[FMT20] Sunshine on Leith.

[Jimbokav1971]

Jan 2024.

Nothing but green is brilliant, but there are also loads of goals in the conceded column. 

Ladbrokes Premiership. We clawed back 3 points on Celtic by beating them, but Rangers are still 4 points ahead after drawing against Aberdeen. 

Scottish Cup. I haven't won this trophy yet and am keen to put that right this season. 

Confidence. 

Finances. 

Goal-scoring GK watch. (21d) Robertson * scored another penalty to bring him to 4 goals for the season and 20 career goals in total 

[Jimbokav1971]

1 hour ago, SRL88 said:

Niiiiiiiice season so far

Yeah, things are going well. I'm not completely sure we are going to retain our league title, but with the way that we play the likes of Celtic and Rangers 4 times in the league rather than twice, it means that there is an increased opportunity for over-hauling them. 

17 minutes ago, withnail316 said:

Well you're certainly not Hibsing this! Great work, Jimbo. 

I'm really glad that didn't stick. When we kept losing to crap teams in the Cups, (especially when we lost twice to Hearts), I really thought it was going to become a thing. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Youth Intake Preview. Feb 2024.

I don't think you can tell an awful lot from this. The better players are a striker and a left winger. Is that it? 

[Jimbokav1971]

Feb 2024.

I think we are in good form, and the Liverpool result is stupendous, but because Celtic and Rangers are in such fine form themselves, we are going to be hard-pushed to beat them to the league title.

Ladbrokes Premiership. The draws against Aberdeen and St. Johnstone mean that we have dropped 4 points. Celtic dropped 0 points this month and are also out of the EURO Cup, (lost to PSV), so will have more time to prepare for future league games. Rangers dropped 3 points this month, (lost to Ross County), and are out of the EURO Cup too, (lost to Inter), so again they will have more time to prepare for future league games. We are 4 points behind Celtic and they have a game in hand. We play Rangers twice more, but only play Celtic once. We are going to need them to screw up pretty badly to reel them in, (even if we win all our games). 

Scottish Cup. We're away to Queen of the South in the Quarter Finals. 

Champions League. What a performance that was!  We led 5-1 after 90 mins and they scored in injury time to make it 5-2. We are obviously favourites but not by much I don't think. Had we held them to 5-1 then we would have been hot favourites. This is already the biggest result of the save by far, 

Confidence. This still doesn't seem right. B- for what we are doing here? I don't think so, but maybe the opinion is heavily weighted on the league position, (they want 2nd remember), but we are still only 2 points off 2nd and hugely over-performing elsewhere. I think the balance is wrong here. Wrong by a lot. 

Finances. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Local bragging rights. Mar 2024.

Hearts scored 1st after 16 seconds, and then again last after 83 minutes. Between their goals we scored 8 (EIGHT). 

That should keep them quiet for a while. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Mar 2024. 

Frustratingly we dropped points again in the league. I have been prioritising the Champions League, (for the money), and the domestic Cups, (for the trophies), but it looks like it's going to cost us the league. 

Ladbrokes Premiership. While I want to obviously win the league, the board will be happy with us finishing 2nd. We need to play both Rangers and Celtic in the league, and assuming I win both those games, (and the other 2 league games), then although I will be ahead of Rangers, I will be 3 points behind Celtic. Luckily they also play eachother so there is potential for both of them to lose more points. 

Scottish Cup.

Champions League. 

Confidence. 

Finances.

Goal-scoring GK. It's double-figure goals for the 2nd season running for (21d) Robertson *. He's up to 12 for the season and that brings him to 28 goals. He has also scored his 1st free-kick of the season.

New records. 

[deltablue]

Woo, you finally got an A!

[Jimbokav1971]

May 2024.

 

Ladbrokes Premiership. You have got to hand it to Rangers, they won their last 8 league games, (including 1 against us), to win the title by a single point. Had we beaten them in that game then we and not they would be champions. It comes down to such fine margins in this league where the 3 of us are significantly better than everyone else. 

Scottish Cup Final. 

