The FM22 Youth Academy Challenge

[BustaRaymes]

*FM20*

Littlehampton Town 2051-2052

Vanarama National League

Three times is the charm, as we won the playoffs getting us back up to League Two. And this time we're ready for it.

 

Squad

Players like Van Heusden, Bowie and Coulibaly are very much ready for a step up, and I'm hopeful I can keep hold of them now that we got promoted.

Resano exploded as our main goalscorer up front and has had a massive impact in his first season in the starting eleven.

 

Transfers

Wood wanted to go before the season and he couldn't improve anymore, so I let him. Halfway through, the board deemed it necessary to sell goalscorer O'Neil, but I'm glad with the fee and we're up anyway, so I'm ok with it.

 

Youth intake

Houston might be the most talented player we've had in recent years. It's going to be tough fitting him in with Resano and Silic, but I'm not complaining.

Hudson is the kind of pacy winger I like, and Gale-Fuller could be a good backup for Mputu as we lack a second left winger.

I like Kyriakou as well, but he needs to be retrained as a centre back and he will have to lose the Unambitious personality.

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

 

Survivals FC - Youth Intake - 2028

I needed a left back, and got one. Also bolstered the center of defense and the midfield. Unfortunately the best of the bunch is a right sided winger, and we play a 4-3-1-2 narrow. I will most likely train him as a BBM since he does have 16 acceleration and 14 pace. At the end of this season, I'm planning a staff overhaul now that we have the reputation to bring in many foreign staff. I have yet to see the HOYD influence any player's personality, so I will be focusing on finding a new HOYD with a 4-3-1-2 preferred formation with ideally a tiki-taka, passing, or counter playing style.

[OlivierL]

On 08/08/2022 at 12:23, thomas_e said:

What kind of regen facepacks are people using? Has there been any technical issues with any of them? 

NEWGan manager is doing it for me, i had one error this FM edition.

[WhiteCat33]

Season 7 2028-29 MPL Premier League

Performance

League: Champions! We won it on points this time even with the Group Stage requiring us to do significant rotation for league matches. Very good sign we are already beginning to consolidate domestically.

Spoiler

Cups: We won both the Malta Super Cup & FA Trophy to do a Domestic Treble. Hopefully this becomes the norm in short order.

Spoiler

EC2: So you all saw our exciting Qualification Campaign in the last post, how did we do in the group stage? Obliterated. Only positive note is Sean Caruana 02a is a machine. He scored against all 3 teams with 5 Goals in the 6 matches. 

Spoiler

Squad: Final non-contract group. Only a few will be getting full-time deals as I look to sunset the initial cohort that should get eclipsed by the next generation.

Spoiler

Sean Caruana 02a: This dude showed his performances aren't just because he plays in an easy league. He has more than 1 Goal Contribution per game in Continental play, which was 14 games between all 3 of the Cups. 

Still won't sign a contract with us of course, so there's that. Now that I've played a Group Stage it only seems right to add in an international force to draw away our best players because apparently my Icelandic Parent club doesn't want to. I decided to add all of the Italian leagues as they are the major nation in our region. While I don't want to lose Caruana 02a for realism-sake I hope a Siere C club comes in to take a punt on him. 

Spoiler

Transfers: No big losses this year, but we have to make it through the summer...

Spoiler

Club Improvements: With over $6 Million in Revenue this year I did some massive facility upgrades. Both Youth & Training Facilities got Double Upgraded this year to get them both to Average. We also bumped up JR Coaching to Excellent as well as maxed Recruitment to Exceptional. At the end of the season the Board also expanded scouting to the South Europe Region. And of course the big news: PROFESSIONAL! 

Spoiler

 

YI Preview

Youth Intake

Pretty solid intake with 2 much needed playmaking central players.

Wish this half-Swede had better Personality/Det & Nat Fitness but he will also be a much needed DLP/CM as my current group are all the initial players who have stopped improving and can’t pass.

And we get another RB, but sadly another bad personality/determination combination

Since we are moving to F/T contracts for coaches I took the opportunity to upgrade to a Professional HOYD with slightly higher determination. Again not crazy impressive, but I'm interested to see how he does in comparison to my first one.

 

Thoughts:

Goal is to make another group stage, but we will be totally fine if we don't as I've kept over $1.4M in reserve. Will be interesting to see how much money we bleed going professional but that should easily pad us for a couple years until we can make another EC2 Group Stage.

[Daddy]

Here comes the jinx again. This is a very favorable group. We faced Napoli twice nine seasons ago and won both matches. We faced Galatasaray twice five seasons ago and won both matches as well. We've never faced Austria Wien, as they won their league for the first time and are in the Champions league for the first time in this save. This is a group I expect to win and get back on the hunt for larger glory. 

