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2062/63 - Austria Wels One Game Away From Tenth Successive Title Win! we were leading all the way and then lost the final game of the season to let Rapid Vienna in. I was way more annoyed than I should be really! But I deliberately played all my promising youth players this season as it looks like I might have the makings of a cracking team with my recent youth pulls. These were the two stand out stars So Champions League.... am I any closer? nope, but some encouraging results. We lost to the eventual winners both PSG games were really close stats wise with similar XG for both teams. So this young team may be up for it!

Austria - 2061/62 Wels Win 9th Straight League title, Mess Up In Champions League Again The league was quite exciting this year. When Rapid beat us with 4 games to go to go 4 points clear I thought it was all over. But they completely bottled the last 4 games meaning we could slip in and take the title right at the death. We were able to lose our final game to a 90+2 minute goal and still be champions as they struggled to a 0-0 draw. Nice! Same old story in the Champions League. Some nice results, but we really struggle against the bigger teams away from home What with the completely unsurprising news about FM25 it looks like I'll be plugging away in Austria for a while yet!

Austria - 2060/61 Wels Win League Again, Fail in Champions League again! Same old story! we got some good results in the CL, beating Barcelona 5-0 at home a particular favourite, but in the first knockout round we followed a good 2-0 win at home to Juventus with a heavy 4-0 defeat. So back to the drawing board! We've got possibly the best batch of youngsters coming through I've seen for the last 30 seasons or so so it could get interesting!

Wels win the league again but nothing else Still plodding on, still miles away from the Champions League I don't get the season reviews any more for some reason, which is a bit sad!

Austria - 2057/57 I'm still plugging away in Austria, just a lot slower at the minute. Partly because I fired Civ 6 up again (Civ 7 has me as worried as FM25). The squad is well balanced, no superstarrs (no wonderkids since 2044 either) but with the strongest bunch of youth players for decades From now on I'll do really short summaries like this:- League: Yeah, we won Cup: yeah, we won Champions League: Arsenal battered us in the round of 32

Austria - 2057/58 - Premier League Wels Win League Again, Fail in Champions League Again Yep, 5th title in a row! But still not good enough to really make a dent in the Champions League. Inter smacked us silly in the first knockout round after the league stage Youth Not a bad looking intake but I have more AMCs than you could shake a stick at Career

Austria - 2056/57 - Premier League Wels Win Third League Title in a Row, Suck in Champions League Yeah, we really missed Paul Alhaier 40A. I thought we were in for a really tough season when we lost our first two league games but we responded really well and were excellent the rest of the season. In the champions League we sucked, only winning one game in the league stage and going straight out. The owrrying thing was how often we were being completely outplayed. Youth I've still not had a wonderkid since Mika Dampfling 44A and he's 28 now And again, with maxxed out youth facilities, and apparently the 3rd best youth system in the world, our preview and untake are underwhelming I signed most of them though cos you never know.... I did get someone appear in the top 50 wonderkid list though. He's spent two years sulking as all the best teams in Europe are after him and I won't sell him. Got to be a good sign, right? Career

Austria - 2055/56 - Premier League Wels Say Goodbye to Club Legend with Third title win in a row Yep, Paul Alhaier 40A has gone to Saudi Arabia on a free. Gutted to lose him but what can you do? What a legend though He leaves us with 8 League titles, 1 Europa League title and the Austria Cup three times. He scored 413 goals in 599 games for us as well. So... Champions League. Same as last two seasons:- League stage good, out in quarter finals youth So, here's a thing I've noticed. Whenever I manage to max out my youth facilities to state of the art my intakes turn to toilet Nice to see my affiliates popping up with some players but honestly, what can I do with these two? The only reason I signed them both is their personalities. Both professional! Career

Austria - 2054/55 - Premier League Wels Finish Disappointing Season By Winning The Domestic Double So why disappointing? Well, it's all about the Champions League and we went out in the quarter finals, hammered by Newcastle. And because I took my eye off the ball and my two best players (now 30 and 31) announced they want to explore their options at the end of their contract next year. So, despite running away with the cup and league it ended up being kinda frustrating as i feel as far away from a CL win as I ever have I'm gonna struggle without the top 2. They are 'considering their options' so you never know, they might change their mind. I think I had a player do that once Youth So a good youth intake is more important than ever! and it looks...... ok. An elite talent at this stage is never a bad thing! The flair and determination on Winter makes me think he might make it Career It might be time for another transition season or two.... plus, I'm overdue a wonderkid. Not had one since Mika Dampflin 44A and he's been really disappointing