Confidence. My experience in Scandinavia/Nordicland suggests that despite doing the double and driving the club forward, I am seriously in danger of losing my job as a result of not meeting agreed targets. They wanted a top 2 finish and I didn't manage it. 

Finances. I'm going to start posting the finances less. (ie. just at the end of transfer windows and seasons). 

Goal-scoring GK. (21d) Robertson * finishes the season with 12 goals, (1 direct free-kick and 11 penalties from 16 attempted, to leave him on 28 career goals. 

Best XI.

Facilities. Youth Recruitment upgraded. 

 

[scousevasey]

6 hours ago, Jimbokav1971 said:

Confidence. This still doesn't seem right. B- for what we are doing here? I don't think so, but maybe the opinion is heavily weighted on the league position, (they want 2nd remember), but we are still only 2 points off 2nd and hugely over-performing elsewhere. I think the balance is wrong here. Wrong by a lot. 

Have you looked in depth at what is determining each sub grade?

 

If you click the five categories in white you get details about each one.  So for Matches as an example, it will show the last 5-7 games and the rating of each, with expected wins judged depending if they are good enough/dominant enough.

Your 8-2 win against Hearts will grade out well, but a draw when expected to win will hold back the expected grade, leading to the A-

[Jimbokav1971]

30 minutes ago, deltablue said:

Woo, you finally got an A!

I'm getting an A in terms of results, but not in overall terms, (unless I have missed it). 

[nie jem frytek]

Maybe they just don't like goalscoring goalkeepers.

[Jimbokav1971]

6 hours ago, Jimbokav1971 said:

Youth Intake Preview. Feb 2024.

I don't think you can tell an awful lot from this. The better players are a striker and a left winger. Is that it? 

Youth Intake May 2024.

"Kriss" (34a) Danny King.

[Jimbokav1971]

1 hour ago, nie jem frytek said:

Maybe they just don't like goalscoring goalkeepers.

Well I hate to tell them, it isn't going away. 

[Jimbokav1971]

TV Rights. Jun 2024. 

Jun 2020. £600,000.

Jun 2021. £788,000.

Jun 2022. 858,000.

Jun 2023. £895,000.

Jun 2024. £895,000.

I thought that what was happening was that the total find given to Scottish premier League clubs was rising, but perhaps it's only our share that has been rising and now we are at the top and it won't get any bigger. Will keep an eye on it. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Expectations. Jun 2024.

[Jimbokav1971]

Affiliations. Jun 2024.

Please note that these new affiliations have absolutely nothing to do with me. Every season we just get a new one. I don't even know how to ask on FMT. 

[SRL88]

What's your aim for Europe this season?

[withnail316]

11 hours ago, Jimbokav1971 said:

I'm really glad that didn't stick. When we kept losing to crap teams in the Cups, (especially when we lost twice to Hearts), I really thought it was going to become a thing. 

It definitely stuck in real life. Sure they lost 10 or 11 Scottish Cup finals over a period of over a century between the last times they won it.

It was essentially the Scottish version of being a bit "Spursy". 

[Jimbokav1971]

Aug 2024.

Ladbrokes Premiership. We've already dropped 5 points, but luckily Celtic have dropped 2 points and Rangers 4 points. 

Betfred Cup. A run of the mill win and we are into the next round. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Sep 2024.

Ladbrokes Premiership. The goal this season is top 2. I know that we have already won the league, but that doesn't mean we should expect to compete every year for it at this stage. Celtic have a ridiculous amount of money available in comparison to us. How we beat them 2 seasons ago I have absolutely no idea, but we are not yet at the stage where beating them over the course of a full season is a regular thing. 

EURO Cup. A surprising away win at Bilbao sees us top the group after 1 game. I was contemplating engineering our results to ensure we finish 3rd so we would qualify for EC2, but I just can't bring myself to do it. 

Betfred Cup. We are into the Semi's where we will play Dundee. Celtic are in the other Semi. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Oct 2024.

Ladbrokes Premiership. 3 wins from 4 is ok, but ok won't win us the league. 

EURO Cup. We're flying in Europe. 

[SRL88]

Fantastic start in Europe

[Jimbokav1971]

8 minutes ago, SRL88 said:

Fantastic start in Europe

Yep. It turns out that it wouldn't have been easy at all to engineer a 3rd placed finish. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Nov 2024.

