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Polonia Warszawa Season 6 - 2028/29 - December Excellent result against Anderlecht means we are all but guaranteed a spot in the Knockout Round Playoff. The draw against Górnik was annoying because we dominated the game but couldn't put it to bed. The winter transfer window means that Saudi clubs are once again circling around some of my key players, including Popielec. I really don't want to lose him. The youth preview was disappointing again. But that probably means that the upgrades aren't keeping up with how the team is improving. I asked for a couple more upgrades and after some back and forth they were approved.

Too bad the save didn't work out for you. I enjoyed reading it. Looking forward to the next one.

Congrats on winning the cup in Poland and good luck in Hamburg!

Polonia Warszawa Season 6 - 2028/29 - October - November October was frustrating. Good result to start and a good one to end the month, but in the between we lost to Wisła Płock who have been hovering just above the relegation zone all season. I did rotate most of the squad for that one, but I expected better. But then what was a much stronger side managed only a draw against Antwerp, which should have been our most winnable game in the CL. To top it all off we were knocked out of the cup, so no chance to go for the domestic double this season. November was better as we won against Legia for the 2nd time this season and managed to squeeze out a win against Feyenoord too.

This is getting a bit ridiculous.

This is what happens when you rotate the squad for a game that looks easy on paper...

Polonia Warszawa Season 6 - 2028/29 - June - September First a few things that I forgot to mention in previous posts. The board are looking for a site to build a new stadium. I was offered the Poland manager job after David Moyes was sacked. It was for quite a bit more money than my current contract, but this is a one club save so I declined. The season is off to a wonderful start. We beat our biggest rivals in the Supercup and then went on a great run in the league. It would have been great to win every game, but I really can't complain too much. The game against Benfica was frustrating because a player that we had on trial in the summer who I decided not to sign is playing for them. Of course he set up the first and then scored the next 3 against us. We played Koln in the CL for the 2nd season in a row and got revenge for a 0-1 defeat. Cyprian Popielec is having a wonderful start to the season. Our 2nd best player has been David Hurtado (7.55) with 4 goals and 4 assists, including a hat-trick against Koln.

Polonia Warszawa Season 6 - 2028/29 - Summer Transfer Window These are the players that we sold. Even though for the first time in this save I have spent more on transfers than I brought in, we still have money to spend in January if I need to. And here is who we will be facing in the CL this time around.

Polonia Warszawa Season 6 - 2028/29 - Summer Transfer Window On a quest to make the squad even better I spent a lot of money (for a Polish club), £26.5M to be exact. I would have liked more squad stability, but with the richer clubs triggering clauses for some of my best players and my scouts finding some good talent, it was hard to limit myself to those that I did sign. Hopefully they can all gel quickly. My first priority was a GK. We smashed our transfer record on Moroccan Hakim Zair. Only about a week after he joined the club he was called up the Moroccan U23 squad for the Olympics. They won 3rd place and he was named Best Goalkeeper. Unfortunately, once he returned he played in one match and then injured his wrist in the gym. My board also were rather disappointed by how much I spent him. So, hopefully the scouts were right and he becomes a star for us. A more financially prudent deal was for for full-back David Hurtado. I used him quite a bit already and he is looking like a great capture for us. There were quite a few good players available for free, but most of them were in the central midfield AM(C) area where I had too many players already. I was wishing I could fit more of them into my squad. Not a free, but when I saw Brahim Tanko Attamah in my scout reports, I had to have him in my team, somehow we would make room for him. My first player that the media is describing as a Wonderkid.

That is an insane amount of goals for Jackson! Amazing!

I've been away from these forums for a while, so let me get this straight. You took tiny club Noteć Czarnków and using their own youth only won the Champions League twice?!?!?! And now you're trying to do the same thing with a second club in Poland?

Nice work on the promotion and good luck in the transfer window.

Polonia Warszawa Season 6 - 2028/29 - Preview Expectations have risen even higher and the transfer window is already crazy. Not ideal considering we have the Polish Supercup against Legia on 8 July and I don't know which players I'll have available. Board Expectations: PKO BP Ekstraklasa: Winner Puchar Polski: Reach Semi-Final (minimum) UEFA Champions League: Be competitive Both the media and the bookies predict us to finish 2nd (10-3 odds). The budges have been bumped up nicely. I already spent a good chunk of the transfer budget. More on that later when the transfer window closes.

