The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge

[Nottingham Forest]

I think I’ve got a new side. Balance squad on paper. Will be tougher than South Shields. Shall update once I’ve completed a season.

[hubwub]

I've been wondering what roads a certain personality can go through. I splurged on the in-game editor and have been testing personalities out.

Ambitious Personality

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Hidden attributes range from 1-20. Determination is from 1-20 as well.

• Determination: 1-17
• Ambition: 16-19
• Loyalty: 1-9, if newgen 7-9

If Determination is raised above 17, the personality changes to Driven.

If Ambition is maxed out at 20, the personality changes to Very Ambitious.

If Ambition is below 16, the personality changes to Fairly Ambitious.

If Loyalty is above 10, the personality changes to Fairly Ambitious.

However, Loyalty is a different when lowered for a newgen:

• <= 6 - Fickle
• <= 3 - Mercenary

If Loyalty changes for a real player, they just stay Ambitious.

This experiment does not take into account Media Handling Style.

I wish I could mass create players with different hidden attributes.

Also, I'm not editing my Tampico Madero save. It's a whole different save just to test personalities out.

Edited November 15, 2022 by hubwub

[PequenoGenio]

3 horas atrás, fries disse:

 

 

That is some really special player that you have there

[JAwtunes]

39 minutes ago, hubwub said:

I've been wondering what roads a certain personality can go through. I splurged on the in-game editor and have been testing personalities out.

Ambitious Personality

  Reveal hidden contents

Hidden attributes range from 1-20. Determination is from 1-20 as well.

• Determination: 1-17
• Ambition: 16-19
• Loyalty: 1-9, if newgen 7-9

If Determination is raised above 17, the personality changes to Driven.

If Ambition is maxed out at 20, the personality changes to Very Ambitious.

If Ambition is below 16, the personality changes to Fairly Ambitious.

If Loyalty is above 10, the personality changes to Fairly Ambitious.

However, Loyalty is a different when lowered for a newgen:

• <= 6 - Fickle
• <= 3 - Mercenary

If Loyalty changes for a real player, they just stay Ambitious.

This experiment does not take into account Media Handling Style.

I wish I could mass create players with different hidden attributes.

Also, I'm not editing my Tampico Madero save. It's a whole different save just to test personalities out.

That's cool.  I've never really looked at how these small changes actually impact on the in-game descriptions.

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I created a spreadsheet for this using some equations that were shared on the forum a few years ago.  I updated it for FM22 using loads of exported newgen player data (~460k) and then created a load of queries in excel (it was really slow and would be better in SQL with hindsight).  The new spreadsheet combines personality and media handling, and will also filter for determination.  It's not perfect as some combo's are rare and filtering for determination reduces sample size further, but I have got to the point now where I use it in my main player review spreadsheet and even have one I use for staff too.

That's one of the great things about this thread - so many likeminded geeks who spend way too long messing about with spreadsheets, and more recently infographics (my new favourite thing still)

Newgen player

Players summary spreadsheet

Scruffy one for coaches with my attempt at weighting important attributes

 

 

Edited November 15, 2022 by JAwtunes

[hubwub]

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Do you think the floating numbers for ranges for personalities is right?

I think that some are a bit outdated now based on what I've seen online and me playing around with attributes.

^^ @JAwtunes

Edited November 15, 2022 by hubwub

[The7Striker]

Chernomorets 1919 Burgas 2023/2024 Season

Finances  Facilities  Transfers  Squad

 

Vtora Liga

What a roller coaster season! Things started a bit hard with the negotiation of all non contacts to professional ones, where we lost Patev for free. Despite being our best player, we had depth and thats always good.
We finished 7th and that's was absolutely amazing, shame that we lost a few point with a few "easy" teams, otherwise we could have been promoted.
Off pitch and even with the bad finances, the board allow me to take all national licenses and im currently finish the A one.

 

Kupa NA Bulgariya -  We beat Marek and Lok Plovdiv for a suprise, before losing to CSKA 1948.

 

U19 Team -  Despite not having a lot of quality the U19 team manage to finish 2nd with an amazing GD and with 57 points, hope with the new intake things can be even better.

 

Youth Intake

 

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A fairly good intake. Despite the personalities aren't the best ones, some of the lads show already first team quality and a big margin to improve.

 

Next Season: 

I don't expect an easy season with a few players in the wrong side of 30's, so I hope things can be smooth like this year.

 

Edited November 15, 2022 by The7Striker

[WhiteCat33]

A.S. Luxemburgo Porto

Season 1 2022-23: Luxembourg Division 3 (Tier 5)

Matches | Squad | Transfers |Facilities | Finances | Supporters

Competitions:

Cup: Lost our first match.

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League: We were very dominant in Division 3. We went offense first with little regard for defense and 5+ goal games were the norm. Our final game was against my old club ASRL Fels and all we needed was a draw to be crowned the champion:

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Take that ASRL Board!

Youth Academy:

Youth Intake Preview

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Youth Intake: well, it is Portuguese... Couple more years till I can find a HOYD to make this not total trash. Interesting to point out because this club is in Luxembourg City all the LUX players are coming from there unlike my last save where they were scattered across villages.

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Best Prospects

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I like fast wingers with flair (also fits the theme of Street players) so Joao Ramalho is a perfect fit for the team.

Passing and teamwork with good player traits and high ambition will get this guy into our midfield

Again Jorge Brito can move faster than a lot of our players so that sees him worth a punt

6’5” brave and determined yes please mr CB

Best XI

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Youth Products Highlights

I'll save this for next season

Club Infrastructure

With our epic form I actually got both JR Coaching & Youth Recruitment upgraded

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Staff

Like with my last Luxembourg adventure there are almost no staff available. My Chairman found a GM, 2 Physio & a GK coach. Then so far my adverts have only yielded a Fitness coach. The GM is forced to find my youth and he is absolutely terrible. 

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Coaching Badges

At the end of the season I convinced the board to let Farrell go for his first badge

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Thoughts

First season and I already got more trophies! Will be interesting to see how they do up a tier

Edited November 15, 2022 by WhiteCat33

[CardiffDragon]

 

 

 

What a season!!

Predicted to finish 7th, we didnt change the tactics or set pieces, two of our better players retired and we only had one academy player ready for first team duties. Yet we just kept winning ( well apart from in the cup but we wont mention that) .

Made into the promotion group after the split for the first time and finally ended up in second, which meant we had a promotion playoff to prepare for. I was expecting to put on a valiant display and hopefully go up next season as we have a few more youth players that will make it into the team next year. However we won over the two legs which means promotion into the premier league.

It also means we have turned pro.......and with a minimum wage of £240 a week i am bobsleighing into the red this season, with expectations next year not to finish last i think it is going to be a challenge and from reading other posts about being fired when they are relegated i wonder whether this is my last season.....

