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57 minutes ago, Padders said:

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Season 42 - 2065/66 - SBL2

We have drawn Man Utd in the 4th Round of the FA Cup

And managed to draw 3-3 for a replay at Old Trafford

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and we nearly FM'd themĀ :D

Losing in ET

Nice chunk of cash though

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In the league, we managed to finish 4th and into the playoffs again

Our form was very good going into the playoffs, only losing 2 of the last 12 games

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We took that form into the playoffs beating Dorking in the Semi Finals

and Accrington in the Final

Into League One we go...............

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Won Manager of the Season and had three players in Team of the Season

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Flying now šŸ‘

Who are your best players and are they ready for the step up to League 1?

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2 hours ago, Padders said:

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Season 42 - 2065/66 - SBL2

We have drawn Man Utd in the 4th Round of the FA Cup

And managed to draw 3-3 for a replay at Old Trafford

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and we nearly FM'd themĀ :D

Losing in ET

Nice chunk of cash though

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In the league, we managed to finish 4th and into the playoffs again

Our form was very good going into the playoffs, only losing 2 of the last 12 games

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We took that form into the playoffs beating Dorking in the Semi Finals

and Accrington in the Final

Into League One we go...............

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Won Manager of the Season and had three players in Team of the Season

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Oh man that Man Utd game. You know it's going to happen but still it hurts when it does.

Heading the right way now though, nice story!

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End of Season Review

Season 2024/25

East Kilbride

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Season Review

Whilst we were poor in all of the cups, we exceeded expectations in the league, finishing third and qualifying for the promotion playoffs, which we won, though we were pushed all the way to extra time in the final.

League Table - League Fixtures 1 - League Fixtures 2

Promotion Playoffs

Scottish Cup - Viaplay Scottish League Cup Group Table - Viaplay Scottish League Cup Fixtures - SPFL Trust Trophy

Squad

Ally Roy - Calum Biggar - Andy McDonald

Transfers In - Transfers Out

Youth Candidates

Scott Pyott YP25A1 - Connor Home YP25B2 - Fraser Hemfrey YP25E5

Next Season

I just want to survive.

Personal Contract

Season     Contract Start Date     Contract Expiry Date     Pre Tax Wage     Post Tax Wage
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At start          24 June 2024              31 May 2025         Ā£350 p/w          Ā£325 p/w
2024/25       27 February 2025              31 May 2026         Ā£375 p/w ā†‘        Ā£325 p/w =

Personal Coaching Data

Season     Reputation            Qualifications     Att  Def  Fit  GkD  GkH  GkS  Tac  Tec  Men  SeP  WWY  Ada  Det  PlK  YoK  LoD  PeM  Mot
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At start   Minimal   (0.50*)     None                 1    1    1    1    1    1    1    3    1    1    3    1    1    1    2    2    2    2
2024/25    Minimal = (1.00*) ā†‘   National B ā†‘ā†‘        6 ā†‘  6 ā†‘  2 ā†‘  1 =  1 =  1 =  5 ā†‘  6 ā†‘  6 ā†‘  2 ā†‘  3 =  1 =  5 ā†‘  5 ā†‘  6 ā†‘  9 ā†‘  6 ā†‘  6 ā†‘

Club Facilities

Season     Training Facilities  Youth Facilities  Corporate Facilities  Junior Coaching  Youth Recruitment  Club Reputation
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At Start   Adequate             Adequate          Adequate              Adequate         Fairly Basic       Regional   (1.50*)
2024/25    Adequate =           Adequate =        Adequate =            Adequate =       Fairly Basic =     Regional = (1.50*) =

Season Record

Season     Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage
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2024/25      47        25        6       16         117              90                 +27              53.19%

Overall Career Record

After Season   Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage     Time At Club
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2024/25          47        25        6       16         117              90                 +27              53.19%             327 days

Transfer Sale Record

Date               Player                    Position               Club Sold To                 Country                   Transfer Fee
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Trophy Haul

Season     Competition Won
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Trophy Cabinet

League Titles
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Cup Competition Victories
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Career Overview

Season     Champions League    Europa League    Europa Conference League             League                             Position     Scottish Cup          Viaplay Scottish League Cup        Achievements
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2024/25           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       cinch League Two                      3rd       Third Round           Group Stage                        Promoted via playoffs.  SPFL Trust Trophy first round.

Record Number of Appearances (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                    Cumulative Number of Appearances
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2024/25    Scott Pyott YP25A1                        8

Record Goal Scorer (Players From The Academy Only)

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2024/25    Scott Pyott YP25A1                            1

Record Number of AssistsĀ (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                        Cumulative Number of Assists
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2024/25    Scott Pyott YP25A1                          2

Record Number of Clean Sheets (Players From The Academy Only)

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2024/25    No one                                     0

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3 hours ago, Skora11 said:

Flying now šŸ‘

Who are your best players and are they ready for the step up to League 1?

Got some really decent players now, with potential of them being Championship

Yann Kone, Richie Gillard and Darragh Butler my best players with highest potentialĀ 

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Lyra Lierse - the purgatory that is FM Belgium

First National division (tier 3) - 2027/28

League Finish: 12th

Another season of treading water, but the team is now almost exclusively youth intake players and therefore stupidly young.Ā 

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Players

Top Scorer: Kamil Patylik 25B (19 in 36 games)

Not quite as good a season as last season but still our top scorer. Only two years left on his contract so realistically i've only got one more chance to get promotion before I have to sell him

Player of the Season: Yannick Tshibwabwa (7.36 rating from 32 games)

One of the prospects from the U19 team when i took over, he is now looking like a phenomonal talent. Missed a few games halfway through the season to go to Afcon and sit on the Congo subs bench Finally got his full debut at the end of the season. Another one with only 2 years left on his contract that i'll probably have to cash in on

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Youth

Another nice preview and intake! only thing keeping me going in Belgium is the conveyer belt of talent

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Finances

well..... this isn't a huge surprise

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The board too out a 10 year 3.8m loan which buys us a little more time to make something happen, but the 35k a month repayments aren't a huge help tbh

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and then at the end of the season we get this..... and there's nothing we can do about it

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career

It's frustrating here, but I knew that before I went in. Hopefully we'll get a lucky break soon but it's difficult to see where from to be honest.

