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Great Work! I almost never start the predictions other than dead last after a promotion, even after bringing in new faces. This should be another good season.

October 2034: Regular Season "Bookend Wins" Manager's Thoughts We have played pretty well this season in the league and have consolidated ourselves into fifth place. This is mostly due to our Striker Godoy and his league leading 11 goals in nine matches. We are continuing to beat up the lesser teams of the table, but our test versus AS Monaco showed that we still have a way to go to really challenge for a Champions League place. Our play in the Champions League all season has been disappointing even if I haven't been playing the strongest squads, we are yet to win in the competition. This without us playing the strongest teams in our schedule. The focus on the League will remain but I am hoping to win one match in the Champions League for the sake of pride. Schedule Highlights The first half of the month saw an international break with just training and ASSE2 matches for the remainder of the team. The biggest news of that time was the fact that we re-signed our Striker to an extension, and he will now be leading the line for years to come! The Captain got a raise as well and both are now the highest paid players on the team. The First match of the month came soon after and it would be a visit from rival FC Nantes. We were favored as the home team and because I was focusing on the League, we would play the strongest team available. Sen De Ridder was runner up for the FIFA Best U21 Player of the Year. Quite an accomplishment for a defensive player. As you can see, he has quite an attribute spread and is a quite effective CD-C. Then time came for the match against FC Nantes: We played well led by the newly extended Godoy! Godoy led the line with a hat trick to celebrate his new contract! I was happy with his performance, and he was even named Player of the Week! After the match with FC Nantes, we had a big match with League Leading AS Monaco, one of our bogey teams. The trips to the principality are always rough and this time seemed no different. We played well on the road and were beat by a better team in spite of Beauboucher's heroics in front of goal. Beauboucher was the best player on the pitch and was named player of the week. After the loss to AS Monaco, we had a trip to Basel in the Champions League and would try to win with a half -rotated team since some of my stars were concerned about playing time. It looked like an even matchup and with a half-rotated squad I was confident of victory. We went out to an early lead and just before half I pulled my stars from the field......the second half they became another team and it became the Aaron Akale show with Longballs to him over the to of our press. It was a disheartening loss in that it was probably our last chance to get a win in Champions League this season with Arsenal Barcelona, and Napoli left on our schedule. We returned home to Stade Geoffrey Guichard to host Valenciennes FC. We were still big favorites as the home team. I was looking for a bounceback win! The Valenciennes FC Manager was less than enthusiastic about our style of Football. But in the end, we showed his team who was boss! Led by our Striker Godoy and another Hat-trick! Of course, I was pleased with Godoy's performance! Player of the Week yet again! And he earned a bonus for 10 League Goals! All the usual suspects have great youth systems. One day I want ASSE on the list. League Table Fifth place in the league and Godoy leading the goals race we are on track in the league. Monthly Analysis Report Player of the Month Management Report Monthly Financial Report Looking Ahead to be continued:

What didn't you want to go to home of the Olive?

Work the ball into the box works well when the opposition "Parks the Bus" against your team. Most teams probably are now that you are a leading team in the league.

Way to Go! Winning the League comfortably.

Interesting.......Developments in Stuni's Career!

