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Saturday 23rd November 2030

Bodø/Glimt 2-3 Viking

Post-Match Press Conference

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I'm so incredibly proud of the players. At 0-2 down it was all slipping away from us but they showed their character, their togetherness, and to turn it around and win in Bodø/Glimt's own back-yard was something unbelievably special.

Delighted for my backroom staff, many of whom came with me from Hødd, who have worked tremendously hard behind the scenes.

I'm thrilled for the Viking Board, the chairperson Jarle-Bech Eriksen who's been so supportive here since day one.

But this is for our amazing de mørkeblå supporters, 413 of them were inside Aspmyra and, in the second-half, they out sang 7,800-odd Bodø/Glimt fans. It was incredible.

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It was, because it clawed us back to just 1-2 down and it gave us some hope because, honestly, the game and the Eliteserien title were slipping away from us at that point.

We started the game well, Lasse Nordås headed inches over the bar after 10 minutes and we were giving as good as we got.

But after about quarter of an hour, Bodø/Glimt settled and took control of the game. They scored after 31 minutes and again eight minutes later and Tite's team seemed to be cruising at that point.

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I did think about waiting until the break to make changes but, the way the game was going, we could've been 3-0 down and the game over so we changed there and then, we changed to an Attacking mentality and a more Attacking shape and it worked, because Lasse Nordås scored which meant we went in at half-time only one goal behind and the players were on a high.

After the break we were much better, the players had belief and, to be fair, I think Bodø/Glimt started to feel the pressure.

Preslav Borukov equalised around the hour mark and suddenly it really was game-on. We knew 2-2 wasn't enough and that we had to win. The crowd sensed it. Our fans got louder and louder and the Bodø/Glimt fans got nervy which, I think, transmitted to their players.

And then came the strangest moment of the whole game which could've cost us. Brice Wembangomo hit a delightful cross into the penalty area, Lasse Nordås went down under a challenge, and Preslav Borukov headed the ball into the back of the net. We went crazy but the goal wasn't given because the referee had already blown for a penalty... only VAR sent the referee to the monitor and he changed his mind, no penalty. We were furious. A goal chalked off and a penalty taken away from us in a matter of seconds.

Time was running out now...

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... so we went for it. a much more Attacking shape because if we were going to miss out we were going to miss out going for it.

Edvin Austbø hit the bar with a cracking shot from just outside the penalty area and you do start to wonder if it's just not our day.

And then, then, the referee awarded us another penalty. My heart was in my mouth as VAR reviewed the referee's decision but this time it was a penalty and Lasse Nordås was calmness personified as he scored from the spot to give us a 3-2 lead.

I knew Bodø/Glimt were going to throw everything at us then, they had to, and our shape was far too Attacking and left us vulnerable, so...

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... we changed.

And it was like the Alamo. But we defended magnificently, winning headers, making tackles, getting blocks in, Jasper Torkildsen making saves...

... and then the final whistle and we'd retained our Eliteserien Title.

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After the goal got ruled out, and the penalty decision overruled, it did start to look like things weren’t going to go our way.

So yes, the winning goal when it came was massive for us although, obviously, we didn’t know it was the winning goal at that point but at 3-2 we had the title if we could hold onto the lead.

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At 0-2 down after 39 minutes it looked like it might be slipping away, but we always had belief we could do it.

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Success brings more pressure, sure. Bring it on.

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That’s why I signed a four-year contract extension.

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I think we've been pretty consistent all season but those three wins out of three in July against Bodø/Glimt, Odd and Sandnes Ulf didn't do us any harm at all.

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Lasse Nordås has only been with us for 13 games but his form since joining Viking has been top notch.

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Congrats on your title. Time to start scouting the youth ranks of your and other teams for a pipeline of talent to keep this going. Bodo/Glimt, Molde, and especially Rosenborg will not be mediocre forever even with AI Squad building.

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Saturday 23rd November 2030

Reaction to Viking's Eliteserien Title

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Episode 104 - Eliteserien Title Retained | 24th November 2030

"I'm in the Norwegian Hall of Fame"

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4 hours ago, Hootieleece said:

Congrats on your title.

