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December 2023

December 2023 Wow, Sven comes up with the goods.

November 2023 Two wins from two this month. Lowly Letzebuerg-Feschmaart were defeated 2-0 and Red Star Merl-Belair were beaten 3-0. Still top but two points.

November 2023 That's Sery back off to France then. His goals (8 so far) and assists (4) will be missed.

It's a weeks wage expenditure

October 2023 A decent month all in all. 3-0 up at the roulette table team, Red Black before their veteran Brazilian pulled two back. We were then on the other end of a 3-2 scoreline, losing to league favourites Belvaux having been 2-0 up after nine minutes, our backup LB scoring a 94th-minute own goal to lose the game. We hammered Union 05, our front three scoring the five between them. We then beat top-of-the-league Sandweiler 1-0, a draw would have been a fair result. We ended the month against bottom-of-the-league Kopstal, we achieved an xG of 5.26 from 34 shots but only scored four. We now top the league.

October 2023

September 2023 The wins continued into September, we demolished Kehlen in front of 190 fans. A single goal was needed to beat Blo-Waiss Itzig, that goal by on-loan defender Andre Moreira. A first loss of the season against Junglister, we dominated the game on xG and had three clear-cut chances but only managed a consolation goal. We beat AS Colmar-Berg from the northern division in the Luxembourg Cup First Round, a slightly rotated side doing the business. We bounced back in the league with an easy win over Munsbach, Sery with another two goals, five for the season now. We then faced Swift Hesperange in the second round of the cup, the top-tier side only managing a 1-0 win, we had eight shots to their seven but failed to hit the target with any of ours. 3rd at the moment but we have a game in hand on Belvaux.

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September 2023 I'd seize control for £2k if I could.

August 2023 Two games in August and two wins. I wasn't sure what to expect going into the league season, yes we are predicted a 3rd/4th placed position come the end of the season but we'd lost a few first team players who weren't easily replaced. Luna Oberkorn were promoted into the 3rd tier last season so a win was on the cards but we made hard work of it. We dominated the stats; SOT 9 v 4 and xG 3.5 v 1.07. To concede three goals to 1.07 xG was disappointing. AMC's Veselcic and Sery doing the business with three goals and two assists between them. Schengen were also promoted last season but expected to finish up in 2nd place according to the media. The twin-shadow strikers doing the business again, each scoring a goal to win the game albeit we should have scored more as we had 23 shots, nine on target. They scored with their only SOT. We're second behind The Belval Belvaux on goal difference.

August 2023 We're on the eve of our first league game of the campaign and there has been some losses of players. Three first-choice players were poached from us, Carboni (GK) joins French National-2 side St Pryve St Hilaire, whilst defensive midfielder Richard Ngoma leaves for another French side Olympique Saumur and our best striker Ernest Basic joins US Rumelange in the second tier of Luxembourg. We've tried to bring in some players to replace those who have left but also improve the weak positions in the team. Dummong strengthens central defence but we're paying him £20 p/w for the privilege. Maquart joins on loan to initially play alongside Ngoma at DM but now operates there singlehandedly. Olivier Schermuly is a bit of a coup for the club, he slots into central midfield and is immediately our best player. Salomao offers an option on the left albeit as a LB, not his favoured ML position. On top of this, we've lost our other best player Carlos Bebe to injury which rules him out for another 2-3 months. We're currently operating like this but the plan was initially for wing-backs and two DMs/one MC.

July 2023 Our current first team is below, we're a semi-professional club but most players are amateur, so we're paying out very little in wages but we're susceptible to players being pinched from us at a moment's notice. We're fairly light in a few areas; full backs we have just one, we have just one quality winger and not much in central midfield. Our best players are; Carlos Bebe - RB - the 30-year-old Cape Verdean was with Portuguese side Oriental last season, he can play in either full-back position. Richard Ngoma - DM - another African, was last with French club side Ploermel, he's currently wanted by some French clubs. Jean-Jacques Sery - AMC - Frenchman Jean-Jacques looks great for this level, I'll have to adapt a tactic for him to fit in behind the striker(s) Oliver Veselcic - AMC/ST - our best Luxembourgish player, suited to AMC but can play ST. Maybe it's two support-strikers behind an AF. Ernest Basic - ST - another decent-looking Luxembourg national for this level. Will be the focal point of our attack. Under 19's Some good potential in this squad of youth players. The mix of nationalities is great, the personalities less so.

