Turk-many-men, Turk-many-many-men

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Asian Champions League Draw

We enter the preliminary rounds but face an uphill take to even get through one round as we face Jordanian side Al-Wehdat. 

If, IF we get through that we then face Nasaf from Uzbekistan and in the play-off the winner faces Al-Rayyan from Qatar. 

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Asian Champions League 2023

To beat Wehdat was a real surprise but then to beat Nasaf too was wild. Qualifying for the ACL essentially starts before pre-season does so we were not match fit at all, I was a bit caught out to be honest and we also had our first choice GK and both first and second choice RB's away on international duty for Turkmenistan. And for both wins to come away from home was a big plus too. That win over Nasaf meant we went into the play-offs to play Al-Rayyan. 

That didn't go too well but I can't fault the team, we weren't expected to be in this position let alone the one before that. 

Interestingly all the preliminaries are one-legged affairs and annoyingly stats wise the first two games classed as last season whereas the Al-Rayyan game is in the new season. 

[rodesire]

Great effort nevertheless!

That Mexico world.cup win is wild, thrashing Germany 5-0 along the way. Also, wtf Austria?!

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13 minutes ago, rodesire said:

Great effort nevertheless!

That Mexico world.cup win is wild, thrashing Germany 5-0 along the way. Also, wtf Austria?!

Thanks, we've dropped into the group stages of the Confederation Cup and been drawn along with Altyn Asyr. I guess its more regional at this level. 

It was, I've seen it fairly commonly especially in last years FM that a mid-tiered team wins a World Cup. Alaba scored 4 goals in 5 shots which must have been penalties so that explains a lot. 

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Training Facilities Upgrade 2023

For one I was not expecting it to cost this much but two, at least it won't be started until the end of the season so we have time to make some more money to pay for it. 

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2023 Youth Intake Preview

This is definitely better than last seasons intake preview however, its much of the same. Wing-backs  one highly rated and a good defensive midfielder. It is of belief that the group of players has the potential to be a golden generation. 

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2023 Youth Intake

• Four more left wing backs  
• A CB and a AMR with potential that wasn't on the preview 
• The DM has good potential as the preview suggested 
• No 5* potential players despite it being an apparent "golden generation" 
• Personalities are improved 7 negative versus 9 positive 

[deltablue]

Yay for Mexico!

[noikeee]

Turkmenistan! We're FM neighbours! Central Asia seems bizarrely well represented at the moment in here. 

That center back you hired is absolutely nuts. Premier league level potential talent. 

[ToMexico!!]

On 05/12/2019 at 18:27, deltablue said:

Yay for Mexico!

On 05/12/2019 at 18:58, noikeee said:

Turkmenistan! We're FM neighbours! Central Asia seems bizarrely well represented at the moment in here. 

That center back you hired is absolutely nuts. Premier league level potential talent. 

Its great, such an untouched part of the FM world. 

He's great, a few attributes have dropped but i'm in the process of upgrading facilities and coaches to help maintain/improve him. 

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2023 Season Review 

Could we back up last season first league title with another one? Back to back cup wins? 

Transfers

Four players in this season for fee's. You've seen the beast Bayramow! Annayew is a player that could play a couple of positions but was primarily used in CM. Garayew came in as a back up GK and Marth is a young Singaporean winger signed from Australian side Green Gully. 

League

We were imperious, just one league loss to Ahal which was a 5-4 humdinger. Altyn really struggled this season and Ahal's form was never really solid. 

Turkmenistan Cup

An easier route to the final this season with some convincing wins along the way. I rotated heavily in the semi-finals and went full strength in the final which was two weeks after the 2nd semi final game. 

Confederation Cup

After being knocked out of the Champions League we dropped into Confederation Cup. We started the group well with 2 wins and draw before tailing off to gain just one more point in the last 3 games. 

Squad

Metdayew top scored this season with 27 whilst Hasanow scored 24 himself. New signing Annayew scored 12 from midfield. Ali Kassar made 12 assists and had the highest average rating but is a player that is set to leave as he won't sign a new contract. 17 year old Bayramow made 37 (1) appearance and scored 6 goals, a fantastic opening season where he made his international debut for Turkmenistan.

