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Chris Wilson career story - 29 January 2023 Bank Loan OH. That's how our balance went positive. Tactic I had to make Reilly a poacher as Charltons manager threatened to recall him if I don't.. I did not notice the promise to use him as a poacher but its similar role to advanced forward. Poacher probably fits Reilly even more ALSO look at all those green lines and partnerships developing nicely. Dynamics Another positive thing to see. Hierarchy Getting the dynamics and the support of players has felt like the deciding factor between doing good and doing just ok in the past few versions of the game. New contracts Top performing players from the starting 11 signing new deals. Salary per year New contracts and two players signed by the president bring us up in the salaries. Puts a bit more pressure to AT LEAST get play off spots this season. Schedule November 2022 & December 2022 & January 2023 Good results with a few losses and a bit of a bad form in January but were still doing great. League table Billericay is on a crazy run of form and they overtake us into first place. Cups schedule Halifax are a league above us and knocked us out of FA trophy Squad Barnwell does not stop scoring . I have seen on reddit and many stories that players like Lorenzo Lucca are very good this year. He is similar with his height and heading and jumping. Simpson is looking great as right back with his assists. Also the tactic switch of Reilly to poacher saw him start scoring a lot more. Morgan was recalled due to lack of games and also we have James who in 10 sub appearances failed to score or assist.. Morale is a little down after the poor run in January and some players not getting game time but hopefully we can turn that around going forward. Dasilva Dasilva refused to sign a new deal and 70 k is a massive amount for our club so I had to accept this. Dasilva and Webb To be fair he is doing a bit worse then Webb at left back.. So its not that much of a miss except we wont have two really good left backs. Ben O'Hanlon New left back back up. He is very average and I hope Webb does not get injured. New Contract We signed a new deal! Reputation Also at some point my rep went from 5 percent to 10 .. I missed the exact point it happened but hey.. progress! World Cup I was so surprised to see this news article. A former player of ours. Jamal Lowe Good luck to him at the world cup. Its crazy he was so far down with us and only in a couple years scored 14 goals in championship!

Chris Wilson career story 29 October 2022 Schedule The season is going great 3 months into it. Random 4:0 loss to dover and a few draws and another loss but were looking really good. So far every player seems to be doing well. League table Cups Schedule Out of the FA Cup. We made 11 k through the two wins we had. Squad Honestly everyone who starts has a good average rating. Only thing is Morgan has struggled to score so Fasanmade took the starting place. He is scoring a bit. Reilly could also score more but Barnwell is getting the goals for us. He looks great up top and so does Dawson in the middle as expected. Dasilva is having minor injuries and I did not expect Webb to step up the way he did but he's doing good at left back. Overall everyone is performing well so far. Dasilva injury After minor injuries that made him miss start of the season he got a bigger one so hopefully Webb can keep up his performances. Take over New Contracts I'm starting to think about next season and I think Gomis and Simpson deserve a new deal already. Take over part 2 Transfer embargo I guess I offered new deals just in time before the embargo. Take over part 3 Its finally done. New owner So apparently new owner decided to bring new players in. I know you sometimes get the option to cancel these deals last minute but I will not do that as its more realistic that way. Finances We are in the positive. Owen James Oh wow we are actually offering money for them.. 4.9k for that and 600 wages is mad. Gregor Woods Very average player but got to deal with the new owners wishes. Dawson injury Annoying injury to our best performer.. gonna miss a few games.