Thanks, @Hootieleece

4 hours ago, Hootieleece said:

Time to start scouting the youth ranks of your and other teams for a pipeline of talent to keep this going.

I think you are probably right in that assessment. 

Hmmmmn... not sure if I’ve mentioned before on this thread, but I'm not a big fan of newgens... that's why I'm using a newgen facepack and giving any newgens at Viking (and Loddefjord and Hodd before that) a face if I think they have good potential.

I already have two Academy players in the first team squad. Midfielder Steinar Braathen, and I’ve just added a 15-year old goalkeeper Roger Vestgøte to the first team squad. I also have eight younger players out on loan and some of them may make next season's first team squad.

I'll be doing a post at the start of 2031 pre-season about the young players with potential at Viking, particularly as there's one element of the Club Vision the Board are very disappointed with me about...

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Definitely need to scout younger players outside of Viking and will probably, reluctantly, take over responsibility for scouting as every season my recruitment team run out of scouting budget early in the season.

4 hours ago, Hootieleece said:

Bodo/Glimt, Molde, and especially Rosenborg will not be mediocre forever even with AI Squad building.

You can probably add Brann to that list as well.

When you factor in that we did the League double over Bodo/Glimt yet only pipped them to the Eliteserien title by one point, then clearly Bodo/Glimt did better against the other 14 Eliteserien teams than we did.

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2 hours ago, warlock said:

A stunning victory, Stu

Thank you, @warlock

2 hours ago, warlock said:

and done the hard way.

Yes. I think I earnt that victory against Bodo/Glimt with all the changes I made during the match.

At 0-2 down after 39 minutes it looked like it wasn’t going to be our day.

Then around 70 minutes, at 2-2, it did seem to be slipping away from us when we had a goal disallowed, because the referee had awarded us a penalty, only for VAR to overrule that decision. No goal and no penalty either.

And when we did get our noses in front 3-2, it was very tense during the closing 10+ minutes as Bodø/Glimt put us under a lot of pressure. Very late on, their goalkeeper joined the attack, popping up from nowhere, and shooting over the bar from 20 yards.

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2 hours ago, samboing said:

Edge of your seat stuff

It certainly was, @samboing

The final game against Bodo/Glimt put me through an emotional wringer as I explained in my response to @warlock above.

In truth, I thought we’d blown it the game before when we lost at home to Brann, allowing Bodø/Glimt to go top by two points.

2 hours ago, samboing said:

I mean who wants to read that you’ve won the league with games to spare 😂

I’m sure it’s much more interesting to read this way but it’s not very good for my nerves :lol:

2 hours ago, samboing said:

congratulations 👏🏻 for another great season, and title win!

Thank you.

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We need to make sure we don't have a hangover from the euphoria of winning Eliteserien.

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Goalkeeper troubles are the story of the day. Our #1 Jasper Torkildsen is fine. But our other two registered goalkeepers are both injured, Julian Faye Lund is unwell and Magnus Rugland Ree is recovering from a fractured arm.

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According to the rules, as I understood them, we should be able to include an unregistered goalkeeper if two registered goalkeepers are injured...

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...but we couldn't so Magnus Rugland Ree will be on the bench.

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Wednesday 27th November 2030

Viking (Norway) v Bologna (Italy)

UEFA Champions League

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Defensively we were at our very best and Jasper Torkildsen didn't have a shot to save all game.

But, at the other end, we were wasteful and didn't test their goalkeeper enough.

Patience paid off though in the end. We got a late penalty which Lasse Nordås calmly slotted away to secure three points.

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Episode 104 - Eliteserien Title Retained | 1st December 2030

"Viking First Team Squad"

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Episode 104 - Eliteserien Title Retained | 1st December 2030

"Monthly Review"

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Finances

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Dynamics

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Monday 1st December 2030

Until Next Time...

... when we have just one fixture, home to Celtic in the UEFA Champions League.

