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Start of season 2023/24

With the out of contract players leaving on frees, we're a bit short and had to promote a few 16 year olds out the U18s. Could be a long season...

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Littlehampton Town 2029-2030

Isthmian League South East Division

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A decent season in which we were within reach of the playoffs for some time.

 

Transfers

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Some annoying transfers this season. Gee was handed a starting spot and when he left, Isherwood got some game time. He left shortly after as well.

Tarbuck was really welcome in last seasons intake but he also decided to not stick around.

 

Squad

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Smith-Chamberlain is growing in his role as PF up front. Parody had a good first season and received a callup for Gibraltar, although he didn't feature.

Campbell was back at his assisting ways, mostly because he's our main freekick taker with East stagnating. 

Strong is a player I didn't want to use but he was recommended for a while. Curious to see where he can go.

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Youth Intake

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Really happy with Byles as he seems to be better than most strikers at our level. Will probably switch tactics so he can join Smith-Chamberlain up front.

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3 hours ago, SpS_Zen said:

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Heibei Kungfu - Season 11

 

Almost a perfect season. We played decisive games for 3 trophies in november.

League We went unbeaten in the second part of the season until the final game against Beijing Guoan. A close game that turned up as a humiliating 0-5 in our stadium (5 goals with 1,3xg)

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Cup : The two final games were played between the Champions League and Super League final. A busy november. Both were closed games with a slight advantage for my side that converted into two wins.

Transfers : Two big sales, a winger and a poacher. Without sales and rewards from Champions League, the club is losing 14m€per season...i don't know if it is sustainable long term. Hopefully, China clubs spend a lot of money on youth players.

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AFC CL : The easiest group so far in CL. 3 teams with 1,5 stars from Myanmar, Vietnam and Singapore. We went unbeaten and qualified for the knockout stage a second year in a row. We faced the same Australian club in the second round as the previous season. In the quarter, we faced a mid table Chinese club. We often have trouble against them, but it is still a good draw considering the 2 other teams were from South Korea. We won 1-0 convincingly. In the Semi, we had to play the best Asian club away. A club from South Korea obviously. I was not confident. The game was tough and after 90 minutes the score was 1-1. Similar xg/stats. During extra time, Shipeng 23a quickly scored a second goal and we took control of the game. I didn't know what to expect in the final. It was the first time we played a club from east asia. And Shabab Al-Ahli (UAE) won 2 of the 7 CL. Things went pretty well, and we never were in danger. Shipeng 23a delivered a new masterclass after his 2 goals in the semi. Clearly the most important shaolin player I have got in this save.

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Shipeng 23a stats and the trophies won.

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Club overview, and best XI. 3 player from the orginal squad made it in the final XI, 4 are substitutes.

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Our goal scoring machine and our best player.

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China improved but not as much as others. Thailand was the most impressive progression. I think they were behind China at the start of the same. The lastest results of youth teams were really promising for the future, with a victory in u19 asian championship in 2026 and a second place in the u20 world cup in 2029.
4 of my players reached the national team, with 10-20 caps. 3 are above, the last one is in the previous report.
As a league, China didn't improve despite its massive financial advantage. Australia started around 15th place and finished with a higher reputation league than us. 

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China saves are really fun imo, if you have any questions, don't hesitate ! My next save will be in Mexico.


@darren1983 Second challenge completed ! 

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Congrats. Again. Have added you to the HoF. Again :D 

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Novara FC

Italy

Serie C

2029/30 (season 8)

Season Summary

Well, our best season yet but we're still a long way from promotion. It's so difficult in Serie C! We finished fourth this season and had some really good runs and really good results but in the end fell a little but short. But we're heading in the right direction!

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So into the play offs! And we got further than we ever have before, all the way to the quarter finals. There's so many games you need to get through to go up via the play-offs, it's just nuts.

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Players

Part of the reason the team did so well is how old and experienced the team is now. We still got no stars,  even less now I had to sell Fiorenzo in January, and a rubbish goalie but I'm feeling optimistic!

