Barneyinglis

Season 3 Transfers Season 3 had are business transfer window to date, lots of ins and lots of outs. The only out of note was Emīls Birka (LB) who the board accept the transfer offer, without he getting a say. Due to this I had to retrain Gļebs Kļuškins one of are more experienced players at LWB as we had a lack of players in this position. The rest of the outs were players from the B and U18 teams which became surplus to requirements. On the ins Ritvars Rugins (LWB) experienced LWB was cover for Birka until the board transferred him. Lukman Zakari (CB) player for the B team. Adam Markhiev (CM) the first player we have bought for a transfer fee, will play as a BBM in midfield. Alioune Ndoye (ST) for the B team. Edgars Ivanovs (CM) for the B team. Dele Israel (CM/ST) good backup player. Matvey Ivakhnov (ST) for the B team. Gbolahan Wilson (CB) for the B team. Valerijs Lizunovs (ST) first team young striker. Gallito Vázquez (CM) a old Mexician midfielder we got from are Mexican scout, backup player. Sergey Zhukov (CB) we hope will develop. Maris Ivanovs (CB) another young player will hope can become a first team player. Diego Ávila (GK) young Argentinian keeper. Juris Ivanovs (CB) young player for the youth team. All in all a good window. The youth teams and B teams now have a lot of players and we can see who develops and if we can use any of them.

Zaleiko never really developed, I only had him for this 2nd season and he only played 6 games. He has been a first team player in the Latvian league every season since, the issue with him and many other in this league is they want amateur contract so they never train to get better. This is why know I will never sign anyone of a amateur contract unless there like 33+ and just there to help developed players. Riga lost in the Conference league first qualifying round to FK Panevėžys (Lithuanian). Valmiera FC won in there Conference league first qualifing round game to Ħamrun Spartans FC (Malta) before losing to FK Qairat Almaty (Kazakhstan) in the second round. FK Liepāja actually made it to the Conference league group stage before losing every game, a decent showing by the Latvian teams overall.

Nice job, good results against Utrecht. Zaddem and Teixera will be good additions, I had Zaddem on my save and he was a bit of a beast.

Youth Intake Season 2 We had a ok intake, but me from the future of the save can tell you none from the intake became first team players, only one survives Rūdolfs Riekstiņš (CM) but he will most likely be on there his way out at the end of the season.

Season 2 The season As discussed in a earlier post I wanted to improve the play style of the team, I kept the same formation in a 5-3-2 but switch to the pre set Gegenpress tactic. I've never really used the pre set tactics, but one this occasion to worked a treat Goal 3 check. Basically everyone in the team had a good season, defensively we were amazing and finally having capable strikers Yunusa Muritala (ST), Marko Regža (ST) and Artūrs Ostapenko (ST) were scoring goals for fun, Muritala being the best of the bunch. This turned into a title winning campaign, seeing us have the have the best attack and defense in the league, Dmitrijs Zelenkovs winning fans player of the year for the second time after another excellent season. In the cups we didn't fair to well in the nation cup getting knocked out by local rival Riga in the quarter final, in the clubs first season in Europe we made it to the fourth qualifying round of the conference league before getting knocked out by AEK Athens (Greece) 5-1 over the 2 legs. In the earlier rounds we beat FH (Iceland) 5-1, HNK Rijeka (Croatia) 4-3, NŠ Mura Murska Sobota (Slovenia) 4-3.

Nice how did you get on?, they haven't been very good on this save.

Apologies for any spoilers on where the players have been transferred too. I started this after 6 seasons.

VV

Season 2 Transfers We started working towards the goals for the season with a busy transfer window, with lots of ins and outs. The only out that would be missed was Junior Kingue (CB), who got a better offer from a French tea, however a better CB was brought in as I will explain in a second. The rest of the outs were youth team/fringe players who were surplus to requirements, some of which we were able to get a fee for, the teams which were promoted to make the league into 10 teams seem to be going on a spending spree, but all three of them FK Auda Ķekava, FK Smiltene/BJSS and FK Smiltene/BJSS transfer dealings were pretty shocking. On the ins Marko Regža (ST) a young promising striker, Artūrs Ostapenko (ST) another young striker who will play as a backup this season, David Titov (RB), young exciting Latvian RB from Met police in England, very excited about this player will slot straight into the first XI, David Akintola Idowu (CB) one of the best CB's in the league excellent signing. The next few players are all youth team players to play in are U21/U18 and maybe get a few first team games. Later in the season we got hold of Axel Óskar Andrésson (CB), another very good CB however we were unable to register him for the season and we got him so late on. Goal 1 and 2 for the season were complete we managed to strength the team and with Yunusa Muritala (ST) coming back from loan we now have 3 capable STs, and we are looking extremally strong a the back. Goal 2 of being able to sign some young players was also complete, Gļebs Žaleiko (CM), Artūrs Bērziņš (CM), Markuss Alpēns (CM) all joined the club. All round very good window.

