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The last update for today I think, I will continue the season later tonight. I want to spend some time over the winter break, its quite long so I will do some scouting, clean up the squad a little and add to the shortlist for the next manager. I have yet to decide if I will spend any money, most likely only for a hot prospect that can move the club forward.
December Fixtures
Our defence is a bit erratic at times, our GK Pandur is 100% not good enough at all to take us to the next level. I am looking at options
December Table
Still in control here, its not over yet by a long shot to be honest.
Champions League
Against the odds we did it, we finish 2nd in a pretty tough group. It will ensure we have more money to come in, the next manager is going to have a huge kitty to play with at this stage.
Our next opponents are already known, we will be playing Inter Milan and the have Erling Haaland, Cengiz Under, Sensi, Barella but we will give it a shot.
Squad Stats
Some outstanding performances so far.
Ivan Brnic - Banging in the goals for fun at the moment, he leads the line and is our best player
Ilija Simunec - is a monster on left wing, hes also scoing goals for fun. Hes a very very important player for us
Denis Busnja - What can I say about him? hes right footed and I am making him play right inside forward but hes loving it. Hes our chief playmaker and supplies all the goals.
Adam Benic - Inherited the right WB slot, taken to it like a duck to water. He scores, hes supplies and hes vital.
Ivo Filipovic - Our loan CB but hes our best CB, hes chipped in 4 goals and considering hes partner Joseph has 10, it speaks volume for his quality that his rating is higher
Zvonimir Dobric - Hes the future star of this team, hes playing DLP and I am trying to improve him all the time. Still only 18, hes going to be a monster in 2-3 seasons. He needs to add more goals and assists but they will come with experience.
I need to get more games into a few players, Zezelj is a talent, still only 17 but progressing nice and hes had 27 starts so far, more games and hes going to explode. I have neglected Emmanuel Bahi a little too much, hes also a big talent and needs games and I will get him those in the 2nd half of the season. Its a shame Dobric is keeping him out. We have problems with the GK, hes not great and you can expect a change to come here during winter, assuming I can nail the target or targets that I would like. I also dont trust either of our backup fullbacks as they are also pretty bad and I am yet to work out whos the best AMC at the moment, so Kontos, Popovic and Brlic all split games there.
I will take a break now, and try and continue later tonight Australian time.
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November Fixtures
You know, I really thought we had PSG and then they scored in the 89th and 91st minute. God dam it. Come on...... We are going to need a better GK to win the Champions League that is one thing for sure. We were also caught with having the GK high up the field on a free kick and conceded on a counter attack. That's the end of my shift on this experiment sorry @Jimbokav1971 but he can still take penalties for now.
We did however comfortably win all the other games this month, also smashed Dortmund!
November Table
Looking good at the moment, still unbeaten and scoring goals for fun.
Champions League Table
So we have 1 game to go, we are looking ok here to make it through to the next round. Assuming we dont lose to Shakhtar and Dortmund beats PSG. We just need PSG to win and all is going to be ok, part of me does think we could go far in the Europa League but nobody cares about that competition really so full steam ahead to Champions League glory!
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27 minutes ago, Jimbokav1971 said:
I'm glad you like the corner routine.
How are the throw-ins working for you?
Not paid to much attention at the moment, I will keep and eye.
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*I am playing and updating these live at the moment, I am stuck at home due to whole COVID-19 thing so I will probably finish this season today or tomorrow. I have a fast PC and I am enjoying it. Who is up next on the list?
October Fixtures
Ouch...that had to hurt!
The rest month went like this, I've not enjoyed any success over PSG on FM20 in all the saves I have played and that trend has continued here. I have no idea why but I've never been able to beat them but it was a close game beat us. Fair play. Sorry lads!
We also dropped points away to Dinamo Zagreb, probably still the best team in the league so its not all bad but still annoying to me.
October Table
Champions League Table
After 3 games, its starting to take shape. PSG beat both us and Dortmund and Shakhtar beat PSG.... all to play for still!
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September Fixtures
We started our Champions League group stage campaign away to Dortmund, we did pretty well actually. We led most of the game, had a player sent off and they scored a late tap in to make it 1-1. Not the worst result, the other opening game saw Shakhtar beating PSG... the last game of the month saw our home opener in the CL and we played against Shakhtar who actually have a superb team somehow... Bailly, Nicolas Pepe, Semper, Cancelo, Kovalenko, Batshuayi etc but after my recent 10 year stint as manager in the Ukraine, I am not afraid of them
we smashed them...
We dropped points for the first time this season, the away draw to Split was annoying but we did beat Gorica in a top of the table clash
September Table
Club Matters
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Tactic
Were running with this for the moment, ignore the players as I have yet to decide a few spots. I am also using another version with the AF on the right forward slot as AF and the AMC moves left, it has worked for me before and opens up space a little more but at the moment nobody is playing well for us in the AMC slot so for now its a work in progress.
