The FM21 Youth Academy Challenge

Luqx28 · July 20, 2021

13 minutes ago, HbG93 said:

If you check the season preview of the lowest division you should see a P for Promoted next to the team name.

thanks - got it

HbG93 · July 20, 2021

Lørenskog IF - OBOS-Ligaen - 2024
Squad - Transfers

Bois! We have our first so-called golden generation. Unfortunately I can't find the actual intake picture in my steam folder, so in compromise I will let the best player get extra exposure. We are graced by the presence of the Frank Midtun 24A. If we can get his anticipation up he has the makings of a solid in behind striker. Christian Drevland 24B is the goalkeeper the preview boasted about. 13 handling and reflexes is promising. But he lacks quite a bit however considering the lack of goalies he’s already second choice. After this the quality drops down quite a bit. But Karsten Soler 24C has some pace, and could become an option on the right flank in the future. The rest aren’t much to talk about, but I signed 3 more players since their potential is assumed to be high.

However I managed to make a mistake. While I was on top of it with Frank Midtun getting him on an non approachable deal. I dropped the ball with Christian Drevland and lost him to Vålerenga for free. I was so afraid of losing Frank Midtun that I slept on Drevland getting interest from other clubs. After this whole embarrassing ordeal. I made sure to get any youths that were involved with the first team on protected deals.

Tactically we kept things pretty similar from last year. I put in a 4-4-2 to use along the 4-4-1-1 since that allowed me to use both Monteiro and Frank Midtun during the season. I also tried working on a lower block variant aimed at countering more. But it had little success compared to benefits of pressing high. This year also saw G. Ranger 22A join the first team ranks offering a new option on the right-back despite one of my better seniors by attributes playing there. I also had to use Fredrik Lien 22D on left wing despite him not having all that in terms of ability. He actually had good moments across the season! I also due to injuries had to throw Karsten Soler 24C earlier than planned into the first team.

Now how did the actual season itself go? Wonderful! I was scared the quality jump without transfers could be difficult. But I underestimated how bad other teams were. Admittedly we were also helped by a schedule that allowed us, too face several off the worse team back to back. While Frank Midtun proved to offer us much more than previous best academy cadet Monteiro. It was still Jake Petur Martin leading the charts however I have a feeling it's about to change next season. Noah Skåttun despite often having a terrible time in our midfield, almost out of the blue become our best creator. But when it comes to delivering well across the entire season there could be no other than Captain Forsberg! Now we finished 7th which actually was our highest peak ever on the table. We stayed pretty much mid table the entire season. But a strong form in October which is at the end of the season netting John Carew the manager of the month award. Almost saw us sneak from 10th into play-offs. Either way I am very happy about the season despite my mishap losing me the goalie prospect. However bar a promotion or sales anymore infrastructure improvement is but a dream. If the board can trust me. I think there's a real chance to grab some serious cash with Frank Midtun, but at the same time I wouldn't mind keeping him at least until we have a replacement prospect.

Now let's talk about Adrian Gashi first youth intake for us! The preview is looking real good especially that last green line. Full-backs and wingers are always welcome, but I will admit I wish we got a new central defender as those ranks are thin. However at the same time I am quite hopeful, this Pesheen born central midfielder has quality since my current crop of central midfield options are nothing to talk about. Also if we indeed have another fine forward prospect. That could prove the thing to be most exciting thing about as this years intake. Seeing how Frank Midtun no longer is only wanted by the top level clubs in Norway, but even Danish side FC Midtjylland have shown interest in him.

HbG93 · July 20, 2021

1 hour ago, darren1983 said:

Youth Intake - Pretty average really, starting to think it might be time for a change here as well

Well if you follow XaW picking condition. I believe Finland looks a bit like a larger UK on the map.

Edited July 20, 2021 by HbG93

TerminalPortugal · July 20, 2021

PORTALEGRENSE (2036/37)

The season started with the bitter news that I was already knowing would happen, Daniel left the club for his minimum fee release clause of £2.8m, a fraction of his true value, and a few weeks later our best defender Diogo Barros left the club for £2.2m, again less than what I valued him at. Minimum fee release clauses had become a problem and I think the reason for this was a few fold, the first most obvious reason had been exposure, these guys started playing for the club at 16 and performing well and that is going to attract attention from all over the place, and moreover this is before I have been able to settle them down after they are 18 to longer contract making sure to exclude such clauses (or more specifically decreasing the chances that their agent insists on it). Secondly I was look at it scared that they would leave on a free transfer but quite honestly leaving for a few million is almost the same thing, so from now on, deals will get done late. If they want to be on their youth wages for 3 or 4 years so be it. This season we were able to undo one or two of the minimum fee release clauses that were very low, but Joao Sona the new starting keeper still has a ridiculously low one which is going to be very difficult to budge. Nelson Assuncao has one but its set at £13m, which is acceptable value to me.

In terms of the season it was a very successful one, with only domestic honours to contend with we did very well in the league and managed to qualify for European football again via the league by finishing in 6th place. We will be back in the Europa League next season and the money that it brings us will be warmly welcomed. The cups were not so good, we did not even make the group stage of the Allianz Cup and we got knocked out by Sporting in the 6th Round of the Portuguese Cup. All in all a good season for us, I cannot complain.

On the player front, we had a bit of an injury crisis early in the season when Gilson Cesar got injured and we were forced to do what I said I did not want to do and throw in my star youngsters, who were probably ready for first team football, but eyeballs meant worse deals for us later on. Felipe Patricio and Andre Vidigal came in and they were good, they are clearly better players potential wise than Cesar and they were the front two most of the season with Cesar proving handy from the bench and the occasional start. Fortunately the two lads are not looking for a move and I managed to sign them on long term deals without the dreaded minimum fee release clause.

The great youth class of a few seasons ago is now very much the key personnel on the playing field for us, Nelson Assuncao, Luciano Santos, Mauro Jacinto and Ivo Madueira are all in the top 5 players now, showing what a real golden generation that class was for the club. By contrast this class this year was not so hot. I am sure there will be one or two but generally speaking despite it being touted a golden generation, golden I do not believe them to be.

On the finances front we are momentarily in the red, mainly because we made so many improvements to the facilities. Over the course of the season they were each improved at least twice if not three times to the point to where we now have superb facilities in place. Obviously we want the best facilities and we will continue to persevere towards that goal, but we made a big stride this season.

The new stadium is being built due for completion at the end of next season, boasting a new capacity of 15,545 for us, and imaginatively named the Portalegrense Stadium or presumably in Portugal Estadio Portalegrense in the local language. No they did not name after me, but the time it could take to this challenge we could build 2 or 3 more by the time this is all said and done.

Apart from that nothing much else to report apart from us getting an affiliation with Terceira side Louletano, to make the shambolic Portuguese loan market a little more tolerable for us when we need to send a player out on loan for some experience. I am also devising a strategy over the next five years to try and get a wide range of affiliates to test whether it had any affect on the players we are getting through, perhaps if we get an affiliate or two in Brazil perhaps we can steal a Brazilian wonderkid a little easier in the Junior football days. Not sure whether it makes a difference or not but since we do not employ scouts because they would have nothing to do, it seems like one way to expand our knowledge a little bit.

Top Players

Nelson Assuncao | Luciano Santos | Felipe Patricio | Mauro Jacinto | Ivo Madureira

Summary

the_hdk · July 20, 2021

after a month of FM break (and being sick for 3 weeks) i'm back and thinnkingof doing another YC

is it possible to as Manager start as an Real Life Club Legend? or is that against the rules?

Thinking to do a YC with Polonia Warsaw as one of my youths cult heroes. Emmanuel Olisadebe. First black guy to play in Polish National team

Edited July 20, 2021 by the_hdk

XaW · July 20, 2021

8 minutes ago, the_hdk said:

after a month of FM break (and being sick for 3 weeks) i'm back and thinnkingof doing another YC

is it possible to as Manager start as an Real Life Club Legend? or is that against the rules?

Thinking to do a YC with Polonia Warsaw as one of my youths cult heroes. Emmanuel Olisadebe. First black guy to play in Polish National team

Well, you have to set your past experience to "sunday league player", and Olisadebe was playing at a bit higher level than that.... but if you want to give that name to your manager and use his likeness as image, then go ahead.

XaW · July 20, 2021

Ok, so I decided to take a trip to South America, and from there I chose Chile, because I found a database that extends to the 5th tier in Chile! So that sounds like something for me. So I holidayed for a season to see who were promoted into the 5th tier. And there was one name that really stood out to me. What club would stand out, I hear you ask? Well the club called Lord Cochrane of course!

What the...? Lord Cochrane? What kind of a club name is that? So I had a look on Google, and I found out it's based on a British lord, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald. Now, why would a Chilean team name their team from a British lord? Well, I had a read on his Wikipedia page, and it's quite the interesting read. To sum it up, he was a British naval officer who was very successful in the Napoleonic wars in the early 1800s before he was found guilty of a stock exchange fraud and was banished. He ended up as a Chilean citizen and helped both Chile and Peru in the Independence Wars in South America. Eventually, he was exonerated and allowed back in the British navy. So he is a bit of a hero in Chile, and this club takes their name from him.

I love these types of clubs that I have no idea about, and I hope to bring the club to great success in his honor. Oh, and the club badge is just excellent! Chef's kiss!

I have no idea how this will work in Chile, but here goes!

libbyshuss · July 20, 2021

20 minutes ago, XaW said:

Now, why would a Chilean team name their team from a British lord?

lol, that is a cool story! good old lord cochrane!