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Hello. I'm being really dim here but...

I'm going to have a go at this is france. I holidayed until June 19th as on the first page of this...but how do I work out who got promoted? There are 3 division 2's. I cant look at the fourt tier as it isnt there. Where does it say who was promoted?

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12 minutos atrƔs, BuddahsBrother disse:

Hello. I'm being really dim here but...

I'm going to have a go at this is france. I holidayed until June 19th as on the first page of this...but how do I work out who got promoted? There are 3 division 2's. I cant look at the fourt tier as it isnt there. Where does it say who was promoted?

You will see in the season preview in the league a P (if your game is in english).

In France you need to look to the National (3rd tier).

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10 minutes ago, The7Striker said:

You will see in the season preview in the league a P (if your game is in english).

In France you need to look to the National (3rd tier).

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So I can pick Colomiers?

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21 minutos atrƔs, BuddahsBrother disse:

Just realised, I cant manage in anything outside of the 3rd division. Spent ages trying to find the Colomiers kit for an hour.

Yes, National 2 is a view only league in the vanilla version. For that one, you need to download a custom DB.

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22 minutes ago, The7Striker said:

Yes, National 2 is a view only league in the vanilla version. For that one, you need to download a custom DB.

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Thank you for your help. I've gone with Frejus, they had the nicest kit. Game On!

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"Don't know what to say." Earl of Grey

Season 58/59

Spoiler

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It's late and I am writing the update. My family is already sleeping and I just finished the season. It was ups and downs. After the drop from Championship we struggled a long time, never dropping into full relegation threat but also not in a safe midfield place. The Earl took a few tactical adventures to get that ship up but it was always two steps back two steps forward. It's a Vanarama National Team, a decent one but I cannot believe that we competed with the same players in the Championship and played a solid season (from December). I am a bit frustrated, I thought we would play better. But there are some positives: We were among the best possession teams (3rd) which was intended, also 1st in pass completion. We're 6th in fewest conceded, which is also nice. The area we were struggling was offense. We never got it rolling. Our best striker is actually a winger Kevin Baker. The young man has been one of the most promising prospects ever but always heavily affected by his inconsistency. 36 goals and 19 assists in 137 matches is looking better than it's truly is. Most matches he stayed quiet and had a big match with some goals or/and assists once in a while. He will leave on a free transfer to Scottish side FC Dundee.

A huge step forward was made by AP Loric Kalala (he is now ranked 1st in the DNA stats with 171 points). He is amazing but still needs to contribute more, 4 goals and 8 assists, 1.18 OP Key Passes/ Match is not what we're looking for. In MC there will be a lot of competition next year. Adam Needs (21), Aron Churchuss (20) and Chris Boness (17) will all get a lot of playing time. Needs (5 goals/ 5 assists)Ā  is a player like Kevin Baker with huge potential but showing it all to few. Boness (1/4) on the other hand gives the rather slow MC more speed. Aaron Churchuss (7/2) played in DM but will move up into MC because we have some good DM returning from their loans.

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Despite having the best players in Offense we were best in the defense. We will take it and move forward everyone at the club needs to make a few steps more. We got new training facilities which makes them "good" now that gives us all a smile. I hope especially our youth training will profit from the new facilities but of course as well our seniors. Next year we aim for a mid-table finish. The Earl wants to see more goalscoring maybe we can improve it and move up a few places like 10th.Ā 

In the cups we didn't show up well and dropped out early.Ā 

Tactical we played with a high press more often but changed into a mid-block later. The Earl is missing defenders and a good striker. Frankie Stannard who should developed into a Drogba Player didn't do so, he developed backwards and new challenging Neufville is interesting but is missing strength and jumping reach. We can field him as a F9 but it doesn't make sense with two Wingers. Maybe two IW with stay wider can be an option but we didn't look too good playing with IW this year. The Earl is still not sure about his approach which is annoying.

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End of Season Review

Season 2027/28

Le Puy

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Season Summary- This season started of slow, but ended up going quite well. We ended up 7th only 5 points away from the promotion play-off, if we had done better in the early part of the season we definitely could have caught up with the top 3. It is also the season where our second group of youngsters became part of the starting line up. We ended up having 4 players from our youth academy, being part of the starting line-up. With one other player on the bench. The goal is to keep growing, and fight for those top spots next season, as we are losing quite a bit of money in this division.

Season Details

Transfers Out- No sales

Youth Candidates- this was an okay youth intake, the primary goal is for the young goalkeeper Kevin Labonne to become a starter. Especially with our current goalkeeper wanting to leave this season. The winger also looks decent but needs to improve quite a bit to become part of the squad

Key Players

Jules MeyerĀ - My player of the season, he scored 7 goals and assisted 6 from the CAM position.

Maxence FournelĀ - Was the best striker I had this season with 10 goals and 7 assists. I moved him to the right-wing when Karamoko got injured, which also allowed our young striker more game time.

