[FM 18][Closed] Gibberish call to arms

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Gib Reg - Awards and glance at Europe 2024/25

Here's a short sweet update on the domestic awards as well as a glance at European competitions.

We were very strong this year in the league and despite Red Imps' best attempts, my 18 year old winger in his first season was named PotY and Young PotY. My main keeper conceded 7 in 19 games, so a well deserved GKotY and I got the manager award which was mostly due to inadequacies of anyone else, really.

We also had no fewer than 7 players in team of the league, though it's telling very few central players made the cut.

In Europe, things got very very boring. Monaco winning UCL from RM.  Napoli beating Arsenal in Europa League.  The only slight misnomer was Ajax making semis and Gala making quarterfinals in EL.  In fact, this is so boring I am going to load Portuguese and Greek leagues and unload the big ones to maybe shuffle it all a bit.

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Gib Reg - Summer 2025 takeover

So it looks like I just had one of the quickest takeovers around, only lasting 33 hours and boom, new owners are in!

And as a bonus we get the new training facilities we wanted before we get that massive tax hit.

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Gib Reg - Summer 2025 Squad review

It's been a while since I did one of these, so time to go through the squad and see where the strengths and weaknesses are.

GK

My No.1 between the sticks is Kieran Jordan, he's been with the club for a while now and having done two loan stints with St Joseph he has fully blossomed into one of Gibraltar's finest GKs.  For some reason he isn't getting picked for the national team, their loss really.  Mark is a fresh pickup with bags of potential and a long-term No.2 I think.  My main concern is Kieran getting injured as Mark is still raw, we're also missing any other young talents to take the step to the first team.

Fullbacks

We're fairly stacked in this part of the pitch, Alec and Sean have been with the club for 5 seasons as part of the first eleven but there might be changes coming.  This summer I signer Fraser, who's a centreback but one I am keen to retrain as a fullback given his speed. Hale is a youth product making huge strides and established himself as a solid backup already.  Finally, Ronnie is two-footed and has been developing in the Reserves but it's only a matter of time before I start blooding him in easier games.

Centrebacks

#Blessed here, surely. Stephen has been the biggest baddest star for a few years now with Carl as his reliable sidekick.  However, it all changed a lot last season.  Ford grew a fair bit and overtook Carl in my rotation and then Mustoe came out of absolutely nowhere and rinsed them all to become the best centreback in the country by a country mile.  Murphy is another Carl, he has potential to be a backup but won't be more than that.  All of these guys are still very young, so unless there are amazing regens in waiting my backline is sorted till early 2030s.

Wingers

Now this is a much weaker part of the squad. Isaac and Jaydon have been awesome in running the wings both domestically and in Europe but they're a bit limited. Spooner is an absolute speedster as he was the PotS at the age of 18 but he's not getting any green arrows for some reason, similar to Curtis, I think they both have low ceiling and should not become starters.  Linares is another interesting youth propect who I will loan out to give him some game time.  

Centremids

Things are a bit better here.  I got Clayton and Hernandez dictating the tempo with Duncan running amok whenever called upon. Pell is a new singing who looks very very promising, so I will be giving him minutes against weaker opponents and hope he improves enough to take over from Andrew eventually.  Ryan is another prospect who did a year in our first team, then in reserves and now likely to be given a loan to supplement his training.

Strikers

Now things are even better here.  We have two club icons in Nick and James, casually scoring a goal a game each as well as Christian and Milton.  The last two should be taking over from James this season but they're infuriating with their inexperience,  White and Johnson are even more raw, so I am expecting to loan at least one of them out to give them some match experience.

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Having done this review, I started looking around Gibraltar and realised the country is not doing well at all.

Red Imps and Gibraltar Utd are the only two healthy clubs, first through their original high gates and still formidable team whereas the latter is dodging the financial rules by not offering players waged contracts.

The rest of the league is mostly in red but the situation is particularly bad for newly promoted teams. They turn professional and end up losing at least 500k a season in the top flight without european football.  This is unsustainable and there are already 2 clubs in administration with 2 more listed precarious.  I don't think this can create any sort of fun save as there simply won't be any teams to domestically challenge us especially with everyone sharing a stadium.  therefore, I am closing this save.  Thank you everyone for support!

[Sheriff7]

Awfull.Maybe you should raise it as bug?Anyway good luck in your new save.