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    Lyra Lierse - Belgium

    Pro Jupiler League - 2nd

    Croky Cup - Semi Final

    Champions League - Knock Out Round

    kinda frustrating season where we were so close yet in the end so far to winning anything. All we had to do in the league was win the final game... and we lost it

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    We had our best season yet in the Champions League until we met Liverpool in the knock out round - they were just a class above. We were lucky to win the first leg and got what we deserved in the second leg

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    Players

    I got a new wonderkid! which was nice, as he was really only playing because of injuries!

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    he also got golden boy!

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    Last years Golden Boy was having a good season up until March when....

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    Youth

    This year look like the best intake for a good while, although not quite up to 2039 standards. But still quite excited by the top 3

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    Where Are They Now? 2046 edition

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    Francis Azeez - back up keeper, been out on loan, probably not gonna be any better than back up though

    Yaro Kraftt - looked such a good prospect and yet.... he is awful! i still have him for some reason.

    Geilson Felicio - Great player, golden boy winner, not a wonderkid but gonna be a first team player for years. Declared for Brazil but no caps yet

    Aldo Coppin - He's been out on loan and done ok. Probably will be a good squad/back up player

    Anthony Bosc - he went to Antwerp, no regrats

    Fabian Gielen - sold for 20k, far more than he is actually worth

    Pasquale Monti - defender, not a good one either. and i'm so desperate for decent defenders.

     

    Career

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    Lyra Lierse - Belgium

    2049/50

    Pro Jupiler League - 2nd

    Croky Cup - Winners

    Champions League - Round of 16

    Another good solid season. we started the league with 13 straight wins but after christmas injuries and fatigue caught up with us and we couldn't quite maintain it. Still, second ain't bad

    Champions League was tough again but we're getting better. a 4-0 win away at Juve was the high point. In the end Man City were just too strong for us.

    we won the Croky Cup though, which was nice!

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    Players

    We have such a strong squad now that a 3 star CA/PA is a potential wonderkid! One new wonderkid and one Golden Boy winner this season

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    Youth

    Not sure if this is a good intake or not, our squad is so strong it's skewering all our ratings a bit. 3 star is potential wonderkid so who knows!

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    Where are they now? 2045 edition

    It looked a good intake on paper. But was it?

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    Loan Marechal - I had high hopes for him as I really needed a decent keeper. turns out I got myself a wonderkid who is now first choice for club and country and valued at £60m+! Lovely stuff!

    Joe Rhule - Yeah, no, sold last season for 14k. I thought he might make it but an easilt discouraged personality did for him in the end

    Enock Ndikumana - started poorly and slowly got worse and worse. Now works at B+Q

    Roan Vandenheede - I sold him to West Ham as I had so many players in his position and he's doing ok out there. 

    Career

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    Lyra Lierse - Belgium

     2047/48

    Pro Jupiler League - 1st

    Croky Cup - 8th Round

    Europa League - Quarter Final

     

    A really good season for us. Only 4 defeats in the league meant we breezed to the title. Even though one of those defeats was 6-0 to Standard. Ah well

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    Europa League was fun, even though we fell to Toulouse in a quarter final tie we should have been able to win

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    Youth

    Doesn't look like a save changing intake this one. 

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    Wonderkids

    We got another two proper ones! Thing is, i'm now so lopsided as they are all midfielders/attackers. my defence is so much weaker!

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    Where are they now?

    Let's look at the 2043 intake! Just how good was it?

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    6 elite talents! But just how good were they?

    Sam Vermeulen - A proper wonderkid! My first choice left winger, valued around £40m, star pro jupiler player.  16 goals and 22 assists last season. He's great!

    Noah Pankert - second choice keeper but developing really nicely. Plays in cups, rated good pro jupiler with still plenty of room to improve

    Ryan Driesen - Poor in the end Sold for 160k, and i was lucky to get it!

    Mohamed Zaim - yeah, terrible, awful, now half a star potential, rotting in the U21s

    Roan Kramer - not good, sold for 200k, now valued much lower

    Sam Maes - another poor result. sold to Montpellier for 150k, doing poorly there

    Vermeulen and Pankert make it a fantastic intake though!

     

    Finance

    I'm now at the stage where I don't need to sell anyone to make any money. Which is helped by things like this:-

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    Given how relatively poor my defence is right now, I could really do with him back in the side!

     

    Career

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    Lyra-Lierse - Belgium - 2046/47

    League: 4th

    Champions League: Knock Out Play-off Round

    Croky Cup: Runner Up

    Bit of a weird season really. We went unbeaten for the first 14 games, but drew 9 of them! never really recovered from that and only managed a fourth place finish in the end, meaning no Champions League next season!

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    Champions League is still a bit of a slog, but we went one better than last season, actually getting out of the league stage. Encouraging thing  was how good we were in those qualifying rounds

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    Youth

    What looked like a great youth preview, with three A grades, turned into an average intake a week later when they all turned to C grades instead. Two elite talents, both strikers? we'll see...

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    Wonderkids

    Another bone fide proper wonderkid! woohoo!

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    Joseph Zola 43H was a surprise. he's only a two star potential defender, but I had to play him due to injuries and he did ok. Saadi 44B is a Moroccan right winger who's been playing really well for us and could well be a proper proper wonderkid in a couple of years.

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    Where are they now?

    Let's go back 5 years and look at my 2042 intake, where I got 6 elite talents! where are they now?

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    Mil Delforge - Belgium has this annoying thing where the boards want a negative transfer balance, no matter how much money you have. So you have to sell a certain amount of players or the board take over and sell them for you for ridiculous prices. I had to sacrifice Delforge for that, selling him to Sturm Gratz for £4.2m (when he was valued at 8-10m). He's been pretty good in Austria, time will tell if i made a silly mistake there

    Elliot Toussaint - star graduate, looked the real deal, wasn't at all in any way, left on a free when he was 18

    Eduardo - I had high hopes for him, he looked good. Went on loan for last three seasons and was ok but never really improved. I just sold him for 40k

    Rafael Siquert - I sold him to Caen the next season for £350k. I had so many wingers he was never gonna make it here

    Liam Nys - Sold straight away to Gent for 85k where he has done very little.

    Brayan Verschueren - the success story of this intake! I only played him due to injuries in the first team but he performed well, he didn't totally fulfil his potential but he a good Jupiler Pro League player and a really handy squad player

    So, overall, a really disappointing intake. 6 elite talents and only 1 made it and only as a squad player to boot.

    Career

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  5. 10 hours ago, toshimitzou1 said:

    Transfer Result: UTTER DISGRACE. We get £400 for a £20m player!

    that is ludicrous, it's stuff like that that makes you want to rage quit.

    i had something similar in Belgium when I lost a wonderkid for 61k, but £400 is just taking the **** frankly!

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    Lyra Lierse - Belgium

    2045/46

    Jupiler pro League -  2nd

    Champions League - League stage

    We did well until January when transfer offers and injuries upset our rythm and morale. We responded well though and three victories in our final three champion group games managed to grab us a second place finish

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    Champions League was tough. We didn't get a great draw and only two victories meant we went out at the league stage. We really struggled with squad depth meaning i was forced to play unready 16 year olds at places like the Nou Camp. League still takes priority atm.

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    Players

    The most frutrating thing with these saves is knowing where your weaknesses lie and not being able to do anything about it! My striker is actually a left winer and my defence is a different class to midfield and attack. sadly, a much lower class

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    Youth

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    Players

    Some nice looking prospects coming through, not least these two fella-me-lads

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    Where are they now?

    I really like it when people revisit past youth intakes to see what happened, so I decided to do it too. 5 years seems a good number so here's what happened to my 2041 intake:-

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    Mohamed Lakhdar - was he really a 4 star potnetial youth? he stunk the place out and left on a free after 2 years with his potential dropping to 2 stars

    Renzo Wouters - Sold to Cercle Brugge for 100k where he's doing..... not great.

