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The Brief Our fifth season in 1.Bundesliga, our first in European competition and the board have lost their minds! First up, they want us to Finish Mid-table in the Bundesliga this season! OK, I can see that, but they want us to Reach the latter stages of the UEFA Europa Conference League! On our debut??? This will be hard, especially with the squad we have.. The board, once again, don't care about our performance in DfB Pokal. Our budgets were £1.7m in the wages and £35.5m transfer budget. The Results A decent enough start. Qualifying for the Group Stages of the Conference League and an easy passage into the next round of the DfB Pokal The Transfers IN DRC Rodan Ginter (Free Transfer) DRC Markus Kallnik (loan, Liverpool FC) We needed decent right back cover for our system and a recently-released Ginter was a great idea. That idea was quickly superseded by the fact that Kallnik had been made available from Liverpool for loan. I hope we can sign him at the end of the season. OUT DC Mateusz Łuszkiewicz (£10m, Atalanta) GK Jannik Urbig (£500k, SG Dynamo Dresden) Mateusz became expendable once Kallnik was signed and with his refusal to sign a new deal, he was out. Urbig was a casualty of Demmig's meteoric rise

Bruno Waack also ended up second in the Olympic Games Best Player Award

UEFA Europa Conference League League Path, Fourth Qualifying Round, Second Leg 30 Aug 2040 Aviva Stadium 20:00 St. Pats Athletic 1-1 FC Energie Cottbus (Cottbus win 4-3 on aggregate) Cacciola 90+4........................................Lovett 16

UEFA Europa Conference League League Path, Fourth Qualifying Round, First Leg 23 Aug 2040 LEAG Arena 20:00 FC Energie Cottbus 3-2 St. Pats Athletic Franke 9 (p).......................................................Bates 56 Binde 23............................................................Flynn 79 Gottschalt-Guttau 27

UEFA Europa Conference League League Path, Third Qualifying Round, Second Leg 16 Aug 2040 LEAG Arena 20:00 FC Energie Cottbus 1-2 Aberdeen FC (Cottbus win 7-2 on aggregate) Gottschalt-Guttau 52......................................Butler 43 ...........................................................................Richards 63

DfB Pokal First Round 12 Aug 2040 Sportplatz Babelsberg 20:00 FV 06 Diefflen 0-9 FC Energie Cottbus ............................................................Tomas 1, 45+1 ............................................................Franke 11, 34, 40, 88 ...........................................................Zorn 14 ...........................................................Luvovadio 24 ...........................................................Binde 63

UEFA Europa Conference League League Path, Third Qualifying Round, First Leg 9 Aug 2040 Pittodrie 20:00 Aberdeen FC 0-6 FC Energie Cottbus Callaghan s/o 73...........................Tomas 14 .........................................................Kraeft 20 .........................................................Farhat 41 .........................................................Jarosch 56 .........................................................Brodwolf 81 .........................................................Cakir 90

Absolutely huge news as it'll keep him here until 27 or double our finances

Fantastic start! Osula is blazing hot

This would be the Hertha side that was nearly relegated and I finished in the European spots? Hmmm

The Stats Bundesliga Table Aug - Dec Results Jan - May Results DfB Pokal Results Player Stats Commerical Summary Data Hub The Eyetest Much like Moyes' Everton, we rebounded from a terrible campaign to end up 7th in the Bundesliga and qualify for the UEFA Europa Conference League!. It all came down to the last day where Borussia Monchengladbach and I were tied on 51 points. However we beat 1.FC Koln and they lost to Hamburger SV! Marius Tomas led the way this season with 12 goals and 10 assists, which is great, however Christian Franke was second with 8 and everdecreasing returns from our forward line is very concerning. We also had a somewhat-standard DfB Pokal campaign, losing to fellow Bundesliga side TSG Hoffenheim 1899, 1-2 in which Leon Gottschalt-Guttau was sent off. Our search for top flight silverware goes on. Stats-wise, we finished 7th on Goals Scored and 9th on Goals Conceded, which are huge improvements on last season, but still very middle of the road The Misc

Calling it now... 12th

Two! Two Top 50 Wonderkids ah ah..... Lovett is a huge surprise, but Tomas spends his last year of eligibility in second place.

