The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge

[Neo_Geo]

10 hours ago, MichaelNevo said:

I didn't even realise you were managing Crewe United and I literally just set myself up at the same team haha! Good luck with that next batch of youths, hopefully one will get onto the International stage!

The chances of you getting Crewe United were quite high, I spent a long time re-rolling and it was always Crewe United, Belfast Celtic and Donegal Celtic……..you can see from my avatar why I chose Crewe United 

Beat of luck with your attempt with them…..ps Jack Sharvin was absolutely key to my early survival 

Edited Wednesday at 07:53 by Neo_Geo

[Neo_Geo]

8 hours ago, diegolawliet said:

 

Well, as I mentioned I lasted only a couple of months in Belarus until I've got fired . It's frustrating but I really want to have a long save doing this challenge and I'll try again and again if it's necessary. Actually my fear is to be known as the annoying user that starts a different save twice a week, I promess I want to have a long and succesful one. I thought about not posting anything until I survive the first season, but it's not the same. I don't feel good if I don't post from the very beggining. I changed country again, this time I chose a country that I've never played on: Scotland. I like that they have four divisions and I like even more that to be relegated you have to be in the last position and also lose a playoff. I simulated many times until I got a promoted team in the cinch League Two and this team is East Kilbride. The season preview places us in the third position so we are not candidates to be relegated. It's my best chance to survive this cursed first season for me, Diego Castillo Flores.

Don’t think about how others might perceive your posts/attempts, this is a fantastic, supportive and friendly community.

I had a save with East Kilbride then lost it when I was cleaning up masses of saves from other failed attempts, I enjoyed it and hope you do too.

The cinch League Two relegation is even better for survival as finishing bottom is a play-off and if you finish there it gives you 2 more games to save the save but hopefully you won’t need that this season 

Best of luck.

 

 

[fries]

10 hours ago, Neo_Geo said:

The league is still the priority and continuing to loan out the 17 year olds whilst integrating those that went on loan last year or the year before and have shown enough to be given a chance.

Is there a specific reason why you loan out the 17 year olds?
I thought it was the general consensus that game time are more important for players aged 18 or above. While training are most important for 15-17 year olds.

However my own experience is that 16 year olds and 17 year olds also develop well with loads of game time, at least when your training facilities are bad. Thus I bring the young kids early when I am in the lower leagues but priorities training when I am established with better facilities.

What are your thoughts on this?
Everyone else are also very welcome to share your experiences with how you get most out of your young players.

[Riebow]

KSV Oudenaarde Season Review (30/31)

League

Bonkers, in our first season in the top tier we made it to the championship group. This despite our team mostly consisting of tier 3 and tier 4 talent! The most amazing result was a 3-1 home win against champions-to-be Anderlecht.

It went as well as you might expect, finishing bottom in the group. No European football, not that I was expecting any.

Croky Cup

A huge upset over KRC Genk in the quarter finals. We stood no chance in the semi-finals against Anderlecht though. 

Spoiler

Youth Intake

As usual a lot of A's and an 'Excellent Intake'. Quite some elite talents in the actual intake, but I'm dubious about their long term potential. Not many positive personalities. I'd like to change HOYD; but haven't found anyone better yet than the one I currently have.

Spoiler

 

Dominik Gibas (GK; Balanced)

Supposed to be a very gifted player... I'm not seeing it so far. Definitely not better than the GK from last year's intake

Spoiler

Transfers

Nothing in, nothing out except for some loans

Spoiler

Upgrades

We're firmly in the black now. Not enough to accept upgrades to our Youth or Training facilities, but I was able to upgrade our Youth Recruitment and Junior Coaching:

Spoiler

 

And we're building a new stadium!

Spoiler

Jacques Schrauwen-watch

Ok, this kid might be special. He's 16 and our star player and developing very nicely, with still room to grow. I didn't expect this quality player this early and he has only a 5M release clause  . His value is between 5 and 10,5M...Of course he wants to leave to a bigger squad. I really should have paid more attention.

 

Spoiler

5 Years ago...

The first intake was amazing, with quite some players who developed into Jupiler Pro League players. The 2nd intake... not so much.

Starters:

- Mario Giorgetti: he's a regular starter, either from CM as a Mezzala or as a winger from the left

- Jordy Michaux: a squad player in CM or as a right winger

- Gary Lea: Back-up striker, who has so far been unable to unseat an original player

Other than that... Yikes. I did lose Renier Knapen (GK) on a free when I wasn't paying attention. He could have become a decent GK. Really a horrendous intake.

 

Spoiler

Next season

We had a banger season, but the reality is that our squad is still very poor. I might need to sell our star player Jacques Schrauwen for the sell-on fee, which would weaken the team incredibly. The goal is still to avoid relegation, and perhaps be a bit lucky in the cup...

[Riebow]

1 hour ago, fries said:

Is there a specific reason why you loan out the 17 year olds?
I thought it was the general consensus that game time are more important for players aged 18 or above. While training are most important for 15-17 year olds.

However my own experience is that 16 year olds and 17 year olds also develop well with loads of game time, at least when your training facilities are bad. Thus I bring the young kids early when I am in the lower leagues but priorities training when I am established with better facilities.

What are your thoughts on this?
Everyone else are also very welcome to share your experiences with how you get most out of your young players.

Yeah, in the beginning of a save when you're semi-pro or have bad facilities there's often no other option than playing the young'uns. When you're more established, I generally keep them at the club until 18 and then look for a loan so that they get playing time. 

[Neo_Geo]

53 minutes ago, fries said:

Is there a specific reason why you loan out the 17 year olds?
I thought it was the general consensus that game time are more important for players aged 18 or above. While training are most important for 15-17 year olds.

However my own experience is that 16 year olds and 17 year olds also develop well with loads of game time, at least when your training facilities are bad. Thus I bring the young kids early when I am in the lower leagues but priorities training when I am established with better facilities.

What are your thoughts on this?
Everyone else are also very welcome to share your experiences with how you get most out of your young players.

You are right when I started the save my youth facilities were bad but now they are probably the best in the country so perhaps my approach will change slightly.

The general pattern for me with this save is I establish a first choice team and then have back-up players that get rotated to keep the first choice players fit for the bigger games,

When a new intake comes in I see whether anyone will be able to play a part in the first team setup, if so they get promoted regardless of age, they would then become the back-up and the back-up players would go out on loan to develop by playing week in week out, something they wouldn't get if they stayed.

The reason why it happens to be 17 year olds a lot of the time is a) thats the first point at which I can loan them and b) even 12 seasons in the first choice XI is only starting to get more players who are 20 or over than those under.

I tend not to go with what people have found by trying to min/max the game to see where the optimal ages are for playing time versus training or how many games to play them to get the development in the sweet spot. This is part of the fun to just manage the way I see fit.

Every loan deal I make is for regular starter minimum and it usually means they go a league or two down.

Here is an example of one such player, centre back Daniel Keenan Y9-A:

He's now 18 but was 17 at the start of last season. He has 4.5 star potential and decent attributes for a left sided centreback.

