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Season 12 - Start New

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Season 12 - 1st June 2034

A busy summer! We've had a small stadium expansion, some financial juggling, a massive bidding war and one club almost bankrupting themselves.

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Let's start small(est). Sunderland spent 70m to bring in 20yo Niccolo Pino. The Italian comes from Fiorentina and has has two good seasons with them previously.

Bolton splashed out £153m for 27yo CB Regis Ngoma. The Swede looks to be a good all rounder and should slot in alongside Lenny Yoro.

Sheffield Utd got themselves in a bidding war. Initially they wanted Hugo, but then a coin flip told them Bellingham was the one. They went into big money territory but then backed out, leaving the lucky winner to claim their prize. Sheff Utd then went back to 202.5m defensive midfielder Hugo and told him they never wanted Bellingham anyway.

And then we have Derby. A decision described by their owners as "the genius move that wins the experiment or makes us look like tits". They won that bidding war, and have therefore secured Jude Bellingham's services for a whopping 435m, absolutely obliterating the transfer record. They've exhausted all their owner funds, transfer budget and some of their Bank balance to make this happen. No pressure Jude!

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Full Summer Changes


S12-1Player BoughtPlayers Sold & KeptBank BalTransfer BudgetWage BudgetManagerMoney MovementsTraining FacYouth FacJunior CoachingYouth RecStadiumTotal OM spentMoney left
Sheff Utd (BD & SS)Hugo (£202.5m)304.2m in sales - Keep Suarez540 extra seats (5.4m)£203,400,000£355,900,000
Sunderland (Alt)Niccolo Pino (£70.5m)273.5m in sales85m to BB, 50m to TB, WB to 1.9m-£83,500,000£1,152,700,000
Derby (TC & B)Jude Bellingham (£435m)129.3m in sales - Kept Stankovic£435,000,000£0
Bolton (SW)Regis Ngoma (154.5m)5m in sales - Keep Soares£145,500,000£279,000,000

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Full Club Details



OwnerClubDivisionReputationStadium SizeAvg AttendanceBank BalanceTransfer BudgetWage BudgetOwner Cash left
BD & sebsheepSheffield UtdPremier League910056,63655,636£669,826,135£465,253,173£8,000,000£355,900,000
altodevilSunderlandPremier League868750,00049,303£350,000,000£200,000,000£9,000,000£1,152,700,000
The Cat & BenitoDerbyPremier League850243,59742,987£341,494,625£0£6,264,235£0
SilentWitnessBoltonPremier League855445,00040,908£138,919,252£95,563,030£6,361,996£279,000,000
 

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Table looks a bit off, pretty sure BD wanted to up the stadium capacity to 70m.
 

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Table looks a bit off, pretty sure BD wanted to up the stadium capacity to 70m.
I did but we can do it over Christmas sure

Edit: No wait, I've done it again. Just to 70k
 
Season 12 - AI Summer Transfers New

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4th Sept 2034 - AI Transfers


Sheffield Utd in: Lorenzo Pirola - £26m - 32yo CB
Angel Barrios - £38m - 24yo LB

Sheffield Utd out: Tetsuya Arima - £13m
Giorgio Addessi - £8.5m
Dean Ashby - £8.5m

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Sunderland in: Clemens Claeys - 59m - 26yo LB/LWB
Gabriel - £54m - 26yo RB/CM
Pierre Kalulu - Free - 34yo CB

Sunderland out: None of note

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Derby in: Mark McKenna - £29.5m - 26yo AML
Chris Jones - £27m - 22yo RB
Sven Botman - £5m

Derby out: Jack O'Neill - £20m
Charlie Ward - £9m
Josip Stanisic - £2.8m

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Bolton in: Edwin Betancourt - £40.5m - 22yo CB
Rainey Breinburg - £34.5m - 29yo LB/LWB
Miki - £34.5m - 26yo RB/AMR
Cristian Camargo - £6.5m - 20yo AMR
Koyo Watanabe - £5.25m - 22yo ST
Fumihiro Okubo - £4.8m - 20yo CAM

Bolton out: Romulo Vitor - £47m
Tomoyuki Muta - £7.5m
Nathan Collins - Free

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Don't think we needed another LB or CB but okay Marco, you go wild with that £400m transfer budget pal.

Looks like Derby should walk the league.
 

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Derby will be big chokers if they don't walk it
 
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30th December 2034



Merry Christmas Derby fans! You've only lost a single game so far this season and it was a 2 - 0 home loss to Sunderland. Junior Kroupi said feck your unbeaten start. Bellingham has 8 goals and 7 assists so far.

Sunderland close behind in second. Sesko has been in outrageous form so far, scoring 17 in all comps. New signing Niccolo Pino is playing well and has 4 assists this campaign so far.

Bolton lagging behind and have allowed a resurgent Chelsea and a Varane led Spurs ahead of them. Bernal tops the assist charts and new signing Regis Ngoma has started every single game.

Sheffield Utd! Is it 2029 again? The reigning champions have had a pretty bad first half of the season. They've not actually lost much, but have drawn a shitload of games against opposition they should really be beating. Dalipi has 12 goals, Pino with 10 so they're scoring, but they've had a few 2 - 2s and 1 - 1s so something is up with the defending.
 

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Carabao Cup Semis look like this:

Man Utd vs Sunderland
Sheff Utd vs Leicester or City
 

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Is Rose sabotaging it because we didn't bankrupt ourselves for Bellingham?
 
Season 12 - Christmas Period manager changes New

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Some manager news!



Sheffield Utd have wasted no time in booting out their two time PL winning manager. In comes Nagelsmann who has a stellar record of success.

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Not gonna pretend to know who this guy is, but he did well at Porto and Monaco.
 

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Full changes:


S12-2Bank BalanceTransfer BudgetWage BudgetStadiumManagerTotal spentMoney left
Sheff Utd (BD & SS)Up to 71.8k - 150.1mNagelsmann - £52m£202,100,000£153,800,000
Sunderland (Alt)£1,152,700,000
Derby (TC & B)£0
Bolton (SW)Carpini £40.3m£238,700,000
 

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I was tempted by Nagelsmann too...and by Rose but I didn't want any sloppy seconds.
 

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So Benito and Cat take Derby into Administration at the end of this season presumably
 

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I was tempted by Nagelsmann too...and by Rose but I didn't want any sloppy seconds.
Introduce your new friend to us all - who is he, what does he do, what can we expect from him?
 

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Introduce your new friend to us all - who is he, what does he do, what can we expect from him?
Well I'm hoping that the counter attacking football he likes to play gets the best out of our electric front 4...plus Brazilian so line up the wonderkids.
 

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Well I'm hoping that the counter attacking football he likes to play gets the best out of our electric front 4...plus Brazilian so line up the wonderkids.
Interesting tactic with just over 3 years left
 

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Interesting tactic with just over 3 years left
Thankfully Brazilian ones are usually good to go in season one. :smirk:

Also I'm kind of thinking this is a half season test for him. Could end up changing again in the summer.
 

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Tagliafico leaves Utd to take the now vacant Bayern job.

Juan Mata the new Utd boss!
 
Season 12 - Winter Window New

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4th Feb 2035 - AI Winter Transfers

Nagelsmann went big!

Sheffield Utd in: Checa - £72m - 21yo Spanish AMC
Afonso Mereira - £80m rising to £101m - 29yo AMR/AML
Chadi Riad - £31.5m - 31yo CB

Sunderland in: Wilbur - £41.5m - 18yo Brazilian ST/AMR/AML

Derby in: Nobody.

Bolton in: Joao Pedro - £23m - Yes that one.