[FM21] Going Barmy in Balmy Balkans with help from Riddler.

[Jimbokav1971]

Records. May 2027. 

Ok, no more Mr Nice Guy. We need to win the league next season! 

 

[Jimbokav1971]

Surprise sacking. May 2027. 

Not me thankfully, but Široki Brijeg have sacked their Manager Massimo Carrera after he finished 2nd in the league, (setting a new record for the highest points without winning the title), and winning the Bosnian Cup. They are Qatari owned, (not sure if that mirrors real life), and it seems that they are pretty demanding. 

It was a takeover in-game by a Tycoon. No wonder they had so much money. 

Oh wow.  Look at their budget!  We finished 1 point behind them spending less than £100,000 per month and that's without a proper striker! No wonder they sacked him. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Season Summary. HŠK Zrinjski Mostar. May 2027.

HŠK Zrinjski Mostar. We finished 3rd, but only 2 points off top and we did so without a proper striker. 

Bosnian Cup. Really annoyed to have lost to our rivals here. 

Squad by Appearances. 

3x 4.0 CA players. 

16x 5.0 PA players.

I'm not going to show you these players. There are just too many. Hopefully as the CA of our best players increase, the number of players with 5.0 PA will decrease. The only reason it's so high at the moment because our top end CA is so low. 

Records. 

We were only 1 point off them, so perhaps we didn't do too badly. 

Finances.

Facilities. 

According to the above  chart created by @GreenTriangleI think that means our Facilities will be as follows once complete. 

Training Facilities 14.
Youth Facilities 14.
Junior Coaching 20.
Youth Recruitment 19-20.

Tracker. 

[Jimbokav1971]

New contract. May 2027. 

I love being offered a long-term contract. 

My plan is to win the League this season and I think then continue to win it the next 2 seasons then. The plan is to then review the situation at the end of the contract. 

[theBlackPrince]

Long term deal done! Winning the league, next up!

That is just super tight at the top between you 3, one goal different here or there for any team and a win becomes a draw or vice-versa and it’s a whole different outcome. 

[Jimbokav1971]

1 minute ago, theBlackPrince said:

Long term deal done! Winning the league, next up!

That is just super tight at the top between you 3, one goal different here or there for any team and a win becomes a draw or vice-versa and it’s a whole different outcome. 

Yeah. Happy with the contract and I have to admit that I think I blew the title this year in favour of the squads long term development. I could have brought in experienced older players, but our own young players wouldn't have got the 1st team exposure if I did that so I'm happy that what we have lost in the short-term, we will more than make up for in the long-term. 

[Pompeyboyz]

Getting long term stability from the board is something I can only dream of right now.

You've got a good base to run with to make your success goals reality. 

[Jimbokav1971]

2 hours ago, Pompeyboyz said:

Getting long term stability from the board is something I can only dream of right now.

You've got a good base to run with to make your success goals reality. 

I think this is my usual style when playing a 1-club save. I am more about the longer-term vision than the short-term success. I suppose this is accentuated even more when using the IR button because for the most part, individual results, (even in important games), become far less important than the general upwards trend. (At least that what I keep telling myself). 

[Jimbokav1971]

European Rankings. Jun 2027. 

European Competition rankings. Almost up to the level of League 1 in England. 

European Club rankings. I'm determined to get to the Group stage this season. I think we're a stronger squad now and if we have a weakness in the squad I plan on filling it before the season starts. 

European Nation coefficients. I'm not sure how much difference it will make starting 1 round later. In the past I have found that it often makes it harder because of the way seedings work, but I don't know if that's the case in the Euro Conference. 

As I mentioned to @Pompeyboyzin a recent post, this is all a perfect example of a general upwards trend. Nothing meteoric but just general improvement. 

[john1]

Slowly climbing up the ranking  Great to see the club offered you new contract

[Jimbokav1971]

3 hours ago, john1 said:

Slowly climbing up the ranking  Great to see the club offered you new contract

Yep, 3 years will give me a target to aim for as a jumping point to the next club in the save.

[Jimbokav1971]

Reputation. Jun 2027.

5,304 Sarajevo.
5,022 Široki Brijeg.
5,029 Zrinjski

How exactly we are ranked lower than Široki Brijeg despite actually having more reputation? 

[Jimbokav1971]

Reduction in staff numbers. HŠK Zrinjski Mostar. Jun 2027.

