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FC Inter Turku
European Super Cup + European Qualification 2028

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European Super Cup:

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Following on from our first Champions League win, we've now managed to pick up our first ever European Super Cup after beating Arsenal 4-2 on penalties after a evenly contested 2-2 draw after extra time.

FC Inter Turku and IFK Mariehamn in Champions League:

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We've got a pretty competitive group but if we continue our form from last season then qualifying from the group shouldn't be a problem. IFK have greatly benefited from us winning the trophy last year, as they now pick up our Champions League group stage spot from winning the league and have been rewarded with as nice a group as you are likely to get as 4th seeds in a Champions League group.

RoPS and FC Honka in Europa League:

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FC Honka pulled off an impressive win over Freiburg to qualify for the group stages and have been rewarded with a decent group, whilst IFK have been given a good chance of making the knockout round with the group they have been drawn in.

Next update will cover the last few months of the season...

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FC Inter Turku
August, September and October

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Fixtures:

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A sea of green only spoiled by a couple of yellows after we drew after extra time in the Super Cup and drew 3-3 with MYPA in the league after we were missing 4/5's of the squad as they were travelling back from international duty. Overall though, we were very good and made our way through a congested fixture list with relative ease, even though there was 2 periods where we had to play 3 games in 4 days!

Player Stats:

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Too many amazing performers to talk about any individually!

League Table:

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The draw against MYPA means we still haven't had a 100% season! We still averaged over 4 goals scored a game, but scored 3 less goals than last year and were 4 goals short of the goal difference record.

Next update will be a European group stage update, before we make our first ever appearance in the Club World Championship...

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FC Inter Turku
European Group Stages - 2028

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Group Stage:

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A pretty solid group stage for the reigning champs, as we take 16 points from our 6 games and scored 17 goals in those games. The only dropped points came in an away draw against Porto, which I don't consider as being too bad of a result. Chilean attacking midfieler Medel was the star of the group stages, bagging 7 goals in 6 games including a hatrick at Anderlecht. We didn't get the best reward for qualifying though, as French giants PSG await in the 1st knockout round, which could leave us with an early exit on our hands.

IFK in Champions League:

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IFK put up a decent fight in their first ever CL group stage appearance. Despite only picking up one point from their group, they didn't take any big beatings despite their lack of quality in comparison to their opponents.

FC Honka and RoPS in Europa League:

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Both teams gave a good showing of themselves, narrowly missing out on qualification in third place. RoPS picked up 7 points from their 6 games whilst Honka picked up 5 in a harder group. We'll be the only Finnish team playing in Europe at the start of the new year, however none of the other sides embarrased themselves with their performances.

Club World Championship:

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Champions of the world! A hatrick from Nigerian striker Ozokwo gave us an easy victory in the final over the champions of North America, bring the club world championship home to Finland!


Next up will be an end of season review...

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FC Inter Turku
End of Season Review - 2028

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Finnish Premier League - Winners

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Finnish Cup and League Cup - Winners

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Champions League - 1st Knockout Round (In Progess)

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European Super Cup - Winners

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Club World Championship - Winners

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Fans Player of the Year - Nnaemeka Ozokwo

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Best 11:

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Overall Best 11:

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Next up will be a Finland 2028 review. The good news for this update is that the board have agreed to build a new stadium, but they must be busy planning it as we haven't received any information on it's name or size...

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Finland
2028

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Fixtures:

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The greatest ever appearance in a major tournament from Finland, reaching the quarter finals of Euro 2028. Building upon that, they've got off to a pretty good start in their World Cup qualifying group which contains France and Germany, picking up 10 points from 5 games.

World Cup 2030 Qualifying Group:

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Germany have started really poorly, meaning Finland stand a chance of getting 2nd and into a playoff place.

World Ranking - 26th

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Player of the Year - Marko Byskata

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Marko hasn't developed as well as he should have after many years as a bit part player at Chelsea, however his from picked up this year after a move to Italian side Torino and hopefully his lack of football in his early twenties will prolong his international career.

Under 21 Player of the Year - Ari Tuomaala

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Best 11:

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Overall Best 11:

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Next update will be of a very difficult Champions League 1st knockout round tie against PSG...

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FC Inter Turku
Champions League 1st Knockout Round - 2029
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PSG 3 - 2 FC Inter Turku

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I was pretty disappointed to not at least leave Paris with a draw here after 2 goals from winger Scheweleff had gave us a 2-1 lead in the 73rd minute. Unfortunately, 2 late goals from them meant they brought a 1 goal lead to Finland, however we did have 2 away goals to cling onto.

