The FM21 Youth Academy Challenge

[darren1983]

2 minutes ago, JAwtunes said:

I don't think ill be featuring there

You never know man, once you start here you have no idea how you'll end up - saying that I've been running it for a few years now and am till not in there  

[OlivierL]

9 hours ago, officiallydeej said:

Yes, I've had it for a while where in some games one or two of my players will play in an away shirt (but home shorts) whilst the rest of the team is wearing the normal home kit.

When I first saw it and wasn't sure what was going on it looked like one of the other team had run 40 yards trying to score an O.G 

I have the same issue , last Fm's i had the same. i think it has to do with different kit packs mixed ?

[DazRTaylor]

@XaW Timo has updated his files to include Iceland!  Down to tier four this year so he may have had issues with the fifth tier that you encountered.  I a, definitely checking this out later in the week.

[XaW]

2 minutes ago, DazRTaylor said:

@XaW Timo has updated his files to include Iceland!  Down to tier four this year so he may have had issues with the fifth tier that you encountered.  I a, definitely checking this out later in the week.

Nice! I might revisit it at some time when I'm done/get bored by the save (the latter is most likely tbf ).

[Nottingham Forest]

I've got the kit issue. 

I'm still in this save. I will post soon. Just need to recap the 11 seasons or so I have completed. In England with Basford United. Had my first proper sale. Gutted about it though as I was greedy. I'll try and post this weekend but enjoying it so much. Already complete 211 hours.

[XaW]

Now this is a youth intake!

I did get some more improvements accepted and it seems to be helping!

[Braumiller]

Just had this  as the media description for a lad in my current intake.  Quite excited by him and the possible tactical tweaks I might make to accommodate him! 

[darren1983]

1 minute ago, Braumiller said:

Just had this  as the media description for a lad in my current intake.  Quite excited by him and the possible tactical tweaks I might make to accommodate him! 

If he's not listed as the next Peter Crouch then what's the point?  

[Steveh171]

Pffft I've been racing ahead since my last post and done at least 3 more seasons.

Halfway through my fourth now and I can't seem to get above midtable and every year I'm predicted to come 3rd bottom which in fairness is a big over achievement. 

Thing I'm going to give it 1 more youth Intake before maybe diverting from this challenge. Let's see how the RNG gods treat me and see if it will keep me interested. 

[Braumiller]

13 minutes ago, darren1983 said:

If he's not listed as the next Peter Crouch then what's the point?  

lol, I was going to be a smartass and point out I am in Wales, so no Peter Crouch comparisons available (I wouldn't have thought...), but I was forgetting a main point of data 

(Yeah, I don't know how either - lol)  

[XaW]

Just now, Braumiller said:

lol, I was going to be a smartass and point out I am in Wales, so no Peter Crouch comparisons available (I wouldn't have thought...), but I was forgetting a main point of data 

(Yeah, I don't know how either - lol)  

Jan Koller? He was Czech, wasn't he?

[darren1983]

2 minutes ago, Braumiller said:

lol, I was going to be a smartass and point out I am in Wales, so no Peter Crouch comparisons available (I wouldn't have thought...), but I was forgetting a main point of data 

(Yeah, I don't know how either - lol)  

New Jan Koller then

 

EDIT: Damn you @XaW  

Edited December 14, 2020 by darren1983

[Braumiller]

Just now, XaW said:

Jan Koller? He was Czech, wasn't he?

 

Just now, darren1983 said:

New Jan Koller then

lol - sadly nothing in his profile currently

[XaW]

1 minute ago, darren1983 said:

Damn you XaW  

[officiallydeej]

I have to say I don't know much about Belgian football, but I had no idea the clubs here spent this much. Anderlecht spent £65m alone!

 

[ANGL]

Brace yourselves! ANGL-ball is here!

 

 

Edit: is there any problem with inserting images? Trying from gyazo, but getting an error and I'm not able to insert them...

