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nice! Maybe I picked the wrong Azores club I mean I'm up for a challenge but I don't have padders' levels of patience... Some of my players are decent too (though not this good), but the lack of depth was really killing me in the second half of the season. Guess the make-it-or-break-it moment will come in a few seasons' time when my current decent players retire and I'm left with the youths, hope they are good enough by then. Good luck in the third tier!

@XaW haha well great minds think alike and all that I think you got a bit of head start there, I got some catching up to do! Seriously, well done on the promotion though - I think it might take me a while unless I can work some tactical miracles next year. I also noticed the homegrown rule towards the end of the year as it meant I couldn't play the players from my new intake (somehow I was on the HG limit before the intake without noticing it)

Operário dos Açores – Season 1 (2023/24) - Campeonato de Portugal I decided to give the challenge a go in Portugal this year, and was tempted to start in the Azores islands. Not like I’m there in real life I guess, but still, the thought of living in what I assume is an idyllic village on a paradise-like island is a nice distraction. Campeonato de Portugal We started off great and were in the playoff spots around Christmas, but once the players got tired our form dropped off massively. Still finished a respectable 5th. Although, that's only 5 spots and 8 points above relegation places, this league is tough! Players: Apart from not having a left back, the first 11 seems decent for this level, but some of them are really ageing and there is ZERO depth. Paulo Bessa did well, banging in 25 out of our 50-ish goals this season. Youth intake: Looks terrible despite some 4.5* PA players, hope this is just a blip and not a trend. Facilities: Managed to upgrade youth coaching and recruitment, but our basic youth facilities seem to be holding us back. Hope I can upgrade coaching at least one more time next year to give ourselves a chance of getting out of this division. No transfers Season | League | Pos. | Europe | Best player | Notes --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2023/24 | Campeonato Gr. D | 5 | n/a | Paulo Bessa | Facilities ---------- Season | Coaching | Recruitment | Training Fac. | Youth Fac. | Stadium ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2023/24 | Average | Above average | Average | Basic | 800

IGNORE: just a stupid Mac security thing, had to enable permissions for Steam in settings... Anybody else having the disc write error below? Using a Mac. Can't install the update because of this, tried restarting steam/Mac/clearing cache/verifying game files, nothing seems to help.

Congrats @toshimitzou1, amazing achievement! A proper tactical masterclass there in the end, think that was needed to win the CL with an Icelandic team

@libbyshuss Congrats on completing, I'm impressed you managed to jump straight back in! Good luck in Croatia