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14 minutes ago, Cyp said:

Well i was pretty lucky, hardest game was the barrage before the group phase against Bengaluru (went 2-2/1-1) and interzone barrage final against Pyongyang that i shouldn't have won but won miraculously...In group phase, the Indian team lost 5-1 their first game and was in bad form, as was New Radiant...One of my forward was in a scary good form (13pace/13acceleration/12 finishing killing it in counters) and scored 4 goals 3 times...

I won the group easily (i think my team was as good as the other in the group talentwise, but with full cohesion + full morale from crushing bhutanese team+ rotation to have the team in form in Continental competition)

Faced a Philipines team in the interzone barrage, which was good but not great.

Overall, i scored a lot, and also set a record for goal against. Had the record for goal scored (19!!) and assists for my 2 strikers

I was helped by the fact that i had 2 very good intakes (golden generation with mainly forwards and a top keeper) to work with, since foreign team weren't stealing my players yet.

Also that year there was no Asian Games, so that clearly helped to reach the group phase!!(wouldn't have beaten Bengaluru).

I think it is unlikely i can replicate such a run in future, unless i get a godly youth intake in a non Asian game year, since now my player are stolen as soon they reach 18. Considering Bhutanese from youth intake are often an old 16 when generated, that mean that my best players will stay only one year. Passing semi-pro is the next objective, as is increasing league reputation (was frozen due to bug until 2020 - which was a blessing in disguise since i wasn't scouted)

Top scorer :

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2nd Forward (top Passer in cup)

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Other key players

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You should post about that career here! :D

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Il y a 4 heures, Makoto Nakamura a dit :

You should post about that career here! :D

OK.If i post here, should i put my game in english so that's easier to read players profile?

Seems i was overly pessimistic!! Managed to pass first round of asian cup with a grey keeper (the ****ing u23 bhoutan manager calling ALL 3 of my keepers qualified for Asian league -thankfully they were quickly eliminated on the asian games), and thanks to an insane run from the one who was my 5th striker last season (12goals in 5 games!!!!), this is the result

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Still that team should be getting worse and worse as player leave during the year (had my top keeper until 4 of march lose top defender on May 1st...)  , but so far i have a small chance to qualify again for the elimination rounds (despite having no business doing so)!!

Honestly, i think we have no business topping the group : our forwards are "trash tier" for asia (good for bhutan lvl)  cause 0 FW on 2020 intake and our midfield weak. We have a good keeper and relatively decent defender (until they leave), but even then. We are still the best team in bhutan, though...

About the NT, rank is FIFA 151th. We have no interesting competition coming on since we somehow aren't participating in asian championship qualifiers, and where out after the first round of WC qualifs. We won 2019 South Asian Cup - 2 penalty win in knockout stages - and host it at the end of the year . I target friendly against trash nation that seems overrated in FIFA ranking (mainly caribbean minnow / oceanian / bad asian teams like guam) to increase my own FIFA ranking. Best team we played so far is Estonia who trashed us 2-4 (we scored 2 very early goals) , Kirghizistan (was 1-1) and India during SA cup (lost 0-1 in group, but they were eliminated against Sri Lanka).

So far as a NT, we are around the same lvl as Sri Lanka /Pakistan and other south asian team...The long term goal (to qualify to a WC) is still very far.

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On 02/07/2018 at 19:14, ToMexico!! said:

Going great guns, league will be sewn up with at least 6 games to spare I reckon. 

Anyway, I was searching for something in my save and found this....:D

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That's awesome! :D 

On 02/07/2018 at 21:44, Cyp said:

OK.If i post here, should i put my game in english so that's easier to read players profile?

Seems i was overly pessimistic!! Managed to pass first round of asian cup with a grey keeper (the ****ing u23 bhoutan manager calling ALL 3 of my keepers qualified for Asian league -thankfully they were quickly eliminated on the asian games), and thanks to an insane run from the one who was my 5th striker last season (12goals in 5 games!!!!), this is the result

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Still that team should be getting worse and worse as player leave during the year (had my top keeper until 4 of march lose top defender on May 1st...)  , but so far i have a small chance to qualify again for the elimination rounds (despite having no business doing so)!!