[JAwtunes]

3 hours ago, WhiteCat33 said:

Season 7 2028-29 MPL Premier League

Performance

League: Champions! We won it on points this time even with the Group Stage requiring us to do significant rotation for league matches. Very good sign we are already beginning to consolidate domestically.

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Cups: We won both the Malta Super Cup & FA Trophy to do a Domestic Treble. Hopefully this becomes the norm in short order.

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EC2: So you all saw our exciting Qualification Campaign in the last post, how did we do in the group stage? Obliterated. Only positive note is Sean Caruana 02a is a machine. He scored against all 3 teams with 5 Goals in the 6 matches. 

  Reveal hidden contents

Squad: Final non-contract group. Only a few will be getting full-time deals as I look to sunset the initial cohort that should get eclipsed by the next generation.

  Reveal hidden contents

Sean Caruana 02a: This dude showed his performances aren't just because he plays in an easy league. He has more than 1 Goal Contribution per game in Continental play, which was 14 games between all 3 of the Cups. 

Still won't sign a contract with us of course, so there's that. Now that I've played a Group Stage it only seems right to add in an international force to draw away our best players because apparently my Icelandic Parent club doesn't want to. I decided to add all of the Italian leagues as they are the major nation in our region. While I don't want to lose Caruana 02a for realism-sake I hope a Siere C club comes in to take a punt on him. 

  Reveal hidden contents

Transfers: No big losses this year, but we have to make it through the summer...

  Reveal hidden contents

Club Improvements: With over $6 Million in Revenue this year I did some massive facility upgrades. Both Youth & Training Facilities got Double Upgraded this year to get them both to Average. We also bumped up JR Coaching to Excellent as well as maxed Recruitment to Exceptional. At the end of the season the Board also expanded scouting to the South Europe Region. And of course the big news: PROFESSIONAL! 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

YI Preview

Youth Intake

Pretty solid intake with 2 much needed playmaking central players.

Wish this half-Swede had better Personality/Det & Nat Fitness but he will also be a much needed DLP/CM as my current group are all the initial players who have stopped improving and can’t pass.

And we get another RB, but sadly another bad personality/determination combination

Since we are moving to F/T contracts for coaches I took the opportunity to upgrade to a Professional HOYD with slightly higher determination. Again not crazy impressive, but I'm interested to see how he does in comparison to my first one.

 

Thoughts:

Goal is to make another group stage, but we will be totally fine if we don't as I've kept over $1.4M in reserve. Will be interesting to see how much money we bleed going professional but that should easily pad us for a couple years until we can make another EC2 Group Stage.

Are there a few games missing in your league screenshot?

[WhiteCat33]

46 minutes ago, JAwtunes said:

Are there a few games missing in your league screenshot?

Guess there are for some of the lower teams, I just took it right after the inbox notification. Malta has 26 game seasons, so I'd finished all my games.

 

[toshimitzou1]

I know you're a busy man @darren1983. Cheers for maintaining an awesome thread and challenge. Can't wait to the see the Leaderboard updated. That Iceland playthrough was seriously fun!!!

[darren1983]

17 minutes ago, toshimitzou1 said:

I know you're a busy man @darren1983. Cheers for maintaining an awesome thread and challenge. Can't wait to the see the Leaderboard updated. That Iceland playthrough was seriously fun!!!

Sorry mate, I'm not very active at the moment so unless I get tagged in a post I don't really see it but congrats, that's some going in that timeframe and have added you to the HoF 

[glennuk]

13 hours ago, BustaRaymes said:

*FM20*

 

Houston might be the most talented player we've had in recent years. It's going to be tough fitting him in with Resano and Silic, but I'm not complaining.

 

 

Wow @BustaRaymes he looks like some player, at that age and with that personality! 10 Finishing already. I like the look of him alot. I bet in a couple of years you will be starting him.

Hope he improves that speed though  

Edited August 10, 2022 by glennuk

[Neo_Geo]

VV Katwijk 2035/36 (Season 12) Review

Single Sentence Season Summary

Domestic dominance continues as Champions League progress is made

Further Details

Spoiler

Competitions

What a season domestically as not only did Katwijk go unbeaten in the league but the treble was acquired for the first time as the 5th league title in a row was won and our domestic dominance reigns supreme 

It started off with a 2-1 win over PSV in the Super Cup and from there we never looked back, even the sale of Cengic didn't cause nearly as much chaos as I was expecting.

Eredivisie

Unbeaten and a goal differences of +2 per game is pretty special. Nurudeen (10EliteA) got the nod as the replacement keeper and only conceded 25 league goals with 14 clean sheets whilst the strikers (in particular Breinburg (8EliteC)) demolished the league.

