[FM18] Dragan my feet through the Balkans: A Kosovan Youth Challenge

[shaunvamos]

Oh how I love this game. Two goals in the last 2 minutes to snatch the victory away. We definitely had a little luck, with a goal disallowed for Vitoria, but what an opening game! Lazarevic 1F with his first goal for the club as well, and one we will remember for a long time.

[shaunvamos]

We should've been flogged. That late goal makes the scoreline look a lot better though.

[shaunvamos]

This is more what I expected, Mitroglou destroyed us. I'm happy we scored 2 though.

[shaunvamos]

 

I'd say we more than exceeded expectations here, going within one game of progressing to the next round. I don't know where that 4-0 came from, guess everything just clicked for us. Now to focus on retaining the league, which isn't going so well at the moment.

[shaunvamos]

2019 Youth Intake Day

This looks promising. Very promising. A 5* PA already at 4* CA plus some other decent prospects. 

First of all, whoa. This kid is a freak. 16 crossing and 13 dribbling already plus amazing physical stats. I am locking him down for as long as I can straight away. He could turn out to make us a lot of money in the future.

This guy looks alright, already 6 foot at 15 plus some decent starting attributes. Just gotta change that personality.

Doesn't look as good as 2B, but still handy. 
 

[mjaferrie]

Jesus, Subert looks amazing.

[Timetxu]

Ding ding ding, we have a wonderkid!! I don't know where your career will end up, but I'm very interested to see the "Where are they now?" report on Subert in 15 seasons...

[shaunvamos]

2018/19 Season Review

 

Pretty successful season, we were hovering around 4th/5th during the European games but once they stopped we began marching up the table, only reaching the top with about 4 games to go, and then picking up the cup to make it a double.

Key Players (Highest Rating, Top Scorer, Honourable Mention)

 

Subert 2A Watch

What a start to his career here.

 

Other News

France won the 2018 World Cup, thrashing Argentina 5-0 in the final. Belgium beat Denmark to finish 3rd.

Zeta beat Shkendija (MKD) 5-2 before losing 2-1 to Salihorsk (BLR) in the EL 2nd QR.

Mladost beat Spartaks (LTV) 5-2 before losing to Lyngby (DEN) 5-2 in the EL 2nd QR.

Sutjeska beat Banants (ARM) 5-0 before losing to Vitoria (POR) 3-1. Luckily we got revenge for them.

We have upgraded our junior coaching and scouting range, and our training and youth facilities are receiving upgrades.

 

 The national team finished second in the Euro League Div C behind Slovenia and in front of Bulgaria and Scotland. They are currently undefeated in the Euro Qualifiers with 2 wins from 2 against Liechtenstein and Ukraine.

 

 

[shaunvamos]

2018/19 Season Review

 

Pretty successful season, we were hovering around 4th/5th during the European games but once they stopped we began marching up the table, only reaching the top with about 4 games to go, and then picking up the cup to make it a double.

Key Players (Highest Rating, Top Scorer, Honourable Mention)

 

Subert 2A Watch

What a start to his career here.

 

Other News

France won the 2018 World Cup, thrashing Argentina 5-0 in the final. Belgium beat Denmark to finish 3rd.

Zeta beat Shkendija (MKD) 5-2 before losing 2-1 to Salihorsk (BLR) in the EL 2nd QR.

Mladost beat Spartaks (LTV) 5-2 before losing to Lyngby (DEN) 5-2 in the EL 2nd QR.

Sutjeska beat Banants (ARM) 5-0 before losing to Vitoria (POR) 3-1. Luckily we got revenge for them.

We have upgraded our junior coaching and scouting range, and our training and youth facilities are receiving upgrades.

 

 The national team finished second in the Euro League Div C behind Slovenia and in front of Bulgaria and Scotland. They are currently undefeated in the Euro Qualifiers with 2 wins from 2 against Liechtenstein and Ukraine.

 

 

[shaunvamos]

3 hours ago, mjaferrie said:

Jesus, Subert looks amazing.

 

1 hour ago, Timetxu said:

Ding ding ding, we have a wonderkid!! I don't know where your career will end up, but I'm very interested to see the "Where are they now?" report on Subert in 15 seasons...

He's definitely something special, I now have him for the next 5 years at least

 

[mark1985]

33 minutes ago, shaunvamos said:

 

Other News

France won the 2018 World Cup, thrashing France 5-0 in the final. Belgium beat Denmark to finish 3rd.

 

 

 

 

I know the French have a knack for self destruction but bloody hell this takes it to a whole new level. I wonder what Patrice Evra thought of it all?

