Career The Reborn of Sir Alex

[salohcin]

Hello everyone! I know it is rather late to start a career but I really wanted to do the SAF challenge. If you want to know more about it, feel free to visit @Risheek SAF challenge page for the details as I don't want to bore yall. So lets get started!

THE STORY

"What do you want to be when you grow up, my boy? A pilot? A doctor? Or a lawyer?" This was my grandpa's favourite topic when I was little. Though he knows about my interest in football, he has often said that there is no future for a Singaporean kid like me in the football world, especially since I could barely kick a ball at the age of 5. However, the ambitious young devil in me insists that I have the potential to carve out a career like that of Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Rio Ferdinand and so I trained and I trained hard and I trained to my hardest!

Until one day, I fell,
Hard,
Broken.

The doctor ruled me out of all forms of sports.

I was devastated! My mind went blank and my heart stopped completely for a second!

"WHAT DO I DO??? I ONLY WANT TO PLAY FOOTBALL! WHY CAN'T I DO IT???"

It took me some time to settle down but at last I did and I moved on as quickly as I could.

20 years later

My dream of playing football did not end and so I decided to take up management (maybe I can become the next SAF??). Fortunately, I passed my coaching exams and found myself an assistant coach at Hearts in Scotland (OOOOO SAF started at Scotland too) in no time! But Hearts were not playing well and the board decided to terminate the contract of the manager. After serious deliberation, the board decided to give me a shot, after all what harm can I do? Right?

I immediately started work and had to work out what will make this club successful.

THE JOURNEY

So Mr Mil Salohcin starts his journey as manager of the mighty Hearts of Midlothian! Will he even last a season? Can he replicate Sir Alex? Only time can tell

Had a couple of loans and 1 transfer made with the limited funds I was given. (Sorry I forgot to take a screenshot before I went to the second season).

Having limited time in the Scotland part of the career, I had to get the Scottish Cup onto my hands in the 1st season or else the career will be over.

Now, frankly i struggled with the team from the start because they just could not score enough to win and I was on the verge of giving up. But what kept me going was this young lad called Jamie Walker in the team. Everytime, we were trailing, he would jump out of nowhere and score a goal out of nothing, bringing the passion back into me! From the screenshot, you can see that we recovered from the initial lack of goals and managed to climb up to 2nd place (of course behind the dreaded Celtic team that ran away with the title) 

Now that the league is out of the way and Hearts didn't win it, there is still one more shot at silverware as we lost the Betferd Cup to Celtic as well. So did Hearts manage to clinch the Scottish Cup? 

OH YASSS WE DID IT IN STYLE!!! We dominated the match and came away with a 2-0 win over relegated Inverness CT! Well done lads!

So this is how my stats look after 1 season and i have to say in happy with it!

Well, that's all i have for now, a rather good start to life at Hearts and will be looking for more silverware especially since I only have 4 years to collect them all! Below are the trophies that I have to collect and how many I have already collected! Hope I have not bored you guys to death and that yall will keep following this! Thanks for reading!

SCOTLAND
0/3 DOMESTIC LEAGUES
1/4 DOMESTIC CUPS
0/1 LEAGUE CUPS 
0/1 EUROPA LEAGUE
0/1 EUROPEAN SUPER CUP

[BatiGoal]

I can't get enough of The Great SAF Goodluck!

[salohcin]

7 hours ago, BatiGoal said:

I can't get enough of The Great SAF Goodluck!

Thanks for your support! Hope I can finish it!

[salohcin]

Thanks man! Im praying the fun element wont die too quickly

[salohcin]

2 hours ago, Risheek said:

Takes quite some commitment to go past the third season in England. I'll just tell you that   Gets boring around then, but that's exactky when I won the PL so it was very interesting.

Well i guess u have just set the becnhmark for me HAHAHA, to not get bored by the first 3 seasons in england

[Fish18ish]

Walker seems pretty good in this game. Been trying to tempt him to join my Champions league Aberdeen side but the £12 m asking price is out of my depth. Testament to his quality I guess. This career looks interesting, will be following.

[salohcin]

Well 12M is a fair price for him but i guess its simply because hearts do not want to sell their key player. Thanks for following!

[Fish18ish]

19 hours ago, salohcin said:

Well 12M is a fair price for him but i guess its simply because hearts do not want to sell their key player. Thanks for following!

I would scramble the funds together to sign him because he's Scottish (I like to sign homegrown players) and I need a versatile attacking midfielder to finish off my transfer business. But at this stage in the save he's 27 so is unlikely to have much of a resale value by the time the club outgrows him. However Hearts just got knocked out of Europe so hopefully he kicks up a fuss before deadline day and I can scrape a cheeky bargain.

