The FM22 Youth Academy Challenge

[SkiIIs]

On 19/08/2022 at 19:22, libbyshuss said:

oh that's way harsh! after all you'd done for that club as well!

was kinda looking forward to coaching in the championship to be honest but oh well

[SkiIIs]

Season 2022/23 - Super League 2 South

It's been a few versions since managing in Greece so to see the second division split between regions was a surprise.  League 2 is actually quite difficult to get out of as you need to top your region and then win a play off.  Subsequently, if you dont win that play off (against the top team from the other region) then you play off against second last in League 1. 

Hopefully i wont have to worry about it again as we managed to top our region and win the first play off against Lamia with 1 - 0 wins both home and away.  A great result as at the start of the year I had to have some greyed out players on the bench with the squad being quite low with numbers.  Also couldnt start any youth contracted players so had to wait for a couple of the juniors to turn 16 to be registered.

 

Finances are I suspect are going to be an issue for this save until we start playing in Europe.  We averaged 50k-75k loss per month and hence we werent able to upgrade anything nor was i allowed to even start my coaching badges.  Hopefully playing in the top division will help. but i highly doubt it.

One cool thing was being able to recruit some dead set legends of the game all with fantastic personalities as my staff:

The fantastic season landed me in 63rd place for League 2 (yes i know only 12 pages of rankings but im taking it!!)

Youth Preview, unsurprising to have a few A's projected, the team needs a lot:

Youth Intake wasnt too bad for the first one with all our junior facilities and recruitment only at adequate.  Some half decent personalities amongst the group:

 

 

[WhiteCat33]

Mellieha Sports Club
Season 13 2034 – 35 Malta Premier League
Competitions | Squad | Transfers |Finances| Club Info

 

Continental Qualification

So RFS from Latvia are almost a bogey team for us. The players aren't that great but they play fantastic at home. 2 years ago they knocked us out overcoming the same 3-0 deficit, but this time we were able to score away enough to keep our goal margin alive. Match was a wakeup call after the joyride of steamrolling Cardiff Met 22-0. The final victory was overcoming Olympiacos to make our first Champions League Group Stage! We struggled defensively in Greece losing 2-4 with Sultana 08i getting a brace for us. At home we showed our ability to finish half chances by winning 4-1 with only 8 shots on target and 1.18xG in what was a statistically even game with both our strikers getting braces. I was initially worried when we lost our wonderkid, but this Poacher - Pressing Forward pair just play so well together and both love the club and are on long contracts.

Matches

Spoiler

Champions League Group Stage

Well our draw could have been worse as PSG & Man City are in a group together, but we got Real Madrid, AC Millan and Red Bull Salzburg. Shocker to no one Madrid are gnarly. They have a peak Youssoufa Moukoko (who for some reason never got called up for the national team?) who scored 5 against us in the first match where they smashed us 6-2 and they rested him for the second time in Madrid where they blanked us 5-0. We did badly against Millan at home losing 5-1, but did pretty well there losing just 2-1, which came from them scoring a 94' FK goal after my CM got himself ejected; crushing after such a strong second half. The impressive performances came against RB Salzburg drawing in Austria 1-1 and then beating them at home 3-2, so we get 3rd in the group and actually manage to advance to Euro Cup knockouts even with an awful -13 GD

Matches

Spoiler

We are the biggest overachievers in the Champions League and Real Madrid are the Runners Up

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But even crazier Peter Attard 10a set the record for the top Champions League Goalscorrer lol. Thank you Cardif Met where he got 9 goals

Euro Cup Knockouts

First Knockout Round: 

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 Pretty middle of the road draw of Shakhtar. We’ve never played them but have faced Dynamo Kyiv a few times and never gotten the best of them.

1st Leg Home: 19 min and their defender intercepted a long ball to Sultana but passed it into the middle where Attard 10a pounced on it and first time shot scored. Great start! More opportunities for Sultana, they aren’t picking him up on the long ball runs.27’ though they beat us overloading my fbs and crossing in to their striker who finishes. But a minute later off a short throw in play Frank Formossa 09d (my DLP) takes a nice long shot from the top of the box to give us back the lead. 32’ we add to it as Brandon Sales 10b makes an attacking run from the midfield to get behind the back-line and places the ball far post. 60’ we get very lucky as they hit the ball off the post twice in one play, but just after in the 63’ they get their second goal. 74’ and they tie it back up with their striker just beating my cb silly and chipping the gk. 86’ and my RB Portelli 07c slots the ball to Attard 10a who gets his second of the match. We win 4-3!

 

 

2^nd Leg Away – We really struggle defending the driven cross form the wingers and they get a goal in the 4’ and 21’ from them on both flanks. The second was due to a midfielder running in and not getting picked up. Again they aren’t picking up our deep runs by forwards very well and Sultana 08i makes them pay in the first half stoppage time to bring us back to evens on aggregate. And it’s a slug fest the rest of regulation so that it ends evens and we go to extra time. Took till 112’ where my young CM sub Pierre Debono 11a makes the run behind the defense and no one picks him up and he shoots near post beating the keeper to give us the lead! I got a heart attack as their mf got the same run on our keeper but Psaila 04c came up big and made a stop to boost his 7.7 to an 8.1 rating from that single save and we’ve done it! We draw 2-2 in Ukraine so we advance winning 6-5 on Aggregate.

 

Second Knockout Round:

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We get Marseille who recently they’ve been runner up twice in Ligue 1 and third place 4 times. This is a real test for the club as Lyon smoked us 2 years ago in the Euro Cup Group stage

1st Leg Home: Brandon Salas 10b gets a 26’ goal! Similar to what he did against Shacktar he got himself open at the top of the box and made OM pay. But really the man who made the play is my LB Ryan Porteli 07c who got the assist and then 3 minutes later he got himself all the way to the 6 yard box and open and he puts it behind for a goal! 2-0 up early on. Amazing. We are having some fantastic highlights this first half but it is OM who get the final goal in stoppage time off a badly intercepted pass. Now to try and hold this lead / get another in the second half. 55’ though they execute a perfect corner play to bring it back level 2-2. While there are highlights neither of us convert so we end the first leg 2-2. Can’t be too mad about this, we were legitimately even with them this game.

 

2nd Leg Away: 26’ its another corner play that they beat us on. I’ve made sure to train corner defending extra before the match and checked the set piece set up, but they are just too good in the air for us. Second half and we are getting some decent opportunities but not putting the shots on target. 79’ they put in a second goal. 83’ we take a corner which gets bounced out and the second service finds Baah 09c on the far post. We can’t quite muster a second effort to catch back to them so we lose a hard-fought match and bow out of the EC knockouts.

 

Quarter Final

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Sadly we're not quite there yet

Semi Final

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Not yet

Final

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Nope

Matches

Spoiler

 

Youth Intake Preview:

Youth Intake

Not quite what the preview promised. We are at the stage of the game though that I’ll be signing everyone and we will see. 3rd year of his players and we are seeing some really bad personalities still.
This is the one elite talent. We need anew CB but I don’t see how this could be him

This CAM is probably the best of the bunch. Fickle is at least high ambition, so he could upgrade that PA rating. By April this happened as he got bumped up to an Elite talent when they did the 'scholars' inbox message.

