Deisler26

Like a 70's legend, including chain smoking lol

That's better. Seemingly back on track!

Congratulations buddy! Great work!

So, we're looking for some reinforcements after our promotion, however, scouting every player you find means that your scouting budget gets drained and you can't afford scouts anymore. Bugger. So what do you do? You wait until the next round of European U-21 internationals and you go through their squads to find the unattached players and invite them for a trial. It seems to be a more realistic method of finding players with no scouting budget for me as you can just look at a countries' FA website/Twitter account and they have the full squads on there. So, we're out on the top countries, obviously. Let's see what we can pick up from the lower reaches. GK Alan Spahić (Montenegro) Alan does not look like he'd ever replace Westergards in goal for us, so he will be Let Go at the end of the trial AML/ST Elmar Škrijelj (Montenegro) Elmar does not fit in with our Dockside Natural Ability, missing out by 3 on Work Rate & 1 on Determination. He would also be behind Manquant and Krebs as third choice striker. But there is something nagging at me. That he could be good for us. Against my better judgement, he will be Offered a Contract at the end of his trial M/AMC Giorgos Pavilides (Cyprus) Giorgos is an interesting one. Above the DNA baseline in all areas and looking pretty good for a young player at our level. However, he'll be 5th choice at whatever I try him as and I'm not sure our wage budget can carry passengers. Depending on his demands. it's an Offered Contract situation as he may allow us to make profit on a mid-range player. DRL/WB/MR Atmir Krasniqi (Albania) Atmir has Pace and Acceleration, which I love in my full backs. He also fulfils all three DNA thresholds. But his Bravery, Off the Ball and Tackling aren't good enough for us at 21. So he will be Let Go at the end of his trial. MC/AMRLC Amin Haj-Yahya (Slovakia) Amin has nothing to make him stand out at 20 years old. Especially considering his Determination was only 3, along with Composure of only 4 and Concentration of 5. He'll never be enough, so he will be Let Go at the end of his trial. AMRL Aldin Drndar (Montenegro) Aldin is not a terrible player and could have been a decent squad rotation piece. That being said, he also hits our DNA thresholds, but we've just signed a cracking winger to play in his position. All that adds up to being Let Go at the end of his trial. DRL/WBR Sander Brauer-Ersoy (Cyprus) Sander is a very interesting player. He comfortably meets our DNA thresholds and has decent pace for the level. I like him a lot and that means we will be Offering a Contract to him at the end of his trial. MC Tom Bandikian (Armenia) Poor Tom. He's not a great player and will be Let Go at the end of his trial.

And, much like Graham Potter’s sojourn into Sweden, it can work very well for both club and manager!

TJJ will get the odd game at ST, but having Manquant as our main and the full rotation of the squad, there won’t be many opportunities to play him up top

Title surely yours!

So, the opportunity came to maybe pick up a good young forward from England on a free, this off-season. However, due to our reputation and his talent, he was looking to get the Star Player designation and we had an Star Player already in that position already. So, let's take a look at the contender and the incumbent. Oh, and The Incumbent Sam was our saviour last season when Celik went down injured and he came in. He's got one more year on his contract at £350 p/w and averaged a 7.20 rating in 24 games in the Ettan 1, with 6 assists and 3 goals, which translated to 0.25 APG and 0.13 GPG for the season. He played well, but downside is his age and the short-term nature of his contract. The Challenger Tyreece was released by Arsenal in the summer, and hadn't found a club by the time I took him on trial. He'll be expensive, as his agent wants £2k p/w to be a Star Player, but he's seven years younger and he meets two of the three Dockside Natural Abilties and misses out on making the Work Rate threshold by a point. He's also quicker and more technical. Let's see how they both match up So, the only real area that Lundholm outshines John-Jules is Defending, but I don't really require my AMR's to come back and help that much. John-Jules has him easily beat on Speed and just about on Aerial and Attacking, with the same levels of Vision & Technical ability. Seems a no-brainer to be honest, sell Lundholm and start John-Jules. Let's go!

A brillant capture for us. Matty will drive the midfield on in the Superettan.

I think I'm going to start using the Data Hub more for signings from the league below. Might even limit myself to signings from Sweden tbh

A good haul! I think the only reason that we didn't get the left back in was because of injuries.

Yeah, I've seen in some other threads that is a issue, re: international retirements

PvA is an ex-RKC player and was pretty good from my recollection. Hope you manage to stay up!

Gilliead is too good for that level. Monsterous DLP

Think this is the issue now, you'll keep coming up against teams you've already faced

I love the 3 Satisfactions rule. It's an excellent addition to the save!

How are my RKC boys doing?

Love me some promotion from the youth! Deng is very sexy as a DM

Think you should be at least challenging the upper reaches this season

That's a lot of bread....

Hopefully much the same. We're in too much debt to improve our facilites, so some cashing in, may be needed

I'd let them all go tbh.

Thanks! It's given us a good platform for next season!

That we did. Not much in the way of cash for the Superettan though.

It was awesome. I do think that it helped that we were done of the best teams in the league anyway tbh