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    Blackpool - Steam ID: alexbarnsley, PSN ID - barns5

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  1. Well, update, i managed to get a job in the Belgian second division as Zulte Waregem who are willing to give me my C licence. Has slightly killed the game for me after putting in 5 solid seasons and alot of hard work. I wasn't expecting to be able get a top top job, but i thought i could get a top half of a top league job with my titles and CL win. I want to win the top league and CL in each of my loaded leagues, so now the plan is to get Zulte promoted, get my badges and try to win the Belgian league with them. 10 year CL plan, we will see how it goes! Do agree though, should be a potential feature - i dont understand why I couldnt start coaching badges while unemployed. Leverkusen have a lot to answer for, the quote each time. " we are selfish and giving you coaching badges would mean larger clubs would be interested"! now it does make sense!
  2. ah thats very frustrating, Leverkusen wouldn't allow me to get any badges tried for 5 seasons and they never let me go on one course no matter how many times I asked or appealed it. Now i am unemployed I can't start them myself!
  3. Sorry if this has been spoken about, I had a quick search but no avail. Okay, i started off the game as sunday league footballer with no coaching badges as manager of Leverkusen, have completed my mini in game challenge that i wanted to do, win the league and the champs league and then resign. 5 seasons in, i won 2 bundesligas and finally the CL. Have just resigned, I cannot get a job anywhere? every club i register interest in laugh me off, french division 2 sides, Belgian sides. My manager rep is still 2 stars, and i am still an unknown. I have completed 5 seasons at a top team, won the CL and 2 x bundesligas, you would think i could get a job somewhere? I am not expecting to get a top job, but i am being dismissed for Caen, Antwerp, Rotherham, Celta. I haven't even managed to bag an interview yet - just that my application is unsuccessful. I am not sure if this is a bug so not reported but just wondered why my rep is so low after those achievements and why I cant get a job! Appreciate my stats are low, but a champions league win I would think would be enough? Anyone having similar issues, I am not sure what to do as this has totally killed my game right now.
  4. Having the same sort of issue, drew with city, beat arsenal, beat barca, got beat 4-0 by Burnley, 3-0 by Forest and 3-0 by palace. All away. Away form is absolutely shocking, trying to use a 433 and a 343 not really found the right balance yet. Injuries shocking, had Onana out for the whole season so far and i am into November, Hojlund is in and out, same as a few others. Tough gig this one! £6m to spend too and nobody wants the players. Cannot wait to turn this one round to how i want.
  5. the urge to spend all that on wonderkids is just intense! My ground is being upgraded currently to 36k, I have been playing at the Etihad all season which has been great!
  6. FC United - 2053 Well, well well. 30seasons - I have finally completed the challenge!!! Hope I make the Hall of Fame wall! We ran out 3-1 winners in the champions league final against City (who won the league), I came 2nd. (Won league previous season) Absolutely over the moon, with this challenge and the fact I have stuck with this from the start. first time doing something of this magnitude and I feel the biggest achievement of any FM, (have been playing since CM97-98!) Bit of a photo dump here. Next Steps, not sure to be honest. Would like to win more trophies, but also the squad only has 13-14 players who are good enough to compete - Potentially I may go on a spree and sign 10-15, 16-17year olds and go on a rampage with the cash! Manager Stats: (ignore the 2 players signed, these were signed on Holiday in the first pre-season as i forgot to turn that option off, instant released - I holiday pre-seasons due to no requirement to be there and speed!) The Cabinet: Yep, not much - performance in the two domestic cups have been shocking throughout! But squad depth isn't enough to complete all around. CL final,totally dominated them from start to finish I was top for the first few games, but City were top from about game 7 all the way. Couldnt keep up with the size of my squad compared totheirs with all the games.
  7. To be honest, I never ever thought I would get this far, it takes me a while to get into a game on most FM's i need to have that feel, but for some reason with Fc United i just had it. I live quite near to Manchester so quite local too. I did 20 seasons on FM22, but that was with wolves, boro, leipzig, barcelona and back to wolves. After the first 13 seasons, i was still in Van North, and to win the premier league after 29 seasons is just incredible - I am so glad i stuck at this one, my first and only game of FM23 to date. I have the stadium name after myself, would love to have a son now in the academy! Currently playing in the Etihad while they put some more seats in to make it a 35k seater, Cannot wait to get started in Europe, we have got £400m in the bank, obviously not signing players and quite small outgoings the money racks up so quickly. We are ranked 20th for turnover to wages, to win the title with that stat. amazing. Season 30 - The european adventure begins
  8. Hi guys, haven't updated much lately, just been plugging away in the background while being busy. 19th May 2052, remember the day. The youth products of Fc United of Manchester won the premier league on the final day for the first time in history, beyond proud of achievements, and for sticking to this challenge. I never thought a challenge of not signing a single player would be so fun, but I have never had so much fun as this game! It was a really fun battle with Watford who dominated the first half of the season, but we were relentless in the second half.
  9. remove all your scouts and staff that arent needed, and remove your scouting budgets to zero. and release all the players that you dont use or need. Suprised how much you can save by keeping it very tight for a few years. i also used some pre season friendly tournaments against bigger u21 teams, allowed me to get a bit of cash each season to tie me over for the season.
  10. Wow, the great escape is well and truly on, we are back in the mix! After 22 games we had 9 points, Huddersfield in 17th had 23! I switched from the 532 that had stopped our rot, but then turned into a dreadful way of playing we couldn't do a thing, to a 4231 positive. and we have managed to win 4 in a row. We are back in there!
  11. England is incredibly hard, but the most rewarding IMO. Good luck it will be a long old marathon but worth it.
  12. Still going horrifically here guys, if I manage to pull this one off i think I deserve a special trophy! I switched to a 5-3-2, which seems to have helped us slightly. In the fact we are conceding slightly less, and are countering quite well. The last two games i have been unlucky. Been in the lead and had a man sent off, to lose both times. was also 2-0 up against newcastle away, at HT, another red card. I ended up losing 6-2 If this was the season before, the 3 teams above me would have been on 12-15 points because they were very poor.
  13. Incredible, does it get easier over time or harder? I am solely relying now on producing enough good players to be able to push in the premier league but there is not much else I can do. Feel like i will be relegated this season and then struggle to come back up the next season. and repeat! I guess there will be a time where everything just clicks into place like yourself. How unlucky to lose the playoff after that. I have always felt the champions league easier to win than the premier league. Too much money and too many good teams!
  14. Think second season in the Premier League will be our last one, not sure i am going to get myself out of this one already starting to get cut adrift! the bad teams have been relegated the season before and I think this time there isn't 3 worse teams! Last year I had only won 2 games from the first 19 but I was still just outside the bottom 3 with how bad the other 3 were! this time Norwich have come up and they have a tycoon,. The rest are all premier league teams that seem to Yo-Yo.
  15. I am not good at tactical switches either, I also wanted to create a 523/532, however no matter how I set up or what i do. just get beat either way.
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