The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge

[HanziZoloman]

Hi all, there has been no youth intake preview, anybody has experienced something similar in England? 

[Johnny Ace]

10 minutes ago, HanziZoloman said:

Hi all, there has been no youth intake preview, anybody has experienced something similar in England? 

You've managed there so long you've broken the game 

[HanziZoloman]

vor 27 Minuten schrieb Johnny Ace:

You've managed there so long you've broken the game 

Haha 

funny thing is, my nee HOYD is a perfectionist but he’s obviously the first one who forgot to email the new intake preview. Hope there will be one …

hope has a (new) name: Kevin Parry-Jones

Edited September 24, 2023 by HanziZoloman

[libbyshuss]

Uruguay - Villa Teresa

Division 2 - Season 8 (2030)

Season Summary

well...... halfway through the season I realised that in my 8th season I was actually worse off than I was in the first. Worse players, worse results, less money and only one minor improvement. 

We started well enough, 3 wins, a draw and 2 defeats in the Torneo Competencia, which is ok. And then in the league proper, we won the first match, which again is not too shabby. And then we lost. and lost. and lost again. and kept losing. It was a battle trying to stop a tidal wave of poor morale, and very little we could do could stop it. 

Bizarrely, we won the last two league games! but to no avail....

luckily Uruguay is weird and relegations are decided on the average of the past two seasons, so even though we were abysmal we wouldn't have gone down.

 

Next season could be a different matter though

Youth

A nice intake! I need some of these to come good and come good quickly!

 

 

Career

This will be my last save before the new game so I'm just gonna keep plugging away. It's a tough challenge, this one!

 

[WhiteCat33]

Barbados YAC: Road View FC

2035 Season 13 – BFA Digicel Premier League

Start Post | Season 1 |Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5 | Season 6 |Season 7 | Season 8 | Season 9 | Season 10 |Season 11 |Season 12 |

 

League Performance:

 League is becoming pretty straightforward. Gave up some draws during the congested part of the season, but still 10 points ahead of 2nd best. 

Cup Performance:

 Played like crap away at BDFSP with a few key players out injured and are out in the Semifinal of the cup... I'm hoping once we finally go professional we can gain consistency in the cup.

Reserve & U18s:

 Won both again by wide margins.

Squad:

 Remembered to screenshot the team this time and also included the CA spreadsheet. Really aren't getting any player development right now as we are semi-pro.

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Transfers:

 We were able to hold onto everyone who matters.

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Best XI:

FM Screenshots:

 

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Excel Tables:

 

Head Coach:

 Nothing of note this season.

Club Improvements:

Nothing, we are hoarding everything right now to go professional. Currently we have ~300k profit per season, hopefully NACL this year will help improve on that for this year at least.

Youth Academy:

HOYD:

No Change

Youth Intake Preview:

Youth Intake:

Top 3 Players:

The Preview hinted we'd get a good striker this year, and for once it wasn't a lie. He's even got a perfectionist personality to go with a great spread of attributes and a massive 6'4" frame. Even wilder he's straight up American - no Barbados 2nd nationality. Literally our first foreign newgen ever. 

We add to our WB-R depth with Adrian Headley, who I like well enough especially with that speed and movement. 

And now we have our 2 GKs: Darcio Morris & Ramon Howell. Decided to show them in comparison. Really wish we were professional so I could loan these guys out. They will become the entirety of my GK depth now and hopefully in 2 years we will go professional and they can get first team experience to develop. I'm happy enough with my current GK so there's no rush.

 

Excel Tables:

Poached Player:

Even with minimal knowledge of him, that valuation shows he could be something special, though I hope they retrain him from CB. 7 jumping reach at 5’11” doesn’t spell success in that position, but apparently Arsenal decided to give him 2 appearances already for whatever reason.

There’s no way he will stick with Barbados, but will be nice to see him at least get one CAP for his home nation.

The clause already has a 500k buyout value, which I might actually consider next year if it rises closer to 1M as that will ensure the club goes professional.

Barbados National Team:

 Barbados finished 2034 well winning their Division C group to get promoted back to Division B in the Nation League. Unfortunately, that success didn't continue as they lost in Extra-time in the Gold Cup Playoff to Suriname, meaning they still have yet to qualify for a major tournament this save. Rest of this year will be Nations League matches in a tough group that hopefully doesn't see Barbados relegated again.