Behind the Scenes

We improved the youth facilities and also asked the board to improve the training facilities which they agreed to. I will look to again improve the Youth Recruitment and Junior Coaching in the next season. 

Career Summary

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2024 Champions League Draw(s)

Bahrain's Al-Muhrraq in the first prelim, if we beat them then its Iraq's Amanat Baghdad in the 2nd prelim round. If we beat them its Saudi giants Ah-Ahli  

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Asian Round Up

Champions League Winners

A Chinese and Saudi domination as expected. 

Confederation Cup Winners

North Korean, Kuwaiti, Syrian and Malaysia winners. I didn't realise in 2020 fellow Turkmenistani side Ahal were runners up.  

Top Transfers

 

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Start as you mean to go on!

 

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Youth Intake Preview 2024

A potential Golden Generation... and we like bringing DM's through! No wing-backs though

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Youth Intake 2024

This is not a golden generation. Not horrendous by any standard but i'd be shocked if anyone makes it at this club. 

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2024 Season Review

Back to back domestic doubles secured, could we make it a trio? 

League

Absolutely dominant from day one when we won 9-0 away from home to the 27th game of the season, we lost our undefeated season on the last day to Altyn Asyr. 105 goals is incredible, we also beat bottom club Asudalyk 8-1, 8-0 and 7-0. 34 goals conceded is a little concerning but as we've gone even more attacking its resulted in scorelines like 6-4, 6-3 twice and 5-3. We hit four or more goals on 15 occasions this season. 

Turkmentistan Cup

Poor performance really, I'm not sure where these two results come from. Board were not bothered despite wanting us to reach the final. 

Asia

We dropped out of the Champions League at the hands of Amanat Baghdad and dropped into the Confederation Cup. We finished 3rd in the group as Kuktosh went on to clinch top spot. The board were happy with our performance. 

Transfers

Just 3 players joined this year. Alikperow and Zhukov are youngsters brought in for development. Supriadi is a Indonesian international winger, he was released by Persebaya at the end of the 2023 season. Slotted straight in at right wing. 

Squad

The front four were fantastic. What can I say about Hasanow other than I don't know how he does it! He is beyond outperforming his attributes. Whilst 41 goals total is fantastic it was his domestic campaign which stoked me. 

34 goals in 27(1) games and averaged 8.08 rating over the course of the season. Here he is below...

133 League goals in 154 games plus 17 goals in the Turk Cup and 18 in continental competition. He's undroppable. 

We also can't not write some words about Singaporean winger Fabien Marth who also averaged over 8.0 for the season, his 14 goals and 17 assists in the league was an outstanding contribution. 

Behind the Scenes

The training facilities were completed and now sit at Good. I want to improve all the youth aspects in the coming season as that last intake was poor. 

I completed another course which took me to Continental C level.

I also signed a new 2 year contract worth £1000 per week. 

Finances continue to grow despite shelling out £725k on upgrading the training facilities. 

Career Summary

[maxtothemax]

Going brilliant so far. Hope there are gonna be some amazing youngsters in the coming seasons. Do you scout in Africa? There are always great cheap players there. Especially for sides like this. 

[kidthekid]

Hasanow really doing the business for you. I wonder what happened in 2023 when he wasn't your top scorer.

By the way, what's your tactical system like? If I recall, it's crazily attacking.

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2 hours ago, maxtothemax said:

Going brilliant so far. Hope there are gonna be some amazing youngsters in the coming seasons. Do you scout in Africa? There are always great cheap players there. Especially for sides like this. 

Thanks very much and thanks for reading. Yeah, I need to really improve the coaching and recruitment again this season, I've not really had a stand out player for a season or two now. 

I can't actually scout Africa yet, my DoF has recommended a couple of Nigerian youngsters but declined to bid for them as we can only have 3 foreign players in our squad and I have two at the moment which I will be loyal to as they're doing well. My scouting range is currently Western Asia, so Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and a couple other at the minute.  

