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  1. It's 100% his personality. Unambitious is almost the worst you can get (along with Slack, Casual, Low Determination). Fickle is okay, he'll have decently high ambition but low loyalty. Fickle can develop. Mentoring has really helped with this for me, I had an Unambitious 17 year old that I needed for first team cover, so promoted him to the seniors and paired him with a Fairly Ambitious player. By the end of the season he'd hit Low Determination which if my old numbers are still valid means his Ambition went over 5, and prior to our season 2 opener he's at Fairly Sporting as his Determination climbed to 6. It's a shame he'll never really trouble the first team having been superceded by last year's intake, but it's been good to see it in action. Ah, you got sacked anyway.
  2. I am an idiot. He's retired from Professional football, but as long as we're semi-pro, he's honouring his contract. I can now go from missing his set-pieces back to getting annoyed with his constant disagreeing with my praise or criticism and his general inability to give a s***.
  3. Season 1, Part 2 or: Knock me down with a feather... Second half of the season: The Youth Intake: The intake in detail Season round-up: Spreadsheets!
  4. Season 2023/24, Part 1 or: "There ain't half been some clever ba**ards" The Season So Far: Youth intake preview and club building:
  5. As I've given up on Belgium for now, I'm starting a new one in reliable England. So without further ado...
  6. I holidayed a few seasons in with Diagem to see the extent of the Belgian financial bug; within 4 seasons the club was €10m in debt. I'm half-tempted to carry on anyway, but I don't see how they can come back from that really.
  7. Cheers, have added my own findings to that. Bit miffed now though, not sure I can bring myself to carry on with this save now.
  8. Just to add to this, after starting the Youth Challenge with a Belgian team (Diegem) and being made aware of this, I holidayed to the end of the season, saving each month, and checking the finances as I went. It would appear that the high level of Youth facilities is the main culprit here (or at least a significant factor). These are the teams that got promoted and their facilities: On reaching the end of the season, my Youth Setup costs up to 1st April were €523,368 (I got sacked at that point). The other promoted teams suffered slightly less but still significantly: Every side finished at least €900,000 in the red. Of the other sides in the division, all bar one had significantly lower Youth setup fees (excluding the feeder sides Bruges NXT, Zebra Elites and OHL U23): Hope some of this helps.
  9. Oh, didn't know that. I can't see anything relevant in the Belgium bug tracker, can you expand on this? Is this why I'm already €350,000 in the red 5 league games in?
  10. After starting one of these before with Worthing and not getting very far (in my defense, my ticker exploded and I was hospitalised for 5 months, unrelated I'm sure!), I think I'm ready to give it another bash now. So, without further ado: Belgian new boys Diegem Sport have announced the appointment of untested newcomer Antoine Lechef following their promotion to the Belgian third tier. Situated in the suburbs of Brussels, they'll no doubt struggle to keep their best and brightest from the clutches of Anderlecht and Racing White, despite boasting impressive facilities for their standard. The board are not expecting too much of their new man... ... which is probably just as well! Keeping the fans onside shouldn't be too much to ask as I could fit most of them in the garden for a BBQ The squad size was a decent 33 players before six departed prior to the new season beginning, either having pre-arranged transfers or simply refusing to sign new terms. With 7 of those still here being 16 or under from the previous youth intake, the 20 remaining seniors will be stretched to the limit. Predicted to finish 16th out of 18 teams, and thus automatic relegation, we'll have to see what the paper-thin squad can achieve. It doesn't help that the season's league opener is against the Bruges NXT side who are an astounding 92/1 ON for the title. Luckily the squad make-up allows for a choice of tactics within reason, though the centre midfield looks worryingly sparse. Onwards and upwards!
  11. The bottom of the pop-up window cuts off the bottom of the list when no scroll bar is needed, it seems fine when it is needed. Cut off (no scroll bar): OK (with scroll bar):
  12. Pfft, make your own team and then *make* a shirt
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