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Road View Internationals:

Barbados Main:

Barbados Youth:

Barbadian’s Around the World:

English Academy Players:

 

MLS Academy Players:

 

Caribbean Academy Players:

 

Other Nations:

 

Summary

Yet again the Cup proves elusive, and the grind continues towards professionalism. Really next year with the NACL money + Selling the Arsenal Clause I should be able to build up enough bank balance to convince the board to go professional for the following season. We've got the young talent right now who seriously could use full time training to actually improve.

Edited September 25, 2023 by WhiteCat33

[HanziZoloman]

It's the Play Offs again, could easily have been a direct promotion but cycle of doom hit us close to the finish line ... well I hope for some positive thoughts from you guys. It's season 21 ... 

Spoiler

 

[DazRTaylor]

Crewe United

Youth Candidates

Season 2023/24

I was fairly disappointed with the preview if I am being honest:

I need not have worried though as the intake was pretty good.

[DazRTaylor]

I have decided to no longer label my youth players.  What is the point?

[Ice029]

So the year is 2030 and we are a mid-table team that sometimes plays in Europa Conference League thanks to a weird quirk in the Romanian league rules. But that is kinda all. Relegation is on the cards only if I somehow get a particularly terrible season, every year one of the best players either leaves or complains about wanting to leave, all the good stuff.

In a way I've hit the grand grind and I am actually looking for it. And the question in this case is: are there any tips and tricks I am missing, other than waiting for the stars to finally align?
 

Random picture with some stats:

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Edited September 25, 2023 by Ice029

[Novafluff]

Season Review 2041

Table | Transfers | Finance | Facilities | Youth Intake

A poor season overall, we chase top 2 for a while but as many other years our second half is bad and we dont even end up close. A bad intake also suprisingly, i had hoped we would reach promotion this season but now i don't know how many seasons it will take as it is harder to keep our players in this division. And our finances are going into the big red because of this also. Only positive is that we keep getting good increases in attendence. We also loose our star prospect keeper Engström as he woulndt sign a part time contract Lens came and snatched him for free. We have a big chance of getting quite good money thou if he moves as he looks like a top prospect overall.

Top Scorer: (10-B)Olle Edvardsson 19 Goals | 30(0) Games

Most Assists: (14-B)Nicklas Löfvenmark | 15 Assists | 30(0) Games

Best Average: (06-A)Tobias Jonsson | 8.02 Average | 21(4) Games

Top Prospect: (18-G)Kenny Hellström | 5 Goals | 4 Assists | 19(4) Games | 6.98 Average

Best Intake Prospect:  (19-A)Marvin Lunga

[HanziZoloman]

"Same, same but different." Earl of Grey

Season 21 - 44/45

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[Novafluff]

Season Review 2042

Table | Transfers | Finance | Facilities | Youth Intake

Even though last intake were bad a lot of our prospects form earlier intakes took big steps during the season and it really showed in the results! This year we were dominating beating records and looked like a champion from start to finish. We now get another try at tier 2 and i hope we are better prepared this time! Our finances are bad so i hope to stay there for a while and that the board doesnt sell everyone. The intake i forgot to take a picture of but it was quite good Gustav Svensson looks like hte heir to Tobias Jonsson who is getting old.

Top Scorer: (18-G)Kenny Hellström | 23 Goals | 25(3) Games

Most Assists: (14-B)Nicklas Löfvenmark | 20 Assists | 30(1) Games

Best Average: (06-A)Tobias Jonsson | 7.87 Average | 27(0) Games

Top Prospect: (18-G)Kenny Hellström | 23 Goals | 8 Assists | 25(3) Games | 7.54 Average

Best Intake Prospect:  (20-A)Gustav Svensson

[WhiteCat33]

Barbados YAC: Road View FC

2036 Season 14 – BFA Digicel Premier League

Start Post | 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 |

 

League Performance:

 Another undefeated championship. Still haven't had a perfect season though this one was so close!

Cup Performance:

 Grrr....

 

NACL Performance:

We actually did very well to advance from our Caribbean group to then face Mount Pleasant (Jamaica) in the CAR Playoff match. Unfortunately, they dominated us completely.

Reserve & U18s:

 

Squad:

 

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Transfers:

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Best XI:

FM Screenshots: 

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Excel Tables:

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Head Coach:

 

Club Improvements:

 I triggered the Transfer Clause for our Arsenal poachee which got us up to 1.5M in the bank balance. Yes I know I got ripped off as he's valued at 20-30 Million, but...

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Annoyingly I thought this would get us professionalism for the soon to start season, but sadly I had to wait until the next 'year reset' for professionalism to trigger.

