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Season 58 comes and goes. How do you follow up your most successful league season with your club?

Not well, the answer would appear. I wasn't expecting top 6 again this season but to drop all the way down to 9th again is disheartening. I can only draw on the thin comfort that there were plenty of games lost or drawn "against the run of play", and on an average season for RNG we'd have ended a place or two higher. The highlight of the League season was undoubtedly the 2-1 win over Peregrinos with just a small element of fortune to it. You win some, you lose some.

The regular Cups were also a complete reversal from last season with some very kind draws allowing us to reach our first ever League Cup semi-final and achieve one of the last positive club records I was missing as well as matching our club record of Round 6 of the Super Cup. Sadly we got hit by RNG in our (very) brief foray in the Inter Cup, but at least we took our revenge on Dusters in the Super Cup (isn't it funny how the same clubs get drawn together in multiple competitions sometimes?)

Off the pitch, a financially stable year with a decent player bought on the TM for 8M and we should still end with a small profit. Our big stadium expansion was finished and is now being regularly filled. Club rating has gone way up (5800 to 6100) thanks to some great squad improvements and despite successfully promoting 3 youths all with 80+ FAs. Hoping to hit 6500 within at least the next 5 seasons. The squad is gaining strength in depth and in a few more seasons should be ready to start challenging consistently for that top 6 spot in the League.

The final positive club record I don't own yet is the biggest win and I'm hoping to fix that next season along with a top 8 League finish and a good run in the cups again. Trimming the squad and expanding the stadium to finish Tier 2 is probably the main focus, as is reaching at least 6250 rating.

Another division win but slipped up on a winning record streak in the league. 3 times actually to draw teams. 2 draws were against my rivals and another I just played a weak team to rest. I don't expect Serie B to be easy. Hopefully my next division loss in only in Serie A. Lost the inter cup too in the finals which show other countries similar divisions have competition.

One step closer to meeting my rival Firesilver. Enjoy the banter and winding him up with my strategy of force relegation to show finally some rewards reaped.

Finally achieved the 6500+ club rating to gain better staff. My highest players now are 80 rated and I've a boost to my average team rating to 70. Also means that they sell a bit more hopefully too. Ended up on 6816 at the end of Season 58.

My over expansion of my stadium in my early manager days is finally also coming to fruition with my most recent games giving me 1m per game. Let's see how far I go before I join the stagnation of Serie A.

Whilst I got to 6800+, 7500+ is going to be a real challenge.

Won the Golden Platter. That was all I wanted this season.
Is that considered a major trophy?

Finished 8th in the league which I think we can better next year, although I will be selling some of my top, older players now so maybe not. Didn't challenge the top 6 mostly cause we drew more games than any other Brazilian club, 15 times! Can anyone in other countries top that I wonder...

The fans are on the pitch...
They think its all over!
It is now!

We wrote a new chapter in our book yesterday, by appearing in the IAG Supercup Semi-Final for the first time in our history. We lost, but we went down fighting in the end. The first half was forgettable from our perspective, but two goals in 3 minutes in the second half restored parity, but we didn't hold on.

I feel like Gareth Southgate to be honest. We had our chances, but the cup once again eludes us, but immensely encouraged by our performances in the last 2 seasons, but can we top that next season?

Yesss what a season. Just finished my 1st season on the game, im still a bit of a noob but managed to end up with 100pts and 3rd place for promotion. Pretty happy with that. Seem to be bleeding money a little, could be down to spending money on transfers to sort this squad out or complete lack of sponsorship money, not sure how to get any of that in? Been fun, logged on every day except the monday after euro final as was too busy crying in bed. Hope it went well for everyone, see you soon at the top if i can somehow keep the climb going. Peace.

Come now, you scored two goals against global top 5 opposition, don't do yourself down like that.

Okay, I'll stop now congrats on the success!

Well done on making it through your first season! You'll soon find out it's just as much an accounting sim as a football one balancing the books is as important as the on-field results although success with the latter will help with the former.

Sponsorship money is not a thing I'm afraid so you'll want to focus on maximising match day revenue - more wins means higher attendances at higher tickets prices. Fortunately in the lower divisions you'll be winning most of not all your games so you can build up a head of steam. The top division is where it gets really tough so just make sure you're ready before that final promotion.

Good luck and keep going!

Season 58, like most, had some highs and some lows.

League: W36, D1 L1 - Achieved our best points total since season 54 so was pleased with that, on the other hand we lost our first league game since season 52. Slightly odd thing about that defeat was that our opponents have had their worst season for a long, long time and for the first time in many, many seasons did not finish in the top 3, yet chose to beat me for the first time in a while.

