Career Pensioners Club (Season 20 Final - 1KC Complete)

[BatiGoal]

Great job! Winning the EPL must've been a shock to you as well surely. These are very good numbers you're hitting btw, we have to remember these strikers are way past their prime at 34yo. So good stuff. 

Looking forward to seeing how Zaza does. 

[Kanegan]

7 hours ago, mustafa58 said:

Premier League winner🤤🤤

 

2 hours ago, BatiGoal said:

Great job! Winning the EPL must've been a shock to you as well surely. These are very good numbers you're hitting btw, we have to remember these strikers are way past their prime at 34yo. So good stuff. 

Looking forward to seeing how Zaza does. 

Thanks. Yes, that was a pleasant shock. My tactics from China days started working once I got the right players. So let's see how European campaign holds up. 

[Aaron55]

Fantastic achievement! Well done 😁

[URz]

Didn’t expect that in your first season at Newcastle. Kudos @Kanegan, your team results in this challenge have been exceptional.

 

[Kanegan]

22 hours ago, Aaron55 said:

Fantastic achievement! Well done 😁

 

5 hours ago, URz said:

Didn’t expect that in your first season at Newcastle. Kudos @Kanegan, your team results in this challenge have been exceptional.

 

Thanks @Aaron55 and @URz. Didn't expect to win the premier league in the 1st season either. 

[Kanegan]

Season 8

Transfers Out

Zagadou was not getting match time so he was sold. Others were let go to trim the squad.

Transfers In

Again some much needed reinforcements as we had a lot of retirements, Shelvey in particular who was the heart of our midfield in the last 10 seasons. 

 

Season Performance

We won the Community Shield and managed to retain the title again with the fight going down to the wire. We had to endure a very tough second season with us getting eliminated from the Carabao and FA Cup but reaching the semis of Champions League in our first foray was a good achievement.

 

League Performance

Spoiler

Zaza was brilliant here, notching up 37 goals en route to picking up the top goalscorer award while our young Portugese midfielder Andreas Pereira supported with 15 assists.

 

Community Shield

Pereira's goal gave us the Community Shield and a good start to the season.

 

Carabao Cup

A pretty lame way to go out with fucking Southampton of all teams leveling us at 4 goals apiece before edging us out on penalties.

 

FA Cup

A lone Lukaku strike was enough to shut us down and we couldn't find an answer.

 

Champions League

Spoiler

We qualified from an easy group and Zaza was at it's brilliant best against his former club Roma in the first knockout round. Juventus has been my bogey team in this career and this time as well we just couldn't beat them. 

 

Awards

Spoiler

Zaza wins plenty of awards this season while our representation in the Team of the Year increases to four from three last season.

 

 

Another MOTY for me. 

 

Main Man

Brilliant, simply brilliant. Zaza nets in 49 from 55, falling agonizingly short of the half century mark. 

 

345/1000 -> 655 to go.

 

So, after that brilliant season from Zaza which has put faith in my move to Premier League, we need a premier hitman so who better than one of the top Premier League hitmans in our realm:

And after clearance from @samhardy, we took him in a year long loan as he was not interested in a transfer to a new club.

Edited November 17, 2018 by Kanegan

[URz]

Looks like Mo has still got some decent speed there, so is Vardy’s record beatable next season?

[Kanegan]

6 hours ago, URz said:

Looks like Mo has still got some decent speed there, so is Vardy’s record beatable next season?

That would be crazy if he did that though with the league being harder, I doubt it would happen. 

[BatiGoal]

Great return from Zaza, expected no less from him tbh. Nice little boost to both your confidence and the challenge numbers 👍 

Bring on the Mo. 

[Kanegan]

18 minutes ago, BatiGoal said:

Great return from Zaza, expected no less from him tbh. Nice little boost to both your confidence and the challenge numbers 👍 

Bring on the Mo. 

Yes, Zaza was right on the money. Now, if Mo could just hold onto his pace, we may well see some pretty good numbers

[Kanegan]

Season 9

Ok before i go ahead here's the thing i missed in last update:

My 1st ever representation in the World XI courtesy of Simone Zaza

 

Transfers Out

Some players were sold who were not getting match time alongwith Zaza.

Transfers In

We broke the bank for Paqueta who is a fantastic talent. You all are wondering why Salah has been brought so the thing is just after we finalized the loan, Liverpool released Salah for free and Nice snapped him up. So, we had to go over and buy him for 3mil, doubling the profit for Nice. Ugh!!! 