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Regardless, I used about half of our accumulated funds to upgrade everything (JR Coaching is already Maxed):

Current Facilities:

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We also renegotiated shirt sponsorships. 2 more years till we can get a new Ground Sponsor.

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Youth Academy:

HOYD:

I decided with our professionalism secured it was time to finally upgrade the HOYD to someone with actual ability. Granted, this isn't all that easy from such a minor nation but I was able to find a pretty solid seasoned Jamaican to take over the job. Downside is he's already 54

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Here was my old one at the end, he is already 60 now so only has a few more years anyways. Hopefully this new guy will go to at least 65 before retiring.

Youth Intake Preview:

  

Youth Intake:

  

Top 3 Players:

Well this is a completely garbage intake. Literally none are up to par to our previous intakes, so I won’t bother highlighting any. I’ll just sign the high potential ones.

Excel Tables:

 

Carrillo - My American Star

My American opened his career for us in the NACL, and even though we exited early in the tournament He was the top Goalscorer. With 8 goals in 6 matches & was a starter in the dream team for the tournament.

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The USA took notice and called him up for the U19 squad, but sadly didn't play him.

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I was worried about signing him onto a contract when we went professional, but luckily he was game to negotiate and agreed to a 3 +2 w/o a release clause! I'm paying him 1.2k p/w and the next highest player is on 400 p/w, but he's easily worth the money and honestly could be our Striker for this save.

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Barbados National Team:

Unfortunately, it was a bad 2036 for the Barbadian national team losing almost all their friendlies and then having a disappointing 2-leg defeat to Puerto Rico in the WCQ Playoffs.

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Road View Internationals:

Barbados Main:

Barbados Youth:

Barbadian’s Around the World:

English Academy Players:

None

MLS Academy Players:

None

Caribbean Academy Players:

Couple Jamaicans & Trindad Players

Other Nations:

None

Caribbean International Performance:

4 Caribbean teams qualified for the Group Stage of the World Cup Qualifiers. Only 1 game in so far (April 2037) and its not looking too great. I'd say there is little chance Cuba or Trinidad will qualify for the World Cup. I could see Jamaica or Curacao having a chance to take 2nd from Honduras.

 

Summary

Losing the cup so early was aggravating, but everything else about the season was perfect. Over the summer I negotiated everyone onto Full Time contracts and have begun upgrading coaches and other backroom staff to match our professional status. Hopefully the new HOYD will give us a much better intake for next year.

[WhiteCat33]

Well, my HOYD change might have backfired...

[HanziZoloman]

"Dropped out of Play Offs on the last match day. But it doesn't matter because for me it's just VNS Manager 23" Earl of Grey

Season 22 - 45/46

Working on my first Million (virtually).

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@WhiteCat33 Oh no, good luck with that.

Edited September 27, 2023 by HanziZoloman

[DomD]

4 hours ago, WhiteCat33 said:

Well, my HOYD change might have backfired...

Ouch.

[DomD]

Who's excited for FM24? Having skipped FM23 the "feature" I'm most looking forward to is being able to use 5 subs 😁

[WhiteCat33]

Barbados YAC: Road View FC

2037 Season 15 – BFA Digicel Premier League

Start Post | 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 |

 

League Performance:

 We lost our 50 game win-streak with our first loss in 3 years in the league this season. Still easily Champions so its no problem

Cup Performance:

 Finally we did it! It was close, but we outlasted them in the extra time of the final to win 2-1. And it was a home game and sellout for us, so all in all a good way to end the season. Also to make it even more sweet it was our first sellout ever.

Reserve & U18s:

 Won both again no problem

Squad:

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Transfers:

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Best XI:

FM Screenshots:

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Excel Tables:

 

Head Coach:

 We made it to 400 matches (forgot to screenshot)

Club Improvements:

 Held off this year after everything when we went professional.

Youth Academy:

HOYD:

In one year he's up to decent from absolutely no knowledge of Barbados.

Youth Intake Preview:

Youth Intake:

@DomD @HanziZoloman Wasn't quite as catastrophic as the preview indicated, but was still incredibly poor. I'm not totally surprised as I changed both HOYD & U18 coach (he got a first team Manager Job so left us).  Additionally, my new HOYD has only 6 adaptability & is foreign so it will take probably 3 years for him to fully establish himself in Barbados.

Top 3 Players:

Bad Bad Bad. Took just the high potential + Good Personality.

Excel Tables:

 

Barbados National Team:

Only halfway through the year, but Barbados failed to qualify for the Gold Cup.

