The FM22 Youth Academy Challenge

[XaW]

2 minutes ago, Elsjorro said:

I do seem to have a 2nd team, so thats good right? 

Yeah, it's different from club to club there. So perhaps things work out fine at your club. It was just a heads up, in case it turned out bad.

[Makoto Nakamura]

My interest is very much piqued!

[jepze]

Jepze - UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole - Season 2022/23

Okay, we done with our first season in the France regional league. What a season! We won the league. I don't know how, but maybe beacuase all the teams are so bad. We only got 13 players in the sqaud and no strikers, so have we won, i can't explain. We also got more junior coaching and youth recruitment, so we can get some better talents in the upcoming seasons. In the cups, we got a long way, when you think about, we're an amatuer team. We got to eigth round in Coupa de France, and it was 1 round before the Ligue 1 teams got into the tournament. We got some good money from it. Now we're gonna try to survive in National 3.

Squad | Transfer | Finances

First youth intake was called excellent, but when they came, they got a lot of potential, but not the best current ability, so we will try to develop them a bit, to we get some better players in the squad.

Spoiler

First player i'll show is Enzo Dehais. He was the best player when a saw the youngsters before i gave him an contract. He will go directly into the first team and also into the starting XI. We need a striker, and he's the best one, otherwise he can play AML, where our best is a little bit better than Enzo.

Another player, who can play at the ST, AML and AMR role is Amadou Doumbouya, and he will also get to the first team squad. He will also be fighting for the ST in the starting XI, and hopefully he will develop. He wouldn't be playing at the AMR role, beacuse Izquirdo is our best player in the squad.

Manager statistics

Edited January 10, 2022 by jepze

[Makoto Nakamura]

34 seasons in, the first match (that I can remember) that is televised and we manage to do this!  

[The7Striker]

1 hora atrás, XaW disse:

XaW - Brickfield Rangers - Season 2023/24 - JD Cymru North

Squad | Transfers | Finances

We improved a lot this season, and this time we were closer to what the xG says. The xG table says we should have been in 2nd, but 5th is an improvement from last season. Only 7 points off the top is very encouraging, and I think we might get promoted within a few years if we keep this up.

Out of the talented youngsters, the superstar this season clearly is Mark York 23a. Loads of goals, and just the arrowhead of our attack. Excellent season! In midfield, Arwel Torgersen 23k had a good season, and developed well. And finally, Osian Harvey-Davies 23i is becoming a good defender for us.

I kept going with the licenses, and competed all the way to Continental C and I'm working on Continental B.

Welsh League Cup: We lost to Flint Town in the 1st round.
Welsh Cup: We beat Blaenavon Blues and Llangefni before we lost to Gap Connah's Quay in the 3rd round.

Youth intake:

Not a fantastic intake, but loads of potential.

Josh Williams 24o is a promising fullback that is quite good going forward.

Tim Gibbon-Barker 24h is a promising goalkeeper, and finally we have a 2nd one!

Trophy cabinet

None

Good season, the team slowly is pushing to higher places. Also is good to see the youth develop in one season space.

 

36 minutos atrás, jepze disse:

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Jepze - UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole - Season 2022/23

Okay, we done with our first season in the France regional league. What a season! We won the league. I don't know how, but maybe beacuase all the teams are so bad. We only got 13 players in the sqaud and no strikers, so have we won, i can't explain. We also got more junior coaching and youth recruitment, so we can get some better talents in the upcoming seasons. In the cups, we got a long way, when you think about, we're an amatuer team. We got to eigth round in Coupa de France, and it was 1 round before the Ligue 1 teams got into the tournament. We got some good money from it. Now we're gonna try to survive in National 3.

Squad | Transfer | Finances

First youth intake was called excellent, but when they came, they got a lot of potential, but not the best current ability, so we will try to develop them a bit, to we get some better players in the squad.

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First player i'll show is Enzo Dehais. He was the best player when a saw the youngsters before i gave him an contract. He will go directly into the first team and also into the starting XI. We need a striker, and he's the best one, otherwise he can play AML, where our best is a little bit better than Enzo.

Another player, who can play at the ST, AML and AMR role is Amadou Doumbouya, and he will also get to the first team squad. He will also be fighting for the ST in the starting XI, and hopefully he will develop. He wouldn't be playing at the AMR role, beacuse Izquirdo is our best player in the squad.

