NR8571 Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 Great save so far, just caught up, a Polonia Warszawa save has always been appealing to me! Seems like you've got some good young players (Sadowski looks like a decent striker) and are taking the Ekstraklasa by storm. Well done, I like the update style and will be following this. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 @NR8571 thanks for following! I will have to find some good clubs to loan my youth academy players to to help with their development. Might even be able to give them some minutes in the first team towards the end of the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 It's the U18s but one of my academy graduates got called up to play for Poland. I didn't get an inbox item about it, but he did get capped. I did get this unfortunate news item. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted November 24, 2023 Author Share Posted November 24, 2023 Polonia Warszawa Season 2 - 2024/25 - March On the field we had an excellent month. We didn't play well against Sosnowiec, but then turned in a great performance against Lubin. That was followed up by a one man show against Raków Częstochowa. I thought we were going throw it away after taking a 3 goal lead, but Radziński came through for us. Unfortunately off the field things are starting to unravel. Michał Grudniewski, a defender who even last season was just a squad player became upset that he wasn't getting the game time he thought he should. He asked for a loan, I said ok. A loan offer came in, I accepted it, but he rejected it! Then complained to me that I didn't do enough to find him a loan move. Now two other players are upset and when I talked to them about it, they became more upset. We'll see where this goes... Hopefully I don't lose the dressing room and get fired. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted November 24, 2023 Author Share Posted November 24, 2023 Legia have a player on the wonderkids list. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted November 25, 2023 Author Share Posted November 25, 2023 And now this happened... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted November 25, 2023 Author Share Posted November 25, 2023 2025 Youth Intake My HOYD says this is a potential golden generation, I'm not convinced. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted November 26, 2023 Author Share Posted November 26, 2023 Polonia Warszawa Season 2 - 2024/25 - April I was worried that our injuries and some dressing room discontent would lead to a drop off in form. But for the most part things continued to go well. The game against Miedź was absolutely wild and we were quite disappointing against Jagiellonia. But still holding on to 3rd in the table. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted November 26, 2023 Author Share Posted November 26, 2023 Three games to go and things have gotten very interesting. Legia won the Cup, which means that if they finish in the top 3 the 4th place team will still qualify for the Europa Conference League. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted November 26, 2023 Author Share Posted November 26, 2023 We just couldn't win against ŁKS this season, we drew 0-0 in very frustrating fashion. Still top but now our best player is injured. Now it comes down to going away to Legia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vakama2619 Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 This will be an exciting fixture indeed. Particularly with both teams able to claim the title 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 Oh man, I can't even imagine that final day in real life. Mental, absolutely mental. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted November 27, 2023 Author Share Posted November 27, 2023 22 minutes ago, Vakama2619 said: This will be an exciting fixture indeed. Particularly with both teams able to claim the title I was literately sitting on the edge of my seat at my computer 7 minutes ago, Rikulec said: Oh man, I can't even imagine that final day in real life. Mental, absolutely mental. It would be insane. Hopefully someday it will actually happen. Unfortunately, I've only been to one game in Poland, that was at Wisła Kraków in 2005. That was when the first stand of the new stadium was still being built. The atmosphere was great, and that was just an early season match. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted November 27, 2023 Author Share Posted November 27, 2023 We were second best, especially in the early part of the match. Down by 2 goals 24 minutes in, I thought we might get embarrassed. Somehow we salvaged a draw and finished the season ahead of Legia! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted November 27, 2023 Author Share Posted November 27, 2023 Polonia Warszawa Season 2 - 2024/25 - Review Despite not clinching the title on the final day, this has been an amazing season. The squad certainly over-preformed and we finished above sides that spent much more money than we did. It was really the result against ŁKS that cost us, but I can't complain. The Conference League will still bring us some money. We need to seriously strengthen the squad, especially on the left side. Junior Radziński did great stepping up to the Ekstraklasa and continued to lead the line for us. The prize money is great for us. But I was not expecting this. Do all the teams get this no matter where you finish? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted November 27, 2023 Author Share Posted November 27, 2023 Polonia Warszawa Season 2 - 2024/25 - Review (part 2) Some more highlights. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted November 27, 2023 Author Share Posted November 27, 2023 Polonia Warszawa Season 2 - 2024/25 - Review (part 3) Lech won for the second season in a row, but as you can see, they outspend the rest of the league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NR8571 Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 (edited) What a nail biter of an end to the season, well done. European football will be a massive boost for you-I can see a title coming soon. Edited November 27, 2023 by NR8571 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vakama2619 Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 Unlucky not to win the title man, you'll get it eventually 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted November 28, 2023 Author Share Posted November 28, 2023 Things are looking pretty good on the financial side. European club ranking up to 367. We'll be visiting either Latvia or Gibraltar on my first European adventure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted November 28, 2023 Author Share Posted November 28, 2023 On 26/11/2023 at 23:59, NR8571 said: What a nail biter of an end to the season, well done. European football will be a massive boost for you-I can see a title coming soon. On 27/11/2023 at 04:53, Vakama2619 said: Unlucky not to win the title man, you'll get it eventually Thanks guys. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 2, 2023 Author Share Posted December 2, 2023 Polonia Warszawa Season 3 - 2025/26 - Preview We're on the eve of the new league season and the start is jam packed and looking tough for us. Starting at home against a difficult opponent in Cracovia then we host Latvian side Valmiera four days later before an cross town trip to Legia. Board Expectations: PKO BP Ekstraklasa: Mid-table Puchar Polski: Be competitive UEFA Europa Conference League: Be competitive The media expect us to finish 13th in the league with the bookies giving us 700-1 odds for the title (17th place) We've done a bit of transfer business, including releasing 18 players, but the window is still open and we still have a good amount of money left in our transfer/wage budget. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 4, 2023 Author Share Posted December 4, 2023 Polonia Warszawa Season 3 - 2025/26 - July Great start to our my first campaign in Europe, but the match against Legia was a tough lesson in how far we have to go. I may have made some mistakes in my squad rotation planning, but I didn't expect to by down by 5 at half-time. But after the hairdrier treatment and a couple of subs the players responded with a much better 2nd half. The one bright spot of that game and generally early surprise of the early season is young striker Ange Lago. I had signed him as one for the future and expected to use him sparingly this season. But early season injuries to our main strikers gave him and chance and boy has he grabbed it with both hands, 5 goals in 4 matches, including the 2 against Legia. Our next opponent in the Conference League are Bodø/Glimt. This will be a much tougher test and might be the end of the road for us. I was a bit surprised, but the board offered me a new 3 year deal with almost a year still left on my last contract. Not that there was much of raise. I managed to convince them for an improvement to Youth Coaching. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 9, 2023 Author Share Posted December 9, 2023 Polonia Warszawa Season 3 - 2025/26 - August Our busiest month ever was down and up. Like I predicted Bodø/Glimt were too much for us. We were rather disappointing and they outplayed us in both legs. Frustratingly they then lost to Croatian side Varaždin, who I think we would have had a better chance against. But we finished the month strong in the league with great performances, especially against Lech and Raków. Got the board to agree to a youth recruitment upgrade. This domestic player U22 rule is a bit of a pain. Last season we had a couple of U22 players who were regular starters and a couple more who were regularly coming off the bench and we met the criteria quite early on. But all those players have now aged out. We have some young players, but they are all foreign and we might just have to pay the fine this year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 10, 2023 Author Share Posted December 10, 2023 (edited) Polonia Warszawa Season 3 - 2025/26 - Transfer Roundup I did a lot more business than I thought I would, pretty much changing the whole squad. But the money was there to spend so it was hard not to. On the sale side, the biggest news was the sale of 19 year old Brazilian Mauro Neiva Tavares. I signed him last season on a free on really low wages for his potential. Sent him out on loan to a