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RAAL La Louviere - Pro League B 2025/26 (Season 4)

 

Season Performance

Continuing from the midseason update we did okay but sadly not good enough to clinch a playoff birth. In what was emblematic of the entire season we could have moved into playoffs with a win in the final match of the season. Instead we lost 0-1 with an xG of 1.87 vs .82 with almost the entirety of their value coming from giving up a gimme chance due to defensive errors in the second half after fully dominating the first half.   While the teams around us are getting on average better defensively we just haven't gotten the offensive intakes necessary to keep up. And when they do they get taken away. So now this is twice we've finished 3rd in the league and one second place. Tantalizingly close, but just not quite there.

 

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Looking at the Data Hub you can see just how badly we underscored and how many points that dropped us, but also how bad our defensive graph is. Just an all in all bad season even if we were close to the top at the end of it.

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Youth Intake

We got a decent crop of players overall though it is less elite players (4) than previous years (7/8) so I take it that is the effect of the poaching. While a few are decent the one to talk about is J. Kiala 26B who is a towering 6'5" CB that is already better than my legacy CB! This is a coup for the team. He will be going directly into the starting 11, which will be an all youth defense. Hopefully he can have some decent consistency being only 15, but paired with the best player in the league in the center this should significantly improve my defense, which was really leaky this year. Sadly all the strikers aren't good enough to challenge into the first team so I'm stuck with rotating AMs through. Also the CMs they said would be the top prospects really aren't good and most have bad personalities so I'm not hopeful there. 

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Star Youth Players

Christ Makengo 24e (my CB) won the acolytes this year. He is not only the team player of the year but the Pro B Player of the Year as well. He set the Pro B record for POM awards at 8, got 6 goals and 4 assists with a 7.45 rating. Naturally he is in the Pro B season best 11 as well with a performance like that. While his stats have developed well truly his biggest gain is in height as he was 5'10" at intake, but now at 6' he's not a liability from a height perspective. 

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Isaac Kromah 23a (my BBM) had a good season but not good enough to get picked for any league awards. Here it has been a big increase in stats as well as a personality bump from fairly professional to Resolute. This season he was my Vice captian and his leadership has continued to increase from it. 

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Because I wasn't able to advance to Pro A both of these star youth players are pissed and are throwing tantrums to leave. I have them signed for 2 more seasons so next year is the last year I have before I have to sell them off to clubs if the board doesn't beat me to it first. Their value ranges go up to 1.3 M so I pray that will at least make it be a reasonable offer when they get poached. Both have developed extremely well and are hands down the best players on the pitch now. This brings me to the first big transfer decision of the save. Do I try and hold on to them risking the board behaving badly or do I sell them now and lock in 50% profit clauses on the sales. Assuming I should be able to sell at the top of the range that is 3 M today with high potential for some down the line. That would fix the finances and hopefully let me convince the board to upgrade my youth recruitment (adequate) and junior coaching (good). While neither have min fee release clauses they both have 3.5 M relegation fee release clauses, so if we go up and come back down that's about where they would get picked off most likely as their contracts will get extended 3 years with promotion. By selling them of course I then flip from a promotion challenge to fighting to not get relegated. The only reason I'm tempted to cash in is because my offensive development is stagnant, keeping them I'm betting on defensive improvement and a return to offensive consistency and of course overcoming board idiocy. 

Manager Thoughts

At this point in the save I'm starting to realize the end of my old top players. Even though M Sourme got the most goals this season it was a measly 7 and he will not be starting come Fall. I'll probably transfer him and get some money out of the deal and bring in a 16 year old who looks promising. Then it will be decision time if I go for it or shore up the club financially which is currently at -$700k cash balance. With my transfers last season I was able to keep the bleeding to only a -$50k loss for the season. The Summer transfer window will be telling if I'll even get a decision in the matter at all.

 

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16 minutes ago, uroszila said:

I see you started in FM20, correct? I also have some unfinished business in FM20 so I might try this as well..

@darren1983 is it ok for you if we post the updates here also from older versions of the game?

Yes, FM20. I still enjoy this version so unsure if I'm going for 22.

I think I read that it's ok to use an older version as long as we tag our posts so it's clear we're on an older version. @darren1983 please correct me if not :)

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53 minutes ago, uroszila said:

I see you started in FM20, correct? I also have some unfinished business in FM20 so I might try this as well..

@darren1983 is it ok for you if we post the updates here also from older versions of the game?