The HOYD will get 3 more intakes and then it’ll be time to do analysis and see what upgrade options are available. 

Club Improvements:

We did our best to spend that money with 2 Training Facility Improvements and 1 Youth Facility Improvement. Another year till our small stadium will be ready.

Spoiler

 

Transfer market

Thankfully I held onto everyone this year. Getting into the Champions League has done wonders to keep players from getting upset at interest from lower Serie A clubs. We still have 2* Reputation and are in a low reputation league, but I'm able to sign contracts w/o release clauses now so they can't steal my players anymore.

Antonello Bonnici 08b – he has been playing great for Fiorentina as a rotation player so he pushed for a better contract and they refused and he requested a transfer. Spezia who are a consistent lower third Siere A club bought him and will be giving him the contract he desired which is 4x what he made at Fiorentina and more importantly we get our 40% sell-on! Of course the money is pointless now, but feels good to have made.

Lydon Caruana 09a - he's finally getting selected at Parma, but has not played well with 3 goals in 19 starts this year mostly coming off the bench. His performances weren't the only poor ones as Parma got Relegated from Siere A. I think playing in Siere B will be good for his development (which has totally stalled) if they even keep him. My guess is he gets sold over the summer as he's wanted by Cittadella.

Transfer Spreadsheet:

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Thoughts

Even with the disappointing intakes the past couple seasons the on field performance has been nothing short of phenomenal. The majority of the starters are about 21 now so are becoming actually consistent. My one issue in the squad is I'm not happy with my CBs. I have Paul Mallia 08j who fits the archetype I like for CBs while being fairly consistent, but unfortunately is bad at heading. The second slot has been a rotation of 3 underwhelming options with Johann Deguuara 11e as my favorite, but he tore his hamstring this season and was out for 2 months. Thankfully he's having a good recovery though, so hopefully next season he can become the first choice. 

 

Edited August 22, 2022 by WhiteCat33

[Daddy]

2024/25 Season Review:

After an awful start the team rebounded back to the midtable team I expected us to be. We wound up making fairly deep runs in both cups which helped financially. If not for the brutal start we probably would have had a shot at playoffs, but probably would have fallen just short.

The new stadium helped the attendance. The cup runs helped with money and the board threw some money which bumps us from Insecure to okay. Taking advantage by getting another coaching class and adding another coach. However, I'm not going to push it too hard as that cash injection came after I had to beg for a new contact where I took a pay cut. I see this as being a very long save, so no need to rush it and deal with a team in dire financial straights. Seven more years of loan payments. 

Youth Intake:

Really high potential class here. I was a bit more selective and didn't sign a few that weren't at least three yellow stars and had bad personalities. 

2025/26 Season Preview:

I'm going to assume we follow the same pattern where there's a terrible run of a form, a very strong run of a form, and a simply solid run around where you would expect a upper mid table team to play at. I'm hoping for some steady improvement as hopefully the younger players develop a bit. If things go very right we're capable of making the playoffs, but I don't think we're promotion worthy just yet. 

[BustaRaymes]

*FM20*

Littlehampton Town 2055-2056

Sky Bet League Two

We were in the promotion spots most of the season but a drop in form saw us go to playoffs and losing out to Grimsby. A bit harsh but I'm not sure we would've been able to avoid another drop next year.

 

Transfers

Had a bit of an overhaul after the relegation, selling two of the more talented players in Lapeña and Fletcher. Smith and Hudson have been fringe players recently and were also able to move on.

 

Squad

Mensah has been our first choice this year and did well. Aaron Hudson is turning into a very interesting player and I think he'd be even better in a 4-2-3-1. Same goes for Gale-Fuller so I might look to make a switch next season.

On the other end we need players like Kavanagh, who won't get any better anymore and these players are why we should not be in L1 just yet.

 

Youth intake

I'm not too happy with this. There is no better HOYD available for me but I really need a better pull in the next few years.

McGuinness is interesting as he's right-footed. If I can raise his Det he could be a decent AML.

Thompson and Wellens are decent but with horrible personalities so I don't expect too much from them.

 

[Neo_Geo]

Santa Venera Lightnings FC Season 3 (2024/25)

Where did we finish in the league?

1st

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Really?

2nd

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Warmer

3rd

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Bingo!

On the last day of the season we played Floriana with a chance to go second and stop them from having an invincible season.....we drew 1-1 so 3rd place it is but into the European Conference League qualifiers we go 

4th

Spoiler

Warmer

5th

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Ye of little faith!

6th

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Now that's just downright insulting 

In the cup we didn't do very well this year getting knocked out at the 2nd Round but the league was always the priority.

 

Youth Intake

Spoiler

This year gave me a first team starter (in fact probably the highest rated ability player at the club) straight from the intake!

One thing is for sure the repetition of surnames is going to get confusing as I have multiple Pace, Attard, Farrugia, Tabone, Camilleri

I was pleased that the right back is an improvement on our current options but Tabone (25J) will also walk straight into the starting lineup

 

 

Attard is head and shoulders in the eyes of the coaches and I've now adopted the 4-2-3-1 DMs formation to get him where he is best alongside Nathan Farrugia (24H) from last years intake. It should also help us concede less often.

 

Like the fitness, work rate, determination, leadership and teamwork for Tabone (potential captain here) and as you can see from the comparison he's far above our current choices.

 

Farrugia has a high ability but he will struggle to get game time given Cauchi is still our main player in the forward 4. I will need to start to use him as I have been lucky with injuries so far but that can't last forever.

 

Players

Spoiler

No outgoings as far as sales are concerned but let a few of the unhappy non-contract players walk

Bakare ended up being the top scorer with 10 goals, so hopefully the forward 4 continue to improve to start getting some more goals from more natural positions.

Two players averaged over 7 Cauchi (23C) AMR and Caruana (24A) GK with 7.22 and 7.10 respectively.

I'll be looking for more players to breach the 7 average rating threshold next year assuming they continue to develop.

The only real talking point is Karl Dimech (24K) becoming a Model Citizen from a Professional in last years intake:

I hope (and believe) he has a fair amount of potential but I need to drop Ayrton Borg (23D) who is currently 4 star ability, so its about taking a hit now in the hope that he will be better long term.

Club

Spoiler

Managed to get a couple of youth recruitment improvements but nothing else of note

Training Facilities - Poor

Youth Facilities - Poor

Junior Coaching - Basic

Youth Recruitment - Adequate

Financially we are only £9k in the red now (subject to tax payments)

Manager

Spoiler

Currently studying for a Continental B License and was offered an interview with Gzira Utd

Stats

Spoiler

 

 

 

Next Season

Spoiler

All about Europe and trying to get as much progress (and therefore money) as possible.

 

[br00kster]

8 hours ago, SkiIIs said:

Season 2022/23 - Super League 2 South

It's been a few versions since managing in Greece so to see the second division split between regions was a surprise.  League 2 is actually quite difficult to get out of as you need to top your region and then win a play off.  Subsequently, if you dont win that play off (against the top team from the other region) then you play off against second last in League 1. 

