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ohh thats amazing I grew up close to the stadium before moving to the netherlands.

thanks!. def a break. want to play a bit with my hometown club (Widzew Lodz). and maybe in jan/feb I will start a new save

Thanks guys. Japan is also a great country for the challange, although once you are enstablished than winning the CL is quite easy (seems). and veertien mie was a great fun. Next year when I visit Japan i'm going to try to buy a jersey

Transfer History Well I already teased you guys. But we did it. Won the Asian Champions League. The Dutch Total Football has landed in Mie. We also won our second championship. Only Urawa was in the run together with us. We did not manage to get a cup in the end besides the SuperCup. Took us 12 seasons in the end. IMAZEKI was sold and replaced by the soon to be wonderkid KATAYAMA at age of 16. Dude grew up to 4 stars and had 22 goals in 36 games and took teh TopScorer title at age of 16. Japan will def enjoy him for a while. In our last season EL ARABI sneaked into the first team. The now 18 year is already a player of under-21 of Dutchies. And still alot to learn. NAKAMOTO was the our main goaly and only player to be a regular in Japanese national team. Has already 16 caps. Fiorentina with a surprise title there. Sale of IMAZEKI Second Championship. Cool new overview in FM24. Really love this kind of detail. CL Final We had an easy 3-0 win at hime. Away was even easier. 4-0. We dominated them. ASHTON in the end with MoM. Was a very anti-climatic final. Also I forgot asia had a two-leggeg final :D. So I was celabrating and than thought I missed the ceremony just to see there was a game to go. Celabrations! Last Youth intake. No Foreign intake. MARAOKA looks good. Will probbly have gotten into the first team eventually. Thats it for Veertien Mie. I'm going to take an FM break for a few weeks. And maybe try to tackle this challange again in few months.

@Neo_Geo thats a tactic straight out of the 70s I think Netherlands played like that in the WC.

12.05.35 Champions League Final Veertien Mie vs Esteghlal Let's GO! In Spirit of Cruijff, Veertien Mie Upon the path to the final of the Champions League, Veertien Mie, in Cruijff's spirit, stands full of skill and technique, With every stride, they weave the scene, the number fourteen's magic in their footballing sheen. Their spirits soar, their fans ignite, In this grand stage, a fearless flight, Through trials, toils, they've earned their place, With Japanese charm, they've embraced the chase. With number fourteen as the beacon, guiding light, Veertien Mie's valor takes to flight, In every pass, in each swift play, Cruijff's legacy in their display. The philosophy etched in every move, Total football, a vibrant groove, Veertien Mie, in unity's dance, Their fervor, their courage, an exalted stance. So let the world bear witness and see, Veertien Mie's journey to destiny, For in this grand, illustrious scene, Cruijff's spirit, their hearts convene. To accompany the occasion of getting into the Champions League Final I've written (with a bit of help of ChatGPT :P) a poem. Hope you guys like it. Tomorrow I will play the final. Let's see.

Transfer History The title was decided on the last game of the season and we lost it, at home, to Urawa 0-2. Painfull to gove away the title in such a way. Was a close battle between us both. We had 66% possession but could not convert. They had the chances. Otherwise still great season. We got our first Cup, The Super Cup!. Stadion is almost all sold out every game. And we are through in the Asian CL to the R16. Urawa with their third Championship. IMAZEKI had an outstanding seaosn with 38 goals in 36 games. No way we can keep him around. Vultures form Europe are everywhere. Our first Ducthie Ashton VAN DEN BERGH broke into the first team and is a decent rotation player. Same can be said for the Korean-Japanese player SONG JUNG. Our Goaly NAKAMOTO seems to have won teh battle for teh first GK of Japan and has already 6 caps. Portugal with back-to-back World Cup wins. And Jonjoe ROTHEL with his second ballon d'or. Lost Title on last game We sold two this year. FUJIKAWA was picked up by Fulham and KONDO went to Saudies. We had three players in the Japanese team for the World Cup! Plus two former players. So we grew 5 players in the Japan WC team!. They lost out in 2nd round to Mexico on penalties sadly. SIMON intake 2034. No foreign intakes, but what a talent. KATAYAMA already 2,5 ability and 5 star potential. We stuck Japanese GOLD. (Hence why I gave him blonde hair!) At 15 already 16 Finishing!. 15 Technique. 18 Flair. His determination could be better but WHAT a PLAYER.

congrats @Winski on the promotion! really well done. I tried sweden in the last 3 fm's without succes!

Thanks yeah i'm really excited with him...this is my own Kitolano type of player. the Kante type (much not nearly as good I think). my favorite type IRL.