Manager statistics

From what I know about these regional leagues, just having a decent team means a lot. Nevertheless, you don't have a striker, the team manage to score for him 

Edited January 10, 2022 by The7Striker

[Makoto Nakamura]

Turns out I lied, this is the biggest result in my 12,630 days as New Elgin manager, Celtic player with 6 of their main 11 and we come away with a 1-0 win infront of 21,700 Celtic fans at Celtic Park!!! The reward? Away at East Fife.

Edited January 10, 2022 by Makoto Nakamura

[thomas_e]

SpVgg Unterhaching

Youth Intake 2033

Overall it wasnt a great intake, but Jakub Kucharski is an extremely talented player. I have a couple of 17 year olds that I am planning to promote to the first team next year, but if I instead can find some good loans for them I might just move Kucharski into the starting eleven. Really solid technical foundation, combined with 20 in determination and driven personality = success! 

 

         

[Makoto Nakamura]

2056/57 Youth Candidates

Marcus Hinks. What a player! This far into a save and day one he is immediately the highest rated player at the club!

[Daddy]

 

2025 Midseason Review:

Scoring dried up. Hopefully that can turn around, but I still expect to be safe.

Youth Intake Preview:

This looks promising! Though AMC is not a role I'm using regularly.

Upgrades:

 

[Gersdude123]

got a quick question how long has it taken people to start to get there Youth Facilities upgraded. 

[Makoto Nakamura]

2056/57 End of Season Review

What a season that was! We made it all the way to the Scottish Cup Final and earning almost £2,000,000 from it and we get promoted to the Championship!!

  

    

Overall Best XI

2056/57 Best XI

Gavin Ballard (YP24n)

Daniel Muir (YP29d) - Jacob McIntyre (YP26k) - Daryl Fyvie (YP31i) - Ryan Whelan (YP27b)

Max Gunn (YP26d)

David McNeil (YP23f) - Georgi Petrov (YP23e)

Paul McGregor (YP31g)                                                                    Ronan Gilbert (YP28f)

Wayne Shearer (YP29c)

[Makoto Nakamura]

Beautiful!

[The7Striker]

19 minutos atrás, Gersdude123 disse:

got a quick question how long has it taken people to start to get there Youth Facilities upgraded. 

It really depends on finances and sometimes the board. But around one season time you can improve recruitment and Coaching. Facilities take a bit more of cash, so probably when you sell someone or have a good money prize or tv money, the board will allow

[Gersdude123]

12 minutes ago, The7Striker said:

It really depends on finances and sometimes the board. But around one season time you can improve recruitment and Coaching. Facilities take a bit more of cash, so probably when you sell someone or have a good money prize or tv money, the board will allow

thanks for letting me know

[thomas_e]

1 hour ago, Gersdude123 said:

thanks for letting me know

I would also add that you have to be a little bit careful when it comes to upgrading facilities. As @The7Striker says, facility upgrades cost quite a lot of money, and they can easily put you in the red. Even though upgrades are key over time, if you for example enter the January transfer window with a negative financial balance, the board will more easily accept bids for your best players. And when you are in the red, it is really difficult to persuade the board to change their decision. And even though upgrades are really important, losing your best players all the time is a death sentence on this challenge. 

I am now in the Bundesliga and fully upgraded on everything related to facilities, but for the first few seasons I would focus on junior coaches/youth recruitment upgrades rather than facility upgrades. Getting affiliated clubs that can provide you with young players that comes through your intake is also really important! 

Edited January 11, 2022 by thomas_e

[OlivierL]

15 hours ago, Elsjorro said:

I do seem to have a 2nd team, so thats good right? 

I played with haukar on the bèta and shankly had a very long save with them on fm22. They have their own youth team so you should be fine. 

Only Haukar, IR , Volsongur and Njardvik have their own youth team in tier 3 

[Makoto Nakamura]

1,500 games! Here's to 1,500 more!  

[Gersdude123]

1 hour ago, thomas_e said:

I would also add that you have to be a little bit careful when it comes to upgrading facilities. As @The7Striker says, facility upgrades cost quite a lot of money, and they can easily put you in the red. Even though upgrades are key over time, if you for example enter the January transfer window with a negative financial balance, the board will more easily accept bids for your best players. And when you are in the red, it is really difficult to persuade the board to change their decision. And even though upgrades are really important, losing your best players all the time is a death sentence on this challenge. 

