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I'm the same @HanziZolomanwith the pens conceded, last season I had 14! in 34 league games, 14 pens conceded. Other thing i'm noticing (well 2 things actually) the amount of goals from direct free kicks im scoring, and the amount of goals I score that are subsequently ruled out for offside, between pens, free kicks, offside disallowed - 2 of the 3 is happening to me most games it feels like.

Loving the look of Maitland, especially as a Scotsman! Yes think your biggest threat will be keeping him at Celtic if a big premiership club come sniffing...hopefully not!

In my save just now - anytime i get a low 6/high 5 training rating, I warn my player to improve their performance - I get e-mails about the youth teams too as I want to be in total control. But it just results in having like 5-9 mini chats a week saying the same thing week after week. It would be good to hand this over to your assistant as it's quite repetitive and boring after a while!

Amazing, legendary career, got to be the player of the thread this year, unbelievable

holy cow @Johnny Aceyou got it way worse 10-14 months! I'm an orthopaedic nurse - a spinal injury ruling u out of contact sports for 10-14 months has to be a career ender, how many spinal injuries do we hear about in football? It's not like it's the NFL, but every save I have a damaged spine major injury it seems!

I hate this challenge First youth prospect with first team quality who scored a few goals last year, best personality i have in the squad, great mentals, improving physicals, a decent value on him on already, and he gets ruled out for the season with a damaged spine!

Season 3 (25/26) Table | Finances | Facilities | Transfers | Club Vision | Coaching Attributes Comfortable enough season, in that the board asked me to attempt to avoid relegation, and I was never under any threat of it, won enough games regular to always stay a good few points ahead. Never anywhere near the top end of the league however, way too inconsistent and lose too many goals/games. Took a lot of heavy beatings as you'll see with my goal difference, our centre backs are by far the weakest link in the team, thinking of moving to a back 3/5 as it's just hard to watch at times, with how easy we are to score against. Finances a mess, I'm well within my wage budget, but just losing money hand over fist every month. Wage budget has been slashed by 5k per week from 20k to 15k per week, still comfortably under it as a few of our higher earners retired/moved on. Can't get any facilities increased with the money as it is, pretty grim :-( They keep sending me on coaching badges now, I finished continental a license shortly after the above screen shot was taken so I actually have better attributes than this now! Youth Intake Preview | Intake Day 2 3 | Personalities Not saying much but probably the best intake I've had in the 3 years I've been here. Frustratingly, for the 2nd season in a row, my best prospect is a GK, and in my first team my highest rated player is a 32 year old keeper, so there's no immediate need for a GK, but I spose it doesn't hurt to have a good reserve kicking around the place. Like the like of this guy, Maxime Bell, he's going to get minutes right away either off the left, in number 10 role when I use it. I have a tough time getting players with even remotely average physicals and mentals, so once he picks up technically, he'll one of my best players. Remy Boyer Angel Fayet - due to the shortage of serviceable centre backs, he'll get game time. Youth Prospects getting first team action Allan Favreau - 2nd season with us, 2 footed, great personality, yet to show anything decent however, lot of low ratings, doesn't help he's trying to develop in a team that's being pumped every week! Rafik Belaribi - 2nd or 3rd season - highly rated, but again, playing in defence of a poor team, has meant he has not really developed how I want. Gerard Ardouin - defensive midfielder, has looked ok in the match engine. Alain Tournier - probably best youth prospect to come through so far. Got 4 goals and got some decent (for us) ratings. Next Season Media prediction has us bottom. I think we'll have a tough year, but I'm confident we won't go down. Will not trouble the top of the league, not good enough, I don't know what shape & personnel suits us best.

amazing @Ronaldo Beckhamwhat a run! How the hell folk get through this challenge inside of 15 years is just mind blowing to me! @tomayfantastic from you also.

Amazing @libbyshuss Get us a few screenshots of some your best current players!

@Ronaldo Beckhamwhat a save you're having, proper conveyor belt of studs!

In season 3 and struggling. Zero progress, just lower mid table scraping wins and getting scudded off the bigger teams, with nothing coming through of note and haemorrhaging money. How people do this challenge I'll never know. I think the key is an early promotion so by that metric it may be worth jumping ship already after 3 seasons. Another intake preview, and another A rated GK prospect, my 3rd in a row. I don't need any more keepers FFS!!! This is a fairly standard game for me (minus the four pens, i dont think thats ever happened!) but many people with low 6/high 5 ratings, its just hard to see any way out this league!