 

but before i leave this season review i think a special mention should go to the three hardcore fans that made the trip away with us to our cup tie, please note the temperature, rather them than me (surprised it didnt get camcelled with a frozen pitch with no under soil heating!

 

[Barnsley]

6 hours ago, fries said:

League One

2028/29 (season 6)

Season Summary

My young players keep developing and performing. And as a team, we kept winning. Not the title this time, but another promotion. 3 promotions in a row. I have never experienced this kind of success before!

We started by losing the first game of the season. Then we lost again to a League Two team in the Carabao Cup. In the next game, we won a narrow but undeserved victory. I though that this was our level and that we would fight to win games this season. However, after that, I changed the tactics to a 4-4-2 narrow diamond formation. And then we started winning.

We also won the Papa Johns Throphy.

My two strikers did very well. Byran scored 36 goals and Walters scored 25 while he assisted 19 goals too.

The rest of the team developed very well and also performed good.

The primary reason for my success in the last few seasons is my strikers. The first one, Walters, is regarded as the best player in the league. I just renewed his contract, but he has a rather low release clause.

Another reason for my success over the past few years is Byran. So far he has scored 161 league goals in 190 league games and was my top scorer for the forth season in a row. 

A rising star and a good performer in the defense is N'Guessan. He has developed very well this season.

Another promising and well performing player is Douglas.

N'Guessan was my first player of this save to be on the NXGN list. I think this is the earliest I have had a player on that list.

The youth intake preview looked great. Lots of A's and 5 stars.


The intake was okay with some okay personalities. The five most promising players got a little game time in the end of the season was promotion almost was home.





No significant transfers this season.

However, Egan, whom I sold last season was sold to another club from Brazil.

Furthermore, I sold the 50 pct. sell-on-clause we had on Mutombo.

Finances and Upgrades
I used the money from the Mutombo clause to upgrade the facilities. But the Mutombo money is also financing the youth set up which is quite expensive every month.





Next season
Next season, I hope to keep developing my players. I really hope to keep Walters. 
The promotions must stop now. The team is no near the Premier League level. I think we will fight to avoid relegation and maybe get a mid-table position.

wow, you are doing incredible there and some insane players. what a 3 year run!!

what formation are you finding working? I am literally trying every thing possible! 1 win and 4-5 defeats, repeat. 

[glennuk]

@fries to have Patrick Walters and a player in the top 50 nxgn in League One (going to Championship I know), is insane. What amazing talent you have. A little jealous

[glennuk]

Unterhaching - Season 1 - 3.Liga - End of Year Review

League - 1st - WINNERS!!

Well that was rather unexpected. We were top with 3 games to go, after SV Wehen Wiesbaden had a TERRIBLE run to end the season losing 4 of their last 5 games. Going into the last game, we just needed a win to guarantee top, or a draw to almost be certain (depending on other results) of being in at least the top 3. We won and Wehen lost again which took them out of the top 3 (they had been first for about 90% of the season). Where as we had been 2nd for most of the year.

The Squad

We really started with a very talented set of players, as well as quite a few who have room to develop. Our starting 11 was pretty consistent throughout the season and Patrick Hobsch won top goalscorer, with Victor Zentrich and Maurice Krattenmacher joining him in the Team of The Year.

Manager of the Year - yes please

I also won Manager of the Year in my first season. Nice!

Youth Intake

I was excited about Youth Intake day, but to be honest it was kind of underwhelming. Although after signing Gabriel Steinberger (YP01B) and Florian Drath (YP01D) joined Manuel Mayer (YP01A) in the elite category. I signed all tagged.

Top 3 - Youth Intake 1

Manuel Mayer (YP01A) - Looks like he could be a decent player in the future. I am not thrilled with his starting attributes and poor strength seems to have been the theme of this intake. However I know that he is 16, this is the first intake and of course there is plenty of room to improve. As will be shown later, I kind of need a new AML.

Gabriel Steinberger (YP01B) - Another youth player with weak strength, which won't do for a CB. I am thinking that he will be retrained to a CDM, as I think his passing and work rate lends itself to that area of the pitch and his marking, heading and strength are a worry for playing as a CB.

Muck Hirtlreiter (YP01C) - Muck beat out Florian Drath (YP01D) for my third spot due to his desirable Fairly Professional personality. The fact that he is another weak player who struggles in some key areas was one I perhaps overlooked when dishing out the C grade, but it also shows that this intake was not blessed with quality.

Finances

We are struggling with finances, but promotions should sort it out in the short term. We will get around 6 million even if we come bottom of the Bundesliga 2.

Other News:

Our most exciting prospect who was already at the club Maurice Krattenmacher was wanted by a host of teams. He had a clause I could not get rid of (1 million release for those in a higher domestic division). Lyon offered a fee of 1.7 mil including addons, but wouldn't give me the 50% of next sale I wanted. I tried to negotiate and the board accepted a 2mil offer with 20% of profit of next sale.....I protested and before clubs in Bundesliga could pay the million, I offered him out for 850k + 50% of next sale and ended up accepting a few offers that would allow him to stay until the end of next season (no loan back so I am safe).

I would have loved to keep him, but it was inevitable he was going to leave. Hoping he really develops and I get a nice chunk of that 50% of next sale.

 

[v1n1akabozo]

 

Season 1 (VNL North) - 2023/2024

Squad | Transfers | Finances | Supporters | Facilities

 

League (15th) - We started out the season looking pretty solid, winning five games in our first six. After that it seems like the opposition catched up and we started to struggle scoring goals, lacking consistency. To put things into perspective, after those five wins we managed to win only more 9 games in the remaining 40, so that start pretty much saved us. We lacked depth in almost every single position, and if your only goalkeeper had any injury we'd probably have been relegated. Despite our scoring issues we never looked in danger and snatched a few draws against the top teams.

Cups - Hence the board was expecting us to be competitive, not aiming a particular round, I decided to just field whoever was in better shape, rendering us two early eliminations. We went out in the FA Cup to Peterborough Sports in the 3rd Qualifying Round and to Scarborough (Hi Padders!)  in the 2nd Round of the FA Trophy.

Summary - It was a good season in general, since we were predicted to finish 21th, being 6 positions above was some overachievement. Our key players were Manassé Mampala (Striker), Liam Tongue (Playmaker), Dan Atherton (Goalkeeper) and Eddie Brown (Winger). Our goalie was in pretty good form and saved us many many times. Up front Liam had an awesome start which might be why I was kind of disappointed throughout the season because he didn't keep up with it. Eddie totally surprised me because I wasn't expecting much of him but he was very consistent. To finish of, our striker Mampala has an edge in the air but he missed an atrocious amount of goals that we definitely will need if we are to aim for more next season. We also managed to upgrade both our Junior Coaching and Youth Recruitment.

