STAND FREE WHEREVER YOU MAY BE - And you thought Celtic beating Barca was something!

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Well done on making the WC and doing so well with the club recently. If you do really well in this CL, Scotland could really close in on eight and seventh in the coefficients.
 
gogogo golem said:
Well done on making the WC and doing so well with the club recently. If you do really well in this CL, Scotland could really close in on eight and seventh in the coefficients.
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**** yeah! That would be great. Even if we can get a bit further through and get the maximum amount of points we can.
 

January Transfers
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Aberdeen
A Club legend returns and we loan out 3 youngsters for 1st team experience.




In
Lluis Juste - DC - £1.4m
2017-2027
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The 1st player of mine to become a club legend Lluis Juste is back. He made 127 appearances before moving to Fiorentia for £11m back in 2017. He's now back to finish his carear at Aberdeen.




Out


3 Left on Loan


Andrija Stojanovic to Kilmarnock, Chris Gauld to Spurs and Enzo Lupson to Hannover




World Transfers
Did anyone in England spend money except Liverpool
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SPL Transfers
All the big deals were around Parkhead
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Juste seals Dons return


Lluis Juste has completed his return to Aberdeen after a stint of almost nine years away, the Scottish Premier League side have confirmed.


Dons boss Darran Donald swooped to sign the club's former skipper even though the 31-year-old defender is carrying an injury at the moment.


Juste, who was available for £1m after a short spell with Udinese has been handed the club captain's role upon his return to Pittodrie while Alex Butler will continue to captain the team on the park.


Donald told his club's official website: "Lluis has signed initially until the end of next season and, even although he is some weeks away from a return to full fitness, simply having him around the club again is a tremendous boost to everyone"


"Lluis is Aberdeen through and through and his influence both on and off the park will be a massive confidence boost for all of us here no matter how limited his time on the park is."



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European Championship Qualifying Group


Scotland are top seeds just


Group A
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This group will be even more dependent on one game than the world cup qualifiers. Obviously our Play off rivals Ukraine will be fighting us for top spot the rest of the group is less than pathetic



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February


Champions League challenge hanging by a thread
Dismal league form see's Celtic close the gap, a little
Ross County sack Steven Calderwell and go even worse by hiring Matt Jarvis who almost got Dundee Utd relegated last season.


Fixtures



Motherwell 0-3 Aberdeen
Hugo 2
Glowacki


More injury's! After having too many midfielders i get Sudimek and David getting injured at the same time!




Scottish Cup 5th round
Aberdeen 7-1 Falkirk
McCulloch 3
O'G
Kanakubo
Sudimak
Durmaz


Back up team were in amazing form. Juste got the armband on his return.


Quarter Final puts us with our feeder team Dunfermline
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Dundee 1-4 Aberdeen
Essomba
Hugo
Elias
O'G


Played a mixed team to get us in the mood for the Champions League.




Champions League last 16 1st leg
Man Utd 3-0 Aberdeen


Man Utd were 2 goals up and we had to attack to grab an away goal which never arrived. Will need a huge turn around in the 2nd leg but we look to be out already




Aberdeen 0-1 Rangers


Another Aberdeen defeat. Starting to look like the rest of the season may be w write off.




Livingston 1-5 Aberdeen
Archer
Hugo
Loeffen 2
Fotheringham


Loeffen came off the bench to secure the win as it was only 2-1 at the time.




League
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Ok time to worry a bit. The gap is down to 12 points and were playing a long way off our best. We have got to pick it up in March!




Player of the month
Peter Sudimak
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The Slovakian made his name filling in for tired midfielders



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Youth Intake 2026
3 players but what's with all the strikers and Brazilians for that matter. Im SURE this has actually happened


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DR - Yago - 2*
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Half Brazilian so he can attack and Half Scottish so he can defend, A bit. I've called him up to the Scottish national team to make sure he plays for us


AT - Nailton - 3*
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The best of the lot i think. He rejected the call up to the Scotland squad but I'll keep trying to get him capped!


AT - Ross Carrol - 2.5*
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Well this guys just Scottish so nothing to get excited about



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Decent intake, love the fact you got 2 Brazilians! What level is your youth recruitment at and who are your affiliated clubs?
 
Great intake and can I see a screenshot of Olly Kenney, he's one of the SI 'faceinthegame' regens and I see he was bought by Celtic. Loved the video, utter hilarity. Juste seems to have lost it s bit though.
 