Hopefully i wont have to worry about it again as we managed to top our region and win the first play off against Lamia with 1 - 0 wins both home and away.  A great result as at the start of the year I had to have some greyed out players on the bench with the squad being quite low with numbers.  Also couldnt start any youth contracted players so had to wait for a couple of the juniors to turn 16 to be registered.

 

Finances are I suspect are going to be an issue for this save until we start playing in Europe.  We averaged 50k-75k loss per month and hence we werent able to upgrade anything nor was i allowed to even start my coaching badges.  Hopefully playing in the top division will help. but i highly doubt it.

One cool thing was being able to recruit some dead set legends of the game all with fantastic personalities as my staff:

The fantastic season landed me in 63rd place for League 2 (yes i know only 12 pages of rankings but im taking it!!)

Youth Preview, unsurprising to have a few A's projected, the team needs a lot:

Youth Intake wasnt too bad for the first one with all our junior facilities and recruitment only at adequate.  Some half decent personalities amongst the group:

 

 

Congratulations! I've managed to grind out two third places in Greece so far, can't break through yet.

Regarding the divisions, first season there are 17 teams in each region, second 15, third 12 and now into the fourth season of the game the regional divisions have been merged into one Super League B with 20 teams (I believe, I'm at work without access to my save).

[libbyshuss]

Croatia

Premier Division

2038/39 (Season 17)

Season Summary

A very weird season. We started with 3 defeats and a draw but we'd played well in every game. we then won 3 out of the next 4 before an insane run of 9 wins in 11 sent us second. We even battered Dynamo Zagreb 4-1!!! I knew it couldn't last and so it proved, after christmas we were back to our inconsistent selves but we'd done enough to hang on to fifth spot and a promise of Europe next season! (albeit the Conference League, but you gotta start somewhere, right?)

 

Players

So what was the difference? A year older seems to make the difference, that and finally finding our striker in Bruno Gelo 36C. Sadly he's onlygot two years on his contract and thinks he's way too good for us but he was great this season. Niki Vukoja 34B continued his rapid rise, free-scoring from a mezalla role with 8 in his first 10 for us, to claim our first Golden Boy award. I honestly never saw this coming from the lad!

As you can see it's now a pretty solid team throughout with no real weak spots to speak of, which is nice for a change

 

Wonderkids

So, I sold a potential wonderkid. He had a temperemental personality, which I hate, so I didn't really want him infecting the rest of the squad with his whinging and whining. So I sold him on the cheap to PSG with a 50% sell on. It could easily be the smartest/dumbest thing I've done this save!

With Vukoja 34B now too old for the best 50 wonderkids list I wasn't expecting an entry this year. But hello!

Bruno Gelo 36C! now sign a new contract

 

Youth

My worst intake yet! looks ok in terms of potential but honestly the determination and personalities are awful! The best looking prospect has a determination of 1 and a casual personality (looking at you Karlo Ilic)

 

Really interesting to see a Brazilian fella pop up there! he's not a great prospect though sadly.

Finances

Finishing 7th gave us a huge boost in TV money which I didn't see coming. 4.4m which is lovely!

It meant it was time for improvements! yay!

also, check this out. Our HoYD is also Croatia U21 manager! nice! not seen that before 

Career

Looking forward to our first Europena adventure!

 

 

 

[DazRTaylor]

Youth Candidates

Season 2022/23

The Spartans

It was a decent enough preview:

The intake itself was pretty good, though without any standout stars.

[WhiteCat33]

5 hours ago, Neo_Geo said:

Santa Venera Lightnings FC Season 3 (2024/25)

Where did we finish in the league?

1st

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Really?

2nd

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Warmer

3rd

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Bingo!

On the last day of the season we played Floriana with a chance to go second and stop them from having an invincible season.....we drew 1-1 so 3rd place it is but into the European Conference League qualifiers we go 

4th

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Warmer

5th

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Ye of little faith!

6th

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Now that's just downright insulting 

In the cup we didn't do very well this year getting knocked out at the 2nd Round but the league was always the priority.

 

Youth Intake

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This year gave me a first team starter (in fact probably the highest rated ability player at the club) straight from the intake!

One thing is for sure the repetition of surnames is going to get confusing as I have multiple Pace, Attard, Farrugia, Tabone, Camilleri

I was pleased that the right back is an improvement on our current options but Tabone (25J) will also walk straight into the starting lineup

 

 

Attard is head and shoulders in the eyes of the coaches and I've now adopted the 4-2-3-1 DMs formation to get him where he is best alongside Nathan Farrugia (24H) from last years intake. It should also help us concede less often.

 

Like the fitness, work rate, determination, leadership and teamwork for Tabone (potential captain here) and as you can see from the comparison he's far above our current choices.

 

Farrugia has a high ability but he will struggle to get game time given Cauchi is still our main player in the forward 4. I will need to start to use him as I have been lucky with injuries so far but that can't last forever.

 

Players

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No outgoings as far as sales are concerned but let a few of the unhappy non-contract players walk

Bakare ended up being the top scorer with 10 goals, so hopefully the forward 4 continue to improve to start getting some more goals from more natural positions.

Two players averaged over 7 Cauchi (23C) AMR and Caruana (24A) GK with 7.22 and 7.10 respectively.

I'll be looking for more players to breach the 7 average rating threshold next year assuming they continue to develop.

The only real talking point is Karl Dimech (24K) becoming a Model Citizen from a Professional in last years intake:

I hope (and believe) he has a fair amount of potential but I need to drop Ayrton Borg (23D) who is currently 4 star ability, so its about taking a hit now in the hope that he will be better long term.

Club

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Managed to get a couple of youth recruitment improvements but nothing else of note

Training Facilities - Poor

Youth Facilities - Poor

Junior Coaching - Basic

Youth Recruitment - Adequate

Financially we are only £9k in the red now (subject to tax payments)

Manager

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Currently studying for a Continental B License and was offered an interview with Gzira Utd

Stats

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Next Season

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All about Europe and trying to get as much progress (and therefore money) as possible.

 

Congrats already qualifying for Europe! I take it you still only can sign noncontracts and not part time one's? Not sure if that's a bug or intended but makes it a real rush to go professional especially with that great intake class you just got. Interesting that Hibernians is your top team, they've turned into a yo-yo for my save. 

[DrJones]

De Treffers 2028/29

Finally we are making some progress! The youngsters are ready to actually compete in most games. We will probably change our style of play to a more offensive one next season. This season we've been pretty much camping in our own box and just smashed the ball as far as possible when we had the chance.

Squad

The big problem in our squad is the complete lack of centre-backs. Every intake since I took charge of this wonderful Treffers-side has been flooded with midfielders and right-backs. Kids in this dutch town seems to hate being defensive in general, so there's our main issue at the moment.

Key Players

18 goals in his first season! What a man!

A 195 cm long winger, what's not to like?

Youth Intake

Well, he's decent I guess.

History

[DazRTaylor]

End of Season Review

Season 2022/23

The Spartans

Season Summary

A glorious season where we secured the league title and promotion to the third tier.  The less said about the cups, the better, however.