Youth Intake - As I mentioned before, we were lacking depth so I'd grab anything that came our way, especially considering the intake preview. Once the day of the intake came, I was positively surprised with the amount of Elite Talents, and a few good personalities.  A few of the bunch will be going straight to the first team to enable us to rotate the squad a little more. Other thing that didn't pass unnoticed was the amount of foreign players, having two players from Cyprus. The top three players I'm expecting to gain more minutes next season are Sam Oldham, Giorgios Loizou and Jada Thomson. First two guys lack a lot in determination, and I'm hoping that can be fixed trough mentoring, whilst Jada's got it all right in order to develop.
 

Challenge Log

 

Edited November 16, 2022 by v1n1akabozo

[fries]

Thanks for the comments everybody!

6 hours ago, Barnsley said:

wow, you are doing incredible there and some insane players. what a 3 year run!!

what formation are you finding working? I am literally trying every thing possible! 1 win and 4-5 defeats, repeat. 

The funny thing is that I have used several formations in this save. I started with a 4-3-3/4-5-1. Then I got 4 promosing offensive talents (including Walters, Byran, Egan and Oliver) and changed to a 4-2-4 formation with two strikers and two offensive wingers. I had to sell Oliver and therefore changed my formation to a 4-3-3 narrow formation with three strikers. I played this formation in the promotion seasons from the National League and League Two. I sold Egan in the winter of my League Two season. Early in my League One season I therefore changed the formation to a 4-4-2/4-1-2-1-2 narrow diamond formation.

I always try to use a formation that fits my players 

 

[thomas_e]

Impressive work @fries! 

[Bartrcm]

14 hours ago, OlivierL said:

Season Preview | Competitions

So back to back promotion and we are in the first tier after only two seasons! I love the city and situation but i really don't like the financial situation so i'm not going to continue at the moment and put this on a hold for now !

I simulated this save for two more seasons and every team in Belgium had arround 10m or more debt. Only Brugge was save.

A great prospect !

 

Incredible job. Congratz! I hope the money in the first division is much better.

[Redknapp_13]

Hapoel Ra'anana Season Review

Season 23/24

Squad - U19 Squad - Finances - Transfers

First Season and we already gain Promotion. Great season overall, but the starting conditions were already great. We had a great squad with really good players for nearly every position. Especially Ofek Melika was key and already a good player for Liga Tel Aviv, but he does not want to extend his contract, so we are going to loose him. In Defense we had Season Klimkim holding it together and Tomer Barzilai as a deep laying playmaker. On Offense it was Omer Buaron having a fantastic season with 21 goals and 10 assists from the left wing. Roy Levy also a key player.

We did not change much tacticwise during the season. Our high press with some control in posession seemed to be working great.

 

Youth Intake

Great first intake with alot of A's but the personalites arent that great. A few of them will get first team minutes for sure

Elkaslasy (24A) and  David (24B) seem to be the best of them.

[shaunvamos]

 

 

 

2027 Youth Intake

 

 

 

Dennis Petersen 4H  -  Kasper Bisgaard 4D  -  Martin Jørgensen 4E*

 

 

 

I expected a strong intake for our first one as a semi-pro club, and I wasn't disappointed. 14 players with a PA of 4.5* or higher, and many with multi star CA! Fine additions to our collection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[shaunvamos]

 

 

 

 

Transfers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Somehow, we've gotten back to back promotions!

We went on an insane 13 game unbeaten streak that saw us lead the preliminary stage for a little bit, before a 4-0 loss to Aarhus put an abrupt end to that. The league split, and we just had the weirdest run of results, conceding 13 goals in 3 games before papering over the cracks and sneaking into the promotion place on the final day. Add in a great run in the cup that saw us lose 15-0 on aggregate to Randers in the quarter finals, and it was definitely a fun season. Just check out our fixtures after we returned from the winter break:

 

 

 

We have no idea what a clean sheet is. Also, just to show how ridiculous this season was, check out this xG table:

 

 

 

 

Expected last, and by a long way. Apparently we were just incredibly clinical!

 

 

 

Best XI

 

 

 

Lucas Chang-Andersen  -  Erik Sigil 1D*  -  Brian Poulsen 3F

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Record Breakers

 

 

 

 

 

Award Winners

 

 

 

 

 

Manager Timeline

 

 

 

 

 

Progress

 

 

[Barnsley]

5th Season well under way, started off flying we were top after 7, our striker got injured who is our best player and we went on our standard 11 game losing streak and have never recovered. 1 win and 2/3 losses seems to be how we play now can never build something. have lost 3 of the last 4 fixtures 1-0, tightened the ship as was shipping all over. But our next run of fixtures sees us play top, 4th 9th and a couple of others away at the top. Massive last 12 games, I have been here before in season 2 where I survived on the last day, two solid seasons after that but back to a struggle again this time. I think I have 1 player now who started at us, the rest are from the academy. I am hoping an average set of youth players with at least one quality forward in the intake next month will just give me that final edge to save me! I do not want to lose 5 seasons of pure graft and hard work, facilities are on the up, we have half a million in the bank and i am bloody enjoying this journey! i will be absolutely broken if I cant steer us to safety!

"Mon the Red Rebels!"

[v1n1akabozo]

9 minutes ago, Barnsley said:

5th Season well under way, started off flying we were top after 7, our striker got injured who is our best player and we went on our standard 11 game losing streak and have never recovered. 1 win and 2/3 losses seems to be how we play now can never build something. have lost 3 of the last 4 fixtures 1-0, tightened the ship as was shipping all over. But our next run of fixtures sees us play top, 4th 9th and a couple of others away at the top. Massive last 12 games, I have been here before in season 2 where I survived on the last day, two solid seasons after that but back to a struggle again this time. I think I have 1 player now who started at us, the rest are from the academy. I am hoping an average set of youth players with at least one quality forward in the intake next month will just give me that final edge to save me! I do not want to lose 5 seasons of pure graft and hard work, facilities are on the up, we have half a million in the bank and i am bloody enjoying this journey! i will be absolutely broken if I cant steer us to safety!

"Mon the Red Rebels!"

One particular thing that has helped me a few times is to tweak with the training schedule prior to the matches and set up a session of "Teamwork" and two sessions of either "Attacking Movement" or "Defensive Positioning" based on what the team's lacking the most. It seems that your attack is the main issue and 12 draws most likely won't save you, so you gotta grab a few wins.

[MadCatPT]

11 minutes ago, Barnsley said:

5th Season well under way, started off flying we were top after 7, our striker got injured who is our best player and we went on our standard 11 game losing streak and have never recovered. 1 win and 2/3 losses seems to be how we play now can never build something. have lost 3 of the last 4 fixtures 1-0, tightened the ship as was shipping all over. But our next run of fixtures sees us play top, 4th 9th and a couple of others away at the top. Massive last 12 games, I have been here before in season 2 where I survived on the last day, two solid seasons after that but back to a struggle again this time. I think I have 1 player now who started at us, the rest are from the academy. I am hoping an average set of youth players with at least one quality forward in the intake next month will just give me that final edge to save me! I do not want to lose 5 seasons of pure graft and hard work, facilities are on the up, we have half a million in the bank and i am bloody enjoying this journey! i will be absolutely broken if I cant steer us to safety!

