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Wonderkid Factory | Part 12 | AZ Suffer A Drop In Form

#WonderkidFactory Part 12: AZ Suffer A Drop In Form. #AZAlkmaar's homegrown talents have a poor season as their run of 5 successive #Eredivisie titles ends and they really struggle in Europe. Read here:

AZ Alkmaar celebrated a fifth successive Eredivisie title in the summer of 2033, but their homegrown stars were still some way off competing with Europe’s elite. And manager Robinho Lazaró was very much questioning whether they’d ever be able to. There was major news off the field as AZ saw the first takeover of the Lazaró reign with new chairperson Lau Chun Wah taking control of the club.…

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Wonderkid Factory | Part 11 | Another Close European Giant Battle

#WonderkidFactory Part 11: Another Close European Giant Battle. @AZAlkmaar's exciting homegrown talents make it 5 consecutive #Eredivisie title, but again fall short to a European giant in the #ChampionsLeague QFs. Read here:

AZ Alkmaar were well and truly dominating in the Netherlands, but Lazaró’s aim to become European Champions with a fully homegrown squad was proving much more problematic. They received another mass of derisory bids in the summer of 2032, including Man City only offering £70m for Raily Wau when they rejected £160m bids the previous summer. And in mid-June, 20 of their 22 first-team players were…

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Wonderkid Factory | Part 10 | Developing A Genuine Golden Generation

#FM24 #WonderkidFactory Part 10: Developing A Genuine Golden Generation. Two more homegrown stars step up for #AZAlkmaar as they again dominate #Eredivisie but taste penalty pain following an epic #ChampionsLeague comeback. Read here:

AZ Alkmaar wrapped up three successive Eredivise titles to become the fifth most successive club in Dutch football history, behind the big three of Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord and the HVV, an amateur side that won 10 titles by 1915. The summer of 2031 saw managing director Robert Eenhoorn announce plans for a new stadium, as AFAS Stadion could no longer meet fans’ demand for tickets. The club’s…

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Wonderkid Factory | Part 9 | A New Midfield Talent Emerges

#FM24 #WonderkidFactory Part 9: A New Midfield Talent Emerges. #AZAlkmaar enjoy another good domestic season, strolling to an #Eredivisie win and reaching the cup final. But competing in the #ChampionsLeague remains a significant challenge. Read here:

The dreaded financial glitch affecting Eredivisie on Football Manager 2024 means this could well be the end to our second attempt at the Wonderkid Factory challenge. It comes at an annoying time, considering Robinho Lazaró was establishing AZ Alkmaar as a dominant force in the Netherlands, with three titles in four years, and taking on Europe’s elite. AZ again received a mass of bids for its…

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Wonderkid Factory | Part 7 | Fully Homegrown For The First Time

#FM24 #WonderkidFactory Part 7: Fully Homegrown For The First Time. The power of the @AZAlkmaar youth academy is confirmed by Robinho Lazaró's squad containing only homegrown players as they win a 2nd #Eredivisie in 3 years. Read here:

Twelve months on from becoming Champions of the Netherlands, AZ Alkmaar were reflecting on a solid if unspectacular campaign. Manager Robinho Lazaró had done an impressive job of promoting homegrown youth while keeping his promising AZ side competitive. As a result, they again had a huge interest in their talented youngsters, led by the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid chasing star academy…

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Wonderkid Factory | Part 6 | Eredivisie Title Defence

The exciting crop of youngsters at AZ Alkmaar outperformed even their loftiest expectations as they usurped the big three to become champions of the Netherlands for the third time in 2027. The challenge now was for Robinho Lazaró and his young squad to build on that success. AZ moved another step closer to being fully homegrown as centre back Alexandre Penetra joined West Ham for £22m. That left…

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Wonderkid Factory | Part 5 | Wau, This Kid Is Raily Special

#FM24 #WonderkidFactory Part 5: Wau, This Kid Is Raily Good. Academy prodigy Raily Wau enjoys phenomenal progression, partnering with Myron van Brederode to fire @AZAlkmaar into #Eredivisie title contention in 2027. Read here:

The wonderkid factory project at AZ Alkmaar was progressing very nicely as Robinho Lazaró led the club to two 2nd-place finishes in three seasons. He’d also reduced the AZ squad to just five players who didn’t come through the club’s academy heading into the summer of 2026. That was reduced further as midfielder Kristijan Belic moved to Valencia for a club record £31m, Mees de Wit joined Forest…

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Wonderkid Factory | Part 4 | Hammering Real Madrid

#FM24 #WonderkidFactory Part 4: Hammering Real Madrid. The homegrown project at @AZAlkmaar continues to impress as they claim a huge scalp in the #ChampionsLeague. And their exciting youngsters push Ajax all the way in #Eredivisie. Read here:

Footballing overachievement is seemingly always accompanied by the threat of your best players being poached by bigger clubs. And Robinho Lazaró found that out in the summer of 2025 as his AZ Alkmaar’s 2nd place finish in Eredivisie saw big teams across Europe raise interest in his top performers. That included the likes of Myron von Brederode, who wanted to move to a bigger club and Lazaró…

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Wonderkid Factory | Part 3 | AZ Academy Stars Excel

#FM24 #WonderkidFactory Part 3: AZ Academy Stars Excel. Homegrown products deliver as #AZAlkmaar finish runners-up in #Eredivisie and reach the #EuropaLeague latter stages. Plus, another exciting talent emerges from the youth intake. Read here:

AZ Alkmaar made a promising start to life under Robinho Lazaró, who’d been impressed with his side’s efforts to finish 4th in Eredivisie in 2023/24. However, these early seasons don’t really matter too much in our bid to become national and European champions with a team of academy products. More important was Lazaró’s first youth intake, which produced midfielder Wessel van Dord, who was…

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Wonderkid Factory | Part 2 | Generational Talent In First AZ Youth Intake

#FM24 #WonderkidFactory Part 2: Generational Talent. Robinho Lazaró gets started with his young @AZAlkmaar and gives hot prospects plenty of opportunities. That includes a very exciting talent coming through his first youth intake. Read here:

The second edition of our Wonderkid Factory save sees Robinho Lazaró bring his youth recruitment prowess to the Netherlands with AZ Alkmaar. The club has plenty of exciting youth prospects ready to play their part in the 2023/24 campaign – go back and meet them in Part 1 – but Lazaró was keen to remove any expectation from his young starlets. Lazaró was keen to move on older and non-homegrown…