[salohcin]

SEASON 2

Sorry for the long interval! But I'm back with more news on how this challenge has progressed! Of course, going into Season 2, I have to act fast and mould the team into one that will win trophies and titles! So my target was to win the league, the Scottish Cup and maybe the Euro Cup, which will tick off 1 major obstacle in this reborn. 

Without further ado, let's see what has happened this season!

Unfortunately, we still did not have much funds for transfers, soooo the only way out was to sell some key players and I had to part with Callum Patterson, our best right back and possibly the best player at the club, for 6 million, quite a tidy sum for a young lad from Scotland. Also got rid of Gavin Reilly who wasn't going to get much game time as we had top strikers already at the club. Also bought some players like Frommann and Fohrenbach as backups and many other players on frees. Great transfer season I should say!

Moving on, let's discuss the league. We have 2 especially irritating opponents that are irritiatingly rich and irritatingly good in the form on Rangers (sorry Risheek) and Celtics! So how did we fare with them in the league?

HEARTS ARE THE CHAMPSSS!!! Well, we more or less dominated from start to finish. Started off very well and established a good lead so we just had to push with a little more momentum and we won it! Alot of credit goes to the lads, a young team, but they showed me passion and showed me why they deserved a place in the starting 11! 

Of course, we have to look at the 2 domestic cups we were involved in- the Scottish Cup and the Betfred Cup. Can Hearts grab the domestic treble from right under the nose of Celtics???

YES AGAIN HEARTS HAVE DONE EXTREMELY WELL!!! They clinched the domestic treble at the first attempt! Come on lads! (We beat Celtics in the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup btw) Though we struggled to come out against Raith, we put our faith in the footbal gods and they gave us the trophy! 

Now now now, y'all must be thinking, what about the Euro Cup that SAF won with Aberdeen? Can I do as well as him? 

AND THAT'S THE QUADRUPLE! A clean sweep of all available trophies for the team! What a season! The red cards really changed the game but the main game changers have to be Zlatan, Fellaini and Herrera. They shockingly missed all the penalties and practically gave us the trophy!

So there it is! 4/4 trophies from this season! Fantastic second season, got the transfers that I wanted and got the trophies that I wanted and a little bonus as well! 

Presenting to you the Manager of the Year!

Below are the fixtures if y'all wanna take a look.

SCOTLAND
1/3 DOMESTIC LEAGUES
2/4 DOMESTIC CUPS
1/1 LEAGUE CUPS 
1/1 EUROPA LEAGUE
0/1 EUROPEAN SUPER CUP

Seems like we are almost done with Scotland! Just need 2 more league titles, 2 more cups and 1 more European Super Cup! Of course the Super Cup will be a problem because if I do not win it next season (and I have an awfully tough opponent, make a guess if you want!???), I have to find a way to drop to third place in the CL group stage and win the Euro Cup again since the CL is too hard for Hearts to win as of now. But this will be for the next update.

Above are just some of the key players for this season. Jamie Walker as mentioned before was so important that we started losing games without him and Johnsen and Goncalves provided us with some great goals as well!

Hope y'all enjoyed this and thanks for reading!

[salohcin]

 

1 hour ago, Risheek said:

Moving along well! KIU!

Thanks mate!

[Taff]

Great 2 seasons there dude, and the write up was excellent, brings a bit more of the human side to the game KIU

[salohcin]

40 minutes ago, Taff said:

Great 2 seasons there dude, and the write up was excellent, brings a bit more of the human side to the game KIU

Thanks for the support man! I will try to maintain a humane side in this challenge as much as possible 

[Taff]

5 minutes ago, salohcin said:

Thanks for the support man! I will try to maintain a humane side in this challenge as much as possible 

As long as it suits you, as Risheek said this challenge can get a bit dull after a few seasons in the EPL, so if you end up with just quick updates then thats cool, but it is a very good way to write the updates 

[Fish18ish]

2 hours ago, salohcin said:

Thanks for the support man! I will try to maintain a humane side in this challenge as much as possible 

Humane is a good idea, there's no need to hurt anyone in the process of making these updates 

Jokes aside this is really interesting so far, I look forward to more.

[salohcin]

Sorry guys, next update will probably be on thurs! Got some family matters cropping out and gotta deal with them first

[Fish18ish]

6 hours ago, salohcin said:

Sorry guys, next update will probably be on thurs! Got some family matters cropping out and gotta deal with them first

No worries, this is only a game after all

[salohcin]

SEASON 3

Alright guys, shall not keep y'all waiting any longer! Welcome to the third season of Sir Alex's Reborn! 

First of all, the transfers. Not alot of ins because the squad is already pretty robust from the last transfer window. Added Brannagan from Liverpool and sold Martin so that I won't experience a central midfield overload. 

Next, we have the Euro Super Cup to win! But we gotta look at our opponents first! Oh look gracious me! It's MSN powered Barcelona!!! But how did we fare against this club?

