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Career Taff Attempts The "Latin Europe Challenge" COMPLETE!!!!


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Hi guys and welcome to my attempt at The Latin Europe Challenge created by the main Man @BatiGoal

Now I had numerous attempts to get this going but finally settled on a tactic, chose to use Juventus

 

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as I needed big money to shape the squad as needed

Heres the transfers I made for the season

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We made close to £200M selling unwanted players (I know there big names but I needed the capital) 

Coming in

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I spend big on some new starters Costa, Goretzka, de Vrij and Rosalas.  Then Williams, Ndongola and Koc were brought in as backup options.  Quintero and Ninga where brought in as backup strikers for Huguain but then.....

One of my backup strikers turned out to be a little gem of a striker who shone through after playing as a sub for a few games

May I present my chosen striker for round 1

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Casimir Ninga bought from Montpelier HSC for a mere (in Juventus standards) £12M.  He has some great stats most notably his shooting (20) and his pace (18) made him a real challenge for defenses throughout the campaign

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scoring 19 goals in his first 20 games (by game 5 he was my main striker)

By early March he was only 3 goals away from breaking the record of 38 then came a game against AC Milan where the main man kicked butt

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Scoring from a great counter move after 7 minutes

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Grabs a second after a 35th minute free kick to tie the record

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then a fantastic solo move in the 91st minute gives him the hat trick and the new record in Italy

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So here is how he looked at the end of the season 

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some improvement to all his key areas

Here's his goal tally for the season

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52 goals in 56 games a great total in a very defensive league

so I'm now free to move on to round 2 in France but will remain with Juve until a job becomes available 

The season went well(ish)

The league was a stroll

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just realised I forgot to screen shot the table but we won comfortably 

We didn't fare to well in the cups 

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We manage to clinch the Italian Supercup in a close contest with AC Milan

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We miss out on the Italian Cup thanks to a terrible Penalty Shoot-out against Napoli

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We get to the semi finals of the ECL but we go out on away goals

Here's the season fixtures

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Finally here are some end of season awards

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Ninga claims the POTY thanks to a dominant display this season, Pjaca shone as a IF so the best part of the season

Unfortunately no YPOTY or MOTY this season

So that's the first season done and now it's the waiting game (hopefully I won't have to wait as long as I am in the UK version of the challenge 

thanks for following and stay tuned

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You came in, gave The Old Lady a controversial face lift, and silenced your loudest critics with a comfortable 52 goals. Fantastic start! Hope more of the same in stage 2.

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Great start. And I echo the comments about great choice of striker. I've never used him and I always like people using players outside of the usual suspects. 

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Thanks for all the feedback guys it's much appreciated and I love how well he did, quite nice finding these little gems

currently on stage two found another little striker who is smashing it at the moment

i would love to keep the unknown striker thing going for all 4 stages but I think 80 in Spain is going to need some world class player

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2 hours ago, Taff said:

Thanks for all the feedback guys it's much appreciated and I love how well he did, quite nice finding these little gems

currently on stage two found another little striker who is smashing it at the moment

i would love to keep the unknown striker thing going for all 4 stages but I think 80 in Spain is going to need some world class player

Unknown? Pfft, he was my star striker in my West Ham H2H vs Sam in S1 :P. Haha

I get your point though, always great to see the lesser mentioned players taking the spot light! Long may it continue :D 

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29 minutes ago, Ashez said:

Unknown? Pfft, he was my star striker in my West Ham H2H vs Sam in S1 :P. Haha

I get your point though, always great to see the lesser mentioned players taking the spot light! Long may it continue :D 

I knew I'd seen his name somewhere, oh well he's going to be a regular in my saves from now on

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25 minutes ago, Taff said:

I knew I'd seen his name somewhere, oh well he's going to be a regular in my saves from now on

I also really enjoyed using him :)

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Season 2

So with the Italian leg complete thanks to my (fairly) unknown striker Ninga I went into this season keeping an eye on any jobs in France.

So with the same squad in tow we begin another season in Seria A

And we start in style

 

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A good 3-0 win over Napoli to claim the Italian Supercup for the second time (why the Supercup game last year was in December I don't know)

And Ninga showed the world how class he was

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Claiming the WPOTY was a fantastic achievement for the young striker from Chad

Then come the end of December the jobs started coming in and one caught my eye so I put in my application and...

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I am now the Manager of AS Monaco

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I take over at the beginning of January and look at the squad to see how they were looking.  Not a bad lot but wanted to bring in a new striker to take on the task of scoring 51+ goals, so I went shopping with my limited £8M budget and entered my now prefered criteria of Speed and Shooting and found (what I hope) is another Gem

My Player to take on the Goal record in France....