We got a decent DL here, which soothes some ruffled feathers, but not much in the way of anything else DL Martin Bormann - Work Rate: 10, Pace 12, Technique 16 - DNA: FAILED We could finally lay to rest all our left back fears. Could. He wont be 'ready' for first team football for two or so seasons however. GK Gareth Davies - Work Rate: 11, Pace 12 - DNA: FAILED Yet another keeper off the production line. We could do with him getting better to be sold. D/DM/MC Dionysis Galatas - Work Rate: 10, Pace 12, Technique 13 - DNA: FAILED He'll never make it at DM or DC, but I'll retrain him to be a DL

This is next season's lineup without moves, including any transfers made in/out for the beginning of next season. Let's look through to see when/where there are issues. GK - Demmig has developed very well. To the point that if Gosslar goes, I feel comfortable for him to be the starter. Urbig becomes third choice DR - We're still not getting any talent in at full back and things are REALLY beginning to look thin DCR - We've got our starter and backup as established players, even our third choice is decent DCL - Farhat is our first choice libero. Lovett is our best defensive prospect. Sidiropoulos can play either side. DL - We have cover, it's just not decent cover DMCR - Cakir is marginally our best SV, Kraeft has surged into backup role and Luvovadio is now third choice DMCL - Mohr is our main. Krauss is a decent backup and Odeh is third place by default ML - Probably our strongest area now. All three could play in the first team AMR - Tomas is our best player. Period. Waack has also surged into the backup position. Wenzel is now third choice, despite being a talented player AMC - LGG's poor form puts him in backup with Zorn taking over the starter's role. ST - Franke is our starter and he's really not any good. All three are much of a muchness

I reckon you can take the next step in the coming season!

The Stats Bundesliga Table Results to date Full Stats Shooting Tackling Passing Possession Defending The Eye Test Well. We're a far cry from last season. I think the move to having a Raumdeuter in the AMR slot hampered us last season and changing back this season has paid dividends. We're still not scoring many, but we're also not conceding as much. Marius Tomas is, unsurprisingly, our best player this season, leading in goals and assists! I don't think we'll make Europe, but mid-table will be excellent. The Transfer In D/DMC Tim Brodwolf (£3.1m, Bayer 04 Leverkusen) Out D/WBR/DM Nico Enzweiler (£10k, SV Darmstadt 98) DRLC/ML Kay Degrief (£55k, 1.FC Magdeburg) M/AMC Toprak Bolat (£12.25k, Konyaspor) D/DM/MC Ferda Satici (£500k, SC Paderborn 07) Again, backups being trimmed. Neither Bolat or Satici lived up to their potential

Ooooof. Stumbled at the last hurdle. Great work in going up though.

Easy money!

I mean... eh

DfB Pokal Second Round 26 Oct 2039 Pre-Zero Arena 20:30 TSG Hoffenheim 1899 2-1 FC Energie Cottbus Seitz 24.......................................................................Tomas 90+1 Pilar 35 (p)..................................................................Gottschalt-Guttau s/o 65

Well done on survival!

The Brief Our fourth season in 1.Bundesliga, and the board brief this time was again to Avoid Relegation this season, with our performance in DfB Pokal is just to be competitive. Our budgets were £1.5m in the wages and £50.8m transfer budget. The Results A decent enough start. 4 points from 9, especially a draw with FC Bayern Munchen, where we wouldn't ordinarily get anything there. The Transfers IN ST Christian Franke (Free Transfer) DRC Spyros Sidiropoulos (£1.35m, Hamburger SV II) We gambled on Franke after he was released by Hertha Berlin, who poached him from our youth system. We also picked up another poached player from Hamburg. OUT ML Paul Gabelunke (£100k, Hostien Kiel) DM/ML/AMC Johnathan Mbayo (£250k, FC Augsburg) DM/MC Domingos Pereira (£2.5m FC Porto) Just thinning the herd