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Me! I've always played without using attribute masking and relying on player search, but in my current save I've been trying to avoid that, only signing players who are fully scouted (or trusting on my judgement if they're not fully scouted). Started with Club Brugge, predicted to finish 2nd in the league, but we were actually in 8th. I held my job until the January window because we were doing alright in the Conference League (I almost lost a match to Lincoln Red Imps in the group stage though). After the transfer window I went 5 matches unbeaten, but lost one and they sacked me. New manager actually got knocked out of the UECL in the Round of 16 (where I left) and finished the league in 11th, but he managed to win the league next season. Then I went to Belgium 3rd Division with R Knokke FC, but the team was terrible. Once we lost 3 or 4-0 and I ironically praised the team because I was angry. They reacted well. For me that was the end and I've resigned after 4 months with my team in 18th (last place), although our xG said we should be 2nd (!!!). After that I went to FC Blau-Weiss Linz in Austria and only now things are starting to look better. Got in a relegation battle when I arrived, lost 10 games in a row, but actually managed to save the club in the final day. Last season I finally overachieved in this save and finished 6th with a club predicted to be last (we don't have money, so signing good players and real gems without using player search is really hard).

Mine was a match in Brazilian Série B, I was fighting against relegation with Operário-PR and we've faced Coritiba (one of the best teams in the division) away. Coritiba comfortably scored 3-0 past us and we couldn't even hit the target, but I did some tweaks in the 70th minute and, all of a sudden, everything clicked, we've scored in the 72th and again in the 74th minute to make it 3-2. I don't know why, but Coritiba seemed in shock with the goals and changed the formation to a 3-4-3. It only helped me and in the 87th minute my striker scored a beauty to make it 3-3. Coritiba were putting men forward and searching for the winning goal, but in the 93th minute we hit them with a magnificent counter-attack to make it 4-3. I remember that I ran like crazy in my house celebrating, it was incredible.

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I was using the editor when I saw this thread, so I've decided to take a look into it. Usually the best player with 1 in a certain attribute (excluding goalkeepers sometimes) has a CA between 80 and 110, but there are some examples below and above that margin. In South Korea's 2nd tier you have midfielder Bruno Lamas playing for Busan IPARK with Concentration 1 and CA 117. Kaoru Mitoma's dirtiness is 1, although this can be considered a good thing as well. Obviously his CA is bigger than 110 (149, to be exact) In Ecuador 1st division, left midfielder Braian Oyola has Jumping Reach 1 and CA 115 (he's just 1.58m, so it's completely understandable) Anthony Elanga from Nottm Forest has Marking 1 and 130 of CA. To be honest, I'm from Brazil, so I've never paid attention to Elanga (I don't even know if I have seen a match where he was playing). However, he plays in the Premier League. Considering that a lot of amateur players are in the game at the lower rep teams, I very much doubt that Elanga's marking ability is worse than an average sunday league footballer, imagine then comparing to people who doesn't play at all (like me). He is obviously better. I think it's used to determine that a player is REALLY bad at something compared to professional footballers, and sometimes I think it's just to give enough room to increase other attributes (I believe this is the case with Elanga). Funny thing: there was a defender while searching called Kenner Gutiérrez that had 1 for Teamwork, Crossing, Dribbling and Technique, but I think someone was really mad with him because all of his set attributes are really low . His CA is 107, but his recommended CA in editor was 1. And when you load him in FM, he's actually quite good for the level he's playing.

This save with FC Jazz didn't last long. We had the worst odds in the league (with the exception of Honka/Akatemia, who didn't had odds), and with three relegation spots it was always going to be hard to avoid the drop. I actually felt that we could've avoided that, but our slumps in form during the season were too critical. Our attack was quite decent to be fair, we only had six games without scoring in the entire season, but our defence clearly didn't had the level to compete and was atrocious. Our attack was the 3rd best in the league (alongside EIF), but our defence was the 2nd worst, only above Honka/Akatemia. It's a shame that it ended like this, especially because we had a lot of promising youngsters coming through the ranks. I'll definetely try this challenge again, it's so much fun to try to make a limited team work.