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A little Greek striker bought for the modest sum of £6M from a lower German team he has some good stats that I'm hoping will get him there (not this half season, but next season)

Then we start the season and I put the same tactic in place I used in Italy and set my man loose

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He grabs a Hat-trick his first time out, I try not to get too excited and remind myself that that was very easy opposition, so we plough on and the kid turned into a beast

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All his stats improving slighty but I was very impressed with his goal return (at one point I thought he might get the record before the season ended, but a strange dip in form saw him go 5 games with out a goal 

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But he still showed how good he could be over a full season

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40 goals in 34 games was great (considering at one point he was something like 31 in 22) so hopefully next season he can grab the target 51 goals in a full season

Now when I took over at Monaco the team wasn't in bad shape competition wise, they had made it through to the knockout stages of the Euro Cup and were still in both the French Cup and Coupe De La Ligue and sitting 8th in the league so with my little Greek Rocket up front we went on to have a cracking season

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Managed to get them up to 2nd in the league thanks to a last day win over 3rd place PSG

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A close contest sees us edge out Bordoux in the Coupe De La Ligue Final after extra time sees 3 goals

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Diamantakos finds his form once again towards the end of the season scoring twice to secure the French Cup

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And the team makes it all the way to the Euro Cup final (after seeing off Man City, Inter and Man U) and manage a 2-1 win over Valencia to secure our third cup of the season 

Nothing really to report transfer wise, brought in my little Greek Striker and the club sold off a player before i got there.

Here's the season fixture list (note the second leg against Inter where I was forced to change to my Return of the Taff tactic due to injured CB's) the list starts from my first game in charge on January 6th

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Some big results here especially our 6-1 win over Inter in the Euro Cup

 Here's some team stats for the season

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Hard to tell how everyone did considering I joined in Jan

and Finally some end of season awards

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Diamantakos claims the POTY after a steller performance this year

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Bruma claims the YPOTY

No MOTY for me but I ain't bitter (only won two domestic cups and the Euro Cup) but whatever

So now I take the team and Diamantakos into a full season and hopefully to a hatful of goals

See you on the Flip side

Oh almost forgot here's a quick screenshot of my favourite game this season

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How bad do you think the manager yelled at his CD for scoring a brace of O.G.'s HAHAHA

 

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Well done mate, should beast through stage 2, he seems a good little player I'll have to check him out on my other saves ( I won't steal him, don't worry ;)) Good luck in stage 2!

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I'm pleased you get to manage Monaco :) Seems that you're doing well despite the fact that Bernardo Silva looks to have been transferred before you got there. Good luck for next season !!

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20 minutes ago, mcandrew003 said:

Well done mate, should beast through stage 2, he seems a good little player I'll have to check him out on my other saves ( I won't steal him, don't worry ;)) Good luck in stage 2!

Cheers dude, just so gutted his formed dipped, I honestly thought he might make it the way he was going, but hopefully a full season will sort it out

14 minutes ago, Gonzolito said:

I'm pleased you get to manage Monaco :) Seems that you're doing well despite the fact that Bernardo Silva looks to have been transferred before you got there. Good luck for next season !!

Yeah the team wasn't in bad shape, a lot of "Wants to move to a bigger club" players but I held out and sold most of them off once the new season began

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Great club in Monaco and what a nice player pick, mate. Never heard of the guy but he looks very much capable of getting 50+ goals. Looking good here so far.

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Just now, BatiGoal said:

Great club in Monaco and what a nice player pick, mate. Never heard of the guy but he looks very much capable of getting 50+ goals. Looking good here so far.

Cheers dude, just hoping he can get his form back and i would love to see what kind of target he can hit

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After he gets back from his month long injury :O

 

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Season 3

Hi guys and welcome back, now I'm going to get straight into this as I don't have much time

The main man had a very up and down season this year and was nowhere near the form he had last season

The season didn't start well

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So out for a month but at least it was early in the season

Then he went through the season like this 

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Very up and down going a couple of games without scoring then coming back with 2 goals in a game, very weird

So it was a tight affair with my man tying the record with the last league game of the season

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Lucky for us we had both the French Cup final and UCL Final for him to try and nab the one remaining goal he needed and then...

