Bradlad9, The Champions League Challenge

[Bradlad9]

Hello,

Some of you probably know me, i like to comment around and talk to a few of you

I have never really done a successful story as i usually get bored, but this one has me intrigued and i want to suceed for a change!!

Most of you have probably read "Klippybo" Taking on this challenge, So here i go!!

"Klippybo Taking On the Champions League Challenge"

First things first!!

The Challenge!

Stonecold & Klippybo's Ultimate Champions League Challenge

The Teams and Stats


********** 4 Barcelona **********
9 Real
---------- 4 Bayern Munich ----------
3 Man Utd
1 Chelsea
2 Juventus
7 AC Milan
3 Inter Milan
1 Dortmund
2 Porto
5 Liverpool
1 Hamburg
2 Benfica
4 Ajax
1 PSV
1 Marseille
1 Celtic
1 Feynoord
1 Aston Villa
1 Red Star Belgrade
1 Steaua Bucharest
2 Nottingham Forest

Bold = Champions League's won
********** = Completed
---------- = Currently Managing

Hope you all enjoy

2012/2013 - Barcelona - Champions League Winners, Liga BBVA Runners Up, Spanish Super Cup Winner
2013/2014 - Bayern Munich - German Super Cup Winners

[Bradlad9]

YEAR 1 - BARCELONA

My plans - Start with the dominent force, get a win under my belt, progress from there!

Yearly Goals:
Win Champions League
Top 3 BBVA
Win Cup Competition

These are my goals in order of importance,
Main goal to win the Champions League, if not top 3 finish to secure next years campaign.

PLANS
Being Barcelona we already have a quality squad!
So the main thing was plugging the gaps and getting quality back up!

TRANSFERS

Feel free to ask questions

I sold Adriano before realising my problem at left back with Eric Abidal,
So because of this i was planning for the future and purchased David Alaba to arrive at the end of the season,

Demba Ba was a star in the first half of the season, but as Falcao arrived i thought i would try to make the most from Ba and get him out.

Thiago I must admit was probably my biggest mistake, and during the time shortly after it showed how much we missed him and probably cost us the league.

As you can probably see, I like to plan for the future, while at these big clubs, I dont really need to do

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE



GLORY IN THE FIRST SEASON

2nd in the league

Spanish Super Cup Winners

The plan being for this, stay on at Barcelona until a relatively large club becomes available to take over!!

For my second season and after, I will be changing to a monthly format

Thank you and please follow

Let me know if anyone has any good stories

[Bradlad9]

YEAR 2 - BAYERN MUNICH - Pre Season - October



Year Goals
Win Champions League
Secure 2014/2015 Champions League
Win Cup Competition

These will generally be the goals for the top clubs, but when it comes to teams like Nottingham Forest, they will probably change!

Plans:
Having a quality squad already, its time to get rid of some of the oldies and bring in the new generation!

TRANSFERS



IN

Gareth Bale rated highly by the scouts, and seeing how injury prone Robben is, need someone extra!

Demba Ba was awesome at the top level for Barcalona, being friends i thought lets give him a chance in Germany again!

Nikica Jelevich is someone who usually, is quite consistent for me! Needed another striker, paid to much really, hopefully worth it!

Fabio Coentrao, Plays anywhere down the left with pretty awesome stats, average over 14! Just 25 years old, once he rejected Man Utd i needed to get in there and bolster my squad!

Samuele Longo, 21 year old striker bought for just 3.5 million! average stats but good Finishing, Dribbling and mental stats! Will be used as backup to my main 3 strikers!


OUT

David Alaba had already gone to Barcalona

Mario Gomez, although in his prime has never really performed for me so I had to let him go, probably will end up being a big mistake but lets see

The rest mainly loans for average players


PRE SEASON
Unbeaten friendlies, trying out different formations and adapting, Its looking good!!

German Super Cup
Bayern Munich 1 - 0 Werder Bremen
N. Jelavich (1)

German Cup Round 1
Braunschweig 1 - 3 Bayern Munich
M. Mandzukich (1)
T. Kroos (1)
O.G (1)

Champions League Group F
Roma
Dinamo
Bayern Munich
Zenit

Should be an easy group, but must win the games!!

Champions League Group F Round 1
Dinamo 2 - 2 Bayern Munich
N. Jelavich (1)
X. Shaqiri (1)

League Matches can be seen here,


League so far


Best Player so Far
TONI KROOS

Toni Kroos, a average rating of 7.50 in all competitions in 9 games!
1 goal, 6 Assists and 1 Player of the match


Injury List
Frank Ribery - Hernia - 6 days - 2 weeks
Daniel Van Buyten - Broken Ribs - 10 days - 2 weeks
Philipp Lahm - Bruised Rib - 4 days - 5 days

[Bradlad9]

October


7 Games this month, Including 2 European games and 1 German Cup game!
Schalke, Stuttgart and Werder Bremen 3 tough opponents this month!!


Transfers
IN:
Muhammed Demirici (Turkish) MC 18 Free
Sebastion Coates, Liverpool, DC, 23, 7.25 M (1st jan)

OUT:
H. Badstuber 25 Million Pound bid rejected from Man Utd

Champions League F Round 2
Bayern Munich 2 - 2 Roma
D. Ba (1)
B. Schweinsteiger (1) pen

Conceding in the 82nd minute :/ Something is not going right here, Its not looking good in Europe!


