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FM23* Deportivo Armenio Season 3 – 2025 – First Division Our first continental competition started perfectly! Three wins out of three, even beating the group favorites AMG away. Only one team goes through the next round, nothing was safe. And we lost our home game against AMG, followed by a very unlucky draw with Guabira. On the last day I hoped Guabira could bring some of their luck against AMG but they lost without a whimper, while absolutely demolished O’Higgins of Chile in our best and most ruthless game of the season. We finished second in the group, 2 points off AMG. We were a lot worse in the League Cup this year. This is mostly due to the fact that I completely rotated the starting 11 before every single game in the Copa Sudamericana. Still, we managed to finish 8th, with 4 out of the 5 losses coming in games with rotated squad. All that was good enough for another new two-year contract. The bookmakers had a much better opinion of us this season! They predicted us to finish 25th with 700-1 odds of winning the title. League season didn’t start particularly well against this frustration fest of a game against Talleres. But we turned it around in the next round by absolutely wrecking Lanus. Bonacci really carried us in the first part of the season, even won player of the month for July. Good form carried us to our very first league lead towards the end of August! We were there, around first place for most of the season. This is mostly due to Boca having 4 games in hand. They were an unstoppable machine and after our unlucky loss to Platense, we had to kiss our title chances goodbye. We ended up second, eight points behind Boca and one in front of River. Absolutely magnificent season can’t believe how well it went. Off to Libertadores next year, to finally earn so much needed money and maybe even get out of the red! Oh, and I finally won my first award! Never won a single Manager of the Month but got Manager of the Year. One of the keys for our improvement this season I think is my new assistant manager. He has better judgement attributes than the previous person giving the reports. His tactical knowledge far exceeds what we currently have at the club. Since he is on the younger side, I hope he keeps improve and we stick with him throughout the save. I will remember this season as the free for all season when it comes to my youth products. We had so many of them poached. Clubs were poaching them like they were eggs! Gaston Morales and Gabriel Ranzato went to Ferro, Franco Orellana went to Estudiantes (LP), Claudio Godoy went to Gimnasia (LP), Eric Coceres went to Sarmiento I changed my HOYD this year, finally found someone who is better than my DoF in terms of both personality and attributes. His JPA isn’t great, but the other two attributes and personality are absolute class. I was blown away by my youth intake preview. I know you have to take these things with a grain of salt, but it said that I might get not 1 or 2, but 6 extremely talented players in this year’s intake. None of them was a central defender, but the goalkeeper is much needed, and I hope the full backs were taller and stronger than usual, so I could retrain them to central defenders. Sadly, the intake was a different story. We got just two elites out of the promised 6, along with 3 top talents,7 good talents and 4 decent talents. The pick of the litter are Mario Barrios and Martin Rojas, both natural AMCs. In Barrios we finally have a 5 star potential with a terrific personality! Adore high flair players and I hope he turns into a 20/20 flair by the end of his development. Looking forward to him becoming a true creative and scoring force for us in the future. Rojas looks like a tall Chad version of young Messi. I doubt he has the potential. More of a pure playmaker than all round attacking threat like Barrios. Personality isn’t great. Rojas is also by far the tallest player I got so far with 193cm. Apart from 3 decent talents, everyone got a youth contract, with the hopes that a few of them surprise me and turn out half a star or star better than what is currently projected. Marchesin and Estevez, the two promoted players, both got around 30 games, mostly of the bench this season. Marchesin improved a bit, but Estevez really didn’t. Both have seen their potential drop to 4 stars. Hopefully one of them hits it, would be bumped if both of them have reached their PA but my staff doesn’t know it yet. A bit pessimistic about the next years intake, especially the CA part since our facilities were downgraded. Pio Bonacci was once again our leading scorer with 25 goals Gonzalo Rios won player of the month for September, was included in the Team of the Year (with Salomoni) and was our best rated player with 7,34. Absolutely monster season scoring and creating at will. Olmedo was our most creative player with 22 assists and just 0,01 shy of Rios in terms of average rating. Patricio Correa, a player from our first intake, was on loan this season and keeps improving. I am promoting him to the first team. Due to his versatility and me letting Sica leave to cut expenses, he will be our 3rd option in the center of the midfield next season. Hopefully he improves more than Estevez and Marchesin did this year. The plan is to focus on the Libertadores in the first part of the season, during the League Cup part of the calendar. Just by qualifying we get 3 million, which erases most of our current debt. If we manage to go further, we could actually have some money for upgrades. In the league I hope for another top 4 finish and more Libertadores cash.

