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Taking a Break - September 2044 With the new patch (which seems to have ruined my tactic) and all the talk of Africa, its time to start a new save in Africa. I'm just working out in which nation I want to start this years save. The choice is between Angola, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Madagascar, Mali, South Sudan, Uganda, Zambia or Zimbabwe.

Poached - July 2044 Having said I doubt we'll get many more poachings one happens the same summer. Mainz are one place above us in the reputation rankings.

Just had a count up we have 82 players at the club...9 of them are German with no 2nd nationality. Which means 73 players are classed as African or have an African 2nd nationality. Of which they could represent 31 of the 54 African nations. Thankfully, most of them are from lesser nations like South Sudan, Malawi, Niger and Tanzania. Imagine if they all got called up to their countries and they all played in the AFCoN

Say what you think eh... nothing like having a conversation about it. I said I think...not I am abolsutely 100% positively correct. In my opinion then as someone who has done multiple saves in Africa and West-Asia, that once you load up a save with a nation like Congo or Azerbaijan, the amount of players of from that nation or dual-nationality considerably drops in youth intakes in other leagues due to that nation being loaded. Is that better?

European Awards - May 2044

2043/44 Season Review Our first season in Europe and it was a good one. Initially, having finished 7th last season I thought we had qualified for the Conference League but it was actually the Europa League. Anyway, we were drawn against Schauffhausen, LASK, APOEL, Lyon, Bristol Rovers, Crvena zvezda, Dnipro and Sporting Portugal in what was our first foray into the new formats for European competitions. We managed to go through the group stage unbeaten with five wins and three draws to finish in 4th place and qualify for the Round of 16. We faced Swiss side Sion in the Round of 16, we drew 2-2 in Switzerland and then won the return fixture 3-0 at home, Ahmed Fahmy the hero with four goals across the two games. French side Lorient up next in the quarters, at home first with a 4-2 win. We drew the reverse fixture 1-1 to advance to the semi-final. Another French side in the semis in the shape of Nice. Away first this time and it ended 2-2, Fahmy at the double again. Back at home, Fahmy scored after 13 seconds but the game eventually went to extra time, Nice took the lead but we scored in the 119th minute to take the game to penalties where we won 3-1. We were in our first final. Annoyingly, we faced Hamburg in the final in Belgium. We eventually took the lead in the second half but were pegged back with 20 minutes to go. The game was uneventful from there on in and went to penalties where we prevailed 4-2 to be crowned the Europa League champions. In the league we managed to finish in 7th place again, we managed to finish on the same points total but with worse goal difference by -10. We actually scored the same amount of goals as last season too with 62. We were pretty consistent through the course of the season never dropping below 9th or above 6th once the season settled. In finishing 7th we have qualified for the Conference League but due to winning the Europa League we have qualified for... We reached the Quarter-Finals of the Pokal again, we beat St Pauli, Stuttgart and Union Berlin before losing to Dortmund. Ahmed Fahmy top scored with 37 goals, his highest return for us so far. 19 of those goals coming in the league which saw him finish 5th in the league chart. He scored 16 goals in the 15 games in the Europa League which saw him top the charts by three goals. Mauro Santos was back to his best scoring 23 goals and making 22 assists in 51(2) games. 33 year old Oyay Kenyi is showing signs of decline but managed 20 goals and 12 assists in 41(7) games. I think we're going to begin to struggle in a season or two, we don't have too many quality players coming through and there aren't many quality players coming through at other teams. I'm going to contiue to invest money into the youth side of this as thats our easiest way to improve. Currently we have Superb training and excellent youth facilities but with only Good junior coaching but excellent youth recruitment. We have plenty of money to improve the facilities further its just convincing the board to do so.

He could do a job as 3rd choice if he reaches his potential. Dongmo is 1st choice and still only 29 so could be there for another 6/7 years, Moussa Kone has been promoted to 2nd choice and improving well, he's only 19. We also have another two GKs who could do a job if required.

Poached Update - March 2044 Leo Richter has come through at Werder Bremen. I doubt we'll see many, if any player poached from us now we're settled in the Bundesliga.

