[FM19] French Lingerie - Acre State, Brazil

[Jimbokav1971]

"Squad Influence". Dec 2049.

Those of you who have been reading my threads for a few years now, (I'm sure there are some sadists out there), I'm sure you will remember that I was a BIG fan of tutoring in previous issues of the game, and those of you who have started reading more recently will be aware that I am not overly impressed with mentoring, (a lot of work for little end result), but inspired by many of the posters in here who play Youth Only saves in very small Nations, (and experienced problems with Determination of Newgens being brought down to low levels by the overall poor average rating of the squad. I also experienced this, but at the same time I wondered if this negative could be turned into a positive in that if the average rating of an attribute could be influenced downwards by a low overall squad rating in that attribute, then surely it stands to reason  that if the squad had a particularly high average rating in a certain attribute then the level could be influenced upwards rather than downwards. 

I quickly found that it was possible to do this with Determination, because of course Determination isn't hidden. Because it's not hidden you can make sure that you only sign players with good Det, get rid of players with bad Det, and watch the Det of Youth Intake players with low Det, rise as they spend more time with the squad. 

That's great with Det, because the Det attribute values of each player is visible. How do you do that with Pro or Amb for example? Neither are visible and I wouldn't want to get rid of a player just because he had low Pro or Amb would I? (Actually, I would because I'm a bit weird like that, but I appreciate that that's not really recommended behaviour).  

So how do I know about positive or negative Pro or Amb values? Simples.

So my thinking is that if I can manually "engineer" the Det values of the squad. the Pro levels in the squad are already high so the overall influence should already take effect. 

By the way, the fact that the overall "Squad Personality" is Professional doesn't mean that the average Pro levels are within the individual template for the individual Pro personality. Squad Personality templates seem to be diluted somewhat. 

This is the Pro Personality template and I think you would agree that it's unrealistic for the average Pro levels of our players to be 18-19.

So the reason for this post is as follows. 

Trevizol (Bal) * has been given the nickname (Bal) indicating that he had a Balanced personality. 

So although he was a (Bal) or Balanced personality, you can see that he is actually now a (F.Pro) or Fairly Pro personality, (and I will have to change his nickname). Now I know there has been no message about off-field events impacting his personality so it can only have been overall squad influence that has caused this. 

The slight problem here is that where as (Bal) used to have a very specific template of it's own, (and I believe it still does), the guy who has created the only real up to date personality guide for FM was unable to work out what it was. I think his mistake was not separating real players from newgens, because these actually had different templates previously. I spent a lot of time tracking Pro levels at the outset of this save and I know for 100% that a Balanced personality, in a newgen, has a maximum Pro level of 14. As soon as it ticks over to 15 then the player in question ceases to become a (Bal) personality and becomes a (F.Pro) personality. 

So if I have decided that I can't be bothered with Tutoring or Mentoring or whatever it's called now, (the transfer of PPM's is something that I have decided to ignore for the time being, how can I manually engineer the Pro levels of the squad seeing as Pro is a hidden attribute? 

Well for a start, I can start to look at players who have a "negative personality" and use this to influence my decision as to whether they should be kept on at the club.

Don't get me wrong, if they have high PA then I might choose to overlook this and decide that they are staying, so it's the not the only influencer, but it is a factor and it should be taken into consideration in exactly the same way as we would take into account injury susceptibility, determination, consistency, etc etc etc.

Unless the player had 5.0 PA, I would be unlikely to sign a Casual or Slack newgen coming through the intake. Temperamental not quite so bad, but I would certainly look at it more closely.

So how do I physically do this then? 

Well let's look at my squad and separate them into blocks of the same personality type. 

Fickle sounds bad doesn't it. If you use the word Fickle to describe someone in real life, then it certainly sin't a compliment. What is the real definition of the word Fickle? 

So I actually like Fickle as a personality and I don't think it's well named. The player is not very loyal, (which is a bad thing), and has high Ambition, (which can be both positive and a negative, but both the Det and Pro levels look good here so why the negative connotations? 

I've already waffled on for longer than I wanted to in this post so I'm not going to go through each and every personality type, but I will probably look to mention this again as and when individual personality decisions come up.

 

[Jimbokav1971]

End of Season Summary. Dec 2049.

Acre State Championship.

Copa Verde. 

Brazilian Cup. 

First Division.

Copa Libertadores. 

Overall Best XI.

Season Best XI.

Awards. 

Player of the Season. 

Goal of the Season. 

Signing of the Season. 

Young Player of the Season. (See above).

Stats. 

Top Goalscorer. 

Highest Average Rating. 

Most Assists. 

Best Pass Completion.

Most MOM Awards. (See above).

Most Yellow Cards. 

