Strasbourg

[jawzy]

After having saves within africa, I would like to have another go with a european side, usually end up in England or Scotland or Germany. But with France there are alotof players with african nationalities.

No doubt though ill end up with a few brazilians and english but i have to be wary due to only being allowed 4 non eu

But the list of nations treated as eu are:

The club have an okay sized stadiumand are well supported considering only ever won one league title in 1979 and the French Cup 3 times in 2001, 1966 and 1951

in 2011/12 they were in 5th tier of french football after being demoted but have climbed way back to the top whre they have been since 16/17

Everyone here is alright, but if a bid comes in, I feel like i can accept and initially only really impressed by 6ft 6 target man Ajorque

[jawzy]

Ins


Outs


Sold Selz as I felt goalkeeper was one area with the limited budget we could do with improving, Kuobek comes in as my number 1 with Buntic as a backup.
Waris had a 1m bid come in and like i said, i was willing to acept a bid on anyone.

[jawzy]

at halfway stage and we doing slightly better than mid table
psg unfortunatly running away with it. but race for second is still very open

[jawzy]

No winter ins, but few outs and various loans
Gameiro was biggest name out but he wasnt really playing and was on a fairly big wage, within the club

[jawzy]

We managed to finish 7th, just not quite having enough in the tank to push into the european spots, ut considering we were predicted and expected a mid table finish I have to b very pleased with this season



A decent amount for a 7th place finish as prize money


French Cup - PSG won 3-0 vs Lyon


One season with the squad I hacve started to feel some players cant be sold
Sissoko and Ajorque will need big offers to sway me to sell.

Next season we have been given 9m to spend

[jawzy]

French league is reatructuring.
Top league in season 3 reducing to 18 teams to give 34 games.

My current season will have 4 relegation spots. Heres hoping we dont underachieve

[Mikey]

Wow, how many leagues do you load? You got through that season quick! That's cool about the new league systems, I wonder if that's a new feature? Never noticed it before. 7th is not a bad finish but bloody hell PSG smashed the league. Going to be a fun challenge trying to overtake them.

[jawzy]

Apr 18, 2022 16:13:43 GMT Mikey said:

Wow, how many leagues do you load? You got through that season quick! That's cool about the new league systems, I wonder if that's a new feature? Never noticed it before. 7th is not a bad finish but bloody hell PSG smashed the league. Going to be a fun challenge trying to overtake them.

I usally run the country im in unless im planning a journeyman. i know its not ideal for realism but i enjoy speed over realism, I do load players from various nations in europe and south america though to add to player pool

2nd is the new title winner

[jawzy]

went abit daft in transfers, my excuse ive forgot what its like to play with a few million to spend!?



Aholou loan had a 2.5m clause in it.
Woodburn felt like a bargain at 600k
Cozza is a younger defender option
Siri is a 18 yr old Uruaguayan, who should be able to turn a pofit on if he dont work for me.
Valenzuela and Ocampo are both south american wingers, who again should be able to turn profits on.
Mensah is a pacy left back
Foster is in to mainly play for strasbourg 2
Arp is interesting, managed to get a 800k clause in there, could be a no brainer

outs



Prcic is probably the only one i might miss from this lot
eagle eyes will see Woodburn out on loan this is because I made a boo boo, relating to non eus that i wanted in the side (some of the south americans have italian passports) , but Woodburn was the one going to feature less imo so he will be out on loan.

This leaves my first team looking like this

[jawzy]

Winter break/world cup has arrived, and we dont seem to be in the same form as last season, goals seem alot harder to come by this season

Ajorque has 6, but we only have 1 player with 2 goals

[jawzy]

Arp wants 80k per week, So even though theres the clause we wont be activating it!

[jawzy]

winter ins


both in on short term deals to provide cover

winter outs


loans and the egyptian, who was non eu and wasnt performing.

Considering just read that following season im only going to be allowed 2 non eus, i need to potentially streamline the current non eus.

[jawzy]

hard slog of a season over with alot of winless runs and 1-0 grinds

we were underhelming in the cup too

Outside of Ajorque, Bellagarde and Sissoko are fast becoming my favourite players

for next season we been given a 5m transfer budgt and a mid table finish by the board

Well, its taken a few saves and over the various FMs but a rare AI CL winner has occured within 5 seasons!

[jawzy]

this is always annoying to see!

[jawzy]

ins



Johann and Hugo, come in from a struggling second tier Caen to hopefully be key squad rotational players this coming season
getting anderson and zirkzee on a free, just seemed ultra smart for a side like us, the three bulgarians are just, youngsters who can hopefully develop and either be useful for us or profit

out




Cozza although a good squad player, 3m for someone who had been unsettled over the summer seemed like a good deal
Ocampo and Siri once again go out on loans, with a nice loan fee attached, same with Bennets
Getting 1.6m for Valenzuela who struggled in ligue 1 after a getting him on a free was sound business.

