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Cheers, yeah the CtL just doesn't seem possible because it always bugs out at some point about 130 years in. Hopefully it is an interesting journey.

GERNIKA (SPAIN) OCTOBER 2023 SQUAD MANAGER THOUGHTS We had a decidedly worse month in October as we conceded a lot of goals this month. Perhaps more disappointing was the fact that on the stats we seemed to have the better of every game we played, but we just ship too many goals at the moment. We did get back to winning ways at the end of the month with a couple of wins that made things a little more pleasant. Still, so far it's been a good start to the season and we still sit towards the top of the league table. Xabier Garzon has come into the team and been extremely good when called upon so that has been a positive this month. The main negative with the squad has been injuries we suffered quite a few of them, and have essentially have both right backs out and the left back out for the month. Ortega who had been the player of the month last season has been injured at the moment which has also been a blow.

GERNIKA (SPAIN) SEPTEMBER 2023 SQUAD MANAGER THOUGHTS We have had a very good start to the season and find ourselves up in second place, following 4 wins and 2 losses. I felt we were unlucky in our loss against Utebo, the sending off really damaged our chances of coming back in that game and against Sociedad C we were quite poor and deserved to lose. However the wins have been good especially routing Logrones, one the pre-season favourites for the league. Ariel Ortega has been the pick of the players so far this season with three goals and two assist. Arzalluz is the top goalscorer but to some degree he has been quite wasteful this season and I would like to see him be a little more clinical in front of goal as he currently is underperforming his XG by almost three goals across just 5 starts and substitute appearance.

GERNIKA (SPAIN) AUGUST 2023 MANAGER THOUGHTS In August we had five pre-season friendlies against some local sides and we things went very well as we picked up 4 wins and a draw, which is good preparation for the league campaign that is coming up. Elsewhere we have been adding some staff, there has been some difficulty in finding staff for some positions such as scouts and the Director of Football, we have however managed to get in a coach and some analysts that will help.

GENERATIONAL MANAGER Since my last save got corrupted I have decided to do a save which is pretty rule light in terms of clubs more rule heavy on the manager. The goal of the save is to have a series of managers that have a career and stick to a philosophy, formation and ambitions that will change with each manager. The game will only encompass the top 20 European leagues. They will be loaded from the start and we can only manage in those leagues. We will be starting with a manager at 26 years old and he must retire at the latest at 75 years old. Once he retires we then take over with a new manager, likely a descendent of the previous manager and they will have a different philosophy, formation and ambition. For our first manager we are starting with Juan Salazar from Hellin, Spain, born on the 13th September 1996. He starts with a Continental Pro Licence. He was a coach at the Real Murcia Under 19s before branching out getting his first Head Coach job at the age of 26 with Gernika, in the Basque Country, who are in the Segunda Federacion - Grupo II, our the fourth tier of Spanish football. His Formation is the following and he will not adapt from it during his career He operates with a 4-2-3-1 and looks to attack responsibly. Much like many in Spain he favours a short passing style, but heavily focussing on the wing. The goal is to retain possession and play quick. In transition he favours a counter-pressing style to draw quick counter attacks from the opposition. Out of possession he will hold a high line, and press the press high. In terms of his philosophy at a club, he doesn't have a preference as to the age of the players, he will manage with what he has and will work under the resources he is given. In terms of his ambitions, he will move clubs if he feels that the new club will offer him a better chance at winning silverware, and does not feel particularly loyal to any club even where he has been for a long while. At the same time money doesn't really matter too much for him and he won't move to a club because they are offering him more money than where he currently is. For him the main driver is the thrill of being able to win trophies. GERNIKA SQUAD LEAGUE PREDICTION

It looks like it's game over. This happens with every save game associated with the save even the backups and multi-files from earlier dates in the save. This is an issue that continues with every time I have attempted this challenge for about 3 or 4 FMs. Suspect is has to do with their at some point being a limit to switching leagues or something like that but I am speculating. The game wasn't working like every other time it has broken, but at least the same way I managed to fix the game in FM23 worked for FM24 and I can again play FM24 after a long drawn out process. But yeah, the journey unless someone can fix the save game ends here.