Scottish Cup: Won that with a very tough run, so was delighted to get through that. All six matches were against teams in the top 10 of the Scottish Premier. I played the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 9th and 10th best teams in the Scottish league

Inter Cup: Out in the first round. I haven't lost in the first round since, I think, season 29. So that was disappointing.

IAG Super Cup: Reached the semi-final where I lost yesterday to Blind Monkeys. Decent run but sadly yet again bottled it in the later stages.

Squad: Promoted one youth who will soon be sold ( I hope). Sold one experienced, 94-rated defender and purchased two players, one midfielder and one forward who I acquired unexpectedly. Squad is full so I'm looking to sell a few more this season.
Eleven injuries again this season, a few grade 3 ones too. Maybe it's the big squad but still more than average, I expect it to calm down next season

Points Progress: CR points +22 / MR points +2

Onto next season...

Mediocre season for Runnymede Rangers. We were 1 point away from top 6 and finished midway through both League & Super Cups, except for the Inter Cup where we were knocked out 1st round

We had our first Perfect Player in the Youth Academy sign though and finished on a high when we sold him for nearly 50M and started building a new Tier 3 stand.

Take out lesson for S58 is that the Bundesliga is getting even MORE competitive

Season 59

Here we go again...


Didn't get the club record win, but got the top 8 finish (just) and a run to semi-final of the League Cup for the second season running. The squad was trimmed and the stadium expansion started, but we peaked at 6190 rating so came up a bit short there.

We might have done better if it hadn't been for 9(!) injuries across the season, all but 2 of them to first-team players, and several of them long-term, meaning that I had 4 players out for almost two-thirds of the season and one of my best players that was still improving has actually dropped 4 rating through being constantly injured...

Onwards and upwards though, targeting 6300 rating next season minimum, and more positive results on the pitch. 7th place should be achievable and let's hope for more kind cup draws. We're on a bit of a timer to reach 6501 as the youths will start coming through again in 2-3 seasons time, and I don't want to have to sell them just to stay on track.

Well done FS, progress may have less than hoped but still more progress is to be commended.

In respect of my own season, I'm not sure. I think I've started down a path which will be better in the medium term but the impact this season has been significant.

With the desire to bring down the average age and release players before they lost all value I have effectively cut the head of the snake, injuries and frustrations in the transfer market have left me missing key replacements but I think I've got a few decent buys in. The problem will be my staff will waste them so have realigned on what I need for the squad right now, both development wise and first team strength. Hope that pans out soon.

Got 4 decent youth academy projects, all 13 or under and balanced enough to show promise, the pick of the bunch has improved again today to 54 rated with a spread across all 3 attributes of just 7 points, I also have a perfectly balanced 12 year old at 35, let's see if he stays that way (balanced not 35 rated obviously).

Ambitions for next season, return to the top 10, R4 of both cups and try to increase gate to 85% full on average without reducing TP. Stiff ask but that's why it is ambitious.

Not a great season for Runnymede Rangers in the Bundesliga

Got knocked out early in the League Cup. Wanted to go RD7 or QF in the Super Cup but knocked out in round 6.

In the league we were after top 6 but finished 8th.
Finished below 6,000 club rating and below Surfers Locker by 1 place

Big stand development nearly finished though so capacity going up by 4k soon, so hopefully more income to help us out in Season 60!

Fifth yet again, with a couple of surprise wins/draws but also some games that I really shouldn't have lost. I'd like just one season where I don't get drawn against a top four team in the first round of the league cup, and I never seem to get far in the inter cup either. Super cup, pretty average.

I've promoted a few players so my ASR has taken a hit but it will pay off when they're fully trained. Also managed to invest in the stadium and I'm not too far off maxing that out. Worryingly I seem to have lost a few points from my underlying rating which is probably due to my poor cup runs (thanks RNG for the draws).

Next season...aim for fourth, draw one of the other 95 teams in the league cup for the first round, try for a match day rating of 83-84.

Second team just missed out on promotion to Serie A but I probably need at least another season to prepare. Youth academy is starting to click now so here's hoping for some decent players coming through soon since my number one striker is due to retire next season.

Nothing to do with you sticking 32 year old wingers and 19 year old strikers in goal for your last 3 games, then?

Did my post contain any lies?

I was thinking about losing to make you promote with me

Well you didn't so sadly I wasn't

Really unlucky to lose that last game and miss out on promotion. Your opponents had just 24% possession and two shots on goal, and they won 1-2.

You want to talk about bad luck, look at my game 36...and 19 not that it would have made any difference to my position but still!

Poor management however went well.