Fantastic stuff @libbyshuss!! Fun save to follow, some of the guys you developed are really world class.

FM23* Deportivo Armenio Season 2 – 2024 – First Division Surprisingly good and surprisingly unlucky second season. Let’s dive in The season preview said that we would finish dead last with 1000-1 odds of winning the title. As a dumb man once said, so you are saying there is a chance. The season started with the league cup. Going into it I thought we would struggle with relegation in the league, so I decided to keep rotating in the league cup, making sure everyone is as fit and as happy as possible. And then we started winning games, ten in total out of the 14 we played, beating even the great River . Got my hopes up, thought that we would get a legit trophy in our first season as topflight club. And you can guess what happened. We lost on penalties in the first playoff round after having like 2 xG. Good performance in the League Cup led to a new contract! And I also rejected Argentinos Jrs. Our start was brilliant, with a win against Boca . They really screwed up their preseason, playing with low sharpness against us. Throughout the league season, especially in the ringer that was August we kept performing well. We stayed up in the league without any issues, finishing 11th. I should be happy with that, especially since that guarantees continental football (money+rep boost), but we could have finished higher. The xG gods were not on our side. We conceded 36 goals while our xG against was 26. This was really apparent towards the end of the season, the last 5 or 6 games when every time a team had a highlight it was a goal. With more luck next year and internal growth, I could see us crack 50 points and potentially sneak into Libertadores. Hopefully games like this won’t happen that often next season As is tradition in the Argentine calendar, the first bit of big news we get is the Youth Preview. Similar to last year we were promised a total of 3 really talented players. While its always great to get really talented strikers and wingers, since their usually fetch the biggest sale values, I was really looking forward to a young and talented GK, since my two first team GKs are both 2,5 stars. But four months later, it was a bit of a different story. From the intake we got, there are 4 players that are really (based on the PA projections) worth talking about. Two elite talents were Lucas Barone and Roberto Dahan . Barone is most likely the promised elite winger, eventho is natural position is a striker. My Staff also see him as a winger on attack and its easy to see ways, technically and physically gifted with poor finishing, he is much more suited to beating his man and crossing it. Will need to improve his anticipation so he doesn’t stray offside all the time. Half Argentine and Half Israeli, Dahan is a versatile prospect with a lot of upside. He can already play three positions and has the broad attribute spread to contribute to all three of them once he develops. Currently being trained as a AMC on Attack. Fairy determined personality is ok, but the training scores are in the 9s and I’m optimistic he can fulfill his potential. We also got two top talents in Luciano Vitiello and Leonardo Suarez. Our half Italian goalkeeper looks like your run of the mill sticks to the line goalkeeper. I prefer a sweeper with good distribution, but he is really turns out to be a 4 star or better player I would be very happy to make the switch. Suarez is such a weird player. Given his professional nature, I’m sure he will fulfill his potential. But most of the attributes look really poor. Twenty-one of them are 5 or below! But he will be an absolutely amazing dribbler. Hopefully he turns into a rotation option inverted winger who just dribbles a lot, gets fouled around or inside the box and makes the easy pass to the open man. If not, he can switch to futsal. The leading scorer was once again Pio Bonacci with 16 goals. Most creative player was Luis Olmedo my starting MR, who had 9 assists, one assist more than last year’s leader Rios. My starting Mezzala Nicholas Sanchez was the best rated player with 7.19 I have two big focuses for the next, my third season with the club. The first is to give all my attention and focus to the Copa Sudamericana. I want to try and win it because the winner gets a total of 8 million euros, with the majority of that being the reward for the winner (5 mil). I know it’s a long shot, but it’s the best option I currently have to get out of the red financially. The first division has helped, and the board keep injecting cash, but we are still around 2 million in the red. This means that no upgrades are available. The second focus are Gustavo Marchesin and Martin Estevez. The latter was at the club when I joined. I didn’t pay too much attention since he was a 3,5 star potential. But he really improved. Currently a 2,5 CA in multiple roles both as MR and MC, with a 5 star PA which he could realistically hit if he keeps improving like he has so far. A very technical, talented passer with great natural fitness and aggression, fine mentals and average at best physicals, he could be the starting Mezalla for a few years to come. Marchesin replaces Nakache as my backup right winger. The most talented player of our first intake is already a 2,5 CA winger and youngest player to ever make an appearance for the club. He featured in the first team last season making 9 appearances for us, mostly in the League Cup. I plan to give them 20-30 minutes every time we have a favorable result and start them whenever the regulars aren’t available. Given their personalities and our improved coaching staff, I am very hopeful that they will become starter caliber players by the end of the season.