I am now in the Bundesliga and fully upgraded on everything related to facilities, but for the first few seasons I would focus on junior coaches/youth recruitment upgrades rather than facility upgrades. Getting affiliated clubs that can provide you with young players that comes through your intake is also really important! 

Thanks for the very useful information will keep that in mind.

[Makoto Nakamura]

Great stuff, our central midfielders are the oldest players in the team now so could do with some sprucing up! (They're still both only 28 though.)

[TheWillsy]

South Shields season 7: 2028-29

Thankfully we didn't have to worry about losing in the play offs this season, as we managed to finish first and were automatically promoted! A brilliant season for us which included another FA cup run to the third round where we drew Middlesbrough away for a nice bit of cash. We beat L1 QPR and Birmingham on the way too. This now means we are back to being a professional club, so I offered out long contracts to all our best players and they are all tied down for the long term now .

5 star preview again, but some not great personalities in the mix.

After promotion it looks like we are moving to groundshare with Hartlepool, I have no idea if this is temporary or permanent by the way.

Tee is the only remaining real player who still plays for me. The financial cost of going full time is pretty huge with my junior coaching and youth recruitment levels, so I am worried the board are going to agree to sell some of my players as there is a lot of interest in the best ones. I have already had to argue against them selling Stephenson for 200k. I might end up having to sell one with a future fee clause to appease the finances a little as we are losing a lot of money every month now.

 

[WhiteCat33]

Nogometni Klub Pobrezje: Slovenian Lower League E 

Season Review: https://imgur.com/a/FGvHM8H

Performance: 2nd

We played well this season, however until we got a GK we dropped too many points. And even though he turned 17 before October enough points had been dropped that we weren't able to catch up to Dobrovce and get the promotion. I'm not worried though, we are just building up players and cash down at this level. With the team being amateur with a 71k sponsorship we make about that much a year. Couple more years and I should be able to get a second facility upgrade.

Squad

The key improvement was this finally getting a GK and eventually some more Attacking players. Not much quality in what came up this year so not worth showing.

Transfers

Only big loss was our AMR/Striker, over the summer which made us thin at the start of the season till new ones got promoted.

Upgrades

Board refuses to let me get coaching badges, but will let all my staff get them. Anoying.

Youth Academy

YI Preview

YI Roster

This intake will be useful in a year when they come up. 

Best XI was bugged the first season so the only data is for this season. Will throw off for a while but eventually all these players will be gone and it won’t matter

Excel:

[TheWillsy]

First sale of the challenge, as expected but we were able to negotiate a good fee seeing as the board tried to sell him for 200k. I thought it made sense to sell one my better players to help the finances, and although he has done well for me, he's probably the one we can replace best with other young strikers coming through. Hopefully this also means we can hang onto our other best players. 50% of next sale could be key too!

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 10 – 2031/32 The Promotion Playoffs

Going into these games we had a chance to get promoted to the top flight for the first time under my management, and I knew that this chance might not come again any time soon, so we need to take this chance while we have the opportunity to do so.

Yet it wasn't do be. Despite being 2-0 up in the 2nd leg, and finding ourselves 2-1 up overall with 60 minutes to go, we blew our first attempt of winning the playoffs against Varzim. I suppose in a way that this was a good thing, since we wouldn't be blown out of the water every time we played in the top flight, but we had a great chance to play in the top flight, and make a lot of money which would clear our financial problems that we have built up over the last 10 seasons.

Between losing the first leg 1-0, and then throwing away a 2-0 lead in the 2nd leg, we didn't deserve to go up, and we were probably lucky that we only lost 1-0 in the first game at all. We need to come back from this, stronger than ever if we are to challenge for promotion again next season, and hope that this season was not just a one-off season.