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December's Fixtures

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Thoughts, comments, general feedback appreciated.

Any questions, just ask and I'll answer them if I can.

Thank you for reading and following.

Until next time...

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5 hours ago, Stuniverse said:

take over responsibility for scouting as every season my recruitment team run out of scouting budget early in the season.

You know that you can give them funds from the transfer funds in the scouting screen.

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70 points in the league should be your goal every season. Since this number will winy you the Eliteserien Title most seasons, and if not, get you a European place.

 

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3 minutes ago, Hootieleece said:

You know that you can give them funds from the transfer funds in the scouting screen.

Nope, I didn’t. How do I do that, @Hootieleece?

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14 minutes ago, Stuniverse said:

Nope, I didn’t. How do I do that, @Hootieleece?

At the top of the MAIN scouting screen, you should see the Scouting budget on the top of the screen, click on it, and it should give you a slider for funds from the transfer funds, just like you can move transfer funds to payroll or vice versa.

I will check shortly make sure I am explaining correctly.

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sorry about the unedited screenshot but I thought it best to show what the screen looks like after clicking on the scouting budget,

 

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12 minutes ago, Hootieleece said:

70 points in the league should be your goal every season. Since this number will winy you the Eliteserien Title most seasons, and if not, get you a European place.

 

We were one point short of 70 this season.

I’ll check when I next launch FM how many points the winners got in the previous seasons.

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8 hours ago, Hootieleece said:

70 points in the league should be your goal every season. Since this number will winy you the Eliteserien Title most seasons, and if not, get you a European place.

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8 hours ago, Stuniverse said:

We were one point short of 70 this season.

I’ll check when I next launch FM how many points the winners got in the previous seasons.

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8 hours ago, Hootieleece said:

At the top of the MAIN scouting screen, you should see the Scouting budget on the top of the screen, click on it, and it should give you a slider for funds from the transfer funds, just like you can move transfer funds to payroll or vice versa.

I will check shortly make sure I am explaining correctly.

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sorry about the unedited screenshot but I thought it best to show what the screen looks like after clicking on the scouting budget,

Well I didn't know that... been playing FM for a very long, long, long time and I never knew that.

Found it...

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Many thanks, @Hootieleece.

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Saturday 7th December 2030

Hønefoss (3rd OBOS-ligaen) v Tromsø (14th Eliteserien)

Eliteserien / OBOS-ligaen Playoff Final

Aspmyra, Bodø

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Sunday 8th December 2030

Bodø/Glimt (Tier 1) v Sogndal (Tier 1)

Norgesmesterskapet i fotball (Cupen) Final

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo

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4 hours ago, warlock said:

Is it possible to take "a closer look" at 23 players in a single match? :D

:lol:

No, absolutely not @warlock

No offence to Hønefoss, but I went to the Eliteserien / OBOS-ligaen Playoff Final to cheer on Tromsø. When Timmy Simons took over as Tromsø manager in May of this year, they were rock bottom and looked dead and buried after drawing two and losing six of their opening eight Eliteserien fixtures so Timmy has done very well well to turn their fortunes and finish as high as 14th. I didn't think they deserved to get relegated.

As for the Cupen Final between Bodø/Glimt and Sogndal... well I'm in a privileged position and I like to watch the Final.

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17 hours ago, Stuniverse said:

According to the rules, as I understood them, we should be able to include an unregistered goalkeeper if two registered goalkeepers are injured...

The game only counts 'red' injuries as injuries, looks like your backup has a minor 'orange' which, for these purposes, doesn't count!

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9 minutes ago, BML said:

The game only counts 'red' injuries as injuries, looks like your backup has a minor 'orange' which, for these purposes, doesn't count!

Thanks, @BML. That makes sense.

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Episode 105 - End of 2030 Norwegian Season | 10th December 2030

"Årets Eliteserien Awards"

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Årets Spiller

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Celtic at home in the UEFA Champions League is going to be another difficult test for us before a short break for Christmas and then we face Barcelona away and Napoli at home in January.

