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April 23...
Start of the new season, we have hit the ground running as well. Made some slight tweaks to the way we play and its going good so far.
Most the new players have settled in well and they are a big reason we open with 4 straight wins in the league, Steffen Lie Skalevik has been particularly good, he has more of a killer instinct than Olsen had last season and is showing he was not just lucky last season for Sarpsborg.
Also looking like our defence is a little more stable for the moment, Kallstrom is back in goal and both new CB signings Utvik and Rasmus Nicolaisen are shielding him well.
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55 minutes ago, Mr. VerticalTikiTaka said:
I ended up loading Norway, Sweden and Spain, although I may end up switching spain for denmark. I was hoping i would be able to get a reserve player off a team like alaves
Be interested to see if you can do better than I am going, its been quite a struggle to bring quality players in as I am sticking to Scandinavian only, you can also only have max 9 none Norwegians in the squad.
Best of luck!
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Transfers Out...
Small update on transfers, I deceided to change ideas and send a large amount of the most talented youth players out on loan.
The good news is, we negotiated "regular starter" status on all of them and most of them will be playing in the Eliteserien this season so we can keep a very close eye on them. I have allowed them all to play against us and be recalled.
Finances...
Very big trouble here, we really need to win a few games in the Europa Conference league, its still months away from being played but the prize money per win will help.
Maybe the board will take another loan?
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Pre-season...
Another 8th place media prediction. This time they have made Rosenborg the pre-season Champsions, I think Bodo/Glimt will be the winner personally.
Transfers IN...
I am very likely to throw caution to the wind this season and play the kids and most of the somewhat talented youth prospects.
With that in mind, here are the incoming moves, including some more youth prospects
Again as per usual, the first half of January gets added to the previous seasons total.
Marko Hauhia - Another Finish fullback, looks mildy promising. Straight into the under 19s
Axel Wallenborg - Hes pretty average but due to selling out both my other left fullbacks we need a replacement. He will serve as backup for now.
Juha Lahitinen - Yes, another Fin. There is something in this kid so he will be given some games this season, for now hes off to the under 19s to train and learn a little bit.
Rasmus Nicolaisen - Played most of his career in the Danish Superleague, he did play 1 season for Porstmouth in league one as well. Obviously a talented player in there somewhere, he will be one of my new starting defenders.
Simen Nordli - First of 3 players signed from relegated Sarpsborg, he will offer us more threat in the forward postions. Mostly likely going to start at AM
Kjetil Haug - Our new number 2 keeper, we sold our starter and needed the replacement. He should be good enough for now. He won a league title with Valerenga only 2 seasons back and was on the books at Manchester City until the 20-17/18 season.
Osame Sahraoui - A loan signing to add more talent to the outside wide positions. We were very disappointing in that area last season, it was a focus to improve.
Bjorn Inge Utvik - The 2nd Sarpsborg player to join, as our defence was also pretty terrible last season, I set about changing most of them out.
Steffen Lie Skalevik - Last player from Sarpsborg, could be interesting for us actually. He scored 17 goals for them in their relegation campaign, including a few against me. His career suggests hes a goal every other game kinda forward.
Eirik Ulland Andersen - Not afraid to sign a verteran, Eirik can be a good player for this season as well. He won a league title with Molde and hopefully his winning mentally can show up here.
Jari Ruuskanen - He wont be starting games yet but Jari could be a player to watch. He scored 32 goals last season back in Finland, for now he will have a season in the under 19s
Julian Kristoffersen - I found him banging in goals in the Korean K-League, still only 25 and looks good enough to play for us. I was desperate to score more goals and he adds another option
Simen Kind Mikalsen - Simen joing from the Champions, so we added more winning mentality to the squad. He will be our starting left fullback.
Transfers Out...
I let a few of the regulars of the last 3 seasons leave us this window, the money for Kitolano was too good for a player of his quality. Olsen now 32 leaves us, sad to see him go as he did score 43 goals in 80 odd games for Tromso but he declined a little last season.