AN UNREAL RESULT! We took our chances and won the match courtesy of Walker's penalty! This win has made my final 2 seasons much simpler since we do not need to focus on international cups anymore for this section. 

This season, Hearts are in the Champions League and that means tough games, real tough games! We have Juve, AS Monaco and CSKA Moscow in our group, not exactly the group of death but still has the ability to kill. 

Well, somehow we managed to finish second!!! Hurray!!! We are moving on the the knockout rounds!

And here we face an English club that I'm starting to love, Tottenham!

Managed to hold them to a draw in the home match but collapsed in the return leg. But I'm still very happy with the team's progress! Good job guys!

Unfortunately, we lost the Betfred Cup to St Johnstone but we made it up byyyyyy

WINNING THE SCOTTISH CUP AGAIN!!! WOOHOOOO! Very very close match with 6 goals in total. But we prevailed after a penalty shootout! 

And by the way, we won the League as well but I forgot to screenshot it. 

Now let's look at some of our key players.

Galan came in on a free transfer and tore up the pitch with his versatile runs and goals!

McGeehan became a very useful backup for Walker and I was forced to give him a run in the first team due to his consistent efforts.

This talented goalkeeper cemented his place as the first team keeper and was rather consistent considering his young age.

Billy O' Billy used his wing plays and crosses to assist our striker and attacking midfielders in the box. 

Now time for some manager stats!

WORLD CLASS MANAGER!!! HAHAHAHA hopefully this can be maintained!

Below is the fixture list

And the trophy winners!

3 trophies for Hearts this season and I'm more than satisfied! Great job boys!!

SCOTLAND
2/3 DOMESTIC LEAGUES
3/4 DOMESTIC CUPS
1/1 LEAGUE CUPS 
1/1 EUROPA LEAGUE
1/1 EUROPEAN SUPER CUP

Almost there now! Just 1 more season left in Scotland! 

Thanks for reading!

[Fish18ish]

Nice to see McGeehan doing well as a Norwich fan. You're certainly motoring through these seasons, which is wise because you don't want the save to go stale.

[BatiGoal]

Bring on that last season in Scotland so we can move on to the next chapter. Doing great!

[salohcin]

17 hours ago, Fish18ish said:

Nice to see McGeehan doing well as a Norwich fan. You're certainly motoring through these seasons, which is wise because you don't want the save to go stale.

Yeap yeap im getting bored of winning in scotland already 

2 hours ago, BatiGoal said:

Bring on that last season in Scotland so we can move on to the next chapter. Doing great!

Thanks for the support mate!

[salohcin]

SEASON 4

The final season in Scotland has come upon us and it has gone rather smoothly. So here is the update!

Once again, I received quite a tidy sum of transfer funds and sold Souttar. Souttar was great for us but not alot of lads like him in the squad so off he goes. Brought in cheap gems like Pizarro and Philipp who will cost a bomb to future buyers. Also sold couple of deadwood who just could not fight their way into the team.

Next, we are 1 league title and 1 Scottish Cup away from graduating from the Scotland side of the challenge. So how did we do?

BINGOOOOO!!! We practically ran away with the title! The title already belonged to us before the championship group split began. Amazing job by the boys!

As for the Scottish Cup, well, it didn't go very smoothly in the beginning.

But we won it!!! Smashed in 2 first half goals and Sviatchenko's goal only proved to be a consolation! Another job well done by the boys.

Okay, I know we do not need to win this anymore but we did

Yeap! We won the Betfred Cup again with a Pizarro hat-trick! Told you he is a gem!

However, we did have our fair share of setbacks. 

We fought hard in the UCL but ultimately fell to the bottom in the group with 4 draws! Dammit! If only those draws could turn into wins, we would have gone to the next round...

Below are the trophy winners for the season with Hearts claiming 3 trophies! 

And these are our stand-out performers for the season. 

Avlonitis has been with the squad since I came in and his consistent has brought us to consecutive league titles!

So this kid who cost 3.5M is now worth so much! And look at those greens! A real beast he is becoming!

And these are my stats!

SCOTLAND
3/3 DOMESTIC LEAGUES
4/4 DOMESTIC CUPS
2/1 LEAGUE CUPS
1/1 EUROPA LEAGUE
1/1 EUROPEAN SUPER CUP

So this wraps up my life in Scotland!

BREAKING NEWS

 

"Earlier today, Hearts have announced the resignation of their manager Mil Salohcin as the world class manager has decided to embark on a new journey in his career."

REPORTER: "How do you feel after tendering your resignation? Why did you make this decision?"

Mil Salohcin: "It was indeed one of the toughest choices I have made in my life. I loved every minute of my life with this club! The passion and love shown by the boys and the board made me where I am today and they are the ones that I have to thank! Unfortunately, I have to leave to carry on a promise made and to improve myself even further! Thanks for the past few years everyone!"