For how the games played out and the tactical changes we made throughout the two matches. Feel free to watch my latest video. I did get dejected after it became 3-2 in the 2nd leg, but it's out of those things unfortunately. It felt like a sucker punch at the time.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 63

 

[BustaRaymes]

*FM20*

Molodechno-DYuSSh-4

2036 - season 17

Belarussian Highest League

We tried a new playing style again. A 4-3-3 positive passing playing style worked well for us. With higher up fullbacks and a playmaker setting up attacks from defense, we were able to control games much more than before. Our very direct 4-4-2 was a crapshoot sometimes, we could destroy top squads and lose hard - and deservedly so accoring to stats - against relegation candidates. Flying tackles and yellow cards everywhere are a thing of the past. For now at least.

We scored less than before but conceded so little that it didn't matter at all.

 

Transfers

Zinovich was a decent backup striker, but we couldn't bench him for all of his career so he moved on.

 

Squad

So we played with our fullbacks a litle further upfield compared to before. The DM dropped in between the centre backs to provide our buildup play. Both CMs are working midfielders, and sometimes Szumski played as an attacking advanced playmaker to have someone to focus on in the attacking part. Regular wingers and deep striker.

Frantskevich's stats are a bit of a surprise. He lacks physical and is not much of a defender, but a passing skill of 15 is high in this league. He has all the attributes required for his position and did well.

In his second season, Polyakov developed into one of the more talented and important players in the squad.

Maschenko has been a vital player for us since he joined, and the AML spot is his 4th position now. Although he's been thrown around the squad a lot, he's one of the first on the sheet as he's our only creative player up front.

 

Youth intake

Not a lot to choose from again. Kirilchik is interestingly quick and two-footed, Novitskiy is a simple 'breaker' and Linev is the type of defender I like: just a big guy. He's Unambitious however, so I don't expect too much.

 

Next season:

Our board actually agreed to a youth upgrade, so I'm hoping to notice some of that in the future. I have the best HOYD possible for our level, we'll see what he can bring in.

I just hope we can break into regular European football soon as this save is getting tiring a bit. Development has almost stopped and we really need the money from a group stage to upgrade anything.

[The7Striker]

Story of my save  

[fries]

Premier League

2038/39 (season 17)

Season Summary

Second season in the Premier League and we survived again! In the end we was actually quite close to a European spot but it was also the "cheapest" spot since 2024. We played very well against the teams below us, but in the 16 games against the teams that ended above us we only won 2 games, 3-0 at home against the champions, Liverpool, and 2-1 at home against Leeds. My next big goal is to present European football to the supporters on our new stadium that is finished in 2041. They deserve it after being forced to drive to Burnley for 4 years. I have 2 years to achieve that.





Ferguson was once again our best player with the highest average rating with 7.15. He has now won Player of the Year for my team 8 times!
Acheampong had a fine season in the goal too. He and Ghana won the African Nation Cup for the second time in a row.

Ahmad was our topscorer with 15 goals.

Turner had his breakthrough season with 10 goals from the left wing. He played much better in the second half of the season. He and Langley developed very well this season and was maybe the reason that we got 11 points more than last year. They are now two of my star players.

I have a 18 year old Austrian defender who have played a season in the Championship. I expect him to take one of the D(C) spots from Mooney in the next season.

For the first time, one of my players was on the NxGn-list. I actually expected Turner to be on the list, as he should have the appropriate age. However, he was nowhere to be found.
Instead my young defender Cummins was on the list. He is only 16 years old, but can play with both feet and can play in every position in the defense. He is a few years from being a regular starter but I expect much from him in the future even though his personality is only "spirited".



My preview was great with 5 stars.

My intake was great with 5 elite talents with okay personalities. Apart from the elite talents, Theo Ward-Hedges is an honourable mention, as he is a model citizen. I think it is a result from hiring a new a new HOYD with the model citizen personality. My new HOYD is however bad at Working With Youngsters. It is a trade off, but I wondered it was worth trying it out.

We had no major sales this season. But I sold my back up keeper before the season (maybe a stupid idea in a AFCON season) and a semi-important back up defender in the winterbreak. They were both unhappy and wanted to leave.

 

Finances and Upgrades

The club now has the financial status "rich".  In the season we managed to upgrade our training facilities such that all the facilities are now maxed.

 

Edited January 16, 2022 by fries

[fries]

Question:
With maxed facilities, what more can I do to optimize the youth intakes? What should I focus on from now on?

[OlivierL]

35 minutes ago, fries said:

Question:
With maxed facilities, what more can I do to optimize the youth intakes? What should I focus on from now on?