FC Inter Turku 6 - 0 PSG

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An amazing 6-0 win in the second leg sees us fly through into the quarters, where we will play the team we beat in last year's final, Barcelona. The best thing about this game for me personally was the fact that all 6 goals where scored by Finnish players produced at the club.

Next up will be a Champions League update of the quarter final against Barcelona, and the semi final if we can make it past Barca.

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FC Inter Turku
2029 - Season Preview and Champions League Quarter Final
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Transfers:

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No incoming transfers this season after making a few signings during the season last year. The only major outgoing was 32 year old winger Arza departing to Leicester on a free transfer. He was a really important player in helping progress the club in European competitions however it was time for us both to move on. Other 2 transfers are young Finnish players leaving on loan to get some first team football.

Finnish League Cup:

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Another win of the 'pre-season cup', as I like to call it. For some reason we are never able to organize friendlies during the pre-season period so this is pivotal in helping us maintain/gain match fitness for the European knockout games.

Squad:

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Pretty happy with the squad as it stands, hence the lack of incoming transfers. Martin Vera (backup left back) is not far off gaining Finnish nationality and hopefully he'll take up the option of playing for the national team as we're not blessed with many good left backs.

Champions League Quarter Final:

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Unfortunately we will not be retaining our Champions League trophy as we're knocked out by the Spanish giants in the 1/4's. In the first leg at the Nou Camp we lost 3-2, after a late goal from Paraguayan striker Barrios gave them the win. Back in Finland for the second leg, we twice took the lead and looked like we were heading through on goal difference, however that man Barrios popped up with a late goal to send us out 5-4 on aggregate.

Next update will be a June and July review...

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FC Inter Turku
April and May 2029
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Fixtures:

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The draw against HJK means we can't get a 100% season for another season, however apart from that it has just been mainly very comprehensive wins with a lot of goals being scored.

Player Stats:

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League Table:

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Top of the league as expected. Ex Inter Turku player Jani Ihalinen has not had the best of starts with his managerial career, as his RoPS side sit in 8th place, whilst they finished runners up last year.


Other News:

1) As I briefly mentioned before, my request to the board to build a new stadium was accepted. However, we do not have any info on the name or size of the stadium as I think they are still just at the planning stage, or at least that's what it says in the board room.

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Next update will be a June and July review...

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FC Inter Turku
June and July 2029

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Transfers:

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We make two big sales as Danny Norris moves to Tottenham for a record sale of £28,000,000, along with Klingenberg to Udinese for £8,500,000. Also, young Finnish right back left on loan to Atletico Madrid, who got relegated from the Liga BBVA last season!

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Here are the two replacements for Klingenberg and Norris, bought for a combined £15,000,00 (a total profit of £21,500,000 on the two sets of transfers). They are both younger than the players they are replacing so it's a great deal all around.

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Finally, I went on a spree for under 19's with high determination to slot in our under 19's. SOme have joined already and the rest join some time within the next year. I doubt any will make it in the first team, however should be sold for a profit down the line and may be loaned to fellow Finnish sides to help them improve. Think I spent around £1,500,000 in total so shouldn't have any problem in making a profit. May continue to look out for these sort of details as we don't have many players in our under 19's.

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Fixtures:

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100% record over the 2 months, scoring plenty of goals as we go!

Player Stats:

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Rovira leads the assists with 26, whilst Scheweleff leads the goals with 23 with fellow Finnishman Kelle Lehtonen one behind him with 22.

League Table:

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Averaging around 4 and a half goals scored a game as we look to break our own record set two years ago.

Other News:

1) We move up to 6th in the European coefficients, meaning the league has 2 CL group stage places and 1 EL group stage place. We also move up to 7th in the competition rankings and up to 9th in the club coefficients.

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Next up will be a quick European update, with our CL group and looking at the other Finnish clubs' qualification campaigns...

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FC Inter Turku
Champions League Group - 2029

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Group C:

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This should be a pretty decent group and Stuttgart and Porto should give us a couple of good games, whilst I'd imagine Rapid Wien would be the whipping boys of the group. I would also expect that we will win this group.

