Mellieha Sports Club
Season 20 2041 – 42 Malta Premier League
Europe
Long story short: we qualified for Champions League and then got blown away in the group stage. Inter are the reigning champions of Europe & Italy and Athletic Madrid are consistent #3 in Spain. I have to say our home loss to Inter 5-6 was a crazy affair.
Youth Academy
The main reason this save is stalling out is the just dismal intakes the past few seasons. I'm 3 years into a new HOYD so we still have a couple years till we can see if this guy will improve anything. Really feeling the YF bug here.
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Youth Intake
Best prospect is my half Australian, but of course he is a natural in 4 positions I don’t use and really he's not all that great to begin with.
Also interested to see what happens to this Determined LB, if he can become useful and help replace my aging (28) FB in a few years.
We are getting some players from our affiliates who are so far nothing to get excited about, but that sums up all my intake players...
Transfer Market
So Nicholas Buhagiar 14a has been a ticking time-bomb since I tricked him into a 7 year contract when he joined the club. Over the summer Arsenal & Porto started a bidding war for him culminating in this 46.5 M offer by Arsenal. Somehow though, in November, he actually became happy for the first time in years and let us negotiate a contract, and he accepted! He will be the highest paid player in Malta, but we have the money to do what we want. Getting him for 4+1 more years makes what was a disappointing season a success as this is our LB depth chart:
Club Info
With last years EC2 title we are up to 3* Reputation, but we are still unable to upgrade Youth Facilities or add more affiliates.
Summary
Slowly playing when I have a chance, but really in a holding mode till the next FM. I might switch this over to a normal save and just blow through our budget to make an actual run for the Cup as I feel like this team has peaked already.