glennuk Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 We all live in a Kitoko wonderland! The start of our first season in Sky Bet League One has been fun to say the least! I just rejected a 7 mil bid for this guy! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 6 hours ago, glennuk said: Yep. Well Vanarama National took me like 8 or 9 seasons, League Two was playoffs season 1 and promoted season 2. Hope I can do the same in League one. @glennukI wasn't sure if it was back to back or 2 in 3 years. Still, that's awesome! 2 hours ago, aldojags said: Great progress @glennukand @toshimitzou1the icelandic project will be fun if you have patience for it! @Daddythr auto reject thing - I used to have this but I found it just resulted in board accepting deals I wasn't happy with, without the appropriate sell on clauses. The board AI in this is horrendous, why would they agree to selling a youth prospect without an agreed sell on clause. So I took it off and just judge it myself now and usually end up taking little less money but with some clauses etc added on. The winger on the nxtgen list looks great, you must have sold some amount of players now across Europe, you must be loaded! I've had about a dozen players go to some top teams in the top leagues, though none to Spain yet. The frustrating thing is when they don't play there and go and sign back in Israel with my competitors. I'm sitting on $171M in the bank with a $77M transfer budget. Payroll of $62M p/a and I only spend about $6M. If the US Dollars doesn't give away I'm American the annual salary vs. weekly surely does lol. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woockeez Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 Hello everybody ! I'm new in this challenge and i have a question. Do you recruit some scouts ? I don't know if their knowledge influence the nationality of the newgens. Thanks and sorry for my bad english. I'm from Belgium and i speak french Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toshimitzou1 Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 7 hours ago, aldojags said: @toshimitzou1the icelandic project will be fun if you have patience for it! I have a busy family life and this is all I do in my 'leisure' time. I do have the patience. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toshimitzou1 Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 2 hours ago, Woockeez said: Hello everybody ! I'm new in this challenge and i have a question. Do you recruit some scouts ? I don't know if their knowledge influence the nationality of the newgens. Thanks and sorry for my bad english. I'm from Belgium and i speak french Dude, as far as I have experienced, save every penny you can. I.E: 0 scouts, minimal scouting network and minimum scouting range. Newgens is affected by your youth recruitment network and affiliate club relationships. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 2 hours ago, toshimitzou1 said: Dude, as far as I have experienced, save every penny you can. I.E: 0 scouts, minimal scouting network and minimum scouting range. Newgens is affected by your youth recruitment network and affiliate club relationships. I sign one scout when starting out and that's just to scout the opposing team. Once I get established I'll being some in if they're former players just to have them. They serve no purpose I'm otherwise aware of. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Winski Posted June 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 4, 2022 (edited) vv IJsselmeervogels Season 2024/2025 (season 1)Keuken Kampioen Divisie (9th) League table | Competitions overview| Finances | Facilities | Transfers |Youth intake| Club overview | Manager profile Well, this was unexpected. But we somehow promoted to the Eredivisie!!!! I still can't believe it. We finished 9th, which was just enough for qualification for the promotion playoffs. The season went well, but the overall quality of the players isn't that well, so the results were mixed. Some nice wins, but also some big losses. But the playoffs.... man, everything just clicked. In the first round we won against Eindhoven: 3-0 at home, 2-2 away. Then we met sc Heerenveen in the second round. A big club, who got relegated to the KKD last season and finished just above us in the league. But they have some very good players. We had our best game of the season at home against them: 6-2 The 2-2 draw away was also a very good result.And in the final we met Telstar, who won against Excelsior(nr 16 of the Eredivisie) in the last round. At home we won 3-0, and we lost 1-0 away. This was enough to get us promoted!!! Unbelievable. Madness. We will probably lose every game next season, but let's see how it goes. Best players this season were topscorer Danny van den Meiracker, midfielders Vince Gino Dekkers and Philippe van Arnhem and defenders Dylan de Braal and Bradley Martis. Youth intake The preview of my HoYD Arjen Robben was great, but the intake was mwah. Only 3 Elite talents, and none of them looks that good. But I can't expect any wonders with our current facilities. I will not use the NewGan facepack anymore, as that was the reason why a lot of other saves got broken. Since I deleted the facepack, I don't have any problems anymore. Spoiler We also got 4(!) players who got poached by other clubs this season... Edited June 4, 2022 by Winski 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennuk Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 @Winskithat is a great achievement! Nice one. Good luck with the big boys next season 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo_Geo Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 @Winskihaving taken 4 seasons to get promoted I salute you. I finished in the play-offs 3 years running before finally getting into the top two. Must admit I was surprised to see Telstar in the final, they were nearly always a guaranteed 6 points a season for me and now just relegated as I won promotion. Outstanding effort 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 2038/39 Midseason Review: Very slow start trying out a new tactic and it just wasn't working. I switched back to the old tactic and things started improving quickly. Conference League Update: Another scenario where the tactic change really helped. Winning the Group puts us in the Second Knockout round. Looking at all the teams left I think we're as good as any team still in the competition. The goal from the club was to reach the first knockout. I'm not ruling out a deeper run here. Youth Intake Preview: Better looking preview than the last few. I'm not desperate for a keeper as my current starter is pretty good, but he's wanting to leave. He's still under contract but has a min release clause. Always happy to see highly rated fullbacks. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo_Geo Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 @Winski what issues did you have with NewGan? It’s literally just providing picture references for the players ids, I could see the actual app failing to generate correctly if volumes got too large but did did FM actually crash for you? Im loving the save and would hate to have to end it because of realistic regen photos Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winski Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 1 hour ago, Neo_Geo said: @Winski what issues did you have with NewGan? It’s literally just providing picture references for the players ids, I could see the actual app failing to generate correctly if volumes got too large but did did FM actually crash for you? Im loving the save and would hate to have to end it because of realistic regen photos Yes, that was exactly the problem: FM crashed, all the time. In all of my saves. And after the crash I couldn’t load the file anymore. Since I deleted the app and the pictures, I didn’t have a problem anymore. So it has something to do with this app. Don’t know what exactly. Maybe I’ll try it again because I really like those Newgan pictures. And it’s the first time that I have issues. In FM21 and until last month everything worked fine. But for now, I’ll stop using the app. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo_Geo Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Winski said: Yes, that was exactly the problem: FM crashed, all the time. In all of my saves. And after the crash I couldn’t load the file anymore. Since I deleted the app and the pictures, I didn’t have a problem anymore. So it has something to do with this app. Don’t know what exactly. Maybe I’ll try it again because I really like those Newgan pictures. And it’s the first time that I have issues. In FM21 and until last month everything worked fine. But for now, I’ll stop using the app. Thanks for the heads up. I think I might modify the filter to only return my players, that way the file size should be quite small (sure it means other teams regens will have the generated faces but at least my players will look ok) I'll try that for this season's intakes. This is then the entirety of the file that NewGan will process for images: | UID | Nat | 2nd Nat | Name | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002156979| NED | | Ed Plezier | 2 | 11 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002168101| NED | | Nelson Schutte | 1 | 12 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002168098| BEL | | Bo Lambrechts | 1 | 9 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002177967| NED | ENG | Colin Rae | 2 | 9 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002186460| NED | TUR | Kerim Topal | 1 | 5 | 1 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002186461| NED | | Martin Bijl | 2 | 15 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002177964| NED | | Mark van der Ende | 3 | 3 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002186463| NED | | Finn Muller | 3 | 12 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002177962| NED | | Tom Adrichem | 2 | 13 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002177965| NED | | Gilmaro van den Bos | 1 | 15 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002156987| ISL | | Björn Pálmason | 1 | 3 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002186457| NED | | Robin Dekker | 1 | 5 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002186467| NED | | Colin van Es | 2 | 2 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002177970| NED | | Mart Geurts | 2 | 9 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002177974| NED | | Ian Drenthe | 1 | 16 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002186458| NED | ANG | Osvaldo Neto | 1 | 15 | 3 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002168099| BEL | | Kenny Vermeuelen | 1 | 11 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002168103| NED | CAN | Ryan Eldridge | 1 | 7 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002177971| POL | | Przemysław Nocoń | 3 | 3 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002156976| NED | CUW | Cuco Veldhuis | 1 | 5 | 9 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002156981| NED | | Kenny de Graaf | 2 | 11 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002168097| NED | MAR | Younes Lakhsassi | 3 | 16 | 2 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002168104| NED | SUR | Sorencio Alberg | 2 | 11 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002156984| NED | | Desko Pronk | 1 | 3 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002156978| CUW | NED | Jetro Vicario | 1 | 5 | 9 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002156972| NED | MAR | Kamal El Omari | 1 | 15 | 2 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002177961| NED | | Jan Bruma | 1 | 10 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002186462| NED | | Theo Simons | 1 | 16 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002186466| NED | MAR | Ismail Jabrane | 1 | 5 | 2 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002186468| NED | TUR | Hüseyin Işık | 1 | 16 | 2 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002186471| NED | | Iwan Fortes | 3 | 3 | 0 | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2002186464| NED | | Jorrit Kuipers | 2 | 2 | 0 | | 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WhiteCat33 Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 20 hours ago, Woockeez said: Hello everybody ! I'm new in this challenge and i have a question. Do you recruit some scouts ? I don't know if their knowledge influence the nationality of the newgens. Thanks and sorry for my bad english. I'm from Belgium and i speak french If you are playing in a major country in Europe you just need one scout to do the opposition reports. However if you're playing a save like mine in a small obscure nation (St Vincent) you will want to collect scouts of other nationalities as you find them so your staff knowledge increases and you can hire better staff members. It's the only way I've been able to get decent coaches in my save. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteCat33 Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 3 hours ago, Winski said: Yes, that was exactly the problem: FM crashed, all the time. In all of my saves. And after the crash I couldn’t load the file anymore. Since I deleted the app and the pictures, I didn’t have a problem anymore. So it has something to do with this app. Don’t know what exactly. Maybe I’ll try it again because I really like those Newgan pictures. And it’s the first time that I have issues. In FM21 and until last month everything worked fine. But for now, I’ll stop using the app. Bummer it was busting your saves. I haven't had any problems with it yet and have used it for all my saves. Guess it's worth keeping a spare save handy. Congrats on the promotion! Awesome work flying into the top flight. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DazRTaylor Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 I need to go again in Andorra. @JAwtuneshas me salavating. Jenlai again I think. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DazRTaylor Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 (edited) I love the tiny leagues and as San Marino & Gibraltar are not allowed, I am returning to Andorra to try again. Club Introduction C. E. Jenlai The Manager This is me. Personal Coaching Data Season Reputation Qualifications Att Def Fit GkD GkH GkS Tac Tec Men WWY Ada Det PlK YoK LoD MaM Mot ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At start Minimal (0.25*) None 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 Club Facilities Season Training Facilities Youth Facilities Corporate Facilities Junior Coaching Youth Recruitment Club Reputation --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At Start Basic Poor Adequate None None Local (0.50*) Season Record Season Played Won Drawn Lost Goals For Goals Against Goal Difference Win Percentage ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overall Career Record After Season Played Won Drawn Lost Goals For Goals Against Goal Difference Win Percentage Time At Club ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Transfer Sale Record Date Player Position Club Sold To Country Transfer Fee -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trophy Haul Season Competition Won -------------------------- Trophy Cabinet League Titles ------------- Cup Competition Victories ------------------------- Career Overview Season Champions League Europa League Europa Conference League League Position Copa Constitució Achievements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Record Number of Appearances (Players From The Academy Only) Season