IFK and RoPS in Europa League:

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Another 2 teams make it through qualifiers and manage to make it into the Europa League group stages. IFK only had to beat FC Nordsjaelland to reach the groups whilst RoPS drop into the Europa League after losing in the playoff round of CL qualifying against Dynamo Kyiv.

Next update will be a review for the last few months of the season. Obviously we will win the league, however with 2nd place now gaining an automatic Champions League group stage place, the battle for 2nd will have extra significance this season...

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FC Inter Turku
August, September and October 2029

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Fixtures:

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We dropped a few more points over the last few months of the season (4 to be exact) and managed to win another Finnish Cup. The highlight of the run was back to back league games where we scored 9 goals, against Ilves and FC Haka.

Player Stats:

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9 players averaging over an 8 rating, whilst backup attacking midfielder Lehtonen finished top goalscorer with 35 goals scored, whilst right winger Rovira got the most assists with 33.

League Table:

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We dropped a few more points this season as we drew 3 games instead of the usual 1 drawn game, however I'm going to take that as a positive in the sense that it shows the quality of opposition is improving ever so slightly. We are now unbeaten in 263 league games, and we also set a new league record for goals scored with 144 goals in 33 games!

Other News:

1) Forgot to screenshot the youth intake, however these two were the best players we got and could be future Finnish internationals once they reach their potential.

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2) We get a new Chinese feeder club, in the shape of Liaoning.

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Next update will be a Champions League group stage update...

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FC Inter Turku
Champions League Group Stages - 2029

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Fixtures:

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A top group stage performance from us as we win all 6 games, scoring 26 goals and conceding just the 5. The highlight has to be putting 6 past FC Porto in consecutive games, showing how dominant we can now be on a European stage. We have been rewarded with a 1st knockout round tie against Bilbao, which shouldn't be any problem for us to advance from.

Player of the Group Stages - Nnaemeka Ozokwo:

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8 goals in the group stages for the Nigerian striker, who is now undoubtedly the first choice striker for the team.

RoPS and IFK in Europa League:

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A poor return from these two teams as neither managed to muster up a win in the group stages and both finished bottom of their respective groups. However neither team took any batterings, which goes to show they are not far off the required level to be competitive.

Next update will be an end of season review...


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FC Inter Turku
Season Review - 2029

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Finnish Premier League - Winners

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Finnish Cup and League Cup - Winners

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Champions League - 1st Knockout Round (In Progress)

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Fans Player of the Year - Markus Scheweleff

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Best 11:

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Overall Best 11:

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Next update will be a 2029 review for the Finnish national team.

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Finland
2029

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Fixtures:

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The results went pretty much as you'd expect for the Finnish national team this year, with defeats to France and Germany in the qualifiers, and wins against the likes of the Czech Republic, Latvia and Kazakhstan. The only majorly disappointing result was the 2-1 defeat at home to Slovakia, which really affected their World Cup qualifying campaign.

World Cup 2030 Qualifying Group:

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If they had beaten Slovakia as they should have at home, then Finland would have got a chance to play a playoff game to try to qualify for their first ever World Cup. Germany, who took 2nd ahead of Finland, went on to lose to Turkey in the playoff round and so will not be at the World Cup in Italy. Finland will now have to look ahead to a European Championship qualifying campaign starting later this year, with the draw being made in the middle of February for the groups.

World Ranking - 45th

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A bit of a drop after the last year.

Player of the Year - Jesse Standvall

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Under 21 Player of the Year - Kelle Lehtonen

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Best 11:

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Overall Best 11:

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Next update will be a Champions League 1st knockout round tie against Athletic Bilbao...

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FC Inter Turku
Champions League Knockout Rounds - 2030

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1st Knockout Round - FC Inter Turku 4 - 1 Athletic Bilbao

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I wasn't happy with a 0-0 draw away in Bilbao in the first leg, however we made up for it in the second leg with a convincing 4-1 win at the Olympiastadion in the return leg. This set up a quarter final against Arsenal, who are flying in the Premier League and have won 12 games on the spin.

Quarter Final - FC Inter Turku 5 - 7 Arsenal

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After going 1-0 up after 6 minutes at the Emirates I was pretty hopeful of our chances, but 84 minutes later at the end of the game at 6-2 down and it was a totally different story. In the second leg we restored some pride and won the return leg 3-1, missing a lot of chances in the process, however we fell 2 goals short. It was just one of those annoying ties where they seemed to score everytime they went forward whereas we were creating numerous chances but just not scoring enough.