REPORTER: "So what are your plans now? Do you have any job proposals?"

Mil Salohcin: "For now, I will take a break. But the rest... will arrive in good time!"

Thanks for reading and the next update will be up ASAP!

 

[BatiGoal]

Your journey in Scotland's been a great success. Let's see where next adventure brings you.

[Taff]

Looking forward to seeing which 19th place team you end up with

fair warning if it's Swansea you better do me proud

[Fish18ish]

With a manager profile as good as that you can go in at any Premier League team! Wouldn't mind seeing you go for an outsider though, enhances the story.

[salohcin]

6 hours ago, BatiGoal said:

Your journey in Scotland's been a great success. Let's see where next adventure brings you.

Indeed it was great! I loved it there!

5 hours ago, Taff said:

Looking forward to seeing which 19th place team you end up with

fair warning if it's Swansea you better do me proud

Sorry mate, it's not Swansea so can't make you proud just yet! 

1 hour ago, Fish18ish said:

With a manager profile as good as that you can go in at any Premier League team! Wouldn't mind seeing you go for an outsider though, enhances the story.

Ahhh yes yes i think y'all will be surprised at this 19th placed club. They have been doing relatively well in this save but then the 'need new manager' bug for the club came up so i got the job.

[salohcin]

Alright guys, a huge annoucement to make. Unfortunately, while doing the vibe olympic challenge, I stupidly overwrote the the SAF save so I effectively lost this save. 

However, if yall still want to see my first season in England, do comment down below and I will try to do a final write-up asap on this english club that I took over at and the results in the 1st season. 

[Fish18ish]

May as well let us know what happens. Shame about the save. I swear the best saves always get corrupted or overwrote.

[salohcin]

On 28/09/2017 at 04:31, Fish18ish said:

May as well let us know what happens. Shame about the save. I swear the best saves always get corrupted or overwrote.

Sighhh i will really need to be more careful next time! Guess i will re-try this challenge on fmm18. Thanks for your support thus far mate!

[Taff]

Unlucky dude, but it happens to all of us, at least we admit we did it rather than blaming our poor kids, cough cough @BatiGoal

[salohcin]

SEASON 5 

Finally got the time to finish this update! It is going to be my last one because of the death of the save. 

So as y'all already know, I have left Hearts and am waiting for the 19th place job in England. I guess I was pretty lucky because the club that I saw on 6th November was a top top club!

Yeap! It is Leicester City. After their heroic title charge in the 2015-2016 season, they have hovered around 6th and 7th place even with the massive amounts of investment. However, this season proved to be catastrophic and they lay in 19th place with only 1 win after 10 games. 

The board, upon seeing that a world class manager like myself is out of job, quickly offered the job to me and I was employed even before January. 

Plenty of money to play around with and so off I go! My journey has begun!

Unfortunately, they sold St Juste before I could come into the squad so that's one key player gone. The squad was so thin on depth that I had to make an emergency signing of Philip Lahm who still had decent stats at age 36. Depay was available on a free so I signed him on a pre-contract and he was fantastic in the second season but sadly that save is now gone. You might also notice that I have signed Patterson, a player I sold at Hearts to bring in funds for other players. The signings all did very well except Levi Garcia who just could not fit into the squad or maybe he needed more time for development. 

Now, for the league. Languishing at 19th place 1 week before Christmas, I wasn't expecting much, but the board wanted EURO Cup qualification. And so I did just that!

Managed to squeeze into EURO Cup playoffs so yeah mission accomplished for the season I guess!

The FA Cup did not go in our favour at all!

We faced a difficult match-up and though we had more shots, we just could not break their defence down! So out of the cup we go!

Oh wait! Did I say we qualified for EURO Cup?

OOPS! I'm sorry! We are in to the Champions Cup instead! A 4-0 demolition of Dortmund was not what I expected but hey I'm not complaining! Great job by the in-form Moura with his stunning hat-trick!

So that's all I have for this final update! See y'all next time!

BREAKING NEWS: Salohcin retires after EURO Cup win with Leicester

Reporter: "Mr Salohcin, what made you have this decision all of a sudden? Why are you retiring?"

MR SALOHCIN: "I have my own reasons and I'm afraid I cannot tell you much right now. But yes I am retiring. But maybe, just maybe, someday I will be back!

1 month later

BREAKING NEWS: Reason for retirement of Salohcin revealed!

The world was shocked a month ago when Salochin, an unknown manager who rose to prominence with Hearts of Midlothian, retired. Our reporter in Singapore has just received information that Salohcin retired because he had accidentally angered his wife, causing him to be hit hard in the head. Thus, he has lost most his memory, including how to win football matches! Get well soon Salohcin! This has to be one of the most comical retirement the world has ever seen!"

Thanks for reading!