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When setting up Cumbria in the editor, I have ensured we are the lowest ranked nation in the world to make this as challenging as possible; I have changed the nationality of everyone who was born in a Cumbrian town or city, from English to Cumbrian; with the exceptions of Scott Carson and Dean Henderson and Rob Edwards who have all represented England at senior level. That leaves a talent pool of 91 players on day one. (Not including generated players) There are a couple of EPL players in the National team, Everton's Jarrad Branthwaite and Burnley's James Trafford are both young and the national team could be built around them for years to come. Rangers's Ben Davies will also important. There won't be any competative fixtures for the first year as we are mid cycle with Euro 2024, this will be Kazakhstan's last outing in a UEFA competition, afterwards they will move to Asian competitions and we will begin World Cup 2026 qualifying in the UEFA place they have vacated, and later Euro 2028 and so on. OK, so that's the Cumbrian national team, now let's have a look at the domestic system; Cumbrian Premier League The top tier of Cumbrian football comprises of sixteen teams who play each other home and away. The winner is crowned champions and will have the honor of being the first club to represent Cumbria in the UEFA Champions League next season, entering in the first qualifying round of Europe's elite club competition. Second and possibly third (depending on th Cumbrian cup winner) will embark on an adventure in the UEFA Conference League, also in the first qualifying round. The bottom two clubs are relegated to the first division below, the team in 14th faces a play-off against the side finishing third in the First division. Reputation-wise, the league is ranked 180th in Europe; alongside the Welsh second division and English seventh tier. My job will be to help raise the profile of the league to make it more attractive to top players and indeed sponsors so clubs can afford to upgrade their facilities and produce high quality academy players to supply the national team with talent. Prize money is modest for realisim, as is TV money, over time they will increase as the league's profile increases. The biggest obsticle I foresee is Carlisle and Barrow completely dominating, I'm sure they will do for at least the first few years, but hopefully the smaller clubs can gradually improve and eventually challenge the two big boys, I'd prefer not to have an Old Firm type dominance where nobody else can win for decades at a time. Cumbrian First Division The promotion tier has eighteen teams vying to reach the top table, the top two go up whereas third place can gain promotion if they can overcome the 14th place Premier League side. All the clubs down here are amatuer, There isn't much to chose between them in terms of stature so hopefully that meens they will all get a chance to play in the Premier League over the next decade or so. Cumbrian Cup The national cup is contested in a single leg knockout tournement by the 34 clubs, the winner earns a place in next season's UEFA Conference league. If the winner is the same as the club finishing first or second in the Premier League, the team finishing third in the League takes the Conference League berth. Supporters Shield A super cup type game between the Premier League champions and the Cumbrian cup winners. (Or League runners up if they are the same) Visit Cumbria Cup A cup competition for the clubs in the First Division, to give them a chance of some silverware.

Hi all; after my sacking in my Sutton Coldfield save I decided to try something a little different. After much fiddling in the editor I have helped my home county, Cumbria to declare independence and secede from England. At around 2,613 square miles, Cumbria is the third largest English County in terms of area behind Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and is in fact larger than a number of the European countries that we will be facing in our quest to become a footballing powerhouse. Dispite it's size, it actually one of the least populated counties with around 498,000 people calling it home which could be an obsticle as I look to develop the nation's football pedigree. Bordered to the North by Scotland, the Irish sea to the west and by England to the East and South, Cumbria becomes the fifth nation to make up the United Kingdom. Cumbria's location within the British Isles. Best known for the beautiful Lake district which is almost entirely within the new country's borders, as well as historic castles, sandy beaches and vibrant towns; Cumbria attracts around 47 million tourists a year which is a huge contributor to the areas economy. In the next post I will begin outlining how I have set up the proud nation of Cumbria in the editor and take you through the league set-up. Keep reading and get involved!

I pay little attention to it other than to get an idea of my first starting XI when I first take over a club whose players I don't know. I've had many who have poor ratings who are consistantly brilliant for me. Once I've been at a club a while and know my squad I don't pay attention to the ratings anymore.

I'm going to give this a go, playing as Matlock. I have many happy memories of trips to Matlock and Matlock Bath, so come on the Gladiators!

