The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge

[ludak]

 

Boys, I can't explain how much I like to see this.

[hubwub]

2 minutes ago, ludak said:

 

Boys, I can't explain how much I like to see this.

It's a palindromic number.

[russ the womble]

 

Season 1 (2023/34)

Decent enough first season, mid-table after having only one win in the first eight

This player had a good season and has been improving a lot this season. I've tried to tie him down to a contract but he won't sign a new one as he wants to play at a higher level, so may have to see what I can get for him.

Intake - needed sopme defenders so pretty happy with that.

[LeLaga]

 Just wanted to ask one question. I think I know the answer, but wanted to make sure.

Obviously when You arrive at a club You chosed to manage, You'll be welcomed by given squad, with certain number of players under contract. Can You keep those players - and keep extanding their contracts? Are only transfers of new players forbidden?

 Thank You very much, this is really fun and I love reading stories from those long-term saves.

[WhiteCat33]

11 minutes ago, LeLaga said:

 Just wanted to ask one question. I think I know the answer, but wanted to make sure.

Obviously when You arrive at a club You chosed to manage, You'll be welcomed by given squad, with certain number of players under contract. Can You keep those players - and keep extanding their contracts? Are only transfers of new players forbidden?

 Thank You very much, this is really fun and I love reading stories from those long-term saves.

Yes you can keep all the players at the club when you start. Only exception is loan players, you can't extend their loan / bring them to the club as a transfer at the end of the loan (even if the clause exists in the contract). All incoming transfers are forbidden, you just are able to sign players that come through the yearly intake of your club's academy.

Welcome to the club!

Edited December 13, 2022 by WhiteCat33

[Flashman\'s School Days]

Jomo Cosmos - Season Review 2024/25

Manager Characteristics - Manager Attributes - Transfers - Fixtures 1, 2

DStv Premiership - 8th

A successful first season in the top flight, overachieving from a predicted 16th place to squeaking into the top 8.  The season started pretty brightly with a win in a close game then a close lose before we smashed Royal AM 7-1, from there we were always up and down until the end of the season.  We never really were able to beat the better teams in the division which contributed to our patchy form except getting revenge on Orlando Pirates for them thrashing us and beating them away 3-1 on the day they lifted the title.  Finishing as the top scorers in the division is a positive but I worry for our defence going into next season because our keeper is thinking of leaving and the one time I had to play another keeper we conceded 5.

Nedbank Cup - Quarter Final

We managed to get through a couple of rounds to a non league side and a top flight side before crashing out against Sundowns who went on to be losing finalists.

Telkom Knockout - First Round

First time in this cup and bowed out in the first game where we weren't very good.

Squad

Luckily we only had one departure after being promoted although that was our play of the season and starting centre back, we also lost last season's top scorer for a free near to the end of the season but he had been injured for the majority of the season. 

The best defenders were Ntuthuko Mlostshwa and Khaya Mashiane (who was called up to the South African U20 and U23 this season)

Our best midfielders were Matsi Sono, who we almost lost between seasons but thankfully signed a new contract, Bonginkosi Sibanyoni isn't the greatest player but his development has been fantastic and Luke Mthimkulu 24a who was under bids at the start of the season when still 15 from Sundowns and SuperSport.

Gontse Molefe had a storming season in front of goal for us and developed loads. Ayanda Kubheka did really well as the back up striker this season and resulted in him being voted 42nd on the NxtGen.

The player of the season playing off the right wing though was Thokozani Shabalala.

Youth Intake

A five star intake but with not as many players able to jump straight into helping the first team although the personalities are much better than my normal intakes.  After this intake I've had three news items that we've poached players off other teams for the academy.

The stand out players are Victor Shongwe 25b, Gerald Mwafulirwa 25c, Sibusiso Modise 25l and the best of the bunch is an AMC for the second season running Tshepo Williams 25a.

Finances

A really good season for our finances mainly due to actually selling season tickets this season, a bit of extra sponsorship and £1m spread over the season for the TV deal.  With this extra money we managed to get two upgrades each on Junior Coaching and Youth Recruitment as well as another coaching badge.

The board have also decided to build a new stadium which is 2 hours west of Johannesburg where we currently play to Potchefstroom where Jomo Cosmos play regularly in real life.

[hubwub]

Club Comunicaciones - Liga Profesional de Fútbol - 2026

CLUB: PROFILE | FACILITIES | HONOURS | BOARD VISION | SUPPORTERS | FINANCES

MANAGER: PROFILE

Technically, it's a quadruple!

Copa de la Liga Profesional

Undefeated in the group stage. The playoffs was a test in penalties. In the quarter finals, the final penalty score was 3-4. In the semi finals, the penalty score was 3-5. The final went normal, I guess. This was the first trophy of the season.

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Supercopa Argentina

Another round against Club Atlético River Plate in which we come out victorious. Trophy number two in the bag.

Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores

It hurts that we were so close to the final. We managed to defeat Club Atlético River Plate on the way as well. We did lose to the eventual champions, Clube de Regatas do Flamengo.

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Copa Argentina AXION Energy

The journey is always when will we meet  Club Atlético River Plate again. The final was exactly that. We had the lead before the half till they tied and it went down to penalties. We came out victorious with our third trophy of the season.

