Season 64

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What have you learned from last season?
* With careful financial control and good luck for getting a free agent for selling, the team can be strengthened and profitable at Level 19 without investment or token farming.
* Early Day 1 observation 1: A Cup match can be arranged during the Season Day 1 server maintenance time. I have no chance to adjust formation or attend the match
* Early Day 1 observation 2: My players’ conditions are supposed to be similar today (within 5 condition points). As I check this on day 1, I found that the conditions of the players including those who were not involved in the match, largely varies.

Added on Day 3
* I always know, but now really feel that 22-24 years old players' training efficiency can be dropped dramatically in new season.


Where did you place last season?
L11 – League 1st, CL – Top 8, Cup – Top4
L19 – Leauge 2nd, CL – Top 8, Cup - Playoff

What's your current level?
L12 & L20

What's your budget for this season?
L12 – 303M, 31 tokens
L20 – 244M, 23 tokens

Who do you want to replace?
L12 – As usual, gradually replacing 4* players with 5* players. Preferred a MC first because there are only 3 in roster. Also need to re-sign 3 players on day 2 to get 3 year contract.
L20 – Right winger and right defender. There are only 2 right flank players in roster.

Added on Day 3
L12 - Similar to last season, at this level, the transfer market is not too difficult even on day 1 & 2. We brought 12 new players with about 20 tokens through auctions. This is far ahead of my original schedule.

L20 - The transfer market is difficult. After trying hard to solve problem of shortage of right flank players, I got a right winger. Now I am patient again. But we have already spent 10 tokens. The team now have full squad including one academy young player for sale. As the team has already eliminated in Cup, it will downsize a little bit


What are your goals for this season?
L12
* As usual, winning league & CL. It is becoming more & more difficult. The team has similar relative quality in terms of stars as last seasons. But the players are older.
L20
* financial control is main objective.
* Early goal is top 4 in leauge. Adjusting according to the leaguemates.
* For CL, top 8 will be satisfactory. For Cup, compete as far as possible but not lose too much cash

Added on Day 3
L12
* No change.
* As of early day 3, 3 teams including my teams are the strongest.

L20
* No change.
* I am excited that keen competition is expected in league. At early day 3, other than 3 stronger teams and 2 weaker teams, the qualities of the teams including mine are quite close.




Added on Day 18
L20 team struggles. Loses 3 of last 5 league matches. Now it's at 5th place, and will face 6th team in half an hour.
(Update: Just won the league match. The 6th team is one of my early season choice of league winner. But it performed very badly in early season before rising up to upper part of the league table. Entering the 2nd half, its performances became bad again. I wonder if it has bad match-ups against some teams. But my team defeated it twice in this season even though its 4-1-3MC-2 is similar to the suggested formations to counter my 4-4-2 as I heard.)

The team was eliminated in both Cup & CL. From now, it will reduce squad size to decrease expenses, and focus on developing new young core players.
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L12 team only loses 2 league matches in this season, including one that changes from win to loses after system crash. Not bad. It is now 1 point behind the leader.
The average age is now the youngest ever 19.6. Now I should more focus on matches rather than transfers.
In this season, the team still won most matches and has most league goals. But its defense is not good as before (almost lose 1 goal per match). It can no longer dominate matches as before.
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Update on Day 21
L20 Team
Still struggling. After winning 3 consecutive matches, it just lost to 13th team on Day 21. It is disappointing as the squad just 'strengthened' with young players in several positions in recent days. Now it is tied at 4th in league. Even though the top 3 team just have about 4 more points than us, I don't see we have the momentum to catch up them at this moment.

In this season, because of some attractive token offers, all original strikers with decent performance were replaced with young 5* strikers. The new strikers' performance are not bad in match ratings but they cannot score much. The 4 new strikers played total 43 matches and scored 8 goals only!! Now I regret to have sold the all time best scorer of my team in this season for a 3 token offer. He is 24 only, scored 119 goals in less than 7 seasons (team promoted in all seasons), still well performs and well trains in early this season. Most importantly, he is a proven scorer!

The team have gradually become younger and improved in average quality in this season. But I have not yet fully figured out how to use many new players. I did not do a good job as manager in this season.