Most Red Cards.

Season Review.

Dynamics.

Confidence.

Finances. 

Facilities. 

Favoured Personnel. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Facilities. Dec 2049.

[Jimbokav1971]

Awards. Dec 2049.

[Jimbokav1971]

Dallazen back in on loan for another season? Dec 2049.

The bad news.....

The god news however is the very next message. 

Aviron Bayonnais cask their Manager. (No, I am not returning at this time). 

I still can't believe that they don't play at the Jimb O'Kav stadium. 

[Jimbokav1971]

How much? Dec 2049.

£325,000 is a nice tidy sum for a Fitness Coach. 

He's not even that good. 

[Jimbokav1971]

On 08/07/2019 at 10:54, Jimbokav1971 said:

Confusion. Jun 2049.

JBN (Bal) *. 25% of his re-sale value is owed to us and the board have done a deal to sell this clause for £453,000. This player is younger and I really didn't want to sell him. I think, (but don't know), that he will improve. He's valued at £1.9M right now and 25% of that is £475,000, so where as the board got a good deal based on the player valuation for Antonio, this deal is slightly short. The player again has about 18 months on his contract, but as mentioned he is much younger. He's also classed as a Key Player, (Antonio was classed as First Team), so any potential buyer would have to pay over the odds of his valuation to secure his services. This isn't looking like nearly so good a deal. I don't remember signing this player so I'm guessing he was signed by the DoF, which probably means that we owe someone else a % of whatever we get for him now. 

No actually. We still owe them 1 more instalment, but we don't owe them a % of any future sale value or profit made.

So while we were happy to flog the Antonio deal for some extra cash into the transfer kitty, I don't think this deal is anywhere near such a good deal. Don't get me wrong, if we were desperate for cash to buy a player then we could still choose to do it, (just remembering that we would only get 80% of the £453,000 rather than the full amount, no matter what the message says. 

If you had earmarked that £453,000 for a new player, you might not be very happy at all when you only had £362,400 added to your transfer kitty.

Although I'm not going to sell this clause, I don't want to forget about it either. There is nothing worse than seeing a message telling you that you had missed out the sell-on clause on a player after he has just been released on a free transfer. Especially when you know the board had a buy out clause negotiated. 

Now here is something I don't know. I am about to set a "note reminder" to make sure I sell this deal, but what I don't know is if the clubs re-negotiate the deal as it comes closer to the end of the players contract, (or as the player value significantly increases or decreases), so lets do that now. The player has 18 months on his contract so let's come back and see what the situation is after it gets down to under 12 months. I've also added a weekly reminder because it's easy to miss stuff like this when you use "continue game timeout". 

The other thing to say is that where as we only get 80% of the £453,000 if we sell the clause right now, if we had sold the clause a month ago we would have only got 65%. If we don't sell it for another 12 months then I would suggest that we might get 95% of even 100% of the fee made available to us. 

So anyway, that went off on a bit of a tangent. 

So today is 1st Jan 2050 so I have had the following message pop-up. 

So let's have a look at the clause now. 

Well I think that's interesting. The "cash-in" value of the clause has risen from £453,000 to £516,000, so we know that these "cash-in" values are fluid rather than static. 

His value has gone up from £1.9M to £2.1M , but he's a striker that has only scored 6 goals in 30 games. He has 2 years left on his contract so I could hang on for more or take the money and run. Based largely on the fact that he isn't scoring freely and might be benched, I'm going to take the money and run, (despite the fact that we are still only going to get 55% of the deal).

[Jimbokav1971]

Expectations. Jan 2050.

[Jimbokav1971]

New Record. Jan 2050.

[Jimbokav1971]

Jan 2050.

Pre-season went as pre-season goes. 

Acre State Championship. We almost managed a perfect month in the Acre State, but Rio Branco (AC) managed a goal against us to spoil things. I'm hoping though that our 4-1 away win against them suggests that there is a gulf in quality starting to appear between us and them. 

Goal-scoring GK (48c) Jalvan (F.Det) * would have scored on his competitive return, however Valmir (Unamb) * nicked a penalty to score a hat-trick against Andirá  and he had to wait until the Vasco (AC) to score a penalty himself. 

That is obviously his 1st of the season and the 8th of his career. 

[Jimbokav1971]

New Record. Feb 2050.

[Reggiana]

Comfortably top of the state championship after 4 games, you know you want to start sending the keeper up for corners

[Jimbokav1971]

2 minutes ago, Reggiana said:

Comfortably top of the state championship after 4 games, you know you want to start sending the keeper up for corners

I think we would either score or concede from almost every corner. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Feb 2050.

