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This is my first career thread for this years instalment of FMM, (bare with me while I shake the rust off ?)

Link to the original challenge created by the legend that is @BatiGoal 

In an effort to build up suspense for what I hope will be an amazing career, I'm going to leave you with 3 facts/hints to the team I start this challenge with and also 'the chosen one'. 

Lets see if anyone can guess either the club or the player (or both ?) before 1st update which should be up by the weekend!

My Team.

1. Founded on the 1st of August 1926.

2. Serie A winners on 2 occasions.

3. Nicknames include: Partenopei, Gli Azzurri ('The Light Blues') and I Ciucciarelli ('The Little Donkeys').

The Chosen One.

1. 6ft 3" striker born on the 2nd of March 1988 (28 years old at the start of game) in Bocholt, West Germany.

2. In the 06/07 season he was top goalscorer of the Youth-Bundesliga West with 21 goals.

3. First professional appearance was for Duisburg vs Ingolstadt 04 in the second tier on the 19th of October 2008. 

See you soon for season 1! 

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3 minutes ago, Lagom said:

An INTERESTING choice of striker to start this. Look forward to seeing your efforts!

You knew who it was from the 3 points? Lol it's been really fun using a solid striker lesser used

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I've actually used him a few times with Bundesliga teams. He's never been a prolific scorer for me, but he's great at bringing a strike partner into play. Hopefully you can coax some more goals out of him than I managed!

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9 minutes ago, Lagom said:

I've actually used him a few times with Bundesliga teams. He's never been a prolific scorer for me, but he's great at bringing a strike partner into play. Hopefully you can coax some more goals out of him than I managed!

Let's just hope I can get the best out of him ?

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1 hour ago, Cockers2505 said:

Good luck @Brenty92 with your challenge, I'll keep my eye on your progress as all the others

Thanks for the support dude, right back at ya ??

1 hour ago, Mikee1984 said:

Good luck with this mate, still trying to work out who your superstar striker is lol.

Thanks for the support, all will be revealed soon enough, want me to put a pic of the player up?

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Great to see the two goal-record challenges getting so much love here. Maybe I need to make a third one? We'll see, first I need to see some names on those leaderboards. Maybe it's you :)

Best of luck!

 

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1 hour ago, mcandrew003 said:

Good luck man, look forward to this!

Thanks dude, should be good 

50 minutes ago, BatiGoal said:

Great to see the two goal-record challenges getting so much love here. Maybe I need to make a third one? We'll see, first I need to see some names on those leaderboards. Maybe it's you :)

Best of luck!

 

Got quite a way to catch up the other lads, only just finished first season but I'll get there sooner or later, I'm a massive fan of the goal record challenges, by all means create away ? Thanks for the support!

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Stage 1.

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I had a look through the squads of the top Italian teams and besides Juve, Napoli caught my eye. One major factor for this was that, through playing the game I always noticed big money bids for several players, meaning I could reshape the squad however I wanted. The other being the raw potential!

The main man for stage 1...

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Tactic.

I went into this career without a tactic in mind, all I knew was we had quite a few great passers of the ball, I wanted to exploit that.

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Later on in the season RW was also changed to APM.

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Transfers

Out:

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3 quality players out the door for big money, the rest were deadwood anyway.

In:

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3 first teamers and the rest to bulk up the squad.

The League.

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Highest goalscorers coupled with the tightest defense is a recipe for success in any country!

Italian Cup.

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Was hoping for a few more goals but never mind, at least there was no upset ?

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As you can see this game was back and forth for the most part, we actually got kinda lucky in truth! 

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We made light work of a strong Inter side

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3-0 was actually quite flattering for a poor Milan performance in the final!

Champions League.

Unfortunately I forgot to get the screenshot of the group table!

We were drawn alongside Barca, Leverkusen and Celtic.

i was fully expecting to scrape through in 2nd place behind Barca but in the end we won 5 and lost 1 (to bloody Celtic of all teams!!) 

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They do say the best form of defense is to attack, a brace for the big man along the way! He was injured for 3 weeks after this and a further 3 weeks a bit later on in the season, 6 Goddamn weeks altogether, that could ruin a challenge like this easily!!!

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Milik stepped into Terodde's place up front in his absence and ran barca ragged!

