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May 2018 (including play-offs!!)
Yes!!!!!! Promoted! We beat Peña Deportiva, the champions of the Balearic Islands group of the Tercera División! They can still get promoted to their respective Segunda B division though, they still have to get through two more play-off rounds, but we're through!
Next season's wage budget is 375K p/a, for now, which I'm actually very pleased with, a 50% raise while we're in quite a poor financial situation. Whether it'll be enough to stay up next year will be something to watch out for I guess...
Our Tercera Legends! (A bit of hyperbole is allowed after winning a title I say
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What a season it has been!
Next season will be very tough but exciting.
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April 2018
Champions!!! With one game to go in the season. What a season it has been! The month has went well although once again I was annoyed at how we played at times we got the results!
Note though that being champions does not mean we are promoted! We still have to play at least one play-off game!
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4 minutes ago, Sheriff7 said:
No it wasn't him.. I won promotion from Primera Catalana and i was in good form like you in Tercera but then i had some problems with my laptop (i change it) and then start my save in Gibraltar.. Anyway good luck i can't wait see you beat Real and Barca..
I see. It'll take a long time yet before we beat the big two... if ever but thanks for the confidence
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March 2018
Besides the youth intake a perfect month! Although it has to be said that the performances were far from perfect, but the wins were there and no goals conceded! All the teams we beat are to the lower end of the table but still, those wins count just as much as any other.
The first place is ours again and the play-offs seem more and more secure, 11 point-gap!
Also this happened, pretty nice surprise since I didn't even know they were doing this! I had noticed we always filled up our stadium but now I can see why.
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With the poor facilities and all I did not have high expectations for the first youth intake but it's not actually possible to be worse than this I Think......
Because there are a few with good personalities I've given them a youth contract but otherwise no.... goodbye. Maybe try a different sport.
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February 2018
A poor month although we got our biggest win yet. Especially the first game of the month was a disappointment, as the two away games were going to be tough anyway. We did lose the first spot to Rapitenca, but we still have a 5 point lead to 5th place. Still a very tense league with 10 more matches to be played in the regular season.
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4 hours ago, Lenzar said:
You've signed a player called Zazu?
hahaha nice spot, my DoF actually found him, maybe he's a fan of the lion king?
He seems decent for this level.
4 hours ago, Sheriff7 said:Good luck,i manage them in fm17 but i started from Primera Catalana(editor)..Excellent start i will follow this..
P.S Did you left Saez or you couldn't keep him because if i remember wright he is very talented..
Awesome, have you had much success? I decided to limit myself to the tercera because I'm not on a very fast computer at the moment.
This was the only Saez previously at the club but the AI let him go before I took over.
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January 2018
A decent but not great month, with two home wins and 1 point from the 2 away games. Because the opposition (mainly Prat) failed though, we have retaken first spot and actually have the biggest lead yet, 4 points. Still only 6 to 5th place though, so it's still not really comfortable.
I've also done some more transfers during the season but the registration period is now closed so no more comings and goings for the last few months. I did not mention it before but I've actually let my DoF offer for players and some of the incomings were his finds. Since there are only 22 registration spots and only 16 for players over 23 I've let go some of the Andorran players already at the club when I joined. There are still some Andorran players playing in the first team though, and I hope to keep at least one Andorran player at all times in the first team squad..
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December 2017
Poor start to the month, we should be able to beat the last team in the league. Losing against Prat was another blow, since right now they seem to be the biggest rival for the title. two wins to end the month though, so all by all not that bad. We have lost the 1st position though and have 5 points left as a gap to 5th place.
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November 2017
A bit of a return to form and we got a little bit of a lead again to the non play-off spots, but for the title it's still really really close.
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2 hours ago, smp20 said:
Interesting challenge and good start, will be following
Thank you!
In the meantime I've looked a bit more into the club. They don't actually have a website... but they do have a facebook page. I quite like their kits.
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October 2017
A little bit of a disappointing month after the great start we had with only 4 goals scored in 5 matches and two wins from five, but we're still in third. It's ridiculous how close the league is right now, the top 5 clubs are all on 23 points and the teams behind are very close as well. It's very dangerous to get in a form slump, as you can see when you look at Sant Andreu. They were 1st last month and are now 10th... should be an exciting season, hopefully we can start scoring some more goals though.
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September 2017
September was another very good month even though we got our first loss of the competitive season. For now we are looking very good to compete for the play-off spots and even the title, a four-point lead on 5th already. We don't actually play any cup-games this season.
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August 2017
A promising start to the season with quite a lot of goals. My first choice striker is still on an amateur deal though and I've not been able so far to get him to sign a part-time contract so I just hope he stays.
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Pre-Season
Pre-season has went pretty well, a couple of wins and some losses but as I'm new to this level it's quite hard to say how well we've really done! Also, I've tried hard getting in new players but it's not really been smooth sailing.
We got some players in but honestly no-one really is crazily good or even absolutely better than what we already got, although some positions did get some much needed improvements. some players left, including some I would've preferred to keep but if Segunda B clubs come in with 40K p/a salaries then I just say goodbye and try to get a replacement.