Road View Internationals:

Barbados Main:

Barbados Youth:

Barbadian’s Around the World:

English Academy Players:

 

MLS Academy Players:

 

Caribbean Academy Players:

 

Other Nations:

 

Caribbean International Performance:

Poor showing in the Gold Cup for the Caribbean teams with only Curacao advancing out of the group stage.

Spoiler

They were then knocked out right away in the Quarter finals, but it was to the dark horse winners Honduras! 

They are the first team to win it this save besides the usual Mexico & USA, though they have reached 2 finals. 

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Summary

Finally got the Cup Back and am seeing actual development of my players. Hopefully the intake pain won't continue...

[libbyshuss]

On 25/09/2023 at 14:16, Ice029 said:

In a way I've hit the grand grind and I am actually looking for it. And the question in this case is: are there any tips and tricks I am missing, other than waiting for the stars to finally align?

I'm at exactly the same stage with my Uruguay save and honestly, after three years of playing this save, I have no idea other than waiting for the stars to align.

I know improving my facilities would mean better intakes which would mean better players coming through, but I'm losing so much money each year it's impossible.

frustrating isn't it!

[libbyshuss]

11 hours ago, WhiteCat33 said:

 I triggered the Transfer Clause for our Arsenal poachee which got us up to 1.5M in the bank balance. Yes I know I got ripped off as he's valued at 20-30 Million

I would have done exactly the same. I've been in that position and then the parent club inexplicably releases the player for nothing, or they never sell them. It gave you such a boost in facilities I'd argue that 1m now is worth far more than, say, £10m a few years down the line

I'm kinda jealous by how well your save is progressing at the minute!

[HanziZoloman]

vor 35 Minuten schrieb libbyshuss:

I'm at exactly the same stage with my Uruguay save and honestly, after three years of playing this save, I have no idea other than waiting for the stars to align.

I know improving my facilities would mean better intakes which would mean better players coming through, but I'm losing so much money each year it's impossible.

frustrating isn't it!

thumbs up for your work down south. I am sure you are doing a great job. I spent 15 years till I came out of the reds and could improve anything.

[HanziZoloman]

vor 4 Stunden schrieb WhiteCat33:

@DomD @HanziZoloman Wasn't quite as catastrophic as the preview indicated, but was still incredibly poor. I'm not totally surprised as I changed both HOYD & U18 coach (he got a first team Manager Job so left us).  Additionally, my new HOYD has only 6 adaptability & is foreign so it will take probably 3 years for him to fully establish himself in Barbados.

Same here but he did a bit better than yours. My previous HOYD got sold, I train staff and sell them, for 18K now I am building the new one. 

[Novafluff]

Season Review 2043

Table | Transfers | Finance | Facilities | Youth Intake

I thought we would be quite prepared after last years record season. But our board felt that selling our best CD that where developing like crazy for like 100 euros would solve our 1 million euro debt and then selling his replacement for 600 euros as well as our second best striker for 2.2k euros instead of aiming to stay in the divisios which would clear our debt. It became a awful season from start to finish. Until last 3 games we had a chance of relegation playoffs but we where to bad in general to deserve to stay up. But on the positive we get an amazing intake! Hopefully we can keep hold on most of them to be able to make our trip back down shorter this time. 

Top Scorer: (06-A)Tobias Jonsson | 10 Goals | 12(11) Games

Most Assists: (15-C)Christopher Murbeck | 4 Assists | 30(0) Games

Best Average: (06-A)Tobias Jonsson | 7.41 Average | 12(11) Games

Top Prospect: (21-A)Mahmoud Mansour | 10 Conceded | 0 Clean sheets | 4(0) Games | 6.80 Average

Best Intake Prospect:  (21-A)Mahmoud Mansour

[HanziZoloman]

vor 4 Stunden schrieb Novafluff:

I thought we would be quite prepared after last years record season. But our board felt that selling our best CD that where developing like crazy for like 100 euros would solve our 1 million euro debt and then selling his replacement for 600 euros as well as our second best striker for 2.2k euros instead of aiming to stay in the divisios which would clear our debt. It became a awful season from start to finish. Until last 3 games we had a chance of relegation playoffs but we where to bad in general to deserve to stay up. But on the positive we get an amazing intake! Hopefully we can keep hold on most of them to be able to make our trip back down shorter this time. 

Sounds like a great adventure. All those mishappenings and twists are great stories.

[Novafluff]

20 minutes ago, HanziZoloman said:

Sounds like a great adventure. All those mishappenings and twists are great stories.