Austria - 2053/54 - Premier League Great Season For Wels as They Win Their Sixth League Title! League - We were brilliant but almost threw it away! With one game to play we were level on points with Rapid and then only drew our final game. Luckily, Rapid lost there's so we won our sixth title, and first for four seasons! Champions League - But this is where our priorities lie! and we were great, particularly in the league stage where we managed to finish top 8 and automatically qualify for the last 16 round. There we narrowly beat Newcastle (woith a 120th minute winner!) before losing both legs of the quarter final 1-0 against Atletico. Both games could have gone either way Youth A weird intake with one elite talent and no very good talents! Krebs looks like he could be good though.... Career

Austria - 2052/53 - Premier League Transitionary Season Turns into Unexpected Triumph as Wels Win Europa League! Honestly, after having to sell our best player, Fatih Heco 38A, in the summer I was ready to write this season off as a transitionary season and bring through my best looking 4 or 5 youngsters for significant first team action. The Europa League seemed to be the perfect place, because really, who cares? Well..... turns out I do in the end! The youngster did unbelievably well in the league stage It meant we went straight through to the knock out stage, and apart from a little wobble against Juve (we FM'd them in Turin!) we strolled to the final against Sporting Lisbon. The final was the best game I've watched for a long, long time! For the first 18 minutes it was a cagey affair with neither team getting a sniff. Then our centre back Michael Hartl 43C bundled one home from the corner. What happened next was pure Germany-Brazil 2014. Every time we got the ball we scored! we ripped them apart time after time and after 33 minutes it was 5-0 and I was dancing in my living room. We were champions! The form carried over into the league as well. In the championship group stage we went 4 games without a win but then won our last 6 to finish second. The youngsters have me all excited! Players Paul Alhaier 40A - With Heco 38A gone it fell on Alhaier's shoulders to fill the void. In response he had the weirdest season I've ever seen from one of my strikers After the first 21 games of the season he had 35 goals. In the next 21 games he scored once, in the 21st game! it was weird! Adilson Rocha 48G - An amzing season for my two star potential right winger who I only started playing because his attributes were perfect for a winger. This season he got 23 gaols and 36 assists in 53 games and has seen his potential edging up and up and up! Oliver Wunderlich 50A - the pick of the new youth players, and not only because of his superb name. Left winger, so playing in Heco 38A's position, he played 24 games with 11 goals and 7 assists. Average rating not bad either! He also was the only one to make the NXGN list. At number one! Youth Only negative is our best prospect plays MR, a position I haven't used since the late 90s. Hopefully he can be retrained as an AMR Career been three years since I won the league. Can I win it again? And can we repeat our Euopa League success in the champions league?

Austria - 2051/52 - Premier League Almost Perfect First Half of the Season ruined By Terrible Second half of the Season I blame my holiday. At Christmas we were unbeaten and running away with the league, so I closed the laptop and disappeared to the Cote D'Azur for a week. Came back, and we finished the league stage with only 1 win from the last 5. And that form continued in the championship stage as well. Really frustrating! We also lost the first 5 in the Champions League league stage so didn't even make the knockout rounds. Very poor! Players I have a decision to make. Fatih Heco 38A is our best player but is now 30 and has announced he'll leave on a free next season. He is so injury prone though, and our bank balance so bad, that I think I'm going to have to cash in on him. It'll be the end of an era though you can see just how injury prone here. There's 32 matches in the league season, and he's never hit 30 The one success story of the season though was Adilson Rocha 48G - a promising winger but with only 2 star potential. But his attributes were pretty perfect for a winger and when that's the case I always give them a run out. He did really well, and his CA and PA improved as a result. 27 games on the right win with an average rating of 7.25 and 7 goals and 9 assists is pretty, pretty good! i love it when you take a chance in these saves and it pays off Youth really promising preview..... but the intake was elite-free again Best of the lot was this fella Finances Could our season have finished any worse? Apparently yes, as just after it was confirmed that we hadn't qualified for the Champions League the board gave me this message I'd be really surprised if I ever get the chance to improve the youth facilities again... Career So, Heco might be gone and I'm in the Europa League so I think i'll use the new season as a chance to blood some of the new youngsters. I haven't had a wonderkid for years!

Austria - 2050/51 - Premier League Wels finish second in league, win the cup! Losing our second best player Fatih Heco 38A to a broken leg in pre-season really affected us in the league stage as we could not get a run going at all. By the time he came back for the championship group stage Sturm Gratz were just too far ahead for us to catch we did manage to beat them in the cup though! ha! Champions League: We're stuck in the cycle of scraping through the league stage and going out early doors in the knokcout rounds. It was Napoli that did for us this time around. we're just lacking the requisite quality throughout the team really. Youth A really encouraging preview followed by a slightly discouraging intake I think i'm at that stage where an elite intake is as rare as rocking horse poo Career

England is just a slog! I've managed to complete it twice in England but both times by far the most difficult league to get out of was VNN and VNS. At least ten seasons bumping around before something clicked. Once you do get out the rest of it seems like a cakewalk! Sometimes it's just a lucky cup run that gets you money to upgrade the youth facilities. One level of youth recruitment can make a huge difference to your intakes down there. 2 or 3 levels can get you an entire intake better than your first team! It might also help prioritising pace/acceleration over other attributes as down there the match engine seems to favour that over anything else.

