FM22 Global (Less England) Small Club to Big Club Challenge

[Tyer]

6 hours ago, Thebaker said:

2031

Table | Squad | Transfers

Started the season in reasonable form where the team was in most matches or on top but just kept losing by the odd goal or drawing. With an 8 match winless run the team became established near the bottom of the league although always with 2 teams below them. As the season went on the games became more one-sided with more heavy defeats and only a few wins.  The team performances were not helped by 9 reds and 135 yellows which led to me never putting out my strongest team.

Thanks to the the 2 bottom teams being so poor (i got 8 points from them) the team finished in the relegation playoffs. In the 1st leg away against Atvidabergs the team was 2nd best until they had a player sent off allowing me to draw 1-1. In the home leg the team was again under pressure until they again got a player sent off and i won the game 2-0 to stay up.

In the swedish cup the team made the group stages for the 1st time. Against superettan Taby and Norrby the team were comfortable winners but narrowly lost 2-3 to Allsvenskan Hammerby although they had 38 shots on goal.

Finances increased considerably due to the prize money (16th got 700k compared to 0 in the leagues below). As a result i was able to convince with difficulty the board to increase the youth recruitment and junior coaching at the end of the season.

Player performance was ok in most cases although the FB's and wingers were poor. The best player was Cakaric although Noori also stepped up well.

Season

League

Position

Swedish Cup

Europe

Top Scorer

Top Assists

Attendance

Training

Youth

Junior

Youth Rec

Notes

2027

D1 N

11th

Not entered

N/A

Noori (11)

Kruger (9)

330

Poor

Poor

Fairly Basic

Basic

2028

D1 N

3rd

1st Rd

N/A

Noori (9)

Kruger (15)

336

Poor

Poor

Average

Basic

2029

D1 N

5th

2nd Rd

N/A

Noori (18)

Nordfeldt (10)

337

Poor

Poor

Average

Basic

2030

D1 N

2nd

2nd Rd

N/A

Wood(16)

Wood (9)

461

Poor

Poor

Average

Basic

Promoted

2031

Superettan

14th

Group stage

N/A

Noori (14)

Cakaric (7)

513

Poor

Poor

Adequate

Fairly Basic

 

 

Didn't realize we already had someone in Sweden!  I'll have some catching up to do

[Tyer]

I did make a forum post in the help section about the save, of course got zero replies

 

I did think about playing it a couple more seasons to see if making it to the champions league group stage will up my reputation, I think this is the first year on that save I've done that.  And keep trying for another season or two and if the board still says no to abandon the save.  I might do that.

Edited January 16, 2022 by Tyer

[Britrock]

8 hours ago, Thebaker said:

@Britrocki suppose it was always going to be tough as your club is so much smaller than the others. What are the finances like with the new stadium?

The new stadium isn't built yet (next season) but the finances are horrific! I kept most of the team around after relegation (without any wage reductions), so we were ~£8k over the wage budget. The wage budget's now been reduced by £6k so we're way over it and hemorrhaging money. We have at least gone through the first 10 games of the season unbeaten so promotion back to Ligue 2 currently looks on the cards.

[Tyer]

 

 

Edited January 17, 2022 by Tyer

[jmarchand]

Il y a 6 heures, aldojags a dit :

@jmarchandgreat season, can't remember exactly but weren't Galatarasay like 9th last year? I remember seeing a screenshot of someone doing a Turkish save and being stunned at how far they had fallen off, was it your save? Great keeper and that first youth prospect - get him in the team soon he'll be a starting quality player before long!

They had fallen 6th in my save last year, fired Andrea Pirlo then rallied a bit. There's still a quatuor which is head and shoulders above everything else, but it feels like Hajduk and Dinamo in my Croatian save last year, except now there are 4 clubs to overthrow, not just one or two. 

[_JHTB_]

I finally managed to get to a stage where my board weren't accepting the first seven figure offer that came there way for a player and now have ended up with a new ownership. Hopefully these will be willing to let me deal with transfer bids how I see fit so I can maximise on those I'm willing to sell and won't lose those I'm not.

[Tyer]

Brora Rangers 31/32 Season

Decided to play out this season to see where I ended up, see if reputation would increase and maybe raise the youth rating, that is still to be seen but we won the league again, not super comfortably, Celtic was hanging around till the end.

I think my team's rise up the standings may have broke Rangers financially as they were a very distant away from the top 3.  (although they beat us in the scottish cup final.)  Aberdeen did stick around a long time making things interesting.  We do get 2 Champions league places mine is automatic group stage, Celtic will go to 3rd qualifying round.

4th in group stage.  Nice win against Juventus when they got a red card and two draws against Benfica. Rich Finances now. 

 

Here is my Slovakian wonderkid.  (He wasn't a wonderkid when I bought him for 2.2mil but he's become one.)  Board gave me a 2million dollar transfer budget....not super happy with that.  Did up our wage limit a couple million.  But next year might just be the exact same team.

Edited January 17, 2022 by Tyer

[aldojags]

Amazing what you’ve done there Tyer in ten years with Brora, wish this stupid youth academy thing would resolve for you as ive no doubt you’d complete with them one day, hate wee bugs like that

[Tyer]

Thanks it's frustrating and whenever I start a new save I lose motivation quickly.  Reputation boost didn't help this.  Has to be a bug.  Maybe making the knockouts?  Maybe a new owner?  Who knows.  I guess I can keep playing it, we are slowly improving

 

[Tyer]

So everyone.  I asked around some discord servers and found a 3rd party editor that I could use to fix the youth recruitment for 6 pounds

 

 

I can change the youth recruitment here, once I buy the license.  Which with how much I play the save 6 pounds is nothing.  What do you think a fair amount to change it is?

