DaneBramage

May 2039 - Beira-Mar Third Division - Promotion Stage Group 1 Boom, nailed it. A very good run through the other top sides from the division. Highlights include Joao Fati scoring his first goals for the club in a first-half hat-trick against Vitoria de Setubal, then Valdir Tavares recovering after a few weeks out to smash home four goals in the final two games. An unbeaten run set us up nicely to take top place, confirming promotion and putting us into the champions play-off final. Let's hope history doesn't repeat itself though - the final is again seeing us face Belenenses. At this stage last year they beat us to win the fourth tier trophy. It's clear both teams shouldn't have been so low down in the pyramid though as we've both managed consecutive promotions. They slightly fluked their way to this game though, they only reached the promotion stage by finishing fourth in the first part of the season. -------------------------------------------------------------- Third Division - Champions Play-Off Final Revenge! We absolutely mullered them, only one team in it. --------------------------------------------------------------

March 2039 - Beira-Mar Job Offers I'm a man in demand. Casa Pia are 11th in the Primeira Liga, so that's a non-starter. Also seems like too unrealistic a jump (says the person who's been jumping all around the world). But Vizela is an interesting one. Second in Liga 2 and with a good chance of promotion. I'm applying for this. But it wasn't to be this time. They instead went with a fella who'd been unemployed for a couple of months after being fired by relegation-threatened Vilafranquense. Never mind. --------------------------------------------------------------

March 2039 - Beira-Mar Job Offers 16th and 17th in Liga 2. No thanks. -------------------------------------------------------------- Third Division - North This kind of fixture scheduling is really annoying. It's a pain having to constantly add friendlies every fortnight to keep players fit. We gained revenge on Braga B and Trofense for the losses at the start of the season. Valdir Tavares was on fire with seven goals in three games. The draw against Fafe on the final day meant they were the only side we didn't beat at least once this season. A pretty dominant performance. Scored at least 14 goals more than anyone else, and the only side to end with a double-figure goal difference. We now go into a four team promotion group. Top goes up automatically, second goes into a play-off against a Liga 2 side. --------------------------------------------------------------

November 2038 - Beira-Mar Transfer Business Six players left over the summer - a starting midfielder and a starting left-back, three back-ups, and a youngster. We received £245k, massive money compared to the rest of my career. The recruitment staff then brought in 11 players, consisting of five free transfers and six loans (with loan fees costing £26k). -------------------------------------------------------------- Third Division - North Not the started we wanted. We'd lost a pre-season friendly to Braga B so another loss here wasn't unexpected, but the manner of it sucked. We were leading until we were reduced to ten men just before half-time, and the red card cost us as we were just battered after the break. I was having second thoughts at this point, wondering if I should have jumped ship at the end of last season. This is more like it. We were much better than Gondomar and the stoppage-time winner from a well-worked tap-in was deserved, then we tore UD Oliveirense to shreds in a first-half thrashing. A busy month, but a good one. We found our groove and the wins came rolling in. But all good things come to an end, and sloppy defending allowed Fafe to grab a 94th minute winner. It's going well at the halfway stage. Top four teams qualify for the next stage, and we're in top spot to make it at the moment. --------------------------------------------------------------

International management in the Nations League is definitely something I want to do. No interest in League A of course, but Leagues B, C, and D could all be appealing. Divisions B and C in the North American version too.

June 2038 - Beira-Mar Squad Stats Valdir Tavares had an incredible year, scoring 33 times en route to becoming the division's top scorer and player of the season. Leandro rivalled him in the early stages but couldn't keep up, but still did well to end up with 20 goals. They each provided nine assists, just being outdone by my wingers who managed 10 each. -------------------------------------------------------------- History A tenth promotion was secured, but I couldn't add the trophy to go with it. A little disappointing, but it doesn't really matter. For the first time in a while, I haven't put in my resignation after promotion. The board want us to be in the promotion mix in 2038/39, the media think we're one of the favourites, and Valdir Tavares is expected to be top scorer again. So I'm sticking around to give the next level a go. -------------------------------------------------------------- Languages New: Portuguese (basic) Total: 16 (7 fluent, 2 good, 7 basic) --------------------------------------------------------------

June 2038 - Beira-Mar Campeonato de Portugal - Promotion Stage Group B We battered our way through the promotion group easily, beating everyone in sight until a draw on the final day. We won more games and scored more goals than the other three teams combined. Promoted in style. But there's still one game to go, the final against Belenenses to decide who would be crowned champions. -------------------------------------------------------------- Campeonato de Portugal - Champions Play-Off Final Ah, nevermind. There goes the 27 game unbeaten streak. Lucky that trophies aren't a priority or I'd be annoyed by this. --------------------------------------------------------------

April 2038 - Beira-Mar Campeonato de Portugal - Prio B Eight wins in a row, then two draws to end the regular season. Guess which two games came after my last update, when I said it was too easy. The FM Gods are always watching. It feels like a crime that we're not promoted automatically at this stage, look at that winning margin and goal difference. We now go into a group of four, along with Sao Joao de Ver, and Freamunde (62 points) and Felgueiras 1932 (58 points) from Prio A. Top two go up. --------------------------------------------------------------