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2-0 away at Sevilla in the first leg cemented our place in the next round, Simon just wanted to make sure ?

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Honestly when I saw we drew Bayern in the quarters, I all but gave up on a good run in Europe! My favourite German had other plans with 4 goals over the 2 legs, a 17 minute hat trick against Bayern is ludicrous! ?

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Easiest draw in the road to the final, Kyiv were no match for us!

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A very tight encounter decided in extra time is a tough pill to swallow, if only we were more clinical!!

Such a great season in total and we're almost onto the main event... 

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And to top it off we made a slight profit ?

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As expected Simon lit the Serie A alight!

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It's nice to know my hard work didn't go unrecognised ?

The Reason you're here.

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Slight improvement in all the right places, especially his value!

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Little over a goal a game, took a risk picking him initially  but it paid off in the end! 

Team stats.

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A little selfish from Hamsik and Florenzi but it didn't matter in the end.

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48 assists between my APM's ??

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So onto France we go for stage 2, what does the job centre look like right now..

Trash! 

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2 promoted teams without a starting 11 between them ?

Until next time ?? peace!

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Great team and lovely return from your surprise player. Nice picks. Hope France brings you more of the same. Well.. 2 extra goals at least on top of that pls ;) goodluck!

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Wow I'm impressed mate not only did you knock juve off the top but your German who I've never heard of ever lol, absolutely smashed it. Keep up the good work 

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4 hours ago, BatiGoal said:

Great team and lovely return from your surprise player. Nice picks. Hope France brings you more of the same. Well.. 2 extra goals at least on top of that pls ;) goodluck!

Thanks mate, just waiting for a good enough job to become free and then onto the next ??

3 hours ago, Mikee1984 said:

Wow I'm impressed mate not only did you knock juve off the top but your German who I've never heard of ever lol, absolutely smashed it. Keep up the good work 

Yeah I was really shocked with juve this year, in January they were in like 5/6th place, that's not like them lol! Made my life a lot easier so no complaining ? Thanks dude, I've eyed him up in a few separate careers but never got round to trying him, he actually performed a lot better than I ever imagined he would! 

3 hours ago, mcandrew003 said:

Great season and I love the choice of player! KIU!

Thanks mate I wanted to keep it interesting ?

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I'm just going to do a short half season update because things have taken a turn... 

Transfers.

Out:

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I decided there was no point whatsoever in keeping Simon around to rot on the bench this year, we waved farewell as he left for Montpellier!

In:

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I wanted to see how a world class striker could fare in my tactic of last year, alongside better playmakers.

The League.

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Things just aren't quite clicking as great as last year but we still find ourself 3 points off top with a game in hand.

Super Cup.

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This was one of those games which was only gonna be decided by a single goal, unfortunately Niang scored it!

Champions League.

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Beating city 3-1 felt good, even more so seeing that they could crash out at the first hurdle if not careful ?

The new star striker.

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Haven't got round to using him so far this year, a definite favourite of mine in recent years for obvious reasons!

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Considering we struggled a bit with form, keeping a goal per game ratio is impressive!

The Unexpected Twist.

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Okay so do I hold out for the 'better teams' in France or just save wasting more time than necessary in Italy and take the job?

Let's take a look at the league table...

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Wow! 18th with players like Malcom, Toulalan and Diego Rolan still there, am I the man to turn fortunes around whilst being on the lookout for 'the 50 goal man'?....

 

 

Hell yeah, that's me!

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Join me in next update to see if we can climb to the board requirements of European qualification, which in turn buys us extra games next year with the main man!

 

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Just noticed something during a league game against Montpellier, completely forgot I sold my star striker of last year to them.

Let's take a look at how he's faring this year... 

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A decent enough return for an AI controlled team but it seems as though I had the magical touch last year ?

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Just caught up and going well so far :). Defo got lucky having a poor Juve as they're one the hardest teams to chase down for sure! So many of these careers ATM it's so hard telling them apart and keeping up with them all haha. Not gunna lie though I was close to jumping on the same bandwagon a few days ago! 

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2 hours ago, Ashez said:

Just caught up and going well so far :). Defo got lucky having a poor Juve as they're one the hardest teams to chase down for sure! So many of these careers ATM it's so hard telling them apart and keeping up with them all haha. Not gunna lie though I was close to jumping on the same bandwagon a few days ago! 

