Dave — FM2011 Ultimate European Challenge, Stuttgart Season 15/16 finale

Hello one and all!  Welcome back to my Stuttgart game!  I left you at the end of March but what I didn’t realise at the time was that I only had 6 more games of the season left to play so this will be a short post!  I also have a Cup Final to prepare for so let’s see how I got on.

League

So my final few games in the season went reasonably well.  Before these games, I still had a shot at qualification for the Champions League.  I knew when I drew with Schalke that it was a bridge too far.  The disappointing loss against Koln sealed our fate.  However, morale boosting victories over Bayern and Hamburg on the final 2 games on the season at least leaves us with good momentum heading into the Cup Final.  Before we talk about that, here is how the league concluded

I managed to claim a UEFA cup spot which is quite pleasing in the end really.  I just feel like I could have done more!  I still don’t think I have my best team yet but a couple of changes in the Summer should make us more threatening next season.

Cup Final

I had moreorless my strongest team prepared for the Cup Final against Bayern.  Beating them in the penultimate game of the season gives us a psychological edge going into the game but I would have to be aware of the wounded tiger effect.

I did it!  Extremely pleased with this result and another trophy ticked off the list in the Ultimate European Challenge!  This leaves me with just the league to accomplish in Germany which will be much more trickier.  I am not even thinking about the European cups so if I somehow managed to win the UEFA Cup next season, it would be a miracle!

Pre-season

Seeing as this update is much shorter than I anticipated, I will show you what I have been upto in the Summer and my friendly results.  I kinda went overboard with transfers which could come back and bite me!

In Darren’s game at the moment, he has been talking about his amazing Argentinian regens (with good reason too) but I have never known anything like this in previous FM games — There is a lot of fantastic players coming through in my game at the moment!  That’s my excuse for all the signings!  I am especially pleased with Eric Kouassi.

I thought I was done with all my spending but then he was brought to my attention and I just couldn’t resist!  However, there was one player who I noticed too late and that is this gentleman below.

Absolutely stunning attributes and typically, he had to be Argentine as well!  I will definitely be keeping an eye on him!

Final screenshot left to show you is my friendlies

Some convincing results, finishing with a very pleasing 2 nil over AZ of Holland.  It was very nice to see new signing from Algeria (via France) Sid Ahmed Boukemacha getting on the scoresheet a few times.  He is another striker I have high hopes for and at the age of 23, he has the best years ahead of him

So that is all for now folks!  Apologies for the relatively short post but next one should be up to the winter shutdown.  How will I fare?  Will the signings settle in quick enough?