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The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge
russ the womble replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
This basically counts as the Champions League right? The Table The Team The Talent The Intake The Stats The Bank The Fans Not too bad a season, we need to have a few more youth come through to give a bit more depth and need a few world class options in midfield and on the wings. New 32,000 seater stadium for next season -
The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge
russ the womble replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
The Table The Team The Talent The Intake The Stats The Bank The Fans Overall, probably need to be patient and see if these players can develop a bit more. May think about a tactical change at some point if I can't make more progress. -
The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge
russ the womble replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
The Table The Team The Talent The Intake The Stats The Bank What a lovely round number! The Fans Yannick Hoffman?! Really! -
The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge
russ the womble replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
The Table The Team The Talent The Intake The Stats The Bank The Fans A slightly frustrating season - reached the semi final of the Conference League and Semi Final of the domestic cup, whilst being in 2nd. But the team could not really cope with so many fixtures and it all went a bit Pete Tong. Having expanded the ground a few times recently, the board have decided to move to another new stadium. Will be interesting what capacity we have. -
The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge
russ the womble replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
The Table 3rd after the first stage of the season but a poor run of results pushed us down to 4th. The Team The Talent The Intake The Stats The Bank The Fans We had an okay season. We actually beat Tottenham 2-1 on aggregate in the round of 32 in the Champions League - who were the current champions - before getting stuffed 6-0 agg by Real Madrid. Trying to balance fitness between the competitions always pays a price on the league form, so back out of Champions League football next season! -
The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge
russ the womble replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
The Table The Team The Talent The Intake The Stats The Bank The Fans Overall pretty satisfying. We also got to the domestic cup final (lost on penalties) and reached the QF of the Europa Cup before losing to Roma. Striker also won goal of the season with a crucial strike in a game I had to get a result in: https://streamable.com/y42gr4 -
The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge
russ the womble replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
The Table The Team The Talent The Intake The Stats The Bank The Fans I don't understand why our strikers decided to have the season off. They weren't particularly upset about anything. Our attacking players are now the worst part of the team though (currently 2 stars or less!) so need to improve there. -
The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge
russ the womble replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
The Table The Team The Intake The Stats The Bank The Fans Roll on next season.. at least no European football to worry about. -
The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge
russ the womble replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
I quite like the other Salzburg teams - we have to beat out this horrible Red Bull franchise! Good luck on your challenge! -
The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge
russ the womble replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
The Table The Team The Talent The Intake The Stats Apparently overperformed slightly The Bank The Fans We managed to agree a small stadium expansion to 12,500 (from 11,500 - is it worth it board?), and a further upgrade to the Youth facilities. Slow progress but getting there Edit: board have now changed their minds and are adding 5k seats - was only a week ago they decided on a small expansion! Having to shrink size of this font from too many seasons! -
The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge
russ the womble replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
Excellently done! -
The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge
russ the womble replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
Nicely done @the_hdk - one day I hope to emulate! The Table The Team The Talent The Intake The Stats The Bank The Fans So Champions league - I assume we'll go into the early qualification rounds. Maybe I can squeeze home a champions league trophy before winning the austrian league? -
The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge
russ the womble replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
The Table The Team The intake The Stats The Bank The Fans So, steady progress, and into Europe again (maybe I'll go for the Europa cup and qualify for the CL that way!), but a lack of good youths coming through. May have a similar looking team for a few years. -
The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge
russ the womble replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
I can see it on the horizon and the issue for me will be the Youth intake lottery. It's fine if there's one or two that can gradually be brought in, but at present I won't have anyone to replace. -
The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge
russ the womble replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
Hopefully goes better this time I have no idea what attempt I am on with my current save, I've tried half the countries in Europe by now and my current save is the only one I've got close to winning the challenge with. Even then I'm still only mid table.