"Mon the Red Rebels!"

Good luck. I never went more than 5 season in this challenge.

This year I am first at a third of the season in my first year. The start was rocky, was using an assistant recommended preset with the formation my player fit best in.

It was not that good, was bailed by a couple of late penalties. With just 15 players and two of them being GK I started to do some small thinkering.

Found that Cautious was the best mentality. And in the games I rotated the grays in tested different settings.

So far haven't need to deal with it, but when morale gets down due to losses I would choose the game in the calendar against a weak/low form team and do the team meeting before, would make sure my best players would be rested before and set the training to focus on teamwork stuff.

Also on the games I rotate before the give it all games I try different stuff.

Hope it helps.

[Neo_Geo]

8 hours ago, fries said:

Thanks for the comments everybody!

The funny thing is that I have used several formations in this save. I started with a 4-3-3/4-5-1. Then I got 4 promosing offensive talents (including Walters, Byran, Egan and Oliver) and changed to a 4-2-4 formation with two strikers and two offensive wingers. I had to sell Oliver and therefore changed my formation to a 4-3-3 narrow formation with three strikers. I played this formation in the promotion seasons from the National League and League Two. I sold Egan in the winter of my League Two season. Early in my League One season I therefore changed the formation to a 4-4-2/4-1-2-1-2 narrow diamond formation.

I always try to use a formation that fits my players 

 

Why can’t real football managers be like this? 

They always seem to shoehorn players into a way of playing rather than playing to their strengths.

I’m the same as you that I’ll adjust formation based on who I have in the squad as you have little choice with the random element of the intake being the driving force behind how you set up. It’s one of the reasons I love this type of save so much.

You also have the option to retrain players for different positions and roles if you can plan that far ahead (or are forced to).

[schnauzer]

Dorchester Town FC   -   Season 5 (2026 / 2027) Review   -   Vanarama National South

 

League Performance

A slight improvement on last season as we finish 16th, two places higher but with 10 more points than this time a year ago. Up until the last 15 games we had been in the running for a playoff spot but the form completely fell off - which did allow me to then experiment a little. Through the experimenting I now have a new tactical set up in a 3-5-2 with wing-backs which has been working nicely, and a few youngsters have impressed after having been given the chance.

In terms of player performances, Alfie Stanley had his best season in front of goal yet, hitting 20 league goals. He has now got 91 in 249 league games for Dorchester and is something of a club hero but is still refusing to extend his contract beyond the 2 years he has left - a real shame as he is still only 25 years old. Miquel Hunte (Y3) has been the star again for us but has become more of a creator than a scorer in midfield for us. We turned down a paltry offer for him from L2 side Carlisle in January, which initially he was unhappy with but since put past him. Aaron Dorrington (Y4) has played very well and is now a key player, and Kieron Lambert has progressed a ridiculous amount in one season. Our latest intake's star Alfie Peel (Y5) looks to have real potential and could help us a lot next year. I have been a bit disappointed that there hasn't been more depth of quality in our intakes given our excellent youth rec and junior coaching ratings if I'm honest though!

Next season I'd really like us to kick on and push for a playoff position, but it is really difficult when there are so many good clubs in the division. Next year we will have to contend again with Newport County and Torquay, and joining them will be Barnet, Eastleigh and Ebbsfleet who have all been relegated from the National League. Time to step up!

 

 

FA Cup - So close to the 1st round! We made the 4th round qual. after beating Hayes & Yeading and Cray Wanderers before losing to Eastleigh on a replay. I could really do with a cup run to get us a Prem side in an away game at some point...

FA Trophy - Knocked out by Crawley in the 4th round after previously beating Highworth Town and Hendon.

 

Squad - A lot of carrying done by Hunte (Y3) and Stanley again. Scott Ford (Y2) was solid in defence for the third season running now but isn't progressing his ability. Pantelis Oikonomou (Y4) and new intake grad Anders Cramer (Y5) both showed some encouraging displays in goal which means we might finally have an improvement on Harley Wilkinson. Jesmond Micallef (Y2) has frustrated me as whilst he is a well-rounded striker now he isn't showing it in his performances. Overall we are seeing a good amount of improvement in the youngsters as the average age of all our academy grads is around 18 now.

 

Players of the Season

1. Miquel Hunte - Our best player and our best performer for the season again! 8 goals and 18 assists in all competitions.

2. Alfie Stanley - 25 goals and 7 assists in all competitions. Much improved on last year but can still be better. We really need a good forward to be in a position to replace him when he runs his contract out in 2 seasons time!

3. Kieron Lambert - His average rating hasn't been good but I think that is a full-back thing? Has played well and his rating went from a 2 star to a 4 star in the space of a year! Sadly he has a broken ankle which will keep him out of pre-season but fingers crossed doesn't stop his amazing development.

    

    

Rookie of the Season (1st full season)

Aaron Dorrington - One of our best players now and there will surely be some offers for him next season. My only issue is that I don't know how way to get the best out of him yet.

 

Youth Intake - I can't help but feel a little bit frustrated that we aren't producing better players yet with all things considered. Every season we get a bunch of players with 5 star potential, yet few ever progress much beyond where they started... Nonetheless, Alfie Peel could turn into an important player for us and I'm counting on it with that 20 determination rating! Anders Cramer and Josh McCarthy also both look okay. 

  

 

Transfers - Nothing to update on.

 

Finances - Consistently stable despite the youth setup costs so that pleases me a lot. We will need either to go into the Football League, an amazing cup run, or an amazing fee for a player sale to be able to take the next steps of improvements though!

 

Other Updates - Studying for the continental A licence! Also, the fan ownership takeover didn't come about in the end... We did have a slightly higher average attendance than in our promotion season from this league 3 years ago, which is good!

 

League Finish History

Y22/23 - VNS - 7th - 75pts,   Y23/24 - VNS - 1st - 92pts,   Y24/25 - VNL - 24th - 38pts,   Y25/26 - VNS - 18th - 49pts,   Y26/27 - VNS - 16th - 59pts

Facilities

Training Facilities - Average,     Youth Facilities - Below Average,     Junior Coaching - Excellent,     Youth Recruitment - Excellent.

Average league home attendance & Number of Season Ticket Holders

Y22/23 - 468 (104),   Y23/24 - 507 (113),   Y24/25 - 666 (169),   Y25/26 - 435 (138),   Y26/27 - 509 (138)

Edited November 16, 2022 by schnauzer

[MadCatPT]

4 minutes ago, Neo_Geo said:

Why can’t real football managers be like this? 

They always seem to shoehorn players into a way of playing rather than playing to their strengths.

I’m the same as you that I’ll adjust formation based on who I have in the squad as you have little choice with the random element of the intake being the driving force behind how you set up. It’s one of the reasons I love this type of save so much.

