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Career Foxy’s Score One, Take One: End of Career Round Up


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31 minutes ago, Rob2017 said:

Regardless of the players, you are still doing a great job with the Cherries.

Cheers mate, what I love and hate as well is the nerves going into each match as one bad result could wipe out my best players.

23 minutes ago, BenDTner said:

interesting challenge 😃

Thank you 😁

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Match Days 23 and 24

When I play the bigger teams in the division it is always mixed feelings going into the game. On the one hand our tactic tends to favour us in games were the opposition play fairly open and we exploit the gaps so we have already beaten Man City, Man Utd and Chelsea so far but they also have the players to really hurt us if we aren’t on our game and they could steal some of my top players.

Match Day 23 versus Arsenal Away

We took an early lead through a Hazard penalty but Mkhitaryan then equalised 10 minutes later and suddenly I’m thinking that if we don’t win this Hazard is heading to the Emirates. Wilf Zaha then gave us the lead only for Lacazette to then make it 2-2 and I’m thinking this isn’t our day but almost straight away Zaha is in again and its 3-2 and then Barkley made the game safe for us 3 minutes later.

When the final whistle went I could breathe a huge sigh of relief.

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No surprises that it is the 2 Arsenal goal scorers who will be joining us and they are a couple of great steals for us 😁

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This wasn’t enough to take us top but it gives us more of a cushion over the teams outside the top 4.

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Match Day 24 versus Southampton @ Home

The derby that isn’t a derby was a real no contest as we crushed our south coast neighbours 4-0 with a slightly rotated side due to tiredness as we are deep into the relentless Xmas period.

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This really was one of those games were I will get 4 players that will just end up as back ups in this monster squad I am building up. To make thes transfers I had to bung some more guys into the reserves as I know have a 40 man 1st team squad!

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All 4 players are decent enough but they obviously don’t excite me as much as some I have taken this season. Vestergard is a decent CB actually and that is one area of the pitch that we don’t have an abundance of quality, Bertrand will start training as a LWB to provide back up there and Elyounoussi and Redmond join the bulging ranks of attacking midfielders we have.

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We extend our lead over the chasing pack again with this win but we stay behind Liverpool and Man City.

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Tomorrow’s Update: As we are now at the 1st of Jan it seems the perfect time to have a recap episode tomorrow looking back at the first half of the season and who we have won and who we have lost.

 

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Just over half the season gone and I've got a good feeling about the last 18 games. Especially given some of the players you now have. The challenge of course - is to hold on to those players 😀

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3 minutes ago, Rob2017 said:

You have the two Dortmund boys. Brilliant. Any chance of another squad pic?

Tomorrow will be a recap episode looking at who I have won and lost so far and the squad as a whole.

3 minutes ago, DutchTony said:

Just over half the season gone and I've got a good feeling about the last 18 games. Especially given some of the players you now have. The challenge of course - is to hold on to those players 😀

I’m too superstitious to think it will be plain sailing from now till the end of the season but the good thing is I have a few good options in most positions now.

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13 minutes ago, Foxy said:

Tomorrow will be a recap episode looking at who I have won and lost so far and the squad as a whole.

I’m too superstitious to think it will be plain sailing from now till the end of the season but the good thing is I have a few good options in most positions now.

Awesome. It's all about momentum this one. Lose a game and it could all go downhill so quickly.

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Mid-Season Recap

We have reached the 1st of January and as promised yesterday I will bring you a recap of what has happened so far and how the club looks now.

League Table

We are 1 game over the halfway point of the league season and we are handily placed in 3rd just 2 points behind leader Man City and we have a nice 5 point cushion over Chelsea who are in 5th.

Under the spoiler is the league top scorers and assisters.

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Players We Have Won

We have stolen 40 players so far in this save although they all haven’t hung around with Agüero leaving only 2 games into his Cherries career. We have taken some big names including Hazard, Lukaku, Agüero, Lacazette and Mkhitaryan and there has been a really lean towards winning attacking players although we have taken some good defenders and midfielders as well like Rose, Johansen and Barkley.

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Players Leaving 

We have lost 8 players in total with 4 original members of the Bournemouth squad in Rico, Lerma, Mousset and Ake who were both disappointing players to lose. 

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Current Squad

With so many new players the 1st team has spilled into the reserves now with a lot of the youngsters being released to make way for the new arrivals so these screenshots are both the 1st and reserve squads with the first 2 being the 1st team.

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My Current Preffered XI

This is my preferred line up at the moment although it is a real toss up between Raheem Sterling and Wilf Zaha on the LW.