A:) Just change it to level two and see if that fixes the bug in game. 

or

B:) Do an average of my other facilites so something like 14?

 

(part of me thought don't post a pic of a 3rd party on the forums, but screw it, it's their bug that I put on their forums a while back with no response.)

 

Edited January 17, 2022 by Tyer

[aldojags]

Maybe as an experiment, increase it 1 level, just to see if that  budges it any!?

 

Glad u have a workaround!

[Tyer]

Tha'ts what I did, I bumped it to lvl 2 and I'll see if they improve it throughout the 32/33 season.  If they still don't I'll bump it to like 14

[jmarchand]

Hoping that this gets you unstuck, @Tyer!

[Tyer]

45 minutes ago, jmarchand said:

Hoping that this gets you unstuck, @Tyer!

Ya, it worked moving it from 1 to 2 in game, although I was denied the first time I asked to go to 2 to 3.

I think if it doesn't work this year I'm just going to move it to whatever the average is of my other 3 facilities.  

As I understand it, youth recruitment is an monthly or yearly expense so I'd still be paying for it.  I don't see anything too wrong with that.  

[Tecmo]

The Spartans - Scotland - 2025/2026

Very successful first season in League 1.

League Table

Slightly slow start until I realized we didn't need to play scared in this league. Despite only making 2 changes to our normal lineup from the previous season we surged up the table quickly. Never could get into first place but we spent most of the season in a three way battle for it along with Airdrie and the eventual champs, Arbroath, and ended the season in second place.

We faced Airdrie in a bit of a bonkers playoff matchup. Battled with them away in the first match and were tied 1-1 when our left fullback got sent off on a dubious red card. We quickly gave up a goal but hung on from there to go into the second leg down 2-1. The second leg was crazy. We set a record by scoring 15 seconds in the game, they responded quickly and then we poured it on. 5 goals in the first 22 minutes including a hat trick by Harry Gordon and we were up 5-1 at halftime. Slacked off a bit in the second half but hung on to win 5-3 and advance 6-5 on aggregate.

We faced Queen of the South in the finals, a team we struggled against during the season. It proved to be a struggle again as we just could not crack their 4-5-1 formation. They grabbed a late goal in the first game to take a 1-0 win and then, despite dominating the game, we just couldn't score in the second leg and a 0-0 draw wasn't good enough.

Disappointing but I'm not too crushed. We have definite room for improvement and I'm confident we can compete for the league title next season.

Premier Sports Cup

Yep, still don't like this. Favorable group draw with two League 2 sides but we choked, losing one of those to East Kilbride 0-2 despite dominating the game. Motherwell and Dumfernline dominated us and we managed to beat the other League 2 side, Annan, to avoid finishing last in our group.

SPFL Trust Trophy

This went better as we made it to the 3rd round with wins over Ross County U21s and Albion Rovers but a game at East Fife, also in our league, went to penalty kicks where we fell.

Scottish Cup

We almost choked a favorable draw for our first match as we needed an injury time goal to draw with Cumbernauld Colts from two leagues below us but we made up for it in the replay crushing them 5-1.

The next round saw us face Motherwell again and again they crushed us. Long time Premiership side that had been relegated to the Championship two seasons ago, they also crushed the Championship this season and are going back to the top league.

Starting 11

GK Colin Gilmore - Just keeps performing, he was our hero in the shootout that got us promoted last season. Kept looking for a replacement for him early as my scouts keep telling me he's only Highland-Lowland League standard but all he did was get named as the League 1 goalkeeper of the year. 13 clean sheets, he's signed and locked in as our starter next year.

DL Euan Deveney - One of our two new starters, I brought him in on loan from Stranraer where he was unhappy for some reason. Set piece specialist with 8 assists, we'll try to sign him permanently this offseason. In the League 1 Team of the Year

DCL Daniel Baur - Been with the side since they were in the Lowland League, always steady. Might be his last season with us coming up though, especially if we win promotion.

RCL Dane Murray - Our rock in defense, signed him during the winter transfer window the previous season. May have to fight off other clubs to keep him. Not showing interest in a new contract, current one expires after the coming season.

DR Aaron Dunsmore - Has served us admirably for 3 seasons but he's about to turn 30 and his contract is expiring. And I have a youngster ready to take his place.

MCL Lucas Reed - Our one actual signing last season, mostly played as a carrilero, nice and solid, only issue is a lack of fitness.

MC Adam McDonald - Only 20, he's been on loan with us from Motherwell for 2 1/2 years now. Playing as a defensive ball winner in the middle of the pitch, hoping I can get him signed permanently this offseason.

MCR Harry Gordon - The 22 year old really came into his own this season playing as a mezzala on the right side. 11 goals, 5 assists including the hat trick in the playoffs. Also League 1 Team of the Year.

AMC Kyle Turner - My most problematic position as I played a couple veterans there but just didn't get what I need. Highest priority for the offseason although I do have a couple promising youngsters on the way.

STCL Innes Lawson - Bought him from Edinburgh University as a winger, converted to a striker, safe to say the conversion has gone well. 20 league goals, 26 overall to go with 4 assists.  League 1 Team of the Year, we have him under control for two more seasons. Amazed no one has ever shown interest in him.

STCR Blair Henderson - Club legend but League 1 seems like a step too far for the soon to be 32 year old. 5 goals and 5 assists just isn't enough, we'll look to replace him.