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Welcome to my actual last thread of FM17. My last thread got cancelled early on because of save-file manipulation and I wasn't really feeling it anyway so I have decided to return to a one-club career, and one I was not going to be able to try at the start of FM18.
The club I will be taking over is F.C. Andorra.
Quite a lovely crest if I say so myself!
They play in the Primera Catalana, which translates to the fifth tier of Spanish football. That's right, they are much like San Marino Calcio in Italy: a club that hails from a small European nation but plays in the football pyramid of a much larger one. Of course FC Andorra are not playable in the vanilla DB of Football Manager, but with a data-update it is possible.
And what a moment it seems to be to take control of this club!
I'm using a data-update for the Spanish system which adds the Tercera División, the fourth tier of Spanish football, and after a year of holidaying FC Andorra came up, with a whole range of other clubs. Because, if you didn't know already, the Tercera División consists of eighteen regional leagues. FC Andorra plays in the Catalan leagues (their spot in the Primera Catalana was a give away) so they have been promoted to play in the 5th group of the Tercera Division, the Catalan group of course. I've also loaded the Claassen update for the Andorra leagues, and have loaded all players from Spanish and Andorran nationalities and all players who are based in the two nations.
The main goal for this thread will be to improve the club - but I don't have a set target otherwise. I don't know yet how long I will be continuing this career. At least until the next game is released, but maybe longer than that if I'm still really enjoying this save.
Some more screenshots to show you what I'm dealing with:
Not the best of facilities obviously, and the club has turned semi-professional after the promotion to the Tercera División. No grand history or anything, so a clean slate for me.
Even though we have just been promoted, we are already predicted to finish 5th, and the board wants me to get to the promotion play-offs (top 4). That won't be easy, seeing as we've just turned semi-pro and all the players are on amateur contracts and we have zero staff. I've also not given myself any playing history or badges.
This is the squad at the start and as you can see they're all on amateur contracts. Some players seem decent though, I just hope I can keep them. I've been given a 250K p/a wage budget but since I've no knowledge of players I'm not sure how easy it's going to be to get players in that are big improvements.
Just one more screenshot that is of interest:
The league rules. We can only register 22 players, of which only 16 are allowed to be older than 23 years, which is a real pain. All of the players already here are old and for me it's not so easy to find new young players who can immediately improve my squad. Oh well, we'll have to make do I guess. We also can only use 5 subs, which I don't like at all.
But welcome to my thread! I'm going to update this thread somewhat differently than I've done in the past. I've usually done these threads (semi-)annually, but this time I'll post updates monthly, just to see if that'll improve my threads and to be more regular with it, and I don't have to wait with posting anything. I've also enjoyed other threads on here that do it like that.
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Congratulations!! Planning on taking the USA job as soon as it's available?
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Have fun, finally in Spain and a lovely club as well imo.
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Having been away from the forums and the game for a while, I was happy to see that this was one of the threads still going.
I can safely say that I still feel that way after having read the 40 pages that were new to me over the last week or so, amazing progress in-game and your added touch of.... how shall I put it... brilliance (or insanity) ... have made it even more enjoyable to read.
I also always like to see the evolution of the game-world during the years, very interesting to see Spain dropping away and the bizarre French developments. Maybe it will be time for you to manage in Spain after leading Partizan to a Champions League victory which I'm sure won't be that much longer seeing how well you have fared generally.
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Heh, Good luck with the Dutch... and Fiorentina of course.
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Very well done so far, although bad luck with the injuries. I'm definitely gonna follow this.
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These are the best I've probably seen in a classic game. They score crazy amounts of goals. Bought Bryan for €5M, already got offers from PSG for up to €50M but no way I'm letting him go. Boucaud is my secondary striker, who plays any time Bryan is not fully fit.
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[FM17] How Andorra somehow became the Catalan football capital.
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Pre-Season 2018
Certainly financially we needed to get promoted to at least get some money in.
We do have a bit of a wage budget but I'm not using all of it. As far as the expectations are concerned, it's not possible to fail them! Obviously I will attempt to avoid relegation and we start the cup in the first round. The cup could be a way to make some further money so it would be nice if we did well there.
The Segunda B has a couple of different rules, although the squad rules are pretty much the same although now there is a rule that I can not pick more than 2 GK's and more than 20 outfield players. Kind of pointless. I can name 7 subs now, and there is a bit of prize money. Playoffs work the same.
As you can imagine it was a very very busy transfer window, with a lot of players leaving or being released. I got in quite a few loan players as they are very cheap (most of them I don't pay any salary at all) and actually very talented if you compare them to the players I can sign permanently. I'm about 90k under the wage budget I think. We're still losing money like crazy but every bit helps maybe?
After the season update (july 10th) we were predicted to finish 18th (a relegation spot) but after the transfer period we are predicted to finish 16th, which is just above the relegation spots.
The pre-season friendlies went well, but they were not against the best of opposition and as always only competitive games will really show if we have what it takes for this level.