I've never seen this before, but the Board have slashed the coaching staff and I have no idea why. 

We have lost the following. 

1x Coach.
1x Physio.
1x Technical Director.
2x Scouts.
1x Recruitment Analyst. 
1x U19's Physio.

7 staff let go without explanation.  Any suggestions? 

 

[Jimbokav1971]

Poached. Jul 2027.

This is the 2nd player poached from this club, and although it was the 1st poaching from another Country, the player initially doesn't look like he's going to be that good so perhaps not such a big loss. 

None of them have come through an intake yet. 

[Jimbokav1971]

HŠK Zrinjski Mostar. Bosnia. Summer Transfer window.

There were some transfers done during the close-season that went through on last seasons figures. 

Transfers In.

Dragićević (BIH) (SRB) arrived with a 5.0 PA scout report, but the coach report suggests that he only has 4.5 PA. Either way he 16 and looks like he has a promising future. He's also Bosnian so won't take up a FGN slot. 

Tadić (CRO) is 17 and I really like the look of him despite him taking up a FGN slot. We had 2 experienced keepers in Ćetković (BIH) (SRB) and Stevanović (SRB) SELL so the plan is to sell 1 of these for more than we paid for Tadić (CRO) and gain money and youth without paying in terms of CA. 

Zulic (MNE) (BIH) * is my big marquee signing. £500,000 is a lot of money for us at this stage of the save, but I think you can see why I like him. Although he didn't score on his league debut, our early season focus was very much on Europe and he returned figures of 3 goals, 3 assists & 2 MOM awards in our opening 3 European games.

Transfers Out.

Gačić (CRO) (BIH) 6'2" SELL was 29 and only started 7 league games last season. To get £500k for him and spend that same amount on a teenage marquee signing seems an astonishing piece of business if you ask me. 29 year old centre-half out and superior 18 year old striker in for zero cash spend. It's a no-brainer isn't it?

That brings us to the part of Summer Transfer window that fell into this season. 

Transfers In.

Ibrahimovic (BIH) is the 1st of 2 right backs that I signed to replace 1st choice right back (23) Hasanbegovic (BIH) * who went to Turkey for £1M + 25% and a friendly. He's not 5.0 PA, but he's decent if lacking a little going forward. 

Plavšić (SRB) is the 2nd right back and the one I prefer. He might be older and have a poorer PA, but in terms of CA he seems better. I was determined to be stronger in Europe this season and selling 1 right back and buying 2 right backs and still making a £585,000 profit sounds good to me. 

Transfers Out.

Stevanović (SRB) SELL went for £500,000, (which is great), but I turned down almost £1M for him earlier last season, (which is not so great).

(23) Hasanbegovic (BIH) * was our 1st choice right back and I didn't want to sell him, but £1M is such a lot of money at this stage that I accepted immediately, (well immediately after I negotiated for 25% and a friendly). 

Edited July 4, 2021 by Jimbokav1971

[Jtomsett11]

I like the look of Zulic! Bit of a physical specimen at 18 years of age. Good luck with the season!

[Jimbokav1971]

HŠK Zrinjski Mostar, Bosnia. Jun & Jul 2027.

Pre-Season. 

M:tel Premijer Liga. 2-0 doesn't tell the full story as we had 20 shots to their 0. On the plus side we had 71% possession and were obviously very dominant, but on the down side we needed a late penalty to score a 2nd goal. 

Euro Conference. We crashed out early in Europe last season and I'm determined not to let the same thing happen again. The problem with only qualifying for the Euro Conference is that you don't get a 2nd chance. When you get knocked out there is no tournament to drop down into. You're just out! 

[Jimbokav1971]

4 minutes ago, Jtomsett11 said:

I like the look of Zulic! Bit of a physical specimen at 18 years of age. Good luck with the season!

I absolutely love Zulic (MNE) (BIH) *. 

I would have signed him even if he was much older and even if he wasn't Bosnian. The fact that he is that good, able to get better, is Bosnian and young to boot is just beyond what I thought possible for £500k. 

[Jimbokav1971]

HŠK Zrinjski Mostar, Bosnia. Aug 2027.

M:tel Premijer Liga. The reason we lost to NK Vitez is because I was prioritising our European games and because this came 4 days before the Zilina game I compleley rotated the squad and it backfired in spectacular fashion.