Youth Intake - Our youths are doing amazingly well. We actually won the Scottish Youth Cup this season. We had three regens score their first competitive goal for us this season and I am planning on my starting DR being Tom Wringe after a successful season on loan helping Peterhead get promoted from League 2.

We also had probably our best youth intake yet with Eoghan Tierney looking like a future star.

Finances

Doing very well, over 200K on the plus side. Think I need to see about upgrading some of our youth setup to support these players we have coming up.

Around the World

Celtic is back in control. Rangers beat them in 2021-2022 but Celtic has won every season since. Frank Lampard has been managing Celtic since 2022. Hearts overtook Rangers this season to finish second. Neither side has managed to get past the Champions League group stage yet.

Borussia Dortmund won the most recent Champions League but Real Madrid and Liverpool are facing each other in this year's final.

England won the 2022 World Cup and the 2024 Euros.

 

 

 

 

[Britrock]

I don't think my accountants like me too much at the moment - £1.3m in debt and £10k over the wage budget. I'm all in on getting promoted back to Ligue 2 this season, money be damned. Luckily the board are still on my side as we're sitting fairly comfortably in second place

Edited January 18, 2022 by Britrock

[Tyer]

If I've learned anything that prior to the top league, just go route one very high tempo, very direct, higher both lines.  Very little instuctions outside of player instructions that make sense to hide the lower league players weaknesses.  Sign physicals over mentals and technical, and it's a fairly easy march up the leagues.  

Near post corners, keep the subs match fit with friendlies to get extra cash.

Fire everyone in the U19's - U21's.  You don't need them and they won't develop anyways at your club with poor coaches/facilities.

Loans

[Tyer]

Maybe have a chance to get out of this group:

That Belgian team isn't very good at all

 

 

Edited January 19, 2022 by Tyer

[aldojags]

hope so @Tyer if you can get something from Lyon at home and Juve at home you've a good chance I'm sure, definitely going to be at least third, but qualifying is a good chance too!

[_JHTB_]

 

Donegal Celtic

Season 14 – Danske Bank Premier League – 1st

Transfers – Best XI – Squad – Key Player – Hot Prospect

 

Overview

Transfer Window:

Incomings: Our first season of major paid for incomings as I looked to try and enhance the long term viability of the squad, though did still end up with a few loans. We’d agreed to sign Diallo permanently part way through last season when he was on loan so he came in. We also immediately broke the transfer record on Gorman - £1.1m as well as bringing in Oviedo - £875k. The summer also saw us bring in a new goalkeeper, Valencia, to be our first choice. The signings wouldn’t be complete without a loan or two, and good loans they were as we signed McCall and Wakefield on deadline day so ended up not even having to pay wages which is huge.

January also saw us make a few more signings largely players for the future but we did bring in Kierans for £750k and brought in Alarcon as his contract expired both providing helpful squad options. I also spent money on a player for the future who didn’t get a work permit initially as Rendon joined the club for £500k but was immediately loaned out. We also triggered an agreed clause in our loan of Gilberto to sign him at the end of the season for £2.5m I think I’m overpaying, but he’s a long standing member of the team so I’m not too worried.

Outgoings: I sold youth prospect Mulligan this summer, he was only ever a fringe player for us so I was ok to sell him – perhaps could have held out for more than £46k, but I’m happy for him to leave and stay domestically to try and strengthen the league as a whole. He wasn’t the only youth prospect to leave as we also sold McCarthy to England for £400k. We did make some first team sales too as after 7 seasons on the books we sold Campbell for £1.2m (what prompted the signing of Kierans). We also made it two mid season windows in a row where we sold a goalkeeper for £5m as this time our back up keeper Morin was snapped up by Schalke a fee I was very happy with.

Europe: We progressed through to the playoffs for the Champions League pretty easily, and after drawing Shamrock Rovers, who we’d bested in the last 4 consecutive All Ireland Champions Leagues, I thought that we’d be shoe ins to qualify for yet another Champions League group stage. Inexplicably we lost, both legs we played not well – though I don’t mind being in the Europa League instead.

Newcastle, Atalanta and Malmo were our opposition in the Europa League group stage. Malmo we easily dispatched in both the home and away games. Atalanta however, I thought we were unlucky to draw our home game but then we demolished them 6-0 in the away game. We also beat Newcastle at home, but unfortunately against away we lost 4-1, was disappointing as we were the better team but found ourselves 2-1 down before we were reduced to 10 men. We were chasing the game and got hit with a couple sucker punches to lose 4-1.

The knockout stages were relatively even, first pitting us against Sociedad which we ended up winning comfortably after a close first leg draw. We next faced up against Lyon who had knocked us out in 2 of the last 3 European campaigns so it was time for revenge, again a first leg draw followed by a second leg win to progress to the Quarter Finals for the second year running. We faced Chelsea here and were in dreamland after the first leg following a 1-0 victory at Stamford Bridge, the home leg was a cagey affair all told and we found ourselves heading into extra time before heartbreak as Chelsea scored a late winner to dump us out the Europa League. Another good showing in Europe from us though, so I’m pleased.

League: We were worse defensively this season conceding as many as 14 goals, double last season. I feel my ‘keepers eccentricity had something to do with this as many were conceded as he rushed out and missed indirect freekicks, but still not really a lot to concede. Offensively we were better than ever 175 goals on our way to a perfect season, 38 wins out of 38. Complete dominance.

Cup: The domestic cups again we were comfortable for us. County Antrim Shield, Irish Cup, and the League Cup were all easily retained. I learnt this year though that the Irish Champions League actually qualifies as continental football, meaning any bans we accumulated in the Europa League could be served (but also any bans we collected here would carry). Alas, Shamrock Rovers had our number this season and beat us in that too, disappointing we couldn’t keep our run going.

