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I haven't ventured into the editor in the last years, due to lack of time, but when (and before!) the advanced editor was first released, I remember spending hours in the editor, and sometimes things just didn't make sense - like having a San Marino file not working, scrapping it, making another one that was exactly the same as the previous one, and the new one working fine.
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waiting patiently!
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46 minutes ago, _Ben_ said:
January 2030: New Signing
Just so you know, he's a big fat liar. His name means Bald Diego.
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It's the Amoro Diedhiou Show.
We've reached the long winter break, and what a season this has been so far. All because of this guy - Amoro Diedhiou. At this moment, selecting the starting 11 is Diedhiou+10. Just look at these numbers - 1 goal every 73 minutes, 15,38 xG - that's nearly as many xG as the whole of TeBe Berlin II, and close to Hilalspor and Türkiyemspor. He's making this season a walk in the park.
As expected when you have one player giving us those kinds of numbers, we're dominating. Undefeated so far, even if we've had our share of draws. In this case, it's not because of some fancy schmancy tactic change or system were playing - we're playing a fairly simple 4-4-2 with lots of through balls to take advantage of the speed of the strikers and wingers and the defensive weaknesses of the other teams. This is just because we managed to build a team that is just a lot faster than the average of this league.
Not all is good news though...
They tell me to be optimistic but there's no good players on any position? Good grief...
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On 21/03/2021 at 10:52, Sonic Youth said:
Yes, that’s a good start to the league. All the fans at the ground must be really enjoying all the goals flying in
All 500 (in the big games - other wise 200) or so of them, yeah!
On 21/03/2021 at 09:59, deltablue said:That's a good start to the league season.
Thanks!
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A New Season
This next update sees us already at the beginning of September 2022, as I like to wait for the transfer window to close and to have the squad for the year set before updating, and it also gives a feel for how the team is going to do throughout the season, to feel the pulse of the season. First let's talk who left the team:
I knew from the moment we signed him that Maciejewski would not last long in the team - even if we had been able to get him a semi-pro contract instead of a semi-pro contract, he was way too good for this level, and teams with too much pulling power would be sniffing around for him. So off he goes to recently relegated to the 4th tier Cottbus, where he'll be a regular starter and will make 5k€ per month. Czosnyka, on the other hand, never managed to get his spot in the team last year, and now he had a much slimmer chance after our new signings came through and when Dresdner SC came for him I made no effort to keep him around.
Coming are 10 new players, which I'll introduce based on their position:
Keepers:
Grosse comes to be our new second choice goalkeeper, meaning we won't have to rely on a 16 year old youth player if our main choice Niko Varrelmann gets injured.
Defenders:
I've found that in this save the hardest area to improve has been the defense - I haven't been able to attract decent defenders (specially central defenders) to the club, and for this season I've had to put my faith in some veterans. Wuttke , a Carl Zeiss Jena man through and through comes to be our first choice full back on the right. I hope he sees this a door back into football after a few years out, and that he is able to give us a couple more seasons of football. Dymek comes from the north of East Germany. He does have experience at a professional level in Poland (4 games in the second division 13 years ago). I wish he had more on his legs, his physicals are very bad, but still half decent for a backup option at this level.
Midfielders:
If you were wondering where our former Union Berlin players were, they're here! Hajjaj with his decent speed, decisions, first touch and passing is an obvious first choice for my midfield, while Reinhardt is very likely to be my first choice for left winger. Good first touch, and decent crossing, technique and passing for this level, great determination and flair, decent pace and great acceleration, i can't ask for more at this level.
That's not to say we didn't get alumni from other Berlin clubs: Borowski, formed at Hertha, has a lot of versatility which will help us. He's accomplished in all of the left wing, from defender to attacking midfielder, and he can play right midfielder too. Amamoo comes from TeBe Berlin as a rotational option for the right wing. He will have to fight for the position with our next signing...
Kunert, formed at Aue in the south of East Germany and has his physical stats as a great advantage at this level.
Attackers:
We also got two strikers, both formed at Halle, whcih will actually see us change from a 4-1-2-2-1 formation to a more classic 4-4-2 with 2 attacking forwards. I have to mention Diedhiou. With high values for this level at all things needed, he's already tearing this division a new hole, with 14 goals scored in the first 6 games!
Our pre-season was small and unenventful, and we used it not only to give some match form to our players but also to try out a couple of trialists. then we went straight into the season!
We were given ridiculous odds to win the league: 1-91, and as mentioned in the previous post, the board expects us to finish top two. My only goal this year, with the team I managed to put together, is going up, and as you can see, thanks to DIedhiou's supershow, we're right on track to do that! I don't think I've ever had such a strong league start. I think it's a combination of two factors - not only we have better players, but we assembled a team that allows me to play in a much more offensive and dangerous tactic, and you could see that effect immediatly!