Euro Conference. I don't have the words to express how I feel about these results. In the away game our XG was 4.5+ and theirs was 1.8 Need I say more? 

[karanhsingh]

Zulic looks like he could be the difference maker!

That is really unlucky vs Zilina. 

Are you IR-ing all games or playing through certain ones?

[Jimbokav1971]

44 minutes ago, karanhsingh said:

Zulic looks like he could be the difference maker!

That is really unlucky vs Zilina. 

Are you IR-ing all games or playing through certain ones?

I've played 1 single game during this save. (Just a normal league game rather than a big Cup or European game). All the rest have been IR'd. 

When I do play a game it's never because of a specific game and always because I want to look in more detail at something in the tactic. 

The less said about the Zilina game the better. 

[turnip]

I mostly IR games, but I've found there to be value in playing through matches where I think the AI is going to defend deep (e.g. we're Home to a team struggling in the league), so I can be a lot more aggressive with Pressing. 

Sometimes I just get a feeling about an opposition, that they're going to be a pain, y'know?

[Jimbokav1971]

1 minute ago, turnip said:

I mostly IR games, but I've found there to be value in playing through matches where I think the AI is going to defend deep (e.g. we're Home to a team struggling in the league), so I can be a lot more aggressive with Pressing. 

Sometimes I just get a feeling about an opposition, that they're going to be a pain, y'know?

Absolutely, but for me it's always about the upwards trend rather than a particular game. 

[turnip]

True, but it makes it harder to maintain the upwards trend if you can't make the Group Stage.

And for me, it's often about just picking 1 game in 6/7 that I think would benefit from the tactical genius that ends with us going 4-2-4 and launching balls into the box if we're not winning near the end.

[Jimbokav1971]

1 hour ago, turnip said:

True, but it makes it harder to maintain the upwards trend if you can't make the Group Stage.

And for me, it's often about just picking 1 game in 6/7 that I think would benefit from the tactical genius that ends with us going 4-2-4 and launching balls into the box if we're not winning near the end.

You're completely right, but if I "just" play the European games, and then the Cup games, and then the important league games, then I'm not really IR'ing at all. It has never felt right cherry-picking which games I manage unless I'm doing it to fix problems with players/tactics and it doesn't specifically matter which game or opposition it is. Your way is probably better, but it would also be better to manage "all the games", but I don't want to do that. It's really all or nothing with me and the only exception to IR'ing is to work out what is and isn't working and try and fix it. When I 1st started IR'ing I did exactly as you are suggesting but didn't like it. I am completely about the long-game rather than ANY individual match. 

The biggest upside of this is that I almost never get really frustrated by the little things in the ME that drive many of us bonkers and certainly used to drive me bonkers. Because no match is important anymore, it doesn't matter if the game somehow screws me. It's just the way it is and I move onwards. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Bosnia & Herzegovina National Team production. Sep 2027. 

Lots of the (BIH) National Team squad came through at non (BIH) clubs. This makes sense when you consider the number of refugees that left the Country before and during the Balkan conflict. 

(12) Karacic (BIH) (CRO) has had a decent career but I'm pretty sure that we have already produced young GK's who are going to be better than him. 

(21) Terkeš (BIH) looks a great player and I would have loved to have had him at the club, but he was sold just before my arrival. 

(24) Vukmirović (BIH) (SRB) * was the playmaker that I turned into a DLF because we had a huge hole in the squad there. I'm not sure what position/role he is playing in Greece but he's developing very nicely. 

[Jimbokav1971]

HŠK Zrinjski Mostar, Bosnia. Sep 2027. 

M:tel Premijer Liga. It was a good month and the most surprising thing was that because I had quite a few players injured and suspended for the Krupa game, I decided to rotate 9 of the 11 starting XI. It obviously worked as we recorded our biggest win of the month. 

 

[Jimbokav1971]

M:tel Premijer Liga Player Development. Oct 2027. 

Edited July 5, 2021 by Jimbokav1971

[Jimbokav1971]

HŠK Zrinjski Mostar, Bosnia. Oct 2027.

M:tel Premijer Liga. We were hugely unlucky against NK Vitez where they scored with their only shot of the match and then followed that up by somehow losing to our big rivals Široki Brijeg in a match in which we dominated, but in which they scored 4 goals in a 15 min purple-patch.

