The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge

[russ the womble]

Sacked again!

Board expectations was to finish in the top five.

Currently fifth and had won the last two after a meeting with the board

Two losses in the last nine games! Just what do they wanty from me?!

*sigh*

[hubwub]

4 minutes ago, SuperRedditch said:

@hubwubOut of interest, as the challenge goal is to win the League and Continental Cup, what's the interpretation for Mexico - with the league actually being 2 half leagues.

Win both the Apertura and Clausura?

I managed in Mexico in FM22 as part of a pentagon save, and loved it - really fun league, imo.

I actually don't know. I think it's time to ask @XaW and @darren1983.

To complete the challenge in Mexico, do we need to win both Apertura and Clausura for Liga MX and win CONCACAF Champions League? Or an alternative for a League Cup would be Leagues Cup?

[darren1983]

8 minutes ago, hubwub said:

I actually don't know. I think it's time to ask @XaW and @darren1983.

To complete the challenge in Mexico, do we need to win both Apertura and Clausura for Liga MX and win CONCACAF Champions League? Or an alternative for a League Cup would be Leagues Cup?

I think either one really along with the concaf champions league will be enough, if you want an added challenge then throw in the World Club cup  

[WhiteCat33]

6 hours ago, SuperRedditch said:

We scored 94 goals but our defence is an absolute shambles.

Sounds exactly like the season I just had and I feel you on losing players for nothing.

@BigJack if you haven't already take that payout. There are so many ways the AI can fleece you, the most egregious being player exchanges, which happened multiple times in England.

@benrollo sad to see your big man go, but that's a great fee for your league. Hope you can get an upgrade out of that. Also dude your infographic way of summary is phenomenal, really enjoy your posts!

Edited November 3, 2022 by WhiteCat33

[bjwphneb]

2024/25 Season Review

League | Graph | Fixtures 1 2 Cup | Squad

Season Overview

Well I wanted a better start to the season and the boys certainly delivered. We sat top of the table after twelve games despite the media predicting us to get battered each match. A betting man could have won some serious money backing us at the start of the season as we won 8 of our opening 12 as the underdog. This gave us a healthy cushion over the relegation places which despite being top was always the concern. The concern wasn't misplaced, in the second half of the season we secured the fourth fewest points which meant we came tumbling down as far as 15th before eventually picking ourselves back up to the top half with an 13th placed finish. Similar performance in the cups this year, managed one round better in the FA Cup but got knocked out in Q4 by Torquay United despite beating them 3-0 in the league a few weeks prior.

The old guard performed well for the most part, Joe Taylor was joint winner of the golden boot with 29 and Deon Moore followed him up with 28 goals in the league, thankfully JT didn't have a golden boot bonus in his contract. Three of last years graduates cemented themselves as first team regulars, sadly because the current options in those positions were so poor rather than the young lads being so good. Either way it was good to get them in the team and see a little bit of early development. The first of the old boys, Mitchell Nelson, is leaving at the end of the season at 34 years old and steadily declining there's no future for him at Lewes as a player. Every other player is contracted until the end of next season but I will attempt to move a few on over summer as the performance of some hasn't warranted their wages. 

Youth Intake 

Another 5 Start preview which promised some defensive cover unfortunately didn't live up to the hype, a few decent players for the future but only really one who might be able to provide cover to the first team. Much better personalities across the board but typically the 'star' graduate is unambitious. Hopefully the perfectionist of a RW can develop quickly and I can get him in the team this season or next (NB: As I've typed this I've seen he's dropped down to Realist now so perhaps not). The current CA of the first team means they only need to be a 2* to get regular first team football (our 4.5* players are only 'Decent' or 'Good' VNS standard players).

2024/25 Academy Graduates

 

Top Prospects

Simon Sargent 02a | An unambitious CB, slightly better than last years crop of CBs but with 4 determination I'm not expecting anything special from him.

Jonny Dowling 02b | A third RB in two intakes. He's only 5'7 which is a concern so he might be better suited to RM

Frank Meaney 02c  | With a name like Meaney I was expecting 20 aggression, he probably looks the best of the bunch and I'm impressed with his mental attributes but the boy runs like he's in custard.