Season Details

League Table - We were always in the promotion hunt and an excellent run of form towards the end of the season saw the club win the league title and secure promotion to the third tier.

League Fixtures 1 & 2 - We started so well, going unbeaten in our first seven games, before we started scrapping for wins.  We maintained a promotion push, however.

Scottish Cup - Embarrassing.  A comprehensive defeat away to Highland League outfit Fraserburgh was simply not good enough.

Premier Sports Cup - In what was a tough group, we finished a respectable third, though this did eliminate the group at this stage.

SPFL Trust Trophy - We reached the third round before narrowly losing away to Championship side Dunfermline.  The obvious highlight was the thrashing of another Championship side, Raith Rovers, in round two.

Friendlies - There was only enough time for three friendlies and we surprisingly remained unbeaten throughout.

Squad - Our squad isn't good enough for the third tier, though we will give it our best shot.

Squad Dynamics - This is rather nice, isn't it?

Transfers In - None.

Transfers Out - Two fringe players departed on free transfers.

Youth Candidates - Striker Wayne Little YP23B2 is the brightest prospect out of a fairly good intake.

Finances - We made a profit this year and we have a healthy bank balance as a result.

Key Players

Blair Henderson - Our best player by some distance, the striker had a great season, scoring 32 goals in 44 appearances.

Kevin Waugh - The centre back was our best defender this year.

Evan O'Connor - A revelation in central midfield, despite having just turned just seventeen years of age.

Mikey Allan - Comfortable at either left back or at the heart of defence, he had a solid campaign.

Cammy Russell - Despite prefering to play as a striker, he was deployed on the right wing with a lot of success.

Next Season

Survival.  Anything else is a bonus.

Personal Coaching Data

Season     Reputation            Qualifications     Att   Def   Fit   GkD   GkH   GkS   Tac   Tec   Men   WWY   Ada   Det   PlK   YoK   LoD   MaM   Mot
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At start   Minimal   (0.25*)     None                 1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     4     1     1     1     4     1     1     1
2022/23    Minimal = (1.50*) ↑   National B ↑↑        6 ↑   6 ↑   2 ↑   1 =   1 =   1 =   6 ↑   6 ↑   7 ↑   4 =   1 =   5 ↑   5 ↑   6 ↑   3 ↑   6 ↑   7 ↑

Club Facilities

Season     Training Facilities  Youth Facilities  Corporate Facilities  Junior Coaching  Youth Recruitment  Club Reputation
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At Start   Adequate             Adequate          Adequate              Good             Adequate           Regional   (1.50*)
2022/23    Adequate =           Adequate =        Adequate =            Excellent ↑      Average ↑          Regional = (1.50*) =

Season Record

Season     Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage
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2022/23      44        23       12        9          84              44                 +40              52.27%

Overall Career Record

After Season   Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage     Time At Club
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2022/23          44        23       12        9          84              44                 +40              52.27%             308 days

Transfer Sale Record

Date               Player                    Position               Club Sold To                 Country                   Transfer Fee
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Trophy Haul

Season     Competition Won
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2022/23    cinch League 2.

Trophy Cabinet

League Titles
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1 x cinch League 2 (2022/23)

Cup Competition Victories
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Career Overview

Season     Champions League    Europa League    Europa Conference League             League                             Position     Scottish Cup          Premier Sports Cup        Achievements
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2022/23           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Scottish League Two                   1st       Second Round          Group Stage               Promoted as champions.  SPFL Trust Trophy third round.

Record Number of Appearances (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                    Cumulative Number of Appearances
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2022/23    Joe McLaughlin YP23A1                     3

Record Goal Scorer (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                          Cumulative Number of Goals
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2022/23    No one                                        0

Record Number of Assists (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                        Cumulative Number of Assists
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2022/23    No one                                      0

Record Number of Clean Sheets (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                    Cumulative Number of Clean Sheets
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2022/23    No one                                     0

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 22, 2022 by DazRTaylor

[Neo_Geo]

1 hour ago, WhiteCat33 said:

Congrats already qualifying for Europe! I take it you still only can sign noncontracts and not part time one's? Not sure if that's a bug or intended but makes it a real rush to go professional especially with that great intake class you just got. Interesting that Hibernians is your top team, they've turned into a yo-yo for my save. 

Yup everyone is still on a non-contract right now and as you say if this is a great intake then if any of these are "real" gems i.e. the 5 star potential exceeds that of the current ability levels, I need to get professional ASAP

Hibernians won the treble last season but they lost to Floriana in the super cup this year but Floriana are out of the FA Trophy, so its not one team out in front of the others like you have in some countries with RB Salzburg for instance, gives me hope that I can topple them a bit easier without one team having a monopoly.

[PequenoGenio]

Hello everyone from Portugal.
I'm tempted to start a new save with this challenge to finish FM22 in style.
Any country/league you recommend for a first adventure?

[WhiteCat33]

2 hours ago, PequenoGenio said:

Hello everyone from Portugal.
I'm tempted to start a new save with this challenge to finish FM22 in style.
Any country/league you recommend for a first adventure?

Welcome! Depends where you want your challenge to be. Your home country is actually a good middle of the road nation if you're not looking for a new country to play in. You produce fantastic players, have a domestic league with decent income / attendance / Reputation, and have a reasonable path to breaking into the top group to get European matches.

Of the nation's I've played I'd recommend to avoid Belgium as a first run, finances are difficult there and can be hard to break into European positions. I'm doing Malta now, which is one where the early game is easy but its very hard to 'complete' as your nation's Youth Rating & Population are lower so make it difficult to produce the quality of players needed to topple the Goliaths of Europe.  Its about the journey though, and Malta has been an excellent one.

[SkiIIs]

18 hours ago, br00kster said:

Congratulations! I've managed to grind out two third places in Greece so far, can't break through yet.

Regarding the divisions, first season there are 17 teams in each region, second 15, third 12 and now into the fourth season of the game the regional divisions have been merged into one Super League B with 20 teams (I believe, I'm at work without access to my save).

wow thats nuts!  Didnt take note of the first season but interesting how its changed.  How many get promoted from the Super League B in the 3rd/4th year?

almost completed my first year in Super League A and its similar competition apart from 6 or so better teams

[XaW]

14 hours ago, PequenoGenio said:

Hello everyone from Portugal.
I'm tempted to start a new save with this challenge to finish FM22 in style.
Any country/league you recommend for a first adventure?

Welcome! This challenge is very fun, extremely hard, but also very rewarding to play, even if you should not expect to complete it. A good country to start in is Germany, I think. 3 tiers, all professional and if you get into the 2nd tier, your finances should be good from then on. It's not easy to topple Bayern, but you should be able to compete in Europe for a while and slowly build up facilities and get in enough talented youngsters so eventually it should be possible, even if it's not easy, but no country is easy. If you want a more quick journey to trophies, a smaller country is often easier to get a domestic domination over. So Wales, Iceland, and other smaller countries with good youth players can be fun, but you will have a long hard slog to become decent in Europe. So for those types you will need to go through a lot of seasons where you lose early in Europe and then dominate everything domestically before you are able to get somewhere towards the CL group stage.

