Season 81 - Are you ready?

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Day 1 - Palace Terriers start-of-season summary and Cup report.

Palace Terriers start their 14th season at Level 14, having promoted in every one of their previous seasons. Last season they finished 4th in a League packed with high-Quality sides, breaking a nine season sequence of finishing in the top two.

One of the reasons for the previous success has been a stable and relatively unchanged squad, but last season there were quite a few changes as lower-Quality players were replaced to keep pace with the Quality of the League competition. As a result, there were 9 new players recruited, and 8 players were released. The current squad is listed below, with their Terriers career record.



The Terriers Management spent a while on the Transfer Market today, and spent 6T on two players.




Kazuya Takao is a replacement for Shotaro Ishi, who retired at the end of last season, and Niklas Schlaudraff was released as Pierre Torres Nilo moved in to replace him.

Both new recruits were in the squad for the home Cup Preliminary Round 1st Leg, but their good work was overshadowed by the left-winger on fire, Esneider Gil, who scored all four goals in a 4-0 thumping of a Level 15 team.



After the Cup match, the Management decided to lighten the playing squad a bit to make space for future recruitment, so veteran AM Nikolay Radev and midfielder Michele Tempesta were offered to the market. The 32yo Radev was a bit of a punt, as it was unlikely that anyone would want such an old 2*/72Q triple-role AM with Penalty kick SA, but no, he went second attempt.

Terriers' Champions League is a more conventional one that their senior teams', and the squad are looking forwards to a good competition.