Swaban

Is this one still going?

Having just caught up on the story so far, i'd definitely be interested in this!

I'm looking for a database so that I can play in England without work permits & sign players before they turn 18 alternatively, if anyone could point me in the right direction as to how to do it myself that would be greatly appreciated thanks!

apologies, clearly i cant think & type at the same time! What I meant to ask, was why you were managing both clubs? As opposed to just one of them

Its time to manage Real Sociedad & become the dominant force in Basque football, making sure to sign as many promising Basque talents as possible to keep them away from Athletic Bilbao

As someone thats never attempted San Marino, why do you use 2 separate managers for club/national team rather than just 1 manager for both?

Great news! I must admit that I was gutted when I read your comment about starting a new save

Hi does anyone know how I would go about removing work permits for English clubs, so that im able to sign any player without worrying about it? Thanks!

Good luck mate, sounds really interesting. Definitely looking forward to see how this goes

Thats interesting! So you're looking to strengthen other clubs in the league too by loaning out your own players? I've never thought of doing that before, hopefully it prevents the issues where you become dominant in the league & everything becomes too easy

This looks interesting! Can you elaborate on the loan farm? is it simply loaning players out to gain experience and then either integrating them into the first team or selling if they're not good enough? OR is there more to it that this?

When my assman sends the list of players due to play in the upcoming B team match, I've tried to make a couple of them unavailable so that they can play in the first team match which is on the same day, but he still picks them for the B team squad making them unavailable to me How do i fix this so that I can have B team players take part in the first team squad for certain games?

August 2024 A tough first month of the season sees us collect 6 points from a possible 12. We won our first game against Brighton 3-1, thanks to a first half hat trick by Hojlund, however he injured himself in the process & won't be back until mid-September which has hurt us as we struggled to score goals in the following matches with Tammy Abraham being our main striker until Hojlund returns. The 0-0 draw with Manchester City was a great result, given that Luke Shaw got himself sent off after 25 mins, but we managed to cling on. The Fulham & Chelsea games were less impressive, both times we went 1-0 down in the first half before getting an equaliser after the break. We need to improve if we are to compete at the top. Aside from the league, we lost on penalties to Manchester City, in the Community Shield which confirmed that it's nothing but a meaningless friendly. Ask me about that again when we win the thing & i'll likely tell you that its a fine piece of silverware. On a more positive note, the board has agreed to improve both our Training & Youth Facilities!

Transfers In Having seen Diogo Dalot off to Arsenal, we had to decide whether to bring in a RB to replace him, or to move Guehi over to the right & then bring in another CB. After considering both options & the players available, we opted for the former, bringing in Jeremie Frimpong from Bayer Leverkusen for a fee of £53,000,000 which is £9,000,000 less than we received for Dalot. He is paid £115,000 per week, which is £30,000 more than we were paying Dalot however we have managed to dramatically reduce our weekly spend from what it was this time last year. With Alejandro Garnacho becoming our first choice RW, we are in need of a second LW, to provide competition to Rashford. Thanks to wolves being relegated to the Championship, Matheus Cunha was unhappy at the club. Seeing that we were able to get him for a fee of £41,500,000 we pulled the trigger. Although he is more of a central player, I feel he can do a great job as in IF on the left & to top it off, we managed to get his wage down to £55,000 per week. Wage Bill With our transfer business now complete for the summer, a look at the weekly wage bill shows that we are definitely moving in the right direction. This time last year, when we first took over at the club we were spending £4,802,554 per week. This is now down to £3,765,759. A reduction of £1,036,795 per week in the space of just 1 season!

Transfers Out The big news is we've managed to move on Jadon Sancho, with Aston Villa coming to our rescue. They bid £31,000,000 and I snapped their hand off. We are unfortunately going to be paying him £55,000 per week for the next 2 years, however I feel its worth it given that it is £220,000 less than we have been paying him & he will get exactly the same amount of game time for us this season as he did post-christmas last season. With Garnacho cementing his position as our first choice RW in the latter stages of last season & us also having Antony, Amad Diallo & Facundo Pellistri as back up options on the right, we do not require a replacement for Sancho. Diogo Dalot also leaves us, i'm not particularly happy about letting him go as he became our first choice RB in the second half of the season however, when Arsenal came in with a £62,000,000 bid it was far too much money for me to turn down. I've been happy with our RB partnership of Dalot & AWB so havent scouted any RB's or drawn up a shortlist so far. My options are to either buy a like for like replacement, or move Guehi out to RB, as we play with an IWB & buy another CB with a decent left foot in order to provide competition to Lisandro Martinez, but there is plenty of scouting to be done before I make my decision. Our third and final departure (I've opted to keep Bruno Fernandes & thankfully, he hasnt kicked up a fuss yet) is Facundo Pellistri. One of him or Amad Diallo needed to be moved on, due to us having too much competition at RW. Bayer Leverkusen were interested in him, so we decided to offer him out to market. They came in with a bid of £27,000,000 which we accepted.