Edited December 14, 2020 by ANGL

[ravenation]

Gainsborough Trinity

2nd season. 18th place Vanorama south - FA cup 2nd round - FA-trophy 2nd round

Like 1st season. Good 1st half of the season around midtable. Then collapse during 2nd half of season. But we managed to escape relegation already after game 44 this season.

We played lot of youngsters. 16-17 year old players which grew into regulars during the season, so we will skip off a lot of old players now, as we dont need then.

In the FA-cup we had a good run and managed to get our 2nd round match against Doncaster in television making 40.000 euro just on tv-revenue.

Youth intake looks fine. A promising striker and midfielder. Son in general we are looking good. I hope for midtable finish next season and expect play-off in season 4.

 

[Sanno11]

@darren1983

It probably doesn't make you feel any better, but I just checked my set up, after reading your update.

I had under 18s manager responsible for the youth intake. I assume it's been like this for 6 seasons. Oops.

I am sure I set it at some point! I take back my harsh words about my HOYD, haha.

[OlivierL]

3 hours ago, DazRTaylor said:

@XaW Timo has updated his files to include Iceland!  Down to tier four this year so he may have had issues with the fifth tier that you encountered.  I a, definitely checking this out later in the week.

Damn wished that i didn't read this. enjoying my first season in Gibraltar but Iceland will always be calling me.. they have to wait:) 

[keeper#1]

South Shields January 1, 2028 Update

A blinding run of form in November where we went undefeated and untied.  We kept our heads above water during a very December as well.  We crashed out of the Checkatrade Trophy to the Manchester City U23s.  This great run of form has vaulted us into fourth place and into the hunt for the automatic promotion places.  I seriously doubt we can keep this up and the bigger clubs are sniffing around my center forwards.  

They are sniffing around my center forwards because we way out performing our xG/game.  We are bordering on "aggressive, clinical."  As much as the big clubs are paying attention to our offense, it's our defense that has been behind the push up the table.  I love seeing our goals conceded per game around 1.00

Well crap.

Not sure I understand this preview.  "It's a golden generation but I hate everything about the intake."  It's either one or the other, Mr. Head of Youth Development, which is it?

[darren1983]

51 minutes ago, Sanno11 said:

@darren1983

It probably doesn't make you feel any better, but I just checked my set up, after reading your update.

I had under 18s manager responsible for the youth intake. I assume it's been like this for 6 seasons. Oops.

I am sure I set it at some point! I take back my harsh words about my HOYD, haha.

Makes me feel a little better  

I'm sure I had set it as I always do it as soon as I bring in a HOYD. 

[JLAB]

ACN Siena 1904 - 2024/25 Season Review

This season was a difficult one. After having a good start to the season we fell away and found ourselves having our worst finish of our career so far, finishing just four points clear of the relegation playoff places at the end of the day. For me, with injuries and the players getting worse due to their age, I knew that there would be an issue going onward to replace the aging players, but having flirted with the top half for the last two seasons, this year felt like a huge step backwards after a few seasons worth of progress.

Perhaps then, I should pay tribute to Rokas Krusnauskas for scoring 53 league goals in the last four seasons, having always scored 11+ goals every season so far for us at the club, and without his goals, we would most likely have been relegated within the first season at the club. The fact that he's picked up 20 caps for Lithuania and has scored eight goals for them too is a testament to how well he does at putting himself in good goal scoring positions for club and country. He's been really dependable, but turning 30 next season, he will most likely needing to be replaced by the younger talent coming through.

Outside of Rokas Krusnauskas, only one player has constantly been an outstanding performer for us, and that man is Gabriel Nunes. Someone who I've for the last four seasons have used as my Defensive Midfielder, as either a Half Back or a Defensive Midfielder, this man has constantly been getting an average of over 7.00, the only player to do so in the last few years. Everyone else tends to get about 6.90 on average. This man does his job really well, and I feel that without him, we would be much weaker at the back.

Marco Carminati is considered to be my best player at the club at the moment, and my only Central Defender to be considered good enough for the Lega Pro Girone B, which is concerning considering that is the division that we are currently playing in. Still, Carminati has just turned 25, and still has many years ahead of him helping my defence keep clean sheets. He's going to have a new backup sooner rather than later.

