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That's weird, I can only think that when you set up the game you didn't load the custom dbs. Sometimes if you go into the Add/Remove Leagues at a particular time or depending which you remove it doesn't allow you to confirm, either because there would be no league loaded at a particular time or something like that, you also can't unload a league if your managing in it, so I tend to try and unload and load leagues when I am unemployed and generally it always seems to work ok.

CHAO PAK KEI (MACAU) SEASON 2129 We were only out of work for a month before we had our next opportunity, we had three different job offers in Macau and in the end we opted for Chao Pak Sei, the second best club in Macau and the best option for us. The season had just finished and they had finished second to a dominant Monte Carlo side. The job was clear for us, we needed a league title to end this leg this season. LIGA DE ELITE TACA DE MACAU MACAU-CANTON CUP SQUAD With no league restrictions on the number of foreigners we bolstered the team with anyone who would improve the team. The squad already had a fair few foreign players and we only added to that. In the end we still have the second best team in the country, but this team was good enough this season. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS It was a real battle in Macau this season between us and Monte Carlo, neither of us could get the upper hand on the other in our league games and both went undefeated in the league, however they had one more draw addtional to the two draws we had in the league. We would also face each in both cup finals present in Macau, but with the 100 points from the league, we had reached the 500 points and were free to move on. Next up we will be moving onto AFC 10 which consists of Hong Kong, India, Jordan and Indonesia. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

DORDOY BISHKEK (KYRGYZSTAN) SEASON 2128 SHORO TOP-LIGA SUPERKUBOK KYRGYZSTANA AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SQUAD This year, was a year where we improved the team again. The additions of Mutombo-Mboyo at fullback is a big improvement and N'Djock also helps substantially in defensive midfield. Perhaps the biggest improvement was Abubacar Sano who is a super player for this level. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We managed to get another league title and win the Supercup again however the issue we have is that we continue to qualify for the Champions League and we just have no chance at really advancing in that competition let alone winning it, this year proved that well enough. So we have decided to leave the club, the same day that it was confirmed that we had won the league title, which was pretty early on, there are still a lot of games to play. Hopefully that means we get ahead of the curve when the next job becomes available. We are less than 100 points away from completing this leg, so we are close now to completion here in this region, we just need another domestic league title anywhere else. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

I am a bit confused by the difficulty in adding a removing leagues. You go to Add/Remove Leagues in FM button and select from the drop down.

DORDOY BISHKEK (KYRGYZSTAN) SEASON 2127 SHORO TOP-LIGA SUPERKUBOK KYRGYZSTANA AFC CUP AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SQUAD The squad is pretty similar to how it was the season before, just the few amendments here and there mostly to the depth of the team where I could improve. We are going to have a few issues to resolve over the off season because there are few of the key players who don't want to renew their contracts, especially some of the better international players so we will need to replace them. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We managed to win the league without any issue and we got the added bonus of the Supercup which I hadn't really factored into my calculations, but to be honest it is not going to make a huge difference. The big competition was the AFC Cup and we managed to go all the way and win that competition, despite a few tough ties, ultimately we were pretty comfortable in the latter stages of the competition. The AFC Champions League did not go well, we qualified for that on account of having won the AFC Cup. The wrench in the works to my plan is that our league now seems to qualify us to the AFC Champions League, so this is actually counterproductive for us as we don't really have much of a chance of winning that competition, especially if you consider that we fell at the first hurdle this season. So next season could well be our last at Dordoy if that remains the same and if I see no real improvement in our performance in the Champions League. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

DORDOY BISHKEK (KYRGYZSTAN) SEASON 2126 SHORO TOP-LIGA AFC CUP SQUAD We continued to improve the team this year, we signed some decent Kyrgyz players where there were improvements to be made and continued to improve the international players at the club letting the ones that were not clear first XI players leave or demoted them to U21 team and brought in new players. In this league we are allowed 6 foreign players so its important that we have the best players possible in varied positions. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS A really good season as we walked the league and picked up the first 100 points of AFC11, and we are proceeding very nicely in the AFC Cup having moved through our group without any issues at all. There is meant to be a cup in Kyrgyzstan but it seems to have an issue that I have seen in many Kyrgyz custom leagues where it is the second division that plays it out and the top league teams are not involved. That makes things a little more complicated, but the plan here will be qualify for the AFC Cup and hopefully win it, then that will qualify us for the AFC Champions League, which is almost certain we won't have a chance at winning and then the following season we should be back in the AFC Cup and the accumulated points will be enough. At least that is potential the perfect route here without needing to change clubs. Obviously there is a good chance that this won't happen and we may need to reconsider but for now that is the plan. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