SEONGNAM (SOUTH KOREA) SEASON 2150 HANA 1Q K LEAGUE 1 HANA BANK FA CUP AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SQUAD We improved the squad where we could and we are closer to the top sides in the country but still behind in terms of quality but we have been able to overperform. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS It was another good season and I felt a lot more confident this year about performances. We were far more dominant in general than last year. We managed to win the league and the cup and we are looking good in the Champions League having taken maximum points in the group stage. Hopefully we can go all the way in the Champions League, otherwise it will be probably our final season at the club anyway. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

SEONGNAM (SOUTH KOREA) SEASON 2149 HANA 1Q K LEAGUE 1 HANA BANK FA CUP SQUAD We invested quite heavily into the squad buying South Korean players where we needed a boost such as DM and AML, but also bringing in foreign players that would make the difference, chief among those would be Victor Barrios at the back and Michael Besl from attacking midfield. Mario Moreno, ended up with an injury and didn't contribute much also due to the slightly annoying Korean match day rules, but I expect him to excel when we come to the Champions League next season. This team is still not really on the level of an Ulsan or Jeonbuk but we got the job done this season very nicely. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We had a very good season this season especially after last season, where things looked for a while as if they might be disastrous. This time around we managed to complete a very nice double and it was never really close in the league and in the cup the second leg showed us at our best. There is still a lingering issue I have with the team, in that we never seem too comfortable in games, quite often the opposition seems to have the better of the chances and we ended up with a win or a draw, not something that has been common in my sides previously and that worries me for the future, that at some point that trend will reverse itself. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

SEONGNAM (SOUTH KOREA) SEASON 2148 We were out of work for almost two year, and it was starting to get annoying only getting offered clubs that were almost certainly about to be relegated. In the end we took a job where the club was in the relegation places, but it seemed like they could be doing a little better and that was Seongnam in South Korea. We had about half the season to go and like many other times our job was to get them up the league. HANA 1Q K LEAGUE 1 SQUAD On first inspection the team looks quite competent without a major deficiency, but I really have not enjoyed this squad much so far. It has been depressing to manage them, so many bad performances. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS It ended up being a really bad season, we had some really bad results even after we took over and to be honest there was a time when it looked like we would be relegated but eventually we managed to start getting a few results and actually ended the season in decent enough form. I have major reservations about this side, and we may need to rip the whole squad up and see if we can improve it, but at the moment based on what the scouts are showing me that seems like a difficult task. I think another factor has to be the recent patch which is probably playing havoc with tactics at the moment and that is going be an issue that will need a lot more investigation on my part as we have generally stuck to a 4-2-3-1 for the entirety of the save and we made need to tweak more. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

MACARTHUR FC (AUSTRALIA) SEASON 2145/46 AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE A-LEAGUE AUSTRALIA CUP SQUAD We made one signing in bringing in Dadi Ivarsson, which is the only player that we could be sure we could register, The team is fine but about the sixth best in Australia. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS In the league we were a bit crap at times as we lost a series of games mid season which is probably the worst run I have had at any club so far in this save, but we came back and were able to get performances. We won the Australia Cup early in the season, and we won the AFC Champions League which ultimately is why we leave before the playoffs end in Australia. We had some mad results in the AFC Champions League and it was a bit surprising to be able to get all the way to the final and perform as well as we did. With AFC7 done we move on to AFC6 which consists of South Korea, Iran and Thailand. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

MACARTHUR FC (AUSTRALIA) SEASON 2144-45 We had to wait a little while and eventually a job came up in the A-League at Macarthur FC. They were sitting in 7th place outside the playoffs and our job was to see if we could push up the league and see if we could get into the playoff places. We were out of every other competition so the focus was the league. A-LEAGUE SQUAD We have a decent squad but it is tough in Australia with the budgetary restrictions and that will make it difficult to really improve the side much. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We had a bit of fairy tale ride, as we managed to get into the playoffs and then we just rode on and took the Grand Final winning 6-0, and that is our first 100 points. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