Dutch Cup

The cup was a little hairy at times due to some heavy rotation to ensure I got out of the champions league group stages but with some luck and graft we won the Dutch Cup for the first time.

Champions League

Definitely making progress here after losing out by 1 goal on aggregate to eventual winners PSG.

I'm not going to lie I was VERY lucky with the wins over Real Madrid and Man City (the Madrid match went to Extra Time and I got the winner in the last minute with only my second shot on target in the match, Madrid were well and truly FM'd)

However this squad has no right to be at this point in the Champions League....yet. There is great potential in the squad but the trick is holding onto enough of them to keep moving forward.

 

Youth Intake

As you can see from the above Bodker has peaked with van Beek not expected to go much above it, whilst Hoekstra at the moment looks like he could be better than both. I need to accelerate this boys path to the first team so I am likely to move Bodker on.

 

Players

The main story of the season was losing Cengic to Arsenal and Nurudeen taking over. Here's Nurudeen's start of season attributes versus the end of season:

It'll definitely be a few seasons before he gets to the right level but he consistently turned in 10.00 training ratings and Resolute is a solid personality.

On the NxGn front we didn't win it this year with Wakaso appearing here for the first time in 26th place and Milovanovic taking 15th place

Wakaso is now my club captain at the tender age of 18 (Plezier moved in the January window), I really believe he has huge potential and his mentals are just insane

Best 11 nearly there at all 7+ which is why I hope Hoekstra is the real deal and can replace Bodker.

Top Scorer - Breinburg (8EliteC) 43 goals
Top Assists - Bosma (Y07EliteD) 17 assists
Top Rating - Bosma (Y07EliteD) 7.55

Club

• Stadium expansions will take us up to 38000+
• Chairman still the same so no chance of the Youth Facilities getting upgraded from 4 star
• We are now in top spot for reputation in Holland
• £184m in the bank

Trophy Cabinet

EDIT - I took the screenshot too early as it hadn't counted this season yet!

Next Season Goals

Par for the course now with trying to retain my best players and give enough playing time to the most promising youth players for them to develop.

Having won the treble I'm now satisfied domestically, I'll start to play my youth players in that cup from now on.

I need to perhaps work on a new formation in Europe to keep things tight away from home and then go full on attack at home, however I lack any real quality in the DM area so my options are somewhat limited.

Edited August 10, 2022 by Neo_Geo

[XaW]

XaW - Hyde - Season 2022/23 - Vanarama National League North

Squad | Transfers | Finances

So, back in England, and off to an excellent start! The team I started with is quite good, the only issue is that it was only 15 of them. Still, the season went great and we were hovering around the top of the table for the whole season. Eventually we finished in a very strong 3rd place. In the playoffs we beat Chester in the semi final, before we narrowly lost to Fylde in the final. Quite literally as close as we could have been, and without a full sub bench most of the season. So I'm very happy with how things are going. Now on to the next one where the youngsters will most likely have some role to play.

FA Cup: We beat Morpeth and Royston before we lost to Alfreton Town in the 4th qualifying round.
FA Trophy:  We beat Farsley and Chorley before we lost to Tamworth in the 4th round.

U18 team:

They finished 11th in the National U18 League North West. In the FA Youth Cup they beat Matlock Town before losing to Prescot in the 2nd qualifying round.

Youth intake:

Trophy cabinet

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Player statistics:

Most apps for the clubs

Name			Nation		2nd Nation	Apps
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Robbie Brown 23f	England		Scotland	2
Juan Manuel Ruiz 23i	Spain		England		1

Most goals for the club

Name			Nation		2nd Nation	Apps
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Most assists for the club

Name			Nation		2nd Nation	Apps
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[JAwtunes]

12 hours ago, WhiteCat33 said:

Guess there are for some of the lower teams, I just took it right after the inbox notification. Malta has 26 game seasons, so I'd finished all my games.

 

I was being thick - for some reason I thought it was a 27 match season and you still had a game to play and could be caught.  I have looked at so many leagues recently for my next save that I'm losing the plot!

[BustaRaymes]

9 hours ago, glennuk said:

 

Wow @BustaRaymes he looks like some player, at that age and with that personality! 10 Finishing already. I like the look of him alot. I bet in a couple of years you will be starting him.

Hope he improves that speed though  

He's developing like crazy, played quite a few games off the bench already. Looks like he'll be a starter next season.

Like you said, hoping he gets a bit faster as he's very good as a DLF but I'd like him to be an AF.