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Liga Profesional de Fútbol

Undefeated in the season. If I had not drawn the game against Velez in December, I think I could've outright won it.

Instead, I had to wait for result of Club Atlético Lanús vs. Club Atlético River Plate. I was in the stands for that game willing Lanus to win which they did.

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Squad

Julián Kadijevic

Lucas Barreto - Mauro Miraglia - Jerónimo Ávalos - Tobías Bovone

Hernán Domínguez 23C - Daniel Cavallini 22I

Emiliano Ojeda 22H - Juan Manuel Navarrete 23G - Diego Casoppero

Ariel García 23I

We are still rocking the 4-2-3-1 DM AM Wide.

Youth Intake Update

Miscellaneous

FINALLY! Training Facilities are getting upgraded!

We are getting a stadium expansion. We are roughly going to be 5,000 capacity now. Still not big enough. We shall take some joy in ground sharing with Club Atlético Boca Juniors at Alberto J. Armando, 'La Bombonera'.

If we are at Alberto J. Armando, 'La Bombonera' next season and with the amount of people on the season ticket waiting list as well as our existing season ticket holders, we could be making a profit.

If we at least get close to 49,000 season ticket holders at our average season ticket price of €97, we could come out with almost €4,800,000 in income that doesn't come from participating in competitions.

Salaries are still in a weird flux. However, I got my best players locked in at the max I can offer.

 

[Fudal]

This is my first time trying this challenge on FM23, no clue if I will have the willpower of some of you to finish this challenge!

The club is predicted to finish 21st.

We only have 1 GK, and he's not even a full gold star 

[Daddy]

2025/26 Season Review:

I was hoping to  be in that 8-12 range, so this was a disappointment. I kept trying to tweak the tactics to be more defensive and it just compounded the issues. I don't think the team is as bad as the record has been, but each season has gone in the wrong direction.

No money, no upgrades. 

Youth Intake:

A couple players to be mixed in, but no immediate game changer like I hoped. Still we're filling out the roster nicely, but without the great facilities development is slow.

2026/27 Season Preview:

If attempting to be more defensive was a mistake I figure the answer is to go all out to score goals. Each year we finish worse off and the expectation seems to be relegation, so if we go down and kill off the save we do it going swinging.

[Winski]

Just a sneak preview about my current season;

I can't believe we are even in the running for a promotion place! This is our first season in 2. Bundesliga and we are performing way above expectations. With 3 home games in the last 4 matches everything is still possible. But to be honest: I hope we keep this 4th place. We are absolutely not ready for the Bundesliga.
But to be in this position after 30 matches is just incredible. We will get a lot of money when the season is over, that's for sure. Can't wait for it, because we can finally start upgrading our facilities!

And a beautiful side note: 3 of the 4 mentioned clubs are East-German clubs

[LeLaga]

10 hours ago, WhiteCat33 said:

Yes you can keep all the players at the club when you start. Only exception is loan players, you can't extend their loan / bring them to the club as a transfer at the end of the loan (even if the clause exists in the contract). All incoming transfers are forbidden, you just are able to sign players that come through the yearly intake of your club's academy.

Welcome to the club!

 Thank You!

Seems very difficult - I'll try to do it... but in FM17, I'm still behind times. Good luck to everyone on here.

[Koetzer]

FK Viktoria Žižkov – season 2027/28

After three seasons of struggle we finally improved our position and finished only one point short from the middle group. Falling to the playoff spots is still possible, but shouldn’t happen if we continue playing on the same level.

Stayed on top of this group despite losing to Mlada, and of course it’s our best season in the top division so far!

Cup

The best cup run as well, we reached quarter-final for the first time after a surprise shootout win over Slavia.

Squad stats

D.Macek *25a – with an interest from PSG there were no chances to keep our best player in the club, still I made the best available move – agreed a transfer for the end of season (for a small fee, but including 50% from next sale) before he could be signed for free.

M.Muxel *23a – once again became our best goalscorer. Waiting for him to score an overhead kick though, as he has this trait  

O.Sedláček *27a – managed to score 11 goals in his first full senior season, a really good debut.

Jiří Ciupa – probably his last season as an undoubted first choice in goal, but he played it well.

Ondřej Žežulka – still our best center-back who now set the new club record with 243 games played.

A.Križmanić *26a – stats are not so impressive, but he is our first ever player to be included into NXGN top 50 list.

L.Petržílka *26g – I was trying different players as the second center-back, no one really impressed but this youngster made a nice progress during the season and became a regular starter.

M.Krátký *25h – the weirdest selection, he was playing on loan in Portuguese lower leagues (like a lot of our youngsters), didn’t have any outstanding stats there and somehow became the Czech talent of the year. Don’t know, maybe his real potential is higher than my staff’s assessment.

 

Transfers – Macek's departure leaves us with one good central midfielder in the squad, hopefully some younger players would develop quickly.

Youth intake (preview)

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Šmíd *28a | Akbaş *28b | Piško *28c | Čupr *28d | Krátký *28e | Cabadaj *28f | Procházka *28g | Trapp *28h | Kavka *28i

We got a full defensive line with five star potential, though I would prefer more central midfielders now.

Despite the youth facilities downgrade, I had to invest into training facilities instead as promising this was the only way to convince Muxel signing a new contract.

