TerminalPortugal Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 We will be running every league in Europe from the outset and we will be holidaying until the 1st July 2020, so that the jobs available are different to the starting ones that are normally available. I plan to still continue my “Il Sogno Siciliano” save and story, but I wanted to run a save that was less intensive to progress with, and I just fancied doing another save and thought I may as well share it on the forums anyway. I did a similar save back on FM19, by the same name, so hopefully it goes as well as that one. The format will be one seasonal update with all the information and a post if we change clubs at any point and introduction to the new club. That should keep things nice succinct from me. There is not direct end goal or purpose of the save apart from seeing how far into the future we can go and tracking our managerial career. We must start with an avatar from a randomly chosen European country with no coaching badges and no previous playing experience. When we are unemployed we must take the first job we are offered, no matter who the club is and what career we have had. We must use the Go Holiday feature using Apply for Jobs at Any Clubs feature in the holiday menu, until we get interviews. In conducting the interviews we must answer with the intention of getting the job at the club we are interviewing with. When we are in a job, we must be “loyal” to the club we are at. We must to not apply for job elsewhere. We however can link ourselves to other jobs if we wish to We cannot resign from our current club (only in one circumstance, where we take a sabbatical). The only way we can leave a club is to be headhunted for another job, leave the club by mutual consent when our contract ends, or where we are sacked. If we are sacked or leave by mutual consent, rule two applies. By rule – We cannot do anything that would deliberately clearly get us sacked i.e. give the board an ultimatum. Obviously if we link ourselves to jobs or have bad results they may sack us. We are not allowed to be an international manager and a club manager at the same time. If we are offered an international management job, we can resign from our club role. If we are unemployed and we get an international management job offer before any other we are not obliged to accept it. We are the head coach at whatever club we manage. Therefore we are responsible for precisely only a few things; picking the team and managing the first team in matches, setting the tactics, running training and being the face of the club in the press and press conferences. The various staff members will run their areas of expertise, i.e. the technical director will employ the staff, the director of football will conduct transfers and player contract renewals. If this member of staff is not currently at the club, then we have to assign it to another member of staff. There will be a mechanism in this save that kicks into place once I have won the top division title with the club I am at. It is called the “Sabbatical Tracker”. Once we win the league it starts up. At the end of every season there will be a 50% chance that it happens and can increase the gauge by up to 25%. If we reach 100%, then we are forced to resign from the club we are and take at least 6 months out of the game. After six months, rule two applies again. We find out who our manager is and who our first team is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerminalPortugal Posted August 12, 2020 Author Share Posted August 12, 2020 (edited) Our random nationality we got was Dutch, so meet Klaes van den Berg from Reijmerstok, in Holland near the Belgian and German borders. We are now doing the one year holiday before we find out where exactly we land for our first club. Edited August 12, 2020 by TerminalPortugal 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerminalPortugal Posted August 12, 2020 Author Share Posted August 12, 2020 (edited) We are heading to Sweden The first club to come back to us was Swedish outfit, Lidkopings FK playing their football in the Division 2 Norra Gotland, in the fourth tier. A contract for the remainder of this season and all of next season Lidköping is a locality and the seat of Lidköping Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 25,644 inhabitants in 2010. It is situated on the southern shore of Lake Vänern and sometimes refers to itself as "Lidköping by Vänern", to distinguish itself from Linköping near Sweden's east coast. Attempts have been made to change the official name to "Lidköping vid Vänern" but these attempts have not been successful. The town of Lidköping is divided by the Lidan River, flowing through the central city. The eastern side of it is called the old town, and the western side is known as the new town. The municipality of Lidköping is, together with its eastern neighbor Götene, located on the Läckö-Kinnekulle peninsula. In association with several large local companies, they have a colloquial tourism company known as "Götene-Lidköping Vänern Turist AB". Lidköping got its charter on July 21, 1446, and thus qualifies as one of the now defunct Cities of Sweden. The city arms are almost as old. The design has varied throughout the centuries, but has always depicted a seated bishop. It is disputed if it depicts an actual bishop, but was in the 20th century decided to be a depiction of the bishop Saint Nicholas. Around 1650, the city was incorporated into the countship of Jakob De la Gardie. However, in 1655 the crown decided to regain administration of the city. To make up the loss, De la Gardie was then given the right to found a new city on the western side of the river, starting in 1670. In 1672 the foundations were laid, and the new city grew quickly. In 1683, both sides of the city Lidköping were declared unified by the Crown, who also reclaimed possession of them both. The trip from our village in Holland to Lidkoping in Sweden The board want a top half finish for the next few seasons and to work within the budget they have provided. Projections look bad on the financial front A mixed bag for the club, we were predicted to finish 6th this season. We lie in 7th, pretty close to our predicted finishing position. Spent a lot of their recent history in this division. We play at Framnas IP in Lidkoping. It holds 2,500 capacity, although only 500 seats. Not the best facilities, but we expected that at this stage The first team squad is above. These are the five players that look to me like they are the best players at the club, we should hopefully be able to work out who is good for us and who is not. Edited August 12, 2020 by TerminalPortugal 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anagain Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 Good luck. Sweden is fun. Tough, but fun. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerminalPortugal Posted August 12, 2020 Author Share Posted August 12, 2020 7 minutes ago, anagain said: Good luck. Sweden is fun. Tough, but fun. Thanks. Just finished a career, where I started in Sweden at Hudiksvalls FF and it wasn't easy. I remember getting frustrated with transfers due to registration rules especially in the top division. Fortunately that is a headache to the Director of Football in this save. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerminalPortugal Posted August 12, 2020 Author Share Posted August 12, 2020 No transfers The board looked happy. All objectives met and surpassed this season. An amazing start for us as a manager, all wins apart from a draw to the champions. We also got through the playoffs winning all our games. We finished in 2nd place, we were never going to catch champions Stenungsunds, but very creditable to manage to push our way to 2nd place and ultimately promotion via the playoffs. Some really good performances from the boys since we took over. GK: Erik Ekblad LB: Jonathan Hallin CB: Simon Johansson CB: Gustav Hellman RB: Felix Stenstrom ML: Kristijan Nikolla CM: Emil Algotsson CM: Oliver Jonsson MR: Jakob Radgowski ST: Alex Gunnarsson ST: Johan Karlsson Not the formation we played, must have been the formation they player before we got to the club. A few guys with decent potential. Finances marginally improved from the start of the season. Next seasons wage budget has also been revealed by the board, hopefully they bring in some players for me. None Final year of our contract, we will see if they propose an extension. At the end of the season the board allowed me to take my first coaching badge. Not yet activated Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerminalPortugal Posted August 13, 2020 Author Share Posted August 13, 2020 Transfers In Transfers Out Released Players I don't think the DoF did a very good job, we got in players but not really a lot of quality, mostly players that were destined for the youth side or reserves. He allowed a lot of players to leave on free, choosing not to resign them or messing around with their renewals to the point where they refused to sign a new contract, then he allow a key defender in Vilson Nikola to leave on deadline day with hours left, and while he did try and get a replacement he failed to get the deal done in time. So at the start of the season we really had a thin squad and I had to raid our reserves and youth sides to promote players for cover. Two of the signings were very good this season, Johan Gudmundsson on loan was pretty inspired and he was great for us and Mattias Jansson was a solid first teamer all season also. The others are youngsters or bit part players. Doing well on the club vision and board support as you might expect after this season. We did pretty well in pre-season after the initial lost in our first warmup. It was a strange league season, firstly because we were predicted to finish 15th and ended up defying expectation completely, secondly because there were some strange results, like losing 5-0 to Orebro Syrianska and then winning the next game 6-0 to Gefle. We started the season like freight train amassing win after