Increase reputation

Increase (coaching) youth staff personalities

Increase Hoyd's determination , personalty, judging PA and CA

Not sure if i forget anything.

[TheWillsy]

47 minutes ago, fries said:

Question:
With maxed facilities, what more can I do to optimize the youth intakes? What should I focus on from now on?

Try and get some affiliates too for regens from other acadamies! 

[WhiteCat33]

Nogometni Klub Pobrezje: Slovenian Lower League E  2026/27 (Season 3)

Season Review: https://imgur.com/a/j20tste

Performance: 2nd (Again)

We had a great start to the season that continued from an exceptional end to the previous season. So good in fact we had an undefeated "season" (only 22 games a year) - if Slovenia went Nov - Nov for their league.

However the vast number of draws in that first half of the campaign (6-6-0) would come back to bite us. The back half of the season it was a 3 way race for first once Ziri got its act together (A demoted L3 team). Look at that trading in the final stretch of the season.

And why did we fall off at the end? Well this happened:

15 Goals and 5 assists in 20 matches. Our one and only striker worth anything. Once he went out, the backup was no where near his caliber and in the last game of the season the team just shot its foot off with this absolute shamble of a game against the last placed team in the group. We had only 1 red card the entire rest of the season, and got 2 here... Typical.

With this being the result

Squad

Youth Academy

Preview

Intake - Get Hyped! Again all top Prospects so roster is more useful

And yes, that is Faroe Islands. That will be a fun story to spin in my head. He’s actually a fair prospect for our team albeit tiny:

Now Golob 26a I doubt will stay long enough to even play as it will take 2 years, but if he does this is very promising.

If he doesn’t Zupan 26c will still be an upgrade to our current CB

Get Krajnc 26f to place shots and he will be better than our current option for SS (really is that he can do more than walk speed-wise) and woudl be second for our injured Striker.

Transfers

Kept everyone

Club

Kind of salty I'm not at least a favored personnel but we got 2 player icons

 

 

Excel

[jepze]

 

Jepze - UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole - Season 2023/24

The first season in National 3 - Paris Île-de-France was fine. We avoid get relegated, which was the target the start of the season. As I showned in the last update, we got Semi-Professional. I didn't talk about it last time, because it came 2-3 days in game after i made the update, so it was just a picture. The Semi-professional cost us some money, because we're going to pay wages to some of our players. We got a wage-budget on 24.410 DKK/w, and we just use 11.596 DKK/w, but we still going in the red numbers this season and will do it in the further seasons too, so i need to find a way, to get some money into the club. In the Coupe de France, we just got to the 7th round this time.

Squad | Transfer | Finances

2nd youth intake was again an excellent intake, but this time, there was some better players right now, than in the first intake, so we got some hope to get some youngsters in the first team squad from the start at next season.

Spoiler

Two of the players are training with the first team right now, but can't play in the league, because of the regristration, and it disallowed to play players, that isn't registrated.

The first of the players are Jarod Girard, who is an AML, and we still misses a good AML. I think Jarod is our new AML for next season, but it hard to put our all time topscorere, Milos, on the bench. Jarod is fine for the regional league, but he need to develop to get a couple of years in the squad, but a good man for the start of this save.

Romain Barre is the second player, who got to the first team squad after he signed his first contract. He wouldn't sign a part time contract, but would sign a youngster contract instead. He costs some more money this way, but he will be the second choice goalie for our first team, and get a lot of playing time on our U19 team.

Last player i will show is Ritchy Diakité, because he is an CM, and we're only got 1 CM in the team. Boyer is an AMR, who can play CM, and Amblard is our CM. We play with 2 CM, so we need some players to cover here an play, so i think, he will join the first team after the summerbreak. He look decent as a BVM her.

Manager statistics

[thomas_e]

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SpVgg Unterhaching

Season Summary 2023 - 2033

First top 4 Bundesliga finish

 

A really good season as we continued our good league progress from last year. We managed to climb three spots on the table, finishing in a solid 3rd place in the Bundesliga. But even though we finished 3rd we are still almost 30 points behind Bayern Munchen!!   Dortmund, who finished 2nd, got 20 more points than we did. This difference in class is really obvious when we play them to be honest, especially away. We are just so far off the level needed to compete for the title and I think Champions League next year will make it a huge test to stay in the top 4! 