[Sn00gle]

 

 

 

 

 

      
Kotwica Kołobrzeg - 2029/30

 

Squad - League - Finances - Transfers 

 

Great season with this time! 3rd place which allow us to play in Europe! Little bit lucky schedule for us but will take it. We manage to get into semi in Polish Cup but Legia Warszawa was to strong this season and with Mateo Kovacić as a captain and Eugen Polański as manager they set score in first half to 0-3. We get one goal in second half but they were to strong this season wining league, cup and... European Conference League against Athletic Bilbao! Sick!

That's not end of good news from Europe as Wisła Kraków get trough European League group stage same as Pogoń Szczecin in ECL. So I assume we will get a big ranking boost.
We sold Feret 04b which I already mentioned 3,2ml + bonuses alowed us to get into Excellent training grounds. But after that we got Chairman swap. Unlucky for us he wanted bring 2 players but was able to reject deals. Lucky for us new chairman unlocked for us option to up youth facilities which I already activated at the end of season so they will back on the level they were.

New stadium was game changer as well. 10k fans now can watch our matches, which give us a lot of money from tickets. As well we have 15y stadium sponsorship with 750k per year so the loan for bulding it 6ml will be easy for us to deal. That sponsorship deal bring us on 7th place in league with around 1,5ml. Lechia Gdańsk got 20ml you can image how they facillities looks like.

In next season aim is to go as far in Europe I can and get foreign fedder club for more magic intakes if possible and of course survive 

We got nice intake with second foreign player. Enzo looks like decent sub defender, unlucky like Angel he is Unambitious. Belgium player was in better situation as he was called into u18 and u19 so maybe I will get some money for him. Enzo maybe have chance for Poland call. Angel progress is bad and probably he will leave our team in next season. Anway we get Pytel which is striker with 11 finishing! Yas! And decent defender Skiba. We got Osuch as a GK but not enough good to be our second GK so I start to be worried. 7 seasons with 1 good GK is not good information.

Intake Prieview

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Young Overview

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Name - Sold

Class 1
Tomasz Szybka 01c - 31k
Maciej Łukasiak 01j - 120k

Class 2
Patryk Jasitczak 02c - 100k
Józef Masłowski 02f - 69k

Class 3
Łukasz Misun 03i - 43k

Class 4
Kamil Feret 04b - 3,2ml + 50%
Radosław Owczarek 04g - 49k

 

Intake Report

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Edited December 13, 2022 by Sn00gle

[Winski]

1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig

Season 2 | 2024/2025
2. Bundesliga

 

What a season it was! As posted earlier today, we had a terrific season. We played until the end of the season for a playoff ticket. But in the end we finished 5th. I'm very proud about this season and this league finish! And with this league finish, we earned a lot of money

So our financial problems are over. We can finally start upgrading, although the board already accepted an upgrade to the Junior Coaching Budget(twice!) and Youth Recruitment earlier this season. And I also got my first coaching licenses: National C & B.
We also played in the DFB-Pokal, but lost in the First Round against VfL Bochum.

 

Keyplayers

Our curent keyplayers are Osman Atilgan, İsa Doğan, Farid Abderrahmane, Luca Sirch, Bogdan Rangelov, Djamal Ziane, Julian Weigel and Eric Voufack.

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Youth development
Looking at our youth players, some of them are developing really well. From the 2023-intake(the holiday-year-intake) I gave a lot of playtime to Yaak Lul 23c. A very tall defender, good personality. Also Coulibaly 23A and Morgan 23E played a lot. A bit of a surprise was the development of Ondon 23D. He's developing nicely and also played 3 matches.

From the 2024 intake Wenzel Watkowiak 24b played a lot of matches, mainly because we haven't got many leftbacks. Beiersdorf 24c is also developing really well. He didn't play a match because Voufack is our main player at the RB position. But I'll add him to the squad for next season.

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Youth preview & intake
 

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The youth intake preview didn't look very promising. Only one A. So I didn't have high hopes for this intake.

The intake itself was indeed not very promising.
But this season we got 4 Elite talents, which is nice. But the rest of the players are very mediocre.


These are those Elite talents:

I am very optimistic about Petrick 25C. But I also like Peitz 25B.  That guy is 16 years old and already 200cm!!

Supporter Profile Update

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[m15k3BEAST]

OFK BEOGRAD - Season 2029/2030

 

Another season behind us, followed by good results. We managed to finish 4th in Superliga and to qualify for Conference League, but we got knocked out of Cup in first round. We had excellent youth intake with some elite talents, such as Filkor, Rakic, Bajic, Stojadinovic, Vujadinovic and Ristic. My best potentials and players are Sekulic,Perovic, Petrovic, Vlajic, Vlasacevic, Mladenovic and Stamenkovic. Below is my team, facilities and resume from past seasons.