L12 Team
Performs stably in league. It stays at 2nd with one point behind the top team before the Day 21 match. Today we just won an away CL match by 4-0 in extra time and won the series by 4-3. This is exciting. Thanks to 10 friends who supported me in the match.
Update:
After finishing a carelessly arranged friendly matches, my original starters for league match tomorrow are not close to full fit for the match. At the same time, I just have 2 green packs left. As a result, most starters are replaced with poor form players. Luckily the opponent is not too strong.


Update on Day 24

L20 Team
In round 22, my team defeated the 3rd place team and took over this league position by advantage of goal difference. The team ran smoothly in last 3 matches after I started to use a new fixed line up. The new scorer of the team just injured in training. As he did not score in last league match and his match ratings were not impressive in league or friendly matches, I decided not healing him and gave the chance again to my good rating nil scoring striker to start tomorrow.

L12 Team
In 3 days, my team moved from 2nd place to 1st place, and lead with comfortable 7 points. In CL semi-final, my team was behind 0-1. Looking forward for the home match tomorrow. Hopefully the team will run CL again.


Update on Day 27 (before all matches)

L20
Moved up to 3rd place two days ago but move down to 4th place again after losing to 5th place team yesterday. Even though the gap with the 5th team is narrowed to 6 points, the team almost secured early season goal of 4th place because of significant goal difference. The team will face 2nd place team today. The bonus is raised back to maximum. Considering the low league prize money, this is financially stupid. But the financial position of the team is good in this season and I really hope to do my best for this interesting season.
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Update:
My team just defeated 2nd place team. The 3rd place team also lost. My team moved up to 3rd place. The leading team will face the 5th place team later today.

Now the league is even more interesting. The leading team just need 1 point and then his advantage in goal difference is sufficient to secure the champion. But the competition on the 2nd place is keen.
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Tomorrow, my team will face 13th place team. The 4th place will face 14th place team. Both of us will likely win. The 2nd place team will face the leading team. My team has a decent chance to finish as 1st runners up.


L12 Team
For league, leading by 6 points and 21 goal difference with 2 matches to go. Effectively the team has already won. So the main focus is CL final today. The opponent is my friend in same league. My team won both league matches with them. Our average qualities are about the same. But my team has more depth and younger. He will have a league match about 3 hours before the CL Final. Even though my team seems having advantages in various factors, we were close in previous matches. His team is in excellent form recently and should be hunger for the first CL trophy in team's history. So my team should be careful. My team is ready to fight for the first double in 4 seasons.
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Update:
For league, The 2nd place team & 3rd place team (also my CL final opponent) drew. My team confirmed championship.
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For CL final, my team won by 3-0.
Glad to confirm double winner in this season.

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Additional notes after day 2

What have you learned from last season?
* With careful financial control and good luck for getting a free agent for selling, the team can be strengthened and profitable at Level 19 without investment or token farming.
* Early Day 1 observation 1: A Cup match can be arranged during the Season Day 1 server maintenance time. I have no chance to adjust formation or attend the match
* Early Day 1 observation 2: My players’ conditions are supposed to be similar today (within 5 condition points). As I check this on day 1, I found that the conditions of the players including those who were not involved in the match, largely varies.

* I always know, but now really feel that 22-24 years old players' training efficiency can be dropped dramatically in new season.

Who do you want to replace?
L12 – As usual, gradually replacing 4* players with 5* players. Preferred a MC first because there are only 3 in roster. Also need to re-sign 3 players on day 2 to get 3 year contract.
L20 – Right winger and right defender. There are only 2 right flank players in roster.

L12 - Similar to last season, at this level, the transfer market is not too difficult even on day 1 & 2. We brought 12 new players with about 20 tokens through auctions. This is far ahead of my original schedule.

L20 - The transfer market is difficult. After trying hard to solve problem of shortage of right flank players, I got a right winger. Now I am patient again. But we have already spent 10 tokens. The team now have full squad including one academy young player for sale. As the team has already eliminated in Cup, it will downsize a little bit

What are your goals for this season?
L12
* As usual, winning league & CL. It is becoming more & more difficult. The team has similar relative quality in terms of stars as last seasons. But the players are older.
L20
* financial control is main objective.
* Early goal is top 4 in leauge. Adjusting according to the leaguemates.
* For CL, top 8 will be satisfactory. For Cup, compete as far as possible but not lose too much cash

L12
* No change.
* As of early day 3, 3 teams including my teams are the strongest.