Bosnian Cup.

[Jimbokav1971]

HŠK Zrinjski Mostar, Bosnia. Interesting job offer. Nov 2027.

I was tempted by this job offer, but I don't think it's the right time. I need to concentrate on club football for the time being I think. 

I really am tempted though.

[Jimbokav1971]

HŠK Zrinjski Mostar. Bosnia. Dec 2027.

M:tel Premijer Liga. After a bit of a blip in October, (6 pts dropped), and November, (4 pts dropped), we're back to winning ways with an 8 point cushion

Youth Intake preview. An excellent group? Trying not to get my hopes up too much but this is moving in the right direction. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Finances and Transfer clauses. Jan 2028. 

We might have almost £2M to spend in the transfer kitty. but we are actually overdrawn at the bank. 

We're also about £15k per month under our wage budget. 

I have to try and do something or what will happen is that when a transfer bid is received, the board will become involved and we will lose players we don't want to lose, while they are still contracted and for less money that I would have expected to get for them. 

Obviously selling players is the best option, (so long as I choose who and how much), but there is another option to raise money. Clauses. 

Obviously it would be better to keep this clauses and then benefit for them later on down the line, but needs must, especially when the figures involved are significant. 

£416k for (23) Hasanbegovic (BIH) * and £506k for (24) Vukmirović (BIH) (SRB) * are deals that I'm happy to sell. They will bring us in almost £1M and stop us having to sell anyone imminently. £266k for Vipotnik (SVN) seems a little tight and when I look he has only featured from the bench. We really need him to be starting regularly to increase the value of this clause so I'm going to hang onto it. 

We're back in credit for the time being, but the reality is that just about everyone at the club is for sale, (given a reasonable offer), with the possible exception of Zulic (MNE) (BIH) * who has 2.5 years on his contract and whom I want to keep for as long as possible. 

Our young players are rising in value as we give them more exposure and as they increase in age. Interestingly, the 4 highest valued players at the club are all Serbs, (although 1 of them has (BIH) as a 2nd Nationality), and the highest value product of our Academy is (19) Bašić (BIH) (SRB) who we re-signed on a free at the beginning of this season. 

Knežević (SRB) is good candidate to be sold because he is now 26 and he highest valued player at the club at £625,000. He's a firm favourite of mine and has 18 months +1 year on his contract so there is no rush to sell in that respect. He's also our captain. He's non Bosnian though and I would prefer our captain to be both Bosnian and HG at club. I would probably prefer to win 1 league title, (at least), before selling him. In truth it depends how the players behind him develop. 

Čović (SRB) 6'2" * is only 21 and has a min fee release clause of £800,000 for FGN clubs. I would expect that clause to be met for him to go in the Jan window as he has 2.5 years remaining on his contract. 

Tabaković (SRB) (BIH) is in his 1 season at the club and while I wouldn't normally sell a player after just 1 season, the fact that we signed him on a free means that it's all profit and I think under the circumstances I would probably sell him for £1M + 25% and a friendly. He has 3.5 years on his contract so no reason to sell too early. 

Jojić (SRB) 6'1" * is a big player for us and one I don't want to lose. We paid £275k for but he only has 18 months left on his contract with no option. He has a min fee release clause to FGN clubs of only £600,000 so I really need to negotiate a new contract. The problem with that is that he is already earning £4k per month and it's likely to rocket with a new deal. I really need to offer him a new contract now and then sell him if what he wants is too high. 

(19) Bašić (BIH) (SRB) returning to the club on a free after 3.5 years in Serbia was a great bit of business although he's not exactly what I was looking for in terms of suitability for the DLP role. He's on the verge of a 1st call-up to the (BIH) National side and I would allow him to move on for the good of his career, (ideally for something close to £1M). 

Plavšić (SRB) is our 1st choice right back, but I would sell him £500k+ because we have a few right backs at the club. We paid £275,000 for him which was probably a bit much if I'm honest, but he was a replacement for our last right back who we got £1M for so I had cash to burn. 

[Edit]

Jojić (SRB) 6'1" * did sign a new 4 year deal, but he insisted on a min fee release clause to FGN clubs. The old one was £600k and I managed to get it increased to £750, (and put an expiry date on it of 6 months), so at the very least we get £150k more than we would have got and he wanted less than £5k pm wages so it was a decent deal all round. If someone meets his min fee clause then good luck to him. 

