TheLutterworthFox

I haven't mentioned Wales for a while as, well to be honest, there's been nothing to report as we haven't done that well......... But this has just happened!!!! 20-0 away from home!

2035 Youth Intake It's happened again! I really can't understand these intakes, the preview was 1.5*, rubbish, with the best player rated at a B, everything else was D or E, this is what's just come through....... A 2.5* average intake but there are two top talents and one of them highly rated!!!! WOW WOW WOW! Another incredible central defender! Alongside Darren Jones, who came through the intake two seasons ago we have a central defensive partnership to last years!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!! 6 foot 7 inches tall at 15 years old!!!! WOW, this lad is something else, does he need work? Yes, but stick him up front and lump it to him, I may have to switch to two up top!!!

Champions League Playoff Round And as expected we lost! We are doing so well that I kinda expected to give them a better game, it just shows you how far we've still got to go! I feel like I'm a little stuck at the moment, I can't really improve the team anymore than it currently is, not unless we get a huge influx of cash to go out and spend £10m+ on players, something which I don't really want to do, or we get an increased reputation which means better players want to join us who I can look to sign on frees or pre-contracts. I'm really hoping the new ground goes through at the end of the season, that should give us a bump up in money at least but I'm sceptical it will happen after the last ground got cancelled by the council. Not long to find out though!

Champions League and Player Sale News I forgot to mention in my previous post we lost one of our key players close to deadline day. Winger Simonetti, signed two seasons ago for £1.5m leaves to join Celtic for £3.5m up front with £875k of addons. A good deal but it's a huge loss and I had no time to bring a new player in, time for one of the kids to step up! We've also had the playoff draw for the Champions League and we have one of the tougher draws. Atletico Madrid will be a hard game, I'll be shocked if we get through it. Finally, it only took one more game but the league title has been won for 10th time in a row, we did it by beating TNS 4-0 away from home! Nice!

November 2034 to January 2035 It's been a really good few months at the club, in the league we're absolutely smashing it as expected, we stupidly got knocked out of the Challenge Cup by Dundee United which was annoying, in the League Cup we managed another final win, beating Cwmbran Celtic with relative ease. Summer signing Rhys Williams with the goals. In the Champions League it's gone really well, yes we lost to Porto and Arsenal but wins over Sporting, Zurich and Benfica mean we qualified for the playoff round, 4 wins from 8 games is a fantastic return, especially against teams so much better than us. We haven't had the draw yet for the next round but will report back when we do. With the domestic clean sweep gone it's now time to concentrate on ending the league season unbeaten and we are well on the way to that! 9 games to go, the title is all but wrapped up already!

September/October 2034 Overall a really good few month, the one big disappointment is we went out of the Welsh Cup, so the clean sweep is over way too early! In the Champions League we did managed one win but lost the other two, as expected.

July/August 2034 It's been another busy Summer, I've really tried to bring in players who will improve the side, I've once again had to sell before I can buy, just because of the European squad registration rules. Some first-teamers have gone, Gee, Read and Williams all played a lot last year but I felt I could bring in better players to replace them. Ben Nelson - Central Defender - £6m from Swansea A big fee but a brilliant player who will massively improve our defence. Emre Tezgel - Striker - Free from Raith Rovers A player I've had in other saves, at this level he'll bang in goals for fun. Oliver Sturrock - Central Midfield - Free from Wolves A young midfielder, with that finishing he could probably play up front but my plan is to play him as a Mezzala or an AM. Genki Kato - Defensive Midfield - £6m from Rangers He doesn't look happy about being here but I certainly am, a top drawer DM, who can also play CB, this lad should take our midfield to a new level. Rhys Williams - Central Midfield - Free from Cardiff Another midfielder, I didn't massively need him but he helps with the HG rule. Giovannia Teresi - Left Wing - £1.5m from Leicester We only really have Waters as a natural LW so I needed another option and Teresi is a big upgrade. Some really good deals, £14m spent as well, our biggest Summer spend in the save so far. Some big news to give you is that Wales have moved up to 15th in the co-efficient rankings and that means, from next season we gain a 5th European spot, 2 of those in the Champions League, massive! Now to results, don't ask me how but we somehow bypassed nearly all the Champions League qualifiers, it said we'd enter at round 2, we actually entered in the playoff round (round 4)!! I have no idea how! Slavia Prague were our opponents and we eased past them to qualify for the league for a 5th straight season. It's also started as expected domestically with loads of goals. These are our Champions League fixtures, there are 3 or 4 winnable games there, I'd be unhappy if we didn't claim a playoff spot. Unfortunately no other Welsh team joins us in the European competitions League Phases, Connah's Quay got the closest in the Conference League, losing to Rapid Wien in the final qualifying round.

So I've managed to think of a way around it and that's to go back to mid-June and remove the English leagues, it doesn't stop the same thing happening to Wales at any point but I'm hoping it's a one-off. Maybe I'll try and re-add the English leagues back next season as I kinda like seeing how things go in England. But for now I'll carry on and see what happens, it just means I've lost about 7 weeks of game-time

So there seems to be a bug in my game, it's now August 2034 and there have been no new fixtures generated for the English leagues, the Welsh league are OK but I'm worried how this will affect European fixtures if the game can't work out which English teams to pick next season, also will it happen to the Welsh Leagues? I've raised a big on the forum and hopefully it can get sorted, until then the save is on hold, a good time to be honest as on Wednesday I go away for 10 days!

2033/34 Season Review Another title in the bag but I have to admit, I expected more this season. Only one trophy, I fully expected to win everything domestically this season and bar the League Cup we didn't even come close, we also failed to get out of the League Phase of the Champions League for the first time in three seasons. In the League we dominated but we ended two points behind out tally from last season. So a good season but it could've been lots better! But with the Winter signings I have hope next season we can win everything domestically and we can end the league season unbeaten, only time will tell I guess! Financially we've also lost quite a bit this season, yes we did spend £13m on players but even with the Champions League money we have still lost just under £10m this season, that was always going to happen though, transfers were needed and we will always lose money with the small ground and low attendances. We do have just under £10m to spend this Summer and a load of wages to spend, transfer-wise though it will be one-in-one-out as we have max'ed out our registration for the Champions League, homegrown players are needed as well. Player-wise there have been so many good performances this season. Matthew Brook wins the player of the season for the second straight season, the right back has been brilliant once again but he wants to leave and I don't expect him to be here next season. Steven Allan ends as the clubs top scorer once again, he is slowly declining though and I will look to replace him this Summer if they right player comes about. Chris Waters ends with the most assists, this lad is absolutely amazing and a key part of the side. Finally, a quick word on Darren Jones, the superstar player who came through last seasons intake, I've spent the season rejecting rubbish bids from Englands elite and he doesn't seem too fussed in leaving at the moment, I expect that to change but I need a big fee for him, so far the biggest bid has been £350k but that's been mainly in add-ons, etc. 8 goals in 38 games as well, a brilliant first full season and he's still only 16!!! Now we look forward to another season, can we make it 10 league titles in a row? I bloody hope so, next season we're winning everything domestically, I will make sure of it! Squad improvements are needed though but I need to remove players first. Things continue to improve season on season, we are now up to 16th in the co-efficient rankings, I think next season we go up to 15th and that means an extra Champions League spot, meaning 4 teams in Europe instead of 5

February/March 2034 Another league title!! That's 9 in a row, really pleasing but in this run of games it's had massive disappointments! Our shot at an unbeaten season is over at game 28! So annoying! We also lost on penalties to TNS in the Welsh Cup quarters, this means we end the season with one trophy. And that's the season over, nothing else to play for! Finally, we've had the latest youth intake, it was forecast to be a "poor" intake, it ends up being better than that, nothing like the intake of last season but we have three top talents. And here they are.... I am really excited by Richard Warren, he needs some work but could end up being a decent backup striker.

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Thanks you so much for your kind words. It's nice to know someone is following along!! He is an absolute superstar, the big issue is trying to keep hold of him!!

January 2034 Time for transfers A few out's, all I didn't need or I had better players coming in. Now for the in's Vinnie Hinnigan - Central Midfield - £775k from Middlesborough A new addition to the midfield, young, good personality. Luigi Simonetti - Winger/Striker A new addition to the forward ranks, Allan once again has been struggling for form and with Mothersille leaving I needed a new player, Simonetti is a huge upgrade on what we currently have. Robert Pahor - Goalkeeper - £650k from Lubljana My new No. 1. Hall was recalled from his loan and eventually I found a GK better than what I currently have. Jobe Bellingham - Midfielder - £5.5m from Sheffield United The big one, I needed a statement signing and Bellingham is that man! Matt Budrys - Left Back - £550k from Bohemian With Pennock going I needed a new LB and Budrys is a huge upgrade. Some really good signings, now they have time to bed in before we go again for the Champions League next season. result-wise its been a tough money, 100% in the league but 2 defeats in the Champions League dumps us out. We also lost the League Cup final on penalties to TNS Now all we can go for is the League and Welsh Cup, luckily the league is nearly over, we just need 1 more win.

November/December 2033 Domestically it's going amazingly, our Champions League run though seems to be coming to a premature end, yes we beat Dortmund and played bloody well against them, losses to Porto and Leipzig however put us chasing the playoff spots and we have Juventus and Man City left to play! We also smashed our record win, last season we won 14-0 in the Welsh Cup, this season, with a rotated team, we won 18-0!!! Easy! The league is pretty much over already, now to win the other two domestic trophies we're in. This Winter is going to be different from the rest, I usually do very little business but I have a few players leaving and I really need to improve the squad to a point where we can start challenging in Europe, if I bring them in now then they have a good 9 or 10 months before our Champions League campaign starts again. So expect some big transfer deals in the Winter window!

World Cup 2034 Qualifying It's been a fun qualifying campaign, mainly because at points it felt like some kind of home nations! England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Us alongside San Marino and Armenia. We needed to win the group which was going to be tough with England in it, second may be enough if we end in the higher ranked places, let's just win as many games as we can! Overall really good, we even beat England at Wembley, unfortunately the 1 point from 2 games against Scotland was what ruined our shot at top spot. We did however managed to end 2nd in the group And fortunately for us we ended high up enough in the 2nd place table to seal a spot in the World Cup! Only just though!!!!!! We're off to the World Cup which is to be held in Indonesia and Malaysia! Never seen that before!

September/October 2033 Decided, due to not wanting to keep updating too often to go with bi-monthly updates from now on, unless something majorly interesting happens. Loads of games but it's gone pretty well so far, yeah we went out of the Challenge Cup but I did play a heavily rotated team, we've also only managed two points in our three Champions League games setting us massively back as we attempt to qualify for the knockouts. It's a shame our shot of a domestic clean sweep is already over but the unbeaten season is still well and truly on.

July/August 2033 Here we go, another season and for this is the big one, domestically things are easy, now it's about improving this side to get further in the Champions League. Unfortunately it's been a tough Summer, loads to spend but our reputation means we can't bring in players to improve us that much. We also have to contend with the squad registration rules which means, with the fact I don't have too many decent "trained in nation/club" players it's a case of 1-in-1-out. I've also had the fun job of rejecting daily bids from the English elite for my new intake star Darren Jones, luckily for me he doesn't seem interested in leaving, I'm guessing that because he has a 10k per week fulltime contract on the table when his youth contract expires at the end of 2034. I fully expect him to ask to move at some point though and I won't get much for him! We did let a few players leaving this Summer, mainly to free up some spaces for better players. The one big loss there is Goalkeeper Eric Brennan who asked to leave, signed for £64k so a decent profit. The others to leave were just back-ups. Now for the in's. Chris Geiles - Striker/Right Wing - £1m from Ross County I needed a new option to play up top, mainly when Steven Allan loses his form. I struggled to find a big upgrade on Allan so chose Geiles as he had a good season last time out for Ross County. Peter Malham - Left Back - £1m from Bolton With Brett leaving I needed a new LB, it was probably my weakest area anyway. A decent signing for a relatively low fee. Joe Read - Central Midfield - £1.1m from Southampton Another option to play at CM, with Joth Taylor going and with the prospect of losing Fernandes at the end of this season I needed a play to come in and add some depth. Kevin Hall - Goalkeeper - Season loan from QPR With Brennan leaving I needed a new GK but really struggled to find someone decent enough for a low-ish fee, so I settled on a loan deal to give me more time to find the right buy. Paul Richardson - Central Midfield - Free Transfer Signed just to add some depth, he can play in numerous position including CM, RB, AM and Striker. Much needed with so many games to come. Overall a solid Summer, more money spent than normal but the squad has definitely improved, just not as much as I had hoped. Now to results and once again we managed to qualify for the Champions League proper. As you can see it was easy until the playoff round where we had a mini scare, we lost the opening leg to Astana but clawed it back and sealed a 3-2 aggregate win in injury time. What a shocking set of games though, every single one really tough, Celtic probably the easiest tie but they beat us in the playoff round last season. If we win 1 game I'll be happy! The bad news is we were the only Welsh team to qualify for the League Phase, Colwyn Bay got the closest, losing in the Conference League final qualifying round to Hadjuk Split. Domestically it's start really well. Only one slip-up but I had to keep players fresh for the Champions League, other than that a stunning start!

Requested a new ground AGAIN, board said, I threatened to quit then leaked to the press and the board agreed! Hopefully the council agree this time, another two years to wait though!

Breaking News B*stard council!!!!!!!!!!!! Time to try again!

