DrChristopher

July 2025 A great win away against HŠK Zrinjski Mostar then a good start against Zalgiris in the second round. We were optimistic heading into the home leg, but we could just not break them down. Looking back over the tie we were getting extremely lucky with offsides calls that kept us in it. Alas, it was not to be and we now find ourselves in the Europa League Champions Path Third Qualifying Round. We just have to win one more tie either here or in the Conference League to make it back to a league phase and big prize money. Transfers We had some transfers come in. Capped by our biggest transfer fee ever spent, and the biggest in Luxembourg National Division history. After Ziggy left we managed to talk the DoF into this young Serbian loan from Partizan. Unfortunately he agreed to a kind of hefty fee paid monthly, but overall its not a bad deal for the talent we got. Next, another loan. This time from Benfica. Amazingly we bring in Duarte Oliveira just in time to see him slowly become a squad guy. As this wingback on the right will be taking the starting role. Now we certainly have depth. Last is our record signing. The DoF paid his release clause of $105,000 from Mallorca. Resolute personality, which is a huge bonus. Luis comes in to cover our weakest position in the team, left back. Now we have 27 players of National Division (Luxembourg Top Flight) quality. First Team This is the best 11 as it stands. We are now the richest team in the top flight, with the highest salary, and the only professional side. We also have over half the media dream 11 in our squad. Media Prediction We are the giants now. We are not the giants reputation wise, but in practicality that's how the rest of the league treats us now. Competitions As such our board expectations reflect that new mantle. Must get Europe in the league (minimum), must win the super cup, and must reach quarter finals of the Luxembourg Cup. This is a new test for us and hopefully our new depth can help us rise to the occasion. Thanks to anyone following along, best of luck in your own saves. Cheers!

June 2025 Facilities are starting to creep up. Still waiting to hear back from the board on upgrade to training facilities. Without European prize money. We would have lost roughly $500,000. So, we need at least a million or two of prize money to stay afloat with all this 5% raises the DoF added. Transfers: Early June Nothing on the outs early, but at least one Spanish standout coming in. On a free from San Felix. He has tons of potential, and might even push Jovanovic to the second team, but early season form will show us more. Got to love the professionalism. Transfers: Late June Oliveira dropped from 400k to 20k and the DoF was able to sign him for 10k when I demanded that he was our urgent signing. He comes in permanently. Tin in on a free loan from Dinamo. He can play anywhere in the attack. He immediate made the media dream eleven. I could see him being an award winner by the end of the season. Gil and Bieleu will have to play for their chances to stay in the first team or start being willing to rotate in and out as needed. Another young Spanish midfielder this time on a free from Damm. Another professional intelligent player that has a lot of room to grow. Last out is our oldest player Ziggy. He was wanting to leave and I couldn't convince the DoF otherwise to see goes for 10k to Wellington Phoenix. Media Prediction That puts us as the team to beat in this league now. We have spent big money this window. $11,310 total lol. Hopefully we have helped our depth enough to not lose form in the various competitions throughout the season. Schedule Next up is our game against Zrinjski the champions of Bosnia & Herzegovina. They are better than us there whole first time is Hamilton quality or better. We need to win this round though as losers skip the Europa league and get dumped straight into the conference. Wish us luck as we try to bring all these new personalities together. Here the first team as it stands... Thanks for following, best of luck in your own saves. Cheers!