XaW · July 20, 2021

5 minutes ago, libbyshuss said:

lol, that is a cool story! good old lord cochrane!

Yeah, that's what really connected with me. I do love to find clubs with a bit of a back story!

XaW · July 20, 2021

About to finish the first game of the season, and things look really good! I hope it continues!

the_hdk · July 20, 2021

Polish Legend starts at Polonia Warsaw!

I had to sim two seasons as Polonia starts in 4th Level in Poland. Had to reload the sim 5 times but they finally promoted
As you can see....Oli replaced Oli. (I had to retire my first manager due to comment from XaW as I didn't put his exp on lowest level). I didnt do anything yet ingame so no harm done.

UnkleTass · July 20, 2021

ACN Siena 1904 Season 2041/42 Review

We finished 8th in the league tied for our 2nd best ever finish, but it feels like an L because with 3 games to go we had the opportunity to finish 6th and qualify automatically for the Europa League group stages but alas we failed and our Euro adventures will have to wait. In our maiden European campaign we came up against Porto in the 4th Qualifying Round and as expected got beaten sad times. In truth nothing to really shout about except we are a comfortable mid table team in the league now and we have enough bank to afford to finance a new stadium with out even flinching.

The new stadium is only going to be 23k seater but it is an upgrade, the super stadium named after myself is still away off but something to aspire to

In terms of new youth the quality is slowly declining as the team improves only one 5 Star prospect came into the academy this year, but its always the ones you least expect that come through and shine see Alessandro Mari 37D* (5th best player from his initial intake)

Two job offers this year one from the team that beat me in the European Conference League so of course I rejected that one with the most speed

Challenge: Squad League Table Transfers

Key Players: Alessandro Mari 37D* Fabio Longo 37D Matteo Giaccherini 38B*

Youth Intake: Preview Actual

Manager: Profile Attributes

Jobs: Stuttgart Porto

Extra: Finances Moments Serie A Overachievers New Stadium

toshimitzou1 · July 20, 2021

First win of the season! 5 of my youth intake are due to turn 16 in two week; I hope they can turn our season's fortunes!

TerminalPortugal · July 21, 2021

PORTALEGRENSE (2037/38)

It has been a very bad season for us, there are almost no positives at all to take from this season. For the first time since we entered the Liga NOS, I feel we have a competitive mid-table side but we were really shocking and I have been looking at the data and seeing why that might be, but before I do let me provide a synopsis of the season. We finished in 13th place, which is a massive drop off for us, we got hammered in the Portuguese Cup 6th Round 7-2 by Vitoria de Guimaraes and we exited the League Cup before it even started in the 2nd Phase. In the Europa League we got the the first knockout round beaten by Red Star Belgrade over two legs a team which I would fancy beating. The weird thing is in the group stage against what I would say is a pretty tough opposition in Lazio, Shakhtar Donetsk and Molde we won the group pretty easily winning in Italy and the Ukraine and qualifying easily. Okay so perhaps there was a positive but that was about as good as it got. So to discuss our issues, we have to break it down into four main areas this season

1. The transfer windows are like night terrors for me, it as an opportunity for every club big and small to come along and make a thousand bids on our players, unsettling everyone in the process. This time around we lost our goalkeeper Joao Sona to Napoli as he was one of the ones that still had a minimum fee release clause in his contract. That goes on until the transfer deadline where I reject bids for 10 minutes with the clock on that day seemingly moving slower than in real life under the weight of bids coming from every possible place imaginable. Then we have to pick up the pieces, the players underperform for a while then they get over it, some before others and normally they want a nice new contract to tide them over sometimes wanting to then get the clauses in to make sure next time around they get an easy cheap move away. Then rinse and repeat this process in January. I have to say even for me who thinks FM models real life extremely this is not particularly realistic. It's also the fact that [INSERT BIG BOY CLUB HERE] make a bid and I reject it and then a day later a new bid this time with £100K after 50 games played. It just makes very little sense, but it does unsettle the players so I guess for their purposes it works. So this is the first reason why we are not doing so well.

2. This season we completely underperformed against our XG. We finished 13th, we should have finished in 5th if it had gone with XG. Why that is...brings me to point 3.

3. Our defence is just nowhere near as good as our attack, we have consistently produced good attacking players via the academy but defenders specifically good centre backs have just been poor for a while. Even Diogo Barros, the best we ever produced probably, who now officially test the bench strength at Giuseppe Meazza (no I am not bitter at all), would not be a guy I would be looking at twice in any other save, it's just that he was our best and clearly better than what we have. I watched some of the goals back over the season and the completely lack of marking and awareness is glaring. Our attack often scores 2 or 3 goals but it just won't do when our defence concedes 3 on average as well. The new keeper has played one season and already conceded 85 goals in 38 appearances, that is over two a game and you just don't win much with that. And there is nothing on the horizon, the recent youth intake did not provide a whole lot of defenders to work with.

4. And this is probably the main reason, just like ten years ago in the Terceira I panicked a bit and looked for tactical solution to what is an issue of ability and what then happened is the problem got even worse. The lesson here is whatever the tactical solution you have is, whether it is good or bad, its probably worse to try something completely new and unknown in the middle of the season. On paper going strikerless with two shadow strikers made sense, but in reality it just meant they did not score and we did not win.

On the contract front there have been some wins and losses. We have tied down both strikers without MF clauses for a good long while and they look great together. Vidigal especially had a great return this season in goals. Assuncao remains on his contract with the £13m MF clause, he could leave this summer possibly. Lucindo Santos one of our best performers this year, seemed to create a bug with the game where he would come to me asking for a new contract. I eventually decided to honour one his requests, made a promise I would offer him a contract, but then when I went to actually agree a deal with him, his agent told me he was not interested it talking to me, then he came back to me saying I broke a promise, so I said thinking that something weird had happened and I probably just needed to confirm I would offer him a contract, I doubled down on offering him a contract and his agent had the same message, so our relationship is essentially at an end at this point (that indeed is a nice sneaky trick Mr. Agent). I may well just look to cash in on him. There is just no point in keeping him despite his ability.

On the investment front, the new stadium is approaching so that is a positive and I have got the club to agree to update the facilities essentially to their maximum. The youth facilities are already there at state of the art and the training facilities are closely following in a few months. That is a positive, but I am kind of now thinking to myself what is the point of all this, we produce great players. We get to play them until they reach 19 or 20 and then they inevitably leave us or are permanently annoyed because the transfer window is open. It is a head scratcher and I am pretty much pulling my hair out.

The youth prospects this youth looked okay, not the best ever but probably better than last years batch, there may well be one or two that excite for 2 or 3 minutes they play for our club before asking to leave.

As you can see this season has taken it out of me, I have read other stories on here and I share the sentiment that some have about this challenge. It is truly a monumental one. I have never had to think so much playing a football manager save. It is enjoyable in the same way that a rather violent massage is, painful during it, but assuming I can somehow do this someday I will feel all the better for it.

Anyway on to the pictures, and we will be back next season. Where we will be reverting to 4-4-FOOKING-2 ala Mike Bassett.

Top Players

Nelson Assuncao | Ivo Madureira | Luciano Santos | Andre Vidigal | Felipe Patricio

Summary

toshimitzou1 · July 21, 2021

Late season form could not save me from the drop, I had a ten point deficit going into the relegation mini - league. So close though, missed out on survival with one game remaining.

It is definitely for the best. I have a squad full of young promise that will thrive in the lower tier and be far stronger when we return.

Loving the youth challenge. Never experienced a relegation in my 20 odd years playing football manager, but it felt correct for where we are as a club.

To next season!

XaW · July 21, 2021

47 minutes ago, toshimitzou1 said:

Loving the youth challenge. Never experienced a relegation in my 20 odd years playing football manager

Good luck bouncing back up! A relegation is never nice, but it's a common happening in this challenge. Still, the feeling of reward when winning something is much greater than in normal games! We've always said that if you join, you won't leave soon!

vikeologist · July 21, 2021

Vikeologist's 2053/54 Folkestone Season Report

Before our last match of the season we were 1 place outside the playoffs.

Fortunately the 2 teams above us were playing each other meaning that whatever the result of that match, if we won, we would be in.

Unfortunately, that final match was against West Brom, the newly crowned league champions, and nothing except a win would get us in.

We went ahead in the second half and with 15 minutes to go I shut up shop.

Spoiler

We survived the bombardment until injury time when they equalised. A whole season down the drain.

There is however one reason for slight optimism, Mohamed Kargbo 33a my latest top regen who came on as a sub in all the final matches. He wasn’t great. I didn’t expect him to be until he’s familiar with the tactics, and at the moment he’s no better than some of the other players in the team, but very soon he might be significantly better than everybody else. I've also edged a bit closer to maxxing out the facilities.

Top Goalscorer – Dan Jones 27e – 24

Only started 27 matches, so was our most effective striker.

Highest Average Rating (minimum 10 matches played) – Dan Jones 27e – 7.14

Man of The Match – Dave Jackson 21b – 6

Most Valuable Player– Dan Jones 27e

Most Appearances (Regens) – Jason ‘Nepotism’ Ramsay 1a – 719

If this challenge takes more than another 15 seasons, and if Kargbo 33a, stays, it’s possible he might break this unbreakable record. However, once we get back to the Premier League, we initially won’t be playing as many matches.

Most Goals (Regens) – Michael Morgan 9a – 463

Dave Jackson at 28 is on 300, so he could beat this record in theory, but he won’t.