DORDOY BISHKEK (KYRGYZSTAN) SEASON 2125 We were out of work for almost two years before we found a job that was to our requirements. Dordoy Bishkek are in Kyrgyzstan and are a big club in the country, roughly the third biggest at this time but they were sitting just outside the relegation places with half the season to go. Our job was to keep them safe from relegation with a mid-table finish. SHORO TOP-LIGA SQUAD The team is good, but was underperforming before we arrived. We already managed to make a few moves in the market. Fumo, Akiana and Fra came in a key international players for us, and we also got in a few Kyrgyz players where we were able to bring them in to improve the first team. Next season I can see us again overhauling the international players again as I feel we can do better than some of the players we currently have at the club. But that is for next season. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS The brief was to keep the club up and get to mid-table but the impact of us joining was pretty extreme as we went on a winning streak all the way to the end of the season and ended up leapfrogging Alga into the final AFC Cup spot. That was some very good progress for us and makes me think that we should really be winning the league next season provided nothing major changes at the club or in the quality of the opposition. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

FC CHANTHABOULY (LAOS) SEASON 2123 LAOTIAN SUPER CUP LEAGUE 1 FEDERATION CUP AFC CUP SQUAD The squad changed only a little with some new Laotian players we picked up from some of the local sides, but apart from that there was little change and we were still the best side in the country by my reckoning. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS Our job this season was to do the domestic double and we did along with the Super Cup which I hadn't even accounted for the season before, but it didn't change the calculations. The AFC Cup was only at the end of the season, so we made the group stage but having achieved our goals we leave that to the next manager. So we complete AFC12 having done it in Bangladesh and Laos, and we now travel to AFC11 which consists of Macau, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Myanmar. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

Loving the journey so far. Best of luck for the long haul you have ahead of you!

FC CHANTHABOULY (LAOS) SEASON 2122 We were only out of job for about a month or so before we found our next management position. FC Chanthabouly one of the better sides in Laos had just finished in penultimate place in the league just above the only relegation place and they seemed like the perfect club to take on next. We would have a long pre-season to make all the necessary changes at the club and bring in the players that would help us to success. LEAGUE 1 FEDERATION CUP SQUAD We pretty much doubled the size of the squad as we hoovered up all the Laotian talent we could get our hands on as well as bringing in international players where we would who would improve us. Junior ended up being a really important pick up for us as he was top goalscorer and top assist maker for us from the left wing position. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS The plan was to hopefully win the domestic double and that would leave us with just another league win away from completing the leg. The league part of the equation went to plan and we more or less walked the league, which is a short league of just 14 games. However in the Federation Cup we fell at the Quarter Final stage against what is on paper the best side in Laos; Lane Xang Intra. This leaves us in the position that if we want to advance next year we will need the domestic double. There is a wildcard however in our qualification for the AFC Cup, which as we have found is a tournament that we have won as a manager with lesser sides before. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

BASHUNDHARA KINGS (BANGLADESH) SEASON 2120/21 NITOL TATA BANGLADESH PREMIER LEAGUE FEDERATION CUP INDEPENDENCE CUP AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SQUAD Very few improvements to this team as we pretty much had a perfect team for this level of league. There were some who left and a few homegrown players we brought into replace them but the team is roughly the same as it was last year. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We managed our third treble in three years, which has been a pretty great achievement for us. We leave the club a few weeks before the end of the season because we have captured all the points on offer. In the Champions League we weren't able to make any significant progress, as we beat the East Timorese side but found it tough against the South Korean and Australian opposition. We have over 300 points so that holds us in good stead to hopefully a few season have finished with AFC12. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

BASHUNDHARA KINGS (BANGLADESH) SEASON 2119/20 NITOL TATA BANGLADESH PREMIER LEAGUE FEDERATION CUP INDEPENDENCE CUP AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SQUAD There wasn't much need for improvement with the current squad, we brought in a few squad players to replace a few players who were disgruntled with their playing time but very little else. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS It ended up being about as perfect a season as we could have hoped for as we won every domestic game this season. The Champions League of course was step too much for us, but we did manage to beat Suwon of South Korea which was quite a scalp for us, but ultimately we exited at the group stage. I have been looking at the mathematics of the points and I think it makes sense to stay another season and hopefully get another treble under our belt which should put us at around the 300 point mark and that will then hold us in good stead to hopefully achieve the target quickly after if we get the right club. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

