DaNascimento

The Pitbull-Stories Season 2025/26 Transfers Out Prospect James Davies we unfortunately lost on a free transfer. But he was complaining about his playing time and demanded allready too much, that the trust was broken. Other notable departures are Ashimeru and Providence, which were no longer needed. In Lauper, a decent midfielder was signed from relegated Sparta. With Ivic i thought, that we made the transfer of the season by free. But then DoF brought Seydou Fofan in, also for free, a hell of a gem! With both of them, we have now a superb offensive. And also veteran Rafael Tolói came in by DoF. And that's our squad for the new season:

love to play in italy, so i love italian saves! Palermo, Catania, Messina.. what clubs sicily has and a shame where they are now.. good luck with this adventure!

Sure, this is our boy at the start of the season 25/26

Nice! Going strong now with the Ukraine Still remember from my time, that they just had crap keepers, but in midfield and offensive some big talents and good players (Besedin, Tsygankov, Zinchenko, Shepelov and Vakula) definetly looking forward for your first squad-call

The Pitbull-Stories End of Season-Review Casap, Nuhu and Friedrich again with outstanding performances through the season. Offensive still is some kind of a troubled child. No clue, what Providence is searching in the line-up. Goalkeepers Four keepers are definetly two too much, especially when no one can compete Friedrich, because he is delivering top performances and was again honoured as "Keeper of the Season" Defenders Pretty happy with our defence. Tabidze was a steal by our DoF. The routined georgian international has stabilised our defense and build up a perfect team with Nuhu. Leverbe also with good performances, Oikonomou on the other hand is becoming to old and weak. With Kreek we have another talent from our academy on the starting line. On the right wingback we have with Calabresi and Owusu a good couple and with Mabiala a youngster in the pipeline. Left wingback was ruled by Köhn. Petretta is just backup. Midfielders In the midfield Casap is our leader. Brillant player and i don't know, why he's still with us and not going for a bigger club. But pretty happy with that. Next to him this season mostly played Julian de Sart. Ashimeru and Saddiki were the backups. On the offensive wings mostly Svensson and Führich were starting. Svensson but with another decent season. This guy has everything to be a top player in Eredivisie, but can't keep up his performances. On the left wing be prepared for Stef Schoonbrood. Probably the biggest talent this club had so far. Next season he should be a starter. Offensive midfield was a rotation between Maher and HG-Player Zujiderwjik, which was developing real good through the last seasons. Forwards Novota was starter and had a good first season in the netherlands. Amenyido with fluctuating performances. Former topscorer Wriedt suffered a long-term injury and was out for half of the season. Probably not going to be the player he was anymore. His time sadly should be over. A bit more than last season. With that, it should be possible to build up a good squad.

The Pitbull-Stories April - March 2025 Youth Intake Not the most brillant intake, but with de Haas a good talent. Well the season is in the last games and we have to pay tribute, to the good performances we shown so far. Now the team is just tired. In Venlo we couldn't get more than a draw. But then we landed big points at home against PSV! In the final of the KNVB beker we shown a brave fight against Ajax. They took the lead through a goal from Musiala. Novata scored the equalizer after the break. In the extra-time we tried to do everything to get to penalties, but Diogo Jota secured Ajax' win with a goal in the 102th minute. One week later we failed to take revenge in the league game. Ajax beat us again, this time with 0-2 thanks to two early goals from Musiala. After that we also lost against relegation battling Zwolle, and ending the season with a late win against Emmen. I think we can be satisified with this season. 3rd place is the best result since a long time for Willem. And also reaching the cup final and getting international qualification. Much more is at the moment and with the financial possibilities of Ajax and PSV not possible.

The Pitbull-Stories February - March 2025 February is a bit a rollercoaster ride. We draw in Utrecht and win in Alkmaar. Then follows another draw against Breda before we can win two times in a row. In the quarter final of the KNVB beker, winger Führich sent us to the semifinal with a goal seconds before the final whistel. Then we took the momentum with us and beat Feyenoord! The goals were scored by the two best players this month: Midfielder Casap and winger Führich. But then we ended the month with a loss in Almelo. March began like February ended: With a 0-1 defeat. But then the team showed good performances. The semifinal of the cup against Zwolle we won with 2-0! In the final we face now (pretty obviously) Ajax! In the league we can celebrate three wins in a row to end the month. Max Svensson was in brillant form - scoring six goals this month and lead us to the 3rd place. We allready have a nice gap between us and following Vitesse!

