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The Brief A decade now in 1.Bundesliga, and the board brief was to Finish in the European Qualification Spots again this season in the league, building on our last season. In the DfB Pokal, the board want us to make the Quarter Finals. Finally, the board want us to make the League Stage of the UEFA Champions League. Our budgets were £4.2m in the wages and £194m transfer budget. The Results An average start to the season. Let's hope we end up top of the pile this season The Transfers IN DC/DM/MC German Kulikov (Free Transfer, Galatasaray S.K) GK Daniel Gosslar (£1.2m, FC Barcelona) Bringing back Kulikov for his third and final spell at the club and Gosslar for his second spell made perfect sense as we could get reliable cover with no expectations of play time OUT MC/AMC/ST Giannis Anyfantis (£1m, 1860 Munich) DRLC Sa'ar Turgeman (£4m, Stade Brestois 29) DRC Rodan Ginter (£1.5m, ESTAC Troyes) GK Gareth Davies (£2.5m, 1. FC Nürnberg) More trimming of the squad / capitalising on good offers

Merry Christmas FMCU!

DfB Pokal First Round 30 May 2043 Olympistadion, Berlin 20:30 1.FC Heidenheim 1846 0-0p FC Energie Cottbus (Cottbus win 3-1 on pens)

Appreciated, buddy! Thank you!

Well, we had 5 attendees at UEFA Euro 2044, with Kallnik, Tomas and Cakir all making their second tournament appearances whilst at the club, with Murati and Demmig as debutants with us. Let's see how the players and their countries got on. Albania - Out, Second Round Edison Murati's third spell at the club saw him called up for Albania's EURO 2024 campaign and given the vice-captain's role, however it ended in disappointment as he was on the pitch for the whole 90 minutes in the opening 2-1 win over Sweden, but subbed in the 2-4 loss to Ukraine. He was also subbed late on in the 0-0 draw with Germany that ultimately saw them qualify on goal difference. Sadly, their run came to an end with a poor performance in the 1-4 loss to Portugal Germany - Out, Quarter Final We had two players on duty with Germany, goalie Fabian Demmig and captain Markus Kallnik. Both had a horrendous opening match in the opening 1-2 win over Ukraine and they didn't play much better in the 4-2 win over Sweden. Kallnik was even subbed in the 0-0 draw with Albania, however Demmig picked up the POTM award. The Germans limped through to the Second Round, where they faced Poland. Ex-Cottbus midfielder Kristoffer Kraeft scored the winner mid-way through the first half and Demmig continued his form from the last game, before Kallnik was subbed late on. This set up a Quarter Final clash with old enemies England. And both players played poorly in a 0-2 defeat with Kallnik subbed for the third game in a row. Romania - Out, Group Stage Marius Tomas' EURO 2024 campaign for Romania ended in bitter disappointment as he was on the pitch for the whole 90 minutes in the opening 1-3 loss against France, but bounced back n the 1-0 win over Norway. He was extemely subdued in the 0-2 loss to Scotland that saw them out of the competition, finishing third in the group Turkey - Out, Group Stage A disastrous EURO 2024 campaign for Okay Cakir saw his Turkey side finish bottom of the group without a win as he was on the pitch for the whole 90 minutes in the opening 1-4 loss against Serbia, an unused sub in the 1-2 loss against Wales and subbed in the 1-5 loss to Scotland that saw them mercifully put out of their misery

The Stats Bundesliga Table Aug - Dec Results Jan - May Results DfB Pokal Results UEFA Champions League Results UEFA Super Cup Result DFL-Supercup Result Player Stats Commerical Summary Data Hub The Eyetest We once again improved our standing, finishing 2nd in the Bundesliga. We took the title to the wire with a ridiculous last day with us, RB Leipzig and FC Bayern Munich all tied on 67 points. Sadly, despite a 4-1 win over 1. FC Köln, we lost the title on goal difference as RB also won their game with a 85th minute winner. Adnan Muric led the way with 20 goals, with captain Marius Tomas in double figures again with 15 goals and 13 assists for the season . We fell to our semi-regular DfB Pokal choke to a 2.Bundesliga side, St. Pauli again this time. We also were knocked out of the UEFA Champions League in the Round of 16 by Juventus 3-2 on aggregate. Stats-wise, we finished 4th on Goals Scored and 4th on Goals Conceded, for some lovely symmetry. The Misc Martin Bormann won the U-19 German POTY Award Adnan Muric won the European Golden Boy Award Marius Tomas finished second in the German Footballer of the Year Award Gareth Davies finished second in the Welsh Young Player of the Season Award Adnan Muric finished second in the Bundesliga Top Goalscorer Award I won the German Players Manager Of The Year Award Marius Tomas won the German Player's Player of the Year Award

Very disappointed that we only have one player in this, this season. We need to get on with our recruitment.