Yeah, it is really the finances that screw us up. We get to good players overall to stay in division 1 for to long but as soon as we manage to go up a lot of interest comes in and the board sells them for breadcrumbs. Will need to get 2+ seasons in second tier to stabalise the finances i think. Then we can start aiming for tier 1

[HanziZoloman]

vor 8 Stunden schrieb Novafluff:

Yeah, it is really the finances that screw us up. We get to good players overall to stay in division 1 for to long but as soon as we manage to go up a lot of interest comes in and the board sells them for breadcrumbs. Will need to get 2+ seasons in second tier to stabalise the finances i think. Then we can start aiming for tier 1

Finances are key, for sure. Now that they are set and stable everything is much more easier. Took me 15 virtual years to learn that lesson.

[Novafluff]

Season Review 2044

Table | Transfers | Finance | Facilities | Youth Intake

We had a really bad first half of the season where we almost look more downwards then upwards so i kind of already gave up on the season. But then out of nowhere we hit superform winning game after game! we could not catch up to first thou but we claimed 2nd and went into playoffs against Degerfors where we drew 2-2 at home but then we got beaten 0-3 away. If we just hit that form a bit earlier we would have been promoted. Instead we will spend another year losing money which might hurt us long term. The intake where reallt good thou, with Niklas Lundberg going straight into that AMC role and our last intake people are really starting to peform for us already so the future looks bright. We lost last years best prospect thou as Mansour left on a free to Bochum as he never wanted to even talk about a contract with us. Next year we need that promotion and a good intake again!

Top Scorer: (18-G)Kenny Hellström | 32 Goals | 30(1) Games

Most Assists: (21-F)Tom Karlin | 11 Assists | 23(3) Games

Best Average: (18-G)Kenny Hellström | 7.69 Average | 30(1) Games

Top Prospect: (21-B)William Agardius-Hörberg | 0 Goals | 2 Assists | 25(2) Games | 7.16 Average

Best Intake Prospect:  (22-A)Niklas Lundberg

[WhiteCat33]

On 28/09/2023 at 00:34, libbyshuss said:

I would have done exactly the same. I've been in that position and then the parent club inexplicably releases the player for nothing, or they never sell them. It gave you such a boost in facilities I'd argue that 1m now is worth far more than, say, £10m a few years down the line

I'm kinda jealous by how well your save is progressing at the minute!

Thanks! Yeah going professional is so huge it's well worth any lost potential future profit. Till the last 2 seasons we've had fantastic players for the level of club, just hope I can turn around these disaster intakes. I had a similar problem in St Vincent last year when my original HOYD got old and replaced I could never replicate the quality of players. Really hoping that doesn't happen again...

[Ice029]

'tiz but a minor setback.

 

[Cultured Left Foot]

If you'd like to follow along in more detail, this is a playthrough on my YouTube channel at : http://www.youtube.com/c/CulturedLeftFoot

 

WELL WELL WELL !  SEASON 35 REVIEW !

GUISELEY ARE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS !!!! (off the 3rd European Competition). 

 

Yes folks, we won the Europa Conference League!!!

 

Its going to really put Guiseley on the map of the footballing world.   We beat such giants as Genk, PSV and Debreceni on the way to beating WSG Tirol in the final. It was all very very comfortable!

 

 

We also got a number of awards for the Europa Conference League...

 

 

 

 

 

And the success didn't end there as our youth teams had a great season too !

 

 

The league was a bit mediocre, but winning the Europa Conference League gives us a route back into the Europa League next season.

 

 

Overall, a good season, and European success is very very welcomed. 

 

ON TO SEASON 36 WE GO !

WISH US LUCK !

 

[Sir Cristao]

I hope SI corrects this. This is happening a few too many times in my save.

[HanziZoloman]

Hello everybody, anybody did experience the same (?) my Model Citizen Coaches won‘t do any further courses.

[HanziZoloman]

"The old logo won't work anymore. We did not bad this year but failed to win against the bigger ones." Earl of Grey

Season 23 - 46/47

We're improving but still we are in the VNS. So nothing important to say here.

We got many upgrades as finances are really good now. Training facilities are average now which means players are developing. Now we're working towards professional status. If we need to do all that in VNS because the Earl isn't competent enough to build a promotion formation than that's okay. My Model Citizens won't do any coaching badges except one. Maybe some coaches won't do any courses. Anybody experienced something like that?

Highlight: Samet Kaya missed the "top scorer" trophy by one goal (34).