KAYA FC (PHILIPPINES) SEASON 2144 AFC CUP SQUAD We had a takekover with some investment into the club, initially it was annoying because the embargo seemed to go on forever, but eventually they gave us additional funds and we went out and really splashed the cash at least in the context of the Filipino league and poached a few players from some of the other top clubs. We also brought in some better international players where we could and really we now have the best side in the country. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We knew that the latter stages of the AFC Cup which would start in the early part of this new season would be our ticket, if we could get through it, and we actually got handed a pretty tough road facing Chinese opposition on the way and Dhofar whom we remember from our days in Oman as a tough side to beat but we managed it without too much issue, reinforced with the transfer activity that we had done over the offseason. We leave AFC8 behind, having gone back for them after we accidentally skipped them and move on to AFC7 which consists of Australia, Uzbekistan and Syria. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

KAYA FC (PHILIPPINES) SEASON 2143 We found a new job almost instantaneously and that new job was in the Philippines at Kaya. They were one of the better sides in the country, had just finished in 3rd place and had qualified for the AFC Cup which had been denied us at Albirex despite having won the league and cup in Singapore. I felt this would be a good move for us. PHILIPPINES FOOTBALL LEAGUE PFL CUP AFC CUP SQUAD Our squad has definite gaps within it, but so far for this season we have resisted making any moves and will probably make moves for players in the offseason. The squad itself is good for the Filipino leagues. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS A really good season as we got back on track and we have a really legitimate road to finishing this leg with the as yet unresolved AFC Cup for which we have passed through the Group Stages of and will be proceeding to the knockout rounds in the new year. If we do win that then we will have gotten the 500 points and that will see us move on. If not we will have to rely on a different road to get to the points. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

ALBIREX NIIGATA (SINGAPORE) SEASON 2142 AIA SINGAPORE COMMUNITY SHIELD AIA SINGAPORE PREMIER LEAGUE KOMOCO MOTORS SINGAPORE CUP SQUAD We have no real control of the team, it just depends what youngsters we get and this season has proven that to be a problem. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS An utterly disastrous season for us realistically. No points won as we fluffed every competition we are in. Not a nice way to leave the club but we are leaving and this last season has been a waste. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

ALBIREX NIIGATA (SINGAPORE) SEASON 2141 AIA SINGAPORE COMMUNITY SHIELD AIA SINGAPORE PREMIER LEAGUE KOMOCO MOTORS SINGAPORE CUP SQUAD We don't really have any option to bring anyone in so the team is the team and this season it has proven itself worthy. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We had a very good season as we won every domestic tournament. We did not qualify for the AFC Cup, so I am unsure if that is because we are essentially a sister club of a Japanese club and we may not be eligible or what it is. We will stay around another season and then we are likely to move on. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

ALBIREX NIIGATA (SINGAPORE) SEASON 2140 We had to wait a while for a job and eventually the job we found was a job I wasn't too sure about but we took it anyway. Albirex Niigata Singapore, the sister side to Japanese side, is on paper one of the best sides in Singapore. However they have very stringent rules on players, where we must play Under 21 players and are limited on players above that age, which is a big hinderance. Secondly they were sitting bottom of the league. There is no relegation so there was no risk of that but I was a little cautious. We took the job anyway and the goal was to get the club up the table with about 8 league fixtures remaining. AIA SINGAPORE PREMIER LEAGUE KOMOCO MOTORS SINGAPORE CUP SQUAD The squad looks better than it is when you consider that of the over 21s we can only register 2 Singaporean and 1 Japanese player, so we have a lot of players that are not registered so it is a bit of a headache. We will have to manage it and the youth intake might become very important to us while we are here. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We performed quite well after we came in and we managed to get the club up to 3rd place in the league which I believe should give us AFC Cup football next season. We managed to also win the cup which is a nice bonus that I hadn't really accounted for, so at least we start with 40 points in the bank to start the new region. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