Greg Rosser 02d     | He's only 15 but is a 5'11 CB (I don't think newgens can grow right?) He's a bit of a better runner and has excellent mental attributes so who knows maybe there's a future captain at BWM hiding away in there.

 

 

Other Updates + Next Season

Spoiler

Managed to complete the National C licence in the off season and I'm now working towards my National B. We've also finally had a request accepted so are seeing our Recruitment bumped up to a Basic level. Rob Swaine's (HOYD) contract is up this summer and I'm tempted to shop around mainly because in two seasons only one player has come in that can actually run. Saying that with an improvement to recruitment I may wait another 12 months as his attributes are better than most available. 

I think we'll probably be tipped for relegation again so could be in for tougher season than last. JT fell off massively in the back end of the season so doubt we'll see as many goals from him. The rest of the team is in that prime age range of 26-31 so they should be able to maintain their performance levels for a few more seasons. I was able to renew players on reduced terms which was a bonus but there's still a couple that it would be good to get off the wage bill soon. 

Edit: Had a few job offers from League One Crawley Town and National League Aldershot Town so maybe the board will be a bit more willing to accept my requests.

 

Spreadsheet Overload
 

Spoiler

Season Tracker

 

Club Progress

 

Records

 

Graduates in the First Team

 

Where are they from?

 

Edited November 3, 2022 by bjwphneb
Update

[russ the womble]

Sweden updates on 25th December 2022

Some decent prospects but I won't get too attached given how long I last..

Edited November 3, 2022 by russ the womble

[Daddy]

2025/26 Midseason Update:

Despite the board letting two players go for offers that were "too good" things are going well. I don't mind selling players but at least have it be for some real money. We've dropped a few attainable points but then always come back and win a few after that. The last couple seasons it would lead into a mini funk, so that's a good sign. As long as we don't get raided for transfers I think there's a real chance to get promotion. 

Intake Preview:

I know these are kind of a meme at this point, but holy hell that looks promising.

[Ice029]

Did a bit of a fast forward of season 2. 2 games before the end of the league with nothing else that can happen the table looks like this:

Spoiler

 

Transfers: still bleeding good player but the intake players are not far behind them(the perks of playing football at such a low level):

Spoiler

 

Talking about intake, this year there is no clear best player but at least there are some decent squad options, something to build on:

Spoiler

 

And the 'best' of them, as in the one that will play a lot since he's now the best right winger at this club:

Spoiler

 

 

Edited November 3, 2022 by Ice029

[BigJack]

11 minutes ago, WhiteCat33 said:

Sounds exactly like the season I just had and I feel you on losing players for nothing.

@BigJack if you haven't already take that payout. There are so many ways the AI can fleece you, the most egregious being player exchanges, which happened multiple times in England.

@benrollo sad to see your big man go, but that's a great fee for your league. Hope you can get an upgrade out of that. Also dude your infographic way of summary is phenomenal, really enjoy your posts!

I have taken the money now. Got another youth recruitment upgrade and trying for another junior coaching. Im tempted to ask for some facilities upgrades but I dont want to fall into the same trap as FM22 where we was losing £100k+ a month so may hold off on them. 

Edited November 3, 2022 by BigJack

[WhiteCat33]

9 minutes ago, BigJack said:

I have taken the money now. Got another youth recruitment upgrade and trying for another junior coaching. Im tempted to ask for some facilities upgrades but I dont want to fall into the same trap as FM22 where we was losing £100k+ a month so may hold off on them. 

Smart, nothing worse than finances falling apart and you can't fight the board as they take pittance fees for all your best players.

[benrollo]

22 minutes ago, WhiteCat33 said:

Sounds exactly like the season I just had and I feel you on losing players for nothing.

@BigJack if you haven't already take that payout. There are so many ways the AI can fleece you, the most egregious being player exchanges, which happened multiple times in England.

@benrollo sad to see your big man go, but that's a great fee for your league. Hope you can get an upgrade out of that. Also dude your infographic way of summary is phenomenal, really enjoy your posts!

Cheers!

We've got a real issue with scoring goals now but hopefully we've got enough in the bank to combine with end of season income to get that next elusive upgrade!

[Makoto Nakamura]

2035/36 Youth Preview

Another intake that's perfect. 