Next Season

We need to continue to strengthen the squad with permanent players even though I’ve extended several of my loan signings. We’re still low on reputation so we are really focusing on improving the nation club coefficients. We’re up to 17^th now which gets us a little better on qualifying places, but I’m aiming to reach 15^th next season which will see others in the country have chance to qualify for the Champions League and Europa League rather than just the conference league. (Making the assumption that we’ll be winning the league regardless).

Players of note

Rhys Guppy – Guppy had a couple medium term injuries which meant he didn’t play as much this season, but when he did play, he of course excelled. Arguably worse season for him than his last couple but still incredible nonetheless.

Remi McCall – A fantastic player and great loan signing. 17 goals and 17 assists in the league from central midfield. Wasn’t as effecting in Europe but a very good season nonetheless, and I’ve managed to secure him for next season too.

Barry O’Connor – Another very good season for O’Connor for us. We fielded some bids from some big clubs for him, but he didn’t show any signs of unrest. Always nice for two home grown players to be amongst my best performers.

Youth Watch

Ross Kavanagh – I am surprised to see that he’s played less this season, but he was much more effective in his game time regardless. 4 goals and 6 assists in the league a handy contribution as a squad player.

Matt Harbison – Came through a couple of years ago but was showing promising development in the reserves this season so got promoted to the senior squad and did play a few games. Didn’t shine all too much, but I’m happy with how he has developed this season so hopefully he can eventually grow into at least a good squad option for us.

Ryan Power – Barely played this season due largely to me favouring other players, it’s harsh on him as he’s a good player for the level, just not as good as the others. I think I want to keep him around but if I get a good offer I will let him go for sure.

Overview

 

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Oh.

Edited January 19, 2022 by _JHTB_

[Tyer]

8 hours ago, aldojags said:

hope so @Tyer if you can get something from Lyon at home and Juve at home you've a good chance I'm sure, definitely going to be at least third, but qualifying is a good chance too!

I think I will get out of it.  

I beat Juve 3-1 away after de Ligt gets a red card in 14th minute.  I think I'm going to make a post recapping all 6 games once I finish, but 6 points from first 2 games, 3rd for sure

[aldojags]

As ever @_JHTB_great  post and looking at your progress and aquad for the irish leagues is a hell of an achivement so far!

 

gorman looks fantastic- he’s not listed in the wee transfer screen- who did u sign him from, another irish club? He looks great. Also remi mccall- superb and glad u got him back for another year. And rhys guppy man, if a “down year” for him is 92 goal contributions from 50 odd games…sign me up!! Got to be the player of the thread so far!

[_JHTB_]

35 minutes ago, aldojags said:

gorman looks fantastic- he’s not listed in the wee transfer screen- who did u sign him from, another irish club? He looks great. Also remi mccall- superb and glad u got him back for another year. And rhys guppy man, if a “down year” for him is 92 goal contributions from 50 odd games…sign me up!! Got to be the player of the thread so far!

Gorman was signed from Shamrock Rovers, I tried signing him the previous January for his 900k release fee but he signed a new contract with them. He's not on the transfer list just because he signed before the league reset date so is down as last season. He's a little annoyed at me though as he wanted to be played as an inverted winger on the left and I had the audacity to play him as an inverted winger on the left.

To be fair with Guppy it was only a 'down' season because he was injured for 10 weeks of it, and was more assists than goalscoring this year - I'm still on giving him new contracts every 6 months to keep him happy and interest low, but now he's wanting a lot more money he's on £12.5k p/w which is still a bargain for what he offers, but still over double everyone else in the squad (they're probably underpaid too)

With McCall it was a case of I couldn't turn down the opportunity to sign him. I do want to try and get myself to a point where I don't have loan players in the squad, but I can't get anyone of that quality within budget so hopefully I can use him to enhance the club till I can sign one like him on a permanent. 

Edited January 19, 2022 by _JHTB_

[aldojags]

7 minutes ago, _JHTB_ said:

Gorman was signed from Shamrock Rovers, I tried signing him the previous January for his 900k release fee but he signed a new contract with them. He's not on the transfer list just because he signed before the league reset date so is down as last season. He's a little annoyed at me though as he wanted to be played as an inverted winger on the left and I had the audacity to play him as an inverted winger on the left.

To be fair with Guppy it was only a 'down' season because he was injured for 10 weeks of it, and was more assists than goalscoring this year - I'm still on giving him new contracts every 6 months to keep him happy and interest low, but now he's wanting a lot more money he's on £12.5k p/w which is still a bargain for what he offers, but still over double everyone else in the squad (they're probably underpaid too)

With McCall it was a case of I couldn't turn down the opportunity to sign him. I do want to try and get myself to a point where I don't have loan players in the squad, but I can't get anyone of that quality within budget so hopefully I can use him to enhance the club till I can sign one like him on a permanent. 

yeh that's it, you'll be able to cope without the loanees one day but takes a while - you're on the right path though! Won't be long until you're the one loaning out players like him cos he can't get in your team!

[aldojags]

 

League Table | Fixtures 1 & 2 | Finances | Club Vision | Facilities | Manager Profile | Transfers

 

After last seasons debacle of surviving by a point, with 1 clean sheet in 34, massive improvement this season, had the boring mid table season I was dreaming about! Never in any danger of going down, and despite appearances of league table, I was never really in contention for Europe either. Despite this being my 4th season in Bundesliga, I feel no closer to the top 6/7 teams than I did my first season, but hey I'll worry about that if it's still case after ten seasons! But delighted with the turnaround, greatly reduced our goals conceded, had a few clean sheets, and i came 2nd in manager of the year!