Edited July 6, 2021 by Jimbokav1971

[Jimbokav1971]

Previous post didn't work. Jan 2028. 

I made sure we were in credit at the bank but the board didn't care. They have just sold one of our brightest prospects for £1.6M.

Ibric (BIH) *** was signed for £350k when £350k was a lot of money so I hoped he would be good. I had him on a 2.5 + 3 contract so I am astonished that the board cashed in on him at such an early stage, (with no add-ons). I had been playing him as an IW(a) in the MR slot and he was really doing quite well. He has scored 16 goals and 10 assists in 38(3) appearances in all competitions which is really quite remarkable for a wide player who has is still only 17 years old. Really annoyed and frustrated to have lost him for such a paltry fee with so long left on his contract. 

On the plus side, this is what our finances look like now. 

We now have a £3.5M transfer kitty to spend and I'm actually going to go out and spend some of it on new players. Ideally I'm looking to invest £250k on each of a defender, central midfielder, wide midfielder and an attacker. 

I've never really been completely sure what makes the Scout Recommendation rating. 

Defenders. 

Central midfielders. 

Wide midfielders. 

Attackers. 

The above 4 lists are (BIH) players only. I may have to spread my net further afield. 

[Jimbokav1971]

HŠK Zrinjski Mostar, Bosnia. Jan & Feb 2028.

M:tel Premijer Liga. 2 more wins in the league make it 5 in a row after our little blip and we are still 8 points ahead of Široki Brijeg and 13 points ahead of Sarajevo. I think it's safe to say we expect Široki Brijeg to sack another manager if they don't manage to reel us in. 

Bosnian Cup. We were playing against a tier 2 team so I completely rotated the squad and fielded a team of youngsters. It backfired as we crashed out in a game that we could and should have won but I have only myself to blame. We had 18 shots to their 2, but they scored 1 goal to our 0. I need to develop the squad so we have stronger fringe players. At the moment they are very raw and just not ready. What I do like about the Bosnian Cup is that the lower ranked team always plays at home, so there will become a time in the not too distant future where all our domestic Cup games will be played away from home. 

[Jimbokav1971]

HŠK Zrinjski Mostar, Bosnia. Youth Intake day. Mar 2028.

I'm not 100% sure where to start with this intake but here goes. 

• It's the 1st Golden Generation of the save.
• There are 20 players in the intake so 4 poached players. 
• We have 2x 5.0 players. 
• We have a 1st player who doesn't have a Balkan Nationality. 

(28a) Konovalov (BIH) (SRB) looks great, but it's such a shame that he has got such a poor personality. Hopefully we will be able to change that. 

(28b) Subasic (BIH) looks fantastic. I mean he looks REALLY good. I think I'm going to have to squeeze him in at DLP in order to get him in the team. He's too slow to play out wide and that also rules him out of the DLF role too in my opinion. The First Touch & Technique certainly lean towards a playmaking tole, but his passing and vision are only average, (but very good for a player on intake day). I wonder if it might be more sensible to play him in the 2nd central role which is currently BWM(s)?

Edited July 7, 2021 by Jimbokav1971

[karanhsingh]

Wow Subasic looks phenomenal!! More than anything I love the 18 for flair. 

Think he could even be a RPM eventually for you.

[Jimbokav1971]

HŠK Zrinjski Mostar, Bosnia. Mar 2028. 

M:tel Premijer Liga. 3 more wins make it 8 wins in a row in the league, and we have scored 4 goals in each of the last 5 of them. I think we are finally making progress.  We're 10 points ahead of Široki Brijeg, (who we play next), and if we beat them the gap will be 13 points with 7 games left to play. If we lose on the other hand we will only lead by 7 points with 7 games left. 

[Jimbokav1971]

3 hours ago, karanhsingh said:

Wow Subasic looks phenomenal!! More than anything I love the 18 for flair. 

Think he could even be a RPM eventually for you.

He's definitely got something about him. 

This is a list of the 5.0 PA players at the club and (28b) Subasic (BIH) is ranked 2nd behind only (28b) Subasic (BIH) who also came through this year. It's only been a couple of weeks since they came through so it's interesting to see where they will stay in terms of PA ranking. 

