The Rejects | Football Manager 2019 EP.1

Hello everyone my name is Golazo and today I bring you a series that I probably won’t continue! The football rejects. It’s going to be a team of rejects and flops that I’ll put in the EFL championship and try to work our way to European glory.

Don’t expect insane writing, those are for serious blogs. This is just a fun thing I’m doing so I’m going to be focused more on the actual gameplay than the writing.

How it’s going to work!

Well every reject is going to start of really bad except our captain which in this series will be Martin Ødegaard, chosen by me. Ødegaard will start off with a 2 1/2* Ability while everybody else will have a 2* Ability.

Every episode we’re going to give a new player an exit trial. He will play every game in that episode and I’ll give you his stats and you guys decide whether we sign him or not. I don’t want the squad to be too big so I’ll stop at 30 players. Meaning once we give a player an exit trial, if he makes it... I’ll have to kick someone off the team.

If you decide to keep the new reject/flop I will decide 5 players to put up in a poll, whoever gets the most votes will be voted off the team and not be back for a while. Another place where you guys come in is by commenting some rejects you would like to see in the series!

You also may be wondering well how are you going to win the champions league with a team of absolute morons. After every season we will upgrade players. For every 4 wins I will be able to upgrade a player by 1/2 a star. For every trophy we win I can get to upgrade 2 players half a star. For every individual trophy a player wins they will be upgraded half a star automatically no matter what point of the season it is.

Now that, that’s out of the way let’s meet the team.

Some of the ages are changed to when they were good so they can stick around in the series for a lot longer.

The Team

Goalkeepers

Joe Hart

Age: 32

Current Team: Burnley

Nationality: English

Chris Kirkland

Age: 20

Current Team: Retired

Nationality: English

Charles Itandje

Age: 25

Current Team: Adanaspor

Nationality: Cameroonian

Defenders

Aly Cissokho LB

Age: 22

Current Team: Antalyaspor

Nationality: French

John Curtis CB/RB

Age: 19

Current Team: Retired

Nationality: English

Roderick Miranda CB

Age: 28

Current Team: Olympiacos

Nationality: Portuguese

Micah Richards CB

Age: 17

Current Team: N/A

Nationality: English

Andrea Ranocchia CB

Age: 22

Current Team: Inter Milan

Nationality: Italian

Frederik Sørensen CB/LB

Age: 27

Current Team: FC Koln

Nationality: Norwegian

Alan Hutton RB

Age: 24

Current Team: Aston Villa

Nationality: English

Midfielders

Zakaria Bakkali LW/LM

Age: 23

Current Team: Anderlecht

Nationality: Belgian

Martin Ødegaard CM (C)

Age: 20

Current Team: Vitesse

Nationality: Norwegian

Fabio Paim RW/RM

Age: 19

Current Team: Leixões

Nationality: Portuguese

Freddy Adu CM/CAM

Age: 16

Current Team: Las Vegas Lights

Nationality: American

Adnan Januzaj RW/RM

Age: 24

Current Team: Real Sociedad

Nationality: Belgian

Mastour CAM/CF

Age: 21

Current Team: PAS Lamia

Nationality: Moroccan

Alexander Merkel CM

Age: 18

Current Team: Heracles

Nationality: German

Hatem Ben Arfa CAM/ST

Age: 17

Current Team: Stade Rennais

Nationality: French

Attackers

Alexandre Pato

Age: 19

Current Team: São Paulo

Nationality: Brazilian

Adriano

Age: 19

Current Team: Retired

Nationality: Brazilian

Federico Macheda

Age: 17

Current Team: Panathinaikos

Nationality: Italian

Robinho

Age: 21

Current Team: Basaksehir

Nationality: Brazilian

Giovani Dos Santos ST/LW/RW/CAM

Age: 18

Current Team: N/A

Nationality: Mexican

Now that we have met the team let’s see today’s tryout.

Alex Song

Age: 25

Current Team: Sion

Nationality: Cameroonian

Pre-Season Tour

Our Pre-Season tour kicks off with a game against Boreham Wood. Seeing as they’re in the Vanarama National League I expect nothing less than a win but hey you know what they say about flops. They flop... yeah I don’t know what they say about flops.

Rejects VS Boreham Wood

Lineup

10’

Paim runs down the wing and cuts back, has a crack.... just off the mark

14’

Paim runs down the wing again, he gets a cross into Adriano. Adriano gets his head to it... ITS IN!

20’

The Rejects have a corner here, cross by Alex Song to Adriano WHO TAPS IT IN 2-0!

28’

Another corner for the Rejects to be whipped in by Alex Song. ADRIANO SCORES A GOAL IDENTICAL TO THE LAST ONE! HAT TRICK!

43’

Ødegaard with a free kick... saved by the keeper, out for a corner

Halftime: Rejects 3-0 Boreham Wood

46’

Boreham Wood have a penalty... Fyfield booms it past Joe Hart, 3-1 to the Rejects

64’

The Rejects have a corner here, Ødegaard will take it and he whips it in... THE CB MICAH RICHARDS PUTS IT IN! 4-1!

75’

Alexandre Pato —> Hatem Ben Arfa

Freddy Adu —> Martin Ødegaard

84’

The Rejects get another corner, Freddy Adu steps up and gets a cross in... ADRIANO FOR THE 4TH TIME TODAY!