Cheers mate, I was shocked by juve as they normally storm it for years on end! Lucky me I guess ? I was just browsing one day in the market for a striker and spotted Terodde who had everything I was looking for so thought why not start this challenge with him, it's not too tough to score 40+ with a decent striker ? Next update should hopefully be up later! Was a tough season haha

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Great start dude and well done getting an early move to France, hopefully you can storm this one and the next one and get to Spain a bit earlier which will help with the choice of strikers available 

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1 hour ago, Taff said:

Great start dude and well done getting an early move to France, hopefully you can storm this one and the next one and get to Spain a bit earlier which will help with the choice of strikers available 

Cheers pal, I was just happy with any slight potential in a squad tbh, I'm in France now that's the main hurdle from the early stage done!

Tough job on my hands mind you ?? as long as I'm in Spain by 2025 or so I'll be happy, as some great wonderkis will be in their peak years ?? maybe try Alexander Isak, not too sure atm 

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Going to keep this short and sweet as it was just a transition season, with us looming down in 18th when I took over, let's take a look at how we fared! 

I stuck with the same formation that brought great success with Napoli because, well, why fix something that isn't broken? ?

Transfers.

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Was really impressed with the calibre of free agents available to us, Lafont (albeit only 18/19 years old)  will be my number 1 between the sticks.

Gnoukouri was godlike last year so fingers crossed he's as good this year.

Bifulco is potentially very promising for the AM spot, 15 passing, creativity and technique, alongside 14 teamwork at only 20!

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2 brilliant loan deals in Dimarco and Kiki to try sure up our defense also.

League.

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Not much to note here other than we escaped relegation comfortably. Managed to pull the goal difference back to positive at least ??the squad was in such a bad way morale wise, Malcom wanted out (nothing a new contract couldn't sort ?).

Coupe de la Ligue.

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Our new mate Alfredo stole the show late on to ensure we progress!

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Done all our hard work first half against the best team in the country, fully deserved too!

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Completely outclassed this time out, the man on loan from AC Milan tore us a new one. ?

Semi finals is a great feat for the squad I inherited, such a shame we couldn't get some silverware to lift spirits in the camp!

French Cup.

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Utter domination as expected!

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4 goals in the first half from our starting striker, hat trick in the second for our sub ? These kind of games in the cup should take me over the line next season!

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Took extra time to get over the line here but we made it thanks to Kiese Thelin the Swedish Hitman! Rennes were flying high in the league so it felt that bit more sweet in the end ?

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They came back with a vengeance after dumping them out of the Coupe de la Ligue! We never stood a chance.

Fixture List.

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Stats.

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Goals.

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Assists.

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Manager profile.

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Board confidence.

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Somehow they're still pissed at me for not achieving Europe, bare in mind they were in the relegation from zone when I joined, not impressed! ?

I'll be back soon with my star striker for stage 2 (whoever we can afford) 

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Transfer Update.

The designated hitter is a man I've watched closely throughout FMM17, I always like to take note who scores a decent amount of goals under AI management in the top leagues, in almost every save I've played he's borderline prolific. Again I haven't seen many people use him yet, I'm all for obscure, random signings to try complete this challenge as it's making it a lot more fun than using generic wonderkids or superstars!

The main man I believe can score the 50+ needed is none other than...

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Mame Biram Diouf!

The rest of my transfer dealings will be in the spoiler.

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Managed to raise a tasty 17mil to rebuild with which turned out to be more than enough!

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Bargains all around and a little scout on the transfer list found me some great players (hopefully) ?

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Needed some youthful exuberance in defense and Matthijs was happy to oblige.

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One of my old fmm faves! Hoping he can provide the main goal source for Diouf playing just in behind him.

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Solid, dependable player with international experience, yes please!

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Before I spotted diouf in the market, this was going to be my main man, just a backup for now.

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Really impressed with my loan signings, I know Pasalic and Paredes will perform when called upon, I'm just really intrigued with Alexander-Arnold as I'm a Liverpool fan myself so thought why not ? Looks good though!

 

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12 minutes ago, mcandrew003 said:

Excellent signings mate, looking good for the 50 goals!

Only time will tell dude, being 30 I'm hoping he can hit the ground running. He scored 4 in his first friendly so fingers crossed ?

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