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Post by jawzy on Mar 14, 2022 18:16:48 GMT
Dont think ive got the energy for a expansion mx side.
So ill opt with either Monterey (big mex side, but hasnt won alot?) Or athletico san luis (low expectations)
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Post by jawzy on Mar 15, 2022 22:14:44 GMT
Monterrey have a very tiny side, where outside of first 11, there isnt enough quality in second side or youth to provide a fulll optional bench, se we need to seek the best affordable born mexicans
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Post by jawzy on Mar 16, 2022 0:51:01 GMT
Our form in the early stages of opening couldnt be maintained and we tailed off, we also lost in the playoff/knockout stages.
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Post by jawzy on Mar 16, 2022 21:29:59 GMT
close at top in closing stage of the league.
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Post by jawzy on Mar 17, 2022 13:51:20 GMT
Santos beat us in the two legged final of closing stage playoff.
Santos won both opening and closing stages.
My best youth player from intake was a 15 year old dr, who could defo be bench/sub next season imo.
A peruvian i signed for 500k decided he wanted to leave, sold back to peru just shy of 1m after installments
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Post by jawzy on Mar 17, 2022 18:46:46 GMT
Squad is no where near as good as i feel it could be.
10 options for non mexicans, and at the moment due to lack of money i cant get the young argentines or brazilians here.
And my mexican options seem average at best in the market.
I did have the chance to get carlos vela but 80k per week is not anywhere near what we can offer
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Post by chaodck on Mar 30, 2022 13:59:43 GMT
I know this isnt' really a big pool of activity right now. Unfortunately. I've been struggling to play the game, really. I try a couple of times per week, with my Norway save (which on paper is going fantastically), but after 2 games I don't feel like playing anymore (my tactics kinda stopped working, which is a first for me, really). But, real-life football has pushed me towards the game again.
Seeing as La U still is a big pile of stinking shit (with some young players as shining beacons of hope) and that Chile is in dire need of a renewal after not making the World Cup again. I'll give it a go with my classic La U and Chile C&C. Hopefully it'll stick. I'll update a few things here, but I don't envision myself doing big reports.
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Post by jawzy on Mar 30, 2022 19:44:36 GMT
I wouldnt expect the big reports with low motivation toplay.
I keep trying to get something going but the grind of life with grind of game.
I managed to complete a season in Mexico, but didnt really enjoy the off season and had little to no motivation for season 2
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Post by jawzy on Mar 30, 2022 22:07:06 GMT
well, atleast in fm22 I managed to get Italy to win 2022 world cup
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Post by dalenichol on Apr 3, 2022 17:06:02 GMT
As far as first seasons post promotion, that's not too bad. We had a really good season last year winning the 2nd tier, and it was always going to be a tricky one this year, we lost our 25 goal striker Nick Venema as he went back to his parent club Utrecht, and with less than £1m transfer budget and little more in the bank, we had to rely on some scouting to bring in the likes of Diyaeddine Abzi from York United in Canada, Santiago Sosa arrived on a free after his deal with LAFC expired and we tried to replace Venema with Sinan Bakis from league rivals Heracles and he did manage 10 goals, so that's something. Will need to look at our tactics for next season, because we started to strugggle and our goal difference of -5 is clearly poor, but £5m for our league finish and the incoming sponsorship money will mean we'll have around 3-4m to spend in the summer, I hope. Also, after years of complaining about the scouting centre and the changes to scouting assignments over the last few versions, I actually stopped being stubborn for long enough to actually learn how to use/get the most out of them...so yeah, that's a thing that will hopefully come up good
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Post by chaodck on Apr 4, 2022 1:06:11 GMT
As far as first seasons post promotion, that's not too bad. We had a really good season last year winning the 2nd tier, and it was always going to be a tricky one this year, we lost our 25 goal striker Nick Venema as he went back to his parent club Utrecht, and with less than £1m transfer budget and little more in the bank, we had to rely on some scouting to bring in the likes of Diyaeddine Abzi from York United in Canada, Santiago Sosa arrived on a free after his deal with LAFC expired and we tried to replace Venema with Sinan Bakis from league rivals Heracles and he did manage 10 goals, so that's something. Will need to look at our tactics for next season, because we started to strugggle and our goal difference of -5 is clearly poor, but £5m for our league finish and the incoming sponsorship money will mean we'll have around 3-4m to spend in the summer, I hope. Also, after years of complaining about the scouting centre and the changes to scouting assignments over the last few versions, I actually stopped being stubborn for long enough to actually learn how to use/get the most out of them...so yeah, that's a thing that will hopefully come up good Great season there mate. Shame to see NEC relegated though. My NEC save was fantastic a couple of years ago and hopefully you can do the same with VVV Venlo. Regarding my save, I had a few setbacks editing, and have had to start over, so I'm barely in the first pre-season. I'll post something about it soon.
