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Survivals FC - Youth Intake - 2028 I needed a left back, and got one. Also bolstered the center of defense and the midfield. Unfortunately the best of the bunch is a right sided winger, and we play a 4-3-1-2 narrow. I will most likely train him as a BBM since he does have 16 acceleration and 14 pace. At the end of this season, I'm planning a staff overhaul now that we have the reputation to bring in many foreign staff. I have yet to see the HOYD influence any player's personality, so I will be focusing on finding a new HOYD with a 4-3-1-2 preferred formation with ideally a tiki-taka, passing, or counter playing style.

Compare the increased reputation from our double last year. This was the first team we were able to sign a foreign staff member and look at the level difference between him and the old GK coach. Hopefully it will also lead to Anguillan/Dominican players in our intake.

Survivals FC - End of Season - 2027 Squad | SLFA First Division | Transfers | Alvinus Laurencin 26K | Joe Dore 25B | Alexander Blanchard 25C | Antonio Charles 26I We ran through the league rather easily. What I wasn't expecting was to run through the CCC almost as smoothly. In the second leg of the semi-finals against Jong Holland (whom we had edged out in the group stages two years ago), we fell behind 3-0 within the first 25 minutes, completely erasing the 2-0 advantage we held from the first leg. Their 4-4-2 diamond narrow absolutely bossed our 4-3-1-2 narrow. We changed to a 4-3-3 narrow to overload their central defenders and prevent their outside backs from getting as far forward. From that moment, we played ourselves back into the match and it ended 3-2 (3-4 to us on aggregate) with a near identical xG. When it was time for the finals, against Dominican side Cibao, we came prepared with the 4-3-3 narrow against their same formation. This time, we were the slightly better team, and scored in the 103rd minute with a man advantage to guarantee the title. This win should improve our reputation a bit (and of course ensure NACL qualification).

Survivals FC - Youth Intake - 2027 This intake gave us another 3 starters and a few more role players. Iran Stanley 27D and Romiel Lawrence 27B walk in as the club's top two players. Our strikeforce is set now with Lawrence and last year's Antonio Charles 26I.

Survivals FC - End of Season - 2026 Squad | SLFA First Division | Transfers | Joe Dore 25B | Dahmanii Nathaniel 23G | Alexander Blanchard 25C | Josh Orozco 24D Another league title, but we crashed out of the CCC in the group stages, so won't have any NACL action next year. I'm hoping no group stage of the NACL in preseason will save our morale and allow us to focus on dominating the league early, then shifting priorities to the latter stages of the CCC since we could use the cash from another NACL run in 2028. As an aside, it's a bit odd that teams that tie on points are chosen randomly for league position. Looking at our facilities, I'm not going to focus on upgrading the training or youth facilities until we go pro, whenever that may be. The other things are maxed out. I'd love to get an affiliate to diversify our youth intakes, but I don't envision that happening anytime soon given our low reputation. Finally have some healthy finances. I'm hoping that we can turn pro with around 1M in the bank, but if I had to guess, our lack of reputation will be the major factor, not the money.

Survivals FC - Youth Intake - 2026 What an intake! Now that facilities are maxed out, I should be getting roughly equivalent intakes from here on out. Right now, the rapid level of improvement means each intake fully supplants the last, since nobody will ever develop from part time contracts with no facilities. I'd wager a guess that the St. Lucia youth rating is so low that few players will even have PAs that much more than their CAs.

Well I underestimated the monthly expense (about 25k) of maxed out junior coaching and youth recruitment (bar the chairman not allowing it to actually be maxed out), so it will certaintly take a fair few NACL runs to get us there. I imagine we'd also need to increase our reputation enough to convince the board to turn pro, it's not all about the money. From the looks of it, 6 teams have qualified from the CCC each time it has been held. So yeah, it seems semi-final guarentees a berth and you can get lucky with a QF.

I changed all of the Caribbean leagues from view-only to playable to increase the difficulty in the earlier stages of the save. When we establish ourselves as a perennial NACL side, then I'll change them back to view-only to make the save run quicker. But it's having the intended effect of seeing larger Caribbean sides bid on our best players! W Connection just won the Trinidadian league and knocked us our of the CCC in the quarterfinals last season. Still some testing to do as Joe Dore 25B didn't kick up a fuss after I rejected the offer, but it's something I was hoping to see. In other news, it turns out all quarterfinalists in the CC qualify for the next season's NACL group stages (or at least I think). The rules tab in the competition page is not any help. We got demolished in the groups to start our season since the entirety took place during our preseason. It seems like it may have negative impacts on morale for the rest of the season, but it's hard to argue with the financial boon that funded another academy coaching upgrade. A few more runs to the groups should allow the club to turn professional, or so is the hope.

Survivals FC - End of Season - 2025 Squad | SLFA First Division | Transfers | Shawn Remy | Malik Duncan | Josh Orozco 24D As I said in the intake post, things are progressing nicely. The prize money in the Caribbean Club Championship (10k for a win and 5k for a draw) helped fund some junior coaching upgrades this year. Since we go directly into the group stages next season, I'm hoping to make some more cash. Currently sitting on around 50k in the bank, but our expenditure is pretty low, so our finances are relatively stable. Next step is to slowly build up money and players to make it into the NACL group stages, and get massive gate receipts from playing large MLS and Liga MX sides.

