MattSpurs94 Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 So, I'm currently playing as a really lazy player. Games speed full, commentary only. Champion's League Semifinal against Real Madrid, I get the game going and head over to Youtube. Safe to say, I didn't expect to see this at half time: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattSpurs94 Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Sorry for this double post, the forum starting playing up and made it double post :o Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbowmanuk Posted March 4, 2012 Author Share Posted March 4, 2012 ShyBBaldBuddhist - Good first season there, a bit of a shame with the Champions League but I'm sure you'll win it next year MattSpurs94 - Great 1st half against Madrid, what was the final score? I'm going to look at the Clubs with the best youth academy, recruitment and coaching and put it in the opening post. I think there are a couple of South American clubs with great facilities that could be used. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattSpurs94 Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 5-0 lost the second leg 1-0, but progressed , and we will face Man U Lost the league on the last day of the season to Udinese Lost the TIM Cup in the final to Napoli Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbowmanuk Posted March 4, 2012 Author Share Posted March 4, 2012 5-0 lost the second leg 1-0, but progressed , and we will face Man ULost the league on the last day of the season to Udinese Lost the TIM Cup in the final to Napoli Hopefully Man Utd don't make it 3 in a row, win that game and then it s onto focussing on Sao Tome once the job becomes available Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbowmanuk Posted March 4, 2012 Author Share Posted March 4, 2012 I've now added the clubs with high youth facilities into the opening post to help any new comers pick a club if they are undecided where to go Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattSpurs94 Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Inter Milan/Sao Tome - 2012/13 A disappointing end to a promising season ended in success as we reclaimed the Champions League title with a 4-3 penalty win over Man Utd. How we didn't win the league can be best explained by the schedule for the last 3 games of the season. All 3 in a 6 DAY period. I was not happy. The players we probably too downbeat for the Cup final, so we lost that too. Oh well, part of the challenge is now complete, so I just need that job to come open. Until more players start coming in, I can't see that happening for a while. League TIM Cup Champions League On the Sao Tome front, they have played one friendly this year, beating Reunion 3-0. The have friendlies against Chad and Senegal coming up, hopefully a chance for de Castro to earn his first cap. ----------------------------------------------- | Season | Position | Achievements | |===============================================| | 2011/12 | 1st | Serie A Winners | |-----------------------------------------------| | 2012/13 | 2nd | Champions League Winners | Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbowmanuk Posted March 4, 2012 Author Share Posted March 4, 2012 Good win there MattSpurs94, hopefully the Sao Tome job becomes available soon as you don't want Italy stealing any potential stars away from the National team Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattSpurs94 Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 It may be a long wait, because I am still unsure as to whether I will ever be able to take the jib. When I started, I made an extra manager, just to see if I could manage them, but I couldn't. I think it has something to do with the amount of players in the database. not enough to make a proper team from, so it won't let me manage them. Hopefully in the future, that should be fixed, but it'll be something I'll keep my eye on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbowmanuk Posted March 4, 2012 Author Share Posted March 4, 2012 It may be a long wait, because I am still unsure as to whether I will ever be able to take the jib. When I started, I made an extra manager, just to see if I could manage them, but I couldn't. I think it has something to do with the amount of players in the database. not enough to make a proper team from, so it won't let me manage them. Hopefully in the future, that should be fixed, but it'll be something I'll keep my eye on. Yeah just make sure you sign everyone that comes through the youth system as it will stop them from retiring, Edit: I've just noticed the same thing with Curacao, you could pick them at the start of the game on mine but now you cant some must've retired and reduced the numbers, there is only about 70 players in the search now. I might have to add a league to increase players in the database and hope they come back Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 So the Youth has come through: Rated from worst to best: Miguel de Jesus Carvalho Vong Nicles Marcal Pereira Sousa da Silva Felicio Margarido da Silva - "Possibly one of the best players of his generation" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocheBag Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Started this with Bayern Munich, didn't get anyone from my Nationality in the first pull... I guess their youth recruitment isn't good enough either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattSpurs94 Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Tony Hawker - Those names are stupidly long Felicio looks like he could be a top player, shame he'll probably pick Spain, unless you can get the East Timor job soon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShyBaldBuddhist Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 They're awesome names Agree that Felicio looks a good prospect. Get Pique or Puyol to tutor him and his attributes should shoot up. In two minds about restarting and using Minsk or just play the games on autopilot with Barca until I can get the Montserrat job. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 My first Sri Lankan Youth Player Mohamed Jiffry Mohamed Anees Profile - Mohamed Jiffry Mohamed Anees Coach Report Pretty good but would of preferred 2/3 like some of you guys are getting .. I also have my first trophy, after the dissapointment of losing in the Community Shield Manchester United beat Fulham 3-2 in the League Cup Final. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattSpurs94 Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 I assume he is also part English? Let's hope he doesn't get picked off too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 I assume he is also part English? Let's hope he doesn't get picked off too Yeah he is .. I think i really need to get on his favoured personal list and get the Sri Lanka job quick sharp ... If that helps him make up his mind!? Anyone know? I dont want to jinx things but i have a real good shout at a (League Cup, League + Champions League) Treble here .. Just knocked out of the FA Cup on penalties to Liverpool we cant score pens Rooney misses again! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbowmanuk Posted March 4, 2012 Author Share Posted March 4, 2012 Tony Hawker - a couple of nice regens there hopefully they stay East Timorese and don't adopt their native land Brettney1980 - Thats a nice looking Sri Lankan, hopefully he can be persuaded to stay that way MattSpurs94 - A possible solution to the amount of players for Sao Tome could be resolved by adding the Portuguese League, I may have to add the Dutch league to increase my Curacaoans RocheBag - Good luck in Germany, What nationality did you make your manager? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattSpurs94 Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Just added them, they come into effect next season Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 2011/12 - Barcelona/ East Timor Squad Liga BBVA - Winners - 92 points European Champions Cup - Winners - Barcelona 4 - 1 Real Madrid Spanish Cup - Semi-Finals - Barcelona 2 -2a Athletic Bilbao A great season, with some massive wins over Real Madrid, 4-2, 6-1 & 4-1. Shame that we lost in the Spanish Cup though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Bretney's Manchester United Sri Lankan Adventure: Season 2011/12! A great season in terms of silverware as we won the treble, ok it was a very good Man Utd squad to begin with and i didn't have too do much ... Never even signed anyone for the first team just a bunch of youngsters with potential. Premiership Table|Champions League/Final|League Cup Transfers In Sri Lanka news the nation has now gone 9 games without a win so hopefully that means the Sri Lankan FA will soon sack Marcus Ferreira. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biscotti Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 OK, as a little distraction from the endless typing involved in my experiment, I thought I'd give this a go. Please welcome Liechtensteiner manager Hannibal Gerber, newly installed manager of Olympic Lyonnais Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbowmanuk Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 OK, as a little distraction from the endless typing involved in my experiment, I thought I'd give this a go.Please welcome Liechtensteiner manager Hannibal Gerber, newly installed manager of Olympic Lyonnais Welcome aboard Biscotti, you must be the 2nd highest all time Liechtenstein goalscorer with 7 goals Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbowmanuk Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 brettney1980 - well done on winning the treble hopefully you'll not have too long to wait for the Sri Lankan job Tony Hawker - Great season there with Barcelona, a shame about the cup defeat though. just need to wait on the East Timor job opening up now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biscotti Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 A quick lookup on Wikipedia would confirm that I am indeed the second highest goalscorer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbowmanuk Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 A quick lookup on Wikipedia would confirm that I am indeed the second highest goalscorer Must be Mario Frick above you then Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbowmanuk Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 MattSpurs94 - I've gone through the official database and there is only 13 Sao Tomans, so you may have to go a few years to try and build up enough to manage them unless plenty of Portuguese regens come through with a second nationality I've added players in database to opening post countries Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattSpurs94 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Oh joy, trust me to pick the hardest nation in Africa to attempt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbowmanuk Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 Real Madrid/Curacao - Youth Intake - 2012/13 Two more youngsters through the ranks both are DC's one looks really promising the other not so much Youth Intake Steward Bonevacia Javier Jamanika Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShyBaldBuddhist Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Bonevacia looks very good. Hope spain don't snap him up Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShyBaldBuddhist Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Intake just come through at Barca and got lucky with another 4 players. Done a player search and without my youth players there are only 7 listed. Could take a while before the national job becomes a possibility. Youth Intake Bell Jeffries Rothwell Woodward Bell looks like he has a bit of promise. Thats 10 Montserratians at the club now. 8 through the youth system, 1 signed from WBA and 1 grey that appeared in my U-19 squad due to lack of players. As he was there I thought I may as well give him a contract. Think I may have to add the English leagues to try and get a few more through. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS_8 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 So now playing the Challenge correctly here is my profile. Instead of Twente winning the League and myself winning the cup, we decided to swap. Also had my first Andorran through. Sorry for the big screenshots, it has been ages since I've used any forum. (I couldn't find 'the globe' Jim.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbowmanuk Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 (I couldn't find 'the globe' Jim.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShyBaldBuddhist Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 2012-2013 Season Review Squad - League - Champions League - Cup Deja vu season. Won the league and messed up at semi final stage of Champions League again. Held a 2 goal lead after the 1st leg and was too complacent in the return. Sent out a few reserves and came a cropper losing 3-0 to CSKA. Was definitely a winnable competition this year. I have had no trouble beating Athletic all season so fancied my chances against them. Still we won the double again so at least we have a few trophies. Spent a lot of the season on holiday and just played important matches. Going to concentrate for the next few seasons to make some key signings and get that CL trophy back to Camp Nou. In Montserrat news they are currently ranked 203rd in the world. Climbed as high as 196 at one stage but have started to drop again. Still no call up for any of my youngsters which is a suprise. Going to try and give a bit of playing time to Bell and Ince this year to see if we can get them a call up. Have my seasoned pros tutoring the better ones so hopefully they will be ready for first team football soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS_8 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Thanks Jim, I don't have those Icons for some reason!? It isn't totally important, buzzing for my new season though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbowmanuk Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 Thanks Jim, I don't have those Icons for some reason!? It isn't totally important, buzzing for my new season though. If you click the go advanced button when posting they will pop up, good luck in your new season Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
