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Puchar Polski (Polish Cup) Unlike last season, we had a very favorable draw for the first round of the cup. Facing 4th tier side Wissa Szczuczyn meant we could give some of our fringe and youth players a run out. Kowalczyk and Mazur both started and both had assists, Kowalczyk with 2. Unfortunately I had to take Mazur off right before the half because another of my players got sent off (2 yellows). Andrzej Krasuski (Y1d) a D(C) who I'm training as a DM made his debut. He has some great mental stats, but passing 1 and heading 4 mean he'll might never become a regular starter. (too bad)

@Hanys I wish I knew how to get my guys to play like this every game. Maybe Lech were too complacent and once we scored a couple their morale probably fell off a cliff. One thing is for certain, their GK had an absolute stinker.

July - August 2024 An absolutely amazing start to the season. I'm sure it won't last, but great to have this many points on the board early. Academy Spotlight. The only academy graduate to play in these early days is Adam Kowalczyk. He's a natural in M(RL), a position that I don't use. I've been retraining him as a CWB(L), which he's unhappy about. But because we lack depth in that position he's come off the bench 4 times and made one start. His average rating this season has been 6.60. I'm hoping that with a bit more experience under his belt he'll continue to improve.

Junior Coaching and Youth Recruitment Thought it would be a good time to ask for some improvements. But how can one be going from Average to Adequate, while other is going the opposite? Or is average relative to other clubs in the country?

Academy Spotlight This is supposed to be a Youth Only save, so now that we're 3 seasons in I will start including updates on the academy graduates that are starting to break into the first team. Last season 3 youth players made 1st team appearances. None of them were exceptional, with Kowalczyk having the highest average rating at 6.60.

I don't really know how or why this happened. But I'm not complaining! The goals just kept flying in. If you remove the penalty our xG wouldn't have been that much higher than theirs. Our previous 2 games against Lech were 1-2 losses and I was expecting something similar this time around. But I'll take a win against one of the top teams!

Well it had to happen, one of our key original players gets his head turned by a more reputable club. It does mean that there is one less player standing in the way of our youth in central midfield, and hopefully we can use the cash to improve our facilities.

Season 3 - 2024/25 - Chojniczanka Chojnice - Ekstraklasa (Poland) Good results in pre-season, but against weaker sides. Once again the board want me to fight bravely against relegation and reach the 2nd round of the cup. The odds have us 1000-1 to win the league and the media predict us to finish 18th. But looking at the other promoted sides, we should have a fighting chance. The club's estimated value has taken a big jump, so that's nice.

Yeah, the problem was similar for me. I had no staff when I took over and one of the first that I hired was a fitness coach. So I think it just stuck him in as the person responsible for... everything? I never thought of checking who was responsible for what. I should probably check what the other staff responsibilities are set to.

Since our finances are looking good I decided to ask for an upgrade to our Youth Facilities. Rejected at first, but accepted after a meeting. But I'm a bit concerned because I didn't think it was going to cost this much... So that along with the new stadium, hopefully we don't start bleeding money...

I just happened to be reading @Jimbokav1971's Kosovo thread and I saw his post about the HOYD not being the one set to "Provides Youth Development Information" so I went and checked mine, and lo and behold it was set to our fitness coach! Why wouldn't it automatically be the HOYD??? Anyway, not sure if "Provides Youth Development Information" just means that the preview is by that person of if it actually means that they are responsible for the whole intake.

Hey, I'm slowly reading through your career (well probably 80% of the posts, I do just skim through some of it). Just finished page 4. Entertaining read so far. I'm still on FM22 so maybe these things are FM23 specific, but how do you see the numbers for your facilities? Is Kosovo playable now in the base game or did you have to download some kind of league file? Do you let your AssMan take charge of all the matches?

June 2024 Finances are looking fairly healthy thanks to TV and prize money. But the club need a new stadium so that we can actually play in our own home town. Not sure what kind of effect that will have.

2023/24 Player Stats Here's how the players performed. Our top rated was Mateusz Koniuszy who I played as a False Nine. He was out on loan last season and my assistant didn't rate him too highly, but he played well in pre-season and carried that form through out. Not just our top rated but consistently good. Artur Pląskowski scored 18 in the league which was enough for him to be King of the Goalscorers. At 30 years old, I really hope that he has a couple more seasons like this in him. A few more of our top rated players:

Season 2 Review - 2023/24 - Chojniczanka Chojnice - Ekstraklasa (Poland) Not surprisingly our best games came against sides that were relegated. Obviously we're bringing in more money, but at the same time salaries have gone up too.

April - May 2024 We secured survival with 3 games to play. We were the top scorers in the league, but only the relegated teams let in more goals than us. A bit concerning going into next season. Full season review in the next post.

Who's excited for FM24? Having skipped FM23 the "feature" I'm most looking forward to is being able to use 5 subs 😁

Ouch.

Good luck. Looks like your first club has a decent wage budget. How much are they paying you?

Another debut. Not one of the top prospects, just filling holes in the first team. I'm curious how these youth players would do if we were still in the 1. Liga?

And another debut from the first youth intake, also a WB, this time on the right, because that is where suspensions and injuries are hitting us the most.

2024 Youth Intake Not quite as dire as the pre-view, but really not much to work with.

January - February - March 2024 Results after the winter break were enough to keep us in 13th. With 33 points we should be safe from relegation. I'm assuming the board felt the same since they offered me a new 2 year deal.

December 2023 We are nothing if not entertaining, for the neutral at least. We're scoring plenty of goals, but don't really know how to defend. The game against Jagiellonia was the most amazing comeback that I have ever seen. Down by 3 after 10 minutes, we managed to fight our way back to win in the end. Still in the bottom half of the table, but at least staying out of relegation trouble. The youth preview was quite disappointing.