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44 minutes ago, XaW said:
Ouch! That's a painful one! What was the xG?
not that bad!
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Lyra Lierse - Belgium (2053/54)
Pro Jupiler League - Winners!
We're now the best side in Belgium, and it shows! In the league stage we were imperious. win after win after win, it was brilliant. we finished so far ahead we went into the Champions Group stage a massive 9 points ahead. 1 win in 5 games later, with Anderlecht winning all their 5, we were second a point behind! luckily we responded brilliantly and wrapped up the title beating Anderlecht 3-2 in the last game of the season
Croky Cup - Runners Up
We sleepwalked into the final, had a really easy game, took our eye off the ball and somehow lost it 1-0.
Champions League
This is the big one! Being runners up last season we had to qualify for the league stage which we managed with fairly minimal fuss. The league stage was a mixed bag but we again managed it fairly comfortably.
Rennes are a really good side at the moment and were just a little bit too strong for us sadly.
Players
So I started giving Sam Straetman 51A a few games. He looks great and can play in 3 positions (AML, AMC and S) which is hugely helpful. And he was great!
Future wonderkid i reckon!
Youth
I got an elite talent! which, at this stage, is nuts!!!
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Lyra Lierse - Belgium
2052/53
Pro Jupiler League - 2nd
We were brilliant in the league stage excpet for a mad period around February where we went 6 games without a win. BUt we recovered and finished strongly, setting us up nicely for the championship group. We were so inconsistent in the championship group, but then so was everyone else. So we went into the final game knowing a victory would give us the title - we drew, and lost it.
Croky Cup - WINNERS
Second win in a row! in a competition I really don't care about!
Champions League - Firrst knock out round
For the first half od the league stage we were brilliant, getting some amazing results. But the second half meant we had to go into the first knockout round where we got atletico madrid. A brilliant result in Madrid in the first leg was completely undermined by an appalling performance at home. We are still a long way from champions league success!
Players
A nice surprise this - he was only a 2 star potential player that I used out if desperation when we had injuries/fatigue. And he did really well! turns out 2.5 PA is now a leading league player for us!
Youth
really poor preview and intake on paper, but again skewed by how good my best players are. 3 star potential is possible wonderkid territory!
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On 4/6/2024 at 6:31 PM, Stekalo said:
Is there anyone kind enough to turn these images into kits for me to insert into the game?
what I do is stick them in remove.bg which turns them into a PNG file you can use in the game. like this:-
I do that with all the kits i use. hope it works!
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Lyra Lierse - Belgium - 2051/52
Pro Jupiler League - WINNERS
Croky Cup - WINNERS
Champions League - lost to Sporting in League stage play-off
Europa League - Lost to Espanyol in last 16
A domestic double has to be a successful seasn, right? At home we were fantastic but sadly we couldn't translate that in continental competition, losing to Sporting in the league stage play-off in a tie we really should have won easily. At least next season we won't have to worry about the play-offs
Youth
A terrible preview delivers what looks like a terrible intake. But you never know i guess
Career
We still look a long way off a proper Champions League challenge. Mainly as my defence is so poor compare to midfield and attack, we can easily lose games 5-3.
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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
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
Players
I got a new wonderkid! which was nice, as he was really only playing because of injuries!
he also got golden boy!
Last years Golden Boy was having a good season up until March when....
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
Where Are They Now? 2046 edition
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.
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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!
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
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!
Where are they now? 2045 edition
It looked a good intake on paper. But was it?
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.
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Lyra Lierse - Belgium
2048/49
Pro Jupiler League: 2nd
Croky Cup: Runners Up
Champions League: League Stage
Pretty good season I guess but one where we ultimately fell short in every competition. The league was especially frustrating....
Champions League we were an absolute mile off.
Youth
Our youth intakes aren't as good as they are but that's mainly due to our first team being much better these days. 3 star CA gets described as a leading Pro Jupiler League player!
Wonderkids
My keeper and my Brazilian left winger! lovely stuff!
Where are they now? 2044 Edition
Was it a good intake? let's take a look!
Riccardo Basili - sold at 18 for 1m. he then got shipped on for 24k. i got a good deal!
