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And we made just the one signing in January, but it's the best new-gen name I have seen on FM ever I think! I mean, I had to sign him for that name alone! The fact that he looks like he might be a potential wonderkid is purely a bonus! He initially signs on loan but we will probably look to make it permanent.

In more good news, the intake preview also looks promising this season. The investments into the facilities and new HOYD hopefully seem to be helping.

The first half of the season has flown by, and has been very productive by all accounts. Especially December, which as you can see was an absolutely perfect month. Thanks to that, we somehow find ourselves near the top of the table, although I expect Ajax to catch up before long

So as I said, this is primarily where the Almendra money has been invested:

Hopefully we can keep them satisfied! I will definitely start spending at some point, just for the right sort of talent. At this stage freebies do the job just fine.

Feel free to recommend! And well it's not really a stated goal or anything, just a fun side project. Also because, signing wonderkids from Brazil and France for instance is always going to be a lot more expensive.

Wow - some major updates since I was last here! Very impressed with the stream of victories against the large clubs. Really hope you can win the Carabao, you definitely deserve it after that run.

Denzel Hall joined us on a free transfer, he is actually on loan at ADO during the first season.

What a schmuck Well done though, this seems to be going well save for the odd blip to keep you on your toes

In terms of the incomings, it's free transfer city all the way! We made some room in the wage budget to invest in better players, while the remaining funds raised all go into improving the clubs facilities at this time. Here are the guys who are expected to play a significant role in the first team. Like @Jogo Bonito, I love myself a physical Nigerian striker up front. While Emeka is not as good as the better known E. Eze, he should do some damage in the Dutch league. Dutch/Indonesian footballer Thom Haye will have the unenviable task of replacing Almendra as the primary playmaker of the side. Alongside Haye - Show is called in to help run the show in midfield Bruno Langa should be taking over as our new LWB And finally the Jordanian Messi comes in on loan to provide competition in wide spaces. As a side project, I want to build a truly diverse squad with a bunch of international players from the more "obscure" countries, just for a bit of fun, so it's already nice to have a Jordanian, an Angolan, a Mozambican and a part Indonesian in the dressing room.

Cheers fellas! The summer of 2024 was fairly busy. The headline news being the below transfer, which smashed the club record for ADO. Valencia activated his release clause and there was not much we could do. In any case, we do not want to stand in the way of players when they have moves such as these lined up. Apart from that, it was mainly players that we did not really see a role for in the team moving on, bringing in a total of 8.3m eur to the club.

Tough one in the WC. But as you said, it was a very difficult group.

Glad you came back and won the league though! Great save

I always end up regretting it when I jump to a big club. So think you took the right call! Keep up the good work

A bit surprisingly, they gave me the Manager of the Year award. So with that we have now managed to tick off some of the achievements on the football side of things.

I love how the relentless schedule catching up with you equates to one draw in 8 games

Good stuff. Finlay is such a great out and out striker.

Still struggling with corners going to just let it be now Fortunately the team is still doing very well @SixPointerwhat's your setup?

Ouch!! Some of those goals sound diabolical. I can totally sympathize with the rage quit.

Gotta love the Balkan talent!

Yikes - the last thing you want is to lose key players mid season

True... I really should pay more attention to the development of the youngsters. Will try to in this save. As for the corners, my center backs scored 25 between them during my last season at Juve so that was definitely not totally nerfed in the winter update. Anyway, I just signed a new CB with 17 for jumping reach. Let's see if that makes any difference.

Maybe...

No it cannot be that, because this is a new save. What I mean is, the routine was working in my last (and all other saves) till date.

No idea! Possible though - and if they reduced the effectiveness of these corners it's hard to disagree with it tbh