Safc-mad-scotty said:
Decent intake, love the fact you got 2 Brazilians! What level is your youth recruitment at and who are your affiliated clubs?
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Here is my full facilities page & Affiliated clubs. Cant get improve any of my facilities further and i cant add any more affiliated teams as Livingston just turned me down.


gogogo golem said:
Great intake and can I see a screenshot of Olly Kenney, he's one of the SI 'faceinthegame' regens and I see he was bought by Celtic. Loved the video, utter hilarity. Juste seems to have lost it s bit though.
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Juste is mostly an emotional signing. Needed a 4th choice center back and after turning him down twice before i decided to go for him now and sign him up till his retirement.

whats the "faceinthegame" regen? I've never herd of them before
 

Scottish League Cup Final 2026
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Aberdeen Vs Kilmarnock
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Team News


Aberdeen
Despite all my moaning this season this must be the first time we've had a full squad to choose from


Kilmarnock
The big outsiders will be without there injured starting center Defender and Midfielder and My on loan Keeper Andrija Stojanovic and Forward Petr Jerabek




The Match
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FT - Aberdeen 2-3 Kilmarnock AET


Wow so this is how Arsenal feel.
Out of 3 cups in 3 games in 9 days. This is a all time low in the last decade in charge. Im sure we were on for a hatrick of trebles 10 days ago. Nobody to blame for this defeat though despite it being a chaotic match.


Kilmarnock held the lead for through halftime till Loeffen came on to take the game into Extra Time. 2 Minutes into extra time Chris Pierce got a second yellow card and former don Gregg Elrick put Killie ahead before they also went down to 10 men. The level teams lasted almost a minute as Essomba was then taken of injured at half time in extra time. Kilmarnocks went 3-1 and a late own goal for us was no consolation for our poor performance.





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Where now for Aberdeen?


As Aberdeen fall out of 3 competitions in just over a week including a embarrassing loss to Kilmarnock in the League Cup final tonight. "The rest of the season is experimental. I will be looking to give as many players a chance in the 1st team to see who will stay for 2026/27 season as i thought i had my best team out there today and clearly there is something wrong with my team somewhere. The heavy defeat at Old Trafford i can take some of the blame for that but out form since the new year will be addressed through the rest of this season to try and set us up for our best ever season"



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March

Treble Treble dream is over thanks to a Horrific stroke of luck. YOU MUST READ THE DUNFERMLINE GAME
The horrible start to March crushes the teams confidence and we play awful through the whole month.
St Johnstone sack Stuart McCall to hire Ian McCall from Livingston who hire Stuart McCall. Confused!


Fixtures



Scottish Cup Quarter Final
Aberdeen 0-3 Dunfermline


Can not put into words how robbed we were here. Never noticed this was 1 day after the Scotland game and International window meaning we lost our squad. Think im lying check the difference between the team i wanted and the team i played.

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Champions League Last 16 2nd Leg
Aberdeen 3-1 Man Utd
Glowacki
Hugo
Loeffen


AGG Man Utd 4-3 Aberdeen


We bossed United at my stadium. United's 1 shot on goal was the difference but we made so many chances in the last 5 minutes that we missed that could have brought us through but the encouraging performance isn't enough to put us into the Quarter Finals

All last 16 results
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St Johnstone 0-3 Aberdeen
Archer
Soldan
Loeffen




Aberdeen 3-1 Ross County
Hugo 2
Durmaz




Hearts 1-0 Aberdeen


Oh well so much for being back on form






League
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We do everything we can to open the door for Celtic. Gap's 11 points with 7 games to go. If we beat Celtic next time out I'd feel safe but the confidence has gone and it all depends on the team that shows up on the night




Player of the month
Michael Soldan
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The veteran come out of March with some dignity left.






Scotland


Friendly
Scotland 0-0 Argentina


Not the greatest tie but a great result in preparing for the world cup

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April


100% record with kids playing every game apart from Celtic match.




Fixtures




Celtic 1-3 Aberdeen
Loeffen
Elias
O'G


Well whatever we do from no on this result should secure the title.