I'm quite tempted to try this, I did got quite deep into it years back on the Sortitoutsi forum. One question though, is it really necessery to win both the Cymru North & South and the National League North/South seperatley? as they are the same level. Seems like one of each should be enough.

Good luck, nice to see a save in a league that doesn't get posted about alot on here.

Good idea, but I'm surprised that if your a Saddlers fan your not playing as Pelsall Used to go Walsall games quite a bit with a mate who supported them, when they had Jimmy Walker, Daz Byfield, Jon Macken and Emmanuel Ledesma under Dean Smith. Got quite a soft spot for them. Good start to your season though, keep it going!

Interesting save idea, I played in Bolivia with Club Aurora for a few seasons, but I did find the file I was using to make Bolivia playable was inaccurate and lead to some very funny scheduling such as no Apatura or Clausura, sometimes not having games for a month at a time, having no awards and incomplete trophy histories. all of these combined kind of spoiled the experience for me. But hopefully you have found some better editor data. Good luck with a momentous challenge!

Good luck, always interesting to see regional stuff like this, especially as it's not that far from where I grew up (Sutton Coldfield)

2024/25 preview I've been ringing the changes at Goodison Park as I try to turn the Toffees from relegation battlers into a European competitor in a single season. Objective The board want to finish in the top half of the table, given the amount of money I've spent this summer that should be the absolute minimum, personaly I'm aiming for at least a spot in the Conference League, perhaps even it's two more established counterpart competitions. Winning one of the cups following our poor showing at Wembley last season would also be great. Transfers Out (£148.5 - 165.7M) Yousef Cherminti - Nottingham Forest - £7M (£8M) - Decent prospect but he didn't feature much last season and wasn't really in my plans so it seemed right to let him go to Forest Eli Campbell - Sheffield United £1.5M - Wasn't in my plans so happy to take the money Ben Godfrey - Al Nassr - £20M - I was disapointed to lose Ben who I rated highly but he had his mind made up about going to Saudi so I had to accept their offer. Dwight McNeil - Al Nassr - £34M (£37.5M) - Very hot and cold player, sometimes brilliant and then anonymous. Nearly £40M seemed a more than fair price for him Abdoulaye Doucore - Real Socredad - £9.5M - Good player but with better options coming in I let him go as i don't want unhappy players who arn't playing reguarly. Billy Crellin - Wolves - £300k - back up who hasn't played a minute for me, wolves can have him. Charlie Whittaker - Blackpool - £155k - Same as above Vitaly Mikolenko - Al Ittihad - £25M - Was on loan at Milan last season and wanted to leave for a bigger club. not sure how Al-Ittihad are a bigger club than Everton but hey ho. Idrissa Guye - Real Socriedad - £1.7M - A tough tackling midfielder, but he is nearly 35 now and it seemed prudent to cash in on him why we still can. Jordan Pickford - Arsenal - £48.5M (£59M) - Won player of the tournament at Euro 2024, I really didn't want to sell Jordan but when Arsenal's intrest became known he handed in a request and I didn't want to hold him against his will. £60M seems a good price at least. Jao Virginia - Released - Never going to forgive him for his abysmal performance in the FA cup final. He's returned to his native Portugal with Casa Pia. Ashley Young - Released - I wanted to keep Ashley as a player-coach as he was still a useful back-up, however he wasn't prepared to accept that role so I let him go. Currently unattached. Dele Ali - Released - Never kicked a ball last season due to his hip problem. I wasn't prepared to chance a new contract with his injury history. Now at Rotherham in the Championship. Andre Gomes - Released - Now with Alaves in the Spanish second division. Tidy player but I didn't see him getting too many starts this season so I let him go. Transfers In - £138M Daiya Maekawa - Top goalkeeper who I signed from Japanese J-League side Kobe for a very modest fee of £2.5m Neco Williams - Replaces the outgoing Ben Godfrey at right-back. Neco cost me £19.5M from Forest. Marc Guehi - Part of a triple raid on relegated Palace this summer. Marc is the ball playing defender I want in the heart of my defense alongside James Tarkowski. He set me back £27m Mo Camara - Experienced ball winner who joins us for £10m from Monaco Emile Smith-Rowe - Could be a massive for us, he was listed by request at Arsenal after only getting seven starts last season. For £23M he could be an amazing signing for us if he can reach his massive potential. Ebere Eze - Second Crystal Palace signing; Explosive midfielder who is a nightmare for opposition to deal with when on form, him and ESR could be a real creative force together. £19M Anthony - My replacement for Dwight McNeill; Anthony is a potential world beater on the wing even if it hasn't worked out at Old Trafford, he is initially on loan from Man United but I have the option to buy for £40M. we will see how it goes. Samuel Iling - Signed for £23M from Juventus, an exciting winger who will be hoping the move to England will get him an international call up. Lorenzo Luca - Italian target man signed from Pisa for £9.25M, he spent last season on loan at Udinese where he scored 18 goals in Serie A. Sam Johnstone - Rotation keeper, signed from Palace for £4.5M when Pickford left for Arsenal. He will be my cup goalkeeper and Maekawa my first choice in the Premiership, at least to start with. I'm very happy with my squad now, it is massively improved on last season and should be able to play some exciting attacking football rather than the Tony Pulis Stoke-esc route-one tactics I used last season to keep us up. I'm working on training 4-2-3-1 during pre-season. I now have two quality options in all positions as well as a decent youth prospect who can step up when injuries and suspensions occur; Perhaps you'll disagree, but to my mind, that is a top 6-7 squad. Time will tell if I'm right. Come on you toffees!