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Absolutely. I wouldn't have signed a new four-year contract otherwise.

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We're trying to do our transfer business early if we can. We already have two players who've agreed to join us in January, one on a free transfer and one with a nominal fee. There's two players, including Aleksander Liland, where we've agreed a transfer fee with the club and verbally agreed personal terms with the player and agent, and there's another player where we've made a bid.

All the others are under the public radar so I don't think the leak on Aleksandar Liland is from the Viking end.

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Spoiler

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Jakob Napoleon Romsaas is still out with a hamstring problem but everybody else is healthy although a couple of players are still getting themselves back to full match fitness.

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1 hour ago, BML said:

The game only counts 'red' injuries as injuries, looks like your backup has a minor 'orange' which, for these purposes, doesn't count!

 

1 hour ago, Stuniverse said:

Thanks, @BML. That makes sense.

I never play a player with an orange injury tag. Mostly out of rather having them at near 100% when I use them.

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18 minutes ago, Hootieleece said:

 

I never play a player with an orange injury tag. Mostly out of rather having them at near 100% when I use them.

Same, if it leaves a space on the bench so be it, however there's always a kid I can chuck on there to fill it out!

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Wednesday 11th December 2030

Viking (Norway) v Celtic (Scotland)

UEFA Champions League

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I couldn't have asked for more today. At the end of a long, hard season, it was brilliant to see the players perform so well.

Against a good Celtic team, to be 2-0 up after 22 minutes, and 3-0 up after half an hour, was beyond our wildest dreams.

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We scored some good goals but David Møller Wolfe's was the pick of the bunch.

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Edvin Austbø has been in my ear lately wanting more playing time so it was good to see him score today after I gave him a start.

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We started the match with one back-four, and finished it with a completely changed back-four, whilst still keeping a clean sheet so that was very satisfying.

It was good to be able to give young players Eivind HellandBrage Kvithyld and Steinar Braathen playing time today.

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51 minutes ago, Hootieleece said:

I never play a player with an orange injury tag. Mostly out of rather having them at near 100% when I use them.

32 minutes ago, BML said:

Same, if it leaves a space on the bench so be it, however there's always a kid I can chuck on there to fill it out!

It's not something I would normally do either, @Hootieleece and @BML but in European Competition I get to name 12 players so a matchday squad of 23 from 25 registered players.

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I don't have many U21 players who meet the "two years at club" criteria and I don't have any goalkeepers so for the UEFA Champions League game against Bologna, it was a case of name (orange) injured Magnus Rugland Ree on the bench or go with no goalkeeper on the bench at all.

Now that I know I'm contracted to be at Viking for another four seasons, the development path for Academy players is something I need to pay more attention to.

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Episode 105 - End of 2030 Norwegian Season | 13th December 2030

"End Of Season Review"

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Episode 105 - End of 2030 Norwegian Season | 13th December 2030

"Viking First Team Squad"

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Players Out On Loan

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Episode 105 - End of 2030 Norwegian Season | 13th December 2030

"Viking - Club Vision"

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I was very happy to attend the meeting where Jarle Bech-Eriksen talked me through the Board's expectations.

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Very interesting that the Board now want me to sign players under the age of 23 for the first team...

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... rather than developing players using the club's youth system.

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Everything else was as I expected so I was happy to agree to the Club Vision.

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I did make two requests to improve training facilities (which they agreed to)...

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... and to improve Youth Facilities (which they rejected).

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Agree Club Vision

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Episode 105 - End of 2030 Norwegian Season | 13th December 2030

"Dynamics"

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Edvin Austbø came to see me because he was unhappy with his playing time. I was a bit surprised because he's featured in 31 matches this season albeit that he's only started 17 of them.

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But then when I thought about it, since we signed Lasse Nordås in August, Edvin has only had occasional starts with Lasse and Preslav Borukov being my main strike partnership.

Preslav is 30 now and takes up a non-home grown registration slot so if 25 year old Edvin could step-up that would be good all round, especially as Preslav is happy being a squad player.

