noikeee

Hi I am noikeee and I am an idiot who abandons careers midway through, because my computer continually keeps on breaking because this is just a game who cares and sometimes I get bored and I've been playing FM/CM and its variants for a slightly embarrassing 20+ years now so that happens. So idk if I'm going back to Leyton Orient or not, this is a new one. I am also an idiot who lately hasn't really been interacting with anyone else's careers, buuuuut I've noticed @Makoto Nakamura's World Cup Extravaganza, where he does the World Cup over and over again with several teams, and I thought, hey, that actually looks fun. What about doing the same and shamelessly copying it. Few changes though. FM22 instead of FM23. I do have '23 but I haven't tried it yet and am more comfortable with FM22 tactics. One of the things I want to do is mess around tactically team-by-team so there we go. I also though World Cup 2030 would be more interesting for me than just replaying 2022. It's kinda of a mix of real players and regens coming through, so there's this excitement of finding new players! Unlike Makoto I'm just doing the World Cup matches and leaving immediately after the WC, not playing anything extra. One problem is World Cup 2030 has that rubbish 48 team, groups of 3 format. So I picked up an editor file. 40 teams, 6 groups of 5. So here we are in the 20th of May of 2030. Qualification (which is also edited-in) has resulted in the following things. France has done rubbish in European qualifying! But don't worry as there's an edited-in wild inter-confederation playoff... On this format Africa still only qualifies 6 teams automatically, plus Morocco are hosting this World Cup. But, 6 extra are sent to the playoffs. Gambia have made the World Cup! A very interesting quirk of this format is North America and South America qualification is merged. Chile were in an awful group and are out of the WC. Bolivia made the WC! Ahead of Paraguay and Costa Rica. The other intra-confederation extravaganza is Asia-Ocenia and it has thrown Uzbekistan into the World Cup! Finally! Onto the playoffs... it has a semi-final and a final for some reason and I don't know why some teams do the semi-final and others do the final. But this is what happened. I don't really know how this works, but. It saved France. It killed Denmark (knocked out by Scotland!), Croatia, Colombia. The most interesting qualifier is probably Israel... beating... Suriname?! Beyond that it's really just a bunch of European teams. Bulgaria and Erling Haaland's Norway finally return to a World Cup. The groups for the final competition: It all seems very balanced with not too many favourites in the same group, possibly other than Brazil-England (but you'd expect them to beat Austria, Guinea and Uzbekistan), and Belgium-France (also heavy favourites over El Salvador, Ghana, Iran). I'm gonna do this alphabetically so we start with.... Algeria!!

You guys are forgetting the North Korea side we battered 7-0 Or the 2002 Saudis that lost to Germany 8-0.. At a time Germany were pretty **** (they did make the final but had a really mediocre, dull team)

I would prefer it too, but it's not realistic..

Not feasible, too many matches The winning team would play 9 matches instead of 7 as it is at the moment, and I think there'd be a lot more matches for the hosts to organise

That's one of the options, the other option is adding one extra match and have 32 qualify (12 group winners + 12 2nd placed + 8 best third placed) I suspect 12 group winners + 4 best 2nd placed is more feasible.. And that would make for quite the group stage I would think. Would be very tense

Aren't they looking at changing it into 12 groups of 4? Groups of 3 is a pisstake, it was tried in the past and it just doesn't work.

Wtf is possession in contest

And an awful header

It looks like Haaland vs half of the Premier League

Qatar seem way worse than I expected, this is a shambles, total massacre from Ecuador so far No idea how Qatar won the Asian cup

June-August 2022 Transfers (1) Transfers (2) Doing the SUPERBREXITMAN thing of making the squad more English - whilst strenghtening to prepare ourselves for the higher division, as well. Lots of defenders and midfielders, I would've wanted another option or two more for the frontline, though. This is how we look to attack this season: As you might see there are still 3 non-English players left, goalkeeper Vigoroux (Chilean), centerback Beckles (Grenadien), winger Smyth (Northern Irish). The first 2 of them have English second nationality. It all seems to be working... just as fine as in league two? Getting knocked out of the EFL Cup by Cheltenham who swapped divisions with us, is a little embarrassing, but the league so far has been surprisingly easy. I was expecting to have more trouble in here at this level?

Two crosses from Lewis Gordon to Theo Archibald on the backpost and we're 2-0 up, and then a Paul Smyth penalty confirms us in League One. 21st to 2nd and to League One, I'm happy enough with that! Squad stats Top 5 players of the season: 5. Lewis Gordon (DL) - Increasingly important as the season went on and I unleashed the leftback more, so he got 8 assists, including 2 in the promotion deciding match. 4. Alex Mitchell (DC) - One half of a great pair of centerbacks. 3. Adam Thompson (DC) - The other half of that. 2. Theo Archibald (AMR) - Awesome as raumdeuter, 18 goals. 1. Tom James (DR) - An holy **** level of IWB, with 9 goals, 9 assists, and 10 man of the match awards (!). Scored a lot of free kicks. Please note that Thompson, Archibald and James, among others, are about to leave as their contracts expire and I decided not to renew players of non-English nationality, to go with the theme of the career.

March-April 2021 A+ form, but somehow still not enough to reach the final match in an automatic promotion place. Nevertheless, we have already booked a place in the playoffs, and are just 1 point behind the highly desired top 3. And with Bradford City and Carlisle facing each other in the final day, I think we only depend on ourselves and on beating Tranmere to make it to League 1...