 

Some amazing achievements so far. Subert looks unbelievable and is backing it up on the pitch plus what a win against Vitoria (lets just not mention the 7-3 and and 6-2 shall we?)

[shaunvamos]

3 minutes ago, mark1985 said:

I know the French have a knack for self destruction but bloody hell this takes it to a whole new level. I wonder what Patrice Evra thought of it all?

 

Some amazing achievements so far. Subert looks unbelievable and is backing it up on the pitch plus what a win against Vitoria (lets just not mention the 7-3 and and 6-2 shall we?)

Ahahah my bad I've fixed it now. Evra probably decided to kick someone in the crowd again I guess.

Yeah thanks, as I said he's with us for 5 seasons so if I keep him happy for that long I'll be laughing! Ah not too disappointed with those results really, just proves if we can fix our defence we can beat those bigger teams.

[shaunvamos]

Pretty straightforward win. I was going to rest my players after the first leg but then I realised I wanted to win by 10. Subert with a goal and 4 assists and he only played 66 minutes. He is amazing. 

This is less amazing, but we've challenged stronger opposition before.

[shaunvamos]

Guess we are nowhere near Celtic's level at the moment. 

 

At least we are rewarded with this.

[shaunvamos]

Subert is a freak. That's all I have to say. 4 goals and 5 assists in these 2 games. Poor HB. 

 

Another winnable tie I think.

[shaunvamos]

Dominated the first leg so I rotated for the second leg and still got the win. I didn't realise the 4th round was the playoff, sowe are in the Europa League for the second straight season!

 

I like this group, could definitely get a result of BATE and maybe even Plzen.

[shaunvamos]

 

I honestly did not expect this. Opened up our campaign with a home flogging of Plzen, held Liverpool to a 2 goal margin at Anfield, before running off our last 4 games undefeated including an amazing victory over the Reds. Great progress already in only my 3rd season here

[shaunvamos]

Tough ask, but the way we've been going anything is possible!

[shaunvamos]

 

Everything moving along nicely.

[shaunvamos]

4-2 against a team like Kyiv is very impressive, especially with a home draw.

[shaunvamos]

2020 Youth Intake Day

Fairly average intake, but I think we were spoiled with Subert last year. 

He doesn't look too bad, nice and quick.

 

What an unfortunate name. That's really all I have to say about him.

Another unfortunately named player doesn't look too bad.

[deltablue]

Good European run.

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

Just read through all of this, I was thinking of doing a youth only in either Kosovo or Montenegro after my current save, so I'm glad to see that you've started this up!

 

[shaunvamos]

13 hours ago, deltablue said:

Good European run.

Thanks, was completely unexpected, but now I know we can do it I'll start to have higher expectations.

11 hours ago, The_Gato_In_Goal said:

Just read through all of this, I was thinking of doing a youth only in either Kosovo or Montenegro after my current save, so I'm glad to see that you've started this up!

 

Thanks for following, I'd recommend Montenegro highly, low rated league but the players that come through are quality so if you look to sell you'll make profit pretty easily. I keep getting money from Porto for a player they bought in the 13/14 season, which is nice.

[shaunvamos]

2019/20 Season Review
 

Our most dominant season yet, a league and cup double along with continental success for a club of our stature. We appear to be establishing a bit of a dynasty domestically which is crucial for the aims of this save.   

Key Players

Aleksa really came out of nowhere this year, becoming one of our best players right under my nose. Was our highest rated player in the league and was amazing in midfield.

Our top scorer this season and the main reason we thrashed teams in Europe.

Assist machine, and he clearly isn't a wonderkid or anything because no big clubs want him or any of my players which i guess is a good thing.

 

Other News

Grbalj lost 3-1 to Qabbala (AZE) in the EL 1st QR.

Sutjeska beat Celik (BIH) 2-1 before losing 5-0 to Bordeaux (FRA) in the EL 2nd QR.

Kom lost 4-1 to St Johnstone (SCO) in the EL 1st QR.

The Montenegrin national team finished 3rd in their Euro qualifying group behind Belgium and the Czechs.

 

 

 

 

[shaunvamos]

 

Let's do this!

[shaunvamos]

We were missing 6 or so players in the second leg because Montenegro are in the Olympics, but we got the job done anyway.

 

 

Should get the victory here.

[shaunvamos]

Closer than I'd like, the 6 missing players hitting us hard.

 

This is the end of the line for us, as the U23 team have made the quarters of the Olympics so no chance of getting them back in time.

[kidthekid]

15 hours ago, shaunvamos said:

Assist machine, and he clearly isn't a wonderkid or anything because no big clubs want him or any of my players which i guess is a good thing.

