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2023/24 Season.....Judgement Day It was such a tight end to the season. we went on a barnstorming run from the end of December which saw us only lose twice! It came down to the final day and all we had to do, was match Uerdingen and Mannheim's results. Kick-Off 1.FC Magdeburg 0-0 Würzburger Kickers KFC Uerdingen 05 0-0 VfL Osnabrück Borussia Mönchengladbach II 0-0 SV Waldorf Mannheim 07 Not the most exciting first half of football for such an important set of games, apart from Uerdingen taking the lead and pushing us down into the playoff spot. Half-Time 1.FC Magdeburg 0-0 Würzburger Kickers KFC Uerdingen 05 1-0 VfL Osnabrück Grimaldi 17 Borussia Mönchengladbach II 0-0 SV Waldorf Mannheim 07 Second half proved a roller-coaster ride, with Uerdingen and Mannheim both scoring a minute after the restart, pushing us out of the promotion spots. However, we had a bigger issue... Our top striker had a calf injury and our star youth winger was sat on a 6.1, just 5 mins into the second half. So on came Kristoffer Krebs and Fabian Brandt. And it was Brandt's hard work on the left wing that saw him cut back the ball to David Herold, whose 20 yard strike had eyes as it flew into the far corner avoiding defenders and goalie alike to put us 1-0 up. This put us back into the sole automatic spot. Krebs then hit the bar just 5 minutes later and we were on top. A warning shot was fired a few minutes after that, as Würzburger had the ball in the back of the net, but it was ruled out for offside. Then, on 83 minutes, what seemed to be a simple backpass to the goalie seemed to just die unexpectedly and Kristoffer Krebs, chasing the lost cause, managed to get there a fraction before the goalie and lift the ball over him into the net for 2-0. Pandemonium in the stands! Even a late goal by Würzburger couldn't dampen our spirits and we celebrated promotion by the final whistle Full-Time 1.FC Magdeburg 2-1 Würzburger Kickers Herold 57......................................Holtschoppen 84 Krebs 83 KFC Uerdingen 05 4-1 VfL Osnabrück Grimaldi 17, 53...............................Noss 76 Göbel 46 Nzogang 68 Borussia Mönchengladbach II 0-1 SV Waldorf Mannheim 07 ............................................................................................Metu 46

I am doing this, but it's also I don't want to stifle the talent coming through

Definitely, but with part-time scouting staff and DNA restrictions, it's harder than you think!

Honestly, you've no idea the panic I had

Welcome to Eigenshaften - 2024 Welcome back to Eigenshaften for our 2024 youth intake. We'd had a number of improvements recently to our facilities, as shown above, so that we're now at Exceptional Youth Coaching and Exceptional Youth Recruitment. We also broke ground on our new training complex on the banks of the River Elbe. As ever, we will sign all the youth players and work on their flaws. When it comes to professional contracts, it'll be only the DNA qualifiers that get a contract. So, without further ado, let's see what's turned up Looks like a very nice haul. Let's check out our Top 3 prospects ML Enes Küçük - Work Rate: 14, Pace 13 - DNA: Passed Enes is going to be instantly re-trained to play at DL with a focus on Complete Wing Back. This may solve our full back issues as it will allow players to move about! DC Lars Bohne - Work Rate: 12, Pace 13 - DNA: Passed Lars is a good get here as he has the attributed to play for us in our designated style of play. Good news! WBL Luis Bremser - Work Rate: 15, Pace 11 - DNA: Passed Luis comes here with a fork in the road. Should he be trained for DL, with a Wing-Back focus or should I remould him into a Central Midfielder with a Defend focus? Choices, choices.... We had Lukasz Proschwitz as a better starred prospect in the intake, but his Work Rate was below DNA levels, so we need to hit that before he does anything else

January 2024 Transfer Window We got thoroughly raided this transfer window and our results were struggling along with it. Our regular right back Davide Ittler suffered a broken foot in October and the loan backup player was absolutely awful. So I was in full-on panic mode. Transfers IN: D/WBR Rafael Lopes (loan, Sporting Clube de Lisbon) Work Rate: 10, Pace 15 - DNA: Passed PAAANNIIICC. We were getting battered from pillar to post because of poor right back play. So I put in scattergun bids for a number of full backs and this one was one of the fish caught in the net. D/WBR Junior Diomandé (loan, Olympique Lyonnais) Work Rate: 13, Pace 16 - DNA: Passed Another right back caught up in our net and luckily, he's the best one of them all! WBL/DM/M/AMC John Johnson (loan, Borussia Dortmund) Work Rate: 13, Pace 10 - DNA: Passed Our razing saw us lose our most creative player so, we needed a replacement quick and our parent club helped us out with this young Australian D/DM/MC Adam Grostate (loan, Borussia Dortmund) Work Rate: 17, Pace 11 - DNA: Passed Dortmund threw another shrimp on the barbie for us, by sending us another Australian youngster. Signed to provide cover for the defensive portion of central midfield, he's quickly become the dominant player there Transfers OUT: M/AMC Tom Maier (£100k, Fortuna Düsseldorf) D/WB/M/AML/ST Aleksandar Thiel (£250k, SC Paderborn 07) GK Calvin Drath (£5k, 1.FC Kaiserslautern) DRC/MC Nick Engler (£88k, Erzgebirge Aue) AMLC/ST Maximillian Persich (£5k, Arminia Bielefeld) M/AML Justin Ohnesorge (£25k, Eintracht Braunschweig) D/WB/MR Malte Hampf (£1.1m, RCD Espanyol de Barcelona) DC Per Berg (£5m, Bayer 04 Leverkusen) DRL/WBL Niccolo Giocobbe (£86k, FC St.Pauli) M/AMC/ST Malik Tillman (£1.5m, Karlsruher SC) No less than FIVE players in the matchday squad were bought off us this window, including youth product Malte Hampf and star in waiting Per Berg. Hampf & Berg, along with Tillman, who was stolen on deadline day, and Thiel all had 50% sell on clauses attached to all their sales.