I am losing a couple of important backup players on bosman this year. They are not important in terms of being key players, but they are really important for squad depth, so this forces me to promote a few players, some of them a year before I would have liked to. I am struggling to loan out players to decent clubs (a little bit unrealistic I think), so I will see who can get a decent loan before I decide which player to promote. 

Our star player, Mohamed Ouni, got voted as the best wonderkid in the world, but in my new 4-2-3-1 system he had an awful year, finishing on a 6,76 rating. I "always" get good results with a 4-2-3-1, but I tend to struggle getting the no.10 role to work. Hopefully he can improve next year. He has three years left on his contract and he refuses to renew. Already now I'm getting nervous about losing him! 

In the Europa League we faced Man City, Rangers and FC Midtjylland in the group stage. I have activated Serie A, La Liga and Premier League to get more realism since I got promoted to the Bundesliga and Man City managed to finish 5th last year in the Premier League. Looking at their squad I wonder what the teams that beat them in the league had! We went comfortably enough through to the knock out phase, where we drew Lokomotiv Moskva in the first leg. 6-0 at home and 4-1 away with eleven changes to the team between the two games made it very comfortable. After that it was full stop when we faced Arsenal. We lost 0-1 at home, a game we should have won, and we lost 2-0 away. Fair enough, but we shouldnt have lost at home! 

The goal for next season is to again finish in the top 4 and not finish bottom of our Champions League group. We are moving into a new 28 000 capacity stadium next month, a great way to celebrate our first season in the Champions League! 

 

Season Summary

         

 

Key Performers

      

 

Key Talents

      

 

 

 

[Makoto Nakamura]

2057/58 Youth Candidates

[XaW]

XaW - Brickfield Rangers - Season 2024/25 - JD Cymru North

Squad | Transfers | Finances

A strikingly similar season as the last one. We finished 2 spots lower with 2 points less, so far enough, I guess. This season was both a horror show and very encouraging, just at different times. The best streak was actually at the end of the season after I changed my tactic from the 4-2-3-1 I used with success in Luxembourg into my old and trusted 4-5-1/4-3-3. I used it in its final form in the last two matches and beat Prestatyn Town away and Buckley at home, so I think I'll give it a go next season and see if it pushes us further up.

The best talent at our club is still Mark York 23a. Being the focal point of our attack, we rarely score without him being involved at all. Osian Harvey-Davies 23i still is our key defender, and Arwel Torgersen 23k is the link in midfield.

We don't have much money, but the board keeps accepting coaching licenses. I now have Continental B and are working on A. Other than that, no new improvements to the club.

Welsh League Cup: We beat Guilsfield before we lost to Llanrhaeadr in the 2nd round.
Welsh Cup: We lost to Cambrian & Clydach in the 1st round.

Youth intake:

After the first great intake, it's slowed down quite a bit, really.

The best of the bunch. Tom Dixon 25g has really bad physicals, but not a horrible player.

Trophy cabinet

None

[OlivierL]

Africanos Bragança - Youth intake preview - Season 9 - Class 2031

Can't wait !

[The7Striker]

First Vienna FC 1894 2022/2023 Season

Finances  Released  Transfers  Squad 

This season was both bad and good. Started very badly when almost 7 players wanted to leave to higher clubs. We manage to hold a few of them but not Markus Wostry and later Marek Szotkowski. After Markus sale, the squad wanted more depth in CB area but with time they accepted what we had.

 

ADMIRAL 2.Liga

 

Season Prev  Games I  Games II  Past Positions

Despite the bad start and the unbalanced team we manage to grab a safe 8th place, not bad for a semi professional team.
Timo Erding is a prospect from the first youth intake and he can play both LB and CB, i have high hopes for this lad. 
Schimandl was the goal scorer this season, i really hope i can renew with him.

 

UNIQA ÖFB Cup

We played well both times but against St. Pölten, we didn't have legs for them.

 

Youth Intake

Spoiler

Not going to lie. This youth intake was necessary for us to have more depth but not really a high quality one. By far the best three prospects.

 

Upgrades:

Club:

 

Manager:

So the board did alow some investiment both in the club and in the manager coaching.

