FitnessandNrg

I have made some decent signings. Full update when I finish with signing players.

retired_priya_77

I decided to try this challenge this year, after reading last year's thread. I chose Northern Ireland because I like playing in cups

Anyways, my profile

I have 5 players, four of them 16 years old, with no staff. Will be a hard season!

retired_mandi

The son of a long-deceased Albanian dictator is now the manager of a very bad Ukrainian football club for no discernible reason.

Ukraine's probably the easiest place for the challenge, but this team really really sucks so it kinda balances itself out.

FitnessandNrg

Not really. It would have the most money but when you become a good team and are trying to win the CL the most important thing is the league's reputation because it will restrict how high your club's reputation can go. So the easiest would be turkey or greece since those leagues have a reputation of 14. I am in Belgium which would be the next easiest with a reputation of 13.

FitnessandNrg

Well I finished my transferring of players. I got Standard as a parent team and that let me get 2 good players on loan. I had a huge squad to begin with, something most people doing this dont have. I am happy with my transfers but I told the board I will win the league so we will see if that happens. Should be an entertaining first season in charge.
My first game was a cup game and I had only 1 striker available so I had to get a 16 year old striker from my u19s who is hopeless and doesn't have any potential neither according to my assistant. However he scored 2 goals in the game as we won 5-0.
Anyway my club also got taken over however the new guy in charge didnt invest any money or anything so it was pointless. At least there was no transfer embargo.
So far going good, got into the 5th round of the cup which was the expectation of me and now I need to defeat teams from higher divisions to keep going but hopefully I can do it. League games haven't started yet. I think thats all for now. Next update in january or end of season.

Transfers
Takeover
Takeover1

FitnessandNrg

Quick question for Gundo. I am able to scout just in Belgium however now that the Olympics are coming I can send a scout to the Olympics. So I would be allowed to sign any players scouted at the Olympics even though I wouldnt be able to scout them at there clubs?

Emm

Not really.

It's still early days and filling the squads when we were competing for the same players caused a fed disputes to be settled WWF style .

It's been slow to get into it with both of us playing though, but rest assured I will keep you updated.

FitnessandNrg

Never mind this. I dont see the point of sending scouts to scout the olympics when it seems they have done nothing. No player reports or anything.

retired_vb_bn

FK Zeleznicar Nis 2008/2009

Serbian First League
A strange season it was, very inconsistent. I ended up finishing 1 place above the drop zone, which is alright I guess, but considering the fact that there are 6(!) teams gaining direct promotion, and I was 2nd at one point, I was a tad dissapointed. It all went wrong at christmas. I blame Santa. I didn't get to play any cup competitions all season. Cups suçk anyway.

Final league table

League positions

I'm not quite sure why there are 6 teams gaining direct promotion, will have to wait another month or so to find out. My guess is due to league restructuring, as the current Superleague only holds 12 teams. I couldn't find anything useful on the internet though, my Serbian isn't what it used to be.

Squad

My team. 9 of my starting 11 were new signings, and I expect the two players that weren't signed by me will be replaced this summer. All players are from Serbia or other countries that used to form Yugoslavia, with the exception of defender Yideonwor(Nigeria) and striker Barrios(Argentina).

I've bought and sold quite a number of players, most of them before the season started. Players in for a sum of €11k, I sold a shipload of players for a total of €18k.

Noteworthy players

Top scorer: Gabriel Barros
The Argie striker didn't need a lot of time to settle, scoring a hatrick on his debut. He's best described as inconsistent. As his goals dried up, our form plummeted. Managed to score 3 goals after christmas.


Central Defender #1: Boris Savic
Looks pretty good for a 21 year old defender in the Serbian first division. My assistant tells me he has reached his potential though, shame.

None of my other players really deserve a mention, they were doing fine the first half of the season, and collectively crap the second half.

Next Season
In come a 17 year old goalkeeper and a 17 year old striker, both have the potential to become good superleague players according to my scout. I've also already signed a tall target man, I lacked a good header up front. Avoiding relegation shouldn't be a problem. But I expect there won't be 6 teams gaining promotion next season, so I doubt I'll manage to really challenge for promotion.

retired_OrangeOne

Is everyone applying the Beta Patch and how are you all finding it?