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carry on my Dynamo Dresden save, proper fun club to play as

been playing the game relentlessly for the past few days and I have to say this years match engine is proper good. couldn't get into FM23 at all but this years edition has me hooked again. only thing that's slightly annoying is the skin bug where fitness levels don't update during a match but other than that I'm having a blast, keep up the good work!

thanks for the info! I did indeed get a surprise, not only about the season but mainly that things went so terribly that I got fired anyway! haha. Also as the season went on the club got into very terrible debt, I guess due to the facilities being so high. On to another save I think, Romania seems far too difficult for me!

2022/23 Pre Season We seem to have a fairly decent squad which is quite pleasing, the only real problem is that I have almost always used AML's/AMR's in the past and we only have 4 players that can play in those positions. Going to have to dive into this recruitment focus thing and try and work that out pronto. Luckily we already have a nice scout at the club and I've somehow managed to find some turkish blokes with good JPA/JPP who are willing to join us for £180 a week wages. Diving into the squad we have this bloke Nemec who seems like he could be an absolute beast if i play him as a target man, great strength/jumping reach/heading and his finishing isn't even that bad either. I will likely try out a 4-2-3-1 first and the way I envisage it working means that he shouldn't need to be running all over the pitch, so his low acceleration, pace and stamina shouldn't hinder him too much. Two very respectable midfielders for this level. Not sure why an Icelandic international is at our club but I'll take it! A really nice young goalkeeper, seems like he might have some room to grow too, although I'm not sure how good our staff member is at judging CA/PA. Last but not least I'm absolutely delighted to have this youngster at the club! Only 15 but I'm already thinking I might play him in the first team. The only problem is that he may have problems with injuries but hopefully it's not a big deal. Might be able to sell him for serious money in the future if he develops properly. I mainly plan to develop my first batch of youngsters with a view to selling them so I can reinforce the squad with good players in their prime. Simmed a couple of days and got this interesting message. Looks like I will have to be very careful financially. Already worrying a bit about the future, but competing in Europe with such a restrictive limit will certainly be interesting. Early Season Woes Well, things haven't quite gone according to plan. In fact I'm not quite sure why the board haven't sacked me yet. I don't know if it's because I made my nationality American, but for some reason I haven't been able to get any positive results from my team talks at kick off or half time. I decided to try out a 5-3-2 wingback formation because I thought it would suit the squad and uhh, I think it's safe to say that it didn't. My two wins before I took the screenshot were from when I changed to a 4-2-3-1 formation. If only I'd been using this tactic from the start because I've been having good possession in the games I've played with it and a decent xG. The 4-1 win against Hermannstadt (sounds suspiciously like a Scandanavian club to me) came when they were top of the table. I think it's fair to say that the squad might not be quite as good as I thought it was, although the tactic definitely wasn't helping. Having now looked at the rules for the division it would appear that at some point during the season half the division goes into the Championship group and half goes into the Relegation group, which might explain why the board haven't dispensed of me yet. It might have been a good idea for me to research how the league worked before I started playing The board grade was previously an E, so I guess it's.. getting better? I have a feeling I'll be sacked soon anyway so this thread was probably pretty pointless

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FC Voluntari I've taken a total break from FM for the past two years as I wasn't really enjoying the game anymore. Then I randomly came on the forum today and suddenly a wave of inspiration hit me to finally try a long term save in this years edition. Partly because I remembered how I much I enjoyed making a thread and chronicling my adventure, and also because I should (hopefully!) be able to carry this save on into the new edition too. Thus with a new found pep in my step I needed a club. I've already done South America in the past and multiple threads in Germany, so I decided to try a much smaller European league this time around. After an hour of weighing up various clubs and basically having no idea who to pick I've somehow ended up in a northern suburb of Bucharest. Even though we're literally in Bucharest we aren't rivals with either Steaua or Rapid FC Voluntari only formed in 2010, yet managed to win the Romanian cup in 2015. However success seems largely to have eluded them since then. As far as Romania goes we have quite a few heavy hitters in our domestic league that I'm sure are leaps ahead of us right now. Cluj, Steaua & Rapid Bucharest are pretty big clubs, but most intriguing by far are Farul Constanta (they have one of the most insane youth setups I've ever seen at this level - 5 star youth recruitment, 4 star facilities, 3 star junior coaching). I imagine that the leagues continental co-efficient is pretty poor so I'm going to end up having to sort that out, but for now I'm more worried about how I'm going to compete with these behemoths. Just realised this google earth photo could literally be out of FM which is pretty cool. Not the most impressive stadium I've ever seen, but we do have a few floodlights at least. It would also appear that we have plenty of buses, which will be very handy for any future away trips to the Bernabéu. Introducing Stan Lee Cube Rick, rumoured illegitimate son of one of cinemas greatest enigmas. Closely tied to the Danube himself through his love of Johann Strauss II, Stan Lee has left the bright lights of New York behind for a provincial life in the old Eastern Bloc. Stan Lee's new residence - not too shabby! I'm quite happy with the the current setup. Our first team training facilities aren't that good but with the great youth facilities and exceptional youth recruitment (the latter being higher than Cluj/Steaua/Rapid) I should hopefully be able to snag some nice regens. One of my main goals of the save is to try and build around Romanian talents so eventually I'll need to upgrade junior coaching. However the bank balance is currently £140k so that will be for the future. If I'm being totally honest this could all go tits up as I have no clue what works well tactically in this match engine but hopefully I'll figure something out. Luckily the board only want a mid table finish this first season. The Romanian league only has 16 teams so seasons shouldn't take too long (as long as I don't get sacked in my inaugural campaign). Anyway enough of the intro, time for me to get stuck in

cheers man

I'm sure it's already been asked, but am I right in thinking that I can start a save now in FM23 and carry it over into FM24 ? thought I read about it in an email from SI but want to make sure

an idea i can get behind 100%

cheers kev