Also leaving was number 1 keeper Virtanen, there was some issues with home grown number and he was a casuality of this. Was a good solid player for Tromso, he will do well in Denmark after also getting an International call up for Finland.
Lastly, I let Nattestad go mostly pure from frustration and he was the scape goat for a poor performance from the entire defence. He has however moved onto a better league so also wins.
We start the season with a squad like this, its very young and raw looking team. I will also be looking to move up youth players as well.
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Youth Intake preview...
Does not look like anything to be excited about here at all. This is the first time its not been a 'golden generation' its possible then it might actually be better
Youth watch...
Taking a look down in my under 19s, they had a good season last year and won the National Championship.
The best players in this side, could they just be thrown into the first team and maybe see if they sink or swim?
Lets the best 5 current players in the side...
Blattmann - Scored 23 goals in 23 games for the team, he does not look good enough. His personality is also a major flag.
Rasmussen - He scored 14 goals and had 9 assists. Hes a tall randy forward, he looks to have slightly more potential than his forward partner. Could be used as tall target man, try and get more balls into the air in the box
Skibsted - A tiny diminutive AM, actually didnt play many games for the side last season. Hes only 16 years old, could be worth watching for the next 2 years and when hes 18 or so.
Sverrisson - Another forward option, he scored 7 goals in 13 games. He at least has some speed, work rate and team work. I actually dont mind the look of him, hes raw but with some training I feel we can get an backup quality player.
Hakala - Didnt play many games so hard to see his form, looks to me he could make a solid DM or BWM, both are positions we dont use. I could try and train him to play Box to Box, hes at least got solid physicals, work rate and bravery.
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October 22...
We tried our best to really make a meal of October.
An ugly draw to Sapsborg, followed by a loss to Odds had us in big trouble to make a top 3-4 position. We knew that 4th would miss out on EC2 due to Rosenborg playing Stromsgodset in the cup final, the winner of the cup final takes the 4th place ticket to Europe.
On the very last game of the season, we were sitting in 4th place and playing Lilestrom who needed a win to avoid the relegation playoffs. Molde would be playing Odds and at the top Bodo/Glimt could tie for the lead at the top if they could beat Kristiansund. A loss for Bodo/Glimt would actually help us, it would root them on 52 points and a win for us would push us into 53 points and should Odds beat Molde then we would finish in 2nd place!
Enter Bakambu scoring in the 92nd minute to seal the title and leap us into 3rd above Bodo/Glimt.
A most undeserved 3rd place finish, Bodo were and are a better team than us and thrashed us in 3 games this season. However with some luck we leap over them into the EC2 early rounds.
The entire squad was totally disappointing this season, its hard to single out any player as stand out.
Attack
Olsen did his best to lead the line, at 32 hes slowing down now but can still offer something but likely as an impact sub next season. Fofana didn't take off, nowhere near the player he was when not playing for Tromso. Outwide, our best player was Kallsberg, he at least is 19 and us some upside to improve but Erlien, Solli and Wallem were totally disappointing and need to be better. Lastly at AM, Magnus Mattsson was doing pretty well for us, when he left we move Kitolano and Gronli into a rotation system and neither stood out.
Midfield
Mannsverk did his best, he was the pick of the bunch in the middle, thankfully both Kovalainen and Solberg are still only 18 and will get better. I need to find a leader and star player for our team in this position.
Defence
Pretty woeful, Nakkim and Nattestad both averaged above 7 but only because the ball was in their area most games and they had to defence too much. All of the defenders looking terrible and nervous in all games. I assume our keepers are going to be taking a long long holiday after this season and nobody would blame them for never returning.
Finances...
The almost 1 million prize money has at least taken us out of the red and back into the black, the board has said we can spend a fair amount but not sure we should. It will cripple the club financially but maybe 1 season of going for it? First place nets in around 1.5 million in prize money but also starts at the very bottom of the Champions League qualifying path. It will be a long load to actually making bank in that competition.