win, to the point where I was convinced we were already promoted and would be champions, but we faded a little in the middle of the season and then again at the end of the season. Even then we should have won the league, we needed one win out of our last two regular season games and lost them both to allow Brommapojkama to take the league title from us. Then even in the playoffs, we won the first game 3-0 and I thought it was cruise control, and it was up until the 70th minute of the second leg with the game sitting at 1-1 and then out of nowhere Degefors scored 3 quick goals to put us on the brink but we hung on to achieve promotion. In the end Brommapojkama won the league on the final day, we finished second qualifying for the promotion playoffs. Event Late in Arriving Managers Team of the Season GK: Erik Ekblad DR: Simon Johannson DC: Gustav Hellman DC: Mattis Jansson DL: Felix von Barth DM: Oliver Jonsson MC: Emilio Reljanovic MC: Johan Gudmundsson AMR: Jakob Radgowski AML: Kristijan Nikolla ST: Axel Gunnarsson The finances always improve after the season, but we ran in the red for most of the season. The new budget gives us about £5k a week on player wages and a minor £2k transfer budget. None We signed a new contract with the club. There is no upside at this time to allowing our contract to expire, because Rule Two will be invoked and since we still have no reputation and only a National A Licence, we realistically might be looking at a similar or worse job than this one. We got our badge but they refused in the middle of the season to allow me to start the next. I will try again at the start of the season to convince the board to finance it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dllu Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 All those rules made my head hurt. But seriously, great start. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerminalPortugal Posted August 13, 2020 Author Share Posted August 13, 2020 1 hour ago, dllu said: All those rules made my head hurt. But seriously, great start. Yeah plenty of rules but they basically break down a) when unemployed must take first job b) not allowed to do anything at club apart from training, matches and press conferences i.e. transfers of players/staff must be the AI staff c) can only leave a club if headhunted, or allow my contract to expire - if contract expires then a comes into play again d) If I am being successful at a club i.e. winning top division titles eventually I will be forced to resign and spend 6 months out of management (thats to avoid the situation where I then just stay at the best club in the world forever at a specific point in the save) A bit complicated but actually pretty straightforward. Thanks, been a little unexpected that second promotion, I must say, thought we had no chance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darien Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 I'm intrigued by the idea of the sabbatical. Could you explain in more detail how it works? I understood that the first time you got 50% but the later I didn't understand. Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerminalPortugal Posted August 13, 2020 Author Share Posted August 13, 2020 11 minutes ago, Darien said: I'm intrigued by the idea of the sabbatical. Could you explain in more detail how it works? I understood that the first time you got 50% but the later I didn't understand. Thanks! Yeah I can explain how it works. So the sabbatical tracker is to avoid if and when we get to be World Class standard and are really successful with a big club, that the rules of the challenge don't become irrelevant, as no club will ever come in for me when I am at a club with a higher reputation, and secondly that there would be no real reason for me to move. So normally I am only allowed to move clubs when I get headhunted, or I allow my contract to elapse. The case of the latter I then need to apply for every job available and take the first job offer that comes back, which is not ideal as that club could be in 6th Division of England and relegation candidates, so would be tough to manage. So the sabbatical is there for the eventuality where we win the top division title in a country, there is a possibility of our fatigue rating going up. The chance of the event firing is 50% at the end of each subsequent season and the amount of fatigue it can add is 25%, they are two seperate equations, firstly to see whether it happens and if it does then by how much. Once we reach 100% we must resign from the club we are currently at and take 6 months off, then apply for any and all jobs available and take the first one like stated in Rule Two. So in theory after we win the league it could take a minimum of 4 years for it to reach 100%, if it fires every time and we get the maximum amount of fatigue every time, but the average amount of time it will take is somewhere around 8 years after winning the first title. Because it is all chance based via an excel random formula, it could take 50 years, it's