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Career Idol Attempts the Germanic Europe Challenge

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By Idol,
in Football Manager Mobile 2017

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Well, id stay and smash another season out of Munir as he looks perfect to score 70+ goals. Also, you now know you can pull those kind of jobs, meaning it shouldn't be a problem in the future. Of course though, your decision. 

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Take the job bud, the Bayern job won't come up for the next 10 years if you don't, perfect team to complete this challenge!

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Season 7

I decided to turn down the Bayern job partly because I wanted to give Munir another chance. Sadly an early 3 week injury left me behind the curve once again. 

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Domestic Cup - Another One in the Bag

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A tough game decided by superior chance making and finishing from the Ajax.

The League

We won it easily, only losing 1 game. I forgot to take a screenshot of the league table apparently.

The Champions League

Interestingly Barcelona played Basel before I got the chance to play Inter, which I'd not seen happen before. Anyway, I went into the final game just needing a point at home against Inter to progress. 

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An entertaining 4-4 draw put's me through into the what the fuck why am I third? At this point I realised the CL group stages went on head to head including away goals. So to the 

Europa League!

Ahem. An easy win against Maccabi Haifa in the first round put me through to play Arsenal who were dispatched 5-1 on aggregate. This put me through to play Man U, who were also beaten with little difficulty. 

Then the semi final against my favourite German team, Borussia Dortmund. 

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A much tighter tie but I just squeaked through. Fairly soon after this game I got the announcement through the Dortmund had sacked their boss. Perfect, I thought, I can win the Europa League against Chelsea then resign and grab the Dortmund job! 

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Sadly the game had other ideas. 

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On the very morning of the bloody Europa League final?! Bastards. 

Munir had had a decent season, but never quite hit the effervescent for of the previous year. 

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He'd need to score 7 against Chelsea to improve my record, so putting my own personal desire on the back seat I took the Dortmund job and wished the Ajax boys good luck against Chelsea.

They won on penalties in my absence following a 2-2 draw. Munir bagging a late equaliser. 

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So, to stage 3 I moved, feeling a little bit flat after abandoning my team literally on the day of the biggest game of my career so far... But onwards and upwards! Dortmund had little budget to work with (the biggest wage I could offer was ~£30kpw and a transfer budget of ~£20m) so I felt the first season would be best served building the squad and the budget. Their first 11 was a really good football team (well, 10, the left back slot was a choice between a poor winger or a 35 year old who was still okish but couldn't play more than 5 games on the bounce and spent most of the first 4 months out injured) but beyond that it was sparse, 4 players came in for around £1m total to serve as backup and a couple of loan players to fill a few gaps on the bench.

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It's been a bit since I've posted an update here, since I've been a bit slow playing it with all the challenges I'm involved in elsewhere on this forum, and also that it's peak golf season at the moment which does tend to eat up a lot of time! 

Dortmund - Season 1

Dortmund didn't have much of a budget when I came in, so I went with their current main striker for season 1, Stipe Perica. He looked pretty decent but I didn't have much confidence in him to make the required mark of 68 goals. 

Dortmund were in the Europa League having finished 6th the previous season. 

Europa League

We pretty easily got through to the final of the Europa league, facing the mighty Liverpool we dominate the game but couldn't put away our chances.

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A late freekick from bloody Alberto Moreno of all people beating my keeper on the near post ended my hopes of putting the Europa league in the trophy cabinet. 

DFB-Pokal Cup

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A semi-final loss to Wolfsburg after extra time, having made better chances this time but a bit leaky at the back, but paid to any chance of cup silverware this year. 

Bundesliga

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Happier news here as we won the league fairly convincingly. 

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Stipe did pretty well, but didn't manage to get anywhere near the record.

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Here are his stats, apparently I'd forgotten to screenshot him at the time. As you can see I'd replaced him for the next season.

Dortmund - Season 2

Again the transfer budget and wage restrictions limited my signings but a new striker did come in to lead the line. Sandro, another 1 named ex-Barcelona striker with tbh very similar stats to Munir. 

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 Champions League

We got a nice easy draw for the first knockout round, against KRC Genk. What followed was the most one-sided 2 legged tie I've ever seen end up in Penalties... 5 Clear Cut Chances, 26 Shots on Target and 61 total shots over the course of 210 minutes and we still only scored 3, one of which was from a penalty! Genk had 7 shots and 5 on target with 2 cccs and also scored 3. Thankfully we did edge the shootout. 

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And we went on well, to face Athletico Madrid in the final. 

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Which we won fairly comfortably, after they had a player sent off. 

DFB-Pokal Cup

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Again we dominated the game but ended up going to penalties, thankfully winning it. Note that Sami Louati scored the final penalty, winning the team glory. A young 21 year old left back I'd signed cheaply as backup...

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So the day later obviously the board expressed their disappointment with him. Bloody Germans and their lack of romance... 

Bundesliga

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A slightly tight result here! It went down the final game but thankfully we edged it. An awesome showing from Bayern though with a +52 gd from an AI controlled team. 

So to the main man, he won WPOTY, which is nice. 

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But he fell well short of the target, banging in 58 goals in 54 games. 

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So onto attempt number 3. Thankfully winning the Bundesliga for a 2nd time and the Champions league meant that my transfer budget has moved from £30m to £170m. I can't quite attract the absolute best players in the world but I'm well up there, I can offer well over £100k pw wages whereas when I joined Dortmund it was about £30k pw. Definitely looking more positive for next year! 

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It looks really good now AND you have two extra matches in the wc for clubs ( usually possible for a great striker to score a couple there ;) -  so good luck mate!

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Good couple of years mate well done, with the budget you have now I think this challenge is all but done and dusted, bring it home! ??

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Shame on the first couple of attempts but looks like it's been a major build up for an explosive third and hopefully final attempt. Smash it, mate!

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