So it really depends on what you are after. The top leagues are often harder to get to Europe, but when you get there, you should be able to compete, smaller leagues are easier to dominate, but Europe is harder to make way in. The middle are, unsurprisingly, somewhere in the middle for both. I've had loads of fun in all kinds of countries. I can also add that Portugal is a nice league for this because of the high level of youths and also quite a lot of foreign youngsters that can be talented as well.

If you start this save though, normal saves tends to become quite boring after a while, so be warned, if you join you might not want to leave!  

[br00kster]

9 hours ago, SkiIIs said:

wow thats nuts!  Didnt take note of the first season but interesting how its changed.  How many get promoted from the Super League B in the 3rd/4th year?

almost completed my first year in Super League A and its similar competition apart from 6 or so better teams

Third Season

10 relegated from two divisions, with two going through to a playoff with one promoted.

 

Fourth Season

18 teams with 4 relegated, one going up automatically and one going into a playoff with a team from Super League One (let's hope I can continue and get the automatic!)

[thomas_e]

 

 

 

We have now started to lose one of our best players each season. Getting really difficult to make any progress at this pace. Players wont even talk about a new contract so this will just keep happening. 

 

 

[XaW]

      

XaW - Hyde - Season 2028/29 - Vanarama National League

Squad | Transfers | Finances

This was a really good season for us, and the closest we've been to a promotion push. Even with the loss of our best defender, we did well. We do still concede too many goals though, so we can certainly improve going forward.

FA Cup: We beat Leamington and Wealdstone before we got battered by Ipswich in the 2nd round.
FA Trophy:  We beat Harrogate Town, Billericay Town, and Warrington before we lost to Woking in the quarter final. 

U18 team:

They finished 2nd in the U18 Youth Alliance League. In the FA Youth Cup they beat Altrincham, King's Lynn Town, and Halifax Town before they lost to Fleetwood in the 2nd round. In the U18 Alliance Cup they finished 3rd in their group and got knocked out.

Youth intake:

Trophy cabinet

N/A

Player statistics:

Most apps for the clubs

Name			Nation		2nd Nation	Apps
-------------------------------------------------------------
Fraser Bickerdike 23h	England		None		258
Joe Swinglehurst 24e	England		None		224
Robbie Brown 23f	England		Scotland	223
Kirk McGivern 25c	England		None		191
Muhammad Bamidele 26g	Ireland		Nigeria		157

Most goals for the club

Name			Nation		2nd Nation	Goals
-------------------------------------------------------------
Philip Brown 25b	Scotland	None		66
Joe Swinglehurst 24e	England		None		34
Muhammad Bamidele 26g	Ireland		Nigeria		31
Marios Polykarpou 26f	Cyprus		England		27
Robbie Brown 23f	England		Scotland	16
Declan O'Neill 27c	Ireland		England		16

Most assists for the club

Name			Nation		2nd Nation	Assists
-------------------------------------------------------------
Joe Swinglehurst 24e	England		None		49
Marios Polykarpou 26f	Cyprus		England		22
Philip Brown 25b	Scotland	None		19
Fraser Bickerdike 23h	England		None		17
Kirk McGivern 25c	England		None		17

[Neo_Geo]

1 hour ago, thomas_e said:

 

 

 

We have now started to lose one of our best players each season. Getting really difficult to make any progress at this pace. Players wont even talk about a new contract so this will just keep happening. 

 

 

It's tough, the only thing I can suggest is to get minimum fee release clauses added to their contract but try to get them as high as you can because when they come moaning about moving 9 times out of 10 you can just say "You have a minimum fee release clause and you can leave if they meet it" and it will do them but doing well in Europe seemed to help boost my rep enough to keep them happy.

When I last played I was ranked 12th in Europe but Milovanovic still left for Arsenal so it won't solve the issue but it should reduce the times it happens.

Keep going if you are still enjoying it, there will be a point where they will start to no longer be interested in teams like Wolves.

[thomas_e]

29 minutes ago, Neo_Geo said:

It's tough, the only thing I can suggest is to get minimum fee release clauses added to their contract but try to get them as high as you can because when they come moaning about moving 9 times out of 10 you can just say "You have a minimum fee release clause and you can leave if they meet it" and it will do them but doing well in Europe seemed to help boost my rep enough to keep them happy.

When I last played I was ranked 12th in Europe but Milovanovic still left for Arsenal so it won't solve the issue but it should reduce the times it happens.

Keep going if you are still enjoying it, there will be a point where they will start to no longer be interested in teams like Wolves.

Yes, I do give some players mimimum release clauses, mainly because they demand it themselves, but I am losing players when their contract expires. 

[fries]

Vanarama National League

2026/27 (season 5)

Season Summary

Great season. First season in the National League. We was never in danger of relegation and not that far from the play offs. I hope we will fight for the play off spots next season.

Rogers, Wright, Bone-Calver, Snodin and Siemieniec have continued their development this season.

Grubb again had a great season with 11 goals and 12 assists. The young defender Siemieniec had the highest average rating.

Another important player is my goalkeeper Walsh. He is doing well, however his abilities should not be good enough at this level.

Warwick was the topscorer with 14 goals. However, he was not even a starter this season.

My preview was great with 5 stars. All in positions where I could use more players.

 

Lots of fine prospects. However, I hoped for at least 1 high CA talent. Moriarty and Fotheringham could play an important role next season.

 

We had no transfers this season. 

Finances and Upgrades

We had a takeover last summer, which paid some of the depts in the club. We manage to upgrade the junior coaching, youth recruitment, and youth facilities this season.

 

 

[Neo_Geo]

1 hour ago, thomas_e said:

Yes, I do give some players mimimum release clauses, mainly because they demand it themselves, but I am losing players when their contract expires. 

did you add the optional contract extension by the club (usually can only manage 2 years tops once they become established).

[Daddy]

2025/26 Midseason Review:

Going better than expected. I was hoping to wind up around this spot initially, but finances are causing a real problem. Too many of my legacy players are wanting too much money, so I picked the three most important of them and every other position I have youth players starting an backing up. If things went poorly I'd have to figure something out, but I feel confident with this group that we can survive, so I'm trying to move ever other legacy player (they're all set for release now). While we're close to the playoffs now, I still think we'll probably drop a place or two. 

Intake Preview:

Striker is one of the legacy players remaining. He's 28 so I still have a few years of him being good for us, but if I can get a Youth player coming in way cheaper I'll take it. 

[thomas_e]

2 hours ago, Neo_Geo said:

did you add the optional contract extension by the club (usually can only manage 2 years tops once they become established).

Yes, I always do that on this challenge. Usually get three years, but sometimes only two. 

[SkiIIs]

Season 2023/24 - Super League A

First season in the Super League with a really raw team, I was hoping for survival meaning finishing 3rd last or better to avoid having to play the relegation play off.  Season started off on fire winning the first 3 games including a win over last years runners up in Paok.  The ambition quickly became finish in the top 6 for the Championship Group (top 6). We were top 6 for most of the season however a dip in form over the last 5 games cost us, especially as three of those games were against lower teams.