But life cannot be made only of good results. The board wanted us to reach the Quarter Finals of the Berlin Cup... and then we went and got TeBe Berlin, one of the favourites, in the first round. They play 2 levels above me! We managed to score first, in the very first highlight of the day... and then proceeded to do pretty much nothing else the whole game. It was a more than deserved victory for the favourites, and we're out early this year in the cup - which on the other hand allows us to focus 100% on the league.
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If you need any help, be it with files or with testing, I don't mind stepping in.
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18 hours ago, Sonic Youth said:
I’m blaming the black out for the reversal in fortune
Otherwise, you’ve had a pretty decent season and look promising for next
I think next year's the year we go up, after what we learnt this year, and I think we«ll go better prepared. I think if we went up this year we would have struggled a lot - the league above us will have a few decent teams.
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Close But No Cigar
I almost feel bad for BFC Preussen and how they only managed 4 points from their last 6 games and threw their top spot away. This also makes our final position a lot closer to the top than we were at the last update, in 4th just 3 points behind the 80 point trio. All in all, I can't say it was a bad season, even if we lost a bit of steam in the last third of the season. We were predicted to have a mid table finish and yet, even if we were never actually in first place, we were always close by, chasing the top teams, spending most of the season in 3rd and 4th place. Give us a nice frame to work for next season, where the board is asking us to finish in the top two spots.
I have to say that the main heroes of this squad this year was our first choice striker Heinrich, who managed to survive us signing a theoretical better striker in the winter transfer season (who ended up playing so badly he ended the season in the B team) and then the wingers, Nikol and Maciejewski. The latter has no business playing this low in the leagues and he is the one player I seriously doubt will be here by the time I'm updating you guys on the next season's start - there's some bigger teams interested in him, including a few fully pro teams like Lübeck, Cottbus and Ingolstadt. I am confident I will be able to hold on to almost everyone else, at least based on the kind of interest being given to them right now. My plan is to follow the same strategy of this year, looking at local players, and paying special attention to players released by the bigger East Germany teams, and if I manage to get a few improvements, like better central defenders and another good striker to give me the option to play with a duo upfront, we will be looking at promotion next year.
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When we had to replay the cup we did not have the same luck as before. The game against Dynamo was as tight as the first one but the result hang to the other side - a penalty in the first half and a goal in the very last play of the game saw us out of the cup in the quarter finals. We went out with our heads held high, having gone beyond expected and losing against a team 3 divisions above us.
In the league we'd been chasing Berliner SC and BFC Preussen, and just a few games ago things seemed a lot tighter at the top - we were 6 points behing Preussen and tied with Berliner SC... and then the last 3 games happened. Three games where we outplayed our opponents and yet failed to score, or let them score in the last 5 minutes of the game, or lost from a penalty. And this is how you lose a promotion race in three games...
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Youth intake day! A bit of a mixed bag here - sure, several players with decent potential, but in the 6th tier of German football, even if we have semi decent facilities, we're semi-pro, with just a couple of coaches, odds of getting there aren't high, even in the cases where the personality is a positive one. Valon Pira is a playmaker with good first touch, decent dribbling but really bad passing (5). I will sign him just in case he improves, but I don't really see what kind of role I'd trust him with. Robin Jager, on the other hand is a very fast player with good work rate. His defensive and offesnive stats are both mediocre, and I'll probably retrain him as a AML where we can make use of his speed. Johann Hofmann is a bit akin to Pira. A bit faster, but not very good at anything else, and being a casual player makes me thing twice before signing him. On the fence here. Steve Beckius is Driven, and he doesn't have any immediate red flags wile not being amazing, so I might sign him to keep as a potential emergency back up. The rest will most likely be let go.
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A lesson for the people won don't save often enough - a power outtage in the area means i have to replay the game against Dynamo...
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1 hour ago, _Ben_ said:
Many thanks for your kind words. I hope that I find a sweet spot between game play and telling my ‘story.’ I, too, loved Jimbo’s thread and that was the initial inspiration for my thread, even though I knew the pre-conceived dislike I had for the Premier League. It’s a shame I didn’t finish it but I have to say, I’m loving this Swiss adventure more!
You never have and never will fail to inspire me with your footballing knowledge (or good use of Google!)
I do still intend for this to be short-ish term job with my main goal for them being to turn pro. I say that because of the poor facilities that, moving to a club like Thun or Aarau, for example, have. I would then like to jump to a larger team (but not Basel or Young Boys) and really like to build from there.
p.s. Your German save is fantastic - I’ll take some time to digest it all and reply in due course!
Thanks! In this case it was a mixture of both - I knew that Fribourg had been a much bigger team in the past but couldn't remember the details so I googled it out to confirm. I knew about the town cause one of my cousin's lived nearby for a while.
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In some rest of the world news, Dortmund with the shockingly bad team management:
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This I did not see coming.Their form is the worst I've seen in FM in a really long time (1 win and 19 defeats in the league so far, 7 goals for, 58 against) but they had won their last cup game against a team one level above me 5-1. I'd say they started strong and dominated the first 15 minutes. I reacted, pulled the defense down, changed from a pressing/route one style to a more classic counter attack game and the game was actually very even from then on - we had lady luck on our side and scored and they didn't. After their second goal they started piling on us but we managed to hold our ground for our biggest win yet. Funnily enough, the 2 Oberliga (5th tier) teams that played against Regionalliga (4th tier) teams also won. Let's see what the semi-final draw brings us.
