Build 25279841

Hey everyone! A big update just went live with a ton of quality-of-life improvements, gameplay rebalancing, new systems, and bug fixes based on community feedback.

Here is the complete breakdown of everything added, updated, and fixed:

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## 🏆 Leagues, Relegation & Balance
* **2nd Tier League & Relegation**: Added a full secondary league with unique clubs, colors, and kits. Bottom-finishing teams are now relegated at the end of the season, and top 2nd tier teams are promoted.

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## 🃏 Popups & Visual Information
* **Player & Manager Cards in Popups**: Whenever an event, decision, transfer offer, or contract dispute occurs, the full profile card (portrait, star rating, squad role, stats, and personality traits) is now shown right inside the popup.
* **Star Ratings Everywhere**: Standardized player rating displays across all dialogs, popups, and events to intuitive 1–5 stars (with half-stars), removing the old raw 1–10 number references for consistency.
* **Trait & Manager Tooltips**: Added dedicated popups and tooltips explaining what each personality trait and manager specialty does.
* **Visual Injury Badges**: Players with active injuries are now clearly marked in the squad view with injury badges.
* **Development & Regression Indicators**: When players develop or regress at the end of a season, the popup clearly shows their previous star rating alongside their new rating.

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## 📋 Squad Management & Transfers
* **Sort & Filter System**: Added comprehensive sorting and filtering for both your Squad and the Transfer Market (filter by position, age brackets including 25–30, contract duration, and star rating, plus a one-click reset).
* **Consolidated Contract Renewals**: Batch contract negotiations into a single unified popup rather than forcing you to click through dialogs one by one.
* **Smarter Contract Logic**: Unhappy players will no longer show up for renewal talks (clearly stating their intent to leave), and retiring players automatically bypass contract renewal screens.
* **Event Validation**: Sold or transferred players are automatically pruned from pending popup queues so you never get events about players who have already left.
* **Transfer Confirmation**: Added an "Are you sure?" confirmation dialog before finalizing high-value transfers to protect against accidental spending.
* **Cleaned Up Transfer Reports**: Redesigned transfer activity summaries to be concise and easy to read.
* **Quick Navigation**: Added seamless switching back and forth between the Transfer Market and Squad views.

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## 🧠 Stories
* **Contextual Storytelling**: Added dozens of funny, contextual stories explaining why fans or managers want specific players, why they dislike certain players, and varied reasons for Ultra fan demands.

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## 💰 Economy & Facilities
* **Facility Upgrades & Maintenance**: Maintain, upgrade, or build new stadium facilities to boost squad performance, development and morale.
* **Financial Forecasting**: Cleaned up the next-round expense preview to only show relevant upcoming deductions, and included expected match reward/prize money estimates.
* **Severance Accounting Fix**: Fixed a bug where manager salary was deducted in full and severance was double-charged upon termination.

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## 🔊 Audio Improvements
* **Effects & Ambience Sliders**: Separated volume settings into dedicated **Effects** and **Ambience** sliders in the audio settings.
* **Calibrated Default Volume**: Fixed the issue where stadium chants and menu sounds started at maximum volume on new game launch.
* **Trimmed Goal Celebrations**: Shortened goal celebration audio clips (trimmed to 10s and 20s) and balanced success/failure SFX durations.

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## 🛠️ Polish, Typos & Bug Fixes
* **Main Menu Navigation**: Fixed mid-game menu quitting and Game Over screens so they properly return you to the Main Menu rather than closing straight to desktop.
* **Home / Away Display Fix**: Fixed an issue where away match results incorrectly displayed your club as the home team.
* **Window & Taskbar Title**: Updated application and taskbar title from legacy naming to *Club Chairman*.
* **Typo Corrections**: Fixed typos across events and narrative strings.
* **Tutorials & Tips**: Updated in-game tutorials and added useful management tips to the menu screens.

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Thanks to everyone who tested, reported bugs, and shared feedback! If you run into any issues or have suggestions for the next update, let us know in the Community Hub!