So sad it ended like that, experienced something similar in Turkey when I was booted in season 8. Brutal and heartbreaking. Wishing you the best of luck in Italy.

FM23* Deportivo Armenio Season 1 – 2023 – Second Division First FM23 season after two successful (and a bunch of unsuccessful secret FM21 youth academy saves). Decided to go to Argentina, never managed there in any capacity and it seemed like a fun idea to try and usurp the Boca/River dynamic and create a third club that is both world class in player production and performance. I picked my co-captain and leader in appearances from my Bulgaria YAC save as my avatar. The first screen shot might suggest that he is the invisible man himself, but I have managed to switch his profile picture. Must be daunting and awkward, being an almost 2-meter-tall Bulgarian in a country where the average person is 25 cm shorter. Talk about sticking out as a sore thumb. The club had almost no staff, and especially no assistant who can filter out the staff that won’t sign for us. Took a long time before I signed my HOYD , who as you can see doesn’t offer much in terms of quality. I did pay attention to the personalities of every single person I brought in, never settling for a personality that didn’t guarantee high professionalism . I even managed to nab a famous former Premier League player . While my HOYD is poor, my director of football is quite good, for the level at least, and he is tasked with bringing in the Newgens. Based on my last two saves, I decided to prioritize defensive solidity. That is why I picked this tactic as my starter, with an offensive variation for when I needed to turn things around and defensive one for when I have a lead and want to kill off a match. I was very optimistic about my first season, with a few hiccups. The season previews had as at 21 and 17. And when I looked through the squad, there were plenty of players who looked similar in quality to what I had on my bench in Bulgaria. But I was not prepared just how good the season would go. The first inkling of potential success came in the second round of the cup (sixth in total) where we faced off against Newells Old Boys. They were around 10th in the league when we played them. I thought they would dispatch us with an easy 2 or 3 nil. But we controlled the game and ended up 1 0 victors. We kept keeping clean sheets and winning games by a goal most of the game. With 15 games to go we were the best defensive team in the league and in second place, 4 points behind Alte. Brown. This is where I took a tiny tactical gamble. I decided to add a bit more penetration. The left wingback was changed from defend to support. The Central Mid on Support became a Mezzala on Support. The traditional GK a Sweeper Keeper on Attack. After these changes, we never failed to score and created a good run of form which led to our title. We weren’t as solid as before, but the balance between attack and defense was better and we won a lot more frequently. We also suffered our only two defeats in the season. Boca scored 6 against us in the QF of the cup and another team scored 4 out of an xG of around 1. In the end we won the league 2 points ahead of Alte Brown, who lost in the playoffs, with Ferro getting promoted along with us. Our undefeated streak lasted for 30 games. But it wasnt smooth sailing and I really thought I might get sacked. Due to my manager not having enough reputation, the squad really wanted me out, even with all the wins, it took close to 6 months until Seca, the leader of the dressing room saw me as worthy of the team. We also had a club election and the new chairman said he wanted to see if I keep the job. Finances are rough we are 1,5 mil in the red, but the board injected cash and I hope the fact that we got promoted will increase sponsors and gate revenues. Towards the end of January, we got our first youth intake, excellent in name and promising at least 3 players with high potential, a winger, a central mid and an attacking midfielder . Four months later, in mid-May we got our first batch of Argentine Newgens . Two out of our 3 Elite Talents were players who were predicted. Gustavo Marchesin is a talented winger with great personality. Very athletic, explosive, with surprising amount of aggression and finishing. He added a half of start potential by the end of the season and is already 2 stars in a bunch of roles. Have high hopes for him and I think he will get a couple of minutes next season. While the game things he is best as an AML, Matias Irala is the promised AMC with lots of talent. He came in very raw and with a bad personality. I am trying my best to squeeze every ounce of talent out of him. He is very creative but lacks in a lot of areas, especially pace, determination and intelligence. The third elite talent was a CB who can play both FB positions as well, named Marcos Espinoza . While he looks like the guy she told you not to worry about, he is still far away from the first team. Decent all round attribute spread, nothing great or awful. We are lacking in the heart of our defense, and I really hope he can reach at least 3 star out of his 4,5 current potential, given he also has a bad personality.I would also add Patricio Correa to this list. He wasn’t an elite talent when the announcement came, but by the time the end of the season came, he was also a 4,5 star potential. I have a hunch his balanced personality is on the higher end of professionalism and ambition because he keeps getting high training scores. A natural MC, he is probably the talented MC my preview predicted. In terms of player performances: Pio Bonacci is the leading scorer with 16 goals in all competitions. Juan Pablo Salomoni is the player with the highest average rating. Gonzalo Rios is our lead creator with 11 assists. Would have probably had more if he wasn’t pissed at my lack of reputation for half a season. Onto the next season! Where we can hopefully get more than 1.11 point per game and survive in the league.

