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St Joseph's Football Club - Gibraltar- National League - Intro Database | Manager | Club info | Club vision | Facilities | Finances | Squad | Squad Calc. Intro The combination of signing Academy graduates or players with Gibraltarian nationality only and building a small nation seemed to me a worthwhile final attempt on FM21. So I will mostly use players from my own youth academy. There is a big chance that I will be buying players from other teams born in Gibraltar, at a later date. This to increase our chances to pick up a rare Gibraltar superstar.. You could call this a Basque Gibraltarian only save. This is my second attempt in Gibraltar. The first one with Manchester 62 failed because of brexit and registration rules. This forced all the other teams to play without their best players. We also had to deal with a prize money bug. This is fixed now (i'm using a 'no brexit' file). After months playing the youth only challenge, i let my kids decide who i should pick next and they loved the location and logo . Why Gibraltar and St Joseph's F.C. ? St Joseph's is the oldest club but only won the league once in 1996. They are the fourth team in Gibraltar at the moment and have some quality (old) Spanish players. I like the fact that this is a small 'fast' league, the nice story with the rock of Gibraltar, the link with England & Spain, building a small nation and St Joseph F.C. being the oldest (Pioneer) club of Gibraltar , is also special. I'm also in love with their kit. All credits to @Jimbokav1971 for his great topic (Conquered Gibraltar with Lincoln) and all the commitment from @cel1234, to update the database . I'm using his latest datbase so this will be much harder. Also Boca are no longer involved in Gibraltar national league. Cel1234 made the Intermediate (2th tier with u23 teams) available from the start. The story with Lynx from @mattyjames_ was also an inspiration !
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Introduction: I’ve been playing football manager since 2014 version and long-time following this forum. I finally decided to dip my feet in writing a series following my first long-term save in FM 2019. I plan to start a somewhat open discussion of Dynamo Kiev club and my tactics. I intend to post regular updates on my squad and results as well as welcome feedback on how to improve my tactics and training. You can follow the story at the site to which I contribute: https://dictatethegame.com/ I decided to start this save while still in beta for two main reasons. The tactic I intend to try out is not one relying on breaking the current game engine to overachieve but rather on tried and true concepts that would hopefully be applicable to any version of the game. So no 3 strikers nor strikerless tactics. Secondly, I intend to do it with a club that is not from the top 5 leagues. I noticed in the last couple of FMs that the attribute changes between beta and the first patch could be drastic in players in Premiership, Bundesliga or the other “big” leagues. For obvious reason those leagues are more thoroughly scouted. For that reason I reserve those kinds of big saves for later in the year, once I tested out my tactic with a less known side. This year I chose Dynamo Kiev. What attracted me to this club can also be viewed as the 3 Pillars of my 5 Year Plan: 1) Youth Development, 2) Domestic and Continental Success and 3) Implementing Hard Pressing Tactical System inspired by Valeriy Lobanovsky I hail from Ukraine myself so naturally I always followed clubs from this nation. My all-time favourite player growing up was Andriy Shevchenko. One of my earliest footballing memories was watching Dynamo Kiev’s systematic dismantling of Barcelona’s defense in Nov 1998 Champion’s league. Sheva scored 3 goals in that match. Dynamo went on to beat Barcelona 7 to 0 in aggregate. He was part of an elite class, all nurtured at same time by the club. Players such as Oleh Luzhny (later won the Premier League with Arsenal), Serhiy Rebrov (totaling 75 appearances for Ukraine) are just a few examples of the “Dynamo effect” – taking local youngsters and molding them into superstars through hard work and intense fitness conditioning. So to reflect this objective will be to develop a class of homegrown players over the first 5 intakes and then to integrate them into my first team over the following 5 seasons. So by 2028-2029 to have only youth academy products in the 22 player squad. On my way there I’m hoping to also have a positive effect on Ukraine’s National Team and become the foremost farm team for the National Team squads. Success in 1998 Champion’s League marked the revival of the club’s fortunes in late 90s when the manager Valeriy Lobanovsky took over for the second time. In total, he spent 3 decades with the club and its best years were undeniably with him. Becoming the fixture in Champions League and winning numerous domestic trophies were all part of this success. Lobanovsky relied on his signature hard pressing, direct style of play (what some might think of as Geggenpressing today). After dominating Ukrainian League from late 90s to early 2000s, Dynamo has had a bit of a decline due to the meteoric rise of its main rival Shakhtar Donetsk in late 2000s. In the last decade, Shakhtar has won 7 domestic titles in comparison to Dynamo’s 3. This is something that I intend to change, aiming for getting at least 4 titles in 5 seasons. Also Dynamo has not won a major continental trophy since 1985 (UEFA Cup Winner’s Cup) which I also intend to change by winning at least one continental trophy during my first 5 seasons with the club My final objective is developing a Lobanovsky style Pressing Tactic that is built around the player’s hard work, relentless physicality, stamina and disciplined selfless teamwork. By hitting my domestic and continental goals on time, I will know whether this tactical goal was achieved. As you might guess the mold of my ideal player will also be defined by this system (but more on this in future posts) Next: A little context on the Lobanovsky system -