September 2034: Regular Season "Ups and Downs" Manager's Thoughts It was a decent month. We played well in the League and not so well in the Champions League. That was due to my focus on the Ligue1 and playing the backups in Champions league. We also got some help in that 3 of our four league opponents were relegation fodder, but we did beat OGC Nice in a close match to close out the month. We are scoring well but the defense especially the goalkeeping is a concern. We have only one shutout. Last Season we set a team record with 17! We will continue with the league focus so we can return to champions league next season that is the plan. Now to see if it survives contact with the enemy. Schedule Highlights The Team only added a few players and as the Transfer Window has ended: 2034/35 was mostly players leaving. The moves for the players added were at the end of the 2033/34 Window. Out of those players come 5 players in to the first team. (1 Starter and 4 backups/possible future starters) Ezio Bauer is the best player so far and is the starting Left Back. After the window closed it was time to get on with playing matches. Bastia a relegation favorite and newly promoted team was about to learn about Ligue 1 Uber Eats as I would play the Starters. I was trying to instill confidence in my team after the bad month on the pitch! We pressed them hard and dominated the match like we were expected to, but they scored against the run of play and that was concerning and would be a problem the rest of the month. Bynoe-Gittens did his job with two assists and a goal! The team returned home from Corsica to take on Racing Club Strasbourg at the Stade Geoffrey Guichard. We were favorites and again I would play the Starters since we had to make up lost points and position in the table. and they suffered our wrath.....but they did score two in another match we dominated as expected. It was a master class in scoring everything worked counter attacks, breaking down a bus, Set Pieces you name it we scored! Bynoe-Gittens had another great game. Highlights across France that night.....we were back! Bynoe-Gittens was player of the week. The next match even though it was in Champions League would see me rest the starters and play the backups. If the Starters weren't tired, I'd say we had a good chance of winning. We took the lead with our press of their backline, then they stopped playing out of the back and scored on two long balls over our press. We should have stopped the second goal which was an own goal. The Following players were named to the Young Player watchlist for the Champion's League. After the disappointing loss to Cadiz, we then had to play relegation threatened SM Caen that had just gotten a new manager. The Starters would play against the relegation team because the league was now our focus. We escaped Normandie after almost getting ambushed in the Hedgerows! The Defense shined in this one......and he was also named player of the week! After the trip to Normandie the team headed to Rotterdam to replay the Europa League Semi-Final Rematch. I almost decided to play the starters but too many players needed rest after the Caen match. The match was considered even by the fans but since I was playing a rotated XI we were on the outside looking in. We took an early lead and slowly folded as they controlled the game and created chances. The opposing manager was happy to beat our backups! But we lost one of our impact subs. We would finish the month with a match against OGC Nice, who was in third place and wouldn't be pushovers like the other league matches this month. We would play a full strength Starting XI for the important match. The media tried to create a "War of Words" to Hype the match but neither of us fell into the trap. We won a close hard-fought match. The opposing coach was bitter after the match...... We had played well led by our captain. Valdes had some things to say about our style and the press asked why we play this way....... It was a good day at the office and especially on their Left Flank. I was happy to see that ASSE was home academy for two French National Team Players. Hopefully we can find a few more in the coming years. Another terrible injury, this time in training. At Least two weeks of his convalescence is on the international break, and he won't miss too many matches. League Table Monthly Analysis Report The Attacking polygon looks good if skewed because of the Strasbourg match. The team defense one still needs some work. Our OpponentXG is horrible. Player of the Month Management Report Monthly Financial Report Looking Ahead to be continued:

The only thing that might stop you in your journey with Hodd are the finances. You are doing great otherwise especially this season.

I took up Schalke04 as the last club in my save last year and they were in debt and in Bundesliga2 but not so sad as in your save. They still had a youth team and had a few players to make it back to the Bundesliga straight away and then allow me to create at team of free transfers that competed for Europe before their Board went crazy and built a new Stadium adding to the debt and making it about $800M. I was spending $20M/month just servicing the debt even before the stadium. The Programmers must know or think that Schalke's board is almost as unrealistic as Hertha's IRL.

