[FM13] C.D. Constància: Trading places

Wow, this story just gets better and better. You're doing great and are hopefully on track to stay up (knocks on wood). Great result against Barca and Real Madrid, and good to see that you will hopefully be the best team in Mallorca come the end of the season.

Great result aganst Barca and some other fantastic results like Rayo! I think you've pretty much stayed up, unless you lose every other game

k1rups : Great results mate surprising to see Varane now at Barca but with a line up like they have you did exceptionally well to get a draw! Excellent work and it seems safety is round the corner

I will check the game when I get back home and see if I can do a short update on the career of Varane.
I would like soon to replace all the draws with some wins.

PaukerJ : Great stuff mate! Read it all throughout and it looks so damn good

Thanks mate
That reminds me. Is it not possible to use another font on this forum or am I missing something?

edu1878 : Wow, this story just gets better and better. You're doing great and are hopefully on track to stay up (knocks on wood). Great result against Barca and Real Madrid, and good to see that you will hopefully be the best team in Mallorca come the end of the season.

Thanks edu1878.
I can already now promise some surprising twists in the story in the next season. I just love all the different storylines FM comes up with.
Mallorca is in grave danger of being relegated this season ('Is there any other kind of danger?)

Louis O. : Great result aganst Barca and some other fantastic results like Rayo! I think you've pretty much stayed up, unless you lose every other game

With so many teams between us and the relegation line we might actually stay up even if we lose the remaining games.

Yay!!! Storyline twists. I can't wait to see what football manager throws at you.

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Another checkmark on the bucket list

It was not a good year for the Spanish teams in the big European tournaments. Only two teams had made the quarterfinals and for once it was not the usual suspects. Both Real Madrid and Barcelona were knocked out in the first knockout round of the Champions League and could now concentrate on battling it out for the Spanish league title once again.


That left At Madrid as the only Spanish team remaining team in the Champions League.


In the Europa League the only Spanish team was Espanyol and they had a tough challenge ahead with Man City in the quarter finals.


It was the English teams dominating Europe again with three of the four remaining teams in the Champions League being English.


With the end of the season drawing closer it was also time to take a closer look at the contracts. The three players over thirty had all declined as footballers according to our coaches and had not made an impact this season and would not get renewed.


Jorge Miramòn was the exception as he had done a nice job in the midfield next to David Karg for most of the season. He had an AvR over 7.2 the last three season and was rewarded a new contract.
Bestazza was not needed with both Lucas Hoyos and Biagio Petrance on the team.

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In the LIGA BBVA it looked like that a lot was decide in round 33. It was the round where Real Madrid beat Barcelona 4-2 in El Clásico to take a seven point lead in the standing with just five rounds left to play and a huge step closer to a new LIGA BBVA title .


It was also the round when C.D. Constància played R.C.D Mallorca for the second time. The game was played on the evil empires home field also called the death star (or Iberostar Stadium by people from Palma).


The game was a clinical performance in count attack football by C.D. Constància. After we had taken the lead just six minutes in to the game on a terrible blunder by the Mallorca keeper we sat back and were able to pick our spots. The next came in the 51rd minute when Diego Batista and Bañares ran circles around what was left behind of the R.C.D Mallorca defense. Los Bermellones did get the late goal after 84 minutes of play but it was too little to late.


It was R.C.D Mallorca’s twelfth game without a win and it dropped them four points below the relegation line and for C.D. Constància it was the win that finally secured the team another season in the top division, now eighteen points clear of relegation with just fifteen points left to play for.


There were no longer any doubt who was the better team on Mallorca and I could cross off another item on my bucket list.

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Great work, WE ARE STAYING UP I SAID WE ARE STAYING UP! Well done Northwood

Have you managed to get Constáncia's badge into the game yet?

I have just read the whole story tonight and I was absolutely hooked. You have done so well with a little Spanish team to get this far well done!

Louis O. : Great work, WE ARE STAYING UP I SAID WE ARE STAYING UP! Well done Northwood

Have you managed to get Constáncia's badge into the game yet?

Yes WE are and even with a good margin.

I gave up on the badge. It should not be that much work to add a simple logo.

lwalter66 : I have just read the whole story tonight and I was absolutely hooked. You have done so well with a little Spanish team to get this far well done!

Thanks for reading and for the nice comment lwalter66

I can not wait pick up a C.D. Constància kit when we go on holiday in Mallorca this summer.

And THANKS for the 15.000 views guys

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A black day for football in Mallorca

It all came down to the final day of the season and C.D. Constància got to play a major part of it.


Real Madrid had dropped points right and left and before the final game of the season they were just a single point in front of Barcelona and the league title was suddenly back in play.


F.C. Barcelona had an easy home game against R.C. Celta SAD in the last game of the season while Real Madrid would play at home in Estadio Santiago Bernabéu against no other then C.D. Constància.