I've really enjoyed playing in a new league, in which I've never heard of any of the teams, hopefully on the next game there is also a new interesting league.

Very happy with this signing, he's been very reliable, are you also managing in Latvia?

Youth Intake Season 1 As I've played a few season in i'll keep this short only one player Artūrs Petrovs is still at the club, we had a few others that we thought could be something, but none of them progressed and were not worth keeping at the club.

Season 1 The board and the media didn't except much from us in the first season, bottom of the 7 team table is where we were except to finish and with no relegation first season, there was no pressure. Some new additions were needed, 5 new players came in, with Kristaps Zommers (GK) being the best of the new players brought in. Zommers was a really good addition as the team is lacking any quality in goal however this transfer wasn't at the beginning of the season so some sloppy goals were let for the first part of the season. The rest of the signings were, Alans Siņeļņikovs (LW/LWB) a experienced LWB, Junior Kingue (CB) French CB to be the 3rd CB in a back 3, Jurijs Haļimons (ST) a experienced ST which I thought would add goals to the team but turned out to be a bit rubbish, Didine Mohamed-Djouhary (CM) from Réunion look like he would be one of are better players but never turned up and just complained a lot. We set up the season in a 5-3-2 formation with a more defensive style of play, tried many different roles for players but never really got the team playing nice football. The season to my surprise went very well, we were able to finish second. This was mainly down the scoring from set pieces and being relatively well set up at the back. Dmitrijs Zelenkovs was the only player in a forward area who could say they have a good season, Yunusa Muritala coming back from loan next season will add some much needed fire power to this team. Plans for next season 1. Improve the squad, especially up front. 2. Try to find some talented youngsters. 3. Play a more attractive brand of football.

Nice how are you finding the league? Birka was a good player for me, but the board sold him and I didn't get any say in it.

The team. At FS Metta at the start of the save there are some pretty nice young players but the squad is really lacking a GK, wingers and a striker. The teams best players Yunusa Muritala is on loan at Riga FC, with no option to recall him, this is a great shame as he is by far the best ST at the club. The best/most promising players at the club are Baba Musah (CB), Dmitrijs Zelenkovs (CM), Rihards Ozoliņš (DM) and Iļja Korotkovs (CB). Emīls Birka (LB) and Lūkass Vapne (CM) are also two very promising young players, who we hope we can develop, the only oldish player is Gļebs Kļuškins a CM providing us with some much needed experience. (Player stats are from the 2025 season as I have played a few seasons before starting this, so there will be some spoilers if the players have moved on 😅)

On this years game I noticed a new league I have never seen before on FM the Latvian Higher League or Virslīga. A league with only 7 teams in the league (10 after one season), there wasn't a large variety of team to choice from, however one team stood out to me: FS Metta. FS Metta were officially founded on May 2, 2006 and in 2007, FS Metta and the university of Latvia (Latvijas Universitāte) merged as a senior professional team and participated in the Latvian Championship first division (2nd tier). With the backing of the university the club were provided with extra funds and the ability if the players wished, too send there players to the university. The clubs youth philosophy really interested me, though a professional club, Metta retained the prefix FS (Futbola Skola), since their policy is to invest in youth players and In 2020 FK Metta were the youngest top-tier team in Europe, at the end of the season, the team's average age was 19,5. This was the perfect team in this league to start a build a nation save. The club at the start of the save are expected to finish bottom and having never finished higher than 7th in the top division, it could be a while before we become the best team in the nation. Goals 1. Become the best team in Latvia. 2. Become a regular in the Champions League. 3. Develop quality players for the national team. 4. Take over the national team and become a regular in World/European cup competitions.