Ice029

Finland is weird man. In the season we got promotion to 2nd league we also won the cup (EUROPE BABYYYY) cuz every big team kept losing to teams slightly weaker and some nobodies from the 3rd tier with a bit of tactics just swooped in and yoinked the trophy: Other worthy updates: - All intakes are golden generations cuz team bad and recruitment got better (I am paying half a mil a year for the youth setup, europe money are a godsend) - No incoming transfers (no screenshot to avoid spam, you have to believe me) - We going professional next season Mennään Pallo-Iirot

Without further to do, Finland here I come. I'll try to post updates but I can't promise anything. The team, chosen because of the color scheme. All 3 promoted team were equally good (read bad) so we go for the yellow-blue bois: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallo-Iirot - wiki page for who cares about them : Starting state of the team, poor as expected. We will be above Real Madrid some day. Some day in the quite distant future: The manager, a nobody with a big dream: The save state, valid for this challenge of course:

I never knew about that screen... Took me a while to find it but here we go, the team I want seems to be eligible

I ended up simulating another season, I got 3 new teams but something looks very weird... Find below the proof that the team I picked is not playable in S2 and S1 and if you are happy it satisfies the rules IT'S ON (the loops and hoops I need to get through just because of a pyramid change) 15 dec 2023(start of season 2): End of season 2 results(all 3 teams with R and red background have gone unplayable): Start of season 3: The teams that remained in the division are marked with the R The teams that got relegated from the 2nd tier(Ykkösliiga) are marked with P (JJK and Honka) Teams that were unplayable in S2 have no letter I will be using P-Iirot (Pallo-Iirot) beacause of the colors which were unplayable in 2023(S2) or at the start of the save:

@darren1983 @XaW(forgot to tag you xD): I need your judgement as arbiter of the rules for this challenge. I wanna go to Finland now but there is a change in league structure there. Digging through the database and irl articles, what seems to happen is that they are adding a 3rd tier which will contain the best teams from the old 3 tier which had 3 groups (now becoming the 4th tier, first unplayable in the game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_football_league_system - for reference the current pyramid Now my question is: are the teams in this new tier that were not playable at the start (10 out of 12 as 2 got relegated from a playable league) valid for this challenge or should I sim another season and pick one of the promoted teams to this new 3rd tier?

@darren1983 do I get a cookie?

One small step. I haven't updated much (if anything at all) but the youth-only Romania edition team just won the first european title in the year 2044. UCL and first to do Romania here I come!

What if we try this challenge again, this time in the country I love managing the most in: Spain. (this time I promise to at least try my best to finish it and not get distracted by sideprojects. Also regular updates here). Without further to do: Salamanca in Spain, might be on the easy side when it comes to first season (or first few) due to the team being what I can only describe as 'eh, not that bad for this level'. Media prediction is 7th by the way The Manager: Some starting details: (I know the team is eligible but the more I read into it the more overpowered as a starter it seems) No shenanigans in the DB: This will either be the most fun I had in the videogame or it will break my spirit completely.

So I guess it is time to suffer: This will be my big save for FM24, youth intake only or not. (Pray for me it is intake only, I need all the prayers)

Huston, I think there is a problem in Japan. I hired all relevant staff and did a sim until December, after the japanese teams get the intakes and: (I've added myself to a few teams and saw both October and November as intake months, still looking into this). Some team that was previously in J3: Team relegated from J2: Team promoted to J2 from J3: Same as above, I will skip screenshots to not create big spam Team that started in J2 and still in J2: Same Team relegated from J1: Same Team promoted to J1: Same Team that started in J1: Same There are no intakes in Japan after one full season. Tho there are a few teams that seem to have generated 15/16 yo players, will investigate tomorrow as it's getting late and I need my smarty sleep.

So I have a dilemma. When I joined the club I got an email with some ongoing transfers and of course I canceled everything. But I did not check other transfers and few weeks later when the season started these 4 dudes showed up uninvited at the club's door. Question is: since I had no saying in signing them, are they eligible or being transfers in season 2 they fall under the 'board signed players, send to 2nd team and get rid of asap'? The dudes:

I didn't initially wanted to go with the hype but I did a few resets in Japan and after far too many Hondas I found a team with a 12/10 badge so I have to attempt a Japan completion: Also manager:

Milestone 1 achieved. Now the real hard work starts.

'tiz but a minor setback.

So the year is 2030 and we are a mid-table team that sometimes plays in Europa Conference League thanks to a weird quirk in the Romanian league rules. But that is kinda all. Relegation is on the cards only if I somehow get a particularly terrible season, every year one of the best players either leaves or complains about wanting to leave, all the good stuff. In a way I've hit the grand grind and I am actually looking for it. And the question in this case is: are there any tips and tricks I am missing, other than waiting for the stars to finally align? Random picture with some stats: