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Career Taff Attempts The "Western Europe Club" Challenge


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So with all my attention being fixed on @BatiGoal's player based goal challenges at the moment, this one from @Jack.Holt which has the same premise but involves the team breaking the various league goal scoring records caught my eye

here's the link

 

 So the aim is simple (sort of) and it's a nice break from having one player trying to score to getting the whole team involved

So @AndersJ look out because here comes TAFF and the boys at....

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I know Bayern and Dortmund are the top choices for this challenge but I liked the look of this team and more specifically their two strikers

Jhon Cordoba (who has always impressed me and played very well in my other save for Columbia) and Yoshinori Muto (who I picked up as a free agent in another save and was a great underrated striker)

So I took over at Mainz and looking to notch up the very impressive 104 total to beat the record 

So first I decided to bring in some extra players for the squad

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Wisdom I feel is a very underrated player and really cheap to pick up early in the game (and later on) Rausch was a decent find at LB/LW then Ferreira, Mendendez and Seoane all came in as defensive backups

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We had no outgoing sales this year, I wanted to see what the squad was made of before I decided to sell anyone

So we went on our way looking to break the 103 goal record 

The season went well...

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We managed to win the league but came up well short (16) of the 104 target, but a promising start to my time here.

We were knocked out of the German Cup in the Semi Finals

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But was very happy with how the season progressed all in all

Here's the team's stats

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As you'd expect Cordoba and Muto combine for 68 of the teams total goals this season

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Quaison, Borjan and Latza providing the assists from the midfield 

We also came away with a good amount of team awards

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My strikers claim 1st and 2nd in the POTY

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My LW Oztunali claims the YPOTY

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And we make it 3 from 3 as I claim the MOTY award

So @AndersJ can breath easy for now, having completed this leg first time of asking, but we are coming for you old friend so watch out

Season 2 update will be up ASAP

Cheers Guys and see you on the flip side

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Nice work pal, an interesting choice of team, but a good start nonetheless! That league win is crucial, as with the extra money I can see you smashing it in Season 2! 

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3 minutes ago, mcandrew003 said:

Nice work pal, an interesting choice of team, but a good start nonetheless! That league win is crucial, as with the extra money I can see you smashing it in Season 2! 

Cheers dude, just hope the extra money buys me some class

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Taff mate STOP destroying my records :)!!! Or trying too.

great choice of team, mine was the easy highway with Bayern, if i make it in Ligue 1 and la liga a will surely try this again :)!

i have a promise for you here . The last goals you need will come instantly if you sign World class striker THE LORD! Its a glitch in the game, but dont tell the other members mate ???

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10 minutes ago, AndersJ said:

Taff mate STOP destroying my records :)!!! Or trying too.

great choice of team, mine was the easy highway with Bayern, if i make it in Ligue 1 and la liga a will surely try this again :)!

i have a promise for you here . The last goals you need will come instantly if you sign World class striker THE LORD! Its a glitch in the game, but dont tell the other members mate ???

OH is that right, I'll give it a go

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NEWS JUST IN THE LORD SIGNS WITH MAINZ AND IS INSTANTLY SACKED FOR SCORING 6 O.G.'s IN HIS OPENING GAME

 

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19 minutes ago, Taff said:

OH is that right, I'll give it a go

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NEWS JUST IN THE LORD SIGNS WITH MAINZ AND IS INSTANTLY SACKED FOR SCORING 6 O.G.'s IN HIS OPENING GAME

 

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Germany

Season 2

Before I start I want to say "Hats Off to You @AndersJ, because this is way way harder than your genius is making it look"

So after a disappointing first season, the team gathered together to try and have a much better season

I had a very generous transfer fund this year so went out to find some players to add some major quality to the squad

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Brought In Can (£37M was a bit steep, but he is a quality player) for a solid all around midfield player, and Sigurdsson to give me some quality in the AM role

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Only deadwood and loose ends sent on their way

So with my two new star players we set off to conquer the German League.  The first game showed great signs of promise

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6 goals against Leverkusen gave me real hope for this season, but sadly we just couldn't score more than 3 goals a game (apart from one where we scored 4) so the table looked like this at the end of the season

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Worse than last season, and I don't know what else to do if I'm honest, all the tactics I tried helped us secure a second league title but we're not getting anywhere near the goals we need

Our best win of the whole season was a 5-0 win over PSG in the UCL group stages, but just couldn't get the team to fire (I think one more season then maybe try with another club, still don't know how the hell AndersJ is doing this and making it look easy)

Here's the full season fixture list, so you can see how we did (3-1 seems to be the avg score line here)

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 Like I said apart from 2 games we couldn't score more than 3 in any other match.

Here's the team stats if you're interested 

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Cordoba was on fire in front of goal, even though he missed a month or so, but the goals just weren't coming enough from the other area's (anyone else having issues with IF's at the moment, can't seem to get mine firing at all, they seem to do better as W's than IF's, but tend to pass more than shoot

 Well another season and another huge steaming pile of S*^t but we can but try again

Need to get another season done on my Germanic and UK challenge but will report back soon

Cheers for reading guys

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You really set yourself a challenge going with Mainz but that makes it fun, doesn't it :P I feel next season is going to be the one.

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Taff mate please keep in mind my attack in Bayern was the best of the best in the Bundesliga. Lewan, Müller and Santo ! And the rest of the team is just also supleeme. 

Did you try with 3-4-1-2 or 2-4-4 or something extreemly offensive ? It seems to work for me.

BUT bare in mind there is taking the easy highway with Bayern and there is the " climb the mountain with mainz. You CAN Do it!!!

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Cheers guys

27 minutes ago, BatiGoal said:

You really set yourself a challenge going with Mainz but that makes it fun, doesn't it :P I feel next season is going to be the one.

Let's hope so although this game is sucking out my sole at the minute as I can't seem to get anything going on any of my saves, but maybe next year

16 minutes ago, AndersJ said:

Taff mate please keep in mind my attack in Bayern was the best of the best in the Bundesliga. Lewan, Müller and Santo ! And the rest of the team is just also supleeme. 

Did you try with 3-4-1-2 or 2-4-4 or something extreemly offensive ? It seems to work for me.

BUT bare in mind there is taking the easy highway with Bayern and there is the " climb the mountain with mainz. You CAN Do it!!!

I must admit I've been quite conservative, but cannot get the IF's working at all lately and it's driving me nuts

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How do you do so many careers at once mate? Good stuff. :)

Keep going, don't give up, hope next season is the one! Mainz will be a challenge, but you'll get there in the end. 

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Really enjoyed this start, good to see a new team being highlighted on Vibe. You've done well so far, it's just such a tough challenge as it relies so much on luck, you basically need a lot to go your way which we can't really control. 

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On 2017-4-26 at 12:11, scratch99 said:

How do you do so many careers at once mate? Good stuff. :)

Keep going, don't give up, hope next season is the one! Mainz will be a challenge, but you'll get there in the end. 

Cheers Scratch, next season will be the one, I'll take @AndersJs advice and just put all 10 of my players in the attacking half of the pitch, what could go wrong

14 minutes ago, Ashez said:

Really enjoyed this start, good to see a new team being highlighted on Vibe. You've done well so far, it's just such a tough challenge as it relies so much on luck, you basically need a lot to go your way which we can't really control. 

Yeah I'm enjoying this team, I understand with this challenge that the obvious big teams are the ones who have a better chance, but Anders getting the EPL record with Villa shows it can be done

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" you had me at ....all 10 men in attack ..." ??✊

and yes it can be done with a smaller team, but i have been extreemly lucky especially with the PSG job, i hope the same luck strikes your path mate :)

i dont know why but my guess for your Prl team is to be......ARSENAL OR Swansea :)

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Season 3

Germany

So we're back again with our third season in Germany, and needing to score a lot more goals than I have in previous seasons, so after advice from my good friend @AndersJ I went with a much more attacking formation

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The instructions and player roles changed now and then but this was the main setup

So with a new attacking team in place I needed to bring in a few new players to help out the team, and thanks to a very generous budget from the board we went a little crazy

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Two new IF's in Federico and Ocampos, a new striker in Sandro, Rossi for Midfield and Ronaldo to play either upfront or out wide.  de Vrij was brought in to give my 2 man defence a strong stance but what a waste of money, talk about injury prone

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This was his season and was the biggest waste of £30M I've ever spent

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Going out were mainly my FB's and some unwanted graduates 

So with the squad sorted and the tactic in place we set off to net the elusive 102 needed to finish our time in Germany, and the signs were promising.  Here's the league table at the halfway point after 17 games 

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So 58 goals in 17 games works out at roughly 3.5 goals a game, and if the team can keep this up for the next 17 we will be laughing

So we cracked on and then in game 30 we beat the record

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103 goals in 30 games, and the record is ours with 4 full games to go.  Here's the final league of the season

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114 goals and I'm over the moon with the total, and have to give a huge shoutout to @AndersJ for the advice on the attacking formations, just hope it keeps working elsewhere

Here's how the rest of the season went

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We opened the season with a Supercup game against Bayern

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And a brace from Cordoba sees off Bayern and clinches the cup

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We cruise through the UCL group stage, slipping up once drawing with Man U

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We progressed through the first round only to stumble in the quarters vs Real

and same story in the German cup, failing to progress beyond the quarter finals

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But the main objective was clearly met so time to move on once a EPL job comes up

Here's the season fixtures

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We really fell off towards the end of the season but managed to do what we aimed to do, so no worries

Here's the team stats

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Federico, Ronaldo and Sandro all leading the way with 24 goals a piece 

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Federico also leading the line with 29 assists meaning he was involved in 53 goals this season, a great buy

Finally some season awards

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Federico claims the runner up spot in the WPOTY

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But beats out Lewandowski for the German POTY

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Sandro clinches the YPOTY

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And I scoop the MOTY award for good measure  

So Stage 1 complete, now onto England for Stage 2

Thanks for all the comments and support guys see you soon

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SOOOO GREAT!!! im very happy on your behalf - this is awesome and great that we can inspire eachother - keep on the good work and then i hope that i soon have a challenge in my sleeve for you and others interested :D

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Cheers guys appreciate the support, was very entertaining season (one of the best I've had, so much fun just blitzing the opposition, lets just hope Stage 2 doesn't take to long

Anders anything you have in mind count me in dude, your my oldest friend on the site and am always glad to help you out mate

Bati, I think your T.K.O. could kill in this challenge should give it a small bash

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19 minutes ago, Taff said:

Bati, I think your T.K.O. could kill in this challenge should give it a small bash

Very tempting :D

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I must say this thread slipped under the radar for me, just caught up mind you, great going dude, almost making me want to play as Mainz keep up the good work pal!

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Cheers guys, just looking to get a decent move to the EPL to carry on, just have a season to run in my UK challenge first then straight back into it

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Season 3

England

Hi guys and I'm back with a quick update, after finishing the German leg in style with Mainz, I now needed a move to the EPL, I resigned my post in Germany and holidayed for the first two months then kept a very close eye on the Job market.

I did get an early job offer that was the hardest thing I've ever done to turn it down

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Come on how often do PSG come calling.

 

In October the Swansea and Everton Jobs became available but I was snubbed by both (really)

In November a dream job became open at Arsenal but once again I was unsuccessful

Then come the new year I finally landed a job in England

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So I take over for former EPL Champs Leicester, but with only half a season to go, my main aim was to get the team a decent finish to give me a decent budget next year.

I had £38M to give the team a boost this season

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Kiki was brought in to help out the CD, Grzegorz to give my midfield some strength, Centurion to give me another IF option and Mavididi was a decent striker option

Taking over the team were in 12th place, but I put a variation of my attacking tactic in place and the team did well

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Finishing the season in the Euro Cup spot and the team scored roughly 46 goals (not brilliant but not bad for half a season)

We also managed to grab some silverware

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Thanks to Man U's terrible penalties we walk away with the FA Cup

So looking forward to a full season with the team to see how we can do in trying to get the 104 goals needed to break the record

See you all soon

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Damnnn my friend, World class offer from PSG!!! But im sure you will nail this one, the good part is that it should be possible if continue to create great tactics! Best of luck mate!

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20 minutes ago, Brenty92 said:

Great move dude, looking forward to seeing you smash it next year!

Me too mate, the tactic i used with Mainz didn't seem to cut it in the EPL, so had to change it up a bit, but could still do with some tweeking, but looking forward to just cutting loose and unleashing the Foxes on the EPL

2 minutes ago, AndersJ said:

Damnnn my friend, World class offer from PSG!!! But im sure you will nail this one, the good part is that it should be possible if continue to create great tactics! Best of luck mate!

I know mate, an offer like that comes around one in a career but lets conquer England first then worry about those pesky French (cheese eating surrender monkeys) #simpsonsquotes

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