Muttley84

Still on FMT21 and not enough time anymore to make a complete thread, but I am going to start a new career with the idea of only using players from the western Mediterranean islands (that would be Baleares, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta and other small ones). Something like a team of pirates from the Island attacking for Europe... Probably going to start in the 3rd Division of Italy, France or Spain. Olbia are a strong favorite just because they have a boat on the logo (and maybe also cause Sardinia is kind of in the middle of things). If I manage to survive past a season maybe I will get back here for updates.

Massive last game of the season at Bodo/Glimt it seems. Fingers crossed.

I have not checked in game, but how can he be home grown at Barcelona if he left when he was 16? To my knowledge HG is when he spent 3 years between 15 and 21 at the club?

Thats a weird desire for someone being 1st in the league 😁

There are no such rules. You can pick any club you want, or even switch clubs. The final aim is to push the country up the continental rankings, pretty much unimportant how you chose to do it.

Cska bankrupted and bought a license from a different club to stay in the 1st league. Cska 1948 started from the bottom leagues wanting to do it the right way. And now you have 2 CSKA clubs in the first league. The joys of football in this part of the continent.

With Sparta and Red Star I dont know if we can consider them building a nation as both Czech R. and Serbia have qualified for CL past years, might be a bit to easy. On the other hand Malta or Baltic countries could be a to long slog. So my vote would go for Bulgaria (though I personally wont play with CSKA giving the real life disputes about the two clubs, maybe Levski) or Bosnia.

Given the large number of clubs with good facilities in the area (Villa, Wolves, WBA, Coventry or Birmingham etc) you will have no problem with new quality players being generated each year. Question is if you will be able to attract them. I have already played this before numerous times in FM20 and FM21 (Tuscany, Lombardy, Lisbon or Bretagne) but never started this low in the league, its going to be a real slog. Good luck, will be following.

When he played in Romania you will find him going up with the ball at his feet sometimes to the middle of the pitch haha. And he also took some penalties. His personality was not balanced by any means lol.

Good luck with the career. Regarding the best former players you probably used an English source, as probably all Italians supporting Palermo would put Fabrizio Miccoli on the top of the list, and probably even Luca Toni will make it ahead of Belotti. Curious what sout-american gems you will bring to Europe. To bad FM can't replicate the madness of Zamparini.

Maybe this can be renamed to include "fantasy" in the title, given you are inviting people to start in an unrecognized football league.

Your challenge reminded me of this: https://www.theguardian.com/football/these-football-times/2017/jun/08/vitor-oliveira-manager-won-promotion-seasons-portugal-portimonense

Title in the first season incoming. Now thats some serious overachivement for a club that was 15 in the table irl couple of weeks. Wonder how much money you will have in the summer to streghten for CL, and if you will encounter the belgian finances bug.

Sorry if I missed the info, is that a special facepack you are using or just edited their pics outside the game? It looks really cool and fresh.

Are you playing without the transfer window? Maybe one explanation of your teams not performing is that it seems you are making constant transfers in and out...