Edited December 13, 2022 by m15k3BEAST

[WhiteCat33]

A.S. Luxembourgo Porto

Season 21 2043-44 BGL Ligue (Tier 1)

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Intro & Club | Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5 | Season 6 |Season 7 |Season 8 | Season 9 | Season 10 | Season 11 | Season 12 | Season 13 | Season 14 |Season 15 | Season 16 | Season 17 | Season 18 | Season 19 | Season 20 |

World of Football 2040

Matches | Squad | Transfers |Facilities | Finances | Supporters

Competitions:

Europa League

Shocker in the Europa League we finished dead last. Again, our bad draw-luck returned with 3 of our opponents being eventual Semi-Finalists, with one being the eventual champion: OGC Nice! Then 3 more of our opponents advances to the knockout round in the 12-15 positions. At least we got lots of Gate receipts... Swift also made the Europa League group stage and had a shocking wins against Lazio and Club Brugge to just make the knockouts, good for our Nation Ranking.

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Cup

This year the ET did not go our way with our goal getting called back for offside. Unsurprisingly we lost the PK shootout as our best taker has 9 skill, and the rest have 7.

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League

We were on track to win the league but week 29 we blew a 2-0 lead against the 3rd placed team to give it back to Swift Hesperange so they could record a double. Bummed to lose out to both trophies just at the finish line.

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Youth Academy:

Youth Intake Preview: Not the greatest

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Youth Intake:

Okay intake, glad to see Cape Verde players returning as I hadn't got any since I switched HOYDs. A personal goal for the save is to have at least 1 international for each country, sadly these players don't inspire hope for my CPV player.

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Best Prospects

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Real bummer on casual for that CM, his attributes are more suited for a FB role for us so I might retrain him as I use more attacking/playmaking CMs

We’ve got 2 nicely set up Left Wingers. One is Portuguese-German with Fairly professional personality, and the other has the speed but is fickle and an inverted winger with right-footedness.

He’s just rated as a top prospect but a 6’4” Fairly Professional CB is always a welcome addition

Overall not too exciting of prospects, but that will be the case till we can increase our youth facilities. Next year I’ll look to max out the JR Coaching / Youth Recruitment to at least get us the best we can.

Best XI

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Poached Player Update

Wolfsburg already sold-off Pol Decker (Poach 3), giving us a miniscule fee and he's just moved laterally into another Bundesliga U19 team:

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Youth Products Highlights

I might come back and add this.

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Club Infrastructure

I did my best to spend-wisely this year with the assumption these TV Payments will continue. With that and Continental money I did a dual Training Facility improvement as there is still no option to upgrade Youth Facilities. We did double Youth Recruitment upgrades last year, so the running costs have bumped up slightly to 130k from 100k a month for Youth Setup but that's totally manageable.

Also, I've brought back our first Icon as a staff member. Ailton Junior 05j was our first decent Cape Verde player who switched to Luxembourg becoming our first U21 player. He was a standout CB and is currently in our Best XI with a 7.26 rating in his 275 Apps scoring 15 goals. Welcome back!

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TV Money Effect:

I can't understate how massively this 2.6M TV deal is going to transform the league. In the spoiler is the screenshot of the worst team in the league who will be relegated with a $2.5M bank balance.... For Comparison we only got $781k for our Europa League TV coverage. Yes, it's basically half the matches but still the scale of this media payment will guarantee a fully Professional top-flight in Luxembourg with at least the top 4-5 in the 2nd tier going professional due to how many relegation positions there are. I'm both terrified and excited because our academy is still in its infant stage and all these teams will bring in players from the 4 other active leagues so it's not out of the question that the 'average' team will be competitive with Swift and ourselves...

From this first year 3 teams went Professional: Titus Petange (3rd), Differdange 05 (5th) & Victoria Rosport (11th). I can't wait to see what kinds of players they bring in.

Edit: Checkout our income for this next season oh man this is going to get spicy

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Luxembourg National Team

While they still are pretty lowly ranked and haven't made any major tournament, the performance they just had in European Championship qualifying shows progress is being made. Notice also that they beat the USA in a friendly! Not sure, which side that says more about  

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BGL Ligue Ranking

With two teams in the Europa League Luxembourg's top flight is now ranked the 39th best league in Europe giving us the 22nd best Nation Coefficient. Still 2.5* Reputation but it's getting close to 3*. Even crazier is Swift Hesperange are on the cusp of a top 50 team in Europe currently ranked at 52 while we are at 141.

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Thoughts

Excel Season 1 - 15

Things are getting good here in Luxembourg! Now hopefully the board will finally let me upgrade youth facilities so my talent can compete with the flood of players entering the league otherwise things will get very scary here when the board expects a title challenge...

Edited December 13, 2022 by WhiteCat33

[DrJones]

Grosseto 2025/26

Another mid-table finish. We managed to beat one of our biggest rivals Siena in the first play-off round but Foggia were too strong.

Squad

The youngsters are starting to take over the first team which is good. Next season I think we'll have 7-8 of them in the starting XI

Key Players (Regens)

He generated at the club under the first "holiday" season and has been developing like mad. The sad thing is that he refuses to sign a new contract and I will probably let him leave in the summer.

A pretty good player already, will start next season for sure.

My favourite player by far in this team. The serie c reincarnation of Luca Toni!

Youth Intake

History

 

[helminho]

Table  -  League stats  -  Squad  -  Transfers

Some of the most important establish players: Zych, Fiorentino and Berlusconi

The intake of Youth-candidates

Most promising youth-candidates: Boria, Caporale and Jaszsczyk

[CardiffDragon]

Ho Ho Home games have made our stadium a fortress this year (well maybe both stadiums should be more to the point as we have to play in the national stadium for european games at the moment) and we have broken our cup jinx finally.....after penalties.