L20
* No change.
* I am excited that keen competition is expected in league. At early day 3, other than 3 stronger teams and 2 weaker teams, the qualities of the teams including mine are quite close.

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What have you learned from last season?
* With careful financial control and good luck for getting a free agent for selling, the team can be strengthened and profitable at Level 19 without investment or token farming.
* Early Day 1 observation 1: A Cup match can be arranged during the Season Day 1 server maintenance time. I have no chance to adjust formation or attend the match
* Early Day 1 observation 2: My players’ conditions are supposed to be similar today (within 5 condition points). As I check this on day 1, I found that the conditions of the players including those who were not involved in the match, largely varies.

Added on Day 3
* I always know, but now really feel that 22-24 years old players' training efficiency can be dropped dramatically in new season.

* Finally noticed that I may have 1 or 2 videos to watch daily to earn tokens.
* At Level 20, financial health may still be controlled at this moment. But transfer market become more & more difficult. I am considering to sign the next token academy player for long term use.

Who do you want to replace?
L12 – As usual, gradually replacing 4* players with 5* players. Preferred a MC first because there are only 3 in roster. Also need to re-sign 3 players on day 2 to get 3 year contract.
L20 – Right winger and right defender. There are only 2 right flank players in roster.

Added on Day 3
L12 - Similar to last season, at this level, the transfer market is not too difficult even on day 1 & 2. We brought 12 new players with about 20 tokens through auctions. This is far ahead of my original schedule.

L20 - The transfer market is difficult. After trying hard to solve problem of shortage of right flank players, I got a right winger. Now I am patient again. But we have already spent 10 tokens. The team now have full squad including one academy young player for sale. As the team has already eliminated in Cup, it will downsize a little bit

L12 - The transfer market is not difficult at right time. Even though I like my squad at season beginning, I was tempted to increase trading activities. The team have already brought & sold at least 28 players respectively (including 9 free agents that I never plan to keep) with about 40+ tokens (including those for failed auctions). Only 6 original players from last season is still staying. For the first time, I have a team with average age of 20. Now no position urgently require upgrading. But a 18-year-old expensive winger is pending to sign. I plan to sell a striker or a winger 3 days later (when academy players will also arrive) to get a player space.

L20 - The transfer market is difficult. The team have brought 10 players and sold 11 players (including 2 academy players & 2 free agents for resale) with about 40+ tokens. Also no urgent upgrade needed. All remaining 4* players are in good form or young. Probably, a 4* MC is next to be upgrade.

What are your goals for this season?
L12
* As usual, winning league & CL. It is becoming more & more difficult. The team has similar relative quality in terms of stars as last seasons. But the players are older.
L20
* financial control is main objective.
* Early goal is top 4 in leauge. Adjusting according to the leaguemates.
* For CL, top 8 will be satisfactory. For Cup, compete as far as possible but not lose too much cash

Added on Day 3
L12
* No change.
* As of early day 3, 3 teams including my teams are the strongest.

L20
* No change.
* I am excited that keen competition is expected in league. At early day 3, other than 3 stronger teams and 2 weaker teams, the qualities of the teams including mine are quite close.

Status after day 13
L12
* Now 2nd in league, 4 points behind the leader. My team gradually have become the highest in average quality & the youngest in this league. I have confident to win the league (unless any win will be taken away again by Nordeus when server crash.)
* CL - Not too good in performance but still advanced to playoff
* Cup - At top 16. Leading by away goal.

L20
* Now 3rd in league. The league is interesting. Qualities & performances of many teams are close. The top 2 teams have about 4 to 5 average quality advantage.
* Advanced to playoff
* was eliminated.

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Update on Day 24

L20 Team
In round 22, my team defeated the 3rd place team and took over this league position by advantage of goal difference. The team ran smoothly in last 3 matches after I started to use a new fixed line up. The new scorer of the team just injured in training. As he did not score in last league match and his match ratings were not impressive in league or friendly matches, I decided not healing him and gave the chance again to my good rating nil scoring striker to start tomorrow.

