ToMexico!!

July 2033 Omossola has left the club after his loan back spell from Liverpool has ended. He's now worth £30+ million and we have the opportunity to sell the profit clause if we wish. Near on £8m is huge, it would double our balance but I feel we could get more, Omossola is listed for loan, so we'll keep an eye on where he goes and how he's doing and take view on selling the clause (if its available) at the turn of the year.

June 2033 To Mexico Stadium has a nice ring to it. Cheap as chips too, must be made out of wood. A stadium sponsorship that pays for it in two seasons.

June 2033 The domestic trophies continue to increase with another double this season. 22 from 22 in the league again, only 136 goals scored but just 10 conceded. We also beat Africell in the Gambian Cup final. In the Champions League we had another good season beating Al-Hilal Omdurman and Cape Town City in the qualifiers. We topped our group consisting of ES Setif, Rivers Utd and Club Africain with five wins and a draw. We then faced Orlando Pirates in the quarters, we beat them 4-0 on aggregate and then faced ES Tunis and beat them 3-0 on aggregate in the semi's. I then get a raft of international call ups for the African Cup of Nations. We're without our starting GK, RWB, LB, DM, MC and RW; our back up CB, LB, MC and AMC. Thanks scheduling. We lost both legs against another Tunisian side ES Sahel 6-3 on aggregate. Another huge tally for Ceesay, I didn't realise quite the season Tchamba had had until I did the table. Dukureh continues to be consistent with goals and assists. Jawara had his best season for assists at the age of 30. Overall, Musa Touray didn't get a look in at AMC so Jawara and Dukureh are likely to surpass his next season. Ceesay needs 66 more goals to reach 400 for the club. Our finances are extremely healthy. I'm just waiting on the stadium news before committing to another facility upgrade. Overall I would say the quality in the squad has dropped so I need to look at bringing in one or two to freshen things up, Omossola needs replacing permanently, our backup RW is leaving to go back to Czechia and backup GK is retiring.

June 2033 Described as an excellent intake we have just one elite talent in Ebou Juwara. Poor personality x determination is not good but we'll take what we can get at the minute. Personalities on the whole are rather poor in this intake. Also, almost all of them lack any type of stamina.

That's true. Will see where I get with this save first though. The amount of time I spend manually searching through teams in all many of the nations each season is wild. I don't have the scouts available to set up recruitment foci. And their quality is poor. Best I have is 10 JPA / 10 JPP I thought that about Gambia but we got lucky winning the ACL but both of those would be on another level.

Been looking at other nations to try and Sao Tome e Principe or Comoros are looking favourable for FM24 at the minute due to the amount of each nation that come through Portugal and France.

January 2033 Didn't take too long... It will be interesting to see if we get the full potential from this deal. He's immediately worth £24m+, we've loaned him back to give me time to find a replacement.

January 2033 Selling Omossola is now a priority, he's out growing the club at quite a rate. He's played eight games so far this season, scoring 13 and assisting six more goals. He's wanted by the big two in Portugal and Newcastle shows some minor interest. I can probably stretch his sale value to over a million if we get a bidding war started.

December 2032 New record win... Our shooting is pretty wayward though, to be honest.

Thanks, @KristianT There's definitely been more African influence in the forum in recent seasons, it's good to see. Hopefully, future FMs can expand more into the continent to further attract save games and threads. What I love the most is finding those raw talents like Vianney and Omossola and selling them on for big money and rinsing and repeating. I've recently found this guy in the Ivory Coast, the same club as Vianney came from. For some reason, he wants to continue his development in non-league/academy football, rather than join us. There are plenty of other players like him, just got to find them.

December 2032 With the departure of Sarr, Jarju and Minteh from the starting XI this is how we shape up tactically and as a first choice XI. Same shape as we've been using for a long time but a couple of roles have changed. Varela was earmarked to be Libero replacement but he's just not as comfortable in that role, instead, we'll play him as a stopping ball-playing defender. Basically, be on the front foot, stop the attack and play a quick attacking pass. Interestingly he's played for Sao Tome e Principe a number of times but then was called up to the Angolan squad, didn't play and he's Sao Tomean again. With Touray operating as a Ball-Winning midfielder in central midfield we've opted to change Omossola to a Segundo Volante. Touray wins the ball then Omossola charges forward with it is the plan. I've also put him on penalties despite his attribute for that being so low. Omossola is also wanted by Portland in the MLS, if we get a bid I would let him leave but I'll hopefully try and create a bidding war for him. Dukureh has just signed another new contract with us, he's here for another three seasons. That gives us more chance of keeping him if a Middle-Eastern club comes in for him again.

The Gambia are currently 52nd in the world. They have been as high as 34th back in November 2027. They started the save in 118th, so they're much better than where they were. They finished 3rd in the 2027 AFCoN so the world ranking reflects that. They played in the 2026 World Cup finishing 3rd in their group. They didn't qualify for the 2030 edition. All the players in the U23's and U20's are Gambian-based players, there isn't much quality beyond the players we have based in The Gambia. There are a few Gambian youngsters abroad who have yet to be called up but they may be waiting for call-ups from their respective home nations. Sainey Badjie | Kabba Saho | Momodou Faye | Ansumana Danso Danso just recently chose to represent Gambia over Spain where he was born. No other Gambian players have left to join any foreign clubs of note, we're not at that stage yet. We will get to that stage at some point but other clubs I doubt it. I've recently added Germany as playable from view-only and I think i'll add Spain and France too, to try and increase the chances of Gambian youngsters abroad.