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9 hours ago, Mr. VerticalTikiTaka said:
I now have time to start a Tromsø save, but I was wondering which nations and league to load. I am able to load 6/7 league but only 3 nations which is a bit of a shame. Should I load the Scandinavian leagues who will have similar level players or the bigger leagues (and norway) for the future in the save?
Good luck!
For sure you want to load in the Scandinavian leagues, maybe Denmark and Sweden? Finland is good for cheaper players but less quality and Denmark has better players but more expensive.
You could load 3 nations then add all players from certain regions?
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July/August/September 22..
For some reason Bodo/Glimt just thrash us every game now, we are not even close to beating them this season. 3 games and 12 conceded.
A back to back win over the struggling Champions Valerenga and Rosenborg was followed up by a humiliating 1-6 loss to the league leaders Kristiansund. That game was totally embarrassing and heads will roll after that for sure. We lead the game 1-0 before just totally falling over asleep, Bakamabu scored his first and only 3 goals of the season in this match.
Thankfully we do win the next game, not a convincing match but a much needed 3 points and then quickly follow that up with a later winner to beat Brann.
Honestly we are not a very good side at the moment, any points or wins are shear luck or scrappy determination. What does amaze me is that with 4 games to go, we can still win the title, thats crazy. Also Odds could win from 6th! For our last 4 games we Sarpsborg (H), Odds (A) , Molde (H) and finish with Lilestrom at home.
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Transfers...
There was a change of plans, I ended up bringing in 2 players. Also letting Mikael Noro Ingebrigtsen move on as well, he was not getting many games and became unhappy.
Both players coming in are just a continuation of my plan to sweep up any available young Scandinavian talent as that is the vision I have installed at the club. They will need a fair amount of training, but there is plenty of time and we are starting to build a rather handy little pipeline of talent in the under 19 ranks.
Zahir Laribi - Looks good enough to make the first team squad, maybe a few sub appearances. He could actually be trained into a decent CM as well and I am leaning towards that.,
Kristian Skibsted - Pretty expensive but the scouts found him and think he could be good, hopefully in 2 years he can add some key attributes.
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June 22...
Finally hit some form in June, we have quietly crept up into 3rd place now. Hopefully we can go on a little run and solidify our position in the top 4-5
Finances..
Looking very bad now actually, we are going to need to sell players soon to get back into the black
Transfers...
Didn't really want to lose him at all, he is maybe the most talented player in the squad but we needed the funds. The board are still generous enough to add most of this to the transfer budget, however its unlikely we are going to spend any. I think we can cover the remaining games of the season within the current squad and if really needed then I bring in some youth prospects.
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An interesting development, after wining just 1 in 8 games for the World Cup qualifiers and then starting the Nations league with 3 defeats and a draw. Norway have sacked their manager.
I was interested in having a go at this at some stage, probably just not now. I have however thrown my hat into the ring.
Update..
I couldn't resist getting to use Haaland in FM so here we are.
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May 22...
The indifferent form continues in May, we lose to Bodo/Glimt again and they have scored 9 goals in 2 games against us.. A tough loss to leaders Kristiansund can be seen as ok.
Despite not playing very well at all, we take up 4th place and honestly I will take that for now.
Its hard to determine who has been our best player at the moment, Magnus Mattsson has look good and Olsen has 6 goals in 9 games.
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March/April 22...
Not the best starts to the season, completly thrashed in 2 games against Bodo/Glimt and Rosenborg and nowhere near Ranheim in our other defeat. We are at least scoring goals but keeping them out is a huge problem at the moment.
At least we win our 2 opening games in the cup, now that I know the winner makes the EC2 it gives me more motivation to try and do well here. We will play Bodo/Glimt in the 3rd round so a chance to get some revenge.
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Deadline day transfer..Made a last minute free transfer, I spotted yet another Faroese Islands international and thought he could be a decent squad player.
He joins from the Danish superliga where has spent the majority of his career.
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Pre-Season...
