FM20 Bringing the European cup back East

[Carlf788]

Inspired by @Piksi#10 save to make Eastern Europe great again and my love of all things Eastern Europe and also the champions league I thought combining the 2 and trying to bring the European cup back to Eastern Europe for only the 3rd time would make a great project. 

I was in Belgrade last summer and seeing the European cup there and the fact that a Serbian club could win it in 1991, I found that incredible. With Bucharest and Belgrade already having the trophy I ideally want to to add another city to that list. 

Having a look around the transfer market their seems to be loads of top young players from Croatia/Georgia/Serbia etc waiting to be discovered. Players who could be signed for peanuts and in the next few years be the next Milinkovic-Savic or Milan Skriniar and been worth close to 100m. 

I was fancying starting out as Dinamo Moscow but felt that would probably be starting out from too strong a position.So I think I will start out as Sparta Prague, a fantastic city and one of my favourites, they have some great young players coming through and after selling some older players I could have up to 15m euros to spend in the first season.

I have England, France, Germany and Italy loaded to make it competitive as well the leagues in Croatia, Czech Republic Serbia, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine and Russia. Ideally I will l give it a good go to win it with Prague but I will look out for any jobs that gives me the best chance to win it. 

Some aims to tick off for the save include 

• win the champions league with at least 1 but hopefully 2 clubs from Easten Europe 

• win the euros or World Cup with a Eastern European country 

• win the champions league with more than half the team of Eastern European nationalities 

• at some point have at least a third of the top 50 highest valued players in the game from Eastern Europe 

 

any other aims or feedback/thoughts/ tips always welcomed. 

 

Edited January 12, 2020 by Carlf788

[Kingofcm03]

10 hours ago, Carlf788 said:

Inspired by @Piksi#10 save to make Eastern Europe great again and my love of all things Eastern Europe and also the champions league I thought combining the 2 and trying to bring the European cup back to Eastern Europe for only the 3rd time would make a great project. 

I was in Belgrade last summer and seeing the European cup there and the fact that a Serbian club could win it in 1991, I found that incredible. With Bucharest and Belgrade already having the trophy I ideally want to to add another city to that list. 

Having a look around the transfer market their seems to be loads of top young players from Croatia/Georgia/Serbia etc waiting to be discovered. Players who could be signed for peanuts and in the next few years be the next Milinkovic-Savic or Milan Skriniar and been worth close to 100m. 

I was fancying starting out as Dinamo Moscow but felt that would probably be starting out from too strong a position.So I think I will start out as Sparta Prague, a fantastic city and one of my favourites, they have some great young players coming through and after selling some older players I could have up to 15m euros to spend in the first season.

I have England, France, Germany and Italy loaded to make it competitive as well the leagues in Croatia, Czech Republic Serbia, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine and Russia. Ideally I will l give it a good go to win it with Prague but I will look out for any jobs that gives me the best chance to win it. 

Some aims to tick off for the save include 

• win the champions league with at least 1 but hopefully 2 clubs from Easten Europe 

• win the euros or World Cup with a Eastern European country 

• win the champions league with more than half the team of Eastern European nationalities 

• at some point have at least a third of the top 50 highest valued players in the game from Eastern Europe 

 

any other aims or feedback/thoughts/ tips always welcomed. 

 

I'll give my advice, I have done this on Fm20 with Hajduk Split within 5 seasons we won the Champions League. I also took CSKA Sofia to the final twice on FM 19 and I am currently trying to do it with Metalist 1925 from Ukraine. All those careers can be found within this forum if you want to have a read for tips.

1. Its totally possible, Sparta Prague should actually be about the same level of Hajuk Split
2. Forget trying to sign all the young wonderkids int he first 1-2 season. Just sign anybody from any country and age. Your first aim is purely to make the group stages of the Champions League and bank that 13 million pound bonus and if you are lucky, the 2.7 million for a win.
3. Once you have made the group stages once, its much much easier and you can use the funds to sign the young wonderkids and build the club up this way.
4. The good/bad thing about Eastern Leagues is that you can totally dominate the league and win it comfortably, you will then have the picking off all the domestic players. Its fairly simple to go unbeaten over several years.
5. Serbia is your friend. Some amazing players who are very very cheap. Look at Serbian clubs.

[Carlf788]

I will have a look as that's some going winning it in 5 year with Split. Cheers for that I will be sure to check Serbia!

My first 2 main signings for the first team are Antonio Marin on loan with a mandatory fee of 7.5m euros next season and Robert Brozenik from Zilina for 2m euros, 2 great looking attacking prospects.

[Kingofcm03]

Antonio Marin is a legend, he was in my Hajduk Split Champions League winning team. Good signing, hes good as a winger or inside forward. 

 

Good luck!

[deltablue]

Good luck with this one.

[Piksi#10]

Good luck mate!

[Carlf788]

Cheers! Made some good transfers and decent start to season 1. Will update in a few days.