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Simone Paesanti 26C is getting better and better as well

Youth

Disappointing preview and intake this season. Worst one for a good few seasons.

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Finances and Upgrades

So I had to sell my best player Firoenzo to serie A Empoli in January. I managed to add a 50% future sale clause though so with any luck that'll pay off.

other than that I'm still losing around 500k a season, so no more upgrades

 

Career

As long as I can see progression I'm happy to keep plugging away. It's sow going at the minute but I can definitely see improvements season on season. Surely it's only a matter of time now?

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SC Toulon Season 10 Youth Intake

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Another great youth intake. Luckily this time I am a better financial situation so I can afford to offer them all contracts. 

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Here are some of the Elite Prospects

Moussa Dao(YP81) - 15 Year Old Burkinabe Defensive Midfielder

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Dao has very good attributes for his position he plays with him being good at Tackling, Bravery, Aggression and Determination. He currently has an Unambitious personality but I am hoping to get someone to mentor him as he does look like a great player in the making.

Salah Ott(YP82) - 15 Year Old French Full Back

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Salah Ott(Yes weird name I know) is equally as good as a Right Back as he is as a Left Back which will come in very handy.

His key attributes are Bravery, Marking and Aggression. Annoyingly he also has a Unambitious personality but hopefully this can be corrected.

Fabien Duval(YP83) - 15 Year Old French Left Back/Winger

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Duvall is another talented Left Back who has very good Bravery and good Technique, Teamwork, Flair, Passing and Workrate. He also looks like he could easily play on the wing. He has a Low Self Belief personality. I have been screwed with bad personalities in this intake.

 

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20 hours ago, SpS_Zen said:

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Heibei Kungfu - Season 11

 

Almost a perfect season. We played decisive games for 3 trophies in november.

League We went unbeaten in the second part of the season until the final game against Beijing Guoan. A close game that turned up as a humiliating 0-5 in our stadium (5 goals with 1,3xg)

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Cup : The two final games were played between the Champions League and Super League final. A busy november. Both were closed games with a slight advantage for my side that converted into two wins.

Transfers : Two big sales, a winger and a poacher. Without sales and rewards from Champions League, the club is losing 14m€per season...i don't know if it is sustainable long term. Hopefully, China clubs spend a lot of money on youth players.

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AFC CL : The easiest group so far in CL. 3 teams with 1,5 stars from Myanmar, Vietnam and Singapore. We went unbeaten and qualified for the knockout stage a second year in a row. We faced the same Australian club in the second round as the previous season. In the quarter, we faced a mid table Chinese club. We often have trouble against them, but it is still a good draw considering the 2 other teams were from South Korea. We won 1-0 convincingly. In the Semi, we had to play the best Asian club away. A club from South Korea obviously. I was not confident. The game was tough and after 90 minutes the score was 1-1. Similar xg/stats. During extra time, Shipeng 23a quickly scored a second goal and we took control of the game. I didn't know what to expect in the final. It was the first time we played a club from east asia. And Shabab Al-Ahli (UAE) won 2 of the 7 CL. Things went pretty well, and we never were in danger. Shipeng 23a delivered a new masterclass after his 2 goals in the semi. Clearly the most important shaolin player I have got in this save.

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Shipeng 23a stats and the trophies won.

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Club overview, and best XI. 3 player from the orginal squad made it in the final XI, 4 are substitutes.

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Our goal scoring machine and our best player.

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China improved but not as much as others. Thailand was the most impressive progression. I think they were behind China at the start of the same. The lastest results of youth teams were really promising for the future, with a victory in u19 asian championship in 2026 and a second place in the u20 world cup in 2029.
4 of my players reached the national team, with 10-20 caps. 3 are above, the last one is in the previous report.
As a league, China didn't improve despite its massive financial advantage. Australia started around 15th place and finished with a higher reputation league than us. 

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China saves are really fun imo, if you have any questions, don't hesitate ! My next save will be in Mexico.


@darren1983 Second challenge completed ! 