Survivals FC - Youth Intake - 2025 As the seasons continue to breeze by, I feel like the first noticeable sense of progress has been made. The intake this year was superb, with 4 or 5 players able to slot into the first team. This will push me to let go a bunch of the older members of the squad on wages exceeding their usefulness. Next year I will start a full youth side, with the exception of the aging Malik Duncan, who still is producing great performances on the wing. We did end up winning the league this season, so into the group stages of the Caribbean Club Championship we go. I think after next season I will post a more in depth squad review, as we'll hit that first milestone of an all-youth starting XI. We also won another academy coaching upgrade.

Survivals FC - Youth Intake and End of Season - 2024 Squad | SLFA First Division | Transfers | Shawn Remy | Malik Duncan | Quamie Jones With the intake only a few matches from the end of season, I'll combine the posts into one for the time being. The intake was solid this year with a few players who can come into the first team. After the end of the season we continued to make progress in upgrading our academy coaching. Now it is at the average level. As we finished 2nd in the league on the final day of the season, we will qualify for the Caribbean Club Championship next season, which feeds into the NACL, although I don't forsee us making it to that point anytime soon. 2nd enters in the first qualifying round, while 1st in the league goes directly into the group stage, so next year winning the league will be the goal.

Survivals FC - End of Season - 2023 Squad | SLFA First Division | Transfers | Shawn Remy | Malik Duncan | Trevor Stanton 22C Our media prediction was around 6th, and we finished 4th. The seasons in St. Lucia are very short, 18 matches to be exact. We started hot with 4 wins on the bounce, but settled down late. The goal over the next few seasons is to hopefully see some youth development, but likely just hope for more stars from the intake, and push on to qualify for the Caribbean Club Championship by winning the league. Then we can push on to qualify for the NACL and gain some money to eventually turn pro and improve facilities. That being said we did gain a couple of upgrades after the season.

Survivals FC - Youth Intake - 2023 More depth being built in the club, with a mix of good and bad personalities. I'm enjoying the one Spanish player we get through each intake. Right now, I play a 4-4-2, but I may need to change that to a 4-2-3-1 variation unless I play Dahmanii Nathaniel 23G in a deeper position. Hopefully, we don't get another GK next year, as we already got a star from last intake (with a better personality).

And was able to cash in on the promotion success while we still have a positive bank balance.

Survivals FC - End of Season - 2022 Squad | SLFA Second Division | Transfers | Shawn Remy | Malik Duncan | Quamie Jones Despite being heavy favorites to win the league, and despite the board expecting a title, we finished 2nd. Still gained promotion however, so not too disappointed. We are predicted to finish just outside the relegation zone in the top flight next season, so hoping to stay up there and build some more depth through our next intake. All the clubs in St. Lucia are semi-pro, so I figure making the step into continetal competitions and becoming a pro club will be tough. For now, our finances are decent, slowly dwindling with the signing of new players to youth contracts. The youth contracts earn more than all of our first team players on part time deals.

Survivals FC - Youth Intake - 2022 EDIT: Turns out the NACL qualification doesn't work at all for smaller nations without using the fix included in the megapack. As a result, I never would have been able to qualify, so I had to restart the save. I played back up to the intake, and here are the new results. More disappointing than last time.

Newly-promoted and heavily favored to gain promotion to the top flight. Although the difficulty in this challenge is developing a St. Lucian club to compete with the large American and Mexican sides in the North American Champions League. The league reset date for St. Lucia is October 20th.

Blitzed through the first season and had a promising intake, but the challenge of building a team with 13 players proved too difficult, and we secured relegation with a couple months to go. Looking to start in the Caribbean now using V50's megapack. I've loaded the leagues, but not the edited version of the NACL. Going to start in either St. Kitts and Nevis or St. Lucia.

Starting off in Mexico. Finances will likely be an issue, but I'm interested in playing outside of Europe and South America.

KSC Lokeren-Temse - End of season 2027 Squad | Belgian Pro League A | League Table | Championship Group | Europa Conference League | Belgian Cup | Transfers | Finances | Best XI It's been a while since I've had access to this save, but I'm back at the point to post some season updates (more incoming in the next few days). To recap, in the 2025-26 season, we finished 5th in the Pro Leage A after finishing 10th in our first season in the league. We won the playoff to qualify for the last European spot and entered the competition in the Europa Conference League Second Qualifying Round. Our 2026-27 season started as a disappointment. We were knocked out of Europe in the first tie by drawing 0-0 at home to Staebek in a match we edged slightly. We then outplayed them in Norway only to lose 3-1 in extra time. However, the lack of European fixtures aided us in the first half of the season as we ran unopposed to the league title, with the other big clubs beating up on each other and suffering from fixture congestion. We finished the league season well ahead of Club Brugge, Anderlecht, and KRC Genk, all of whom battled for the other Champions League spot. Now that we've won the league once, the goal is to improve in Europe and gain coefficient places. Right now, Belgium is 14th in the coefficients list, and the top 10 get guarenteed Champions League group stage places (and the financial boost). Our finances are solid for now, we have 4.8 million in the bank due to sales, and are still owed nearly 4.5 million is various installments over the next year. The sale of Sakir Nas helped us get some money for a backup we got for free and loaned out to the second division last year. The key players this season were again Federico Vinas and Ricardo Rodriguez Ruiz. We also got an improved year from Koki Saito, who scored and assisted 14 each. Marco Sessa was brought in for free from Inter to ease the goalscoring burden on Vinas and chipped in 20 himself. The goal for next season is to do well in the league again and get to the Champions League group stages for the money.