You also have the option to retrain players for different positions and roles if you can plan that far ahead (or are forced to).

Here we just click a few times and it's done. In real life changing a system is harder, do you or the coaches have experience in another system? Maybe the youth system has been made to produce players for your current system, do the players you have can play in another system? Maybe the scouting system is also made to get players for the system?

In my area for example I use Agile, maybe it would be better to use waterfall for a specific project, if I try to make my team use it they would oppose it strongly because it's old and outdated. 

[JLAB]

Motor Lublin - End of Season 2

So our 2nd youth intake arrived and it wasn't the best intake we've ever received, but it was still one that I could work with.

Despite his poor personality, I felt that I could make Michał Pawlina a star for the team in the future as either a DM or a CM.

Bartłomiej Sztylka is a CB that I could try to make into a good talent, but he needs a lot of work.

Bartosz Jurkowski is the last player that gave me reasons to be exciting, but he also feels like he needs a lot of work to properly develop.

After the winter break, things started to slow down a little bit, but we still had a successful end to the season, even if we got knocked out of the Puchar Polski quarter final.

We finished our first season in the Ekstraklasa in 10th place, much better than what we were expecting. I'm expecting a season where we'll be struggling next year, but this is a promising start to say the least.

When we received £1.1M for taking part in the league, I knew that now was the time to do something with the money we were accumulating, especially now we had been given a transfer budget of £1.92M and a weekly wage of £33K to play with.

So when the training facilities ended up being downgraded, I knew that I needed to put some money into the facilities once again.

So when I was able to convince the board to not only improve the training facilities, the junior coaching and the youth recruitment, I knew that this was a board that would back me if it meant our ambitious could be met.

Still, our finances are in a really healthy position, so as far as I am concerned, future improvements can absolutely be made.

We've also secured our Continental B Licence, meaning that we are just 2 licences away from getting the biggest licence we can get as a manager.

Two seasons being a manager and constantly improving our coaching badges has meant that we have become much better as a manager, and it is exciting times.

So our best three players this season feels obvious to show off, but with Jakub Szuta once again being the best player this season, scoring 19 goals and getting 6 assists in 35 matches in all competitions, he was our best player this season with an average rating of 7.09.

Our 2nd best player was Damian Sędzikowiski, who has grown to be a really good talent since I've arrived. With 5 goals, 6 assists and an average rating of 7.04 in 35 matches, he has proven himself to be a really exciting talent.

The last player of note was Piotr Ceglarz, who got 6 goals, 6 assists and an average rating of 7.03 in 32 games, proved to be our 3rd best player of the season. He is getting on the older side, but he showed that his age was not slowing him down in the slightest.

JLAB's YAC with Motor Lublin Part 4

[Neo_Geo]

4 minutes ago, MadCatPT said:

Here we just click a few times and it's done. In real life changing a system is harder, do you or the coaches have experience in another system? Maybe the youth system has been made to produce players for your current system, do the players you have can play in another system? Maybe the scouting system is also made to get players for the system?

In my area for example I use Agile, maybe it would be better to use waterfall for a specific project, if I try to make my team use it they would oppose it strongly because it's old and outdated. 

So complete overhauls I agree, going from a passing game to route one for instance would be a lot harder in real life.

However, something like playing wingbacks over fullbacks because your two left and right sided defensive players are better at attacking than defending isn’t that hard to achieve. In fact those players may prefer that type of play.

Another example is having two strikers then moving to a single striker with a shadow striker, again nothing huge.

It’s also a good reason to have a varied squad rather than just ensuring you have players that fit your style. Say I played an anchor and a regista with two defensive wingers, full backs on defend and tell the team to play it long to a target forward and advanced forward. If I don’t change my style i’m totally reliant on having good DMs, so what happens if you have AMs come through one year? Having multiple tactics that you train as well reduces the likelihood,of asking your squad to do something they don’t want to do.

Of course there will be times you need to play players out of position but by in large it’s best to go with the flow of the team.

Real managers however can buy and sell players, unlike this challenge, so it isn’t really the same as they can go and buy players to fit their model, but sometimes you’ll come up against a team that render your way of playing completely useless, the good managers are not stubborn the bad ones have Plan A and Plan B is to do Plan A better (seen first hand at Rangers with Mark Warburton and now with van Bronckhorst which is why it particularly frustrates me)

 

[OlivierL]

7 hours ago, Bartrcm said:

Incredible job. Congratz! I hope the money in the first division is much better.

Thanks, I am not going to test is. I am going to stop this save.

[Bartrcm]

28 minutes ago, OlivierL said:

Thanks, I am not going to test is. I am going to stop this save.

OK, that's a pity. Due to the finances?

[Makoto Nakamura]

2043/44 Youth Candidates

The intakes are getting there!  

[Kazushi80]

vor einer Stunde schrieb OlivierL:

Thanks, I am not going to test is. I am going to stop this save.

That's a shame, but I see your point and thanks for the test with the simulation into the future. Hope SI will fix the finances in Belgium soon

[Daddy]

2024/25 Season Review:

By the numbers we slightly improved, but we underperformed our xG a bit and weren't particularly defensively sound to make up for that. All that was expected was to not be relegated and we succeeded there. We lack a true goal scorer but there are a handful of younger players vying for striker and forward time in general so hopefully that improves going forward. 

lot of loans, some improvements to coaching badge, but a downgrade to training, which I was able to get approved despite the finances not being in a good state.

Youth Intake:

No complaints here. No one ready to challenge for first team minutes right away, but hopefully in a couple seasons.

2025/26 Season Preview:

All that's being asked is to not be in a relegation battle basically. I think that's doable, and if I unlock the goals in the team then we'll challenge for a promotion. 

[the_hdk]

Kaf Sin Kaf

Season 33/34 (11th) - Süper Lig

Players / Transfers

Five seasons have passed since I added the 'old' kits so it was time for new ones. This time Nike. Hope you guys like them.

This year we had an amazing run in second part of the year being unbeaten for 18 games. First seaosn we have shown real domination and its mostly due to our goaly BAS (more on him later) and our star midfielder YALCIN. YALCIN is now in teh core team of Turkiye and BAS just broke through and has played two caps. The cup run was great and I was sad we couldnt finish it. Maybe next year. We did win the Super Cup for the first time so technically thats my first cup. CIGERCI has fought into the first team. KABA has replaced ALPTEKIN who had his min fee matched. And in the attack we lost our icon striker GUZLUKAYA who went to Union berlin for 7mln. He was replaced by CINELI who progressed nice up to three stars.

VINICIUS JUNIOR with his second Ballon d'Or. The CL finale was between two dutch coaches. It was won by VAN NISTELROOIJ for Man City against VAN GINKEL's West Ham United (who won europa leage last year and conference league year before....would have been fun if they won this year the CL).

 

CUNEYET our striker won the Kope Trophy!. Shortly after first 20mln+ bids came. He has min fee of 25mln  sadly so I fear he will leave in the summer.