1 hour ago, kidthekid said:

Hasanow really doing the business for you. I wonder what happened in 2023 when he wasn't your top scorer.

By the way, what's your tactical system like? If I recall, it's crazily attacking.

He's banging them in for fun, I don't know why he didn't score more than Metdayew, I don't think he had any bad injuries to keep him out. 

My tactic is nothing special, 4-2-4 with AMR/Ls and wing play on. All four defenders set to defend and central mids are AP/Mez combination. I'll post it later when I get home from work. 

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My Tactic

for @kidthekid

Pretty simple; wing play, attacking, focus play down the wings, counter attack. Could probably remove overlaps from either side. 

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Qualification Changes

Not what I wanted to see, the league dropped 3 places down to 33rd in the rankings which means we lose our qualification place for the Champions League. 

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2025 Champions League Qualification

However, we're still in this seasons Champions League and we face Al-Qadsia in the West First Preliminary Round. If we beat them we face Al-Shorta of Syria in the 2nd Preliminary Round. And if we pass them we face Al-Rayyan from Saudi Arabia in the play-off if we get that far. 
 

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Upgrades January 2025

The board took some persuasion to improve both the Junior Coaching and the Youth Recruitment but eventually they relented.

They were more than happy to improve the Youth Facilities though. 

Its not going to start until the end of the season and be completed in April 2026.

 

[andychar]

Excellent read so far. Bad news about the Champions League. Need a decent Conf. Cup run. Get that coeffient back up!

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42 minutes ago, andychar said:

Excellent read so far. Bad news about the Champions League. Need a decent Conf. Cup run. Get that coeffient back up!

We do need a good run but we also need Altyn or Ahal to also have a good run too. 

Thanks for reading!!

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2025 Youth Intake Preview 

'potential to be a real golden generation' 

Salt, a pinch of....

but we do have Good Academy Coaching and Adequate Recruitment so there's potential!

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2025 Youth Intake

An apparent 'golden generation' and one 5* potential player who's pretty poor. AMC isn't a position I use but he can be retrained to a MC. Beyond him this is pure dross.

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2025 Season Review

Its been three league wins on the bounce but we didn't retain the Cup last season, could we win it back? 

League

We won the title by a 18 point margin but we certainly didn't have it all our own way, we lost two games having lost just once last season but the main thing was the goals, we only scored 69 compared to last seasons 105. Defensively we were better but I want more goals. 

Turkmenistan Cup

Despite what looks an easy run to the final and win, we didn't make it easy for ourselves, the lack of free scoring affected us in the cup too, only beating second division side Garadamak 1-0 over two legs was a worry. 

Asia

We beat Al-Qadsia in the CL Prelim 1st Round to set up that Al-Shorta tie, lets not talk about that. 

We dropped into the Confed Cup Group stage where we had a pretty decent campaign, winning all our home games and getting a draw in Tajikistan which left us 2nd in the group behind Kuktosh who qualified from the group. 

Transfers

Three players in this season with only Vitor being a first team player, he was recommended to me by my DoF. I sold a couple of B team players for good money at this level. 

Squad

Just three players hit double figures this season but we began to struggle with injuries, Metdayew, Marth and Supriadi all have long-ish injuries this season which stunted their game time. Hasanow continued to score the goals and was joined by Minhairow who also scored 28 goals this season in 44 minutes less than his compatriot, he also made 11 assists so he claims my Top Scorer award this season. Overall we played much more poorly which is shown by the poor average ratings across the squad. 

Behind the Scenes

The board announced the upgrade to the youth facilities after 10 months of planning, doing it for cheaper than first expected too. 

Personally, I've started on my continental B license, here's how my attributes look now.

Finances

We tip back over the £4m mark after the expenditure on the youth facilities. We've been given just under £2m to spend on transfers and have a £24k p/w wage budget of which we are currently spending just under half of. 

Career Summary

 

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Continental Qualification Changes

Top club goes back into the Champions League Preliminaries from next season onward. Turkmenistan stay 33rd in the competition rankings though. 