BASHUNDHARA KINGS (BANGLADESH) SEASON 2118/19 NITOL TATA BANGLADESH PREMIER LEAGUE FEDERATION CUP INDEPENDENCE CUP SQUAD On getting the squad last season I was happy and we just sought to improve the team where we could. We decided to get a few additional international players that we still had room for a got where we could a few Bangladeshi players that would improve the team further. At the moment there is no doubt we have the best side in the country. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We absolutely battered the league this season across every domestic competition. The league was barely a contest and most of the time we were scoring 5 or 6 it felt like. In the end we managed to get a domestic treble which gives us 180 points and it is a very nice start to life in Bangladesh and AFC12. Next season we have qualified for the AFC Champions League which is likely a step to far for us, but we will see how we go. The goal is to hopefully repeat our domination domestically and at the end of next season we will need to make a decision about our future. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

BASHUNDHARA KINGS (BANGLADESH) SEASON 2117/18 We were out of work for about 15 months before we got our first job in the new region. We had offers from clubs facing really difficult relegation battles and those I swerved, but eventually Bashundhara Kings from Bangladesh came in for us and we opted to sign with them. They were sitting in 3rd in the league, and are probably the best side in the country although it is close between the top 3 or 4 sides. We were arriving at the club right at the end of the season with just two games to go, so these games were really more like friendlies for us to test out the squad and see what changes we would need to make. NITOL TATA BANGLADESH PREMIER LEAGUE SQUAD We have some talent at the club, but also have some gaps. We have already started working in the transfer market to see if you can reinforce what we already have. At least the club is professional and we have players under contract which was a bugbear of mine in Nepal. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS There isn't a lot to go on, as we only played two games, but at least we won them. I am confident that next season we will be able to challenge for the league and other competitions domestically. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

MACHHINDRA FC (NEPAL) SEASON 2116/17 A-DIVISION AAHA! RARA GOLD CUP NUWAKOT GOLD CUP AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE I incorrectly stated that the AFC Cup would be our first chance to pass the region, but in fact I had forgotten that winning that tournament last year qualified us for the AFC Champions League instead. The adventure did not last long. SQUAD The squad is as good as I can make it now to be honest. We have the best side in the country by a healthy margin now. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS In the end we just needed the league title and a cup and we did at the first opportunity, discounting any continental competitions. We were very dominant this season and finally we got to the point where things were pretty easy for us. The two trophies we won got us to the 500 points and we now can move on to AFC12 which consists of North Korea, Cambodia, Laos and Bangladesh. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

MACHHINDRA FC (NEPAL) SEASON 2115/16 A-DIVISION The league title went right down to the wire, and we were second favourites going into the final day as we sat two points behind Manang Marsyangdi, needing them to drop points. That ended being exactly what happened as they struggled at home to Sankata Boys eventually losing 3-2 and we managed to win against a relegation playoff bound Far Western. All season we were pretty inconsistent by my standards as seemingly every time we got in the lead of the league we would drop points and hand the initiative back, so perhaps the only way we were going to win the league was to win on the final day, when we could not do that in the next fixture. NUWAKOT GOLD CUP AAHA! RARA GOLD CUP AFC CUP We went all the way in AFC Cup as we have done on a few occasions with an unfancied side. We faced off against our old side Al-Suwaiq an came through by the skin of our teeth with two late goals completely turning the result around. SQUAD The club turned professional and that has allowed us to completely revolutionize the squad and we can actually keep a hold of players now. We probably have the best side in the country at this point, although it is still close. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS A great season for us as we took home four trophies including the AFC Cup and we sit just 30 points away from completing this leg. So it will require the league and a cup and that will be enough. Theoretically the first trophy we can win, especially considering the league is not enough by itself will be the AFC Cup, so it we can repeat what we did this season, which will be very difficult it would the AFC Cup that would give us the points. Alternatively we will need the league and a cup as suggested. Both cups by themselves won't be enough. MAPS Map Link SUMMARY