SELANGOR (MALAYSIA) SEASON 2139 When we left Sri Pahang, there was a very open job market in Malaysia and so we would apply to the larger jobs in the country. Johor DT actually rejected us so we settled on Selangor, the third best side in the country currently behind our former side Sri Pahang and Johor DT themselves. I did not realise this until we took over but we were at the latter stages of the AFC Cup and so this was a massive opportunity to end our stay and the whole leg very quickly. AFC CUP SQUAD The squad is decent but not great, if we were staying longer we would certainly need to improve substantially the squad overall. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS Moving to Selangor and getting to end their AFC Cup campaign was pretty lucky really and I didn't even realise until we got the job. It did give us a great opportunity and we were able to take it securing the 200 points and finishing up in AFC9. Now I have also discovered soon after we took over at Sri Pahang that we made an error in how we have been progressing since we moved to India. We skipped one of the legs accidentally. So we will be going back so to speak to complete them, although for all intents and purpose the next leg simply becomes AFC8 although they should have been AFC10. Anyway the next leg AFC8 as we will refer to them consists of Lebanon, Singapore, Vietnam and the Philippines. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

SRI PAHANG (MALAYSIA) SEASON 2138 LIGA SUPER MALAYSIA/PIALA SULTAN HAJI AHMAD SHAH PIALA FA MALAYSIA PIALA MALAYSIA AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SQUAD After we lost a few players last season we brought in some replacements which I provided us arguably with an even better side. We had some more players leave again this year and if we were remaining we would need to bolster the side again. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We managed to repeat the quadruple again this year, actually a lot easier this time, as the league was the easiest we have ever found it and the cups did not provide much challenge for us overall. Unfortunately the Champions League was a step too far for us and we just can't compete with the calibre of club there. We stayed up until the Piala Malaysia which was the final tournament we could win and are leaving not with a league game and Champions League game to go as we had already secured the league and are already out of the Champions League. We have made good progress at Sri Pahang and we leave looking for the final 160 points we need to progress. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

Thanks. Yeah its a very long marathon this one.

SRI PAHANG (MALAYSIA) SEASON 2137 LIGA SUPER MALAYSIA/PIALA SULTAN HAJI AHMAD SHAH PIALA FA MALAYSIA PIALA MALAYSIA AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SQUAD Malaysia is a bit weird because the players contracts expire just before the end of the season so we actually lost our best striker over this period so we don't have his stats shown here but I have put him down as our top scorer this season with his stats. We lost a few players, the striker was the main guy who we will miss up to a point, because we can replace him and actually we should be stronger next season since we can improve many of the international players we currently have at the team. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS It was a good season as took away a domestic quadruple. In the league it was close but we were always just that step ahead of Johor DT and managed to just keep our noses ahead going into the run in. In the Champions League we would lose out before the group stages, but we did get the impressive scalp of Adelaide United along the way. We don't seem remotely close to challenging for that competition. With that in mind I think I will stay at Sri Pahang next season, but that will be our last as we are starting to suffer from depreciating points. Having said that we are now over halfway towards our target in the region, so that is a big positive. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

SRI PAHANG (MALAYSIA) SEASON 2136 LIGA SUPER MALAYSIA/PIALA SULTAN HAJI AHMAD SHAH PIALA FA MALAYSIA PIALA MALAYSIA SQUAD We improved the team a lot with international players, but we are still considered the third best side in the country behind Johor DT and Selangor. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS The Malaysian Super Cup is a little strange because it is also a league game. We drew against Johor DT but were given the trophy although it doesn't show up in our list of trophies, so not sure if we shared it with Johor or what but I am counting it as a trophy. We also won the league, despite it being close. We fell out of both domestic competitions which was very disappointing, but we have made some progress. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