90+4 minute. I'm winning 1-0 and trying to hold the result with everything I have. Opposition has a dangerous free kick in the left side of the box. Goalkeeper Koponen goes to the area. The freekick is taken and Koponen simply tries to score with his hands! The obvious result:

Trying this challenge again, this time bringing some music to this thread with FC Jazz from Finland. A club that has a decent history, much to my surprise - the Paprikapaidat (Pepper shirts, in English) has won the first division twice, in 1993 and 1996.

Hi everybody, I'm playing with the team I support (Vasco) and, this time, I've set my DoF to make player signings and to take care of contracts. Although I think he's quite slow, he's trying to sign some players. Usually, what I'm doing is to set scouting duties, get the results and, if I like a player, ask my DoF to sign him. However, I'm having a problem with staff. Actually, my DoF brought four new scouts and a reserve assistant manager. However, I seriously need an assistant manager to the first team and he doesn't seem to care. I don't want to negotiate contracts with staff myself, so I have two questions: 1) I have placed an advert looking for an assistant manager and got a lot of interest. If I shortlist my favourite options, this is going to make my DoF try to sign them more actively? 2) Is there any other way to make DoF sign a specific staff quicker? Thanks

I'll start again. Had problems with my computer and lost a lot of progress with Villa Española. Don't know where I'm going to manage, I tried Slovenia but rules there are awful. Maybe Ireland, Turkey or something more random like Albania or Kosovo. Edit: I just realized that there's no relegation in Ireland...

VILLA ESPAÑOLA - 2026 Youth Intake Uruguayan Second Division Well, there is no other word to say that: this is terrible. I've signed six players only because I wanted to have a full U19 team, hoping that someone is going to become better than the predictions, because they all look awful right now. For me, the best one is Santiago Rivero. Finishing 17, Determination 15, Resolute personality and decent pace, this is alright - other atributes are terrible, though. Also, I want to bring something that I forgot in my last update: I had to rebuild half of my staff, because all the brazilians I brought to the club, including HoYD René Simões, decided to leave after their contracts expired in June. My finances are really bad right now, so I'm planning to rebuild it again to save money. Villa Española had two youth intakes and there's no one who barely looks like a good football player, so we need to recover our financial status as soon as possible to make improvements in our facilities. This isn't just going to be a youth only challenge, is going to be a financial one as well.

VILLA ESPAÑOLA - 2025 SEASON Uruguayan Second Division Well, things went quickly wrong... remember that we already had a spot secured in the Playoffs after winning the Torneo Competencia at the start of the season. However, after that epic 8-4 against Uruguay Montevideo, our 3-2-3-2 system quickly became vulnerable at the back. We have conceded in 14 straight matches. Our attack scored in 11 of those matches, but it wasn't enough for us to grab a lot of points - we only got one win and five draws in this sequence. At this point, we were in last place in the regular season table, although relegation wasn't a real problem for us due to our great start in Torneo Competencia. However, something needed to change. I've decided to re-evaluate our squad, and I found two big problems. If you ask me right now, I'll say they were obvious, but I simply couldn't realize at the time. First one was our wings - they were our best attacking threat, but also our biggest weakness in defense. I don't like to use full backs or wing back (D), but I had to do it since our options for attacking fullbacks were really limited. The other one was: our team was too small. So I built a taller back four along with my (newly set) defensive midfielder, even if players weren't the best ones available. So my new tactics looked like that: And it really helped our form. I knew that getting back to straight wins was almost impossible, but we managed to get some good results and play decent football. In this division we have to look at three tables go get the full picture, so here's how everything ended: Regular season: Overall table: Average points table: Playoffs: We have faced our rivals Rentistas in Playoff semifinals, and even with a below average regular season, I felt that we could beat them. We played the first match at home, and it wasn't good, they neutralized all of our threats and we lost 2-1 - it could have been even worse. For the second leg I made some changes in the midfield and it really worked, we went to halftime winning 3-1 away. However, Rentistas found another goal and took the game to penalties, where we lost our composure and missed all of them. It wasn't to be. Player of the season Lira was a joy to watch through the entire season, and he was the only player that maintained good exhibitions even when our form vanished. Really good player.