Nilton Tavares - still in the squad. i thought he might make it but the time might have come to admit defeat
Amin Saadi - I didn't think he'd be a wonderkid out of this intake but there you go. He was! First team regular, 25 Morrocan caps, lovely stuff1
Lukas Bodart - He's kinda fascinating. Easily my best youth at intake for years and years and yet...... he's not really improved at all from 16 to now. I'm so desperate to get him in somewhere I've even retrained him as an MC. Hopefully he'll be a late developer? he's still 2 star CA, 4 star Pot!
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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
Europa League was fun, even though we fell to Toulouse in a quarter final tie we should have been able to win
Youth
Doesn't look like a save changing intake this one.
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!
Where are they now?
Let's look at the 2043 intake! Just how good was it?
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:-
Given how relatively poor my defence is right now, I could really do with him back in the side!
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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!
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
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...
Wonderkids
Another bone fide proper wonderkid! woohoo!
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.
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?
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.
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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
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.
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
Youth
Players
Some nice looking prospects coming through, not least these two fella-me-lads
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:-
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!
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Lyra Lierse - Belgium
2044/45
Jupiler Pro League - CHAMPIONS!
Well this was a surprise. We started with a 5-0 away win and didn't look back! the whole season was a procession to be honest. We didn't lose until February and only lost once in the Championship group stage as well. We were fantastic from start to finish
Players
So, what changed?
1. New tactic playing to the strengths of my best players
Moving Bodson to right wing was the key. He was amazing, top scoring with 22 goals and getting 9 assists
2. best players all signed new contracts, wanted to stay and kept high morale all season
3. we surfed the morale/form wave all we could!
4. These two came through and developed really, really well
youth
We are getting amazing youth intake after amazing youth intake. I love it here!
Finance
Biggest problem at the minute is our board insisting on a negative transfer balance every season. It means they want us to sell players to a certain amount each season or they'll take control of transfers and sell players for us. so every year i have to sell someone i don't want to, and with Beau Bodson 39C and Lauren Dumont 39A having release clauses in their contract, there's a good chance it will be them sadly. It's going to make challenging for the Champions League really difficult
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Lyra Lierse - Belgium
2043/44
Not so much inspired by but rather shamelessly stolen from @glennuk, I asked Chatgpt to write a poem summing up this season:-
In Lyra Lierse's realm, where dreams do sway,
Inconsistency's shadow casts its play.
With wonderkids, they dance on fickle grounds,
Where triumph's heights meet depths, profound.Oh, Lyra Lierse, once poised to soar,
With talents bright and dreams galore.
But fate's cruel hand, it seemed to jest,
Leading them to finish lower than their best.Two seasons past, where hope did gleam,
Third place finishes were not just a dream.
But this season's tale, a bitter pill to take,
Tenth place finish, frustration awake.Wonderkids, they sparkled, yet sought to flee,
In search of fame where they could truly be.
Their hearts torn between loyalty and desire,
Inconsistency's burden, a relentless fire.In Lyra Lierse's saga, echoes of dismay,
As victory and defeat share the day.
The agony of falling short, it stings,
Yet hope still spreads its resilient wings.Though tenth they finished, not where they aimed,
In Lyra Lierse's heart, ambition remains untamed.
For in the realm of football's ever-changing game,
Tomorrow's promise may yet rekindle the flame.Yep, we were really frustrating!
Our results in the second phase summed up our season perfectly
Players
So why did it go so wrong? Well..... our wonderkids!
Laurent Dumont 39A - our best player by a mile decided, the day before the first game of the season, he wanted to leave. Spent the entire season sulking with morale as low as it can be only to decide, the day before the final game of the season, oh sure, i'll stay after all. goddammit.
Beau Bodson 39B - fantastic name, rubbish attitude. Sulked himself silly all season as 'the squad wasn't strong enough'
Eloi Desmet 39E - this one annoys the heck out of me. i pressed the wrong button. He decided as a result of that 'too many promises have been broken' and sulked all season too
Those three are my first choice midfield and all three spent the season throwing their toys out the pram and crying to their nannies.
