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Got this in my inbox. It's interesting as it's the first time we've had new TV deals for the top flight. I know it's no money so it could just be the game refreshing, but I wonder if the league has developed enough to where we get new deals and parachute payments and it will increase in the future.

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1 hour ago, Nottingham Forest said:

I have managed to get one of the unambitious players into spirited. It’s not the end especially with bad mentors but I’ll take it.

Spirited is quite good no? Means they handle pressure really well. I hope so because I have left the spirited ones I have alone

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Awesome @mschafer13 :applause:

Looks like you hit a rich vein of form at exactly the right time with your last 5 games, was River's loss on the penultimate day to you or someone else? If it was to you then that's such a vital win, love those type of wins.

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MATERA

Season 2  Update

2045-2025

Serie C - Group C

Again the second part of the season was worse than the first part, but this time we managed to never risk relegation, finishing closer to the playoff zone than to the playout one :D 

The youth intake this year was meh, our 2 best newgens of the first year are improving decently with our winger Danzi (who finished top assists for the team) receiving some interest from Serie B teams, he just turned pro so I hope I can renew him as soon as possible.

Finances aren't growing so it's very hard to improve facilities, as of now I'm trying to improve the skills of the staff, me included, with better members and with coaching courses.

But, thanks to Al-Ittihad and Napoli, we received 740k as solidarity bonus for the sale of Di Lorenzo for 74m, this will surely help to not go negative balance in this 3rd season!! 

For context, the Napoli IRL captain was a key member of Matera in 2015/2016 when the team lost 2 games away from promotion to Serie B and ended up going bankrupt and having to restart from 5th tier

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Third season the goal is to confirm this mid-table finish with no stress, and let the youngsters grow more

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On 23/10/2024 at 19:08, mschafer13 said:

Club Cipolletti 2035/36

Still haven't won the league, but I did manage to win another Copa Libertadores! Not bad. Predicated to finish 18th and finished 3rd. Finally got a 4 star youth, though Man City have started poaching my players, so you win some, you lose some. Pushing on to win the League one of these years so I can complete the challenge! 

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What is Tumiri's attributes like just coming through? 4 star CA for an already established top division side he must be unreal.

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17 hours ago, Thebaker said:

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2026/27

Table | Squad | Transfers

Started the season really well going unbeaten for the first 9 games to go top. A sticky patch followed the first defeat where the club dropped out of the playoff spots by xmas. A renewed push in the at the end of jan sent the club back into the mix for the playoff spots making it with a game to spare. In the semi-final of the playoff the team faced S.Gijon B and won 3-1 away in the first leg before winning 2-1 at home with 2 late goals. In the playoff final the team faced another B team in Oviedo B. The away tie 1st leg was very one-sided and the team were lucky not to lose more than 0-2. In the home leg 2 goals in the first 7 minutes wiped out that advantage and although my team were slightly better could only draw the match 2-2 in the end.

Probably needed another season in this league to get some of the youth players up to a good level, but lost Llamas my 1st choice Gk at the end of the season as he wanted twice what i could offer him in wages.

Not entered in the Spanish cup but 5th should get an entry for next season.

Finances continued to drop until may when the board put £375K in and 19k crowds in the home playoff legs also helped.

Hoyos was again top scorer improving on last year. Several of the youth players have made the first team squad with Ramirez and Soriano producing as goal threats. Started the season with Dorronsoro at CB but he was  overtaken by Antonio by the end.

Youth preview was ok and was correct in that there were plenty of wingers, not sure how many will make an immediate impact.  Fraga, Moreno and Gill look the best.

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1

 

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Mexico

 

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Australia

 

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1.04%

 

Africa

 

3.5

 

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1

 

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1.04%

 

                                   

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1.04%

 

                                   

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Jovanovic, Soriano (25j), Ramerez (25c) (7)

 

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Moises Ramirez (25c)

 

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Luis Soriano (25j)

 

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Luis Soriano (25j)

 

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Saul Dorronsoro (25a)

 

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Moises Ramirez (25c)

 

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Moises Ramirez (25c)

 

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Santiago Alarcon (25i)

 

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Ivan Conde (26e)

 

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Guillermo Villanueva(26a)

 

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Saul Dorronsoro (25a)

 

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Ivan Conde (26e)

 

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Ivan Conde (26e)

 

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Javier Ruiz (25h)

 

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If similar to me, you will get a massive jump in season ticket income from Federation 2 to 1 which will see you break even mostly. The big money comes from TV revenue when you made the jump to the Second division where I think I am around £6mil per season or thereabouts. Only losing money now due to repayments on new stadium that is currently being built. 

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31 minutes ago, Skora11 said:

If similar to me, you will get a massive jump in season ticket income from Federation 2 to 1 which will see you break even mostly. The big money comes from TV revenue when you made the jump to the Second division where I think I am around £6mil per season or thereabouts. Only losing money now due to repayments on new stadium that is currently being built. 

don't have to worry about stadiums since Xerez stadium is 20K and can be expanded. The club has 4200 season tickets but clubs with 2700 make far more as they charge twice as much, the team also gets no extra fans on the day or away fans.