First Division Game 8
Bayern Munich 6 - 0 Schalke
G. Bale (1)
B. Schweinsteiger (3) pen x1
N. Jelavic (1)
T. Muller (1)

Lahm Back at RB good news Bad news, Bale out injured (with a stubbed toe)! Absolutely destroyed them, the penalty was clearly the turning point in the match!


First Division Game 9
Werder Bremen 2 - 3 Bayern Munich
D. Ba (2)
N. Jelavic (1)

Toni Kroos, losing form since being player of the month, Lahm also had a shocker. We left it late with 2 goals in the last 10 mins but whats done is done!


Ba injured in training misses Frankfurt game!

First Division Game 10
Bayern Munich 4 - 1 Frankfurt
S. Longo (2)
G. Bale (1)
J. Boateng (1)

Winning a few matches in a row is great for confidence! Will be playing top of the table Stuttgart shortly so we need the confidence! Its going well in the league


European Champions League F Round 3
Zenit 0 - 2 Bayern Munich
X. Shaqiri (1)
S, Longo (1)

Longo scoring again! We cant seem to do well in Europe, took 80 minutes to score one, then just 2 minutes to score again :/ Hopefully the league we will continue to be strong!


First Division Game 11
Stuttgart 2 - 0 Bayern Munich

10 Shots, and only 4 on target is not good enough for a league winning side :/ Need a big win in the cup to make me happy now, spoiled the month really was doing so well.


German Cup 2nd Round
Kaiserslauten 4 - 0 Bayern Munich

Crashing out to a division 2 side, one there 32 shots to my 8 :/ one other massive problem, none of my players played worse than a 6.7 :/ not a happy bunny.

League Table



Champions League Group F



Player of the month,
Bastian Schweinsteiger despite only playing 4 games, 4 goals for a DM is not bad, 2 games over 9.4 rating, thourougly deserved!

Injuries
None

[samgenoa98]

like it so far. i guess a win and a draw could secure you cl qualification

[REALaBDiNHo]

Nice job looking like you could win the CL with Bayern as well barring any injuries to your main players.

Can you please also check out my Champions' League Challenge? Thanks

Abdinho's Champions' League Challenge

[Bradlad9]

sorry for quite the long time inbetween the next update, spent quite a long time scouting as it is nearly january
have quite a few targets in mind

[Bradlad9]

November

First unbeaten month at Bayern, need an away win against Roma to have any chance of winning the Champions League this year!
2 Injuries up front leave me with just 2 strikers for December! Great end to the month, next month 3 games, Roma Dortmund and HSV, Great!

Transfers
No organised transfers as my budget is EMPTY
Major scouting has taken place including visits to Iceland to watch a single player!
3 Centre Backs lined up, 2 Playmakers, and 3 Strikers
Ba could be on his way out if he doesnt start playing any better

Matches
First Division Game 12Bayern Munich 4 - 1 Augsburg
M. Mandzukic (2)
S. Longo (1)
T. Kroos (1)

Champions League Group F Round 4
Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Zenit
S. Longo (1)
M. Mandzukic (1)

First Division Game 13
Freiburg 0 - 0 Bayern Munich

First Division Game 14
Bayern Munich 1 - 1 Bayer Leverkusen
N. Jelavic (1)

Champions League Group F Round 5
Bayern Munich 0 - 0 Dinamo

First Division Game 15
Bayern Munich 5 - 3 Bochum
T. Kroos (1)
D. Ba (1)
Dante (1)
X. Shaqiri (1)
G. Bale (1)

League Table

Champions League Table

Player of the Month
Bastian Schweinsteiger, consistently putting in performances of over 7.4, lowest performance was 7.1 this month! Very strong player dont see anyone taking his spot in the team!

Injuries
D. Ba (str) 2 months
M. Mandzukic (str) 11 days - 2 weeks
F. Coentrao (lb,lw) 3 - 7 days

[Bradlad9]

December

Champions League dreams over
Euro Cup here i come!

Transfers
In
Santiago Silva in (striker) (32) £1.5 Million, he will be a trial for the target man position, as by the look of it, his stats make him a good target man!
Andreu Fontas in (def centre) (24) £1.8 Million, will mainly be a cover for my current defenders, also so that they can go to lb and rb if needed!




Out
F. Ribery out (AML) (30) £14.25 Million, Tottenham come in, he wasnt being used through injury and also could do with some money to strengthen for next years champions league! (2 days after confirmation he gets sacked, that was close!)

2 massive transfers planned with chelsea!!

First Division Round 16
Borrussia Dortmund 3 - 0 Bayern Munich

To be honest, this was an awful game, i have 2 strikers left, one got a match rating of 5.9 the other got took off injured on 64 minutes! Not good!

Champions League Group F Round 6

Roma 3 - 1 Bayern Munich
T. Kroos (1)

After going 1 - 0 up, i thought i may have a chance here, then 3 players performed extremely awful, below 5.5 and will be dropped for the next games! Not happy i am now out of Champions League

First Division Round 17
Bayern Munich 4 - 0 HSV
N. Jelavic (1)
J. Martinez (1)
B. Schweinsteiger (1) pen x1
A. Robben (1)

Robben scoring moments after i place him on the transfer list!! A better way to end the month!


EURO CUP 1ST KNOCKOUT ROUND DRAW
GENK VS BAYERN MUNICH


EURO CUP 2ND KNOCKOUT ROUND DRAW
WERDER BREMEN OR STANDARD VS GENK OR BAYERN MUNICH


Player of the Month
H. Badstubar, 3 quality performances despite conceding 6 goals this month!!

League Table