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December 2026 Seven goals for Marong in a 9-0 win away at Falcons. Wasn't even praised after the game, it was Dukureh with his goal and three assists.

November 2026 Four players in for a total of £80k. We raided Senegalese side CNEPS Excellence for two players. Senegal is a hotbed for some of the better Gambian players to leave and join a club in a better league but now is the time we can attract some of those player back to Gambia. Modou Barrow is the first to cross that threshold, the young defensive midfielder was our record signing for a couple of weeks. On the same day, Chieck Thiam arrived as our first foreign signing from a former haunt of mine Ashanti GB in Guinea. The young left back offers a better-rounded ability than our current Gambian player there. Late in the window two further signings were made, Ghanaian winger-come-striker Christian Abade arrived from Inter Allies for an inital £30k rising another £6k when he's played 50 games. He will offer depth to both the wing and attack, utilising his left-footedness on the right hand side. The last and third foreign player to arrive was Oumar Kamara, our second signing from CNEPS Excellence for just £12k. The young defender will slot in as first choice CB alongside the marauding Jarju at Libero.

June 2026 Had to battle the board for all three improvements.

June 2026 Season four is done and dusted. We drew two matches this season in the league, they were back-to-back against PSV Wellingara and Wallidan, this was at a tough time for the club with fixture congestion, injuries and bans for a couple of players. Anyway, a third season in a row unbeaten, which now stands at 67 games. Only 92 goals scored this season, 19 less than last season but we did concede one goal less with 17 compared to 18 the season before. We played Falcon's in the cup final for the 3rd successive time. We beat Greater Tomorrow, Real de Banjul and PSV Wellingara en route. We needed extra time to win 2-1. In the Champions League we had a good run. We beat Simba of Tanzania on away goals after a 4-4 aggregate scoreline. We then somehow beat Moroccan side Raja Casablanca 7-6 on aggregate to reach the Group Stage for the very first time. We would face Al-Merreikh Omdurman (Sudan), Kaizer Chiefs (South Africa) and ES Tunis (Tunisia). We managed to win both home and away against Al-Merreikh, managed an home draw against Kaizer Chiefs and an away draw against an already qualified ES Tunis. 3rd in that group is a great result and helped with the finances extremely well. Less goals scored this season means for less wild viewing for individual scorers. I could add G/A per game average to each chart. Huge incomings thanks to the Champions League group stage appearance and some big away attendances. I've increased the scouting range already to West Africa, time to start searching for young'uns to nurture and sell on for profit. I will also look at youth recruitment and junior coaching again.

December 2025 Sorry Falcons...first I steal your players then we do this...and we missed a penalty.

Nov 2025 We raided Falcons for three new players. Bakary Touray joined to slot into DM, a player I've used before in an African save. A decent scoring record for Falcons albeit from a further forward position I would imagine. I opted to spend £20k on Jesus Gomez to add some more fire power to attack, he will replace Sarr in the rotation in role. And last to join from Falcons was back up goalkeeper Ousman Suno, he's not great, ultimately we had our pants down twice last season due to Dampha (our first choice) being called up for International duty and having to play an U19 player instead.

August 2025 Improvement to both junior coaching and youth recruitment but the board rejected my advances to improve the training facilities.

July 2025 A decent AFCoN 2025 campaign for The Gambia with an opening group game win over Cameroon included. We had one player involved, goalkeeper Ebou Dampha was on the bench. They are up to 71st in the World Rankings.

June 2025 Libero goes on... Becomes our highest paid player by £100 a week but I don't care.

June 2025 Season three is over and it was another league win but this time it was unbeaten. But it wasn't just unbeaten, we didn't drop a single point, we won every single game. We scored 111 goals in 22 games (at a tad over 5 goals per game) and conceded 18, three times as many as last season but that's what happens when you play with one out-and-out defender. So we end the season with a plus 93 goal difference. In the cup we fell short again losing in the final to Falcon's yet again, a real humdinger of a game though as we saw a nine-goal thriller, we lost by the odd goal. In the Confederations Cup we had a tough-ish group in retrospect. Considering we took four points from Petro de Luanda who finished top of the group. Anyway, I was pleased with the performance for the first time in such a position and we gained £240k from participating at this stage. Player wise plenty filled their boots with goals and assists. 7 players hit double figures or more for goals, Jerreh Marong (a new deadline day signing) top scored with 41 from 26 games. A new table to show some players below; The biggest issue we have facing us at the minute is that Moses Jarju is unwilling to renew his contract at the moment and will be exploring his options, hopefully he has no options and we can tie him down for a couple of extra seasons or the Libero experiment could be on hold for a few seasons. We're sitting on a good wedge of money. Upgrades will take place soon to improve the youth player coming into the club.

Nope, could hardly tell the difference Let's just say the formation has worked a treat. We've had a couple of 9-0's, an 8-1 plus other five and six scorelines in our favour. Yes we've conceded more than last season but scoring for fun the other end is better.

December 2024 Opening day of the league season

November 2024 Comfortable win over two legs, rotated in the 2nd leg. We qualify for the group stages of the Confederation Cup. Cape Town City from South Africa, Hearts of Oak from Ghana and Petro de Luanda from Angola.