Player Cumulative Number of Appearances --------------------------------------------------------------------- Record Goal Scorer (Players From The Academy Only) Season Player Cumulative Number of Goals --------------------------------------------------------------- Record Number of Assists (Players From The Academy Only) Season Player Cumulative Number of Assists ----------------------------------------------------------------- Record Number of Clean Sheets (Players From The Academy Only) Season Player Cumulative Number of Clean Sheets ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Edited June 6, 2022 by DazRTaylor 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAwtunes Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Welcome back @DazRTaylor 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post libbyshuss Posted June 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 6, 2022 Argentina Premier League 2041 (season 20) Season Summary So, after our league win last season could we repeat the feat this season? Well, no, but it was anotheer successful season. The main problem is it's such a strong league that any small slip up gets punished, so even though we had a great finish going 12 unbeaten at the end we couldn't get close to the top 2 in the end. We only took 3rd on the very last day! Copa Libertadores - but really, who cares about the league? We already won that! It was all about the CopLib! We got through our group easily enough and got a nice draw in the second round against Guraini of Paraguay, who we managed to get past fairly easily. Into the quarter finals and our first real test - Palmeiras of Brazil. We won the first leg 2-1, lost the seond leg 3-2 after they scored a 90th minute winner. But there's no away goals so it went to penalties, which we lost. So maybe next year? Players Managed to keep pretty much the same team as last year. They're growing nicely. Especially Roman Gimenez 34B who is now so good everybody elses star rating fell in response to him. He's not gonna be here for long though as he's got a ridiculously low release fee. It's one of the most annoying things about Argentina, nearly every player insists on them! Youth A fairly poor preview and intake. It encouraged me to splash out 200k on a new HOYD, who is a huge improvement. We'll see what he can come up with next year! So here he is, the brand new HoYD! Finances and Upgrades The board announced this, which is a bit scary given our current finances Career 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 2038/39 League Split: Considering we started the season with only one win in the first six matches I'm really happy where we are now. The young players I turned the team over to last season are stepping up and the return to my 4231 tactic has us on a roll winning 12 consecutive league matches. Europe Update: We matched up with a team we actually shared a Champions League group with a few season back. We had the better of them 1-0 across both matches. This time: We had a decisive 4-0 win on the road in the first leg and then took care of business 1-0 at home in the second leg. Next up is: I've never played these guys yet, so there's no history between the teams. Frankfurt have been a pretty consistent midtable team this save, with a wild demotion in 29/30 and immediate promotion the following season. Every few seasons they jump to the top half, probably get overwhelmed with schedule congestion by playing in Europe and then fall to mid table the next year and then rebound a couple years later. They are however in 2nd right now, so maybe they're breaking that trend. Should we get by them it's the winner of CFR Cluj from Romania or Real Valladolid from Spain. One of these four will be in the final: KV Mechelen from Belgium, Marseille from France, Slovan Bratislava from Slovakia, or Bohemians 1905 from Czech Republic. I could see us getting knocked out here or winning it all. Will be interesting. Youth Intake: A lot of good depth and some nice looking prospects at the top. No one ready to start any time soon though. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DazRTaylor Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Out of interest, what is France like for this challenge? I have only managed there very briefly a few FM’s ago and never in a youth only setting. I know they have a good youth rating so I assume the quality that comes through the academy is good? Also, as the fourth tier is view only, I assume, like Norway, I holiday a season and take over a newly promoted side into the third tier? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAwtunes Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 F.C Lusitanos Andorra - Season 19 (40/41) Review A great season domestically where we went unbeaten in the league and cup. We managed to reach the last-16 of the Europa League but were battered by eventually winners Man Utd. We have spent loads of money on two training facility upgrades and will soon have State of the Art facilities. On The Pitch First Team Spoiler First Team High Potential Youth Domestic - League and Cup Double. Unbeaten in the league Spoiler Europe Qualification Group Knockout Rounds Off The Pitch Youth Intake - described in preview as Golden Generation (5 star) Preview and HoYD Spoiler Fans Player of the Year - Cristiano Daniel, simply amazing! Spoiler The Manager Spoiler Andorra (FIFA Ranking 167(+4): 1W 2D 7L) Spoiler SUMMARY 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 minor update here First European final of any type. While I'd rather it was the Champions League Final, it's still exciting to make it. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo_Geo Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Good luck in the final @Daddy, great achievement to just get to the final. Hopefully you can get it over the line 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkiIIs Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Youth Intake Review: not sure why im getting so many poor personalities, exactly half of the intake is unambitious... HOYD: giving him one more year... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo_Geo Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 (edited) 52 minutes ago, SkiIIs said: Youth Intake Review: not sure why im getting so many poor personalities, exactly half of the intake is unambitious... HOYD: giving him one more year... Seems odd, I mean determined isn’t the same as ambitious but being determined certainly wouldn’t explain unambitious. Its not just the unambitious, there aren’t any determined and in fact there is a low determination as well and a mercenary thrown in for good measure too. Whats his star rating for his preferred job? I’d imagine based on his stats it’s no lower than 3.5 Edited June 6, 2022 by Neo_Geo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennuk Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 (edited) Worthing FC - Season 14 - Sky Bet League One - Mid Year Review & Youth Intake Preview So...I shouldn't have posted about living in a Jean-Claude Kitoko (YP06A) wonderland. This happened a week later and surely enough we struggled more than we had for the first handful of games in the season. League - 1st - Mid Way Point However, even without our talisman, we managed to keep fighting and living the dream. Could we get 2 promotions in 3 years??? We certainly aren't going to get relegated this year and with Kitoko coming back in mid to late January I have faith that we can at least keep in the playoff spots. Youth Intake Preview Nothing too exciting here. I do think that we could do with a defensive midfielder, although in the last few seasons our central midfield has improved dramatically. The full backs could be useful as we are still pretty weak in that area. Jay Mitchell (YP11B) - Player Spotlight Talking about