Copa Libertadores. We were up against Zamora Fútbol Club of Venezuela who I have never heard of. (I wonder if @Bobby_Zamorahas heard of them?) After our exploits last season I thought to myself that we would smash a little club from Venezuela and although I picked a strong side, we battered them but somehow lost 2-1.  They only had 2 shots of any type and we had about 30 and at least 10 on target. There is no point moaning though. We are winning enough games in this save for me to accept the odd reversal. 

If you had asked me before the Zamora game I would have told you that we would romp through this group, scoring loads of goals in the process and conceding very few at the same time. After an opening day defeat I far less convinced. I guess we will have to wait and see. 

Acre State. Now this is what I call a "perfect month" of State Championship games. 5 games, 5 wins, 5 clean sheets and 29 goals scored with 0 against. I'm rotating the squad a little for these games just to keep everyone match-fit. I am not at all worried by the results, (although I would love to win the whole tournament without conceding a goal). 

Our form has been so good that I think we have broken the form column on the right hand side. It says that we have played 1 game and lost it, when in fact we have won 9 out of 9, conceding just 1 goal in the process.

Goal-scoring GK (48c) Jalvan (F.Det) * scored 4 goals this month, 3 penalties and this decent free-kick.

That brings him to 5 goals for the season. 

And 12 goals in his career.

[Nobby_McDonald]

You may as well just be given the state championship every year. It would save a lot of bother.

[Jimbokav1971]

38 minutes ago, Nobby_McDonald said:

You may as well just be given the state championship every year. It would save a lot of bother.

Yeah, but where's the fin in that? 

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

1 hour ago, Nobby_McDonald said:

You may as well just be given the state championship every year. It would save a lot of bother.

How else are you supposed to rack up Gk goals?

[Jimbokav1971]

Debut and a name. Mar 2050.

I've just played a Copa Verde game and saw this message afterwards.

(49a) Fininho (F.Pro) * looks like a decent youngster, and had a good debut with 2 goals and an assist in a MotM performance, but that's not what this post is about. 

I don't think I saw any of these while in France, and it's a feature I love. I wonder if we have any others? 

The only upgrade on a Ronaldo is surely a Pele! Can you even have a Pele? 

If I had to name famous Brazilian footballers I would probably do so in this order. 

Pele
Zico
Ronaldo
Roberto Carlos
Socrates
Falcao
Jairzinhio
Garrincha
Cafu
Romario

I would love to have some of them. 

Cláudio Taffarel

Taffarel with Brazil in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Cláudio André Mergen Taffarel
Date of birth	8 May 1966 (age 53)
Place of birth	Santa Rosa, Brazil
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1985–1990	Internacional	50	(0)
1990–1995	Parma	74	(0)
1993–1994	→ Reggiana (loan)	31	(0)
1995–1998	Atlético Mineiro	73	(0)
1998–2001	Galatasaray	89	(0)
2001–2003	Parma	6	(0)
Total		323	(0)
National team
1988–1998	Brazil	101	(0)
Teams managed
2014	Galatasaray (interim)
2015	Galatasaray (interim)
Honours[hide]   Men's football Representing  Brazil Olympic Games 1988 Seoul Team competition Pan American Games 1987 Indianapolis Team competition FIFA World Cup 1994 United States Team competition 1998 France Team competition
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Jairzinho

Jairzinho in 1974
Personal information
Full name	Jair Ventura Filho
Date of birth	25 December 1944 (age 74)
Place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position	Winger
Youth career
	Botafogo
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1959–1974	Botafogo	413	(186)
1974–1975	Marseille	18	(9)
1975	Kaizer Chiefs	3	(7)
1976	Cruzeiro
1977	Portuguesa	10	(2)
1978–1979	Noroeste	2	(0)
1979	Fast Club	19	(17)
1980–1981	Jorge Wilstermann
1981–1982	Botafogo
1982	9 de Octubre
National team
1964–1982	Brazil[1]	81	(33)
Teams managed
1997–1998	Kalamata
2003–2005	Gabon
Honours[show]
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

 

Ronaldo

Ronaldo in 2019
Personal information
Full name	Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima
Date of birth	18 September 1976 (age 42)
Place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Striker
Youth career
1990–1993	São Cristóvão[1]
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1993–1994	Cruzeiro	14	(12)
1994–1996	PSV	46	(42)
1996–1997	Barcelona	37	(34)
1997–2002	Inter Milan	68	(49)
2002–2007	Real Madrid	127	(83)
2007–2008	A.C. Milan	20	(9)
2009–2011	Corinthians	31	(18)
Total		343	(247)
National team
1993	Brazil U17	7	(5)
1996	Brazil U23	8	(6)
1994–2011	Brazil	98	(62)
Honours[show]
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Rivaldo