I got sacked the day before a play-off final because of that bug. I'm still fuming about it now. 10 seasons wasted for that!

Austria - 2049/50 - Premier league Wels Assert Their Dominance by Winning Domestic League and Cup Double! Get in! traditionally i'm useless at domestic cuop competitions in these saves for some reason, but this year we managed to do it. Albeit on penalties against Sturm Gratz. The league followed the same pattern as last year. We were ok in the league stage, but imperious in the championship group stage, and that's where it really matters That makes it 5 out of the last 6 for us now. Austria is ours! Champions League: Shame we can't sasy the same about Europe! we've still a long way to go. Only two wins and a draw in the league stage saw us go out by 1 point. Youth The only worrying sign on the horizon is our last few youth intakes. They've just not been the same quality as some we were getting 10-15 years ago. Without those intakes, we can't keep up this dominance! This years was ok, but really awful personalities. So i sacked my HoYD and got a Model Citizen instead We haven't had anybody in the NXGN top 50 for a couple of years now, and nothing in the European Golden boy list either worrying times! Career

Austria - 2047/48 - Premier League Wels Show it's not how you start a season, but how you finish it! League: We really struggled this season. It didn't help that during pre-season we picked up injuries to our best two players and kept on picking up; injuries. We couldn't play the same team twice and struggled to get into any sort of rhythm. We even managed to lose to Grazer, for their only victory of the season, as well as losing twice to FAC Wien. It was really frustrating! But when you get to the championship group stage everyone gets their points totalled halved, and with ten games still to play, it means everyone still has a chance. And we were finally getting a fully fit first choice XI, so I was optimistic we could make a good go of it. And we did! In the entire Championship group stage we didn't lose once to clinch an unlikely but in the end deserved title! Champions League: Drew a lot of the league stage but got through with two wins, beat Galatassary in the first knockout round only to get hammered by Newcastle in the next round. 7-1 over the two legs! Youth First time in the last three FMs that i've managed to max out youth facilities at a club so I was excited to see what the third best youth recruitment in the world would throw up. Except.....the preview was one of the worst I've ever got! So even before the intake I'd written this year off completely. So I was actually pleasantly surprised that I got three top talents - probably not future superstars but possibly good squad players and always worth signing up. What kind of intake would a preview full of A grades get me?? Gergo Kiss comes from my Romanian affiliate club! I love affiliate clubs that give me random youths now and then Career

Austria - 2047/48 - Premier League Wels Win 3rd League Title, Make Champions League Last 16 League: We were great again, absolutely dominating the league stage. But once you get to the championship group stage your points are halved so it;s never a forgone conclusion. And to be honest, we pretty much just held on to win by a point! Champions League: The big one! We were much better, competing really well in the league stage. The last 16 we got Inter who compeltely outclassed us. We've still got a way to go! players Our best two players, both strikers 9n my 4-3-3 formation:- Paul Alhaier 40A - really fast and skillful striker, no idea how he hasn't played more than 4 times for Austria Fatih Heco 38A - Our most consistent goalscorer, 63 bosnia caps to his name, another fast striker with great finishing and composure to boot. One of my favourite players The Third of my front 3 is Mika Dampfling 44A, winner of the NXGN top 50. He's not quite as good as the other two just yet but hopefully will be Youth ooo, a youth preview with two A grades! The intake was ok, at this stage any elite talents are really good! Badzinski looks the best prospect. Nice personality, good starting technicals, ok determination. Physicals are the only issue Career

Austria - 2046/47 - Premier League Wels Stumble at Final Hurdle, finish second in League Another great season for us, we steamrollered the league stage. In the Championship Group stage though injuries and tiredness took their toll and we just couldn't quite stay the pace. But another good season! Champions League: Another good run. We made it through the league stage only to stumble at the first knock out round against RB Liepzig Players So we got another wonderkid! which is nice! Youth Not a hugley exciting preview and intake. But these days a 3 star CA is a leading premier league player, so who knows? Career

Only fourth best at the minute! Hopefully best next season! i've never managed to even get in the top 10 before so it's quite exciting!