 

We need to improve our position in the continental competitions and thus hopefully attract some better foreign players. 

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Asian Confederation Cup

So this is the roadmap for the Asian Confederation Cup which looks and is confusing as hell as the competition is regionalised as much as possible until the latter stages of course. 

We've entered the competition this season at the point where it says Central. We've been drawn with; 

Regar from Tajikistan and Stallion from the Philippines who to my knowledge are pretty Eastern in Asia. The Eastern Group has teams from Thailand and Hong Kong which are more Western than the Philippines. 

Top spot qualifies for the next round, which ever that is! 

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Continental License B

+1 for most stats and +2 for Tactical and Technical. 

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2026 Youth Intake Preview

Hmmm 

This is my current HoYD after my previous one was poached by another club to be their manager. 

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2026 Youth Intake

Just awful. 

Since the preview both the junior coaching and the youth recruitment has been improved again. 

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2026 Season Review

League

Another title, already our 5th in a row in fact. We only scored a handful more goals than last season but it felt a much better season. Our two losses came against Serhetci (when we had about 7 first team players on international duty) and Ahal when we rotated due to continental competition priority. That group of four chasing teams have become very even amongst themselves. 

Turkmenistan Cup

A much easier run to the final this season but it was one step too far as we lost on penalties to Altyn. Disappointed to have conceded 4 goals to Gosun despite scoring 8 ourselves. 

Confederation Cup

Still confused as to where we really finished, I believe we were semi-finalists. We had an easy group and interzone semi-final, we didn't concede a goal. Buriram were a tough team to face, we got an away goal but were put to the sword by @Makoto Nakamura's favourite Thai talisman Suphanat Mueanta, at the age of 24 he has 59 goals in 89 international games 

Transfers

Just one player joined this season as Owekow was released by Sagadam, he came in as back up. 

Squad

Many more goals this season as four players hit double figures. Hasanow continued to defy his attributes as he scored another 32 goals. However it was last seasons top scorer Minhairow who scored 35 goals. Marth was back to his best form, contibuting goals and making 24 assists, a new record. Supriadi again performed well with 22 goals but wants to leave for a bigger team, no interest in him so far though. Centre back partnership of Vitor and Bayramow really shone this season with a 91% tackle success rate between them. Nasyrow was also a surprise, he quietly developed in the youth team but he forced his way into the first choice LB spot this season. 

Behind the Scenes

The youth facilities were improved and now rated at Below Average, we also improved the Youth Recruitment to Good and the Junior Coaching to Excellent

I signed a new 2 year contract with a small pay rise of £100 p/w, taking me to November 2028. 

Finances

With over £5m in the bank its now time to improve the facilities again. Last season we only spent £250k on our youth setup so easily affordable for us. 

Career Summary

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Competition Rankings

The league improves back up to 28th where it was a few seasons ago

Champions League Draw

Uzbekistan's Lokomotiv Toshkent in the First Preliminary Round. Al-Taliyah in the 2nd Round if we advance and Al-Ahli in the Play-Off. Confederation Cup beckons again. 

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2027 Youth Intake Preview

I'm going to be quite positive about this preview, plenty of green. Yes it says golden generation but we now have good facilities which heighten my expectations for this intake. 

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2027 Youth Intake

In my eyes this is not a golden generation, not even a 5* potential player. 

They're right in saying we won't be short of CB's there's 6 of them. Friggin' left wing backs man, another 5 of them. One central midfielder, one goalkeeper and 3 strikers. 

No wingers, no wide midfielders, technically no right backs. 

There are some really tall players here too, 6'7", 6'6" and two 6'4". 

 

[SRL88]

Continue to ease things in the league

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23 hours ago, SRL88 said:

Continue to ease things in the league

It has been relatively easy so far and will continue to be so unless Altyn or Ahal get some investment. 

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2027 Season Review

League

Another title, comfortable 15 point gap to second placed Altyn. Disappointing to have lost twice this season, to Altyn and Energetik Mary. 