Youth Intake Review - April 2044 It remains an excellent intake. Four elite talents. Salomon Fokou looks the best of the bunch although Low Determination is off putting to a degree. Not blessed with much in terms of good personalities here. Just one dual-African player born outside of Germany. Map of Saxony-Anhalt | Map of Germany | Map of Africa

Mid-Season Break - Dec 2043 We go into the mid-season in 8th place, down on where we would like to be but we've had European football to contend with too. Surprised by the negative goal differene also but we have lost 4-0 to Dortmund and 5-2 to Hamburg so far this season. In the Europa League, we're going well still, we sit in 4th place with a 4-2-0 record in our six games so far. Having won our first four games against Schauffhausen, LASK, Apoel and Lyon we've drawn against Bristol Rovers and Crvena Zvezda. We have Dnipro and Sporting left to play. Ahmed Fahmy has 17 goals in 21(4) games so far this season, he's currently on 100 league goals for the club already. He's 44 goals behind Oyay Kenyi, who is his strike partner but at 33 years of age will be phased out at some point in the next season or two. Kenyi himself has 13 goals in 21(4) games and Mauro Santos is somewhat back to his best with six goals and 11 assists so far this season. Beyond those three, contributions have been few and far between. £50m in the bank still, the balance will continue to grow season-on-season due to our little transfer expenditure due to the save constraints.

Youth Intake Preview - Dec 2043 3 x CB and 3 x DM is a bit excessive when's there's only one player each other position.

Yeah sadly its a bug but its one i'm actually happy with for a change.

Correction - Nov 2043 We're not in the Conference League at all, we're in the Europa League. And its so far, so good.

Europa Conference League - September 2043 Our first taste of continental football as we enter the Europa Conference League. Its also my first taste of the new format for the competition, we will play the eight teams below. We stand a good chance of winning at least four of these games I think; Schaffhausen, LASK, APOEL and Dnipro-1. Lets see how we get on and whether we can qualify for the next stage or not.

Transfers - Summer 2043 Just one player in this summer and that was Rainer Seidemann from Wolfsburg, the young right back will act as cover for the first team and possible get gametime in the Europa Conference League this season.

Affiliate Clubs - Aug 2043 Our repuatation has grown enough now to begin the slog of building an affiliate club portfolio. So far, discounting our 2nd string, we have three affiliate clubs. ADO Den Haag - Youth Setup - £157k per season Gwanju - Youth Setup - £155k per season Nagoya Stolz - Financial - £108k per season It remains to be seen whether we will benefit with youth players coming from either the Netherlands or South Korea due to us currently seeing every player have African nationality of some sort. Time will tell.

I mean I'm probably wrong but thats my thinking.

In regards to the last part I think its because American Samoa is playable, teams within the league are creating the players needed for the national side whereas if they weren't playable they would come through elsewhere. Its a shame really because it doesn't reflect the real world.

Look at the positives, no red card for you in either game

What is good news is that Man Utd were relegated this season.... First time I think I've seen that happen. Whilst Spurs were close to being relegated from the Championship.

Facilities - May 2043

2042/43 Season Review A great season of improvement as we recorded a 7th placed finish in the league. We ended the season with 17 wins, just three draws and 14 losses, if we can turn four/fives losses into draws next season we'll have a chance of breaking into the top six with a similar sort of season to this one. We ended the season having scored 62 goals, which was the fourth highest in the league behind Dortmund, Gladbach and Bayern. However we conceded 46 goals which was the 6th most, we conceded six more goals in the 2nd half of the season and only scored 21 goals in 17 games compared to 41 in the first 17. We had our best ever finish in the Pokal; we beat Koblenz, Hansa Rostock and Nurnberg before losing heavily to Hamburg in the Quarter Finals. Ahmed Fahmy top scored with 31 goals in 36 games, with 26 of those in the league which saw him end as the leagues top scorer for the 2nd season running, long ball over the top seemingly doing the damage. Oyay Kenyi scored 18 goals and made 11 assists in a support role in attack, all his goals coming in the league and see's him finish 4th in the league chart. Yaak Deng made 10 assists from midfield, whilst Mauro Santos made nine and our right back Tahiri made seven. We rake in a huge £68.5m for finishing in 7th place, we had lost quite a bit of money this season due to higher wage expenditure at over £14m for the season whilst improvements to the facilties had cost us £6.5m. The thing we need to upgrade is the Junior Coaching but the board are reluctant to despite my argument that we need to.

Aaaah Mokoto back in his usual habitat! I presume you will have beaten Australia by this time tomorrow....

Youth Intake Review - March 2043 Remains a golden generation. Four elite talents. With 3 of the 4 most suited to LM/LW. Rui Mane - Mercenary, I can't see this guy making it. Matsiko Mbowa - another mercenary but a better one, also has two traits already. Umaro Balde - an either footed attacking midfielder, yes please! Needs some work though, especially physically. Alex Etoga - not great technically. Quite a few poor personalities. Map of Saxony-Anhalt | Map of Germany | Map of Africa

Thanks, I think we have, we're an established Bundesliga side now despite what the media, board and fans think. We're a way off a league title yet. Our midfield trio isn't strong enough. I need to begin investing in Magdeburg and Halberstadt to get them to produce some better players. Although whether I can sign them from Magdeburg I'm not sure.