complete chance against the parameters mentioned. But once it hits 100% we have to leave the club no matter what and take a break. Effectively it is a good way of resetting the challenge and making sure the challenge does not get too easy. I mean this challenge is actually really hard, probably the hardest that doesn't involve doing something with a specific club. You are not allowed to sign anyone yourself even staff, the DoFs are not that great generally and they make bad decisions. You have no real control about who you will manage, as you want to avoid being unemployed if possible, otherwise you might end up at a club at the lowest rung with no finances, and no chance of advancing. Not to mention you start with no rep and no badges. But I have found it to be one of the most fun experiences in FM. The rules above in the first post try and explain things, but it is a little complicated. If you don't understand anything else let me know and I can explain it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerminalPortugal Posted August 13, 2020 Author Share Posted August 13, 2020 (edited) Transfers In and Out Players Released Players In Players Out A better set of transfer windows from the Director of Football this year, he got in a few good players that were regulars in the first team such as Zemri Callaku, Moonga Simba, Carl Snarberg and Filip Jonsson. I was a little worried when he let our first choice goalie leave on a free at the start of the season as he was released but in the end we did not miss him too much. Anas Ahmed Yusuf was also a good player while he was around, but his manager at IFK Norrkoping, questioned why I was playing him out of the agreed position (agreed with the DoF), and I wasn't about to let him pick my team for me and where players should play, so he went the nuclear route and recalled him. The board are happy and all criteria we were asked to fulfilled are at least satisfied. We had a very good pre-season, although the standard of opposition was obviously not particularly high. We have another crazy expectation defying season as we achieve our third back to back to promotion this time to the top tier of Swedish football. It actually almost didn't end up that way. We were top of the league going into the final three games. The two losses in the final month put us 4th going into the final day. Morale was low and I had to use the dreaded Team Meeting to get morale back, it worked well and we won our final game. Vasteras and GIF Sundsvall could only manage a draw so we leapfrogged them into the runners up spot and automatic promotion. It could have all gone differently, had they all won or if we had not got an unlikely win at that stage against Varbergs away. The Svenska Cupen goes across two seasons, so we are through in the 2nd Round, safely to remainder of the competition next season. We finish in 2nd place tied on points with IK Sirius who win the Supretten. A big overachievement from us we were predicted to finish dead last in 16th place. It goes to show that the difference between the teams in the lower Swedish divisions is to be honest pretty slight. Ironically in terms of ratings it was not like we were brilliant, only five players above a 7. Gunnarsson was key with his goals this season and that is a big reason why we did as well as we did. Again the club awards and team of the year does not appear to have fired, so this will now be my team of the season. GK: San Mustafa DR: Igor Popancic DC: Gustav Hellman DC: Mattias Jansson DL: Filip Jonsson DM: Zemri Callaku MC: Oliver Jonsson MC: Emilio Reljanovic AMR: Carl Snarberg AML: Moonga Simba ST: Axel Gunnarsson EDIT: It eventually came in, not to different to my team of the season. A few players with potential, but not a lot of current ability, so they are still a long way away from being useful to me. The club turned professional and got a big payout from the 2nd place finish in the Supretten, so the finances look a bit more stable now and growing. We got two approaches from lower league Swedish sides, but there was clearly no upside to considering these jobs considering where we are playing our football, and where they are playing their football. We signed a new deal after the final day of the season, our contract was about to end. I was not worried considering how well we were doing, but still, I really want to avoid unemployment and the uncertainty that will bring. Had real problems getting the board to agree to any new badges for me, so hopefully next season, they are little bit more open to it, we really need them to advance our career. Not Started Edited August 13, 2020 by TerminalPortugal Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerminalPortugal Posted August 14, 2020 Author Share Posted August 14, 2020 (edited) Players In Players Out When it came to the transfers I cannot really blame the DoF for inactivity, it's just that despite some of the players he brought in being better than what we had, none of these players are at a Allsvenskan standard, in fact some of the best that