In the season prior to this he was 16 at the start of the 2034/35 season and I promoted him to the first team as back-up as I let Ryan Jones Y6-A go out on loan as well as Michael Burns Y8-A, which meant Keenan managed to get 5 starts and 12 sub appearances (10 league games). In the following season when he was able to go out on loan he got a move to Dungannon Swifts in the Premiership and had 25 starts and 3 sub appearances which is far more than he would have got had he stayed.

At the same time Michael Burns Y8-A had come back from his loan spell from HW Welders in the Championship where he had 36 starts and 5 sub appearances. He came back with a higher current ability and then became the back-up and had 9 starts and 10 sub appearances. Given Burns was now at least comparable to Geoff Armstrong Y4-A who had regressed to 2.5 star potential it made sense that he became the new back up.

This is generally how I approach it at the moment, but as the intakes come in and I can stockpile more players with high potential it may shift to keeping them at the club, loaning them out at 17/18 then integrating with the first team when they start to develop rather than developing them myself.

What I am doing probably isn't the best way of going about it but its working for me and I'm comfortable that the players are developing well enough and I've got adequate cover to rotate as I need to.

[Neo_Geo]

9 minutes ago, Riebow said:

KSV Oudenaarde Season Review (30/31)

League

Bonkers, in our first season in the top tier we made it to the championship group. This despite our team mostly consisting of tier 3 and tier 4 talent! The most amazing result was a 3-1 home win against champions-to-be Anderlecht.

It went as well as you might expect, finishing bottom in the group. No European football, not that I was expecting any.

Croky Cup

A huge upset over KRC Genk in the quarter finals. We stood no chance in the semi-finals against Anderlecht though. 

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Youth Intake

As usual a lot of A's and an 'Excellent Intake'. Quite some elite talents in the actual intake, but I'm dubious about their long term potential. Not many positive personalities. I'd like to change HOYD; but haven't found anyone better yet than the one I currently have.

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Dominik Gibas (GK; Balanced)

Supposed to be a very gifted player... I'm not seeing it so far. Definitely not better than the GK from last year's intake

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Transfers

Nothing in, nothing out except for some loans

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Upgrades

We're firmly in the black now. Not enough to accept upgrades to our Youth or Training facilities, but I was able to upgrade our Youth Recruitment and Junior Coaching:

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And we're building a new stadium!

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Jacques Schrauwen-watch

Ok, this kid might be special. He's 16 and our star player and developing very nicely, with still room to grow. I didn't expect this quality player this early and he has only a 5M release clause  . His value is between 5 and 10,5M...Of course he wants to leave to a bigger squad. I really should have paid more attention.

 

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5 Years ago...

The first intake was amazing, with quite some players who developed into Jupiler Pro League players. The 2nd intake... not so much.

Starters:

- Mario Giorgetti: he's a regular starter, either from CM as a Mezzala or as a winger from the left

- Jordy Michaux: a squad player in CM or as a right winger

- Gary Lea: Back-up striker, who has so far been unable to unseat an original player

Other than that... Yikes. I did lose Renier Knapen (GK) on a free when I wasn't paying attention. He could have become a decent GK. Really a horrendous intake.

 

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Next season

We had a banger season, but the reality is that our squad is still very poor. I might need to sell our star player Jacques Schrauwen for the sell-on fee, which would weaken the team incredibly. The goal is still to avoid relegation, and perhaps be a bit lucky in the cup...

Really nice foundation season there and beating Anderlecht as well is a really good sign!

[Neo_Geo]

I'm disappointed things like this are still in the game....

Linfield come in with an offer for Michael Burns Y8-A and he would need a lot of convincing to stay, so I start the dialogue and he starts off saying they have a stronger squad, better players etc. so I then ask what I can do to convince him to stay and this is the response:

Highlighted are the trophies won in the last 2 years (it also doesn't include the SPFL Trust Trophy win), we are now the highest reputation team in Northern Ireland and were the first Northern Irish side to qualify for the league phase of the Champions League but yeah go to Linfield as we won't win any trophies.

It's likely its based on the season preview where I am predicted to finish 4th while Linfield are 1st but this is just such an immersion breaker.

EDIT: Here's how the rest played out:

Like I said its a real immersion breaker for me as the reasons given are just nonsense.

Edited Wednesday at 10:34 by Neo_Geo

[Winski]

FK Rača Bratislava
Season review
Season 7 | 2030-2031
Niké liga

Transfers | Affiliates | Facilities | | Finances | Manager Profile | Club overview

 

A fantastic season! We nearly became champions, only 1 point from becoming the best team of the country. So it won't take long before we become champions. But I'm very happy with this 2nd place!
And I have to say: Slovakia is a really fun country to manage in! I'm having lots of fun here. So if you want to try something different: I can really recommend Slovakia

But I'm even more pleased with our first Cup win! We won the Cup after beating Dun.Streda in the Final! So it's our first big trophy, although winning the 2nd League was a trophy as well.

I had to sell my star midfielder Tomas Kovac 27a to FC Porto, as he wasn't happy anymore. He wanted to play at a higher level, and when Porto came in with a bid, I negotiated a 50% clause and they accepted.

Some other news is that Slovakian football is slowly progressing. We now have one team in the CL Second Qual. Round.  And we have been invited by Manchester United to play in their Friendly Cup next pre-season, together with Arouca and Al Shabab. I accepted the invitation. It's something I normally won't do in pre-season, but let's see how this goes.


 

Europe
Well, I can be very short about our European season: it was terrible. We lost both matches against Levski Sofia in the Second Qual. Round of the Conference League. So after our great campaign last season, this was not good at all.

Most notable players
Our MVP this season was Marian Valek 27d, by scoring 26 goals and having 8 assists. So for the first time in 6 years Peter Lukac 24c is not our topscorer! Lukac 24c had a good season as well, with 14 goals and 16 assists. But less goals then in his previous 5 seasons.
Also our big man up front, Marian Sluka 27e, scored 26 goals this season.
On our midfield Simon Mészáros 28i was really important, with 10 goals and 12 assists. Some of his goals were from quite a distance, it looks like that his speciality is a shot from distance.
Another player I want to mention is Roman Luhovy 29d. He played his first full season (or not really full, as he got injured, but he is a first XI player), and was very important with 12 assists.

Youth intake
Not a very promising preview, but the intake gave us three really nice players!

Spoiler

U19
Our U19 won the league again, after finishing 2nd last season.

Upgrades

We had another upgrade of our Training Facilities, and they are now labelled as Excellent. Hopefully we can also upgrade our Youth Facilities next season, as they are still Average. And our new stadium is almost ready, so in the coming season we will play in our new stadium!

 

Progress

 

 

[Padders]

Season 136 - 2158/59 - SBC

Another midtable finish. Its becoming a huge chore and struggle at the moment.

The two only slight positives, is form was better latter part of the season after more tactical tweaks.

The Youth Intake had a decent defender, the first for well over 10 years.