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New Signings
I didnt want to spend too much money, I also tried to focus on bring in Croats in. I often find you need to consolidate the base of local players in the squad to move forward in the long term so I tried to build the base here. There is couple more that I am watching and will move on those in January if needed. We also have some decent kids at the club, I want to get games into them to help the next few managers down the line.
Escoval - You had arranged a better option for transfer for us anyway in Benic, it was decent money and I didn't want to give him one of our 5 foreigner spots
Sadiq - I didn't rate him, his work rate was too low and again didn't want to give him a foreigner spot. I also only play 1 up front and we have 3 better options.
Petrelli - Hes another forward, we have 3 better options again but I did see he scored 6 in 9 for you. The next manager can make the call
Kolega - Yeah I didn't know to be honest, I felt he could have been ok but he also strangely wanted to leave so I just did it. Time will tell here.
Watching our GK taking the free kicks freaks me out a little bit, if we concede a goal on a fast counter attack I will be pulling that option out, and your corner routine is amazing, hence why Joseph is banging in the goals. He has 8 goals in 11 games and we knocked back a bid of 6.5 million for him.
Mladen Matkovic
The most expensive signing made, I wanted a player with high work rate to play in the middle, its key to how we set up. We will be training him to play BBM
Davor Brlic
A loan signing to give us better quality up front, he will be rotating in the AMC postion with Popovic for now.
Emmanuel Bahi
I was looking to get some more flair and technique in the middle of the park, he was so cheap that it was a no brainer really.
Ivo Filipovic
I was not a massive fan of the options we had at CB so I set about upgrading those, hes a loan signing for now and will add some decent cover for us.
Nediljko Labrovic
We only had the 1 senior GK at the club, I dont think hes even that good and Labrovic is not much better but we at least have a middle of the road option to give us cover and hes was so cheap that it didnt matter.
Bosko Sutalo
Another CB, in my attempt to improve that position. I have had some success with this player on FM20 already, hes won a Champions League with me. I trust him.
Elvis Kulusic
I admit, hes not that great but hes only on loan and I need pace out wide for my tactic. He wont be a starter for us anyway.
Mohamed Kibona
Another who I will admit is not that great, I signed him without fully scouting him as the first report made me happy. Signed for "feeling" so lets see what happens here.
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Ill do a run down of the squad and players in tomorrow. Its almost 1am Monday morning for me hahaha
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June and July Fixtures
In June and July we just ran through a whole bunch of friendly games, we had to get the squad up to speed. They appeared to be get a grip very quickly, we smashed everybody. The win in the season opener vs Hajduk Spit is a good sign, they are still a very strong side in this league.
The defence is a little rocky for the moment, those games of conceding 2 goals need to stop
August Fixtures
Does anybody know how to turn off these colour filters that appear on the schedule page per line as in the above and below? It does my head in.
August was also very easy, we brushed everybody aside apart from bottom side Sibenik as they took an early 2-0 lead and we then decided to get 2 red cards and fight back to win 4-2. Was a crazy game and pretty embarrassing for them to lose to 9 men.
August League Table
Early days yet but its a good sign at the moment.
Finances
Were in the money! I would really love to get a win or 2 in the Champions League, that will do wonders to the balance.
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Champions Playoff
So the Belgium giants are our opponents, and honestly we smashed them in the first leg 5-0 and set up the tie for an easy glide into the group stages.
More of the same in the home leg, we enjoy the occasion and play out a 3-0 win.
Group Stages....here we come!
Champions League Group Stage Draw
OK! A Nice and easy draw then? Cool...
Really need to beat Shakhtar in both games, give us a chance to make it into 3rd.
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Season 2027/28
Thank You @Jimbokav1971 for having such a great first season in Croatia and giving me lots to follow up on! The 18 games unbeaten run to win the title last season was outstanding and you have left me with something that I find interesting and makes me nervous, the GK takes our penalties and free kicks!! Make me sweaty just thinking about it. Nice getting us into Europe, we have the Champions League Qualifers straight up, its a shame and a surprise there is not a higher automatic place than the 2nd round but we will give it a go!
Lets do this
Expectations
Transfers
I am quite brutal with squads and transfers, I dont really hold back shipping out current first teamers for the good of the overall plan. So I did infact sell a few of the players @Jimbokav1971 used to win the title last season. The good news is that he left a large squad with some quality at depth, so I decided we would use those players at the start and see what happens. I was also hesitant to spend more money than I could bring in, until I knew what European Competition we would be in and had an idea of the funds we would generate during the season.
All players from and including Alejandro Cuellar (DoF actually signed him) were signed by me, the rest were already arranged.
Nothing really lavish in terms of fees, I will see how the season goes and possibly spend some money in the Winter Transfer Window
Champions League
In our first run in the Champions league we had the fun task of navigating some qualifying rounds. These came really early on and I was worried because I was trying to get the team into shape and using a new tactical system and I too was trying to learn who is who and who I can count on.