L12 Team
In 3 days, my team moved from 2nd place to 1st place, and lead with comfortable 7 points. In CL semi-final, my team was behind 0-1. Looking forward for the home match tomorrow. Hopefully the team will run CL again.

Update on Day 27 (before all matches)

L20
Moved up to 3rd place two days ago but move down to 4th place again after losing to 5th place team yesterday. Even though the gap with the 5th team is narrowed to 6 points, the team almost secured early season goal of 4th place because of significant goal difference. The team will face 2nd place team today. The bonus is raised back to maximum. Considering the low league prize money, this is financially stupid. But the financial position of the team is good in this season and I really hope to do my best for this interesting season.


Update:
My team just defeated 2nd place team. The 3rd place team also lost. My team moved up to 3rd place. The leading team will face the 5th place team later today.

Now the league is even more interesting. The leading team just need 1 point and then his advantage in goal difference is sufficient to secure the champion. But the competition on the 2nd place is keen.


Tomorrow, my team will face 13th place team. The 4th place will face 14th place team. Both of us will likely win. The 2nd place team will face the leading team. My team has a decent chance to finish as 1st runners up.


L12 Team
For league, leading by 6 points and 21 goal difference with 2 matches to go. Effectively the team has already won. So the main focus is CL final today. The opponent is my friend in same league. My team won both league matches with them. Our average qualities are about the same. But my team has more depth and younger. He will have a league match about 3 hours before the CL Final. Even though my team seems having advantages in various factors, we were close in previous matches. His team is in excellent form recently and should be hunger for the first CL trophy in team's history. So my team should be careful. My team is ready to fight for the first double in 4 seasons.


Update:
For league, The 2nd place team & 3rd place team (also my CL final opponent) drew. My team confirmed championship.

For CL final, my team won by 3-0.
Glad to confirm double winner in this season.

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L20
Moved up to 3rd place two days ago but move down to 4th place again after losing to 5th place team yesterday. Even though the gap with the 5th team is narrowed to 6 points, the team almost secured early season goal of 4th place because of significant goal difference. The team will face 2nd place team today. The bonus is raised back to maximum. Considering the low league prize money, this is financially stupid. But the financial position of the team is good in this season and I really hope to do my best for this interesting season.


Update:
My team just defeated 2nd place team. The 3rd place team also lost. My team moved up to 3rd place. The leading team will face the 5th place team later today.

Now the league is even more interesting. The leading team just need 1 point and then his advantage in goal difference is sufficient to secure the champion. But the competition on the 2nd place is keen.


Tomorrow, my team will face 13th place team. The 4th place will face 14th place team. Both of us will likely win. The 2nd place team will face the leading team. My team has a decent chance to finish as 1st runners up.

Update about the league of my L12 team

Tomorrow should be one of most interesting last season day I ever encounter. The leading team was just defeated by the 5th place team. If tomorrow my team (at 3rd place) will win the 13th place team with 12 goals or more while the leading team and 2nd place team will draw in their head-to-head match, my team will be the league champion. The possibility is remote but I still feel great about this.

If the 2nd place team will win, my team overcome slight goal difference disadvantage with them in order to be champion. My opponent tomorrow is not as weak as the league position shows. It was scored less than 2 goals per match in average, and have 22 points with one match to go, not bad for a 13th place team.

The new league table

[July Fourth]

Update about the league of my L12 team

Tomorrow should be one of most interesting last season day I ever encounter. The leading team was just defeated by the 5th place team. If tomorrow my team (at 3rd place) will win the 13th place team while the leading team and 2nd place team will draw in their head-to-head match, my team will be the league champion.

If the 2nd place team will win, my team must have big win tomorrow to overcome slight goal difference disadvantage. My opponent tomorrow is not as weak as the league position shows. It was scored less than 2 goals per match in average, and have 22 points with one match to go, not bad for a 13th place team.

The new league table

If it's a draw, you will need to win at least 12-0 to take the title on goals scored.

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If it's a draw, you will need to win at least 12-0 to take the title on goals scored.

You're right. I made a mistake. I have amended last post. Thanks

I am too eager to take over the leading team because it ranked higher than me in previous seasons with players considerable stronger than mine. After half of this season, the average quality gap with them is narrowed to 3. But I still did not expect to take over him until noticing his recent bad form in league.