In the Relegation group, we were never really in trouble as you get to maintain 100% of your points from the league. So on other words, this was a great opportunity to play some of the youngsters for the remaining 7 games. We managed to win the Relegation group despite drawing the last 3 games:

Finances are really dire, i had thought playing in League A would help but if anything its become worse, doubling our losses per month at around 100k. Somehow after much begging the Board let me start my first coaching badge, National C badge and the first off field upgrade to the junior coaching budget to Good.  We're now 1m in debt despite spending 9k less per week then our wage budget allowed. The club have now increased the budget to 52k - i can see why Greece has been in financial distress of late....

Youth Preview was a good one:

The actual intake wasnt the best. Quite contrasts to previous year with a lot of poor personalities coming through this year.  With the squad talent being quite low, was hoping for one or two straight starters with 3+ CA:

Im losing two prospects from last seasons intakes both in the AML position and one of them being my A and C prospects. Both accepting contract offers to League 2 teams which is really frustrating!  Cos there bday's were in October and they had signed professional contracts (short term) i wasnt able to offer them contracts again by Jan 1 and these Greek clubs pounced!   A mistake i wont make again as im now offering more wage for longer deals...

 

[libbyshuss]

Croatia

Premier Division

2039/40 (season 18)

Season Summary

League - Almost a disaster! we had a good start but then really struggled to put a good run together and spent the season either 2 points from a European spot or 2 points from the bottom relegation spot. It was a weird year! With 5 games to play it was looking very worrying.....

Lukcily we bucked our ideas up a bit for those final few games but it was still a little bit close for comfort

Europe - So this is partly why we struggled in the league. The European adventure really spread our squad thin and we very rarely were able to play a league game with our first choice XI anywhere near full fitness. Europa conference league was a nice money spinner if we could get to the group.....

wahey! into the group stage! our home games were played in the neighbouring city with a 20k stadium, which we sold out each game. It was fun. First game against Anderlecht we battered them with 20 shots to their 4 but they scored a 93rd minute winner. after that it was tough to turn around but we almost did it!

Domestic Cup - somehow got to the semi final despite me playing reserves all the way through

 

Players

So the main reason why we did so well in the Europa Conference and rubbish in the league was Bruno Gelo 36C. He was just amazing this season. Hit 27 goals in 21 games before christmas and then the vultures came calling. I tried to be clever and failed, Wolfsburg triggering his release fee and like that he was gone on Jan 1st. With no future sell-on either. dammit. Even worse, look at all these awards he picked up the day before he left!

 

we were always going to struggle without him

I got my first international as well! Hrvoje Jurkovic 36A! So what does he decide at the seasons end? Yeah, he wants to leave too....

So we finished with this as our best XI. It's ok, but next year might not be as strong and there's very little depth

Luka Ceko 32L won his first Bosnia cap as well which is unbelieveable given how little I rated him on his initial appearance. L!!!

And right at the end of the season Milan Ilicic 36B was made a full international as well. Yeah, he's unhappy and wants to move to a bigger club too. waaaaaaah!

Wonderkids

Surely three years in a row to make the top 50 wonderkid list is too much to ask?

not much of a surprise really, athough none of my players have yet been described as wonderkid while I still have them so technically i'm still searching for my first proper wonderkid

Youth

Another golden generation! I do like the look of that new left winger and love the fact that I'm getting Japanese players through my academy!

 

Finances and Upgrades

Relatively speaking we made a bomb from the Europa conference league adventure so the board were more than happy to give us loads of upgrades. Our wage bill is still ludicrously small at only 16k a week for the whole squad. 

 

Career

The aim has to be to get back into europe, despite a slightly weaker smell

 

 

 

Edited August 24, 2022 by libbyshuss

[JAwtunes]

Last game of the season so handed out a few debuts to our recent grads... and this happened!

[Daddy]

8 minutes ago, JAwtunes said:

Last game of the season so handed out a few debuts to our recent grads... and this happened!

That's fantastic. Can't help but laugh. he just run over the first person he saw?

[br00kster]

AEPS Aiolikos Mytilinis aka Wind

Season Three Review (2024/25)

Greek Super League 2 (North) (South)

Having spent the first season in the North Division, second season in the South Division, our third season saw us in the new merged Greek Super League 2.

Third time the charm, as they say, saw us finally crowned Champions in a two horse race with Kifisia.

My young striker, Bourous, improved on his 11 goals last season to finish 2nd top scorer in the division. A big shoutout also goes to Varvagiannis, who was expected to be a bit part player but popped up with 9 assists finishing second in the charts, as well as my young keeper, Charalabis, who came in to replace my retiring captain and finished joint top of the Clean Sheets chart and won Goalkeeper of the Year.

Sadly, we weren't able to unleash out five star youngster, Markakis, until he turned 16 and signed a professional contract on 17th December with almost half the season played.

With one year left on his deal, with the option for an additional year, we are already having issues with agents requiring a minimum fee release clause (a measly £350k, despite his value) in any new deal.

 

Greek Cup

Eliminated in the Fourth Round to higher league opposition, Lamia.

 

Youth Intake

My Head of Youth Development must be doing something right and he's earnt himself an extension on his deal with another bumper youth intake including another five star youngster (my first two ever, might have to keep this guy around!).

While many Elite Talents, I'm not sure any bar Koutrobilas will be threatening the first team too much, but what a talent we have on our hands!

Thankfully, we've managed to tie Koutrobilas down to a three year deal including an option to extend for two years without any release clause.

We finally had a youth player poached, first time in this save, although we're not too broken up about it.

 

Finances & Improvements

As before, we are bleeding money at an alarming rate, even with an injection of cash, meaning that improvements to facilities are limited. A couple of Coaching Courses for myself as well as (much insisited) improvements to Youth Recruitment were our lot.

 

UP THE WIND!

Let's hope for a successful first campaign in the Greek top flight.

Edited August 24, 2022 by br00kster

[JAwtunes]

Cardiff Corinthians - Season 3 (2024/25) Review

I was expecting a really tough season, and after 3 defeats in our first three league games I thought we were probably going to go straight back down to the second Tier.  We managed to find some form in the middle of the season and looked like we might even creep into the top six and Championship playoff group, but our form reverted back to normal and we instead finished comfortably above Llandudno and Rhyl 1879 in the league.  Thankfully there were two teams that were less competitive than us this season - I just hope the two promoted teams will be equally weak next season (Airbus and Barry Town, though I doubt it as they both have top flight pedigree).

We have no money so I have decided not to ask for any improvements in youth spend or facilities.  The board did though decide to build a new stadium, which thankfully is paid through a grant and sponsorship.  Our stadium has just 20 seats so we had to use Cardiff Met's Stadium this season, but we should be moving into our shiny new stadium next year.

Spoiler

League (Poor home form again this season)

FA Cup

League Cup

 

 

Spoiler

Players

Youth Preview

Youth Intake

 

Fans Player of the Year (and Young PotY) - Stephen McCaul from our first youth intake.  He can play in CD or CM but is normally deployed in defence.  He has great Jumping Reach for our level and is a real goal threat from corners.  Well he was during his first season... he didn't manage a single goal this season.