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[libbyshuss]

Uruguay - Villa Teresa

2031 - Division 2

Season Summary

So, another disastrous season. We were terrible, finished 13th (out of 14) and had to rely on winning the relegation play-off to survive. To be this far into the save and this bad still is kinda upsetting but.....

Youth

Only reason I'm carrying on is my newly upgraded HoYD gave me a ridiculous intake. All my top valued players now are from this intake! 10 elite talents i think?

Finances and upgrades

so, no money, no upgrades and what do the board announce?

 

career

i'll keep plugging away til fm24

[HanziZoloman]

vor 2 Stunden schrieb libbyshuss:

So, another disastrous season. We were terrible, finished 13th (out of 14) and had to rely on winning the relegation play-off to survive. To be this far into the save and this bad still is kinda upsetting but.....

So strong that you keep walking. I am a Fan of your save. Who do you like most in the new intake?

[libbyshuss]

13 hours ago, HanziZoloman said:

So strong that you keep walking. I am a Fan of your save. Who do you like most in the new intake?

there's not many of us left at this stage!

Not sure with that new intake, they all look promising but it's difficult to tell as personality seems to make such a big difference at this level. I'll still be amazed if I'm still in  a job in 2 seasons though

[HanziZoloman]

vor 1 Stunde schrieb libbyshuss:

there's not many of us left at this stage!

Not sure with that new intake, they all look promising but it's difficult to tell as personality seems to make such a big difference at this level. I'll still be amazed if I'm still in  a job in 2 seasons though

Yeah only my professional players and higher determination ones seem to develop plus those one or two exceptions.
I‘ll follow your postings and keep my fingers crossed

Edited October 3, 2023 by HanziZoloman

[Johnny Ace]

I honestly applaud all of you guys sticking with it!! I've bailed out for this year 

[GS_Ball]

Can you reload for better new gens or are you only allowed to use your first intake each season?

[SuperRedditch]

2 hours ago, GS_Ball said:

Can you reload for better new gens or are you only allowed to use your first intake each season?

I mean, undoubtedly there are people who do, because there is no way to prevent people from doing it or check the legitimacy of their intakes.

That said, it's very much against the spirit of the challenge, imo. Getting no good full-backs for eight years and having to repurpose some DMs into IWBs is part of the whole experience.

[HanziZoloman]

vor 1 Stunde schrieb SuperRedditch:

I mean, undoubtedly there are people who do, because there is no way to prevent people from doing it or check the legitimacy of their intakes.

That said, it's very much against the spirit of the challenge, imo. Getting no good full-backs for eight years and having to repurpose some DMs into IWBs is part of the whole experience.

I did reload in the beginning (Truro CIty - didn't know it was against the spirit and rules of the challenge) and I started a new save in consequence. It's so much more fun without reloading not even once.

[WhiteCat33]

Barbados YAC: Road View FC

2038 Season 16 – BFA Digicel Premier League

Start Post | 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 |

 

League Performance:

 

Cup Performance:

 I don’t get it how do these teams magically turn up for cups… I rested all my starters before this game so they were fresh and all their players were tired. Wasn’t even that aggressive just our normal lineup on balanced and they scored 2 goals on 2 shots with under 1 xG in the first half. I pushed a little harder after halftime and their 3rd shot is a goal, with still under 1 xG. After that I just went all offense, but everything fell flat and they got the 4th goal and over half their xG. Ended up with just 4 shots on target and 4 goals. I was so mad I just simed the rest of the season (as we had won the league already)

North American Champions League:

 Draw is reasonable, so will look forward to these games over the summer to hopefully take the bad taste of the cup out of our mouth.

Matches:

#1: Away at Entincelle: Very easy 4-0 victory for us, they didn't even manage a shot on target.

#2: Home vs Road View (Jamaica): Much tougher opponent (hardest in our group). I switched to our more defensive wingbacks and had them less aggressive which yielded a pretty dry first half. Second half, pushing them forward more opened up the game and we got a goal over the top to Carrillo in the 59'. We then punish them for pushing forward with another ball over the top to Carillo in the 65' for his brace. 69' they bring one back on us, and unfortunately in the 81' they push forward and find their equalizer.

#3: Away vs Defense Force (Trinidad): The 2nd best team in the group, and this one is away. We will need a win to keep our hope of advancing alive. 16' they burn us hard down the center and get an early lead. Second half we hit the post 3 times on clear chances for our strikers. But finally, 72' we get the equalizer. Then the Route-One ball from GK to Carrillo gets us ahead in the 78! Ugly but effective to keep our NACL dream alive.