[OlivierL]

 

Season Preview | Competitions | Trophy Cabinet

Eerste Nationale - Fixtures 1 - 2 : We had a great season , we only lost our first two games at the end of the season. 

Croky Cup: We beat Geel and City Pirates. Zulte Waregem (first tier team) was too strong in the fifth round.

U21: They are playing in two competitions(bug). They Finished 6th in the Reserve League 1B and 5th in the first national reserve division.

U19: They won the U19 National 1 leauge.

First XI | Overall Best XI | Transfers | Youth Intake 2024

A very strong season from our two striker De Kuyffer and Beirlant scoring 27 and 23 goals. Two youngsters Sekkat 23i and Pârvulescu 23A from the intake during holiday season made their debuts at the end . I'll try to keep above squad for next season, nobody is leaving. 

De Kuyffer was our best player this season scoring a lot of goals.

Club Vision | Supporters Profile | Manager Overview

We had 2991 capacity with only 600 seats. not sure what they are going to do now. We don't have the money.

Belgium Watch

Next Season
No relegation and a takeover/money injection, that would satisfy me very much next season.

 

Edited November 4, 2022 by OlivierL

[libbyshuss]

1 hour ago, russ the womble said:

Sacked again!

Board expectations was to finish in the top five.

Currently fifth and had won the last two after a meeting with the board

oh that's way harsh!! i've just gone a run of 1 win in 16 and still have a job!

Better luck next time!

[WhiteCat33]

1 hour ago, benrollo said:

Ah that's interesting! I'm going to dig some more

For me I've been able to extend everyone's contract but for some I could only do it once they were in their final year of contract. Maybe that's the issue?

[VinnyChilds]

Season 2023/24, Part 1

or: "There ain't half been some clever ba**ards"

The Season So Far:

Spoiler

An outstanding start to the season saw us six points clear after ten games.

A run to the 4th Qualifying Round of the FA Cup saw the fixtures pile up before we eventually exited to Southend United after an ill-tempered replay, and were left counting the suspensions and nursing the fatigue. Despite our youth candidates from the previous season featuring more and more - mainly from the bench - we lasted until the 15th league game before tasting defeat, getting sucker-punched in the 91st and 94th minutes to lose 2-1. Despite that, form generally holds together into the festive period, and we reach the halfway stage nine points clear of the chasing pack.

The press are getting a bit over-familiar though...

We continue trying to blood our existing youth when we can, which is increasingly frequent as suspensions, injuries and fatigue pile up.

As the warning of expiring contracts comes up, we play safe and give everyone new three-year deals.

but then Agyemang decides that same night to retire at the end of the season.

I try to have  a word with him, watch this space...

Generally though, it's a happy camp!

Youth intake preview and club building:

Spoiler

My efforts thus far to convince the board to level up have fallen on deaf ears

I've now completed my first step on the coaching ladder, holding a National C licence

The new kids can't come quickly enough, but I take the "Golden Generation" tag with a shovel of salt given the paucity of our facilities

 

[VinnyChilds]

16 minutes ago, OlivierL said:

We don't have the money.

Ouch! That finance bug has really bit hard.

[benrollo]

16 minutes ago, WhiteCat33 said:

For me I've been able to extend everyone's contract but for some I could only do it once they were in their final year of contract. Maybe that's the issue?

Sadly it's affecting any player with a club option it seems. Not the end of the world, I'll have to work with it

[JAwtunes]

Record breakers!

What this save has taught me is that Cardiff Corinthians don't have many fans

[XaW]

For those who use .inc-files to edit names, I found a quite strange bug...

[schnauzer]

Dorchester Town FC   -   Season 3 (2024 / 2025) Review   -   Vanarama National League

 

League Performance

Ah man that was horrible, possibly the least fun season I've ever had playing this game!  

Sadly, we are relegated in last place. As predicted, getting promoted in just 2 years with a pretty poor squad made it a near impossible task to stay up. However, that we only ended up 7 points off of Scunthorpe and safety is a small sense of pride for us, and many of the teams around us - Scunthorpe, Barnet, Newport County, Oldham and Torquay - all have recently been in the Football League, so we probably shouldn't be too downhearted. We simply gave up in too many games that we held a winning position. We also took some absolute beatings towards the end of the season as morale crashed hard, hence the -42 GD! Of our 10 wins, 6 came against 3 different sides, as we did the double over Barnet, Oldham and Newport County. We actually beat Newport County 11-1 on aggregate - a shame that we couldn't play them every week!

