Brainy

Ranges from maybe 50k to -150k throughout the season. Projections look grim. Think I'm just gonna write off season 3, try to keep my head above water and blood in some youngsters who are supposedly talented.

I've just finished season 2 with Cannes. Went from 6th to 11th, 2pts worse off than last season but further away from the relegation zone points wise, very odd season. 10pts from first 11 games then had promotion form from there. I've found out though we have a Vanarama budget. I spotted a mid table side in our league have 80k wage budget, ours went from 14k to 11.7k at the end of the season, I'm not being rewarded at all for my money saving To sum it up, my board have just accepted a bid on my behalf for a 16yo. 7.5k.

It feels like it but it took us until late October/early November (Boro away) to concede a league goal past the hour mark.

Been saying this for ages, feels like the hardest game they've had in a long while was Norwich away. Think they've got us, Leeds and perhaps Ipswich away to come? WBA at a guess too

Yet you were at the game posting in the match thread all evening

Not that I want that game to go on longer as only one team would win it but why is he blowing on the 94th when play was stopped for a head injury

That isn't a red probably not even a yellow in a perfect world

You don't give out 2.5yr contracts to players of this quality, don't care what his injury record is like (which seemingly hasn't even been a problem the last 18 months). We get him on a deal til 2026, we get one good full season out of him and assuming he does well, we're then looking to flog him already otherwise we're at risk of him running his contract down. I understand the concern but it's risk vs reward.

First season done with AS Cannes and finished 6th. The leg break to my best player lost me any consistency in the final third of the season, was always within a handful of points of the final play off spot but dropped off at the end finishing 12pts off 3rd. Convinced i've got the lowest budget in the league, certainly have the lowest sponsorship income. Really enjoyed the tight budget though and have spent far too long scouring B teams from those above. When I joined the club we were spending 15k p/w on wages, reduced down to 13.5k during the season and now ready for the new season down to around 12.5k. Not overly relying on loans either, more so players that have been released by Monaco & Nice inparticular and taking a gamble on them. Still have too many 2.5* players in and around the side but there's potential. Binned off my affiliation with AC Ajaccio in L2 and got in Troyes instead, though the gap is too big for some of their players to want to join me. I'm gagging to sign a LW at his peak who has managed 20 goal involvements in the last two seasons at this level who is unattached with no interest bizarrely, but he is randomly super offended when I go to offer him a contract. I promoted a 17yo striker to the first team at the beginning of my time here who is arguably my #1 striker now. Managed to keep on top of my best players' contracts to make sure they're here for atleast another year, then most of the squad fillers have extended at fairly sizable wage cuts which is very handy. Predicted 13th for the new season and the board still just want to avoid relegation, hopefully I will shrug off the tag of being underdogs (not sure if my assistant was crap or its just down to the club status that most games last year he suggested we go from a balanced to a cautious/defensive tactical outlook.

He was the best we had for that position, clearly, so who's next? As it's very unlikely there will be anybody better from within

That's a really weird take for a position we are light in

Don't you just love it when your best player gets injured during a match, then thanks to a miracle after the game you read your emails and he's only out for 1-2 days. Bullet dodged Next week he goes off injured with a broken leg.

Meanwhile back in England, I just saw Daniel Iversen has signed a contract extension with Leicester. Prompted me to check how he's doing and he's became our first choice GK, made 43 appearances for us in our one-off Championship season. Which prompted me to check what Hermansen has been up to and spotted he'd played 34 times for us in the same Championship season

The reaction in here is surprising given some people have been gagging for us to terminate the loan for a while now

I don't know but we are predicted 15th, Annecy 9th. W1 D1 L2 since that game though so normality has kicked in

How Cannes this be possible on my debut Pre-season was dreadful, W1 D2 L3 against a mix of B teams and lower league sides.

Is it possible to be successful on this game playing Pulisball? I'm required to play direct football as part of club ethos but as much as I'd love to, I'll stick with my tried and trusted

Got AS Cannes promoted from the 4th tier of France, except I didn't. My interest to manage them spawned suddenly yesterday so I was disappointed to find today that, despite French National 2 being playable, it's not actually playable? And i'm not one to download these packs etc. So I tried a few things, including a theory that if I create a manager with AS Cannes as their favourite club, they are more likely to get promoted. They got relegated. So I zoomed through a season one game at a time, winning/drawing matches as required to get them promoted Went up as Champions with not a great deal of having to go back and forth, maybe 2 or 3 games I had to replay 4+ times but generally it was smoother than I expected. What I actually want though is now to watch them get relegated back to where they came from, as I've read that it's possible to manage in the French National 2 League if you get relegated to it. I let the season play out in full and they finished bloody 5th, well clear of the relegation zone. Will give that a few more goes but failing that I'll just start with them in the 3rd tier.

Derby on TV for the 3rd time this year?

Aimed more at the people who caused the abandonment...

Are they going to reimburse the Port Vale fans then?

Is it too late to get back into the Ghana squad

This has Sheff Wed/Ipswich away vibes

Hull City or Tony Mowbray's Birmingham City at home

I turned on 30mins ago and put myself through 10 minutes of the One Show thinking it was on there at 7 20 🤮