Austria - 2045/46 - Premier League Small Tactical Tweak Leads to Wels Winning League At a Canter! So after winning the league alst season I decided a tactical tweak was needed. I didn't do much, just moved my wingers up to so my 4231 became an attacking 433. It worked far better than I could have imagined leading to some crazy high scoring games. Fourth game of the season we went to RB Salzburg and won 6-3. It was great! We won the league with 3 games of the championship stage left. Lovely stuff! Champions League: We had a good run, getting through the league stage for the first time. The knock out stage was against Spurs and after winning the first leg 3-1 we were 1-0 up at half time in the second. But 3 second half goals from Spurs sent it to extra time where they won it. Bah... Players Here's the all conquering crazy attacking tactic we used. Played to the strengths of our front players And our two star players Youth So another mediocre looking preview and intake, despite assurances it was a potential 'golden generation'. Really? All a little bit disappointing for a club with apparently the fourth best youth set up in the world! But with any luck that will change next season. As a reward for winning the league i was given the opportunity to ask for youth facility improvements...... and:- Career

Austria - 2044/45 - Premier League Wels Perform Solidly Throughout the Season, End Up Accidentally Winning The League! League: Somehow, we won the league in one of the weirdest wins I've ever had! we were fine throughout the season, but consistently 3rd or 4th. We just couldn't get that run together that gets you top. In the Championship Group we started 5 points behind Salzburg, so with a good run of results we could easily catch up. We lost the first game, then kept drawing, and were 5th halfway through and I started panicking that we'd miss out on European football. With 3 games to play Salzburg were 7 points clear at the top. And then the weirdest thing happened...... we won our final 3 and Salzburg lost their final 3! And somehow, when there were no games left to play, we were sitting at the top! for the first time all season! And the best thing? We won that final game of the season with a 90+4 minute goal!! European Conference League: We had fun in the conference league as well, which helped. We cantered all the way through to the quarter final, where we met Aberdeen. Having beaten Rangers 7-1 last season I admit to complete complacency thinking we'd breeze through. They battered us 3-0 in the second leg! Players Two wonderkids in the NXGN top 50! Hoffman is no surprise but Jurkic is a pleasant surprise. A natural at left wing and right back (!) he's a really handy squad option! Youth A poor youth preview and an OK intake With that preview I was happy to even get one elite talent! Career

yep, you got it! I almost tagged you into that Rangers result......

Austria - 2043/44 - Premier League Wels Have Great first Half of Season, Awful Second Half of Season Not entirely sure why but I suspect it might have something to do with my best 4 players' morale all being in the toilet because i wouldn't let them leave. But right up until November we were fantastic and looked like we could really challenge for the title. We slipped up in November and never really recovered, and our Championship Group results were pretty much disastrous. In the end we had to rely on narrowly beating SCR Altach (who we beat 9-1 in October!) in the European play-off to make the conference league Champions League: We couldn't do worse than last season could we? Well, no because this time around we qualified for the league stage! Once there were rubbish though and were already out when we went to whatever that soulless ground Man City play at these days is called and won! So good for the experience and money but not much else sadly. The rangers result was a bit of a doozy!! Players We got two more wonderkids! Paul Alhaier 40A: Not a total surprise as he was 3* CA at 15, but this season the number 1 striker spot was his. He was ok, inconsistent, sulked all season because he wanted to leave for a club with a stronger squad but still managed 27 goals and to make his full international debut. i still have him signed up for 6 seasons so hopefully he'll stop whining and crying soon. Simon Hoffman 41A: an amazing attacking midfielder who i play AMC. He looks like he could be the real deal as well. Chilled out towards the end of the season so I got him locked down into a 7 year contract with no release fee! Nedim Basic 40F - weird one this. I only really signed him as a youth due to his professional personality, he only ever had 3* potential and was by a long way the third choice right winger. So he spent all season coming on as an impact sub, which it turns out is enough to get you in the NXGN list! Youth So my board have had working towards becoming the best youth system in the world for a while now, which is positive. Except I keep getting these messages But they never give me the option to increase the youth facilities to develop the best youth system! And then the cycle continues! it's very frustrating, we have the money and everything Anyway, here's the preview and intake this season Only one elite again but I think that's a reflection of how good the first team. The U18s are still doing quite well, look:- UEFA Youth League Champions 2043/44! Career

I didn't read this far before posting above! Honestly, if I had that option I would have taken it like a shot. I was really enjoying my save as well and as far as i can see it's a bizarre bug that unfairly punishes us II think I was sacked after winning the Cup or something) so I would have no problem with reloading and not making the promise It sucks, but it sucks far less than having the save ruined cos of a stupid bug (that they are aware about!) edit: just checked - they sacked me 2 days before a play-off final! two 17 year olds had played 35+ games that season!