Barry Ramsay 29k (Son) Update

Spent the season on loan with Halifax in the Vauxhall National, which is about his level. Got lots of match experience. I’ve given him a new contract. Maybe next year I’ll keep him at the club and see if he can improve a bit more. Halifax played him as a central defender for the first half of the season, and he did much better there, despite being a short arse (175cm) a lightweight (72kg) and bad at marking. Should be able to careve out a career in the lower leagues though.

Season	Division		Position	Notes							MVP										
21/22	VNL South		18th		Steered clear of relegaton thanks to good start.	Callum Davies
22/23	VNL South		16th		Only 2 places better, but a lot more points.		Henry Newcombe
23/24	VNL South		18th		Big step backwards in points.				David Smith
24/25	VNL South		15th		Consistently mediocre.					David Smith
25/26	VNL South		14th		Just outside playoffs for most of the season.		David Smith
26/27	VNL South		16th		Otherwise known as the year 1AD (After Discipline)	Ellis Andrews 2c
27/28	VNL South		19th		Narrowly avoided relegation places all season		David Smith
28/29	VNL South		15th		Tried different tactics. Didn't find a magic bean.	David Smith
29/30	VNL South		7th		Lost playoff semifinal, but a great improvement.	Ellis Andrews 2c
30/31	VNL South		12th		Second half slump into mid-table disappointment		David Smith
31/32	VNL South		7th		Lost in S/F of playoff					Ellis Andrews 2c
32/33	VNL South		9th		Didn't threaten playoffs				Ellis Drake 10a
33/34	VNL South		2nd		Lost last 2 matches of season and 1st playoff game.	Michael Morgan 9a
34/35	VNL South		4th		Knocked out Playoffs 1st round on penalties		Michael Morgan 9a
35/36	VNL South		6th		Knocked out in Playoff semifinal			Michael Morgan 9a
36/37	VNL South		5th		Knocked out in Playoff semifinal			Giorgos Kragiopoulos 11a
37/38	VNL South		1st		Won the league by a mile. 17th time lucky.		Michael Morgan 9a 
38/39	VNL National		1st		Back to back comfortable promotions			Jack Collett 13a 
39/40	League 2		2nd		Won last 5 matches securing automatic promotion.	Jack Collett 13a 
40/41	League 1		11th		Pushing for promotion most of the season		Jack Collett 13a 
41/42	League 1		5th		Lost in playoffs semifinal				Michael Morgan 9a 
42/43	League 1		8th		Losing streak, winning streak and then injuries		Kevin Spencer 17d
43/44	League 1		7th		One place outside playoffs.				Kevin Spencer 17d
44/45	League 1		12th		Outside playoffs all season. New stadium.		Pete Larkin 18d
45/46	League 1		2nd		Promoted last day of the season. 			Dave Jackson 21b 
46/47	Championship		20th		Plummetted near to relegation zone			Dave Jackson 21b 
47/48	Championship		15th		Terrible start but mid table safety after that.		Steven 'Shamrock' Larkin 21d 
48/49	Championship		14th		Good start but dropped away from playoffs.		Liam Carter 25d 
49/50	Championship		15th		Boring & disappointing season				Dave Jackson 21b 
50/51	Championship		4th		Promoted through playoffs.				Ross Gethins 22c
51/52	Premier League		20th		Won once in 2nd half of season and relegated.		Dave Jackson 21b
52/53	Championship		8th		Typical second half of the season collapse.		Dave Jackson 21b 
53/54	Championship		7th		Missed out on playoffs in final match injury time	Dan Jones 27e

libbyshuss · July 21, 2021

6 hours ago, TerminalPortugal said:

I have never had to think so much playing a football manager save. It is enjoyable in the same way that a rather violent massage is, painful during it, but assuming I can somehow do this someday I will feel all the better for it.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

You're spot on though - i think the reason i keep coming back to this challenge is its the only one where i have to think. All the other forms of playing i can do on auto-pilot, this one if i try that i lose 20 in a row and get relegated.

Interesting point about xg, i've never checked that. I was fifth this season on expected goals, and third on expected goals against. so very much same problems you're having with defence

libbyshuss · July 21, 2021

3 hours ago, toshimitzou1 said:

Loving the youth challenge. Never experienced a relegation in my 20 odd years playing football manager

i know, me either, now it's just a matter of course!

XaW · July 21, 2021

Club Deportivo y Social Lord Cochrane - Season 2022 (Season 1) Review - Chilean South Group Third Division B (5th tier)

Table | Squad | Transfers | Finances

Ahh, Chile! Here I am, back in South America. A bit down the leagues, but still an interesting place. I'm playing in one of the 3 regional division in the 5th tier of Chilean football. We are in the southern part, even though we are not located that south, really. The club hails from Concepción, one of the biggest cities in Chile, located (like just about the entire country) at the western side of South America, on the pacific coast. Except some small islands like the Easter Islands and Pitcairn Islands, the next landmass to the west is New Zealand. Most teams in this division also seems to be based in or around Concepción, with a few expections. Still, it seems like the bottom quarter of country don't have much football going on.

We started very good with 7-1 win, and things looked good for a while. After some matches though, we got a few injuries. Now, normally, that happens and I switch in somebody else, however, the squad was so small that I only have 1 sub, except for two goalkeepers. So following my self imposed rules of never using greys unless I cannot field a team, one of my goalkeepers were a left back for a good part of the season. Unsurprisingly, that had an effect and we lost quite a few games. We did fight for the top spot for a while, but eventually Naval de Talcahuano managed to pull away, and in the latter matches we also got caught out by Comunal Cabrero. This meant we finished 3rd in the division, a spot I'm very happy with. We got our youth intake before the final match, but squad registration made me unable to include them in the match, but going into next season, I should have enough players to fill out the bench at the very least!

We didn't play in any cups this season.

Youth

As always, the first intake is welcome no matter what. This was quite good, but not great personalities.

I had to convert a left back into a centre back for the first team, so Juan Pablo Valencia 22f will get a lot of matches next season.

Statistics:

Spoiler

Everyone is local, but one is half German.

Trophy cabinet:

None

libbyshuss · July 21, 2021

2026/27 - Season 6

National League South - 10th

Season Summary

A really welcome boring and dull season after our recent flirtations with relegation. We finally started looking like a team!

League - The problem was our frustrating lack of consistency. Being that the team is very young, that's only to be expected, but what was pleasing is how much more resilient we were. That strict discipline is paying off! We'd lose two games in a row and I'd be fearing a complete collapse, like we have in previous seasons, only for us to bounce back time and again with a really good display and a good result. We had a good little run in Septmeber that put us in the play-off positions but we couldn't quite maintain it. Every time we got near again, we'd lose again. Still, I'd have snatched 10th if it was offered at the start of the season

FA Cup - so close again! Fourth qualifying round saw us go up against Morecambe of the National League. We took them to a replay, where we lost 4-3

Players

So this is where my optimism is coming from. As they are getting older, they're getting better and more and more determined. It's still a yougn team but in a couple of seasons they'll be ready to compete I think. What's really pleasing is seeing Ryan and Horlock's ability rating go down through the season, as the kids get better and better and surpass them. They used to be the two star players, now they're clinging on to their places in the squad.

Olly Kearns 26E looks like he could be a real star. I promoted him after he it 36 goals in 32 games for the U18 side and re repaid me with 10 in 19 for the first team. He's got green arrows all over the place too. I got a lot of hope for him!

Here's the first choice XI - look how young it is!

youth

The last couple of intakes have been pretty good so I was half expecting a little return to earth this time round. The preview was ok, and the promise of an Algerian striker was quite exciting. More flags to add to my map!

The intake was ok, not too shabby, but not quite as good as I'd hoped. The Algerian striker was a bit of a damp squib. I signed him up anyway

Finances and Improvements

Still looking good, still in the green. I even talked the board into another improvement to our facilities

Excellent academy coaching in the vanaram league north lol!

Career

I still think it's too early to be pushing for promotion with this team, but can we make the step up to the play-offs? Probably not, we're still vry young, but you never know I guess.

HbG93 · July 21, 2021

Lørenskog - OBOS-ligaen - 2025
Squad - Transfer

A very exciting intake indeed! Let's start with assumed top propsect Mohammed Hussain 25A. I have been looking forward to add competition in my central midfield, and while Hussain lack of physicality as a worry for now. I plan to already allow him first team play in hopes to ramp up his progress. Moving on with Mahmoud Karlstad 25B our new striker prospect. He's not on the level of last years addition Frank Midtun, but still has an alright base to build on. We have usually gotten a winger that can come in handy. This years best winger is Kristoffer Haukali 25C a more advanced winger who sadly lacks the usual pace package we see. For now he will spend time with the youth squad training up his LM position. And this will be the case for the remainders as well for now.

Tactically for our second year in OBOS-ligaen I focused more on using the plain 4-4-2, as I wanted to focus on using both Frank Midtun 24A, and now long time top scorer Jake Petur Martin. As seen in the picture above Jake Petur Martin also would future on the flanks during the season. This proved useful due too injuries but also to allow Karlstad 25B a chance to get a dusin starts. Due to Frank Midtun ability to get in behind I removed Play out of defense and switch to counter instead of holding shape when winning the ball. This would lead to us having the 2nd worst defensive record but also the 2nd best scoring record.