SUMMARY

Wales National Team

Spoiler

Records

Spoiler

Premier Division Player Records

 

[iamnobody]

54 minutes ago, JAwtunes said:

Cardiff Corinthians - Season 3 (2024/25) Review

I was expecting a really tough season, and after 3 defeats in our first three league games I thought we were probably going to go straight back down to the second Tier.  We managed to find some form in the middle of the season and looked like we might even creep into the top six and Championship playoff group, but our form reverted back to normal and we instead finished comfortably above Llandudno and Rhyl 1879 in the league.  Thankfully there were two teams that were less competitive than us this season - I just hope the two promoted teams will be equally weak next season (Airbus and Barry Town, though I doubt it as they both have top flight pedigree).

We have no money so I have decided not to ask for any improvements in youth spend or facilities.  The board did though decide to build a new stadium, which thankfully is paid through a grant and sponsorship.  Our stadium has just 20 seats so we had to use Cardiff Met's Stadium this season, but we should be moving into our shiny new stadium next year.

 

 

 

This might be an odd question, but why is the last F cut off in your team name in the standing?

[JAwtunes]

1 minute ago, iamnobody said:

 

This might be an odd question, but why is the last F cut off in your team name in the standing?

I think its just something to do with me resizing when I'm in windowed mode.  I have an ultrawide monitor and normally have it set up like this when i'm playing

Spoiler

but for some reason I feel the need to shrink everything when I take screen shots at the end of the season.

Spoiler

 

[iamnobody]

5 minutes ago, JAwtunes said:

I think its just something to do with me resizing when I'm in windowed mode.  I have an ultrawide monitor and normally have it set up like this when i'm playing

  Reveal hidden contents

but for some reason I feel the need to shrink everything when I take screen shots at the end of the season.

  Reveal hidden contents

 

Interesting.  Thanks for showing that.  I would have never guessed that especially since the other teams aren't cut off at the same place.

[PequenoGenio]

Em 23/08/2022 em 07:53, XaW disse:

Welcome! This challenge is very fun, extremely hard, but also very rewarding to play, even if you should not expect to complete it. A good country to start in is Germany, I think. 3 tiers, all professional and if you get into the 2nd tier, your finances should be good from then on. It's not easy to topple Bayern, but you should be able to compete in Europe for a while and slowly build up facilities and get in enough talented youngsters so eventually it should be possible, even if it's not easy, but no country is easy. If you want a more quick journey to trophies, a smaller country is often easier to get a domestic domination over. So Wales, Iceland, and other smaller countries with good youth players can be fun, but you will have a long hard slog to become decent in Europe. So for those types you will need to go through a lot of seasons where you lose early in Europe and then dominate everything domestically before you are able to get somewhere towards the CL group stage.

So it really depends on what you are after. The top leagues are often harder to get to Europe, but when you get there, you should be able to compete, smaller leagues are easier to dominate, but Europe is harder to make way in. The middle are, unsurprisingly, somewhere in the middle for both. I've had loads of fun in all kinds of countries. I can also add that Portugal is a nice league for this because of the high level of youths and also quite a lot of foreign youngsters that can be talented as well.

If you start this save though, normal saves tends to become quite boring after a while, so be warned, if you join you might not want to leave!  

 

Em 22/08/2022 em 20:18, WhiteCat33 disse:

Welcome! Depends where you want your challenge to be. Your home country is actually a good middle of the road nation if you're not looking for a new country to play in. You produce fantastic players, have a domestic league with decent income / attendance / Reputation, and have a reasonable path to breaking into the top group to get European matches.

Of the nation's I've played I'd recommend to avoid Belgium as a first run, finances are difficult there and can be hard to break into European positions. I'm doing Malta now, which is one where the early game is easy but its very hard to 'complete' as your nation's Youth Rating & Population are lower so make it difficult to produce the quality of players needed to topple the Goliaths of Europe.  Its about the journey though, and Malta has been an excellent one.

Thanks a lot for the replies.
I'm torn between Portugal and Holland, despite having just finished a save in Portugal with Lourosa.
Another issue: I usually create fictional characters in my games with different nationalities than mine. Is that allowed in this challenge?

[JLAB]

So I've just had an awkward situation where I held back on signing the player because my backroom staff didn't think he was good enough, before my backroom staff decided he was good enough. I offered him a contract while he was on trial at the club, but his trial ended, so he accepted the contract offer after the trial ended.

What do I do in this situation? I've never left it so late that it's caused me this kind of issue before.

Edited August 24, 2022 by JLAB

[WhiteCat33]

1 hour ago, PequenoGenio said:

 

Thanks a lot for the replies.
I'm torn between Portugal and Holland, despite having just finished a save in Portugal with Lourosa.
Another issue: I usually create fictional characters in my games with different nationalities than mine. Is that allowed in this challenge?

Your head coach can be any nationality, just no second nationality for fictional ones. Make sure he has sunday league Reputation and no coaching badges as well and you're golden.

[SkiIIs]

8 hours ago, br00kster said:

AEPS Aiolikos Mytilinis aka Wind

Season Three Review (2024/25)

Greek Super League 2 (North) (South)

Having spent the first season in the North Division, second season in the South Division, our third season saw us in the new merged Greek Super League 2.

Third time the charm, as they say, saw us finally crowned Champions in a two horse race with Kifisia.

My young striker, Bourous, improved on his 11 goals last season to finish 2nd top scorer in the division. A big shoutout also goes to Varvagiannis, who was expected to be a bit part player but popped up with 9 assists finishing second in the charts, as well as my young keeper, Charalabis, who came in to replace my retiring captain and finished joint top of the Clean Sheets chart and won Goalkeeper of the Year.

Sadly, we weren't able to unleash out five star youngster, Markakis, until he turned 16 and signed a professional contract on 17th December with almost half the season played.

With one year left on his deal, with the option for an additional year, we are already having issues with agents requiring a minimum fee release clause (a measly £350k, despite his value) in any new deal.

 

Greek Cup

Eliminated in the Fourth Round to higher league opposition, Lamia.

 

Youth Intake

My Head of Youth Development must be doing something right and he's earnt himself an extension on his deal with another bumper youth intake including another five star youngster (my first two ever, might have to keep this guy around!).

While many Elite Talents, I'm not sure any bar Koutrobilas will be threatening the first team too much, but what a talent we have on our hands!

Thankfully, we've managed to tie Koutrobilas down to a three year deal including an option to extend for two years without any release clause.

We finally had a youth player poached, first time in this save, although we're not too broken up about it.

 

Finances & Improvements

As before, we are bleeding money at an alarming rate, even with an injection of cash, meaning that improvements to facilities are limited. A couple of Coaching Courses for myself as well as (much insisited) improvements to Youth Recruitment were our lot.

 

UP THE WIND!

Let's hope for a successful first campaign in the Greek top flight.

wow what a player!!!  has he just turned 16 or is he turning 16 next season? 

btw - my players were so intrigued about the new Super League B that they just couldnt way to play in it....