 

New Stadium

Spoiler

Unlocked my 1st stadium. @Foxy, if you can add this to the leaderboard.

 

Season Performance

Poor poor season. We finish 4th in the league and for the first time in this career, i fail to win a league title. Cup runs also disappointed us while we managed to go one step further in the Champions League by reaching the final.

 

League Performance

Spoiler

The draws really hurt us the most as we incur a massive 10 of them while conceding 40 goals, again a lot. Salah continued our trend of being the top goalscorer though he netted 3 less than Zaza last season.

 

Community Shield

The only trophy we won this season with Salah opening the season with a brace.

 

Carabao Cup

Late goals have been a pretty consistent thorn this season as we have not had any answer to them. This time also, Kane's stoppage time goal broke our hearts. In fact, both of Spur's goals came in stoppage time in both the halves.

 

FA Cup

Pathetic performance. Once again, the Red Devils came to screw us in the FA Cup for the second successive season. We were never in the running to be honest.

 

Champions League

Spoiler

We were pretty consistent with red cards with the last three CL games all resulted in a different player being sent off. Also, Woodman, our no.1 goalie chose the fucking CL final to get injured in the entire season and my decision to not buy a goalie came to bite me in my ass as my young second choice goalie couldn't stop any ball from going in and Barcelona won the CL. The top priority next season is to secure a good stopper between the posts.

 

Awards

Spoiler

Plenty of goalscorer awards for Salah but no MOTY for me which was understandable but how come Nottm Forest got the award i have no idea??

 

Main Man

After such a dismal season, i needed this. Salah at his mesmerizing best increasing the tally again to 60. So far, in the Premier League, we have seen the goal tally increase year after year so, let's pray that this upward trend continues.

 

 

405/1000 -> 595 to go.

 

So, we need another great to take us further up. So, next season is the ascent of the Brazilian Batman:

[BatiGoal]

Shame missing out on those trophies, but who cares when Mo launches you a massive leap closer to the finishline. And we expect no different from the Brazilian. Let's go.. 

[Kanegan]

Just now, BatiGoal said:

Shame missing out on those trophies, but who cares when Mo launches you a massive leap closer to the finishline. And we expect no different from the Brazilian. Let's go.. 

Yes. that was a massive relief after that disappointing season.

[Aaron55]

Nice going! Fingers crossed for some Neymar magic next season 😁🤞

[Kanegan]

1 minute ago, Aaron55 said:

Nice going! Fingers crossed for some Neymar magic next season 😁🤞

Hope so mate, really hope so.

[URz]

Definitely better this way @Kanegan than previous seasons where the teams has won everything but the old guy has failed to deliver. 

Will Vardy’s record survive a season from Mr Ego?

[mustafa58]

Salah 60 goals woww

[Kanegan]

7 hours ago, mustafa58 said:

Salah 60 goals woww

That's right. 

8 hours ago, URz said:

Definitely better this way @Kanegan than previous seasons where the teams has won everything but the old guy has failed to deliver. 

Will Vardy’s record survive a season from Mr Ego?

Yes, the move to premier league has certainly paid dividends. Of course, if Mr Ego can keep his injuries in check, we might get another good season. 

[Cockers2505]

Brilliant mate, Salah proves his quality, the only thing worries me with Neymar is his Injuries, I found during 2018 he was constantly injured or didn't last a full 90 minutes that could hinder his chances for you, but I hope this is not the case and you smash even Vardy's record

Good luck

[Kanegan]

23 minutes ago, Cockers2505 said:

Brilliant mate, Salah proves his quality, the only thing worries me with Neymar is his Injuries, I found during 2018 he was constantly injured or didn't last a full 90 minutes that could hinder his chances for you, but I hope this is not the case and you smash even Vardy's record

Good luck

Yes, that is a serious concern but 🤞 he avoids it.

[Kanegan]

Season 10

Transfers Out

The only sell of the season was Chalobah while others were let go.

Transfers In

Again bought quite a few with Mitryushkin our first ever goalie buy under my reign. Barco was bought in to play on my left wing. So, we have two strong wings on either side with Barco and Burke now. 