Champions Second Qualifying Round
First Leg
This was an absolute mauling, they will not be rushing back to Croatia anytime soon thats for sure. Our GK actually scored 2 goals here, the first came after an indirect free kick, he picked up the rebound and slotted a nice volley. Hilarious.
2nd Leg
A more routine win here, they put in more of an effort this time but we still dominated game, it should and could have been another 10 if not for terrible finishing.
Champions 3rd Qualifying Round
First Leg
2nd Leg
Champions Playoff
So its Club Brugge who stand in our way of making it into the group stages, not sure what to think really but we will certainly be good enough to win if we can play our best and maintain this form.
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2 hours ago, Mandy42 said:
but we are staying!
think the Champions League football will help improve our reputation ready for when we are going to move on?
We are staying! There was job interview offers for Real Betis, Villarreal and Stoke but I pushed them all away
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I have started the save, I spent a long time reviewing the squad and scouting so that took a few hours last night. I will have an update out at some stage, I managed to offload a number of players and have tried to bring some players in. I stupidly didn't check the future transfers that were arranged before me either .. oops
My early prediction is that we wont be winning the Champions League this season.
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3 minutes ago, Jimbokav1971 said:
I will upload straight away.
Awesome! It will be a few hours as it's Saturday 1:20pm my local time but I'll consider a late night session
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3 hours ago, andychar said:
Absolutely smashed it. I'd hate to be the one following this.....
Thanks... hahaha
I will very likely be able to start this as soon as its handed over
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hahaha Croatia, I had 6 season save there already this FM. I enjoyed it.... depending how your season goes if you get the job then I might take us off to another league
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On 22/01/2020 at 21:15, FM_Prospect said:
how do i change the size of my pictures?, every screenshot I take posts as the same size?
Gyazo is your friend
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Bit of a rough start here! but you'll be fine. Just need to find some consistency and ideally sneak into that top group when the league splits.
FYI - I am deciding between starting in this same league as you and another league for my next save. So I will be watching this to see how it looks and feels.
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I am basically at the end of my career save with Metalist so I will be twiddling my thumbs and awaiting my turn on this unless something interesting comes to mind for me to start with.
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We have to win the A-League eventually, hopefully it will be on my turn in 2 rounds
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Good Luck with this! Serbia was on my shortlist for next save location as well. I still have a few seasons in the Ukraine before I'll move (I think!)
Serbia will be super fun to manage in with all the regens
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16 hours ago, SixPointer said:
I’ve not given in just yet
Good job! Its rewarding once you push through the pain and find the right way forward. You can do it!
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23 hours ago, djwillster said:
Hi there I don’t normally post here but is it just me or is the regista absolutely awesome this year since the latest update.
Iv moved to using it in a 442 with 2dms at home and a 4123 1dm away I’m smashing the majority of teams.
im Dortmund in my save at the moment unbeaten in 30 matches in my 3rd season don’t get me wrong I still think the me since latest update is a lot worse that the beta for a weeks there but my tacs a smashing most
I am having some varied success with it, I think its more about how you partner that role in the middle. I use that role as my chief play maker and ball carrier.
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1 minute ago, Rikulec said:
This always comes to my mind whenever I hear of Tony Popovic.
All class. Hahhahaha
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we smashed them...
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January Transfers
I promised to try and resolve our GK issue, we resolved it well. Actually we signed 2 better options and hence we sold both our current number 1 and 2... I did warn you that I was ruthless.
Johan Garcia
Welcome to our new number 1 between the sticks, his personality is not ideal but his ability is. He should resolve our issues at the back and be the rock we require. Hes 18 with 5 caps for Columbia, hes going places.
Omid Rezaei
I spent a few months searching the globe for options and came up with both Garica and Rezaei, I had a hard time working out who I wanted. There was a massive price difference, in the end we signed both. He will be our number 2 but hes good, so we should develop him and try to see what happens. I will however try my best to rotate them so both get games, the next manager can decide who what to do.
Nikola Rudovic
I saw this kid late in the window, I usually do all my scouting manually. This save file having attribute masking on has made it challenging as my way of making it more real is manually clicking through teams and countries to find players, regardless we scouted him once and saw a few nice numbers in the first scout report. I decided to take a guess, I think he could be ok in the future despite his terrible work rate.
Transfers
We have a slight issue of to many foreigners in the first team squad of 23, we cant use the full 12 subs available and usually run with 10. This can be resolved with finding suitable EU options for our reserve LB and RB as they are taking 2 of those spots. In my opinion, we should be using the 5 spots allowed in the first 11 if we need. We are of course now using 2 of those with both GKs. I will try and find some options but its slim pickings. This issue alone is one of the reasons I sold Vargas, he was a serviceable player but not worth wasting a spot on. I am also being careful with the finances, I only wanted to spend once I knew we would go further in the Champions League, we should have close to another 10 million coming in at least so I didn't feel bad spending 2 million on upgrades.