TheNayr

Well I definitely angered the FM Gods with my flippant comment about winning the league in the first year because the very next game after the last update went like this: Was this the start of the slide? Am I talking to you now outside of the playoff zone losing 7 of my last 8?! Nah of course not, we're still smashing it! We are massively overperforming and long may it continue. These positive results have obviously kept us doing well in the table, leaving us looking like this. A big 10 point gap to the 6th place team keeping us well in the hunt for promotion, though there's plenty of time to go! After crashing out of the FA Cup qualifying rounds very early, the next big tournament for us was the FA Vase. Whilst the money was no-where near what the FA Cup can offer, a few wins can wrack up a few thousand pounds which is vital for us! Hmm, you'd look at that and think that's an okay run for a 9th tier team right? Wrong. Look at this disgusting game against Crook Town. Yeah, you're reading it right. By the 32nd minute they were down to 9 men and we couldn't break them down. It took us until the 74th minute to score a goal which really annoyed me. How did it take so long to break them down with a 2 man advantage?! I was very mad when they equalised that late, how the F did we let that happen?! Then to lose on penalties?! Horrendous result. If I was actually managing, them 11 players would be doing a Bleep Test until they were all sick. I have been unable to add a new CM and a new striker despite trialing and offering deals to many players. Until next time.

Because of how low down the pyramid that we're starting, I thought instead of just manually looking for staff, I'd put out job adverts to attract new members of staff that way. That has been done also to our HOYD, scout and Head Physio so our backroom has been filled out to what I want. Though they are all pretty poor if I'm being honest, however, it's to be expected! I also did this for bringing players in. Only going off of player recommendations from my staff, agents or players themselves. I've had close to 70 odd players on trial I'd say. Let's look into the team now then! I have made 10 signings since taking over. 3 loans and the rest being free agents, The 16 year old kid was the only GK at the entire club, so obviously I had to address that, though it took some time to actually get a guy in and it turns out, he's not too shabby! Obviously at this level, none of these players are going to be good, but that's the standard we find ourselves at! Gregor Shaw is tall with decent reflexes and agility. I will take that. All four of our starting defenders are new signings as you'll find for most of the starting 11 haha! Matty Holness was a loan option suggested by my HOYD and I used it, especially as Dover Athletic didn't want any wages for him, always a bonus for us. Not much to say about him, decent physically I guess. That's something, Our first CB is Reece Irwin. He started his career at Northampton. He's strong, aggressive and brave. What more do you want from a centre back?! His partner is Dominic Ogun. We are his tenth club. For this level, his physicals are very welcome, even if there isn't much else. The last new piece of this backline is ex Cardiff graduate Josh Pike. Phyiscals. That's all that matters. I am running a custom made 4-3-3 with 1 DM and 2 CMs. 2 of them are part of the 10 new players. The player who was already here is Ross Myers though he's only playing because recently Aaron King (Who was a new signing) has been struck down for 4-7 months. In the screenshot he has a bid on him by a few teams, I have offered a new deal and hopefully he'll be staying. I'd rather not be starting him, but he's all I've got. Maybe I'll look to bring someone else in. I've just offered about 5 CMs a two week trial. The guy opposite him in centre midfield started at my team, Crawley Town. Curtis Gayler. I must add, I didn't bring him in but he's pretty good! He's very well rounded and will be an important player this year. The guy sitting behind them at DM is Jamie Andrews. I'll just say, I want to upgrade him even though I've only just signed him! He doesn't look good, but he'll do for the time being. The attacking unit is a weak unit and I have a few players about to come and trial for us. With only striker in my formation, that falls to 16 year old Renny Beavon, I've trialed a few players and they either didn't want to join or wanted more than £20 a week, my maximum. Some really good finishing and work rate here. The excellent determination is nice but ultimately means nothing due to our awful facilities. All the new signings sky rocketed us up from a media prediction of 16th up to 6th which is good news for our chances of going up first time round. One downside of all these signings is the finances, we've gone from a projected end of season figure of -£28k to now -£37k. It doesn't sound too much, but at this level. It's a bit of a killer. We do need a good FA Cup run this season. Oh....well that's no good. Has the league gone any better?! WELL THAT'S MORE LIKE IT! 6 games, 6 wins and only 2 goals conceded. What an absolutely belting start to the league!!! Winning the league first year in charge?! Until next time.