Rivaldo in May 2014
Personal information
Full name	Rivaldo Vítor Borba Ferreira
Date of birth	19 April 1972 (age 47)
Place of birth	Recife, Brazil
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Attacking midfielder / Forward
Youth career
1989–1990	Paulistano
1991–1992	Santa Cruz
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1991–1992	Santa Cruz	9	(1)
1992–1994	Mogi Mirim	0	(0)
1993–1994	→ Corinthians (loan)	8	(2)
1994–1996	Palmeiras	30	(14)
1996–1997	Deportivo La Coruña	41	(21)
1997–2002	Barcelona	157	(86)
2002–2004	Milan	22	(5)
2004	→ Cruzeiro (loan)	0	(0)
2004–2007	Olympiacos	70	(36)
2007–2008	AEK Athens	35	(12)
2008–2010	Bunyodkor	53	(33)
2011	São Paulo	30	(5)
2012	Kabuscorp	21	(11)
2013	São Caetano	7	(0)
2014–2015	Mogi Mirim	8	(1)
Total		481	(227)
National team
1991–1993	Brazil U20	13	(2)
1994–1995	Brazil U23	8	(1)
1993–2003	Brazil	74	(35)
Honours[show]
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Well that's not a bad start I suppose. I particularly like that the GK who is touted as the next Taffarel is none other than goal-scoring GK (48c) Jalvan (F.Det) *. 

Edited July 15, 2019 by Jimbokav1971

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

2 hours ago, Jimbokav1971 said:

Well that's not a bad start I suppose. I particularly like that the GK who is touted as the next Taffarel is none other than goal-scoring GK (48c) Jalvan (F.Det) *. 

He should ideally be labelled the next Rogério Ceni!

[Jimbokav1971]

16 hours ago, The_Gato_In_Goal said:

He should ideally be labelled the next Rogério Ceni!

Yeah, but I doubt Ceni is in the game. Maybe I should speak to @Simon Tippleand someone can set me a target of career goals scored and if I reach it then SI agree to add Rogerio Ceni to the list of "labelled as" players?

Who do I have to bribe? 

Edited July 16, 2019 by Jimbokav1971

[Jimbokav1971]

Mar 2050.

Copa Libertadores. After our awful showing in the 1st game in the Copa Libertadores we have improved. The league is pretty competitive but there is still work to do to qualify for the knockout stages. 

Acre State Championship. A good month but not a perfect month due to the goal conceded against our rivals Rio Branco (AC).

Copa Verde. We may have conceded in this competition too, but that annoyance is somewhat offset by us smashing double figures against CENE.

Goal-scoring GK (48c) Jalvan (F.Det) * scored 2 goals this month, (1 free-kick and a penalty), but he also missed 2 penalties, (although I'm not sure if they were missed or saved). It brings him to 7 goals for the season and up to 14 career goals. 

[Brasillmatic]

Stumbled upon this thread while looking for a USA Pro-Rel database, wondering why someone seemingly not Brazilian jumped to a team from the most isolated state in Brazil in the year 2050 or so (Because why the hell not, obviously). Awesome save.

Anyway, I think I saw that you were wondering how the lower leagues in Brazil work, so I figured I'd answer, as I don't think the official FM database recreates it well, iirc.

Serie C is pretty much right, 20 teams split into North/South groups, playing double round robin, etc., with 4 teams getting relegated. Serie D, however, is much more complicated, and consists of 68 teams:

- 4 relegated teams from previous year's Serie C
- 54 teams, 2 from each state. These are typically the highest finishers in each state championship that aren't placed in higher divisions, but each state federation is technically free to allocate them as they please. Occasionally, teams will forego playing in Serie D to instead take a berth in the Copa do Brasil, aka the national cup, which has... unnecessarily complex qualification rules. But also very high payouts and a lot of respect within Brazil, maybe more than any other national cup I've seen.
- 10 further berths allocated to state federations based on a coefficient ranking determined by the Brazilian FA. The rankings, however, falls very closely in line with population rankings within Brazil. São Paulo has double the population of any other state, and is also the only state with 2 extra berths.

These teams are divided into 17 groups of 4 in vaguely regional groups, but without teams from same state. After home and away ties, the winner from each group and the 15 best second place finishers are entered into a home/away knockout bracket. Like Serie C, the semifinalists are all promoted.

Also, most states also have promotion and relegation within the state championship system; some states also have a state cup for teams not participating in national divisions. Enjoy your save man!!!!


P.S., Acre received a big influx of Haitian immigrants following the 2010 earthquake, something like 10% of the state population. Doubt it's reflected in the game, but would be cool if you got a Haitian regen.