we bought have a coach report placing them at a 3rd tier standard. That is how far behind in quality we are to Allsvenskan standard. So I guess I can't really fault him for inactivity, and I guess we are a small club and it is difficult to attract good players for this level, but we were left pretty much dead in the water from day one. Well I guess the standards were pretty low this season, the main thing we failed on was scoring set pieces, that is probably because we got dominated in a lot of games this season so I bet we did not have many chances. You can't really score set pieces if you are busy defending for your lives. Pre-Season went fine enough, a loss to Osters who got relegated last season probably spelled out the problems we were going to have. Well what can I say. I have not been relegated in Football Manager I think since FM07, the last time I was close to relegation was doing the first version of this challenge fortunately then we got a move away from the club but not this time. We were relegated, and we actually started okay. An opening day win against AIK, made me think we might be able to survive and at the start we kept picking up the odd win, but as the season went on we just struggled to compete, the Kalmar win half way through the season, the last time we would taste a victory in the league. We were really poor, and the morale was an absolute mess, and I as manager probably ran out of ideas in the end. We go back down to the Supretten for next season, hopefully we can bounce back with promotion and the DoF can reinforce us further. We went out of the cup at the Group Stage phase although we were by no means humiliated. We did get through when the tournament restarted in the 2nd Round. We were in a rut at this time in the league so we just about scraped through against lower league opposition on penalties. It doesn't look pretty, but we still beat our media prediction as we were expected to finish 16th this season. But it is not a pretty picture, we just could not get out of the hole we created for ourselves. We actually only really spent the last 10-12 fixtures in the bottom three, as we had a decent start in comparison to IK Brage, Mjalby and Kalmar at the time, but we just kept slipping, first I was trying to stay in contention with 13th, then it was IK Brage in 14th who are in the playout spot, but it became very evident that were not going to be able to do anything. Late season losses to Brage, Sirius and a draw to Falkenbergs sealed our fate. Really bad this season, only Gunnarsson turned up this season, he still bagged 15 goals and was top assist and rating this season. Which tells you that almost no one else really contributed in any meaningful way. I may as well just present my team of the season going forward as it probably means more. This year it is hard, to be honest the correct thing to do would be not to have a team of the season, but I know it is good that you can see the people who are playing in our first team. So if I had to pick our team it would be the following:- GK - Admir Kadric DR - Marcus Lindell DC - Filip Danielsson DC - Magnus Fritzson DL - Melker Enstrom DMC - Zemri Callaku MC - Daniel Berggren MC - Daniel Strandsater AMR - Carl Snarberg AML - Charis Nikolaou ST - Axel Gunnarsson EDIT: Team of the Season and Awards, would have matched mine anyway A poorer class than the past two years, but still some potential in this class that might come through one day. If the on field form was bad, the finances are the opposite and have improved immensely. This element of the season was one of the most intriguing parts to me. Trelleborgs and Mjalby were non starters as Trelleborgs are in the division below and were struggling at the time and Mjalby looked well relegated when they came to me and we looked like we had a chance of surviving. I would have happily taken the Elfsborg job, but they went with someone else. Then we were linked in the press to the IFK Norrkoping job (they won the league), IFK Goteborg, and Djurgardens. All three of those jobs I would take in a heartbeat, and the press came to us and were positive about wanting the jobs. Their clubs fans came out and said we were a great candidate, but nothing ever seemingly materialised. At this time the club were wanting to renew my deal and I was putting it off and to be honest playing with fire, should they not offer me a new contract. Then I was really playing with fire when they called me in annoyed at the links that had happened in the media and gave me an ultimatum. In fairness I told it to them like it was and said it was not an opportunity that I could miss out on to be linked to these clubs and amazingly they backed down and said they would let me off this time. I was very close to the sack, in fact I was pretty sure it was going to happen, but part of me was thinking, no matter when I apply to all jobs surely the Swedish big boys who are already interested will be first to interview and first to offer a job, but there would be no guarantees with that and I thought better