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A Son Giveth...and Taken Away...


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Mainly just a vent posting...

Finally got a son in a game, first one since I started playing in 2009. I'm managing Clyde in the Scottish lower divisions and was very surprised to even get one. I'm not a legend, icon, or favoured personnel. I've only been with the club a little over a year, got promoted in the playoffs and am sitting in 2nd in League One. But a son I got and I was happy.

Unfortunately, I can't sign him to a youth contract because he doesn't have nationality... He can't get a work permit. First son ever in FM and I can't do anything about it.

Arg!!

 

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So frustrating! I didn't even care that he was worthless on two feet! :)

 

And so my son goes off into the unknown, unsigned by me. Wonder how I got a work permit of this manager's job...

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My nationality is Canadian, so I guess I'd have to add him to a Canadian MLS club. Not really too concerned with it, but it would have been nice to add him to Clyde given that he was with the youth levels and shows 1,195 days already done towards GB nationality.

 

UPDATE: Okay, something I wasn't expecting... He left the club after his youth trial expired. I tried to sign him again to a non-contract. His permit was rejected, but I can still sign him anyways. The transfer won't go through for a year though. He's 17 years old now. Figure I may as well. At least he can train and maybe I can get lucky and loan him to a club in a different country.

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Odd, I thought that usually your son's second nationality would match that of the team your were managing.  So in this case he should have had Canadian primary with Scottish secondary nationality.  At least that is how my son worked.  Then again I'd been managing Newcastle for nearly ten years when mine showed up.

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4 hours ago, KevMS84 said:

Odd, I thought that usually your son's second nationality would match that of the team your were managing.  So in this case he should have had Canadian primary with Scottish secondary nationality.  At least that is how my son worked.  Then again I'd been managing Newcastle for nearly ten years when mine showed up.

Probably due to your length of time with Newcastle. My son has listed his GB nationality as about 2/3 complete. He still needs about 600 days give or take. He'll join my club in a year, which will knock off half of this. For the next year he can train and hopefully be loaned.

For myself, I also list American as a 2nd nationality because Canadian and American sports are so intertwined. Having only Canadian nationality in the game comes with zero America scouting knowledge when creating a manager, which is simply unrealistic. It's the only way I can think of to balance this.

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