Had a horrendous start to the season with Bristol. Out of the first 8 games, we lost 4 and drew 4. Amazed I wasn't fired then and there. I tweaked a few things, and since then we've played 14, won 11, lost 2 and drew 1. Stunning turn around, but it's still only enough to be 7th, albeit 2 points off 3rd. Still 8 points from 1st though, which is where we need to be.

I'm clinging on to my job by the barest of margains, but if we can keep this form up, I should be fine. Although my star striker just broke his arm. He's scored 11 for us, the next best is my CB with 7.

Before I start:

\:d/ \:d/ \:d/ \:d/.

Beat Bordeaux in the Europa league quarter on away goals. 2nd tie in a row I've won on away goals \:d/ So stoked!

Semis:
Liverpool v Twente
Man City v Marseille.

Totally screwed... already played Pool twice in the group stages and they absolutely destroyed me.

Wrapped up the league title with 5 games to go. Stoked. 26 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses so far. I've had a fair slice of luck in a lot of 1-0s and 2-1s, and Rensing has been fantastic.

You can't buy players that are co-owned aye

You can, you just have to pay both sides. So if you think the player is worth 3m, you'll prob end up paying 1.5m to each side.

Just figured that you can only make offers in transfer windows. I am FM n00b

You can make offers whenever you want...I won't disagree with the bolded though:p

This makes me feel so much better about my ability on FM :lol:

Season is almost over. Only one game left... the Europa Final. That's right, I beat Liverpool in the semi. On away goals once again. :P

Went 1-0 down, pegged it back to 1-1, before an amazing Ngog goal made it 1-2... but in the 91st min Nouioui went through and tucked it in and I held on to win 3-3 on away goals.

Playing Marseille in the final.

Final League Table:
Twente 82
Ajax 69
Feyenoord 64
PSV 63
NAC 56

Very happy.

Tried to play Europa final 3 times but it keeps freezing up... once when I was 1-0 up with 5 to go. Will have to wait to tomorrow.

Funniest thing was, I holidayed a friendly after picking the squad.

On that day that I holidayed past, he requested to be placed on the transfer list.

The assistant in charge for that one day that I holidayed accepted.

2 days later he asks to be taken off.

I mean, for fuck's sake. This guy has been pissed of at me for a year because of this. Then he turns around and changes his mind. Stick to your convictions ](*,) ](*,)

I knew it! Cheater :p

Edited by vaughn2111: 25/3/2011 08:44:39 AM

:lol: The first time it froze they actually were 1-0 up... I took a screeny with the error message in case nobody believed me, and subsequent raging to Avy on msn :P

Played it this morning... stayed 0-0 all the way through to the final whistle. Rensing made two saves in the shootout and Parker buried his spot kick to win it \:d/

I can confirm there was a high degree of rage.

Came oh so very close to a rage quit last night. Going into my last Champs League group game against Braga needing a win by 1 goals to go through. Braga went up 2-0 in the first half, decided to just throwing everything forward, came back and made it 3-2 in the 83rd minute and it was party time. Had chances to wrap it up but didn't think it would come back to bite me, but it did with Braga getting an equaliser in the 94th minute :( leaving me with the Europa League.

So Bernard Fucking Parker wins you a Europa League title, but he can't score in over 10 hours of football for me :lol:

I am now managing Wycombe due to a totally 100% mutual termination from the Twente board. 8-[

I decided to take the job at Porto. I also am now managing Uruguay, who are now currently fifth after six games in World Cup qualifying.

Alright, through the first window of my second season at Twente.

10 players in, 8 players out.
Mainly:
Simon Pouplin
Tom Cleverly
Alberto Costa
John Mensah

Got rid of:
Theo Janssen 4.4M
Janko 1.5M
Chadli 2.2M

Europa Group got drawn too:
Valencia
Brugge
Bursaspor
Twente

Team is starting to gel after a few shaky performances in the pre-season, looks promising.