Mehdi Beneddine-Ā  Was my backup left back/ left wing, but he overperformed and scored 7 goals and got 3 assists.

Goran Grahovac- Our young player of the season, after having quite a few games of the bench last season. I decided that he would start this season, even though he wasn't good enough. But thanks to that he grew massively and ended up being our best youngster this season. He's a bit slow, but he's got some good stats where it is needed to play my dlp.

Best Young PlayerĀ 

Abdelkader Belahdj- this youngster was the best player In our team when he arrived in our youth intake, and he started nearly every game for us from his 16th birthday (youngest player of all time at our club 16y 0d). Quality cdm who can also play center back and right back.Ā 

Personal Contract

Season     Contract Start Date     Contract Expiry Date     Pre Tax Wage     Post Tax Wage
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At start          20 June 2024             30 June 2025          ā‚¬1300 p/w         ā‚¬1100 p/w
2024/25           30 May 2025              30 June 2026          ā‚¬1300 p/w =       ā‚¬1100 p/w =
2025/26           15 May 2026              30 June 2028          ā‚¬1300 p/w =       ā‚¬800 p/w =
2026/27           15 May 2026              30 June 2028          ā‚¬1300 p/w =       ā‚¬800 p/w =
2027/28           31 December 2027         30 June 2030          ā‚¬900 p/w          ā‚¬600 p/w =

Personal Coaching Data

Season     Reputation            Qualifications     Att   Def   Fit   GkD   GkH   GkS   Tac   Tec   Men   StP   WWY   Ada   Det   PlK   YoK   LoD   MaM   Mot
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At start   Minimal   (0.25*)     None                 1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1    7     1     1     1     1     1     1     1
2024/25    Minimal = (1.00*) ā†‘   National C       ā†‘   4 ā†‘   4 ā†‘   1 =   1 =   1 =   1 =   3 ā†‘   5 ā†‘   3 ā†‘   1    7 =   1 =   3 ā†‘   4 ā†‘   3 ā†‘   9 ā†‘ā†‘  4 ā†‘   3 ā†‘
2025/26    Minimal = (2.00*) ā†‘   National A       ā†‘   8 ā†‘   8 ā†‘   3 ā†‘   1 =   1 =   1 =   8 ā†‘   8 ā†‘   8 ā†‘   3 ā†‘  9 ā†‘   1 =   7 ā†‘   7 ā†‘   8 ā†‘   9 =   8 ā†‘   8 ā†‘
2026/27    Minimal = (2.50*) ā†‘   Continental B    ā†‘   12 ā†‘  11 ā†‘  4 ā†‘   1 =   1 =   1 =   11 ā†‘  11 ā†‘  11 ā†‘  4 ā†‘  12 ā†‘  1 =   10 ā†‘  9 ā†‘   10 ā†‘  20 ā†‘ā†‘ 12 ā†‘  12 ā†‘
2027/28    Minimal = (2.50*)     Continental A    ā†‘   13 ā†‘  12 ā†‘  7 ā†‘   1 =   3 ā†‘   1 =   12 ā†‘  12 ā†‘  12 ā†‘  5 ā†‘  12 =  1 =   11 ā†‘  10 ā†‘  11 ā†‘  20 =  13 ā†‘  13 ā†‘

Club Facilities

Season     Training Facilities  Youth Facilities  Corporate Facilities  Junior Coaching  Youth Recruitment  Club Reputation
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At Start Ā  Ā  Ā  Basic   Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā      Poor Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā        Adequate Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā   Good    Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā   Basic        Ā  Ā  Ā  Regional (2.00*)
2024/25        Basic   Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā      Poor Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā        Adequate Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā   Good    Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā   Basic Ā  Ā  Ā         Regional (2.00*)
2025/26        Basic       Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Basic   ā†‘  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Adequate Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā   Ā  Average Ā  Ā  Ā   Ā  Fairly basic Ā  Ā  Ā  Regional (2.00*)
2026/27        Below average Ā ā†‘ Ā  Ā Basic      Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Adequate Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā   Average Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā   Average ā†‘Ā  Ā  Ā      Regional (2.00*)
2027/28        Adequate Ā      ā†‘ Ā  Ā Below average ā†‘Ā Ā   Adequate Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā   Ā  Ā  Average Ā  Ā   Ā  Ā  Average Ā  Ā       Ā  National (2.00*)

Season Record

Season     Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage
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2024/25      37        12       12       13          64              62                 -2              32.4%
2025/26      37        20       11       6           69              42                 27              54.0%
2026/27      37        5        10       22          35              67                 -32             13.5%
2027/28      37        16       12       9           62              49                 13              43.2%

Overall Career Record

After Season   Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage     Time At Club
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2024/25 Ā  Ā  Ā     37 Ā  Ā  Ā  12 Ā  Ā  Ā  13 Ā  Ā  Ā  12 Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā 64 Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā 62 Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  -2 Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  32.0%             328 days 
2025/26 Ā  Ā  Ā     74 Ā  Ā  Ā  32 Ā  Ā  Ā  23 Ā  Ā  Ā  19 Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā 133 Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  104Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  29 Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  43.0%             730 days
2026/27 Ā     Ā  Ā  111 Ā  Ā  Ā 37 Ā  Ā  Ā  33 Ā  Ā  Ā  41 Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā 168 Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  171Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  -3 Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  33.0%             1074 days
2027/28 Ā     Ā  Ā  148 Ā  Ā  Ā 53 Ā  Ā  Ā  45 Ā  Ā  Ā  50 Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā 230 Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  220Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  10 Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  35.0%             1431 days