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Congrats!

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4 hours ago, the_hdk said:

Worst prediction so far. Our facilities are at the max so that is troubling. First strike for our HOYD. Two more and he's out.

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In the end still 5 Elite talents. No real 5 stars and nobody who can help first team right away. Again 100% polish. I'm getting worried here about the diversity of intakes. Let's hoep a few seasons in europe and higher rep will help

By maxed do you mean you got above excellent  or are you still there? Some countries won't have diversity in intakes. I know for Slovenia the only natural second nation I was getting was Bosnia 🇧🇦, any other meaningful diversity came from affiliate clubs. Even with many affiliates after 28 intakes I was still 90% Slovenian. What countries have you added? I had surprisingly good luck with top Latvian and Lithuanian clubs. 

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23 hours ago, SpS_Zen said:

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Heibei Kungfu - Season 11

 

Almost a perfect season. We played decisive games for 3 trophies in november.

League We went unbeaten in the second part of the season until the final game against Beijing Guoan. A close game that turned up as a humiliating 0-5 in our stadium (5 goals with 1,3xg)

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Cup : The two final games were played between the Champions League and Super League final. A busy november. Both were closed games with a slight advantage for my side that converted into two wins.

Transfers : Two big sales, a winger and a poacher. Without sales and rewards from Champions League, the club is losing 14m€per season...i don't know if it is sustainable long term. Hopefully, China clubs spend a lot of money on youth players.

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AFC CL : The easiest group so far in CL. 3 teams with 1,5 stars from Myanmar, Vietnam and Singapore. We went unbeaten and qualified for the knockout stage a second year in a row. We faced the same Australian club in the second round as the previous season. In the quarter, we faced a mid table Chinese club. We often have trouble against them, but it is still a good draw considering the 2 other teams were from South Korea. We won 1-0 convincingly. In the Semi, we had to play the best Asian club away. A club from South Korea obviously. I was not confident. The game was tough and after 90 minutes the score was 1-1. Similar xg/stats. During extra time, Shipeng 23a quickly scored a second goal and we took control of the game. I didn't know what to expect in the final. It was the first time we played a club from east asia. And Shabab Al-Ahli (UAE) won 2 of the 7 CL. Things went pretty well, and we never were in danger. Shipeng 23a delivered a new masterclass after his 2 goals in the semi. Clearly the most important shaolin player I have got in this save.

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Shipeng 23a stats and the trophies won.

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Club overview, and best XI. 3 player from the orginal squad made it in the final XI, 4 are substitutes.

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Our goal scoring machine and our best player.

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China improved but not as much as others. Thailand was the most impressive progression. I think they were behind China at the start of the same. The lastest results of youth teams were really promising for the future, with a victory in u19 asian championship in 2026 and a second place in the u20 world cup in 2029.
4 of my players reached the national team, with 10-20 caps. 3 are above, the last one is in the previous report.
As a league, China didn't improve despite its massive financial advantage. Australia started around 15th place and finished with a higher reputation league than us. 

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China saves are really fun imo, if you have any questions, don't hesitate ! My next save will be in Mexico.


@darren1983 Second challenge completed ! 

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Congrats! Look forward to your next campaign

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54 minutes ago, WhiteCat33 said:

By maxed do you mean you got above excellent  or are you still there? Some countries won't have diversity in intakes. I know for Slovenia the only natural second nation I was getting was Bosnia 🇧🇦, any other meaningful diversity came from affiliate clubs. Even with many affiliates after 28 intakes I was still 90% Slovenian. What countries have you added? I had surprisingly good luck with top Latvian and Lithuanian clubs. 

I only have major countries loaded...but I was hoping with foreign youth coaches...myself having Nigerian pasport ingame I would get atleast a few foreign youth intakes....but it has become quite extreame now.

as to maxed out. both are at exceptional level. training is great  youth stays at average due to bug that I cannot upgrade it.

Tryinng to get foreign affiliates now too :)

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2041/42 End of Season Review

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First Team Fixtures - 2

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We made rather light work of the league again, almost a +100 GD and getting even closer to a continental group stage! We also celebrate our first ever domestic treble!