Ladbrokes Premiership. The draw against Celtic is fine, but the draw against Motherwell isn't. 

EURO Cup. I rotated the whole squad against Bilbao and still managed to draw. 

Betfred Cup. We will play Hamilton in the Final, who beat Celtic in the semi. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Job offer. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Dec 2024. 

Ladbrokes Premiership. St Mirren again! On the plus side, Hearts are in the relegation zone. 

EURO Cup. 

Betfred Cup. Champions. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Jan 2025.

Ladbrokes Premiership. Celtic are disappearing off into the sunset, but we are still a point ahead of Rangers, (albeit that they have a game in hand). 

Scottish Cup. We're away to Rangers in the next round. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Feb 2025.

Ladbrokes Premiership. We beat Rangers in the League and then beat Hearts twice to keep them firmly in the relegation zone. Although I had sort of given up on catching Celtic, they have lost a league game in each of the last 3 months, (the most recent being away to Dundee. We only play them once more this season, but it's not impossible for us to catch them. At the same time, Rangers are just 2 points behind us with a game in hand so they are going to feel that it's not over either. Celtic got Man City in the 1st Knockout Round of the Champions league, and have already lost the home leg 0-2. Rangers were drawn against Man Utd in the 1st Knockout Round of the Champions League, (meaning that they both got through the group stage), and they lost the home leg 0-3, so that's probably that. We on the other hand have been drawn against Monaco in the 1st Knockout Round of the EURO Cup. I really need to get back into the Champions League just to stop 1 of the Old Firm cashing in on the money. 

Scottish Cup. As much as I don't like losing to anyone except Celtic, I have to accept that Rangers are decent and probably better than us, so no complaints here. 

Goal-scoring GK. 

 

[Jimbokav1971]

Job Offer. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Job offer. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Mar 2025. 

Ladbrokes Premiership. We should have reeled Celtic in by now. We just keep losing. We were awful against Aberdeen and they were worthy winners. 

EURO Cup. We've got Sevilla in the Quarter-Finals. 

Goal-scoring GK. 

New record. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Huge Offer. Jun 2025.

There's nobody that I wouldn't sell for this sort of money. 

You know, I'm not even sure what the biggest ever Scottish transfer is.... Let me have a look.

Despite the fact that it's a new Scottish record transfer, I will still be renegotiating and looking to add a 25% of next sale and a friendly. 

Deal done. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Youth Intake. Jun 2025.

Really not that impressive. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Apr 2025.

Ladbrokes Premiership. After dropping yet more points away to Dundee, a loss away to Rangers on the last day of the season would have seen them pip us to Champions league qualifying. Luckily we came out on top. 

EURO Cup. Sevilla didn't equalise until the 95th minute. As if that wasn't bad enough, they then went and won it a minute later. 

Confidence. 

Finances. 

Goal-scoring GK watch. (21d) Robertson * made it 3 successive seasons where he scored double-figure goals. He ended this season on 10, (9 from 9 penalties and 1 free-kick) and this brings him to 38 goals . (20a) Brian * also scored a free-kick when standing in.

New record. 

Transfers. 

Overall Best XI. 

Edited December 3, 2019 by Jimbokav1971

[Jimbokav1971]

New Affiliate. Jun 2025.

[rodesire]

Just caught up on this, rolling nicely there, great progress in Europe and those transfer fees are huge!

[Jimbokav1971]

2 minutes ago, rodesire said:

Just caught up on this, rolling nicely there, great progress in Europe and those transfer fees are huge!

Thanks. 

I thought I would offer some background to the bigger transfers. 

Greg Taylor (SCO) bought for £8.75M and sold for £10.75M, (rising to £13.5M).