I promised Edvin that I'd give him more playing time but that he had to prove he was worth it when he played.

I gave Edvin a start against Celtic and he put in a 7.4 performance and scored a goal. It's up to him to put in consistent performances now.

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Episode 105 - End of 2030 Norwegian Season | 13th December 2030

"End of Season - Team Meeting"

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Episode 105 - End of 2030 Norwegian Season | 13th December 2030

"End of Season Break"

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I can't imagine the players will be happy about reporting back for pre-season training the day before Christmas Eve.

I'll do what I did last pre-season and allow my Medical Team to check the players over and then give them time off until our Training Camp starts.

Talking of which...

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... who thought it was a good idea to jet off to Portugal the day before New Year's Eve?

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We do have two UEFA Champions League fixtures in January though as we're now in that transition period where we'll be in pre-season for our 2031 (calendar year) season but nearly everyone else are half-way through their 2030/31 season.

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Does anybody know if there's an option in FM24 to (a) decide when the Training Camp should be scheduled for and (b) choose where to go on the Training Camp?

I can remember this being in previous FMs but it hasn't come up as an option for me on FM24.

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Episode 105 - End of 2030 Norwegian Season | 13th December 2030

"New Players Arriving in January"

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We're trying to get our transfer business done early and I'm delighted that we already have three deals done for players who will be joining us in January.

Daniel Gjerde Sætren will join us from Sogndal as back-up goalkeeper to Jasper Torkildsen.

Daniel is young enough that he could go on to challenge Jasper for the gloves with the chance of becoming our #1 in the next few seasons.

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In central defence, youngster Jan Rune Hansen will join us on a free transfer from Åsane.

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 Young striker Sean Nilsen-Modebe will also join us from Bodø/Glimt.

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We've also had bids accepted for two defenders and have verbally agreed personal terms with the players and their agents.

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Of course, until the deals are actually over-the-line and confirmed I don't want to jinx them by saying who the players are.

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Episode 105 - End of 2030 Norwegian Season | 13th December 2030

"Finances"

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Friday 13th December 2030

Until Next Time...

... when we'll again get confused as to whether we're in last season or pre-season for the new season, and...

... we'll be away on our training camp in Faro, Portugal, and...

... our UEFA Champions League campaign will continue.

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January's Fixtures

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Thoughts, comments, general feedback appreciated.

Any questions, just ask and I'll answer them if I can.

Thank you for reading and following.

Until next time...

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2 hours ago, Stuniverse said:

Does anybody know if there's an option in FM24 to (a) decide when the Training Camp should be scheduled for and (b) choose where to go on the Training Camp?

Usually when you get the email about the training camp, there will be a tan at the bottom giving different options.

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1 minute ago, Punch said:

Usually when you get the email about the training camp, there will be a tan at the bottom giving different options.

Hmmmmmn, that’s what I remembered from previous FMs but I’m not seeing it on the Training Camp emails on this save.

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Wow, what an amazing way to clinch a league title! Away to the top team, 2-0 down and coming back to snatch it in style - well done indeed!

I'm late to the party but 100% support your decision to sign the new contract at Viking. It was the only choice to make. I like the 'agent chat' sequences, good to see that side continuing.

I noticed that Diouf didn't play enough to get a winners medal, payback for the previous year sending off?!? Not your choice obviously, but must have given you a wry smile....

I've seen the bits about choosing the training camp destination in FM24, but it's not every time they give you options. Usually they do if you've proven yourself at a club, so surprised you weren't given a choice. I don't think you have any say in deciding when they make it, I'm quite sure dates are picked by the club.

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3 hours ago, Stuniverse said:

Does anybody know if there's an option in FM24 to (a) decide when the Training Camp should be scheduled for and (b) choose where to go on the Training Camp?

Seems a bit hit-and-miss in this FM. At Vigo in the most recent two seasons we have been 'invited' to tour Germany and England, with a note pointing out how potentially lucrative such tours are given the popularity of Vigo in those countries :larry:

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