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Welcome to Loan Watch. Our feeder club is SpVgg Greuther Fürth in the 3.Liga. This will allow me to be able to send my best prospects off for meaningful football for a season. In our second season in this venture, we sent out MC/AMLC Josef Zorn, DLC Sunny Etim, DR Ciaran O'Reilly, AMLC/ST Tobias Schubert, ML/AMC/ST Yannick Krause and AMRL/ST Jovan Busch. The club ended up finishing 17th in 3.Liga last season and were relegated. Josef Zorn - An average season for the attacking midfielder, as he played 3,353 minutes of first team football, scoring 7 goals and assisting twice. An Avg Rating of 6.84 wasn't the best, but not the worst either. Sunny Etim - Playing mainly as a central defender, Sunny racked up 3,068 minutes of first team football for the club, assisting twice. His Avg Rating of 6.81 is also a decent marker of a spell there. Tobias Schubert - The striker appeared for 3,021 minutes this season. His 6 goals and 7 assists was half decent, as was his Avg Rating of 6.76, but goal droughts of both 4 and 3 months is quite worrying. Jovan Busch - A good loan for the young American as he appeared for 2,265 minutes this season, proving his worth over the season, despite not starting a game until October. His 13 goals led the team and his Avg Rating of 6.85 also led the team Yannick Krause - A poor loan spell for the young winger and his 289 minutes of first team football, scoring 2 goals for an Avg Rating of 6.80, was not what I was looking for. Ciaran O'Reilly - The Irish right back played 1,591 mins this season, not registering a goal or an assist. With his Avg Rating of 6.76, It is the very definition of mediocre.

The Stats Bundesliga Table Aug - Dec Results Jan - May Results DfB Pokal Results UEFA Europa League Results Player Stats Commerical Summary Data Hub The Eyetest What a way to become a Cottbus legend! We finished with our highest ever placing. 3rd in the Bundesliga. We only had two defeats all season. One to Bayern Munich, the other to Eintracht Frankfurt. with 16 draws. Rookie sensation Adnan Muric led the way with 21 goals, with captain Marius Tomas breaking records with 18 assists for the season . We FINALLY got over our DfB Pokal hump, with a successful campaign, beating fellow 1.Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt, 3-1 in the Final. Our search for top flight domestic silverware finally ends after 16 years. We also triumphed in the UEFA Europa League by beating Manchester United 2-1, with Kristoffer Kraeft scoring what was the winning goal in the 12th minute of the Final. Stats-wise, we finished 3rd on Goals Scored and 5th on Goals Conceded, which is an excellent improvement. The Misc Adnan Muric won the U-19 German POTY Award Adnan Muric finished second in the UEFA Europa League Best Player Award, Marius Tomas finished third Adnan Muric finished second in the UEFA Europa League Top Goalscorer Adnan Muric won the UEFA Europa League Young Player of the Season Award Tim Brodwolf won the German Player's Player of the Year Award Guess this will become a collectors item!

DfB Pokal Final 30 May 2043 Olympistadion, Berlin 20:30 Eintracht Frankfurt 1-3 FC Energie Cottbus Andersson m/pen 29......................................Brodwolf 19 Ordonez 68.......................................................Wenzel 78 (p) ............................................................................Muric 80

UEFA Europa League Final 20 May 2043 Salzburg Community Stadium 20:00 Manchester United 1-2 FC Energie Cottbus Juan Pablo 76....................................................Muric 9 ............................................................................Kraeft 12

UEFA Europa League Semi Final, Second Leg 7 May 2043 Stadio Olimpico 20:00 S.S Lazio 0-3 FC Energie Cottbus ...........................................Jarosch 3 ...........................................Tomas 42 ...........................................Lovett 55

Best of luck in the Bundesliga this season!

A great season. Europe proved to be a tough stretch for me, so make sure you have 2+ for every position

UEFA Europa League Semi Final, First Leg 30 April 2043 LEAG Arena 20:00 FC Energie Cottbus 2-1 S.S Lazio Saidou 50, 63....................................................Moha 62

DfB Pokal Semi Final 24 April 2043 LEAG Arena 20:30 FC Energie Cottbus 2-0 FC Bayern Munich Saidou 7 Wenzel 69 (p)

UEFA Europa League Quarter Final, Second Leg 16 April 2043 LEAG Arena 20:00 FC Energie Cottbus 1-0 Real Betis Balompie (Cottbus win 1-0 on aggregate) Jarosch 20 .