October 2032 Out Moses Jarju leaves the club and signs for French side Reims. Our first choice goalkeeper leaves on a free, joining Swedish side Elfsborg. This leaves us extremely short here. A player I didn't want to lose but Minteh persistently moaned about wanting to move to a bigger club, he requested a transfer and a couple of Danish clubs came in for him but wanted us to pay half of his £450 p/w wages so I offered him out and Qatari side Al-Markiya bit. In Strange one this, I added Germany as playable in a bid to add some more Gambians to the database through their intakes and this guy popped up, signed as a back-up, according to his history has never played for anyone. We were lacking in goal and a number of players were unhappy, we were never going to find a Gambian national of the ability of Sarr. Jaiteh's signing still didn't appease the players' concerns. With the lack of bodies through the doors I decided to promote a few youngsters to the first team. Of the three Carayol will get the most game time.

Thanks, it's a nice windfall. I'm hoping to sell one of my other foreign players in the coming season, ideally needs to be one of the defenders as we have two.

October 2032

September 2032 Vianney's clause is finally available to sell. This is huge money for us. Finances us for at least 3 seasons I reckon.

June 2032 Finally after 10 seasons we get an elite talent... Lamin Carayol may just get promoted to the first team now in a bid to fast-track his development. We still need these intakes to be better, we're spending around £150k per month on the youth setup.

June 2032 Racking the trophies up still, another league and cup double in the bag. We returned to invincible ways as we won all 22 league games for a third time, scoring 147 goals and conceding nine in the process. We were close to setting a new record win this season, beating Team Rhino 13-0 which equalled a record we set seven years ago when we also beat Falcons 13-0. In the cup we were more prone to conceding goals, beating Real de Banjul (6-4), Team Rhino (9-0), Steve Biko (5-1) and PSV Wellingara (5-3) to win another cup. We beat Agrosport Clube (Sao Tome e Principe) and AS Otoho (Congo) to reach the group stages once again. We topped our group consisting of Coton Sport (Cameroon), Club Africain (Tunisia) and Vita Club (DMR Congo) with four wins and two draws. We beat Al-Ittihad Tripoli 7-1 on aggregate in the quarter finals before being beaten 5-4 on aggregate by RC Abidjan. We're building up quite a collection of visited places for continental games. Blue is Confederations Cup / Red is Champions League Huge returns for the first-choice front three, 135 goals and 91 assists is quite astonishing. Moses Jarju finishes his time with us with another double-figure haul, ending his Libero adventure as a 1-in-3 goalscorer. Money had been slowly trickling away through the season until we were knocked out of the Champions League and given near on £800k. We're getting bids in the region of £1m for both Ceesay and Dukureh so thankfully the board won't be getting itchy to accept just yet.

Its good money, he's played a fair few more games for Flamengo now. Maybe a season two of further development and we could get even more than we bargained for.

March 2032 Eliezer Vianney appears at #30 in the NXGN list. Since leaving for Brazil he's played just once but his value has increased even further to more than £15m.

February 2032 The arrival of Eric Yahaya was confirmed in late January but it was another arrival that was more exciting for us. I had Gilson Varela on my shortlist for a little while and he finally was interested in joining. We struck a deal worth an initial £75k up front and three payments of £50k plus £25k once 50 games had been played. He is our Jarju replacement whilst he is here, valued at over £500k we can more than double our money when we come to move him on if the bigger clubs come calling.

January 2032 We make our first major sale. We sell Eliezer Vianney to Flamengo for £350k plus 40% profit. He's instantly valued at £7.2m+, so we should see some good money in the future.

November 2031 Two players join the squad this window. To bring in a player from German side St Pauli could be deemed as a bit of a coup, Muhammed Dahaba can play at RB, LB, DM and CM. Although he is right footed he's going to play at LB for us this season. Late in the window I realised we had a foreign spot available to use, after looking at my scouted players list I saw Ismael Omossola was available from Cameroonian side APEJES. We struck a deal for just £23.5k and in he comes to add a rotation option for DM and CM. I could look start retraining him as a Libero for when Jarju leaves the club. We also have a deal struck for 17 year old Eric Yahaya to join from WAFA SC. The young centre back has already played over 50 league games and will likely leave on loan for his first season with us until we either sell a foreign player or Thiam gains Gambia residency which is likely as he is waiting for the paperwork at this moment in time.

October 2031 One by one the above players committed their futures to the club once interest was dropped by their pursuing parties. We have just Jarju and Sarr left to try and tempt to stay but I think its extremely doubtful.

September 2031 Five of our first team are now looking to leave. Sarr is exploring his options which almost means he will leave at the end of his contract this season. Jarju has stated he's leaving at the end of his deal this season. Minteh wants to leave because I rejected a classic lowball offer. Dukureh and Ceesay both unhappy I rejected lowball offers for them. Unsurprisingly they are our five best players. Minteh and Ceesay have additional years on their deals. If I can get rid of the interest in Dukureh I think I can get him to sign a new deal.