of it. In the end I signed a new contract, insisting on a one year deal to make me more attractive to other employers. They wanted a 2 year deal. I kind of chickened out of going nuclear and just not attending the meeting to answer for my crimes and seeing what fate had in store. But then I thought about the thought of rocking up in the fourth tier again and starting with a new nobody club and thought better of it. I reckon this season, a job offer may materialise to a Swedish top division side that have a decent upside and are not a) surely already relegated b) that I can actually get a job offer from. The club are really pissing me off with the funding for badges, it's almost like they know I am itching to leave and trying to block my development. I asked in the season and they didn't even use training as an excuse, they just said we are playing badly and the request was outright denied. We have money now, which is normally the stumbling block with these things, so I hope next season we can get a badge or two underway. Not Active Yet Edited August 14, 2020 by TerminalPortugal 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dllu Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 Don't take this the wrong way, but it's actually kind of comforting to see someone (else) get relegated once in a while... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerminalPortugal Posted August 14, 2020 Author Share Posted August 14, 2020 2 hours ago, dllu said: Don't take this the wrong way, but it's actually kind of comforting to see someone (else) get relegated once in a while... Yeah has not happened to me often, but the team was nowhere near the required level. As I said previously this is a really tough challenge I have set myself up for. I was not too disheartened by getting relegated to be honest, kind of expected it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerminalPortugal Posted August 14, 2020 Author Share Posted August 14, 2020 Players In Players Out Not too bad fro the Director of Football this time around, I mean he is still only bringing in players that are probably division below standard but importantly I can use them to decent effect. So pretty content with the business he done. If anything he needs to clear out some of the players already the club that are not getting regular football. The squad is getting bloated. We have been very good this season and look good value for the Supretten league title. However whether the team achieve it, we know it will not be with us, as we have finally recieved a better offer, in the form of Helsingborgs. We actually changed our tactics this season, which was promoted by a pre-season loss to fourth tier side. I think we had gone as far as we could with our original tactic and it was time to change it up. So out went the 4-1-4-1 and in came ostensibly what you'd call the Christmas Tree formation, a 4-3-2-1 formation, with the wingers dropped, the DMC pushed up to MC and the two MCs pushed up to AMs. Still one striker on a different role to get a little bit more clinicality out of the likes of Gunnarsson. The team morale was still shocking when this tournament came around and we barely had a chance to begin with with Malmo in the group. At least we got a win. As you can see we look good value promotion and really look like we could win the Supretten this season. Some good performances this season from the likes of Kevin Jarrett, Robin Dzabic and Noah Ekberg as the key guys, the change in formation has seemingly helped us a fair bit to get things back on track. So finally to the reason why this update is early back, and what we had hoped would happen finally has and we have an offer from another club. Helsingborgs have offered us a contract and we are going to take it. They are in a perilous position at the moment at the foot of Allsvenskan, but I think we can come to the rescue, and if not we will have the resources hopefully to bounce back straight away anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerminalPortugal Posted August 14, 2020 Author Share Posted August 14, 2020 We sign a contract with Helsingborg until the end of next season. I hope we can avoid relegation and if we are relegation the board give us the season to bring the club back up, which I think we could accomplish. Helsingborg is a town and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Scania, Sweden. It had 108,334 inhabitants in 2017. Helsingborg is the centre of the northern part of western Scania and Sweden's closest point to Denmark: the Danish city Helsingør is clearly visible about 4 km (2 mi) to the west on the other side of the Øresund. The HH Ferry route across the sound has more than 70 car ferry departures from each harbour every day. Following the Swedish orthography reform of 1906 the spelling of many place names in Sweden was modernized. In 1912 it was decided to use the form Hälsingborg. In preparation for the local government reform in 1971, Hälsingborg city council proposed that the new, enlarged municipality should be spelled