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

 

Survivals FC - End of Season - 2028

Squad | SLFA First Division | Transfers | Vivian Hackett 27L | Alexander Blanchard 25C | Antonio Charles 26I

We have reached the tipping point of league domination. I play my first XI in the CCC and my second XI in the league for the most part. Being semi-pro, fitness can become an issue when playing so many midweek matches, so rotation is necessary. Still, we finished the league season unbeaten, winning 14 and drawing 4. Compare how my second XI poacher finished with 16 goals in 12 league appearances with an 8.06 average rating and my first XI poacher finished with 10 goals in 10, and a 7.92 rating, in the CCC.

 

We had a great showing in the NACL group stages.

Since we won the CCC last season, we were actually a pot 1 team for the draw. It paid off as we were paired with only Real Salt Lake from the MLS+Liga MX. We lost both matches against them handily, but won our other 4 against bottom-dwelling Canadian side York FC and fellow Caribbean side Pantoja from the Dominican Republic, who had lost in the semis in the CCC the year before. Those 4 wins netted us an extra 400k in prize money in addition to any gate receipts. Our finances look relatively stable now, especially since we should make the group stages of the NACL in most seasons at this point in the save.We ended up 4th in the CCC, guarenteeing another run in the NACL, but meaning we'll be a pot 4 team instead of a pot 1 team. So I'm not expecting any prize money like this year.

 

After the season, I overhauled the staff to increase our scouting knowledge and hopefully increase the odds of getting non-St. Lucians in our intakes. Not sure if our reach is enough to pull players from other countries, but we did have Spanish players in our first two intakes (and none since then), so it is possible.

Here's what our knowledge looks like now, but St. Vincent, Haiti, Montserrat, Barbados, Norway, Sweden, and Wales will be maxed out over time. I will try to bring in staff with full knowledge of the USA to start, then any Latin American countries if possible, then finally some more Caribbean countries to fill out the ranks. I'm hoping some of this will be reflected in our intakes going forward, interested to see how much it has made a difference in others' saves.

[BigJack]

FC United Season 2028/29

Competitons

Overview

Vanarama National League - League Table

It was almost a carbon copy of last season as we started really well but as soon the league goes back to 1 game a week we start to struggle. I am wondering if its the extra training and match prep the professional sides get.  We managed to get 10th place in the end but I really need to push on next season or risk losing a few of our best players and then it becomes a real struggle for us. 

FA Cup - Lost in 1st Rnd to AFC Flyde

FA Trophy - Lost in 3rd Rnd to Altrincham

Playing Squad

Squad    Transfers

Another year and the squad is developing well but our better players are starting to want moves to bigger clubs. We are definitely losing Thorpe 25a and Ekman 24b this summer. I kept both even though their contracts were running out as I was hopeful of a promotion push after our start and the money being offered just didn't make it worth selling them. I did however manage to wrangle a 50% sell on clause from Norwich even though Ekmans contract had just 2 weeks left on it. I tried the same for Thorpe but to no avail. 

It was a breakout season for both Wainwright 28a and Puukka 28c who both can expect more game time next season after stepping up this year. Puukka's emergence will come in handy as we are losing Ekman and don't have a great replacement for him. 

Both  Essien 25b and Burke 25b performed well this season but are talking about wanting to play for a bigger club and with just a season to run on Burkes contract I cant see him resigning unless we somehow go up next season.

Youth Development

Youth Intake 

I have been screaming out for a keeper and this year we finally got one that is highly rated. I am tempted to throw him straight in next season but I think I will give him a season in the Youth teams first. We needed some wingers and both Sheils and Morgan look like decent prospects.

Mcgrath 29a, Sheils 29b and Morgan 29c

Facilities and Finances

Facilities    Finances

Another solid year where we managed to upgrade the Youth Facilities. I was thinking to save all money to try and turn professional. For some reason I have a figure of £2m in my head for the board to agree to this, I am sure it was around that on an older version of FM. I could be horribly wrong there though so if anyone knows if there is a figure on this version that would be great.

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

No success in the NACL again this preseason. Being drawn against 2 MLS sides and a Liga MX side is tough to get any points. We need to win the CCC again and get back into the first pot. That way we can be guarenteed to have either a Caribbean or Central American side in our group. Being able to earn an extra 200k each campaign from beating one of those teams twice would be nice. Regardless, we made about 300k this time around for losing all 6 matches.

Edited August 10, 2022 by The_Gato_In_Goal

[WhiteCat33]

1 hour ago, The_Gato_In_Goal said:

Here's what our knowledge looks like now, but St. Vincent, Haiti, Montserrat, Barbados, Norway, Sweden, and Wales will be maxed out over time. I will try to bring in staff with full knowledge of the USA to start, then any Latin American countries if possible, then finally some more Caribbean countries to fill out the ranks. I'm hoping some of this will be reflected in our intakes going forward, interested to see how much it has made a difference in others' saves.