August 2034: Regular Season "Rough Start" Manager's Thoughts A combination of injuries to important players and tough schedule led to a Four Match losing streak that led to some supporters calling for me to be fired. The team is basically the same as last season and playing the same system for the third season in a row, but I never expected it to get this bad. The losses to Real Madrid and PSG can be excused, we played well and just lost to better teams with better players. The losses to Reims and Toulouse can't be excused even if I played the backups against them because the defense was just awful with them pinging passes to setup scoring chances like they were Barcelona or Manchester City under Pep. The bad start means that any thoughts of cup runs and Champions League are put on hold since the most important expectation is a top four finish in Ligue 1 Uber Eats and we already have a lot of points lost. So the rest of the season I will make the League my priority unless I want to find another job. Schedule Highlights As August began an interesting opening for me opened up in managing, but it was the wrong time to leave ASSE for another basically lateral move to the Bundesliga. I had a season to prepare for and would have a tough start and it would need all of my attention. The Penultimate Preseason friendly went to script. We shipped out our 3rd string Striker after he complained about playing time and $10M is fair return on a free transfer. The Final Preseason Friendly couldn't have gone better against Schalke04. We seemed ready for the season and since we had to play Real Madrid midweek after the start of our season followed by PSG. I decided to let the Backups start the season against Stade de Reims. We were favorites to win and I expected the Backups to do a professional job and at least not lose. The Board reminded me of the expectations yet again......the League is most important. The match against Stade de Reims came and it was a bad day at the office.....they were really up for it and we had no answers. It was a terrible thumping but if we could play well against Real Madrid and PSG this match would quickly be forgotten. The Fans and board were shocked at the defeat...... Highlights of the match at 11pm across France. Were in Relegation places after one match,,,,,not the start I envisaged. They gave us our own back.....and had 7 yellow cards in the match and injured several of our players. It definitely affected the way our players played. After the shock loss against Reims we were taking on a Footballing World Giant: Real Madrid in Estonia! We played well considering it was Real Madrid we were playing and only lost by one goal that was worldly. But of concern was the loss of our Captain and Talisman Van Doorn for the rest of the month! We will have a hard time filling the void...... We were expected to have close to sellout for the PSG match at Stade Geoffrey Guichard. PSG was favored but we would do our best to upset the apple cart! Kylian Mbappe is still leading the line at 35! Good News from the Marketing Department we now have 50% of the seats in our stadium as season ticketholders! Another match where we played PSG tough, but they were let off the hook by a late penalty.....at 90'+7! The PSG Manager was pleased with the win.....while I wasn't exactly thrilled with the referee and his time keeping! The Ligue 1Uber Eats Managerial carousel continues to spin with the old manager leaving for Ireland National Team. The next match was against Toulouse FC and my old rival Roberto de Zerbi. I desperately wanted to win this one, but again it was not to be..... There was a lot of prematch hype for what was squib of a match that we lost 2-0! That meant we had one last chance this month to win a competitive match this month.....against Bordeaux. At least it would be at home, and we were still favored in the match. We were still with many injuries..... and two days before the match the Starting LCB hurts himself and will miss the match! Three of the five players on the list to miss the match are starters! and the worst part is that we have the 2nd best physio department in the League! We played well like we had against Real Madrid and PSG but this time came out victors! The win was much needed and would make the end of the month break that much sweeter. We didn't quite reach the magical number of 500 passes. The Day after our first victory of the season we found out who we would play in the Champions League. If we make the knockout round, it will be a miracle! At least we are being paid for our humiliation! We checked another box in the objectives list! As the Deadline came and after the losses I gave some thought to adding to the team at the deadline, but couldn't quite decide on a target that was much better than our starters. League Table Any Dreams of actually competing in Champions League must go out the window and I must put all my effort into the League. Monthly Analysis Report The Defense has been terrible this month. Player of the Month Management Report The win against Bordeaux at the end of the month steadied the ship. Monthly Financial Report Looking Ahead to be continued:

July 2034: Preseason "Summer Camp with Trucks Tour" Manager's Thoughts We played a variety of teams during the preseason and in all played pretty well. When we played teams of our level or below, we won. When we played an Elite Level team (Arsenal and Liverpool) we lost and it wasn't even close. I am not sure how we will be able to close the gap with the Elite teams because of Budgetary issues. We have doubled the the payroll of the team these last two seasons to just keep what we have. The Transfer Fund sound well-funded with $82M, but that doesn't buy a truly game changing player any more based on the transfer worth of our own and other players. For such a player one would need a minimum of $120M. This puts us in a quandary we are a good team but how to become great? Schedule Highlights The Preseason schedule was a mix of easy teams and tough teams to get us ready for the Champions League matches we will be facing this season. The Board also reminded me of their expectations for the coming season as we got ready for the Saliba Testimonial versus Arsenal. The Toughest expectation is going to be qualify for Champions League thru the League which means a Top Four Finish. It is possible and we are preseason pick to be fourth but with the Champions League thrown in it will make for a difficult campaign especially as we play PSG early in the season. The Board backs us decently with Payroll and Transfer Funds, but neither is enough to attract a real game changing talent. ASSE has a bunch of "good players" who work well as a team none are really a singular talent even though we have some former wonderkids. I was able to get my Continental Pro License so now I can apply for Top Jobs! There are only Two jobs I would chase.... Hertha, which is similar to ASSE and Liverpool since that is my Dream Job. Any other top jobs would have to seek me out and provide an offer I couldn't refuse...... The Arsenal match just proved the gulf between ASSE and Arsenal....they are a team of great singular talents who can easily overcome a team of "good " players whose system allows them to punch above their weight. A few weeks of easy wins against Affiliated Football clubs led to the Euro/SA Club Challenge. We won the match due to our commitment to the press and teamwork that kept them on the back foot most of the match. A first Trophy of the season and it is nice to be mentioned among the past winners as well.....it means we are becoming a Top Team. It will look good in the Display case at Stade Geoffrey Guichard. We sold off a former starter because his replacement Bauer was better and made a decent profit from it. We are still under constraints of not spending more money than we make and now the Payroll is double what it was just Two seasons ago! We played Liverpool as the Month ended after returning with a trophy in hand, but we were shown that we had a way to go before we were in their class. Unfortunately, we will now be without one of our most important players to start the season! As the month was ending I was offered a job in International Coaching: I turned it down mostly because I wasn't finished at ASSE yet.......I would like to win Ligue 1 before I leave, and I will only leave for the "Right" Job. Since I think I only have about 1-2 jobs left before I retire. I am currently 62 years old! I am retiring at 70 no matter what! Season Preview We are expected to be Fourth which is a good position considering we didn't make any big moves in the offseason. That will also get us the UCL Qualification the Board wants. No one from ASSE on the list but that is understandable since we take a more team approach to scoring. Only players from the Top 2 teams are on the list. Player of the Preseason Even though he is the backup at the Striker position he has made his case to included in playing more often. Management Report Monthly Financial Report Looking Ahead to be continued:

Glad to see you doing well after your struggles in Wales. Keep it up and get promoted as Champs! Trophies always look good on a resume.

Peruvian Team should be next.....Strike a blow for Incan Heritage!

Damn the Saudis! They are circling my team as well.... Just like the Chinese a few FM's ago.

June 2034: Offseason Highlights To no one's surprise the PSG Manager won Manager of the Year.....at least I made the Shortlist! The Saudi Sharks are circling for our players...... Bauer is a player I would like to keep. He doesn't fit my physical profile, but his "soccer sense" and flair are second to none. I really don't want to break the bank mostly because I don't see any player in our price range ($60-80M) that are really better than what we already have. Including this guy who wasn't even on our radar.....since that isn't the position we are looking to upgrade. We did sign this possible wonderkid to ASSE2. and also with this player..... This was the position I wanted to upgrade, and this player isn't much better than what we already have, but he has a less playmaking profile and more of a destroyer. He will be retrained as a Box-to-Box Midfielder for depth purposes making Nery Burton expendable. Only Two Teams were promoted. We are now in the Top 100! Other French Teams (looking at you PSG) are not pulling their weight in European Competitions! We are top Ten in France, now to make our French reputation equal to our Ligue 1 Uber Eats ranking is the project! The Chairman called a Board Meeting to ask if I wanted improved Youth Facilities that they denied just a month ago......what changed? I am happy but I asked and was denied this very improvement a month ago! Maybe the TV Money coming in made the bank balance big enough...... We will have an early test against PSG that might make or break our season! Our Wonderkid Central Midfielder is staying for now.....joint highest paid at the club! (Van Doorn has the Highest paid Clause) We will take on the storied Champions of Europe in the UEFA Supercup! I decided to change the Assman....to one that follows the gegenpressing 4-3-3 tactical philosophy. Our Scheduled Training Camp in California was canceled so we could play this match...... We will take on the South American Champions.....I hope to crush them because I had to cancel my trip to Disneyland! Management Report No one's tired of me yet....neither am I tired even though that day is coming. Monthly Financial Report to be continued:

Thanks for the encouragement.

Thanks. I sort of went into it hoping not to get a hiding and we played well. We are about a year or so ahead of schedule. This next season will show if we really have it in us to challenge for the Ligue1 Uber Eats Title.