Shoreham. Who the Hell are they?! One last foray into FM24 before FM25 comes out and all going well. This will hopefully last me into the new game and beyond, that's the vision anyway! So, Shoreham FC. My first actual team that I coached with. Starting with U7s for a few months then dropped down to U6s. Here were my coaching shirt and hoody. S So I have a bit of a connection to this team! The club is located in Shoreham-By-Sea which is right on the English coast. You wouldn't have guessed by the name!!! Their nickname is The Musselmen as back in the day, picking mussels is what the town was known for. Here it is on a map. About 15 minutes from Brighton down their on the coast. A census from 2021 puts it about 23.6k people living there, so we'll say over 3 years later, could be around 25k now. Shoreham play at Middle Road which has a capacity of 2,000. The file I'm using had it at 1,500 people could fit in there, so I went into the editor and changed that little detail, the only change I made. I have met the Chairman Stuart Slaney a few times, nice guy! We are starting in the Sussex County Football League which is all the way in the 9th tier. We have a long way to climb. It will be a tough challenge. As you can see from that image above, we're starting with bloody awful facilities, the worst of the worst. The pre-game editor had everything listed as 0 haha! Due to that, it rules out a youth academy challenge which I do plan on doing for my first FM25 save when I get around to it eventually. This is how our supporters are at the club. We are in 5 tournaments this year, though I don't care about the bottom two. Being this low down, the FA Cup is the most important for the money it can bring in. Speaking of money, here's how the finances look. We're expected to end the season around -£28k, though hopefully with a little FA Cup and maybe FA Vase run, we can make that a little better by the end of the year. Here is the table with every other team we'll be playing, the main goal is to avoid a relegation battle, the media currently has us finishing in 16th. This is how I'm starting. Sunday league football reputation and National B licence as I'm an FA Level Two coach for real. I won't show the squad this time as I'm going to have to do my best Harry Redknapp impression to get some new players in as I don't have much help. The staff room is a little small, though I only need to bring in a couple of faces. Let's rise with Shoreham and do some damage. Until next time.

The season opener in the Durand Cup has been and gone. And we get through the group stage with relative ease! Next up were the knockout stages were our good run continued to shine bright. Two more wins delivered us into the final where we play city rivals and defending Champions, Kolkata. Where we pull out victory and deliver the Durand Cup to Mohun Bagan for the first time in 46 years. So after the perfect start to the season, let's see the players we have at our disposal! 2 of our 6 foreign player spots are filled up in our GK area which is the worst place to have multiple of them! I decided to just let it happen this year as our backup has a year left, so he'll be gone next Summer. The best GK by a long way though is the Uruguayan Alejandro Viera. He's a really solid GK and he'll do a good job. He's been here 7 seasons and unless someone incredible comes up, he'll remain #1 for at least the next year solid. We have a strong defensive base and it's our best unit in squad. It's no coincidence that 3 of our starting 4 defenders are foreign players! Our starting RB will be American Eduardo Rodriguez who's been here for 6 years now. He's really solid with no real weakness to his game apart from the fact he's 31. So he might begin to drop a lot in quality. His natural fitness of 14 might stop that from happening though! The lone starting Indian in the backline will be Shiehk Fernandes. He's alright. Nothing spectacular but I'll look to upgrade him with another home grown player next Summer. I'll rock with him until then. His CB partner though is a lot better. Another Uruguayan and newly appointed Captain is Diego Lemos. He's been here for 6 seasons and he's very solid. Really good mentals, solid physicals. For this league, he's an incredible player and he's very important for us. The first signing I made which you're seeing is our new starting LB. He was a free agent, previously playing for CA Independiente in Panama as he's from there. He has 21 caps for the national team at 20 and I made him Vice-Captain too, Alvaro Viteri. Really, really happy with this signing. He could easily be the best LB in the league right now. He's a wicked player and will improve us no end. He actually is in the media 11 at LB so they see the vision as I do! The last person to show you of this defensive unit is someone who I know all about considering he's been capped by me 60 times. He has a ridiculous release clause by domestic clubs at £88k at Odisha and I couldn't say no to that, so my second signing here. Amit Ghosh. An important player for us at international level. An even more important player for us at the domestic level. Game changer. I've inherited a bit of a weak midfield section of players. Only 2 people worth showing off here and they'll be starting at CM for us this year. First up, James Rodriguez. Just a decent, all round guy who won't be flashy but I can see putting in some alright performances for us over the year. His partner will be my third signing who is Amar Singh. I paid Jamshedpur £200k for which is a little steep but this guy is good now and has potential to grow a little more at 20 years young. He's also played a handful of games for India. Then finally and leastly, our striking unit. Full of poor players. I could only make 1 addition, it's easily our worst unit. Ignore the potential for Jose Rana he's really not that good. Both our starting wingers are poor, which I won't show. The only redeeming factor is the striker I got in as a free agent from Al-Ettifaq in Saudi is Majed Al-Harbi. Good mentals and physicals on the bloke, he'll do for a couple of years. I did try to get a couple of Indian free agents who have played for the national team, but both signed for teams in Europe and I don't blame them! The board and fans want mid table finish, but the media think we'll do slightly better after my signings. We shall see though! Until next time.