With us having two such contrasting offensive and defensive record it should come as no shock when I reveal we ended up at mid-table finish. Slightly lower than last year 7th with a 9th placement this year. However I feel that as long we can hold onto our best youth intake players. We will slowly start moving up the table however our finances have taken a dip, and with his warranted interest a sale of Frank Midtun could be used to cover costs. This has me in constant fear that the board could end up accepting offers way lower, than what I could get for him. Hopefully it helps that I put Frank Midtun 24A on a bigger contract during the season with a 2 year extension. After all despite us growing a negative balance there still is unused money in the transfer, and wage budget that can be re-allocated so I am not to worried yet. Despite his playing performances wasn't much. I have enjoyed seeing the attributes of G. Ranger 22A progress. While the usual Captain Forsberg held the highest ratings across the season. We had a change up in the other two slots. Jake Petur Martin still is on board, but this time due to most assists. Most goals goes to young gun and growing favorite Frank Midtun 24A.

Moving on let's talk about something a bit more fun that the idea of losing our best prospect. Checking in on the upcoming prospect the preview is rather positive. As usual it talks about offering wingers, but specifically that a right winger born right in our own city has caught the eye. I know this doesn't automatically means he will stand out, but it would be a little extra fun having a towns local do good. However by far the most exciting part is the assumption this is an excellent group of players.

Edited July 21, 2021 by HbG93

Brentmeister · July 21, 2021

Season 12 review

A miserable season saw us take a massive step back on both fronts of the challenge.

We finished in a rather disappointing 12th place meaning we didn’t even qualify for South America's premier continental competition.

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Serie A
12th place and almost 40 points behind the winners. We’re miles away from winning the league.

We started the season unbeaten and top of the league after 8 games, scoring goals and not conceding too many either. Unfortunately that was as good as it got for us and we only managed another 8 league wins all season. A run of 1 win in 12 in the middle and another of 2 wins in 11 towards the end sealed our fate.

Sao Paulo State Championship
Quarter final defeat. Again. Sigh.

The Brazilian Cup
We got all the way to the final where we lost to Santos.
Our 3rd silver medal of the save.

Copa Libertadores
Semi Finals.
We breezed through the group stage scoring an unbelievable 31 goals in 4 games including the aforementioned 10-0 in which academy graduate Emanuel grabbed 8. We knocked out Santos in the quarter finals before succumbing to a semi final defeat to Sao Paulo.

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Performances
Brazilian German Getulio Vargas scored another 30 goals for us but most came in the cup competitions against inferior opposition. We haven’t really produced a single decent striker in my time here but have had about 7 brilliant center backs.

Our best player and 6th wonderkid was Vinicius, another CB, who seamlessly made the step up from the u20's.

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Youth preview and intake
The preview wasn’t a golden generation and there wasn’t much green. When the intake arrived however, it was labelled a golden generation. There wasn't much in the way of promising attacking players.

Full back Hamilton looks best of the bunch. I forgot the screenshot at the time so here he is 14 months on, I’m a little behind with the updates! He's progressing nicely.

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Finances and upgrades
Still rich and still no transfers.
A new stadium was approved to be completed in 4 years time.

Our u20’s won a double taking their tally to about 8 trophies since I’ve been here, so we are producing decent players, I'm just obviously not using them right!

Still not had any young Romanians through the system in the 3 years we've had the affiliation? Maybe it's too far away?

Edited July 21, 2021 by Brentmeister

TerminalPortugal · July 21, 2021

PORTALEGRENSE (2038/39)

We completed our fifth successive season in the top flight, which I guess is a success of sorts. It was a much better season this year as we managed to achieve a 7th place finish which will qualify us for the European Conference League, so we are back in Europe again this year. On the transfer front there were some changes, Luciano Santos left for Chelsea for £11m, Gustavo Martins left for £3.6m rising to £11.25m which was accepted by the board and not me, and Mauro Jacinto left for his minimum release fee of £4.1m, which meant we made quite a lot of money this season, not that we can spend it, so we pushed it all into wages to allow us to tie up one or two contracts that we were not going to be able to get done, due to the meagre wage budget that we had. So we were a weaker team this year but it was a better performance. I even decided to move away from the 4-4-2 which has given us success in search of something else. Not sure we found it, but I fancy a change and I will run a full season with a strikerless formation which I am again interested in. The cups were not great, a group stage exit in the League Cup and a loss to lower league Mafra early on in the Portuguese Cup put pay to our chances there.

The same remains true, we simply are missing any decent defenders. I may look to address this soon. Our Head of Youth Development has done great stuff for us, but at the end of the day he brings in a lot of the same kind of players and we need something different, especially now the facilities are maxed out, and while this years youth intake was okay, I was not blown away. They are always golden generations but some are more golden than others. The other reason is that I want to move away from the 4-4-2, so I would quite like to invest in perhaps a Head of Youth Development that might encourage us to bring through more defensive players, wherever they may be, but especially in the centre back role. If we strike gold there and as long as we can retain them for long enough I think we will see a big improvement in fortunes.

Money wise as you can see below we have plenty in the bank and now nothing to spend it on, so really at this stage it is just a matter of investing into the wage budget and providing ourselves with the funds should our facilities be downgraded or we want to put a big investment into a new stadium or something like that.

Top Players

Nelson Assuncao | Andre Vidigal | Felipe Patricio | Ivo Madrueira | David Cassama

Summary

XaW · July 21, 2021

Club Deportivo y Social Lord Cochrane - Season 2023 (Season 2) Review - Chilean South Group Third Division B (5th tier)

Table | Squad | Transfers | Finances

With so few matches per season at this tier, the seasons fly by. The youngsters we got in last season made their entrance into the team, and we do look much better this season. The main newbie is clearly Juan Pablo Valencia 22f, who controlled the defence and even got quite the goal count as well. Cristopher Sierra 22j also made a solid impact on the team as one of our strikers. The new intake once again came too late to have an impact, but we still were in a close race for the promotion spot. Unfortunately, Caupolicán de Cauquenes beat us, even if we finished on the same points total. Going into next season, I have a hope we can finally break this division and get promoted.

We didn't play in any cups this season either.

Youth

One really big talent, and a fair few nice talents around him.

Néstor Labrín 23a is simply amazing for this level, but I do wish he was something else than a central midfielder, that's the one spot I have the best players in already. Still, I'd rather have him than not!

Statistics:

Spoiler

Everyone is from Concepción, but at least we added Italy.

Trophy cabinet:

None

TerminalPortugal · July 21, 2021

PORTALEGRENSE (2039/40)

This year we changed up the tactics from ostensibly the 4-4-2 which we had used since the start, although we had dabbled with other tactics to a 4-3-3-0, strikerless tactic. The theory was that our strikers were not really out and out strikers, who had high speed and pretty good passing, by placing them further back, we would have a natural first line of defence, whereas with two strikers and two wingers, we essentially meant that we could be easily caught out with a lost ball in the final third, with everyone caught up the field. Instead the wingers were removed despite the fact that we had a lot of talent there, such as Ivo Madrueira. Instead we line up with a back four, three in midfield with a defensive midfield deep lying playmaker that would provide a bit more cover, to protect our very shaky defence. Secondly with the front line withdrawn, the logic would be as where it was easier to mark the two forwards, now the opposition would either have to deploy a defensive midfielder to try and deal with the passes into the pocket in front of their defence, or the centre back would have to decide whether to drop off or mark tightly, allow the movement of the strikers to break their lines. The question is did it work. Well sort of, we started brilliantly and once it got going we looked really good but eventually towards the end of the season we ended up having a pretty poor run to drop off and finish in 7th place. At least this progress to a working tactic that we can transition to, and it allows me to have a less rigid idea of who players where, we now have centre midfielders and attacking midfielders which gives me flexibility. The tactics itself is intense and that may have also been one of the main reasons why we lost pace. However this season was arguably our most successful season in the history of the club as Portalegrense are now European Champions, well at least we are champions of the Europa Conference League as we beat Lille in the final in Germany to win our first major honour of our career and obviously the first in the clubs history.

In terms of players Patricio and Vidigal are just brilliant up front, the problem is I do not have clones of them so we have to bring others in. David Cassama in fairness has also been brilliant this season as he broke out on the season. We still have had to rely on the likes of Diogo Pereira up there now and while he can definitely do a job and he has had one of the best seasons of his career he probably is not the standard we need. Still there are plenty of players that can fulfil the position coming through. I have modified the training schedules to get them ready. Madrueira one our best players, barely played and is being retrained in the left wing back spot, although he would be a very attacking wing back and done not have great defensive qualities.

We did change the Head of Youth Development, picking up South African Tito who is a Model Citizen, and has a formation which I was hoping would bring through a few more defenders and it worked, the youth intake had way more quality in defence, although whether they are actually top players we will only know in a while. We have managed now to more or less crest the wave of the constant moaning for transfers away, they still moan but the minimum fee release clauses now are less and less of an issue, especially since we acted to get the wage budget up to sustain much better players. The likes of Patricio and Vidigal are tied down for a long while. Assuncao who technically is still our best player still has his £13m MF clause, and he doesn't seem to want to renew at the moment. I am surprised he has not been picked up, Familicao and Vitoria de Guimaraes activated it, but he opted to stay.

Speaking of Vitoria de Guimaraes, they only went and won the league, and they won it by a mile. Portuguese football still has the big three but it has changed a lot, it is now the 4th best league in Europe and not only that the likes of Feirense and Vitoria de Guimaraes are seriously quality sides, that prove to be difficult to deal with. This year it has shown, as they walked the title after years of Benfica winning it.

Finances are down, that is to be expected as we have increased the wage budget, I hope the increase in reputation will mean more money through in sponsorship and the Europa League should help, but we still have plenty in the bank and nothing to spend it on. I suspect it will resolve itself. If it doesn't then we can always opt to sell one of the more highly valued players to make sure that we do not go into debt.

All in all a decent season for us and the first real silverware of this save.