May 2034: Post Season "Basking in the Glory" Highlights The cash kept coming in and help defray the costs of the party that lasted for three days...... But most importantly our win means we will be playing in Champions League! We won but weren't the biggest overachievers..... In the days after the victory and the party I was asked how we ended up here.....determination and a bit of luck! Van Doorn our captain led the team to glory and was rewarded with a magnificent personal achievement. Two players in the squad of the season versus Six for Tottenham showed the odds we overcame. Post Season Board Meeting The Board set the budget at $104M/Payroll and $125M Transfer. I am expected to adjust the budget somewhat, but I expect to make a big-ticket Transfer for next season to help the team. I think that $125M/Payroll and $100M/Transfer is a better balance. Especially with the team achieving the Champions League. The Demographics of our fans are changing and we are less family friendly I'm not sure that is a good thing long term. The Season Analysis of our play was good overall, but we need to do better defensively. Since the team is young it is good that it is so cohesive. That is thanks to my insistence on weekly team bonding sessions after big matches. The Board put together a decent set of objectives that we should be able to meet except the Best Youth System in the Country. We also need a top 3 finish so the pressure is still on! and shortly after the meeting I was told I had failed at this objective and then I made a bunch of proposals to fix it and found resistance from the board. I am still determined to get ASSE back to the top of Football, no matter what the board thinks! Season Review Decent Season we reached our Preseason ranking of 5th! We won the Europa League! Can't do better than that! The Coupe de Fance Campaign disappointment spurred us to do better in the Europa League! We won the Trophee des Champions as Coupe de France holder. The Finances were really helped by the Europa League run that has led to top level Sponsorships for the team! It was a pretty good season for our Starting XI, most played well and somewhere around a 7.00 rating. Team Awards and records were made and broken. Fans Player of the Season Young Player of the Season Goalkeeper of the Season He gets recognition for breaking the club shutout record! Highlights Part Deux The Coupe de France goes to our rival RC Lens. The Commercial summary heading into next season looks pretty good. I made the scouting budget bigger as I am going to expand scouting in Africa which is a traditional ASSE hotbed of players. Pellegrini and Romero got new deals that reflected how the club has moved up in the world! After Failing the Youth System objective I put a series of proposals to the board to rectify the situation. The Board wants us to buy more ready made players...... But they accepted better recruitment and Junior Coaching so that is a step in the right direction! Arsenal wins the Conference League! 5th place is the best the team has achieved since 2023! Management Report Monthly Financial Report to be continued:

It was a bit lucky, but I will take it. It shows the progress we have made in 2.5 seasons. Our group in mostly young so if I can keep them together, we have a chance to beat PSG or others to win the Ligue 1 Title.

Those French Teams are tough......Domestic Front seems to be catching up with your rotated squad.

May 2034: Regular Season Manager's Thoughts The team played well winning three out of four matches in the month of May. It started out with dominant win over Feyenoord at home and then a dismal loss to PSG at home that proved we have a long way to go to challenge them for the title. But the team took the lesson to heart and dominated Strasbourg and then played well defensively for an unlikely victory over the favorites Tottenham for the Europa League Title. The revival is in full swing if a little early.....next season we will be in Champion's League as we search for the necessarry players to beat PSG and win Ligue 1 Uber Eats and finish our return to Topflight Football. Schedule Highlights The beginning of May saw us play the return leg of the Europa Semi-Final at Stade Geoffrey Guichard. After a narrow first leg loss we still had a chance.... We still had room for supporters and hoped for a sellout! We were slight favorites being the home team in the match.....that meant we had a chance! The captain was hyped up before the match by a former player in the media! If we won this match we would travel to Warsaw for the Final. The opposing manager tried to make us complacent ahead of the match.... It didn't work we played like champions! with a convincing 4-0 victory which we dominated. The captain led the line once again from the AMR-IF-A position (The Mo Salah Role) As a reward for our win we would then head to Warsaw...... and take on the favorites Tottenham in the Final. The media further explained about Van Doorn's performance in the Europa League! After the excitement midweek we were brought back down to earth by the thought of playing PSG. The Champs would look to put a damper on our celebrations, and we wanted to show we actually were a contender for the Ligue 1 Title. We were the home team and a bit tired from our midweek match, but I thought we had a chance...... Mbappe will always be a threat until he retires......just look at those totals at age 35! We went out thinking we had the match won and PSG quickly disabused us of that notion scoring three goals in the first half and then playing defense for the rest of the match, basically playing with us. Humiliating! After the loss to PSG, we had one more match to play in the Ligue 1 Season and I was trying to make sure we got the bad taste of defeat out of our mouths before our trip to Warsaw. PSG did in the second half after they went up three goals! Paris FC hasn't fared well since I left...... The last match was versus RC Strasbourg at Stade Geoffrey Guichard. The backups started and the starters finished a demolition of our final opponent before the Europa League Final! The Strasbourg manager knew his team was already on vacation....... So, we definitely had a Europa League place unless we won the Europa League! We came in 5th place one better than last season and right where the preseason predictions placed us! The Board was happy with the progress and gave us encouragement before the trip to Warsaw. This is the Tottenham starting XI, Alex Scott is the most dangerous player pulling the strings in midfield. Off to Poland on a Forlorn Hope! Pundits and fans thought we had a chance...... Our First Europa Cup Final......and hopefully not the last! \ Prematch Nerves got to me and I was worried. The match played out relatively even though they had more of the ball they couldn't penetrate our defense....the subs I made after half were to win it before extra time and penalties. It worked! French Super Cup and Europa League Double! League Table to be continued:

April 2034: Regular Season Manager's Thoughts April was a busy month with a lot of big matches some of which I was forced to play the backups. What I learned is that the backups are good enough to beat relegation threatened teams but not much else. Unfortunately, as well we lost some of our depth to bad injuries. We lost to Feyenoord in the Semi-Final first leg but that was mostly due to what has become a thing every goalie seems to have his match of his career against us. All we can do is finish out the season as best we can and hope for the best which SHOULD be another invite to the Europa League, which was the season's objective from the board. Schedule Highlights Our very busy April began with a match against Rennes. We were the home team and Rennes was favored and because it was 2nd vs. 3rd place teams. I played my strongest possible side barring injuries. This player was signed from the castoffs to the ASSE2 Team. Rennes was a tough match in which neither side willing gave up anything....but Rennes GK was the difference in the match making 8 saves. The next match just a few days later took us to Scotland for the Europa League. We were able to beat Hibernian's 4-4-2 after practicing against Stade de Rennes much tougher version. The captain led the charge! And he was held out for special acknowledgement. We then returned to France to play AS Monaco. It was another big match but I had to rest the starters and I played the backups...... The Backups obviously weren't ready for prime time! We even had two men sent off with red cards! The AS Monaco coach gloated after the demolition...... Our Captain is on the shortlist for Europa League Player of the season! After the big loss to AS Monaco the starters were to get back in against Hibernian at Stade Geoffrey Guichard. We won the first meeting and if we just don't lose, we have a good chance of making the Semi-Final! Sem de Ridder our Wonderkid Defender is shortlisted for Young player of the Year! Hibernian had learned a thing or two about our team and we theirs and neither team could take advantage of the other. We had the ball and the shots but just couldn't get a goal! another GK on top form denies us! This time with 11 saves! We received a nice bag of cash for winning the Quarterfinal of the Europa League. And we will play Feyenoord in the Semi-Finals! After the midweek matchup I rotated the team again for the matchup with 16th place Bordeaux. We were favored and I hope the Backups would play better than their last outing. We were unbeaten in 5 against them and to give the backups some confidence.....I said we could continue in the same fashion. The match was drab bore of a match with neither team really threatening to score.....I was really disappointed in the backups. Even though the Bordeaux GK made 5 saves out our seven shots! The next match saw us travel to Troyes and in this match the starters would play. We are still fighting for Champions League Qualification! We will have some kind of European Football next season. I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but we shall see at the end of the season. We haven't assured ourselves of Europa League Yet! In the end a half-rotated squad took it to Troyes and made them think that next season would be spent in Ligue2. Romero the hero of a few seasons ago was the hero once again....with his chance to shine. We were now headed to the Netherlands for a big match! We had problems putting shots on target and didn't play the best defense either against Feyenoord and we lost the first leg of the Semi-Final. After the loss in the Netherlands we came home to play Stade de Reims. We weren't playing well but the starters were tired and so I rotated the squad again. We lose the backup Left Back until the start of next season! The Backups played a superb match and dominated at home. We lose another backup until next season! I'm still not sure about this....... The backup DM was forced into a more advanced role in midfield and thrived! I was pleased with the players performance and he was also named player of the week! PSG reclaimed the Ligue 1 Uber Eats title losing only TWO matches this season! The Board really is trying to keep us in the black as the costs are beginning to soar as we are playing in the higher levels of Football. These were the Six players that were added to the U-19's. League Table Monthly Analysis Report Even with the 5-1 loss to AS Monaco our defensive numbers are very good. Player of the Month Management Report Monthly Financial Report Looking Ahead to be continued:

I had fun with Schalke04 at the end of FM23 and ported over the save just to see if the feature worked. I find that it would be a higher ceiling than your current club, but like many fallen giants from smaller cities the Ceiling would come into effect when you were actually battling against Bayern Munich for the title or trying to win Champions League. I see the ceiling closing in on me in my current team ASSE that I am currently playing.

Good work so far....Do you think you can get promoted this season? Is your team ready for top rank football next season?

I pick anyonre with double digit attributes for the roles within your system. You should be able to find 2-3 players to round out the squad.