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Youth Team Fixtures

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Despite the amount of goals we score, our attacking options are where we could use the most upgrading.

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Players to release:

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Overall Best XI

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2041/42 Best XI

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Ray Cutajar (YP19g)


Ryan Meli (YP19e) - Matthew Gard (YP15a) - Michael Bowen (YP14a) - Brian Attard (YP13c)

Miguel Farrugia (YP18e) - Luke Gauci (YP15m)

Andrea Bonello (YP15k)                                                                      Michael Agius (YP18c)

 

Carl Camilleri (YP16a) - Alex Calleja (YP14n)

All-Time Best XI

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21 minutes ago, the_hdk said:

I only have major countries loaded...but I was hoping with foreign youth coaches...myself having Nigerian pasport ingame I would get atleast a few foreign youth intakes....but it has become quite extreame now.

as to maxed out. both are at exceptional level. training is great  youth stays at average due to bug that I cannot upgrade it.

Tryinng to get foreign affiliates now too :)

You don't need to have the countries loaded for the affiliates to give you youth players. My game just has Slovenia leagues loaded. I also add clubs in continental competitions so top teams in random countries will have full teams and not just the big clubs that will always fill up. 

Others can speak to the effectiveness of foreign nationalities in coaching staff, but I haven't noticed much of an impact except if your HoYD has secondary nation knowledge. And even there I've gotten maybe 1 player every 3-4 years if anything so it might have just been random luck not his impact. 

Edit: looking at my last intake I got two second nationality Bosnians and then one player from my Uruguay affiliate, the rest were all Slovenian. And my club is probably at your reputation level. If you check your scouting knowledge do you notice any nation knowledge that the game says is from your club? I remember in my Belgium save that was big for getting African intake players constantly as I had natural Dr Congo, Morocco and I think Nigeria all from the club. 

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37 minutes ago, WhiteCat33 said:

You don't need to have the countries loaded for the affiliates to give you youth players. My game just has Slovenia leagues loaded. I also add clubs in continental competitions so top teams in random countries will have full teams and not just the big clubs that will always fill up. 

Others can speak to the effectiveness of foreign nationalities in coaching staff, but I haven't noticed much of an impact except if your HoYD has secondary nation knowledge. And even there I've gotten maybe 1 player every 3-4 years if anything so it might have just been random luck not his impact. 

Edit: looking at my last intake I got two second nationality Bosnians and then one player from my Uruguay affiliate, the rest were all Slovenian. And my club is probably at your reputation level. If you check your scouting knowledge do you notice any nation knowledge that the game says is from your club? I remember in my Belgium save that was big for getting African intake players constantly as I had natural Dr Congo, Morocco and I think Nigeria all from the club. 

not exacly sure what you mean...so here is a pic:

How do I improve the knowledge from teh club?

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5 minutes ago, the_hdk said:

not exacly sure what you mean...so here is a pic:

How do I improve the knowledge from teh club?

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You can't improve it sadly from what I understand but dang you have a lot there at the bottom! Latvia Lithuania Slovakia and Ukraine and maybe more if you scroll down. I could be wrong about this, but your club should have a tendency to generate a few youngsters from those countries overtime. Granted we are talking just a few here and there not a substantial number.  

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11 minutes ago, WhiteCat33 said:

You can't improve it sadly from what I understand but dang you have a lot there at the bottom! Latvia Lithuania Slovakia and Ukraine and maybe more if you scroll down. I could be wrong about this, but your club should have a tendency to generate a few youngsters from those countries overtime. Granted we are talking just a few here and there not a substantial number.  

yeah it goes on for 10 more countries..haha

sadly in 5 seaosns zero foreign intake. lets see in next 5 years :)

 

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@the_hdk For Slovenia I had to sack some scouts, but here is the natural knowledge of the club Pobrezje

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And here are 28 years of intakes. Its taking me over 3 years on average to get a full Bosnia-Herzegovina nationality and that is also with Scouts added who boost the knowledge of the nation (if that even helps) resulting in a meager 2% of my intake classes coming from a club where we have natural knowledge.