Transfer History 10th season and finally our first Trophy! Last year we lost the Emperors Cup Final. But this year we ware crowned CHAMPIONS of JAPAN!. Our first. Sadly cups we did less good, altough we did get into J. LEague Semi-Finals. In Asian CL we got knocked out in QFs by Incheon...and our old player YAMADA. That was...painfull. We had to sell him to break even....as many players are now earning really alot of money. Sadly our 4th spot last year did not get us into Cups this year...so another try at CL will happen next September. The usual suspects ware the best of the season. IMAZEKI with 27 goals in teh league and TopScorer. After the sale of YAMADA the only new player in first 11 was Kenji KOBAYASHI who was on loan last seaosn in J2 at Albirex where he was crowned TopScorer in J2. This year in his rookie seaosn at Veertien he scored 25 and assisted for 17! What a year! Sadly succes comes with a price. Half of the team is unsetteled and wants to move on to Europe. As we are now spending EUR 6 mln on wages! (compared to 2mln 2 seasons ago). We need to sell this off-season to stay afloat. First newgen to win Ballon d'Or. ROTHEL has been crazy good at Man City, already at 25 he has more than 130 goals in Premier League. First CHAMPIONSHIP! Sale of YAMADA Revange of YAMADA Finally fot my highest licence after 10 years! SIMON Intake 2033 Uhh finally an Elite!...and a foreign one. Moroccan-Dutch Zakaria....The Arab! More of him in a sec. First the best of the bunch from Japanese intake. SAKAI. Resolute Wing Back. 186cm is huge for this part of the world. With those skills....I think I will retrain him to Center-def. Love the hair too. And our future star. Zakaria the heart-breaker. Look at the handsome face. Fairly Profesional. Love teh aggression and teamwork. He already has great physicals. First 4,5 star potential in a while. EL ARABI will join first team...very soon.

thats sad

yeah I agree and during transfer periods...dealing with all mad people becuase you declined offers....yeah I'm going to agree to 400k offer for someone who is worth 1-4mln. sure..its boring and takes away a big part of the fun for me. its a chore. in other news....today full version is lauched? what time do we expect it?

Transfer History Our 9th season was difficult. First time we played in Asian CL so that added some games at the end of teh season that cost us some points. But we ware far from the championship. KYOTO SANGA after two years 2nd finally win their first title. We still qualified for the CL...I Think. Still overal not a bad season, but it could have been so much better. Stars of the year ware IMAZEKI, who scored 32 goals and became TopScorer. ERNESTO PAULO, who still refuses to become Japanese. And KAGAMI who had a worse year this year but still great with 15 goals and 13 assists. We lost half way KUGAWARA our wing back to Porto for EUR 2 mln only. I forgot about the min fee release clause and IU didn't extend his contract. FATI with his second ballon d'or. And City with their 4th CL win. Al-Hill brings their CL total to 6 in Asia. Lost Cup Final Sadly we lost the final. We got off to a good start but FC Tokyo was just quick in response and after that closed the door. CL games are weird and the level is very skewed. In our first year in Asian CL we played against Fortis from Bangladesh and it caused two record games. Sale of KUGAWARA After three failed Intakes I decided to get a new HOYD. Welcome SIMON, who one year played ona load in Netherlands at FEYENOORD. NEW HOYD SIMON Intake 2032 Not a great start for Simon. Not even one Elite! Bad Intake. Best of the Bunch, yet another striker....we need midfielders! SAITO is unambitious, and was not very good skills. At least he is quick.

sadly you do...but atm I create like 100 faces a week so its worth it.

I create my own with Midjourney. Its an AI tool that creates images. There are some videos on youtube how to use it for FM. IF you have any questions please let me know.

Do you guys know if games in the EAFF E-1 Championship hsould be counted as caps? because my players played for Japan but those games are not counted to the caps. Not sure if that is how it should be or a bug?