(20b) Johnston * came through the Academy in 2020 and sold for 

Adama Traoré (MLI) bought for £9.75M and sold for £15.5M after just 1 season. He is the closest thing I have seen to an Orri Freyr Oskarsson "cheat player" in many issues of the game. I often make jokes in real life about him in so much as that he is a phenomenal athlete, but he just isn't very good at football, (although he has done well recently the last couple of times I have seen him). In game my plan was for him to just run with the ball, run with the ball some more, keep running with the ball and then at some point he would get fouled and then my GK would either smash home the free-kick or penalty. The only thing I hadn't banked on was that the opposition players couldn't get anywhere near him and especially in Europe, he absolutely terrorised the opposition. I've off-loaded him after just 1 season because he was just too effective. I thought it was spoiling the game. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Jul & Aug 2025.

Ladbrokes Premiership. We dropped points on the opening day again, but thankfully redeemed ourselves by smashing Celtic. Rangers are still top with a 100% record, but we don't play them until October. 

Champions League. We breezed past Galatasaray and PSV but have been given a tough Champions league group. 

Betfred Cup. We beat Linvingston and play Hamilton in the next round.

Confidence. 

Finances. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Sep 2025. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Sep 2025.

Ladbrokes Premiership. Rangers are still top with a 100% record and we have dropped 3 more points after playing for 84 minutes against Motherwell with 10 men. 

Champions League. A late winner from our GK gave us all 3 points at Anfield, but it was a far more comfortable win against Viktoria Plzen. 

Betfred Cup. We beat Hamilton and will face Motherwell in the next round. 

New Record. 

Goal-scoring GK. (21d) Robertson * is actually up to 4 goals for the season and 32 career goals, although 1 of these was against Viktoria Plzen which is technically in next months games, but included in this update. 

Edited December 3, 2019 by Jimbokav1971

[Jimbokav1971]

Oct 2025.

Ladbrokes Premiership. After 2 scoreless draws, (that were actually decent results in themselves), I should have gone with a stronger squad for the St Mirren game to build confidence and ensure a result. Instead I took my eye of the minutiae of squad selection and we paid the price. A lot of the time when we lose it's just because we were tired, or had poor morale, or were beaten by a better team, but on this occasion it was down to me and my poor squad selection. 

Champions League. 

Confidence. 

Goal-scoring GK. 6 goals have been added to the 38 scored in previous seasons by (21d) Robertson * bringing him to 44 career goals. 

[kevhamster]

Just caught up - so a league win, several cups and some very creditable performances in Europe.  Superb stuff!

[Jimbokav1971]

On 04/12/2019 at 12:19, kevhamster said:

Just caught up - so a league win, several cups and some very creditable performances in Europe.  Superb stuff!

Yeah, things are developing nicely in this save. We are a LONG way from toppling Celtic on a regular basis because they are just so ridiculously rich, but things certainly moving in the right direction. 

This save isn't dead. It's just on hold.

[Jimbokav1971]

 

[Jimbokav1971]

May 2026. Season Summary. 

I'm not playing this save properly. I'm actually just setting some instructions and then going on holiday. It worked out ok in the 2nd half of this season. 

The plan here is to holiday and experiment with the "Son" options and then continue to holiday and see if I can offer some advance info to @Makoto Nakamura

I'm not saying I'm not going to be buying any players, (because I might), but basically as I am not bothered about this in the slightest, (I can't even remember who the players are), I'm probably going to run this as Youth Only on the basis that we have already had a Golden Generation that if I remember correctly, I thought was too good if anything and it spoiled the game for me. That being said, I can't remember who was who and also can't be bothered to look back in this thread and see what I said at the time. 

Actually, I have just holidayed the last game of the season, (the Cup Final), and although I don't know what the score was, I had a few different achievements pop-up and that will change things a little, (but more on that in a minute). 

League Table. 

Scottish Cup. Champions. 

Betfred Cup. Lost 2-0 in the Final to Rangers. 

Champions League. Got through a tough group but then lost 4-0 on aggregate to Chelsea in the 1st Knockout Round. 

Overall Best XI.

Unsackable. I was going to continue on as normal but this might be something that @Makoto Nakamurawants to make use of, (not that he will need it, but just in terms of the number of problems he has experienced in the game this year). Having thought about it though, this is perfect for me. If I activate this I can just go full on Youth Only and not even look at results during the season. 

I hardly ever play FMT so what the hell. Let's go for it. 

Just as a reminder/recap as to what unlockables we have available and/or have used, here is the "wallet" on my game. 