an improvement in CM. We have an England U19 player in Jay Mitchell (YP11B) who has improved dramatically since joining the club. He has been here almost 3 years now and was a sub option last season, but has now taken over Simon Korhonen (YP03H) as my Box to Box Midfielder. I really believe he could be with us for a long long time to come. Goodbye to Docherty - Record Transfer Jonny Docherty (YP10A) has been our first choice and strongest CB for a couple of years now. He started to get itchy feet, would not sign a new contract and was wanted by Championship and Premier League clubs. On transfer deadline day I asked for a silly price from Aston Villa (who he was unhappy that I rejected a 2mil bid for previously) and they accepted. To be honest I didn't think they were going to and almost cancelled the transfer, but we have been losing money this year and I think I have a few young CBs who can step up. Keeping him until the end of the season means at least it won't impact our current promotion bid. Edited June 7, 2022 by glennuk 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkiIIs Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 1 hour ago, Neo_Geo said: Seems odd, I mean determined isn’t the same as ambitious but being determined certainly wouldn’t explain unambitious. Its not just the unambitious, there aren’t any determined and in fact there is a low determination as well and a mercenary thrown in for good measure too. Whats his star rating for his preferred job? I’d imagine based on his stats it’s no lower than 3.5 correct, 3.5 star rating Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennuk Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 Worthing FC - Season 14 - Youth Intake - Golden Boys Again I am less impressed with this intake than usual. However there are a few key players in key positions who could be in the starting lineup within their teenage years. There is also a nice mix of nationalities in there, I know there has recently been talk of Scouts not impacting youth intake, but I have had a Serbian scout for about 2 years now...and got my first Serbian youth player, may just be coincidence though. Top 3 - Youth Intake 14 Conall O'Hanlon (YP14A) - The preview was correct in predicting a strong DM. He will get stronger and improve his physicals I am sure. He is very raw right now, but definitely has the potential to go far. Alexsandar Stefanovic (YP14B) - In many way I am more excited about Alex than I am Conall. Alex (my pet name) has the potential to be a rotation piece in CB after the sale of Jonny Docherty (YP10A). If he can improve fast enough he may even be my 3rd choice CB by the time the next season starts. A good start to his physicals, decent tackling, heading and mentals. I have always enjoyed buying cheaper Serbians in other saves, so having one I can develop from the Youth Academy is exciting indeed. Ciaran Lowe (YP14C) - The personality does it for me. Driven players always seem to excel, so although I am not entirely happy about his starting stats (although I like that almost all his physicals are 9), I think he could improve alot. I will train him on his defensive positioning and then move him on to crossing and/or dribbling training and hope he can contribute to the attack as much as the defence. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkiIIs Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 Season 2031/32 - League 1 After finishing just out of the play off spots last season, this year looked like it was going to be about progression. However we did lose out best striker from last season and the back up prospect who was ready to take the thrown only got to play the first game with us (scored and got POM) before Premier League clubs offered cash the Board could not reject. He went on to make 23 premier league appearances for the year for Fulham who eventually were relegated, however his goal for Souths was his only. My expectations lifted after beating Dunfermline and Blackburn in preaseason, then started the season winning 3 and drawing 1 being against Derby (champions) away, MK Dons (playoffs) away and QPR away who i thought would be up there (they got relegated). We also played Everton in the Carabao Cup (unluckily at home which now makes it 6 games vs premier league teams all at home) and push them to penalties. The season completely faded after that and mid table mediocrity kicked in. We won 4 and drew 3 in the last 7 games to make it look better than it was but ironically it was the same amount of points as last season. Thanks to the sale of Kelly, we were able to upgrade the training facilities twice and the youth facilities once. We should have good training facilities once complete and our youth facilities is now good as well. We also had plans to expand the stadium by a bit however they were scrapped by the council. I think as a sweetener the Board offered to uplift our Youth Category to 2 despite being red in Finances which i snapped their hands off for it! Got quite a bit done off the field which will hopefully set us up for long term success. Had no choice but to play some of the youngsters this year and if we can keep them, im confident we can push a bit higher up the ladder next year. Fun Fact: i now have 2 gun keepers, one is the under 21 English starter (Willock) the other is the under 20's English preferred (Brittain) who just won VNL and FA Trophy with Leyton Orient. Willock was my 5th top goalscorer with 6 goals for the season, has the best penalty taking attribute at 9. I will probably look to cash in on him as i doubt ill be able to get him to renew his contract 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteCat33 Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, SkiIIs said: Youth Intake Review: not sure why im getting so many poor personalities, exactly half of the intake is unambitious... HOYD: giving him one more year... All that the Determined personality guarantees is: • Ambition = 1 - 11 • Determination = 17 - 20 Because of this if you generate a player and he has a slightly lower determination than your HOYD you will have a high likelihood of an Unambitious personality as that is: Unambitious• Ambition = 1 - 5• Determination = 1 - 17• Loyalty = 11 - 20 Im using this site for the ranges: https://www.fmscout.com/a-guide-to-player-personalities-football-manager.html I basically only hire professional type personalities. If you can find a fairly professional even with lower Determination it will probably generate better personalities for you than this Determined guy. The one caveat is his media handling might signal that he has a good trait in another stat, but still will be setting yourself up for low Ambition in your intakes. I would replace him. Others can speak to their preferences, but for me I go for: personality, media handling, and tactical style as the three most important attributes of my HOYD. The actual traits are secondary for me (and for this st Vincent save are basically all garbage). Edited June 7, 2022 by WhiteCat33 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marazola Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 Lets give this a go. We get Tecos in Mexico. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkiIIs Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 2 hours ago, WhiteCat33 said: All that the Determined personality guarantees is: • Ambition = 1 - 11 • Determination = 17 - 20 Because of this if you generate a player and he has a slightly lower determination than your HOYD you will have a high likelihood of an Unambitious personality as that is: Unambitious• Ambition = 1 - 5• Determination = 1 - 17• Loyalty = 11 - 20 Im using this site for the ranges: https://www.fmscout.com/a-guide-to-player-personalities-football-manager.html I basically only hire professional type personalities. If you can find a fairly professional even with lower Determination it will probably generate better personalities for you than this Determined guy. The one caveat is his media handling might signal that he has a good trait in another stat, but still will be setting yourself up for low Ambition in your intakes. I would replace him. Others can speak to their preferences, but for me I go for: personality, media handling, and tactical style as the three most important attributes of my HOYD. The actual traits are secondary for me (and for this st Vincent save are basically all garbage). thanks for this, its very useful! I had read this before but didnt really understand it all, now its making sense! have gone with this guy for now, fairly professional combined with a decent level of determination (for league 1 anyways) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DazRTaylor Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 (edited) It is time for something different for me and a new country (for this challenge). France. I have holidayed for a season and taken over at Vannes OC, in the playable third tier. Club Introduction Vannes OC The Manager This is me. Personal Coaching Data Season Reputation Qualifications Att Def Fit GkD GkH GkS Tac Tec Men WWY Ada Det PlK YoK LoD MaM Mot ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At start Minimal (0.25*) None 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 Club Facilities Season Training Facilities Youth Facilities Corporate Facilities Junior Coaching Youth Recruitment Club Reputation --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At Start Adequate Poor Adequate Adequate Fairly Basic Regional (1.50*) Season Record Season Played Won Drawn Lost Goals For Goals Against Goal Difference Win Percentage ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overall Career Record After Season Played Won Drawn Lost Goals For Goals Against Goal Difference Win Percentage Time At Club ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Transfer Sale Record Date Player Position Club Sold To Country Transfer Fee -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trophy Haul Season Competition Won -------------------------- Trophy Cabinet League Titles ------------- Cup Competition Victories ------------------------- Career Overview Season Champions League Europa League Europa Conference League League Position Coupe de France Achievements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Record Number of Appearances (Players From The Academy Only) Season Player Cumulative Number of Appearances --------------------------------------------------------------------- Record Goal Scorer (Players From The Academy Only) Season Player Cumulative Number of Goals --------------------------------------------------------------- Record Number of Assists (Players From The Academy Only) Season Player Cumulative Number of Assists ----------------------------------------------------------------- Record Number of Clean Sheets (Players From The Academy Only) Season Player Cumulative Number of Clean Sheets ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Edited June 7, 2022 by DazRTaylor 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DazRTaylor Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 @darren1983France. Reset date is 20 June 2022. As the fourth tier is unplayable, select a promoted third tier side. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Daddy Posted June 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 7, 2022 2038/39 Season Review: I'm not sure why it says sixth title, as it was our seventh. A couple losses and draws at the end as I was resting players for the Conference League. Otherwise wound up winning comfortably all season. Europe Update: Frankfurt and Real Valladolid didn't put up too much of a fight. Marseille on the other hand was a more nerve-wracking matchup. We get a lead immediately and I thought maybe it would go the same as the previous matches. A very even matchup and never really felt comfortable after it became obvious it wasn't going to be as easy as the others, Still a big milestone to actually win something. A ton of loans, but as I had said before I rejected all transfer offers no matter how good or much the players whined. No one hit a release clause so I didn't lose anyone I didn't want to. A new addition to the wonderkid crew. 2039/40 Season Preview: I was able to get the Spend transfer budget off the vision so that's a boost. I expect to win the league. Even though I don't care about the State Cup much, the owner does, so I will try to win that. Winning the League last season puts us in the Champions Path Third Qualifying round. Two rounds to reach group. No problem. Problem. Reigning champions PSG (0 wins, 0 draws, 2 losses, -8 Goal Difference). Barcelona we've never faced. I'll allow myself some optimism against them but not a lot. Sandhausen was a yoyo team between 2nd and 3rd tier in Germany. They stabilized during the mid 2030s, got promoted, and shot straight to 3rd place in the Bundesliga. I'll allow myself the faintest glimmer of hope to finish second, but 3rd is most likely. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BustaRaymes Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 *FM20* Littlehampton Town 2046-2047 Vanarama National League What is this? A pretty surprising championship and finally promotion to League Two. With our mediocre results in recent years, I changed tactics and became more involved in the matches, but I didn't expect us to challenge for the title right away! We got top spot with just a few games to go, lost it in the penultimate game against Scunthorpe, but they were beaten by Stevenage in the very last game. Furthermore: We won the FA Trophy! We got lucky tbh, I played the reserves for most of the games and we never really drew a top team. Newport in the final was playing in the VNS. Transfers Squad Our formation switch made us much more stable defensively, but we also scored less. As usual, Mbiyavanga-Domo and Molloy were our top scorers. Luca Carroll didn't come through as a great prospect but developed into a decent goalkeeper. He's a bit short for my taste but his reflex saves have earned us a few points this season. Antonis is not progressing as hoped but he's a pretty useful player. This was his first real stand-out season. Mohamed was never in contention to get a starting spot before I changed tactics. His ratings are growing fast though, and he's already a regular Saudi national team player. Page is going to be great for us. I got him from Unambitious to Fairly Professional in 1,5 seasons. He's not our biggest prospect but he's been really effective and will be a starter next season. Youth intake We needed a left back and we got one. I'm a bit concerned about our intakes in recent years. Last but not least: Sun Xiaodong has a Chinese name, was born in China but only has English nationality. This doesn't happen often in FM. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteCat33 Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 Toni Store Jugglers FC – St Vincent & The Grenadines Season 17 2038/2039 SVG Championship Performance League Champion Sad news, we lost our unbeaten streak. Note VIN has 18 game seasons... Cup Champion North American Champions League Caribbean Club Championships Group Stage We actually tied Defense Force when we played them in T&T, but then we stormed through the rest of the matches to easily advance from what was a reasonable, but not difficult group Knockouts Ugh we didn’t show up at all for the final. I dislike how it’s a Home game for one team as the odds have been awful for us. We’ve appeared in 9 finals, only 2 have been home games for us. Squad Overall Best XI Transfers Youth Academy YI Preview Youth Intake Youth Intake Squad Awful personalities this year for the high potentials, but 3 Elite Talents is high for this club. You have to remember the standards are much lower with the tiny island Not sure how I will use Erel Burgin. Not fast, can’t shoot dribble or pass, but has high flair and first touch? Love the Tackling, Bravery and Jumping reach, but would be nice if he had a little more for mentals. With Light-Hearted I don’t have too much hope he’ll develop well either (considering my Realist has backslid this year). All the other talents are “Unambitious” so it’s not worth showing them. Maybe I can mentor them out of it? I don’t have high hopes. I only took 5 Manager Thoughts Not too impressive of a second fully professional season, but we are in the process of developing all new CBs so not keeping up our CCC streak isn't a surprise. I've played a whole additional season so I'll leave it here for now. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post WhiteCat33 Posted June 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 7, 2022 Toni Store Jugglers FC – St Vincent & The Grenadines Season 18 2039/2040 SVG Championship Performance League: Champion Cup: Champion North American Champions League: Group Stage We've advanced for the first time! Completing the challenge from St Vincent will take a lucky NACL Group like this one. We got a mid-table Mexican team and then the 2 leading Costa Rican teams. \ Quarter Final Here our draw was not nearly as lucky; we got Tigres. The only positive here is that the coach that took Tigres to 10 NACL trophies left to coach the Mexican national team. First Leg in Mexico: Spoiler The team got my blood boiling early in the first half when Ezra Williams drew a penalty. However, McLean couldn’t convert! Not just the PK but the follow up shot he took got blocked as well. Brutal luck, but still 0-0 at half. And the bad luck for McLean continues as he is a half a step offside and a 75’ goal is called back. So, we end 0-0 and we had the two best chances of the game. I am shocked we played so well against the most successful team of the save. Unfortunately between the two legs we lost our #1 (Malcolm Green) and #3 CBs to injuries, which has us stretched very thin in the center where we were already playing all U-18 players, so I have to start our 16 year old #4 CB for the most important game of the save thus far... Second Leg in St Vincent: Spoiler And they hit us early 7’ min…and again 11’ in when my RB just spaced out and let his man receive a ball and run past him. And then our captain DLP gets injured in the 29’… and our 16 year old replacement CB gives up a penalty which is miraculously saved and then McLean 14b turns it around for a break away goal! Has the tide changed?! Nope, they get a3rd in the 80th to seal it. OR DID THEY? McLean answers with a goal in the 83rd! Sadly couldn’t push enough to break through again. We lose 2-3. I’m content with this loss. Considering where we are at as a club, it being this close is a big overachievement. Matches: Caribbean Club Championship CCC Group Stage – Well we advance on GD as we had a disappointing final game against AS Capoise losing 0-1. But hey, we advance! CCC Knockouts -- I thought we were going to have another dud away performance in the final, but after a stern halftime talk the boys came back from 0-1 to win 2-1 in style. Makes up for last year’s disappointment. Squad It's worth mentioning I feel we've hit the 'critical mass' where the whole team sways towards fairly professional / resolute. We now have at least 2-3 players per position group who are Professional/Resolute and can mentor any youngsters towards our preferred mentality. Granted, this only helps if they start with a reasonable personality, but its making a noticeable difference. Transfers Youth Academy Youth Intake Preview Youth Intake Youth Intake Squad Yeah, this is a throwaway year for development. No elites and bad personalities. My HOYD was in his final year of contract and he did me the courtesy of leaving on his own when it ended. Again, St Vincent makes finding good staff very difficult. Not only do they need to want to come here, but they have to accept a very low salary. The coaches that will do that are the retired players who have a higher liklihood of accepting lower salaries. Roland Poeketi is a Professional from Suriname who agreed to be our HOYD as his first coaching job As you can see, he's not the greatest so I'm going to take the risk of assigning my lone Model Citizen coach to pull in our youngsters in staff responsibilities. Shane Philip had a very short career in Dominica before retiring and becoming a coach. Someone asked a few days ago the point of scouts for the YAC - finding this staff member is the point of setting up scouting when you're playing a minor nation. Its fair to say he is the best staff member I've found, so hopefully I can keep him for a few years. Club Improvements With our impressive performance as well as the extra prize money from winning I was just able to push through a facility upgrade. We had 2.6M in the bank and it took most of it at 2.1M Manager Thoughts & Excel Excel: Season 1-15 ; Season 16 - 18 It's official that this save has also become victim of the YF bug as after this TF upgrade I can still improve them, but still have no option to upgrade the YFs. While this was critical in Slovenia, the Caribbean doesn't have the financial power that playing in the Champions League nets you in Europe. Because of this the true aim will be to try and get a Senior Affiliate eventually where we can send our youths, while we invest our prize money into building good training facilities. We also don't have to build nearly as good of a team to complete the challenge here. By my rough estimation I think our current squad is somewhere around the League 2 level. I'd say the best teams in Mexico (Pumas, Chivas & Tigres) are around about Top Championship Clubs or at beast bottom half Premier League teams. While we are a ways off that talent-wise, our performance this year has me hopeful that with a very lucky season we could actually do it when my current young talent matures. The team is set up pretty well right now and I don't really need anyone specific from the intakes as well as have no near-term retirement concerns. This is good as I'm expecting it to take a couple years for my new HOYD+Coach team to start bringing in good talent. Now just to keep on playing and not ****-off the FM Gods 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
V50 Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 1 hour ago, WhiteCat33 said: Toni Store Jugglers FC – St Vincent & The Grenadines Season 18 2039/2040 SVG Championship Performance League: Champion Cup: Champion North American Champions League: Group Stage We've advanced for the first time! Completing the challenge from St Vincent will take a lucky NACL Group like this one. We got a mid-table Mexican team and then the 2 leading Costa Rican teams. \ Quarter Final Here our draw was not nearly as lucky; we got Tigres. The only positive here is that the coach that took Tigres to 10 NACL trophies left to coach the Mexican national team. First Leg in Mexico: Hide contents The team got my blood boiling early in the first half when Ezra Williams drew a penalty. However, McLean couldn’t convert! Not just the PK but the follow up shot he took got blocked as well. Brutal luck, but still 0-0 at half. And the bad luck for McLean continues as he is a half a step offside and a 75’ goal is called back. So, we end 0-0 and we had the two best chances of the game. I am shocked we played so well against the most successful team of the save. Unfortunately between the two legs we lost our #1 (Malcolm Green) and #3 CBs to injuries, which has us stretched very thin in the center where we were already playing all U-18 players, so I have to start our 16 year old #4 CB for the most important game