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And in the entire save this is the single B-H talent that is first-team quality and he came into an intake 10 years ago. All the rest got tossed.

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I wish I tracked my Belgium youth intakes like I've done in Slovenia as there I got a lot more African players, with multiple DR Congo Internationals. But African second nationalities is a lot more common for the French/Belgium/Netherlands intakes. My intakes are so heavily Slovenian my 3rd highest country is my Lithuanian affiliate I've had for 6 years and that has almost averaged a player a year with 2 being good enough to play for the Lithuanian national team. You can see my table of how many I've gotten from where. In this one-off example the most effective affiliates were the 'big fish - small pond' clubs in Lithuania and Latvia even though they had lower level of recruitment they are both top 5 clubs in the country. 

Of the 6 Lithuanians 2 are on the national team and I've currently got them out on loan to develop more. And even though I only got 2 Latvians in 5 years (so not nearly as successful of an affiliate), 1 is in my CB rotation now and I tossed the other as he had a bad personality and never developed.

I'd be curious how successful others have been in this years fm with affiliates. IRC @libbyshuss  you had an unbelievable Serbian striker that was linked to your affiliate with your winning English side (Whitby town?)

 

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3 minutes ago, the_hdk said:

wow great  info  thanks! :)

Here is year-by-year. It's not nice as I just use it to total, but something to really note is a lot of my random one off nations are actually from the very early game when I started at the bottom of Slovenian lower leagues (I used a workshop database that activated all leagues in Slovenia). 

We were Lower league: 2020-2028 ; 3rd League 2028-2034 ; 2nd League 2034 - 2040 ; 1st League (non-champions) 2040-2048 ; Top Slovenian team 2048 - 2052 (today).  As you started much higher up in Poland I'd expect your experience is more akin to my 1st League.

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Decided to have a look at my Beira-Mar save for the first time in a bit. I sold my best midfielder because he was refusing to sign a new deal. Good times.

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AFC Knowsley

Season 6: 2027/2028 NW Counties League Premier Division [Tier 9]

Performance

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League: We succeeded in staying up this year. It was never really in question and we were safe from relegation with 5 games left to be played. While our offence did very well this season we were very leaky in the back. Not much I can do about it though as we just need to get better defensive talents.

Cups: While we botched both the League Cup and the FA Vase, we actually got 4 rounds into the FA Cup, which got us almost full capacity home games that injected almost $100k into the club. We really could have gone further as we could have beat Telford at home, but gave up a final minute goal sending it to a replay where we got dominated. Anyways we did more than fine for our first appearance in the Cup.

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Squad

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Transfers

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Youth Academy

Annoyingly less than 1 month before our intake our AssMan/HoYD Parris left the club to take a Head Coach position, so I had little hope for the intake.

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Youth Intake

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The awful personalities is to be expected with the loss of our HoYD. The best of the bunch is our Portuguese attacking midfielder, though he really isn't that great.

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A month or so later I finally found a HoYD in the staff search who was willing to join us. He's awful but he's at least a HoYD, which I hadn't been able to find. He's a retired re-gen player, so hopefully this is a sign more of these ex-players should begin appearing and hopefully I'll find a better one.

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Excel

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3 hours ago, WhiteCat33 said:

@the_hdk 

I'd be curious how successful others have been in this years fm with affiliates. IRC @libbyshuss  you had an unbelievable Serbian striker that was linked to your affiliate with your winning English side (Whitby town?)

 

Yeah, he was amazing! I had loads of affiliates with Whitby and they were giving me at least 4 or 5 a year of varying levels. I found the closer the affiliate, the more likely I'd get a youth from there. So I had a Uruguay affiliate team for over 10 seasons and got nothing, but European affiliates were giving loads

Affiliates seemed to make way more difference than scouting knowledge/staff knowledge and whatnot

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