 

Edited Wednesday at 11:35 by Padders

[fries]

1 hour ago, Neo_Geo said:

You are right when I started the save my youth facilities were bad but now they are probably the best in the country so perhaps my approach will change slightly.

The general pattern for me with this save is I establish a first choice team and then have back-up players that get rotated to keep the first choice players fit for the bigger games,

When a new intake comes in I see whether anyone will be able to play a part in the first team setup, if so they get promoted regardless of age, they would then become the back-up and the back-up players would go out on loan to develop by playing week in week out, something they wouldn't get if they stayed.

The reason why it happens to be 17 year olds a lot of the time is a) thats the first point at which I can loan them and b) even 12 seasons in the first choice XI is only starting to get more players who are 20 or over than those under.

I tend not to go with what people have found by trying to min/max the game to see where the optimal ages are for playing time versus training or how many games to play them to get the development in the sweet spot. This is part of the fun to just manage the way I see fit.

Every loan deal I make is for regular starter minimum and it usually means they go a league or two down.

Here is an example of one such player, centre back Daniel Keenan Y9-A:

He's now 18 but was 17 at the start of last season. He has 4.5 star potential and decent attributes for a left sided centreback.

In the season prior to this he was 16 at the start of the 2034/35 season and I promoted him to the first team as back-up as I let Ryan Jones Y6-A go out on loan as well as Michael Burns Y8-A, which meant Keenan managed to get 5 starts and 12 sub appearances (10 league games). In the following season when he was able to go out on loan he got a move to Dungannon Swifts in the Premiership and had 25 starts and 3 sub appearances which is far more than he would have got had he stayed.

At the same time Michael Burns Y8-A had come back from his loan spell from HW Welders in the Championship where he had 36 starts and 5 sub appearances. He came back with a higher current ability and then became the back-up and had 9 starts and 10 sub appearances. Given Burns was now at least comparable to Geoff Armstrong Y4-A who had regressed to 2.5 star potential it made sense that he became the new back up.

This is generally how I approach it at the moment, but as the intakes come in and I can stockpile more players with high potential it may shift to keeping them at the club, loaning them out at 17/18 then integrating with the first team when they start to develop rather than developing them myself.

What I am doing probably isn't the best way of going about it but its working for me and I'm comfortable that the players are developing well enough and I've got adequate cover to rotate as I need to.

Thanks for a detailed answer!

I don't think your approach is too far from mine.

I to have a starting XI, a backup XI, and a handful talented rotational young players.

The players typically move into the last category when they have 2 stars CA. This group typically gets minutes on the pitch in cup games, conference league or europe league (As an english team. Would probably be different if I played in another country), and a few sub appereances in the league. If they are not good enough to get into this group there are two options depending on their age. Below 18: They are in the youth team. 18 or above: out on loan.

If this group of players are too big or I have to many in the same positions, I will either loan out the players with worst CA or the oldest players in this group depending on feel. Sometimes I rotate this group too. A half season home getting a few games against weak opponents and a half a season out on loan.

If the players fail to develop into the backup XI before they turn 20 or doesn't seem to grow over 1-1.5 season, I will typically loan them out.

[Neo_Geo]

1 hour ago, fries said:

Thanks for a detailed answer!

I don't think your approach is too far from mine.

I to have a starting XI, a backup XI, and a handful talented rotational young players.

The players typically move into the last category when they have 2 stars CA. This group typically gets minutes on the pitch in cup games, conference league or europe league (As an english team. Would probably be different if I played in another country), and a few sub appereances in the league. If they are not good enough to get into this group there are two options depending on their age. Below 18: They are in the youth team. 18 or above: out on loan.

If this group of players are too big or I have to many in the same positions, I will either loan out the players with worst CA or the oldest players in this group depending on feel. Sometimes I rotate this group too. A half season home getting a few games against weak opponents and a half a season out on loan.

If the players fail to develop into the backup XI before they turn 20 or doesn't seem to grow over 1-1.5 season, I will typically loan them out.

Sounds very similar, especially the last paragraph…..loan them out until their contract expires for me and if by some chance the coaches were wrong and they do develop you can always get them on a new deal. I rarely sell youth players unless they are the ones at the top of the pile that get headhunted by the bigger clubs.

[libbyshuss]

Austria - 2033/34 - Premier Division

Another Poor Season From Wels Sees Them Narrowly Avoid Relegation Again!

We are so lucky that only one team gets relegated from the premier League! Honestly, we were atrocious again and only survived by the skin of our teeth again. We need to improve quickly or our luck is bound to run out

 

Weirdly, we did make it all the way to the semi-final of the cup though.

 

Players

We got our first entry into the NxGN top 50 list! Albeit number 50, but still!

He's not a bad centre back

We also had to sell our balding potential superstar. When Napoli come knocking, what can you do?

 

It's a lot of money so I invested as much as i can!

 

Youth

a nice preview and a really nice intake! just as well, as we're losing a tonne of money on these crazy facilities

 

Career

[MichaelNevo]

7 hours ago, Neo_Geo said:

The chances of you getting Crewe United were quite high, I spent a long time re-rolling and it was always Crewe United, Belfast Celtic and Donegal Celtic……..you can see from my avatar why I chose Crewe United 

Beat of luck with your attempt with them…..ps Jack Sharvin was absolutely key to my early survival 

Ah fair one, I just picked the team off the first go, let fate decide who I manage  Thanks for the tip!

[Ron_Swanson]

Stal Stalowa Wola - Poland - PKO Ekstraklasa - season 5 - 2028/29

Bunch of nice defeders as promissed, it's nice for a better squad balance

Really good season, we were even a sniffing around a continental cups qualification for a few weeks, but it's our time yet. Good run in domestic cup also, we've reached quarterfinals

The board got us a senior affiliate club on their own. Unfortunately it's just so they can have a first option on our players, I don't know if it's any help for our intakes. But +50k annualy is better than nothing

[SkiIIs]

Season 2033 - Versport FC - J1 League

The season started off with us proudly moving into our new stadium, the Versport Stadium which despite the extremely creative name, it did help surge our average attendance to 8,544 from 6,052 from the previous year.  That was the good news off the field, the bad news also off the field was that Tasuku Suzuki's minimum release clause which we were unable to remove despite many contract offers was met and hence we left a few games into the season.  He would then go on to make his debut for the national team however I cant claim that as our first national capped player.

We almost lost another one of our midfielders in Manabu Kitano as his min release clause was also met but thankfully it was Yokohama FM who have been relegated to J2 that offered him the chance to leave but he decided to stay with us.  I cant see it being long before he actually does go as i cant resign without a min release clause.

On the field, we were solid and would go on decent runs which were then met with poor runs but overall it was a slight improvement on last year in the league. We gained 4 more points and finished 1 spot higher but the improvement was really shown in the cups where we made the semi finals for both competitions. We were unlucky not to make the final in the League Cup after squandering a 3 - 1 away first leg lead with two stupid goals in the 90+4th and 90+7th minutes which would be extremely costly in the end. 

