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Career The Herbert Chapman Way - Take 3 - Completed


StuartM
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Cracking season their again Stu, smashed it! I’ve Gabriel Menino on my current save with Ajax and he’s still a starter, mad to see him with Oxford 😮

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Thanks @Rich

Now then... I have dipped in and out of this career over the last few months but I have (very) steadily kept it moving along. For those following the aim is to get three titles in a row with two different clubs and if we do it this year then the challenge is done so how did we do?

The transfer kitty was burning a hole in my pocket and with Justin Kluivert starting to get injured more often, I decided to splash the cash. I also felt that I wanted to get this one done and therefore, safety first in terms of squad quality.

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Hoyos comes in as my new inside forward to replace Kluivert and Robise was an impulse buy in central midfield, he looks like a Pogba regen to me and I'll play him as CM though he might fit the RPM role better.

I've had some pretty decent youth products at The Emirates and this year I have another gold shiny, where are they when you need them?!

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The Charity Shield (yes I am so old that I still call it that...) was no problem and a sign that we were in good shape, the Super Cup followed in due course.

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Our league and European form followed on similar lines and we were very much on cruise mode. This must have been difficult for my former employer to watch and so they triggered poor Patrick.

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It is a results business and our results at the halfway stage are my best yet, showing a bit of a return on my extravagant spending.

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Can we do an invincibles season?

Slight detour for a moment...

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Smith Rowe and Saka were up for an award, which is nice and I thought they must have been able to assert themselves as full internationals under my stewardship...

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... but neither have actually been capped!

Anyway, back to the results. I thought we had thrown our unbeaten run in the bin but Saka came up trumps in injury time.

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In due course we added the League Cup against the old boys.

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But the FA Cup was beyond us again as Chelsea did us in extra time.

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How about the League? Well we wrapped it up in record time (for me)... Challenge completed!

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What next then? I might see if we can go unbeaten and then do little feature on who got us here.

Thanks for taking a look!

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So I couldn't resist seeing if I could complete an invincible league season.

Before I get to that, we had some pretty remarkable (for me) Champions League results:

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Ooosh! We were very clinical but 2 of the best performances I've had on this year's game.

What did the final league table look like then?

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Nice, as well as an unbeaten season we made it to 100 goals and then our best defence too.

We added the Champions League for a second year as well and whilst I didn't keep the fixtures, I think we ended up with 50+ wins, 6 or 7 draws and only 1 defeat in all competitions.

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This year's featured players were regens and my previous summer's big signings.

Robise is the guy who I think of as a Pogba regen, he scored some great free kicks and had a few purple patches as a RPM.

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Then Hoyos was a very consistent IF and I think why we won so many games, definitely a good signing.

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We were healthily represented in the world XI this year:

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Hoyos and Asensio also made it into the all time XI alongside Smith Rowe who I thought had 1 really good season but pretty much it.

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My manager's best XI is a tad distorted probably due to the shape that I play... I would have picked Thomas over Daley, Tavernier over Theobolds and Asensio over Hodgson. I do kind of like that these are not maybe the biggest names or the typical go to players.

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Last reflection, thanks to everyone who has commented on or read these posts. I think the second part proved to be easier than I expected so if I do this again I'll think of a new challenge element (though it was pretty satisfying to get an unbeaten league season). All feedback and comments are welcome. Thanks again!

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