Honestly, i think we have no business topping the group : our forwards are "trash tier" for asia (good for bhutan lvl)  cause 0 FW on 2020 intake and our midfield weak. We have a good keeper and relatively decent defender (until they leave), but even then. We are still the best team in bhutan, though...

About the NT, rank is FIFA 151th. We have no interesting competition coming on since we somehow aren't participating in asian championship qualifiers, and where out after the first round of WC qualifs. We won 2019 South Asian Cup - 2 penalty win in knockout stages - and host it at the end of the year . I target friendly against trash nation that seems overrated in FIFA ranking (mainly caribbean minnow / oceanian / bad asian teams like guam) to increase my own FIFA ranking. Best team we played so far is Estonia who trashed us 2-4 (we scored 2 very early goals) , Kirghizistan (was 1-1) and India during SA cup (lost 0-1 in group, but they were eliminated against Sri Lanka).

So far as a NT, we are around the same lvl as Sri Lanka /Pakistan and other south asian team...The long term goal (to qualify to a WC) is still very far.

Great stuff Cyp! currently in my save Bhutan are at their highest ever ranking of 122nd! Good shows against both India and Kyrgyzstan!

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2 minutes ago, ToMexico!! said:

3 away goals though, you should be fine. Congrats on the league win. Must be time to move after the CL campaign has finished. 

That's what I'm thinking plus I have no new offers for a contract so I may just move on.

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2039 End of Season Review

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Identical scores and I go out on a massive high as quintuple winners! :D

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Overall Best XI

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2039 Best XI

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Zhang Weiliang

Pan Wenqing (YP19b) - Wang Min - Zhou Zhigang

Luís Felipe                                                                            Chen Yingzhi

Gerardo LópezZou Chao

 

Xiao Jinzheng - Élton - Shangguan Xin

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4 minutes ago, Rikulec said:

Perfect time to bow out. :applause:

I thought so too. :) 

3 minutes ago, ToMexico!! said:

Wow!! What an end to the season, massive congrats. 

Whats the plan with High Quality then? 

Thanks! :D The plan is to see how far I can take High Quality now they're professional, hopefully to a Confederation Cup victory and also to improve the Bhutanese league ranking.

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Been following this for a while now, and it's very interesting!

Going back to High Quality must be fun, just like being a boomerang, starting there, then after a while ending up back there.

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I thought so too. :) 

Thanks! :D The plan is to see how far I can take High Quality now they're professional, hopefully to a Confederation Cup victory and also to improve the Bhutanese league ranking.

I think you shouldn't have to much trouble unless South Asian team have tremendously progressed : they are generally quite poor. After that you just have 2 home and away before the final, which is winnable, especially if you can get a good striker (it could also be harder for you, since at this point High Quality is a developped club of a similar standard to theirs, while in my save, i have such a low rep that they consider they can crush me and i just have to counter...)

 

For my part

I definitely undersold that team! I underestimated the effect of the improvement in midfield and defence.

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Overall, an unexpectedly great season :

  • first place in both divA and Ligue (one loss in the whole season)
  • First place in the group (3win -3draw)
  • Eliminated Pyongyang (again) in semi (1-2 away /1 -0 home ) with an header of my  1 jumping /6 header forward as the only goal of the home game!! 1874700197_ChenchoChokkie_OverviewProfile.thumb.png.91909a803373cafb0f40952a4fe69728.png
  • Loss to Persib (2-3 home /1-2 away) with  somehow some regrets (started playing down 3-0 home, and led 1-0 away) as we were unable to pull a miracle.

More importantly :

  • Money for winning the Bhoutan league is up to 199000 $ from 67 000$ a year before and 10 000$ two year ago
  • Club went semi-pro at the end of the season!! That mean i will no longer auto-lose my top players!!

For the youth intake, it's a mixed bag :

  • i got a speedster winger (RM) with 16acc/15pace
  • a good DM
  • a very good right fullback

But again 0 striker!!

For the NT : we are continuating our winning streak targeting the bad teams of the caribean or of Asia who have an inflated ranking (Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Guam (was 154th), Macao, Taipei...) we got a great win against Singapore.