A shout out to our 17yo gun striker up front that won the top goalscorer award in his first full season scoring 28 goals in 35 starts. Ive tied him up on a 3 + 3 year contract with no min release clause so he wont be going anywhere anytime soon.

Youth Preview

Once again the preview shows there isnt much depth

Youth Intake

And again the intake comes back better than expected.

Fumiya Nozawa looks like he could become something special for us with really good attributes for a 15yo

Edited Thursday at 00:25 by SkiIIs

[diegolawliet]

En 25/6/2024 a las 20:57, diegolawliet dijo:

 

Well, as I mentioned I lasted only a couple of months in Belarus until I've got fired . It's frustrating but I really want to have a long save doing this challenge and I'll try again and again if it's necessary. Actually my fear is to be known as the annoying user that starts a different save twice a week, I promess I want to have a long and succesful one. I thought about not posting anything until I survive the first season, but it's not the same. I don't feel good if I don't post from the very beggining. I changed country again, this time I chose a country that I've never played on: Scotland. I like that they have four divisions and I like even more that to be relegated you have to be in the last position and also lose a playoff. I simulated many times until I got a promoted team in the cinch League Two and this team is East Kilbride. The season preview places us in the third position so we are not candidates to be relegated. It's my best chance to survive this cursed first season for me, Diego Castillo Flores.

 

 

Come on! . It was being my best try so far. Unbelievable.

[diegolawliet]

 

New try. This time we come back to England. Radcliffe FC sounds good. The season preview puts us in the 20° place, so I hope I won't be fired in the middle of the season if things goes 5-6 points. The squad this time has 30 (thirty!) players. It's a nice starting point I guess. But we never know. I'll let you know if we success in the surviving challeng in the first season. This is my manager profile.

[Neo_Geo]

1 hour ago, diegolawliet said:

 

 

Come on! . It was being my best try so far. Unbelievable.

@diegolawliet that’s harsh, time to get back on the saddle with another go

[Johann]

 

Sacked.

 

Edited Thursday at 17:17 by Johann

[MichaelNevo]

Promising news for my first ever intake! Lets hope it becomes a reality!

[libbyshuss]

Austria - 2034/35 - Premier League

Wels Again narrowly Avoid relegation

Honestly, we are so lucky the Austrian Premier League is only 12 teams big with only 1 relegation, as we are still terrible! Although we did have a good run around christmas to give us a respectable league stage finish, the relegation stage halves your points so after a bad start there we were hovering 1 point above relegation. We managed to get a couple of wins under our belt to keep our head above water but honestly, it feel like it's only a matter of time before we go down at this rate

Part of the problem is our youth set up costs so much we have to sell our best players at the end of each season, which will be the case until we can get into Europe. Which feels a long way off atm!

 

 

Youth

so our set up now is ridiculously good and ridiculously expensive. So what can it deliver?

An A, a B, a few Cs is ok....

Looks ok, a mixed bag of personalities, but a few nice high potentials

The clear stand out is Lars Schroder. The only worry is he demanded a minimum release clause from the very start!

 

Players

Not an official wonderkid but another entry in the NxGN top 50 list. at number 2 now!

He's pretty good but it was a surprise to even see him in the list, let alone so high

 

Career

We need something to change....

[MichaelNevo]

1 hour ago, libbyshuss said:

Austria - 2034/35 - Premier League

Wels Again narrowly Avoid relegation

Honestly, we are so lucky the Austrian Premier League is only 12 teams big with only 1 relegation, as we are still terrible! Although we did have a good run around christmas to give us a respectable league stage finish, the relegation stage halves your points so after a bad start there we were hovering 1 point above relegation. We managed to get a couple of wins under our belt to keep our head above water but honestly, it feel like it's only a matter of time before we go down at this rate

Part of the problem is our youth set up costs so much we have to sell our best players at the end of each season, which will be the case until we can get into Europe. Which feels a long way off atm!

 

 

Youth

so our set up now is ridiculously good and ridiculously expensive. So what can it deliver?

An A, a B, a few Cs is ok....

Looks ok, a mixed bag of personalities, but a few nice high potentials

The clear stand out is Lars Schroder. The only worry is he demanded a minimum release clause from the very start!

 

Players

Not an official wonderkid but another entry in the NxGN top 50 list. at number 2 now!

He's pretty good but it was a surprise to even see him in the list, let alone so high

 

Career

We need something to change....

Keep plugging away! At least in my eyes your not in a relegation fight because 9 points is a big difference at the bottom of the league.

[SkiIIs]

Season 2034 - Versport FC - J1 League

Let's start with off the field first. Sponsorship money usually comes in on the last day of the calendar year and for some reason, we got a massive boost heading into this season which made us having the largest sponsorship deal in the country. Ridiculous, but very much welcomed.  So 4 days later and we have our training facility upgrade approved to get us to Excellent. Three weeks later the Youth Facility request popped up which i hadnt seen for years so we also got that approved to take us to Adequate.  This request did not reappear again so it might be stuck again.  That is the good news, the bad news is that it didnt take much longer for Yokohama FM to come back in and trigger Kitano's release clause again and this time, as they were promoted back into J1, the little squirt accepted. 

Spoiler

On the field, it was pretty much a carbon copy of last year. We got one less point, one better goal difference and finish one spot higher than last.  We also made the semi finals for both cups again.  We found a new starter in right back at the ripe age of 17 and a couple of decent rotational options in midfield but apart from that not much change. 

Youth Preview

Three A players expected, however i seem to keep getting strikers and DM's

Youth Intake

Got a token Greek talent come through which is nice but overall, little bit underwhelmed by this one

Takahiro Takahashi though looks like he might become a good midfielder for us. Strong mentally but lacks in strength and work rate which is his concern

seem to get a flurry of strikers coming through and Shunya Watanabe is another that may develop into a player. Strong finishing, heading and technically sound with a few 9's that could beef him up a little

Edited Friday at 07:43 by SkiIIs

[MichaelNevo]

Crewe United - Season One

I couldn't have hoped for much more for season one, having very mixed results all round, but better than expected. Our performances in the cup competitions left much to be desired, but survival in the league was of utmost importance. As I was told by a fellow Crewe United manager (neo_geo) Jack Sharvin was going to be my survival tool and he definitely proved as much.

Youth Candidates & Youth Intake

As previously posted, our upcoming youth intake was being classed as a real golden age, something which was a big surprise for me and very good news for the challenge ahead. The idea for the coming season will be to take the plunge and remove most of the normal players, except the select few who performed well such as Jack Sharvin. This will allow the youth prospects to show me what they're made of and despite the obvious risks, I feel this is the whole point of a save like this.

Spoiler

 

3 Top Rated Youth Players & Transfers In + Out

There's nothing special here, but with them being touted as having top potential, it will be good to see how they grow!

Spoiler

 

League Table & Finances

The finances are a concern and I can't see how they will get any better in the short term. The chairman is looking to sell which is a concern as well, especially considering one of the recent news articles where it was mentioned the person coming in would look to replace me! Thankfully that takeover went to sea and never came back!

Spoiler

 

What they thought...