lower league club and was probably going to do that again. But then bids started coming in, I decided to cash in. Have a 20% of next transfer clause too, so it will be interesting to see if he keeps developing. As for players who joined us. For the most part I signed young players released by bigger clubs. But the one I did pay for I broke our transfer fee paid for record. Our big money purchase was young Croatian winger Ante Crnac from Raków. They paid over £1.1M for him in 2023, but for some reason he wasn't able to break into their team and asked for a move. So far seems like a bargain. Released by Byern Munich, young Spanish central midfielder Javier Fernandez looks like one that could be a key player for us for years to come. I'll highlight some of the rest through out the season if their performances warrant it. Edited December 10, 2023 by DomD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 11, 2023 Author Share Posted December 11, 2023 Polonia Warszawa Season 3 - 2025/26 - September With less than half the matches we had last month, September seemed rather quiet. The results were great, I only wish that we could have kept 3 clean sheets. But I did rotate a bit for the Górnik Zabrze match to give a few fringe players a run out. Junior Radziński is back to his great form from last season. He has scored 3 hattricks already! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 12, 2023 Author Share Posted December 12, 2023 Is there a way to see which players came from Polonia? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 13, 2023 Author Share Posted December 13, 2023 Polonia Warszawa Season 3 - 2025/26 - October Almost a perfect month. We might have won against Radomiak but Cranc got a straight red card in the 5th minute for a ridiculous tackle from behind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jogo Bonito Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 Going very well, I like how your squad is looking here too. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 16, 2023 Author Share Posted December 16, 2023 On 13/12/2023 at 11:13, Jogo Bonito said: Going very well, I like how your squad is looking here too. Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 16, 2023 Author Share Posted December 16, 2023 Polonia Warszawa Season 3 - 2025/26 - November We remained undefeated, but we didn't quite dominate as we did earlier this season. Now we have a couple of key matches within a few days of each other. And Legia are out of the cup making things even harder for us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 17, 2023 Author Share Posted December 17, 2023 Polonia Warszawa Season 3 - 2025/26 - December Advancing to the Puchar Polski quarter finals was nice, but the result against Legia was not. According to the stats we were slightly ahead on xG, but it didn't feel like it during the match. We still have some way to go before we can compete with Legia on a regular basis. We also seem to have lost the defensive solidity that we had earlier in the season, which is a bit of a concern. We may be top of the table to end the year, but things are very close and any further slip up will open the door for Legia and Lech. Seeing two of our key players recognized is great. The youth intake preview is disappointing. But I guess I have to remember that the squad has been greatly improved over the last season, so it will be harder to get a good intake relative to our current players. I was already thinking about replacing our HOYD, and he announced that he will retire at the end of the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 21, 2023 Author Share Posted December 21, 2023 Polonia Warszawa Season 3 - 2025/26 - February Not a good month. We were poor against both Lech and Rakow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 22, 2023 Author Share Posted December 22, 2023 Polonia Warszawa Season 3 - 2025/26 - Winter Transfer Window I wasn't expecting to do so much business in the mid-season window. But here is the total outlay for the season. Mateusz Kuchta, our number 1 GK from last season had been relegated to a backup role, didn't like it and wanted to move. So, I signed an emergency backup, then I signed Tim Schreiber who should actually be able to push for the number 1 job. The biggest news was buying young striker Kacper Chełmecki. My scouts suggested he would be a good option for registration rules and since I was starting to get worried that I didn't have enough Polish players in the squad I decided to break our transfer record once again this season. The others were some youngsters with high potential who had been on amateur contracts. Managed to balance the books with with some sales. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 7 hours ago, DomD said: I wasn't expecting to do so much business in the mid-season window. Yeah, I know this all too well. It just kinda... happens, right? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 22, 2023 Author Share Posted December 22, 2023 Polonia Warszawa Season 3 - 2025/26 - Youth Intake Not much to get excited about. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 22, 2023 Author Share Posted December 22, 2023 (edited) Polonia Warszawa Season 3 - 2025/26 - March The results were much better this month. Although the game against Miedź was frustrating because we were 3-0 up at half-time and for some reason stopped playing well in the 2nd half. We got our revenge against Raków for knocking us out of the cup. Unfortunately we lost Javier Fernandez for the rest of the season. This is a big blow, even at his very young age he is a key player for us. There are two Polish players in the NXGN list. Rejczyk was bought from Legia for 3.2M, he's made 3 appearances for Liverpool so far. Nizlolek is on loan at Radomiak from Dortmund. Edited December 22, 2023 by DomD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 23, 2023 Author Share Posted December 23, 2023 We just can't string together a good sequence of wins and the title race is going to be another close one. I don't feel confident. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 23, 2023 Author Share Posted December 23, 2023 Polonia Warszawa Season 3 - 2025/26 - April An excellent start to the month followed up by two very frustrating results, but we end with a win. Both Legia and Lech have also been dropping points which has kept us in the title race. I signed Vimoj Muntu Wa Mungu thinking he would be one for the future. But I couldn't find a decent more experienced Left-Back and have had him playing as much a as possible. His performances and development have been very pleasing. Although he has been rather inconsistent all season, this is another blow for us in the run in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 23, 2023 Author Share Posted December 23, 2023 Polonia Warszawa CHAMPIONS!!! We did it! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 24, 2023 Author Share Posted December 24, 2023 Winning the league and qualifying the Champions League has had the immediate effect of the board greatly increasing the number of coaches allowed at the club, without me even asking. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 As you know, I'm not a fan of Polonia, but, uh... congratulations, I guess. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 24, 2023 Author Share Posted December 24, 2023 10 hours ago, Rikulec said: As you know, I'm not a fan of Polonia, but, uh... congratulations, I guess. Ha ha, thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 24, 2023 Author Share Posted December 24, 2023 Polonia Warszawa Season 3 - 2025/26 - May In the end we only needed a draw against Jagiellonia to win the league. I was hoping for the team to put on a real performance in front of the sell out crowd. But it turned out to be a real nervous affair. Still in the end we did enough to win the title with a game to spare. Although we lost to Legia both times this season, they finished all the way down in 5th and outside of the European places. But with no European football for them next season I expect that they will be a force in the league. I was a bit surprised that Pogoń Szczecin finished 2nd and won the Cup too. But looking at how much they are spending, it really isn't a surprise. This is how the league records stand at the moment. A few more goals this season and we might have set a new Team Goals record. Hopefully we can keep improving and maybe take the Most League wins in a Season record from Legia. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 25, 2023 Author Share Posted December 25, 2023 Polonia Warszawa Season 3 - 2025/26 - Review All in all a very good season. The media predicted us to finish 13th and the bookies had us in 17th (700-1 odds). Now to hire some more staff and upgrade the squad where I can, but I'll try not to do huge overhaul like last season. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 25, 2023 Author Share Posted December 25, 2023 A few more end of season bits. Our growing reputation means more sponsorship money. Our training facilities need an upgrade, but I'm wary of doing it before we have even more money in the bank. Might still ask the board for it... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 25, 2023 Author Share Posted December 25, 2023 We had a slight movement up the European club ranks. Lech is top ranked Polish club. Poland is up to 16th, if we can move up to 15th than Poland will get another Champions League spot and 5 clubs in continental competition. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 26, 2023 Author Share Posted December 26, 2023 The Champions League draw gave us a tough opponent in Bulgarian side Levski Sofia. They eliminated Bodø/Glimt from Europa League qualifying before we met the Norwegians last season. Levski went all the way to the round of 16 in the Europa Conference. Our first foray into the Champions League might be a short one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 26, 2023 Author Share Posted December 26, 2023 A youth prospect poached! Wisła Płock is not a club I thought would be a more desirable location than Polonia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomD Posted December 26, 2023 Author Share Posted December 26, 2023 Maybe I should have asked for this earlier, it won't cost as much as I expected. Our new HOYD. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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