[Jimbokav1971]

21 hours ago, Brasillmatic said:

Stumbled upon this thread while looking for a USA Pro-Rel database, wondering why someone seemingly not Brazilian jumped to a team from the most isolated state in Brazil in the year 2050 or so (Because why the hell not, obviously). Awesome save.

Anyway, I think I saw that you were wondering how the lower leagues in Brazil work, so I figured I'd answer, as I don't think the official FM database recreates it well, iirc.

Serie C is pretty much right, 20 teams split into North/South groups, playing double round robin, etc., with 4 teams getting relegated. Serie D, however, is much more complicated, and consists of 68 teams:

- 4 relegated teams from previous year's Serie C
- 54 teams, 2 from each state. These are typically the highest finishers in each state championship that aren't placed in higher divisions, but each state federation is technically free to allocate them as they please. Occasionally, teams will forego playing in Serie D to instead take a berth in the Copa do Brasil, aka the national cup, which has... unnecessarily complex qualification rules. But also very high payouts and a lot of respect within Brazil, maybe more than any other national cup I've seen.
- 10 further berths allocated to state federations based on a coefficient ranking determined by the Brazilian FA. The rankings, however, falls very closely in line with population rankings within Brazil. São Paulo has double the population of any other state, and is also the only state with 2 extra berths.

These teams are divided into 17 groups of 4 in vaguely regional groups, but without teams from same state. After home and away ties, the winner from each group and the 15 best second place finishers are entered into a home/away knockout bracket. Like Serie C, the semifinalists are all promoted.

Also, most states also have promotion and relegation within the state championship system; some states also have a state cup for teams not participating in national divisions. Enjoy your save man!!!!


P.S., Acre received a big influx of Haitian immigrants following the 2010 earthquake, something like 10% of the state population. Doubt it's reflected in the game, but would be cool if you got a Haitian regen.

Brilliant info. Thank you. 

[Bobby_Zamora]

@Jimbokav1971

Crazy thing: I know and I've been to Zamora and Atletico Acreano.

Last year, I visited Atletico Acreano as we played them in the Copa do Brasil. They gave us a match.

This year, I made the trip to Venezuela as we played Zamora in the last match of our Libertadores group phase.

:)

[Jimbokav1971]

5 hours ago, Bobby_Zamora said:

@Jimbokav1971

Crazy thing: I know and I've been to Zamora and Atletico Acreano.

Last year, I visited Atletico Acreano as we played them in the Copa do Brasil. They gave us a match.

This year, I made the trip to Venezuela as we played Zamora in the last match of our Libertadores group phase.

[Jimbokav1971]

@Brasillmaticand @Bobby_Zamorawould you mind telling me about the public opinion of "friendly" non- competitive matches? Do people not bother going to them in Brazil because there is so much competitive football? It's one of my things in FM that I always want to play a friendly as part of an out-going transfer deal and it can be enormously financially rewarding in Europe. In Brazil it largely seems to be a waste of time though, (although that might change if and when we start selling players to Europe). 

[Jimbokav1971]

First Division title odds. Apr 2050.

[Jimbokav1971]

The Dirty Dozen. Apr 2050.

A brace from our GK, 2 hat-tricks, (one a perfect hat-trick), from outfield players, and no goals against. Not a bad day at the office. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Personality. Apr 2050.

I've been less "into" player personalities with this issue of FM because it's far harder to change and I would also suggest that it's less important than in previous issues too. That doesn't mean that it should be ignored though and I have mentioned previously the way that I manage squad personality now rather than get too bogged down with mentoring and the like. 

This monthly message tells me that 3 of the players have had an improvement in personality, so let's have a look at what and also suggest how. 

Evandro (Driven) * becomes Evandro (Res) *.

He was a Driven personality and has "popped" to Resolute. 

I think this has changed in recent issues of the game, (if it's accurate). I initially thought that what had happened is that the Pro value had triggered the pop, but looking at it now, I think what has actually happened is that there has been a downwards pop in Det from 18 to 17, (and then to 16), and this has caused the change from Driven to Resolute.  This is a little at odds with the wording of the message in-game where it specifically says....

It doesn't talk about squad general character having an impact. It specifically mentions positive impact. The problem with that is that although I have the editor loaded and have looked at players in just this instance earlier in the save, I don't really want to do that now and I particularly don't want to do it with a good player. I am torn between trusting what I can see, (that the Det has dropped), and trusting what the game is telling me, (that the Pro might have risen). (In actual fact, I think both of these might be true). 

This following graphic tracks the drop in Det from 19 in Jan 2049 to Apr 2050. We understand why that's happening, but must agree that it can't be considered a "positive".  The other thing is that the drop in Det hasn't just happened. It's been static at 16 since Feb 2050, (so for 2 months). If this message in-game was triggered by the drop in Det, then not only would the personality have changed, but there would also be a red arrow visible besides the Det attribute indicating a recent drop.