 

By far the most  challenging team I managed in this mode, either for the team with too many options in front and lacking them in the defense, or for the squad always with some reason to complain, but im here for the long run because I'm loving it 

Edited January 12, 2022 by The7Striker

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 10 – 2031/32 Season Review

The end of the season has seen us stay in the Liga 2 Portugal after our best ever season. We are still a very young squad and we also have a lot of things to be excited about.

Ajax have seen what we have done and have liked what they have seen. The fact that we develop young players has appealed to their hearts, and if it wasn't a youth only save with Beira-Mar, I could have seen myself taking over Ajax in this save.

That being said though, lets have a look at our young talent that excites me the most and are good enough for the Liga 2 Portugal.

Saná Pereira is our exciting young goalkeeper who has been capped by Bissau-Guinean. He'll go missing during the African Cup of Nations, but I know I can rely on our best goalkeeper to keep us in games.

Geffinho is our best right-back, who can also play as a left-back. I know that he's someone that I will make into a star.

Álvaro Leal is a monster that is probably good enough to play in the division above, he's just incredible.

Bruno Lasca is the man that I am making the partner of Leal, so my back-line is sorted, especially with him being 6'6" tall

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Luis Santos is the best DM at the club, but is also the man that I will be relying on to do a good job for me. I just wish he wasn't inconsistent and injury prone.

Fernando Alviarez is Santos' current partner in midfield, and has everything that I wish Santos had. Consistency.

Odair Antunes is our best winger at the club, who can also play as an attacking midfielder. He's just inconsistent.

Hugo Sandoval has been our main striker throughout the last 10 seasons, scoring over 100 goals so far. He's been a joy to have over the years.

Rui Quintaneiro has made this season his own. He's not good enough for the division, but he scored 30 goals this season, so has earned the right to be in the main team going forward.

So we have about 9 different players that I consider good enough for the first team. We need a right winger and a left-back, but other than that, we're looking solid.

With our 2nd top-half finish in a row, we are doing well in recent years. We just need to do more for our financial situation going forward.

If you want to see our review of the season, feel free to watch my latest video. It might not have been our best season overall, but things have been good.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 64

[Pauldinho7]

Is it happening?????

 

[libbyshuss]

5 minutes ago, Pauldinho7 said:

Is it happening?????

good luck!!!

[Makoto Nakamura]

2057/58 End of Season Review

We survived and made it to another cup final after a very easy cup run!

  

    

Overall Best XI

2057/58 Best XI

Gavin Ballard (YP24n)

Ryan Whelan (YP27b) - Jacob McIntyre (YP26k) - Daryl Fyvie (YP31i) - Marcus Hinks (YP34a)

Max Gunn (YP26d)

Kai Stuart (YP32e) - Georgi Petrov (YP23e)

Paul McGregor (YP31g)                                                                    Ronan Gilbert (YP28f)

Wayne Shearer (YP29c)

[Makoto Nakamura]

We've finally turned pro and we're getting a new stadium!  

[libbyshuss]

2064/65

Premier League

Season Summary

Not too shabby to be honest - we only went and won the league title!!!!

League - A strange one really. Often in these challenges when I win the league it feels like other teams lost it rather than we won it, and it's the same here. We started really well and were in a 3 horse race with Newcastle and Man City. Around November I lost two of my best attackers (Mancic!!) for a month and I mentally wrote the eague off as a result. But next game up we beat Spurs 5-0 and managed to go the whole month unbeaten. Heading into Christmas we were 2 points ahead of City, although we had to play them away. Coming out of christmas, with an away victory inder our belts, we were something like 9 points clear! Then someting weird happened - we went on a dodgy run of 2 wins in 7, but so did every team around us. The worst was a 1-1 home draw against 19th placed Norwich, only for me to then notice not one team in the top 6 managed to win. So we maintained that lead.

Trouble was, towards the end of the season, when we drew or lost City or Newcastle often didn't play. At one stage we were 9 points ahead of Newcastle only they had 3 games in hand. With 4 games to go the table looked like this, and I was really pessimistic:-

The main reason for my pessimism is we had Manchester UTD next and Newcastle away in the penultimate game. We were brilliant against Man u, wnning 3-0, tolerable against Derby winning 3-2 and not so hot against Newcastle, losing 3-1. So heading into the final weekend.....

We had led for about 7 months! Surely we weren't going to cock it up in the final game! It was possible - we were away to Leeds.

