Jamie Cortez

End of Season 1 A great first season leading to a 3rd placed finish, qualifying for the Champions League and winning the Copa Del Ray!!!. Budgets remain tight and we will have to sell further established and aging stars to continue funding squad purchases. Top Goal scorer Iglesias ended up the top goal scorer with an impressive 27 goal haul a great season for him, but he is now 31 and looking for a bumper new contract, having signed Marcos Leonardo in January he is someone i will be trying to move on while he retains some value. Potential Transfers out Iglesias - Current Value £35M Fekir - Current Value £33-36M (long term injury again and disappointing season mixed with being a real rebel in the dressing room when his mates don't play) Carvalho - Current Value £16-19.5M ( Not happy he plays as a rotation option and aging) Cruz - Current Valuation £2M ( never played and overall lacks quality) Henrique - Current Valuation £38M ( bench option, didn't inspire with performances) New Season Budget

That is kind of my point, the game can be as long and in depth as you like, it also has options to speed the whole process up. How it is played depends on you. The player and that is ok!

I have posted an update on my Betis save for January - In short an exceptional first half of the season currently sitting in 2nd for Laliga and after a rough start qualified top of my Europa League group. Lets hope the youth i have signed can keep this going.

End of January Transfer Window, current league position beyond all expectations and 2nd in LaLiga even netting a 3-1 win away at Real Madrid, Europa League was a wild ride, we lost the opening 2 games of our "easy" group drawing the third, with elimination on the cards we somehow turned this around winning the following 3 games to qualify top of the group! January transfer window was busy with numerous outgoings and young promising players coming in, as the start of the thread these are players that will be sold for profit in a year or two to continue funding the club. Notable signings Roony Bardghji Alvaro Fidalgo Ezequiel Fernandez Eric Martel

I am indeed playing the EPL a network game with my son so we are reloading the game each match weekend due to the processing bug that locks the game up if you are playing on different times/dates (as you can tell from the save count) So 2 of us doing our own things at our own pace and in 13 hours we are about to start season 2, we both play matches on Key Highlights with match speed about 2 notches up from normal.... so 8 hours for a solo player is perfectly reasonable to complete a season.

I guess it is the Sim part of this Simulation game that has grown. Although 8+ hours to not get through pre season and first transfer window? That's either a mighty exaggeration or i am wondering what you are doing to achieve this, 8 hours play time should be most of a season.

I decided Real Betis deserved their own thread ( not sure they have ever had one!) i will still come back to update here but will post larger updates in the Team thread.

Now the intro part is done...onwards to my adventure. I did indeed divert some of the transfer budget into wages, pretty stuck for options otherwise i am almost certain there will be limited further signings playing on "Real World" i managed to snag Martin Vitik for £1M upfront and 5M over instalments he will replace Felipe in defence but he looks to be an absolute beast that in the long run will sell for profit, i also picked up the venerable David De Gea who starts on a free transfer, his wages are acceptable and he will be a first choice keeper given Claudio Bravo's age. Transfers out i was hoping to sell Guido Rodriguez, the squads remaining prize asset has 12 months left on his contract, with no interest in renewing so better to cash in now than lose him on a free, Brighton came in with a £40M which i accepted as a pretty good deal and i started to consider how i would spend that cash...only for Rodriguez to snub Brighton entirely, Transfer window now shut he simply has to leave in January probably for less than £40M . Long term i also plan to sell Nabil Fekir, he begins the game injured and is on an obscene £105kpw for a club with a budget of £860k that simply can not continue he is also 30 so once fit the time is right to explore his exit to free up the wage budget. My chosen formation is a 343 and my supposed "Best XI" Iglesias scored 8 in 8 which relegates Fekir now back from injury to the IF role. Eight games into the season and i am currently in 4th place with a notable 0-0 draw against Barcelona. I will come back to update once the next Transfer window is done in January.

Squad There are some notable pre game transfers out that will be a loss to the team in terms of quality, notably Luiz Felipe the standout CB of the squad departs for a rather miserly £21.5M, Raul Garcia a young forward with good potential for £6.5M and although aging Sergio Canales heads out for £12.75. The transfer budget and wages are tight, so tight that you may want to adjust your budget and divert some of your transfer budget to wages, you won't be able to afford contracts otherwise, the youth team is largely bereft of any upcoming talent Assane Diao is the only prospect he has good Physical attributes but his mental and physicals are lacking, you can certainly find 18yr olds with much better stats. Overall the squad can best be described as average, it is in dire need of an injection of quality and the only means to achieve this is to look at shipping out your current assets to reinvest the proceeds into young hungry and most importantly profitable talent as year on year you are likely to need to sell assets to rebuild this team and lead the team to the ultimate conquest of LaLiga and Champions League football.

I don't know if there has ever been a dedicated Real Betis journey thread on these forums....So i thought i would make one! That other local team shouldn't be the only one in the spotlight. Stadium: Benito Villamarin City: Sevilla Capacity: 60,720 Training Facilities: Great Youth Facilities: Great Finances: Secure Transfer Budget: £2.5M Media Prediction: 8th Objectives: Work within wage budget (£864,284) Reach at least the knockout stages of the Europa League Qualify for the Europa League Reach the latter stages of the Copa del Rey Notable Transfers Ez Abade, Sergi Altimira, Isco, Chadi Riad, Marc Bartra, Hector Bellerin,

For sure apart from the big 3 the money just isn’t there in Spain, will most certainly selling the current good players to fund the young potentials that will go on to form the base of future bank balance. there’s just no other option. the Brighton move fell through tho, Rodriguez has to go in January otherwise could lose him on a free which would be a huge blow.

Started my Betis save using real world so no "cheating". Finances as expected - Not great, i have brought in De Gea on Free Transfer, seems like a no brainer alot younger than Claudio Bravo, also managed to just about sign Martin Vitik a CB with alot of potential and future profit for 1M upfront 5M in addons. On paper the best XI is proper average to poor, this will be a tough save i think, squad needs a major quality injection on a budget. i am attempting to ship Guido Rodriguez out as he is in his final 12 months and won't renew - Brighton offering 40M so taking it for a rebuild, if Fekir wasn't long term injury he would be gone also as his wages are obscene for this club.

I plan to start my annual Real Betis save again this year at some point!

There are several threads on this, known issue with 2 or more managers. Interim but annoying work around is to set auto save to daily, you'll need to reload the online game each time it gets stuck but you can then move forward.

It will keep happening until the game receives an update with a fix, not likely to happen outside the working week , best option is to set auto save to daily or play only with a single manager until it's fixed