Transfer Sale Record

Date               Player                    Position               Club Sold To                 Country                   Transfer Fee
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Trophy Haul

Season     Competition Won
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Career Overview

Season     Champions League    Europa League    Europa Conference League             League                             Position     French Cup    
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2024/25           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       French National                      12th       Seventh Round              
2025/26           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       French National                      2nd        Seventh Round
2026/27           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Ligue 2 BKT                          18th       Ninth Round
2027/28           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       French National                      7th        Ninth Round

Record Number of Appearances (Players From The Academy Only)Ā 

Season     Player                  Number of Appearances                     All time         Player              All time Appearances
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2024/25    Gilles Comte                        5                             2023-present       Gilles Comte              95
2025/26    Gilles Comte                        28                            2025-present       Andreas Kruger            43
2026/27    Gilles Comte                        28                            2025-present       Ousmane Tien              42
2027/28    Gilles Comte                        34                            2024-present       Goran Grahovac            42

Record Goal Scorer (Players From The Academy Only)

Season Ā  Ā  Player Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā            Number of Goals              All time         Player              All time goals Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā 
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2024/25 Ā  Ā -                Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  0                      2025-present  Ā    Ā Andreas Kruger Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā   Ā  7 
2025/26 Ā  Ā - Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā                 0Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  2025-present Ā  Ā    Ousmane Tine    Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  2Ā  Ā   Ā  Ā  
2026/27 Ā  Ā Andreas Kruger Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā    1                      2024-present Ā  Ā    Goran Grahovac  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  1
2027/28 Ā  Ā Andreas Kruger Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā    6                    Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  

Record Number of AssistsĀ (Players From The Academy Only)

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2024/25 Ā  Ā - Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā                 0                      2023-present       Gilles Comte              7
2025/26 Ā  Ā Gilles Comte     Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  1                      2024-present Ā  Ā    Goran Grahovac Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā   3   
2026/27 Ā  Ā Gilles Comte Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā      1                      2025-present Ā  Ā    Ousmane Tine Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā     3Ā  
2027/28    Gilles Comte                               5                      2026-present Ā  Ā  Abdelkader Belhadj  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  3

Record Number of Clean Sheets (Players From The Academy Only)

Season Ā  Ā  Player Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā                  Number of Clean sheets Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  All time Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Player Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā    ALl time clean sheets
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2023/24 Ā  Ā - Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā                 0

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26 minutes ago, emeka927 said:

I'm pretty new to FM, having my first FM being FM23, where I took Oostende from bottom of Belgium to UCL in 14 seasons. This gonna be hard but I'm doing Japan.

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For some reason, there is -1 for Academy Coaching and -1 for Youth Recruitment. Maybe I need to get a HOYD first, but that's kinda weird. This was the first reload, because I want this to be very authentic.

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vor 8 Stunden schrieb Padders:

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Season 45 - 2068/69 - SBL1

Off the ptich another takeover from former director and accepted Youth Level increase

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On the pitch

Another play off finish, finishing 5th

We beat Port Vale 1-0 on aggregate in the Semi Finals

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And another tight game in the Final, beating Exeter 1-0.

Championship football next season!

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Darragh Butler who has been brilliant for us, wouldn't sign a new contract and has left to join Cardiff on a free

History below, double figures in goals or assists every season from midfield

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Nice one! We messed it up in Championship. Wish you a skilful hand and luckĀ 

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2 horas atrƔs, emeka927 disse:

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For some reason, there is -1 for Academy Coaching and -1 for Youth Recruitment. Maybe I need to get a HOYD first, but that's kinda weird. This was the first reload, because I want this to be very authentic.

It means you don't have an academy, which means, no youth intakes, for now. I think its happens in all clubs that get promoted to J3 league.
You'll have to ask the board for a youth Coaching to start producing players.

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4 hours ago, HanziZoloman said:

Nice one! We messed it up in Championship. Wish you a skilful hand and luckĀ 

Was thinking of you this week?Not had an update

Whats happened? Did I miss an update or completely forget?

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9 hours ago, The7Striker said:

It means you don't have an academy, which means, no youth intakes, for now. I think its happens in all clubs that get promoted to J3 league.
You'll have to ask the board for a youth Coaching to start producing players.

Oh alright thank you for the heads up!

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vor 7 Stunden schrieb Padders:

Was thinking of you this week?Not had an update

Whats happened? Did I miss an update or completely forget?

I had an update after the drop into EFL1 (just a bit before yours) but havenā€™t been writing for some time before that due to other responsibilities. But I am sticking to the save. Championship was crazy but also a great experience with all that VN players. After the relegation we are struggling to get hold in EFL1 again. Same players same coach but different results. How do you play with your team at the moment, do you change much?

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Kavala Football Club / Ī‘ĪøĪ»Ī·Ļ„Ī¹ĪŗĻŒĻ‚ ĪŒĪ¼Ī¹Ī»ĪæĻ‚ ĪšĪ±Ī²Ī¬Ī»Ī±

Season 11 - 2034/35

Schedule / Squad / Transfers / Finances / Manager

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Season Summary: history has been made! Kavala qualified for Europe for the first time ever! We kicked off the season on a high note, only losing five games in the regular phase, finishing 5th and securing a 7-point lead over Volos. In the championship group, we managed to win three out of ten games. However, Volos performed even worse, earning only two points in this phase. This meant we finished 5th with a comfortable 15-point lead over Volos, securing our spot in the UEFA Conference League.

Next season, we'll be the only Greek team in the Conference League. Robbie Keane's PAOK won the Europa League, granting three Champions League spots to Greek teams next seasonā€”PAOK, Olympiacos, and AEK. Panathinaikos will be competing in the Europa League.