Top Players

Nelson Assuncao | Felipe Patricio | Ivo Madrueira | Andre Vidigal | Emanuel Djalo

Summary

libbyshuss · July 22, 2021

Season 7 - 2027/28

National League North - 5th

Season Summary

A much improved season fro us, first time in the play-offs!

League - We started in a really odd way. We'd win 6-2, then draw and lose 4-3, so by November we were mid-table despite me feeling we'd been a lot better than that. Sure enough, come the new year, we put together a nice run and forced our way into the play-offs. We almost lost it on the final day but managed to squeak a result to qualify. Five days later we were out, losing 1-0 at home to Kettering, who had already beaten us twice that season (inclduing 5-4!)

So a much improved performance but still a little lacking in consistency and quality

FA Cup - another good run cut short by a narrow defeat to a National League side. Wrexham this time, in the 4th qualifying round

Players

So, another year older and it showed! But the real star was Ollie Kearns 26A. I mentioned in last seasons write up I had a suspicion he was going to be a star and I wasn't wrong .48 goals and 13 assists in 49 games from his first full season. He was immense. The only problem is his contract expires in a month and he's flat out refused to discuss a new one since the day he signed the last one. So, barring a miracle, looks like I'll lose him for nothing for next season

He is ridiculously good for this level, and still only 18. fingers crossed I can re-sign him!

The first XI this season:-

I stuck with 4-3-3, mainly to get both Kearns and Ryan in the side. Boardman is a AMR by trade so if Kearns goes I might go back to 4-2-3-1, as it's been my go-to tactic for the last 10 FMs or so.

Waldron is looking a real star at this level as well. He signed up!

Youth

I changed my HoYD! My last one had an amazing personality (model proffessional) but otherwise his attributes were awful. So i upgraded him with this dude:-

For this level, i'm prett happy with him.

The last intake from my previous HoYD was not too bad, but then with my facilities the way they are atm they're not going to be at this level!

Preview wasn't great being that I was playing 4-3-3, the last thing I needed was wingers and attacking midfielders!

Not as many 4 stars as previously, but thanks to Kearns being so much better than everyone else it's a lot more reliable in terms of who to keep/train etc. Two GKs is nice as my first team keeper is getting on a bit, and being exposed for the useless flappy fool that he is.

Finances and Improvements

Still in credit but the board won't make any more improvements. Fair enough, i guess. It's time I started repaying them on the pitch really.

I did get a job offer from Crewe in the Championship though, which was a surprise. I'm paddling around in the National League South!

Career

Whether or not I can push on really depends if Ollie Kearns signs a new contract or not.

libbyshuss · July 22, 2021

I couldn't risk losing him for nothing so with about 10 days before his contract ran out i brokered this deal:-

I'm gonna struggle without the lad....

I'm also resigned to the fact that he'll be released without playing a game in 3 years time as well, but what can you do?

HbG93 · July 22, 2021

51 minutes ago, libbyshuss said:

I couldn't risk losing him for nothing so with about 10 days before his contract ran out i brokered this deal:-

I'm gonna struggle without the lad....

I'm also resigned to the fact that he'll be released without playing a game in 3 years time as well, but what can you do?

I feel you

XaW · July 22, 2021

Club Deportivo y Social Lord Cochrane - Season 2024 (Season 3) Review - Chilean South Group Third Division B (5th tier)

Table | Squad | Transfers | Finances

Finally we got through. An excellent season from the boys, and we are going up in the world. We were on top of it from an early stage, and finally Deportes Tomé and clinched it with two games remaining. The squad is starting to come together nicely, even if the general level of attributes are quite poor. That said, this level of football is rather poor, so I think I'll stick to my hoofball for a few more seasons. I do like the way we managed to keep a bunch of clean sheets this season though, as I am not well known for creating solid defensive tactics. Looking forward to seeing how things will be in the 4th tier next season.

We didn't play in any cups this season either.

Youth

Everyone is a 5 star talent, but I kind of had hoped for more. No one really sticks out this season.

I chose to highlight Leonel Aguayo 24f because I think he fits in nicely, good speed and finishing should provide some goals for us.

Statistics:

Spoiler

All Chileans this time, but at least one from another city.

Trophy cabinet:

Chilean South Group Third Division B - 2024

KUMB · July 22, 2021

Can this challenge be done on FM Touch?

XaW · July 22, 2021

5 minutes ago, KUMB said:

Can this challenge be done on FM Touch?

I think so, if you follow the rules set up in the first post. I think you might get in fewer players per intake though.

Cheez3y · July 22, 2021

So Im still in the Greek language region, but just a bit more north.

I found a Greek DB with 3 tiers, so...

Panionios played until 2019/20 in the 1st tier, but got relegated due to financial problem all the way to the 4th tier.

Edited July 22, 2021 by Cheez3y

Cheez3y · July 22, 2021

GSS Panionios - Youth Intake 2022

We only got 11 players in our team, so this will be a nice addition.

Intake Map - 2022

Spoiler

TerminalPortugal · July 22, 2021

PORTALEGRENSE (2040/41)

This season has been a little disappointing, but at least it was not a disaster. We started off with the tactic from last year and immediately we started very poorly. I stayed with almost until the end when we had very little to play for, where I then change to slightly different strikerless tactic and results improved a bit and we probably got a bit more out of some of the better players in the team. Our problem is still a defensive one, although we are beginning to improve and certainly the last two intakes have provided shimmers of hope of improving the defensive line. In the end we finished in 8th place, but had we performed in line with our XG then we would have finished in 5th place, and there in lies the issue, we are too leaky in defence and we don't take every change we create. We need to reduce the number of chances we give away and then we should see the performance that I want. In terms of positives Sergio Branco has come into the side and looks a very good player, that can operate from the right or at times with the previous formation operated in amongst the shadow strikers. Malam Soares who predominantly plays at centre back but can also be our defensive midfielder has improved things for us, he looks a good player, although I doubt whether he is capable of becoming elite. The front two in Vidigal and Patricio are still performing well for us, so there are plenty of positives to be had, and hopefully next season we see an improvement and can get back into Europe

On the subject of Europe we got past a tough group, and won in Denmark against Copenhagen in the First Knockout Round 2-0, but we collapsed at home losing 4-0 to dump us out. This has happened way too often for my liking, a positive first leg result is overturned in the second leg. Hopefully we can be a bit better when dealing with this. In the league cup we got as far as the semi final escaping our group but lost to Familicao in the Semi Final, and the Portuguese Cup was very disappointing as we lost on penalties to Pacos de Ferreira in the 5th Round.

Financially we are beginning to lose a bit of money, we had to spend money to re-upgrade the youth facilities to state of the art because of a downgrade, that was successfully completed, but we really needed European football to keep the books balanced. I hope next season we are able to perform and recapture European football as thing could get bleak soon if we don't do that and we might see some fire-sales as a results of that.

The youth intake as mentioned looks promising, plenty of good defensively minded players that we can improve, so I am hopeful there.

Top Players

Nelson Assuncao | Felipe Patricio | Sergio Branco | Ivo Madrueira | Andre Vidigal

Summary

the_hdk · July 22, 2021

Polonia Warsaw

The Black Shirts. Polonia Warsaw. A bit history. Polonia was not available after one seaosn but two as they start in 4th level, but due to their reputation make a chance to promote twice (important to check after a year if Polonia or Ruch promoted).
Polonia is a two time champion of Poland (1946 & 2000). In 2000 the hero of this save and manager (Olisadebe) was the topscorer of the team. Three time 2nd place (1921, 1926 & 1998) and one time third in Poland (1923). The team won twice the Polish Cup (1952 & 2001). One SuperCup of Poland Win (2000) and one lost final (2001). They also won the League Cup in 2000 but that has been discontinued in Poland since than.

The golden ages of Polonia ware pre war 20s and late 90s early 2000s.
Legia Warsaw (14 time Polish Champion) is our main rival. Further we are rivals with LKS Lodz (who are friendly with Legia), Lech Poznan and Wisla Krakow. Ans also With Hutnik. I do not know why we do not have a derby with them.

First off i started working on getting staff on my club as we started with only a GK coach and HOYD. As Director of Football I signed Michal Zewlakow (one of the two twins that ware core of Polonia in their 2nd golden age in 00s). This might be a bit controvercial in real life as Zewlakow ended his career at Legia 2017 and went on to be their DoF for two years. Either way we has a ton of expierience as DoF (Legia Zaglebie and Motor Lublin) and as a player with 102 caps for Poland and history with Anderlecht and Olympiakos.

Next up our HOYD. Olczak. He was already at the club. Nothing bad. Old Polonia Player. I will keep him till I can find someone better.

Next to role-play a bit as a Polish-Nigerian......I hired two other Polish Nigerians. Uwakwe as a Scout and former Polonia Player Ekwueme as a youth coach.

Now to first season results.

League Stats / Golinski / Radzinski / Transfers

Straight promotion! We missed the championship on goals. Although to be frank we did not deserve it. Widzew was leading the league since round 20 and they gave away an 9 point lead in last 4 games. It also did not help that we lost the last game :). I was a bit surprised TBH. After doing the YC in Netherlands this was much easier. We already started with a decent team, hell one of our players, Golinski, could easily play mid level Ekstraklasa level. No wonder that I keep getting offers for him. He's signed up to '25 so hopefully I can keep him a few more seasons. The other star of the seaosn was the young Radzinski (who is bi-racial and born in Netherlands, so quite interesting!) I wonder what his backstory is but sadly no info on the internet. Third star was Frygier but that was mostly in first half of the year. Last few games he was aweful. Do note that it said we had two free transfers. Those ware signed on bosman before I joined the club and I could not cancel them. Both players ware reserve players.