May 2025 Treble Winners! We did it lads! All the silverware we could hope for domestically. 2.34 goals per game. -8.04 underperforming expected goals per game. We generated so many chances we should have done better lol. 44 more chances created then any team in the league. I'm super proud of this team. Unfortunately we are still only top 8 by media prediction and next year they expect a top 4 finish and to compete for either the Luxembourg Cup or the Super Cup. So we have to work just as hard and we have way less wiggle room. End of Season: Schedule We finished the season with only 1 lose since the end of February. As well as only 2 dropped points in that time as well (11 league games, nearly a third of the season). History We are masters of Luxembourg. Now that we are top dogs we got to defend it. We finally made the favoured personnel list on our club page. As well as signed another contract this time we seemed to have earned a two-year deal through the 26/27 season. Team Report I have never since it so succinctly put then in this team report. The current squad of players is .... slightly below average in the national division, and one of the weakest in Europe. I liked Konate in the midfield, but the assistants have him off the bench. First Team Oliveira did so much, interceptions, assists, and even goals. He will be missed. He has refused to come back. Our striker to always the main goal scorer in this tactic. Loua chipped in woth a strong showing too, but he was penalty taker for the second team, and first midfield name off the bench. Walther needs to chill out though as I will not be giving him this much playing time next season. Bieleu and Jovanovic were the stars though. Each with 25 goals contributions, and only 22 years old. Second Team Loua and Teah were invaluable and present all season long. Busche was really impressive in the first half of the season. Avdusinovic is probably finished his last regular season for us. Especially if Busche makes the jump or Teah moves over from left inside forward. Third Team Only limited appearances around in the third string, but we have some potential highlights. Rosina I think could make progress if he gets playing time somewhere. Zilli still holding in there. He and Fabio are most likely gonna find new homes in the winter window. Almeida is exciting but nothing of note yet. Great season. Now a big off-season where we have to try to reign in the spends of the DoF. Scouting budget money hiding and budget manipulation may be our best way forward. Thanks for following along, best of luck in your own saves. Cheers!

April 2025 Champions We did it! We have done the double. Winning the league with 3 games to spare. We immediately were allowed to go professional and were given a new contract. Also many of the players got resigned to full-time contracts, but that hiked the wages quite a bit. Schedule We also came back in a magnificent second leg at home in the Semis to beat Jeunesse and progress to the domestic cup finals! Luxembourg Cup We face 10th place in the league, US Rumelange, in one game "winner takes all". $85,000 to the winner. Not that we need it, but I would not mind making the hall of fame winning a treble. Luxembourg National Division 2 games to go. Hopefully the top guys don't get too upset if I rotate the side a little bit. At the end we were projected an 8th place finish and have won the league back to back. Board Vision Big budgets also released by the board. They are increasing our wage by 50%. Now we just got to hope that the DoF doesn't give out too many bad contracts. Furthermore Dylan Pinheiro has been resigned as our director of football for one more year, but his skills have not grown. So we might have to replace him next year. If it gets too crazy, we might have to lay down the law and demand more control of the business side. So far I like my small responsibility pool though. Contract Struggles The struggle is the contract situation. 9 major contracts in the starting eleven are most likely gonna demand a big wage increase with the new profile of the club. For instance Jovanovic has already got his big wage increase, and I was hoping for the 50 grand level to be more of an exemption rather than the rule. (Remember FC Swift Hesperange were starting to get used to champions league money, and after not making it for two seasons they are 1.21 mil in debt. We don't want to be the next cautionary tale.) Maybe I should put it all in the scouting budget to hid the wage? Anyway wish us luck as we finish off this season. Thanks for following along, best of luck in your own saves. Cheers!

March 2025 Schedule Finally we start to close the door on the competition. We can no longer mathematically finish lower than 6th. 6 games to go in the league and a 8 point gap on 2nd. Unfortunately, I think Rodange is definitely going down. Maybe we should look into an affiliate club further down in the pyramid. Luxembourg National Division Amazingly the potential takeover talks have not ceased since I think just prior to the winter transfer window. The administration may be in chaos but the dynamics have mellowed out and the team is much more even keel. Defenders on the Right We got a lot of right backs and potential right backs at the club, lets go through them. (Let me know if everyone would like to see all the available right backs or just those natural or starting at that position.) 1st Oliveira hands down. His loan ends this year. Hopefully we can set up an extension. I just wish he wasn't so expensive so we could get him in permanently. 2nd is Nsanzimana who is luckily our best skilled player off the bench. Which is good if we lose Duarte this will give us good cover until we can address the hole in the side. 3rd is Almeida. Reihle could play there, but he is better suited as a center back. Almeida was brought in on a free from FC Hertha 03 Zehlendorf in the German lower divisions. Only 16 years old, he has good potential and is already 2nd tier quality. He has only played in 4 games for the reserves, but has already put in 3 key tackles, 4 key passes, and winning nearly 5 headers a game with a 7.05 average rating. He will be 16 for a while yet, but when he turns 17 he will be out immediately to a Division of Honour side I have no doubt. 4th is Federspiel currently on loan in the 3rd division with FC Erpeldange 72. So far they have not kept their promises, failing to play him even once. Prior to that he was tearing it up in the reserves with a 7.40 average rating in 7 appearances for the side. His speed is just second to none. I don't know how he gets into the senior side long term as he just doesn't have the potential of Almeida, Nys, or Moller. We will just have to wait and see how he progresses next season. 5th is Rudy Duah but he has been on the transfer list for a while now and will be released at the earliest opportunity. Ie. right after he returns from his poor showing in the third division with FC Jeunesse Gilsdorf. First Choice We would love to have him back especially with his great dribbles made per 90, and his league leading 0.56 crosses completed per 90 from the wingback spot. Second Choice Nsan is a little older, and has struggled to develop. He has played super often with 40 appearances for the first team, but that is mainly due to him being able to play anywhere across the back four and put in a good shift. He is one of the best in the division across all defenders with 2.41 tackles per 90, and 7.58 progressive passes per 90. Glad to have him on the books for another two seasons. Summary Here is a summary overview of the team. Next up is our first leg against Jeunesse Esch in the semi-final of the Luxembourg Cup. 2 more months to go and 8-9 games depending on our cup performance. I think we can start to push for the treble this year. Thanks to anyone following along, and best of luck in your own saves. Cheers!