Helsingborg; this form was adopted by the government of Sweden from 1 January 1971. Historic Helsingborg, with its many old buildings, is a scenic coastal city. The buildings are a blend of old-style stone-built churches and a 600-year-old medieval fortress (Kärnan) in the city centre, and more modern commercial buildings. The streets vary from wide avenues to small alley-ways. Kullagatan, the main pedestrian shopping street in the city, was the first pedestrian shopping street in Sweden. Helsingborg is one of the oldest cities of what is now Sweden. It has been the site of permanent settlement officially since 21 May 1085. Helsingborg's geographical position at the narrowest part of Øresund made it very important for Denmark, at that time controlling both sides of that strait. From 1429 Eric of Pomerania introduced the Sound Dues, a levy on all trading vessels passing through the sound between Helsingør and Helsingborg. This was one of the main sources of income for the Danish Crown. Crossing traffic, like fishermen, were not subject to the tax, which was initially directed against the Hanseatic League. Following the Dano-Swedish War (1657-1658) and the Treaty of Roskilde Denmark had to give up all territory on the southern Scandinavian peninsula, and Helsingborg became part of Sweden. King Charles X Gustav of Sweden landed here on 5 March 1658 to take personal possession of the Scanian lands and was met by a delegation led by the bishop of the Diocese of Lund, Peder Winstrup. At that time the town had a population of barely 1,000 people. Its situation on a conflict-ridden border caused problems for Helsingborg. Denmark recaptured Scania twice, but could not hold it. The last Danish attempt to regain Scania was in 1710, when 14,000 men landed on the shores near Helsingborg. The Battle of Helsingborg was fought on the 28th of February just outside the city, which was badly affected. It took a long time to recover; even in 1770 the city had only 1,321 inhabitants and was still growing slowly. On 20 October 1811 Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France and crown prince-elect of Sweden (later king Charles XIV John) took his first step on Swedish soil in Helsingborg on his journey from Paris to Stockholm. From the middle of the 19th century onwards Helsingborg was one of the fastest growing cities of Sweden, increasing its population from 4,000 in 1850 to 20,000 in 1890 and 56,000 in 1930 due to industrialization. From 1892 a train ferry was put in service, connecting Helsingborg with its Danish sister city Helsingør. A tramway network was inaugurated in 1903 and closed down in 1967. In World War II, Helsingborg was among the most important drop-off points for the rescue of Denmark's Jewish population during the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler had ordered that all Danish Jews were to be arrested and deported to the concentration camps on Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year which fell on 2 October 1943. When Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a German maritime attaché received word of the order on 28 September 1943, he shared it with political and Jewish community leaders. Using the name Elsinore Sewing Club (Danish: Helsingør Syklub) as a cover for messages, the Danish population formed an underground railroad of sorts, moving Jews away from the closely watched Copenhagen docks to spots farther away, especially Helsingør, just two miles across the Øresund from Helsingborg. Hundreds of civilians hid their fellow Danish citizens -- Jews -- in their houses, farm lofts and churches until they could board them onto Danish fishing boats, personal pleasure boats and ferry boats. In the span of three nights, Danes had smuggled over 7200 Jews and 680 non-Jews (gentile family members of Jews or political activists) across the Øresund, to safety in Sweden, with one of the main destinations at Helsingborg. Helsingborg has an oceanic climate typical of southern Sweden, although its winters are very mild for a location at such a high latitude. Although the temperature differences between seasons are significant, Helsingborg often lacks a meteorological winter with both January and February averaging just above the freezing point in terms of mean temperatures. Helsingborg is a major regional centre of trade, transport and business. In 2001 Campus Helsingborg, a branch of University of Lund, opened in the former Tretorn rubber factory buildings, founded by Henry Dunker. Three ferry companies take people and cargo to and from Denmark around the clock. The route is popular with day-trippers going to Helsingør or Copenhagen, or simply enjoying the views from the ferries. IKEA, the retailer of furniture and home interiors, has its international corporate headquarters in Helsingborg. Nicorette, the nicotine chewing gum, has a manufacturing plant there. Ramlösa is a mineral water from Ramlösa Brunn, a southern suburb of the city. Mobile phone developer Spectronic is also situated in Helsingborg. The online custom clothing