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Post by jawzy on Jun 29, 2020 19:44:31 GMT
"Football Club Torpedo Moscow (Russian: ФК "Торпедо" Москва, FK Torpedo Moskva), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow that was founded in 1930 and currently plays in the Russian Football National League, the second tier of Russian football. Their colors are white and black, with green also commonly being associated with the club. Torpedo is the only professional club located in south Moscow, based in Avtozovodskaya in south-east Moscow, with CSKA and Spartak located in north-west Moscow, Dynamo in north Moscow and Lokomotiv in north-east Moscow. Torpedo are historically one of the big Moscow clubs who enjoyed great success during the Soviet era, both domestically and in Europe. In recent history, however, the club has suffered from financial troubles and poor management which has seen them drop down the divisions. A top flight club since 1938, Torpedo were relegated for the first time in their history following the 2006 Russian Premier League season and have only played one campaign in the top division since, in 2014-15, spending the other seasons bouncing around between the second and third tiers"
Hopefullly this sticks/I dont get sacked after 2 or 3 seasons! - Hopefully I can get this Moscow club into the top flight and into European competitions again. The facilities seem super basic, which suprises me somewhat as does the reduced stadium size!.
We are predicted to finish 9th in the second tier - Board want top half this season and to win promotion next season!
top 2 go up with 3rd and 4th end a playoff with 13th and 14th in the top flight, bottom 5 go down.
We play 38 league games in the second tier. We are allowed to register 5 foriegners, but only allowed 3 in the first 11 Also we need to have atleast 1 u22 Russian in the first 11. (in top flight we can only play 6 foriegners in the first 11 (no registration limits)
Financially considering we not been in the top flight for a while is very good with a 4.7m balance and 271k to spend we have 10k left for wages.
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Post by dalenichol on Jun 29, 2020 19:55:52 GMT
Now you just need to pray that you get the next Eduard Streltsov in your intake and you'll be fine!
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Post by chaodck on Jun 29, 2020 20:08:25 GMT
Interesting team to start with jawzy, I really want to manage in Russia sometime, maybe a C&C in next year's version (I wanted to do a C&C before, but hosting the 2018 World Cup always put me off and I'd forgot about it for the past two versions of the game). Good luck mate.
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Post by jawzy on Jun 29, 2020 20:14:35 GMT
First bit of positive news Board gave me 4 options for an affiliate, this lower league club has nice facilities, and we now have access to them for 6k a year.
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Post by jawzy on Jul 3, 2020 13:28:35 GMT
Got to the long winter break as russia dives into the land of brrrr its bit cold!
(our coldest game was A cup gameaway to Tyumen -5 light snow 31st October)
We return to football on the 4th March
Overall it is going well. players I have signed so far Wang is a foriegn bench warmer who will be sold if we get promoted. Pedro is a 34 year old right back with solid stats for this level Djalo is a 33 year old winger, who after 12 games got a legg break, hopefully he can still do a job upon his return the next 4 signings are Russians who are u21 to help with the age ristrictions in this league, as noticed I did lack decent u21 options out this is the player who is really helping us be where we are: Ivan Sergeev 22 goals in 24 league games!
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Post by jawzy on Jul 3, 2020 18:58:08 GMT
signing this player (I remember him from my fifa 13 ultimate team litterally made up of sweaty brazilians from the russian league(vagner love and welliton were others iirc) in the long winter break, has been a solid player in the second half of the season, this has been our biggest demoltion job though!
