Career of Joshua James

The youth will help the club either by being sold or replacing players being sold. With my small budget, the level of players I can afford are not much better than the youth players right now.

Journal entry 3

Start of the winter transfer window

Halfway through the season and things are going as well as I could have hoped. We advanced in Europe and are still alive to win the league and in the quarter finals of the league cup. 

This week had sad news for the club. Christian Rasmussen is going back to Ajax. He was a good player for us on the wing or at striker and I hoped to sign him permanently but a torn ACL made the signing too risky. 

Three more players are leaving this week. Deals the club agreed to earlier in the season. With the additional profit, we were able to hire another scout in Africa. I know the senior players are pressuring myself and the club to sign a first team player but we need to be patient. A signing might happen for a defensive midfielder if the right deal comes along but we will not rush it. 

Good bye Kaare, Andreas, and Adamo. 

European Knockouts

Good result in Europe, but a humbling defeat to league leaders afterwards. Hopefully Ingvartsen finds his scoring boots again so can actually take the record, he may say it isn't,but pretty sure he's feeling the pressure 

I am trying too hard with him. But good things are coming...

Wow, only 30 percent possession, that's really not the usual style of FC Nordsjælland. (A good result and performance from my favourites though 😉 ) Seems your squad depth is hurting from fighting on several fronts. Historically that's also something that only FC København have been able to do consistently, whilst other top sides have usually failed to take a good domestic form into Europe. Perhaps having one season where it "clicks", but never doing well across several seasons. Perhaps FCN will be the ones to break that poor cycle. It is a difficult balance though, cause an early exit from Europe and suddenly you just have a squad that is way too big for the Danish league and only a very limited amount of cup games...

I see you followed through on my advice to sign Emiliano Marcondes. Him and Ingvartsen could become a deadly duo by Danish league standards, if their rivalry becomes a fruitful one in stead of one filled with individual ambition to be the club's leading man. I am quite interested in seeing how this will unfold. Good mention of club records too, quite a few blasts from the past for me there. Bajram Fetai for instance, haven't thought about him for years...

Quite the thumping off Bronby which opened up a little gap for them. Doing well in Europe as well which is great.

What's the position requirements in this league for European tournament qualifying number of spots etc?

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@thurlow885 wrote:

What's the position requirements in this league for European tournament qualifying number of spots etc?

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I might be able to respond here.

Firstly, no one qualifies directly for the Champions League. The champion enters the final qualifying round with one opponent home and away, whilst the runner-up needs to get past two rounds to qualify.

Then there are the cup winner and the third place entering Europe too. I'm not sure if they enter the group stage automatically or need to qualify first. I might have seen Danish clubs in the Europa League qualifiers in the beginning of a season, but I'm not sure from which league position (or cup?) these clubs had to enter the qualifiers.

Apart from the top 3 and the cup winner, the final spot is - as far as I know - a playoff between number 4 and the winner of the bottom half. You know, the league is divided in top and bottom after 22 games, so there's actually a benefit from being number 7 rather than 5 or 6, when the season ends.