PA is judged against the best CA, (sort of), and the best CA at the club is 4.0 of which we have 2. Zulic (MNE) (BIH) * is still a teenager and still has room for development, so as he improves I would expect the PA of some players to drop off, (in terms of star rating), because the level against which they are being judged will have increased. 

In terms of (28b) Subasic (BIH) I think he will do a job at both APM and DLP, but I don't think he has the physicality to be a RPM and not sure he ever will. Having said that, Positioning of 8 needs some improvement too. I've started him on a RPM training schedule, but that doesn't train tackling or strength so I'm going to have to change his schedule sooner or later. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Poached. HŠK Zrinjski Mostar, Bosnia. Apr 2028.

We've had another player poached, (this time by Sarajevo), and he's the best player we've seen poached so far. 

This is a perfect opportunity, (just after the intake), to see if we have seen any of the previously poached players come through the intake yet, (either here or at my old club TOŠK). 

This is madness. The top player still hasn't come through. 

Let me search by the name Jure Filipovic. 

Is this him? 

Yes it is him. Oh damn! I know what I have done wrong. I have been looking for him at TOŠK (where he was poached from), rather than at Velež Mostar, (who he was poached by).

Ok. Let's try this again, this time without me being so stupid. 

There we go. All the TOŠK players have now come through the intake. 

One thing that I have never seen before so need to share is that at least 1 player has been poached twice.  

Muris Obuca is on the list because he was poached from TOŠK to Zvijezda in Jul 2026 as per the above tracker, but he actually started at Zvijezda in 2023 and was poached by TOŠK a year later in 2024, before ending up back at Zvijezda again. I've never seen that before, but it's not as clear in the milestones as it used to be, (and months are no longer included which is a real shame). 

I mentioned previously that I had a private conversation with @GreenTrianglewithin which he warned me that I might have been over-estimating the PA of the poached players a little, and he provided a screenshot of the editor that I hadn't seen before which sort of clouded the issue a little, but when you ignore the bottom end of each section, (that is covered by another section), then it seems remarkably similar to my bodged one. 

In actual fact my bodged template has been reasonably accurate, (although not perfect), so far. 

Jure Filipovic was poached with 3.5 silver stars so 7th section boosted up to 8th section gave me an expected PA of 71-80 and he came through with a PA of 70, (just 1 short).
Adnan Šabanadžović was poached with 4.5 silver stars so 9th section boosted up to 10th section gave me and expected PA of 91-100 and he came through with a PA of 93, (within margin).
Samir Sejdovic was poached with 4.0 silver stars so 8th section boosted to 9th section gave me an expected PA of 81-90 and he came through with a PA of 88, (within margin). 
Armin Alic was poached with 3.5 silver stars so 7th section boosted up to 8th section gave me an expected PA of 71-80 and he came through with a PA of 70, (just 1 short). 
Muris Obuca was poached with 4.0 silver stars so 8th section boosted yo to 9th section gave me an expected PA of 81-90 and he came through with a PA of 80, (just 1 short). 

Of course it's not perfect, but it's actually not bad as a prediction tool. Had I not boosted each section by 1 manually then the 3 players who were each 1 PA point short of expected would have been within margin, but the 2 who were within margin would have come through +3 and +8 PA points, so just looking at these 5 players in isolation. my way is still the most accurate I can work out, (even though it's not completely accurate). I will keep tracking these throughout the save and maybe someone will come up with a better solution. 

, 

If we use the screed from the Editor then this is what we would have got. There are only 19 sections in the above screenshot, (but 0-10 is not included), so I'm not sure whether we count the bottom section as the 2nd section or the 1st....

Let's try it just counting the bottom section as the 1st section. 

Jure Filipovic was poached with 3.5 silver stars so 7th section gave me an expected PA of 50-80, but if we remove the PA level contained in previous sections then this gives us 71-80  and he came through with a PA of 70, so that's 1 short. 

Adnan Šabanadžović was poached with 4.5 silver stars so 9th section gave me and expected PA of 70-100, but if we remove the PA level contained in previous sections then this gives us  91-100 and he came through with a PA of 93, (within margin).

I could go on but basically what we see is that the above graphic is ok, but it's not quite as accurate as my "bodged" calculation. If you remove the lower numbers that are included in the previous section then it becomes identical to my bodged version. I have to add on 1 section in my bodged version simply because I count the section 1-10, but the above chart counts the 1st and 2nd sections together as 0-20. 