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Post by jawzy on Jul 3, 2020 21:07:53 GMT
Our winter transfer activity inCarlos is a aged winger who had russian top flight expirence 10 seasons ago with Rubin Lukjanov is simply a young romanian out[/img] decided to gain abit of income especially during the long winter break with some loan fees with fringe players all clubs in Portugal and Holland were targetted due to the relaxed foriegner rules (did try germany but lots of non league sides didnt bite the fee part. Also decided to see if I can get any of the money from China with Wang Jinbin. 4 clubs offered 100k per month. going into our final day of season FNLAll season we pretty much have been in the top 2, was a time where krasnodar 2 and spartak 2 looked to ruin my title hopes. Khimki came very close to spoiling our party, but failed onm the last day of season by losing 5-2 Cupwe lost 2-0 to Dinamo Moscow who went on to win it while finishing 8th in the top flight, certainly not to disheartened. SquadDjalo ended up retiring and becoming a scout for us. Hopefully Spartak let us have Rudenko in on loan, him and Sergeev worked very well together. Our weakest position is probably defence, which will be very tested in RPL We can increase our forigners on the pitch to 6 next season. So potentially some solid foriegn defenders if I cant recruit russian. financesOur new sponsorship deal of 8m and club membership fee provided 3m does mean our finances are looking pretty, but only 700k for the forthcoming season.
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Post by Nick on Jul 3, 2020 22:15:55 GMT
Nice season jawzy. Is that the same Carlos Eduardo that was at Hoffenheim a few years ago?
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Post by jawzy on Jul 3, 2020 22:26:31 GMT
Nice season jawzy. Is that the same Carlos Eduardo that was at Hoffenheim a few years ago? That is the guy. by looks of things after the big money move into Russia, he didnt do to well and ended up back in the top flight of brazil
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Post by jawzy on Jul 3, 2020 23:52:28 GMT
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Post by jawzy on Jul 4, 2020 0:04:43 GMT
My summer transfers Kozhemyakin, Baranov, Kondakov and Marques all come in as options for defence, Biro Biro is probably the best signing to replace Rudenko on the right wing
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Post by chaodck on Jul 4, 2020 17:47:31 GMT
Great progress so far Jawzy mate, really good promotion and good transfers to start off your RPL campaign. Keep it up mate.
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Post by jawzy on Jul 4, 2020 18:20:08 GMT
We have also signed Robhinho on a free to dd to our Brazilians at the club. We have also signed an emergency 39 year old backp keeper after our number 1 got a 4 month hip injury After 10 league games, we are flying high.
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Post by jawzy on Jul 4, 2020 21:00:08 GMT
Rare a top flight side actually getting a senior side as an affiliate, wonders if I will be able to get any semi decent french kids under 21 as noticed the u21 foriegners dont have to be registered? so get around the foriegner registeration limit? (is this a thing irl?)
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Post by jawzy on Jul 4, 2020 21:19:57 GMT
Another long term injury to a valuable player
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Post by jawzy on Jul 4, 2020 21:49:30 GMT
We come into the winter break in possibly the worst ever form, as you can see after the 10th game we lost all of the next 9 games!
Avoiding the automatic relegation spots of 15th and 16th, could prove challenging if we continue this form.
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Post by jawzy on Jul 5, 2020 12:34:53 GMT
We have since managed a 2-1 win vs Khmiki and a 0-0 draw with Lokimotiv Moscow in our last two ganes 5 games remain (bottom 2 auto go down) All these teams are in the battle to avoid the playoffs!
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Post by jawzy on Jul 5, 2020 13:47:21 GMT
Our second season complete, but bit of a rollercoaster of a season!
RPL Our first season back in the top flight of Russia, and our first 10 games saw us battling out at the top, with great perfomances and wins vs the top sides in Russia. But the rest of the season was awful with 14 loses in a row, during this period we were very unlucky with long term injuries to key players!. Last 5 games were important to try buck our losing trend and actually find some form to give us abit more confidence going into the playoffs, as it was looking more than likely we would end up there.
Playoffs Lucky to be playing Tyuman, who were promoted into the FNL, certainly easier side of the two/
I will be suprised if Tula can keep ahold of Romanian Coman (key player)
Cup We lost 1-0 to Tula in the 5th round, which at the time was very disapointing!
Results
Winter Transfers In Sowah is a young defender from Ghana, will look to loan to a lower league side. Zgursky and Malinovskiy isare young Belarusians (who are treated as non foriegn now) Plotnikov is a young Belarusian goalkeeper, has come in as our number 1 Bintuan is a younf Thai defender with 18 caps for Thailand already aged 18.
