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Lot of African saves right now! Best of luck with this one.

That's a lot of turnover in the squad! Not tempted by PSV?

Love the interplay and the goals. Some cracking results so far.

Nice start to this adventure!

Wow Never seen this in game or IRL! What game was it?

Oh yes definitely that will happen! And thanks I've really grown to exploring new regions in FM and learning about them.

Wow what a tactic

Not a lot! There is a number of 1-0 and 2-0 wins. It seems very solid.

Great signings! Seem well set up for the new season.

Hey guys, new thread alert! Please give it a read if you like

Hey guys, new thread alert! Please give it a read if you like

And a final update for now - in typical style I have run through almost the first season before opening the thread so here are the fixtures until the half-way point: Safe to say it's been going quite well. The tactic seems to be working as desired, just with a couple of off days. The league table at the time of the 3 week summer break looks like this: Fun fact about the league leaders Gimcheon who you may have not heard about, I most certainly had not. They are the official team of the Army. You cannot manage them in FM, and they don't own any players. Every season there are South Korean players randomly selected from all the other clubs and sent to Gimcheon on a 2 year loan which acts as their national service to the army. So essentially they can complete service and play football at the same time. After that the player returns to his parent club. Super interesting, and I have never seen this anywhere else! This season, they clearly managed to get some good players from the other clubs as evidenced by their league performance. Them winning the league would indeed be quite a story!

And now the fun part, the tactic: Here you go then, this is what I have come up with. It's a bit similar to what Tuchel played with Chelsea before he signed Lukaku I feel. The idea is to have a lethal front 3, along with a very solid defense when all the players get back. We also break forward in numbers and support for possession can come from the WCBs too. The LWB role rotates between an IWB and a CWB. The AM in the front 3 sometimes becomes an AP and acts more as a funnel. The right sided wing back is a little bit more defensive as he has a VOL on his side. Would love thoughts & feedback!

And the new signings... Lee Ju-Yong was actually on loan with Incheon last season and with his contract expiring I snapped him up as he seems perfect for the LWB role. Extremely excited about this kid! He looks like someone who may just have a big future. We needed a destroyer in midfield and hopefully found our guy with Brazilian / Japanese Gabriel Kazu. And saving the best for the last - we had to give him a big contract with a whopping 50% sell-on clause but we have our own Jota now

To give you an idea, these are some of the key players in the Incheon squad: Guy is definitely our best defender - there are a fair few Australians around in the league due to the registration rules. Probably are only somewhat competent midfielder. Best player and star striker. The play-maker, although he seems to now be on the decline. EDIT - the good news is that both Mugosa & Aguilar are just completing their 5 years in the country which means they will be eligible for dual citizenship before the new season begins.

About the South Korean league So this is my first time playing in this part of the world, and it is definitely very different. The league runs from March to November, so there is a very long break between seasons. There are a total of 12 clubs only in the top division. Each club plays each other thrice for a total of 33 games after which the league splits into two groups of 6 each. There are a further 5 final games for a total of 38. If two teams are tied on points, goals scored and not goal difference is the deciding factor. Registration rules are usually tight in Asia and this is no exception - you are allowed to register only 4 foreign players of which 1 must be Asian from another country. Jeonbuk (owned by Hyundai) has been the most successful team recently, with the other strong sides being Ulsan (also owned by Hyundai, not sure how that works) and of course FC Seoul. The club where Lee Young-pyo started his career. I reckon that's about it, Incheon has never won the title before so let's see if we can change that!

On the 24th of December 2022, Lee Young-pyo received an early Christmas present as he was approached by Korean top flight club Incheon to take over the managerial reigns. Incheon had just about avoided relegation only on goal difference on the final day of the season, thanks to which their old manager was shown the door. And so, Lee Young-pyo had the first managerial job of his fledgling career:

Hello everyone, and welcome to my new FM22 adventure. A quick background about the save, I wanted to do something different and return to probably my favorite style of playing the game which is journeyman across different leagues and countries. I also of course like playing "as" former players especially those I was a fan of during their playing days. And this time I wanted to try something different, ideally starting off in Asia. So, say hello to Lee Young-pyo He was a very successful left wing back in the 2000s turning out for clubs like PSV, Spurs & Dortmund amongst others. He's also one of the earliest proponents of the "inverted wing back" being right footed but playing mainly from the left. He racked up over a 100 caps for South Korea and after retirement has been dabbling a little bit with acting in TV shows & movies. However in this alternate universe, he has of course decided to get into football management with a view of bringing his personal vision of what innovative attacking football looks like to the clubs he will manage. It is likely that the first role will be in his homeland South Korea. Lee starts off with no coaching badges but a previous reputation as a continentally known international footballer. ____________________________________________________ The leagues loaded as playable are - England, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium in Europe - China & South Korea in Asia - Brazil in South America That's as many as my computer can handle We should hopefully get a job at a smaller/ struggling club in South Korea and then build our way up. I am ideally looking to avoid nations I've played in this edition of FM so primarily England & France. I will only be looking to take over "challenger" clubs like the ones Lee played for in his career, so none of the big or successful clubs. Tactically since I have only played a 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 on FM22 this time going 3 at the back with marauding wing backs and finally use the new WCB role. Apart from that no clear "objectives" to this save, just to have fun, manage a bunch of clubs and hopefully win a few things!

There you go! Love it when mentoring has the desired effect.

Really like the look of this! CL with an Israeli side should be a proper challenge.

I think so. Conversely i have seen when you play a right footed left back as a complete wing back they tend to cut in quite a bit as well. That's another way to get this kind of play on the pitch. Definitely very interesting.

Footballball has arrived!!

Lol in that case i won the league league Thanks a lot for reading!

Nice write up. I thought the IWBs had a hard coded instruction to sit narrower which is why I was concerned. However they seem to play for you like Cancelo does in real life. This looks perfect.

How have the IWBs been performing? Doesn't the play get too congested? Who provides the width