Anyways in our second season we will play on highest level, lets see if we can keep up. I recon we have 4-5 players who can easily play at that level...so it should be ok. We will see. In next update I will show the youth intake.

edit: the season stats:

Edited July 22, 2021 by the_hdk

the_hdk · July 22, 2021

Polonia Warsaw

The youth intake. So First of all this is a double one...as when I joined the club it already had a few regens in the u-18 team. And some of them with quite some talent.

Prediction. Golden generation!

Not a bad intake. Three potential first team talents. Signed everyone from Fryc up. Others didnt have potential to even become a I Liga player.
But First Three talents from year zero. Before I joined Polonia.

And Let's start with the most interesting one and with highest potential. Although his ability star is low. STURUA. A Georgian regen! During the season he got polish nationality...but will take 5 years after his 18th birthday to make a chance to play for Poland. This could become our first regen A-International. Look also at his progress rate during the year! Also as our wing backs are weak...this could be a first team player soon.

Than as second one of the two high potential strikers. STREJLAU. I'm retraining him from a winger to a striker. With his speed...and if he can imporve his finishing he could be a first team player!.

And the other striker WYSZKOWSKI. Crazy imporvement. Ability wise he is already the 4th striker in the team and will definetly play some games in first team next year.

Than for the two best players from this year intake. HALUCH. Sadly another striker. TBH nothing special..but has high potential.

And KOLODZIEJ. Who could be the future partner of GOLINSKI. High Bravery. He needs to work on his technical side. That is lacking.

Youth Data:

Also of youngsters from Warszawa. Only one from other region in Poland (Rumia, small town next to Gdynia (tricity)). and ofcourse our first foreigner from Georgia. I'm hoping my Nigerian staff...and maybe later an affiliate club there might bring us some Nigerian regens!.

Edited July 22, 2021 by the_hdk

Cheez3y · July 22, 2021

GSS Panionios - Season 2021/22

Media Prediction // Transfers + Released

Upgrades/Downgrades/Misc

Coaching Badge: None -> Nat. C Licence

Youth Recruitment: Adequate -> Average

Junior Coaching: Adequate -> Good

Kypello Ellados

Games

Knocked out against a tier 2 side, so we had full focus on the league.

Football League Notios - Omilos

Games

We won the league and got promoted on the last day of season....

... in the 91st minute!

Luckily not many injuries or suspensions with our 11 players.

Top 3 Regens

Edited July 22, 2021 by Cheez3y

HbG93 · July 22, 2021

Lørenskog IF - OBOS-Ligaen - 2026
Squad - Transfer

This looks like a real promising intake! Plenty of assumed potential but also a couple that could have the ability, to help the first team from the get go. Stein Vidar Wahl 26A is this years designated top prospect, and I would argue with good reason. He has a good makeup to be a typical winger. His personality and determination however is less than desirable. Lars Eirik Meyer 26B is a great addition to our squad! I very much needed to get a proper left-back prospect. Personally I prefer Kristian Næverdal 26D over Milosz Kalinkowski 26C. While Kristian perhaps is a more suited to be an advanced winger I will focus on developing him as an advanced forward. I ended up signing 11 out of these players. While he lacks quality at the moment I will due to our lack of goalkeeper prospect also point out Tony Williams 26F.

2026 OBOS-Ligaen Table

We had a good year reaching the playoffs for the first time. This playoff however was quickly ended losing our first match up. Either way I am quite happy with how the team is doing. We are stabilizing in the OBOS, and we need time for these youths to grow. Moving on I think the 2 most important things are holding on to the best prospects and growing them. Sadly holding on to the prospect isn't always easy, and we lost our so far brightest prospect Frank Midtun 24A. A big surprise this year was K. Næverdal 26D who despite his young age was our top assist, and held the highest average rating across the season. Ending the long reign of Captain Forsberg. However back as the top goalscorer was Jake Petur Martin. I did insert S. Wahl 26A and L. Meyer 26B into the first team as well, however they struggled far more in terms of performance. I also gave last years prospect S. Bergsjø 25D a starter role in hopes of speeding up his progression. Speaking of progression midfielder M- Hussain 25A has grown very well! All in all I feel like this is an exciting time. The first team squad is starting to get filled with our youth academy prospects.

2027 Academy Preview

Looking a head next year intake preview doesn't have much green lines. But I hope it will indeed have a good defender prospect in it. With the quality from both 2025 and 2026 I wouldn't be surprised to see a dip.

TerminalPortugal · July 23, 2021

PORTALEGRENSE (2041/42)

PORTALEGRENSE ARE CHAMPIONS OF PORTUGAL! Well, going into the season I wanted to see progress but not even I could have predicted this outcome. We started the season off with 4 points from our first 4 games and I was a bit worried that we were going to have another one of our famous poor seasons, but September allowed us to get our campaign underway as we beat Sporting twice, once in the League Cup and then again in the league to send out a message. October saw us win one league game and lose away against the leaders FC Porto, and they would ultimately go on to become our league rivals. In November, two wins and loss away to Benfica was reasonably acceptable, but Porto had opened up a gap at the top of the league. It was December that turned things around, we picked up 6 straight wins and then in January we won another 4 games without conceding before a narrow loss away to Sporting left us a little behind. I was actually thinking with that loss that it was all over as far as our title dreams, but in February we recorded four wins out of four, as we hosted FC Porto with a 4 point gap and with Porto having a game in hand on us, it was a must win affair, and boy did it go down to the wire. Patricio put us ahead just before half time with a deft finish. But with about 12 minutes to go of the game, Porto winger Duran Rodriguez skinned our full back and ran in on the keeper and to be honest he got beat at the near post which did cover him glory. The 1-1 draw would have suited FC Porto fine and would surely end any chance we had. Cue the 92nd minute of the match, we have a free kick about 40 yards from goals out near the touchline on the left hand side. Patricio floats a ball into the back post, and it is met by the header of Malam Soares, the ball smashes against the post, and rebounds back off the back of the diving goalkeeper Hueglo to put us 2-1 up and give us the much needed points. Sometimes it is better to be lucky than good. But we still had a lot of work to do, we then won the remaining games in March, and FC Porto dropped yet more points when they drew 1-1 with Sporting in that month. That now left us just two points behind them. They had much better goal difference so they could probably afford to draw a game, and even if we won the remainder of ours it probably was not going to be enough. April was a shortened month of fixture but we had two immense challenges, Benfica at home, a team to my knowledge we had never beaten since we had been in the Liga NOS and Vitoria de Guimaraes, champion two years ago and still an amazing outfit. Porto on the other hand faced Rio Ave away and Academica at home. Porto vs Rio Ave and us vs Benfica kicked off at the same time, and we took a very early lead through Soares, and later in the half Branco doubled the lead, but we were pegged back just before halftime to make things nervy again. At half-time the scorelines were Porto 0-0 Rio Ave and Portalegrense 2-1 Benfica. The games kicked off in the 2nd half again and we stifled Benfica although they were having the better of it. Soon into the second half reports came in that Rio Ave had taken the lead against Porto, but almost immediately Porto had hit back and it now stood at 1-1. That was a great result for us, if only we could hold on against Benfica and Rio Ave could hold on against Porto.

Just as we went into the final minutes, and still leading Benfica, news filtered through again that Rio Ave had scored again and now led 2-1. We managed to hold on to win and Rio Ave did the same. We now led the league, but we had a tough test against Vitoria to come along at the end of the month. We kicked off at Vitoria, while Porto hosted Academica, again at the same time. It was a cagey affair against Vitoria neither team getting much done, but eventually we got the breakthrough in injury time in the first half as Djalo got the all important goal. Porto eventually found a goal in the 2nd half against Academica, and we held out to win against Vitoria. Both title contenders winning 1-1 and dragging this battle on for another week.

For the next fixtures, the first of May, and the penultimate of the whole season, we would play at different times to Porto. We played before they did home to Santa Clara, a game I expected us to get the job done in while Porto had a tough opponent in Familicao away. On the 3rd May, we dispatched Santa Clara 2-0, to really pile the pressure onto Porto. They really needed to win the game, to pile all the pressure back on us. We played Feirense in the final game away and they were one of the best teams in Portugal, while Porto played Varzim at home and would expect to win. I decided to watch the Familicao vs Porto game. Familicao looked the better side, but Porto got the lead through Ciss early in the 2nd half, however Familicao kept going forward and eventually they got level with just 13 minutes to go through Tiago Santos. Porto seemed rattled and pushed men forward, Familicao got away on a break but the move seemed to have broken down as Porto marshalled the winger well, eventually he looked up as he gather the ball moving out of box and played a pass centrally into the on rushing Vdovenko who smashed in the top corner, and suddenly unless Porto could respond we were Champions, and the minutes went by and they could not do anything about the scoreline, and finally after 21 years, we had done it. We had reached the summit of Portuguese football. Portalegrense were champions of Portugal. The final games of the season were an anticlimax, we lost to Feirense, ending our unbeaten run and Porto won their final game to mean that we win the title by a point. This win meant that we would be entering into the Champions League for the first time in our history, and our first chance to end this challenge, probably way before I could imagine getting it done.

In the cup competitions it was far less rosy. We lost to Nacional early on in the Portuguese Cup a game which was arguably one of worst performances of the season and in the league cup we got as far as the semi finals again and then against Braga we were by far the better team but could not score and eventually got punished losing in the end 1-0.