Michele Mazza is my first true major talent to come through the youth academy under my reign and still at the age of 20, he's got a lot of time to develop. He's attracted interest from Serie A clubs trying to fight relegation and Serie B teams trying to get promoted to the Serie A, but outside of a season where we had an argument about what was best for his future (I won that by the way), he's been rather loyal to the cause. Though he hasn't been at his best this season, I feel that if we can get him performing at his best, things will good well for us sooner rather than later. 

Outside of Mazza, Ayoub Fantozzi is probably the best player to have come through my youth academy and is a true Ball Winning Midfielder. He's got the talent to develop into a truly special player, it's just a matter of keeping both Fantozzi and Mazza at the club and performing very special things in the middle of our midfield, unless I make Mazza an attacking midfielder.

Davide Narduzzo has been my number 1 goalkeeper since I arrived at the club, nobody has been able to truly challenge him, so when Tortoli came through my youth intake this season, I felt that I could finally have Narduzzo's successor in the making. I've got the spine of my team at least, it's just a matter of seeing what else I can do with my current team and how we can make a team with them in mind.

My last player (I promise) is Alessandro Martina, my left back that feels like he hasn't truly developed, but has developed at the same time. He's been at the club since I started, but until this season hasn't truly felt like he was getting any better, which is a bit of a concern. Only considered to be a decent player for the Lega Pro Girone B, he's, chipped in with several assists over the years and has been very helpful as far as Rokas Krusnauskas has been concerned for his goals. It makes me wonder what is truly my best formation, given that most of my intakes seem to feed players into roles that I don't tend to use for one reason or another. 

After the season finished we found ourselves a subject of a board takeover. It wasn't anything too dramatic, though we did lose 3 of our 5 affiliate links at the end of the season, which honestly wasn't too big of a concern for me at the end of the day. I wasn't using them for money, loans or world knowledge anyway.

[keeper#1]

South Shields Player Sale

Record sale for the save.  He had a 450k minimum release clause.  Took less money in exchange for the 40% next sale clause.  Ipswich's initial offer was 160k and negotiated them up to 325k

[shaunvamos]

Excelsior Maassluis 2033/34 Season Review

 

 

 

 

A season that very much looked like it was going to be a disaster. We were really low in the standings, but once we played our games in hand we shot up the table, but still not as high as last season. We just scraped through into 5th place on the last game of the season, so we are back in the Conference League to try and make something of ourselves next season. Very pleased to see that two of our best players who left us in previous seasons, namely Kai Menzo 6C and Hendri Adrian 8A who went to Utrecht and AZ respectively, languishing midtable. Should've stayed with us lads! 

In Europe, I was disappointed to not get the result against Genk, but we navigated a tricky group in the Europa League before being comfortably beaten by Inter. But we did really well.

On the financial side, we're doing really well and have added another stadium upgrade and our final youth facilities upgrade for next season which will max out our facilities. I should also note that we seem to be excelling defensively, and once our attack steps up we should be able to get close to Ajax and PSV.

 

 

Alex Smith 9B* - Omar Mulder 5D - Selorm Mohammed 5B*

Still a really young first team, with the oldest player being 25. Alex Smith was by far our best player, has developed really well and is wanted by Manchester City and 13 others. Unless they meet his release clause of 19 million he won't be leaving. I've been really impressed by the rise of Svend Jørgensen 10B*, although he doesn't feature in the screenshots. He's been the first player to represent a strong football nation, making his senior debut for Denmark this season. At just 19, I'm expecting him to be a major player for us in the years to come. 

 

 

Record Breakers

 

Youth Intake
 

 

Ivandro Rodrigues 13A  -  Kevin Witteveen 13B  -  Donny de Man 13C 

 

An okay intake, even though I was told no one stands out. But we have two 5* prospects including one in midfield. The personalities are atrocious, so it may be the last intake our current HOYD is involved with.

