepa was signed from Standard Liege for 2.1mil, he is a squad player with tons of potential to get better. I am excited to see what he does in the future. And here is your biggest signing of the summer!! Svetoslav Vutsov is a 22 year old GK already capped 7 times for Bulgaria. He has loads of potential and has everything you need in a Goalkeeper. He likes big matches and is somewhat consistent. I spent the rest of my 4mil budget plus incentives on him. Hope he turns to be worth the money, and more. S

Almost forgot about fixing up my staff room. I have brought in a load of new staff members before the season begins. Here they are. GK Coach Herbert Ilsanker: Attacking Coach Albert Meyong: Another GK Coach Milton Patino: Fitness Coach Nicolas Dyon: Second Fitness Coach Juan Manuel Alfano: Head of Youth Development Chris Hayden I am an FC Dallas fan IRL and saw that he was available for the job. FC Dallas, being one of the best academy's in America, I could not pass it up. Defensive Coach Kolo Toure

AS soon as I hit submit on the post, I got another signing confirmed... He will probably be our starting LB this season. BTW I am using 2 different skins, I just think the player profiles look better on Tato in pictures, but I like the stats that the SAS skins provide.

We are a week before our first Eredivisie game. Here we go to look at the next set of incomings, I have not had any outgoing players since the last check-in INCOMINGS: Kasim Adams: Kasim was another free transfer, I have watched him for a while, but he was out of our range of wages. He was about to have to go back to the Ghanaian league, and because of that, we were able to drop his wage demands and get him in cheaper. He will slot in perfectly at CB and will be a great addition to the team. I believe him and Otasowie will start together on the back line. Soloman Bonnah: Solomon will be our number 2 RB and will provide good depth on the other side as well this season. He is very pacey and but needs to work on his technical ability a bit. I had to over pay for him a bit but since he is Dutch, I went ahead and did it. May be one I come to regret in the future, but I needed a RB and there were not many decent options out there that would come to my team. My starting 11 will look something like this to start this season. Have not filled the GK hole yet but hopefully will have an answer to that problem soon enough.

INCOMINGS (cont): Hubert Graczyk: Graczyk was a free transfer after being released from Arsenal. I may loan him out for a year, or keep him on the bench as our primary backup. Not certain yet. Abdoulaye Djire: He has already been loaned back out. Mostly signed to be a profit to begin with, but my staff thinks hes got good potential. We will see what his loan spell looks like. Amed Diomande: Amed was yet another free signing. He will be one of our bench wingers this season. He looks like he could do a great job for us this year, and could develop into a great player in time. Andi Hoti: Andi is a loan in from Magdeburg, with a 1.1 mil option to buy, and he will be our other center back option this season. There were not many permanent CB options that looked that great and/or wanted to come to us at a decent price. So Hoti looks great for what we need. We will decide his future at the club at a later date. We are having to play all his wages, but they are only 214k per year. FINANCES: Still got some money to spend, and there may be some more leaving to generate more funds. We will see what we can do with it.

Here is some more transfer business as of 7/26/2023. I will also show the place of my finances at the current time! OUTGOINGS: Laros Duarte: Sold to Fortuna Sittard for 950k after meeting 20 game clause in his loan agreement. Marvin Peersman: Finally left for free after a year of trying to get him out of the club. He is 33 and brought in by the previous regime. He goes to Al-Batin to in Saudi Arabia. Samuel Dikos: Sold to Venlo for 180k. Was never really going to get into the team, and I did not see his potential being a factor for us going forward. When they came in I bit their hand off. 50% sell on clause though, just in case I am wrong. Kian Slor: Sold Kian Slor to Estrela de Amadora Sad in Portugal for 350k. He played alot for us last season due to me loaning out some previous players at said position. He played well in the matches he played in, but for some reason, wanted to be the highest earner at the club. I was never going to play that game, so he had to go. Even though he was homegrown, he was being greedy. INCOMINGS : Owen Otasowie: Owen is a 23 year old American international. I needed somebody who could slot into that CB position. Being American, I always love my American players, and do not be surprised if you see more brought in over time. Owen is a solid player with room to grow. My scouts already think he is at this level. 5.6 mil seemed cheap for his services for me and completely worth it. He should be valuable on the set pieces, and if I can fend other teams off, he could be here for years to come. Karamoko Sankara: Karamoko looked like someone that would be amazing at striker for us. When I saw his price tag I was shocked. If he does not perform, he will bring us a good profit at the very least. Having scored 17 last year, I hope that is not a problem though. CONTINUED IN THE NEXT POST

Awesome man! Glad to hear you are enjoying it. How is your team doing?

Here are some of the notable signings so far, and an outgoing as of 7/9/2024. OUTGOINGS: Irandust was on the Transfer list all year and finally someone came in for him. One of the last few that had to go due to playing too many games the season before. INCOMINGS: Yan Dhanda is a player who we have to pay a bit more because of non-eu. I didnt really like that, however, I think he can be a decent option at alot of positions once we train him there. Super depth option. First trained position will be Striker. We bought N'Dri to play striker for us this season. He is rapid and has room to grow. I thought 1.1 million from Eupen for this guy was a great deal. Now that I have more than 10 mil to spend that is.

Looking at my squad depth screen, my main transfer targets are as shown. - 2 Center Backs that can start. I would prefer Blokzijl in the DM role. - Depth at both LB and RB - A starting striker, or 2 that can be rotated. - Possibly a young midfielder (Eiting) or two that can replace Sigurdsson (who we resigned begrudgingly due to the fans being outraged at the possibility of him leaving. It was about 150k cheaper a year however.) - A starting quality GK.

First sale was a big one! Hove was in great form all year, and practically led us to the title. However it was time for us to cash in big, since he had to go this summer for meeting the previous criteria.