Hope you are all well and I will now bring the update to my story. After our best trophy winning season last year I am still dissapointed with the penalties that continue to cost me! But thats behind us so lets move on.
The new season began with me doing what I always do, sending scouts trying to sell players etc after a few day I received this is my news! Just have a look :
As you can see the team that beat me in the champions league were after me! The money involved was well incredible, offering me £180,000 pounds a week!
Just wish this was real life!!! :D
The Chelsea squad is a fantastic squad the transfer money was enough for me to sign a few players. I must admit it was tempting, a chance for me to sample another style of football.
I thought long and hard before making my final choice but I didnt regret the one I made!
I stayed!
My aim in this game was to stay at a club for 20 years and I am determined to do that. Chelsea was tempting but I have unfinished business with Real Union, I must win back our champions league title!
As always I got rid of a few players that I felt had no real chance of first team football. So lets have a look at the players out this season :
Players Out :
Mikel Pena was sold with a heavy heart, I really liked him he came through the acadamy at 16 and still remains Union’s youngest ever goal scorer at 16 years and 121 days. He also scored 161 times in 440 games but we now have good options upfront and his playing time would be limited.
A good price though and a new start for him.
Three payed loans with Saenz and Simon both acadamy players, he went to Real Madrid but as a backup player not a starter! Weber got a bit home sick so loaned him back to Germany his native country to help his development and also to make him happy again.
Kuzmin I will show you in a moment.
Players In :
Oleg Kuzmin
With Romero now 37 and Gauchino a little unpredictable at times I acted fast to bring in a new young and promising goalkeeper. With my new Eastern European scout he found me this player and I spent little time in bringing him to Spain.
I payed £800k so very cheap and as you can see I quickly loaned him out so he could get some first team experience. One for the future I hope.
Berk Celik
Welcome the first ever Turkish player to play for Real Union. I payed £4 million to Galatasary for this tall but quick centre back. I felt we needed another player in their but someone who could compete right away, I feel Celik will do that.
Am really pleased as we held of Inter Milan for his signature and we didnt have to pay an over the top wage for him. Really pleased with this signing.
Thats about it in terms of Real Union news I stayed which I am pleased with but I may move in the future. Will just have to see what happens!
Now onto my National side I am managing Brazil. We are currently trying to qualify for the 2026 world cup finals and the South American section is one of the hardest in my opinion.
But Brazil have enough quality but the expectations are sky high! A win just isnt good enough at times so lots of pressure involved. Here are the results :
6 more wins but two were not good enough according to my spokes man!
We comfortably beat Ecuador 3-0 but just sneaked a win away at Chile a really tough place to win. The fans apparantly were unhappy we didnt win 5-0 but at times fans can get a bit deluded! A win is win so I was happy with that!
We then beat major rivals Argentina to the delight of the fans and press but I was back under pressure after we almost let a 3-0 lead slip against Uruguay who went on to miss an 87 minute penalty which would have made it 3-3!
Columbia was one of those wierd games in which we created over 30 chances had about 14 clear cut openings and they had 3 and scored 3. But we still managed to score six to the delight off our fans!
We finished this little section with a 4-0 win over Paraguay and Vandinho scoring back to back hatricks! Amazing that he just cant break into the team at Real Union yet is scoring for fun for Brazil!
So ten games gone and ten wins, we have scored 33 times and conceed 8 with a great difference of 25 yet I still have work to do to win over the press and fans!
We are 11 points clear of 4 and automatic qualification and are 7 clear of major rivals Argentina.
Just a quick look at the top scorers and as you can see Vandinho leads the way with 12, he only played a handfull of games for me last year at Union but is key at Brazil. Felix is in the role of Castaignos I tried to buy him but they wouldnt sell.
So thats, another season at Union looms as we try again to win all the trophies we can. I will update as soon as I play and I hope you will still continue to follow my long journey!!!