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10 minutes ago, oche balboa said:
This is looking good, Which update are you using ? as I've seen some German expansions which includes Bundersliga clubs in regional competitions
I used the last version of the file from https://www.meistertrainerforum.de/
Here's the actual thread:https://www.meistertrainerforum.de/index.php/topic,27989.0.html i just google translate it.
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I always take this with a grain of salt, specially at lower levels, but considering we share youth facilities with Union Berlin, there might be some gems for this level waiting for us in the intake. Let's wait and see.
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22 hours ago, Wolf_pd said:
This will be for FM20. The plan was to have it finished in June 2020, but it got derailed by Covid-19.
At this moment I am focused on finishing it for FM20, before taking a look at any conversion to a later version.
I get the feeling that converting will take a lot less time now that the skeleton is built.
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Considering that Fribourg, including suburbs, is a 75k town, has s decently sized stadium, and from the 40s to the 90s was mostly a second division team with some years in the first division, I think you have a team that can easily grow at least until a decent top tier team.
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Rumours abound during the winter break; who knows if it'll happen and what will come of it - probably nothing.
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Half Season Update
We had a quiet month in September, as there was a week without games, which was followed by your bye round. Still, a nice month all around, including a win against Berliner SC, which might be important further down the line now that they're top of the league. On the other hand, October was a very busy month. It started with 2 games where we slipped; the Inter Berlin was undeserved unfortunately, we dominated the game and ended up without the result to show it, while the game against Türkiyemspor was the first time we were truly outplayed this season. It didn't help that around this time we lost our best player, Maciejewski to a month long injury. We had two games against Brandenburg and managed to easily won the wrong one - while it's nice to have a cup run, and I'm in line with what the boards wants us in the league, I'd drop the cup run in a second for a chance to be up there at the top of the league. We then dropped points against against Wilmersdorf (undeserved) and against Steglitz Stern (very deserved, they outplayed us).
We're there at the top, we still have a chance to go up, and the way we've been playing shows that we deserve to be up where we are, but we've been a unlucky in a few games where our opponents haven't given us slip ups for us to take advantage of and get to the actual top of the league. We currently have to make up a 7 point difference, and have 18 games to do so. Not easy, but definitively doable. Our cup run is most likely done for - we got the cup holders and favourites in the quarter finals: BFC Dyanamo are having a horrible season(I mean it, look at it -
), but they're having a horrible season as a professional team in the 3.Liga, that's 3 divisions above us, and I think that's enough to make them 99% favourites to win.
Throughout these months we signed one more right back, Sven Hansen:
Now, if you remembered that I mentioned I wanted to go for realistic moves, what the hell am I doing going for a player that played in Austria his whole career? And i say, when the player was suggested, I googled him to understand if the player could have any connection to Berlin, and for this guy you can actually find a lot of information on the internet: he was born and lived in Berlin until it was time to move to University, where he studied in Innsbruck and in the US, and then had a career with Union Innsbruck - it would not be out of the ordinary that at some point he'd move back to his home town of Berlin.
We have one more future transfers arranged for the winter window: Linus Czosnyka, another Union Berlin alumni I tried to sign in the summer that ended up singing for 4th tier team Germania Halberstadt spent the first half of the season in their B Team on a non-contract. I thought that because of his lack of chances in there I might get a shot at convincing him to come back to Berlin, and I was right!
He's a one trick pony, with nice Finishing and Heading (despite no jumping Reach) and Speed, but he's a one trick pony that fits perfectly with what I want my Striker to do right now, so when he comes in he will most likely be my first choice striker.
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Next update coming soon, but in the meantime...
5 days to 5 months?
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We might be in the lower leagues, it doesn't mean we can't score with flair.
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6 hours ago, Sonic Youth said:
Good start to the season, though wouldn’t have expected such a start from the friendlies.
Sounds like you had a few staff that could be trimmed from the wages of your backroom staff for extra savings
Pretty competitive at the top after 8 games. Looks like the next couple of months will be interesting to see what happens!
Thanks! When i noticed the staff stuff i was fuming - not only am I being paid more than 3k per month, but I had several people i don't need, and the ones I need getting 1.2 to 1.6k€ - I managed to send some of them away, and replace some of the ones getting a lot of money with new hires just as good receiving half of what the original staff did - I hope this will help in the long run.
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), but they're having a horrible season as a professional team in the 3.Liga, that's 3 divisions above us, and I think that's enough to make them 99% favourites to win.
[FM20] Iron Curtain - In hindsight everything is 2020 (Released)
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I don't know if you have someone lined up for this (or doing it yourself) but I will be doing graphics for this - at first for East Germany but possible for the rest too.