There is no such red downwards arrow suggesting that no this even was NOT triggered by the drop in Det, but WAS triggered by the rise in Pro.

(47a) Witinei (Merc) (2047) * becomes (47a) Witinei (F.Pro) (2047) *.

Straight away there is something that stands out here as different from the previous example. 

The Det value is showing a red arrow indicating a drop. 

The next graphic shows that the Det value has dropped from 11 last month to 10 this month. 

But wait a minute, how do we know if that was the "trigger"? 

The range for Det within the original personality, (Merc), is less than 18.

Ok, but what is the template for the new personality (F.Pro)?

Well the Pro level was less than 18 and is now 15-17, (I think), so what has caused the "pop" from Merc to F.Pro?

Pro hasn't changed and neither has Temp, so it's not something in the (F.Pro) template that has been achieved, so something in the (Merc) template must have been lost. 

Loyalty 1-3. Yes it's possible and even quite likely that this has "popped" to 4, (because that's a very low rating and even though I have no info about squad loyalty, it's unlikely that it's not going to be higher than 3. 

Ambition 16-20. It's less likely that the squads average Amb levels are so high that this would cause the player to "pop" to 16. Not impossible, but unlikely in my opinion. 

Determination <18. We've already looked at this and this isn't an issue. 

Pro <18. The new template is also less than 18 so this isn't an issue. 

Leadership <19. His leadership issue is 2 so this isn't an issue. 

With all the above, what I think, (please note the distinction between what I think and know for a 100% fact here please), is that the players loyalty has popped from 3 to 4. Again, although the editor is enabled and I have used it to look at stuff like this early in the save, I don't want to do so at the moment and especially not with this player. (If it was a player with a "." and no future at the club then I might be more inclined to look, "under the hood", but don't wish to do so with this type of player. 

Part of the reason for this type of post is that I want people to be aware of how easy it is to turn what is deemed a very negative personality, (Merc), into what is deemed as quite a positive personality, (F.Pro). 

Joel De Jesús (ECU) (F.Det) * becomes Joel De Jesús (ECU) (Res) *.

This one is far easier, (thank God say all the bored readers). 

The Det levels were between 15-17 and are still between 15-17, and leadership isn't an issue, so the only contributing factor must be Pro levels. They were less than 15 and were now between 15-17. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Apr 2050.

Copa Libertadores. We started off poorly, but managed to turn things around enough to finish top of the group and qualify for the knockout stages with ease. 

Acre State Championship. We smashed 9, 10 and 12 goals without reply, but then Rio Branco (AC) turned us over when I fielded a weakened team and in hindsight weakened it a little too much. While as we still tear a lot of the local clubs a new one when we meet, Rio Branco (AC) are good enough that they demand more respect. I still expect to overturn the deficit in the 2nd leg, but will have to be more careful.

Copa Verde. 

Goal scoring GK (48c) Jalvan (F.Det) * scored 6 goals this month, (including a brace in 2 separate games), bringing him to 13 for the season and 20 for his career.

 

[Jimbokav1971]

Records. May 2050.

[Bobby_Zamora]

2 hours ago, Jimbokav1971 said:

@Brasillmaticand @Bobby_Zamorawould you mind telling me about the public opinion of "friendly" non- competitive matches? Do people not bother going to them in Brazil because there is so much competitive football? It's one of my things in FM that I always want to play a friendly as part of an out-going transfer deal and it can be enormously financially rewarding in Europe. In Brazil it largely seems to be a waste of time though, (although that might change if and when we start selling players to Europe). 

Nobody cares to the point where we usually have many 'friendlies' at the training ground than at a stadium.

Also, we have so little time off without competitions that we don't care that much.

[Brasillmatic]

2 hours ago, Jimbokav1971 said:

@Brasillmaticand @Bobby_Zamorawould you mind telling me about the public opinion of "friendly" non- competitive matches? Do people not bother going to them in Brazil because there is so much competitive football? It's one of my things in FM that I always want to play a friendly as part of an out-going transfer deal and it can be enormously financially rewarding in Europe. In Brazil it largely seems to be a waste of time though, (although that might change if and when we start selling players to Europe). 

Brazilian clubs just don't play very many friendlies; usually when they do it's during an international tournament, as they tend to fall mid-season for us. My club played a local 2nd tier side during the Copa America layover. Sometimes teams will play some preseason friendlies in the US to fulfill commercial obligations/affiliations.

[Jimbokav1971]

2 minutes ago, Bobby_Zamora said:

Nobody cares to the point where we usually have many 'friendlies' at the training ground than at a stadium.

Also, we have so little time off without competitions that we don't care that much.