MACHHINDRA FC (NEPAL) SEASON 2114/15 A-DIVISION NUWAKOT GOLD CUP AAHA! RARA GOLD CUP SQUAD Building this squad was not easy on account of how easy it is to lose players. For some reason the players at our club are quite happy to jump ship anywhere even to non-league Nepalese clubs, so it is hard to keep them around. But we did manage to generally keep our most important players and add to the squad and now we have a pretty good squad. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We went the entire season unbeaten in every competition and we managed to pull of a treble as we won both cup competitions and the league title. It has been a great season for us and we take home 180 points for the three trophies that opens our account in Nepal and in AFC13. We have also qualified for the AFC Cup. I again think that it will be difficult to win this tournament, but I was wrong in Chinese Taipei so we will be going all out to see if we can do it again. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

MACHHINDRA FC (NEPAL) SEASON 2114 We waited a while to find a job until we finally found our job. Machhindra FC in Nepal, were last year's champions but we languishing just above the relegation zone. To be honest their team has been decimated since winning the league so they were underperforming but I am not sure by how much. A-DIVISION We did better than before I arrived at the club. The club hadn't won a game before I arrived, but it's still not great. We will need to improve substantially to be able to challenge for the league next season. SQUAD There is quality in the side but we need to improve the team a lot. Again we have issues at centre back which we are struggling to address. We already have some players joining that should help but I also expect to lose a substantial amount such is the game when your an amateur club. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We will need to improve the team a lot, if we are to win anything next year. So we will see what we are able to do. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

ROYAL BLUES TAIPEI (CHINESE TAIPEI) SEASON 2113 AFC CUP I didn't give us much of chance to actually win the AFC Cup, but I was wrong as we proceeded through the competition without too much even beating our old side Omani outfit Al-Suwaiq in the final 2-0. Those 200 points are enough to complete the leg. SQUAD We only really brought in a couple of squad players, otherwise the team is the same. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We were going well in the league in 1st place, but we are only 9 to 10 games into the season, so not really worth showing it, and the cup had only just started and we had progressed. The AFC Cup win is a nice surprise for us as we complete this leg via Brunei and Chinese Taipei. Next up we will be moving on to AFC13 which consists of Nepal, Mongolia, Bhutan and Afghanistan. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

ROYAL BLUES TAIPEI (CHINESE TAIPEI) SEASON 2112 On leaving Sabina in Brunei, we did not have to wait too long before we found our next job and it was a good one. The champions of Chinese Taipei had their manager leave at the end of the season and we were able to pick up the role. So this would be a very different situation and exactly why I decided to risk leaving Brunei. CHINESE TAIPEI FOOTBALL PREMIER LEAGUE The league requires a playoff at the end which can be a little annoying especially if you have topped the league like we did, but we did manage to beat Taipower in the final to lift the league title. 100 points earned. CTFA FA Cup Taipower were again the main opposition in the cup and we faced them in the final coming through 3-1. We win another 40 points. AFC CUP On virtue of having won the league the season before we were pre-qualified into the AFC Cup and so far it has been so good because we managed to make it to the group stage and have managed to pull our way out of the groups without too much issue. The competition will conclude next season. I highly doubt whether we have the resources to win this tournament but we do still have a chance. SQUAD The club does not have a youth team so we have a monstrous sized squad and it doesn't seem right to just release all the young players. So the image so the guys who actually played games. The squad is good for the standard and we haven't had to bring in too many players. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We have got back on track here at Royal Blues and we have reached 300 points. Should we win the AFC Cup by some miracle then the leg would be over, but I doubt that will happen. We will see what we can do next season but hopefully we can repeat the domestic season we had this season for plenty of points. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

SABINA FC (BRUNEI) SEASON 2111 BRUNEIAN SUPER CUP We managed to capture the Super Cup and gain 20 additional points. LIGA SUPER BRUNEI We are well off the pace in the league and that has precipitated that I move on from the club. The problem we have is that we just can't find players, we have half star centre backs and that is just a continuous. In the league we have been really inconsistent, and I don't see us coming back. BRUNEIAN FA CUP Our exit from the FA Cup was the straw that broke the camels back that we needed to leave this club as soon as possible. We are wasting our time here. In terms of our run, it was always going to be difficult in our current situation up against BRSC. SQUAD We tried to improve the squad as much as we could but fundamentally , we have no centre backs of any note, no DM's and its just not worth trying to remedy this. There seem to be almost no half decent Bruneian centre backs and we are limited to five foreign players and we have struggled to even find centre backs amongst them. We did win things at this club so I don't leave empty handed but this a really bad squad, and we have only really slightly improved it over the time we have been at the club. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We leave the club, as we just aren't in a position to challenge, and I would have left the club at the end of the season anyway. We made sure that the board are happy with us so we are not leaving under threat of a sacking so we will lose no points. Even this season we managed to increase our total points by 20, so even then we have made some progress. We will leave and hopefully resurface somewhere a little better. I always felt taking this job, pretty much from the start was likely to be a bit of a mistake. In the end we did better than I thought, but we still leave mid season. BOARD CONFIDENCE MAP Map Link SUMMARY

