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December 2024 to February 2025 Time flies when your having fun trauling through endless scout reports Mykyta Bezuhlyi is an experienced Centre Back with a good degree of top flight knowledge. No bells or whistles. Just does the things that Defenders need to do and does them well. Also enjoys big matches. He's 29 so wont improve but should see us through the next 18 months or so. He's cost £1.7k and that's spread over the next 12 months so basically a free right? The Second signing is a free. Our new No.1 keeper for the remainder of this and next season. He's come from our senior affiliate. Denys Barchenko is a lot better than the keepers already at the club and we don't pay a penny towards his wages or anything. The third and final addition is Maksym Bomashchuk a player with Dynamo Kyiv on his CV, but without playing for the first team. A good solid option and should improve. In the out column are a number of players who were out of contract in the summer and we just want them off the wage bill. Matvey Santalov is the exception, I would have preferred to keep him but we've got good coverage in the wing positions and there appears to be plenty out there. Alongside the transfer deal, we get 50% of the next one. We've managed to get our wage bill to £14 over the budget. Even with the additions so I would class that as a good window.

November 2024 The end of the season already.. Well the opening phase. Revenge gained over LNZ Cherkasy and qualification secured with victory at Epicenter. We gave the squad a chance to feature in the remaining two games of the season. Of course Ngah and Mbah were the heroes, that's hard-coded.. Thanks Board.. that's roughly what we lose over a 5 to 6 week period. The end of phase 1 results We take a 6pt lead into the next phase - an unexpected bonus (I hadn't read the rules...) We shall be back for the football action in March... Yes really..

October 2024 1 keeper recalled, 1 keeper injured, suddenly we are forced to play the keeper i've spent the last 3 months trying to force out the club. Moussa Ngah ensured we didn't need to worry about the keepers with a double and the month starts with a win. Our form suggests that we are a good bet for the Promotion Stage, which is excellent. Promotion would get us 25 points. The difference between the top of the Ukrainian league and the rest is very much like Scotland - so the remaining 75 points might take a while. So close to a perfect month. An away defeat on the last match of October the only dropped stitch. 4 games left, almost secured the Promotion Group.

September 2024 Yaroslav Kvasov will go down in history as the first player in this chapter to score a hattrick and it was a match-winning one (as you would hope it to be) - the very late show. The transfer window closed and in the end 18 players have left the club - a large number of these on season long loans - the youth dross. The Ngah and Mbah wing partnership is already proving reliable, 5 goals, 2 assists in the opening 3 games. 3 straight wins. We enter the Ukrainian Cup at the Preliminary Round, travelling to a lower graded side, a fairly rotated side managed a 4-0 win with Mbah getting a double. LNZ Cherkasy and ourselves were the only two sides with an 100% record before we met, they were 2 up inside 8 minutes and we never got a sniff back into it. We were able to sneak past Epicentre before a 1st round tie against a Premier League side, we took them to extra time but eventually they pulled through. Stupid FM... Where else can you play a GOALKEEPER A strong month. I'm confident we can get into the Promotion Group. We sit top overall.

August 2025 As it turned out - it didn't take too long to assess the squad. We have some good players and some dross. Kind of what you would have expected. The finances are worsening but we have removed a number of players from the picture. Just over 18k has been bought in and nearly 3k off the wage bill. Skliar and Solohub are both decent and I would have kept them but they were complaining and I couldn't convince them to stick around - they had less than 12 months left on their contracts. Incomings. It started slow and then went Cameroonian.. Danylo Tuzenko is an attacking midfielder on a free after his release from Vorskla - our senior affiliate Arseniy Kilyevyi comes from Dynamo Kiev and is a left winger Bohdan Khoma will be our No.1 keeper and is on loan from Premier League Kryvbas Illia Krupskyi is a right back from Vorskla, another season long loan. Now we come to the Cameroonians and the reason my budget has gone.. Marc-Olivier Fodjo - back up Centre Back, Centre Mid and DMC. Jack off all trades. A free from a 2nd tier side. Probably not quite ready but has 5* potential. Moussa Ngah was a free. Already our best left winger. Had two seasons in the 3rd tier behind him. Bit annoyed I didn't find him when I was in Cameroon. Georges Mbah is our best right winger, a record signing at £13k which is probably over the odds, but what we wasted on Mbah, we saved on Ngah. £13k for the pair is a stonking deal. Thanks to the agents who recommended them both. The squad itself looks quite good. Better than Cameroon is the initial assesment. Time will tell, the board are wanting mid-table. Pretty much everyone is out of contract at the end of the season so a clean sweep is achievable if things don't quite work out. Let's play some ball... (I am American remember...)