Wonderkids
These two were a nice surprise. not official wonderkids yet but looking strong
with these two bone fide wonderkids in central midfield we should have done so much better:-
Youth
Another great preview and intake, and although only 4 elite talents the star graduate more than made up for it. I'm gonna change tactic just to fit him in the team next season, he looks that good
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Lyra Lierse - Belgium
jupiler Pro League - 2042/43
An almost amazing season. We were great, challenging for the title right up until February, when we went on an awful run winning only one of the last seven games. Enough to qualify us for the Champions group, but no enough to challenge the title
We regained some form in the champions grouo, even beating Club Brugge 4-0, but we just couldn't do enough to get into the Champions League slot. Another Europa League campaign it is!
Europa League was fun, right up until we got Club Brugge who took advantage of our poor run of league form to batter us. We did get revenge in the champions group though
Youth
Another great preview and potential intake! I love Belgium's youth intakes!
The future is looking very bright, so long as the board doesn't do anything stupid....
Wonderkids
he wants to leave us sadly.... but he is on a very long contract so we'll see
Career
I'm in a good position at the minute. Is a Belgium completion possible? it's still a way off it is.
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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
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
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!
We also had to sell one
Youth
Another cracking preview and intake!
Maybe not as good as 2039 but really not far off. Six elite talents is crazy good really.
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Lyra Lierse - Belgium
Jupiler Pro League - 2040/41
A bit of a step back after two really good seasons. We were close to qualifying for the championship group but no wins in the last 3 meant we just got pipped for 6th and had to go in the second group. We started top, by a point, but couldn't compete with Genk who won 9 and drew 1 of their ten games to get into the European play-offs. So no European football for us next season!
It's a shame as we had great fun in the Europa League and all those extra games meant lost of chance to give my growing army of promising youths a run out. We did pretty good really, all the way to the last 16!
Youth
Another really nice preview and intake. To get this many elite talents at this stage is amazing. I love exceptional intakes in Belgium!
Wonderkids
Another possible pair of wonderkids from my golden generation of 2039
My first official wonderkid, Chris Kabeya 31C, i had to sell to Atletico Madrid last season. He barely played so when I saw his 50% sell on fee available for 8m I jumped at it. Good move too, as he went to blackburn for 9m a couple of months later. He's playing there!
Looks like that money has already been earmarked by the board however
Career
Next season we're gonna try to get back into Europe. It was too much fun not to! I still think we're a little way off a title challenge but the last 2 or 3 youth intakes have been pretty, pretty good so we might not be too far off.
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17 hours ago, BuddahsBrother said:
I'm almost out of original players and down to newgens in the French third tier.
that might be it. i always struggle a bit when i get to that stage, which makes sense i guess. We're basically playing the youth team as the first team then.
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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!
We went so successful in our first European adventure though, going out in the Conference League qualification round 4
Youth
Another very nice intake!
Career
So far so good!
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29 minutes ago, Nottingham Forest said:
Could you not train Dumont as a striker @libbyshuss?
yeah, crossed my mind! but i'm slightly more in need of midfielders at the minute which i was why i was thinking mids
but you never know, he's definitely got potential there
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Lyra Lierse - Belgium
Jupiler Pro League - 2038/39
Started the season poorly, with only two wins in the first 8, but finished strongly going 11 unbeaten. It meant we finished 5th and qualifies for the Champions Group, starting only three points behind the leaders!
But despite starting with a 3-0 win over Club Brugge we were poor in the championship group, only winning one of our remaining 9 games. It meant we finished 5th which put us in a european Playoff with the winners of the Second Phase group. We won that 4-2 so European football is ours next season!
Players
Top Scorer: L de Pauw 26C (21 goals in 39 games)
He's 28 now! kinda nice seeing a player from that long ago still rocking it in our first team, especially as i've tired to sell him on more than one occasion. it's Belgium, you have to!
Player of the Season: Adam Vandenheede 30C (7.46 in 42 games)
I love players like this! Bang average on paper, never looks for a move, not really coveted by other teams, yet is so consistent, turning it on week after week, season after season.
AWonderkids
We got our first official wonderkid! And first player to be capped by Belgium as well!