Yeah this basically:

3 minutes ago, BustaRaymes said:

Yes, FM20. I still enjoy this version so unsure if I'm going for 22.

I think I read that it's ok to use an older version as long as we tag our posts so it's clear we're on an older version. @darren1983 please correct me if not :)

People can post in here even if not on latest game, there will be little to no discussion in the old threads, but if you complete it just let me know it's on a older version so I can tag it properly in the hall of fame stuff 

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18 minutes ago, iacovone said:

Guess we're all waiting on @XaW and their intake right? Amazing! 

Working my way slowly towards March, but not sure I'll get there tonight or not yet... Lots of matches in the VNN!

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SC Beira-Mar 25/26 season review - again the season tailed off from the end of February and we're left with a mid-table finish again. The expectation has been to fight against relegation though so we are still overachieving!! Once safety was assured I started playing the next generation of youngsters with a view to using them more regularly next season and we finally saw a fairly good looking CB in Paulo Quintino come through the ranks in our youth intake:

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The biggest problem we face now is that Cortez has outgrown the club and only has a year left on his contract, and doesn't want to sign a new deal. Do I cash in this summer or let him leave on a free after getting another season from him?

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In a follow-up from the previous posters post I am going to set the record/s straight! :cool:

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Four of the intake are already in the first xi! It does also mean that we're finishing the season with just three of the eighteen players I'm using are above the age of 18! One 19, one 20, and one 21 year old!

 

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FC United Season 2 Review

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A good improvement from last season with us getting a comfortable mid table position and for a fair bit of the season I was as high as 6th in the league but faltered near the end. 

Overall Best 11

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Keaton Mulvey was the main man this season with 18 goals. Honourable mentions to Regan Linney and Curtis Main who also got over 10 goals each for the season.

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The finances are not looking the best with us being £123k in the red.

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Transfers

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Il y a 8 heures, jstu9 a dit :

Good Luck in South Africa! I just finished season 3 there. But, out of curiosity, did you use a mod or something to get the League name to be GladAfrica Championship? That sounds alot more interesting than what it says in my save (South African National First Division).

Thanks you too ! Yes, you have plenty of tools to make the game more immersive with real names, faces, logos, etc. Here it is for the names : link

How are you dealing with finances ? From what i saw, it seems heavy loss every season are the norm. 

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21 hours ago, Daddy said:

First post here so let me know if there's stuff missing as I go. After a few start up attempts to get the hang, here's my first real attempt. I tried using a picture for the face scan, looks nothing like me, but it's hilarious. 

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Team loaded with the only goalie on an expiring contract and he wouldn't resign, so I went with the strategy of hoping I can outscore everyone to survive and hope I get a goalie in Youth Intake.

 

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Edit: Season preview:

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The gray keeper challenge didn't go my way

 

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I feel you man, took me a minute to figure it out myself

Go to the England Nation Page -> Overview -> Season Summary ; then scroll down to the English Regional Premier Divisions it will have the list of promoted teams.

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1 hour ago, FlairRA said:

How do you guys go about finding the promoted teams for each division?

Trying to start a season in the Vanarama North/South and would like a better way than having to click through every club.

Another way is to go to league table, season preview and the promoted clubs have a “P” next to their name.

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FM 21 Kingstonian FC

Season#4 2024-2025

21th place - Vanama National League South - Relegated and Sacked

This season was a struggle, we were above the relegation line with 10 games to go, but unfortunately our form collapsed in the end and got relegated with 1 game to go.

Really enjoying this challenge and will try again, for the moment will stick to FM 21 until the final release of FM22

 

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Season 2

 

2 players from the first squad left after refusing to negotiate. A third one will leave at the end of the season, and it hurts a bit as it is my GK. "exploring options" 

Season was quiet. I noticed improvement with only 1 youth from the first YI.

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YI shows a lot of stars again, but most of them won't improve. Our hot prospect looks really good for this level, I doubt I will be able to keep him more than 3 seasons.

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Starting Profile

Chilean Primera Division B 2022 - Season 1 - 5th Place

Table (lost playoff) | Schedule (1/2) | Copa Chile | Squad | Starting 11 | Transfers | Finances | Facilities (Start/End )

A very good first season battling in the playoffs for a promotion berth, and also going all the way to the Quarter Finals of the Chilean cup.  If some results went our way especially in the beginning of the season, we could have made it to the Primera Division.

Youths

Preview

 

Intake

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Juan Pablo is a midfielder with an unambitious personality.  He has good work rate and leadership and also some good physical stats.  He will be retrained as a Volante but will also serve as Mezzala when needed.