The Pitbull-Stories January 2025 New year starts with a job offer. Udinese, currently on the 20th and last place in Serie A, approached Davids. He wasn't really sure, but went to the interview. The friaul were enthusiastic and offered him a contract. A bigger salary and slightly better finances. Davids took his time and checked all pro and contras. In the end he decided to stay in Tillburg. Here he has build up a team, that is now finally competive. This he wants to contine, rather than fighting for survival in italy. Udinese is not that option, for which he would go now. Transfers We did some business. Pesic was recalled from his loan and left for free back to serbia. So we can save his salary, which he isn't justified. Than the biggest loss: Che Nunnely was transfered to China. We get the biggest amount ever for a player, but that departure hurts us. Nunnely was our creative player in the offensive. Also Ylätupa and Obregón were sold. Both were complaining and wanted to move to a bigger club. Especially for the colombian it was a worth move... DoF also did on the ingoing side some business. Leverbe, a decent centreback, comes from Udinese. Louis Lord, a new backup keeper, not that signing, that we really needed. And with Adam Maher and Jemal Tabidze he brings us some experienced options in. Two good signings, which i can't complain. Football was also played, and really delightful for us. In the third-cup round we needed to go to extra time, but Novota sent us three minutes before the end into the quarter finals. In the league we secured two wins without any conceded goals.

The Pitbull-Stories October - December 2024 October wasn't that good, with a loss, a draw and a win in the league. At least we could cheer a high victory in the first cup round against amateur side Sparta Nijkerk. November even started worse with two losses against Groningen and Vitesse, but then things turned apart. We were able to win five games in a row, till Ajax came through and beat us with 0-3. In the second cup round we secured a win thanks to a goal from youngster Misidjan and the last game of the year was again a 2-1 win over Vitesse. Still in business! The top three our doing their own stuff, but we're on the first place of the rest

Very unlucky being competitive to Shakthar and then lost to penalties. But a good sign, that you're on the right way. and didn't know, that Minaj is somewhere worse than in singing....

Thanks! True, especially in the offensive we have a bit too many options, which we need to reduce in winter. Also promoted some HG-Talents into the squad, to give them some playtime to develop.

The Pitbull-Stories August - September 2024 A good start, again with less goals. But as you say: a horse only jumps as high as it has to. We start with a 0-0 against Utrecht. In Nijmegen our new slovakian striker then for the first time finds the way into the net. The point against the newly promoted Sparta is then to less. Against Zwolle Davids sits allready for the 100th time at the Willem-bench. Führich and Novota ensure a beautiful anniversary. Against Twente we can win through a goal from Svensson and in Eindhoven we get one point! Pretty satisfied so far.

The Pitbull-Stories Season 2024/25 Transfers Out Nothing special. Petrák and Yttergard Jenssen were no longer needed. Kahvic we loan out, in the hope, that he finds the net again. And some more other loans to the affiliate clubs. In Mabiala a good talent for the reserves (4* potential). Calabresi and Führich were made by the DoF. The italian will be our new right back. The german is a good option on the wings. Schendelaar the new backup-goalkeeper and Novota is a nice prospect from Slovakia and allready national player. Hoping for a good future here. We also got a new DoF. The old ones contract was running out and he wanted to much wage. That came towards me, because i was anyway thinking of a change. So now Gregory van den Broek is in charge. (A bit a pritty, that SI just gives you new gen staff) So that's our squad for the new season

yeah, with english clubs we can't keep up financially.