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Europe

Well we are in the same boat as last year, the season is not finished as we have made it through to the group stages and with one game to go we are guarenteed to make it to the playoffs.i i will put up and update when the ride is finally over

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Youth Intake

The improvements to the youth facilities together with my HOYD being established for a few seasons ( His intakes do seem to be getter better and better, especially in their personalities) mean we really do have some promising young players and far more elites than last year

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The year ahead

Although we are doing well. The league seems to be becoming a three horse race, but with our main competitors doing well in europe as well it mean we are flying up the coefficients, we are 26th this year but it looks like we are moving upto 19th at least next year, almost to the stage where we get two Champions League places

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The biggest issue we are going to have this year is the number of players from the intakes a few years ago that are going to be exploring options at the end of their contracts, think we are going to lose at least a few so it could be a dip next season.

[CardiffDragon]

just thought i would reiterate our record breaking euro game

[russ the womble]

Season 2 (2024/25)

Tricky second season blooding some youths, finished one place above the relegation spots. Apparently this is a relegation play off spot, which I won 3-0.

Robert Sarsanedas

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Great stats and 5 stars already, but I could really do with selling him because my finances are awful.

Finances

[Barnsley]

2 hours ago, russ the womble said:

Season 2 (2024/25)

Tricky second season blooding some youths, finished one place above the relegation spots. Apparently this is a relegation play off spot, which I won 3-0.

Robert Sarsanedas

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Great stats and 5 stars already, but I could really do with selling him because my finances are awful.

Finances

Finances looks pretty brutal in Spain!

[russ the womble]

2 hours ago, Barnsley said:

Finances looks pretty brutal in Spain!

I lose £10k a week and my player wages are only about £12k. I've got rid of a few of the higher earners (ie good players) and even replaced staff with cheaper variants, but will still make a big loss. Have decided to try and fill pre-season with games to try and get some income. Can pick up about £100k over several games so makes a small difference but still - I guess it's not worth worrying about and just focus on promotion, as there's no way to get in the black and be competitive.

[Redknapp_13]

Hapoel Ra'anana Season Preview

Season 34/35

League - Champions League - Squad - U19Squad - Transfers - Finances

League

Another League title and a new record. Never has a team won the league with less points, but we take it anyway. Its the 4th championship in 5 years and we are the biggest team in Israel. After a difficult start we once again decided it in the championship phase. Some losses are also due to our Champions League play, as I try to play the strongest squad in the Champions League and we have some very good players with some not so good backups. Still nice to do the double again with the league and the cup win. 

Champions League

Again we made it to the knockout playoff stage but not further. We lost 1:5 in Köln but the won the homegame 4:3. Another try to go a round further next year

Key Players

Nas Leidner 33A and Salami-Vaddai 32A are our two best players. Both without a release clause and under contract till 38. I wont sell them and probably run out their contracts as we dont need the money. Lugasi 29B still our topscorer

  

Next men up

Maor Levi33B is becoming a first team regular, Yakir Landau 32C already is as well as Banay 31B

  

Besides them there are  Dayan29A, Lomovski 32B, Iluz 31D and Tsarfati 33G

Intake 35

Again pretty offensive heavy. Was hoping for a good central midfielder, as we lack depth and quality there

Instead another striker who seems to be the best. A beast of player at just 15 years old

Herzel Zikri 35A by far the best of them. Great player for 15 but of course wanted a release clause directly of 2.6 millions. Not gonna hold him for long I think

Progressing slowly and we have a window with our best players without a release clause

[Neo_Geo]

I'm simply speechless at this

I've never had so many entries in the NxGn (this is the second year running Cantarella was Number 1 as well - PSG came calling in January window and I stood firm as he has £100m release clause - thanks @thomas_e for that tip with the Director of Football negotiating as it generally leaves the minimum fee there but has no capped value)

Cantarella, Jusufi, Radulovic and Begradze didn't surprise me too much but Hasani just turned 16 and Beckert wasn't really one that was on my radar as being a real top prospect.

Now in Season 9 I've actually managed to knock back offers from teams like Dortmund and Bayern without the players kicking up a stink. Jusufi had a derisory offer from Man City in the summer but forgot about it quickly enough and Cantarella had the PSG offer which he has recently just said he is happy to stay at the club now. It certainly looks as though my club reputation is at a level where its no longer a simple case of European sides poaching/unsettling my players for pittance.

[Redknapp_13]

vor 13 Minuten schrieb Neo_Geo:

I'm simply speechless at this

I've never had so many entries in the NxGn (this is the second year running Cantarella was Number 1 as well - PSG came calling in January window and I stood firm as he has £100m release clause - thanks @thomas_e for that tip with the Director of Football negotiating as it generally leaves the minimum fee there but has no capped value)

Where can I find this tip? I have the same problem in Israel with release clauses not-negotiable at around 3 millions

[Neo_Geo]

17 minutes ago, Redknapp_13 said:

Where can I find this tip? I have the same problem in Israel with release clauses not-negotiable at around 3 millions

So the idea is you get a DoF to do the contract negotiation with a player and you click continue. Once you get control again go to change the contract offer and you can adjust it from there.