The media thinks we will finish one place lower than they did last season..
Going off our form at the end then I am not overly surprised.
First Team Transfers IN...
A very difficult and ordinary transfer window, I am finding it quite hard to bring in players of better quality as nobody wants to join us and if they do they want absurd wages.
This window was very hard, I almost feel the quality went backwards but the aim is to bring in 1-2 players each year that can be building blocks, not try and do it all in a single window.
Defenders..
Tobias Sagstuen Andrersen - 3 centrebacks left this window and we had to bring in replacements. Tobias looks ok, he's young to improve and I'll work on his physical stats. I expect him to get a few games
Nicolai Naess -Was not my first or even 5th choice to bring in but Hes the only one of moderate quality who would join.
Markus Nakkim - Originally signed to be 3rd choice but now it appears he will start for us. He has decent work rate so hopefully that shines through and he can be tough defender for us
Erelend Sivertsen - Familiar face, he was on loan in the first season during our promotion and was one of the players of the season. We had a gap at left back and hopefully he can continue where he left off for us a year or so ago.
Jarkko Ronkko - After Lyngbo left halfway through last season, we struggled so I am hoping by bringing in Ronkko we can have another talented player in that position. Hes still only 17 and looks good enough to start straight away.
Midfield...
Sivert Mannsverk - Despite being on loan, he is going to hopefully be the key player for us this season. Signed on loan from Ajax, he comes back to Norway to continue his development.
Johannes Hakala - A very raw talent that is going play under 19s this season but he didn't cost too much and we can maybe develop him further and see how he comes along.
Forwards...
Mustapha Fofana - He scored a hattick against me and looked unplayable when we faced him so now hes here on loan to stop that happening again and to hopefully score 20 goals this season.
Benjamin Rasmussen - My scouts found and suggested we sign him, he looks poor but for the minimal investment we take a chance to see how he goes in the under 19s.
First Team Transfers OUT...
2 separate pictures as the January moves get added to the previous season
Finances...
I've resisted the urge to spend the entire transfer budget and put us in a very bad financial positron. There was maybe 2-3 players who I could have signed and helped us but I thought against putting the club almost 3 million in debt, I want to wait for some European games to help balance and level the outgoings more.
Probably a mistake and a catch 22 as better players would mean a likely higher position in the league but I am going to treat this season as more of a consolidation year
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1 hour ago, DasMagicMullet said:
An interesting read, I started my FM21 save as Tromso too. After winning the title in the first season, I struggled in the Eliteserien before taking the Molde job after the Tromso board failed to back me.
Interesting to see that we both signed Erlien and Lyngbo in our first seasons too.
I built my team around Yttergard Jenssen, he and Kent-Are Antonsen have followed me to Molde.
Peter Bjerke in the U19s is worth keeping around and Ousseynou Cavin Diagne from Kristiansund was a great CM partner for Yttergard Jenssen.
Good luck
Thanks!
First season was a breeze, the squad is very good for that league.
Yttergard Jenssen was a great player but hes lost his legs now, hes actually just left my team, I tried to give Kent-Are Antonsen a go as well but Rosenborg came in. We dont have great finances so needed the funds to stay afloat.
Peter Bjerke, another I have also now just moved on. I didnt see him adding much value in the games he tried.
Good luck with Molde, they won the title in the first season but struggled last year.
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November 21...
The final month of the season, we did manage to win 2 of our games but dropped the other 2.
We ended up finishing in 5th, the loss to Molde on the final game didn't end up being an issue as Odds who won the cup took the 4th EC2 place anyway.
FInishing 5th should be seen as an achievement really, we are newly promoted and only needed to finish around the middle but the early season form had me dreaming higher and I actually thought we would make the top 3-4 and secure a spot in some European football.
On the player front, we were too reliant on Andrasson Olen to score goals, he did his job with 18 goals but there was daylight to the next best. Last seasons top scorer Vegard Erlien was most disappointing as he found the step up in class much harder.
Finances...