Sorry to say in my 25 years playing St Vincent it didn't make a lick of difference, hope you have better luck!  Here is my YI Nationalities table:

[BustaRaymes]

*FM20*

Littlehampton Town 2052-2053

Sky Bet League Two

First season back in League Two we went straight into the playoffs. Swindon was too strong for us in the first round.

 

Squad

Resano continued his goalscoring streak at a higher level.

Lapeña has emerged as a new big talent. He lacks pace, but his mental abilities make up for it.

Van Heusden keeps developing and I'm not sure we can hold on to him much longer. Same goes for Coulibaly, who was our playmaker and POTS for the league.

Silic finally had his personality changed form Unambitious to Balanced, but I'm reserved as to what this will do for his development. Still had a great season.

Houston is turning into someone I can't look past for a starting spot next season. His improvement has been insane and his personality went from Resolute to Perfectionist. I'm not sure we can do with two slow players up front though, and replacing Silic is not really an option either. I'm extremely happy with him though, we'll find a way to fit him in and keep him as long as possible.

 

Transfers

Schmidt wanted to move to his home nation and we have an equal in Quinn, so we let him go. Bowie was a board decision which I was not too happy with.

 

Youth intake

Obviously not a party every year. Hiney might be useful, I don't hate Mercenaries.

 

 

Edited August 10, 2022 by BustaRaymes
Added Transfers

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

1 hour ago, The_Gato_In_Goal said:

Compare this to our CCC group stage run, and another NACL berth looks to be on the cards.

[JLAB]

OFK Beograd - Season 9 Review

After we got the youth intake, I knew that we needed to have some good performances in the league. We picked up 13 points from the last 8 matches and I found myself wondering if we could in fact, win the SuperLiga for the very first time in the save.

It turns out we could get very close. We finished in 2nd place, 2 points behind Cukaricki Stankom who have won the SuperLiga for the very first time in their history. We finished above both Partizan and Red Star in what feels like a huge missed opportunity on our part.

To make things worse, we actually lost to Cukaricki Stankom after they came from behind twice and ended up winning as a result of a 95th minute winner. Which makes the fact we ended up finishing 2 points behind them all the more painful. At least we're in the Champions League next season I suppose. We do need the money from that.

JLAB - OFK Beograd - Season 1 | JLAB - OFK Beograd - Season 2 | JLAB - OFK Beograd - Season 3 | JLAB - OFK Beograd - Season 4 | JLAB - OFK Beograd - Season 5 | JLAB - OFK Beograd - Season 6 | JLAB - OFK Beograd - Season 7 | JLAB - OFK Beograd - Season 8 | JLAB - OFK Beograd - Season 9

 

Edited August 10, 2022 by JLAB

[Makoto Nakamura]

Currently holidaying in East Timor/ Timor-Leste. 

[V50]

3 hours ago, WhiteCat33 said:

Sorry to say in my 25 years playing St Vincent it didn't make a lick of difference, hope you have better luck!  Here is my YI Nationalities table:

Saint Vincent and Saint Lucia don't have much variability on a (underneath the hood) country level - if you want varied intakes then Trinidad or Jamaica are the ones

[XaW]

5 minutes ago, Makoto Nakamura said:

Currently holidaying in East Timor/ Timor-Leste. 

Because of course you are! Good luck!  

[Makoto Nakamura]

1 hour ago, XaW said:

Because of course you are! Good luck!  

Thanks!  

[Makoto Nakamura]

Why Timor-Leste?

They are the lowest ranked league in Asia that can qualify for the AFC Cup!  

I've loaded the former Portuguese colonies as well as neighbours Indonesia & Australia.

And that's where Timor-Leste is, not a very well known place at all.

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

1 hour ago, V50 said:

Saint Vincent and Saint Lucia don't have much variability on a (underneath the hood) country level - if you want varied intakes then Trinidad or Jamaica are the ones

Certainly figured this one out quick when my first intake with the increased club knowledge was solely St. Lucian players.

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

 

Survivals FC - Youth Intake - 2029

Another oustanding intake. I'm not honestly sure how much having a HOYD matters at this stage. They have yet to have had an impact on the intake's personalities, although the preferred formation does seem to slightly make a difference. Since no players at our club can develop and increase their CA currently with the low facilities/part-time contracts, the CA of players coming through is the main aspect of the intake. Now that junior coaching has been maxed out for a couple years, I imagine in five or so years, if we're still semi-pro, we'll end up with a massive squad of players with similar CAs. Interested to see how that plays out.