July 2024 You join me 68 days after walking out of Fauve Azur Elite and into our new club. Playing at the Yunist Stadium, it's 2nd tier Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni. A professional club, they have been a 2nd tier side for most of the last decade after getting promoted from the 3rd tier. As far as I can tell, they have never been in the 1st tier. Thinking about the Ukraine, I have a number of things I want to do: Sort out the finances, we are 2k over wage budget and nearly 300k in the red so we've got to cull the squad before we can really strengthen I want to be at one club in this nation so that means turning around this club. It was FM17 the last time I managed in the Ukraine and it's fair to say the landscape has changed somewhat. It took me the best part of a decade to break the Dynamo Kiev/Shakhtar Donetsk dominance The plan is to bring over some of the Cameroonian Staff and Players (for the points in the challenge), find some gems and build If we can get out of the 2nd tier in the next 2 seasons then brilliant and push on and establish ourselves as an established tier 1 side, maybe get the odd European adventure too. We can but dream. Now to really get to grips with the squad and get some faces loaded.. back in a day or two!

Fantastic. Hope you enjoy the journey.

The official closing of Chapter One.. It was all a little bit too easy domestically Lots of strides made forward in the managerial attributes Comparison from when we started to where we are now

April and May 2024 Trophy month. Hopefully 2, outside shot of 3. With qualification secured with a game left, we could afford to rotate and rest until the Quarters. We go to Egypt in the Quarters. Zamalek. Domestically, it's the league sorted with a couple of wins. A youth prospect side were picked against Canon Yaounde. The fact we won 7-0 just shows the weakness of the league. In the A side of the Elite One there is a team called Colombe Sportive du Dja et Lobo - they won their league last year, and retained it this year. We've never met. Until now, the Semi Final of the Cameroonian Cup. We stuffed them. Glad to be moving to pastures new. Zamelek came to us first. They got through their group stage unbeaten. So some decent pedigree. Loïc Bebey continues his metioric rise with the only goal of the game. Is it enough. Thats the big question. Sandwiched between the first and second leg is the Cameroonian Cup final, which we won. Was the 1-0 win enough? No... Penalties our down fall... Confirmation that Loic Beby is decent. 40th best wonderkid in Football

March 2024 First up - possibly the biggest game of the save so far. Away to Swallows. Lose and we kiss goodbye the AFC for a while. What a showing!!! Two very late goals but the icing on the cake, but that is HUGE!! 5-0 It's all about rotation in the league and the cup whilst we tick off the games and days before the next phase of AFC matches. UMS Loum inflict our first defeat in the league, but we are still 7pts clear. Breaks a run of 23 unbeaten domestically. Al-Hilal Omdurman are the whipping boys in the group, a nice tidy 2-0 sets up nicely before we welcome ES Tunis, who have already qualified with two to go. Very much a point gained from Tunis. It means we qualify in 2nd place The AFC money has been put towards improving the training and youth facilities for the next guy. My education has been completed for this nation - will start the Continental Stuff in the Ukraine.

February 2024 Now we get to the point of the season where we can see where we are - yes folks, the Champions League is back. A routine league victory before Swallows FC came to town. And boy was it tough, young "ace" Loïc Bebey rescued a point late on. Away to ES Tunis, probably can't get tougher. Injuries mean that we don't have our regular or back up options at Left Back. We lose. This Champions League is tougher than the domestic league... The biggest thing of note against Panthère Sportive du Ndé was that 4 of the 10 goals happened after the 90th minute. Didn't want to leave early for that one. The league is probably already sown up. The Champions League is the battle for 2nd place. Swallows up next, Away.

January 2024 A break from the league. 1 game in the Cup. Away to Canon Yaounde. Justin Mengolo took his tally to 21 for the season with a treble, to set up a 2nd game in the month, home to a side in the 3rd tier. The 3rd tier side actually ran us quite close. In off the field news, we know our AFC Champions League Group. ES Tunis and Swallows will present a challenge. Tunis have our star man from last year, and both Tunisia and South Africa are stronger nations than us. We've also been able to trim the squad out a bit. Atchom played a bit last season but 4 games this season as we've improved. Next Up - Champions League again

December 2023 We're going to tiss this pin pot league... Eding Sport beaten by 4, New Stars hit for 7 - both of these were top 3 sides before we played them. Justin Mengolo has 13 in the league, in 5 games. Two of our youngsters have got a chance at B level for the country. New Stars got revenge over us in the Cup - I mean, we only beat them by 3 this time. The last league game of 2023 and the last until mid February was a home game, and our worst league result of the season. I'm using this time to get the best and brightest Cameroonians scouted and added to shortlists for my move to the Ukraine in the summer.

November 2023 It's time to (finally) start the league campaign, two months after our AFC campaign started. And it's a start with a bang, 7 past PWD Bamenda Another 7 in the next one. It's probably fair to say we should win the league this year. The Cup (another trophy we probably should be winning) saw a debut for Duplexe Mpindi (Y), the only one of last years intake to get a deal. He got a couple of goals and might develop into something half decent. I may try and take him to Ukraine just to see what happens. The final league game of the month was against a newly promoted side. They didn't stand a chance. Only games played is stopping us being top

October 2023 After nearly a month since the last round, it's a very quick turnaround with both legs in 3 days. We played a couple of friendlies in between. Utter dominance in the home leg, but only the solitary goal. Here's hoping we are not left to regret that. We were cruising thanks to double from Kévin Assiga but then they hit back with a couple of goals and absolutely peppered our goal for the 2nd half. We hung on! Our reward.. Will have to wait - the next phase isn't until February! My Education continues.. The A Licence has been started too

September 2023 This is the reason we are here... Champions League. Mbappe scores and we take the lead, they then get ahead before debutant Luke Vikeme gives us a draw. We welcome them back to Cameroon and laid out gifts a plenty, and even allowed them to take the lead before we powered back and won it in the 2nd half. Zesco United from Zambia are our next opponents. A much easier tie. But that's October. On a previous version of FM, i managed Anse Reunion..