    Gregoire Lacroix - Might be the one that go away. Natural at AMC but accomplished at MC or striker, I could never really decide where he would be best suited. As a result he just filled in here and there and ended up being sold last season for £1.4m to Gent

    Roan Willems - European golden Boy and a leading Pro Jupiler league player. First choice DM, he's great.

    Rodrigo Njoh - Nah, rubbish sadly. Kept him around to see if he's improve but if anything he got worse. Offloaded to Antwerp for £200k, which we were frankly lucky to get

    Cyrille Keita - Surprised to see him as a 4 star at intake. He quickly got downgraded to a 2 star potential and sold only 2 years later for £140k

    So, for what on paper looked a great intake, it was actually pretty poor, only redeemed by Willems. But if I ccan get one plyer like him a year I'll be very happy so.... swings and roundabouts I guess!

    I might do 2039 one day - three of them are my best 3 players and all in the Belgium squad. that intake was insane!

    Career

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    Lyra Lierse - Belgium

    Jupiler Pro League - 2041/42

    After two appalling games to start the season I decided to change formation - and we went on a run of ten wins out of twelve! We couldn't quite maintain that pace but we did enough to qualify for the Champions Stage. We were too far behind Anderlecht to challenge for the title but we managed to win 6 out of the 10 gamnes to finish 3rd and qualify for the Europa League

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    Players

    The new formation was partly to fit my golden generation from 2039 in. For one game I had SIX graduates from 2039 playing! it was great

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    The only issue with this formation was up front. I just couldn't get anyone firing consistently up there, and Adam Vanderheede 30C, our crazy consistent player, had nowhere where he really fitted in. So, work in progress!

     

    Wonderkids

    We got one more!

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    We also had to sell one :(

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    Youth

    Another cracking preview and intake!

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    Maybe not as good as 2039 but really not far off. Six elite talents is crazy good really.

     

    Career

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    Lyra Lierse - Belgium

    Jupiler Pro League - 2039/40

    Another strong season from us saw us finish 6th in the league stage and then manage 5th in the Champions Stage, meaning we qualified for the Europa League. Which is nice!

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    We went so successful in our first European adventure though, going out in the Conference League qualification round 4

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    Youth

    Another very nice intake!

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    Career

    So far so good!

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    Lyra Lierse - Belgium

    Pro Jupiler League - 2037/38

    League finish: 7th

    Second Phase finish: 1st

    Really good season in the end, despite a poor start. We narrowly missed out on getting into the championship group but headed into the second group in first place. We were really good throughout and finished first, heading into a european play-off with Charleroi which we lsot 3-2 to a 91st minute goal

    so for the second season we miss out on European football by a goal!

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    Youth

    another really good preview and intake, which is just as well given the rate we're losing players

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    Finances

    This is where the real challenge in Belgium lies. The board have a habit of requesting a negative transfer balance and I always try to get it removed only this time around they would not let me. So..... we started with a  transfer budget of -2m

    I had to raise £2m, which wasn't too hard, so I set about narrowing the squad down and sold ten players over the summer for a total of 3m. Only the board did not release any of those funds to the transfer budget, so it still stood at -2m! 

    which meant, during January....

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    But they never release any of the funds to the transfer budget, so I can never clear it! So i had no choice but to hawk my best players around so i could get a decent price and sell on rather than have the board sell them for peanuts. Noah Dannemark 33B went to Standard for 3m +50% sell on, and the board released 150k towards the budget! Chris Kabeya 34B wanted to leave and I manged to get a £13m + 50% offer in from 4 clubs and he rejected them all! and the board accepted a loan offer from Gent and off he went!

    I got away lightly in the end..... but honestly, it's things like this makes Belgium so difficult and frustrating but also a real challenge.

     

    Career

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