First two games as Uruguay coach went much better than I expected. 9-2 win away against Paraguay and a 5-0 win at home against Bolivia.
I am currently leading the league with Porto by 2 points after 5 games.
In the Champions League I got drawn with Barcelona, Palermo and Tel-Aviv. I was disappointed with an away draw against Palermo after thinking we had snatched a win in a game we were losing for the majority of the match with 2 late goals only for Palermo to score in the 90+4th minute.

Just went through an extremely frantic window with Twente... won the Super cup.... Signed Diego Souza, Gabriel Obertan on loan, Jonathan... they were the big ones. Will post a wrap tomorrow :P

Squad harmony is waaay down... Partly cause Ass man has taken over a few league matches and they don't like how he has been treating them, and a few not liking the number of new signings... I'll get it back up soon with wins on the board :P

Lost in the swiss cup quarters to a lower division side on penalties :@

In:
Felix Oliseh, 140k
Ze Castro - 4.1mil
Arjan Swinkels - 160k
Rodrigo Possebon - 1.1mil
Tom Cleverley - Free
Jonathan Urretaviscaya - Loan
Diego Souza - 7mil \:d/
Miroslav Stoch - Loan
Gabriel Obertan - loan
Jonathan - 9mil
Jucilei - 6.5mil
Dodo - 2.1mil
TOTAL: 34mil

No Major players sold... Chadli, Diba, Wisgerhof and Vujicevic all out for 2mil+.

-------------Dentinho------------
Belhanda------Souza-----Obertan
----------------.------------------
----------Jucilei---Annan----------
Dod---ZeCastro---Douglas--Jonathan
--------------Rensing--------------

Bench: Mihaylov, Tiendalli, Swinkels, Brama, Cleverley, Parker, Nouioui.

Very happy with how it's at... overpaid on Jonathan, but meh :P

Best.

Came down to the last day, we were level on points, Fleetwood played Rochdale who were dead last, and I played Dover who were 3rd. I won 4-2, Rochdale did me proud and won 1-0. Heroes.

impressive.

Season is going ok. Some amazing performances (A few 4-0 wins), but some horrible ones. Lost 0-1 in the Cup to a non league side. Disgusting.

UCL Group:
Man Utd
Villareal
Twente
Austria Wien

Drew 2-2 with Man utd and 1-1 with Villareal so far... pretty happy with that.

Midfield has been fantastic, but the defence is what has been a little bit up and down... will help when my new LB comes in Jan.

Notched 7 wins a row in the league now which is nice. Drew at home to Austria Wien ](*,). Need them to take points off Villareal or for me to take points off Man Utd to have any hope of finishing 2nd in the group. :(

That's an impressive piece of business.

Managed to qualify out of my group in UCL :D. Man Utd pumped me 4-0 but Villareal dropped points to Austria Wien so I needed to beat Villareal in the last game to make 2nd... won 2-0. Diego Souza double.

3rd in the league atm... I don't get it, I go 7 wins on the bounce and then play VVV away and the team is just FLAT. Rensing made 5-6 brilliant saves and we lost 1-0, created nothing. So frustrating to watch.

Been linked with Hamburg, Valencia and Galatasaray jobs, but no offers in yet.

Yeah. He was playing a lot for me late in the season, boosted his value a bit. Pretty happy to have received the offer.

I think it's mostly with his age, more than his ability. IMO his free-kicks are worth 2m alone.

I need a Lyon side that doesn't give a shit to beat Panathinaikos and my side to pick up at least a point at home to United in order to go through to the Europa League. I really think that I'm screwed, Pana somehow beat United 3-0 earlier in the group stage.

Got knocked out of the Champions League with Porto after drawing with Palermo, who scored in added time to make it a d all draw in both games, losing twice to Barcelona again conceding late to lose 1-0 both times and beating Tel-Aviv 6-1 and 4-1. Palermo came second after they lost their first game to Tel-Aviv 4-1 but then managed to beat Barcelona away 1-0 and draw 0-0 at home to Barcelona.
Pochetti took over after I left Twente and has dragged them down to the bottom half of the table after he sold pretty much all my starting 11 and most of my bench before the season started.