February 2025 Schedule We hit a tough patch mid month. Many players were demanding to play every game, but then were putting in bad performances because they were extremely tired. Furthermore only half of those players agreed to rest. (If anyone is experiencing this try to get at least a fortnight of agreed rest as these players will be right back to demanding playing time the day the rest promise is lifted.) Competitions Progres surprised us but we have managed to still keep a healthy gap between us and Differdange in 2nd place. We are also in to the semi-finals of the domestic cup against 8th place Jeunesse Esch. Both sides could use a European cash injection, and are playing head games constantly make comments in the media about how we are overachieving. Keepers This month we are covering the keeper pipeline 1st is Kips. Leading the league in clean sheets despite only playing 18 of the 28 games in the league thus far. Also passing accuracy is 95%. Things are a little rockier in Europe, but a 6.84 average rating across all competitions is solid. 2nd is Edrees. Edrees is leading the league with his array of passing with the ball at his feet. Also he has 33 saves in 13 appearances across all competitions. I'm really hoping we can get him a few more appearances before the end of this campaign. 3rd is tied between Fabio and Omar. Omar is the new kid 16 years old brought in on a free from SC Eltersdorf in the German lower divisions. So far so good in the U18s with 12 conceded in 12 appearances and an average rating of 6.89 with 4 clean sheets. That has helped the youngsters grab 1st place in the youth top flight with 8 games to go. Fabio on the other hand has been a victim of our success. He has been with us for 6 of the last 7 seasons. Yet he hasn't had more than 4 starts in any of the last 4 seasons. He certainly is no longer good enough for our level and thus will probably have to be moved on next season. Unfortunately he fairly contend to stay. So we may have to unsettle him in order to get him out. First Choice Still only maybe a top 5 keeper in this league. Kips has played well, but I don't know how much better he will get. Therefore our staff assessment is he is outstanding at this level, but he probably wont carry us any higher in Europe. Second Choice Saudi Arabian with still a lot of potential. Edrees has shown flashes, but he needs to keep developing. He has regressed in physicals over his stay with us, and has had minimal growth elsewhere. He should be eligible for Luxembourg citizenship at the beginning of next season. Perhaps a half year loan would help jump start his development next season. Luxembourg National Division We are projected to finish anywhere from 1st to 14th now in the league. We have rotated so heavily we don't have a lot of league leaders in the side. Nonetheless we are outpacing anyone else in the league in expected goals by team by at least 20 goals. Non-penalty expected goals per 90 is 2.32 and the second closest is FC Swift Hesperange at 1.69 per 90. Quiet next month with only 4 games, all in the league. Now is the time to go 4 for 4, claim 12 points, and put any chance of other teams catching us to bed. Our biggest tie will be 3rd place FC Alisontia Steinsel at home mid month. Let's go lads! Thanks to everyone for following along, best of luck in your own saves.

January 2025: Winter Window Schedule An undefeated January has moved us forward in the cup, but necessarily in the league. Competitions The top 4 are hanging with us. We play two in them this month, both at home. With 14 more games to go this season, it would be nice to be comfortably ahead by March or April. (Man we hate big games, don't make me try to do those pre-game team meetings.) Transfers We managed to send the DoF on a chase of prospects again. With 6 players brought in 18 years of age or younger. The most impress one of the lot is... Eric comes in immediately as our 3rd best right back in the senior team. Nevertheless we still won't get a chance to see him until next season. He comes in on a free from German divisional side Zehlendorf. First touch, dribbling, and crossing are really his only deficiencies. Hopefully he can become something here. Development Center With us now only in two competitions. We loaned out a majority of the 3rd teamers. Best of which was 24 year old Dedenon who is starting for Division of honour side Medernach, currently battling for the promotion playoff. I think that says all we need to know about our depth that no one went to a top flight team. (Only the top 17 players in our team are considered top flight quality despite two top of the table season performances from the lads.) Club Overview As said professional status for the club will go into affect this summer. As well as an upgrade to the youth facilities. The board also raised the junior coaching budget. Next off-season I intend to push for training facilities upgrades. Not a bad win percentage as manager too. Summary Lots to go over on this screenshot. Our general performance is great we dominate on both sides of the ball. Most impressive is our crossing, but our movement and passing are good too. We are a little under our expected goals, but that is FM sometimes. Most interesting is news of a potential takeover. Probably nothing but something of note. I hope you guys have enjoyed following along. Best of luck in your own saves. Lets go and make the league sides fear us getting knocked out of Europe! Cheers!

December 2024 Schedule 11 points in the league wasn't a bad showing. The real kick in the teeth was that we actually managed to beat Sutjeska. Only to lose 0-3 to Bodo/Glimt leaving us one goal differential shy of a knockout spot... Brutal. UEFA Europa Conference League We deserved at least one goal from that match, but fate was cruel and thus I think we actually will go from 4 European sides to 3 sides next season as we apparently had a good 2019 campaign in Luxembourg, but that goes away and we will fall down a few spots as we have our highest coefficient points in 4 years, but 0.5 points less than 2019 so... Rough. Luxembourg National Division The silver-lining is we managed to claim the top spot in the league. Mondorf went on a just suicidal run of form for the former league leaders (1-point from 4 games and 3 points in 6 games). We now hold our own destiny in our hands as we cross the half-way mark of the season. This slows the pace of fixtures as well, and will allow us to send a good chunk of the first team out on loan and bring in some fresh faces as the January window opens. Transfers First off incoming is the club's new out and out best player, English 21 year old Micah Hamilton. He arrives on a free after being released by Manchester City... MANCHESTER CITY! He is quality and isn't even the team's highest paid player. He immediately became part of the media dream 11, and sent us from predicted 12th place finish to 6th. Next was another player for the future. 16 year old defender and former amateur talent from the Netherlands, Arno. Good find and good contract. He probably wont play this year, but he could be one to watch out for. Squad View The next section I wanted to show how the senior side was playing. The first image shows the starters, and the second a look at the backups at each position. Starting XI Hamilton leads the way. Herr and Konate are now the squad guys that get subbed for occasionally. Teah was starting for a majority of the last two months, but with his versatility he is more often a super sub and spot start. Second XI Teah leads the way for the second team. Edrees has really fallen down the ranks despite not playing badly. Loua was in the first XI for a period of the season, but injuries lost him the starting job. Nys is a really exciting prospect, but Nsanzimana's and Reihle's versatility really has the third string defenders struggling to find playing time. All told the 3rd teamers maybe received 54 appearances total across all competitions with the senior team. So maybe 4-5 appearances per player. Each probably also have ~10 appearances with the reserves to maintain sharpness. Enough to get us excited, but hopefully most can get a winter loan deal and get 10-15 more senior team competitive matches before season's end. (I feel like I read somewhere an ideal match load over the age of 18 to maintain progression is ~30 matches a season. If we can't fulfill that for the prospects we may have to go to a smaller roster next season rather than the full 33 man roster we had this season for the senior team. Summary We briefly eclipsed the 5 mil bank balance mark. I'm anxious for the months to tick by so I can request more infrastructure upgrades. Professional status is coming. Youth facility upgrade is planned. Next is youth recruitment if I can convince the board. As you can see we are still being hounded by playing time dynamic issues. Nevertheless we are on to the 4th round of the cup against Fola Esch, and it looks like with a few suspensions and an injury we might have a statement first leg game at home. The board are pleased. However, the only hold out to a A+ rating seems to be the board expectation of one more round win in the Luxembourg Cup. So, fingers crossed. Thanks for following along. I hope this update highlighted some things a little better. As always if there is some different screens you would like to see feel free to let me know. Best of luck in your own saves. Cheers!

November 2024 Schedule The epitome of mixed results this month. Mondorf have finally dropped a few points, but we have not been able to capitalize. We have a game in hand, with a UNA Strassen double header and 8 matchdays this month hopefully we can claim the top of the table thus resecuring the clubs future. (Also known as potential European prize money.) Competitions 5 league games this month and I think 13 points is the goal. We have struggled with taking our foot off the gas coming off the highs and lows of Europe but we won't get many more chances to pull ahead of the pack. Also by the end of this month I hope we will definitely be on to the 4th round of the national cup, but also maybe stealing a win from FK Sutjeska Nikšić of Montenegro. As FK Bodø/Glimt are most likely winning the league phase so unless they hilarious rotate in their U18s... Sutjeska is our only shot at the knockout stage. Strikers What does our forward depth look like? 1st is Herr, 5 goals in 6 starts in the league. He is less consistent across all competitions, but still 0.6 non-penalty expected goals per 90 minutes. Making him the fourth most scoring efficiency forward in the National division. 23 years old. 1.5 year contract. Barring big incoming fees we can't fight off, he will be with us for some time. 2nd is Maximilian, easily the biggest potential talent we have at the club. I still don't understand how we could sign him prior to 18 years old. Regardless he already has tremendous athleticism plus when we go professional next season we can make full use of his developmental age window. 3rd is Bah who is another good talent and is thankfully homegrown in nation. My biggest worry is the lack of first team football. He is the best 3rd striker option making him tough to let out on loan. Especially while still in 3 competitions, but he is averaging a 7.6 rating in the reserves and needs to play in full senior fixtures. Unfortunately the DoF is signing everyone to star player contracts so rotation is becoming impossible. Perhaps if we were in fairly good secure form by January he could go out on loan for the second half of the season. 4th is Hoffman currently transfer listed as hopefully someone thinks he can still reach his potential. I doubt it though. He has not grown with us. Only 3rd tier Luxembourgish quality with poor skills like 2 stamina, 4 balance, and 3 passing. I think he has a career further down the league pyramid but we have seen enough to feel confident in selling/releasing him this next off-season. He might be a loan farm guy if we want to try that out, but we aren't Mr. Moneybags yet. Teo Herr As big of an inspiration Herr has been, he still is on the edge of the first team. I mean that to say is he is our third lowest CA starter in the first XI. Therefore it feels like the DoF uses that as the matrix for what first team positions to look for in the transfer market. So, development and form will be his best tools to preserving his first team spot. Maximilian Busche Still a step behind as a backup, only being Division of Honour standard. He has the right key attributes, and at this level physicals are still king. Thanks to everyone for continuing to follow along. Best of luck in your own saves. Look forward to updating you as we finish our European campaign. Let's go lads!

October 2024 Schedule A mixed month. We started off with a bad first leg against Bastendorf but sealed the tie with a win at home. A great win away in Georgia versus Samgurali, but lost a surprising winnable contest at home versus Partizen, which we should have had no business being in. Unfortunately Mondorf has not stumbled in the slightest, meanwhile we dropped points in our game against relegation candidates Mondercange, at home no less. Competitions We are starting to make this a two horse race in the league. but there is a lot of season left to play. We only have 6 games this month. With how packed our fixture list has been this is a nice reprieve. Attacking Left Midfielders Lets take a look at our AML depth... 1st is Walther an inspired signing and find by the DoF. He hasn't set the world on fire yet this season, but he has held his own on the left, right, and in midfield whenever called upon. Plus that is usually against vastly better sides in Europe. We are little worried about his step back development-wise, but with the professional training coming next season I hope he will have a resurgence in attributes. 2nd is Agovic our former starting attacker that was one of the top scorers for the club last season. 12 appearance for the club thus far this season, and a 6.92 average rating in the league ensures that he is still a common name off the bench. His striker skills have shone through though as he is in the top third of the league in shots on target per 90. 3rd is Amehi who has been with us for 3 years. He is approaching his ceiling in my opinion. Most of staff feels he will always be only leading Division of Honour quality at best. He was a starter back in 22-23, but has slowly drifted to the 3rd string side getting 10 appearance or so a season. He is here for another year and a half. We will mostly have his replacement in by that time. 4th is Fernandes also can play on both wings, but he is just too far away from the first team to get a chance here. Wanted by FC Tricolore Gasperich in Luxembourg's third division though so perhaps he will get a chance at an offer or two in January. 5th is Mendy still expensive and absolutely refuses to sign for anyone. He has turned down at least 4 offers on the contract table to transfer to another side. He isn't even playing well for the reserves. Just a bad signing we are still paying for. 6th is Paravicini as we said before he has the versatility to make us let him play out his youth contract, but most likely not destined for a long stay at the club. Gil-Linnart Walther Great find for this level. I think playing him into form, a good run in training, and we will be as high on him as ever. Especially at only 21 years old. Kevin Agovic Mr. Consistent, playing well in spite of the big match skittishness. Happily signed with us for the next 2 and a half seasons. That first touch has really been a god sent when coming in off the bench in Europe. Our next match is away in the league against Fola Esch. Followed by Maccabi in the Coference League. Wish us luck as we try to stay within striking distance of Mondorf at the top of the table. Best of luck in your own saves. Cheers!

September 2024 We win our first piece of hardware this season with a super cup win against Titus. We kept falling being, but we stayed true and got the win via Kenan in the 89th minute. Schedule We dropped a couple points this month in the league, and Mondorf are making us pay as they are flying high early. Getting out to a 6 point lead on us in the table. However, we are the only team to make them look human. Competitions 8 matches this month is really going to make us lean into our team depth. I imagine we are gonna struggle to catch up to Mondorf at all if by midseason that point gap becomes 9-12 points. Attacking Right Midfielder Our right attacking midfield pipeline looks like this. 1st is Bieleu who is undoubtedly our number starter at the position with 7.27 average rating. 7 assists and 3 goals in 11 appearances. 1.95 open play key passes per 90 in the league is in the top 10% in the league. He has helped us a lot in Europe. (Which has been his main venue.) Once we are out of those competitions I can't wait to see him tear up the league. 2nd is Kenan finally officially national division quality, but is probably as good as he is gonna get. Amazingly he is averaging 2.47 open play key passes per 90 which is 2nd in the league. He is clearly a step behind Bieleu, but his contribution in the Super Cup makes us hesitant to let him drift further down the pecking order. That speed has really served us well. I imagine he has 20 more appearances this season to make his mark. 3rd is Luca our third string AMR. He has yet to make an appearance in the senior side this season. He made 8 appearance for us in the league last season, but so far is averaging a 7.15 in 4 appearances in the reserves, helping them to a current 6th place spot in the reserve division. We currently have him out on the transfer list as he wants a big wage increase, and at 24 I don't think he can ever become top flight quality. 4th is Fernandes, another option currently on the transfer list. He has been with us for 2 seasons and has never made a first team appearance. Which I think says it all. We have money now, but not enough to keep guys that don't play. Not on a huge contract, but hopefully we can help him move on this coming transfer window. 5th is Felizardo. He is interesting he doesn't have a ton of upside but he is currently lighting it up in the U18s with a 7.19 average rating 7 assists and 1 goal in 10 starts. He is currently stuck on a non contract so we may or may not push to have the DoF sign him to a proper contract if he continues to show good development. 6th is Paravicini who probably will never be a first teamer, but as a fellow American he has a youth "prove it" contract that we will most likely be letting go when it terminates. Benjamin Bieleu Just 22 years old with room to grow. Unfortunately he is part of the trend of big games cowards and injury prone footballers we have at the club. Luckily he has played well and stayed in good health. Also thankful to have him signed for the next 2 seasons. Kenan Avdusinovic Kenan has been a great servant of the club the last season and a half. He has shown a little regression hopefully he can hang with us as we grow, but if we fail to get back in the Champions league... I don't think we have the quality yet to fight our way through Europa conference league qualifying to get back into a big group stage with that much needed prize money. Board: Club Vision On a positive note the board have officially agreed to let us go professional that will kick in next season. Next up is a second round cup draw against Bastendorf from the 3rd tier of Luxembourg football. Then immediately we head away to Georgian side Samgurali Tskhaltubo in the Europa Conference League stage. Thanks for following along, and best of luck in your own saves. Cheers!

August 2024 Schedule We did it boys a convincing double win against Flora then a tough draw against PAOK sends us to the Europa Conference Group/League Phase. We immediately win 3 million in prize money and ask the board to let us go professional. The jury is still out, but we have to make sure the money doesn't go to our heads. All the other Luxembourg teams were knocked out in the first rounds. Teams like Swift Hesperange that was used to European money are in rough financial states. Competitions The media has us predicted to finish 12th despite our signings and improvement. None of our players are media dream best XI anymore either. So there is no guarantee we can win another title. We got to slow roll this financial windfall into staying-power. Transfers In Our director of football has thankfully got the hint. He only brought in one player and at a position of need as well. Teixeira is on loan from UNA Strassen where he started for them all last season. He won't start for us, but as long as were in Europe we will need his services in the congested schedule ahead. Transfers Out Unfortunate out was last year's initial spark plug off the bench when M'Barki went down. Definitely was not good enough for us anymore, and was sinking to 3rd on the depth chart. He moved on a free non-contract transfer to Atert who won the Division of Honour title last season and promoted to our division. 1 goal in 2 appearances says he still has some life in those legs. Would have preferred to see him stay through till January to cover the upcoming fixtures, but we are gonna have to start trusting the youngsters sometime. Squad View This is how the starting XI is shaping up. Kips picked up a (8-14 day) injury, but should be back soon. Meanwhile we haven't dropped any points in the league so we really thrived on all fronts this month. Next month is gonna be just as hectic as we immediately play 3 road games and our super cup matchup to end the month. Anybody have a favorite player so far? Mine is Oliveira, my best find I think of last season. We have him through this season, if we could extend him in any way he would be homegrown soon. I even think he has an outside chance of making the Luxembourg national team if he continues to improve. He is quite expensive though and without the ability to force through his extension ourselves we will most likely have to watch him go next summer. Anyway that wraps up this month. Best luck in your own saves. Let's go lads!

July 2024 Schedule Good start away from home getting the win against Shkendija, eased up at home, but held on to a win that put us into the second qualifying round. Where we faced a tough draw against FK Astana of Kazakhstan. Our away form was still good, but we allowed just too many goals at home to have a good shot in the second leg. So now we have been put into the Europa League Champions Path Third Qualifying round. It doesn't say if we lose here if we still get a chance to play in the Europa Conference League. So our goal is to win our draw against Estonian Champions FC Flora Tallinn. 8 matches next month will be the most brtual test of depth we have ever had thus far. Luckily we have a full 30 man strong roster we can now utilize. 17 of our players now as thought to be of National Division quality. Competitions The only question now is will these depth players be able to show the quality we need not to drop points in the league. Transfers Meanwhile the director of football has been bringing in guys like we have unlimited money cheats on. Luckily all were brought in on free transfers. First is our new starting left back. Or should I say our former starting left back. Our old youth talent Schmit has returned to the club. He was playing in Germany playing for regional German side Buchbach. Good physicals and national division quality. Guess he liked what he saw from his old side, and we were able to capitalize on his homesickness. Next is Dutch youngster Rosina he has gallons of potential. Hopefully he will sign an actual contract in the near future as he is non-contract right now. He will probably stay as cover until January then we'll try to loan him out in the winter window. (If he will resign as part-time.) Next Austrian phenom Busche. He has great key attributes. Can play in two of the attacking roles we need cover for and is only 16 years old. I don't know what kind of magic the DoF was able to pull off, but he comes in as the first name off the bench for the second best eleven. (Probably 10 appearances for the senior team this season is a likely number.) Another Dutch player this time a volatile brave 6'2" center back. Only 17 years old he will most likely be sent out on loan in Luxembourg if we can find him something. Just went I though the director of football was done. He bought us in even more center back depth with an even younger driven Belgian. Nys is gonna get some time off the bench in the league or in the auxiliary cup competitions. Mentally he is good, but I could really use some growth in the physical department. He might be a good No-Nonsense sub late in some games. (5-10 appearance likely this season for the senior team.) Last was a decent upgrade over our current keeping talent. Kips is national talent that has spent some time playing in Germany throughout the football pyramid there. He is good, but Jesus does his first touch terrify me. I full expect a howler or two this season. Finances The wages are still reasonable but with another month of transfer window I just pray the DoF leaves room to resign all this talent. Perhaps I should busy him with those tasks now while I can. Next up is our third qualifying round match away. Can we get a good result to take into the home tie, and earn us a group stage appearance? Thanks for following along. Best of luck in your own saves! Cheers!

