[FM21] The new pride of Istanbul - Eyuspor FC

[Polski97]

So my search for an interesting save has taken me to ... TURKEY ! 

 

Eyupspor find themselves in the 3rd tier of Turkish football however seen as favourites to be promoted to the second tier. My aim here is to get rid off the big three in Istanbul. 

 

Wondering what the BIG THREE IS ? 

 

So now the story line is set ... becoming the biggest in Istanbul. Which will take many years evidently 

 

MEET THE CLUB

 

 

 

 

The club vision 

 

 

Promotion by winning the league haha ! No pressure here then. LETS GET THE SHOW STARTED 

Edited January 17, 2021 by Polski97
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[Polski97]

My own restrictions ! 

I do find FM a bit easy at times so I have created a world (in my head ) where I impose restrictions on transfers and many other things. I will list them now so that hopefully it makes more sense throughout the save why I did what I did. 

1 - I am using a mods as I have found FM21 easy and wanted a challenge. I have not used these mods thus far, it will be my first save. So I  have no idea what kind of impact they will have on my own restrictions.  Realistic Transfers, Extended Injuries and Smarter Managers. 

 

2- My own fantasy restriction regarding transfers, I try to limit the number of loans to MAX 3 into the club. Also, the players I aim to loan have to be realistic ... not loaning Aubameyang to play upfront. I will usually look at leagues similar to mine to loan from. I won't be in the Fenerbache shop any time soon. 

 

3- I aim to sell my best players. Let's be honest ... players do het poached from weaker teams to better teams. If there is a clear and valid argument for why I should sell my player to a team above me then I will even if it hurts my soul. 

 

4- Transfers in - I try not to buy 10 players in one window ... I will look for 1-3 MAX to strengthen the team ... this is where my youth team could help in providing sub players. 

 

5- Wage budget - I will try my best not to reach the limit. I don't want to use my whole wage budget up.

 

6- Financial security - I will try my best to avoid going into the red. If it means selling players then ... so be it. All part of the fun. 

 

7- I may have missed something so will mention at a later point 

 

RIGHT LET'S SEE THE TEAM NOW !!! 

[Polski97]

The Team

I have sorted them from most expensive to least. 

 

The Tactic ?

This will be a provisional tactic to see what we have in our hands. As we are meant to be winning the league ... I want to be creative and keep possession. A bit like Manchester city ... who will be my De Bruyne ? 

 

 

Financial misery already ?

So I had a quick look at the finances of the team ... it's not looking great. 

My initial thinking is that the Wage budget is already maxed out and we only have 500k in the bank. Currently I can't see many players that I would like to sell or players which are surplus to requirements. I will have to keep an eye out on the finances throughout the season. However, I will have to act quick not to get in the red too early on as player wages get paid over the coming months. 

[Polski97]

The Transfers

 

Out; 

 

Selling Dogan helped us a lot. I didn't want to get in his way as he really wanted to leave. 

Selling him allowed us to get £800 p/w off the books !!! Which allowed us to make the transfers that will see us hopefully till the end of the season. I am putting a self imposed limit on 4 transfers which I will show now 

 

 

Coming in; 

Dogan was a Left back so we needed to replace him ... here comes an academy product of Borussia Dortmund. Gutted I didn't add an optional year extension by club as we will probably make a nice sum on him later. 

 

 

Topal was highly recommended so. We are short in bodies on the wing so worst case he is a bench player but best case he is a starter. With Emergency backup in his deal we have all the power in our hands. 

 

 

Mustafa Parker  was one of the best free agents available. He is a left back too but I didn't want to pass on him as it is a great opportunity to sell him later/. 

 

Dedeli is another body to play on the wing. We shall see what becomes of him. 

 

The theme here was to get attractive free agents to fill holes we have in the squad with the possibility of selling them or becoming first team players. Next post update will be an insight on the friendlies and our first few games of the season. 

[Polski97]

Pre - Season 

We played some smaller teams to gain confidence and build on cohesion but I had to invite one of the big 3 to play a friendly with ! 

Surprisingly, Istanbul Basaksehir wasn't a difficult game. Granted they had more of the ball and more shots on target ... we only lost to a ridiculous strike from 30yrds out. Soon we will be making Basaksehir come to our ends more often ! 

 

Start of the season

Got a few games going. The start isn't great due to the draws from teams I should be rolling over really. I am simply putting it down to a period where my players need to gel and learn the tactic more. Hopefully the coming months will display more green on the board.

 

We have the Turkish Cup coming up soon which I am hoping to turn into something magical !

 

 

[momoç]

hi from turkey, it is exciting to see a turkish career from non-turkish person,

from now on i will be a loyal follower of this topic, go on eyüpspor 

btw, it is mustafa peker not parker, you get used to names in time :))

feel free to ask me anything about turkey and the league.

[Polski97]

55 minutes ago, momoç said:

hi from turkey, it is exciting to see a turkish career from non-turkish person,

from now on i will be a loyal follower of this topic, go on eyüpspor 

btw, it is mustafa peker not parker, you get used to names in time :))

feel free to ask me anything about turkey and the league.

Hey that’s amazing to have you here ! 
 

I love Turkish culture and food. I live in North London and there is a lot of Turkish people, you’re all great  

Yeah I wanted to do something different and I haven’t seen a Turkish save so far so thought why not be the first  

Is Eyupspor a good team ? Wikipedia doesn’t have much information about them. They are currently top of the league in real life from what I can see. Are they one of the rich teams in the league ? 

 

[Polski97]

End of November 

What a period of games it has been for us. November had 2 games each week which has definitely  impacted our form in the league and in the cup. I have tried resting my players as much as possible but the results will now show if that was effective.

 

The league performance; 

My personal take on this is that we have put up a lot of green on the board as I wanted to. However, we had 4 draws in total which is 2 too many in my opinion and should of won games such as the game against Sivas Bld. We also had a great run of staying unbeaten only until the most recent game against  Kirsehir who smacked us with 3 goals and we we're lucky to get a goal in the end. 

 

The Turkiye Kupasi (domestic cup) 

As you can see we swiftly progressed against  Boluspor who are a league above us but in the relegation positions. Which means it was a rival not too far from our own standard. 

 

A comfortable win saw us progress to the 4th Round where the luck of the draw put us against ...  

 

Goztepe SK ... I don't believe it. So many easier teams to play against  and we get a team that plays in the top flight !!!! 

So going into the match against Goztepe I had no real optimism however I was proven wrong and we would end up taking it all the way to penalties !

 

Within the extra 30 min they had several chances to score, we maybe had 1 or 2 which didn't translate into much. I mean look at my team ! I am grateful no one is injured with their condition being so so low, they could barely kick a ball let alone score a goal. 

However, penalties is was ! This is it. Our best chance to actually beat them. So what happened you ask? 

 

 

I couldn't believe my luck when I saw that an injured player was about to take the deciding penalty !!!! We were going through ! The cup run would be truly on as we would progress to the 5th Round and who knows what would happen. The magic of the Turkiye Kupasi was smiling to us. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The injured player scored the penalty ... we went on to miss our next penalty and then they scored. Magic was over. Cherif N'Diaye really destroyed all our dreams of cup success. 

 

 

Quick update on our league standing. Now that the cup is out the way we can focus on winning the league ... hopefully. 

Edited January 18, 2021 by Polski97
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