Banik and Red Star are affiliates to the club.



Th squad feels good enough to achieve mid table, I would love a younger affordable Ajourque though, he is a 6 ft 6 hard working physical striker with abit of movement about him.

[jawzy]

Winter break has arrived and I feel we are really overachieving

[jawzy]

Was hoping this goalkeeper would stay few more seasons.

[jawzy]

We were 3rd come last day of season, so o finish 5th felt like a right blow, but I must remember finishing 5th is rather nuts considering how bad we were last season!

We got knocked out cup again in the 9th round.

Ajorque once again coming out on top goalscoring wise, but our success this season was signing of Anderson from Lazio, anoying Loubek still wont renew and we look set to lose him, either use one of the guys i have out on loan or one of the youngsters or try to see if we can bring someone in.

[jawzy]

I didnt have masses of budget this window, so I am very pleased with the areas we have strengthened.

Lacazette, Bernardo (DL), Muric and Kedziora, come in to be within the first 11

Gueye comes in as a type of player who is simular to Ajorque. And Coas should be able to cover in defence when needed.

the next ones i mention are all u18 and have gone back to the clubs they were at on loan for this season

Ghadiri, Morris and Keogh, all have current abilities that could do a job from the bench but I wouldnt throw into our first team week in week out just yet, hence loans and I will see where they at when they are 19/20

Jung and Mokoena provide small profits, but a small loss on the homesick south american defender, Ocampo and Siri once again out on large fee loans

happy with how the side looks again this season.

We had a tough draw in the qualifiers in europe vs Lazio! ended up in pens after 3-3 draw over 2 legs

Our group is Partizan, Betis and Bodo - fairly tough group considering the ooks of other groups

Also in one of our early games this season vs Lille, we were 3-1 down at half time and ended up winning 7-3!

[jawzy]

Winter break has arrived

We are top half and on the fringes of europe qualification, we have also got out of the group stage of our debut in the european conference league and this season we have made it past the 9th round of the cup.

Side notes on certain players, Ajorque has struggled with injuries, luckily the replacement Gueye seems to be in good form so far. Lacazete, I will probably try a mii cash in over the summer.

[80slovechild]

Good going there mate

[jawzy]

Winter ins


Vela comes in on a 6 month contract to be a back up.
Ahmadlou is a 18 year old central defender with 22 caps for Iran, looks good enough to go straight into the team!
Almada was transfer listed for 4m, which for his quality is a bargain, also has italian second nationality



Winter outs


Ajorque requested to be transfer listed after i rejected a 4m bid from Feyenoord, ended up in MX league though, I already mentioned he had started to struggle with injuries so sad to see him leave.
We made a small profit on one of the bulgarians
then just some loans to some backup players.

[jawzy]

Also Marsielle are under performing alot and as a result no one stays here long


Will inzaghi get into next season?

[jawzy]

Overall, i feel like our league form as the season went on and on got slowly worse, I was glad for league to end when it did. Our domestic cup run fel at th hands of Clermont. Our saving grace was our european run all the way to the final where we lifted he trophy. thus winning abit of silverware and qualifying for the eropa league.

Muric made some insane saves in the final!

Jorque scored 7 goals before leaving, his replacement Gueye has been wonderful as has the longer term faces Sissoko and Aholou.

Annoyingly our finances for few seasons have been hovering around zero, and our wage spending is a little bit higher than the budget, So we may need to do a spot of trimming of wages.

[jawzy]

Summer outs



Anderson left because requested transfer, lacazete was a planned, Woodburn is a non eu and had plenty of other options available, Siri finally stops loans moves as does Ocampo, Zirkzee moves away to free up wages too the other fees are just youngers and reserve players who wuld never make first team.

Summer in


Piriz is a 18 yr old south america comes in to rotation, Breton is an interesting striker who will be a back up.
Bonelli is a slightly older than the bulgarian tee to be a back up goalkeeper

This leaves the squad looking like this


certainly thinner than recent seasons

[jawzy]

Also cause why not?

[jawzy]

My start to this season is not filling me with positive feels, Could this be my final season with Strasbourg. If i were to be sacked, theres very few sides within france that I would like to be at maybe Monaco, or see if I can steady the manager madness at Marseille

[Dirk Nowitzki]

You surely seem to be scouting in unusual places!

Are you using an edited database or does France switch to an 18-team league in the near future?

[jawzy]

Its not editted it seemed to of switched to 34 much to my suprise.

I always sign from the most random places lol

[jawzy]

www.skysports.com/football/news/11800/12324041/ligue-1-french-top-tier-reduced-to-18-teams-from-2023-24-season