Keep it up @Padders!! If there is one person I desperately want to complete this challenge its you mate! Anxiously awaiting every update.

FM21* Challenge Completed! Chernomorets Burgas Season 21! I started a save in Bulgaria with Chermomorets Burgas while I was still playing my other FM 21 YAC save with Merthyr Town. Can’t really believe I managed to clear it in my 21st season, but defensive solidity and heavy rotations really did the trick this year and I finally won the champions league after winning my seventh consecutive league title. I was helped with the other big teams in Bulgaria, mostly due to the fact that they were a mess, dropping points left and right. This led to the best ever finish for Lokomotiv Plovdiv who finished second! The last 5 or 6 intakes I had, ignoring the one from last season, I kept getting good defenders and goalkeepers. I haven’t had a good striker, a striker who is above 2 star for my team in 3 seasons since I sold a converted AMC to Chelsea for 20 mil. He had like a 45 goals plus assists season. After he was sold (thanks board you greedy bunch of SOBs) I tried a false nine who was a 2 star but switched to the 433 you will see below with an AMC between two wingers. Didn’t score loads, but we were incredibly solid, around 0,35 expected goals per 90 against on average for most of the last 3 seasons. I was mildly optimistic about the season since we won the Europa League last season and Arsenal barely scraped through a 1 0 win against us in the Super Cup thanks to an own goal by our starting AMC at the time who left to join Liverpool shortly after. Speaking of Liverpool, this save had four cycles. The first one was when we were forming ourselves as a team that that has elite facilities and coaching. The second phase was a team that challenges for Europe who’s every single star was bought by Porto. Third phase was a title challenger who failed short mostly due to the way the league is structured and schedules, especially the cluster F in May, and most of our stars were bought by Inter. The fourth phase, the last seven years we were the dominant team in the league, winning seven straight, including a few cups, the Conference league and Europa league. This is also the phase were Liverpool swooped up every single youth starlet we had except for Rumen Mirchev (the most handsome striker Bulgaria ever had-not a high bar), my last and probably only really good striker who went to Man Utd as well as Stoichkov and Nafiz Bingol (first foreign Newgen worth a damn) who went to Chelsea. Two Young Supernovas Vasil Dimitrov – First season as a started and he won the treble, pretty good. The first newgan with the wonderkid description, and by far the biggest reason why we came this far, had a few amazing games in the Champions League, and saved a penalty in the shootout in the final against Bayern. Anatoli Georgiev – Judging by the CA and the consistent improvement since the age of 15 probably the most talented player I had on the save. Another cornerstone of our defensive juggernaut, supreme mentals and a very all rounded player. Wish I could have seen his at his peak in 3,4 years. Veterans Asparuh Sokolov – oh captain my captain. We wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for his leadership. This is mostly due to him being able to convince youngsters to stick with the club when big clubs (especially Liverpool) would make a 8 figure bid on them. He was also our playmaker, one of the lead creative forces for close to 10 seasons, mostly in open play, but in a few seasons, he was also our set piece taker. Georgi Velkov - best dribbler of the save. He won us so many penalties throughout the years. Started a left winger who could cross nor finish. Ended up a Inverted right winger with much improved finishing and usually our leading scorer in our last 3 strikerless seasons. Will remember his mazy runs, and that chipped goal after dribbling past 2 defenders that put us 4 1 up against Ludogorets to secure our first title. Aleksandar Yankov – my gentle blonde giant. I will be naming my next manager in my next YAC save after him. Over 300 league appearances for us, never really wanted to leave, not even when Feyernoord and Olympiacos came knocking. Wish he was an cm taller so he could have rounded it up to 2 meters in height but still our tallest outfielder by quite some margin (40 cm difference between him and my left wing back). Had a weirdly xenophobic board that didn’t allow me to get any foreign affiliates for most of the save. Only in the last 4 seasons I got a few, with Trencin delivering the goods with two 5 star players. One of them is currently a 3,5 Left back starter, other our 2 star advanced forward. Just one more season and we could have had an actual super talented pure goalscorer. But it was not to be. This save marks and end of an mini era for me. I stopped playing fm with fm 14. Started playing again in 21 with this version to find a sense of normalcy after the cascade of deaths that surrounded me during the pandemic. The Bulgaria YAC is my last fm21 save, moving over to 23 and I think in Argetina with a very tall blonde Bulgarian as my avatar.