Funniest thing is Ive agreed to sell the lad five times, and each time he's rejected the contract and stayed with us! He has a 22.5m release fee so as soon as anyone offers anything close I add a 50% sell on and accept. And yet he's still with us!
Youth
A ridiculously good intake, but also one that poses more questions. 6 elite talents is unreal at this stage, but only one of them is a natural in a position I actually use. so.... either position re-training or new tactic in a few seasons. I haven't decided what yet.
Best of the lot is clearly this lad, who looks like he could be unbelievable in a few seasons. I either switch to a 4312 using an AMC or retrain him as an MC. either way he's a future first teamer. look at him!
Finances
so I managed to sell one of my top prospects for 18m at the start of the season. Sad to see him go but in Belgium you have no choice really. Once the money came in, rather than let it slowly dribble away I talked the board into investing instead
So we were looking relatively settled financially! so what do the board do at the end of the season? Announce a stadium upgrade they will be financing with another 6m loan. that's 18m worth of loans now, at 170k a month repayments! The finances here make it such a different challenge to elsewhere...
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Into Europe we go! It's only the conference league but it's a chance to give my younger squad players some invaluable experience. And it's another step forward, another source of income. Things are starting to look up!
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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!
Youth
another really good preview and intake, which is just as well given the rate we're losing players
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....
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.
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Lyra Lierse - belgium
Pro Jupiler League - 2036/37
League Finish:
Second group phase: 3rd
Croky Cup: runners Up
A frustrating season where we spent most of it in the relegation group spots only to win our last 4 league games to qualify for the second phase. We saved our best performances for the cup getting to the final only to lose to Standard Liege.
Players
Top Scorer: A Vandenheede 30C (32 goals in 44 games)
Player of the Season: A Vandenheede 30C (7.47 AR in 44 games)
Ridiculously good, which is weird cos when you look at his attributes/transfer value he looks really, really average. But he consistently performs at a really high level. I love it!
Wonderkids
Not sure if he'll be a real, proper wonderkid but he does look a really good prospect
Youth
After two really disappointing intakes i could really do with a good one. And i think i got one!
Finances
And my stupid board sold him for 60k with no sell on! Aargh! god, i hate them!
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Belgium - Lyra Lierse - 2054/55
Pro Jupiler League - 3rd
For the last 10-12 season the class of 2039 has been the cornerstone of the side. But with them all (Laurent Dumont 39A, Beau Bodson 39B, Nicaola Giovenco 39C, Eloi Desmet 39E) being 31/32 I thought this was the perfect season to start giving some more game time to my promosing youth players. Well, that plan backfired! All 4 of them complained about losing game time, half the squad agreed with them, half against them, and it was a real struggle with morale. Not helped by the fact the kids did well when they played, and the Class of 39 were still starting way more games than not! We also struggled after our 14-0 humiliation against Liverpool so in the end it was quite an achievement to finish 3rd!
Croky Cup - Runner Up
again.... ah, who cares? stupid cups, i just played the kids. and the elders got really cross!
Champions League - Knockout playoff round
First game of the league stage was great, a 6-4 home win and Man UTD. But the second game was a humilating disaster that took us a long time to get over. 14-0 away to Liverpool shows just how far away we are from really challenging.
We needed to win the last two league stage games to qualify, which we did, but then we Real Madrid in the knockout round. We did ok tbf, but not quite good enough in the end and they knocked us out.
Wonderkids
I like the look of this fella. I might try him up front next season just to see how good he can be. He's on an 8 year contract so Madrid can be interested all they like, they ain't getting him!
Youth
My best preview and intake for a long time, maybe since 2039. At least two are going straight into the first team squad for next season and are gonna get game time. Very excited for this lot!
The top two players look really good, especially Schlabertz. I'll be shocked if he isn't a future wonderkid. I mean, look at him!
And Masson isn't too bad either, just a shame about the personality. I hate fickle people.
Career
So next season is going to be a transition season i think, as I'm determined to push ahead with my youth first policy, Class of '39 be damned. They had their chance! and they blew it! 14-0 away at Liverpool!