Brave. To come out in Turkiye...well its 2034...so maybe things have changed by then (lets hope!). Still first time I see this in teh game. cool addition.

Worst intake so far....or my players are just getting really good? Still one elite.

BASTURK could be our future left back. Fairly proffesional, brave. Just horrible determination.

 

And now I wanted to show you guys our star goaly BAS. He has grown into a wonderkid! With 2 caps for Turkiye at age of 20 he will have a great career. I just hope to keep him a few more seasons.

How he started:

How he is now...4 years later.

 

 

 

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

Brønshøj BK - Youth Intake Season 4

I'm a bit lost for words that this is the fourth season out of four in which our highest CA player was a GK. We literally have 6 first team quality keepers in our club now and I didn't bother posting attributes of this guy since he won't play over our Driven, 4.5 star GK. The upgrades to junior coaching and youth recruitment have tanked our finances, but they will be well worth it if they mean all our intakes will have this high of a floor. At this point, we have released all of the real players at our club, so being able to stick 10+ depth players into the squad is a huge help. As always, we're only keeping tagged players, so those guys with low determination and umabitious personalities aren't sticking around.

Provstgaard 04a will immediately start as our DLP(S). That was one of our two weakest positions, so this is a huge help. He's got really good starting attributes to contribute in that role right away.

Lebæk 04e has all the attributes to play as a DC, unfortunately he's really short for the position. And with 3 crossing and 1 dribbling, and 2 passing and 1 vision, we can't really play him on the outside or as a midfielder. Will have to see if he can develop at all, and hopefully grow a bit.

Madsen 04d is quick, can cross, and can dribble, will be a rotation option on the wing.

Nørrestrand 04c has the Professional personality, so he will certainly be getting he chance to develop.

And finally, Montell 04f also has a Professional personality, and sneakily I think he could end up being the most valuable of the bunch, His baseline attributes for a wingback are all very solid. He has 7+ in all the attributes required for the CWB(S) role, with the exception of 6 flair. He's also consistent.

[tual]

vor 17 Minuten schrieb the_hdk:

 

Brave. To come out in Turkiye...well its 2034...so maybe things have changed by then (lets hope!). Still first time I see this in teh game. cool addition.

 

 

 

Oh wow, I guess you've never been to Turkey?  It's a very common thing, there are a looot of gay (and drag) famous people there on TV, and coming out is nothing special. You know Turkey is not a religious country? Don't get it why so many people think they are like their neighbours.

[Shankly84]

Really not feeling it in Finland. Going to start again. Thinking of Cyprus or Kazakhstan, something like that. I take it any of these type of leagues are eligible, provided I can go a promoted team in the lowest possible league?

[OlivierL]

2 hours ago, Bartrcm said:

OK, that's a pity. Due to the finances?

yes idd, Every team (not Brugge) are in deep red .. after only three seasons.

[Makoto Nakamura]

2043/44 End of Season Review

Our highest ever point total despite losing two games after the split but unfortunately we don't make it to the Conference League, it was very fitting to have Andrew Caulfield score in his final ever game though! Portadown set a new record for goals conceded in a league season and next season we'll have a new club in the top tier as Dundela won the Lough41 Championship! With two of our players retiring, our star rightback Daniel White refusing to sign a professional contract and myself deciding a new route will be taken where every player that doesn't not have more than 3* PA will be released from the club to make room for the younger players with higher potential, next season will be looking very, very different.

Absolute legend, 837 appearances and 318 goals!

And Gareth with his 743 appearances, we only lose two players to retirement but between them they had 1,580 appearances! Including the players I'll be releasing (Daniel Casey (YP3h), Gavin Huxley (YP5d) & Johnny Wright (YP7i)) We will be losing 5 players with a combined 3,213 appearances!

Overall Best XI

2043/44 Best XI

Johnny Wright (YP7i)

Daniel White (YP18a) - Paul Dunn (YP13e) - Jim Fletcher (YP7d) - Connor O'Mahony (YP17c)

Daniel Casey (YP3h) - Aidan Gorman (YP15c)

Jamie Hassin (YP17e)                                                         Shea Clarke (YP20b)

 

Andrew Caulfield (YP1j) - Darren Metcalf (YP12f)

Top 10's

 

Trophy Count

[the_hdk]

44 minutes ago, tual said:

 

Oh wow, I guess you've never been to Turkey?  It's a very common thing, there are a looot of gay (and drag) famous people there on TV, and coming out is nothing special. You know Turkey is not a religious country? Don't get it why so many people think they are like their neighbours.

could be that most of turkish people ive met have been very religious.  I do love the country but sadly I have only visited it once.

[WhiteCat33]

A.S. Luxembourgo Porto

Season 2 2023-24: Luxembourg Division 2 - Serie 2 (Tier 4)

Intro & Club | Season 1 |

Matches | Squad | Transfers |Facilities | Finances | Supporters

Competitions:

Cup: 2nd round exit. Fine.

Spoiler

League: We have brough 'Portuguese Streetball' to the Lower Leagues of Luxembourg. We absolutely smashed the goals in a season & game record for the league which can be summarized in this match:

Spoiler

No surprise this match set all kinds of records: Notice we had the previous records for both of them. Apparently 10 goals in a match wasn’t enough for us. 

In another dramatic come-from-behind final match we won away at Lasauvage 5-2 to claim the title (shame the league bugged out during the celebration). 2 seasons 2 Champion's Trophies, beware of the Portuguese!

Spoiler

We are the team any neutral would love to watch. Shame we only have a 250 seater "stadium" that is constantly sold out. We sored 79 goals in 26 matches, but also allowed 55 to showcase Farrell's continued lack of concern for defense. The last record for goals in a season was 53 set by ASSL Luxembourg (the original ASL Porto).

Spoiler

Youth Academy:

Youth Intake Preview

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Youth Intake: With all our upgrades to YR & JR Coaching we got our intake 2 weeks earlier on March 15th! Let’s see what we have to work with this year

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Best Prospects: Sorry @Makoto Nakamura I stole all your DMs

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Terrible personality but actually would play him

Similar level of attributes I guess just not either footed and its spread a little different but both could make good ballplayers

Hello Poacher, you are most welcome

An IW who is crazy aggressive. Not sure he’s an improvement, but could let me move on the legacy ML

YESS Professional, decent height and Aggressive + Brave this is about the best I could hope for at this level. 2 years in a row I’ve gotten a good CB draw. Weirdly both Left Footed as well

My current GK is whatever, I like the look of this guy and may start him

3rd DM who is actually my favorite due to the Personality + Media handling. Now what to do with all of them…

And another 6’5 CB. I think I may be moving to a back 3/5 next season

Best XI

Spoiler

Youth Products Highlights

I'm going to suspend this again as with this year's intake there will be a total rebuild of the squad. If you look at the Squad link you can see my coaches think (and I agree) we can do better in almost every position.

