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1 hour ago, Branst23 said:
Great stuff! Keep going, I feel like it's one of the most rewarding FM saves! Keep scouting free agents and contracts that expire, great way to pick up free players and sell on for more money!
Also... UPPA TOWEN!
Yes, I have utilised the free market well, however I was lucky I sold a player who I signed for free - Henrique Perreira - to Sporting Lisbon for £16.5m. The finances have been great so I have been able to invest in the squad really well (my transfer budget for this season was £12m, however I've set myself a limit of £2m for each transfer, as I want the save to be realistic still). I still have £9m in the budget, although I was able to sell another £3m worth of players!
Ha, Town fan yourself?!
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1 hour ago, Branst23 said:
Huge Save Update
Currently in the middle of playing season 9 and going through the qualification aspects of Europe, then I noticed something...
The Liechtenstein Cup winners now qualify for Europa League rather than Europa Conference league! I have never seen this change in a Liechtenstein before. I believe this might be because we have won the cup so often and done so well in Europa leading to the Cup reputation increasing!
Has anyone seen this before?
@JBZ as creator of the database, have you ever seen this?
I am very excited as this will massively help us with the increase in likelihood of qualifying for ECL through not getting through the EL qualifications - as you drop down! Wow!
That's great stuff. I'm currently in season 5 with FC Vaduz, and still haven't got to that point (have won the Cup every year so far). Just finished in 3rd, little bit disappointed as when the League split, I was top but lost 3 games in a row (YB twice and Basel) so that put paid to that.
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Bloody love these kind of stories, KUTGW Makoto!
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This is my first attempt at writing a story, so I'm trying to get my bearings with posting pictures etc. But having been a long time reader of this section of the forum, I thought it was about time I started my own story. I will try and write this with a 'personal touch' to it as well, detailing certain aspects as I go along.
So let's start, for the purpose of the story my name is JC, born in 1992 and this is my journey from professional footballer to manager of FC Vaduz in Lichtenstein.
29 years of age, and here I am the manager of FC Vaduz in Lichtenstein, but how did I get to this point?
I started with my hometown team, Ipswich Town and made my debut aged 17. After 3 relatively successful seasons (58 appearances, 8 goals, 9 assists), I made a relatively decent move (£1.2m rising to £2.8m with add ons) to Newcastle United. That move proved somewhat to be a disaster other than 1 relatively decent 18 month loan (across 2 spells) with Hamburger SV in Germany. A permanent move to Hamburg never materialised and beginning to fall out of love with the game, I terminated my contract with Newcastle in 2015 with 2 years remaining on my contract. I then signed a 1 year contract with Hearts in Scotland, and after an unsuccessful season with them in which my season was curtailed due to injury in January of 2016, I was yearning for home.
Come the summer of 2016, and I was back home with Ipswich Town on a 3 year contract. At first I was massively excited about the move, I really did feel at home again. After a very good first season where I had a good run of games (38 games, 10 goals and 9 assists) from central midfield, I was excited to go in to season 2. But something had changed, and I literally just do not know what. I began to hate going in to training, my performances when called upon had dipped massively when in February 2017 Mick McCarthy pulled me to one side and said I should take a month away from the place. He could see I wasn't right and he went on to say he'd back me in the media and he'd tell them that I was injured.
I returned a month later and had began to feel okay. Mick pulled me out of the firing line again and told me to come back for pre-season in July and hopefully my head would be in a better place. I did that and began the following season like a house on fire, 12 games, 7 goals and 7 assists. But in the back of my mind was always the nagging feeling that I wasn't actually enjoying this anymore and come January 2018, after much consideration my family, friends and partner, I decided to call time on my career at the age of 25. I had always wanted to move in to coaching, and I took a year out of the game to travel the globe and pick the brains at many clubs (I spent a lot of time with the City Group at their clubs across the globe as well as Red Bull). With all the knowledge I had consumed, I returned to Ipswich in May 2019 as assistant manager of the under 18s. Ipswich is well renowned for its Academy, we take massive pride in it and after a hugely successful first season, I was the promoted to assistant manager of the under 23's. However I knew that my pathway to the first team was somewhat blocked and began to look for Manager jobs at the back end of 2020.
That then leads me to FC Vaduz. I was made aware there was a vacancy available through an agent friend, and after much deliberation with my family and partner, I decided to apply. What's the worst that could happen, right? Having somehow blagged myself an interview (I'm being a bit harsh on myself there, I sent a detailed CV with plenty of references), I was offered a 2 year contract to begin my work in Lichtenstein. I could not wait, little old me, JC, an actually football manager.