[Sdp9511]

End-of-Season Review

Season 2043/44

Le Puy

 

Season Summary- This was our least successful season in the league, as it was the first time we took a step back instead of forward. While statistically, we looked decent, that didn't transfer into the amount of points we were expected to have. In terms of XPTS, we should have been 7th in the league, with us getting 11 points less than expected and scoring 5 fewer goals than expected. This team is therefore clearly good enough to fight for Europe but is unable to finish their chances and or be a strong defensive team. Hopefully, we will be able to be closer to our full potential next season.

Another frustrating issue I seem to be having is that for some reason I am unable to upgrade my youth facilities to State of the Art. In my board request, there hasn't been any option regarding upgrading my youth facility since the previous upgrade.

    

Transfers- While there were no major outgoings, we had a major win when Diaw. Who had been trying to leave the team for a few years came to me to say that he would not be renewing his contract. I was able to convince him to stay by telling him about how well we worked together. Thanks to that conversation, he sacked his agent and agreed on a new contract. Didn't expect that conversation to go that well.

 

Youth Candidates- This was arguably our worst youth intake in years, not only did it not have any A's in the early assessment. There were no elite talents in the youth intake. What also made it worse was that there were a significant amount of youngsters with unambitious personalities. The best player in this intake Paupol Kitenge was one of those players. 

Key Players

POTS and top scorer/assister- Last season I discussed the fact that my 2 strikers are incapable of being effective simultaneously. Well this season they were both incapable of scoring. That is why Guillerm had to step up after those 2 failed to score for most of the season. Guillerm is our LW and is the only one who truly performed to the potential we were showing this season, his 10 goals and 10 assists were vital in this mediocre season.

 

YPOTS- Elouan Lefranc was our YPOTS, by far the best youngster we have had. He is also a full French national team player. He is currently uninterested in signing a new contract as he wants to play for a league-winning team.

 

The best new youngster- Last seasons youth intake was nothing to write home about. But it had at least one player who I believe has the capabilities of making it to our first team. Ngoy will probably be loaned out next season to gain some more experience.

 

 

 

Career Record

After Season   Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage     Time At Club
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2024/25          37       12       13       12          64              62                 -2               32.0%             328 days 
...
2041/42          685      265      151      269         1173            1169               4                38.0%             6576 days
2042/43          721      280      157      284         1232            1238              -6                38.0%             6918 days
2043/44          758      293      164      301         1278            1289              -11               38.0%             7284 days

Transfer Sale Record

Date               Player                    Position               Club Sold To                 Country                   Transfer Fee
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
9/7/2042           Gerald Bruyere 11B          CB                    SL Benfica                   Portugal                   16,250,000 (21,500,000) 
1/9/2037           Fares Jaballah 11A          RB                    RSC Anderlecht               Belgium                    4,600,000 (7,000,000)
15/8/2034          Rudy Lenourmand 8A          CDM/CB                RSC Anderlecht               Belgium                    4,700,000 (6,000,000)
18/7/20242         Karim Attochi 9K            RB                    SPAL                         Italy                      2,200,000 (2,900,000)
31/1/2031          Abdelkader Belhadj 4c       CDM                   Club Brugge                  Belgium                    1,700,000 (2,300,000) 
02/02/2037         Salvador Zounon 10L         RW                    Lorient                      France                     1,400,000 (1,700,000) 

Trophy Haul

Season     Competition Won
--------------------------
2037-2038     Ligue 2

Record Number of Appearances (Players From The Academy Only) (*New Player)

All time           Player             Number of Appearances                  
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2023-2042          Gilles Comte              484
2026-present       Olivier Penot             403
2029-present       Sadibou Diop              396 
2025-2039          Andreas Kruger            386
2025-2042          Ousmane Tine              379

Record Goal Scorer (Players From The Academy Only)

All time           Player               Number of Goals                        
-------------------------------------------------------------------
2025-2039          Andreas Kruger            136 
2032-present       Houssem Omrani            76
2032-present       Liam Guillerm             63 
2025-2042          Ousmane Tine              64 
2034-present       Clinton Nkem              57 *                             

Record Number of Assists (Players From The Academy Only)

All time           Player               Number of Assists           
-----------------------------------------------------------------
2025-2042          Ousmane Tine              69
2023-2042          Gilles Comte              54   
2026-present       Olivier Penot             48
2024-2039          Goran Grahovac            44  
2030-2042          Aboulaye Diallo           44

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

All time          Player               Number of Clean sheets   
----------------------------------------------------------------
2027-present      Kevin Labonne              51
2039-present      Alexandre Pfister          5
2030-present      Thomas Chabrier            2
2032-37           Abdoul Soro                1

[libbyshuss]

3 hours ago, MichaelNevo said:

Keep plugging away! At least in my eyes your not in a relegation fight because 9 points is a big difference at the bottom of the league.

that's true, but with 3 games to go it was only 2 points and we were in awful form. it felt like a relegation fight then!

[Padders]

Season 137 - 2159/60 - SBC

Yet another midtable finish, 11th

We have our first potential Premier League player for well over 10 years

But he has a minimum fee release clause and wouldn't sign a new contract, so he is gone 

[darren1983]

League Two 2029/30 Season Review

 

League - A very strange season really. We once again started slowly, I'm starting to think that I might need to rethink how I do pre season as we always seem to start slow, but found form in the middle of the season before a hellish run where had only 1 free midweek between the start of December and the middle of March. We really struggle with 3 games a week as we don't have the depth really to rotate without really weakening the team, then throw in injuries and suspensions and this run killed us. We ended a decent 15th but we really need to try and stop letting in so many. We had a top 5 attack and a bottom 5 defence. 

FA Cup - Our best ever run in this, getting to the 4th round. Still not got that big away day yet though

League Cup - probably our best time in this too but we're yet to make it to round 2

EFL Trophy - this I just don't care about. I use it to try different tactical ideas I'm having and playing fringe players to rest my better ones wherever I can

Transfers - Lots of loans out with a couple returning ready for first team football

Squad - Like I say the attack is very good, lead by Aaron Greene who keeps getting better and has nearly 1 in 2 over his career so far but I need to sort the defence out. They've all got potential at this level but most are still playing a couple levels above their CA

Youth Intake - Was excited by the preview but think it's our worst intake yet with only 1 player tagged by me

Junior Kenyon 30A - looks like a decent wing back I think

Career Overview

Season		League		Position 	Junior Coaching		Youth Recruitment	Notes

2024/25		VNLS		1st 		Good			Average			Promotion, Manager of the year
2025/26		VNL		10th 		Good			Above Average		First coaching badge
2026/27		VNL		2nd 		Good			Above Average 		Promotion via playoffs, Manager of the season, second coaching badge
2027/28		L2		10th 		Adequate		Above Average		3rd coaching badge
2028/29		L2		12th 		Good			Above Average		Continental C Licence obtained
2029/30		L2		15th  		Good 			Good  			Continental B Licence Obtained. Started on Continental A 

Oh and we did get another takeover for our second owner of the season 

He's put no money in which is annoying but he's what we've got now so better crack on. 