Club Infrastructure

The finances are much better at this club than my previous one. The big reason is actually because our stadium is so bad. With the other club we had to pay such high stadium maintence and stewarding costs it wasn't until we were in the top flight that matches were actually profitable. While we only get 250 fans into our games at ASL Porto we actually make money on the games so I've been able to get the JR Coaching & Youth Recruitment Upgrades. And with the intake we just had off of a useless GM I'd say its paying off.

Spoiler

Coaching Badges

Finished the badge I started over the summer and got an additional badge. Also with the two senior titles (and 2 reserve titles) I'm already to 1* reputation as a head coach, which I don't think happened the entire previous save.

Spoiler

 

Thoughts

Well, I thought we moved quick with the last club, but this is a rocket ship that is amazingly fun to watch. Averaging 5 goals in a game makes even matches on key highlights showcase some wicked goals and defensive mistakes. I played this season with my lower-league 4-4-2, but will be looking to create something more interesting with all these DMs I just received. Even though we are awful defensively I want to keep the spirit of Streetball alive in this save with a very much goal scoring focus with the squad. This and because our FBs are total garbage while our wide midfielders are playing very well, I'm thinking of trying this 3-1-4-2 counter tactic next season. Should make for another wild ride at the very least!

Edited November 16, 2022 by WhiteCat33

[Kazushi80]

@OlivierL I made a new topic for the financial bug in belgium because the old one was only about the teams getting promoted to the 3rd division. Maybe you want to share your simulation file there, too:

 

[Barnsley]

Jeez, it is tight down here. sticking in there at the minute, just about! 5 to go.

[Flashman\'s School Days]

Jomo Cosmos - Season Review 23/24

Manager Characteristics - Manager Attributes - Transfers - Fixtures 1, 2

GladAfrica Championship - 1st

First season in the books and a promotion that I would have never expected after my torrid time in my previous save.  The club already had some decent players already at the club and then a few generated players who made up a fairly decent if threadbare squad.  This was also backed up by a few youth players who had come through too who would provide a little bit of cover and rotation.  We began the season with a couple of wins before 2 defeats and a draw, I assumed this would be a pattern that continued but we then embarked on a 14 game unbeaten run that firmly cemented us as title contenders but 2 defeats in a row slowly brought other teams back into it.  1 defeat in the next 7 games meant that we went into the last two games of the season needing only 1 win to confirm the title but we lost the penultimate game and then only managed a 1-1 in the final game but luckily Cape Town Spurs also only managed a draw.

Nedbank Cup - First Round

The only cup competition we played in this season, managing a win against Sekhukhune in the preliminary round and then a 4-3 extra time defeat to Amazulu in the first round in a game where we probably should have won.  Amazulu went on to win the cup so hopefully that's a positive sign for next season.

Squad

We lost a couple of players at the start of the season that I would have liked to have kept but they were on non-contracts and transfer listed so they weren't interested in staying so we had to make do with what we had.  Cleopas Dube was our main striker but obviously at an advanced age I will be having to replace him soon which is ok because both Gontse Molefe and Ayanda Kubheka both look like they could be long term replacements. 

Ntuthuko Mlotshwa and Sibongiseni Ngcobo were outstanding at centre back but Ngcobo has decided he is leaving at the end of the season, I put it down to the bizarre contract rule where you can't offer a contract length further than the end of the season until April, thankfully this changes in the Premiership.  Khaya Mashiane is a brilliant talent at centre back to be his long term replacement though. 

Out of necessity I had to play Bonginkosi Sibanyoni and despite him not being the best player around or having the best potential he has come on leaps and bounds this season, next to him was Matsi Sono who is the son of Jomo Sono, the man who gave the club it's name when he bought them and former teammate of Pele at New York Cosmos.  Unfortunately Matsi is considering his future so despite him being truly one of our best players I may not have him for next season when I really need him.

Thokozani Shabalala was excellent for most of the season but he missed 3 out of 4 penalties he took despite him having the best penalty taking attribute in the squad.  My personal favourite player and standout player though was Mooketsi Phindela, excelling in the shadow striker role that I haven't been able to get working well in the past few FM games.

Youth Intake

A very promising first intake which will provide some depth in the middle of the pitch, where we were most desperate for some.  The outstanding players are Ian Mooketsi 24b, Thuso Masedi 24f, Siphamandla Ndukwane 24e, Njabulo Francis 24g and the absolute star of the show Luke Mthimkulu 24a.

Finances

Our finances are in a right state, our wage bill was 10th of 16 teams in the league so not ridiculously high but we lost £350k even though the board pumped about £300k in and we got £157k for finishing top of the league.  Not sure how those fortunes will change because every club seems to have insecure finances in this league, luckily our facilities were at a good point already so will hopefully bear fruit for us and maybe one will get signed for decent money.  The club for some reason were looking at building a new stadium when I took over but have not long abandoned the plans due to poor finances although I'm not sure what the point of building a new 13k all seater stadium is when we already play in a 20k all seater but only attract 450 fans a game.  I managed to get my first coaching badge whilst the balance was positive.

[BigJack]

FC United - 2030/31

Season Preview

Preview

Predicted Finish = 24th

Competitions

Overview

VNL - League Table

FA Cup - Lost in the second round to Tranmere Rovers.

FA Trophy - Lost in the third round to Barrow AFC.

It has been our best season by far, as we managed to seal a save high of 7th in the league. We started really well and even though we had a few bad spells, we are finally looking like a decent side who can compete at this level. 7th gave us a play off spot where we faced AFC Flyde, and I do not know what happened but we just folded, 4-0 down after 30 mins meant the game was as good as over and it ended 6-2. I am happy to not go up yet though, we are nowhere near ready for league football and need another year or 2 of development first. 

Playing Squad

Seasons Best 11    Transfers    Squad

The squad is developing really well and I am starting to really see some improvements in a lot of the players. We also now have decent depth which helped us massively this season with so many 2 game weeks. Below is our starting 11 but this may change next season as some of the back ups are really pushing for starts. 

Gaye 27a

Hendon 28a

Walsh 29l

Turnbull 28d

Schorah 27b

Donaldson 25k

Jones 28c

Brook 30b

Mcdermott 24c

Scanlon 29c

Onyeka

Onyeka remains the only legacy player left at the club and with no real competition for his spot at the moment, he wont be going anywhere just yet. 232 goals in 360 games is a decent return. Brook 30b had a brilliant first full season. Winning the YPOTM award for October. Watford have been sniffing around him but I have him tied down to a 3 year contract + a optional extension of another 3 years. 

Youth Development

Preview    Intake

Its a decent enough intake but we are still lacking a striker. Crayston 31a has already made a few appearances as we have been screaming out for a back up LB and RB and being both footed, he will cover both positions after some more training at RB. 

Crayston 31a

Williams 31b

Chaplow 31c

Tarpey 31d

Holden 31e

Finances and Facilities

Finances    Facilities

This season we managed to upgrade our Youth Recruitment and Junior Coaching to exceptional. We also broke our record for Average Attendance which I'm hoping can keep on growing as this will add some money to the coffers. 