After a break, it makes sense to leave Bengal after 3 seasons and that is what I've done. They have some good young players and a healthy £12m in the bank with Champions League football to look forward to for the third year in a row. My most loyal guys have followed me and like the last few times I've moved to another team, I will look to bring them with me. The most important being my right hand man, Agnelo Naik. Luckily there are two jobs available in the Super League in Mohun Bagan and SC Goa. It would be interesting to get the Mohun job because they are the third team ground sharing the 85k stadium with our previous team in Bengal! So I wouldn't have to move very far!!! And we have a new home. As to be expected, he has retired again from international football and I will leave him alone. My ass man of the last 13 years has continued his story with me. My fitness coach for the last 8 years, my HOYD for the last 12 years and set piece coach for the last 3 years are also joining. The coach who had been with me for the last 12 years wanted too much money, So our relationship ends there, at least on a club level. He is still with the Indian coaching set up. These are what the fans look like. And we'll go into the facilities of all the teams in the league, see how they're getting on! + I have 19k in wages left and with 2 foreign player spots available. I've got some work to do to improve this team. We are back and we're going to continue to cook with India. We really aren't. Losing Marbaniang is something we're really going to struggle with going forward. Our 2 current best CBs are 5'8 and 5'9 haha. Oh dear. After our pre-season and signings, we'll look through the team that we have here at our new team. Until next time.

So, I hung up my boots for this save again a little over a month ago. Since then, I have tried to get into no less than 3 different saves and none have interested me past a few days. With about 2 and a half monthsish until the beta for FM25 is released......... revive-rapper.mp4 Until next time.

Thank you for your kind words. As I've stated before, this has been the most fun and my favourite FM career I've ever had. I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm sure you will have a great time like I have done.

Accepted. Have fun friend. .

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S7QbHmu14PkD_97qIeP5mtm5JqCSkFvt/view?usp=drive_link Hopefully I've done it right and that enables you to look around what World I created!

Thank you for your lovely words. It has been a lot of fun to play and out the comfort zone of Europe. I could try and do that yeah, though I have no idea. I'll have to look to how to do it and I'll let you know. I originally started the save on FM23 so it was a database from that Workshop. I can't help you there.

So, with the conclusion of the World Cup. I will be wrapping up this save, for now. I could see myself coming back here into next year's FM if I'm struggling to enjoy myself there. But for now, I am signing off. This has been the best career I've ever had on Football Manager. I love it. But I have taken it as far as I want to right now. If there's anything you wanna see/know about this save let me know. Maybe you wanna see how your personal team is doing. World 11 etc. If not, I'll see you in FM25. Until next time.