18Rabbit Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Illustrious Finnish Footballer, Fnord Fjord has been asked to head Inter this season. Not sure how much time I'll have for this challenge, but it looks fun. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbowmanuk Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 Illustrious Finnish Footballer, Fnord Fjord has been asked to head Inter this season. Not sure how much time I'll have for this challenge, but it looks fun. Cracking name there, will that be the new arrivals middle names? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShyBaldBuddhist Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Oi Spain. Hands off Bell, he's Montserratian through and through. Hopefully he gets a call up soon. Could cause a rift if I keep pulling him out of call ups to the Spain squad Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
18Rabbit Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Cracking name there, will that be the new arrivals middle names?We can only hope. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biscotti Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Oi Spain. Hands off Bell, he's Montserratian through and through. Hopefully he gets a call up soon. Could cause a rift if I keep pulling him out of call ups to the Spain squad You do know that players can be capped at youth level for one country and still opt to play for a different eligible nation at full international level, right? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShyBaldBuddhist Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Yeah but don't want them turning his head Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biscotti Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Yeah but don't want them turning his head Don't be silly, who would want to play for Spain when the might of Montserrat might come calling? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbowmanuk Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 Real Madrid/Curacao - 2012/13 - End of Seaon Report Real Madrid could only manage a 2nd place in the league again this year, a couple of bad results early on and in any other league in the world we would've recovered but Barcelona were far too strong, We drew with them in November and that was the only points they dropped in the league between the start of the season and 24th February. We got revenge on them in the Champions league however. Beating them 3-0 at home before losing 3-1 at the Nou Camp to put us into the semi's 4-3, we beat Bayern Munich 3-2 on aggregate to set up a meeting with Arsenal in the Final. We dominated the match but found ourselves 1-0 down before giving away a penalty and any hope of the trophy. The Spanish Cup proved to be our only success for the season, never really troubled on route to the final, where we met Barcelona. Having beaten them 4-0 at home 2 weeks earlier the team were confident but I was more cautious, I had no reason to be as we won comfortably 3-0. League Table Spanish Cup Champions League Curacao reached the final of the Caribbean Cup but were beaten by Jamaica, after loading the Dutch leagues the amount of players haven't increased so I'll give it one more season and if the job is still not possible I will start again with a team that has more players in the database Season | League | Cup | Europe ------------------------------------------------------- 2011/12 | 2nd | 1/4 Finals | CL 1/4 Finals ------------------------------------------------------- 2012/13 | 2nd | Winners | Runners-up Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattSpurs94 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 After doing some tests, it seems that loading the players of nationality using a continent can open up many of these nations for use. jimbowmanuk, when loading players of nationality North Africa, Curacao came up as manageable. I;m not sure whether all nations can be used, Sao Tome didn't come up when tried with Africa, but this does seem like a solution to the international management problem. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbowmanuk Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 After doing some tests, it seems that loading the players of nationality using a continent can open up many of these nations for use. jimbowmanuk, when loading players of nationality North Africa, Curacao came up as manageable. I;m not sure whether all nations can be used, Sao Tome didn't come up when tried with Africa, but this does seem like a solution to the international management problem. Originally I was going to do Eritrea but the national team didn't come up when I checked it at the start, so I checked the national teams when I started this save and Curacao were playable but some players must've retired and they disappeared, hopefully when i get round to the next youth intake the Dutch clubs will have a few and they reappear. But with that happening and with your situation thats why I decided to go through the editors database and see how many players were actually in there for every nation. besides I might have to restart soon as I think Madrid is losing patience with me not winning the league as that is what they are expecting each season Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattSpurs94 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I'm tempted to restart using the Cook Islands, personally Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbowmanuk Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 I have decided I don't like the uncertainty of known whether or not the Curacao job will be possible with the low amount of players in the database meaning it can not be applied for at present. So I'm restarting this challenge. Real Madrid have hired former Panama International Jim Bowman to lead them to glory. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShyBaldBuddhist Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Just run a quick test to see if worth carrying my save on with Montserrat. I have run my save on for 3 years to see how many players are coming through at other clubs. Only 15 players available for Montserrat in my database at the moment. Decided it was going to take way to long before the international job became available and will be starting this again with a more viable nation. So... Former Gambian international Simone Finke takes charge at Man City. Was undecided about whether to go with a big club or start at a lower club for more of a challenge. In the end I figured to go for the cash and the big club to try and get some decent players through straight away. Chose City as they have the players to fit into the formation I play. Chose Gambia simply because FM legend Cherno Samba is eligible. Going to be my first signing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShyBaldBuddhist Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 GL with the restart Jimbo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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