Fortunately, the board have renewed my contract and I have another 2 years to stabilise and rebuild. We got upgrades to youth recruitment, junior coaching and our youth facilities, so hopefully it should be a case of 1 step back and 2 forwards in time. The biggest difficulty I now face is 4 of my most important players - Alfie Stanley, Harvey Bertrand, MJ Kedman and Tom Purrington - have all said that they want to leave after the relegation. All but Kedman (1 year left) have at least 2 years on their contracts, so given that I haven't made any promises I think that I should be able to ride it out and hope that they drop it!

The goal next year will be to sort the team morale out, progress our youngsters further and hopefully push for the playoffs.

 

FA Cup - Very poor as we lost over 2 legs to Maidenhead (in the VNS, the league below) in the 4th qual. round where we entered the competition.

FA Trophy - Again, losing in the round we entered the competition (3rd round) as Billericay beat us 2-1 at home.

 

Squad - Pretty poor all round. I used to be able to rely on Purrington but he was not good at all this year despite the reasonable average rating. Kedman was awful and if I had some actual competition for him I'd be tempted to sell him. Shayne Haines (Y0) also needs a mention for getting 17 yellows and 2 red cards in just 32 league games!

On the other hand, there were some young players that established themselves in the first team as Roy Welsh (Y1), Faton Hysa (Y1), Wes Wright (Y1), Scott Ford (Y2), Jesmond Micallef (Y2), Qudus Gilmore (Y2) and Xavier Angell (Y2) all played lots of minutes.

 

Players of the Season

1. Alfie Stanley - Even though he had a huge dry spell in front of goal and now wants to leave, it's hard to look past him being our best player this year with 21 goal contributions (15G, 6A).

2. Scott Ford - A breakout season in his first full season! Solid at centre back and scored 3, assisted 5 given he has a great free-kick on him.

3. Harley Wilkinson - Despite rotating initially with young Wes Wright, Wilkinson was brilliant at the end of the season and was picking up consistently over 7.00 match ratings which is no mean feat for a goalkeeper in FM.

    

    

Rookie of the Season (1st full season)

Jesmond Micallef - This would have been Scott Ford but he ended up in the top 3. Micallef performed reasonably well and progressed his attributes quite nicely and got capped 4 times for Malta under 21s.

 

Youth Intake - Pretty good overall (all over 4 & 1/2 star potential), but as you can see we finally have a potential star player developed through the academy! Miquel Hunte is just what we needed and should do very well next year in the level below. Also attached Owen Dryden and Aaron Western who look like they could be okay.

  

 

Transfers - Thiago Cazé sadly finally departs us to return to his native Brazil as he had become a bit past it at 35. He played 149 times for us in the league in total!

 

Finances - We finally had enough in the bank to upgrade the youth facilities! Almost £350,000 in total, meaning our financial safety blanket is gone. However, wages are still very low and attendances grew last year so we should be okay, even if our youth set up is costing quite a lot now. We might need a decent player sale in the next few years though.

 

Other Updates - I got my National A coaching license but the board refuse to allow me to do the next "in case a bigger club comes in". Still yet to see what the youth facilities level will be after the upgrade but I'm hoping it at least goes from 'basic' to 'below average'. We also have the scary uncertainty of the chairman looking to sell the club...

 

League Finish History

Y22/23 - VNS - 7th - 75pts,   Y23/24 - VNS - 1st - 92pts,   Y24/25 - VNL - 24th - 38pts

Facilities

Training Facilities - Average,     Youth Facilities - TBC,     Junior Coaching - Good,     Youth Recruitment - Good.

Average league home attendance & Number of Season Ticket Holders

Y22/23 - 468 (104),   Y23/24 - 507 (113),   Y24/25 - 666 (169)

Edited November 3, 2022 by schnauzer

[Reiver]

FC Barreirense

Once more, just like before?

 

Goalkeepers are no in the picture, but also an A. I'm very into this right and will probably play the whole season and write a bigger report, but it seems like the next intake will be just like the previous one.

[JAwtunes]

35 minutes ago, XaW said:

For those who use .inc-files to edit names, I found a quite strange bug...