As an example I was having players regularly ask for minimum fee of around £11m and now I've been able to put them to £100m for several of my players.....however I have been able to do that based on the fact I upped the wage and agent fee quite a bit.

In general I think the tip works but the more financial power you have the more you can up the minimum fee or indeed remove it provided you are quite generous with the wage and fee offered. I'm in a position where I have over £150m in the bank so money isn't really a concern to me so I might as well pump into into the wages and agent fees to keep my best players around.

[hubwub]

7 minutes ago, Neo_Geo said:

So the idea is you get a DoF to do the contract negotiation with a player and you click continue. Once you get control again go to change the contract offer and you can adjust it from there.

As an example I was having players regularly ask for minimum fee of around £11m and now I've been able to put them to £100m for several of my players.....however I have been able to do that based on the fact I upped the wage and agent fee quite a bit.

In general I think the tip works but the more financial power you have the more you can up the minimum fee or indeed remove it provided you are quite generous with the wage and fee offered. I'm in a position where I have over £150m in the bank so money isn't really a concern to me so I might as well pump into into the wages and agent fees to keep my best players around.

What are the stats on your DoF?

[Neo_Geo]

3 minutes ago, hubwub said:

What are the stats on your DoF?

Negotiating is only 13 but it seems to be enough to do the job

EDIT: He has a 4.5 star rating (when viewing in the staff search including my own staff) so I think he's a pretty good DoF

Edited December 14, 2022 by Neo_Geo

[Neo_Geo]

Out of interest has anyone managed to get fully upgraded youth facilities in this challenge in FM23 yet?

[Daddy]

2026/27 Midseason Review:

The plan to be more aggressive offensively has helped, but the season is following a familiar pattern, so we'll see how things go. Knocked out of all the cups so let's see if things settle down schedule wise and the team plays better. I don't see a complete cratering in form and relegation, but I've been wrong there before.

As with the last few intakes I am hoping for at least one player good enough to step right into the first team. I'd love a good striker. 

 

[hubwub]

2 hours ago, Neo_Geo said:

Negotiating is only 13 but it seems to be enough to do the job

EDIT: He has a 4.5 star rating (when viewing in the staff search including my own staff) so I think he's a pretty good DoF

I got rid of my DoF. So I might recruit a new one.

1 hour ago, Neo_Geo said:

Out of interest has anyone managed to get fully upgraded youth facilities in this challenge in FM23 yet?

I've seen two or three people with Exceptional Youth Facilities. I think the latest to get there was @XaW. Now, that they are in the Prem they could get State of the Art.

Edited December 14, 2022 by hubwub
removed double quote

[Ray46]

On 12/12/2022 at 17:15, russ the womble said:

Pro tip: don't get promoted too early  We go again..

Looking forward how you do with "our" club 

[Ray46]

17 hours ago, Barnsley said:

Finances looks pretty brutal in Spain!

In my save the board injected some cash once in a while. Financial issues stopped when I got to La Liga 2; there is 6M of tv money waiting for you there.

 

[Ray46]

3 hours ago, Neo_Geo said:

Out of interest has anyone managed to get fully upgraded youth facilities in this challenge in FM23 yet?

I'm in La Liga at season 7, exceptional JC an YR. YF is at good, but the option to upgrade has dissapeared. It certainly not a lack of money or coaches. TF are at good and upgrading now to (I think) superb.

[Constantine]

OFK Beograd

 

Season 2 done and dusted.

Being the worst defense of the league aside, I've really happy with our season back in the Super liga. We've survived rather comfortably, which allowed me to play the kids bit more in last third of the season, giving them much valuable experience.

We were thumped hard quite few times, two 5-0, two 6-0 v Partizan and TSC... Just you wait, we'll pay you back with vengeance. In 10 or so years.

In the Cup, some progress was made. We've actually made it all the way to First Round!! Baby steps...

 

Our two finest prospect sold.

Sreckovic went to Vojvodina after I protested the transfer with the board and renegotiated it after Partizan unsettled him.

But that was one time board allowed me to interfere, the bastards went over my head and let our finest fullback to Crvena zvezda for peanuts. Now, don't get me wrong, I fared much better than my pals did, one of them got paid something like 200 euros and percentages. Still sucks.

I don't mind Ciric one. He's a decent enough but we're well covered in the final third.

At least we used that money to upgrade Junior Coaching and Youth Recruitment, both of which at the time of writing are at Exceptional level.

 

 

Intake was alright. Another goalie prospect. More strikers and most importantly, more central defenders. Got the numbers now at least...

 

 

I love the looks of Milovac. Bjelobrk might be useful in supporting role. Prsic in there to round up top three.

 

Big-ish squad. Some trimming might be done. Also I'm considering dropping our fullbacks turned central defenders (Aleksandar Tasic and Nikola Jovanovic) and just playing the kids. Let them develop in hell's fires. Sink or swim. We're conceding six goals in a game either way. Though their poor personalities worry me a bit...

 

I think that's about it. Let's continue this exercise in futility...

 

[WhiteCat33]

4 hours ago, hubwub said:

What are the stats on your DoF?