In terms of transfers we lost a big player in Vidigal. I did say that someone might have to be sold to keep us financially viable, and a big offer came in from Chinese outfit Shanghai Port, that make it up to a £36m transfer with £29.5m up front. The board accepted the bid on my behalf and I decided I would not challenge it. It came at a tricky time when we were looking good so I was worried it would affect us but the likes of Cassama and Branco rose to the challenge brilliantly to fill the void.

In terms of players, Patricio was the main man again this season, he did not bag a ton of goals but he got plenty of crucial ones. Branco was good operating from the right. A revitalised and refocussed Madrueira performed well on the left and Cassama who filled in central midfield and shadow striker proved himself again a dependable player. Assuncao after years of toying with me and waiting for someone to activate his release clause resigned a new contract just a year before the expiry date of his old one, perhaps with the thought that the big clubs were not going to come for him and he probably had one of his best seasons from left back. The defence overall massively improved, perhaps the players are a little better, but we went in a few seasons from one of the worst defences to one of the best, although still I would say we are short there.

The youth prospects this season look to be decent enough again I am enjoying the fact we have plenty of defensively minded players which the area of the pitch that still needs the most attention. A great season for us all in all.

Top Players

Nelson Assuncao | Felipe Patricio | Sergio Branco | Ivo Madrueira | Marco Rego

Summary

Edited July 23, 2021 by TerminalPortugal

libbyshuss · July 23, 2021

Season 8 - 2028/29

National League South - 4th

Season Summary

Another really successful season, we're heading in the right direction!

League - we were unbeaten in the first 12, winning 6 and drawing 6, before we met teams in the top 5. We then had four of them in a row, and lost all four, but bounced back with another 5 wins on the bounce. This put us firmly in the play-offs and we stayd their all season. It was an odd season - we'd win 6-2 and then lose 8-4 - but we were pretty consistent throughout. We finished fourth, a new record high for us!

The first round play-off saw us at home against Guisely. Normally I'd fancy our chances but our best two players were suspended for it (Pennell and Myhill) and our strength in depth is severely lacking. We lost 3-2 and went out at the first time of asking for the second season in a row.

I'm beginning to feel that the entirety of this save might just be in the National League North (although how Hitchin are in the North league still baffles me slightly)

FA Cup - Forth qualifying round again, bloody Guisely again. This time they beat us 4-1, which was a bit of a shock at the time as we'd bee playing really well

Players

So this is the last season for a few of these players. I'm going to change tactic and bring in a few of the youth players as their potential far outweighs some of these guys.

Clayton Boardman 26B stepped up into Ollie Kearns shoes and did really well in the circumstances, but really he's a winger and needs to get back to winging it. 37 goals from 49 isn't bad for a winger though.

Jacob Pennell is the star of the show, still only 19, one year left and he's refusing to sign a new contract. To be fair, he's way to good for us. check out his work rate/determination:-

So here's the first choice XI:-

Next season should look a little different and a little younger.

Youth

My first promise of a golden generation for a 3 or 4 seasons! The preview looked promising as well

Centre backs and midfielders are always welcome. The intake, when it came, was a real surprise. Four star potential at this stage is pretty good for us, mainly due to Pennell skewing the ability ratings for everybody else.:-

Very pleased! I signed up around 10 of them, including our very own Japanese mercenary, which I'm very excited about. time for a clear out in the youth ranks I think

Finance and Improvements

treading water a little here. Our facilities for our level are really really good, and should see us through eventually. Until I get promotion, I'm kinda stuck though.

Career

Piussi · July 23, 2021

So i want to do this challange.. And i'm a bit between Wales, Iceland or Norway but if i want to do Norway without safe scum a team do i just holiday 2 seasons and then pick any team that promoted out of only visiable 4th division or do i need a team that comes out of 5th division thats not visible ?

XaW · July 23, 2021

Just now, Piussi said:

So i want to do this challange.. And i'm a bit between Wales, Iceland or Norway but if i want to do Norway without safe scum a team do i just holiday 2 seasons and then pick any team that promoted out of only visiable 4th division or do i need a team that comes out of 5th division thats not visible ?

If you want to do Norway and don't care about which team, then just holiday two season and take over one of the teams promoted out of the lowest visible tier, e.g into the 3rd tier.

hyrule_king · July 23, 2021

I forget, can you sign players released by other youth teams?

XaW · July 23, 2021

16 minutes ago, hyrule_king said:

I forget, can you sign players released by other youth teams?

Nope, no player signing at all. The only players you can add is from your own youth intake. And if anyone is released by your club, they are no longer to be signed.

hyrule_king · July 23, 2021

9 minutes ago, XaW said:

Nope, no player signing at all. The only players you can add is from your own youth intake. And if anyone is released by your club, they are no longer to be signed.

Cheers, just started back up my Solbrado save in Portugal again.

Latest set of signed youth intake.

First Team Squad is looking good. Non numbered players are original Sobrado players from start of the game.

Edited July 23, 2021 by hyrule_king

XaW · July 23, 2021

Club Deportivo y Social Lord Cochrane - Season 2025 (Season 4) Review - Tercera División de Chile (4th tier)

Table | Squad | Transfers | Finances

Well, it turns out the jump from the 5th to the 4th tier is not that high, but there is a difference. We started the season quite good as we picked up points regularly and hovered around the upper midtable for a while. About half way we won a few in a row and suddenly found ourselves in a battle for a top spot! Now, it should be pointed out that, as in the lower tier, only the top team is promoted, so no awards for 2nd place here. But I had not expected to be among the teams fighting up here. I will say, I think it has something to do with reputation and that my tactic works wonders when we have lots of space. Evidence of this is in the fact that we struggled in the latter part of the season when the other teams took us more seriously. I'm trying to fix it, but struggled as we finished the season rather poorly losing 4 of the last 5. Still, a 4th place in our first season here is a rather great achievement for us.

I will make a note of the player of the season this time, as Néstor Labrín 23a had an amazing season. 10 goals and 12 assists is really amazing as he swapped between a winger and a central midfielder.

We didn't play in any cups this season either.

Youth

Quite a promising intake this one, with a couple of nice players.

Carlos Delgado 25c is a bit slow for what I'd look for in a full back, but he is miles better than most other defenders at this level, so I expect him to be a starter next season.

Statistics:

Spoiler

Only local lads this season.

Trophy cabinet:

Chilean South Group Third Division B - 2024

TerminalPortugal · July 23, 2021

PORTALEGRENSE (2042/43)

We went into this season as Champions and I wanted us to give a good title defence, even if we did not win it, I wanted to be in and around the top places and also to qualify for the Champions League again next season. Our early season form, was for once excellent as we started off by winning the Supertaca Candido de Oliveira with late goals winning it against Benfica 2-1, before we started the season in earnest and it was a joy to behold, the defence was stronger this season, we had Miguel Pinto in defensive midfield and everything looked a lot tighter this season. We all our games in August to immediately the top of the league and only dropped point for the first time in September away to Porto with a 1-1 draw. October produced more wins in the league as we added another 2 from 2, and in November we won our only league match as well.

December rolled around where the league normally takes shape and you can easily lose ground and we were having none it, another 5 wins had us opening a significant gap at the top of the league. In January, a draw against Familicao barely hurt us as we followed up with wins, and then another draw away to Sporting, before winning the final game of the month against Vitoria and at this point it was looking like the title was coming back to Portalegre for a second successive season.

February opened up with Porto away and we got a great away draw 1-1, before we won every game until we faced Braga away where again we got another 1-1 draw. Benfica were now emerging as the team who might be able to stop us around this time.

March went the same way with two wins, and then our first loss of the season away to Benfica to give them a slight chance to catch us but they would need us to really mess up from here. A 3-1 win followed the Benfica match at home to Braga, and despite a draw away to Estoril, the win against Alverca in April gave us our second successive league title. PORTALEGRENSE ARE CHAMPIONS OF PORTUGAL AGAIN!!! We ended the season with a win and our customary loss away at Feirense to complete the season with just two losses. A brilliant domestic achievement for us.

In the cup competitions, we fell pretty early on to Sporting in the 4th Round of the Portuguese Cup, but in the League Cup we were more successful dispatching the group fairly easily and then making it past Braga on penalties to book a final with Sporting. Unfortunately this time around after a 1-1 draw, our spot kicks failed us and Sporting lifted the trophy.

And now we come to the main event, the Champions League. At the outset we were very long odds, sitting at around 9,000-1 to according to news article before the competition starts. Our group saw us drawn against Manchester United, Lyon and Zenit St Petersburg. We had never failed to escape a group stage in all our years of European football, but this was the Champions League and I was little worried. We started the campaign in the best possible fashion as we went out to Russia and got a 2-0 win at Zenit. We then hosted Manchester United in a mad game, we led 1-0 early on but quickly fell 2-1 behind in two minutes of the first half, before we managed to restore parity just before half time. In the 2nd half we took the lead again as new boy defensive midfielder bagged us a goal and 9 minutes later Patricio put us 2 goals ahead, making it 4-2 on the night. Manchester United were not done however as Lukas Norremark pulled one back for them before just 4 minutes from time they got their equaliser through Deon Mariappa. 4-4 on the night but the scoring was not done as from the kick off, the Man Utd defence had fallen asleep and Cassama stole in to score our fifth of the night and make it 5-4 on the night and that was how it finished.

We then hosted Lyon in a game, that could all but put us through and second half goal from Patricio was the only goal of the game as we came away 1-0 winners on the night. Next up was the return fixture in France, and a win here would really put us through and somehow we managed to achieve just that as we were brilliant on the night, controlling Lyon's attacks and winning 3-1 on the night. Zenit were up next and a win would mean we would win the group as Manchester United had dropped further points after our win against them. We left it late but full back Cremona came up with the only goal of the game to assure us top spot in the group.

