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Pre-season 2023/24 news
I have this defender who I got in an intake 16 months ago and he managed to leave the club for the second time in his short career and I am not sure I can get him back any time soon. He even rejected a part-time deal with weekly salary to join a fourth division side, so I am really confused what's going on with him.
Unlike him, I did sign a contract extension for another couple years, so I hope I can ride out this season's uncertainty.
Speaking of, we're predicted to be rooted to the bottom of the league and for once I think bookies are right. We're missing a lot of quality to even be competitive. It's good to see Eschen/Mauren up top, maybe we'll have a couple Liechtensteiner teams in second tier in a year's time..
Luckily the board is quite reasonable with expectations this year. I think we can hit both targets and the wage budget should be enough to sign the youth intake in spring.
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coach of the year in the world? brilliant!
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End of season 2022/23
What a fantastic season it's been yet again for us as we got back-to-back promotions. It didn't look like this was going to be the case early in the season as we started poorly and the quality of the teams around was definitely a step-up from division five. Yet, somehow, we found another gear and won just enough to get to the play-offs where player management was enough to get through.
Unlike last year's goal galore, only Kevin and Moritz got past 10 goals, they were joined by wingers as only players providing more than 5 assists. A lean year and perhaps one of overachievement.
Remember how we started the year with the Europa League campaign? All that money is now spent on youth facilities and I can only hope it will pay off fairly soon as we're projected to lose so much money next year.
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4 hours ago, Sheriff7 said:
Great job mate!
thanks, now the hard work begins!
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I was dreading we'd get matched against LS Azzurri in the final as they seem to have insane regens for this level. Luckily we got one of the other teams left in the draw in Red Star.
The international call-ups would span both matches, with the return leg affected the most, so I played my youngsters in game 1 trying to secure as much advantage as I could and it really paid off. Having scored an early long-range freekick, Hug
shithousedGetafed his way to a penalty to take a commanding 2-0 lead to home leg. There we only had 15 registered players but we were still able to prevail having scored on an early counter, 1-0 on the night and 3-0 on aggregate.
And here goes the confirmation we reached the third division!
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hows' that shiny new stadium looking?
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The semi-final opponent for us was Fribourg who smashed our backups 3-0 just 4 days previous. I had a good feeling as they had played their strongest 11, so they were a lot more tired.
It proved to be the case as after a strong start, they faded around half-time and I was able to see the game out with youngsters and take a commanding 3-0 lead. In the return leg I played a lot more kids but we did just enough and went through to the final 3-1 on aggregate.
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congrats on winning the group! Great job in the league too and I think you may surprise Cyprus in qualifiers next time round and potentially take points off Kosovo too.
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3 hours ago, ToMexico!! said:
double hattrick, any chance there was a perfect hattrick in there?
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HERE WE GO! Great in league and smashing it internationally! The team is coming along, good luck in the Euro playoffs (are they this year after the nations league?)
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Spring 2023
A tale of two moods as we started awfully after the winter break, taking a while to get going before steamrolling almost everyone and then choking hard at the end again.
Somehow we were guaranteed a playoff spot with two games to go as I decided to play kids to refresh the slightly tired old legs, yet still finished comfortable third.
It is now early June with potentially 4 playoff matches in the next 10 days. The last message you want to receive is this:
Am I proud? Yes. Am I devastated to be losing my best players to call-ups in crunch time? Absolutely!
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Random errands from Spring 2023
Barely three weeks after the intake we got our biggest international call-ups yet, oddly enough featuring newgens already. They played no matches, so how does Liechtenstein staff know about them?
Whilst you ponder about that, spare a thought for Hartmann, a classic underdog youth player. Good enough for a bench spot thanks to lack of bodies there, plays second match in a row in starting 11 just to suffer career ending injury.
Oof.
Meanwhile, Liechtenstein cup continues to be dominated by Eschen/Mauren who won their fourth in 5 years with Vaduz choking yet again.
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Youth intake 2022/23
We invested extremely heavily into upgrades over the last 18 months and it has really come into fruition as the intake is absolutely bonkers.
Only Negele was better than any of the 5* potential guys in this intake, and given much better personalities, this is truly a golden generation.
My two favourites in here, both from Schaan (with shoutout to GK called Schaan). Weirather would be starting if I could register him and eventually I am hoping I could make a passable inside forward-cum-winger out of him. Banzer is a strange kind of striker, short and slow but deadly finisher. Bundles of flair but no balance or dribbling.
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3 minutes ago, Jimbokav1971 said:
I think what happens is that there are loads of competitive games in League 2 and the U18's have competitive fixtures for the 1st time too, so squads are usually a little threadbare, and the fact that we have such a large squad, (even if it's lacking in quality), means that we were able to manage the starting condition of our players MUCH more effectively than the opposition. We were just in much better shame than them.
I know that feeling. I always seem to roflstomp my opposition after every break which then means my morale is high, so I start riding that wave to keep winning. A fairly gratuitous circle!
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Autumn 2022/23
Having been dumped out of Europe, we started the season slightly on the back foot before navigating a couple of relegation six-pointers early on. Then we kinda just caught fire and kept getting those late goals that gave us at least 7 points in the first half of the season. An excellent start to life in fourth division as I was fearing getting releagated in summer.
The league table looks brilliant, we pretty much nailed the survival in the league this year. There are no direct promotions from this league, top3 teams need to navigate two play-off rounds and I don't think we're quite ready for that this season yet.
Getting more of my badges may help me get there tho, hopefully I can do most of them during the winter break to keep the training going as smoothly as possible.
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9 hours ago, Sheriff7 said:
This is a bug isn't it?
yeah, on fm18 it is. if your season starts before the European update day (June 20), you only get participation money if you win the round.
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you finally learnt how to lose, nice one
also, expecting 23 more years of this save to get a stadium named after you now
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i enjoyed the fact 23rd side has been relegated but 24th hasn't been yet
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Life after Europa League
Our first foray into Europe was a bit of a disaster (as expected) and as usual, we did not get round participation money when losing
Still, a minor reputation increase and it looks like our attendance might go from 200 to around 250 this season.
We lost a couple players, one I wanted to get rid of, the other, not so much.
Luckily, i was able to get Ritter right back which is great to see.
Last but not least we finally got some international recognition as our ex players have been playing for Liechtenstein senior side for a while now.
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Having seen the PA screenshot, that's 6 who could easily play in Championship (100+ PA)
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World Cup 2022 update
It was a very boring competition as all the big guns sailed through the group stage without a fright. Ukraine livened the tournament by beating what's in front of them to get to the semifinal.
The gods smiled as Brazil avenged 2014 humi71ation to win the world cup vs Germany in the final. Jemerson was the unlikely hero to give Selecao their 6th title.
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that's a very balanced intake, league 1/2 potential on most?
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time for a 20-goal GK season then
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On 04/02/2020 at 00:48, vara said:
a Balzers save is on my list for this year, so watching your attempt will keep me occupied in the mean time. good luck, mate
Haha, there is another save that involves transfers that seems to have gone rather well. @Sheriff7 did a Vaduz save on last year's FM i believe too, that was great fun
On 03/02/2020 at 23:42, Kingofcm03 said:Good Luck with this! I had narrowed this down to the last 3 "next save" options but maybe I can put a line through that now.
What are the other ones you were thinking of doing?
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[FM20] Irchester Utd. Tier 10. England. Home. Youth Only.
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Fans takeover is one of the worst kind, isn't it? You get election yearly and almost no money to progress usually