I use the loan restrictions unlockable when the opportunity came. Not to assist me with incoming loans, but out-going loans. 

I have the option to remove transfer windows but it's not going to bother me anyway if I'm going Youth Only, (and I am). 

I have just unlocked and triggered "no sacking".

I can be a National Team manager, (although have no interest at this time). 

I could get rid of WP's but didn't do that previously and no I'm going Youth Only there is no point. 

Attribute Masking is on and is staying on. I just couldn't remove it. Ever. 

I've used this already and although I have "unlocked" it within the game, I have a feeling that I actually purchased this. (I remember purchasing something), and it sounds about right that I would pay for it and then unlock it in the same season. Either way, we've done it already and I must have spoken about it previously in this thread because it would have been a big deal. 

Finances. 

Facilities. I'requested that the Training Facilities are upgraded and the only other request I can make is a new contract. I think I'm looking in the wrong place. 

This looks to be the only page that has info on the Facilities. 

This is more like it. I can remember not being able to find this 1st time around. 

Affiliations. It looks like I was working hard at this before, but not sure I can be bothered at the moment. 

The club owner. Is Peruvian. I don't remember that. I think I might have to go back and re-read my own thread. 

General Info. I'm an Icon. I don't think "unsackable" should have been unlocked until I became a legend. These things should be hard. Really hard. 

Squad by Appearances. I'm going to list everyone for sale who is not HG at club before I go back on holiday. 

We seem really short on striker, but who cares. They can't sack me right! 

Goal-scoring GK. 

(21d) Robertson * scored 15 goals this season to bring him to 53 goals according to the Best XI. 

I've just listed all non Academy products for sale. It was quite refreshing. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Youth Intake Day. May 2026. 

Well this was pretty rubbish. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Season Summary. May 2027. 

League Table. Runners Up.

Scottish Cup. Lost to 2-1aet to Aberdeen in the Semi-Final.

Betfred Cup. Lost 3-1 to Aberdeen in the Semi Final. 

Europe. Lost 6-2 on aggregate, (won the 1st leg 2-0 at home), to to PSG in the 1sk Knockout Round of the Champions League. 

Squad list by appearances. A few teething problems in terms of squad selections. I've resolved the GK issue with selecting (21d) Robertson * in the starting line-up and that's sorted now, but as quickly as I cancelled the old loan deals, the Ass Man made new one's. What I'm going to have to do is set it so that I return from holiday the day before each window closes, cancel any loan deals and then go on holiday after the window closes. There used to be an option to "only buy players on shortlist", but now there seems to be nothing like that at all. 

Transfers. I think I know how to stop this next season. 

Finances. 

Facilities. 

Best XI. 

Goal-scoring GK. Although my Ass Man didn't arrange any transfers in, he did sign 4 loan players over the 1st half of the season and 1 of these was a GK who played in all but 1 game. I cancelled all the loan deals when the Jan Transfer window opened and then selected just a HG GK and added "use selected squad where possible". 

(21d) Robertson * scored 7 in the 2nd half of the season though, bringing him to 60 career goals. 

 

[Jimbokav1971]

Youth Intake. May 2027.

It's not rubbish, but it's not great either. 

[Jimbokav1971]

10 year deadlines. May 2027. 

Obviously we want a player to spend 10 seasons with us and then retire. At the moment I have a few players who have been with us for 10 years already. I'm just waiting for them to retire. 

(16) Shaw is 29 years old. 

(17) Porteous * is 28 years old. 

We also want to spend 10 years at the club ourselves. 

This was season #8.

[Jimbokav1971]

Season Summary. May 2028. 

League Table. Champions. 

Scottish Cup. Lost in Qtr-Final to Aberdeen. 

Betfred Cup. Champions. 

Europe. 

Squad List by Appearances. 

Transfers. I didn't set the responsibilities properly so the Ass Man signed a player for £11M. I've fixed it so that won't happen again. 

Finances. 

Facilities. 

Best XI.

Goal-scoring Keeper. 17 goals this season for (21d) Robertson * brings him to 77 career goals. 

Edited April 27, 2020 by Jimbokav1971