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After a serious chat with Frank, I was able to get to grips with my drugs problem.
He also sent me to Peruwelz, who play their football in Belgium’s 3rd Division A.
2006/2007
The squad I inherit has a lot of players, including some decent ones, but we lack quality in several areas, so I bring a few players in on frees. We make an indifferent start, and the players take some time to get used to my tactics, but then we suddenly click and start climbing the table. We are the division’s entertainers, scoring the most goals but only the two relegated sides concede more, and if there was a record for 3rd division 4-3 matches, we certainly broke it.
Money is tight but I manage to make a couple of signings in January, which sees us tighten up at the back. We have an excellent run in, which sees us win the 3rd period by a mile and finish 2nd in the league. The playoffs see us face Turnhout, I was fairly confident, but we put in two lacklustre displays and go down 2-1 on aggregate.
We win overachievers of the season, 1st & 2nd best signings and our goal machine striker wins top scorer. However our better players aren’t getting any younger and I feel like we may have as good a chance of going up for quite some time.
The new season approaches, I manage to cut some dead wood but still there’s a lot I can’t shift. Some new players are brought in to shore up our defence and one or two decent youngsters are given a run. We make an ok start, and are much tighter at the back, but our goal machine makes a slow start and then gets injured and the lack of goals prevents us from pushing on.
January comes round and the chairman sells our star right winger, who had been attracting interest from several Serie A clubs (all of which refused to meet my valuation), for £250,000, over 24 months, to Sint Truiden. No one who costs money will sign for us however, so we make do with a couple of freebies. We still couldn’t score in a brothel and have an abject last third of the season, playing without confidence and in front of less than 300 fans for some games. We fail to win in our last 10 games and drift perilously close to the relegation zone. We limp over the finish line in 12th and it appears that some new tactics and playing staff are desperately needed if we are to avoid a repeat next year.
The close season has me wielding my axe and no fewer than 18 players are shown the door, with 5 new faces coming in and for the first time we have a few home grown youngsters who look like they could make an impact. We find ourselves playing in the 3rd Division B this year and make a decent start with our new tactics. As an added bonus, I manage to sell our 4th choice striker for £30,000 to balance the books. A player we’d singed to replace our 1st division bound AMR last year, is converted into a striker and starts banging in the goals.
We start to go into decline in late November and a poor run sees us slide down the table. I free transfer our ageing keeper out of sheer frustration and bring in a replacement who looks he could finally solve this problem area in January. We start the 3rd period in 9th place and lacking in confidence, we face the runaway league leaders at home, we play them off the park and the 3-0 win is the turning point of our season. We are tight at the back and playing some great attacking football, we climb to 2nd with 5 wins in 6 games, and it seems the playoffs are a certainty. We then bottle it completely, drawing our last 4 games, where a win in any would of seen us win the period.
In some brighter news, our U19s win their league at a canter, and I have a good feeling about next season, if I can keep the squad together.
Originally posted by TC:
A player we’d singed to replace our 1st division bound AMR last year, is converted into a striker and starts banging in the goals.
Our chairman makes a cosy little arrangement for us to become a feeder club to Dutch side FC Twente, who don’t want to sign any of our players, and whose reserves have no desire to play for us . Our financial position is secure enough for me to fend off interest in my players over the summer, which is a quiet time with some dead wood and shitty youths shown the door and just 3 players coming in.
We look good in pre-season and even manage a decent run in the cup, getting to the 6th Round. A solid if unspectacular start sees us in 5th after the first period, then we start to kick on moving up to 2nd after 20 games, although OH Leuven are threaterning to run away with it. Despite a few injuries, including our most promising midfielder breaking his leg, I keep faith with the current squad and don’t sign anyone in January. We make a flying start to the 3rd period, as our two biggest rivals Leuven and Geel start to flounder. We face both sides away in consecutive weeks, these games will decide the season, we do a real job on Leuven, winning 0-2 to go top and go on to beat Geel in a thrilling 2-3, to stay there. We win the league with a game to spare and are promoted to the 2nd division.
Stars are my rock solid centre-halves, the young AML signed this season and my right-winger turned striker, who helps himself to 18 goals. The board and fans are delighted but I can see that we’re going to need to make some improvement to survive in the 2nd division. With this in mind, I’m delighted when Mons offer me a flamboyant ex-Bolton, Nigerian playmaker and am absolutely made up when he accepts £450/week to come and play for us next year!
Originally posted by TC:
With this in mind, I’m delighted when Mons offer me a flamboyant ex-Bolton, Nigerian playmaker and am absolutely made up when he accepts £450/week to come and play for us next year!
He probably has a wodgy agent who thought you were giving him 450K per week!
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