Nice one! Reminds me of a save on FM18, where i became Trainer of the ukrainian national team and get into the semifinals of the Euro (Boryachuk was part of that squad and they had really great newgens coming through the academies of Shakthar and Dynamo)

The Pitbull-Stories End of Season Review Defence with ok performances, even if we conceded a bit too much goals. Offensive, especially the wings, with a rubbish season. Goalkeepers Ricardo Friedrich again with a strong season. A really stong keepers. Actually planed to give Schut some playtime, but the brazilian oldie was quite too good to replace him. Defenders On the left wing Köhn and Petretta are decent options. On the right wing loanee Birindelli took the spot from winter on. Owusu is a good option, but not more. He brings to less power in our game. Sidler failed to gain much playtime and will leave now. In the central defence Nuhu and Oikonomou were the duo. Johnston was quite a dissapointment and could not recommend himself. Petrák didn't suit up in my tactic and formation (after Stojanovic the second free transfer from our DoF), so he's allready leaving after just one year. Midfielders Carlo Casap, i just love that player. Our strongest weapon in central midfield! Next to the romanian Julien de Sart played the most time and stole the place from Saddiki. Ashimeru was option number 4. Loanee Krastev took over the new part in offensive midfield. We would have like to extend the loan from the bulgarian, but Porto didn't wanted. The wings were a bit a tragedy this season. Only ones who could convince were Svensson with seven goals and promising prospect Schoonbrood who showed his potential in the end of the season when we brought him into the squad. Nunnely unfortunaltey with a garbage season. Also Ylätupa couldn't step in and convince. Providence also with some difficulties in the new league. Forwards Wriedt was again the main man, scoring 14 goals. Amenyido was also okey. Obregón unfortunately not that strong anymore like in the first seasons. And the biggest disappointment was Kahvic. A promising signing with the recommendation of more than 20 goals in Nürnberg. In Eredivisie he failed to find the net. Probably going to loan him out in the new season. Budget looks ok. I think, we can work with that.

The Pitbull-Stories Europa Conference League Final With a good run and heroic performances we made it to the final in Paris. There we faced Arsenal London - an unequal duel. Friedrich vs. Leno / Köhn vs. Tierney / Nunnely vs. Saka or Svensson vs. Asensio: It was quickly clear where the bigger stars were playing. We just wanted to keep the game even for as long as possible. But, unfortunately the plan was ruined after only 25 minutes. Asensio scored the opener for Arsenal. And it became much worse. Not even a minute later Martinelli increased to 2:0. That double blow had broken us. We didn't found back to the game and Martinelli scored the 3:0 before the break. So the motto for the second half was damage limitation. And we succeeded, perhaps also because arsenal stepped back a gear. The second half remained goalless. Arsenal is the third english team, that wins the Conference League after Southampton and Chelsea. We were close on the title, but in the end the joy about the good competition remains. Three of our player made it into the squad of the season.

The Pitbull-Stories May 2024 We finish the Eredivisie-Season like we played the whole year: with decent performances. Against Twente we lost 0-2. At least we could win the least game in Sittard and Misidjan scored his first goal! In the Playoffs for the european qualification we faced Utrecht. The home game we won 1-0. But away we again played rubbish and lost 1-3. So there will be no international football for us next season. Accidently i forget to make a screenshot of the end-table. But we finished the season on place 7. I really don't know what happened with the team. The performances in the Europa Conference League were way better than in the league. While Feyenoord smashed us 0-5 in January, now we completey are level and even beat them twice! In the first leg, Wriedt scored the late winner. In the second leg Krastev leads us into the Final with two goals! Who would have thought that, after we were allready on the exit-road in the group stage?! Yeah, but i think, this might be one step too big for us now...

The Pitbull-Stories March - April 2024 Still no progress in the league. Some wins, but mostly rubbish play and another four losses. The only joy: I bring in youth gem Stef Schoonbrood and he suddenly scores twice! But obviously: We are not able to build on the good performances of the previous season. Ajax will be champion again, after PSV utterly play rubbish, after Coach Roger Schmidt left to Leipzig. For us it will probably be place 7. Sittard and Eindhoven go down. Youth Intake Another nice keeper and top prospect Raimond Dekker. Nice stats, but unfortunately he's unambitious... Well, what should i say? International we show a total different faces than in the league. We throw out two big belgian clubs. Wriedt takes care of Genk single-handedly. Against Anderlecht we draw at home and the second leg was also goalles till Amenyido scored the winner in the 114th minute and sent us to the sem-final! Unbelievable! There we have a salty duel