[SkiIIs]

Season 2024/25 - Super League A

I've been told that if you dont have anything nice to say, then dont say anything at all.  Let's just go with that...

Have never had an invincible season in FM yet, but this is my first ever un-invincible season playing FM.  Such an achievement!

My under 19's however went and won their league, go figure!

I thought this was quite funny, they had to dig deep for a Cup match to show the biggest win, then pull out a draw for a match to remember haha

Somehow given the season we just had, im not even remotely close to being sacked with the Board approval rating never dipping below a C+

Youth Preview was a good one, but that shouldnt be a surprise by the lack of quality the squad has:

This is the only thing to hang my hat on this season, the intake was a really good one and could set us up in the long term. Some really nice personalities to go with many 5 star PA's.  Even got an instant starter in defence which is desperately needed despite the unambitious personality. 

Triantafyllidis (defined as Rose Petal) will hopefully be my rose among the thorns!

Finance are still horrendous and the Chairman stopped injection cash this season. There's no prizemoney in Super League A so didnt even get a boost at the end of any kind.  We did get a bit of a bonus from a sale of a previous sold player (way before my tenure) but that didnt really help much:

 

[br00kster]

7 hours ago, SkiIIs said:

wow what a player!!!  has he just turned 16 or is he turning 16 next season? 

btw - my players were so intrigued about the new Super League B that they just couldnt way to play in it....

He turned 16 just after the youth intake so will be raring to go straight away, a real player.

Sorry to hear about relegation, Greece is proving a lot more difficult than England.

[JAwtunes]

11 hours ago, JLAB said:

So I've just had an awkward situation where I held back on signing the player because my backroom staff didn't think he was good enough, before my backroom staff decided he was good enough. I offered him a contract while he was on trial at the club, but his trial ended, so he accepted the contract offer after the trial ended.

What do I do in this situation? I've never left it so late that it's caused me this kind of issue before.

Pretty sure I've seen this happen before and it's annoying as it shows up on your manager profile as a signing. I think you just need to save a screenshot of the transfers screen for that season to show it was just a mistake.

[JLAB]

44 minutes ago, JAwtunes said:

Pretty sure I've seen this happen before and it's annoying as it shows up on your manager profile as a signing. I think you just need to save a screenshot of the transfers screen for that season to show it was just a mistake.

I honestly decide to not deal with the hassle and not sign him in the end. Better safe than sorry honestly.

Edited August 25, 2022 by JLAB

[PequenoGenio]

12 horas atrás, WhiteCat33 disse:

Your head coach can be any nationality, just no second nationality for fictional ones. Make sure he has sunday league Reputation and no coaching badges as well and you're golden.

One more question: the @Daveincid files. It's ok to use them or not?

[libbyshuss]

14 hours ago, JLAB said:

So I've just had an awkward situation where I held back on signing the player because my backroom staff didn't think he was good enough, before my backroom staff decided he was good enough. I offered him a contract while he was on trial at the club, but his trial ended, so he accepted the contract offer after the trial ended.

What do I do in this situation? I've never left it so late that it's caused me this kind of issue before.

I've had that issue once or twice before and always just assumed that it was fine. It shows up as a signing but I always regarded that as a display issue, because they did come through your academy!

[iamnobody]

End of Season 1 - 2022 Season

Thank goodness for defense.  It kept me in a lot of games.  That being said I drew 1/2 of my games this year which means we need some help on the attacking side.  We survived though and that's all that matters.  

 

 

Squad view by appearances.  This isn't the entire squad though

 

 

We have no money.

 

 

 

I haven't seen a Youth candidate preview yet.  I hope this doesn't mean there is a problem with the database I'm using.

 

 

 

[WhiteCat33]

4 hours ago, PequenoGenio said:

One more question: the @Daveincid files. It's ok to use them or not?

Pretty sure those are fine, but I've never used them. Rule of thumb is realistic databases are allowed, fantasy one's like Zelands' American Pyramid are not. You can only choose a custom nation that has at least 2 leagues with promotion & relegation between them.

[Daddy]

15 minutes ago, WhiteCat33 said:

Pretty sure those are fine, but I've never used them. Rule of thumb is realistic databases are allowed, fantasy one's like Zelands' American Pyramid are not. You can only choose a custom nation that has at least 2 leagues with promotion & relegation between them.

I wish that Zealand one was allowed. I also wish it weren't fantasy, I mean other than the historic, defunct teams that is. 

[WhiteCat33]

Mellieha Sports Club
Season 14 2035 – 36 Malta Premier League
 

Continental Qualification

We had a fantastic qualification only allowing 3 goals in 8 matches resulting in a 7-1-0 record. Granted Dinamo was the only true challenge, but to hold them to 1-1 away was a big feat in that full stadium.

Champions League Group Stage

Our drop in performance is 100% manager error. I over-rotated the squad and got the dreaded 'playing time' messages from all of my "Important Players", which turned my defense from holding PSG to a 1-1 draw where Haaland only scored via a penalty to getting blown out 8-0 just a couple weeks later. We managed to find a draw against Celtic at the end of the campaign (when players were happy again), but we needed a win to advance to EC knockouts. 

U19 Champions Cup

I didn’t realize my team did so well and actually advanced out of our same group-stage. Shouldn’t be too surprised though as I don’t have these leagues loaded so the U19s won’t be full even for clubs like PSG & Dortmund.

And their win streak continued to make it all the way to the final!

And they did it! Beating PSG Again to bring home the trophy! I wasn’t even purposefully stacking the team, and for the final especially they lost their best players as they are in the first team playing for the U19 so off on summer break. I know its youth, but exciting to get a European Trophy in what I feel is still 'early' for us considering how small Malta is.

Youth Academy

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Youth Intake

Finally got a Fairly Professional Elite Talent, and he’s an either-footed FB which is our position with the least cover as well as our LB has starting to get inconsistent for us. While my HOYD didn't give me many talents he gave me the exact one required. Also he delivers a lot of either footed players, I'd say more often than not we get one elite talent that's either footed. 

The CB Elite talent could be decent if he develops, but I finally got my CB pairing working so I’m not in a rush

Malta

By the start of this season we had risen the European Nation Coefficient up to 29th and by the end (even with our shambles of a group stage) it rose up another position to 28th so now all 3 of the EC2 teams will enter the 2nd round. We still have to do the full qualification in the Champions League sadly. 

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Mellieha

Things are developing splendidly at the club. We just got our final Training Facility Upgrade approved, and this summer will move into our first stadium. Sadly the YF Bug has appeared for this save, but luckily the club does biennial elections, so I should get a new chairmen soon who might let us upgrade. We still are too low of reputation to get foreign affiliates, but that will come soon enough as soon as the next season began we bumped up to 2.5* Rep

[WhiteCat33]

20 minutes ago, Daddy said:

I wish that Zealand one was allowed. I also wish it weren't fantasy, I mean other than the historic, defunct teams that is. 

Ugh I know, rather than it just being spend 120M to buy a slot in the MLS see teams like Union Omaha get rewarded with promotion for embarrassing MLS sides and dominating their league.