August 2023 Quite a long off season, and a horridly tough start to the ACL But before that we've been active in the summer. Souley Badamassi - Right Winger Serge Leuko - Right Back Boris Ngoua - promising keeper Kévin Assiga - back up Striker Michel Mvondo - Defensive Midfielder Luke Vikeme - first choice Centre Back, although a veteran Leuko is the best of the bunch, a full Cameroonian International. There will be no more additions as we have maxed out the wage budget (and then some..) Only one of the outs is a concern. Seko is our best player but wanted £800 a week to even think about staying - 3 or 4 times more than our average player. I think it's the right call as he is 30 and past his peak. Another reason for sticking around - i've recently discovered face packs... And after spending an hour or so assigning the players to them, I want to use them for a bit!

Pre-Season Update So has the decision been taken? Yes it has. The Cameroonian journey will continue for 1 more season, I really want to give the African Champions League a shot. We won the league fairly well - or at least our group and we also won the cup so there is some good pedigree about the squad. I want to see what this compares to the rest of Africa next season. As soon as our Continental adventure ends, we shall get on that plane to Ukraine. I think. The journey continues...

April 2023 Big Month. Country Completing Month. Eding Sports beaten by the odd goal in 5, Coton Sport also won. So it's a 5pt lead, but they have a game in hand, and we play them at the end of the season. The game in hand is won. So 2pts clear. Which becomes 5pts clear as they lose their next match, and we beat YOSA 3-1 I'm not yet sure if that's 100 points and the nation secured as there is a Group A. I assume there's a winner takes all match. A few days later.. The Cameroonian Cup was secured - that's 25 points in the bag. The squad have gone on an end of season break so that must be it. And with that.. Cameroon is ticked off.. But is this the end of the Cameroonian Journey? You'll have to wait to find out..

March 2023 Another year secured. Whether I stay for it I am not sure. A smashing 4-0 win over Fovu Club was tarnished by the news that both Cyrille Atchom and Alexandre Fressange will miss most of the rest of the season with injuries. That's our right side.. After another win, we had Justin Mengolo to thank for getting a point against lowly Ainge Royal. The month ends with Cameroonian Cup action. It's a Semi. We like a Semi. Injuries and Suspensions meant we had 5 regulars missing from the squad, but thankfully we were able to completely outclass the oppo. We can complete Cameroon next month

I'm quite pleased with how the season has gone. He's my favourite Mbappe for sure!

February 2023 Up for the cup!! Landry Djomo gets a double and Canon Yaounde can concentrate on the league. They sacked their manager hours later. After a lot of convincing the board have finally allowed me to take a step on the ladder It's fair to say Hansi Muller Mbappé had a decent game against UMS Loum, grabbing all 5. Another hattrick in the league Against Yafoot (4th tier) we rested a couple, and left it fashionably late. Philemon Tabékou on debut, just 16yrs old, scoring the leveller. A perfect month Coton Sport are dangerous, game in hand and we play them on the final day

January 2023 New Year... New Us... Coton Sports absolutely stuffed us. Sometimes though it pays to have Mbappe up front...Hansi Muller Mbappé that is.. a hat-trick helps dispose of Stade Renard in the cup, in front of just 37 people! Despite the early set back we finish the month (on the 8th January...) top of the table It's tight at the top Major recruitment done this month, a new first choice keeper. At 6'9 I dont think i've seen taller in FM before. A free transfer and he's already better than the rest of my keepers.

December 2022 29 days between games, but we play our only league match of the month against YOSA (or Yong Sports Academy). The victory puts us top. In the 3rd round of the Cup, Way Out Academy sit top of the 4th tier. A comfy victory as expected. The transfer window opens and we have been busy... Only 1 player has come in, a 16yr old from a 3rd tier side - he's gone back on loan to them to the seasons end The departures are large - a lot of driftwood that needed moving on. I've got a few kids that I want to register so we also free up some slots for this.

November 2022 Added in a couple of more ways of getting points: 1 point for each player that plays for me at multiple clubs 1 point for each member of staff that works for me at multiple clubs I want to create loyalty throughout the save so taking players and staff across the globe - sometimes it might work out really well - Cameroon to Ukraine could be a logical step up. San Marino to Spain wouldn't you would expect. It's Cameroonian Cup action and we start away to a lower tier side, new boy Alexandre Fressange with a double. He can't play in the league until next month so this was his first chance to show what he is about. Followed by a couple of routine wins in the league. We stand an excellent chance of making Cameroon a one season job