VILLA ESPAÑOLA - 2025 SMALL UPDATE I wasn't going to update things here until the end of the season, but I just played one of the most epic games of my entire in Football Manager. So, before the start of the Uruguayan Second Division, teams play a tournament called Torneo Competencia. 14 clubs are divided in two groups and, after six matches, the best team in each group qualifies to the final. Our tactic worked really well, and Villa Española managed to win all six games in the group, to my entire surprise. And we were playing well, not just winning, which is even best. We were going to face Uruguay Montevideo in the final. I was expecting a tough match, but they outclassed us in the entire first half. They went to the half-time winning 3-0, and it could've been more. In the dressing room, I've subbed my RPM and went with a trio upfront, two Advanced Forwards and one Target Man. I did this in the final minutes of the match against Rocha and it paid off, as you can see by the late, late goals. However, Uruguay Montevideo scored 4-0 in the 53th minute. At this point, I was hoping that I could avoid an humilliation. But the team suddenly clicked. I hadn't changed anything since the fourth goal. And then this happened: I don't know how we did that, but we simply turned into prime Real Madrid for the rest of the game and scored 8 GOALS. Uruguay Montevideo looked powerless, especially during the extra time. A fabulous win. Now we are champions of Torneo Competencia. What does it means to us? Not too much, but we have actually secured a spot in the league playoff semifinals, even if we finish dead last. Now, teams are going to play 26 games in the regular season, but the Overall Table already looks like this: And what about relegation? Well, there is another table with Average Points, they take into consideration this season and the last one (if you're promoted or relegated, they'll only count the current season). So even if we have a terrible regular season, we need to finish at least in 12th place.

Villa Española - First Update Hello! I'll be starting with Villa Española in the Uruguayan 2nd tier. They were founded in 1952 and play in Obdulio Jacinto Varela stadium, with 3.7k capacity. Villa Española played in the First Division recently, in 2021 - they had back to back relegations, however. I have already played pre-season games and also had our first youth intake. I'm going to show the highlights below. My profile: Current squad: Best players: Tactics: We've been playing like this so far. Firstly, I've tried to use two half backs and two WCBs in support role. Our tactical shape was similar to what I thought first, but I felt that the team lacked numbers in attack, so I have switched to this more straightforward version. We are conceding a lot of chances, but also creating a lot, so overall I'm quite pleased right now. As you can see in the screenshot below, our preseason went quite well. First two games were against lower league opposition, I think we were unlucky in both of them, specially against Unión de Durazno: they had two shots and scored three goals! That's when I've switched tactics to this one in the screenshot, and the team got more balanced after that. We won our rivals Cerrito and beat Cerro, a team of our division. YOUTH INTAKE: I forgot to take a screenshot of all 16 players, but there are 11 players that I have signed: Nothing to be really excited here, but I really like Martín Díaz and Guillermo Sosa, they both were already promoted to the first team. Díaz is going to be one of our options to the DM roles; Sosa is being retrained to ML and is going to be the imediate replacement to Alan Olivera. Nahuel Lima and Matías Suárez are also good, but their personalities (Casual and Unambitious) are really bad, so I'm keeping them in the U19s right now. I also brought some staff with me, and my best addition so far was the signing of Brazilian HoYD René Simões. As a Brazilian, I know him really well, he's an experienced manager and even managed my club IRL. But the best thing is that he's a Model Citizen, so hopefully this is going to increase our chances of getting a great intake next year. Facilities and finances: