TheLutterworthFox

November 2028 Another really good month even if there was a rare domestic defeat I have rotated quite a bit so it's been nice to see the victories still coming through, especially pleased with the penalty win over Scottish side Ross County who sit near the top of the Scottish Championship, that shows you how far we've come in just a short space of time. Even with that defeat to TNS we still sit top of the league 6 clear with a game in-hand!

October 2028 Safe to say domestically it is now becoming very easy! Some amazing wins, a 12-0 win the Welsh Cup, we've also progressed to the League Cup semi final and the Challenge Cup quarters. It's also going just as well in the league Smashing it!

September 2028 Its been a busy month but domestically we are smashing it. We've even done well in the Champions League claiming a point in our opening game and then nearly an amazing comeback against Feyenoord! Miles clear already!

August 2028 Our Champions League adventure continues and in the 3rd Qualifying Round we faced Maccabi Haifa, I expected to lose but my word we pulled it out of the bag! An amazing 3-0 win at home was more than enough, we did have to come back from 3-1 down in the away leg but we had done it, the 2nd time we'd got through to the playoff round and ironically enough we faced the same team that beat us in that round 2 seasons ago. Dinamo Zagreb stood in our way for a place in the Champions League proper, a team miles better than us but we pulled off an incredible injury-time 1-0 win in the away leg, we then played the home leg, as ever at the Cardiff City Stadium and we did it! A 2-1 win, 3-1 on aggregate!! I'VE TAKEN BARRY TOWN TO THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PROPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And with that £12.7m of prize money to boot!!!! Then came the fixtures and oh my word they're tough! If we get a point from that group of games I'll be happy. But this is it now, all that money, hopefully an increase in reputation and also a big jump in our co-efficient, this is where the save starts properly, financially we're set, this should also help attract better players and with that money I can start trying to filter it down to the other clubs to try and get them improving. But firstly the aim is to max the facilities out, the board have agreed to upgrade the training facilities as a start. Domestically it's also going OK although we have lost a game, it's been tough with all the games but it was well worth it!

July 2028 As ever it's been a busy Summer but I am really really happy with the business I've done so far But before the transfers I just want to show how much the rankings have improved since last season. The League ranking has had another massive jump from 81st to 67th. Club-wise we've also had a big jump of nearly 100 places! And finally the co-efficient ranking has jumped back up 4 places which gives us an extra spot in the Conference League for next season Some really good progression. Now to the transfers, there's quite a few but I love all of them! Billy Gee - Central Defender - Free from Birmingham A player I'd looked at last season but once I saw his contract up I had to snap him up. A top quality player who adds good depth to defence and defensive midfield. Max Woltman - Winger/Striker - Free from Salford My big aim this season was to add more quality to our wide areas and Woltman is a massive improvement on what we have. Hayden Lindley - Central Midfield - Free from Bristol Rovers I also really needed better players in midfield, I really like the look of this lad even if he isn't rated very highly. Julian Gordon - Central Midfield - £78k from Connah's Quay I've also started spending money! Gordon helps with the HG rule and add depth to midfield and on the right wing. Haden Chisholm - Defensive Midfield - £10.5k from TNS Another good option in midfield stolen from our biggest rivals! Callum MacKay - Right Back/Right Wing - £10.25k from Inverness A good option anywhere down the right-hand side. Aaron Taylor - Goalkeeper - £61k from Bala Town When I saw this lad on a scouting report I had to bring him in, he is a lot better than either of my first-team goalkeepers. Aaron Collins - Winger - Free Transfer And finally another player who can play on either wing and up front is needed. One of my favourite signings. Some great transfers and now the club is well set, not only to smash everyone in Wales but also to take on a European adventure, we start in the Champions League first qualifying round, my aim is to get through to the 3rd Qualifying round at least and hopefully qualify for the Europa League proper. And it's started really well, we've managed to get through 2 round of the Champions League by the end of July. Some good wins, especially over Larne who, on paper, look a lot better than us. In the next round we will face Maccabi Haifa, a really tough test!

2027/28 End of Season Review Firstly, we end the season with a domestic treble as we lifted the Welsh Cup, the first season we've won it all domestically, domination! Only just though as we had to score a last minute leveller before winning on penalties! So what a season it's been, three trophies in the bag and we are now the dominant team in Wales, an aim I set myself at the start. 10 points clear of TNS and 1 point better off than last season. But we can't stand still, we need to keep improving, not only on the pitch but also off the pitch and it's the board agree as, in a surprising move, have agreed to expand the ground by over £1k seats We have plenty of money in the bank so it's the right move to start pumping this into the ground. We end the season with just shy of £5m in the bank, around £1m profit from the season before. The board have also handed me decent budgets for next season, no rise in the wage budget but over £2m in the transfer kitty, some of that I may transfer over to the wages Now we need to seriously improve this squad, we have a lot of players unhappy as they aren't playing, these players will leave in the Summer, freeing up some wages and giving me the chance to make this squad EVEN better. We have some top quality players in this squad so lets take a look at some of those who performed well this season. Isaac Jeffries ends as the club player of the season, a Summer signing and what a signing! 8 goals and 16 assists in 38 starts and an average rating of 7.27 Steven Allan ends as the clubs young player of the year, he also ends as the Cymru Premier top goalscorer with 19 goals in 24 starts and 39 goals overall. A top quality player, fingers crossed we can keep him here! Finally, Matthew Butler had an amazing season, another Summer signing and a key man in our success this year. 27 goal contributions in 37 starts. And here is the Best XI for the season. Now we look forward, the squad needs trimming down, unfortunately some of those top quality kids that were coming through just aren't up to scratch now as we continue to improve the players coming in. Aled Carroll is probably the only intake player to have broken through, fingers crossed some of the other lads can step up and provide good back-up. For this Summer though I need to keep improving this squad, the big aim is to qualify for the Champions League proper, currently we really aren't anywhere near good enough so I need to spend money to make this squad good enough to challenge.

March 2028 THREE IN A ROW!!! It was nice to win it against TNS as well! Another fabulous season!

2028 Youth Intake For the first time the intake has not been great, no elite talents but lots of top talents Unfortunately there really isn't anyone there that amazing but there are a couple that could be half-decent with the right training, mentoring and game-time I actually really like the look of Josh John, he has some cracking mental attributes, it's a shame his personality isn't great but I have high hopes for him.

February 2028 Well we're making hard work of this! 3 straight draws in the league, really not good enough but we're lucky we had a decent lead before we started not winning! The gap has dropped to 7 points but with only 4 games to go we have pretty much wrapped up the title.

January 2028 An absolutely stunning month The TNS win, alongside them dropping points in other games means we are now 11 points clear with just 7 games left We also lifted our first League Cup as we beat Briton Ferry in the final A comfortable win helped by a Steven Allan hat-trick, he's having one hell of a season! 29 goals in 29 starts!

December 2027 The good form continues, we got a great result against TNS in the Welsh Cup and gained another 10 points in the league. Unfortunately our European adventure ends in the league phase, I expected the loss to Valencia but fully expected to beat Gorica. A decent run though and around £3.9m of prize money gained. The lead at the top is down to 2 points as TNS won all 4 of their league games.

November 2027 Overall a really good month We progress to the final of the League Cup and the fourth round of the Welsh Cup, unfortunately we're out of the Challenge Cup. In Europe we got a good point against Cluj before being dismantled by Hibs. Still, with two games left (Gorica and Valencia away), we have a chance of getting into those playoff spots. I think one win should do it. Only two league games played this month but we won both and this has extended our lead at the top to four points

October 2027 Another good month with one slip-up away to TNS In there is a really good draw away to Austrian side Sturm Graz in the Conference League. Just shows how far we've come! Those dropped points mean the lead at the top is now only one points from TNS In other news I've managed to persuade the board to expand the ground, unfortunately it's only by 400 seats! That's a lot of money per seat!!!

September 2027 An absolutely stunning month The biggest one there was the win in the Conference League, it gave us another £420k into the bank balance. Its nice to see quite a few clean sheets as well as plenty of goals scored.

July/August 2027 - Results Its been a busy start to the season with the European qualifiers, it went well but nowhere near as good as last season where we got to the Champions League final qualifying round. We did manage to navigate one Champions League round before losing to Shakhtar, we then lost to Cluj in the Europa League before playing HJK for the second time, easing past them to seal a spot in the League Phase of the Conference League That means around £3m of prize money gained, a lot less than than the £8m+ we got last season. We have some tough games, we do have a revenge mission against Cluj to play, I am hopeful we can win at least a couple of those games. Domestically it's gone really well so far. Some good wins including a nice victory over TNS, we did draw the final game but we can't win them all....yet!

July 2027 - Transfers Its been a very busy Summer so far, very few outs, just the players out of contract who I didn't want. With us turning professional this has meant giving my best players full-time deals which has taken up a chunk of our wage budget, I have however gone slightly mad with transfers, with the finances really good it's now time to try and take this squad to a new level. So please welcome..... Mark Davies-Parry - Left Back A player I'd look at a few seasons back but I couldn't afford his wages, we also had no left backs in the squad, a top quality signing Rohan Maher - Attacking Midfield/Striker Really really good! Needs to work on his finishing but bar that he looks amazing for this level Joseph Foulkes - Central Defender Signed on a massive wage but I feel he's well worth it, adds much needed quality to our defence Marcel McIntosh - Central Defender Another defender, he adds some good depth to a relatively weak area of the squad Cameron MacKay - Goalkeeper Another high wage but he looks top quality for the level we're at Matthew Butler - Central Midfielder Midfield was an area I really needed to improve and Butler definitely does that Alex Roberts - Left Back Another left back, he adds good competition to Davies-Parry Todd Alcock - Defensive Midfield A really good signings from fellow Cymru Premier side Cardiff Met Aled Thomas - Central Defender Another CB, this one is more for the future but again he looks really good for this level Isaac Jeffries - Right Winger/Central Midfielder A late addition just to add some depth to the squad Some really good signings and the squad now looks well set for another title push with a view to qualifying for the League Phase of a European trophy

2026/27 Season Review With the league wrapped up I've decided to get through to the end of season before updating, the final few games didn't go great, we got knocked out of the Welsh Cup in the semis by Llanelli on penalties and, as I decided to play some of the kids we got smashed by Haverfordwest before clawing back some dignity with a couple of good wins. An awful game, we were 3-0 up at half time and absolutely capitulated! That Haverfordwest game was awful, it just shows that most of the kids still aren't up to the standard. We do however win the league by 11 points from Haverfordwest with TNS down in 4th! It's a 6 point improvement on last season and back-to-back titles! Cup-wise it's not been the best season, we had a brilliant European adventure getting all the way to the Europa League proper and won two matches giving us a nice chunk of money but our performances in the domestic cups weren't great Overall though it's been a good season, a season of progression on and off the pitch. With the prize money from our run in Europe, nearly £9m I've been able to improve the facilities massively with upgrades to everything. The big request there was the fact the club will turn professional in the Summer, this should help the player improve quicker and give me better players to sign. The clubs reputation has also increased to 1.5*, up from 0.5* when the save started, one of the aims was to increase our reputation above the likes of Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham, we're catching them up but still a way off with Wrexham the nearest at 2.5*. Squad-wise it's been a solid season, the new boys certainly improved us but, as you'll see below with the squad list, the young lads who were lauded as potential stars are now nowhere near the level required, this is the issue when you start with a smaller club with a low reputation and as you improve the quality of players coming in the kids fall away. The PAs of the kids from the intakes are still OK but they are no longer the 5* gems they were, some though are still looking good, the likes of David Chapman (CB), Aled Carroll (CM), Jamie Roberts (CM) and Luke Humphries (ST) have all had really good seasons and will definitely be in and around the first XI next campaign. What I need to do now is continue to improve this squad, that means a lot of players will leave and a lot will join. As we're turning professional I think that means those players on amateur deals will need proper full-time contracts, I now need to decide if they are worth it! The board clearly agree the squad needs an upgrade and the budgets they have handed me are obscene! £2m to spend on transfer and that budget is triple what it was last season! We do end the season with just over £4m in the bank, we've continued to lose money throughout the season, bar those month where we gained European prize money. So I need to be careful how much I chuck about, until we hopefully qualify for the League phase of a European competition. Talking of Europe, even with our decent run in the Champions League/Europa League, because the other clubs failed in the qualifiers it means we will drop a couple of places in the co-efficient, it doesn't really matter at the moment, we are probably at the lowest end of our 5-year co-efficient so I expect our ranking to rise over the next two or three seasons.