In the Greek Cup, we suffered a disappointing defeat to Asteras Tripolis with an aggregate score of 10-2. I had already anticipated this outcome as we played with many U19 players and rotated the squad.

Alongside our historic European qualification, another record was set during the last winter transfer window. We sold Thanasis Gogolos to the Saudi team Al-Hazem for 10 million euros. Given the challenging task of keeping him and our financial situation, it was a reasonable deal. Gogolos made a significant impact, playing 73 games and scoring 31 goals for Kavala in two and a half seasons.

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His departure left a mark on the club, but with the profit, we invested 2.3 million in the youth facilities, 875k in the training facilities, and increased our junior coaching budget to an exceptional level.

Despite leaving midway through the season, Gogolos was our second-highest scorer, only surpassed by Ilias Manafis, who scored 23 goals and secured the second-highest goal scorer title in the Greek league. Alexandros Toungelidis was our most consistent player, participating in 31 matches with an average rating of 7.18 points per game. He also clinched the 3rd place in the Greek Player of the Year award. To cap off the season, I was honored with the Manager of the Year award in the Greek Super League.

This summer, after a historic season for Kavala, four of our players were called up by the U21 team of Greece to participate in the Euros: Karypidis, Pindonis, Danidis, and Christou. The Greek national team dominated the group stage matches, defeating Italy and the Netherlands on their way to the final, only to lose 5-0 against Turkey. Our center back Karypidis even earned a spot in the Best XI of the tournament.

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Youth intake:Ā  we welcomed a few promising players from this year's intake, including Thanasis Katsafaros, Vyacheslav Osipov, Efthymis Christou, Geoffrey Gibert, and Stamatis Dedes. Our academy once again proved that the investment was worth it, winning the U19 league for the second consecutive year.

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Team history:

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Manager history:

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4 hours ago, HanziZoloman said:

I had an update after the drop into EFL1 (just a bit before yours) but havenā€™t been writing for some time before that due to other responsibilities. But I am sticking to the save. Championship was crazy but also a great experience with all that VN players. After the relegation we are struggling to get hold in EFL1 again. Same players same coach but different results. How do you play with your team at the moment, do you change much?

I have kept the same shape since the beginning 4-1-2-2-1 (4-3-3)

I change the roles within that based on the best postilion for the player

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So I've been totally wrapped up in doing my own pentagon challenge (not youth only as while I am crazy I'm not insane :D) and having finished that I've just been doing a catch up on here so if a old post of yours has suddenly had a random like - sorry :DĀ 

@XaWI've added your 3 completions to the HoF and put a little thing to point out it's part of an even bigger challenge as you no longer felt this was enough of a challenge :D

@libbyshussĀ have added your latest completion as well.

Well done to everyone that has won a promotion or a league or a cup, unlucky to anyone that has suffered relegation and if I missed a completion then please let me know.Ā 

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2058/59Ā Season Report

Club:Ā Tranent FC (Scotland)
League:Ā Scottish Premiership

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League:

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Back with some Tranent content! It's been nearly a month so will do another post a bit later on with a round up of the team and and outlook on 2059/60.

We've basically finished roughly where I think we are in terms of quality, so this is actually a reasonably decent season to pick up with. St Johnstone finally pick up their first league title after several years of under-achieving. This now means we've had 7 different winners in the last 15 years, with 6 different winners in the last 7 years (again!):

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It's actually quite difficult to tell who the best team in Scotland is now, although you'd probably lean towards Hibernian but they seem to absolutely love finishing 2nd.

Europe:

If Hibs like finishing 2nd, then we love getting knocked out at the Round of 16 in any European competition at the moment!

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We also seem to love getting knocked out by English clubs lately as well. West Ham this year and then Arsenal the previous 2 years. They're far and away the best league in the world so I'm not too surprised. Just hoping that they can knock themselves out at some point!

Cups:

I'd usually just link this in a url and not post the picture, but this has to be seen to be believed somewhat. We went 4-2 up against Arbroath in the 94th minute at home and I was pretty happy we were going through. The players on the other hand...?

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2 96th minute goals sends us to extra time and then we lose on penalties. Nightmare.

The Scottish Cup was a little bit more kind to us though!

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That's now our third consecutive Scottish Cup win. I'd kinda prefer to be getting knocked out and taking 3 consecutive league titles, but this will at least help the club! And those who are paying attention - yes, Solomon Frimpong is still here, banging in cup final winning goals at 37 years old. More on him in the next post.... (spoiler alert, he's actually had 2 of his best seasons for years!).

Youth Intake:

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Quick note on the youth intake - nothing extremely special in terms of ability, but I am very happy to get another high potential central defender! We're now very stable at the club, so it's a bit easier hanging onto players and improving them.

Full History:

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Last 5 Years:

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2059/60Ā Season Preview & Save Round-Up:

Club:Ā Tranent FC (Scotland)
League:Ā Scottish Premiership

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Our current team!

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Solomon Frimpong

The absolute cult hero of my Tranent save, a note about him here as I'm actually incredibly shocked I'm still playing him. His league history is something to behold, but he's now up to 915 all time Tranent appearances, scoring 500 goals (with his 500th being a Scottish Cup winner...!)

I actually thought he'd struggle a bit past the 2054/55 season, but seemingly writing him off absolutely pissed him off as he's actually improving year upon year and somehow is still able to play around 30 league matches a year. He's still not quite fallen off physically and he's still able to do a job on the left wing and up front especially with his decent mental attributes. For the eagle eyed amongst you, you'll have noticed he's now our u18 Assistant Manager, with our manager being Williams InnocentĀ who I'm still quite surprised he's with us as he's been here since the 2052 season.