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Post by dalenichol on Apr 4, 2022 7:22:04 GMT
As far as first seasons post promotion, that's not too bad. We had a really good season last year winning the 2nd tier, and it was always going to be a tricky one this year, we lost our 25 goal striker Nick Venema as he went back to his parent club Utrecht, and with less than £1m transfer budget and little more in the bank, we had to rely on some scouting to bring in the likes of Diyaeddine Abzi from York United in Canada, Santiago Sosa arrived on a free after his deal with LAFC expired and we tried to replace Venema with Sinan Bakis from league rivals Heracles and he did manage 10 goals, so that's something. Will need to look at our tactics for next season, because we started to strugggle and our goal difference of -5 is clearly poor, but £5m for our league finish and the incoming sponsorship money will mean we'll have around 3-4m to spend in the summer, I hope. Also, after years of complaining about the scouting centre and the changes to scouting assignments over the last few versions, I actually stopped being stubborn for long enough to actually learn how to use/get the most out of them...so yeah, that's a thing that will hopefully come up good Great season there mate. Shame to see NEC relegated though. My NEC save was fantastic a couple of years ago and hopefully you can do the same with VVV Venlo. Regarding my save, I had a few setbacks editing, and have had to start over, so I'm barely in the first pre-season. I'll post something about it soon. Thank you sir. Your NEC and Marsh's Volendam saves are what prompted me to revisit Holland. I'd ideally wanted to start lower than 2nd tier, but couldn't find any working, decent dutch expansion files.
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Post by jawzy on Apr 4, 2022 16:34:45 GMT
the relegation place to the third tier was irl open for a few seasons iirc, seems to of closed again? or am i talking bollocks?
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Post by dalenichol on Apr 4, 2022 17:00:25 GMT
the relegation place to the third tier was irl open for a few seasons iirc, seems to of closed again? or am i talking bollocks? I actually didn't know there was no hard relegation from the 2nd tier. That probably shows why it isn't a popular file, ah well. It looks like only reserve teams can be relegated, and it's in very specific circumstances too, that's a shame! Having a quick look around wiki and it seems that now there is an optional relegation for teams who are financially struggling and want to be amateur again, but only if a club in the third tier decide that they want to turn pro. So it's similar to how Scottish football used to work in that regard, you could only get promoted from the junior leagues if a club in the third division went bust
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Post by jawzy on Apr 4, 2022 19:00:59 GMT
And thats probably why I feel there has sometimes been a relegation Who was the last team to drop out/go bust and who are the teams that have came via this process?
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Post by dalenichol on Apr 4, 2022 19:16:12 GMT
And thats probably why I feel there has sometimes been a relegation Who was the last team to drop out/go bust and who are the teams that have came via this process? As far as Holland is concerned, I can't answer that question accurately unfortunately because the wiki is all over the place and the 3rd tier Tweede Divisie is only 6 or so years old. Seems like there's a lot of yo-yoing and financial issues in the lower tiers, which is why they added a few of the 'Jong' teams from PSV and Ajax etc. It does appear that direct promotion/relegation could be coming, as it's possibly happening in my current season 23/24 so I'll update that when/if it happens. In Scotland, I think Gretna were the last team to go bust and be replaced in 2008, and it was Annan Athletic that took their place. Coincidentally, Gretna only joined the league in 2002 taking the place of Airdrieonians but were financed by a tycoon (well, relatively speaking as far as Scottish football is concerend). Elgin and Peterhead joined in 2000 when the SPL expanded to 12 teams, so they needed two new teams in the league system.