#4: Home vs Bayamon (Puerto Rico): My players are coming off fantastic international performances and this is a weak squad [due to issues with the Puerto Rican League], so it was no surprised we dominated and won 3-0. Unfortunately, we didn't score enough and Humble lion will Advance on GD.

Squad:

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Transfers:

 

Best XI:

FM Screenshots:

 

Excel Tables:

 

Head Coach:

Nothing of note 

Club Improvements:

 None, we are basically just holding financially stable right now. Over the summer before we got to the NACL games we lost a significant amount of money. We really will struggle financially if we can't be regulars in NACL.

Youth Academy:

HOYD:

He's up to full Barbados knowledge now, so hopefully we can start getting better intakes. I don't like his "Park the Bus", hopefully we can still get some talent despite it.

Youth Intake Preview:

Well intake preview is at least back to normal stars, but still not the greatest

  

Youth Intake:

Bad personalities, but Okay intake I guess? Definetly better.

Top 3 Players:

Clive Jones: Bad personality means I don't have much hope for this Poacher/AF

Conrad Nejman: Low determination unambitious is rough for what is a barely okay CB prospect. You might notice a theme emerging...

Shane Hoyte: This high flair playmaker actually could be decent and is perfectly timed for the releasing of the old and slow Burke. Fairly Sporting is at least a neutral personality.

Excel Tables:

Can see from the Graph that even though visually this intake was underwhelming it is at least not catastrophic like the previous 2 intakes

Barbados National Team:

2037: Team is playing all friendlies since they got dropped from WCQ & Gold Cup. Nothing really to say.

2038: Nations League, and Barbados actually pulled off some great performances to stay in Nations League B even with a relatively tough group due to Bonaire being absolutely demolished by everyone.

 

Road View Internationals:

Barbados Main:

Barbados Youth:

I didn't take the youth / reserve teams in my export so I'm missing most of these current U20/U18 players.

Barbadian’s Around the World: [Might update this later]

English Academy Players:

 

MLS Academy Players:

 

Caribbean Academy Players:

 

Other Nations:

 

Caribbean International Performance:

Not international, but I found how the league rankings in North America have changed to be facinating. Having Central American leagues loaded has seen them and Jamaica leap-frog the MLS!

Summary

At least I'll get one summer of NACL to enjoy before another drought due to cup fiascos. I am glad the Academy turned around after some scary down years even if the personalities are horrible. I can only sign people to about 2 year contracts so hopefully I can keep everyone happy to hold them at the club. I could see a breakdown in a couple seasons if we can't start securing the cup. I really didn't expect to have this kind of trouble with the cup matches.

Edited October 3, 2023 by WhiteCat33

[WhiteCat33]

well, I messed up while watching the champions league games and simed over the NACL registration date (as its a random thursday in mid August). There is a glitch in this database that the game doesn't recognize it needs to register anyone so my whole squad is unregistered  . Naturally this is the one year I didn't save after the Youth intake so guess I'll just punt on this NACL which is frustrating, but I don't want to re-roll the intake. 

EDIT: Guess there's no registration? My whole team is available for selection so never mind registering players. Rollercoaster in the Caribbean lol

Edited October 3, 2023 by WhiteCat33

[HanziZoloman]

vor 13 Stunden schrieb Johnny Ace:

I honestly applaud all of you guys sticking with it!! I've bailed out for this year 

Come to England my friend

Truro City the white tigers 

@WhiteCat33 lol 

Edited October 3, 2023 by HanziZoloman

[Ice029]

Milestone 1 achieved. Now the real hard work starts.

 

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[WhiteCat33]

Barbados YAC: Road View FC

2039 Season 17 – BFA Digicel Premier League

Start Post | 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 |

 

League Performance:

 Champions easily for our 12th consecutive season.

Cup Performance:

 CHAMPIONS! This year we didn't fall apart and beat a number of the better teams to claim our 5th Cup title, and entrance back into the NACL.

Reserve & U18s:

Our U18's almost didn't win this year relying on Goal Differential to take the title.

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Squad:

 Squad Screenshots

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Player Profiles

Christian Carrillo: I know this is a minor-league nation, but the fact that we've gotten a Pressing forward over 100 CA is a big achievement with just Basic facilities. Granted, he wants to leave and go play in the MLS so we only will have him for 2 more season, but Carrillo is a solid Pressing Forward and single-handedly carries our team in continental matches. Going to miss him when he's gone. He is physically dominant in our league and just powers through defenders at every turn.