Turkmenistan Cup

Our fourth title in six seasons. Reserved performances until first leg against Ahal. Comfortable in the final with the main men bagging a brace each. 

Asia

Straight into the Group stage this season, against two Tajikistan clubs. Easily topped the group dropping two points. We then faced Indian side Aizawi, another comfortable first leg win was eclipsed by a humdinger back in India. We then faced last season's foes Buriram and faded to the same fate and fell at the same stage. 

Transfers

We spent a quarter of a million this season bringing in some depth to the squad. We re-signed Babayew from Energetik Mary for twice the price we sold him for but recouped 50% of the profit from the deal. Allanazarow was another back up defender which we overpaid for but was best available. Abdoli was a on loan replacement for the departed winger Marth, he was subject to bids from Central Coast and Western Utd, choosing the latter. Marth made 144 appearances, scored 47 goals and made 73 assists since joining for £375. 

Squad

Hasanow went ham, 40 goals this season taking him to 268 goals in his career for the club. Minhairow with 27 goals himself was great support, just one other player hitting double figures was poor though. With Marth leaving that gives me an opportunity to bring in another foreign player to improve a key position. 

Behind the Scenes

Not much happened this season, we got an upgrade to the youth facilities organised which will be completed in April 2028. 

I have also began another coaching course which will take me to Continental A license but will take 12 months to complete. 

The board have also increase the number of staff I can have, coaches from 3 to 7 and scouts from 3 to 5. 

Finances

Career Summary

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Competition Changes

Up 6 places, we jump above the Tajikistan, Vietnamese, UAE and Kuwait top flight leagues. 

From next season onward, top team goes straight into the group stage of the ACL. Also we have two teams in the CL from next season. 

This season we face Al-Zawra from Iraq in first prelim round. Syrian side Al-Karamah in the second round if we get through and if we beat them we will face Al-Nassr in the play-off. 

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2028 Youth Intake Preview

Meh

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2028 Season Review

League

Another comfortable league win but still another two losses, this time both to Ahal by 1-0. 

Turkmenistan Cup

Straight forward cup win even though we were taken to extra time in the final.

Confederation Cup

Straight into the group stage where two wins and two draws sent us through to face Bangladesh club Bashundhara. Easily defeated them 10-1 on aggregate to face Persija from Indonesia. A cagey two-legged affair where we prevailed 1-0 to reach our first Confederation Cup Final. In another extremely tight game we lost 1-0 against Jordanian side Al-Wehdat. 

Transfers

Just one player joined this season as I went hunting for a new foreign star to join the ranks.

Squad

Hasanow had a mare this season scoring just 9 goals which would reflect his attributes. Minhairow continued his form to score another 31 goals, 23 in the league. He was backed up by new signing Amed who scored 21 goals and made 14 assists. Supriadi had another stop-start season through injuries but made it 20 goals for the season. 

Behind the Scenes

I signed a new contract worth £1700 p/w for years. 

Potential takeover on the cards. 

Finances

Prize money nearly doubled to £1.7m this season. 

Career Summary

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Takeover December 2028

I've asked the board for improved junior coaching, youth recruitment and for a technical director which they have granted all. 

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Competition Rankings

Another improvement of 4 places this season as we leapfrog the Indian, Indonesian, North Korean and Iraqi top leagues. 

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2029 Champions League Draw

Tough draw but that's expected we're the weakest team in the competition.

Other club not drawn was Jeonbuk. 

[kidthekid]

Very close in the confed cup. It could have been your first of many continental honors; but great run nonetheless. 

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7 hours ago, kidthekid said:

Very close in the confed cup. It could have been your first of many continental honors; but great run nonetheless. 

Thanks, was indeed a great run.

Struggling to strengthen my team with home grown players at the minute as we generally have the best available player in each position. 

[rodesire]

15 minutes ago, ToMexico!! said:

Thanks, was indeed a great run.

Struggling to strengthen my team with home grown players at the minute as we generally have the best available player in each position. 

How do you reckon you can get over that hump? I am kinda reaching the same stage in my save