If anyone has a better way to estimate the PA of poached players then feel free to let us know. My way, (and actually someone else came up with the +1 section idea but apologies I can't remember who it was), is pretty damn accurate, but not perfect I'm afraid. 

[Hootieleece]

I never remember the names of my poached players.....unless they get poached after intake.....which has happened to me at least.

 

[Jimbokav1971]

1 minute ago, Hootieleece said:

I never remember the names of my poached players.....unless they get poached after intake.....which has happened to me at least.

Occasionally I forget to track a poached players, (or miss the message completely), but because I keep a close eye on the clauses screen, it often serves as a good reminder to me. 

Let me show you what I mean. 

I only have 2 clauses available to buy/sell at the moment, and I know who both those players are so I can ignore them. 

That isn't all clauses though. That's just clauses that my DoF has done a deal for, so let's click on Clauses and then only "in" clauses and this is what we get. 

I can ignore the top 6 players on the list because they all have nicknames, and I can ignore the bottom 2 names on the list because they also have nicknames. This leaves me with just the 4 players in the middle. 

I know already that the club with the red logo's are Sarajevo and the blue logo at the bottom is Radnik, (after checking). 

Jacob Gade - History - Milestones. This player was poached from us. 

Dženan Hamzic - History - Milestones. This player was poached from us. 

Nijaz Heric - History - Milestones. This player was poached from us. 

Ivan Jajalo - History - Milestones. This players wasn't poached from us. The reason we have a clause is because we previously sold him. 

[Jimbokav1971]

HŠK Zrinjski Mostar, Bosnia. Apr 2028. 

M:tel Premijer Liga. We won the league with 4 games to spare. 

Staff. You might remember that our staff numbers were slashed about a year ago. After winning the league they have been increased again.

[Rikulec]

Well done winning the league.

[Jimbokav1971]

HŠK Zrinjski Mostar, Bosnia. May 2028. 

M:tel Premijer Liga. Another 3 wins to finish the season makes it 15 wins in the last 16 games and unbeaten in the league in the last 18 games as we romp to the title with a 13 point gap to 2nd place Široki Brijeg, (who have already sacked their manager this season); 

A goal-scorer in each of the last 3 games of the season, is 17 year old (26b) Claes (BIH) (BEL) who finishes the season with 24 goals, (18 in the league). Despite his young age he is already our 1st choice poacher, and he is also our 2nd choice DLF so when Zulic (MNE) (BIH) * is out for any reason, (26b) Claes (BIH) (BEL) moves to the right and we bring in another poacher. 

[Jimbokav1971]

4 minutes ago, Rikulec said:

Well done winning the league.

Thanks. We should have won it last season to be honest. This season was never in doubt.

[Jimbokav1971]

End of Season Summary. HŠK Zrinjski Mostar, Bosnia. May 2028. 

M:tel Premijer Liga. We led almost from start to finish and 4 of the 6 games we didn't win came in a run of consecutive games in Oct/Nov.

Euro Conference. The 1st 2 rounds went so well, but the less said the better about the Zilina tie. 

Bosnian Cup. I really like that the highest ranked team plays away in the Bosnian Cup, but it also means that young inexperienced teams can come unstuck against more battle-hardened opponents who play at a lower level. You would have thought I would have learned by now. 

Squad by Appearances. Some really impressive performances across the season. 

4x 4.0 CA players.

12x 5.0 PA players.

Records.

Finances. 

Facilities. 

Tracker. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Facilities. May 2028. 

We only have £750k in the bank so I can't afford to upgrade the facilities at this time. I really need to sell a few FGN players this season. 

[Jimbokav1971]

European Rankings. Jun 2028. 

European Competition Rankings. Only 3 places is pretty modest improvement, but it's improvement nevertheless. 

European Club Rankings. We might have only moved up 5 places, but that's not the bad news. The bad news is that despite 4 wins and a draw, we only earned 2 points last season and next season we will lose a 9 point season (from 2023/24).

This is how we earned 9 coefficient points back in 2023/24, (the last season after after we won the league). 

[Jimbokav1971]

Reputation. Jun 2028.

We need to do better in Europe and in the domestic Cup in order to leapfrog Sarajevo.

5,283 Sarajevo.
5,103 HŠK Zrinjski Mostar

[Jimbokav1971]

Poached. Jul 2028.