June 2024: Season 2 Schedule One more game of preseason before we enter the Champions Path First Qualifying Round. I think this is as winnable a tie as we could hope for. Competitions The board still think fairly low of us. So we are gonna push for the best results in Europe and the Super Cup. Hopefully we can come away with a half a million in prize money for those two competitions. They may secure us professional football next year. Transfers All the free transfers have arrived. They include the following... He comes in from Sydney Olympic in Australia for a club highest earning wage. He is worth it though as an immediate media dream best XI player. Next is a 22 year old Cameroonian inside forward on the right. A little expensive with some bad traits, but not a bad find for the director of football. Next was a great all around defender in from Walferdange in the division below. He averaged a 6.88 in 33 appearances in the league last season. He should gain Luxembourgish citizenship by October. Herr was a squad player for divisional side Schifflange last season and will tentatively come in as our number 9. Another star from the 2nd division is Reihle. Can play anywhere in defense. He averaged a 6.72 in 32 appearance for Jeunesse in the Division of Honour. Lastly is a Liberian prospect at 18 years old. He has good potential and if we can bring him along he could be homegrown for us. He comes in after a great season in the Liberian second division. I really got to stay on top of the director of football as we need more homegrown talent if we hope to have the numbers to compete in Europe. Squad View This is our new current best XI. Teah needs to be on a part time contract, but I need to wait a little while before I can ask the DoF to re-negotiate. Finances All the other bad non-contract players have been resigned to part time deals. So the wage bill stands at about what i expect going forward. Most teams have not been able to resign there players so we have flown up to 5th in the media predictions, but as players start to resign I expect that to drift back down to 6th to 10th. Also thanks to our work with our DoF (who the board resigned) we only have 7 contracts expiring at the end of this season rather than the 20+ we had to deal with last season. Wish us luck as we try to get the bag in Europe. Thanks for following along, and best of luck in your own saves. Cheers!

May 2024: End of Season One Schedule We did it! 4 points gave us a title win going into the last game of the season. We are champions of Luxembourg in our first season. 200 - 1 odds and a 17th place prediction from the media be damned. Luxembourg National Division I'm just baffled at M'Barki's form to finish the season and Edrees's clean sheets had us at the top of the pyramid. With a 50 goal differential no less! We didn't get the kind of reputation boost we dreamed but I think the sides will start playing a lot more guys behind the ball against us going forward. We will also find ourselves in the Super Cup and Champions League next season. We need to try to secure some prize money and make the push to go professional. Squad View I wanted to try out this new squad view. Sorted by appearances. Some highlights include... M'Barki with 21 goals in 29 appearances. 7.33 average rating with only 14.99 XG. Clinical. Unfortunately he is retiring after this season. Dzafo with 10 assists playing nearly ever match this season at 39 appearances. Zilli with 3.28 interceptions per 90. Just insidious off the bench. Meddour our best player still after all the transfers is 0.37 key tackles per 90. Glad to have him for two more seasons. Award Winners Top Flight Player of the Year The old man rides off into the sunset with the MVP and the league championship. Manager of the Year The board is thrilled, I am signed on for another year. National Division Best XI 5 of our players also graced the Best XI. Still none in the media dream 11, but we perform well. Retirees All three retirees want to be staff, Let me know if any of them seem like a good pickup. I really only control the coaching staff, but I don't mind seeing if we can convince the board to sign some club favorites. Koljen is not gonna be joining us though as he may have knowledge, but not great ability. Bonet is interesting though. He could help us secure some favorable loan outs. Finances We got a decent increase in the budgets. Our leading wage earner is $35,000 a year. So this could mean perhaps three players we might be able to purchase to slot right into the starting eleven. Unfortunately we had to expand to Europe scouting-wise as the pickings in Luxembourg were all prospects at best and we weren't the big fishes in that pond. We are looking forward to what the new season brings. I think with our attentions split we will struggle to defend our title. Tactic Last but not least the tactic we have to thank for our great run to end the season is GYR's Thanos tactic. We tried to tweak a few things over time, and this was what be felt most comfortable with. Primarily I would do my tweaking via personalized instructions during subs or at half-time. I liked the framework and shape it got our side into. Also prior to the upcoming transfer window this is likely our current starting XI. Best of luck in your own saves! Cheers!