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Post by jawzy on Apr 4, 2022 21:57:31 GMT
Ross County also joined at some point iirc? and inverness is a merger of two highland/non league clubs? and founded in the 90s as a result too? and these two joined in the early 90s when scottish football did some restructuring. Livi is a club thats also been on a crazy journey if we go back to its Meadowbank Thistle and also Ferranti Thistle.
edit: in early 2000s I was semi sad not to see Spartans get the chance to join.
I still would prefer the spl/sfl to do leagues consisting of atleast 16 teams.
I do find myself as scottish season gets on losing interest by winter with these 10 team leagues, then towards the end of season if any of the lower leagues have any tight run ins i get semi interested.
Such as this season, ive came back into the championship gunning for Arbroath to pip the favoutes of Killie to the title., though it seems that fairytale story is slipping away! And how far will Cove go until the momentum stops, though are they not financially backed abit better than the lower sides? and mentioning Cove you look at Kelty and look at how easy they finding life, you kinda get an idea just how poor these L1 and L2 clubs actually are. Tho Edinburgh since coming up have seemingly not kicked on.
Though the 3 teams that have gone out of the SFL, seemingly in a world of struggle Brechin seem miles behind Buckie Thistle who if i recall are very strong up in th highland league for years! Berwick and East Stirlingshire seem to be stuck in lowland league mid table.
though just looked at lowland league for first time? Rangers and Celtic B sides in there? And Bonnyigg flying, theyre not a name i usually come across outside SFL over the years!
whose better out of Buckie/Fraserburgh and Bonnyrigg? and Cowdenbeath could they be another victim of the pro/rel playoff - my gut would say yes! (im also very suprised Albion not finished 10th in L2 since pro/rel playoffs.
Also on subject of pro/rel opening up, it seems by wiki theres now a pro/rel in Highland league? will Fort William in future seasons if they dro, stop being a meme
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Post by dalenichol on Apr 4, 2022 23:13:22 GMT
FC Dordrecht were relegated from the 2nd tier, so we'll see how joins us from the third tier.
Yeah, so both Cove Rangers and Kelty Hearts have some fairly strong financial backing. Kelty have been signing players with Premiership and Championship experience, which is pretty mad for their size, whether it's sustainable or not is yet to be seen, really. Apparently the Kelty chairman was offering some players full time jobs with his construction firm when joining the club, so they didn't have the added worry of leaving full time professional football for part time, there had to be a good financial reason for players like Jamie Barjonas (Rangers) and Nathan Austin (Inverness) to go to a club playing lowland league and then league 2 level football.
Yeah, Rangers and Celtic B teams were in the lowland league for the first time this season and have been voted in again for next season. I know a lot of fans of other clubs are against it, but the teams in those leagues benefit from the old firm presence so they were always gonna vote for it.
Yeah, so the winner of the Highland league faces the winner of the Lowland league, for a chance to face the bottom side of League 2. This is a relatively new thing and is how Kelty and Cove came up into the league system.