Puștii lui Hagi - The Viitorul is bright ! Introduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Viitorul_Constanța FC Viitorul Constanța is a club founded and owned by legendary player Gheorghe Hagi since 2009 . Hagi wanted to take over his old and almost bankrupt club FC Farul Constanța but did not get permission . That's why Hagi started a soccer school in Constanța , Ovidiu .Hagi then bought the licence from CS Ovidiu in the League III . Usually the Romanians ignore the inconspicuous sleeping city Ovidiu and go to the fashionable seaside resort Mamaia. Since a few years the town is also an obligatory stop for the celebrities of Dinamo and Steaua Bucharest. Thanks to the local Viitorul Constanta , Ovidiu is on the map, now it has to get rid of its destitute view. The immediate vicinity of the four-lane road that divides Ovidiu into two looks like a war zone: the half-finished houses and hastily abandoned construction sites follow each other in rapid succession. Until the well-shaped contours of Stadionul Viitorul with its 4,500 covered pitches suddenly appear in no-man's-land. This is where the Academia houses the Fotbal Gheorghe Hagi and Viitorul Constanta, on a seven-hectare piece of land. With its eight football fields, it is by far the largest and most modern youth academy in Romania. The youth hotel that is on the scaffolding has to complete the picture. With his two instruments, the academy and the club, Hagi has long been preparing a putsj for the establishment. : Hagi breaking through Bucharest's power with his provincial club and other big cities like Timisoara, Cluj, Ploiesti, Arad and Craiova. With a budget of 4.5 million euros, Viitorul doesn't even come close to the six richest clubs in Romania, but the climb from third division to the top is unstoppable. In 2016-2017 FC Viitoral became champion with the youngest team ever and last season it won the Cupa României. Confirmation and European success should now follow. With Hagi as owner and Head of Youth Dev. (I changed this in the editor, Hagi was Manager and owner) and best friend Gheoghe Popescu as chairman this can't go wrong. Well-known players from the academy : Razvan Marin (Standard) , Ianis Hagi ( Genk - Rangers) , Florinel Coman ( FSCB), Cristian Ganea (Athletic - loaned back). Location: FC Viitorul is located in region Constanța , Constanța is part of Northern Dobruja: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Dobruja Stadium: Facilities : Great training and youth facilities , excellent academy coaching and exceptional youth recruitment. Why FC Viitorul ? : I was looking for a new challenge after my adventure with Icelandic club IR (only youth) . I am a big fan of Bilbao / only Basques. That's why I was looking for a team with a special background and preferably active in a nice special / beautiful region. I finally chose Romania as a tribute to my great-grandfather, who had roots in Romania. I want to emulate a Dobruja only policy. Thanks @Jimbokav1971 and @Muttley84 for the suggestions.
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The year is 2019 and after many many years of hurt in the UK the english FA has decided to take things into their own hands in order to increase the quality of the english national team and force every single team in england to only use 3 over 20 year old foreign players in their playing 11. this rule change surprised the whole world but everyone from the UK seems to be very supportive of it since people are tired of seeing south american wonderkids take over their continent. Every club in the Premier league and english championship have supported the decision and have added buy english players and develop players using the youth facilities to their club vision. ps. brexit has also been disabled since it is a disaster. HG challenge.fmf
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I would like to edit the English premier league to make it mandatory to field at least 6 English or home-grown players. I want to do this to see how the England football team would develop over the years with more English players getting the chance to play. does anybody know how to do this in the editor, I can figure it out.
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Anybody know if it is possible this year to apply transfer policies like Chivas and Athletic have? I know, that the Athletic Club policy with only players from one region will not be possible, in another country through the editor, as regional nationalities are unique for the basque club - as far as I know and understand. But what about making a policy more like Chivas, with only national players? I would love to make an edit for a club, to only be able to sign national players. I know you can set your scouts to only scout such players, and force yourself to do it in that way. But would be an interesting thing to make it in editor. Btw - I have not checked, since like a year ago, if Chivas still got this policy. But I guess they have.