We are coming

- Big Club representative

[shaunvamos]

3 minutes ago, kidthekid said:

We are coming

- Big Club representative

Sorry, you can't have him 😀 Although there has been offers for him and some others in this transfer window from China, which is weird.

[shaunvamos]

We had our international players back for the second leg but I think if we had them for both legs the result may have been a little different.

 

Time for a rematch, but with all my players this time. 

[shaunvamos]

A much easier win, into the Europa League groups for the 3rd straight year.

 

We were seeded 3rd for this, should deal with Slovan and maybe push Feyenoord.

[shaunvamos]

 

 I think we did quite well here, gives me a solid foundation to build on.

[shaunvamos]

 

More solid progress.

 

[shaunvamos]

 

Slovan proved to be no match for us, and we pushed both City and Feyenoord, so there is very positive signs there.

[shaunvamos]

2021 Youth Intake Day

Very good intake, with 3 4* PA prospects coming through. 

 

He looks really good, always need strikers. That personality helps too.

Another key position for us, will be interesting to see how he develops.

He looks decent as well, but there's competition at GK.

 

 

[JMA]

That was a tough Europa draw.

Has anyone placed a bid for Subert? What sort of cash did they offer? 

[shaunvamos]

This is an interesting development, I wonder how often this happens.

[shaunvamos]

1 minute ago, JMA said:

That was a tough Europa draw.

Has anyone placed a bid for Subert? What sort of cash did they offer? 

Couple of Chinese clubs, and usually around the 250k mark.

[shaunvamos]

Hey, this is cool!

[Mikado911]

Nice save !

 

So the guy was your star player, probably top seller for shirts and now it boosts it. Are you becoming the Subert's one man club?

[shaunvamos]

12 minutes ago, Mikado911 said:

Nice save !

 

So the guy was your star player, probably top seller for shirts and now it boosts it. Are you becoming the Subert's one man club?

Thanks mate! Not sure if we will be a one man club, but as long as he boosts our revenue I'm holding onto him for as long as possible!

[shaunvamos]

2020/21 Season Review

Won the league with 5 games to spare, then rotated the squad and gave some youths a chance and they still came out strongly compared to the other teams as well. 

 

Key Players

Pejakovic was our highest rated player this season, really consistent and contributing with 20 assists from the wing.

 

Terzic was once again our top scorer, breaking the season record for most goals for us, and he shouldn't be too far away from me calling him up to the national team.

 

Another solid season from Aleksa in the midfield and I gave him a debut cap for Montenegro as a result.

 

Other News

Mladost Podgorica beat Sileks (MKD) 4-0 before putting up a good fight against Young Boys (SUI) before losing 3-1 in the EL 2nd QR.

Sutjeska lost 3-1 to Valur (ISL) in the EL 1st QR.

Zeta got a shocking draw in the EL 1st QR, losing 5-0 to CFR Cluj (ROM).

The Montenegro U21 and U19 sides both qualified for the Euros, and the U23 side finished 4th in the Olympics.

France won the 2020 Euros, beating England 3-1 in the final. Bosnia were surprise quarter finalists, and Kosovo, Hungary, Albania and Finland qualified for the group stages.

 

 

[shaunvamos]

Nice and comfortable.

Off to Moldova now, hopefully this is just as comfortable.

[shaunvamos]

Much more comfortable than the Estonian champions, having all my players back from international games helps. The Montenegrin U21 side finished 3rd in their group, and the U19 reached the semis before losing to Italy.

 

All that stands between us and a 4th straight spell in European groups is the Czech champions.

[shaunvamos]

Europe! 

We scored 3 goals in the last 10 minutes in the first leg and that obviously crushed Slavia's spirits, as we met little resistance at home.

We last played them 2 years ago and lost 5-2. Can we make it a little closer this time?

[shaunvamos]

The answer is we would get closer!
 

By 1 goal. Not too disappointed, Celtic are a strong side and have always made the Knockout stages of the Europa League every season.

 

This is a shocker of a group for the second year in a row. In fact this is even worse than last year. We were again seeded third and out of all the teams we could've gotten we get Boavista. I don't see how we don't finish last here.

[shaunvamos]

 

 

Not a bad effort, Ukraine are something else though. They beat double champions France and still didn't manage to top the group. I have the national team job, but they expect more next time.

[shaunvamos]

 

Well we qualified, and all without beating Bilbao! Boavista were the big shock in terms of strength, as we got 6 points from them.

[shaunvamos]

They haven't lost a European game this season. This ought to be fun.