Guys how much do you offer loans out or if someones interested in loaning your players do u find they'll come in? I have tons of players listed for loan - but not getting many offers. No-one is really developing at all, so I'm going to try a few of them out on loan n see what happens. I have reasonable coaching (i think!) for u19s, not amazing but not terrible. Poor facilities though. But the wee "progress" bar tracking their development, they're all flat lines and have been for all my youngsters for 3 years!

like 5.8 territory, i warn them every time. Ok I may need to stop the mentoring then! what a minefield this is all is :-)

what do you guys do for poor training performances? I'm 3 seasons into my save, I have decent standing now at club being pretty secure for most my time, decent morale, but i still have 2-3 players every week, usually senior pros, with sub 6 rated training performances. I give them the whole "beckon with hands" "you need to better at training" regime, they all seem happy with it, then same again next week. Most of my coaching staff have level of discipline about 15, and motivating above 10. My youth prospects usually are highest rated for training too. but its annoying, u cant fine them can u for it?

has Switzerland got lots good nightclubs for him I hope!

not sure if people can retrospectively join it, but @libbyshusshas a guy about to hit 1k goals in his youth challenge

@XaW well done on surviving, especially in the face of such morale busting defeats, impressive you still kept them up. Pedersen looks amazing he'll be in your first team soon I'm sure if he looks like that at 15! @Ronaldo Beckhamyeh I've seen that a few times over the years. From memory be careful how you platy it, it usually happens again for that same player,i could never fix it, just kept fining him, and then sold him. Great progress from you man to be safe in la liga so soon with so many prospects in the team

Season 2 - 2024/25 League Table | Club Vision | Facilities | Transfers | Coaching Attributes Bit of a drop off this season after last years impressive 4th place finish with 59 points, ended up 9th with 46 points. Have a rapidly aging squad, and my first 2 youth intakes have offered nothing startling in terms of first team prospects, think I'm going to run into trouble in a year or 2 when some of the 32/33 year olds that play ever week for me start to decline/retire! Amazing season out of nowhere from Abdoulaye Diallo, who finished the season top scorer of the league! Finances are the usual tip despite being within wage budgets, not much I can do about this! No hope of getting training facilities done with the finances, and we're part time, so hoping for a bit of good fortune with some stars in the intakes to bail us out! Youth Preview Intake Day Squad View On paper I guess I should be pleased, with 4 so-called elites, but they're not in any danger of threatening the first team any time soon. And for the 2nd year in a row, a real abundance of slow players! Pace attributes are really nowhere to be seen, my last intake was like that too, full of 5-7 for pace, which with the best will in the world, is not going to cut it in pro football! N'Guema Ardouin Reynaud Tournier Next season board just want to avoid relegation, which is a good thing as that's about the max I'll manage I reckon!

@libbyshussprobably about 2-3 seasons away from Meier getting to 1k goals? that is ridiculous! That GK is insane too he's a future golden glove winner for sure.

I finished a first season in this challenge! Can I get a completion for this? Not kidding, I've started probably a dozen versions of this challenge this year, and this is the first time I've managed end of the first season! Took over as SC Toulon manager, my profile at start of season, Had an unexpected flirt with promotion, poor start to the season, but a strong recovery and regular wins had us slowly climb the table, and for 1 week, we occupied 2nd place with about 6 games to go or so. But as you can see, a dreadful finish to the season meant we fell away. Would have been WAY too early, we are NOT ready for Ligue 2, so I'm not too distraught, just gna sit in chill in 3rd tier for a few years i reckon! Got a couple of coaching courses, end of season attributes. Next seasons board vision - glad they're not expecting much, this is an old and declining squad, with nothing special coming through the ranks, so I think I'm gna be stuck here for a few seasons until some players emerge. Youth preview was terrible, the end result was slightly better than forecast, however even the 2 "elite" talents are not that special, Belaribi and Nicod. All time slowest intake ever too, look at the pace stats on this mob! Got recruitment upgraded. So next season I just want to survive, as I don't think we'll repeat last year, and I think we've squeezed all we can out of some of the older players, boring mid table season would be lovely and I need to settle on a tactic, Supporter profile. Facilities. Transfers. Finished 2nd in Manager of the year.

WHat a team Libby, CL glory cannot be far away, these studs you keep producing man are outstanding. You have another 150+ years to match Padders, that won't take you long!?

yeh he's maybe not the best but this was best I could attract when i advertised!

I've started a save with Toulon in France, and given my many failed attempts at the challenge, I've decided not to post an update until I'm a season or 2 in! I'm halfway way through season 1 and doing ok, comfortably mid table with a good cup run and tie against Monaco to look forward to. However, I've just been given my youth intake preview, and it makes me want to chuck it just now. I get not every year gna be a golden generation, but this, in year 1....? My team is fully comprised of 29-34 year olds, like i need new players coming through and fast, but this crap being served up as a first intake...why bother!? THis is comfortably the worst preview i think ive ever had! ANy chance it could be a mistake!?

what a team @russ the womblethat's a squad that could go deep in CL, huge talents there, well done on the Europa league!

@libbyshussSome of those players coming through now Libby - Meier - ooft!! Exciting few years ahead if you can keep that team together.