 

Transfers

 

Some deadwood gets sold and loaned, nothing of note here really.

 

Progress

 

[Diego D10S]

Good first season even if I falled out of playoff at the end but I have no intrest in getting a promotion anytime soon.

Youth intake wasnt a golden generation but some decent talent and a very exiting offensive midfield with 19 in flair  

 

 

GL ALL !!!  

 

Edited December 15, 2020 by Diego D10S

[thomas_e]

Sacachispas FC

Youth Intake 2026

A non-spectacular, but decent intake. I was a bit dissapointed as the intake preview sayd we would get plenty of full backs. We only got one worth signing, but maybe Diego Ledesma can be re-trained as one. Playing without any full backs/wing backs work better than expected, but I don't think it's a good option long term. Ledesma has a resolute personality and I think he is a future star player. But let's hope for more full backs next year! 

 

          

 

[vikeologist]

On 12/12/2020 at 21:09, VooDooYouDo said:

Their determination should skyrocket then

You are correct. At least for the players who see first team action. I tried fining U18 players for U18 cup matches. I'm not sure they knew which match I was fining them for, and all their other matches are friendlies. Do you fine players for U18 matches?

But yes, you are correct. Their determination rocketed. One of my first team regulars for the last 5 seasons has seen his determination increase from 5 to 13 in the 7 months of the season so far. (Most typical is increases of about 3 or 4). Fairly professional players have become Resolute. It's transformed my save, and maybe transformed their training, and in some cases it seems their ability.

Wish I'd understood this from the start.

Edited December 15, 2020 by vikeologist

[vikeologist]

Vikeologist's 6th Folkestone Intake Report

If last year was our best intake, this is our worst. No surprise. The preview was brutal.

No screenshots of any of their profiles. It’s not worth it.

There are no 5 star PAs. The top 2 are goalies. My HoYD thinks 6a is better than 6b, but 6b is taller and has better stats.

I’ve only offered an actual contract to 6a.

Over the next couple of seasons I’ll be releasing most of my goalies, so one of these guys should end up being my number 3, but heaven help us if we need to actually play either of them.

The interesting player is 6c. He’s an attacking midfielder which I don’t use, so I’ll retrain him as a central midfielder, and move one of my central midfield youngsters (Willie Martin 3a) to right winger where I don't have anyone good. Willie It's pointless wasting Willie as a sub, when i can play (and fine) him.

The good thing is the personalities. I’ve offered youth contracts to 6b and a few of the others who have good personalities, but I think unless they develop enough to earn PT contracts, they’ll never have enough influence to have an effect on their teammates.

My HoYD is a Model pro, but with low determination, and that is reflected in my intakes. However, now that @VoodooYoudo has blown my mind with how to improve determination, that’s not a problem provided they appear in the first team at some point.

[JLAB]

7 minutes ago, vikeologist said:

You are correct. At least for the players who see first team action. I tried fining U18 players for U18 cup matches. I'm not sure they knew which match I was fining them for, and all their other matches are friendlies. Do you fine players for U18 matches?

But yes, you are correct. Their determination rocketed. One of my first team regulars for the last 5 seasons has seen his determination increase from 5 to 13 in the 7 months of the season so far. (Most typical is increases of about 3 or 4). Fairly professional players have become Resolute. It's transformed my save, and maybe transformed their training, and in some cases it seems their ability.

Wish I'd understood this from the start.

Huh... I should look into being stricter with them from this season too. Especially since it should make them want to perform so they don't lose their living due to being rubbish at their job.

[vikeologist]

1 minute ago, JLAB said:

Huh... I should look into being stricter with them from this season too. Especially since it should make them want to perform so they don't lose their living due to being rubbish at their job.

I'm not sure it's actually improved their performances. If I could fine them for every match they under-perform, some of them would definitely owe us a lot of money.

Sometimes when they reach 6.5, I think, should I warn them, or wait a few days till I can fine them some wages?

But yes, if you have any first team players with low determination who hit the low 6s, get fining!