Some decent prospects here, just not in the DM strata FFS. Since it's considered an Excellent intake, let's look at my top 3 prospects.. D/MC Adrian Musiolik - Work Rate: 12, Pace 11, Techinque 15 - DNA: Passed Adrian will be hopefully moulded into a decent Segundo Volante sooner rather than later AMRC Luca Gashi - Work Rate: 12, Pace 12, Techinque 12 - DNA: Passed This is my personal favourite of the intake. This kid can be a starter on the right if he improves the way he's started M/AMRC Qendrim Mehmeti - Work Rate: 11, Pace 11, Techinque 15 - DNA: Passed A flyer on the AMC role. Got no real expectations for him, but if he can develop, he'll be great for backup

UEFA Champions League Round of 16,Second Leg 9 March 2044 Allianz Stadium 20:00 Juventus FC 2-1 FC Energie Cottbus (Juventus win 3-2 on aggregate) De Los Santos 75...........................................................Busch 39 Real 100

UEFA Champions League Knock Out Playoff Second Leg 16 February 2044 LEAG Arena 20:00 FC Energie Cottbus 3-1 A.C Milan (Cottbus win 4-1 on aggregate) Busch 10...........................................................Tavares 62 Muric 50, 83

This is next season's lineup without moves. Let's look through to see when/where there are issues. GK - Demmig is the clear #1 and Davies clear #2. Janowski is de facto third choice, but we have a few possible talents in the youth team DR - Kallnik is top and Dreher will be #2. Unless O'Reilly takes a quantum leap in the next season, he'll be usurped next season DCR - Nothing changes thankfully DCL - Same here. DL - Bormann is #1 and I'm planning to see Turgemann, so Egberts takes the backup slot with Aydin as third choice. All three are below 20 years old DMCR - Zorn has been repurposed as an SV as we have nothing really ready in the youth team. Flauder steps up to backup, which relegates him to third choice in the defence DMCL - Same as it ever was, only we've got Murati as a good third choice. ML - Derichs has overtaken Jarosch as his injury has kept him out most of the season just gone. Bagaev becomes third choice AMR - Same order as before, only Krause has joined the party as third choice AMC - Tomas and LGG are the cemented duo, but after this season, hopefully some of our prospects will be good enough to step up to third choice ST - Muric and Busch are literally the only two forwards I trust. I'll use the offseason to work out some youth prospects, but we could do with depth here

The Stats Bundesliga Table Results to date Full Stats Shooting Tackling Passing Possession Defending The Eye Test A brilliant season so far as we've managed to be top of the pile going into the business end of the season. Not entirely sure how it's happened, but we're at least hoping for a top 3 UCL spot. Adnan Muric is leading our goalscoring charts with 12 so far this season and we're also still in the UCL and doing well, despite going out of the cup to a 2.Bundesliga side. Injuries are starting to bite however as well as a lack of depth. The Transfers IN DC/DM Edison Murati (£2m, Galatasaray S.K.) M/AMC Dejvi Hoxha (£6.5m, Schalke 04) We brought back a team favourite for his third spell at the club and hopefully his last. The plan is to get him to retire here. Also, we poached a transfer-listed 16 year old. No, I've never seen it before either OUT DM/M/AMC Kristoffer Kraeft (£160m, Liverpool FC) AML/ST Tobias Schubert (£5m, VfB Stuttgart) Well... The biggest transfer fee I've ever received on FM and it wasn't for Tomas!!! You can't turn down £160m for a player (especially as it was his release clause) and we also offloaded our recently acquired former poachee. He had a poor season for us and the emergence of Jovan Busch meant we could cut him loose for a profit.

Maybe sell with a loan back for a season? That way, you get him for the year and the cash!

The Dilemma Here is somewhat of an ethical dilemma, I came across this player whilst on a scout of the 2.Bundesliga U-18 sides. Lovely, good for Schalke. However.... this was the interesting part.. What?? I've never seen this about a 16 year old? No role for him?? Listed? I've rationalised it as I'm poaching a player from another teams youth system. Even if he never gets any better, it's worth it He's signed a £1.1k p/w deal with us to start in the January transfer window.

Yesss.. Another one on the awards list

Helloooo baaaaybeeee

DfB Pokal Second Round 28 October 2043 Millerntor-Stadium 20:30 FC St. Pauli 1-0 FC Energie Cottbus .Stanczyk 73...........................Schubert m/pen 17 We love a cup defeat to a 2.Bundesliga side....

The Brief Season 9 in 1.Bundesliga, and the board brief this time was to Finish in the European Qualification Spots this season in the league, building on our last season. In the DfB Pokal, the board want us to make the Quarter Finals. Finally, the board want us to make the Group Stage of the UEFA Champions League. Our budgets were £1.9m in the wages and £94m transfer budget. The Results Great in the cups, inauspicious in the league, The 0-1 was very annoying as we battered them and still lost The Transfers IN DC/DM/AMC Andreas Flauder (£5.5m, SC Werder Bremen) DC/DM/AMC Bjorn Kopnick (Free Transfer) DM/MC Domingos Pereira (Free Transfer) Bringing back three former academy products was a no-brainer. Bjorn for the II team and Flauder and Pereira for the backups. OUT DM/MC/ST Alain Luvovadio (£10m, VfL Wolfsburg) M/AML/ST Harald Saidou (£31m, PSV Eindhoven) DRC Fabian Forster (£8m, Real Valladolid) GK Daniel Gosslar (£6m, FC Barcelona) A lot of shifting of players close to the end of their contracts to make space for up and coming players

DfB Pokal First Round 19 August 2043 VELTINS-Arena 20:30 Schalke 04 0-1 FC Energie Cottbus .................................................Derichs 75

UEFA Super Cup Final 12 August 2043 Tüpraş Stadium 20:00 FC Energie Cottbus p0-0 Arsenal FC aet (Cottbus win 4-3 on pens)

Please enjoy the opening goal by the Carpathian Messi himself. Almost Henry-esque!

DfL Supercup Final 8 August 2043 Red Bull Arena, Leipzig 20:30 RB Leipzig 0-2 FC Energie Cottbus ...............................................Tomas 81 ...............................................Kraeft 90+4

Thanks! It's been a great season, but the job is staying here

The challenge is staying here