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just finished the season, my mood is absolutely devastated. After an incredible season perfectly managed, great team cohesion, correct training we started to win every single match. we won so many matches we finished the season in third position and we ALMOST got the second position for the direct promotion. We went to the playoff and we dominated the semifinal. We then played the final and lost 0-1 , literally one shoot attempt through all the 90 minutes. Nothing happened. they made one attempt - one goal . We made zero shoot, and obviously zerogoal. so, this is the third time in this career we lose the playoff : ) . Two times we lost in the final. I want to be honest, if we achieved this promotion, next year it would be really tough for us. so maybe it is good one year more to be stronger. We'll see, right now I am just very sad. I will post some screenshot tomorrow.

quick update, I played a little bit more than half season, it looks like we can hold the door, § we are in the middle of the ranking with about 10 points more than the team which is actually going to be relegated. we are losing every single game played away, unfortunately, we can't keep the ball possession more than 35%. I can't really do much for that, I just need better players. Our only chance, we need to accumulate some financial resource and try to make the stadium bigger (it can still hold only 9k specatator, and most of them are annual subscribers) in order to pay higher wages.

quick update, 4 matches played, We have 4 points. I didn't think there could be such a huge gap between sky championship and league one. besides, it is really difficult to improve the team because the society cannot sustain big salary. I post here a screenshot which is pretty much indicative of the situation: and you don't see the first seven teams.. the number 1 is paying almost 80M of salary. we can sustain 3M. Our top player is payed 200k, their top player is probably payed more than all my entire team combined.

xD quick update post-summer I was able to find a goalkeeper a little bit better and some decent right and left defender. I didn't change much with midfielder and attackers. To be honest I am quite worried... only good new, we are making better again the training facility for the main team. IF we keep going this way I will try to build the team as much younger as I can (right now it is too old, around 24/26 years old. it is not enough to make a good use of nice training facility, I should have a team around 20/22) This is the team comparison... it looks absolutely nice on phisique quality, but I see soo many weakness on mental and technique compariso :(( I hope this is enough to play a decent season. On the very last screenshot, the Team I am beginning the season with (on the right column you can see the salary, too).

SEASON 10 quick update: I was already able to renovate most of the loans, shuttleworth too. Nice beginning of the summer, I can concentrate now to improve the rest of the team

SEASON 9 boys...I already played all the season xD I didn't really change much of the team during the summer, I found a couple of midfielders slightly better than mine, most of loans were renovated, no big news. The season was easy indeed, I was almost all the time 1st position and I conquered the promotion 5 matches before the end of the season. here all the screenshot: So, conclusions: after 9 season I achieved: 4 promotions, 2 playoff positions, 2 high-mid ranking positions just below the playoff, one failure season where I got fired by chorley and then I got hired by scunthorpe in the same leaague. It is not bad, Still I need to achieve the very last promotion from sky bet championship to premier league. The team is quite garbage to be honest... I seriously need to improve at least the defensive department and I probably need a better goalkeeper. I am still full of loans and I will make large use of them even the next season. I will stop to use them when (and IF) I will reach the premier league. My striker Shuttleworth made 34 goas, average vote 7.32, 12 time man of the match: Impressive. I will see what I can do during the summer, it looks like I have for the first time quite a nice budget to spend for the player market. I will post an update after the summer Besides, scunthorpe just reached again sky bet championship after 25 years. GO SCUNTHORPE END OF SEASON 9

so, here is the update, I just concluded the season. thanks god the team comparison wasn't lying, the team found cohesion and all the new players got confident with my tactic and the team beagn to win most of the matches. My striker finally was scoring the goal chances instead of missing them, etc. it was absolutely impressive the amount of points we got in the second half of the season. here is the Screenshot: At some point I really thought I could get one playoff slot but then I lost couple matches and the dream vanished. In this season other 2 great things happened: WE WON THE PAPA TROPHy xD , first trophy ever of this career. it was funny and great. secondly, the society agreed to improve the training facility for the main team. Unfortunately it costed a lot and ti burned out all the money we collected till now with much effort :(. I really hope this will be helpful in the future. here are the screenshots of all the matches, of the papa Victory and of the team at the end of the season: Few conclusions: I collected 4 points over the first 12 matches of the regular season.... :(( every time I see that screenshot I can't believe with ended up almost playoff zone. The society never thought to fire me, I still had 7,5 as valutation nand my job was solid even when I was 24th position. I will try to to change many players because clearly the impact on the early season is very big. I will try to train more public relation and team cohesion, as well as tactic early season. It might help if I change many players. Summer time now, next season we should play at least for the playoff zone. END OF SEASON 8