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He scores in the 25th minute of the French Cup final to clinch the record, but this was it as during the UCL Final he had to be taken off because of an injury 

So He did it 51 goals to claim the new record but my poor heart almost exploded (considering his form the last season I don't know why he struggled so much this year)

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But the important thing is he has beaten the record so next season I can keep an eye on the Portuguese jobs and he did receive some recognition for his season

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Winning the WPOTY award which was fantastic 

I used this season to do a bit of shopping to try and strengthen certain areas (although Monaco have a pretty balanced squad

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Quaison was the best buy of the lot coming in the January window to help out at the AM position due to Lemar's constant injuries, then Besic and Meli came in to help the midfield, Centurion, Bulut and Hernani all came in to give us more options out wide and Sidnei was a great free agent CD who waltzed straight into the starting line up

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A few big names here but all of them complaining they wanted better contracts, more play time or to play for a bigger club and i have no time for whiners so i showed them the door

So apart from Diamantakos's heart stopping form this season the team did fairly well

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We began the season trouncing last years league winners Montpellier 4-0 to clinch the Trophee des Champions

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Next up we come face to face with the European Giants of Barcelona who we brush aside to clinch the Euro Supercup

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We won the League (forgot the table) but I think we won with like 5 games to go and had a decent 15(ish) point margin over PSG

Then came the heartbreak loosing out on Coupe de la Ligue in the semi finals after loosing a penalty shootout

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The French Cup was taken away thanks to a late equaliser and then another penalty shootout

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I mean this was the game where my man claimed the record but still gutted to loose this one

The team did have a very good European Campaign this year

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We end the group stage with a perfect record

We then go through the stages first knocking out Gelsenkirchen 3-1 on agg, then in the quarter finals we faced Bayern who gave us a good run for our money but we prevailed 4-3 on agg, then we faced my old team Juventus in the semi's but they were dispatched 3-0 over two legs and we booked our place in the UCL final where we would face the other Spanish Giants Real Madrid

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Who stood no chance and AS Monaco are the UCL champions and clinch a resounding European triple under my management 

Here's the full season fixture list

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Here's the team stats at the end of the season

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Lemar was a threat from the AM position but his injuries kept coming back to bite me in the ass

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Really need to tell my forwards to stop being so selfless I mean 16 assists for a guy who was a lone striker for most of the season shouldn't have anywhere near that many assists (must be the AF role I'm using) But my highest assists coming form my FB Mendy fair play

We clean house in the end of season awards this year

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My two star attacking players clinch 1st and 2nd in the POTY

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Dias who played mostly as either a W or IF claims the YPOTY

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But no MOTY award for me because I clearly didn't preform this season

And thats it Stage 2 complete and now just hope a decent job in Portugal opens up

As always cheers for following guys and all your comments are appreciated as always

See you on the flip side

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Nice season with Monaco ! I like when this team plays well :) (which is quite every day those last times ;) ) Good luck for the Portuguese job !

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21 minutes ago, Gonzolito said:

Nice season with Monaco ! I like when this team plays well :) (which is quite every day those last times ;) ) Good luck for the Portuguese job !

Cheers dude, I have managed to land a job in Portugal now so hopefully another update soon

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Rock solid just doing what's needed to get the job done and then peak in Portugal and Spain. I think I got your plan figured out :) I smell a leaderboard finish in the not so distant future!!

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Just caught up mate and you've done a great job. Hopefully that Portugal job comes up quickly as every year you wait the older and older the best strikers get. KIU

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9 minutes ago, BatiGoal said:

Rock solid just doing what's needed to get the job done and then peak in Portugal and Spain. I think I got your plan figured out :) I smell a leaderboard finish in the not so distant future!!

The plan was to smash it, the way he was going in his first 1/2 season I thought he'd grab 65+ but he was so in and out this year it was unnerving.  But I've landed in Portugal (had to wait once again for the January window to bring in a striker but he's doing the business so far)

4 minutes ago, Real_Random said:

Just caught up mate and you've done a great job. Hopefully that Portugal job comes up quickly as every year you wait the older and older the best strikers get. KIU

Hopefully by the time I land in Spain I'll have my pick of great strikers, it just depends as I think you have 3-4 teams who you could crack 80 goals with, so landing one of them could be crucial  

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4 minutes ago, Taff said:

But I've landed in Portugal (had to wait once again for the January window to bring in a striker but he's doing the business so far)

Can't wait to see your guy.

6 minutes ago, Taff said:

Hopefully by the time I land in Spain I'll have my pick of great strikers

I really like how this challenge plays out as by the time you land in Spain the game's wonderkids are at their peak. But if you land a club that can't afford the very best you still have a large selection of great teens that have hopefully matured into seasoned strikers.

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