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Reinforcements for European football would have proved to be a waste of time as yet again a cup draw was fairly harsh for us. We entered the Euro Conference qualifiers at the second round, comfortably seeing off FC Voluntari of Romania before being drawn against Vitoria Guimaraes in the next...

Pre-season went well with a 2-2 draw at LKS Lodz in our tour of Poland the only blip. Ended up having to commit to having a fairly small squad but was happy with the signings I managed to make which were all free signings, namely Artem Bondarenko from Shakhtar. The fixture list wasn't kind to us...

Managed to make a fairly decent signing in former Shakhtar winger Andriy Boriachuk, signing from for 180k from fellow Premier League side Polissia. Spent another 17k on making a loan signing permanent, and 16.5k on a young LB from Metalist. Other than that, again I relied on free transfers and a...

Managed to put a squad together which I feel lacks quality in depth, but is certainly very versatile. Bought in a total of 9 players, 4 of which costing money totalling 73k, two of which I managed grab in the end from Obolon. We go into the season with a Brazilian RAM who is far too good for us...

June 4th was the day we won promotion to the Premier League. The fixtures for the new season were announced in the last week of June, by which point i'd secured the signatures of three new players to add to the 13 i'd already had on board for the new season. July 1st comes around and the new...

Started a journey in Ukraine with the target of winning European honours with Dynamo Kyiv, so i've plumped to start with FC Obolon Kyiv, aka The Brewers in the Ukrainian 2nd tier. They've spent a handful of years in the top tier in their relatively short existence and play at the 5k capacity...

So season eight The season started with the positive news that as from next season, the team finishing in 2nd will be rewarded with Champions League football, entering at the second qualifying round. A Europa League place was now on offer for 3rd place, with 4th having the possibility of Euro...

In March 2025 I was appointed manager of Rapid Vienna in Austria. I had arrived just in time for the start of the relegation group which we topped. We had a big scare with relegation, dropping 3pts adrift at the bottom at one stage before winning 2 of our final 3 games to see us safe. On the...

Season five began with our board cancelling our only remaining link with a feeder club. Strangely they didn't see it to be worthwhile thing to search for another one, thankfully a handful of our younger players were able to find clubs in the 2nd tier to go and get some extra experience. A new...

So season four - pre season began with continued rumours of a takeover at Nuklearci. This has been a repeated theme since day 1 but has never gone anywhere serious. By this point, rather impressively our squad has gone from being about 20% Slovenian to about 75%. With our Maribor affiliation...

I'd signed a new contract around Christmas time in my first two seasons, a one year extension being all they can offer. The 3rd season was the be-all and end-all for me with the board now expecting promotion. I'd done enough to get a crack at a top division side I had thought if this didn't pan...

This is the story of NK Krsko - a small team in south-east Slovenia For starters I love managing in obscure European countries, i've managed in most of them, most recently in Serbia with Trayal Krusevac (European and World Champions 2031..). I then went on to manage the Serbian national team...

FC Vaduz For those who aren't familiar with the name, FC Vaduz are a unique football club based in Liechtenstein, playing in the Swiss leagues. They regularly qualify for European football through winning the Liechtenstein Cup, which is contested by 16 teams, many of which are youth sides to...