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Post by dalenichol on Apr 6, 2022 0:14:54 GMT
So we finished our 2nd season in the Eredivisie and finished 8th, that's 1 place better than last season, 1 point better than last season and 6 goals better off on the goal difference (we scored 2 goals more and conceded 4 less than last season) We actually had a really positive start to the season, flirting with automatic european qualification for a good chunk of it, but it fell apart after the new year, as FM tends to do. After January we lost 6 of our 11 total losses, and 7 of our total 10 draws, so that's frustrating, but not completely unexpected. We did qualify for the European spot playoffs, but lost to Zwolle. I've switched to a two striker formation this season and we've so far won our opening two games, scoring 4 goals and conceding 1, so that's a solid enough start. We've been active in the transfer market both with players coming in and going out. We've sold our keeper Jens Craenmehr to Everton for £4.7m. He had a release clause of 3.9m but for some reason Everton threw even more money at us, so I was happy enough, but he was voted the leagues keeper of the year last season and will be sorely missed. We also sold Levi Smans to Mainz for his £6.5m release clause. He was one of the best players at the club and I was sad to see him go, but we now have £16m in the bank and we've been able to bring in some really solid prospects, so swings and roundabouts As far as incoming transfers are concerned, our scouts have been active and I'm pretty happy about it: Hugo Videira joined from Arouca for 825k Sylvain Garreau comes in from Belgian 2nd tier side Seraing Frederic Maillard from Le Havre for 195k Federico Carrasco was £2m from Deportivo Madryn who are apparently a lower league Argentinian side. My scouts found him during the French Youth Invitational tournament that happens yearly (I think?) Alex Paulsen was brought in for 825k from Wellington Felix to replace the outgoing Craenmehr Tyler Brady was 275k from Cambridge United, spotted whilst playing for Scotland the Euro u19 tournament I'm also trying to sign Brandon Hunter from Hamilton. I've had to concede to giving them 40% future profit and pay him 4k p/w, but he's also got offers from PSV, Fiorentina and Udinese so I'm not sure we'll pull this one off. EDIT: We've also increased the stadium capacity twice, from 8k to now 12k. I need to invest in the facilities now we have some money, but the board have allowed me to hire 11 scouts now, so that's a nice compromise now that I know how to actually take advantage of my scouts!
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Post by dalenichol on Apr 7, 2022 8:11:27 GMT
Another 8th place finish, because why the hell not? 5 more points than last season, 2 more wins and 11 more goals. Similar to last season our poorest run of form was after the new year, as it usually is, losing 5 of our 10 total losses, and 7 of our 9 draws. We had been as high as 4th and spent most of the season in 6th but that middle of the pack 5th-9th places were all really close for much of the season, not really separating until the last few weeks. We also reached the final of the Dutch Cup, the KNVB Beker, before getting hammered 6-1 by Feyenoord in the final during our worst run of form. Apparently that doesn't get us entry into Europe as far as I can tell, which is unfortunate. We also lost to Willem II on away goals in the European playoffs No notable signings other than what I outlined in my last update, as I'd already started this season when I posted that, but a notable mention for Seydou Traore who we signed last season for 85k from RC Abidjan. I never expected much from him, as he seemed like one of those African DB players who get a bunch of 12/13's but never really improves and he's proved me wrong. 8 goals last season, 12 goals and 6 assists. Might not seem like much, but that's by far our best return from a striker in our 3 seasons in the Eredivisie, and that was including him going on a 6 game scoreless streak after the new year amongst other small blips. I probably shouldn't be as frustrated with this save as I am, we're achieving all of this whilst still maintaining the 3rd lowest wage expenditure in the league. We have £18m in the bank and we might have to spend some of that in the summer to strengthen. We have a super young squad that are consistently improving (26 man first team squad, 1 over 30, 6 25 or over total), but I do wonder if we should spend a bit on more established players than having to put pressure on the youngsters I'm bringing it. We'll see, I guess.
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Post by dalenichol on Apr 7, 2022 8:48:23 GMT
Me: Maybe I'll sign some older, more established talent... Also Me: A combined 2.6m on 3 players all found at the U20 World Cup - Including a 6'6 monster CB in Ru Rei, playing in the Brazilian 4th tier. Still some money left to spend, but there's also the upcoming EURO-U21 and EURO-U19...so yeah
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Post by jawzy on Apr 7, 2022 9:04:20 GMT
That no rules and higher rep than poland making these youth players ever more tempting.
Im lucky if i can sign a non ivory coast player, tried chancing a few in asia and oceanina but no one bit.
Ivory coast top flight rep seemingly alot lower than i thought.
Might have a go with a team outside of the big 3 in Egypt (what nations fall in north africa?)
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Post by dalenichol on Apr 7, 2022 9:47:17 GMT
Yeah, the Ivorian league really isn't going to have much rep even in Africa I wouldn't imagine, and FM doesn't handle that sort of stuff well at all. I think you'd have to win continental comps before you're be able to do much in terms of foreign players.
Holland is pretty much the ideal for this sort of stuff in Europe. Some decent money to be had, great domestic youth players and no player restrictions.