Polonia Warszawa Season 5 - 2027/28 - Review A bit about the standout performers from last season. Our top scorer was Hugo Ekitike (joined on a free from PSG) with 19 goals (10 in the league). He's now under bid from 4 Saudi clubs. Thiago Fernandez (who we sold to Real Madrid, but got back on a season long loan) was top league goal scorer with 13. He also had the highest rating with 7.30 in 31 appearances. I tried to extend his loan, but Real wanted too much and in the end the player wasn't interested anyway. Arthur Zagre had the most assists, with 15, and was well on his way to setting a new club record, but his release clause was triggered in January by Al-Read. We broke the club transfer record to bring in Cyprian Popielec for £2.9M from Zagłębie Lubin. He's already 21, but my scouts tell me he can still improve a lot. He had 8 goals and 2 assists in 21 for Lubin, then added 3 goals and 3 assists in 10 for us. Last season we spent £3.6M on transfers and brought in £14.25M. But the board was unhappy that I didn't spend the full transfer budget. Will try better this season.

Great start. I'll be following to see where you end up.

Polonia Warszawa Season 5 - 2027/28 - Review Haven't been playing as much and have been lax with the updates, but I did finally get to the end of this season. So, here is what happened. We won the league for the third season in a row setting a new league record for most goals scored. In the CL we reached the round of 16 where we lost to AC Milan in a crazy game that included a goal from their GK, Ilian Meslier. I might do a post about some of the players soon, but right now I want to get back to the game.

Polonia Warszawa Season 5 - 2027/28 - Oct A very good month except for the Puchar Polski loss. The loss against Bayern wasn't unexpected and we were a bit lucky that the final score was so close. Our luck abandoned us against Bruk-Bet. I did rotate heavily because of the ridiculous scheduling of this game. But we still had and xG of 4.16, missed a penalty during the game, and missed our first two in the shoot-out. Can't win them all I guess.

Polonia Warszawa Season 5 - 2027/28 - Jul/Aug/Sep Mostly a great start to the season, but still not good enough to go undefeated in the league. Lech have beat us for the second time this season already. But the start to our Champions League campaign has been excellent.

This is how the season preview looks like after the transfer window closed. We even have 3 players in the dream 11. We are now one of the top spenders in the league. And we didn't even use close to our full allocation in the budget. On another note, this is who we'll be facing the Champions League. We're also getting more popular amongst the fans in Warszawa!

Polonia Warszawa Season 5 - 2027/28 - Summer Transfers As always it was a hectic transfer window. I had some prearranged transfers coming in and a few players that I let go on frees because they were getting old and wouldn't be able to break into the team anyway. But as happens every time, some players had their release clause activated and departed because of that. But one such player, Javier Hernandez a central midfielder, I offered a new contract to and he decided to stay with us. The biggest story of the departing players was Thiago Hernandez. I signed him on a free last summer and sent him on loan to Zagłębie Sosnowiec where he only played 6 matches. Then this summer there was some interest in him. Got a bid from Bayern that I rejected. Then a bid from Borussia Dortmund that I think I also rejected. Finally Real Madrid came in and the player told me he would be very upset if we didn't accept the offer. I managed to negotiate a slightly better offer than the original one, Bayern and Dortmund both matched it, but he chose Real in the end. The fee was £4.6M but it can eventually raise £8.75M. We did get him on a loan back for the rest of the season and in the two games that he has played since, he's been excellent, scoring 3 and assisting 1. One of the things that I wanted to do was to bring in some more Polish players, especially youngsters with high potential. I had mixed success on that front. I triggered a release clause for a Wisła Kraków youngster who is already doing really well in the Ekstraklasa, but he decided to sign a new contract with them instead. There were quite a few good players available on frees, but most were 24 or older. But there seemed to be a lack of defenders available. The player with the highest CA that we signed is Mohamed Abo Fani who I plan on using as a DM. He should provide some protection for the defence. This also happened during the summer:

Polonia Warszawa Season 5 - 2027/28 - Preview Expectations keep going up. But along with that we have a 14M to spend on transfers and wage budget of 250,000. Board Expectations: PKO BP Ekstraklasa: Finish in the top three places Puchar Polski: Reach Semi-Final (minimum) UEFA Champions League: Be competitive The media expect us to finish 4th in the league with the bookies giving us 14-1 odds for the title (5th place). Quite a jump from last season. We were disappointing in the Superpuchar. Didn't even get a shot on target. I had no idea that the European/South American Club Challenge was a thing, but we now won it.

Thanks guys. Yes, it is total madness! Poland was actually 2nd in the coefficient rankings for the season, which gave us an extra team qualifying for Europe this season! But even though we have 5 teams qualify for Europe, Legia were so poor that they missed out (by a point ). And Śląsk Wrocław were relegated! Just a crazy season overall.

The Europa League win has given us a nice financial windfall.

I had totally missed that Lech Poznan had their own great European run, and they won the Europa Conference League. I guess it wasn't just us pulling up the coefficient.

This shot Poland up the Coefficient table and if I'm reading it correctly should move Poland up to 10th and give us 2 CL spots next season.