Thomas Scott & Connor Grant

These are the two best players we've produced at my time at Tranent, with Scott being one of the worlds best currently. Sadly for Scott, he actually joined at a time where La Liga was starting to be dominated by the other team from Madrid, Atletico, and their old rivals Barcelona. He's managed 1 La Liga title in his 8 season career at Real Madrid so far. He's also only ever appeared at one major international tournament for Northern Ireland, where his first taste was to get blown out 5-0 by none other than... Scotland. After failing to get to the 2058 World Cup, he retired from international football at the very early age of 28. Actually quite a sad story and one where he just ended up always at the wrong place at the wrong time somewhat.

On the other end of their career is 18 year old Connor Grant who was our starting centre forward for 2 years at the age of 15! I mentioned above that Thomas Scott retired after failing to get to the 2058 World Cup, well Connor Grant actually debuted for Scotland during that World Cup at 17 years old. How did it go? Rather good! I've sadly not got a sell on clause for Grant as Leipzig triggered his minimum fee release clause. Could well go for a large amount of money in the future if he keeps his development up!

World Football:

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Quite an interesting range of winners, with Scotland getting their first in 2058 in Japan. Probably shows I should be doing a bit better with Tranent...

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Scotland also managed to get to the final of the 2056 Euros where they ended up losing to the Auld Enemy! Apparently seeing England win a trophy against Scotland pissed them off so much, Scotland's response was to win the World Cup. If that's not being true Scottish people, then I don't know what is!

European Football:

Champions League - Europa League - Conference League

There's actually not been too many surprises in the European competitions here. There's still no real change in the Champions League winners. Porto managing a UCL win in 44/45 and FC Kobenhavn winning a UEL in 34/35 are the only 2 shocks across all 3 competitions.

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If anyone has any screenshots or history they would like to see, feel free to ask!Ā 

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End of Season Review

Season 2025/26

East Kilbride

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Season Review

I have to be pleased with a top half finish, though we were in the promotion playoffs for most of the season before our form fell off a cliff.Ā  We continuie to be very poor in the cups.

League Table - League Fixtures 1 - League Fixtures 2

Scottish Cup - Viaplay Scottish League Cup Group Table - Viaplay Scottish League Cup Fixtures - SPFL Trust Trophy

Squad

Ally Roy - Calum Biggar - Callum Tapping

Transfers In - Transfers Out

Youth Candidates

Andy Wilson YP26D20 - John McCoist YP26I25 - Willie Cooper YP26J26

Next Season

I would be quite happy for another mid table finish to be honest.

Personal Contract

Season     Contract Start Date     Contract Expiry Date     Pre Tax Wage     Post Tax Wage
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At start          24 June 2024              31 May 2025         Ā£350 p/w          Ā£325 p/w
2024/25       27 February 2025              31 May 2026         Ā£375 p/w ā†‘        Ā£325 p/w =
2025/26           1 March 2026              31 May 2028         Ā£450 p/w ā†‘        Ā£375 p/w ā†‘

Personal Coaching Data

Season     Reputation            Qualifications     Att  Def  Fit  GkD  GkH  GkS  Tac  Tec  Men  SeP  WWY  Ada  Det  PlK  YoK  LoD  PeM  Mot
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At start   Minimal   (0.50*)     None                 1    1    1    1    1    1    1    3    1    1    3    1    1    1    2    2    2    2
2024/25    Minimal = (1.00*) ā†‘   National B     ā†‘ā†‘    6 ā†‘  6 ā†‘  2 ā†‘  1 =  1 =  1 =  5 ā†‘  6 ā†‘  6 ā†‘  2 ā†‘  3 =  1 =  5 ā†‘  5 ā†‘  6 ā†‘  9 ā†‘  6 ā†‘  6 ā†‘
2025/26    Minimal = (2.00*) ā†‘   Continental B ā†‘ā†‘ā†‘   10 ā†‘ 10 ā†‘  4 ā†‘  1 =  1 =  1 =  9 ā†‘ 10 ā†‘ 10 ā†‘  4 ā†‘  3 =  1 =  8 ā†‘  8 ā†‘  9 ā†‘ 20 ā†‘ 11 ā†‘  9 ā†‘

Club Facilities

Season     Training Facilities  Youth Facilities  Corporate Facilities  Junior Coaching  Youth Recruitment  Club Reputation
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At Start   Adequate             Adequate          Adequate              Adequate         Fairly Basic       Regional   (1.50*)
2024/25    Adequate =           Adequate =        Adequate =            Adequate =       Fairly Basic =     Regional = (1.50*) =
2025/26    Adequate =           Adequate =        Adequate =            Good     ā†‘       Average      ā†‘     Regional = (1.50*) =

Season Record

Season     Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage
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2024/25      47        25        6       16         117              90                 +27              53.19%
2025/26      45        20        7       18          92              95                  -3              44.44% ā†“

Overall Career Record

After Season   Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage     Time At Club
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2024/25          47        25        6       16         117              90                 +27              53.19%             327 days
2025/26          92        45       13       34         209             185                 +24              48.91% ā†“           677 days

Transfer Sale Record

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24 January 2026    Daniel McKinnon           Goalkeeper             Airdrieonians                Scotland                        Ā£4,000

Trophy Haul

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Trophy Cabinet

League Titles
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Cup Competition Victories
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Career Overview

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2024/25           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       cinch League Two                      3rd       Third Round           Group Stage                        Promoted via playoffs.  SPFL Trust Trophy first round.
2025/26           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       cinch League One                      5th ā†‘     Fourth Round ā†‘        Group Stage =                      Missed out on Promotion Playoffs.  SPFL Trust Trophy fourth round.

