Bhutania 2035 : Increasing production
January 2035
To summarize :
Bhutan FIFA rank : 162th (-23 places) with 181,64 (-95,11 pts)
Transport United Rep : 1416 (+49 pts)
Bhutan is sliding down the ranking as expected, while
Transport United is accumulating reputation after a year of decrease. No doubt shifting partners for friendlies played a role in this change. And there are enough small clubs in Ireland to shift at will when needed.
I had a small hope
Bhutan would play the Asian Cup but no (but Syria and Yemen will). We'll have to wait until late March to play against Taipei for what will (not) be a tremendous game for sure.
March 2035
Thunderclap in the little world of Bhutanese football :
Bourhan Mohamed decided to retire from professionnal play. And probably amateur too. He was our most capped player with 36 selections, scored just once, and was one of our most devoted tackler (2,17/match) and head player (1,89/match). His regen is pure shit. One slot to reassign.
On a side note,
MIPK signed
Sydorenko to unlock his coaching abilities. They are poor, the guy being mostly a physio. And he wanted a new challenge as soon as he landed in Finland, so I put him ont the transfert list instantaneously.
And now, the big moment :
Chinese Taipei vs
Bhutan
I had no aspiration for this game apart from giving is first cap to
Pawan Bhutia, which was made even easier when
Centurion suffered an injury without a warning message. We had a terrible first half. The changes I made during the pause seemed to have a positive effect as we took the lead, but in the end our opponents logically won the game, even with an horrible 1/6 for tackling.
Keller and
Hugo Duncan did their best but the rest of the team wasn't in the mood today.
Well, let's just forget this one, because we'll soon start the real stuff.
April 2035
Seven. Seven new faces will join the
Bhutan's side this year. Seven players with potential... ahem... more potential than usual, which is still a thing because we were short in potential anyway. All the deals are already arranged from
Transport United to
MIPK. And three of them suddenly have
MIPK listed as their favorite club. They still have no idea about the aim of my project, poor fools.
July 2035
I told you about the men who received their fresh Bhutanese passport. It's time to introduce them :
Laishram Haokip comes from India, next side of the frontier, and his goalkeeping potential is 104
Xin Sun potential is annouced at 105
Federico Vazquez will play somewhere in the midfield, a sector where we lacked « talent », and his PA is just of 100
Seong-su Mun fled from North Korea, but not before playing for his former nation at U21 level, because his PA is 113, nice !
Nathan Martinez is by far the best catch of the batch as he has a PA of 133
Alessandro Andrade da Silva could be a tactical choice in the middle, and is potential is of 100 too
And
Lalchhuanawma Dias is another Indian with an impronounceable name, with a PA of... wait, what the... PA 55 ? An intruder ! How did he pass through the selection ?
We are improving, even if not spectacularly. At least we can say
Bhutan can attract players who seemed out of reach when I started my experiment. Those new faces are mostly bland, but let's wait for regens with better physical attibutes and better training ('cause you know, training in Bhutan is just about playing the same Irish counterparts again and again under piles of fresh snow).
Speaking of regens,
Thinley Rasel is still at large, or something like that, in an Bhutanese amateur club, contract less, but unwilling to move away at the moment. It's amusing to see I can nick world class youngsters to
MIPK in front of any high profile European team, but fail to attract a slightly better than usual Bhutanese. He doesn't even want to negociate !
Next step : giving each member of the new pack his first cap for
Bhutan of course and conclude their bhutanisation. And to
Kosuke Mori too as I forgot him on the bench for more than a year. The next game will come in less than two months, against... the Gambia. Joy !
All those new players are giving me an headache : there are 34 men in
MIPK first team, and I don't see how to get rid of the surplus. And you understand what kind of surplus I'm speaking of : they are important members of
MIPK national team.
And now a news which could please Newcastle Utd fans (or frighten them) :
When I say we are growing in importance... Oh, he finally signed for Silkeborg. No idea why more than ten clubs were suddenly chasing him. No idea abour so many things in fact. His skills are not than great.
I have another thing to point : remember Ballyfermot, the Irish team
Transport United faced twice a week for years and went from amateur to semi-pro status ? Now they are selected to play in the domestic cup :
August 2035
I was scouting Bhutanese regens with GK editor, browsing the tables without success as one of them was missing. Then I understood he was morphed from an under 22 mediocre Bhutanese footballer to a 50 years old Welsh scout working for Cardiff Met. That's not a little change. He's the first guy to escape my claws.
Another good show by
MIPK which will make it to the CL groups one more time. We did beat Genk, with
Lucas Nunez scoring one goal (most of my strikers were injured, we were just lucky he aimed well).
September 2035
The Gambia vs
Bhutan
I would never imagined we'll play a friendly against The Gambia, a nation about which I have nothing to say... ah, their Irish coach had been sacked, then choosen again to manage them less than two weeks later. I have nothing to say about my team too except I sent the whole pack of neo-Bhutanese on the pitch to give them the second nationality they are begging for (I don't even need to lash for this as they are litterally doing everything to please me which I still believe is inconceivable). In fact I had so many people to turn Bhutanese that I didn't find a place for superstar
Hugo Duncan, so he started on the bench. It wasn't a so boring game (3 goals scored still) but judging the ratings, no one tried to shine today.
November 2035
MIPK, without much surprise, won the league. We had a little slackening after five years in a row over 100 scored goals. Too many players to rotate didn't help to stay consistent, at last when we talk about the attack. Still I'm not going to complain as we stay unbeaten two seasons in a row. We won our eleventh Finnish cup too.
With 13 experiments in the team it was the first time
MIPK could field a 100% Bhutanese approved starting 11 for every CL groups games. It didn't go very well...
I hope this will give them some experience. I won't post their yearly performances as it means absolutely nothing when you make them play with future world stars againg Finnish teams. Only two of them gave me satisfaction in Champions League :
Lucas Nunez up front, and
Denys Shutkov who tackled tirelessly and won... half his challenges ? Not that bad. On the other side,
Laishram Haokip made a poor impression by escaping training after less than a week in Finland ; and
Nathan Martinez was injured more than half of the time. I extended their contract because we'll play the WC qual next year ; I want to keep my protegees fit.
Thinley Rasel won't sign at
MIPK. While he kept saying he felt good in Bhutan, he agreed – in my back – a contract from Huy, third Belgian level. I'm not very pleased by his move. I'll try to snatch him later as I think he'll get upset in Belgium sooner or later.
December 2035
The year ends with another stadium expansion in Finland. I asked for it, the board turned me down, then finally decided to raise the bar over 21000 places (we absolutely don't need all that stuff, that about 15000 empty seats... sorry we don't even have so much seats), while rejecting better training facilities (which are usually always handy isn't it).
Lohoca Justo accepted to join us as player/staff in July. I think it's rather important to unveil my Bhutaneses non-playing attributes. Some of them could even turn physios or managers ?
The WC quals will be played next year. I'll make some loosely focus about our forces, and (absence of) chances to qualify, before entering 2036.
Sadly a familiar story with PSV as you did well for most of your reign but one disappointing season and you're sacked again. Is there an award for the unluckiest save? 
What a season from the lads. We spent pretty big on Gavi and also brought in Nianzou and Moriba in January but it was Gio Reyna who ran the show all year, finishing top scorer with 25 in all comps while Moukoko stalled a bit in the 2nd half of the season, finishing on 22. Bayern's 1 defeat was a 2-1 loss to us at the Allianz which obviously turned the season around as we were 4 points behind at that stage. Won our last 7 league games to take the title by a point. 