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

 

Survivals FC - End of Season - 2029

Squad | SLFA First Division | Transfers | Vivian Hackett 27L | Romiel Lawrence 27B | Kieran Evans 28E

Second unbeaten league season in a row. Earlier posted our dismal showing in the NACL group stages, followed by our dominant display in the CCC groups. We ended up rolling quite easily to the CCC final, where we met a Mt. Pleasant side that was much better than us on the night. I'm guessing this means we will be seeded in pot 4 again for the NACL groups next season, but who knows how that works. Certainly not me. Really hoping we can go pro in the next few years, that's always been and always will be the next step. Being able to develop our players will go a long way in making us more competitive in the NACL. Finances look healthy and facilities are still not great other than junior coaching and youth recruitment. I guess having a 5000 seat stadium is nice.

Now that our escapades in hiring foreign staff proved fruitless, I will focus on hiring quality staff instead, although it's not as if good coaches will make training any more effective. I will look to hire youth staff with solid personalities and attributes on the off chance (and low low off chance) we produce one of those "freak" newgens that the HOYD and youth staff have influence on shaping.

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

Not at all sure what determines what pot a team is seeded in. But we're in pot 2. At least that was what I thought until we were the third team into the group in the actual draw (and Toronto FC was the last team, so not sure what's going on).

Another rough draw. Can't see us picking up any points here. Unlucky that we managed to avoid all of the other Caribbean sides.

[iamnobody]

 

 

Season 1 - Astley & Tyldesley FC - Manchester Football League Division One

 

Lots of players.....no staff

 

[Makoto Nakamura]

2022 End of Season Review

It's a weird league in that we only play each other once but it's the same in real life - I think because of travel issues. Anyway we've been promoted at the first time of asking! We'll be moving up to the top tier and we'll be turning semi-pro! We also haven't had the first youth intake yet but that will be any day now.

2022 Best XI

Rama Reis

Nélson Bosco Halle - Elias Vítor - Husen Pinto - Sandro Amaral

Fagio Sanches - Leopoldo Feliano

Martinho Amaral                                    Filonito Correia

 

Gaspar Pereira - Angiso Ribeiro de Almeida 

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

You almost played as many friendlies as league matches @Makoto Nakamura 

 

In other news:

We got destroyed in the groups again. Did one worse on the goal difference too.

On a more exciting note, we had our first player poached, which I found interesting. I didn't think we'd get many poached players since a) the youth rating of St. Lucia is so low it wouldn't benefit many clubs to poach our players, and b) our reputation is fairly high compared to the rest of the Caribbean clubs. What I didn't forsee was a Canadian club coming in for one of our youngsters. I will keep an eye on him to see if he turns out any good.

[Makoto Nakamura]

2022 Youth Candidates

Well then, welcome to the standard of Timor-Leste. 

[Makoto Nakamura]

28 minutes ago, The_Gato_In_Goal said:

You almost played as many friendlies as league matches @Makoto Nakamura 

I was just making sure we gelled!  

[Daddy]

2039/40 Midseason Review: 

The perfect season was blown when a 4 yellow card, two for one player so we were down to 10 for 30+, ref performance led us to a draw. Four of our Seventeen yellow cards came in one game. I play a very safe system. I'm bitter, but I'm in first by a lot so I guess I should chill.

Wasn't as strong of a performance as I was hoping with this group draw, but we're through by a wide margin so again I need to chill.

Juventus was in a group with us three season prior where we won 3-0 and drew 2-2. I'm still expecting a deep run in hopes of winning it all. 

Intake Preview:

Keeper is our weakest overall position, so hopefully we get a good one coming through. Our current keeper is fine, considered a "Good UPL Player", but at 30 he's maxed out. Our only other keeper is passable for the league, only 19, but unambitious.

[WhiteCat33]

Season 8 2029 – 30 MPL Premier League

Performance

Continental : We had a long, yet ultimately unsuccessful qualification campaign even with a reasonably challenging draw. The Penalty defeat at home against AIK was heartbreaking after Sean Caruana 02a leveled it on aggregate in the 94' to get us there. Not worried though as this was about a half professional team this early in the season and we will be much stronger for our next try at Europe.

Match Reports -  https://imgur.com/a/XJ0lI3F

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League: Without Continental matches Sean Caruana 02a got to play every league match and he brought the pain in Malta. The previous league goals record was 25, he got 45... 

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Cups: We won Super Cup & FA Trophy again. Malta is officially consolidated.

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Squad

The team is slowly catching up to Caruana 02a, but he is still the star of the show. I'll be clearing out all the non-contract subs who barely played over the summer to make room for youngsters

Transfers

Clearing out all the non-contract players outside of the Starting XI. These are just the ones I let other people take on free transfers instead of just releasing.