Other

Overall Best 11    Club Records

This season we reached 400 Games in management. We had our first full international, as Gaye 27a made his Kenya debut and has gone on to win 4 caps so far. We also had 2 players called up for the U19's EURO'S this summer.

We have also managed to get our first affiliate club in Mossley, it doesn't appear they have a limit to loans so I am tempted to send a full 11 there next season as a bit of an experiment. 

We also have a decision to make over the summer. We have the opportunity to sell 2 Transfer Clauses for £1.5m in total. I am undecided as yet as we could miss out on more money in the future like we did by selling Fallon 24a's clause (£1m lost). Or we can sell both and maybe get the board to turn us pro as that would give us £2.5m in the bank which should be more than enough. The other option is to sell the clauses and get a training ground upgrade, I am leaning towards this as when renewing a few of our key players contracts, they asked for the training ground to be upgraded and this may well help when we need to renew their contracts again. 

 

Edited November 16, 2022 by BigJack

[Barnsley]

Wow, what an end to the season here. 1-0 down after 11 minutes, Chorley go down to 9men before half time. thankfully we equalised and held on to the draw (They ended up with 8 men! - and won the league themselves!) - turned it out wasn't important in the end as Leiston lost anyway. But my lord that was tense.

Little Summary i have kept of my game so far, progress minimal - but facilities wise we are moving okay. As long as i can keep avoiding relegation and keeping the facilities moving - at some point i will have a squad good enough to go up. The players are all so young, nobody over 20 in the 11. a few years time some of these could be good enough.

Season	1	2	3	4	5
Year	22/23	23/24	25/26	26/27	27/28
League	Van North	Van North	Van North	Van North	Van North
Prediction	18th	24th	22nd	19th	19th
Place	12th	20th	14th	15th	20th
Played	46	46	46	46	46
Won	17	15	15	17	13
Draw	11	7	14	4	7
Loss	18	24	17	25	26
GF	63	85	81	90	60
GA	65	82	84	96	84
GD	-2	3	-3	-6	-24
PTS	62	52	59	55	46
Fa Cup	4th Qual	1st Rd	3rd Qual	4th Qual	4th Qual
FA Trophy	Semi	3rd Rd	2nd Rd	2nd Rd	2nd Rd
Top Scorer (League)	Bright Amoateng	Anthony Connor	Anthony Connor	Anthony Connor	Anthony Connor
Goals (League)	18	43	33	47	37
Training Facilities		Basic	Basic	Basic	Below Average
Youth Facilities		Basic	Below Average	Adequate	Adequate
Youth Level		4	4	3	3
Youth Recruitment		Average	Above Average	Adequate	Good
Junior Coaching		Average	Adequate	Good	Excellent
Balance 1st July		£94,000.00	£885,000.00	£294,000.00	£214,000.00
Capacity	4400	4400	4400	4400	4400
Average Attendance	2335	2285	2384	2406
Season Ticket Holders		2056	2056	2056	2056
Price		£149.00	£149.00	£148.00	£148.00
Match Ticket		£11.00	£11.00	£11.00	£10.00

[libbyshuss]

Season Summary

An unbelievable season! We started brilliantly, with 3 wins and draw in the first 5 to go third. After 1 win in the next 14 it came clear that those 3 early victories were against the 3 worst teams in the division - and we were clearly the fourth. By the time we went into the winter break we were in the bottom 3.

So I hatched a plan of playing friendlies against the worst teams I could find to build up our confidence. It's amazing what a 16-2 win can do! 4 wins and a draw out of the first 5 after christmas and it was looking good! and then six straight defeats plunged us back in trouble. We managed to somehow put together an 8 match unbeaten run at the end (six draws!) to pull out of trouble and qualify for the play-offs! 

Novarra were favourites, and won the first leg 4-2. I've never massaged morale as much as I did before the return leg and amazingly it worked! we won 3-0!!!! I was convinced we'd be relegated for so long and we somehow pulled it out the bag!

Players

Filllipo Garace 25B - I was desperate after christmas so gave Fillipo his debut because at that stage, why not? And he was great! all the way to the end of the season!

Manuel Bevilacqua 26B - looks like my first real proper talent. Started the season as a back up for midfield and ended by far my most valuable player. 

Antonio Romagnoli 24F - my other proper good player! I was convinced I was going down when this happened to the lad

how the flip do you do your spine in that badly lifting weights??? what a numbnuts....

Youth

ooooo, a golden generation! bring it on!

and the intake looked nice

 

with this lad the pick of the bunch!

he looks a cracker!

Finances and Upgrades

 

Career

After three relegation battles in Serie B I'd love for a nice boring season. But all three seasons we've been favourite to go down and I'm pretty sure i'll be favourite again next season. I need a superstar striker or something!

[Makoto Nakamura]

2044/45 Youth Preview

No Defensive Midfielders.

[grff]

Royale Union Tubize-Braine: 2023/24 Season Review

After deciding to abandon my Croatian save due to spiralling debts (not sure if a bug), I decided to ignore the bug with the Belgian league and see how it went. First attempt was with Diegem but we won't talk about that (came rock bottom )

Manager's screen

We celebrated promotion at the first attempt although it was not looking likely going into the last game. Even then, my keeper decided to throw in a 5.60 rating before I subbed him off and went full attack at 4-2 down. Five goals in five minutes help us scrap a 6-5 win and clinch 3rd spot.

  

There were promising season stats from a few players. Unfortunately, the pool of strikers available to me isn't the best.

The youth intake looked promising on paper but most of the recruits have pretty bad personalities so many might not reach their potential.

Dumped a couple of players that were taking a bosman and were pretty poor quality

In terms of finances, we ended the season £400k in the red so very similar to my Croatian save. Rumours of a board takeover come through on a monthly basis so hopefully the deficit is wiped at some point.

Season History...

 

[Neo_Geo]

Reached that point in the save my players are being targeted.

Why is it the clubs making offers don’t want to postpone the transfer but then come back with a loan back offer. Don’t they know the rules of the save? 

So I sold Roos to PSG after Inter met the minimum fee release clause of £6.25m, I negotiated for £5.5m, 500k after 1 international appearance and 40% of profit from next sale.

He will be missed that’s for sure, here’s the last look at him as a Chiasso player:

Edited November 16, 2022 by Neo_Geo

[hyrule_king]

Need to give this challenge another go, had a lot of fun with it on fm21

[WhiteCat33]

5 hours ago, Shankly84 said:

Really not feeling it in Finland. Going to start again. Thinking of Cyprus or Kazakhstan, something like that. I take it any of these type of leagues are eligible, provided I can go a promoted team in the lowest possible league?

Yes 2+ divisions with relegation from the lower tier or if you choose a lower league database like i have in luxembourg or the one in norway its the last placed team after the first season.