Due to England and Tunisia already playing. A win against Tunisia means we'll automatically go through to the next round. A draw means we'll have to lose to England by only 1 goal and a draw will see us a through a win against Tunisia would be ideal! Their captain is also their key player and he is OUTSTANDING! This is how we line up. I decided to skip the RMD at AMR and go with a standard Winger, bringing Pramod Kumar back into the fray. A loss and we know we're out as we're not beating England. Live look in at HT. Well...I forgot to take a shot then....much like my team. 50th minute. Yeah, bloody awful. We were meant to be controlling possession. That didn't happen. Not a single shot the entire half. I've switched tactic to 4-2-4 Gegenpress. I know, I know. But I need to see more. Well. Things got a bit hairy there, but we made it and got a point. Clearly the original tactic I planned on using is awful. So I'll be ditching that one haha! Awful showing in the first half, but we got there in the end. Changing tactic mid-game worked. Next up is England who are ranked 4th in the World. Captain is a legendary striker of this save. They are captained by this chap. And this is the current manager. They are clearly better than us, we'll go counter attacking because I think going anything else will be a death sentence. We need to try and draw or only lose by 1 goal. Any more than a 1 goal loss means we're out. And this is how we line up. HT: We are halfway there to the Second Round. Can we hold on?! GET THE F*** IN THERE! We have just held England to a bloody draw! What an incredible result! They may have peppered our goal with shots, but we were able to hold on!!!! Back to back Second Round appearances at a World Cup for us. Beautiful! Our second round opponent: Their captain is a very good LB. Their key player is a very good looking young CB. They are managed by Kasper Schmeichel. Here's how we line up. HT: We're playing well, but they are a little more clinical than us. We're still in it though!!! Oh what a bloody game! They made it 3-1 and I thought it was game over! However two quick goals pulled it back to 3-3 and I really thought we had a chance! However, after they scored their 4th, we had no answer. A shame, but what an incredible game! Until next time.