Club in good nick financially, i finished season pretty much with a balance of 0, the healthy balance you see in screenshot is all the prize money. Plus, I sold this guy to Leipzig for £30m, i know his attributes look good, but he was consistently average so I just took the money!

Team

Squad

A few changes to the starting line up from last season. In terms of players in of note, most successful signing was Warren Bondo on loan from Leipzig, who I've now paid £5.25m to to make the deal permanent as he had a good season and is one of our best players. Miguel Lomonaco was signed from Argentina in December and had a really good half season, think I'll make a fortune on him one day. Jonas David wasn't a new signing but had a great year, was like runner up German player of the year rather weirdly! He never lets me down!

 

Homegrown players of note, I made Oliver Ganz my starting right back, he was average, but hoping he goes onto bigger and better things, he looks good for 17 I'm sure you'll agree. And Kevin Meissner started most weeks, have 3 years left on his deal, which is cheap for me, he wants more money understandably, but wants a £17m release clause in it, and I'm just not agreeing to that, he'll be worth so much more than that very soon, so I'm playing hardball as I have 3 years to win him round!

 

 

Youth Intake

Preview | Intake | Squad View

 

Had a few good players through the intake over the years, despite the write up given to them on the screenshots, none of them this year are that exciting so i didn't screenshot them, if they ever make it near first team i'll post it one day!

Next season

Board still want just to avoid relegation, wages wise we are like 2nd bottom of the league, so I am glad they're not wanting too much! Signed this guy from Chelsea coming in on a free, few others but mainly looking to build on the young core we are assembling and maybe work a few of my own kids into the fold! Have been given £15m in the transfer market so i'll try my usual recruitment drive in South America! I just want another top half finish, and maybe threaten the european spaces a bit more!

 

 

Season	Div	Pos	Cup	Ave Att	Europe	WC/Euros	ECC	EC	EC2	Ballon D’Or	Highest world transfer
2022/23	3. Liga	1st	N/A	9087	N/A	WC - France	Liverpool	Inter	Atalanta	Mo Salah L'pool	Youri Tielemans PSG (£82m)
2023/24	Bundesliga 2	8th	1st rd	13,108	N/A	Euros - England	PSG	Milan	Sevilla	Mo Salah L'pool	Lautaro Martinez PSG (£102m)
2024/25	Bundesliga 2	2nd	2nd rd	14,433	N/A		Liverpool	Inter	Lille	Mo Salah L’pool	Joao Felix PSG (£124m)
2025/26	Bundesliga	12th	2nd rd	18,452	N/A	WC Brazil	Liverpool	Arsenal	Dortmund	Erling Haaland Man City	Jeremy Doku AC Milan (87m)
2026/27	Bundesliga	9th	2nd rd	17,639 (new stadium)	N/A		Real Madrid	Atletico Madrid	Milan	Kyllian Mbappe Real Madrid	Yusuf Demir Chelsea (£103m)
2027/28	Bundesliga	15th	2nd rd	21,857	N/A	Euro-Spain	Liverpool	Borrusia Mgladbach	Arsenal	Mo Salah Liverpool	Ilaix Moriba Chelsea (83m)
2028/29	Bundesliga	8th	3rd rd	28,809	N/A		Liverpool	Man Utd	Real Sociedad	Kyllian Mbappe Real Madrid	Jadon Sancho Real Madrid (£128m)

 

 

[Mahzun_Savas]

I am going to have another go at this challenge with C.D. Pamplona. I was very unhappy with how it finished in the first attempt

Manger Profile.

[HARRY CAGE]

How can I enter the challenge ?

 

snaptube  vidmate

Edited January 20, 2022 by HARRY CAGE

[Tyer]

5 hours ago, HARRY CAGE said:

How can I enter the challenge ?

 

snaptube  vidmate

Instructions are on the first page of the thread

Basically create a manager to vacation one year into the future, and then create another manager (the one you are going to use) to play a newly promoted team in the lowest division of whatever country you pick (not england)

Then just post screenshots of your manager profile and updates on the save!

[Tyer]

15 hours ago, aldojags said:

 

League Table | Fixtures 1 & 2 | Finances | Club Vision | Facilities | Manager Profile | Transfers

 

After last seasons debacle of surviving by a point, with 1 clean sheet in 34, massive improvement this season, had the boring mid table season I was dreaming about! Never in any danger of going down, and despite appearances of league table, I was never really in contention for Europe either. Despite this being my 4th season in Bundesliga, I feel no closer to the top 6/7 teams than I did my first season, but hey I'll worry about that if it's still case after ten seasons! But delighted with the turnaround, greatly reduced our goals conceded, had a few clean sheets, and i came 2nd in manager of the year!

Club in good nick financially, i finished season pretty much with a balance of 0, the healthy balance you see in screenshot is all the prize money. Plus, I sold this guy to Leipzig for £30m, i know his attributes look good, but he was consistently average so I just took the money!

Team

Squad

A few changes to the starting line up from last season. In terms of players in of note, most successful signing was Warren Bondo on loan from Leipzig, who I've now paid £5.25m to to make the deal permanent as he had a good season and is one of our best players. Miguel Lomonaco was signed from Argentina in December and had a really good half season, think I'll make a fortune on him one day. Jonas David wasn't a new signing but had a great year, was like runner up German player of the year rather weirdly! He never lets me down!