UEFA Europa League Round of 16, Second Leg 12 Mar 2043 LEAG Arena 20:00 FC Energie Cottbus 2-1 AFC Ajax (Cottbus win 3-1 on aggregate) Tomas 111........................................................Moha 82 Waack 120

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PRESS RELEASE "....We’re delighted to introduce our new kit partner, adidas, for the 2023/24 season, celebrating the joy and pride in moving forward together. The new kits will available to buy in June from Cottbus stores and selected adidas retail stores. Marius Tomas, fresh from committing his future with us, joined more than 300 supporters and members of staff in the seats at LEAG Arena to reveal the new adidas kit. “We’re in this together,” said Tomas. “The support we’ve received this season home and away, from our loyal supporters and from colleagues and friends across the Cottbus family has been immense. “Celebrating this moment together makes us excited to wear this shirt next season. It’s so powerful when we know teammates, supporters and friends are driving us on. We’re stronger when we’re moving forward, together.” said the captain. Jana Matueuz, Head of Product Placement for adidas said this about the partnership. "We are so happy that we are able to celebrate with Cottbus on this, their 80th anniversary of the founding of the football club. This club's modern, forward-thinking approach, whilst respecting their past traditions and customs makes them an excellent partner and we look forward to standing side by side with them as they take on Europe and beyond..."

We wait ages for full backs and we get successive ones in intakes. We need to wave this magic for defensive midfielders now. Let's look at the Top 3 prospects! -------------------------------------------------- D/WBR/MC Vincenzo Incardona - Work Rate: 17, Pace 13, Techinque 14 - DNA: Passed This guy could be the successor to Markus Kallnik. He needs to be training with the first team and in a mentoring group with him ASAP GK Clemens Rask - Handling: 14, Reflexes 14, Command of Area 13 - DNA: Passed Loving this player. We need more keepers in case we lose any of our first two to big-money moves DM/MC Ante Grgic - Work Rate: 17, Pace 11, Techinque 13 - DNA: Passed We've got one prospect here for our DM slot, we're short on the SV role however.

UEFA Europa Conference League Round of 16, First Leg 5 Mar 2043 Johan Cruijff Arena 20:00 AFC Ajax 0-1 FC Energie Cottbus ..........................................Saidou 40

DfB Pokal Quarter Final 24 Feb 2041 wohninvest Weserstadion 20:30 SV Werder Bremen 1-2 FC Energie Cottbus Mendes 61........................................................Wenzel 79 ............................................................................Muric 90+2

DfB Pokal Third Round 13 Jan 2043 LEAG Arena 20:30 FC Energie Cottbus 1-0 VfB Stuttgart Tomas 63

This is next season's lineup without moves. Let's look through to see when/where there are issues. GK - Demmig has overtaken Gosslar as our #1. Davies is our third choice and a long way from the other two, but Majewski came in through an emergency and could be a wild card DR - Kallnik is top and Ginter is easily backup. Dreher will be third choice DCR - Nothing changes thankfully, apart from the third choices DCL - Same here. DL - Bormann has usurped the starting role and Turgeman has moved into the backup spot. Etim makes the third choice. DMCR - Kraeft will be first choice as long as he is here. Luovadio second choice until he wants to leave. DMCL - Cakir is the starter, Mohr is the backup, but as ever, we're struggling with youth DM players ML - Jarosch is the starter, but barely. Derichs will be a starter soon enough and Murati is just the filler in third that placeholds before the maturing of our U-18's AMR - Injuries have done Waack out of the starters role, with Wenzel cemented. We don't really have a third choice with the non-contract Maier there as third choice AMC - Tomas is God. Simple. LGG's easily second, but Zorn is a very good third choice ST - Saidou is first choice, Muric is easily second and Schubert will be third when he comes back from loan

The Stats Bundesliga Table Results to date Full Stats Shooting Tackling Passing Possession Defending The Eye Test For once, we've decided that we can continue to play at a high level, despite being in the cups. The whole team is playing at such a high level, but I'll end up having to pay out for the contracts soon. We're in contention for all three trophies we're in, however we need to prioritise finishing in the Champions League Qualifying Spots, as I've promised Tomas that we'll make it to stop him leaving for Liverpool. The Transfers OUT DC Paul Drinkuth (£600k, possibly rising to £1.6m, Karlsruhe SC) DR Ulaş Baş (£500k, possibly rising to £1.5m, Karlsruhe SC) Two youth players producing pure profit

I think that I play the game in such a way, that staff just aren't good/weird enough to think like me.

This may be a godsend, considering the interest in Demmig.

Bizarre that he can't even get into the GOAL50...

The Brief Season Seven in 1.Bundesliga, and the board brief was to Qualify for the Europa Conference League this season. That would require us to break the cycle of top half and bottom half alternating finishes we've had. In the DfB Pokal, the board want us to make the Quarter Finals. Finally, the board want us to make the Latter Stages of the UEFA Europa League. Our budgets were a reduction in wages to £1.3m and an increase to £48.5m transfer budget. The Results It's been a great start. Late winner against Wolfsburg and a good win against Gladbach. Only fly in the ointment was a complete battering of Dresden, without anything to show for it. The Transfers IN WBL Ömer Aydin (£500k, Hertha Berlin SC) AML/ST Tobias Schubert (£2.5m Hertha Berlin SC) We completed an audacious take-back raid of poached players this summer. A left back and striker, our two problem areas, now have some talent buttressing them. OUT ML/AMLC/ST Rene Binde (£2.5m, 1. FC Köln) The logjam is now cleared as Binde, already looking for a better contract, was shipped off to Köln so we could move forward.

Agreed. Trust your own eyes, IMO