of the save thus far... Second Leg in St Vincent: Hide contents And they hit us early 7’ min…and again 11’ in when my RB just spaced out and let his man receive a ball and run past him. And then our captain DLP gets injured in the 29’… and our 16 year old replacement CB gives up a penalty which is miraculously saved and then McLean 14b turns it around for a break away goal! Has the tide changed?! Nope, they get a3rd in the 80th to seal it. OR DID THEY? McLean answers with a goal in the 83rd! Sadly couldn’t push enough to break through again. We lose 2-3. I’m content with this loss. Considering where we are at as a club, it being this close is a big overachievement. Matches: Caribbean Club Championship CCC Group Stage – Well we advance on GD as we had a disappointing final game against AS Capoise losing 0-1. But hey, we advance! CCC Knockouts -- I thought we were going to have another dud away performance in the final, but after a stern halftime talk the boys came back from 0-1 to win 2-1 in style. Makes up for last year’s disappointment. Squad It's worth mentioning I feel we've hit the 'critical mass' where the whole team sways towards fairly professional / resolute. We now have at least 2-3 players per position group who are Professional/Resolute and can mentor any youngsters towards our preferred mentality. Granted, this only helps if they start with a reasonable personality, but its making a noticeable difference. Transfers Youth Academy Youth Intake Preview Youth Intake Youth Intake Squad Yeah, this is a throwaway year for development. No elites and bad personalities. My HOYD was in his final year of contract and he did me the courtesy of leaving on his own when it ended. Again, St Vincent makes finding good staff very difficult. Not only do they need to want to come here, but they have to accept a very low salary. The coaches that will do that are the retired players who have a higher liklihood of accepting lower salaries. Roland Poeketi is a Professional from Suriname who agreed to be our HOYD as his first coaching job As you can see, he's not the greatest so I'm going to take the risk of assigning my lone Model Citizen coach to pull in our youngsters in staff responsibilities. Shane Philip had a very short career in Dominica before retiring and becoming a coach. Someone asked a few days ago the point of scouts for the YAC - finding this staff member is the point of setting up scouting when you're playing a minor nation. Its fair to say he is the best staff member I've found, so hopefully I can keep him for a few years. Club Improvements With our impressive performance as well as the extra prize money from winning I was just able to push through a facility upgrade. We had 2.6M in the bank and it took most of it at 2.1M Manager Thoughts & Excel Excel: Season 1-15 ; Season 16 - 18 It's official that this save has also become victim of the YF bug as after this TF upgrade I can still improve them, but still have no option to upgrade the YFs. While this was critical in Slovenia, the Caribbean doesn't have the financial power that playing in the Champions League nets you in Europe. Because of this the true aim will be to try and get a Senior Affiliate eventually where we can send our youths, while we invest our prize money into building good training facilities. We also don't have to build nearly as good of a team to complete the challenge here. By my rough estimation I think our current squad is somewhere around the League 2 level. I'd say the best teams in Mexico (Pumas, Chivas & Tigres) are around about Top Championship Clubs or at beast bottom half Premier League teams. While we are a ways off that talent-wise, our performance this year has me hopeful that with a very lucky season we could actually do it when my current young talent matures. The team is set up pretty well right now and I don't really need anyone specific from the intakes as well as have no near-term retirement concerns. This is good as I'm expecting it to take a couple years for my new HOYD+Coach team to start bringing in good talent. Now just to keep on playing and not ****-off the FM Gods Fantastic achievement to get out the group! So glad you picked it up again. Trinidad, Jamaica and Grenada randomly tend to have good staff for this level. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteCat33 Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 @V50 Thanks! weve gotten close a couple times but breaking through felt great, and then we drew Tigres lol. Still shocked we actually put up a fight there. Interesting on Grenada, I'll admit that's not a nation I've bothered scouting so will have to get on that. I have max knowledge on T&T and Jamaica, and they definitely produce the most professional coaches. Issue is anyone good from those nations wants way too much salary. I've had good luck with Cuba for cheap coaches who are decent. Then its just luck finding retiring players at the right time. The coach hunting is a different kind of challenge that I'm not used to. Only downer on the save is not having the reputation to get foreign affiliates, though the ST Vincent national team benefits. Of course domestic completions are all Sims, but the CCC has remained competitive so I'm glad to see the bigger islands have held up so far into the future. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
V50 Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 14 minutes ago, WhiteCat33 said: @V50 Thanks! weve gotten close a couple times but breaking through felt great, and then we drew Tigres lol. Still shocked we actually put up a fight there. Interesting on Grenada, I'll admit that's not a nation I've bothered scouting so will have to get on that. I have max knowledge on T&T and Jamaica, and they definitely produce the most professional coaches. Issue is anyone good from those nations wants way too much salary. I've had good luck with Cuba for cheap coaches who are decent. Then its just luck finding retiring players at the right time. The coach hunting is a different kind of challenge that I'm not used to. Only downer on the save is not having the reputation to get foreign affiliates, though the ST Vincent national team benefits. Of course domestic completions are all Sims, but the CCC has remained competitive so I'm glad to see the bigger islands have held up so far into the future. There are a couple nations with low wages - Haiti and Dominica (as you found) are also potentially lower wage than Saint Vincent Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteCat33 Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 11 minutes ago, V50 said: There are a couple nations with low wages - Haiti and Dominica (as you found) are also potentially lower wage than Saint Vincent Suriname has been the nation for me finding bargain coaches. I got lucky early on to get a coach from there with good knowledge and I've grown my ranks ever since including the new HOYD. He agreed to just 230 p/w and anyone else near his 'skill' wanted 550+ p/w. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 Had to share some record setting Champions League performances: 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo_Geo Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 VV Katwijk Season 5 (2028/29) Review Haven't been able to get as much time on this as I would have liked (and this weekend is looking the same) however the next time I pick this save up I'll be resuming in the Eredivisie as I managed to avoid the drop. Competitions Obviously we were predicted to finish last but managed to get 12th spot in the end, 8 points above the drop. The start of the season was incredible and after 4 games I was top of the league (I always seem to get a good start while other teams get up to speed then fade away). The last game of the season was at home to RKC Waalwijk and it ended in a 3-2 win which was my first win since January 20th (a total of 14 games without a win), luckily not too long before that we had a 9 game unbeaten run with 6 wins which undoubtedly was the reason relegation was avoided. In the Dutch Cup it was quarter finals and a home defeat to Heerenveen, which was a little disappointing. Youth Intake My word, what an intake this year with no less than 8 Elite talents! A few standouts who made their way into the first team this season: Existing Players Review Botermans continued to get the top scorer and Haddouti still with the most assists however understandably due to the increase in opposition quality these numbers fell rather sharply. Fikkert was a lifesaver this year in goal however we do have an Elite prospect keeper coming through now so I will have to try and rotate where possible. It was a great season for Nelson Schutte (Y02EliteA) as he started a total of 34 matches and has really improved. Ed Plezier (Y01EliteB) continues to improve steadily and managed 25 starts and as with Schutte is a 3.5 start CA player. The other point to note was one of last years Elite prospects was the target of a transfer bid from Sparta Rotterdam, this was shortly after I started playing him more regularly totaling 22 starts this season Club This year the focus was primarily on getting the youth recruitment improved and the junior coaching, then at the end of the season a further planned improvement to both training and youth facilities thanks to the prize money. With the average attendance being 99% we have outgrown our stadium and based on the club vision it looks like they would prefer to expand (not that I've left much in the bank with the two planned improvements!) Manager This season I bagged the last of the coaching badges and was approached by Fortuna Sittard and Bordeaux for interviews Season 6 Aim Continue to stay in the division and continue with the phasing out of the original squad players. The last game of the season 3-2 win against RKC Waalwijk had 9 graduates starting with only Haddouti and Botermans starting for the original squad members. The tactic switch never really happened and we still rely too heavily on the wingers and Botermans, so next season it will be about gauging when the time is right to start to gradually change the tactics to control more possession and be more patient rather than always trying to counter. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 I've taken it as far as I can. I'm going to take a little run with the club with transfers and see if I can push it across the line in a season or two. I'm sure I'll be back pretty soon with a new run at the challenge in a different country 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAwtunes Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 Very nice 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldojags Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 Wow I've not been on so much recently, missed a lot of cool stuff! @DaddyDon't think any of us would begrudge you if you decide to end the challenge - to win a European trophy with an Israeli team using only youth prospects is incredible, what a save. Hope you get them over the line one way or the other!! @skillsthat GK looks great, you're setting up well off the pitch, @Neo_Geosolid first season - that centre back will play for Holland one day he looks great 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigJack Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 (edited) The lack of a youth team at East Thurrock put me off so I persevered with reloading and finally got Cray Wanderers. I wanted Cray Wanderers because they are a local side to myself and I used to play against the youth sides in my school days. Set Up Manager Profile (Not sure why it says route one, I haven't played a game yet) Appointment Transfer History Edited June 8, 2022 by BigJack 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldojags Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 Season Review 2029/30 League Table | Fixtures 1 & 2 | Finances | Transfers After the poor showing past few years, I changed to a back 3, with wing backs and wingers, 2 CMs and a AF. We had a much improved season, but again frustratingly collapsed down the straight, and missed out on 2nd place and a play off promotion, despite being top 2 most of the season. Frustrating, in that the team who finished 2nd, had inferior GD to us, and had just won promotion themselves! And interestingly, Oostende who dropped out the premier league into our league, got a 2nd successive relegation. They were heavily fancied so this was a huge shock. But a frustrating season to start on fire but then our usual inconsistencies crept in, I mean, look how we started! But overall I'm pleased just to be away from the bottom of the league and having a comfortable season, my games are so reliant on getting first goal. If I fall behind - forget it, but if I can go in front I'm good to hold on usually! Got linked with a premier league job which I thought was a bit weird, as was doing ok, but nothing special! But I'll take it as a good sign! Team I'll give a run down of my main stars! Eugene Deirekx is by far best player at club - which is a shame as he's agreed to join a premier league team for £675k, but with 50% sell on. We will miss him!! Nicholas De Matteo, played cutting in off the right wing, good player, finished season incredibly strongly, was brilliant toward end of season. Mattis De Paepe, been in first team few years now, has 150+ games for us, I like him although he rarely sticks out in highlights. Toma Pena - 16 year old midfielder who attributes wise looks great, but got sent off twice in like 13 appearances! But if i can manage him, he'll be great! Oliver Kamango broke into team last few games cutting in off left wing, and I think he'll be a big player next season judging on how he finished season. Brent Lippens - attracting interest from premier league, although he's a winger, I've found best performances from him played as a pressing forward on defend, so I'm not sure how to use him! Admir Hadzic - our GK, bosnian u21 international, Brugge wanted him and i rejected it it was something stupid like £50k, and i had 3 years left on his deal. He got angry for a few weeks then settled down, probably his unambitious personality! Louis Bracke featured more toward end of season, I tried to make him into a LWB such was my desperation at this position, he was ok, but playing as a RWB or right winger he did well too, like the look of him! Alain Kisesa, whilst being crap - is the first player we produced to get called up to the World Cup! Youth Preview | Intake 1 & 2 & 3 | Squad View Some good depth this year from the intake, few players who I think will be first team players in a year, have featured below some of the best ones. Zniber - left winger Van der hoek - left back - he'll be in team before long, we are a joke at left back/LWB. Lance Weston - a Belgian/American! Looks good I think. Cheng Yujie - Belgian/Chinese - rubbish physicals but I still think there's a player there. Rayan Amouche - nothing special but I'm documenting him as its my 3rd model citizen in a row - the previous 2 changed to "light hearted" within weeks, so this is a project, going to watch him like a hawk and see what happens! Mohamed Sangare - Ivorian striker, I think he looks like DLF? Next season, have 2 strong teams being relegated from Pro League A- Westerlo, who are loaded with young talent with high values, and Cercle Brugge, who are also on paper way better than anything else in this league. So I think we need to just get the system tweaked, and give ourselves few seasons - one year, we'll get lucky and fluke a promotion, but it won't be next year. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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