Some of my first team players have seen a very large bump in ability this year, as well as determination.

Work rates really increase as well. 

To some extent decisions as well, although I'm not sure if that's the fining, or a general increase in ability due to better training, which in turn is due to the fining. 

But work rate, definitely.

[vikeologist]

2 minutes ago, jmonfu said:

So you would fine a player if he has a rating 6.5 or lower right?

I've adopted @VooDooYouDo's guidance.

Quote

For me it's
6.5 - warning

6.3-6.4 - 1 day

6.2 and below - 1 week

I'm not sure about the warnings, and whether it's as effective as the fines in improving det/WR. For some of my players, 6.5 is a good match for them, and you can only fine them once a week. Maybe less.

 

[officiallydeej]

9 minutes ago, vikeologist said:

I've adopted @VooDooYouDo's guidance.

I'm not sure about the warnings, and whether it's as effective as the fines in improving det/WR. For some of my players, 6.5 is a good match for them, and you can only fine them once a week. Maybe less.

 

Just giving this a try and it seems to be game changing for improving determination. I've just got thumped 6-1 by Standard Liege and fined 8 out of my starting 11 who played poorly, 4 immediately have a straight up green arrow next to Det. on their training screen!

 

I'll add as well, no idea if it does improve performances long term but we've just ended a 6 game losing run by beating 4th place 3-1 at home with an xG of 4.1 - 0.6. Easily our best performance in the 29 games since we came up!

Edited December 15, 2020 by officiallydeej

[vikeologist]

Vikeologist's 6th Folkestone Intake Report

 

Time to look back 4 years.

There’s only 4 players still at the club, or indeed still playing football.

Niall Rigg 2a – He’s started as my left winger since emerging.

And he’s dreadful. I have nobody else with any apparent ability or potential to play instead.

He still has 5 star potential, but if I had any alternative, I’d drop him.

Trymore Sibanda 2b – The best player by far from the intake. He’s probably more naturally a left back, but I needed him as a central defender. Over the last season especially, he’s come on leaps and bounds.

Ellis Andrews 2c – For years I searched my the Messiah who would score goals, and it turned out he was here all along. He might still be the top scorer for the season, displacing the goal machine that is David Smith.

Tom Stanbridge 2d – My number 3 striker. He’s doing well when he has the opportunity.

So 3 starters and a sub. Turned out to be a good intake, but it took a long time. A year ago, I’d have thought this intake was a bust.

That was before I became a psychotic disciplinarian though.

[VooDooYouDo]

43 minutes ago, vikeologist said:

You are correct. At least for the players who see first team action. I tried fining U18 players for U18 cup matches. I'm not sure they knew which match I was fining them for, and all their other matches are friendlies. Do you fine players for U18 matches?

But yes, you are correct. Their determination rocketed. One of my first team regulars for the last 5 seasons has seen his determination increase from 5 to 13 in the 7 months of the season so far. (Most typical is increases of about 3 or 4). Fairly professional players have become Resolute. It's transformed my save, and maybe transformed their training, and in some cases it seems their ability.

Wish I'd understood this from the start.

Awesome!  I only fine first team players and not for friendlies. Not sure if it works for friendlies or not, or for youth players or not, but for RP purposes I'm not *that* harsh a disciplinarian.

[JLAB]

You know, given that my Level Of discipline attribute is currently 18 out of 20, I feel that fining my players for their poor performances would be in line with what I'm expected to do now as I enter my 5th season with Siena.

Perhaps I should do the same for their training too...

Edited December 15, 2020 by JLAB

[Braumiller]

This is really interesting!

I always praise / criticize training performances each week when I get the round up email (and that quickly dries up the bad training), but I do not know that I have ever used fines for poor match performances....  Time to start! 

[VooDooYouDo]

18 minutes ago, officiallydeej said:

Just giving this a try and it seems to be game changing for improving determination. I've just got thumped 6-1 by Standard Liege and fined 8 out of my starting 11 who played poorly, 4 immediately have a straight up green arrow next to Det. on their training screen!