The final game of the group saw us face off against Manchester United at Old Trafford and this was a step too far as we lost out 4-2 on the night.

In the First Knockout Round we would draw Italian giant Inter Milan. They had annoyed me all throughout my career with their annoying bids for my players and had stolen away Barros years ago. I wanted revenge, and this would be the perfect way. We got absolutely battered in the Giuseppe Meazza but Inter didn't take all their chance and only led 1-0, Djalo got a chance late on and put it away to give us a 1-1 draw from Italy to take back to Portugal. The return leg was more even, but were the better team throughout, and we took an early lead through 17 year old and newly promoted to the first team Swiss midfielder Arthur Amsler on the 13 minute. In the second half Patricio made it 2-0 to the good, and Inter seemed shellshocked, although it ended up being a good thing that he scored a 3rd in injury time as, somehow Inter finally found their scoring boots managing to injury time goals to end the game 3-2. We had done enough getting through 4-3 on aggregate.

The Quarter Final would see us face a well known enemy in FC Porto. The first leg was in Portalegre, so it was important that we got ahead and we produced one the best performances of the season as we took Porto apart over and over again, and won 4-1. The game was actually far more even but we just seemed hit them with devastating counter attacks and the more desperate they became the more we could hurt them. The return leg has been a sore spot for me from winning positions so I was worried. Porto did take the lead in the second half through a penalty, but we shut them down well and in injury time Madrueira made sure as we got the equaliser on the night to end the game 1-1, and 5-2 on aggregate.

We were now in strange territory. I never thought we could get this far, and next up was English giant Chelsea. They also had taken a few our best players in Jacinto and Lucianto Santos, and again I wanted revenge on poaching two of my best prospects. We hosted Chelsea in the first leg and they were the better side but we managed to contain their attacks and 10 minutes from time David Cassama got the oh so important goal that put us ahead, and we hung on to win 1-0 and take a narrow lead back to Stamford Bridge. I was expecting an onslaught in London for the second leg, and boy did we get it, but dealt with them well and frustrated them as they were shooting from everywhere, but in the second half we could not hold them any longer and they took the lead through Cvetic. We at least managed to hold out until full time and we now went into extra time. The first half of extra time seemed to drifting away but then they struck again and it was the same man as Cvetic bagged his brace and we were heading out of the Champions League. In the second half of extra time it was clear we needed a goal, but there was no panicking and we just kept playing our football. Suddenly we found a bit of space and that led into a superb one touch flowing movement of the ball that ended with Rego receiving it in the box and he smashed it home to make it 2-1 and now we were heading through on the away goals rule. Chelsea tried to mount a comeback but they could not get the job and done, and somehow we had done it, we are off to play Manchester City in the Champions League. Next up is that match in text format.

Champions League Final

Puskas Arena, Budapest (68,156 in attendance)

PORTALEGRENSE STARTING XI

GK. Edilson Baessa

DR. Nelson Assuncao

DCR. Malam Soares

DCL. Alberto Castro

DL. Werner Cremona

DM. Miguel Pinto

MR. Luan

MC. Arthur Amsler

ML. Ivo Madrueira

AMCR. Felipe Patricio

AMCL. Marco Rego

MANCHESTER CITY STARTING XI

GK. Fulvio Pirovana

DR. Pedro Mera

DCR. Diego Urso

DCL. Dilan Walstra

DL. Sebastiao Pombo

MCR. Fernando Baldi

MCL. Alin Baluta

AMR. Celsinho

AMC. Gorka Gomez

AML. Rudolf Karaflat

ST. Salah Zitte.

We are almost ready for kick off here, the team news is that Sergio Branco who we heard early in the week would likely be out, has not travelled for the game, which is a big loss for this Portalegrense side, and added to that Fabio Rico, the young centre back who has been making a name for himself is also out injured for this one. David Cassama, we knew already would be missing out is also not here. Castro comes in for Rico, Luan is in for Branco on the right and Marco Rego, a player that is being followed by seemingly every club in Europe will start up front for the Portuguese Champions.

For Man City, there no such worries with the only doubt being Pedro, who has only featured three times this season for Premier League runners up.

This is a real mismatch in terms of honours with Man City having lifted the Champions League 3 times and lost in the final another 4 times, against Portalegrense, who won only their second Portuguese league title a few weeks ago. Will David be able to slay Goliath, Manchester City will look back on some of those lost finals in recent years and want to make sure that this one is not another one.

[1] Portalegrense have the ball in defence with Soares, he plays it forward to Assuncao who receives and plays to Patrico facing away from goal, its a one two win Amsler and he plays a throughball to Pinto who runs onto it, Man City have been caught sleeping here. Pinto fires low, the keeper gets a foot to it but it comes back to Pinto he rounds the keeper and amazingly just one minute into this game, its 1-0. PORTALEGRENSE SCORE!!!! Pinto runs away to the Portalegre fans arms outstretched. Well what a start to this match, Man City have been caught cold.

[12] Karaflat picks up the ball on the left wing and he is running with it, Assuncao is tracking him back, Karaflat uses his pace to get away from him and there could be an opportunity here. He moves into the box, he drives with the ball towards goal, Soares can't stop him, but he hits it straight at the keeper and he could not help but save that.

[29] Manchester City have given a freekick away some 25-30 metres from goal. Patricio stands over it and he looks like he is looking for the shot here. He curls it on the outside of the wall and he has the goalkeeper worried....it's hit the side netting, that was so nearly a 2nd for Portalegrense, a brilliant freekick there, just needed to curl a little bit more and it was in the bottom corner. Goal kick to Manchester City, and they really need to get into this game.

[36] Man City have a throw in and Walstra plays it to Baldi, who is tightly marked. He gives it back to Walstra who is shaping for the cross, but instead a deft ball inside to Mera. Mera picks up the ball a drives towards the box, he could shoot here but plays in Karaflat on the edge of the box and he smashes it across the keeper and that has flown into the net. GOAL FOR MANCHESTER CITY!!!!! It is being checked by VAR, not really sure for what exactly, perhaps an offside in the build-up, the referee had a short conversation there into his earpiece and the goal stands. They started slow, but it was a goal of quality, and they are back in this one and now they must surely believe that they can go one an win this one. Karaflat looks overjoyed as he turns his back to the Man City fans.

[38] Pombo has the ball wide on the half way line. He progresses it down the wing and play a short pass to Karaflat, and he gives it back before Pombo play a majestic throughball to Zitte, who makes the perfect run and he is now in behind with ball at his feet. He shoots hard and low to the keepers right, and that is a superb low save from Baessa, showing superb wrist strength to push that round the post. He saved his team from a certain goal there and Zitte looks forlorn at that miss. He really should have put that away and Man City should be leading this one now.

[80] Since the break neither side has created anything, it looks like they are both playing for extra time now, with Man City having overcome Atletico on penalties and Portalegrense having overcome Chelsea in extra time, both teams are proven. Urso clears a failed Portalegrense ball up the field. And wait a minute the Portalegrense defence has been caught here on the half way line and Keraflat is running onto this one. This a very dangerous move for Man City. Keraflat is running onto it and is in the clear here, he is through on Baessa. He tries to fake the keeper out before the shot, the keeper buys it, but what is this??? He has put it wide, the ball hits the side netting! That is an terrible miss from a player of his quality. If Man City don't end up lifting the trophy, they will only have themselves to blame, they should be out of sight by now, but Portalegrense still find themselves level here. Look at Keraflat he looks disgusted with himself.

[84] Baessa has the ball and he kicks it long, that ball only finds Baluta and there is a vaccuum in the midfield here. Gomez recieves the ball and he play a brilliant pass to Vaz, who controls on the edge of the box, but his speculative shot is well wide. He should have done better with that one. Another miss that Man City might regret.

[86] Man City play the ball long and Castro lets it bounce but manages to recover and clears the ball back up the field, he looked like we was caught out there a bit, but he has got it away. Madrueira receives the ball on the wing and he has space, the full back is reeling and Madrueira is driving at him. He chips a ball forward subsitute Djalo, Urso is tracking him back but Djalo has a half step on him. Djalo drives towards the goal from wide and shoots, oh my word the goalkeeper has been completely done with the low shot as he drops to his knees and the ball flies by him and finds the net. PORTALEGRENSE SCORE AND LEAD 2-1!!!!!! There are just 5 or so minutes to go and Portalegrense, who have been second best for most of the match find themselves leading the Champions League Final. Djalo can hardly believe it and he reels away to the Portalegrense fans pointing at the badge. He could have etched his name into folklore.

[90+3] It is the last throw the dice, Man City on the ball looking to play it forward, but there is not any time. The referee blows his whistle!!!! And they have done it! The team that were in the District leagues of Portugal only 23 years ago, have now ascended to the top of European football. They European Champions!!!! For Man City, questions will need to be asked, as they blew chance after chance and have ended up losing yet another European Cup final.

CHALLENGE COMPLETE!

Top Players

Nuno Assuncao | Sergio Branco | Felipe Patricio | Fabio Rico | Ivo Madrueira

Summary

the_hdk · July 23, 2021

that was a quickl CL win....in your first season!

congrats

TerminalPortugal · July 23, 2021

1 minute ago, the_hdk said:

that was a quickl CL win....in your first season!

congrats

Cheers. Yeah very surprised, massively lucky I feel, there were several games especially in the Champions League where we got battered but managed to draw, or coming back against Chelsea late in extra time again when we had been battered all game. We FM'ed FM a lot.

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