2027 Intake For the first time we don't have a "golden generation" intake, maybe that's because the first-team players are getting better or maybe it's just a one-off, who knows but we still have one "elite" talent Dion Thomas - Right Midfield He's really not great, has decent pace and good determination/work rate but he needs a lot of work Cameron Birch - Goalkeeper The best of the top talents but once again is not great, to be honest it's been nice to not have a mentally good intake, we have so many good talents in the squad, even if they are declining due to the players I'm bringing in being much better. I expect that to keep happening, especially with so much money to spend and the facilities improving

February 2027 The month started off awfully, but after a team meeting we turned it around! That win over TNS was the victory needed to seal our second successive league title, won with 4 games to go and what a place to win it at!!!! A stunning season! I've also asked the board to upgrade some of the facilities, we still have over £6m in the bank so best to use that to keep things ticking over Some good improvement which takes the junior coaching to exceptional and the youth recruitment to good

January 2027 Firstly, a new signing, I've been running with very few DM/CMs in the first half of the season and have relied on the kids to fill the gaps, they've done great but I needed another option and Ethan Tipple is that man, he joins on loan for the rest of the season from Reading. Not bad for 18!! The month started so well but we have really tailed off as the month has progressed. I can take the defeats in the Europa League but losing at home to TNS before scraping a draw in the last minute against Bala was not good, luckily we had a decent lead at the top and even with those dropped points we're still way clear. 11 clear with a game in hand, not bad with only a handful of games to go

December 2026 An odd month, in some games we were brilliant, we beat Nice in the Europa and then, as ever, smashed TNS away, we did however lose two league games and we really didn't play well, maybe a little complacency has set in? That Nice win was superb though, one of the best of the save and gives us half a chance of qualifying for the playoff, we do have Sevilla (A) and Betis (H) to go so it's going to be very tough. To get 6 points though is a miracle! In the league, even with the defeats, we're still way ahead. 11 clear of Cardiff Met and poor old TNS are in 4th!

November 2026 An odd month with only one league game, the results look bad but with the teams we've played I am not that fussed Two more defeats in the Europa League, a loss in the Challenge Cup but progression in the Welsh Cup and a solid win in the League. 8 clear at the top and with a game in hand! Stop the count!!

October 2026 BIG NEWS!!! The board have agreed and from May 2027 we will be going professional! This is huge! Result-wise it's been an absolutely incredible month Only one game we didn't win, there's been some incredible victories, amazing performances including our first win the Europa League and progression in the Challenge Cup and Welsh Cup, I've been blooding the kids as well who have been performing really well. Still 7 clear at the top and 11 clear of TNS! As I mentioned, some of the kids have been playing so good and one of those is Striker Luke Humphries, he's scored 6 goals over the month including 4 in the cup game. He's currently averaging over a goal a game and has 8 goals in 545 minutes played!

September 2026 Firstly, with all the money gained in our European adventure I have managed to get the board to agree to numerous facility upgrades, unfortunately though the option to ask to become professional isn't available. I had to beg for every single one but the board caved in and said yes, this should take the training facs up to adequate, the youth facs up to average, the junior coaching is now up to excellent and youth recruitment above average. Results have also gone really well in the league, as expected though we are struggling in the Europa League. We are still 100% in the league which is great news and that win over TNS givers us a really healthy lead at the top of the table 7 points already!

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