Liverpool turned my assistant into their manager. Hes now making 20 times more than me. Fuming.

This post will be more interesting to lurkers, like I once was. I went back and looked at every single newgen that I got in my completed Merthyr Town save. I tracked every apperance by every player to figure out just how good every single generation was. A pleasant surprise all in all. I only had 3 seasons in close to 30 that didn't produce players who actually made first team appearances. Ignoring the first season, I had 4 generations that made over 1000 appearances for the club, with two being under 20 games shy of that mark.

FM 21* Challenge completed! I have been lurking and reading everything everyone posts about this challenge for 3 years now adn i have finally completed one of my own. Thanks to everyone who contributes to this challenge, you have reinvigorated my love for this game, switching me to do these types of saves exclusively. I stopped laying FM a long time ago, like fm13, but during the pandemic, with nothing to do, but attend funeral after funeral, i started playing again, just to try and find some sense of normalcy during those trying times. I really struggled with the save for the first 10 years of it. Only one promotion, trying various ways to figure out just how to play and how. I was very rusty, and it showed. I think my first season I conceded over 100 goals, trying to play tiki taka with a team with barely any players haha. I stopped playing for a while. But then I discovered Cultured Left Foot on YouTube and his Guisley save really made me go back and try my best to complete the save. To quote the game, an off field event caused me to drastically increase in determination. I also learned to go with the flow, trust the game, get the best staff I can, and do my best week by week to max out my chances for every single game. It made me a much better player. The only regret I have is not changing my head of youth development more often. Had a very barren 10 years in the Prem because I didn’t sack my great personality but poor attributes HoYD. ( I also regret sending my best loanees to Almeria, who dumped me after I helped them go from 3rd Tier to mid table La Liga side). Now lets talk about the ones who deserve the most praise the squad. I am so happy that I managed to complete the challenge while Lee Ingram was still my goalkeeper. He has ben my number one for close to half the save. In total he has played 585 matches and kept 218 clean sheets. Over 100 of those came in the Premier League. Not bad for a Championship level goalkeeper. (Consistency really matters). His penalty saving ability are the biggest reason why we won the Champions league in the first place. In the finals we missed two, but he saved 3 against Man City in the previous season. The core and spine of the team was my 42/43 golden generation. That youth intake gave me five starters, our backup striker (who started before Ryan Graham came of age) and our set piece specialist and rotational option for the Mezzala/ADVPA spots in the team. A Welsh team has conquered the English pyramid, but also Europe as a whole. But that doesn’t mean that I only did it with Welsh players. A lot of affiliates chipped in, providing me with talented intake players. Almeria, our former affiliate, and Slaven Belupo most of all. Vejle gave me a 4 star Faroe islander as well. I still plan on checking with the save from time to time. My starting left back has world class potential and I just got a potential golden generation which could rival that of 42/43. My next save will be in Bulgaria with Chernomorets Burgas and i dont think i have to tell you what type of save it will be.

Just got sacked in my seventh season in Turkey. I immediately got a job offer from a team that got promoted to the lowest playable division, can i join that team and continue the challenge or do i have to start from the very beginning?

1. Does the current intake influence the one next year? For example, if you get a really good intake this year, are the odds of what to expect next year changed? 2. Does the game just look at factors such as youth facilities and recruitment only for the current season or does the game also memorize what your intake factors were the last 3 or 4 years? 3. If you have an affiliate club from a loaded league is your chance of getting a player from that affiliate in an average intake 50%? 4. If you have an affiliate club from an league that is not loaded is your change of getting a player from that affiliate in an average intake 30%? 5. Are there set ranges for every one of your 16 newgens based on the intake factors? 6. Are intakes separates in three types, which can be identified by the description of the best player from said intake? 7. If you get an intake where the best prospect is described as a diamond, does that mean the intake is more unbalanced, meaning more great prospects and really bad ones, but few average ones? 8. If you get an intake where the best prospect is described as talented, does that mean you have gotten a more balanced intake, where 4, 5, or 6 players are good or better players for your league? 9. Does the overall quality of CA in a league matter when newgens are created? 10. If it does, do you have a 1 in 10 chance that your best newgen’s PA is close to the CA of the best player in the league if you have perfect youth recruitment, junior coaching and youth facilities?