Transfer History Well this was improvement. 3rd place and we ware actually in teh run to an upset, but we got too many injuries at the end of teh year and fell off teh fight. Still we qualified for Asian CL!. Cups was worse this year. First of all we had to sell our star striker TANAKA. In the end he went to TOTTENHAM for EUR 11,5 mln. Record sale for JAPAN. With the money I poured it into training facilities that already imporved twice and third is on its way. For some reaosn i'm not getting chance to improve youth facilities and I fear its the same bug/feature we had last year where the chaiman doesnt have bug enough youth skill. TANAKA had not a great start in England, with only 6 games and 1 goal played, but he finally became the first striker of Japan and has now 6 caps and 4 goals. He is now worth 44-54 mln! I feel a bit robbed. Anyway, TANAKA was replaced by KAGAMI who did great. 23 goals in 38 games. Won the TopScorer. And the new attacker in first 11 is IMAZEKI, who had an amazing rookie season with 21 goals and 10 assists. Another rookie was a wing back KANAI, but he did not improve as much as ai had hoped and stays at 2,5 stars ability. With 6 players at 4 stars in ability we are doing great. Lets hope we can keep teh core and build further form there. The offers for my players are becoming annoying though. Makes the game very tedious. Braga with an upset in Portugal. and Urawa Red gets both the League and Asian CL. First Japanese club to win it in my save. so far. Anyway, I wanted to give a shout out to our Brazilian, ERNESTO PAULO, scored 9 goals...all headers. Just look at him (below). 1m90, he is a giant in Japan. I'm happy I retrained him to play in the center. His Heading is only 9....but his Jumping Reach is 19!!!!! 19!!!! with 1m90....our own "Força Aérea Brasileira". thats just insane :D. I'm doing everything to train his heading. all our corners go to him! Sale of TANAKA TANAKA shortly after the sale. HE made his debut for Japan in teh next game. KAGAMI became our second player to make his debut for Japan. YASUDA intake 2031. Seems promising, but once in my team...well they ware not so good. Only one 4 star and rest was meh. Third strike for YASUDA. I need a better HOYD. Best of the bunch in the end. KANAYA. Decent physicals. Love the tackling. If he was faster I would retrain him to a wing back. Lets see. Could end up replacing KOZAWA in the Center. And our thrid foreign player. A South Korean, SONG JUNG. I give him little chance to make the first team, but you never know.

why use a facepack if you can create your own with Midjourney?

congrats on promotion @DazRTaylor

Transfer History Second year in J1 went really well. We are midfield team most of the season. No real danger this year of relagation. And it was all thanks to our star striker TANAKA. The now 19 year old scored 34 goals in 38 games. He won his second TopScorer title and does nto want to renew his contract so we will have to say goodbye to him this season. I fear we will be much less good next year becuase of it. Alot of British clubs are interested and Porto. His price range is around EUR 10 MLN. Well with that money we will be secure for a while. We will see. ERNESTO PAULO grew to 4,5 stars. And new to the first 11 was KAGAMI who replaced sold SHIBATA. KAGAMI had a great rookie season too with 20 goals in 32 games. So I hope he will replace TANAKA next year. In Europe RB Leipzig wit their first league win. And Portugal with World Cup. In Japan Vissel Kobe was in leagu of their own and have their 2nd championship. We finally moved to the new stadium. Our average public is above 12k so that is great. We also had money to improve our training facilities a bit. We have now around 3,5mln in the bank. Sale of SHIBATA New Stadium New Stadium in Kuwana from outside. Named just '14' in honor of Johan Cruijjf And from inside....with orange seats. YASUDA intake 2030 Well a bit disapointing, but better than last year. Alot of midfielders and central defenders. and....our second foreign intake player!!! First the best of the bunch me thinks. MATSUNAGA is ambitious....and his passing is already at 14!. Great technique too. New Shinji Ono? And our second foreign player is a Dutchie! (and with Aruban background!) VAN DEN BERGH seems bad, let's be honest. but he is Fairly Proffesional...so he should improve fast...if There is anything to improve to.

Task failed succesfully? This might be funny...if not for the fact I might get fired.

"Gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket" I remember they had those in the past too. I got "You can turn the underwear to the other side or something like that.

yeah so far out of 96 youth players, 95 ware japanese. 1 brazilian.

Transfer History Well season took a while due to real life commitments. Buts it's finally here. J1 and we survived. Just about (3 points from relegation) but we stayed. In the end we dit well. Our Brazilian youth ERNESTO PAULO broke into first team at center defending position. Grew into a 4 star ability player so that is great. Our midfield youths are not improving anymore so i'm kinda disapointed about it. But than we have TANAKA. our Star striker. 18 years old. And already TopScorer in J1! with 30 goals in 37 games. He got called up for Japan but did not play yet. So good chance he will be our first producted international. Bad thing is that major European clubs are interested. PSG offered already 3 mln. He does not want to extend. He still has a contract for 2 more years...but that means I will probably have to sell him next year. Lets hope his value will go up a bit and we can cash on him. Our board is mad at me as I failed to repair the club's financial situation. We went from nealry 3 mln in debt into 2mln in plus...but that seems still bad for some reason. I even sold MISAWA just to get extra bucks. J1 deserved new Kits and a new banner!. Away kit inspired by Ajax, Johan Cruijffs main club. Seemed fitting. MBAPPE with his 4th Ballon d'Or. Fun to see BARDGHJI and YAMAL in the top3. In Japan VISSEL KOBE with their first championship. New Chairman MISAWA left for our biggest transfer so far. 1,2mln. And than this happened. Moniezzzzz. Now we are in the plus. YASUDA Intake 2029 Looked good on paper but once the players joined the u-18...only 4 players had higher than 3 star potential so this intake seems to be really bad. No Foreign intake. KOBAYASHI seems as the best of the bunch. Already at 2,5 star ability so that is great. Love the pace. Let's see. Will probably join the first team as I will have to sell soon.