[MichaelNevo]

7 hours ago, libbyshuss said:

that's true, but with 3 games to go it was only 2 points and we were in awful form. it felt like a relegation fight then!

Fair one, well you did very well to turn it around!

[Neo_Geo]

@darren1983 what do you do for pre-season?

Do you favour income over fitness and morale?

My routine involves the following:

• 1 week after players return play very small reputation team (first XI 65 mins then swap the entire team)
• Mid-week against very small reputation team (backup XI 65 mins then swap the entire team)
• Repeat this process moving from very small reputation to small then to similar and I rarely go over similar.

I find that this way I get the players fit and morale is maxed out ready for the first game of the season and I usually start very quickly (some of my bigger results in qualifiers in Europe I am sure comes from this)

Edited Friday at 17:33 by Neo_Geo

[Neo_Geo]

@Padders I feel for you, seeing those Championship positions after having been in the EPL for a number of years must sting. I must admit I am daunted by doing an English save and I doth my cap to you good sir because how you have kept the motivation for 137 seasons is incredible.

I hope that Nsiala turns out to be a star, certainly if he can get his acceleration up a few notches I think you've got a cracking advanced forward there. Hopefully a few more like that tied down on long term contracts will see you push for promotion again.

[darren1983]

21 minutes ago, Neo_Geo said:

@darren1983 what do you do for pre-season?

Do you favour income over fitness and morale?

My routine involves the following:

• 1 week after players return play very small reputation team (first XI 65 mins then swap the entire team)
• Mid-week against very small reputation team (backup XI 65 mins then swap the entire team)
• Repeat this process moving from very small reputation to small then to similar and I rarely go over similar.

I find that this way I get the players fit and morale is maxed out ready for the first game of the season and I usually start very quickly (some of my bigger results in qualifiers in Europe I am sure comes from this)

I've been doing what I think of as "realistic" in that it's away games (usually midweek) against local small sides and then bigger sides at home at weekend for the money. However I've gone full on moral and fitness this upcoming pre season so hopefully see an impact. 

[MichaelNevo]

How do you guys play, do you watch every single game or do you sim through at a quicker pace and watch some, or just sim everything?

[Padders]

51 minutes ago, Neo_Geo said:

@Padders I feel for you, seeing those Championship positions after having been in the EPL for a number of years must sting. I must admit I am daunted by doing an English save and I doth my cap to you good sir because how you have kept the motivation for 137 seasons is incredible.

I hope that Nsiala turns out to be a star, certainly if he can get his acceleration up a few notches I think you've got a cracking advanced forward there. Hopefully a few more like that tied down on long term contracts will see you push for promotion again.

Yeah he's gone to the good old minimum fee release clause 

[XaW]

 

XaW - Fussballclub Biel/Bienne - Season 2024/25 (Season 2) - Raiffeisen Super League

Squad | Transfers | Finances

A much better result than I had hoped, since we avoided relegation, and even with a margin down. Sure, we ended in the lower bracket as the split, but still, we never really felt like we were odds on of going down. Luzern bit the bullet and finished last with quite a gap up having been down there all season, so it was mostly a battle to avoid the relegation playoff. We had some tough periods, but our best run was towards the end of the season when we faced the other teams in the lower bracket. So overall a very good season. Mind, we are still conceding way too many goals, but the lack of good centre backs is obviously one of the reasons for it, but the newest intake gave some hope. A worry though is that we are losing two of our best players who so far haven't been willing to talk about new contracts. Jonathan de Donno, our best striker, and Yann Massombo, a really good midfielder, both seems to be leaving us. De Donno is the most painful one, as I don't really have a good replacement for him, so I need to think about how to deal with that, unless I can convince him to stay. 

Schweizer Cup: We beat Etoile Carouge and Münsingen before we lost to Zürich in the 3rd round.

Best players from the academy:

Lorik Selmani 25c - Mostly a substitute for us, and didn't play well, but his development has been really good this season. Also got a youth cap for Kosovo.
Ivo Sebastião 25a - Got some playing time on the left back, and did ok.
Andreas Vogt 25e - Nothing more than a crisis solution up top, and don't play that well either.

New club records:

Most league goals in a season - Jonathan de Donno - 25 goals
Most goals in a match - Jonathan de Donno - 3 goals
Most goals in a league match - Jonathan de Donno - 3 goals
Worst discipline - Safet Alic - 15 yellow cards, 2 red cards
Most league apps - Anthony De Freitas - 167 apps
Most league goals - Jonathan de Donno - 55 goals
Youngest player - Daniel Dressler 25h - 15 years, 236 days
Oldest player - Francois Affolter - 35 years, 51 days
Oldest goalscorer - Anthony De Freitas - 32 years, 9 days

The board accepted a couple of improvements this season.

U19s

They only played friendlies this season.

U18s

They only played friendlies this season.

Around the world

Youth intake:

Trophy cabinet

None

Player statistics:

Most apps for the club

Name			Nation		2nd Nation	Time at club	Apps
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lorik Selmani 25c	Kosovo		Switzerland	2025-Present	32
Ivo Sebastião 25a	Angola		Switzerland	2025-Present	17
Daniel Dressler 25h	Liechtenstein	<N/A>		2025-Present	5
Andreas Vogt 25e	Switzerland	<N/A>		2025-Present	4
Enea Vogel 25b		Switzerland	<N/A>		2025-Present	1

Most goals for the club

Name			Nation		2nd Nation	Time at club	Apps
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Daniel Dressler 25h	Liechtenstein	<N/A>		2025-Present	1

Most assists for the club

Name			Nation		2nd Nation	Time at club	Apps
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ivo Sebastião 25a	Angola		Switzerland	2025-Present	1
Lorik Selmani 25c	Kosovo		Switzerland	2025-Present	1

Supporters:

YAC Bingo:

Summary:

[Neo_Geo]

40 minutes ago, Padders said:

Yeah he's gone to the good old minimum fee release clause 

 That sucks, wonder when you’re going to catch a break

[XaW]

On 24/06/2024 at 18:01, Neo_Geo said:

Anyone else get issues with recycling of unique IDs?

I keep getting 1 maybe 2 in an intake of former intake players who have retired.

I removed the rows in the license file but it seems to have cached it somewhere (restarting the game with no reference to their name in the license file or the unique ID and they still have the modified name)

Might have to just generate a name for them (hate using the same names as previous intakes)

I think I have a temporary solution for this.

Ticking this should avoid the ID being reused, I think. Not experimented enough to be sure yet, but I think might stop the IDs being available after the player retires.

[Padders]

20 minutes ago, Neo_Geo said:

 That sucks, wonder when you’re going to catch a break

Yeah can't seem to keep hold of any decent player that comes through, not that I get many nowadays!

[Padders]

Just to confirm Morale Manager 24 is still going strong

One iffy draw results in a run of bad results

[Padders]

I absolutely love playing Morale Manger 24 

 

[Sigguson]

I decided to start the challenge and I am going to do it in Austria. I took over Fc Gleisdorf 09 and I am gonna try to play this very speedy for the first fifteen seasons or so. 

