Season 38

[July Fourth]

Level 16 - Season 16 - July Fourth Preview

Q: Mourad Essadri has left the club after 4 seasons of great service will he be missed by the club?
A: Absolutely, Especially the by the fans, the GK is a legend at our club, with lots of superb saves that helped us win the treble in L13.

Q: You have made 4 new signings this season on Day 1 of the season are you happy with your purchases?
Yes, I'm delighted, because it adds good all round strength to the team, We bought a new GK, MC, ST and a AMC, we already had enough strength in the squad as far as defence was concerned, We are over the moon with signing one particular player and I couldn't hide my delight when I saw the signiture of Hatsune Miku on the contract we offered the young player. We believe with such a fantastic youth career of 152 goals in 76 games, the player can reproduce the same form, also we are outstanded by the players amazing progress in training and also the player so far never seems to get injured, just like Alex Zidane was when he was training.

Q: Your strong favourites for both League and Champions League, Can you win them both?
League looks like a walk in the park on paper but they were be a good challenge by 3 clubs in the is league there's Colin FC and theres 2 turkish sides and we think we have more than enough in the locker to steamroller our way to another league title, As for the Champions League we need to be more cautious, getting through the group looks simple enough but its knockout after that and we know that 1 bad game in the knockout stages could end our reign as the CL champions but we expect to go far and we will take 1 game at a time in the competition we must not get too confident.

July Fourth start the league season in 20 minutes away in spain against CHIFLY before getting back on the plane to London to play Mars 2 hours later in the Champions League.

[Chris Rath]

Level 16 - Season 16 - July Fourth Preview
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Great, this inspired me to do a preview myself.

Q: Last season was the most sucessful in the young club history (league title defended + CL win). What is the ambition for the club this lvl 3 season?
A: It was indeed very sucessfull. We try to win the 3rd championship in a row, but in the league are this time a lot of friendly managers, who are eager to get good results against us. In any case we are eager to get a better start than last year (26 points in the first 13 matches, 39 in the last 13 ones). In the cup we are happy we survived the 1st round against a lvl 4 team. Next round we face a scout buyer, so think from match to match. In the CL there are 3 other clubs with equal average team quality. We give our best, but day form will decide.

Q: The club made 3 new signings so far. Are the transfers activity done or does the club plan to perform transfers during the season?
A: FCK is very happy, three 19 years promising talents decided to join the club. Igor Ambrósio (DC/DR defensive wall), Jorge Fernandez (RM freekick taker) and Farshad Fathi (MC, already power-trained to 6*) are expected to give our team more depth. With these purchases the transfer activity are almost done. The club will only react if expectional players for ML/AML or ST are affordable for reasonable prices.

Q: What about the youth development?
A: Two youngsters will join the team in 6 days. We will see how they perform in training and if they can stay at FCK or qualify for another club.

Q: How about last seasons stars Ronnie Andre Tonseth and Guido Kunz?
A: Guido made additional training sessions at the start of the season and reached that way 6* at the new level. Ronnie Andre is close to 7*.

Q: Last question: In the rooster there are still 4 players from season 1? Will they get chances or warm the bench?
A: It depends on the players performance. We are very happy how Bernd Gürser improved during the last seasons. He learnt one new position (AMC, MC) and shows despite being only 4* his playmaker skills when he is fielded and is still quite young, 22. Dominik Afriyie, Florian Bernhard and Luis Leudo are this season 3*, but I trust them as back-ups. They will get playing time for sure.

Today FCK will start the regular league season in half-an-hour at Turkish side Dogancan FC. Afterwards the team will travel quickly home and face Vietnamese side Tran Ngog FC in the CL group stage.