Luxembourg Luxembourg is a small landlocked country in Western Europe, bordered by Belgium to the North & West, Germany to the East and France to the South. Officially called the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, it is the only surviving Grand Duchy in the world. Its Capital and most populous city is Luxembourg. With an area of just 998 square miles, Luxembourg is Europe’s seventh smallest country. Despite this, Luxembourg has one of the highest population growth rates in Europe, with foreigners accounting for nearly half of the 660,000 population. It's within the City of Luxembourg that we begin this save. Luxembourg City FC Formerly known as FC RM Hamm Benfica, Luxembourg City FC is based in Hamm, a quarter of Luxembourg City. Originally, the club was founded in 2004 after the merger of FM Hamm 37 and FM RM 86 Luxembourg. At the end of the 2021/22 season, the club changed its name to what it is now. They play their home games at the Estadio do Cents which has a capacity of 2,800. The club possesses basic training and youth facilities along with Adequate Academy coaching and Above Average Youth Recruitment which ties in nicely with my philosophy. Unfortunately, the club begins the save with little money in the bank, just £1,054 but as a semi-professional outfit, the club does not have masses of contracts handed out to its players. The club has a blend of native Luxembourg nationals along with French and some African players. Looking at the U19s we have a lot of potential with a lot of players holding Portuguese as a second nationality, a perk of the Hamm-Benfica days no doubt. With the owner looking to sell the club the current 5-year plan has been adjusted. The expectations are to Record a 1. Division Top Half Finish and Be Competitive in the Luxembourg Cup. The current media prediction is to finish 4th, whereas the league has us finishing in 3rd. We begin life in the 3rd tier of Luxembourg football, having been relegated last season. At this level, the tier is split into tier leagues, one for the North and one for the South, we find ourselves in the latter. Each league consists of 16 teams (although the pic above suggests 14) and the team top of the league at the end of the season gains automatic promotion, second place will go into promotion play-off whilst the bottom three sides will all be relegated. There are no foreign players limitations just the above rule regarding having at least five players trained at a club within Luxembourg in the starting XI. That means we need to either develop or buy from within Luxembourg, which helps the other clubs around us too. We've added the bordering nations down to the lowest vanilla level but as view only along with the playable Luxembourg to tier three. We have loaded all current European national players and also added players from top division clubs to give us a database of 49000 players. There will be no rules to save other than to develop youth as always. Next, we'll take a look at the squad and some of the promising players at the club.

Unfortunately, things are just not clicking in this save for me, maybe it's a little too easy domestically, it's not quite working with FM24 as it's ported over from FM23. I've not played this save for a couple of days and have been toying with a few other ideas.

Well done getting the RFS job and good luck with the season ahead!

May 2026 We're struggling defensively, just one clean sheet this month in seven games is pretty bad. To concede four in a 4-4 draw to Cano and at the end of the month to concede five and lose to Atletico Semu is appalling. Despite that, we're now 17 points clear of Unidad but they have a game in hand to close the gap a little.

April 2026 Another seven-game month and one with colour other than green. We opened the month with a disappointing draw against Cano Sport, their goal coming in the 88th minute. We then needed extra time in the cup to beat Saeta Blanca, a heavily rotated side couldn't do the business so first teamer Nchama came on to get the winner. Better performances against Deportivo Ebenezer and Athletico Semu were overshadowed by the defeat to Deportivo Unidad and then draw with Real XBP having been 3-0 up against them. We ended the month with another poor performance but we dug out the win over Sony. 14 points clear of Unidad in 2nd place.

March 2026 Another unbeaten month as we stroll to seven wins from seven games including an Equatoguinean Cup win against Junior Inter. 13 points clear of 2nd place already and we've played two games less than the teams directly below us. Just one other team, Sony, has a positive goal difference at this stage of the season. Two more players join. Jose Cuyami was released by Deportivo Unidad despite scoring 48 goals in 70 appearances. Esono was released by Cano Sport and adds further depth at centre back.

February 2026 A great start to season five with five wins from five games. Moha scored twice on debut and added a 3rd against Atletico but then got injured for 2 months. Nchama finally came to the party against Cano Sport with a hat-trick. We are the only unbeaten team left whilst Cano Sport are yet to get a win.

February 2026 Four new players are into the squad. Moha is that Moha, the one who spent some time at Barcelona. Hugo Buyla joins after being released by Atalanta, so he has some pedigree at least. Samban is a Ghanaian left back and Kamara is a right winger from Sierra Leone.

November 2025

2025 Season Review A 25-day gap from the end of the Region Insular season to the Champions Play-Off We dominated Deportivo Niefang but struggled to score more than once. We were 2-0 down to Unidad before we rallied in the second half scoring four times. We dominated against Mongomo but without Nchama, who was away with Eq. Guinea B, we struggled up front. We looked set for a point when Nsi scored an equaliser in injury time but Mongomo broke away and scored in the 5th minute of injury time. A routine 4-0 win over Akonangui all but secured the title but it needed confirming a matter of days later at home to Sony, with 33-year-old Nsi scoring twice. A second successive Champions Play-Off win which sees us leapfrog both Athletico Malabo and Deportivo Mongomo in the table for most league titles. We had a shocker in the Equatoguinean Cup this season beating UD Santa Maria before losing penalties to Akamayong. We dominated and battered ASCOT from Chad in the preliminary round of the Confederations Cup. We face USM Alger in the 1st Round. A difficult fixture against the Algerian side. We nearly FM'd them in the first leg; we scored with three of our four shots on target with just 0.59 xG compared to Alger's 12 SOT and 3.42 xG. It wasn't to be in the 2nd leg, maybe the sending off or disallowed goal from us costing us. Top Scorer - Jose Angel Efa Nchama (34) - He keeps on scoring the goals, 34 this season against an xG of 22. Most Assists - Rafael Nsogo (18) - he swapped between CM and RW to achieve these assists, he also scored 18 goals. Average Rating - Kokou Alibo (7.78) - one of few quality players we have. 26 goals and 16 assists from the left wing. Unfortunately announced he would consider his options at the end of his contract. U21 POTS - Manuel Kouoh - had to step up at right wing, he rewarded us with 12 goals and 14 assists. We're struggling to keep the finances in the black, with no cup run/ win this season we end this season in the red.

August 2025 An elite talent, a goalkeeper which reflects the intake preview. Simon Kone could get a spot on the bench from next season onwards.

July 2025 The final two games played and two more wins. An unbeaten season for the first time. We now have 25 days until the first game of the Champions Play-Off.