 

Season Performance

Another poor season where we failed to win anything though truth be told, i concentrated on more on getting goals from my pensioner rather than focus on winning but still, it felt disappointing. The game this year is much harder than FMM 18 where one good tactic could sail you through multiple seasons but here the AI is pretty reactive and you need to keep tweaking things otherwise they will adapt pretty quickly and this is what happened with me as my tactic is pretty good at scoring goals but not good at stopping them so we had huge number of draws in the league.

 

League Performance

Spoiler

Once again Neymar the top goalscorer with Pereira still the top assist man with 19 in the league and 28 in the season.

 

Carabao Cup

What a game this was. We fought back incredibly to level City at 5 goals apiece before penalties broke our hearts. Barco who had performed so well in normal time missed his penalty to deny us the title.

 

FA Cup

Another highly competitive match until that stupid late goal from Barnes sent us out of the tourney.

 

Champions League

Nothing to say. Poor poor match as Juve dominated us from start to finish after the home leg has finished at 1-1.

 

Awards

Spoiler

Our iron grip on the English awards continue as Neymar is the latest to win all and look at how the league goals increase every year from Benedetto's 30 to Neymar's 39 now.

 

Main Man

Though he didn't reach the levels of Salah due to his physicals where he had to be subbed often (thank god though that he was not involved in a long term injury), he still was great with 56 goals from 55.

 

461/1000 -> 539 to go.

 

Next Season:

[URz]

Neymar’s older than I thought if you first loaned him in 1970/71 @Kanegan 😜

[Kanegan]

Just now, URz said:

Neymar’s older than I thought if you first loaned him in 1970/71 @Kanegan 😜

Not sure how that came in. Must be a bug.

[URz]

1 minute ago, Kanegan said:

Not sure how that came in. Must be a bug.

Reckon so. @Sebastian Szlenkier ?

Did make me smile though

[Sebastian Szlenkier]

Yeah that's probably something we'd like to take a look at. Any idea on when that started to display in his history or what you did to get it display?

[Kanegan]

3 minutes ago, Sebastian Szlenkier said:

Yeah that's probably something we'd like to take a look at. Any idea on when that started to display in his history or what you did to get it display?

When i took the screenshot of his history, that's the first time i noticed though it may have occurred before but i have not seen it.

[Sebastian Szlenkier]

13 minutes ago, Kanegan said:

When i took the screenshot of his history, that's the first time i noticed though it may have occurred before but i have not seen it.

If you have a save file from the start of the season or anything that would be great. If not then just post your current save into here (renaming it to your username) and we'll take a look at it. 

https://oc.sigames.com/owncloud/index.php/s/Kzvhd0MdU3v4Nv4

 

Other than that, good luck with your challenge!

[Kanegan]

21 minutes ago, Sebastian Szlenkier said:

If you have a save file from the start of the season or anything that would be great. If not then just post your current save into here (renaming it to your username) and we'll take a look at it. 

https://oc.sigames.com/owncloud/index.php/s/Kzvhd0MdU3v4Nv4

 

Other than that, good luck with your challenge!

Thanks, will do that.

[Kanegan]

Season 11

Transfers Out

Gerhardt was the only proper sell as he was getting on the older side.

Transfers In

Some pretty sweet talent coming to us. Alexander Arnold was the star signing while Gallardo and Laird were signed to strengthen our full back positions on either side.

 

Season Performance

We missed the league title by a whisker again due to the rising number of draws. I am getting really frustrated by this late goal feature and it seems i have no answer to them. Other than that we won our 1st Champions League title which was pretty sweet.

 

League Performance

Spoiler

The best thing about this save has been the rising no. of league goals with every passing season. Haller absolutely wreaks havoc with 46 goals in the league.

 

Carabao Cup

Another loss in the fucking penalties. This is also getting on my nerves now.

 

FA Cup

A straight forward win with an early Barco goal sealing the deal.

 

Champions League

Spoiler

Yes!! Yes!! For once we were on the winning side in the shootout and the Champions League was ours.

 

Awards

Spoiler

The usual award domination.

 

World XI

First time we had two representations in the World XI.

 

Main Man

Massive massive season. 71 goals. Wow!!!

 

 

532/1000 -> 468 to go.

Halfway there and also one more trophy ticked off. So, only the UEFA Super Cup, Carabao Cup and Club World Championship to go before i can think of moving.

 

Next Season:

Enter the son of Atletico Madrid manager, Diego Simeone:

Edited November 23, 2018 by Kanegan

[URz]

Great season by Haller there @Kanegan.

Someones got to take Vardy’s crown soon!