I've noticed that on FM22 doing exactly the same as you.  I export the player data to create the names for the .inc and notice that the DOB in game is now different to that shown in the export.  The visible attributes, personality, position etc. all matched.

[libbyshuss]

Well....... this was a bit of a disaster. Fourth season in and this happens

 

We just couldn't get going at all and all my micro-managing of morale made no difference at all. It was just depressingly awful from start to finish.

Frustrating thing is we started to make a bit of decent money AND we had the best youth intake by far as well. And I'll never see the fruits of it! Look at this lad! gah!

ah well, 3 saves 3 sackings so far! 

we go again!

 

 

[JAwtunes]

Just now, libbyshuss said:

Well....... this was a bit of a disaster. Fourth season in and this happens

 

We just couldn't get going at all and all my micro-managing of morale made no difference at all. It was just depressingly awful from start to finish.

Frustrating thing is we started to make a bit of decent money AND we had the best youth intake by far as well. And I'll never see the fruits of it! Look at this lad! gah!

ah well, 3 saves 3 sackings so far! 

we go again!

 

 

Ouch.  If it's any consolation, he would have probably been a Resolute personality after 12 months

[russ the womble]

13 minutes ago, libbyshuss said:

Well....... this was a bit of a disaster. Fourth season in and this happens

 

We just couldn't get going at all and all my micro-managing of morale made no difference at all. It was just depressingly awful from start to finish.

Frustrating thing is we started to make a bit of decent money AND we had the best youth intake by far as well. And I'll never see the fruits of it! Look at this lad! gah!

ah well, 3 saves 3 sackings so far! 

we go again!

 

 

Yeah I got sacked after 3 seasons and just had a great set of youths coming through. Very frustrating, but part of the challenge. 

[russ the womble]

Surprised it worked, but what a result

[Reiver]

A new striker is born? Nah, that's my central defender scoring from a corner.

[libbyshuss]

5 minutes ago, russ the womble said:

Yeah I got sacked after 3 seasons and just had a great set of youths coming through. Very frustrating, but part of the challenge. 

i think its between the two of us who's been sacked the most already this year!

[schnauzer]

> Gets relegated

> Still predicted to finish bottom of the league just been relegated into 

[russ the womble]

Pleasing 

[Barnsley]

4 hours ago, libbyshuss said:

oh that's way harsh!! i've just gone a run of 1 win in 16 and still have a job!

Better luck next time!

1 win in 14, just about to lose mine! it is damn hard =[

[The7Striker]

2 minutos atrás, russ the womble disse:

Pleasing 

[Braumiller]

1 hour ago, XaW said:

For those who use .inc-files to edit names, I found a quite strange bug...

Does this file mean that in game the name "Surname 26A" shows up instead of the full nickname if just using the nickname ingame???

If so, (bug aside) is there a link you could provide to show how to accomplish this?  Never knew you could do this! (if you can)

[russ the womble]

1 minute ago, The7Striker said:

One I'm happy to take a chance on  

[The7Striker]

Agora, russ the womble disse:

One I'm happy to take a chance on  

I know 

Previews are broken, hope they can fix it.

[craigcwwe]

23 hours ago, OlivierL said:

Progress Mohamed Sekkat 23i

This one is really developing very well ! And that with a fickle personality - Determination 11 and not playing any senior games .He already gained 7% overall attributes.

 

  Reveal hidden contents

First International Call-up

 

Don't recall ever seeing so many upwards green arrows on a player before as that!

[russ the womble]

Mid-point in my first season in Sweden.

Board want me to try and avoid relegation. Going better than expected:

Tight table though so I expect this will be as good as it will get for this year.

[darren1983]

Weird issue in my game. My manager picture no longer shows up 

In other save files my picture still shows up but not in this one. No idea what's caused it as have changed nothing today

[hubwub]

2 minutes ago, darren1983 said:

Weird issue in my game. My manager picture no longer shows up 

In other save files my picture still shows up but not in this one. No idea what's caused it as have changed nothing today

You are now a ghost. I see your shadow in that step and repeat.

[OlivierL]

2 minutes ago, darren1983 said:

Weird issue in my game. My manager picture no longer shows up 

In other save files my picture still shows up but not in this one. No idea what's caused it as have changed nothing today

Maybe a good sign , an invincible season incoming !