SABINA FC (BRUNEI) SEASON 2110 LIGA SUPER BRUNEI We managed to conquer the league title and it was a bit surprising but I still feel I am some way behind when it comes to the squad. It was pretty close between us, DPMM and BSRC, but towards the end we pulled away and it ended up being 15 points by the end of the season, but it was closer than it looked for the vast majority of the season. We pick up 100 points. BRUNEIAN FA CUP The FA Cup is a long tournament here in Brunei and we actually had a pretty smooth path. ABDB gave us the closest game but even that was one sided towards us. We pick up 40 points. SQUAD It has been a tough road picking up players to improve the squad. There are very few players that our scouts pick up and the agent offers especially for foreign players are way down. The squad is not in the best in the league but we managed to perform better than that this season. Muhd Firadus Mohamad has particularly been delightful this season with 40 goals from the left wing, that is some going from the guy. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We did about as well if not better than I expected that we would do. I still think we could drop off next season because we just don't have the level of squad that would assure me of victory. We had to fight pretty hard for the majority of the season to make the double happen. Next season we will be in AFC Cup football, but I would suggest that we would have almost no chance of winning the tournament. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

SABINA FC (BRUNEI) SEASON 2109 We waited for quite a while for our next job and we had a pretty poor selection. Clubs that had already been or were about to be relegated were most common. Eventually we got a job offer in Brunei for Sabina FC. They were not good, the squad looked pretty awful but at least they looked safe in the league and we could just coast into the end of the season and hopefully build up the club in the off season. LIGA SUPER BRUNEI It wasn't pretty, but we did manage to the improve the club a bit from 12th up to 9th place. The gap to the top of the league looks massive and I do wonder whether we can realistically attempt to challenge in just one season. SQUAD Most of the players that are not 1 star, have mostly not played because they arrived after the registration period, so we have already started on improving the team, but the squad before was absolutely awful. We need to seriously keep improving to have any chance of competing at the top of the table. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS No points but that was pretty much a certainty when we joined. We look a long way from challenging for anything at this time, so we need to improve the team substantially. MAP Map Link SUMMARY

AL-SUWAIQ (OMAN) SEASON 2107/08 OMAN SUPER CUP Our first opportunity at points was the Omani Super Cup and unfortunately we lost it to Dhofar. OMANTEL LEAGUE The league is going down to the wire, but for reasons that will become apparent we are leaving the club. We managed to do the double over Dhofar in the league this season which is why we are anywhere at all. They were still leading the league after we beat them 4-2 in the league most recently but they drew a game recently that leaves us in the box seat going into the final game. We just need to get a point against Mirbat to win the league. MAZDA PROFESSIONAL CUP The final may as well have been the semi final against Dhofar, which we just managed to get the win in extra time. The final against Sur turned into a rout. 40 points earned. SULTAN QABOOS CUP We got the final of the other Omani cup and play Dhofar in the final but we are leaving before the final is played in a few days. AFC CUP We entered the group phase in the West Asian Zone for the AFC Cup and managed to get through without much issue. Al Faisly of Jordan were next and they gave us no trouble. Then we faced Tishreen again whom we had faced in the group phase and we narrowly got past them. In the final we played Indonesian outfit Persebaya and it wasn't much of contest as we win the AFC Cup and gain 200 points. The AFC Cup added to the domestic cup are enough to secure our passage to AFC14. SQUAD Not a lot of movement really, we sold a few squad players and picked up a few other squad players. No major changes. MANAGER PROFILE MANAGER THOUGHTS We have conquered the first rung of the Asian ladder, and we did it via East Timor and Oman. The AFC Cup campaign with our Omani side was easier than I expected. It is a shame that we are leaving before we can conquer the title and the Sultan's Cup, but we have the points so we need to move on. We will now be moving on to AFC14, which will consist of Chinese Taipei, Pakistan, Brunei and Guam MAP Map Link SUMMARY

Thanks, I think that has been there since the first Climb the Ladder and I never changed it then.