 

Next friendly is an away game against UAE, who should crush us, considering they lost only to Saudi Arabia for the right to be the 5th asian team)

 

 

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Il y a 4 heures, ToMexico!! a dit :

Great philosophies to work with but also what a budget to sign those first team youngsters with. I take it the Nigerians were signed by the club? 

If recall he first signed a Nigerian player (Egware living in Bhutan) at start when he was with the team the first time! (who is the very good defender for this level)

If the guy became HoYD, a coach or a recruiter for High Quality, the team could have gotten these Nigerian from youth intake or by recruiting them...

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4 hours ago, ToMexico!! said:

Great philosophies to work with but also what a budget to sign those first team youngsters with. I take it the Nigerians were signed by the club? 

The Nigerians were already here but they only seem to sign for the initial length of the contract and within that time have them decide that they've out grown the club and end up going back to Nigeria.

4 hours ago, Toads said:

Been following this for a while now, and it's very interesting!

Going back to High Quality must be fun, just like being a boomerang, starting there, then after a while ending up back there.

Thanks Toads! I think High Quality and maybe the Bhutan Nt will mark an ending to this save but I want to see how far we can get first.

2 hours ago, Cyp said:

I think you shouldn't have to much trouble unless South Asian team have tremendously progressed : they are generally quite poor. After that you just have 2 home and away before the final, which is winnable, especially if you can get a good striker (it could also be harder for you, since at this point High Quality is a developped club of a similar standard to theirs, while in my save, i have such a low rep that they consider they can crush me and i just have to counter...)

For my part

I definitely undersold that team! I underestimated the effect of the improvement in midfield and defence.

Overall, an unexpectedly great season :

  • first place in both divA and Ligue (one loss in the whole season)
  • First place in the group (3win -3draw)
  • Eliminated Pyongyang (again) in semi (1-2 away /1 -0 home ) with an header of my  1 jumping /6 header forward as the only goal of the home game!! 
  • Loss to Persib (2-3 home /1-2 away) with  somehow some regrets (started playing down 3-0 home, and led 1-0 away) as we were unable to pull a miracle.

More importantly :

  • Money for winning the Bhoutan league is up to 199000 $ from 67 000$ a year before and 10 000$ two year ago
  • Club went semi-pro at the end of the season!! That mean i will no longer auto-lose my top players!!

For the youth intake, it's a mixed bag :

  • i got a speedster winger (RM) with 16acc/15pace
  • a good DM
  • a very good right fullback

But again 0 striker!!

For the NT : we are continuating our winning streak targeting the bad teams of the caribean or of Asia who have an inflated ranking (Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Guam (was 154th), Macao, Taipei...) we got a great win against Singapore.

 

Next friendly is an away game against UAE, who should crush us, considering they lost only to Saudi Arabia for the right to be the 5th asian team)

 

 

Another great season! Awesome news on going semi-pro and that Chencho Chokkie is doing great despite the fact that he's rated so poorly!

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Yeah, he was my starter the first 2 season (i favor striker with decent pace/acc - he declined a little though) .

He would be a perfect 4/5th striker for me, since he is good enough to score at the Bhutanese / south Asian level, but bad enough CAwise (i checked it, it's 8CA) to never be called in selection now!!! (so he can almost always be played) : as a result he is the top scorer in Club history.

He also score a surprising number of header for such a dwarf!!!

I noticed that since the AI look mainly at CA to select players, it has a tendency to play slow defenders (like 5-6 pace/acc), especially at low level, so any forward i play with half decent pace and finishing naturally score in the Bhutanese league.

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Good start in league!!

Disappointing loss against army, but well **** happens. (Btw was it instant result? i don't use it, and definitely wouldn't use it as an heavy underdog)

Khinley  Dhargyal should be old, given his surname!

What was the tactic you played? is it your 3-2-2-3?

By the way, are the others bhutanese team still amateurs?

 

 

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Just now, Cyp said:

Good start in league!!

Disappointing loss against army, but well **** happens. (Btw was it instant result? i don't use it, and definitely wouldn't use it as an heavy underdog)

Khinley  Dhargyal should be old, given his surname!