retailer Tailor Store Sweden AB has its offices in Helsingborg. Zoégas, a major coffee company, has been located here since the 1800s. Not too far between the two clubs, we travel south, and very close to the Danish islands across the Niya Bugt. Board want us to finish mid-table for the next couple of season, the season however they realise we are in trouble and it is to fight against relegation. Financial projections look bad, but it might account for the fact that at the moment we would be relegated. We actually have been pretty successful in Swedish domestic football, with 7 league titles and 5 Svenska Cupen to their name. We have only won twice this season, and not drawn a whole lot either. We are predicted to finish in 12th so we are performing very badly at the moment. The draw for the cup should be straightforward although with a team lacking confidence you never know. Things do not look great at the moment, with the club bottom of the league, 5 points adrift of safety. Spent most of out time in the top division over the past few years. Looks like a pretty decent little stadium Decent facilities at Helsingborgs These five look like the best players at the club, we shall see if this is the case I guess over the next few months. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerminalPortugal Posted August 14, 2020 Author Share Posted August 14, 2020 Players In Players Out Most of the transfer action happened before my time at the club. It was a bit curious that the DoF sold two seemingly great prospects to Hammarby when I arrived. It does not bother me too much, but just a little bit strange. We managed to achieve our targets with the board no problem. A really good change of form from us when I arrived, we drew to the champions Hacken, beat Djurgardens, beat Kalmar, beat Malmo twice, beat Norrkoping, basically almost everyone that was at the top of the league which is very encouraging. The only loss came to AIK, where were leading 2-0 and fell to a late 3-2 loss. But overall we did very well, especially considering where we were when I arrived. A very respectable 8th place finish considering where we were when I arrived. GK - Victor Stulic DR - Totte Holmkvist DC - Marten Lindstrom DC - Charlie Weberg DL - Jordy Gaspar ML - Joseph Cessay MC - Wayne O'Callaghan MC - Paulos Abraham MR - Felix Bennarp ST - Mikael Olsson ST - Tommy Eriksson Some decent potential this year in the youth intake. Money looks to be available for the DoF. Intrigued to see how he decides to improve the squad for the coming season. None Our contract goes until the end of next season. Studying for the National B, we got our previous employer to agree to fund a little before we left for Helsingborgs, so hope to make progress on the studies. Not Applicable Yet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerminalPortugal Posted August 15, 2020 Author Share Posted August 15, 2020 Players in Players Out The DoF did both good business and bad business, the Finnish lads Aalto and Koskinen are superb and Lindkvist was also another superb signing, but he basically sold anyone whom got an offer for them in the window. He sold Eriksson the top goalscorer last season and our best defender, our best creative player, and it's just silly. So I have made an executive decision to allow myself a veto of players leaving the club, otherwise it is utter chaos. A good season for us and we delight board and achieve our goals We went to Spain for most of pre-season and good results against poor opposition. We did fantastically well this season. We were predicted to finish in 13th and we surprised the league with a 2nd place finish. Our start was superb, in our first month we played all the top teams in Sweden and won all of them apart from the loss to Djurgardens. As the season went on we got a bit patchy at times, but recovered well at the end of the season to secure 2nd place in the league and European football next season. We did well in the cup getting all the way to the semi finals before losing IFK Norrkoping. Confirmation that we finished 2nd. To be Added Some decent performances, without being outstanding, we just solid for the majority of the season and in the end a lot of the new guys stepped up well. Some very decent potential this year from the youth intake. Money looks good, the projections look bad, but I don't think they are correct. We were approached by Belgian side Kortrijk. It was right at the end of the season and we are waiting to hear back. It is a tough one not sure it is much of step up but we will consider it. Also it's nice to get attention from a non-Swedish club at this stage. One year left on our deal Got myself some qualification and already started work on the first Continental badge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dllu Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 A big step up. At this rate you'll be leaving Helsingborg sooner rather than later... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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