 

I'll add as well, no idea if it does improve performances long term but we've just ended a 6 game losing run by beating 4th place 3-1 at home with an xG of 4.1 - 0.6. Easily our best performance in the 29 games since we came up!

Overall their performances should improve since their determination would improve, but not sure if it helps to snap a streak of bad form or not.  If it does, I'd imagine that it has to do with their personality but I don't know either way.

[XaW]

AFC Rushden & Diamonds Season 2025/26 review

Table | Squad | Transfers | Finances

We continue to improve and this time we made it into the playoffs! I should state that the squad I finished the season with was quite different to the one I finished with due to the great youth intake, but more on that later on. We started the season quite well, beating a few teams and losing to a few others, all staying a bit outside the playoff zone. As the season progressed more and more teams faltered and we slowly crept up the table and into the playoff zone at around the halfway mark. From then on we stayed there and didn't have any horrific turns of form or anything like that. So in the end we finished in a very respectable 4th place and into the playoff we went.

In the 1st round we beat Barrow without much issue. Also in the semi final, Halifax Town were beaten to put us into the playoff final. Here we had a good game, but we just couldn't find the net, so we lost 1-0 to Curzon Ashton. I guess we have another year here, but at least we were not far off this time.

The preview looked good, but the intake was amazing! So many talented players, but the one to note is my fellow Norwegian, Torbjørn Fejzi 26f! The continued improvements seems to have had a great effect this season.

In the FA Cup we went on a bit of a run as we beat Grantham Town, Morpeth, Telford United and Kidderminster before losing to Ipswich Town in the 2nd round.

In the FA Trophy we beat Hednesford Town and Boston United before losing to Aldershot Town in the 4th round.

[XaW]

2 minutes ago, Braumiller said:

This is really interesting!

I always praise / criticize training performances each week when I get the round up email (and that quickly dries up the bad training), but I do not know that I have ever used fines for poor match performances....  Time to start! 

Yeah, I do the same, and I think I need to start with poor performances as well...

[vikeologist]

2 minutes ago, XaW said:

Yeah, I do the same, and I think I need to start with poor performances as well...

You'll be amazed. I can't stress enough. It impacts far more than just determination.

I'm not sure what the short term effects are, apart from attributes, which admittedly vary from player to player.

Team cohesion is through the roof. Maybe it's not connected, but even if I can't swear to isolated effects, (we are in good form), generally it's transformational.

 

[Braumiller]

So, very next game I have 3 poor ratings (6.0, 6.1 & 6.1).  Not wanting to jump straight into the deep end and take all their money, just a 1 day fine for each.  1 player had no visible changes, 1 had a full up green arrow next to Determination and this guy had a full up green arrow next to Determination and Work Rate....

This could be purely coincidental, as I did not look at them before fining, but whoa......

You guys just blew my mind 

[VooDooYouDo]

5th Season in Belem (2025-26).  We're going to the 'ship, we're going to the 'ship!  After somehow pulling out a 6th place finish last season (our first in the 2nd League), we finished 4th and made the promotion playoffs vs the 3rd worst Primeira Liga club.  As you can see in the screenie, our end of season form was absolutely stellar and almost cost us the opportunity We faced Feirense in the playoff, drawing 1-1 at home and winning 1-0 away to seal the deal.  The bad news is that our 3 best players will leave us at the end of the season after getting bids that we couldn't refuse (or else the damn board probably would have gone over our heads...), so bye bye Paulo Silva et al...

 

Silva, Geilton, Reis, all sold... Geilton was fan's player of the season, too, eeek.

 

Intake preview

 

The Intake

Well, we lost a defender and our best defensive midfielder, so Guillaume looks like he'll be slotting in immediately somewhere next season. And finally a striker (or 2!) that might challenge and replace Soares! Though Soares did have his first double digit league tally this season (10..), and does have more to grow...

 

Monteiro was resold and gave us a tiny bit of money..I bet if he stayed with me he'd have developed more and been worth more, but what can you do.