What was the tactic you played? is it your 3-2-2-3?

By the way, are the others bhutanese team still amateurs?

 

 

Thanks! Yes it was using instant result, I tend to use it for all my careers.

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This is the tactic I use, the only difference I've made is that I've changed it to overload.

Of the clubs playing in the A-Division and Districts division, 6 are professional, 4 are semi-pro and 3 are amateur.

 

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World ranking in my game, after my 3-1 loss to UAE, and a 4-1 win against Montserrat. (i'm 127)

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Continuing to game the Fifa ranking (i'm ahead of new-Zealand (and so is Guam)!!! a FAR superior team) next target for friendlies, given the ranking should be Guam (again) and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Curaçao seems tempting too, but could be more tricky...)

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Just now, Cyp said:

World ranking in my game, after my 3-1 loss to UAE, and a 4-1 win against Montserrat. (i'm 127)

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Continuing to game the Fifa ranking (i'm ahead of new-Zealand (and so is Guam)!!! a FAR superior team) next target for friendlies, given the ranking should be Guam (again) and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Curaçao seems tempting too, but could be more tricky...)

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Bhutan's rankings on my save. :)

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il y a 2 minutes, Makoto Nakamura a dit :

Thanks! Yes it was using instant result, I tend to use it for all my careers.

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This is the tactic I use, the only difference I've made is that I've changed it to overload.

Of the clubs playing in the A-Division and Districts division, 6 are professional, 4 are semi-pro and 3 are amateur.

 

That tactic should produce spectacular football !!

OK, so the league as a whole should have made tremendous progress.

BhutanU19 might be Amateur locked.

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il y a 8 minutes, Makoto Nakamura a dit :

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Bhutan's rankings on my save. :)

If i was Bhutan manager in that save, i would instantly organize friendlies against Aruba and Belize (which are trash national team), but would avoid playing Togo like the plague!!

By the way, it seems that national rivalry are dynamics (didn't know this) !! Afghanistan is considering me as a Rival nation ;)  (Afghanistan other  rivals are minnows Russia and USA )

 

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10 minutes ago, Cyp said:

If i was Bhutan manager in that save, i would instantly organize friendlies against Aruba and Belize (which are trash national team), but would avoid playing Togo like the plague!!

By the way, it seems that national rivalry are dynamics (didn't know this) !! Afghanistan is considering me as a Rival nation ;)  (Afghanistan other  rivals are minnows Russia and USA )

 

Yea Togo look way better than Aruba & Belize, we only have Nepal listed as a rival. :( 

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Nepal is our only listed rival (and it's reciprocal) Afghanistan as a one-sided rivalry with us. Sri Lanka, who we beat in finals the last 2times we faced don't mind us :)

 

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I thought that in that dumb cup, first of the group faced 2nd!!

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Why should i face ****ing India in semis!!!

Of course, against 9points India, we lose 2-4 (2 late goal from india) while bangladesh win 3-1 against Maldives!!!

 

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7 hours ago, ManUtd1 said:

I absolutely love that you're using overload mentality. I've considered going back to it, given that I'm using a slightly toned-down version of my 17 overload tactic.

Do it, we've actually been stronger defensively since going to overload.

6 hours ago, Cyp said:

I thought that in that dumb cup, first of the group faced 2nd!!

Why should i face ****ing India in semis!!!

Of course, against 9points India, we lose 2-4 (2 late goal from india) while bangladesh win 3-1 against Maldives!!!

 

Tough luck there, hopefully Bangladesh can beat India in the final.

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Il y a 7 heures, Makoto Nakamura a dit :

Do it, we've actually been stronger defensively since going to overload.

Tough luck there, hopefully Bangladesh can beat India in the final.

India won its 5 games in the competition, battering Bangladesh (a worse team than me) 3-0 in the final...I don't understand why the top of both groups were facing each other in the finals.

I'm also ****ing disappointed by us going semi-Pro : my stupid board gave us a 575$/month to work with as salaries but an unadjustable 421 000 $ transfer budget to work with...(so how should i pay these players i sign??)

And ALL the player signed non-contract!!!

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