It is time. World Cup squad, who will be with us in China?! Savio D'Silva didn't have a good year for Jamshedpur conceding 61 in 31 averaging a 6.65 but his ability overshadows that. Though he's only our GK3. Mohit Nair wasn't much better conceding 49 in 29 averaging a 6.80 for Goa. Again, his ability commands a place in the squad though as GK2. However, our starting GK for us at Bengal and Indian #1 is Olen Fernandes who conceded 29 in 19 at 7.07. He played didn't play as much for us as he also played quite a lot for the Indian youth teams this season too! He's progressed well this season and has impressed me. Arvind Singh had a really solid year for us at Bengal averaging a 7.02 over 35 starts. He's a really solid CB...except he's 5'8. We're trying to look past that. Benchwarmer. The other backup CB also is one of ours at Bengal in Obidur Hossain who averaged a 7.00 over 25 starts. His height let's him down at 5'9. Again though, he's really solid. Syed Dutta at Navbahor in Uzbekistan averaged a 6.80 over 10 starts (They've only played 11) so he's had an okay start to the season. He's a good physical player with some good mentals too. He'd be a solid starting RB if we didn't have an amazing player there. Ajit Negi maybe shouldn't be in this squad. He only played 12 (10 starts) games for Southampton in the Premier League averaging a 6.70. However he's farrr too good to not include and is our LB2. Subhash Mallick is another Bengal player. He impressed with a 7.12 over 33 starts for me. He can also play RB as well as DM and CM which makes him valuable as well as being a decent player with some spectacular mentals. He will be on the bench. Manu Vaz is a similar player to Mallick. He had a decent season averaging a 6.89 over 27 starts for Goa. Being able to play CB, DM and CM makes him a good asset. Again, amazing Aggression and Bravery. He won't start for us. Mohan Fernandes had an incredible season with us at Bengal. He had 20 assists and 4 goals over 36 starts for us at an 7.35. He is a AML but because he can play LB and WBL. He fits in with the defenders. His speed is his main threat. He'll be a useful sub when the opposition is tired. Now, CB2 is someone who isn't amazing. His technicals let him down, but he's decent physically and mentally. We could do better, but Ishan Banerjee at Bengaluru started 33 games at 6.86. However, he's starting just because he's 6'2. That's the reason. We needed the height. Obviously CB1 is Sukhjit Marbaniang who is coming off of an incredible 54 game season for Liverpool at a 7.12. That is amazing consistency. I am so happy I was able to coax him out of retirement. Just a side note, he's averaged over a 7.00 starting at least 24 games for 9 out of 10 years in the Premier League. Incredible player. He can retire internationally after this. Now, both our starting LB and RB both play for Hertha Berlin in the Bundesliga. Mohan Singh didn't have a great year only starting 11 games out of 13 played with an average of 6.92. I would prefer to pick on form...but I can't help myself. He's the clear best LB we have and I'd be silly NOT to have him starting for us. The complete opposite can be said for Pratik Jadhav in the German capital where he started 44 games at a 7.02. He's developed into an amazing RB. Amar Singh is a young but really exciting talent who didn't have a great season for Jamshedpur who played 23 games and 15 starts at 6.72. Maybe he shouldn't be our starting DM...but I really like the look of him and think he'll do a good job for us. The final guy grouped in the defensive group is Amit Ghosh who will be one of our starting CMs. An average season at Odisha with 25 starts at a 6.74. He's an important CM for us with plenty of versatility. 57 caps at 23 shows how much I value him. The second starting CM will be Harshad Pradhan. He's had a nice season for Real Salt Lake in the MLS with 2 goals and 2 assists from 21 starts at a 7.04. He's a bit of an all rounder who can do it all except long shots. Arjun Singh had a good season at Odisha. He scored 3 goals with 7 assists through 9 starts and 13 subs at a 7.12. He's a decent AMR who's earnt his place in the squad as a bench warmer. Kamran Fernandes who's been at Dallas in the MLS has started 18 games but has disappointed with only 3 goals and 1 assist during that time. He's good enough to earn a spot, but he could've done better over the season. Pramod Kumar is a VERY lucky boy to with us, perhaps he shouldn't be due to only 1 start and 14 sub appearances with Stoke (On loan from Wolves) in the Championship at a 6.86. His ability gets him here. A player who has played really well and earnt his place in is Suhail Dasgupta who at AML scored 4 and assisted 4 through 19 starts for Incheon in South Korea's top division. He's a very solid player who will be starting at AML. We'll be having a Raumdeuter at AMR and starting there will be Nity Singh who had 22 starts and 5 goals at Bengaluru at a 6.74. Aakash Singh had a very nice year at Jamshedpur scoring 13 goals and 3 assists through 26 starts and 6 subs at a 6.96. He's older but still impressive. Mohammed Sifat is a bit of a victim as he's a natural AMC who can moonlight as a striker. We don't play an AMC but he's here. A very good year at Odisha with 15 starts, 13 goals and 3 assists with an average rating of 7.63. He is joining Oostende after the World Cup on a free. The last backup striker is Ishan Colaco who plays for us at Bengal. He averaged a 6.91 through 9 starts and 14 subs scoring 6 and assisting 1. The final guy in the squad is star man Chhangte Singh who played on loan at Monaco from Manchester United. He scored 6 goals through 13 starts at a disappointing 6.73. It doesn't matter, he's the best striker by a country mile and he was always going to be starting. It's our last World Cup (For now!). Let's do this. Until next time.

Well the final season has certainly been exciting. What's happened since the last update?! Well, for starters I have pushed through and got toward the end of the season. Just looking at it and it's not good enough if you ask me. Too many yellows and too many reds for my liking. This season has been a bit of a poor showing and it's left the table in an interesting position. So it's 24 games played. Which means it's all for grabs in getting 1st and coming top of the pile. Let's get into it. A solid win at home to the second bottom team, as expected. And just like that, we have an exciting final day! The final youth intake has happened and well, it's really not amazing. Very much just an average youth intake. Nothing special. And like that, we finish top of the league, yet again! Now to kick on and actually be crowned Champions of India in the playoffs. The semi finals have been drawn. But before the first match... Two training facilities have gone through with no option to doing another youth facilities upgrade as of yet. Now why have I done them if this is the final season? I'm not ruling out coming back in a few months. That's all I'm saying. Well this was a fantastic start to the semi finals! A brilliant and easy win at home that could've been a lot better! Onwards to the second leg. Well that was unfortunate. We've been humbled and crash out, still not being crowned Champions of India. Until next time.

He just won Indian Player of the year for the 8th time in a row. I got cheeky and asked. WE ARE SO BACK BABY. Until next time.