Fulltime: Rejects 5-1 Boreham Wood

The Rejects win their first ever game as a club!

Other Pre-Season Results (these were managed by the assistant manager)

Rejects 0-4 Tranmere

Rejects 0-4 Fleetwood

Rejects 0-4 Crawley

Notice how the only game I managed we won!!

Skybet Championship

Rejects VS Blackburn Rovers

Lineup

16’

Rejects have a throw in which is ed to Paim... he chips it into the box and Ben Arfa’s there, GOOOOAAAAAL!! 1-0 to the Rejects!

21’

Blackburn equalize, Goal from Bell

Halftime: Rejects 1-1 Blackburn

80’

Pato —> Adriano

Januzaj —> Bakkali

Merkel —> Song

92’

Blackburn string together a dangerous counter attack, the shot.... CLUTCH SAVE FROM HOE HART!

93’

The Rejects take it down field and get a corner, Ødegaard takes it... it comes to nothing

Fulltime: Rejects 1-1 Blackburn

Very boring game but Ben Arfa gets the Rejects first ever competitive goal!

For our first ever competitive match I think this was a very solid result. Our team isn’t all that great so it’s good to see they’re performing out there and able to compete with the Championship teams. Hatem Ben Arfa gets our first ever competitive goal which is nice. The goal was assisted by Paim who has been amazing thus far. In the 2 games I’ve played him he’s been great. He is so good at putting balls into the box and that almost always translates into goals. Paim will be the first guy I upgrade for sure come the end of the season. If we win at least 4 games of course.

Rejects VS Rotherham

Lineup

8’

1-0 Rotherham

31’

The ball falls to Pato and he takes off, he’s one on one with the keeper... he saves but Pato gets the rebound and... HE FINISHES!! THE REJECTS HAVE EQUALIZED!

34’

The Rejects have a throw in and it’s given to Paim who puts it in the box... OH MY WORD PATO COMES OUT OF NOWHERE AND FINISHES! THE REJECTS TAKE A 2-1 LEAD!

Halftime: Rejects 2-1 Rotherham

63’

Januzaj —> Dos Santos

Hutton —> Sørensen

81’

Freddy Adu —> Ben Arfa

85’

THATS A FOUL! Rotherham get a penalty in the 85th! He shoots... HE GOES RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE AND JOE HART SAVES WOW!

Fulltime: Rejects 2-1 Rotherham

The Rejects win a competitive match for the first time in their history thanks to Joe Hart!

”rOtHeRHAm fAnS ARe COnFiDeNt tHeIr SiDe wILL hANd oUt aN aBsOlUtE baTtErInG” yeah whatever dude we dominated that whole game. Amazing performance from the lads and a huge result! Pato nabs two and looking like his old self!! Paim plays great again getting another assist! Seriously this Paim kid is so good I don’t even want to drop him. He’s an assist machine getting at least one every game I’ve played him. Our next game is against Northampton in the Carabao Cup, hopefully we go into that game with high hopes as our recent form has been great! Alexandre Pato was also named in the EFL Championship team of the week.

Rejects VS Northampton

Lineup

This Lineup was going to include Adriano, Sørensen, and Hart but I decided I would go with the two strikers that have actually scored. I switched up the defense I bit too because we’ve conceded in every game so far. Itandje goes in goal because I want him to be the designated cup keeper.

21’

The Northampton striker has a crack and it gets past Itandje but it hits the bar!

34’

Paim runs down the wing and gets a cross in, Goode tries to clear it but it’s awful... BAKKALI’S THERE TO FINISH IT! 1-0 REJECTS!

48’

Northampton equalize

51’

Paim throws it into Ben Arfa.. HES BEEN FOULED IN THE BOX ITS A PENALTY! Pato steps up... GOOOOOAAAAAL PATO MAKES IT 2!

71’

Adriano —> Ben Arfa

Ranocchia —> Richards

82’

Northampton have a corner, it’s cleared and it falls to Adriano who loses his man! He’s one on one at an angle... AWFUL SHOT, GOES MILES WIDE!

91’

Northampton equalize

Fulltime: Rejects 2-2 Northampton

Penalties

Northampton... score

Adriano steps up... its saved by the keeper

Northampton... BIG SAVE FROM ITANDJE

Pato... keeper saves again

Northampton... score

Ødegaard steps up... and slots it in!

Northampton... HE SKIES IT!

Bakkali... OMG BAKKALI PUTS IT WIDE

Northampton... ITANDJE SAVES OMG

Paim... PAIM PUTS IT IN!

Northampton... HE PUTS IT OVER!

Roderick Miranda... ITS SAVED WHAT

Northampton... ITANDJE YESSS

Alex Song... HE WINS IT FOR THE REJECTS!!!!!!!

Oh my god that was the worst penalty shootout I have ever witnessed. There was a total of 10 missed penalties and only 5 scored. Northampton really missed 4 penalties in a row to lose it. I was literally getting so pissed at the Rejects but wow imagine the Northampton Manager.... he must be fuming. This was such a great win that the Rejects were featured in the newspaper. Have a look..

And on that note we’ll end the first episode of the Rejects career Mode! I will release a poll with Alex Song’s stats for the episode and you guys will decide whether we keep him or not!

Vote whether to keep Alex Song or not here!