North Africa should include Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco and Algeria I'd imagine
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Post by Marshdweller on Apr 7, 2022 11:57:01 GMT
I'm curious to see your two-striker tactic Dale. I'm still quietly plugging away at my Volendam save on FM20 but finding the lone striker system a little frustrating even if it is proving pretty successful, so I'm considering a new save (probably still on FM20) and going all in on a two-striker tactic, so I'm looking for inspiration!
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Post by chaodck on Apr 7, 2022 16:09:43 GMT
Great work Dale! Those kids surely look like great players. Netherlands is a fantastic place to have a youth oriented save, either buying young players only or doing it YDWAWK style. Keep at it! I'm reaching midseason point, I'll throw something up soon.
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Post by chaodck on Apr 7, 2022 19:47:21 GMT
Well, first half of the season done and dusted. We've struggled a bit at times, but overall playing with a bigger side like La U, without the pressure of international competitions is barely hard. We're standing at 1st place, 7 points over Colo Colo and Universidad Católica, but they've got a couple of less games. Still, we'd be ahead if they won both games. In the Cup we won our First Round game as well. I haven't done much with the club side, really just advancing, renewing contracts, selling deadwood and trimming the squad. We've got a few bright young players who'll get sold somewhat soon, hopefully not until the end of next season though. Regarding the NT side of things, we got eliminated from Qatar in the qualifiers (I made the AM manage those games) and fortunately despite the disappointment my job isn't yet at risk. I've set up a couple of friendlies, in October and in March, after that, in June comes the Copa América and then the start of the 2026 Qualifiers. That's when things will turn more interesting on that front.
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Post by dalenichol on Apr 7, 2022 21:52:13 GMT
I'm curious to see your two-striker tactic Dale. I'm still quietly plugging away at my Volendam save on FM20 but finding the lone striker system a little frustrating even if it is proving pretty successful, so I'm considering a new save (probably still on FM20) and going all in on a two-striker tactic, so I'm looking for inspiration! I've since switched back to a lone striker formation. It was basically a 4222 - 2CM's, AML/R and two up top. Basically that, but with the AM moved to striker, and a few changes to roles and instructions. I'm in no way settled or consistent with my shape or tactics, because the game is incredibly frustrating and you'll go from having a fantastic game to not being able to play football for literally no discernable reason and the game is awful at letting you understand what's going wrong/not working, but I digress. We've started this season with a 2-0 home win against Feyenoord, the first time we've beaten them in 9 meetings between us. EDIT: And we followed up the Feyenoord result by getting hammered 4-0 by AZ, because of course we did.
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Post by Dirk Nowitzki on Apr 10, 2022 12:58:49 GMT
This took me a month to get through. Just can't find enough time anymore to play the game and get really into a save. We were in no man's land for most of the season, not really threatening PSG but also miles ahead of everyone else. I love the Conference League for its variance in the teams you play and we did well, but AS Roma got the better of us in the semi final.
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Post by dalenichol on Apr 10, 2022 17:04:51 GMT
I'm probably gonna start something new later on this evening. This VVV game is going from being frustrating but fun to being too annoying to want to put any more time in to it. Going from 2nd to 6th with 2 wins in 12 games after the league split, starting a new season with wins over Feyenoord and Utrecht, to being played off the park by bottom of the table Cambuur and Fortuna sides, with no discernable reason whatsoever. Some games we have no shots on target, some games we have 60-70% possession and lose 4-0. Some games we're the best team on the planet, but there's absolutely nothing anywhere to explain why any of these things are happening and the fun has just completely sapped itself from the game.
The young newgens I have are the only thing close to keeping me involved, and the lack of idea of a new save, but yeah. It's a shame that this seems to be the way that the game is going and why I constantly find myself back at CM0102
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Post by Mikey on Apr 10, 2022 21:52:40 GMT
Having spent the last year playing Football Manager 2011 (yes, seriously) I gave up as I really wanted to manage San Marino but all the downloadable San Marino league links are broken, not a surprise as the game is 10 + years old. As I suck with the editor and couldn't work out how to use the advanced version, I've decided to buy FM22 having tried it while it's currently free and will be managing San Marino on there. Good thing is there's now a Nations League to go alongside the World Cup and Euro Qualifiers.
Hope all is well!
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