Aberdeen 4-3 Dundee Utd
McCulloch 3
Glowacki


We had to fight back from 3-1 down at home and thanks to a teenage striker we left with the 3 points




Rangers 1-2 Aberdeen
McCulloch
Hugo


A very youthful Dons team do a number on our greatest rivals




Aberdeen 2-0 Hearts
McCulloch
Gillespie






League
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Our form improves just as Celtics goes downhill to ensure a easy run to the title. Celtic have a big fight on to keep 2nd. Livingston are all but down.




Player of the month
Grzegorz Glowacki
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Unlucky in Europe, looking at the DOB of that player he's probably a repetition of the name (that's how regen naming works). However, in the first season, all the SI employees get a regen generated with their name and several of their details and a given position and if you search in the search bar 'faceinthgame' no spaces, remove quotations, you find those regens.
 
stonecold said:

Scottish League Cup Final 2026
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Aberdeen Vs Kilmarnock
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Team News


Aberdeen
Despite all my moaning this season this must be the first time we've had a full squad to choose from


Kilmarnock
The big outsiders will be without there injured starting center Defender and Midfielder and My on loan Keeper Andrija Stojanovic and Forward Petr Jerabek




The Match
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FT - Aberdeen 2-3 Kilmarnock AET


Wow so this is how Arsenal feel.
Out of 3 cups in 3 games in 9 days. This is a all time low in the last decade in charge. Im sure we were on for a hatrick of trebles 10 days ago. Nobody to blame for this defeat though despite it being a chaotic match.


Kilmarnock held the lead for through halftime till Loeffen came on to take the game into Extra Time. 2 Minutes into extra time Chris Pierce got a second yellow card and former don Gregg Elrick put Killie ahead before they also went down to 10 men. The level teams lasted almost a minute as Essomba was then taken of injured at half time in extra time. Kilmarnocks went 3-1 and a late own goal for us was no consolation for our poor performance.





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Where now for Aberdeen?


As Aberdeen fall out of 3 competitions in just over a week including a embarrassing loss to Kilmarnock in the League Cup final tonight. "The rest of the season is experimental. I will be looking to give as many players a chance in the 1st team to see who will stay for 2026/27 season as i thought i had my best team out there today and clearly there is something wrong with my team somewhere. The heavy defeat at Old Trafford i can take some of the blame for that but out form since the new year will be addressed through the rest of this season to try and set us up for our best ever season"



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stonecold said:

March

Treble Treble dream is over thanks to a Horrific stroke of luck. YOU MUST READ THE DUNFERMLINE GAME
The horrible start to March crushes the teams confidence and we play awful through the whole month.
St Johnstone sack Stuart McCall to hire Ian McCall from Livingston who hire Stuart McCall. Confused!


Fixtures



Scottish Cup Quarter Final
Aberdeen 0-3 Dunfermline


Can not put into words how robbed we were here. Never noticed this was 1 day after the Scotland game and International window meaning we lost our squad. Think im lying check the difference between the team i wanted and the team i played.

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gogogo golem said:
However, in the first season, all the SI employees get a regen generated with their name and several of their details and a given position and if you search in the search bar 'faceinthgame' no spaces, remove quotations, you find those regens.
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This is a brilliant tip for season 1 transfers. Just had a glimps at it now and there is 2 world player of the year winners there
 
Dave1875 my bad news shouldnt even tickle you compared to the Hearts scandal! Looks like 1 less Edinburgh team in the SPL either this year or next
 

May



Fixtures


Aberdeen 9-0 St Johnstone
Soldan
Archer
Sneddon
Loeffen 4
Grant
Essomba


Our first game using mostly my planned 2026 team. Good signs!




Aberdeen 4-2 Kilmarnock
Elias
Soldan
Sneddon
Loeffen


Were brilliant against St Johnstone but not so here!




Celtic 1-1 Aberdeen
David


Not our greatest last game of the season but at least this season's over.






Final League Table
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2025/26 Season Review


SPL - Winner
Scottish Cup - Quarter Final
League Cup - Finalists
Champions League - Last 16



Season Stats
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Final team talk
"This is usually where i rave about how well you did over the past 10 months but not this time. Im considering a lot of changes for next season. While im away with Scotland Steve "Assistant Steve Clarke" will be letting you know if your performances have cost you a place at the club. I will see those who are up to or worthy of getting back on top at the end of training camp"




SPL
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We retained the title but required a fumble by Celtic after the split to secure top spot. We broke 100 points and won 33 games but need too see a lot more next season.