Bakhar another young Belarussian player And the two loanees were from our new parent club
Out was a mix of loans to youngsters and few older guys going out on loan to China and Japan, we did sell our old portuguese right back for 1k though.
Squad
A lack of goals and a lack of good performances throughout the season.
Finances we end the season with 19m in the bank and a budget for next season is 3.8m
Sponsors and Club membership bumping our balance upwards again.
Just for reference
Future it is very clear our squad overal lacks the quality needed to be competitive in this division, with a nice transfer budget this summer, hopefully we can get some better players in, wether Russian or foriegn. several of the older guys are retiring, most notably Robhino and Eduardo.
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Post by Nick on Jul 5, 2020 17:23:24 GMT
Tough season there jawzy, but you just about did enough. The worry, similar to one of my seasons in China, is that the start saved you and if you don't mirror that next season, it's going to be very difficult to survive. Things did get better towards the end, especially defensively, but it's clear the area of the pitch that needs the most attention. Russia is a tough place to manage but does seem to have some decent players so if you can recruit well you might have enough about you.
I always consider Russia as one of those countries that players find it difficult to adapt to (along with China) so if you can find home grown, or even Ukrainian talent, then that's the route I would go down. With so many teams in Moscow would it be possible to get one of them as a parent club?
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Post by jawzy on Jul 5, 2020 19:47:48 GMT
My options when they eventually agreed to look for a parent was Girona or Strasbourg. I would love one of the bigger Moscow sides.
I am thinking I should target eastern european players more. Baranov who is Estonian, plays better than more "exotic" defenders. even though his stats re nothing crazy.
I am hoping to avoid the playoffs with the forthcoming season, also hoping not to do a massive losing streak!
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Post by chaodck on Jul 5, 2020 21:07:45 GMT
Super tough ending to the season jawzy good job keeping afloat and winning in the playoffs mate. You're in a good financial position, any early ideas on where you will upgrade the squad?
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Post by jawzy on Jul 5, 2020 22:53:27 GMT
This summer I was mainly looking for eastern european players, didnt really have any positions to really focus massively on Kharin is a 26 year old ML Estonian/Russian, has a little bit of expirence in the top flight of Russia Shanbiev is a 24 year old DR Russian, again has abit of top flight expirence Filipovich is a 19 yr old DMC from Belarus, hopefully one for the future Klimovich is a 25 year old DMC from Belarus, he will be a rotational player Lawler is a 18 yeard old AML Scottish, one for the future Chicherin is 31 year old DR Russian, older head who has top flight expirence Cherkes is a 20 year old MC Russian, will be on the bench and also potentially an option for the future Cummings is a 26 year old ST Scottish, in older FMs he would score, not sure how prolific he is on this version or if he will adapt to Russia. Panteleev is a 25 year old MC Russian, has 1 seasons expirence of top flight Pliev is a 24 year old DC Russian, played 2 half seasons at Rostov, who have been doing well recently Brown is a 30 yar old AML/ST/AMR Jamaican, has abit of pace and versitality Defoe is a 38 year old English ST, probably too old for the top flight of Russia, hopefully can make an impact from the bench still Clarke from Arsenal is a young defender, and we als have 5 loans of young french players from Strasbourg, all will be options from the bench Hoping these additions can give us a little something different, though I wont be suprised if we still around the relegation playoffs come end of season.
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Post by hokster on Jul 6, 2020 0:32:27 GMT
You're doing Strasbourg a major favor there, I have so many players that I want to send on loan but there's a limit on how many players a French club can loan to other French clubs!
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Post by jawzy on Jul 6, 2020 1:01:31 GMT
As we dive into the winter break, I am very happy with our form and displays through out the season, I dont think we will have a collapse like last season Dinamo and CSKA seem to be struggling.
CSKA did sell Mario Fernandes to PSG for 33m, Once Akinfeev retires and Chalov moves on, I will guess CSKA will drop off even more.
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Post by Nick on Jul 6, 2020 8:17:33 GMT
That's an encouraging start jawzy. You'd imagine both Krasnodar and Dinamo Moscow will surge up the table in the second half of the season, but if you can be best of the rest then that'd be massive. Do you feel like the slight change in recruitment over the summer has helped so far this season?