Youth Academy

YI Preview

Youth Intake

Bad personalities but some quality CA in this intake, hello new Mezzalas!

And a nicely rounded GK so I actually have a reliable backup who will eventually overtake to be #1

Club Infrastructure

Even with no Group Stage for us this year, we still got a good amount of prize money. At about 40% of last year $2 Million is more than sufficient to get us another Facility Upgrade at this early stage.

 

And what do you know, just a little more than we got in Prize money, leaves us with $1.5M in the bank, which is very safe.

Also maxed JR Coaching, but it was in the Spring.

 

Thoughts

I'm stoked to play these new midfielders in the Fall and with the rest of the intake we actually will start having a bench in a couple seasons. So far I'm holding onto players but Release Clauses & the desire to not re-sign is starting to happen for the better players. No action from the Italian clubs, but will probably take a couple seasons till they fully scout Malta and start unsettling my players.

[glennuk]

@Daddy - this is the year that Karpaty win it all!!

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

 

Survivals FC - Youth Intake - 2030

Look at this, an incredible player with an incredible personality. Only a shame that we aren't professional yet to make the most out of it. This is two intakes in a row that we got a great central midfielder and attacking midfielder. We also got a striker with a resolute personality. Finally, we've gotten to the point where not all of the youth have 5* potential, which is a sign of progress. Also it's been a few years, but we got our Spanish player back.

 

[libbyshuss]

Croatia

Division 2

2031/32 (season 10)

Season Summary

Another frustrating season where we just trod water. Most upsetting is that our expectations and predicted finishes keep falling year on year! But, on a positive note, we had a good cup run and had the first season where the first choice Xi were all regens. I think I see a really good season just around the corner....

 

Players

The reason I'm staying relatively confident and positive is the quality of youth players we're getting at the minute. Our best two players this season were two 17 year olds I promoted to the first team halfway through the season. They look the real deal.

I'm still searchnig for a proper striker though. I gave perennial top scoring winger Mateo Pavicic 23B a run out, as he's alos a natural striker, but obviously once he was up top the goals dried up. So then Vlatko Popovic 28C got his chance and finished the season pretty well. He's only 19 still and a future division 1 talent apparently so maybe I shouldn't write him off just yet

Kruneslav Vincetic 26E is another frustrating one. A 4 star potential keeper who stubborny refuses to improve despite plenty of first team action

Bruno Cubel 28A is refusing to sign a new contract as he thinks he's way too good for us. To be fiar, he's probably right. Only chance we got of keeping him is getting promotion this season and even then he'll probably still go. I'd sell him but honestly, the transfer fees you get in the Croatian second division are pitiful!

 

Youth

Another potential golden generation! Honestly, these ridiculous intakes have got to pay off some day, surely?

a nice range of determination if not personalities

i do like the look of that driven goalkeeper, Dejan Matanovic, hopefully he'll be a first teamer for a long time

 

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[JLAB]

OFK Beograd - Season 10 Preview

After securing a 2nd place we're still only expected to finish in a lowly 14th place. I like to think we can still do well in the league, but it really depends on how we do in Europe. Can we get into the Champions League group stage or will we be beaten early on?

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Edited August 11, 2022 by JLAB

[BrightLad5]

Hi everyone! I'm going to be doing this challenge in FM23 as my main Long term save!

I am going to be starting in England. I have made a few half-hearted attempts at the challenge in previous years but never gave it my full focus until now!

I'm looking for your top tips if you have any? Things you feel are important tips to know when going into the challenge!

[JAwtunes]

15 minutes ago, BrightLad5 said:

Hi everyone! I'm going to be doing this challenge in FM23 as my main Long term save!

I am going to be starting in England. I have made a few half-hearted attempts at the challenge in previous years but never gave it my full focus until now!

I'm looking for your top tips if you have any? Things you feel are important tips to know when going into the challenge!

The main thing for me is having a tactic that performs well against stronger teams, as this is the situation you will typically find yourself in. I spend ages testing and tweaking before embarking on a 'proper' save.

I would also say don't sack your HoYD after a few bad intakes and don't expect a model citizen HoYD to full your u19s with professional types, so don't be too knee jerky if the personalities and MH aren't what you were expecting.

Not specific to youth only, but I get bored and struggle to stick with a save for more than 10yrs so I guess I would say pick a league with a structure you like, Decent youth leagues, if you like that, interesting teams etc. I always spend ages looking into this before starting a save.

Perhaps you could jump in now with a FM22 youth save. You don't need to complete it, but it's great fun and might help you for your main FM23 attempt. GL.

[XaW]

28 minutes ago, BrightLad5 said:

I'm looking for your top tips if you have any?