SEASON 8 Summer was a nightmare, I could renovate only 1 loan which means I will need to search new loans and I will get them only on august which means they will know nothing about my tactic and they will have no time to create group with the other players. few hours later... I couldn't find good loans, I lost Lei Done because I had the chance to engage him buy I offerend a low salary and he chose to play for another team. Thsi is ashame and a big problem to me. This season is going to be a nightmare, I have for sure a weaker team than season 7 and I am playing in a higher league. Few Hours later... I am in big trouble, the start of the season was a disaster, I lost matches which I was winning 2-0 till 10 minutes to the end, I missed penalties, team bad performed. The problem here, I have too many new players which can't play properly in my tactic and the Team Cohesion is very low. I run the Comparison with the other team of the league and it is not a disaster, I might guess a mid-place position but indeed I am doing very bad. I was able to win couple games now, I really hope I can find a balance and get back, to save myself from relegation. It is not time for success now, it is the time of suffering and hold on to each point we can gather. I posted here a panoramic of the team too, as you can see I couldn't find a susbstitution for Lei Done , the striker I found on loan ( Spieght and Shuttleworth ) can't score a goal. they are constaly on offside, they goal get CONSTANTLY canceled. I don't know what is the problem here but it is BIG. The average vote is absolutely low 6,59 for shuttle, 6,63 for speight, I really hope this is due because they are new, and they need to learn the tactic. Anyway I will not give up so easily, I need to win from time to time and get through this horrible season. In the meanwhile I need to find some good player from the free market who doesn't want a salary too much high because the team only allow us to have 1,6M salary cap which is really VERY LOW compared to other teams of the league. About the rest, training facilities, staff etc.. almost nothing changed. We still have the same trash facilities we had when I first became the coach, the staff is still the same, I was able to hire one or two training assistant so at least the players don't become angry for the low quality. We still have only 3 scout. The stadium is the same one (9.187 places). If the president allow me, I would be happy to begin to increase a little bit the training facility for the main team, I don't really care about the youth team and his facility, but for the main team It would be quite a little help. I don't really aim at training players , still it could be a little help preventing players from losing skills and maybe increasing a little bit some skill. The society already refused to do it even if the initial steps don't really require a big economic effort, I hope if I can save the team they will start to help me that way. We have 1 M of money but every month we have negative balance. This is largely due to the repayments we make to the bank, a result of the loan the society acquired prior to my tenure as the coach. so, time to be solid and win some games, crossed finger.

Here comes the update, season 7 was a success, I ended up at the 2nd place and I was promoted by math 7 matches before the end of the season. I never lost my 2nd place though all the season, never risked anything. The team gained confidence through the season, match after match. I post the screenshot of my team and of the ranking, I think there is nothing more to add Conclusion: Lei Done 38 goals war quite impressive, double promotion by the way is never easy. Now I will try to renovate the team, see what I can do. END OF SEASON 7

early season update, the raking looks good but it might just be a good early season. We struggled a lot most of the time. Anyway, the team is this one, you can even check few statistic if you are interest in, and on the right you can see the salary, so you have quite a good panoramic here: Here is the comparison with the other teams in the division: technical, physique and mental I have to be honest, the comparison looks good, I am trash only on elevation/head kick. Still I struggled a lot to win many games. I will play to get one playoff slot, I will take everything more than this as a gift.

SEASON 7 First of all, the new president already left (???) Another president came in... I literally renounced to build any relationship with the president till the society find some stability, I am still paying a huge amount of money monthly (40.000) to repay for the loan they asked for in the past years. 40.000 each month is quite huge, it means almost 500.000 in one year. The salary cap I have to respect this season is more or less 1,5 M. I am not changing many players, I renovate most of the loans, and I made few adjustments, I really hope this is enough. I am still working on the team, when I am done I will post the Comparison physical, technical and mental values, I hope it is not too bad. Usually the gap between varanama national league and sky bet two is not that much. In progess....