January-February 2022 Transfers Couple of kids were brought in to reinforce midfield which was badly needed, given we didn't really have natural midfield offensive runners. Folivi comes in to become an alternative at Raumdeuter. Doesn't look like particularly amazing form, but somehow, we've climbed to a playoff spot. And also managed to drag Stoke to a replay in the cup, which wasn't bad. Tactic now looking like this. I'm trying to get a little more out of the striker which was almost completely bypassed as false nine - although this worked great to open up space for other players. So far it's been mixed results as DLF/S, I got a goal and an assist in recent matches which is little, but still more than the F9 I guess, and he's still opening space for the others which is what I want. A couple of team instructions have also been tweaked.

Who said raumdeuter is an over-complicated role for league two...

November-December 2021 I'm happy enough with this, we've already climbed from 21st to 12th, and knocked out Fleetwood who are in League 1, out of the FA Cup, setting up a next round match against Stoke. The only awkward thing is the 2 best players, raumdeuter Theo Archibald and inverted-wing-back Tom James, are Scottish and Welsh respectively... which clashes with my plan to make Leyton Orient an all-English side.

First idea for the team: This was NOT designed for this squad, I need better midfielders... all the guys I have seem to be the defensive ball winning type, I need attacking blokes bombing forward from the midfield. First priority whenever I have a chance to hit the transfer market. Squad seems more designed for a 3-5-2 or something like that, but I really want to make a 4-3-3 work, without an advanced forward.. that's one of the several challenges of this career

DISREGARD EVERYTHING ABOVE I re-started as I decided to turn attribute masking off (for the first time in years!!!) and also to add some extra leagues. But at the end, despite the addition of Angola, Czech Republic, Ghana, Iran, Latvia, Paraguay and the French 3rd tier as potential places to manage, I ended up doing the SUPERBREXITMAN challenge nonetheless. Just at a different club. We start like this: Not great, but better than being in the relegation zone. And this is our team: Our 2 best players are Northern Irish, goddamnit. This is ENGLISHMEN in ENGLAND managed by a Portuguese for some reason, so I'm not entirely sure how to proceed and what to do with these guys for now. Perhaps wait for good bids before selling?

I'll watch the 7pm matches and the weekend matches, for the rest I'm working...

Uruguay's squad is legit good, I think they have good chances of beating us to 1st place in the group.

10th of November, 2021 Well, this wasn't the most exotic start. I'll take a better look at the squad tomorrow but it's looking like this: Best players: A very nice fit for the F9-ish role I want from my striker; an excellent fit for CM/A or MEZ/A but not English (I'll be winding down the club's reliance on non-English players, remember); and duo slow CBs which is less of a good fit. We're dead last in League 2... but well within the fight to get out of the relegation zone.

Welcome to another FM22 career as I hold off FM23 for a little while longer... After doing single club careers the last few years, it's time to go back to journeyman. But this time we're gonna follow a few rules/guidelines.. I am only going to hire players from the same nationality as the club I'm managing. Ex. only English players in England. Only Dutch players in the Netherlands. Etc Any bid that comes in for a player that breaks the club's transfer record by 50%, I should accept I will be holding off from using my Ergotelis narrow diamond tactics, to make things a little harder. Currently the plan is to go a 4-3-3 wide with a support striker (false 9 or the likes) It's a journeyman! Target is to do 3 to 5 year stints with each club. I am holidaying for a few months right now, the following leagues are active England level 4 Germany level 3 Spain level 2 France level 2 Italy level 1 Netherlands level 1 Portugal level 1 Poland level 2 Brazil level 2 Mexico level 2 Egypt level 1 Korea level 1 No idea where I'll end up!

Guys, I think I'm calling it a day here at the end of season 12. I know I didn't get the ultimate thing which was the Champions League, which maybe would've taken just a couple more seasons.. but I'm struggling to stay invested, the Greek competitions are **** easy now and the game takes so long to sim through a season, even whilst using instant result for domestic matches, it's so slow specially the transfer window.. I get like 200 bids per transfer window for my players. So many clicks. I'm actually not moving to FM23 just yet, but I think it's time for a new challenge.

2032/2033 - End of season update Late season draws against Olympiacos and Panathinaikos prevented us from achieving the 100% win rate in the league, but it's still our first unbeaten season. We added the cup, too. Squad stats Top 5 players of the season: 5. Maximilian Borenitsch (MC) - 19 goals from midfield? I'll take that. 4. Matus Prekop (DR) - 22 assists is a sexy number. A sumptuosly large number. A number that makes us math-spreadsheet-simulator-nerds all giggle and blush. 3. Joãozinho (DC) - 7.74 average ratings? He's a ****ing cyborg. 2. Patrick Frantsich (ST) - 26 goals ain't bad, neither. Actually the league's top scorer, first time we've had it! (we rotate forwards so much nobody ever gets this award) 1. Fábio (ST) - His 5th season at the club was the best one yet.. 23 goals and 14 assists? Yes please. Also imagine getting regularly called up and capped by Brazil as a forward, whilst playing in Greece.

Interesting match in Greece first. We scored very early, but then PSG gradually built up their edge over the match, turned it around... and then we drew from nowhere late. Kinda didn't quite deserve that, but we'll take it. In Paris... we squandered chances. Quite a lot of them, both in the first half and at the beginning of the second. It was turning out to be quite the tense match... until a throughball found Vinicius Junior and he calmly sloted it home. From then on, no question PSG were on hold of the match and took advantage of our tired legs to break us down a little too easily, but 3-0 is harsh - we gave it a better go than that. Turns out this isn't our Champions League year neither... we end our run at the semi-finals just like last year.