[FM17] If you think you're too small to make a difference you haven’t spent a night with a mosquito

[Benjoe]

Back with the club the Super Cup awaited Nelson.

The squad lacked a lot of players who were away on international duties and a lot of the remaining players at the club were newly acquired players. 

Behind 3-0 after 17 minutes played, what a way to start the match!

 

 

But little does it matter.

Slowly but surely the lads found the rhythm and overcame the early deficit. 

Second Super Cup trophy in 3 years.

[Benjoe]

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Before the matches Nelson was tense.

AS Dragons had sold a couple of players who could've been great individuals for a match like this. 
These players had been replaced by even better players, but some stupid registration rules in the Champions League left them unavailable for the matches. 

In other words, AS Dragons was doomed to play some players who had not been part of getting them to the semi finals and shouldn't ever be starting the semi finals.

 

First leg of the African Champions League semi finals, 2025/26

Kaizer Chiefs vs AS Dragons

 

 

Bleh..

 

Second leg of the African Champions League semi finals, 2025/26

AS Dragons vs Kaizer Chiefs

 

 

 

In the end Kaizer Chiefs proved too much of a beast to handle. 

So close...

 

 

In the end, Kaizer Chiefs went all the way as they ousted ASEC Mimosa in the final.

Joshua Nuhu still stole the show.

How no big team - African, European or even Chinese - haven't come in for him is a huge mystery for me.

 

[Benjoe]

 

Wait. So we have a capacity of 10k.

Vita are expected to have 6k at our stadium. 

They had 6.987 fans at our home ground...

This is so sad. We are the defending champions, we were in the semi finals of the ACL and we can't even get more than half of our stadium filled with our own fans?

 

 

I don't know what to do about that.

We are in Kinshasa with a population of 84 MILLION PEOPLE (2018 numbers and in 2026 those numbers would probably have risen to something like 100M). And we have 567 on AVERAGE!?!?!?!?!

****ing hell. I don't know what to say.. 

Our reputation is never growing, our attendance is a joke, and our economy is shaky even though we've sold for 6.7M pounds the last 3 seasons and bought for 120K pounds.. 

We are 2.6M pound in the green atm, but if we have a single year where we don't sell for 1M that figure could quickly be reduced to just 1M or even less. We need to keep our wages low and sell off players who are good but are on high wages constantly. Feels bad.

 

[Benjoe]

Well it ain't all doom and gloom at least.

In the next post I will be making an update on our youngsters. We have quite a lot of talented kids coming up so that is at least something to be excited about.