My first season at Everton came to a bitter-sweet end; We stayed up comfortably, finishing in 14th place which pleased the new owners. We also reached the Toffee's first FA Cup final in 14 years as we overcame Wigan in the semi final, however we took a battering in the final against City to end the season on a bit of a sour note. Ihenacho was cup tied, so I started with youngster Lewis Dobbin up front as he has scored in every round we've played, unfortunatly he limped off after just two minutes so I had to put on Yousef Cherminti who has not played much since my arrival. Malacia also had to come off at 2-0 down and when I decided to throw on an extra midfielder to stem the flow, that was all my substitutions used before half time. We did briefly show some fight and scored a couple, but we completely ran out of steam and City destroyed us in the second half. It's never nice to lose a final but to get annihilated like this was tough. Still, look forwards; the new owners are making the best part of £200M available to me in the summer so expect a full squad rebuild as I try to reverse years of steady decline at Goodison park, in the final season at Goodision! We will move to the new Bramley-Moor Dock stadium at the end of the season, marking the end of over 130 years at the ground. A real transitional season ahead!

Decided to have a go at this, after holidaying until November 6th, Everton occupied 19th place in the table. So, can I help the Toffee's out of a sticky situation? or will the pressure chew me up? (sorry) I found it hard going at first, it took ten games for us to pick up a win (although it was very hard run of fixtures), thankfully though it looks as if we have turned a corner and are steadily climbing. Beating Liverpool in the Merseyside derby is the highlight so far, reaching the FA Cup quarter finals is a close second, where we will face Wigan for a place in the Wembley semi-finals. January I sold Dominic Calvert-Lewin to Al-Ittihad for £48M, which frankly I snapped their hands off for. Vitaly Mykolenko has also moved to AC Milan on loan with a mandatory purchase for £24M next summer. We also said goodbye to Seamus Coleman who retired following a serious recurring injury. I wanted to keep him at the club and have made him a coach with the under-18's. I've reinvested that money to bring in four players who will hopefully get us playing in the way I want in time; Kelechi Iheanacho - Just the two goals for the Nigerian so far, although he seems to put the ball in the net in most games, just for VAR to rule it out. I reckon he will thrive with a decent partner up front which will be a priority in the summer. Jaeo Rego - Hot prospect winger, signed from Benfica for £7.25M with future fees. He doesn't speak much English yet which has perhaps held him back, but he is a dynamic player who fullbacks hate playing against with his skillfull dribbling. Todd Cantwell - I had hoped to transition to 4-2-3-1, and picked Todd as my man to play attacking midfielder behind Iheanacho, paying £6.75M to Rangers for him. However he tore an abdominal muscle in his first training session which ruled him out for three months, so he still hasn't kicked a ball for us yet. Tyrell Malacia - Deadline day signing from Man United for £6.75M (Half of what United paid for him just last year) to replace the outgoing Mykolenko. He's been solid so far and can still develop plenty in the coming years. So, doing ok at the moment, we've climbed out of the relegation zone a developed a six point cushion I'm aiming to finish 11th or higher as that's what Sir Alex achieved in his first season with United. A trip to Wembley in the cup (preferably two trips!) would also be fantastic. Things could get very interesting next season; Some lovely oil money would certainlly make my attempt to outshine Fergie a lot easier!