[Daddy]

Season 15 - 2038/39 - Czechia - First Division:

Still not as deep as I was hoping, the reputation has plateaued and I can't get better coaches. When the fixture congestion rolls in you can see in the league position graph we become inconsistent. Then when it opens up we climb up and stay up. Getting closer.

2038/39 Champions League:

My goal was ten points to make the knockout and we managed to hit it. That was a rough schedule and I don't think we embarrassed ourselves against the top competition. We're not ready to push to win the thing yet, but we didn't look out of place IMO.

Misc Items:

Another very good, and very deep intake. We're managing to keep our players now, so with these deep intakes our depth is starting to build up nicely to where I have players asking to go ohn loan for more playing time. I view that as a good sign.

2039/40 Season Preview:

Simple goal, make the Champions League out of the league again and push for a title challenge.

2040 European Summer Adventure:

I think I had this exact combo last year and same results

More manageable than last season so I again expect a top 24 finish. 

[Thebaker]

Table | Squad | Transfers

Made a poor start to the season where the team were in matches but not getting ant points as the defence was poor and the strikers were failing to score. The results picked up slightly but a run of 5 defeats left the team in the relegation playoff with 1 match to play and then only thanks to the terrible form of the bottom 3, 19 points were against the bottom 3 and 12th. I rested the first 11 for the final match which led to  this match. In the playoffs i faced 1st Div S team Savedalens, winning the home leg 2-0. In the away leg the team were under pressure all match and were indebted to a late OG to lose 1-2 but win on agg to stay up.

After a few seasons the club were again in the swedish cup. In the first rd the team were away to pro 2nd div team Skiljebo and were 2nd best for much of the match but drew 3-3 and went through on pens. In the 2nd rd the team were away to 1DE team Lunds who were struggling, an early red card for Lunds led to an even game but they still won 2-1 which was a disappointment.

Finances increased slightly due to the prize money from the relegation playoff.

Kasper Davidsson  (264 apps, 56 goals, 75 assists) left halfway through the season as he was out of contract but still ended with the most assists.

With the strikers not scoring most of the midfield stepped up with Lillskog the best player, Lahdo also stepped in to score a few.

Berglind is one of the few players who could reach his potential and the best youth player for CA.

The youth intake was again excellent but the intake didn't really match this. Bjorklund and Muradoglu were the best of the intake. Karlsson also has setpiece abilities way above anyone in my squad but i dont know were to play him as i dont play with an AMC.

 

Spoiler

Youth nationalities:

Continent			Europe			Africa			South America			Asia			North America			Oceania
Overall	160	100%	Country	#	%	Country	#	%	Country	#	%	Country	#	%	Country	#	%	Country	#	%
Europe	151.5	94.69%	Sweden	143	89.38%	Gambia	1.5	0.94%	Peru	0.5	0.31%	Iraq	1.5	0.94%	USA	0.5	0.31%
Africa	5	3.13%	Albania	2	1.25%	Algeria	0.5	0.31%				Lebanon	1	0.63%
Asia	2.5	1.56%	Turkey	1.5	0.94%	Zimbabwe	0.5	0.31%
South America	0.5	0.31%	Bosnia	1.5	0.94%	DRC	0.5	0.31%
North America	0.5	0.31%	Croatia	0.5	0.31%	Uganda	0.5	0.31%
Oceania	0	0	Serbia	0.5	0.31%	Egypt	0.5	0.31%
			Norway	0.5	0.31%	Eritrea	0.5	0.31%
			Italy	0.5	0.31%	Sierra Leone	0.5	0.31%
			Ireland	0.5	0.31%
			Slovenia	0.5	0.31%
			Scotland	0.5	0.31%

 

Spoiler

Youth Name	All time apps
Jan Andersson (25a)	146
Per Lindback (28g)	130
Andreas Wiktorsson (27a)	116
Youth Name	All time Goals
Karl Lindqvist (28d)	23
Sadin Kadric (30f)	20
Per Lindback (28g)	12
Youth Name	All time Assists
Andreas Wiktorsson (27a)	17
Sadin Kadric (30f)	7
Per Lindback (28g)	7

 

Season

League

Position

Swedish Cup

Europe

Top Scorer

Top Assists

Attendance

Training

Youth

Junior

Youth Rec

Notes

2025

D2 NS

2nd

Not entered

N/A

Jonnson(21)

Davidsson(7)

166

Basic

Poor

Fairly Basic

Basic

2026

D2 NS

6th

Group St

N/A

Maholli, Hjort(10)

Davidsson(8)

136

Basic

Poor

Fairly Basic

Basic

2027

D2 NS

1st

Not entered

N/A

Maholli(22)

Davidsson(13)

183

Basic

Poor

Fairly Basic

Basic

Promoted

2028

D1N

15th

Not entered

N/A

Jonnson(11)

Davidsson(7)

194

Basic

Poor

Fairly Basic

Basic

2029

D2 NS

4th

1st Rd

N/A

Maholli(22)

Davidsson(7)

151

Basic

Poor

Fairly Basic

Basic

2030

D2 NS

6th

Not entered

N/A

Jonnson(9)

Hjort(6)

148

Basic

Poor

Fairly Basic

Basic

2031

D2 NS

5th

Not entered

N/A

Maholli(15)

Hjort(9)

150

Basic

Poor

Fairly Basic

Basic

2032

D2 NS

2nd

Not entered

N/A

Jonnson(16)

Davidsson(10)

212

Basic

Poor

Fairly Basic

Basic

Promoted

2033

D1N

12th

Not entered

N/A

Jonnson(9)

Wiktorsson-27a(4)

256

Basic

Poor

Fairly Basic

Basic

2034

D1N

13th

2nd Rd

N/A

Jonnson, Lillskog(8)

Davidsson(9)

233

Basic

Poor

Fairly Basic

Basic

 

Edited Saturday at 14:26 by Thebaker

[russ the womble]

Going to give this a go again, it's my favourite challenge.  In FM23 I managed to get to the Champions League semi final with SV Austria Salzburg but didn't get any further.

I'm sure I will need repeated attempts to get a save going like last time but once it's half competitive it's always great!

I know nothing about this team but decent facilities anyway!

Edit: Club didnt have any defenders so switched teams.

Edited Saturday at 22:05 by russ the womble

[libbyshuss]

Austria - 2035/36 - Premier League

Appalling First Half, Good Second Half, Wels Survive Again!

Two games into the season and I thought we'd finally turned a corner!

But then we followed that up with this run....

Which continued until the final game of the league stage! It meant we headed into the relegation group like this

But once we got to the relegation phase? Our form turned into this!

So, we survived comfortably after spending a lot of the season at the bottom of the table. 

 

Youth

We're almost maxed out now so our intakes should be good. And they are!

not many green grades there..... but it didn't seem to matter

The best by far seem to be Stefan Wifling 36A, who looks like he could be the real deal

 

So we now have a ludicrous number of high potential youth players. i just need some to turn into good players!