 

1 minute ago, Brasillmatic said:

Brazilian clubs just don't play very many friendlies; usually when they do it's during an international tournament, as they tend to fall mid-season for us. My club played a local 2nd tier side during the Copa America layover. Sometimes teams will play some preseason friendlies in the US to fulfill commercial obligations/affiliations.

Cheers lads. I expected as much based on the friendly attendances. 

[Brasillmatic]

9 minutes ago, Bobby_Zamora said:

Nobody cares to the point where we usually have many 'friendlies' at the training ground than at a stadium.

Also, we have so little time off without competitions that we don't care that much.

The Independência might as well be a training ground anyway... with love, a Cruzeiro fan xoxo

[Jimbokav1971]

May 2050.

First Division. A bit of a mixed opening month in the league really. We have only lost 1 game, but at the same time only 2 clubs in the whole league have conceded more goals than us. 

Brazilian Cup. We beat last season's League Chamopions in the Cup, (albeit on penalties).

Acre State Championship. We trailed them 1-0 from the 1st leg, but when I went with a stronger team in the 2nd leg they couldn't compete. 

Copa Verde. This was tighter than expected, but together with a 2-0 lead from the 1st leg we still ran out comfortable winners. 

Just the single goal this month from goal-scoring GK (48c) Jalvan (F.Det) *. That brings the 17 year old to 14 for the season and 21 career goals. 

[Jimbokav1971]

What? Why? June 2050. 

We have a fair bit of money in the bank so why do we need a loan for anything? 

We only have 1 loan outstanding and it was for the new stadium, (which we haven't moved into yet). (Scheduled for Jan of 2051). 

[Jimbokav1971]

2nd Term. Jul 2050.

This is a bit strange. The same President is in charge, but he has opted to change the philosophies. 

Let's see if I can fix that. 

This is ok. We play an attacking style and the only real difference is that I have absolutely no intention of signing high profile players. 

With that done, and with both youth and training facilities updated recently, let's see if I can eke the next level out of the Director. 

Still lots of scope to develop both training and youth facilities. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Jun 2050.

Surprisingly there was just 1 single game this month with players away on International duty at the World Cup, (playing for Colombia, Guinea. Ecuador), and the French Youth Invitational. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Job offer number 26. Jul 2050.

Jobs offered.

FC Metz while 10th in Ligue 2. Dec 2025.
Dijon while 20th in Ligue 1. Dec 2025.
Troyes while 17th in Ligue 1. Dec 2025.
AJ Auxerre while 11th in Ligue 1. Nov 2026.
Strasbourg while 20th in Ligue 1. Jan 2027.
EA Guingamp were 14th in Ligue 1. Jun 2028.
Stade Lavallois were 1st in Ligue 2. Jun 2028.
Lille while 12th in Ligue 2. Oct 2028.
FC Lorient while 6th in Ligue 2. May 2030.
Nancy while 20th in League 1. Jun 2030.
AC Ajaccio while 1st in League 2. Jun 2030.
FC Lorient(2) were 17th in Ligue 2. Jun 2031.
Stade Lavallois(2) while 17th in Ligue 2 in Aug 2031.
Nancy(2) while 6th in Ligue 2 in Dec 2031.
Italy National Team. Jul 2032.
Lille while 2nd in Ligue 2. Feb 2033.
Saint-Etienne finished 7th in Ligue 2. Jun 2033.
Italy National Team(2). Jul 2034.
RC Lens finished 15th in Ligue 1. Jun 2036
France National Team. Jul 2038.
Bordeaux while 2nd in Ligue 1. Mar 2041.
England National Team. Jul 2042.
Marseille while 12th in Ligue 1. Dec 2043.
England National Team(2). Jul 2044.
France National Team(2). Jul 2044. 
Brazil National Team. Jul 2050.

I must admit that I don't even know what the Superclasico is. 

It looks like it is an annual friendly played between Brazil and Argentina each year, usually at a neutral venue. 

Argentina have won it for the last 3 years in a row. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Jul 2050.

A bit of a mixed bag as far as results go. Corinthians hammered us, but the real negative was the home loss to Vitoria. How we didn't score I have absolutely no idea. As if that wasn't enough, the Ass Man keeps picking Bodão (F.Pro) * in goal instead of (48c) Jalvan (F.Det) * and I forgot to swap them before the Internacional game and Bodão (F.Pro) * converted a penalty that should have been scored by (48c) Jalvan (F.Det) *.

Bodão (F.Pro) * has made 3 appearances this season when I wasn't concentrating, but this was his 1st goal and he now joins the ranks of Goal-scoring goal-keepers who have played for me. 