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3 hours ago, Skora11 said:

What is Tumiri's attributes like just coming through? 4 star CA for an already established top division side he must be unreal.

They're not actually that good! He's fast and has good technique but nothing extraordinary. Must just be the rest of my team is pretty average :lol:

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16th season update 

Challenge part completed !!

Despite a poor performance in the league we bring home the champions league trophy

I've not experienced all the continents yet but I have found Asia and South America to be the opposite of Europe In terms of league/ Champions League difficulty. 

In Europe I found Champions League to be very difficult and winning the league much easier, I feel like asia's and south america's champions league is fairly easy compared to the league or maybe I just got lucky with draws etc .

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Just about scraped 4th in the league and training facilities were downgraded to average.

My best player looks likely to leave as he wont sign a contract but he still has 2 years left.

I have only just realised the China has a wage cap for domestic players of 10k a week.

Only took me 15 seasons :lol: that adds another level of difficulty as players look to leave once they reach a good level.

 

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27 minutes ago, mschafer13 said:

They're not actually that good! He's fast and has good technique but nothing extraordinary. Must just be the rest of my team is pretty average :lol:

for a 16 year old Zorro they are pretty good :lol:

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3 hours ago, Thebaker said:

don't have to worry about stadiums since Xerez stadium is 20K and can be expanded. The club has 4200 season tickets but clubs with 2700 make far more as they charge twice as much, the team also gets no extra fans on the day or away fans.

If it is the same with my RC Jaen save, once you get promoted you will charge at least double the price fro season tickets and STH's number will stay roughly similar so will get double the income from ST sales.

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48 minutes ago, mschafer13 said:

They're not actually that good! He's fast and has good technique but nothing extraordinary. Must just be the rest of my team is pretty average :lol:

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Pretty special for only 16, looks like an excellent box to box midfielder already.

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I forgot I had another save going in England with Dulwich Hamlet, now in 2065. This one is taking forever...Survived our first year in the Prem...might pick this one back up and see if I can complete the challenge 

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Browsing this forum is sometimes not a good idea.

Seeing completions in the last few days is making me want to complete the challenge in this version of FM and whilst no league is a given going somewhere with a higher youth rating might mean it’s a little more doable.

I want to carry on in wales but I think that might be my project before FM25 comes out and in the meantime I would like to focus on beating it in FM24 which I haven’t yet done.

Rather bizarrely another country that only has 1 completion back in FM20 is Italy. I’m going to do some simulations tonight to find a team to start with and keep all my stuff for wales to one side. I know there are some saves currently on the go so I will look to avoid these teams.

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1 hour ago, Neo_Geo said:

Browsing this forum is sometimes not a good idea.

Seeing completions in the last few days is making me want to complete the challenge in this version of FM and whilst no league is a given going somewhere with a higher youth rating might mean it’s a little more doable.

I want to carry on in wales but I think that might be my project before FM25 comes out and in the meantime I would like to focus on beating it in FM24 which I haven’t yet done.

Rather bizarrely another country that only has 1 completion back in FM20 is Italy. I’m going to do some simulations tonight to find a team to start with and keep all my stuff for wales to one side. I know there are some saves currently on the go so I will look to avoid these teams.

I enjoy catching up and reading the stories people post and there success motivates me to try and get it completed also.

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Crewe United 2046 Season Update

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Season 22 Update:

League winners again. Linfield is still hanging in and keeping it interesting..
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We have maxed out training facilities now and can't improve the youth facilities further, .so will have to keep checking to see if it comes up. We don't get a lot of match or TV income, so have to make good money in Europe now as our payroll, both staff and players is quite high. Fortunately we won't miss Europe, but can't afford to crash out early until we can get the bankroll up higher.
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Transfers:

Spoiler

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Youth Candidates:

We picked up a couple more players who should make the first team in a year or two. Anderson is our second best LW, but I am going to leave him in the u18 team for a year to see if he develops there as I am not being very successful with really young players in the senior squad. I am guessing it is because there are so many matches that they don't get much quality training time even if I manage their match time.
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Pretty good mix of personalities this intake with the better players having the better personalities which I like to see.
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Squad Update:

Smith declined a bit last season - I'm guessing a combination of too much game time and not enough training days in general for the senior squad with all the games we play. I am going to try a new strategy of keeping the youngsters in the u18 and reserves until they are 17/18 and see if that helps. On the bright side, he hasn't left yet and that is probably partially due to the lack of progress.

.Unlike Morgan who was complaining all season about wanting to play for a stronger squad. Didn't matter what I said, he got mad. The strange thing is that twice during the season, I got a message that he was happy with he recent performance of the team and was going to stay. He ended the season in one of the happy states, only to immediately demand to be let go to a stronger team. :rolleyes:.

