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2024/25 Wolfsburg: Won the league, won DFB-Pokal, German Supercup, won Club World Championship,
2025/26 Wolfsburg: Won the league, won DFB-Pokal, German Supercup
2026/27 Arsenal: Won the league, won the Carabao Cup
2027/28 Arsenal: Won the league, won the Carabao Cup, FA Cup, Champions League
With a heavy heart German manager Sturgen Klarpp walked into his chairman's office to hand in his resignation Nordsjælland, he had been headhunted by Bundesliga side Wolfsburg and the opportunity to return to the motherland and test his skills at a higher level was too strong.
Klarpp had to hit the ground running, preseason had already began and he needed to assess the team's strengths and weaknesses quickly and bring in any new additions.
The young first choice goalkeeper at his old club Nordsjælland was top of the list, although not quite ready for 1st team action for Wolfsburg Klarpp saw the potential in Sigurd Hansen and immediatley loaned him back to Nordsjælland. Klarpp knew the facilities and staff at his old club but suit his development perfectly.
Other notable signings where the re-signing on loan of Taylor Harwood-Bellis from Man City, £10m for Right back Louis Beyer, £11.5m for young Czech starlet Adam Hlozek, £15.75m for the Man Utd winger Daniel James, £12m for Faitout Maouassa and the biggest signing the experienced Tottenham winger Lucas Moura.
Surplus to requirements at the Volkswagen Arena where right back Kevin Mbabu for £8.5m, Marvin Stefaniak for £5m, Brazilian right back William for a health £16.5m, £10.5m for Brekalo and finally John Brookes a centre back to division rivals Dortmund. Wage heavy Mesut Özil was also loaned out to free up more cash.
After the poor previous season Klarpp was given the target of a top half finish, given a bit of luck and everyone pulling the weight Klarpp knew he could achieve more.
Klarpp then set his focus on the training ground, the players needed to work hard to get to grips with the new season and also get to know their new team mates. Klarpp kept his trusted 4-3-3 formation from his previous club but also introduced two new variants, a more defencive 4-1-2-2-1 using a defensive midfielder in a holding role and also a more attacking version swapping the defensive midfielder with an attacking midfielder further up the field.
Klarpp's first competitive match was a cup game against lowly ASV Cham. Wolfsburg gave the travelling away fans a treat with a resounding 9-0 victory. The first half of the season had mixed results but left Wolfsburg in a decent 6th place with half the season left to play. They also progressed to the next round of the cup.
January is never a great time to sign new players, it can take some players time to get to grips with the new training and playing styles and also fit in with their new team mates, but Klarpp knew if he was to push higher his team would once more need to be strengthened.
In came Bisseck, Gabbia and Palacios for a combined £26m, although Klarpp didn't want to sell talented central defender Pongracic, a release clause in his contract meant Wolfsburg were unable to keep him at the club. Bayern Munich paid £19.5m
Despite going out of the cup in the quarter final, Wolfsburg's results continued to improve, in the remaining 12 matches Wolfsburg won x, drew 3 times and only lost twice. With the other larger sides also having to play in Europe this left Klarpp's side able to leapfrog more established sides, Dortmund, RB Leipzig and Hertha Berlin into 2nd place.
Once again Klarpp was awarded the German manager of the year. What will happen next season? Klarpp set his sights on the title!
After a non spectacular playing career in his home nation of Germany the media were perhaps surprised to see the announcement of Sturgen Klarpp taking on the vacant managers position at Danish side FC Nordsjælland.
Introducing the new manager at Right to Dream Park
Sturgen Klarpp had to hit the ground running however, the board had given him a target of a top half finish with the additional requirements of use the team's well established youth system and only signing players under the age of 23. A tough ask as after a quick glance through the team's roster there were many holes to fill.
Klarpp signed 3 players in the transfer window, 2 young stars for the future that showed signs of promise during trials and the aging Spaniard Raúl Rodríguez (32). Despite the board not wanting signings over the age of 23 Klopp snapped up the central defender on the free.
The old adage you can't win anything with kids was certainly on the bookies minds as they gave the team a 25-1 of topping the league at the end of the season.
An away draw in the first game of the season against AGF gave the new manager much room for thought and tweaked his formation from an attacking 4-3-2-1 to a slightly more defencive wide 4-1-2-2-1. This gave the team a more solid platform to build up attacks from the back and then hit the opponents with a speedy attacking front 3 of Atanga, Sulemana and Amon. 2 of which were excellent recruits by previous managers from one of the clubs many feeder teams. They were from the Right to Dream Academy in Ghana.
The change in formation lead to 5 straight wins followed by a draw with the league favourites. 6 more straight wins and two cup wins later Nordsjælland were looking good, leading the league at the winter break. It wasn't to be though as 3 losses and 2 draws in the last stages of the preliminary phase meant they had to catch up a deficit of 4 points in the Championship group where the top 6 sides in the league would play off against each other for the title.
Klarpp's team were knocked out of the Sydbank Pokalen quarter final by a spirited AGF, it was a frustrating time but it did mean they could then concentrate on the league but after a valiant effort it was not to be and they dropped out of the running shortly afterwards and finished the league 10pts behind the eventual winners FC København.
2nd place was certainly deemed a very successful season however and Klarpp was offered a new contract to extend his stay and challenge for the title proper in 21/22 and chance his arm in Europe with a Champions cup 2nd round qualifying position.
His performance was also noted by the other managers in the league as he was voted the Danish manager of the year award.
One particular highlight of the year was a 9-0 victory over Lyngby.
Next season manager Klarpp sniffs victory...
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