Edited July 20, 2019 by Jimbokav1971

[Jimbokav1971]

Money and Transfers. Aug 2050.

Things must have been going well financially because first of all the board upped the % of transfer revenue available from 65% to 100%, (without me asking), and then they gave me £8M more to buy players, bring our transfer kitty up to a whopping £13.7M and with a deal already done to sell another player for £2M, we will have £15.7M to spend at the end of the month. 

We don't need a GK.

We don't need a left back right know, but if I can find a high PA youngster to develop then that might be an idea. 

We don't need a right back.

We've just signed a couple of centre-backs so we are fine there. 

We lost our best left winger, but we still have a couple of options here. That's fine for right now, but we need a 3rd to cover injury and suspension. 

The right flank is an area of relative strength, (albeit potential rather current ability), but we still don't need to strengthen here. 

We just lost our 2 best central midfielders and a 3rd, José (Fickle) * is due to leave for £2M at the end of the month. This position has gone from an area of real strength to one that needs adding to, (especially in terms of CA). 

Although we have just lost our best striker in Trevizol (F.Pro) *, we still have a few options, but again they are more PA based than CA based, (although I'm happy with that). I have decided to recall (49a) Fininho (F.Pro) * to make sure we have fresh strikers for each match. 

In Summary, DL for the future, a left winger to develop, and ideally 2 central midfielders. I have cash to splash so will have to see what's available. 

[Jimbokav1971]

 New Record League goal-scorer. Aug 2050.

Valmir (Unamb) * has become the record league goal-scorer at the club. Let's be honest though, that also includes the State Championship which is a bit of a cheat in my opinion. 

Valmir (Unamb) *.

Dallazen (Bal) *.

[Jimbokav1971]

Diablo FM19 style. Aug 2050.

Back on one of the early FM's there was something called a "Diablo" tactic which I think was a super-effective tactic largely reliant on an outrageously dominant AMC player who completely dominated games. This is a little different in that not only are there 2 players in the AMC slot, but there are actually 3 strikers too which we are not dealing with at all. (We have conceded 8 goals tin 2 games that Cruzerio have played this tactic against us). I have chosen not to adapt our tactic to counter this, but I might consider doing so in the future. It's killing us. 

[Jimbokav1971]

New Transfer Income record. Aug 2050.

 

[Jimbokav1971]

New Record. Gate Receipts. Aug 2050.

[Jimbokav1971]

New Record Bid received. Aug 2050.

They came in and offered £1.5M for him about a week ago so I had a look at his release clauses. He didn't have a foreign club release clause and his domestic club release clause is £10.25M so I set his asking price at £10M and set to refuse all bids below or equal to that. They responded with this which is a but of a surprise.  Had The DoF not dismissed it out of hand I would have added in some clauses including a big sell-on clause and let them have him. I wonder what they will come back with......

[Jimbokav1971]

15 minutes ago, Jimbokav1971 said:

New Record Bid received. Aug 2050.

They came in and offered £1.5M for him about a week ago so I had a look at his release clauses. He didn't have a foreign club release clause and his domestic club release clause is £10.25M so I set his asking price at £10M and set to refuse all bids below or equal to that. They responded with this which is a but of a surprise.  Had The DoF not dismissed it out of hand I would have added in some clauses including a big sell-on clause and let them have him. I wonder what they will come back with......

Both Sporting Lisbon and Porto have come in and offered £10M cash for him. I'm obviously greedy and wanted to negotiate for some add-on's, but there were not willing to negotiate. 

He's currently valued at just £85,000. 

It will be interesting to see how good he is. Maybe there is just loads of money in Portugal at the moment. 

He chose Sporting Lisbon. 

Edited July 21, 2019 by Jimbokav1971

[Jimbokav1971]

New Records. Sep 2020.

[Jimbokav1971]

Aug 2050.

Copa Libertadores. I was happy to get through to the next round with relative comfort. 2 clean sheets and never really in doubt, although we left it late to score the 2nd goal.

Brazilian Cup. We beat Sao Paulo in the last round, (on penalties), so there is no reason we can't compete with the big boys in domestic competition. A late winner from teenage debutant Ademar (Bal) * was enough to see us take an advantage back to the home leg against Corinthians.

First Division. The only loss was the absolute hammering by Cruzerio and their 5-man attack. 

We're 8th in the league but have a game in hand on 5 of the 7 teams above us, (although Internacional have a game in hand on us and 2 on everyone else). I'm relatively happy with where we are. We have lost 6 of our best players in the last couple of months and this is obviously going to cause an impact on performances and results. I will be delighted to qualify again for the Copa Libertadores, but if we don't then I will be happy to participate in the Copa Sudamerica for the 1st time. Not qualifying for either would not be good. Getting relegated would be a disaster.