The plan was to drop deep with a lot of people behind the ball and hope for a few chances on counterattacks like we had done against them earlier in the season when we almost beat them home in Inca at Nou Camp d'Inca.
The plan worked for six minutes. That how long it took for us to commit a clumsy penalty and from there it was all downhill.


We were behind 1-4 at the break and it didn’t get much better in the second half as the final result was an embarrassing 2-6 defeat.

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The last day of the season turned out to be a horrible day for all of Mallorca. Not only did we embarrass ourselves in front of 77.000 people in the stadium in Madrid and millions of people watching on TV with the horrible performance in the 2-6 loss but the other two Mallorca teams in the Spanish league system had an even worse day.
R.C.D Mallorca lost their last game of the season and was relegated out of the top division for the first time since 1996/97 but also the other Palma team At Baleares lost and were relegated from the second division.

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The latest intake of youth players had been a catastrophe with Hd of youth development Xavi dismissing the entire class. If we ever were to produce player capable of competing for a place in the starting lineup we had to do a better job and we got the owners to put up another €1.5M to improve the youth facility when the season was over.

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With the season over the European newspapers just had one story left to write. And everybody loved the story about footballs favorite ginger (also known as the man with the power-point) André Villas-Boas.


Villas-Boas had won the Europa League with Tottenham in 2013 and stayed with the team until 2017 when he decided to take an offer from At. Madrid. In his two years in the Madrid club he managed to win the Spanish Cup but could not do anything about the league dominance by Real Madrid and Barcelona.


In the summer of 2019 it was time for Villas-Boas to move again and he decided to move back to London to coach the same Chelsea team that sacked him after just nine months in control back in 2011/12. This time he lasted for 213 days before being sacked again by Roman Abramovich.


A few days later the circle was completed when he was hired by the team that gave him his international breakthrough, but this is where the story had a nice twist that the newspapers could not get enough of.


Five month after his arrival André Villas-Boas and his now Portuguese Champions Porto recorded a surprise triumph, when F.C. Porto beat (yes you properly guessed it) a Chelsea team now lead by (now its just getting silly) former FC Porto coach Giueseppe Sannino, 2-1 in the Champions League final played in the Olympic stadium in Rome on goals by Abel Hernández and Miroslav Stoch.

Not the best last game of the season you could have - Great job staying up though!

250th post :3

Well done Northwood staying up! And really nice updates so far

Nice updates there mate especially with that bit about AVB. All seems a bit silly though haha congrats on staying up!

Atreidas : Not the best last game of the season you could have - Great job staying up though!
250th post :3

Not the best way to end the season. We had nothing left to play for and I guess most of the players just wanted to get away on holiday.

No way you can blame the manager !!

Atreidas : 250th post :3

Thanks

gambit84 : Well done Northwood staying up! And really nice updates so far

Staying up will hopefully give us a huge financial boost and a chance to look upwards instead of downwards.
Thanks for commenting.

k1rups : Nice updates there mate especially with that bit about AVB. All seems a bit silly though haha congrats on staying up!

The AVB career has been interesting. I found it hilarious that Roman Abramovich sacked him within a year again only for him take revenge by beating them in the CL final.
It’s the twisted storylines like that, that makes me still enjoy FM.

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Moving on

It took me completely by surprise.


It was not normal that the C.D. Constància chairman Miguel Ángel Rubio called inn for a press conference on the opening day of training camp for both local and national media to attend.
He had not told me beforehand what the meeting was about but I had a suspicion he wanted to talk about the new youth academy that was set to start getting build in just a few weeks.


It was there for a total surprise when Chairman Miguel Ángel Rubio took center stage and announced that the board had decided to build a new stadium. Not just an extension of Nou Camp d'Inca but a completely new state of the art stadium with all the newest requirements including under soil heating and close to 20.000 seats.

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The price for the new stadium was close to €35M with most of the money coming from a new bankloan.

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Miguel Ángel Rubio went on to tell the press that the reason the board had the opportunity to make this move was because C.D. Constància had moved in among the top-20 teams in Spain in "estimated value" with a value just over €20M.


That was just €1M behind R.C.D Mallorca but still a long way behind Barcelona who was the first Spanish team valued over €1B.
Manchester Utd is valued at €1.29B, Arsenal €1.15B and Chelsea €1.14B. Next on the list is the first Spanish team FC Barcelona worth €1.07B


The first year in the top division had provided us with a steady stream of cash we had never seen before in Inca with a steady monthly profit was close to €1M.
It was now vitally important that we stayed in the top division. If we were to be relegated back down to the second level the cash flow would stop and the completion of the stadium and the clubs entire existence would suddenly be I danger with the big new monthly bank loan.

My margin of error had suddenly gotten a lot smaller.