October 2024 Forgot this happened, we drop into the Confederations Cup. We face Leones Vegetarianos from Equatorial Guinea in the 2nd Round.

October 2024 Reinforcements arrive as the transfer window opens. Lamin Dukureh was someone I tried to sign when the save started but he opted to move to Falcons. A well-rounded player with lots of double digits across the board, he will slot in at RW. Bai Sonko was released by Real de Banjul, in he comes to take the starting defensive midfield spot. Ismaila Manneh offers another option at RW on a non-contract basis. We could do with a back-up GK and another striker to potentially replace Sarr.

October 2024 It was a non-contest, I'm just pleased with scored in both legs. We were without our starting GK and Moses Jarju in defense as they were called up to The Gambia squad. Really helped the finances though, £250k in gate receipts from the away leg in Tunisia.

October 2024 What is this scheduling?

September 2024 It was Gambia v Burkina Faso in the African Nations Qualifiers just four days ago. Gambia dominated and came out 1-0 winners thanks to a solitary goals from Nicolas Jackson. They sit top of their group with two wins from two having beat Togo four days prior to this victory. And in the African Champions League it was The Gambia versus Burkina Faso again as we took on Salitas FC in the Preliminary Round. Wow, a felt we could compete and nick a narrow win but to score seven goals against a team of Salitas' calibre in very good. We've changed formation for this season; We know we're quite good going forward and defensively solid. Lets test that theory, Moses Jarju is a beast in relative terms, lets utilise him the best we can, he moves to a Libero role where he can cover the defense yet step out from the back when given a chance. Jawara is a RB by trade but has good crossing, determination, work rate, fitness and acceleration to make that right hand side his own, with Jatta or A.Nother right winger cutting inside, he has plenty of space to get up and down the wing. If and when we improve our choices at DM, that role will change to a Segundo Volante or Regista, depending on their fit. Anyway, a week later we go to Burkina Faso for the return leg, and we changed nothing. I never do. We lose 2-1 but win on aggregate 8-6. We advance to the First Round where will face Tunisian giants Club Africain.

June 2024 End of the season but I think the dominating domestically piece was a bit premature. We won the league, unbeaten in fact with 18 wins and four draws from our 22 league games. We scored 66 goals, at a rate of 3 a game exactly and conceded just six. Our biggest win of the season was away against Wallidan where we won 8-0. In the Gambian Cup, we beat Wallidan, Gambia Armed Forces and PSV Wellingara (no relation to the Dutch side in game) en route to the final where we faced Falcons. Missing star centre back Moses Jarju and Omar Sarr having a stinker we lost the final 1-0. Omar Sarr top scored this season with 21 goals in 24 games, whilst wingers Mbye and Jobe both hit double figures. 17 year old Musa Touray had a more creative season in comparison to last season, scoring nine goals and also making nine assists. Star centre back Moses Jarju scored nine goals of his own, with eight of those coming from the penalty spot, not missing a single penalty in the process. Financially we're comfortable and sit with £50k in the bank and the time of writing.

March 2024 10 games into the season and we may have already begun the domination domestically... Scored 41 and conceded 3 in those games too.

They genuinely hold more interest for me than most other saves. Such an untapped continent on FM. Two pens scored in five games so far. Four clean sheets in that time too.

Up to 109th in the World now. Just finished 2nd in the African Cup of Nations Qualifying Group G behind Mali but ahead of Congo. Beaten Eritrea in a friendly whilst drawing against Namibia and Mozambique in other friendlies. Their latest games came against Malawi, beating them 5-2 over two legs to advance to reach the group stage of the African World Cup qualifiers. Group of death though with Cameroon, Nigeria and Algeria.

December 2023 We've reached the start of the domestic season. We took a small break having been dumped from the Champions League before playing five friendlies, where we secured five wins. Lets take a look at the first choice XI for the new season ahead. GK - Ebou Dampha - new signing from Waa Banjul, we play them on the opening day of the season. RB - Ebou Camara - another new signing also from Waa Banjul CB - Moses Jarju - the best player at the club by far, on pens and new club captain. CB - Modou Darboe - played 27 times for us last season, either footed, shame his vision isn't better. LB - Sainey Sanyang - prime candidate for being replaced next, can cross for days. CM - Alagie Kujabi - will play the more defensive of the two CM's. Utilise his passing ability. CM - Sellou Jallow - physically poor but only 17. Some great mentals at his age. RW - Abdourahman Jobe - can run, can dribble and can cross. Not much else. Wants to leave at the end of his contract. AMC - Musa Touray - was class last season with 18 goals at 16 years old, even in Gambia thats pretty good. LW - Mansour Mbye - Hopefully a goalscoring winger for us, scored eight times for Banjul Utd last season. Bodes well. ST - Omar Sarr - the grandaddy of the club at 29, next oldest in the starting XI is 21. 17 goals last season. Let's roll on to the new season.

Thanks Corinthiano. Yeah, I mean I could have picked a more difficult club domestically but in the continental competitions its going to be a bit of a slog.

Thanks. We'll see how this one pans out. It should see me out until FM24 is released to be honest. The idea of managing the national side is always there but its never been the same in reality. Thanks Clive! Helping the national side bodes well with only being able to have four foreign players registered with the club.