Chris Wilson career story Squad Overview This is how I keep track of my squad. A little table in excel. Keeper Both keepers from last year before me. Henry looks a little bit better with his physicals. Right back Simpson was here when I joined and I think he looks amazing for this level and should get a lot of assists. Rutrherford is not a great back up but he's on loan for free and both our starting right back and left back can play right and left if we need to rotate. Central defender All 4 players are new to the club. Gomis and Peter will start. Left back Dasilva is by far the best player at the club. He is wanted and refuses to sign a new deal . However nobody is making any offers for him right now. He will start and he is also the vice captain. He was here when I joined. Webb was also here and he should be ok back up. Defensive midfielder Both players from last year. Gardiner-Smith is the captain and was Hemels best player last year. He will start. Johnson is an ok back that's homegrown. Box to box All 4 new players I have high hopes for Dawson as he looks very well rounded and O'Farrell will be on the left side as hes left footed. OK back ups as well. Target forward I'm very happy with getting Barnwell as usually I'm not a fan of using target man but more of a DLF up top but the striker we had at hereford was also tall and good at heading and he was great before i got fired. Tall and pretty fast as well . Leaburn looks like a good back up on loan. Forward I am gonna start Morgan and Reilly . Both we have on loan and they look fast and can finish. I think Reilly is a lot better with such high off the ball. Fasanmade was here last year and should be the main back up . Marsh-Brown is the only winger at the club when I joined. I did take a look at bring a left winger to the club so I could use him too but I decided against it .He will train to play up top and probably will not get many games unless we have an injury crisis. Overall I think its a squad capable of getting top6 at least and depending on injuries maybe even higher.

That was such a great moment because as I opened my thread I was reading your updates and myself forgot it was posted in the wrong place when I got to the end haha. I guess it would be easier to keep up with your save through here. I am hoping to do well at Hemel but also its a semi-pro club so its very annoying with little improvement to players and the tactic constantly not being fully familiar with the players but we will see how long I stay here!

Chris Wilson career story - August 13 2022 Transfers in A lot of new faces that well take a closer look at in a squad post that should be after this update. Squad I'm pretty happy with the squad even though some back up players I would rather not start if I don't have to. Competitions Expectations David wants us to fight against relegation but I want us to fight for play offs. at least I know our job should be safe unless we completely fail here. Season Preview Even the season preview has us higher then board expectations. Salary Per Year This is not always the best way to judge a strength of a team but its a good way to judge where you should be for the money you are spending on your players. Interestingly it has us in 13th just like season preview does. Pre Season We are looking great going forward vs lower league teams. I'm not sure if its just the level or the 3 strikers up top is a bit OP in fm22. I remember maybe fm 19 or 18 shadow strikers were too strong for AI to cope with and it quickly became an exploit. I used 3 striker up top at Chelsea with top players and definitely struggled at times even coming 5th in my second season. Tactic This is the tactic used in pre season. I think only change from Hereford I made was tick passing up from shorter passing and also both box to box to get forward as well as wing backs to cross to target man. Takeover? TWO days before the first game of the season I got these news. Finances I guess it makes sense why he wants to sell as FM's way of dealing with clubs that struggle financially is for owners to sell them. I think our job should be safe when it goes through as we just got hired. Squad overview in next update.

Chris Wilson career story - June 12 2022 Hereford Schedule Hereford ended up losing every single game. Hereford League Table Interestingly Scarborough pulled through. Them beating us 7:0 sure helped. They were 3 points off 20th when we joined. Interview Offer We didn't have to wait that long as the first interview came in a bit over a month after we got fired. Hemel Hempstead Town League Table They actually finished 10th. A lot higher then the teams I expected to be talking to so this is a good opportunity. Job Offer After waiting for a few weeks with no other interview offers in sight we got the job. I'm not sure if their club culture had anything to do with offering me the job but at the time my tactical style did say route one and I used very attacking in my tactic at hereford. Its nice to imagine SI would get a detail like that into the game. Either way that's what id like to believe.. David Boggins the chairman ignored the awful losses we had at Hereford and focused on us scoring goals. New team - Hemel Hempstead Town The club Team report - Best 11 Look at that! This was a nice surprise as its exactly the tactic i used at Hereford. Squad After looking through the youngsters , which were not good, there are 9 players that are ready for next season. 3 really good players are refusing to sign a new deal so were left with just 9. Big summer ahead as we need a lot of new players. Hopefully some good loans will be available.

Yes , I will be managing a team in Vanarama National League South and will even have a pre season. Will do an update tomorrow .

Chris Wilson career story - April 2 2022 New Striker Obiero was the only striker out of around 20 players that actually accepted the offer. Very fast for this level and I hope he can score us some goals. Obiero History Former Huddersfield player hopefully he can score his first goals for us. Schedule February 2022 & March 2022 We started off with another BIG loss and at this point I was worried about my stats of not having a single win! Stuck with the tactic and it saw us get results here and there but the loss to Telford in April meant we got relegated. League table And we are down. It was always gonna be an impossible job but when I took it 11 points didn't seem that far. Its that first month if we got it right we had the chance to stay up. Obiero He became the main scorer so at least we know we can recruit a good striker at this level. And yes I did give him number 1 as a striker. Relegation Fired Well .. now the story and save begins. We should still have the reputation to get interviews at this level and hopefully some team changes the manager in the summer or we will have to wait until December again.