SRI PAHANG (MALAYSIA) SEASON 2135 We chose to wait around for almost two years. I say we chose to wait around as we could have gotten a club earlier, but every single club we had a chance at an interview with before that time were mostly rooted to the bottom of their respective tables or in and around the relegation places. Many of these were also meant to be exactly where they were and I just didn't see any value in going to these clubs and having to work uphill. Eventually Sri Pahang came along and they are a good side in Malaysia who were sitting in 8th place prior to our arrival. Our job was to keep them safe and bring them up the table if we could so we could hopefully kick on the next season. LIGA SUPER MALAYSIA PIALA MALAYSIA SQUAD A decent squad for Malaysia, but we do need some improvements at the club, and we have already started working on that during our time at the club picking up players on expiring contracts to come over from rivals to improve things. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We managed to turn the fortunes of Sri Pahang in the league and brought them up to 3rd place, which realistically was about as far as we could have got with them. The good news was that when we arrived we were still involved in the Malaysian Cup and we managed to go all the way and win that competition to get the first points on the board. It's not much as yet but it is a start, and normally in the first season especially when we take on a club mid season we have to accept nothing as our start point after the first season pointswise. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

AIZAWL (INDIA) SEASON 2132/33 HERO I-LEAGUE DURAND CUP FEDERATION CUP AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SQUAD Barely any moves, just a few players in from domestic sides to bolster our depth a little bit. This team is by far the best team in India at this point. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We needed a domestic treble to secure our passage to the next region by 5 points, and we did just that capturing the Durand Cup early in the season, blitzing the league winning every game and winning the Federation Cup at the end of the season. We were perfect domestically winning every game in every competition. We did however lose in the our Preliminary playoff for the Champions League to Syrian opposition which was a step too far for us but probably a blessing in keeping our players fresh for domestic football action. We leave AFC10 behind and move on to AFC9 which features Malaysia, Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

AIZAWL (INDIA) SEASON 2131/32 HERO I-LEAGUE DURAND CUP FEDERATION CUP AFC CUP SQUAD The added budget allowed us to get in a few more domestic players as well as Yenoussou, added to that we also lost a few players who weren't up to standard or didn't want to renew their contract. At the end of the season we got fortunate with with Agnelo Fernandes, who at just 16 years old is already our best left winger, he came in the youth intake. The squad looks good and the budgets are increasing. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We lost out on the Durand Cup in the early season losing in the final, but we managed to win everything up, including the league, Fed Cup and AFC Cup, which now puts us very close to progressing from this region. We would just need a domestic treble I believe to make that a reality now. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

AIZAWL (INDIA) SEASON 2130/31 We were out of work for just under a year before we got our first job in the region and that was Aizawl in India. They are a good side in India but had had a pretty bad season before we arrived, finishing in 7th place. The team looked fine if could use a bit of improvement. The main issue at the club that I could see was a pretty negative bank balance and we were over our wage budget already before we arrived which would make things a little more difficult. HERO I-LEAGUE DURAND CUP FEDERATION CUP SQUAD Due to the overspending and delicate bank balance we were not able to improve the team until the I-League season ended and the board gave us a new budget which gave us a little more to work with. That allowed us to bring in Khuduga, Magnusson and Souindoula, who all have only been involved in the end of the season Federation Cup. Elsewhere the team has been great and overperformed slightly against expectations. We want to continue to improve the side, but I suspect that will be difficult. In many ways the defence was the issue last season and the new signings especially at the back should improve things immediately. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We came in and we achieved a treble in the first season, capturing the I-League title and both domestic cups which is great for us and sets us up nicely as we move onto a healthy 180 points to start off the new region. Next season we will be sticking around and seeing if we can repeat the feat. At the moment it is not year clear to me whether we have qualified for the AFC Cup or the AFC Champions League. I would prefer the former since I feel we would have a chance at winning that and would have no chance at the Champions League. MAP Map Link SUMMARY