kidthekid Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 I'm managing in Cyprus and I thought their registration and match day rules were tough...This one takes it to another level. Would be interesting to see how you build the league and the country in this save. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
saihtam Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 8 hours ago, Sheriff7 said: Weird..I'm pretty sure this is Estonian researcher problem because for example in Greek Leagues you can found real life players names and stats even of amateur players who play in very low category. But our researchers make amazing work every year.. Do you know how to connect with SI about scouting, maybe there is time to improve it for next year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 1, 2018 Author Share Posted June 1, 2018 8 hours ago, kidthekid said: I'm managing in Cyprus and I thought their registration and match day rules were tough...This one takes it to another level. Would be interesting to see how you build the league and the country in this save. Yeah, it's a bit much! But it keeps it interesting at least, and forces both me and the AI to play our own youngsters. I'm optimistic with regards to the national team, the first youth intake was already pretty decent. But the league is going to take a long while I think, with the small amount of money available. Maybe a tycoon will show up at some point... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 1, 2018 Author Share Posted June 1, 2018 (edited) May 2018 When the core of your team is out on international break and you have to play the cup final. We did beat Vaprus in the semi final but lost to them again in the league. The game might not recognize it but I'm seeing them as the fiercest rivals you can have. Still in first but those few games brought Tulevik back in things, Levadia and Vaprus further behind, Kalju nowhere to be found for now. Edited June 1, 2018 by MarcxD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timetxu Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Curse of the Vaprus 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 1, 2018 Author Share Posted June 1, 2018 June-July 2018 There were no games scheduled for june so I arranged some friendlies to keep up fitness, perhaps build some more morale if needed. That went well enough, and july meant it was time for some CL qualifiers! Slovan Bratislava seemed like a relatively tough draw to me in the first round but we very easily dealt with them. Next up is Celtic. Another Scottish team to defeat us like rangers last year, I presumed, but the home game was a good 2-2 result. With a lot of luck perhaps an easy 0-1 away win? One can only hope. Poor finish to the month with a loss, but I'm trying to rotate a bit for the CL games. Look at who's in first... We have already dropped more points than last year, so would be nice to get a little bit more consistent. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 1, 2018 Author Share Posted June 1, 2018 August 2018 Wow, what a month. We had a bad start, no chance against Celtic and then we lost to Vaprus again, of course. Sheriff first in the EL, we did very well to beat them and also returned to winning ways in the league. Dinamo Zagreb seemed to be a tough team to beat, but we did it anyway!!! First this was the money from the CL games... But this is going to be so nice. Now 5 games behind the top 3 teams, but 9 points should be easy enough to take from those games. Easy group! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Wow, that's an amazingly quick group stage appearance. Hopefully you can bounce back in the league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steff13 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 at first, couple of small "cheats": at first, if it's not late, you can loan Matias Kait from Fulham, he's always agree for the loan (to Flora, I haven't tried other estonian teams) and he's a true star to Meistriliiga. Also I'd advice you to look at Chelsea's reserves, there're many good players, who are agree to go on loan to Flora, also without any fee and wage. For example, I've loaned Victorien Angban from there. at second, Estonian researcher is Milos Tasic, you can find him to PM in FM18 Bugs/Database and Research Issues/Europe. Also Estonian Football Federation made new good website, where you can find rosters of 3 or 4 Estonian leagues. The only issue: SI recommends to avoid adding players and staff to the lower unplayable leagues, so it may be a problem. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 1, 2018 Author Share Posted June 1, 2018 3 hours ago, steff13 said: at first, couple of small "cheats": at first, if it's not late, you can loan Matias Kait from Fulham, he's always agree for the loan (to Flora, I haven't tried other estonian teams) and he's a true star to Meistriliiga. Also I'd advice you to look at Chelsea's reserves, there're many good players, who are agree to go on loan to Flora, also without any fee and wage. For example, I've loaned Victorien Angban from there. at second, Estonian researcher is Milos Tasic, you can find him to PM in FM18 Bugs/Database and Research Issues/Europe. Also Estonian Football Federation made new good website, where you can find rosters of 3 or 4 Estonian leagues. The only issue: SI recommends to avoid adding players and staff to the lower unplayable leagues, so it may be a problem. I'll check Kait out for next season, cheers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 1, 2018 Author Share Posted June 1, 2018 Youth Intake 2018 Looks pretty good again, although the PPA seems a little bit less so than last year's intake. Perhaps the best player this year, not really awe inspiring for a striker though, 3 jumping reach and 175 cm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManUtd1 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 I'm a little late to the party... This should continue to be a great adventure in a country rarely seen in these parts! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 1, 2018 Author Share Posted June 1, 2018 4 minutes ago, ManUtd1 said: I'm a little late to the party... This should continue to be a great adventure in a country rarely seen in these parts! Oh, just getting started! Thank you man! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 1, 2018 Author Share Posted June 1, 2018 September 2018 I decided to start the month off right and using our newfound riches. Have decided to only do one facility upgrade for now though, want to build up a little bit of a buffer if we don't do so well in Europe the next couple of seasons. We had a rough start to the month with a home loss in the league and later on in the month we dropped points again, that really needs to stop. Did win two cup rounds. Lost the EL opener against Las Palmas but honestly we didn't do very poorly or were outclassed terribly, which is good enough for now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 1, 2018 Author Share Posted June 1, 2018 October 2018 Really could have donw tihout dropping points against Kalju, especially after I was in a good mood after beating Vaprus. Damn. Lost both EL games pretty much hopelessly. We are now dependent on Vaprus to drop some points in their last two games, awful position to be in. And then we still have to win all three of our games, which is a hard task with how inconsistent we've been throughout the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 1, 2018 Author Share Posted June 1, 2018 (edited) November-December 2018 3 last league games, 7 points. Would it be enough...? And 3 more losses in the Europa League group, which just turned into a disappointing mess after the great results in the qualifiers. Vaprus screwed up, so we got the title again! Wow, a much more tense fight for the title, thanks to our own mistakes. Will need to rethink and revamp the squad a bit for next season. Whether to go for my own youth or imports... The u-21 and u-19 teams just missed out on their respective titles. I also got my first milestone here, a little bit over 100 games in two years, not too bad. Edited June 1, 2018 by MarcxD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Cracking stuff! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheriff7 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 14 hours ago, saihtam said: Do you know how to connect with SI about scouting, maybe there is time to improve it for next year. There should be a topic about Estonian League in bugs forum. Probably there... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidthekid Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Wow, what a choke by Vaprus, but great late season surge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodesire Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 (edited) That was a carbon copy of my last season finale Nice double! Edited June 1, 2018 by rodesire Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oriole01 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Very interesting new save you have here Marc, and it's not disappointed so far, especially with that rivalry against Vaprus. It'll be interesting to see how far you can go in a nation like this, hopefully it'll be to the very top! Will be following. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 2, 2018 Author Share Posted June 2, 2018 11 hours ago, BoxToBox said: Cracking stuff! 9 hours ago, kidthekid said: Wow, what a choke by Vaprus, but great late season surge. 8 hours ago, rodesire said: That was a carbon copy of my last season finale Nice double! 8 hours ago, oriole01 said: Very interesting new save you have here Marc, and it's not disappointed so far, especially with that rivalry against Vaprus. It'll be interesting to see how far you can go in a nation like this, hopefully it'll be to the very top! Will be following. Thank you guys, it was very pleasing to see Vaprus fail! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 2, 2018 Author Share Posted June 2, 2018 Season Review 2018 A fantastic season in one way since we got to the Europa League groups, which should be a great stepping stone thanks to the money we got. Not quite as good in the league as last year, perhaps the other teams improved but we should be more consistent. It was disappointing to lose out on the cup because most of my first team was on international break. Albanian striker Januzi, the only non-EU player, did very well in his first season. He was clearly the standout performer this season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheriff7 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Idelfons still one of your best players! And how old is he 38-39!? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 2, 2018 Author Share Posted June 2, 2018 6 hours ago, Sheriff7 said: Idelfons still one of your best players! And how old is he 38-39!? 39 now, one more year on his deal. Although I wouldn't say he's one of my best players now, he's deteriorated quite a bit over the past season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 Pre-Season 2019 The pressure will be on us again to win the title, and hopefully we can do another good stint in Europe. I signed quite a few players, but I belatedly realized that too many weren't homegrown so I couldn't actually register them all... Assistant arranged friendlies against ridiculous teams again, and was lazy and just called the Moscow clubs, only Lokomotiv seems to be missing. At least we won another supercup, the first real one as Tulevik won the cup. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 March 2019 Bad start with a home loss, but we got going after that. It is nice having a striker that you can count on! Four teams started with 9 points and all teams have at least won a game, interesting start to the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 April 2019 Fantastic month. Love to beat Vaprus twice in one week, and some very big wins to end the month, against teams we've had trouble with in the past. Getting a nice lead in now. Long way to go though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 May 2019 Not quite as good a month with two unnecessary losses, not helped by missing some players to an international break again (though it's not as bad as last year). Quite the month for AML Siim Luts though. Still a nice lead on Talinna Kalev and FCI Levadia, Kalju and Vaprus seem to be catching up a little bit on them. I thought I had gotten all the money from last year's European run, I guess not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 June 2019 A perfect month, we won the cup for the first time! Not sure about scheduling two away games against the same side in one week though. 10 points lead now, looking very good for a third consecutive title already, halfway the season. Decided to use the EL TV money and get some training facilities upgrades done, the work on the youth facilities has been completed as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 (edited) July 2019 We drew Slovan Bratislava again and beat them twice, again. Maccabi Tel-Aviv was too strong for us in the second qualification round though. Partizan up next in the Europa League qualifiers, harsh. Our lead dropped down to 5 points... I was forced to sell Ebwelle, a great talent I signed in january. He forced a minimum release fee on me and some of Europe's biggest clubs came in for him after just 6 months. I signed three players - I had loaned Gómez and made his stay permanent, while I also signed two Russian youngsters, they'll stay in the u-21s and can become homegrown at some point hopefully. Edited June 3, 2018 by MarcxD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 (edited) August 2019 Crazy stuff, both against Partizan and BATE we drew 1-1 at home 3-3 away so we made the EL group again!! Wouldn't surprise me if we lost 6 times again in the group. It's just the money that matters though! Lead increased again. Edited June 3, 2018 by MarcxD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 Youth Intake 2019 Happy with this, multiple players who look interesting. A bunch of 1s but purely defensively not bad at all. Two midfielders with possibilities. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodesire Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Great youth intake, they should end up as decent once given enough training Good job in all competitions, seriously impressive stuff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 6 minutes ago, rodesire said: Great youth intake, they should end up as decent once given enough training Good job in all competitions, seriously impressive stuff Yeah, I agree! Thanks man! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 September 2018 Won all domestic games, but lost the first EL group game. Not terribly though, so really a real good month. Hell Hunt is not a bad club name by the way. Huge lead, another title in the bag unless we lose all games left pretty much Getting more facilities upgraded as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Great haul on the intake. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 17 minutes ago, BoxToBox said: Great haul on the intake. Cheers, excited to see them grow. Some of the players from the first intakes are now slowly getting into the team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 October 2019 First ever point in the EL group phase! And some more decent wins in the league, twice against the same opposition in 4 days, not the greatest scheduling. Whereas last season we needed help on the last matchday this year it's quite convincing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
noikeee Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Looks like the Baltics are quite popular in this forum at the moment - which is quite refreshing actually, very interesting career. Strong progress so far. Already dominating domestically and starting to make some really notable steps forward in Europe. Moving from here onwards is the hardest part, but given the speed you already made it to back-to-back group stage appearances, I'd bet on you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 November-December 2019 Slightly disappointing to not win the last two games of the league season, but somehow we won twice in the Europa League after that, including a huge win over AS Roma.... We were already eliminated, but that is an awesome performance. 85 points, best season so far. The u21s won their league with a significant gap. Two of the other u-21 teams got relegated, kinda surprising. The u-19s won their league even more convincingly. All three teams champions... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 4 minutes ago, noikeee said: Looks like the Baltics are quite popular in this forum at the moment - which is quite refreshing actually, very interesting career. Strong progress so far. Already dominating domestically and starting to make some really notable steps forward in Europe. Moving from here onwards is the hardest part, but given the speed you already made it to back-to-back group stage appearances, I'd bet on you. Thanks man, it's definitely going well so far but a lot more to come hopefully. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 Season Review 2019 A very strong season, first double, alongside with the supercup and an even beter run in Europe. Facilities getting upgraded and money coming in. Youth players developing... things are looking good for the future. And look at that increase in average attendance. A huge 6% now! Another very strong year for Januzi, but next season he'll get a rival. Mihkel Koger is the first youth player to arrive in the best eleven! Mostly thanks to not having any decent DR's... but still. Lima stayed one year too long, a bit of a waste. He's retiring, as is Gert Kams even though he has one more year left on his deal. He has severely degraded last season, so I'm okay with that. Some players will be leaving, but most will stay for another season. Karofeld was the main GK for this season but for next year I'll likely try to give Janno Hurt the most matches. A new record average rating for Januzi, not a bad one either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodesire Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 What a season, winning everything domestically with every single team Keep it up, the the attendances will rise and here's to more group stage fun next year! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 Pre-Season 2020 Huge lead with regards to odds, of course it would be an embarrassment if we wouldn't win the title. I paid money for a player for the first time, a very talented striker from Colombia. He starts at the level of Januzi and should then eclipse him very quickly. Forced a 900k limited fee, so I would not be too surprised if he leaves in the summer. Kütt (for any of the Dutch speaking people, yes I can't help but laugh at that name) is a very talented Estonian homegrown midfielder, who somehow was without a club. A relatively strong pre-season; wins over FCSB (in my head I still just call them Steaua) and Lokomotiv Moscow. Terrible defeat against Lechia though. We ended with another supercup win. On we go for another season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 6 hours ago, rodesire said: What a season, winning everything domestically with every single team Keep it up, the the attendances will rise and here's to more group stage fun next year! Thank you, it definitely was a good season, I would not be too surprised if that triple champion season would be here to stay though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 March 2020 Disappointing to get a loss right away, especially at home. They won all their matches. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 F* OFF Have you looked at the squad rules? Marko Lelov you suck. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManUtd1 Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 1 minute ago, MarcxD said: F* OFF Have you looked at the squad rules? Marko Lelov you suck. **** off, indeed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 1 hour ago, ManUtd1 said: **** off, indeed. Honestly, just going to be the bigger man here and forget about that nobody. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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