Despite the large transfer of Lynbo and netting around 750k for the league position, the finances are in a world of trouble. The board has given some funds to spend but this will push the balance into a very serious red hole but we do need to spend money and bring in more talent..
Full Season Transfers...
I signed up a few other youth prospects in the August window, will provide more information on those in the pre-season should they look like being able to step up.
At this stage, we may have to throw all the kids in and see if they can swim for the next season, there is limited quality available on the free transfer list either...
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Youth Intake preview...
Another so called Golden Generation from our new HOYD
Sounds ok on paper, will see who arrives in February for us and its looking like we will need all the help we can get to be fair.
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October 21...
The wheels have well and truly fallen off the wagon now, injuries and fatigue adding to the all round pain we are experiencing.
There is 4 games remaining to turn the tide and gain a spot in the top 4, to miss out will be super disappointing after the strong start we made. if the poor run continue, we risk dropping down to around 8th!!
Top scorer Olsen is also injured for almost 3 weeks.
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September 21...
August started well, we defeat Bodo/Glimt in the Northern Derby but we followed that with a loss to last placed Mjondalen IF...
The last game of August we were thrashed at home to Stromsgodset Tf. At the point we just want the season to finish, we are going to struggle to finish in the top 5 and any talk of a title challenge is now over.
We hold a team meeting after the last match in the hopes it can bring us closer together and push us over the line for the last 7 games.
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August 21...
Disaster.
We drop the first 2 games at home 0-2 . The first loss was to a relegation threaten Stabeak, we were never in the game and we follow this up with a top of the table clash to leaders Valerenga.
To cap that all off the board accepted a bid for Santos Lynbo, while the fee was nice at 1.7 million (rising to 2.1 million) we also dont have a quality replacement so we have had to dip into the market and find yet an even worse player. We signed Icelandic International Vior Ari Jonsson, he cost us just 46 thousand, he can hopefully just do a job for the rest of the season and I can look for a better alternative after the season has ended.
Thankfully we did get some points this month, this still keeps us up near the top and in the discussion.
Transfer IN...
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July 21...
The perfect month in July, we thrash defending champion Molde and knock of giants Rosenborg away from home
Still trailing a very good and run away leader in Valerenga and we are due to play them at home in August, to date their only loss so far is when we beat them 4-0 away back in April. This could be key a game in an unlikely title run.
Its very nice how close and tight the league is, Lillestrom in 11th are only 9 points from 4th place and still plenty of games remaining.
There has also been a promotion from the youth ranks, I promoted up Anton Kovalainnen, hes still very raw and need intense physical training but could be diamond in the rough.
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June 21...
We continue our indiffernt form in June, we dropped yet another game but thankfully not in the league but this time losing in the quarter final of the cup to midtable Odds.
Thankfully we are still in the hunt and occupy 3rd place, the league is so tight that 10th place Bodo/Glimt are only 5 points behind us. We look good enough to maintain our status in the league, just losing games is quite strange to us but I guess also to be expected as a newly promoted side. Defending Champions Molde currently sit in 5th place
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5 minutes ago, withnail316 said:
I was referring to your finances from your earlier post (I've only just discovered this thread.)
The rules in Norway (at least when I played there) meant it made a lot of sense to stick to home based players, but I'd also look for foreign players under the age of 19 so they could become homegrown, which made a huge difference in terms of my longevity at the club.
Ah yeah, we are very much in the red right now... Nothing I can do at the moment either. Income does not cover the outgoings, we will probably have to sell in the next window to get back in the black
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May/June 23...
The winning run is over, dropping an unexpected game to Stabaek and at home.
A bounce back win in the cup, we move into the Semi Final for the first time and will play our kryptonite in Bodo/Glimt in that game.
Wallem has been on fire this season, he is our leading scorer and is now attracting major interest and I fear we are going to need to sell him as well, the finances are in a world of trouble and his sale can reverse that for us.
Odds currently also having a good season, their only loss was the 4-0 thrashing at the hands of Tromso