Career

[OlivierL]

    

New Star de Douala - Youth Intake - Season 3 - Class 2027

The preview was promising and the intake itself of Class of 27 is on average attributes the best class since starting this save. 

Spoiler

 

Djengoue 27G could become first team striker next season. Wapiwo 27A is the academy graduate with the highest PA and gives me a third good option for the MC spots. Atangana 27J is a challenger for a DC senior squad spot.

 

 

[fries]

Premier League

2038/39 (season 15)

Season Summary

I am very happy with this season. The best so far.

In the league, we started a good form in January which continued in February and March.

Thus, we managed to get the highest position ever and the highest number of points in the Premier League. 3 positions better and 3 more points than the 2036/37-season.

In the Europe League, we got through the league phase with 7 victories and 1 loss against AS Roma. We beat OL in the round of 16 but lost two games to Everton in the quarter-final. The campaign was once again used as an opportunity to get young talented players important game time.

No players were standouts this season. Jamerson was back as my topscorer and others played well too but not great.

Heritage, Willoughby, Anthony, and Nelson developed well and had their breakthrough on the team. While Layne, Flynn, and Panayotov also developed well and will possibly get their first team breakthrough next season. Another player who developed well is Francis who played in Europe League before Christmas but was on loan to Coruna in La Liga in the spring.

I had 2 players on the NXGN list. Nelson and Anthony were on the list again. But not ranked very well.

The youth intake preview was okay. 4 stars, a A, and a B.

The actual intake was not that great but okay. 1 elite talent, Sears, but "only" 4.5 stars. Otherwise, I only think Panteliadis can maybe develop into a role on the first team.

Sears is technically gifted, but only has a balanced personality and a bad physique. 

The most important transfer was that Hassan Eze was sold for £800k. He is favoured personnel of the club. A player with more than 400 league appearances for Dulwich Hamlet. He was a part of the holiday season intake. He was a starter from my first season in League North until my first season in the Premier League. Unfortunately, he is not good enough anymore and has not been in a few years.

I had no other transfers of significance this season, only some loan-outs.

Finances and Upgrades

We managed to get a youth facilities upgrade early in the season!

The club had a takeover later during the season. A rich Qatarian... Wy don't need the money...

The tried to build a new stadium. But the local council did not approve it.

 

Next season
Next season, I would be very happy if we repeat this season's results. Hopefully, the players will develop well in the Europe League.

[Neo_Geo]

CREWE UNITED AT THE DOUBLE IN SEASON 12

The league was retained for 3-in-a-row and the Mid Ulster Cup was won for the 6th time as Crewe United handled the early loss of key player Jason McKee Y8-B who left for Udinese for £1.3m and 50% of the next sale.

  

Disappointing performances in the domestic cups took the shine off the season and in Europe we had to make do with a place in the Europa League after failing to qualify for the Champions League League Phase as we had last year.

The most important competition was the league and once more Crewe United rose to the challenge pipping Linfield to the top spot by 9 points. We continue to improve our European ranking and the Sports Direct Premiership Ranking as the save continues on a fairly steady trajectory.

Financially we are sound and we actually have nothing to spend money on as the request to improve youth facilities has now disappeared with it sitting at 12.

League

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Domestic Cups

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Europe

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Club News

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Training facilities were maxed out with the final improvement

however the Youth Facilities will be halted for the time being as the option to request the improvement has now vanished as seemingly the chairperson is happy with it at 60% of its potential, however.....

This is one of 3 separate stories this season about the takeover so it feels like it might happen but then again it could just as easily not happen.

Our average attendances continues to grow but we are still only averaging 45% capacity for league games.

 

Youth Intake

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A pleasing intake preview with A grade DMC and AMC and the intake delivered with Curran Y13-A looking very promising and I certainly appreciate the elite left back Nicky Kirk Y13-A as its an area (as well as right back) where I feel we are lacking quality so hopefully the 5 star potential is accurate.

 

Player records sees Leacock Y6-A, Beacom Y6-A and Brown Y7-A make it into the top 5 appearance holders .

 

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Squad News

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Was going to track the key players as I did in the last update however I think its best to cover the squad as a whole. Last summer I had turned down an offer from Udinese for Jason McKee Y8-B who had been instrumental in AMC in season 11. He wasn't pleased and I opted to go for the valuation not being met. I managed to get this to £1.3m which I negotiated this plus 50% of next sale when Udinese came back in. Unfortunately they matched it and I decided to let him go. He hasn't done that well as you can see in the Former Player Watch section.

The other big news is that Kenneth McMurray Y9-A who is out of contract at the end of the season has notified me of his intention to leave because I kept negotiating bids where the clubs would withdraw and clearly he had enough. Given I have no more facility improvements at this stage the money is not something I really need so I will be looking to keep him on and lose him for nothing whilst I rotate some of the other youth players in to get them up to speed. No one looks like they will have the same level as McMurray Y9-A but he either leaves now or in a year, there is no way he stays.

Sam Knox Y4-A scored 34 league goals this year (59 in all competitions) which saw him finish runner up in the golden boot:

Here is how the squad is looking at the moment:

If McMurray does leave it will greatly reduce the quality of our best XI but its just a matter of when and not if now.

 

Former Player Watch

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Curtis Graham Y6-A
Sold to Newcastle United for £250k + 50% of future transfer on 15th June 2032

Another season where Graham Y6-A didn't get utilised much at all and still no loan move. I am thinking this will go much the same as Johnny Barr Y4-A and he'll leave on a free after failing to make an impact, then move to a smaller club and do well where he'll move and I get pittance from the sale.

As I said with Charlie Elliot Y-10A not having a resale I'm not choosing to track him though he has made more first team appearances for West Ham than Graham has for Newcastle.

 

 

 

 

 

Jason McKee Y8-B
Sold to Udinese for £1.3m + 50% of future transfer on 7th July 2036

Another youngster chasing the dream and finding out it isn't all that they hoped it would be. 4 appearances with an average rating of 5.10 doesn't bode well for McKee.

He's left us having scoring 69 goals in total over 122 games in 3 seasons and moved to a club where he has had 1 start and 3 sub appearances in a season.

 

 

 

Next Season

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Try to handle McMurray Y9-A's impending departure by identifying the next AMC to bring through (may even be Curran Y13-A from this intake) and then helping them develop whilst still trying to challenge for the title.

I'd settle once again for a place in the Europa League League Phase as the money is good enough for us and the matches are at a level better suited to our own for now.

I'll cross my fingers that a takeover takes place and the new chairperson has better WWY than the current chairperson but I won't hold my breath.

 

[XaW]

On 28/06/2024 at 21:22, XaW said:

I think I have a temporary solution for this.

Ticking this should avoid the ID being reused, I think. Not experimented enough to be sure yet, but I think might stop the IDs being available after the player retires.

Ok, this seems to really work. A player I released last season just retired and his profile is now this:

So the ID doesn't seems to be reused when I retain history. So I'm going to do this for all youth players I release or sell.