I am tired of the dance, so exercised his extension with a finger extension to go along with it and then because the transfer offers didn't blow me away, He got sent on loan to Aston Villa for the season. I still have control of him for two seasons after that so even if he complains again, I can either sell him or loan him again.  We are getting a loan fee for him of 28K / month, so will get something.  Truslove and Tracy are also hinting about wanting to play for a stronger team, so keeping Morgan, just might help with that. No idea if loaned out players make a difference in the assessment of the strength of the squad, but he wouldn't if I sold him, so it can't hurt.
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The squad rating dropped because I am not counting Morgan in the lineup as who knows if he will ever come back. Still in decent shape relative to the NI competition, but work to do for Europe.

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Bingo

Up to 39 / 100

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Season 4 Dorchester

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And once again a fith place finish. In the First Round of the playoffs we played Ebbsfleet, a team which beat us 4-0 on both previous occasions. Keeping that in mind, a 1-2 loss isn't horrible, especially considering we were the better team

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Cups

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We reached the Second Round of the FA Cup again, but lost to Newport in a replay: Kinda sad because we would have drawn Crystal Palace away in the next round and that would have given us a lot of money.

Transfer Screen


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Squad

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Youth Intake


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Another great Intake and we finally got that amazing keeper, who instantly becomes the best keeper at the club

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He only conceded 10 in 6 as well, which is better than my average

Youth Nationalities
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Stats

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Dulwich Hamlet F.C. - Wikipedia

Dulwich Hamlet FC

Season 6

2029-30

VNL

We're consistently inconsistent. Much like last season we'd win a few games, lose a few games, win the games we shouldn't win and lose the games we shouldn't. Still, a top half finish is good for where we're at. Especially considering we now only will only have one legacy player remaining in Alfie Allen and even he's a backup. Alfie Egan retires in a few days.

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Youth Intake Preview & Intake

Worst intake so far. Whether that is due to new HoYD, a lack of improvements or because our first team squad is strong, who knows. Towards the end of the season I did get junior coaching improved and youth recruitment.

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Other Bits

Kavanagh Borrett YP2b netted us another £600k after his £1.2m move to Derby. Whilst we have lost some of that, due to a good FA Trophy run which saw us win the FA Trophy and some end of season deal sponsorships sees us sit with about £500k in the bank. I'll be reverting to a 3-4-3 of sorts next season with two DMs and two WBs to try and concede less but also fit in three of my nine strikers.

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RC Jaen Season 35/36

It was a season of progression, improving massively on our 12th place finish the season before. We started the season superbly and was sitting pretty in 2nd and keeping pace with the league leaders. Unfortunately we hit a slump in form around late November and struggled for a month or two. Early February we turned things around and were chasing down 2nd place but unfortunately we couldn't quite catch them and had to settle for 4th and only behind third on H2H. We were 3 points off automatic promotion and had a better H2H against Las Palmas so one extra win would have got us into the big time automatically. I was quietly confident about our chances in the play-off but we had to play Alaves who are a bit of a bogey team and we lost out 5-2 over the two legs. A disaster of an away performance left us little chance at home. While disappointing not to go up, it is still a great achievement.

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The youth intake preview was very promising this far into the save with 3 'A' rated prospects and the actual intake did not disappoint.

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5 'elite' talent arrived including one with 2.5* CA already, which is enough to be considered good enough for Spanish Federation 1 (one step below). Comparing him to my 3.5* DM he is already much better technically so if he can develop mentally and physically it won't be long until he is a first team regular.

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Another RC Jaen legend retired, he was with the club all the way through the leagues and was pretty much a mainstay up until the last few seasons and it was probably the right time for him to hang up his boots.

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Another shout-out to our main striker, who was rated as only 3* potential when he came through and that was in the lower leagues. He was never expected to turn into a good second division player but he has become more than capable at this level. His mental attributes really are top level for and advanced forward and one I am delighted to have given an opportunity when my coaches didn't think he would make it. 

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A few other screenshots of what has happened in the season including a record sale for the club (he was one of our best players but have some great AMC's coming through and looking to speed up their development). Our U19's also won the Spanish youth overall competition, after finishing 2nd in the group league stage, they qualified for the semi-finals. They beat Spanish giants Barcelona 1-0 and then going on to win in the final 3-2. Some of the players that helped the side win have been promoted to the senior side. Finally a screenshot of how my current squad looks, generally 4* CA is good enough to be rated as a 'good second division players' while 3.5* CA are 'decent Second division players'.

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27 minutes ago, Nottingham Forest said:

Does anyone know how to make screenshots smaller? Is that even possible.

Get GIMP to edit images (its open source) or when you put your images in the post you can double left click the image and then change the size of it in your post. When viewing the post if someone clicks on it then they see the full size.

EDIT: Pointing Up - Free hands and gestures iconsWhat he said :)

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Season 195 - 2215-16 - PL

Really poor season, typified by this absoutely dreadful result vs Burnley (who are in the VNL) in the 5th Round of the FA Cup

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Need a lot better performance next season, otherwise we are down

Lucky to have 4 worse teams than us

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*Just realised that my history sheet was wrong last time so updated below

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