The Pitbull-Stories January - February 2024 January was a horrible month. Looked like the players were still in christmas holiday. First we got knocked out of the cup in Groningen. Then Feyenoord smashed us with 0-5 and also against PSV we couldn't get points. In February things weren't still go better. A goalless draw again Venlo to begin. Then finally the first three points in 2024 with a 2-1 win in Almelo! But Ajax fastly showed us, that the gap to the topteams still is huge. Against FC Eindhoven, the last in the table, we won through a late winner from Johnston and in Heerenveen again no goals. Overall four goals in eight games is just a total shame. We lost one place in the table. Also new players came in. Providence and Birindelli by the DoF and Ashimeru as further option in central midfield. Pesic (on loan) and Stojanovic (to Sparta Rotterdam for free) left the club. Not that convincing performances. In Romania we lost 1-2, but at home we turned things around. Krastev before the break and Obregón nine minutes before the end get us through to the second knockout-round. There the next clash will be again with Genk. The belgians we allready played in the groupe stage.

The Pitbull-Stories November - December 2023 Things started bad, while we lost 0-3 against Feyenoord and again had no chance against one of the "big three". After that we get calculated six points against the tweo newly promoted sides Nijmegen and Den Haag. And then there was Ajax. We played pretty well, went in the lead, but lost 2-3 in the end. Also the expected problems occurred: Stojanovic wasn't happy with his backup-role and was absent from training. So we will get rid of the keeper in january. No time for bad mood and problems. Last month of 2023 was better again. Two tight wins against Eindhoven and Heerenveen, a good game against Sittard and a goalless draw in Alkmaar to end the year. We remain on the 6th place. Amateurside Blau-Geel '38 was no challenge. Sliding into round 3, where we face Groningen. What a dramatic rescue and exit out of the group stage! It was the complete opposite of the first three game. At home, we smashed Genk 5-3 (in Genk we lost 0-4) and brought us back to business. But then away in Vienna an utterly unnecessary 0-1 loss crashed our hopes and gave us an end game against Midtjylland. A though and tight game was decided by an early goal from Svensson. And because Genk and Vienna draw, we jumped on to the second place and get through to the Knockout-Stage! There we play against Universitatea Craiova. A doable go.

The Pitbull-Stories September - October 2023 Well, not really what we expected. Looks like the season is going to be an up and down. September shows that really good. We lost in Emmen in a truly horrible game. Than we can secure three points against Twente with a late goal. And in the end we draw goalless against Zwolle. In general we lack any goal threat so far. October isn't much better. Only a win against Groningen and no power and precision infront of the goal. Surprisly we're still in the 6th place. But much more probably won't be possible this season. PSV and Ajax are just above all other teams. Especially in financial terms. Take in several millions in every transfer windows and splash the money out for new players. In this case, the other teams can't keep up. Same picture international. We start well with a win over Austria Wien. And then we crashed really hard. 0-3 against Midtjylland and 0-4 in Genk. That was poor and not competitive at all. So now we're already under pressure.

yes, he probably came through the first youth intake. because he was allready there, when i took over in willem.

Holy. 10-0, 9-2 and a 6-1 against Roma. Looks like the team is on fire

The Pitbull-Stories August 2023 As cup-winner we started in the last qualification-round, the playoffs for the Europa League. And we weren't lucky in the drawn. With Galatasaray we get one of the thoughest possible opponents. Both games were really balanced and in the end we fail on one away goal. That means, that we are playing in the Europa Conference League. And yeah, obviously on the group draw we again had no luck and get one of the balanced and thoughest group. For comparison: Feyenoord is together with Ludogorez Rasgrad (Bulgaria), NK Aluminji (Slovenia) and Kolos Kovalivka (Ukraine) in a group. but yeah, we should rather win our games than complain. Six point out of two games, looks good. The performances however were more likely "a horse only jumps as high as it has to". Against newly promoted Venlo we had a hard time, but won with 2-1 in the end. At home against Almelo we secure three points due to two late goals from Krastev and de Sart.