Record Number of Appearances (Players From The Academy Only)

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2024/25    Scott Pyott YP25A1                        8
2025/26    Scott Pyott YP25A1                       52

Record Goal Scorer (Players From The Academy Only)

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2024/25    Scott Pyott YP25A1                            1
2025/26    Scott Pyott YP25A1                            2

Record Number of AssistsĀ (Players From The Academy Only)

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2024/25    Scott Pyott YP25A1                          2
2025/26    Scott Pyott YP25A1                          7

Record Number of Clean Sheets (Players From The Academy Only)

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2024/25    No one                                     0
2025/26    Connor Home YP25B2                         1

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5 hours ago, darren1983 said:

@XaWI've added your 3 completions to the HoF and put a little thing to point out it's part of an even bigger challenge as you no longer felt this was enough of a challenge :D

Haha, I did the easy ones first, now I'm in a seemingly eternal hell in the Japanese 2nd tier! :DĀ 

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50 minutes ago, djsterry said:

Any reason why there is no info for Turkish league on the first page , is there some sort of bug there ?

I don't have a reset date for it is all. If someone does Turkey and tags me with the reset date it'll be addedĀ 

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7 minutes ago, XaW said:

Haha, I did the easy ones first, now I'm in a seemingly eternal hell in the Japanese 2nd tier! :DĀ 

While reading through your posts today I did have a thought that maybe the first season or two when you take over clubs now might be a bit easier than usual as your rep will be so high but guess that only lasts for so long :DĀ 

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12 minutes ago, darren1983 said:

I don't have a reset date for it is all. If someone does Turkey and tags me with the reset date it'll be addedĀ 

5th may to save(can probably get away with later but Iā€™ve not checked ), 20th june for new teams

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6 minutes ago, darren1983 said:

While reading through your posts today I did have a thought that maybe the first season or two when you take over clubs now might be a bit easier than usual as your rep will be so high but guess that only lasts for so long :DĀ 

Yeah, and I think there is truth in that. Higher reputation, all badges, and thus higher attributes give a slight advantage hee. I don't see the squad being very quarrelsome when I take over, as I've seen when I've done it before. But yes, it doesn't last that long, and it doesn't make it any easier in the long run.

As for my team in Papua New Guinea they have become a dominant side in Oceania since I left. I mean I left in 2043... and this is the domestic league and CL

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They've won the league in Papua New Guinea every season since, as well as 6 CL titles and a lost final too!

As for Astros de Colombia, they haven't won the CONCACAF CL, but they are a dominating side...

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The only team that has struggled a bit after I left was Ubuntu Cape Town, but they've finished as runners up in the league a few times, as well as the CL once... So they are also a good side, but not dominant. So at least I create dynasties! :DĀ 

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2 minutes ago, XaW said:

Yeah, and I think there is truth in that. Higher reputation, all badges, and thus higher attributes give a slight advantage hee. I don't see the squad being very quarrelsome when I take over, as I've seen when I've done it before. But yes, it doesn't last that long, and it doesn't make it any easier in the long run.

As for my team in Papua New Guinea they have become a dominant side in Oceania since I left. I mean I left in 2043... and this is the domestic league and CL

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They've won the league in Papua New Guinea every season since, as well as 6 CL titles and a lost final too!

As for Astros de Colombia, they haven't won the CONCACAF CL, but they are a dominating side...

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The only team that has struggled a bit after I left was Ubuntu Cape Town, but they've finished as runners up in the league a few times, as well as the CL once... So they are also a good side, but not dominant. So at least I create dynasties! :DĀ 

You've not spent any money for years so the AI must love it - come in to dominate team and then spend money making them even better!

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Ive just taken over a team and they already have transfers arranged for players to come in, cant remember having that before. what's the score with them ?

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They have only just been promoted i just cant remember having players join in the first season beforeĀ 

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Belgium - Lyra Lierse

National First Division (tier 3) - 2028/29 (season 5)

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yes, we did it! I was hoping for a better season as a few of our youngsters were rated as division 1 and 2 standard by our coaching staff, which is always a good sign. and a good start followed by an amazing autumn (17 match unbeaten run!) meant we were never out the top 2. When it looked like we might slip up and blow it we recovered by beating the eventual champions 3-0 at home. It was a pivotal game, although we did lose the final game to blow our chances of the title.

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Players

Top Scorer: Karim Pitlyk 29B (33 goals in 35 games)

A great season from my right winger turned striker. His pace is just too much for tier 3 defences and his finishing and composure have come on hugely. Really excited to see what he can do in the second division.

Player of the Season: Leandro de Pauw 26C (7.40 rating from 38 games)

One of the reasons I thought we might have a chance this season. The coaches rated him as a decent Jupiler Pro League player, which was a bit of a surprise. But then, he does look pretty good so who am i to say? He's on a nice long contract as well so the money would have to be good!

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Other than that, our main problem is defence. Up front we look amazing, midfield solid, defence like tissue paper. It's a bit of a problem as the youth intakes keep throwing attackers at me!

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Youth

So, do i get the defenders i so badly crave? Well, maybe....

Weirdest thing was an intake that claims a golden generation with not one elite talent in it. Which I hope says more about how good de Pauw is than how good the intake is.

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Forgot the actual intake screenshot, but it did say potential golden generation! with this lot?