Having returned home for a couple of weeks, I set about trying to put together a backroom staff that I wanted to follow out with me, and I hope to name them in due course. The club have almost given me free reign. I have been tasked with building the club, not necessarily copying, but along the lines of Ajax & RB Salzburg. Player trading will be a big part, but not also forgetting that we hope to build the club, and nation as we go.
I moved to Vaduz on my own at the first, my partner staying behind. She's doing the homework in terms of finding a property (the club are helping her with that) whilst I'm staying in a hotel. I'm all in on this project, and plan to buy a property, rather than rent. I'm also taking German lessons 4 times a week (sometimes 2 lessons a day) so I can communicate better with my players and the local community.
Next up, hopefully a backroom team in place and some pre-season fixtures. Please bear with me whilst I get used to adding photos etc.
Thanks,
JC
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Great stuff. Will be following. I live in Ipswich but go past Colchester's ground every day on my way to work. Will be following!
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Love it Makoto. Following as ever!
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Really well written story, and a great start to you Forest career.
Look forward to seeing how you get on in the Prem, KUTGW!
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14 hours ago, Makoto Nakamura said:
Thanks ITFC! It was a tossup between here and North Korea.
Thanks duesouth! I shall try my best!
North Korea I would love to see, but Lesotho will do for now, ha!
Great start so far.
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Things you love to see ... Makoto managing in a random country.
Will be following as ever pal, good luck!
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Love saves like this. Good luck!!
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As always, the exact type of save I love to see on this forum ... and it's normally from yourself Makoto! KUTGW.
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2 hours ago, Butlee said:
Did you sell all your kids to Manchester?
Can you get Arzani back on loan!?
I haven't, no, ha! Managed to sign Cole Palmer on loan for 6 years, but he ended up signing for Celtic when his contract ended, couldn't have been anymore gutted.
Yes, I originally had him on loan, then managed to sign him permanently once his contract ran out as well. Has been so good for me!
I'm 7 seasons in, and still struggling with the rules etc, but getting there slowly!
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Great work Butlee. I'm currently in the middle of a long term (and successful) save with Melbourne City.
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Loving this story just like your Saudi Arabia one. KUTGW!
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Very best of luck! I had the absolute pleasure of going to Lucerne in August 2019, where I actually ended up proposing to my partner at the top of Mount Pilatus. A beautiful country, and Lucerne was a truly wonderful place!
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Love these type of left field saves, will be following!
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Really enjoying this save! Have a soft spot for Arsenal (Dad supports them), so always intrigued when people start saves with them. Be interesting to see if your more experienced signings of the window have any influence on the squad! KUTGW and looking forward to more updates!
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16 hours ago, Ben Kenney said:
This is an issue we are aware of and this is being looked into by the development team at the moment.
There is a workaround which has worked for some users. If you move the player from B Team -> U19 Team -> Senior Squad then the players remain in the senior side.
Cheers,
Ben
Ben,
Thanks so much for getting back to me.
Brilliant, why I didn't think of that before, I do not know. I will try it later.
Cheers,
James
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BUMP, has anyone else had this issue before?
Thanks.
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Evening all,
I am currently playing as Schalke in the Bundesliga. However every time I try and promote a player from my reserve side, they stay with the first team for a day, then automatically go back to the reserve side.
It's so frustrating as there is 3 players I want to promote.
anyone came across this?
Many thanks,
ITFC_Blue
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Just read this the whole way through, and what a read it was! Fantastic effort so far, KUTGW! Just wish I had another 4 pages of it to read now!
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Yet again, this is exactly the type of save I am here to see! Good luck.
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29 minutes ago, ThomasK said:
If you register 40 players with numbers, then you can go over 40. I think that's also likes this in real life. So just give some youth players squad numbers and then you'll be able to also use 43 and 45.
I thought I had tried that, but maybe I got it wrong. I will try again when it's due next season. Cheers.
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20 hours ago, tkis said:
Can't say this is a bug in a strict sense, but I just took a look at Bayern Munich squad numbers in my second season:
It seems that they took no. 9 from Lewandowski and gave it to Zirkzee, also Muller switched from his no. 25 to no. 16 for whatever reason. Last thing I saw, they bought Ousmane Dembele and gave him no. 3 which is literally never given to players other than defenders.
Do you know any issue surrounding squad numbers only going up to number 40 in the Bundesliga? I am Schalke and I can't go over number 40 and I have 2 new players who's preferred numbers are 43 and 45.
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FC Ruggell - The Great Liechtenstein Challenge
in FM Career Updates
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Thanks, admittedly I did break that to sign a keeper for £2.4m, the opportunity was too good to turn down. He's that unreal, he helped on my way to finally winning the Super League, however it hasn't gone on our records (presume because we are a guest club) and Basel went down as Champions.
Also, further to my last messages, we did also make the Champions League, with the finances being unreal for the club.