 

Homegrown players of note, I made Oliver Ganz my starting right back, he was average, but hoping he goes onto bigger and better things, he looks good for 17 I'm sure you'll agree. And Kevin Meissner started most weeks, have 3 years left on his deal, which is cheap for me, he wants more money understandably, but wants a £17m release clause in it, and I'm just not agreeing to that, he'll be worth so much more than that very soon, so I'm playing hardball as I have 3 years to win him round!

 

 

Youth Intake

Preview | Intake | Squad View

 

Had a few good players through the intake over the years, despite the write up given to them on the screenshots, none of them this year are that exciting so i didn't screenshot them, if they ever make it near first team i'll post it one day!

Next season

Board still want just to avoid relegation, wages wise we are like 2nd bottom of the league, so I am glad they're not wanting too much! Signed this guy from Chelsea coming in on a free, few others but mainly looking to build on the young core we are assembling and maybe work a few of my own kids into the fold! Have been given £15m in the transfer market so i'll try my usual recruitment drive in South America! I just want another top half finish, and maybe threaten the european spaces a bit more!

 

 

Season	Div	Pos	Cup	Ave Att	Europe	WC/Euros	ECC	EC	EC2	Ballon D’Or	Highest world transfer
2022/23	3. Liga	1st	N/A	9087	N/A	WC - France	Liverpool	Inter	Atalanta	Mo Salah L'pool	Youri Tielemans PSG (£82m)
2023/24	Bundesliga 2	8th	1st rd	13,108	N/A	Euros - England	PSG	Milan	Sevilla	Mo Salah L'pool	Lautaro Martinez PSG (£102m)
2024/25	Bundesliga 2	2nd	2nd rd	14,433	N/A		Liverpool	Inter	Lille	Mo Salah L’pool	Joao Felix PSG (£124m)
2025/26	Bundesliga	12th	2nd rd	18,452	N/A	WC Brazil	Liverpool	Arsenal	Dortmund	Erling Haaland Man City	Jeremy Doku AC Milan (87m)
2026/27	Bundesliga	9th	2nd rd	17,639 (new stadium)	N/A		Real Madrid	Atletico Madrid	Milan	Kyllian Mbappe Real Madrid	Yusuf Demir Chelsea (£103m)
2027/28	Bundesliga	15th	2nd rd	21,857	N/A	Euro-Spain	Liverpool	Borrusia Mgladbach	Arsenal	Mo Salah Liverpool	Ilaix Moriba Chelsea (83m)
2028/29	Bundesliga	8th	3rd rd	28,809	N/A		Liverpool	Man Utd	Real Sociedad	Kyllian Mbappe Real Madrid	Jadon Sancho Real Madrid (£128m)

 

 

8th in Germany is just one spot out of Europe right?

[aldojags]

4 hours ago, Tyer said:

8th in Germany is just one spot out of Europe right?

Normally, but as Werder Bremen won the cup, they took the spot that 7th would normally get, so this year it was top 6 and Werder Bremen who were much further down.

[Tyer]

Nice prize money in Germany, once you break into Europe you'll be bounds ahead of teams from smaller countries 

[Tyer]

Brora Rangers European Journey:  Wow! Easy group!  We did move up to the 3rd pool so there was going to be a worse rep team than us in there

Will update:

First match vs Cercle Brugge, this isn't a very good team.  5-1 easy win.  ( I didn't have this league loaded so I'm unsure how this team rose so far, I did add all the major leagues to view only after this, mainly because I want to see if we get over that Beligian league if we get better Champions league spots.

Second match at. Juve.  Early red card gives us a simple win, 

Third match vs. Lyon, are we just better than Lyon?

Fourth match at. Lyon, yup...I guess so.  I noticed they had a pretty tired lineup against us, didn't rotate team?  12 points for us, 7 for Juve, 4 for OL, 0 for Brugge. 

Fifth match vs. Juve.  Beat us very comfortably.  I guess we were lucky they got an early red card game 2

Sixth match at. Cercle Brugge Needed to win to guarantee first, so couldn't mess around with line up here.  And of course 3mil for a win means go for it!

Got some work to do in the league.  Celtic is very very strong this year

 

[Mahzun_Savas]

Well done on winning your group @Tyer

[aldojags]

Not bad @Tyer!! 

[DazRTaylor]

End of Season Review

Season 2023/24

Rot-Weiss Essen

Season Summary

A season of triumph as promotion to the second tier was secured with ease.

Season Details

League Table - We were always in the top two and never looked in danger of missing out on promotion.

League Fixtures 1 & 2 - Winning game after game increased the lead over the non promotion places and we secured promotion with ease.

DFB-Pokal - A home defeat to second tier outfit Karlsruhe ended our interest in the competition at the second round stage.

Pre Season Friendlies - An undefeated pre season campaign set us up nicely for the season ahead.

Squad - We are more than good enough for a top half finish next year in the second tier.

Squad Dynamics - As good as you would expect.

Transfers In 1 & 2 - A lot of new players arrived, including smashing the clubs transfer record.

Transfers Out - I cleared out a lot of fringe players, raising close to £2m in the process.

Youth Candidates - Striker Mustafa Gül YP24A11 is supposed to be the best prospect from what can only be described as a poor intake.

Finances - Although we are in the red, the prize money on offer in the 2. Bundesliga means this won't be for long.

Key Players

Florian Hartherz - Experienced German left back signed on a free transfer in January and slotted straight into the team.

Quintino - Teenage Brazilian left winger signed on a free transfer from Bahia in January.  He was an immediate hit.