Thanks to our last game stutter Celtic beat Kilmarnock to the Champions League qualifier spot.


St Johnstone, Rangers & Hearts join Killie in the Europa League.


Livingston get relegated. My feeder team Dunfermline win the league by a mile while my other feeder team Alloa go down.

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Scottish Cup Final
Celtic 4-0 Hearts


Celtic's 1st Scottish Cup since 2011. They were luck to avoid the dark horses Dunfermline in the final. My affiliated friends would have done better than Hearts did.

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Scottish League Cup Final
Aberdeen 2-3 Kilmarnock


Rangers and Celtic fall at the last 16 but Kille were always a threat as we found out as we self destructed.


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2025/2026 Awards


Footballer of the year
Armand Essomba - Ave 7.66
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Top Scorer
Mark Loeffen - 21 Games 30 Goals
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Young Player of the year

Hugo - Ave 7.71
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Team Of the year
Only 7 Players in this year
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Darran Donalds player of the season
Liam Fotheringham
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Would Have picked Essomba but he won League Player of the year.


Manager of the year
Darran Donald
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Match of the season
11th April 2026
Aberdeen 4-3 Dundee Utd
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This match turned our season around. We had just had one of my most challenging months in charge so i was giving youth a chance and they showed lots of fighting spirit. Came back from 1-0 behind then 3-1 down to finally turn around and grab the winner with 2 minutes to go.


Signing of the season
Dom Novoselic
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Showed enough in his 1st 10 games at the club to earn a shot in the 1st team next season.




European Cups



Champions League Final
Barcelona 0-1 Man City - AET

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Barcelona's away goal victory ruined a potential clash of the two current super clubs but in the end Man City Secured a hattrick of titles.



Europa League
CSKA Moscow 0-2 Dortmund

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Not the greatest line up ever. Inter & Tottenham were the let downs while both sides of the Old Firm went out at the last 16




Dons Finances - May 30th 2026


Income
Match day income = £5.9m -£800k
All Tickets = £31.6M -£7.4m
Players Sold = £8m -£47m
Total = £105.9m -£55.5m (-£8m without player sales)


Expenditure
Player Wages = £39.5m +5.5m
Total Bonuses = £12.7m +400k
Staff Wages = £7.9m +800k
Player Transfers = £3.1m -£8.6m
Ground Maintenance = £5.3m -£2.4m
Total = £134.4m -£12.6m


Weekly Wages Currently £786.094


---Final Balance ---
£14.8m -£28.5m


Forgetting transfers we made a operating loss of £34m.

Trying to break down potential problems. Spending less than £2.5m on loans to other Scottish teams £42k a week

BUT!
All the wages & Bonus's = £60m
Stadium income = £36m
For Aberdeen -£24m

So there's my problem. Wages are through the roof ending any hope of improving the side any further.
Despite having a Ave Attendance of 97.16% the club wont back any expansions. With the current state of our finances i understand


I Wouldn't say were at the stage of having to sell my star players but we'll see where we are this time next year. Hopefully Butler, Soldan & Pierce will be more willing to cut there wages than they are just now.



Scots in Europe
Celtic - Europa League Last 16
Rangers - Europa League Last 16
Hearts - Europa League Final Play-Off
Kilmarnock - Europa League Final Play-Off
St Johnstone - Europa League 3rd Qualifying round


League rankings
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SPL Still ranked 10th with no improvement from last season.


Euro Coefficients
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Were still 9th but a new target has emerged in the falling Russian nation




Other European Leagues


England
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Man City pull off the treble beating Man Utd 1-0 in the FA Cup final and beating Arsenal in the league by 1 point. Wolves 2 points away from the Champions league


Germany
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Top 3 battled out to the last day.



Italy
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Again nothing between the top 3 battling it out to the end but Inter retain



Spain
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After waiting 30 years for a League title two come at once for Athletico. Real Madrid and a recovering Barcelona close behind.




Going into the summer

Im at a crossroads. I know Amri is coming in to start and im dropping Grant to the bench. Butler and Pierce have to hold off Coulibaly who has quietly developed into a superstar. Elias and Coutts will fight for the midfield starting spot while Glowacki continues to fight for a starting spot. Against Sneddon ARE YOU INSANE! Certainly wont be many new players with our financial state.



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