This is the only way I've been able to hold onto my players in Luxembourg as otherwise they all want pitiful release clauses sometimes below their min value. I just up their base salary by 15-20% and they all have let me remove the clause completely. Works most of the time with my much worse GM, only issue is if you stack too many years on their contract he tends to fail to negotiate as he won't offer long term deals. 

[libbyshuss]

 

Season Summary

I was a bit worried after a dodgy start with no wins in the first 5 but it turns out we are now a bog-standard mid-table side. Which will do for now I guess. baby steps and all that. frustratingly close to Europe though, that's got to be the next aim!

Players

Fabio Frau 38C - really nice surprise this! Our normal striker got injured for a month and I  had nobody in the first team squad to cover. So I dipped into the U18s and picked Fabio. He's a 4 star potential but at 17 I wasn't expecting anything much. Not only did he keep his place he ended the season with 17 goals in 18 games. Very exciting! be interesting to see if he can carry it on in a full season at only 18. It would be a huge bonus if he can!

Armando Lika 35F - Our Albanian winger is now 21 and developing really nicely. By far our best player this season and attracting attention from the premier league. Only Sheffield United for now though.

It's a solid squad but there's no star playetrs or wonderkids. Highest transfer value is only £13m. I could really do with a superstar or two

Youth

Before the intake this year I managed to upgrade both facilities and youth coaching. How much difference did it make? Quite a lot it would seem!

My best preview so far! but that only counts if the intake is as good.... and with any luck it will be. A very nice amount of elite talents there

None really stand out though. Starting attributes aren't great and personalities are only generally ok

Career

It's been really slow going but we're gettting there, step by very small step. I'd love to break into Europe next season but we may have to settle for mid-table mediocrity again. 

[JLAB]

Motor Lublin - Season 6 - Winter Break

Heading into the new season, I was preparing for another season where we would be fighting for European football. So when we had only won 1 of our first 6 games of the season, I was a little worried. However, since that start, we've been enjoying a really good season. Robert Kowalski also managed to score 5 goals in a game as well, which was rather pleasing.

What I didn't see coming was how well we'd be doing in the league. After 1 win and 4 draws in our first 6 matches, you'd be forgiven for thinking that this was impossible. Yet, here we are, sitting in 2nd place heading into the winter break. It's rather pleasing.

The youth intake preview is in, and I am happy with what I have been given. I would like more strength around the park, but there we go.

In other good news, our youth facilities got upgraded, going up from average to good. I have a theory that the ability to upgrade the youth facilities might be related to your club's reputation. I'll tell you why in another post.

Bad news, Inter Milan came in for Mariusz Dąbrowski for a fee that I found laughable. I obviously turned it down.

The downside of that is that he's now upset he's not able to move to Inter Milan. So that's a nice present from an Italian giant. In FM 22, it was Napoli when I was managing OFK Beograd, in FM 23, it's Inter Milan while I'm at Motor Lublin. It was for the DM both times too. I'm a little upset. Will we be able to keep hold of him? No idea.

JLAB's YAC with Motor Lublin Part 15

[ludak]

Ooooh boys, was this an interesting season. Let me start with the biggest upset in serbian football.

 

First time after 30 years the league was won by a team that isn't Red Star or Partizan, and it wasn't me. I'm a bit worried about the rise of 2 new clubs, because they will make it harder for me to win the league.

Anyway, that's not that important, what is is the intake. 

 

 

Lovre looks really promising. 

 

Some were board sales, some were mine, but in the end I've sold some good players and couldn't make up for them, BUT we've won 5 of our last 6 games and that's how we stayed up.

Also I sold some of the percentages that both board an I got in some deals, the most important being the one for Maričić that got us 3.28 million.

 

 

 

 

These two look like the best talents besides Lovre for now. 

 

That all for this season, see you next year. 

 

[grff]

Royale Union Tubize-Braine: 2036/37 Season Review

Another surprising league championship as we conquered against the odds. I feel part of this was down to the fact I had no European football (turns out this went to the Belgian cup winners) overcrowding the calendar.

A very encouraging collection of stats from our players that helped us acheive the league title.

Our youth intake was pretty poor again.

Transfers out include a record sale as we decided to cash in on our star player that was very inconsistent and planning to leave on a bosman the following season. This has boosted the bank balance and allowed us to improve the training facilities once again.

Season history...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 14, 2022 by grff

[gb2003]

Hey guys, I have a offer from Trabzon for my right back about 1.3 million. Now they offer me a loan back. Is this allowed?

[m15k3BEAST]

1 minute ago, gb2003 said:

Hey guys, I have a offer from Trabzon for my right back about 1.3 million. Now they offer me a loan back. Is this allowed?

No, it's not. You must decline loan back.

[m15k3BEAST]

OFK BEOGRAD - Season 2030/2031

 

I finished my 8th season with OFK Beograd, and it was best so far. In regular season, we finished 2nd, and after playoffs we lost in last fixture and finished 3rd. And Cup, this was best, we managed to win Kup Srbije. We again had good youth intake with some of elite players, players like Jovanovski, Pavlovic, Stojanovic, Savic and Lukic. Also, we sold our best goalscorer from last season, Vladimir Petrovic to PSG for 6.75M and 50% of next sale, so we are now stick to a new striker, Vlajic, and we god our training facilities upgraded.