Dominik Nagy - Hungarian international who can play on either wing, he had a terrific campaign.

Dane Scarlett - Another January signing, the English striker was sensational after arriving on loan from Tottenham Hotspur.

Ivan Šaranić - Our best loan signing of the season, the Croatian right winger was excellent after signing for the season from Internazionale in Italy.

Next Season

I feel a top half finish is not out of the question.

Personal Coaching Data

Season     Reputation            Qualifications     Att   Def   Fit   GkD   GkH   GkS   Tac   Tec   Men   WWY   Ada   Det   PlK   YoK   LoD   MaM   Mot
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At start   Minimal   (0.25*)     None                 1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     4     1     1     1     4     1     1     1
2022/23    Minimal = (1.00*) ↑   National B     ↑↑    6 ↑   6 ↑   2 ↑   1 =   1 =   1 =   6 ↑   6 ↑   6 ↑   4 =   1 =   5 ↑   6 ↑   6 ↑   6 ↑   6 ↑   6 ↑
2023/24    Minimal = (2.25*) ↑   Continental B ↑↑↑   10 ↑  10 ↑   4 ↑   1 =   1 =   1 =  10 ↑  10 ↑  10 ↑   4 =   1 =   8 ↑   9 ↑   9 ↑  20 ↑  12 ↑  11 ↑

Club Facilities

Season     Training Facilities  Youth Facilities  Corporate Facilities  Junior Coaching  Youth Recruitment  Club Reputation
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At Start   Average              Average           Top                   Average          Adequate           National   (2.00*)
2022/23    Average =            Average =         Top =                 Adequate ↑       Good ↑↑            National = (2.00*) =
2023/24    Average =            Average =         Top =                 Adequate =       Good =             National = (2.50*) ↑

Season Record

Season     Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage
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2022/23      38        20        8       10          74              41                 +33              52.63%
2023/24      40        31        6        3          93              26                 +67              77.50% ↑

Overall Career Record

After Season   Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage     Time At Club
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2022/23          38        20        8       10          74              41                 +33              52.63%             327 days
2023/24          78        51       14       13         167              67                +100              65.38% ↑           699 days

Transfer Purchase Record

Date               Player                    Position               Club Purchased From          Country                   Transfer Fee
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 1 July 2022       Lukas Kunze               Central Midfield       Vfl Osnabrück                Germany                        £33,000
23 January 2024    Sebastian Storskov        Central Defence        Millwall                     England                       £600,000

Transfer Sale Record

Date               Player                    Position               Club Sold To                 Country                   Transfer Fee
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28 September 2022  Felix Bastians            Central Defender       Umm-Salal Sports Club        Qatar                           £1,300
10 January 2023    Daniel Heber              Defender               Braunschweig TSV Eintracht   Germany                        £11,250
 1 July 2023       Sandro Plechaty           Right Back             1. FC Magdeburg              Germany                        £18,000
10 July 2023       Lucas Copado              Striker                Hamburger SV                 Germany                     £1,300,000

Trophy Haul

Season     Competition Won
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2023/24             3.Liga

Trophy Cabinet

League Titles
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1 x 3.Liga (2023/24)

Cup Competition Victories
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Career Overview

Season     Champions League    Europa League    Europa Conference League             League            Position        DFB-Pokal           Achievements
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2022/23           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       3. Liga              4th             N/a              Missed out on promotion playoffs by one point.
2023/24           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       3. Liga              1st ↑        Second Round        Promoted as champions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 21, 2022 by DazRTaylor

[jmarchand]

Our first European venture went pretty well so far...! we even beat Leicester 2-1 at home (and weren't totally outclassed when we played on their ground...). But I remember now how much of a toll this has on your fixture list and our guys are pretty tired now, we'll need more depth for sure... 

[jmarchand]

Great job winning your group, @Tyer! 

[_JHTB_]

On 20/01/2022 at 01:51, aldojags said:

Plus, I sold this guy to Leipzig for £30m, i know his attributes look good, but he was consistently average so I just took the money!

He looks really good in attributes at least - but I think £30m is a very good price for him.

Told you you'd get midtable! Good season in the end hopefully it can be built on going into the new season and push towards getting some European football. Like you I'm on my South American recruitment drive now (or rather Colombia exclusively recruitment drive).

 

@DazRTaylor, very comfortable promotion for you in the end, unbeaten away from home too which is nice

[Britrock]

Hyères 83 Football Club - 2028/29 season review

So after the disappointment of relegation from Ligue 2 we kept most of the team together and went for a promotion straight back up. We bought no-one in because the board reduced our wage bill so we were massively over it by keeping everyone around. We sold a few players who weren't used and went into the season with a trimmed down squad of only 21 players. Somehow we avoided major injuries throughout the season and even with selling one of our best players in Vermant for £250k in January, we ended up winning the National. It wasn't easy by any measure - Chambly started the season with a ridiculous 13 wins in a row (smashing the previous record by 4 games) and led for a large portion of the year. They fell off spectacularly in the new year though and actually ended up in 4th, totally outside of the promotion spots. In the second half of the season Annecy went on their own run, winning 9 games in a row (and collected 40/45 points in a 15 game span). The whole time Le Mans were always hanging around the promotion spots as well, just waiting for someone to fall off (and they did, Le Mans finished 2nd with Annecy 3rd). Luckily we held them all off, the critical game coming 3 from the end of the season when we came from behind to beat Annecy 2-1. In the penultimate game we won our final ever match at Stade Perruc and claimed the title.

We didn't really bother with the Coupe de France this year, promotion was everything so that was a rotated team in every fixture. We battered some lower division teams then went out the first time we played someone from our level.