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Duad is a professional central defender who unfortunately is only 179cm tall, although his Jumping Reach is already quite good for his level.  He is a very fit player and I have high hopes I can convert him into a good Ball playing defender

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Mario is quite an enigma.  He has very low determination and natural fitness, however has brilliant mentals for his age.  His ideal role is a good destructor of the play however I do not use any player like that in my tactics.  I will try to convert him either in a Half Back or a Deep Lying Playmaker on defend duties

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A promising goalkeeper however unfortunately I already have a lot of first class keepers who are still very young, so I doubt he will ever make it to the first team.

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Angelo is a balanced right winger, who does not excel in anything yet. Ideally will try to convert into an Inside Forward on the left, however his 3 finishing and 5 balance is worrying. Not a lot of high hopes for this player.

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Ayax is a low determined left full back, who has very good natural fitness and very good decisions already.  He is still way off the first team, however with the right training I think he can make a good Primera B full back

 

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OFK Beograd - Year 3

Table | Squad | Good News 1 | Good News 2

Well, where do we begin? We did it guys, we are up to the top flight! :D 

We started off wonderfully and developed some great chemistry with the youngbloods coming through. Very proud of the defence this season, we only conceded 1 goal for the first 8 games. The Goalkeepers despite their age, all rotated well phenomenally. Our main man Pjevic (22C) dipped in and out due to international duties and the backups did awesome. Shout-out to Filip BozicFilip Maksic & Dragomir Tripic who I have been pestered non-stop to sway away from the club It set the standard for the rest of the season even when we had our dips in the mid-season. The winter break was a blessing and helped us remain in play-off contention until the very end. We left it until the final minutes of extra time to understand our fate but honestly it was so worth it. This is what it is all about. I started off with an amazing squad and have slowly been losing key figures here and there but I feel like this is where the real hard work begins... 

Transfers |Finances

Oh my goodness I HATE VOZDOVAC. LEAVE ME ALONE YOU !@@#$)@(#)@)#@. I swear they are giving my president more than a price-tag under the table because I get no frickin' say. It's always an offer he can't refuse.

Preview | Intake

I got a few boys worth talking about in the top half - Ned Baljak (25A) & Alen Opacic (25C) coming through. Got a North Macedonian in the guts with Mitko Stojanov (25B). To wrap it up at the back, I got a GK that won't make me feel bad if Pjevic leaves me next window with the wonderfully named Zoran Apostolovic (25E)

Healthy Crops:

Class of '23

Zoran Belic (23C) - The definition of right place, right time. Honestly wouldn't go for him if I wasn't damn short of depth but he does okay!

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Class of '24

Milisav Gospavic (24E) - All my wonderful prospects of '24 got poached by either Vozdovac (again) or Crvena Zvezda so this guy is my little slither of hope for this year group.

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NEW SEGMENT TIME!

QUIT LIST.
Basically all my little cowards who quit on the club. They will NEVER return. Can I add my President to this please???

Class of '22

Dragomir Minic (22B)| Ned Maksimovic (22D)

Class of '23

Dejan Gajic (23B) | Mladen Dunjic (23D) | Edin Juric (23F)

Class of '24

Stefan Nedic (24B) | Boban Janicevic (24F) | Marko Peric (24G)

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**FM21**

Hey guys, I think I have an issue with my youth challenge. I'm in Spain and my team formed a B side in my second season. Now, it seems like I don't have any control over this B side except that I can sign staff for it. The problem is that this B side can do transfers and they can be brought into my team without it being an actual transfer (which I am not doing by the way). Another thing is that my youth players from U19 sometimes get picked for that team and when you look in their history, any B team games count towards their stats as Main team. I can't cancel the link through the affiliates page. How can I get rid of this B team, I hate it!!!

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13 hours ago, SpS_Zen said:

Thanks you too ! Yes, you have plenty of tools to make the game more immersive with real names, faces, logos, etc. Here it is for the names : link

How are you dealing with finances ? From what i saw, it seems heavy loss every season are the norm. 

I'm losing alot of money every year. My board just force sold my top player. My payroll was just cut.

However, I was fortunate though that I had a team that had good facilities so I have a good starting point. I'm just hoping that we can create enough good players to get to the Premier Division where hopefully some money will start coming in. But I feel like I'm in the zone where I have these kids for about 3 years before any of the good ones either get poached or won't sign with me anymore (I can't sign anyone beyond the end of the season until late in the year).

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