 

Caseiro was also resold, and gave us a better sum...BUT, he's now worth 32m (and growing) and we won't be seeing half of that...

 

Since I spoke of the sales, here they are, though it will include some of next season's as I'm always behind in posting these.  We let Jan Tarolli go in the coming offseason as the bids were un-relenting, he wanted to go, and I had 2-3 other keepers who, while not nearly as good but not far off, could slot in very easily.  I figured it was better to give the next best more first team action to develop than to stick with Tarolli another season, so let him go right away. Plus the next best was Resolute to Tarolli's Fairly Professional, and the third best is Professional.  If you're keeping tally, that's 4 of our starting 11 leaving as we go into the top division.  Nelson Miranda, that you see there, is our 5th best GK, is Casual, and I was ok with letting him go (50% sell on ofc) even though he had just come up with the recent youth intake.

The board also, finally, agreed to upgrade the training and youth facilities so those will be Excellent come the winter.

[jmonfu]

Topic of the day...............................fine your players!  I might also improve my red balance

[VooDooYouDo]

Here is our poached player.  Based on the stats, he wouldn't have made it with me but I don't know why he allowed himself to leave for a team 2 divisions down. Perhaps his PA might have been higher if he came from my intake? Not sure at what point those stats are allotted. He's from Mafra, which is closer to Lisbon than Leiria, so it's not geographical nor is he a Leiria supporter.  Maybe his mom changed jobs and moved the family? idk

[JLAB]

So I'm currently in a weird scenario where I have £1.9M in the bank with Siena, but it's considered to be an insecure financial status and I don't know why outside of having a £1.2M bank loan which we are paying £10.5K a month off until 2035...

I'm so confused.

[Braumiller]

Just now, JLAB said:

So I'm currently in a weird scenario where I have £1.9M in the bank with Siena, but it's considered to be an insecure financial status and I don't know why outside of having a £1.2M bank loan which we are paying £10.5K a month off until 2035...

I'm so confused.

Check the Projection tab, you are probably under 0 in the 3 year projection (I am as well!)

Also, the Debt and Loans tab might be right around 0 as well, with your numbers mentioned and probable interest on the bank loan.

[Steveh171]

So I said i'd give it one more youth intake...

 

Never had a regen this good, especially at this level. Domenico Casual 26E Now I need to figure out how to build a tactic around him as he's slow, or I convert him into a box to box midfielder but that feels like a waste!

 

 

[officiallydeej]

KRC Gent - 2024/25 Season Review

Croky Cup - Squad - Finances - Transfers

A very solid first outing in the Jupiler League. We spent the first two thirds of the season battling with with Cercle Brugge to stay out of the relegation playoff, but after learning about with joys of fining players for poor performances (here's looking at you, @vikeologist), our form improved dramatically and after rounding our season out with a 3-2 win over Club Brugge ended up a really solid 14 points clear of danger. We aren't as good as most, possibly even all of the division on a player by player basis but our youngsters are continually improving and for the moment we haven't had any interest in them.

We are over £2m in the red now with no sign of the money losses slowing any time soon. Our board decided to build a new stadium when we got promoted which cost the club a total of £10m, half of which has been put into a loan we are now paying back. I am a little concerned that if we keep losing money the board will choose to sell our training and youth facilities to try and pay it back but there isn't really much I can do when we're losing 5 times our wage bill each month.

Ilias Stevens

For what was supposed to be my first Golden Generation this is something of a damp squib. Stevens look promising in a position which I'm still relying on original players, and a striker with a positive personality is always welcome but on the whole there isn't much to work with here. Only 6 in total were signed.

[SoSolidSnake]

Those above who are fining players, is that after having agreed a code of conduct? Will players be pissed if I start fining them outside of the established code of conduct? 

[VooDooYouDo]

6 minutes ago, SoSolidSnake said:

Those above who are fining players, is that after having agreed a code of conduct? Will players be pissed if I start fining them outside of the established code of conduct? 

Poor performances aren't captured in the Code of Conduct.