Don't expect to complete it! This is much more about the journey than the finish. Create a tactic that works, but be ready to completely change it around when you get an amazing player in a position or role you don't use. Then swap back when the player is poached for way too little money, but do get % of next sale into all sales!

[Neo_Geo]

13 minutes ago, XaW said:

Don't expect to complete it! This is much more about the journey than the finish. Create a tactic that works, but be ready to completely change it around when you get an amazing player in a position or role you don't use. Then swap back when the player is poached for way too little money, but do get % of next sale into all sales!

This.

My save is going better than I expected but I still don’t believe that it’s going to be close to completion, it’s a long slog (and for me with only 2 divisions I was able to get to the top league fairly quickly).

Dont expect to keep hold of all your players either, try not to get too reliant on a few individuals.

[BrightLad5]

22 minutes ago, JAwtunes said:

The main thing for me is having a tactic that performs well against stronger teams, as this is the situation you will typically find yourself in. I spend ages testing and tweaking before embarking on a 'proper' save.

I would also say don't sack your HoYD after a few bad intakes and don't expect a model citizen HoYD to full your u19s with professional types, so don't be too knee jerky if the personalities and MH aren't what you were expecting.

Not specific to youth only, but I get bored and struggle to stick with a save for more than 10yrs so I guess I would say pick a league with a structure you like, Decent youth leagues, if you like that, interesting teams etc. I always spend ages looking into this before starting a save.

Perhaps you could jump in now with a FM22 youth save. You don't need to complete it, but it's great fun and might help you for your main FM23 attempt. GL.

OK great advice thanks! Regarding the Leagues, starting in England will likely give me the most familiarity even though it is the biggest pyramid!

17 minutes ago, XaW said:

Don't expect to complete it! This is much more about the journey than the finish. Create a tactic that works, but be ready to completely change it around when you get an amazing player in a position or role you don't use. Then swap back when the player is poached for way too little money, but do get % of next sale into all sales!

Don't expect to complete it could be exactly what I needed to hear! That could be where I've stalled before, having a sudden realization how long it would take. If I go in with the mindset of it being a journey as you say and not expect to get to the top then it could very well set me up to have a great save! Thanks!

[JLAB]

OFK Beograd - Season 10 European Football?

I don't often do an update at the end of August, but I felt like that this was a special occasion for the team to do so. We had Champions League football for the first time and we not only did well, but we beat Dynamo Kyiv, KRC Genk and Rapid Wien as we progressed to the Champions League Group Stage for the very first time in the save in our first trip in European Football. An incredible achievement from the lads. The fact we only lost one game in domestic and one game in European football makes the situation all the more impressive.

Our reward for getting to the Champions League Group Stage? A group with Juvenus, Ajax and Gladbach, a group that we will no doubt struggle with, but one that will see us get a lot of money.

The main reason I was so excited was the £12.65M I would be getting as a result of getting to the Champions League Group Stage, club transforming money.

Unsurprisingly, I got to work with making the club's facilities better with the immediate influx of money. Things are looking up for OFK Beograd this season as we attempt to make the club good enough to compete with Red Star and Partizan on a consistent basis year on year. This is just one step to doing so.

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Edited August 11, 2022 by JLAB

[XaW]

9 minutes ago, BrightLad5 said:

Don't expect to complete it could be exactly what I needed to hear! That could be where I've stalled before, having a sudden realization how long it would take. If I go in with the mindset of it being a journey as you say and not expect to get to the top then it could very well set me up to have a great save! Thanks!

If you go to the first page and look at the hall of fame in the 2nd post, it might seem like a lot of completions, but remember, that is through 5 versions of the game! I've completed it once, in FM19 and never since. And I've almost exclusively played this challenge since then and I clock in of a few thousand hours every version...

This is for FM22, granted some hours are because I left it running, but still!

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

 

Survivals FC - End of Season - 2030

Squad | SLFA First Division | Transfers | Berkeley Myers 29D | Romiel Lawrence 27B | Jackson Williams 29E

Third unbeaten league season in a row, have not had a perfect season yet. Ran through the CCC pretty easily this time too, won the semis 5-0 on aggregate and the final 3-0. We managed to avoid all the Jamaican sides, so that certainly helped. The board won't let us go pro yet, they're saying the cost is too much to handle, but I don't really believe that so I think it's still a low reputation. Next aim is to get a good NACL draw and win a couple group stage matches for some extra cash. Once we go pro, this challenge takes on a whole new spin.

Edited August 11, 2022 by The_Gato_In_Goal

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

Solid group here, should be able to pick up some results from the Diriangen matches, and maybe from Cartagines as well. We sit at 1.15M right now, the goal is to hit 1.5M by the end of the group stages.