January 2026 My first month in Avallanda has been a period of great transition. As I mentioned in the previous post, there was over 70 players across the three squads here, I have been trying to reduce that down by cashing in on some of the fringe players and youngsters I don't think will make it at our level £5M generated from player sales so far, which I have reinvested in bringing in a couple of my trusted favorites from Aurora; Willian Alvarez - Undoubtedly my star player at Aurora, he scored 51 goals in 58 games since I signed him in 2024. Can he continue his lethal form in Argentina? For a fee of just £325k he is definitely worth a punt. Joel De Marco - Reliable midfielder who made over 100 appearances for me over three years in Bolivia when I signed him on free from Aldevosi. He returns to Argentina for £325k. I feel slightly guilty for not waiting a couple of weeks to sign him as he was only 17 days away from gaining Bolivian citizenship and possibly becoming an international footballer. Tomas Silva - Very determined leftback who cost me £2.6M from rivals San Lorenzo. Manuel Monaco - The new club record signing, Manuel cost us £5M from newly promoted Sarmiento Junin, who he helped to win the second division last season. Manuel will play the #10 role behind Alvarez in my 4-2-3-1 tactic. That high determination is the first attribute I look for in a player, combine that with his considerable skills and I think we are on to a winner. OK, onto the results; Pre-season was a very worrying time, I wasn't exactly welcomed warmly by fans or players, they were dubious of my appointment as I have only managed in lowly Bolivia previously. I didn't help ease the players unrest when I started making big changes to the playing squad and upsetting a couple of them by offering out their friends. Performances in the warm up friendlies reflected the lack of harmony as we failed to win any of the three games. Thankfully they seem to have set their issues aside now that Liga Profesional has kicked off as we picked up wins in both of our opening two matches. Manuel Monaco has been superb so far, scoring in both games, as has my boy Alvarez who looks as if he will handle the step up in quality just fine. League Table - It's a long season here in Argentina, Liga Profesional has 28 clubs in it, if I understand the rules correctly, we all play each other once, before the league splits in two and each half plays each other again, the top 14 group then commences in an eight team play-off for the the title. (Can anyone confirm this is correct?)

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen as we embark on the second chapter of our epic tale, chronicling the glorious career of our boy Juan. After three successful years learning his trade and building a reputation as fine tactician and supporter of attractive flowing football, Juan has earned a move to one of South America's biggest teams, eighteen time Argentinian champions and 1967 Copa Libertadores winners; Racing Club. During the 1,600 mile drive from Cocochamba, high in the Bolivian Andes, to the bustling metropolis of Buenos Aries, Juan has time to consider his goals in life and reflect on what he has already checked off of his bucket list ; Achieved / To-Do Qualify for Copa Libertadores with Aurora Win Primera Division with Aurora Be the first Bolivian club to win Copa Libertadores Manage Bolivia Qualify for World Cup with Bolivia for the first time since USA 94 Win Bolivia's first Copa America since 1963 Manage Boca Juniors (My favorite South American club) Move to a big European club Win UEFA Champions League Cement my place in football history by being inducted into Worldwide hall of fame The outstanding goals involving my native Bolivia will have to be put on ice for now, for now I need to concentrate me efforts on building Racing Club into a serious contender for the top honors in South America! Perhaps once I've achieved my other goals I can return to Bolivia for a final hurrah before winding my career down, but that's a long way off yet! So, who are Racing? Full Name: Racing Club de Avellanda Nickname: El Primer Grande (The First Great) Founded: 1903 Division: Primera Division Stadium: El Presidente Peron (41,000 capacity) Fierce Rivals: Independiente, Boca Juniors, River Plate, San Lorenzo Last Season: 17th Continental competition: N/A Racing and Independiente are less than 300 yards apart, together they contest the Avellanda derby. My first job will be to start assessing the squad, across U20's, reserves and first team there are almost 70 players which for me is far too many. I prefer a small squad filled with versatile players who can play multiple positions, my aim is to cut the squad down to two good players and youth prospect for each position.