2024 Youth Intake Preview It's that time of year again! Let's walk through as ever There are a lot of wingers in this system - When aren't there?? Always good to keep the prospect cupboard stocked There is an attacking midfielder we should keep a very close eye on - Well, he'll be re-trained obviously, but I hope he's worth it We have one good young German attacking midfielder from Staßfurt who has caught the eye - As above as it seems like the same player This is a terrific group of players coming through, and has the potential to be a real golden generation for the club - I hope that we get players in to bolster our team, we need bodies We don't foresee any new strikers coming through - That's fine, we have enough in that position for a few seasons tbh Most of our new goalkeepers coming through are of poor quality - Again, we have three keepers who I'm happy to keep at the club There are few good wingers in general - Oh. They save the worst for last. So we have lots of wingers, but they're all crap. FFS..

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August Transfer Window 2023 First priority this season was to fix our defence. Then try to get better with some choice signings. Transfers IN: DL Orhan Öztürk (£250k, Kasimpaşa) Work Rate: 10, Pace: 13 - DNA: Passed Much as we were pretty well stocked at DL, we needed someone to sit and grow to become our established left back. Hopefully Öztürk is that guy. DM/M/AMC Splinter de Mooj (free, Feyenoord Rotterdam) Work Rate: 12, Pace 13 - DNA: Passed We desperately needed defensive depth in the middle of the park and de Mooj was the best we could get with our scouts only being part-time. M/AMC/ST Malik Tillman (free, FC Bayern München) Work Rate: 11, Pace 15 - DNA: Passed Our big signing for the off-season was another FC Bayern youngster. Malik will be our main creative heart this season to replace the ageing Jansen DC Luca van der Gaag (£250k, VfL Onasbrück) Work Rate: 13, Pace: 14 - DNA: Passed Our first centre back in through the door. Luca is everything we want in a DC. A price, but we're not going to lose out by getting him D/WB/ML David Herold (Free Agent) Work Rate: 12, Pace 15 - DNA: Passed We had a monster bid (for us!) accepted for our starting full-back so we needed a new first choice FB. And Herold was that guy MLC Anton Sirén (Free Agent) Work Rate: 14, Pace 13 - DNA: Passed Again, this was a case of covering positions and our creative positions needed the cover. We also picked up two loans from our parent club DRLC/WBL Lloyd-Addo Kuffour (loan, Borussia Dortmund) Work Rate: 10, Pace 13 - DNA: Passed We were very light on cover at right back and an injury to Itter would sink us, so I loaned in this guy DC Colin Kleine-Bekel (loan, Borussia Dortmund) Work Rate: 10, Pace 14 - DNA: Passed Colin's back! We need the cover, so it's a mutual interest. Transfers OUT: MRL/AML Michael Houser (£250k, FC St.Pauli) DL Nico Gottschalt (£15.25k, SSV Jahn Regensburg) DRLC/DM/MC Brian Koglin (£20k, SV Mannheim) DL Gideon Guzy (£1.5m, Hamburger SV)

2023/24 Season Preview Last season was our best yet, but we'still not good enough. We've again had a decent pre-season, with no major injuries and the board again want Mid-Table in the 3.Bundesliga out of us this season. Let's hope we beat this and get promotion this season We were given a smaller wage budget at £57k and a higher £640k transfer budget to start the season with but, once again, we've cut a lot of high-earning players!! We managed to re-up a key player in Mikki van Sas for 4 years with a possible 6 years in extensions, so he's ours now The first team currently looks like this on July 1 As you can see, we've almost reached our goal, but for Christian Beck's 5 for Pace. And, as ever, we set out our scouting stall!

2022/23 End of Season Review My attempt at actually escaping the division also proved quite a defective firework in shot up in into the sky with a large amount of sparks, fell quickly back down to Earth and then once it hit the floor, sparked a little again and then fizzled out. We ended up finishing 7th in 3.Bundesliga, which was our best finish under my stewardship, but we still had prolonged periods without a win. We improved somewhat with our defensive play this season, finishing 11th overall in Goals Conceded, seven places higher than last season. But we also again finished 3rd in Goals Scored. so there's that to be happy with. Season Results July-Dec Season Results: Jan-May Kristoffer Krebs again topped the goalscoring charts. The guy is a human cheat code and is keeping out much more talented strikers. Meanwhile, Christian Beck was still contributing at age 34, topping our Assists and Avg Rating charts

2023 Exit Interviews - U-19 We've reached the last dance for the members of the U-19 side. Do they get a full contract? Or do they leave in darkness, unmourned A large quantity of players leaving. Do we stick or twist? Let's look at the evidence Niklas Schmidt, Soren Frahn, Maximillian Sander, Timo Brahmer, Sebastian Brautigam, Maximillan Belau and Johann Alscher will all be offered minimum wage 3 year deals as per the DNA method. The rest will be let go

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