CSKA Moscow would be a good save now you mention it, mainly for the reasons you say. They always seem to produce decent young players too.
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Post by jawzy on Jul 6, 2020 12:57:01 GMT
Zenit, seem to be overpaying for youngsters within the league, with around 2m for each player (they actually bidded 2.5m on one of my players ( I have let them go)
I do expect both underperforming Moscow sides to creep bck upwards, and possibly myself downwards, I would be disapointed now if we end up back in the playoffs though.
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Post by Nick on Jul 6, 2020 13:03:39 GMT
Is there still a bit of money floating around in Russia? On previous versions, most of the top ten were fairly well off. Zenit are tycoon run aren't they so I imagine they're still throwing the cash around? What about everyone else?
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Post by jawzy on Jul 6, 2020 15:55:09 GMT
Is there still a bit of money floating around in Russia? On previous versions, most of the top ten were fairly well off. Zenit are tycoon run aren't they so I imagine they're still throwing the cash around? What about everyone else?
With the larger sponsorship deals within Russias bigger clubs of 23m to 98m, there is money within the big clubs for sure.
Zents last 3 seasons have seen 71m, 6.5m and noting spent
other of the big clubs are as follows CSKA 2.5m, 2.3m, 3.1m (suprises me abit) Dinamo 18.75m, 10m, 2.8m Krasnodar 27m, 3m, 550k Lokomotiv 28m, 1.9m, 0m Spartak 25m, 13.25m , 0m
So wonder if the following season sees an upards trend of cash being spent
Turnover wise for top 10 looks like this 10th Rostov 16.25m (left them off screenshot)
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Post by jawzy on Jul 6, 2020 16:53:14 GMT
Our third season in charge of Torpedo has came to an end. This season has been less of a rollercoaster and more consistant throughout maintaining a just outside of the relegation playoffs through out. I am noticing a trend in how we seem to perform as the weather seems to change into more harsh and wintery conditions, that some of our foriegn players forms seem to dip abit. This is also one of the reasons I am trying to seek more Russians and other Eastern Europeans to join our ranks. Also I find our form is not that great after the long winter break. RPL We finished 12th, a fair distance away points wise from the relegation playoff positions which is pleasing, Dinamo and Krasnodar had very poor seasons, but based on this season we were not that far behind the bunch ahead of us Results Cup We were lucky to get Dinamo when they were struggling for form, but CSKA in the quarters as a first game after the winter break is always going to be a tough ask Winter Transfers in Payet came in for 5 months before he retired from football, was nice to have another option but obviously his pace has completely gone ( I got to stop bringing in old players who have announced there retirements Miguel is a 23 year old 6 foot 8 goalkeeper, who is Brazilian. initially loaned out Outs Beka wanted first team football, but I couldnt see a way to get him in, so to get 11k was alright considering he came on a free Alfie Payne reached an age where he needed to be registered and we coundnt get him registered, so he got very unhappy, 250k pleased to see. Hugo Marques was not improving so decided to do a quick sale, he remains in Russia Also a youngster from us went to Zenit for 2.5m, but he appears from Torpedow Moscow 2, so isnt displayed on our screen. Squad Better average ratings than last season, and defiantly more goals being scored, but we do still lack someone who is prolific. Pliev has been the standout in defence and also popping up with goals to. Ivanov is a keeper that came through our intake last season, decided to give him a chance towards end of season. Finances We remain healthy overall and have a good budget, but one thing I have noticed, our sponsorship only lasts 1 year but it is always 8m - at the moment this is fine for our club, but wonders if it will change if we get up abit. Also other news Nice to see smaller sides managers get recognised in a league!
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Post by Dirk Nowitzki on Jul 6, 2020 17:39:52 GMT
Nice improvement from last year, in terms of points at least. Some achievement by Rostov as well to win the league. How is Cummings doing for you? I remember him scoring for fun in a Hibernian save I once had.
Any interesting Russian talent coming through already?
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