Next up will be a season preview for 2030...

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FC Inter Turku
Season Preview - 2030

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Transfers:

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The outgoing transfers were mainly loaning out the young players we have brought in over the past few months. We did sell young Finnish centre back Kunnola to HJK as he wouldn't sign a new contract and should significantly strengthen them. The main incoming transfer was left back Lagos from Anderlecht for £10,000,000, who'll become fist choice left back when we sell 31 year old Gardener in the summer (We needed to keep Gardner for the rest of the CL campaign as Lagos was ineligible due to playing in the tournament for Anderlecht).

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Since the January transfer window has ended, we have agreed to sell keeper Warren Barnes to Genoa for £7,000,000, a great deal considering he is now 2nd choice and his contract would have been up in November. We have also agreed a deal to sell 31 year old midfielder Ousmane Toure for £4,600,000 to Metalist after he was complaining about wanting a new challenge. We've also accepted a £10,000,000 from AC Milan for Jodey Gardner, so I'd imagine he is on his way out also. Finally, we have agreed a £5,500,000 fee to bring in Scottish midfielder Nicholson from Celtic to take Toure's place in the squad.

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Finnish League Cup:

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Another League Cup in the bag!

Squad:

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Need to look for a new backup keeper once Barnes leaves, but overall the squad has plenty of quality and depth within it. Also need to start thinking about bringing through a young striker to be backup as Viljanen is getting on a bit at 31 and may not be capable backup in 1 or 2 years time.

Next update will be an April and May review...

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FC Inter Turku
April and May - 2030

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Fixtures:

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A 100% record to start the season as we show our domestic dominance, scoring plenty of goals as we go. We also progressed into the Finnish Cup semi final, although RoPS gave us a pretty good game in the quarter finals as we beat them 5-3.

Player Stats:

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Our regular front 4 are at the top of the average ratings, and are all contributing massively in terms of goals and assists. New left back Lagos has also made a very impressive start to his career in the blue and black shirt of Inter Turku.

League Table:

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Could this finally be the perfect, 100% season?

Other News:

1) 11 of our players have been called up to take part in the 2030 World Cup in Italy. This means we've had to cancel around 5 or 6 league games which will probably lead to a bit of a fixture pile up at the end of the season.

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Next update will be a quick June and July review, with the World Cup being on there won't be many games to report on but we'll take a look at any of our players who have performed well at the tournament...

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FC Inter Turku
June and July 2030

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Fixtures:

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For some reason we weren't able to cancel 2 of the games in June when the World Cup was on, luckily we won both games and then started to pick up our goalscoring form in July when we got our World Cup goers back. At the moment, we're still on for our 100% season.

Player Stats:

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League Table:

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Over half the way through the season now and we have still won every game, however we aren't scoring quite as many goals as last season.

Other News:

1) The Finnish League drops a couple of places both in the European coefficients and in the competition rankings. The club moves to 9th in the club coefficient rankings.

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2) We bring in an exciting Dutch striker Dave Linssen on a free from Borrussia Dortmund. I mentioned in an earlier post about needing a new backup striker to replace Viljanen, who I actually don't want to sell and will keep to maybe become part of my staff if he wants to stay in football.

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3) We once again have World Cup runners up in the squad as Argentina make the World Cup final but lose to Uruguay. Both Ignacio Rocco and Martin Garay came off the bench in the final during the 1-0 loss, whilst Diego Faccini was an unused substitute.

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Next update will be a quick update to show our European group as well as the other Finnish teams in Europe...
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FC Inter Turku
August, September and October 2030

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Fixtures:

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A sea of green here as we win every domestic game over the 3 months, meaning that we have retained our Finnish Cup for another season and have finally had a 100% record in a league season!

Player Stats:

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Rovira finishes top assist maker with 28 assists, leaving clubs such as Newcastle and Genoa chasing his signature. Okokwo finishes top of the goalscoring charts with 38 goals, and has the likes if PSG and Dortmund after him.

League Table:

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Finally a 100% season for the first time, meaning we have stretched our unbeaten league record to 296 games. However, I feel as though RoPS are starting to make good strives forward and could put that unbeaten run under threat in the next couple of seasons.

Other News:

1) We get a pretty decent intake, with these 2 being the best players.

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2) We manage to increase our youth recruitment for only a 2nd time on this save, leaving it as 'well established'.

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Next update will be a Champions League Group Stage review...

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