Chris Wilson career story - January 29 2022 Few obvious problems with this club. Keeper This is the best GK at Hereford. Even at this level he is awful but I'm not sure how much better can we possibly get out there. Club Atmosphere As you can imagine bottom of the league the clubs Atmosphere is awful and it just gets even harder to get the team to perform. Morale As expected awful morale and judging by my last save morale seems to be even more important in fm22. Schedule January 2022 Well.. a lot to unpack here. First two games saw us come up vs 23rd and 22nd in the league and wins in these two games would have given us massive chance for surviving. Reality set in really fast that a tactic that worked with a premier league winning team was not gonna do it at this level. First game was ok as we conceded two goals late but game vs ScarboROUGH was rough. They were so much better I had to question my FM abilities. Made some changes in 3rd game in charge with no improvement to performance. Only when we moved to 3 at the back did we get a draw but still ended the month on a loss. League Table I think there was hope.. but it really just slipped completely away in the first month. The first two games meant A LOT but I think our fate is almost confirmed at Hereford. First achievement I guess. I brought in two players and made offer to over 30 players but it seems clubs just snap them up as soon as you make an offer.. frustrating. Jack Kiersey Good CM that can do box to box role Liam Thompson This is the new GK that I was hoping could make a difference but he's not that much better. Mathematically survival is possible but it would be the best achievement in my 20 years of playing FM. But its good to have hope.

I only recently moved onto fm22 after finishing up my long saves in fm21. I did a few seasons with Chelsea to get a feel for a new game , and now its time to do my favorite type of a career which is a journeyman. Hopefully others can also enjoy this save and follow my managers path. Chris Wilson career story - December 31 2021 This is a fictional character that I have used for many versions on FM. In my imagination he is a former footballer from London that was in youth academy of Chelsea. Injuries ruined his career and in his early 20s he got his badges done and at the start i imagine him as a u21s teams coach somewhere down the leagues in England. He gets his chance at a struggling team that has sacked their manager and promoted him from within while either looking for a better option or keeping him in charge because of good results. The game world and results dictate that side of the story for me. Very often this save starts with him getting sacked because I always pick the bottom team in Vanarama National South/North on December 31. It makes the story even more interesting for me if he gets sacked. Its rare but I've managed to keep some teams up with massive luck and good runs of form. We will see how this goes. Pretty simple goals for Chris, hopefully manage Chelsea one day and win some trophies. Leagues I am using a data pack with updated transfer for the new season and promotions and relegations. I added the top leagues around Europe with the top5 leagues also having the 2nd division loaded and England all the way down to Vanarama National South/North. League Table Vanarama National League South Tauntons chances of survival are extremely low so its a sure way to get sacked. League Table Vanarama National League North Hereford on the other hand with 11 points off survival does not look good but much more likely and there is hope. New Team - Hereford Chris Wilson This is a choice I make every time I do this save between having no badges and having Continental Pro License. For anyone that's done a save with no badges you'll know you can get up to 3 star reputation after getting all the badges in just a few years. Eddie Howe has 3 star reputation for comparison . In my experience it is possible to get all the badges in a team all the way down at Vanarama National if they have the money. After that you can apply for Championship level jobs and even some top teams in other countries like Greece and Turkey. That just doesn't feel like natural progression and I think its actually a lot harder when you start off with all the badges done when you do a journeyman. Only achievements will make your reputation go up and let you get better jobs. Tactic This is similar to what worked for me at Chelsea in previous save and its fitting as Hereford doesn't have any good wingers . It fits the team after a quick look at the squad. Let the journey begin and hopefully at the end of the season it will matter to take a look at the squad and learn more about the club if we manage to stay up.

I skipped fm22 for the first time since like 2008 .. just didn't have enough for me and I really dislike the new transfer value system. Every transfer site there is has a set value not a range.. so yes buying fm23 either way