Worryingly, Saudi club Al-Ahli have put in a bid of £134,000,000 for Bruno Fernandes & to make things worse, his agents feedback is that he is "incredibly interested" in speaking to them & would need "a lot of convincing" to stay at Manchester United. I have absolutely no idea what to do here, as im not entirely convinced that I could find a player as good as him, never mind better, in order to replace him with. There are some very big decisions to be made here

Financial Update This time last year, our net debt was sitting at £552mio, this is now down to £422mio. A reduction of £130mio over the course of the season. Transfer debt was also £212mio, which has now been reduced to £140mio. My aim is to pay the full transfer fee's up front where possible, in order to not take on any additional debt until we have managed to clear the vast majority of the existing debt that we inherited. The exception to this so far, has been with Marc Guehi who became available after we had already paid for Todibo, I couldn't turn down the opportunity to sign him, so we owe Crystal Palace £50mio over 3 years. At present, we have £163mio in the bank, which is £66mio less than we had at this stage last year. Our financial projection is looking stronger too, something which I'm keen to bolster by further reducing the wage bill & being responsible in the transfer market. A debt free Manchester United is the goal, which will be a first since the Glazers took over! A quick look at the Wages to Turnover ratio makes for some positive reading, particularly as we are still stuck with players such as Jadon Sancho & Casemiro who are 2 of our 3 highest earners (alongside Marcus Rashford) & will be moving on, Casemiro going either this summer or next & Sancho going as soon as I can convince somebody to take him! We are currently 16th out of the 20 clubs in the league, in terms of Wages to Turnover ratio at 36%, however a closer look at the list shows that Everton are the best performing, with a ratio of 9%! Upon closer inspection, we can see that Everton had a tycoon takeover back in December, something that I managed to miss at the time & due to such investment, made a profit of £893mio over the season. Everton only managed to survive relegation on goal difference, so it will be interesting to see how they perform over the next couple of seasons once the money starts flowing.

End of Season 1 Competition Results Premier League Winners: Manchester City, who were 6 points clear of Manchester United in second place. Champions League Winners: Barcelona, who beat PSG in the final. Arsenal were the only Premier League team that managed to make it past the round of 16 & they were knocked out in the quarter final. Europa League Winners: Lazio, who beat Roma in the final FA Cup Winners: Manchester United! beating rivals Manchester City 1-0 in the final Carabao Cup Winners: Manchester City who beat Arsenal in the final Team of the Year Manchester City dominate the team of the year, with no less than 7 players! However, Marcus Rashford also makes it into the team. Individual Stats Haaland & Matheus Nunes are the 2 highest rated players of the season. Nunes also won Player of the Year Haaland finished top goalscorer, as you'd likely expect, however with 24 goals, he didnt put up ridiculous numbers. Marcus Rashford finished joint second, with 17 goals. Everton's Jack Harrison finished the season with the most assists, which was instrumental in them avoiding relegation, in a season where they stayed up purely due to goal difference over Wolves Manchester City's Ederson & Arsenals David Raya dominated the clean sheet table, with 22 & 20 respectively. Guglielmo Vicario of Spurs was in third place with 13 cleam sheets. Team Stats We scored 71 goals this season, 10 fewer than champions Manchester City With 33 goals conceded this season, it was only 4 more than Manchester City however they had 8 more clean sheets than we did

May 2024 Anthony Martial decided to follow in Jadon Sancho's footsteps & not turn up for training. Thankfully, his contract expires at the end of the season & hasn't even made the bench since we signed Tammy Abraham in January. We are still struggling to get rid of Sancho who will never play for the club again having skipped training & still having the balls to ask for a new contract which included a hefty pay rise! Despite him holding "great disdain" for me, he is refusing to leave & as a result, no clubs are interested in him. Hopefully we can get rid in the summer, but if not he will waste another year of his career The final month of the season sees us collect 7 points from a possible 9, which was enough to secure second place in the Premier League, 6 points behind champions Manchester City I'm more than happy with this for our first season in charge. The board wanted us to qualify for the Europa League, I was aiming for top 4 in order to keep us in the Champions League because the additional income that it generates will be vital to us paying off the club's debts. The final game of our season saw us face off against rivals Manchester City in the FA Cup Final in order to stop them from winning the domestic treble having already won the Premier League & Carabao Cup Our Under 18's do the double! Winning both the U18 Premier League & The FA Youth Cup

