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  1. Youth intake 2025

    After a brilliant intake, I was expecting even more this year, better facilities, better coaching, surely we'd have a bunch of gems to kickstart our season?

    well, not really.

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    It's not a bad intake as we have multiple 5* PA dudes but only three have 1* CA or more which is worrying.

    Only two of those are any good and this is definitely a writeoff year especially with those personalities.

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    Nilas seems decent but my coaches already saying he doesn't have a lot of potential left in him which would be a great shame. Tschutscher on the other hand seems to be a bit more raw but I hope he can somewhat replace Negele next season.

  2. Autumn 2024

    What a tale of two competitions. We have been awful in the league, scoring at a decent clip but our defense has been shambolic as we just can't stop conceding.  Luckily a couple times we managed to keep it under control to gain vital wins but the situation is quite critical.  In the cup though, we're a completely different team, having thrashed B-teams twice we then smashed second division Eschen/Mauren to smithereens. Baffling, truly baffling.

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    This leaves us facing Balzers with Vaduz, the other big team left in the Cup whilst in the league we're hanging by a thread.  I really hope the kids get their act together or we will get relegated.

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  3. Summer 2024

    It's time for Euros and there is a massive shock as we have a second time winner in... Denmark!

    They roflstomped Germany in the final after a rather unremarkable run with the big boys all in the other half of the tree.

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    Back at the club level, we signed a slightly better sponsor deal that will pay for all the staff for the year whilst the ticket sales remained stagnant which is a concern to me.

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    We also made two sales, Lampert's time at the club was truly over but Negele suddenly threw a fit and we had to let him go, luckily we got a fairly good deal out of it and maybe, just maybe he'll come back to us in a couple seasons time.

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  4. Spring 2024

    Can we survive the drop having been 6 points clear of relegation before the winter break?  Well, our form remained similar with some major wins in the middle providing a fairly decent platform, the late losses were regrettable as the morale just washed away.

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    In the Liechtenstein Cup, it was a final for the ages as Vaduz collapsed spectacularly allowing Eschen/Mauren win their 5th Cup in 6 years. It's all over for Vaduz as they seem to be in free fall now.

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    Eschen Mauren ended up winning the league by quite a margin, swapping places with Vaduz as we placed a quite spectacular 12th, 11 points clear of relegation.

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    Receiving 58k for our performance was certainly an icing on the cake and could be the difference that allows us to stay afloat for a couple more seasons yet.

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    There were a lot fewer outstanding performers with time round.  Only two strikers hit 10 gaols and only Vogt made more than 5 assists.  A quiet year where we focused on surviving rather than breaking records.

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  5. Youth intake 2024 and the return of Ritter

    I've decided to bring back Ritter again.  It's going to be his 3rd stint at the club and he's still only 18. Hopefully he'll show his worth for us.

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    Youth intake was a bit more of a mixed bag this year with a couple outstanding players but much less depth than last year.

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    Klein is the ultimate frustrating keeper.  He's got great personality but all his skillpoints are not quite where I'd like them to be.  He's also 5'10 which is not what you want in a keeper.

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    Marxer, however, is a much more wanted prospect.  Yea, he looks raw but I can see him challenge for first team next year already and establishing in first XI for a decade if his development goes well.

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  6. Winter 2023/24

    It's election time at Schaan and once more the chairman gets reelected.

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    Probably more of the same slow development then with no changes?

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    Um, okay, these philosophies are all new and the last two are against the youth only policy but we'll deal with that.

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    At least we finished spending the Europa League money and back to near zero in bank.

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    So I sold a youngster as well as a main goalie.  Now that may seem a bit controversial but I have at least two kids coming through and I did not want to hamper their development (read pay their salary, so I can loan them out), so I got rid of my no.1.  Hopefully, we don't relegate and the match time will make kids develop much faster.

  7. 2023 Autumn update

    Having had a back to back promotion I was expecting a major bump in rep and the season ticket sales.  Alas, we only got a tiny bump which could mean my finances will be severely stretched this year.

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    This is also the first time we'll get any money for a league finishing position, so even relegating but not being last is important.

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    In terms of fixtures, it was a bit of a rude awakening as we got exposed quite bad, multiple big losses with only one win by more than a single goal.

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    We did not achieve much in the Cup either as we met the arch nemesis Eschen/Mauren and were stopped.

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    A big reason why we did so poorly was the international callups.  Don't get me wrong, it's awesome for my players to be recognised and be getting more experience but the league does not play nice and makes us play games despite not having even 11 players.

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    Still, we're managing a point a game which means we're 6 points above relegation zone with 13 to play.  Eschen/Mauren is running away with the league, so they'll probably swap with Vaduz to become highest rated Liechtensteiner club.  All that Europa League money has really transformed their fortunes.

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