Johnny-Trotter

I have enjoyed your Poland save, so I am glad it is continuing for now. Option 1 would be my preference, and in France in particular. There are lots of 'stories' in lower league France you could try as options for youth only - a Bordeaux rebuild (although that will be popular in FM25 I feel), or perhaps a team like Aviron Bayonnais who bring through Basque players, or perhaps a team from Corsica trying to take on the 'mainland'? I am currently doing an FM24 save which is in the bucket of option 2 - a regional journeyman in the Balkan/South East Europe area. I started in the Kosovan 4th tier, then moved to the Kosovan 2nd tier and after getting promotion and winning the cup I was poached by Cibilia in the Croatian 2nd tier. I have also considered a few other similar regional journeyman saves, like in the Nordics, or Benelux or countries around the Mediterranean or so on. It also saves my computer a bit by loading leagues in those regions and not taxing it too much more.

Ah - thanks for the correction then! Glad to see you finally get paid.

I understand this is a bug, and if you start on with a club on Amateur status with an N/A contract, they will never offer you a semi-pro or professional contract, as long as you remain at the club. They will continue to offer you N/A deals. Obviously if you moved to a new club, they would offer you a deal on some money instead. It just means that Tullibody have gotten 22+ seasons of your services for free

Cuiaba must be feeling left out - the only team not celebrating either promotion or continental qualification in the previous season

Great job - an amazing challenge completed!

You qualified for the Club World Cup because it was played in Spain and the host country seems to usually get one further spot. I'm guessing all other high level Spanish sides (Real Madrid, Sevilla) qualified through their performance in the Champions League and you were the highest 'next' team to get the host spot.

I remember managing United (ARU) in Aruba on FM22 (thanks to @V50's Caribbean expansion pack), and they play on a Sand surface. It was so funny seeing them coming out to on the light brown surface instead of grass, but I don't think it made much difference to how the game played at the end, apart from the visual aspect.

You could consider the Visegrad Cup for Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visegrád_Group

Presumably he was released by Toronto because the AI can't handle the MLS registration rules?

I have played a save as Eupen in FM22 and they are a mess - huge loans, most of which are due after one season, which is basically impossible to solve financially. The administrators often come in and sell youth and/or training facilities, which does earn money, but leaves the club renting others so not really feasible. The finances in Belgium don't help much too. Looks like you are making good progress here - keep it up!

I think that if you continue to risk up the rankings and improve Scotland's reputation, the question of distance being too far will be less of an issue. I would imagine that if Brazil offered any African side a friendly, they would be tripping over themselves to accept it.

Looking good so far. Great progress, and yet still plenty of work ahead. Strange to see Darmstadt and Koln in the Champions League. Is is possible that they qualified through the 2 'wild-card' places which UEFA added?

If you go to extended leagues (non-base game setup) like the Faroe Islands, or Estonia, you can have multiple reserve teams in lower leagues. Teams like Flora Tallinn, and most of the top division in the Faroes will have a second team and a third team in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th tiers and they can be used to develop players - as well as the u18/19 squad separately. The challenge here is that it's unlikely that few of these teams are professional in setup.