Spoiler

Star player was Ibrahima Sow, who knocked in a club record 30 goals including a league record 29 in the National. Louis Carnot was again the highest rated player, with another absurd 19 assists and 9 goals. The back three of Voyer, Kamardin and El Maach were all solid, giving us the joint best defence in the league (30 goals, level with Le Mans) and also chipping in with 8 goals between them. I have no idea how many of the team I'll be able to take into next year, a lot of them have contracts that run out this year so I may just let them expire and build a new team for Ligue 2 as this lot got relegated a year ago. Sow is under contract for next year so we're ok there at least!

Spoiler

Again the aim for next season is just to survive and try to get some stability in Ligue 2. The new stadium will hopefully attract some more fans to watch us. I could certainly do with more than ~600 per game next season!

[Tyer]

Wow

 

DIdn't embarrass ourselves but won't win the champions league this year

[Mahzun_Savas]

Getting a draw with Chelsea is an excellent result, a pity about the close loss overall.

[Tyer]

Not as good of a season in the league, 2nd gets us 3rd qualfying round champions league instead of direct group stage.

Kind of hard to hold off Celtic when they spent 50 mil every transfer window and I get 6 lol.  Although I think I'll be able to sell some guys for some good cash over the summer

 

 

New Home

Edited January 22, 2022 by Tyer

[Britrock]

The new stadium finally got the fans through the door!

[Thebaker]

@Britrock thats seems an amazing increase, what was your next game like?

[aldojags]

any of you ever had the "spend all your transfer budget" boardroom vision thing?

 

I had a new president elected at Jena, with no additional investment or anything, but thats been added to the club vision.

 

Kinda a strange request from a board, spend all the money we can afford. Like what if I'm happy with my squad and dont want to spend it!

 

Strange!

[Britrock]

3 hours ago, Thebaker said:

@Britrock thats seems an amazing increase, what was your next game like?

Only 917, but even that's a huge increase on where we were two seasons ago when our first two games had ~600 people attending each. The first game at the new stadium we were spanked 3-0 by Dijon so it wasn't the best advert for the team sadly but in the second game we battered Orleans 4-0, so I'm hoping we're moving in the right direction this year. That first season in Ligue 2 gave me a chance to play around with tactics a little so I'm hoping I've got something that will let me hit the ground running this time instead of wasting the first 10 games or so.

[Mahzun_Savas]

C.D. Pamplona

Secunda B - Segunda RFEF Grupo II

Season 1 End of Season Update

League Table | Manager Profile

Arriving at C.D. Pamplona I found a squad with few players of any quality and a lot of work to do. I focused on recruiting young players in signing almost a new starting XI and some players for depth as well and increased the strength of the squad massively. Preseason was tailored so that the team could gain convidence from winning games and the team successfully won every preseason game.

The first day of the season came and we played Sestao River who ended up winning the league. We totally outplayed them everywhere but the scoreboard as we were FM'd 1-0. We then could have easily had 10 points from the first 4 games but only ended up with 5. The first half of the season was very up and down with a lot of goals conceded and we ended the first half just above the relegation spots. The second half of the season was much better as we were largely unbeaten, lots of draws, We did finish the season with 2 losses but by then we were well clear of the relegation spots and finished 10th. 

Best Players

Mikel Goti - My best player. He played as an advanced playmaker in the centre of midfield and had the team highest rating of 7.32. Provided the most assists as well with 11 and also 3 goals.

Alberto Lopez - Came in in January to be my new first choice goalkeeper after the existing one was clearly not up to the task and was costing us points. In the ten games he played before being injured for the last few games of the season he averaged 7.3 and had 4 clean sheets. Looking forward to him being in goal next season

Jon Barrera - 16 year old right winger who was already at the club when I joined. He ended up as the clubs top scorer with 11 goals.

Youth Intake

The club is very good a youth development so the youth intake was very good with a large number of elite talents. Some of these players will be part of the first team squad in the coming season, mostly as back up options.

Elite Talents

The Future

The squad needs a lot of work as the players who were already at the club when I joined have their contracts ending and a number of under performing players will be attempted to be sold. The expectation next season is a repeat of the midtable finish of this year but I hope to do better than where I finished this season. Most important aim is probably to find a striker who will score goals regularly.

 

[_JHTB_]

3 hours ago, aldojags said:

any of you ever had the "spend all your transfer budget" boardroom vision thing?

Literally had that this summer, I only ended up spending about 50% of it but they were happy with my 'efforts to spend big'.

 

9 minutes ago, Mahzun_Savas said:

The club is very good a youth development so the youth intake was very good with a large number of elite talents. Some of these players will be part of the first team squad in the coming season, mostly as back up options.

Elite Talents

Very nice intake, even if they're only 5 star potential in relation to the current team. Hopefully at least a few of them do live up somewhat to their promise and become mainstays as you charge up the leagues.

[_JHTB_]

Just realised we've surpassed 100 games unbeaten in the league. One day hopefully the other teams in the league will improve, but till then, I can continue to extend this record as far as possible.

[Tyer]

That's impressive.  @_JHTB_

What's the current breakdown of euro placements in your save for your country?

For me Scotland is #8 and we get

1st - Champions group stage

2nd - Champions 3rd qualfying

3rd - Euro playoffs

4th - Euro II 3rd qualifying

5th - Euro II 2nd qualfying.

We'd have to get to 6th and pass Belgium and Portugal to get a 3rd spot, which I'd like because we've become a true 3 team league with myself, Celtic and Rangers.