TheNapalmNerd

We've been handed a tough group I don't know. Maybe we can get a draw in one of those matches. Otherwise I think we'll mostly be focusing on preparation for next season. We have 5-6 spots in the first team that could do with younger blood. Two Central defenders, Two Central midfielders and an inverted winger on the right side. We have the money now. I requested a higher wage budget and it got rejected.

Another loss This hurts. I would have wanted at least a draw at home, but another loss and another red card. Being a part of the playoffs was still a great succes and it paid well: Our finances are looking good for now, and we still haven't even got the money from participating in the Europa League: They better enhance our budgets soon.

It seems like we're fulfilling board expectations Yeah they were just better than us. We still have them at home though, but Europa League is already better than expected. Champions League in the second season would be too good to be true.

We're into the playoffs! Once again we're great at home with mote clinical finishing. I was setting myself up for the Conference league, but now we're into at least the Europa League, and are guaranteed even more money from participating in the playoffs for the Champions League. Ludogorets are waiting in the last match. They lost to Olympiakos (who beat us) last season in the champions path playoff. I'm hoping we can win as well, but they have a very strong squad. Kiril Despodov and Dominik Yankov are still in their squad and they would fit in well with most top flight squads.

Bodø puts he pressure on us Bodø more clinical, but we fought well. I wouldn't mind losing, because Conference League might be better for coefficients, but the money would serve us well though... The Winner will go up against Dinamo Zagreb or Ludogorets.

Conference league secured Not as dominant as the first match, but an okay performance. Another red card and I think we have to find two new centre backs before the transfer window shuts. Cremonesi is 34 and Genevois is 35. They are okay, but physically they have taken a toll over the last year. Bodø/Glimt coming up in the next round of qualification.

It's the small things

I guess we're through to the next round The result says everything. The lithuanian champions never stood a chance. These are incredible results compared to the preliminary rounds where both results were very tight.

When you can only sign one year contracts

They seem very doable! FCSB were a much better side.

We destroyed FCSB!!! It started out terribly, and I thought that was it, but then everything went in our way, and we stand victorious! I think full time training has done a lot for this result. Team Cohesion has increased, and the players are blending well together now that they are training everyday. This is a massive result. If we win in the next round we are once more guaranteed Conference League football. The injury to Michael Fabbro paid off, and we've offered him a one year full time contract, with two optional years.

We won the first match! Massive pressure on FCSB from the first match. We did well against a better team. Again this season we see that we're actually doing very well at home, even though we were down to 10 after half an hour. Massive result, and something that provides omtimism before the second leg.

A little dance with the board, we got some improvements!

We're through, but once again way too close Flora didn't have a team that was supposed to be competitive, but once again we got through, even though we didn't play well. If this play continues FCSB are going to destroy us in the first round. Michael Fabbro will be out for 2-3 months with his injury. This might throw of interested clubs and give us a chance to give him a new contract. Every cloud has a silver lining.

A bit too exciting for my liking We should have secured that win much earlier than the last second. Alex Lopez threw himself at one of their players to abrupt their gameplay and secure us the win. We've got Flora Tallinn in the next round.

Valur Our starting 11 consists of players who have been here for almost a year now. After we went professional, we have secured contracts for almost every important player. There are too many teams interested in Fabbro, who doesn't want to renew his contract. But we have solid backup for him. Our topscorer Alex Lopez has signed a renewal with the option of an extra season if he plays five league matches. We're only able to sign players for 1 year long contracts right now. I'm trying my best to make sure that there are clauses that ensure we have them for another season.

Preliminary rounds of the qualification: We're up against Valur Reykjavik, who we should beat. But they have the potential to cause a few upsets. The winner of the preliminary rounds is going up against romanian champions FCSB. I would have really liked the gibraltarian champions once again in this round. FCSB are too strong for our liking right now.

The start of something new! We're moving up, and so is the San Marinese league: Our recent campaign ensured that we dont't have the preliminary rounds of the champions league qualification next season. This is actually okay, since we're guaranteed atleast going into the third round of qualification for the conference league then. A big jump up in the rankings, and we have the potential to advance even further this season. We did okay last season and our coefficient took a jump as a result of that. There's still a long way to go.

We're building one instead

I asked them to buy the stadium long ago and now they have realised that vision by not buying it...

We're going professional! And in preparation for the next season our new budget is looking okay. We're not spending that much yet, but we haven't signed any players up full time yet, so it's hard to tell how much we're able to do in the transfer market.

Campionato San Marinese! And with that we've qualified for the Champions League Champions path early stages for the next season. It wasn't the best match ever, but a win is a win in this case. And once again they're throwing money at us! It's not much, but it is something and the San Marinese league is not rated that highly amongst the european divisions yet. Actually it lies in 170th place below the regional english divisions. So the level of football really isn't that high. I think the current level of our own squad would be a team that is able to avoid relegation in the Serie B. That doesn't sound like much, but we've really come far in this first season.

Coppa Titano Shows the difference in class we're experiencing in San Marino, and why I'm solely focussing on the european matches. We got "a lot" of money though!

The league I Have been holidaying every match so far and we are now in the endgame! The San Marinese league is a bit special as there are playoffs for the win, We've qualified for the quarter finals so far, and are waiting for the last four teams to be decided from 1/8 finals. This means we have potentially five matches left, and we better have that, otherwise our next seasons european campaign is going to be over before it started. We need the champions path system, to qualify for the conference league once more. My contract has been renewed, and the board is actually expecting us to at least get Europa League group stages. Although we were kinda close the last time, I dont think it possible. We're saying goodbye to a lot of players right now, and with no more noncontracts next season, we wont have the rigidity we had this season where we could improve our squad explosively with squad registration. Btw. The match we lost was 1-0 against Tre Penne. I have been spending some time using most of our transfer budget signing youngsters for the future. In three years time we should be able to field a team of 18 year old who might be about the same level we are now. As long as we can keep a hold of these players we stand with an okay chance of actually being able to register a fine squad of players trained in San Marino by Folgore/Falciano for european football. Right now we have seven players in our squad who are only there to meet squad registration rules, and I was afraid of using them in the last campaign, as they are nowhere near the level required to be competitive in the early stages of qualification. We're also still in the national cup, Coppa Titano, where we have blasted every opponent of the field so far.

Golden generation? No. Definitely not. We've invested into our youth setup, but I doubt we'll see much from this within the first 20 years.