So, I completed the season. the team was for sure weaker than the previous season but this time I managed the training correctly (I think I had the same training-problem with Chorley , back when I was fired) this is the result: Hurrah! Scunthorpe got his promotion. First place wasn't easy, Dorking was such a strong competitor, 103 points against 102... the second half of the season we did a great work though. +64 the difference between goal scored and taken, not bad. Dorking had such a BEAST as striker, look at these stast, this guy scored 56 goals over 43 matches, Anyway, even if Dorking had such a beast striker we still won the league. Here is a quick overview of all the matches, we only lost 3 games (the very last match of the season was a defeat unluckily). We even reached semi-final of the Fa Trophy (not a great cup I know.. but I would really glad to win it, I tried hard and lost because of penalties. Anyway, if you are interested about few statistic of the team here is the team panoramic, so you can check the average vote, how many minutes everybody played (it was pretty much balanced, everyone played quite a lot), goal scored, etc. I don't have much to say, the team were really strong, we won a lot of matches by 4-0 or 5-0, My wing did a great work most of the time. My striker DONE was injured 3 times, luckily my substitute (lawrence) did quite a good job too (20 goals). Summer time now, I really don't want to change much of this team, I feel like I am low on energy and this is going to be a mistake. Sky bet league two, we are coming. Post Scriptum: I almost forgot, Chorley was relegated back to varanama noth. I won against Chorley both matches (even if they wasn't so easy to play). So the arrogant president who fired me after 13 matches got what he deserved. They were using a very short number of players, and they already changed most of them since when I was the coach. END OF SEASON 6

ehheheeh the funny part, they gave all the credit to me for fixing the financial situation xD and I discovered this 3wasn't the first time, a loan from a bank already happened (3,3 M), checking the wave of total incoming of the club they asked for it in march 2025, so right now we have to pay back 24.000 each month to a bank, we will finish this in 2050 xD SEASON 6 in the meanwhile I worked on the team, tried to renovate the loans but I managed to confirm only my striker Done, one good offensive wing Milner and one midfielder Anderson. All the rest I had to search for new loans, and I tried to search for some good player on the free market with few to none results. The team is for sure weaker than the previous season but If I can manage correctly the training and I work to keep the mood up, I am confident I might even play for the first place. Otherwise I should beable to reach without any problem the playoff again. I run the team confrontation based on all the Vanaraman national league teams, and it looks like the team is very competitive on technique and physical qualities, and quite decent in psychology, anyway this is the team, you can check some interesting details (I already played 4 matches: 2 victories, 2 draws). It looks like the team is very balanced, most of the players are rated 3 stars from my coach assistant , my defence to be honest is a little bit weaker than the rest.

so Five season already played am I am still in Vanarama national league, not really a good result, failing two times the playoff is really making this vanarama national league experience a nightmare. Anyway scunthorpe offered me the new contract so I am fine, in the meanwhile during the summer the property sold, David Hilton is no more. The new property asked for a money loan to a bank, almost 2 Million which now scunthorpe will have to give back in somethig like 30 years xD 10.000 each month... something like that =) at least, the financial situation looks fine now. END OF SEASON 5

so here comes the update. I just completed the season, it happened something really crazy on this season, I was 1st place most of the time, then I started to lose all the matches. I couldn't really do much, every single attempt to score from the opponent was a GOAL. I had every match 65% ball possession, 25 attempt to score against 3 , and I was losing the game 3-1. I tried to understand why, I slowly lost the first place and than the second and so on.. til I was out even from the playoff zone. I though my goalkeeper was bad, my defender was garbage but something wasn't fine about what was happening. I tried to THINK, because I am no playing FM since couple years and I tried to remember if I was doing something wrong, and then finally I got it. I completely forgot that if you don't train the pre-matches Defensive Attitude (the one in light blue) this happens. I completely forgot about it. This is something I don't like at all about the game though. So yeah, I wasn't training it since A LOT. I immediately began to train it and my defence started to work again. I came back and at the very last match of the season I gained the last possible playoff slot (7th). first playoff game : 1-3 but I scored two goals at over time. semi-final playoff : 2-0 easy game Final playoff : 0-0 . at minute 119 I scored one beautiful goal canceled for offside Penalties: I missed one, they scored all five. End of my adventure, pretty much sad though, because I am sure this team was by far the strongest of the league. Now I obviously failed to fix the financial situation of the club, and so the club is not offering the contract to me. I don't really know what will happen. Anyway this is what happened through all the season:

Correct, David Hilton is the owner but from what I see the society might change property soon (the financial situation of the club really is a disaster)

xD I'm very glad to hear things are going better now, and I love to hear about the history of the club, thank you. If the owner will give me the opportunity I will try to raise up the team to the glory it deserves

ehy, I have no idea what UTFi means xD

Quick Update, we are doing good, First position at the moment , Chorley of ungrateful president is on 12 position. I played against Chorley the first match of the season, 0-0 even if we dominated the ball possession and we overall had more chances to score. this is the situation more in details, my striker Lei Done is really fantastic for this category. If the ungrateful president of chorley would listen to me by changing the status into Professional (it helps SO MUCH with the training of corner and set pieces, and to set up a good team cohesion) and if he would give me more time instead of trying to fire me after 11 matches, and actually firing me after 13 (after 3,5 years of hard work) , It could be the chorley into first position. Chorley changed other players though, all the loans expired and they didn't renovate them, so they are much weaker this year and it looks like they are very short in number of players. Now that the CUP are close to begin, I have no idea how they can manage all the effort

The tactic I usually use is this: (I am not good as Mister, I mainly use the same tactic all the time, what I am good at (usually) is at building a good team roster, you can maybe notice, Amankwah is the same player I had with chorley xD, it wasn't easy but I could get him on loan again (third year) even from a different team , the guy really likes me, and I trust him.

SEASON 5 I spent all the summer trying to get some good loans, I fixed a little bit the staff, my assistant coach thanks god followed me (we are playing together since the very beginning, thank you Stuart Nelson for beeing my right arm). So at least I wasn't all alone. I changed a couple of technical assistant and scouts, I sold for free so many dudes and I let the contracts expire of SO MANY players (i have NO idea why there were so many players in main team), for sure I know why they have a passive of 2 Millions. I forgot to tell, Scunthorpe is already Professional Status (I was semi-pro with chorley) , this is good, I can hire players more easily. 20 years ago scunthorpe was in sky bet championship, so in the past they had quite some satisfaction. The training structure are obviously bad, but not as bad as Chorley (which had none). Not that I care since obviously my goal is not to train (the structures are too bad to do it efficiently) BUT at least if I get a future with this team, I don't have to build every single step. the team is now this: I have 9 loans because I renovate three loans from previous season, which means I can get a total of 9 loans in the team, (I can use only five at the same time)

so... I spent few months wandering why I was fired after 3 years and half full of success, I found this team with something like 6 players and zero reputation and now it was a solid team playing in vanarama national league, and This president fired me for 12 unlucky matches and a whole season still to play. While I was still raging I saw the mister who came after me was fired too, after 10 matches or so, I tried to re apply but I was rejected. Some more weeks passed, and I was Hired by Scunthorpe, same league, 22th at the time, only 9 matches to play till the end of the season. The team was a complete mess, something like 40 players or 45 most of them with very low skill. I tried my best to bring some order, I usually am quite good doing that. The team level was really ridicously low, one good defender, one good midfielder , all the rest was really a mess. Anyway, I obtained quite decent results: 5 victories, 2 draws, 2 defeats, and I saved the team quite easily from relegation (16th place out of 24 teams) What it is funny about this team, there is a passive of 2 MILLION, yeah you well understood... 2 Millions of money as passive, and they asked me to fix the situation. Well, I cannot do it so I really hope they will judge me for the results xD In the meanwhile, Chorley began to win every single match, with the team I built.. I knew it was very strong. They ended up at 5th place , they won the first game of playoff but lost the semi-final. They even bought 2 or 3 new players which look quite good to me. GOOD. I will find you, Ungrateful president, with horrorfull team color and name, next season. I will do my best to beat you. END OF SEASON 4

I ended up 5th, played the play off and won the first game but lost in the semi-final. I am pretty much rushing this because I want to arrive at SEASON 4 The beginning of season was complete unlucky, so many draws while dominating the matches. I was doing bad (2 victories , 6 draws, 5 lost ), just below the relegation zone, but you know.. with 2 or 3 victory you can shift to a good position. and the team fired me? Not sure how this works, after a promotion and playoff the next season, I was fired after 13 matches (????) how is it even possible? besides, I was able to renovate almost all the loans and my team was so much stronger than previous season, I just needed few time and a bit of luck. Not sure I like this though. I am seeing If I can continue to play in the same league with another team but I don't really like to change team and it feels horrible to lose all the work for few unlucky matches.

quick update, after 29 matches we are 6th with 49 points. I don't really think we can hit the playoff, the team is just weak, we are going to need so much luck in order to save this position. we will see

SEASON 3 So, i tried to change as much as possible, I confirmed a couple of loans from last season, then I tried to get some good player. Loans are key-secret if you want to climb and you don't have money. I got two good midfielders (mcgregor and amankwah), one good forward (mavididi), then I bought from the free market some decent player. From the confrontation, the team should be average, but I am optimistic I can find some good player from free during the season to make it better.