Adrian Headley & Zidkigah Mars: My two wingbacks aren't particularly great in my eyes but do a well enough job on our flanks. It helps we play through the middle primarily so weak crossing is acceptable for my wingbacks.

Curtis Croney ; Barry Hoyte ;Rashad Downey: These are my 3 BWM type players to provide the muscle as the CM-L and CM-R positions for the club. You'll notice they all also play WB so provide defensive cover there 

Hadan Joseph: Our playmaker. He has trash physicals, but mentally he's a pretty good playmaker. It also helps he has good PK attributes (14) and hasn't missed too many as our dedicated taker.

Darico Morris: Our up and coming GK who is improving well and still has potential left.

Clive Jones ; Gregory Neblett ; Randolph Morris - These are our Poachers / Advanced Forwards. Jones came in last intake (and I haven't added his face yet) and has surprised me by not only actually developing with 3 Det & Unambitious, but also scoring goals with 11 in 11 apperances.

Transfers:

 

Best XI:

FM Screenshots:

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Overall:

2039:

 

Excel Tables:

 

Head Coach:

 

Club Improvements:

 None - still can't get foreign affiliates. We are having periodic takeover rumors so maybe that will change. Its been over 10 years since our last board takeover.

Youth Academy:

HOYD:

He's still with us...

Youth Intake Preview:

How long will I put up with this?

Youth Intake:

What an odd intake. 3* level of intake is awful, but we got a Star Goalkeeper who is Fairly Professional and good enough to start for us if I want him to. The real issue I have with the intake is personalities. It is absolutely atrocious with 1 casual, 1 Low det, 7 Unambitious and 5 Balanced. With only my new GK and one other player having any positive personality.

Top 3 Players:

Sheran Cumberbatch: The literal only downside to him is he's Inconsistent. Everything else about this guy is awesome. 6'5" GK with Handling & Reflexes. Jackpot! I'm glad of the two GKs he doesn't have USA 2nd nationality as this means he will hopefully really help the Barbadian national side.

Shane Lloyd: Game sees him as having the better Current Ability. Unfortunately, I don't use wingers and with 1 Marking and 4 Tckling he can't play WB properly.

Tajio Broome: Tool says he has 50 CA-wf. I don't see it.

Carl Warner: Tool says he also has 50 CA-wf. Unfortunately he is casual with 1 Det so what could have been a possible depth Poacher will probably be tossed after a few years.

Excel Tables:

Even with this being in total a lowly evaluated intake it happened to generate one of the best prospects to come through our academy all save. So I guess this new HOYD isn't all bad?

Barbados National Team:

 

Road View Internationals:

Barbados Main:

Barbados Youth:

Barbadian’s Around the World:

After not doing this for a few years I plan to take a look to see if the recent good form for the national team has gotten foreign clubs to poach Barbadian players. I'll do the last 3 years, so players 18 & younger. Will add what I find in the Edit.

English Academy Players:

 

MLS Academy Players:

 

Caribbean Academy Players:

 

Other Nations:

 

Caribbean International Performance:

Add in edit tomorrow

Statistics Manager:

 

Summary

 

[darren1983]

Fair play to all still going, am taking a FM break before the beta drops but already know my team for next year.

I'll have the new thread up soon after the beta drops I imagine. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Hey @WhiteCat33I usually keep an eye on this thread throughout the year but this time I just haven't got round to it. I've just seen your Excel charts and while there is a lot going on in there and I'm sure there is stuff I've missed at 1st glance..... they're absolutely brilliant. Well done. 

I'm interested to hear your thoughts on why you think you've had so many (Unamb) players through the Academy (25.5%)? I used to be of the opinion that there was a Nationality/Nation slant/impact/influence on personalities, but that was in a much older version of the game and now I'm much less sure. 

Do you mind if I ask what you did with Brad Jones the (L.Det)+(Unamb) poacher from a previous intake? Did you just bin him off or are you playing him in the hope that he will develop because of game time and you can hopefully do something with his hidden attributes? 

[HanziZoloman]

vor einer Stunde schrieb darren1983:

Fair play to all still going, am taking a FM break before the beta drops but already know my team for next year.

I'll have the new thread up soon after the beta drops I imagine. 

If I take my save into FM24 I continue posting in the YAC 24 thread?

[darren1983]

44 minutes ago, HanziZoloman said:

If I take my save into FM24 I continue posting in the YAC 24 thread?

I was going to put a note in the new OP but yeah I've no issue with anyone continuing their save on FM24 posting in the new thread.