2032/33 Season Review Another incredible season! Our highest league points total of the save so far and our 8th straight league title! The Welsh Cup was also won but unfortunately we failed to win the other two domestic trophies. It was another good run in the Champions League where we got knocked out in the playoff round by Celtic. So overall I'm really happy, there are now big aims left to achieve domestically and that's an unbeaten season and to win all four trophies, I'll be going all out for that next season! Financially, as expected, we're looking really good. The board have given me good budgets again, pretty much the same as last season. We actually made a £5m loss this season, that's mainly because I spent £31m on player, most of whom I didn't need, it was just a way to filter money down to the other Welsh clubs, it seems to have worked. Holywell, Haverfordwest, Llanelli and Connah's Quay have all turned professional and I'm hoping to see another couple take the leap this Summer. Still, loads in the bank, we need to continue qualifying for the Champions League proper though to keep that balance stable, I do plan on spending some money on better players this Summer, I really want a new Striker as Steven Allan seems to have gone off the boil this season. I'd also like to splash out on a new LW and LB. Now to my top performers this season. A whole XI of players above 7 average rating!!! And here was me saying Steven Allan had gone off the boil!! He ends as the club player of the season and top scorer with 25 goals in 41 starts. My issue is he goes 8 or 9 games without scoring then goes mad with goals, I really need another option to help when he has those bad runs. Left Back Frankie Pennock wins the clubs young player of the season, a solid first campaign for the lad who managed 9 goals as well, not bad for a full back! Right Back Matthew Brook ends with the most assists at the club, 13 in total. He has been a key part of our success but unfortunately he wants that big money move, I've said he can go for £1m. Academy star Johnson Fernandes wins the Cymru Premier Young Player of the Season, this lad is an absolute star, just a shame we'll only see him in a Barry Town shirt for another 12 months before he seals his move to Rangers. And here's the whole squad, some amazing performances all over the park this season! Now I look forward to next season, this is the Summer I want to try and take this club to the next level, I've spent 3 or 4 seasons now bringing in freebies, trying to keep costs down (bar throwing money to other Welsh clubs), as much as we're still dominating I really feel I need to start spending some cash on much better quality player to try and get further in the Champions League, I need to keep the co-efficient heading in the right direction and to do that we need to get further than the Last 16. Alongside that we need the other Welsh clubs to get further in Europe so I may try and sell/loan some of my players to other Welsh Premier clubs. It may be a busy Summer but I'll only go mad if the right players come about. The progression in this save has been incredible, the big news is out reputation has moved to 2.5*, level with Swansea with only Cardiff ahead of us on 3*

March/April 2033 The final games of the season, not many in March so I decided to do two months at once. A really good end bar losing on penalties to Larne in the Challenge Cup, one game left and that's the Welsh Cup final. An easy win!!!! Darren Jones, the star from the intake scoring, he is now our penalty taker!!! In the month since he has joined he has broken these records.... Youngest ever Welsh international Youngest ever Barry Town player Youngest ever Barry Town scorer Youngest ever Cymru Premier player and scorer Youngest ever Welsh Cup player and scorer Youngest ever Challenge Cup player Not bad!!!!

2033 Youth Intake The preview had this intake as "good" but the highest rated player was a "C", however this has just happened, I have never ever seen anything like this before! I have never ever seen a player come through with that high CA!! He's 15 and already 3.5*!! OH MY WORD!! He is incredible! My only concern is how long he sticks around for!!! The future is very VERY bright!

February 2033 8 in a row!!!!! It was inevitable really, we were a little shaky in the opening few games but that win against TNS to claim the title was stunning! Unfortunately our Champions League run ends at the playoff round for the 2nd season in a row as we lost to Celtic, we did well though against a much stronger team.

January 2033 Firstly, big news outside of Barry! Cardiff Met Uni somehow managed to qualify for the playoff round of the Conference League! Not bad for an amateur side! Now to ourselves and some transfer news, this one really hurts to be honest, Rangers just love nicking my favourite players and they've done it once again. Such a shame to see him go but he wanted the move, I wanted more money but that was it and he because he started kicking off I had to let him have his wish, the good news though is he stays here on loan until the end of next season. Fernandes also won the Welsh Young Player of the Year award, ahead of Tom Torr, the academy doing the business! I've also made a new signing myself, well a loan signing but it's a new player in. Gabriel Eke was recalled from his loan by Palace so I needed a new option out wide, so in comes Tetsuysa Tanabe from Spurs for the rest of the season, a top quality player Now to the results and it's been another brilliant month. A defeat to Liverpool in the Champions League which I expected, we did manage a good draw against AC Milan but we were 2-0 up so I was disappointed not to win, that draw though did mean we scraped out of the League Phase and into the playoff round. Only just though!!! The league is nearly over as well. 19 points clear with a game in-hand, we need one more win to seal a 8th straight league title