 

 

Edited December 15, 2022 by m15k3BEAST

[Neo_Geo]

For those who are interested in the effect of the DoF Negotiation Technique this is how it plays out.

So I offer a contract under normal circumstances for Rajko Radulovic (Elite6) who is 3.5 current ability and 5 star potential 18 year old 2 times Swiss capped player currently on £20k a week (using this technique previously) and is estimated to be worth between £7.8m and £11.5m:

This is somewhat more awkward of a negotiation than usual but you can see there is a £12m minimum fee release clause for clubs in Continental Competition and its locked by the agent with no expiry date possible......oh well looks like Radulovic will leave me for a Dortmund or a Juventus for £12m 

Meanwhile in a parallel universe my DoF wanted to help out:

I then click continue once and the contract options change to the following

Upon changing the contract offer I can see what the DoF managed to negotiate

Quite the difference 

The minimum fee is no longer locked (so you can try removing it but I actually quite like a high minimum fee as it lets me play the "You have a release clause" card even though it doesn't always work out well), the expiry date is also set to 2 years from now (which you can change) and most importantly the limit has been removed.

What I usually do here is increase the agent fee and wage because I've found some agents get a bit annoyed as they had previously agreed a deal meaning you have to make it worth their while.

I appreciate this technique might not be for everyone especially if the player is asking for the upper end of available salaries but it may just make the difference to being able to hold onto that star 30+ goal a season striker and losing them for pittance.

[XaW]

Just had our 2nd ever NXGN winner!

[Winski]

Pffff... Lul 23c scored his first goal for us in the first match of the new season. And then this happened...

[Redknapp_13]

@Neo_Geoty very much. This could be a game changer for my Israel save

 

Hapoel Ra'anana Season Review

Season 35/36

League - Champions League - Squad - U19Squad - Transfers - Finances

League

Another league title for us. Even tho it was pretty close once again, we are pretty clear the best team in Israel. The squad remained the same with the addition of last years intake Zikri35A, who immediatly started upfront. I still try to rotate players in and play the strongest squad in the CL, which resulted in some league losses/draws. Our problem position is the central midfield, where we dont have depth and also lack some quality. Unfortunately we lost Alex Holland in January, so we are left with one left back

Champions League

First time getting to the Round of 16 after beating Atletico in the Playoff Knockout Round. Undoubtly our biggest success so far, beating a team like Atletico. In the quarterfinals we had no Chance against Barcelona.

Key Players

Still Leidner and Salami-Vaddai. And the two are wanted by half of Europe. Zikri from last years intake pretty much immediately became one of our best players

  

Leidner also won the Golden Boy award and appeared on the Nxt Gn List woth Salami-Vaddai, at the positions 2 and 3

Intake 36

We have alot of strikers in our squad and of course the only A is again a striker. Did not look promising

And the intake wasnt really good in the end, even tho I hope the left back will develop

At the end of the season, we have been able to get another youth facility upgrade

[Neo_Geo]

 

 

Season Review

Spoiler

Another domestic title in the bag and another 3rd round exit in the Swiss Cup to take the shine off things but the real story was reaching the quarter final of the Champions League and only narrowly losing to Bayern on penalties. In addition to this we were unbeaten in the group stage which really was excellent.

I changed my formation domestically to a 4-2-3-1 wide (as can be seen in the best eleven) and in Europe I generally opted for 4-3-3 DM Wide unless I really needed to go for the win and it served me well. Also as can be seen from the best eleven 9 of the 11 had 7+ average ratings which is great progress and very pleasing.

Cantarella (Elite5) is now the club's top goalscorer, he broke the league goals record set by Mandli and the most goals in a season record set by Mandli and he equaled Mandli with 14 goals in the Champions League this year with only Haaland beating him to it. Cantarella won the NxGn, the CL Young Player of the Year and the Golden Shoe in a tremendous season....here's his profile for anyone interested:

I'm not sure if he is as good as Mandli but he certainly is a crucial part of our success over the last few seasons and at the moment he seems content (he forgot about me saying no to PSG in the January window!)

We've held the squad together and with Hasani, Bregvadze and Kirk all starting to push for starting places (or indeed have starting places) the overall depth and quality of the squad is getting better.

The youth facilities have now been downgraded (3.5 stars from 4) due to technological advances and STILL our stupid chairman will not give me the option to upgrade them despite having £160m+ in the bank.......it truly is infuriating.

This is the last season at the Stadio Comunale Riva IV as we move into the 9,875 all seater originally named "Chiasso Stadium", I guess it was too soon to call it "Neo Geo Stadium" even though I do have legendary status at the club now. It's still on the small side so I reckon once we move in I'll be requesting it to be expanded.

I was disappointed to see the Swiss league drop to 9th in the rankings this season as we have been doing a ton of work to improve the coefficients but the other clubs are not fairing as well as we are, so I guess we'll have to look to reach the quarter finals or better next year to keep it going.

Supporter profile still not really changing a great deal, probably best to compare at the end of the save versus the start rather than doing year on year comparisons.

 

[darren1983]

12 hours ago, gb2003 said:

Hey guys, I have a offer from Trabzon for my right back about 1.3 million. Now they offer me a loan back. Is this allowed?

Best thing to do if this happens is to try and arrange the deal to go through at the end of the season, that's allowed but no we can't loan back.