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finances

Still awful, still losing money hand over fist, still having the board bail us out every couple of months. So I still have made no improvements and not even got my first coaching badge yet either. Something mad needs to happen soon or we'll go bust.Ā 

Not sure whether this is a good or bad thing financially but as a result of promotion:-

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Career

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3 hours ago, djsterry said:

Ive just taken over a team and they already have transfers arranged for players to come in, cant remember having that before. what's the score with them ?

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They have only just been promoted i just cant remember having players join in the first season beforeĀ 

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They're fine to use as you wish. Anything that happened before you took over is out of your control. We've seen they were arranged before you took over so it's fine.

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Olot UE Season Review (36/37)

League

Another year of solid improvement, finishing 5th. At the moment there are still 4 teams clearly better than us, but Champions League football is getting closer and closer.

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Copa del Rey

Our second final but we came short yet again. We were down 1-0 after only 5 minutes so we were chasing basically the entire match. We finally tied on penalty in the 80th minute and I thought momentum was on our side. We kept going attacking, only to run into a counter in the 91st minute. A huge disappoint and still no hardware in this save.

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Europe

Due to the shenanigans with the coefficients, we actually were qualified for the Europa League instead of the Conference league, which is actually a bit disappointing as I though we had a better chance of winning that one. We mostly played a heavily rotated squad, but still finished 7th in the group stage. We then had the worst possible draw with Chelsea and were knocked out subsequently.

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Youth Intake

A couple of nice prospects, but in general the talent level is disappointing compared to our facilities.

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NXGN

3rd time is the charm forĀ Jose Manuel, who wins theĀ NXGNĀ in his final year of eligibility.Ā 

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Here's our little wonderkid, who had a banger of a season

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Best XI

Jan CatalaĀ is our stalwart in goal.Ā EnricĀ leads the league in assists with 15, but is only a 2 star CA player. The same is said for the wing back on the right side. Especially against the better sides the lack of talent on the wing backs hurts us. Our center backs are rather average as well. There is some talent in the U19s, so let's hope one of them can step up next season. DelfiĀ improved massively and has his eyes set on a transfer.Ā Jose ManuelĀ is just on another level, scoring 22 goals in the league and finishing as top scorer!

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5 Years ago...

At the time this looked like an amazing intake, but it's just another proof how important personality is.Ā Cheick GomisĀ looked like the biggest prospect, but is just messing around on loan or in the B team. Jose Luis Fuertes is a nice little striker who I want to develop more. Eloi Balcells is one of those players that just keep on having 5 stars PA but never seems to improve. Delfi was by far the best player of the intake and is a starting mezzala. Robert Alsina is developing nicely and might one day challenge for the starting goalkeeper position. Enric Zorilla is in the rotation for the right wing back spot, but probably doesn't have more than 2nd division potential

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Next season

We finished our 13th season at the helm of Olot, but still haven't won anything. We've close twice in the Copa del Rey. Will three times be the charm?

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Season Review 2025/26 (Season 2)

NK KustoŔija Zagreb

Supersport HNL (Tier 1)

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League

The board objective was for us to fight bravely against relegation. I was slightly more optimistic that we could survive, owing mainly to the fact that it was only 1 team that got relegated. hopefully we could muster enough points to survive. We got promoted earlier than we were probably ready for. The season went right down to the wire as we battled Istra 1961 for 9th position and survival. With 3 games to go, we were level on points and due to them having the better head to head record against us, we were last. We needed a mini miracle and we got one of sorts. 3 wins on the bounce to finish the season, coupled with Istra 1961 losing all 3 of their matches meant we had done it. We survived our first season in the top flight.

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Awards

Ivan Mihaljevic was named the player of the season with an average rating of 7.07

Patrick Bosnjak was named young player of the season

Karlo Igor Majic was our leading goal scorer with 19 league goals

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Youth Intake

Wow wow wow wow wow. The preview was promising but when the intake arrive, i couldnt contain my excitement. A ready made replacement for Karlo Igor Majic was there and waiting. Adel Galonja 2A. Apart from the unambitious personality, he looks to be a star for us from the get go.

Nevin Brlek 02B and Goran Hojski 02C might turrn out to be serviceable players as well.

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Upgrades

No facility upgrades this season but I was offered a new contract which expires in 2028

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Plans for next season

Survive again. Hopefully we can start to blood a couple of the youth players from the first intake we got to sure up a few areas that need some depth. If we can survive next season, I am very confident we will be able to stay in the top division for good with some of the youth players we have got coming through already. Mario Grlic 01A was our first academy product to make his first team debut at just 16 years of age.

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Karsiyaka First Season

After a few failed attempts in other countries I'm having a crack at a team I did in 2021

A fantastic first season ends in promotion via the play offs, really happy with that as my best players are mostly old so could have been stuck in the division for a few years.

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standout performances from hakan (20 goals from cm) and my best player Buyuk, great quality for this level but unfortunately 37 years old. My 37 year old rw and my 41 year old gk both retire, wanted the rw to stay on especially with the 20 assists last year

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Excellent youth intake, especially for a first season with an average hoyd, only took the elite talents and a couple of others this year. Decided to be more fussy and not take players I know i will just end up releasingĀ 

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I don't know what my boards expectations will be for the next season, but i will be looking just to cling on in the league.

Transfers

Had a few pre arranged transfers and I sold my best cb pretty much straight away as he wanted to leave, duran shipped out for a massive 800 quid, I also have 3 or 4 youth players that are going for free but I got 35% future fees on them

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Didn't manage to get anything from the board this year, facilities or personal progression, hopefully with promotion they will let me start doing the courses.

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