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Team Stats

It’s no surprise looking at these stats that I am keen to keep hold of Hazard and Barkley going into the new year as Hazard gets the goals and they are both my highest AvR scorers but they that also makes them both the most likely players to leave in the near future and I feel I have some good options behind them that can come in. Josh King is my highest assists maker but with the arrival of Lacazette it makes sense to put Hazard in the SS role and the Freanchman as my IF for the time being which is hard on the Norwegian but he is a great option on the bench.

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Manager Stats

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Biggest Win, Defeat and My Favourite Game so Far

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I think that is everything but if there is anything else you would like to see then just ask.

Tomorrows Update: We have league action against Fulham and then we take on Hull in the 3rd round of the FA Cup.

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I am impressed at the quality of that starting XI, most premier league teams would give anything in exchange for such an amazing line-up.

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You need some more attacking players mate 😂

Seriously squad looks really good and you have the momentum also. I'm starting to believe you could go all the way to the top 👏👏👏

Well done so far!

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1 hour ago, S4NCH0 said:

I am impressed at the quality of that starting XI, most premier league teams would give anything in exchange for such an amazing line-up.

Not a bad XI and I have plenty of back up players as well 😂

1 hour ago, DutchTony said:

You need some more attacking players mate 😂

Seriously squad looks really good and you have the momentum also. I'm starting to believe you could go all the way to the top 👏👏👏

Well done so far!

Yep 8 have a few options up front 😀

That would be nice but there’s still a long way to go.

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1 hour ago, Ashez said:

Excellent recap that @Foxyand what an unusual group of players, this most be so fun as you're seeing stuff you'd likely never see from a normal save. 

It’s definitely put a few names in my squad that I wouldn’t have bought otherwise that’s for sure.

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Match Day 25 and 26

We head into the new year full of confidence and we take on Fulham for the 2nd time this season and then we travel to Hull and back in the FA Cup.

Match Day 25 versus Fulham @Home

I did some minor rotation of the team today as we head out of the busy Xmas period and into an equally busy January.

Josh King has another excellent game for us as a SS as he broke the deadlock after 78 minutes and then sub Isaac Hayden finished Fulham off with 5 minutes left to continue our good form.

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I like it when we have definite players we are taking from a team instead of needing AvR to sort it out and that was the case today, just a shame Ryan Sessegnon had a poor game. 

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Alfie Mawson looks Ok as a BPD although his tackling isn’t great but Kamara went straight into the stiffs as he has little hope of a game anytime soon.

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Shame the northerners keep winning as well but at least we keep the pressure up on them.

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Match Day 26 versus Hull Away

I love me some FA Cup 3rd round action!

I made wholesale changes to the squad for this game to rest players ready for our League Cup semi against Middlesbrough in mid-week. This meant that the likes of Hazard, Lacazette and Barkley all didn’t play so any upset wouldn’t result in them leaving the club although the thought of Hazard having to play for Hull the Championship because we lost a cup tie is quite amusing.

There was never any danger of an upset anyway as we absolutely blitzed Hull even with a 2nd string team although that included Zaha and Mkhitaryan so it is quite a strong 2nd XI.

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This huge win created a problem as it means we have 6 Championship players joining us which was more than the 1st team squad could handle so I had to demote players form the 1st team into the reserves to then transfer these guys in and then swap them all back over 🤯 I have also released every youngster in the reserve team who started at Bournemouth so that I have more room for players as we were getting very close to the 80 limit.

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I have little to say about the players we took except when the highest rated players you steal got 6’s you know your not going to get excited about them joining the squad.

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Tomorrow’s Update: We start with a League Cup semi-final 1st leg versus Middlesbrough and then we go back to the league as we play Tottenham.

 

 

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7 minutes ago, Ashez said:

I've been meaning to check out Mawson, so I'm interested in how he does. The Hull match bloats the squad loads though 😂

I will try and give him a game at some point for you then just to see how he does although I’m not a fan of 13 tackling for a CB.

I was genuinely getting annoyed as the goals were going in as I was perfectly happy to take a 2 players as I did with Peterborough in the league cup, I even went to defensive at 3-0 but my lads couldn’t help themselves 😅

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54 minutes ago, Rob2017 said:

Can’t wait to see how you do against my boys.

I fully expect to win as Spurs don’t like getting new players do they?

16 minutes ago, S4NCH0 said:

6 players! That’s going to be a hard to handle group. Enjoying every bit of this career, kept it up!

Weirdly no one has started moaning yet.

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5 minutes ago, Foxy said:

I fully expect to win as Spurs don’t like getting new players do they?

Weirdly no one has started moaning yet.

Don’t need to sign any. 😅

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11 minutes ago, bb said:

This is one of the most entertaining challenges in a while

Thanks mate 😁

8 minutes ago, samhardy said:

Sometimes I kid myself that I'm enjoying this.

Are you talking about this thread or life in general?

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