April 2024 Another strong month sees us collect 12 points from a possible 15 in the Premier League. Our only defeat coming against Liverpool, who rival us for second place in the table. Thankfully, they then went on to lose to Spurs the following week meaning that we once again leapfrogged them to retain second place in the table with now just 3 games left to play. We also beat Everton 3-1 in the FA Cup Semi Final, setting up a Manchester Derby in the final! City have already won the Carabao Cup this season & are dead certs to win the league too, being 7 points clear of us with only 3 games to play. It is up to us to prevent them from winning the domestic treble by beating them in the FA Cup Final next month. Aside from this, our under 18's have won the U18 Premier League and in convincing fashion too, the future is looking promising.

March 2024 A strong month overall sees us pick up 9 points from 9 which was certainly helped by playing on 5 games this month, something which hasn't happened since October. In the FA Cup Quarter Final, Hull City managed to take us to extra time, where 3 goals were scored between 115th - 118th minute. Thankfully, we were the victors & we go on to face Everton in the Semi Final Unfortunately, RB Leipzig knock us out of the Champions League at the round of 16. Manchester City were also knocked out by PSG, meaning that Arsenal are the only Premier League side in the Quarter Final. In the Premier League we remain in third place, 1 point behind Liverpool however we do have a game in hand over them, so second place is still very much in our hands with just 8 games left to play.

Art imitates life, as Jadon Sancho decides not to turn up for training. He played well at the beginning of the season, however every time he got a run of games he was asking for a new contract & wanted a pay rise on his already ridiculous salary of £275,000 per week making him our third highest paid player already behind Marcus Rashford & Casemiro both of whom are paid £300,000 per week. He has asked for a new contract 4 times this season so far, after the most recent rejection I received the below message. This will mark the end of Sancho's time at Manchester United as I won't tolerate players skipping training. I will be looking to sell him ASAP On a more positive note, we both Alejandro Garnacho (5) & Kobbie Mainoo (8) have made it into the top 10 of the NXGN: 2024

Youth Intake Everyone's favourite day of the year (unless the intake is awful!) is here & we have some very good players coming through, with 3 players being considered Elite Talents & 2 considered Top Talents, however 4 of the 5 are wingers, which is probably our most stacked area already with the likes of Garnacho, Amad Diallo, Pellistri & Shea Lacey already being at the club

February We really struggled this month players are tired & injuries are starting to mount up, likely due to the fixture congestion where we played 7 games this month. In the Premier League we picked up 7 points, from a possible 15. A tally which sees us fall to third in the league, 5 points behind leaders City who have 2 games in hand over us & 1 point behind second place Liverpool In the FA Cup we played a fully rotated 11 in order to rest players. Amad Diallo, Hannibal, Hansen-Aaroen, Harry Amass & Shea Lacey (screenshots of each of them are below) were all given starts as we managed to overcome Charlton in order to qualify for the Quarter Final, where we will face Hull City We also played the first leg of the Champions League round of 16, where we lost 2-0 at home to RB Leipzig in a game which we dominated, hitting the post 3 separate times. However, Lois Openda was too clinical for us, scoring both of Leipzig's shots on target in the game.

January Tactical Change Having used the 343 shown above for the first half of the season, I've opted to return to type & run with the below 433. The Bruno Fernandes role changes between a Roaming Playmaker & an Advance Playmaker (Attack) depending upon the opponent. Casemiro's DM role can be changed to either a DM(defend) or an Anchor, depending upon the opponent / how the game is going. Other than this, the roles generally remain the same The new system has left me with a selection dilemma at CB. We now have 3 top class CBs in Lisandro Martinez, Jean-Clair Todibo & Marc Guehi fighting for 2 starting spots. The change in system, see's us complete our first unbeaten month since August & not only were we unbeaten, but we won every one of our 5 games this month! Picking up 9 points from 9 in the Premier League & beating both Bristol City & Leeds in the FA Cup. This see's us retain second place in the Premier League, 6 points behind City & 1 point ahead of Liverpool