[WhiteCat33]

300 Games makes me the invisible man

[darren1983]

Least it's not just my save then  

[russ the womble]

Another youth upgrade, benefits to being popular  

[benrollo]

Another evening with the Mrs away means more quality FM23 time!

Might as well lead with the biggest story of the season - Kenan Bozic 24-1 is no longer a Zemun player. The board accepted a £1.3m offer from Partizan for him, and after turning down multiple contract offers from abroad last season, he decided to move just down the road to Belgrade. I drive out to his house some nights just to catch a glimpse of my beautiful boy. In other ex-Zemun player news, Nikola Cakic 26-1 was on the move again, this time joining Leipzig from Bayern for £19.5m! We got another £500k from the transfer, so cheers for that lads.

Secondary to that news was the fact that we once again secured a top half finish. It was tougher going than last season - we only scored 23 goals in 30 league games, third lowest tally in the league. Safe to say we need to find someone new to score goals for us. Thankfully we were strong at the back, conceding the third lowest number of goals.

Looking at our best performers, it's probably no surprise that our defenders came out on top. Ivan Pavlovic 27-11 (7.14 average rating) and Ranko Vojvodic 24-5 (7.00 average rating) were the backbone of our back line. Srdan Mihajlovic 27-6 (6.96 average rating) was third in terms of our regular starters. Honourable mention too to super sub Matija Tripkovic 27-4 (6.96 average rating) who actually scored some important goals for us, mostly off the bench.

Stop me if you've heard this one before, but once again we were promised a golden generation in our youth candidates preview. And look at that - a 3.5* CA striker in the class! Could we have ourselves a Bozic replacement in the pipeline?

Đorđe Petrović 31-1

Yes, we could! Đorđe showed us what he could do right from the off, tearing our under 19s apart in the youth candidates game. Some promising technicals for a 15 year old, but he does need some development. I play with a pressing forward so there are some attributes I'd like to see higher, but hopefully Đorđe can get there.

Ivan Mitrović 31-2

Another attacking midfielder who needs a bit of work to slot into the starting lineup. A long way to go, but my assistant seems impressed.

Milko Brkic 31-3

Needs training to play in a deeper role, but a really good starting point in some key attributes.

We had 9 elite talents in all, although outside of Petrović they all need a lot of work. You can't get immediate starters every year though, so let's hope Dejan Kukolj 31-4, Radovan Đorđević 31-5, Aleksandar Andrejević 31-6, Loïc Capron 31-7, Saša Vujko 31-8 and Dušan Matič 31-9 can develop over the next few years.

Off the pitch, we managed to make some progress. Our youth facilities were upgraded, and I have just managed to once again convince the board to spend all our money on another youth facilities upgrade which should get us up to Good. I have now completed my Continental Pro license, so I've basically completed the game. Here's how my career currently looks.

I feel like we're relatively established as a mid table side now, so I would love to start seeing some progress towards that top 5. We did manage to beat Čukarički for the first time in my career last season, so that's at least one step in the right direction. ONWARDS!

[15charactersmax]

Hanvikens SK 

Season 4 (2026)

Well it wasn't pretty but we survived. We flirted with the relegation places a bit too much for my liking. We'd go on runs of two or three good results, put some distance between us and the strugglers and then go on a run of 4 defeats and get dragged right back in. Thankfully we found some form and started to beat the teams we should have been beating after doing a few tactical adjustments, namely dropping our line a bit deeper as we'd developed that habit of letting teams carve through the middle of us. The league is certainly a big step up in standard for our young squad and we did ourselves proud in the end. A lot of development as a result of some good minutes for young players and we should be in better shape next season.

Certainly not the 36 goals from last season this time for Alkatah who occasionally concerned me with prolonged dry spells in front of goal. He struggled with the physicality of defenders in this league and didn't get the same amount of good quality chances instead relying on strikes from distance. Nevertheless he topscored and didn't give me any reason to replace him. Amar Lindberg is developing nicely and can be considered one of our best players. I'd like to see a few more goals from him as his strength increases and he can become a greater aerial threat from set pieces. I was suprised that Johan Ogren was our highest rated player this season, he seemed to make the step up better than anyone else. He has some competition coming through in his position though.