And we played pretty atrociously to be honest. They had around 30 shots to our 9 and had double our xG but we somehow managed to win 2-1 and take the title!

One of the lowest Champiosnhip winning points totals but often that's what it takes. 

FA Cup - so I got myself knocked out at home in the 3rd round by Championship strugglers Ipswich. It was a blessing in disguise really.

Europa League - As was getting knocked out in the 1st round by Monaco! to be honest, I wasn't bothered by the Europa League and just played the youth team. Oliver Hunt 63A won the golden boot! he looks like he could be special....

 

Players

So what does a Championship winning side look like in the year 2065? Like this of course!

Branislav Mancic 54A - Only played 34 games because of injury but still scored 42. We partly won the league due to being so far ahead in xG and xPoints and that is single handedly down to this fella. He's unbelievable. And at 27 he should be now at the peak of his powers. Oh, and Real Madrid offered 205m and not only did he let me turn them down, he signed a new contract as well! what a star!!!

Charles Khumalo 61A - My 16 year old wonderkid is now 20! He's so good!

Joe Hall 51B - I love stories like this! Ordinarily I'd have shipped him off years ago but I have a lot more patience in a youth only save and sometimes it rewards you. So he won the Golden Boy at 20, spent a couple of years on loan, was rubbish and a squad filler at 23/24 until I needed him to cover for me on the right wing. He's been there 5 seasons now and been top assist maker each time!

Joe Turner 62A - He was a 4 star potential right winger. Daniel Bennett retired and left me a gaping hole in MC. I had a few possible ok options but I notided Turner was a good MC and had pretty good stats there too. So I stuck him in to see what happened. A first league title happened! Him and Odita formed a really good partnership and i think I might have solved my MC problem. It does present me with a new AMR problem though, Joe Hall is nearly 30....

 

Youth

meh all round really

 

Wonderkids

I love this new top 50 wonderkid feature. Especially when I have four entries on it!

Remember the name of Joe Turner 62A - future England star, mark my words! oh, and Oliver Hunt 63A - future England striker!

18 year old wonderkids, gotta love them.

Career

Just the Champions League to go!

[Makoto Nakamura]

Is anybody else spending an extortionate amount on facilities? Mine aren't even that good and we're spending a fortune!

[XaW]

6 minutes ago, Makoto Nakamura said:

Is anybody else spending an extortionate amount on facilities? Mine aren't even that good and we're spending a fortune!

The "Youth setup" is based on Junior Coaching, rather than facilities. And when you go pro, so does your junior coaches and the cost multiplies...

[Makoto Nakamura]

2 minutes ago, XaW said:

The "Youth setup" is based on Junior Coaching, rather than facilities. And when you go pro, so does your junior coaches and the cost multiplies...

 

Just now, The7Striker said:

I think that is what your club is spending on junior coaching 

This is our 15th season with maxed junior coaching and it's never been like it has been over the last two seasons.

[Pauldinho7]

@darren1983 for the HoF!

 

Walk in the park....

 

Unbelievable scenes at the final whistle!!!

 

They only managed one shot on target...

 

Some of the key players in this team:

Goalkeeper Juan Carlo

 

The main midfield pairing:

Wonderkid Rui Elias who is destined to move from Right Back to Right Wing in the not too distant future:

 

And of course the main main Steevan Sousa who now has 221 goals in 363 games for the club - LEGEND:

Edited January 14, 2022 by Pauldinho7

[XaW]

3 minutes ago, Makoto Nakamura said:

 

This is our 15th season with maxed junior coaching and it's never been like it has been over the last two seasons.

Didn't you go pro for this season? That would explain it.

[Makoto Nakamura]

1 minute ago, XaW said:

Didn't you go pro for this season? That would explain it.

Yes, but we spent £1.7m on it last season as a semi pro side. 

And from the earliest save save I have (October 2057) We spent £150k on it the season before.

[XaW]

1 minute ago, Makoto Nakamura said:

Yes, but we spent £1.7m on it last season as a semi pro side. 

And from the earliest save save I have (October 2057) We spent £150k on it the season before.

Then I dunno. I just know it goes up by a lot when you go pro, and thought that could explain it. But if it's from when you were semi-pro, then I don't know, sorry.

[Winski]

Well done, @Pauldinho7!!