  

Another intake with good talent but littered with unambitious personalities. I think a change of HoYD might be in order. He has a professional personality but he's not really producing many players with the same or similar traits. Maybe I'm expecting too much and the options aren't exactly many. I'll have a look in the off season.

 

Already rated 3 and 2 and a half star players Kabeya and Lundquist will go straight into the first team. Lundquist in particular is just what the doctor ordered and will hopefully form a good partnership with Lindberg. With those two in the team we will have a keeper and defence that are entirely regens which is a nice milestone.

 

Next Season

I Just want to stay up again. Obviously a nice midtable finish would be ideal but it's important to give game time to my youngsters with facilities being so poor. There's every chance however that we could get sucked into a relegation battle so I'll keep the old heads around to dig us out of trouble should we need them.

[WhiteCat33]

16 minutes ago, 15charactersmax said:

Another intake with good talent but littered with unambitious personalities. I think a change of HoYD might be in order. He has a professional personality but he's not really producing many players with the same or similar traits. Maybe I'm expecting too much and the options aren't exactly many. I'll have a look in the off season.

In my experience it's not uncommon to get down years from 4-6 as these are the first actual players your HOYD finds. Youth players are at the club for ~3 years, so it can take a few years for him to actually solidify his network. I know in my current save years 5 & 6 have been pretty underwhelming (especially from a personality perspective). I'll be giving my guy till year 8 till I start critically looking at what he's been producing. 

[SuperRedditch]

1 hour ago, Braumiller said:

Does this file mean that in game the name "Surname 26A" shows up instead of the full nickname if just using the nickname ingame???

If so, (bug aside) is there a link you could provide to show how to accomplish this?  Never knew you could do this! (if you can)

 

You create a new notepad document in the following directory;

 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Football Manager 2023\data\database\db\2300\lnc\all

 

You can call it whatever you want, mine is redditch name change.lnc, but you have to give it the .lnc extension at the end. (That's LNC).

 

Then;
 

#Names:

"CHANGE_PLAYER_NAME"    2002173749        "Lindsay" "" "Cassidy 24d"

 

Copy this string, the number is the unique player ID that can found by adding a column to your squad screen. Insert column > General > Unique ID.

The first set of "" had the player's first-name in, the middle set are for a nickname (that's why it's empty), the last set is for surname.

 

This is what mine looks like:

 

[russ the womble]

(lovely badge)

Eskilstuna City - Season 1

Finally things went right for once and I was able to actually get through a season without getting sacked

Our board expected us to try and stay in the division, so it was quite a surprising and pleasing season when we spent most of it at the top end of the table. 

The title actually went down to the last game of the season, as E City (as the game uses as a short name) were ahead of Gute on goal difference going into the final game.

Unfortunately we had two defenders suspended and the rest of the team did not turn up, resulting in a 4-0 defeat. Even so, a play off place for promotion was beyond expectations.

The play off game was an absolute disaster as I went 3-0 down in the first half - their goalie decided to have a worldie and saved everything and they scored two from outside the box.

Second half was one apiece and a red card for my star midfielder. Overall the stats suggest a harsh defeat. 

It would have probably been too early to go up anyway, but never a nice way of bowing out conceding 8 goals in the two deciders!We had a couple of good performers this year in Mans Saebbo up top:

Spoiler

 

 

And 5 star young player Muhammed Monieer Jarab was first name on the team sheet:

 

Spoiler

Team overall did not set the world alight in player ratings, so maybe a bit more development and they can grow into a title winning team over the next few years:

Spoiler

Youth signings look like a good bunch of lads. 

Filip Edvardsson could be a great player and can fit straight into midfield

Spoiler

Oscar Widen may take the Anchor slot

Spoiler

The other area of note is that after one season, finances have remained healthy and will hopefully be a net positive once pre-season income comes in. And no need for any stadium expansion costs as the new ground has had an average of 3% capacity.

Next season expectations - avoid relegation. Should hopefully be doable!

 

Edited November 4, 2022 by russ the womble

[Daddy]

The board approved all of these. If we wind up not getting promoted or more of the same I may bail on this one. Easily could have gotten better from them. I can't get mad for an overpay but these were not