January 2038 - Beira-Mar Campeonato de Portugal - Prio B This is just too easy. Eight big wins, scoring at least three times in each of them, and even when it looked like we were going to suffer a loss we snatched a 95th minute equaliser. I have no idea what standard of player I was expecting at this level, but my two strikers are tearing the opposition apart. We're running away with this. --------------------------------------------------------------

November 2037 - Beira-Mar Transfer Business There was no money to spend, but my recruitment team were still busy during the transfer window. Nine players came in on either loans or free transfers, made up of a mixture of Portuguese, Brazilians, and Ghanaians. They may have overdone really, matchday squads require at least 14 homegrown players in the squad (out of 20). So at least a couple are having to sit out each game. -------------------------------------------------------------- Campeonato de Portugal - Prio B I thought a 4-0 demolition job on the opening day would get the team on side, but afterwards there was a team meeting where they said they weren't happy with my management. I'm assuming that's a bit of a bug, a hangover from the old manager. Happiness is slowly improving as we rack up the wins, and the occasional team bonding session added to the training calendar also helps, but there's still a negative feeling in the camp. Very good start. We're the second most reputable team in the division (over all four groups) and the board want an immediate promotion, but it's not as simple as finishing in the top two. That just qualifies you for another promotion stage, but that's a long way off for now. --------------------------------------------------------------

June 2037 Job Search I had my longest spell out of management, spending more than a year on the sidelines as the updated gameworld settled with the new leagues in place. Once the 2036/37 season had finished, a lot of jobs came available and I applied for a bunch of them. There were a couple of teams just relegated from the Ukrainian top tier, as well as one that avoided relegation from the second tier. There were two teams that just avoided relegation from the Portuguese third tier, as well as two that couldn't achieve the same and are going down. And there were two that had finished midtable in the Portuguese fourth tier. I was granted four interviews, all in Portugal. Loures and Montalegre were the two midtable fourth tier sides, and Beira-Mar and Beleneneses were being relegated to this level. The four interviews earned two job offers, from Loures and Beira-Mar. Wage budgets were pretty much the same, so I went with Beira-Mar figuring they probably have the higher reputation due to being in the third tier more recently, and also that I've heard of them before. --------------------------------------------------------------

May 2036 - AS Punaruu Squad Stats There's a lot of goals in this squad, but a large glaring weakness in midfield. -------------------------------------------------------------- History Another promotion secured, but we bottled winning the trophy. -------------------------------------------------------------- Hall of Fame The points earned for winning the cup saw me jump into the Tahiti Hall of Fame in 6th place. -------------------------------------------------------------- Languages Basic French is the 15th language I can now speak. -------------------------------------------------------------- Job Search It's time for my P45 again. And now I've ticked Oceania off the list, I'm done with created leagues. It's time to move on to the OOTB leagues, which should be more of a challenge. RNG has decided the first six nations I'll load up, but it will take a while for all to be active. --------------------------------------------------------------

May 2036 - AS Punaruu Ligue 2 Wow. Out of nowhere, we just turned completely rubbish. We dropped more points in the final five league fixtures than we had the previous 16. We forgot how to score goals, and twice shipped three or more. We did manage to win the cup though, but cups are stupid. Mad that we beat AS Tefana's senior side after only drawing with their B team, and AS Central Sport were the victors of Ligue 1. Luckily, we'd done enough in the first five games to stay in the promotion places. AS Mataiea overtook us to claim top spot, but none of the other sides could put a run of form together to capitalise on our collapse. --------------------------------------------------------------

@Jimbokav1971 This is for FM23, so hopefully it's still the same. Dev. Centre > Under 19s > Tactics. Then the Primary Tactic dropdown has a choice of the tactics you've got set up, or your U19s manager's choice.

April 2036 - AS Punaruu Ligue 2 Four wins and a draw, we've smashed the first half of the second stage. After not scoring at all in the first stage, although he was normally a sub at this time, Matthias Deneux has turned deadly with seven goals in six games. We gained revenge for our only loss so far, turning over AS Excelsior 4-1 at their own place. Things are looking rosy. We hold a five point lead at the top, and an eight point lead over third place. But AS Tefana 2 can't get promoted, so it's actually the nine point lead over fourth place that matters. --------------------------------------------------------------

February 2036 - AS Punaruu Ligue 2 After facing everyone we've managed eight wins, including hitting a couple of teams for six. The only loss came to AS Excelsior, the side I declared interest in but never got a response. Our best player, Alexandre Leonard, has 14 goals so far. We finished top of the first stage by three points. The league is now split into two groups of six. We play everyone else in the top half twice, and the top two get promoted. Points earned so far are wiped, but we get a two point headstart for leading the first stage. --------------------------------------------------------------

July 2035 Job Search After I resigned from Dushanbe-83 I was offered my first international job, taking on the reins of the Tajikistan national team. With no prospect for promotion though, I had to turn it down and focus on finding a role in Tahiti. Looking for a job in Tahiti severely limited my options though. There were 12 teams in Ligue 2, but six of them were B teams for bigger clubs. So in reality there were only six to aim for. AS Excelsior were struggling near the bottom of the table, so I declared my interest in the role and the media immediately made me favourite for the job. But they stuck with their manager, and after the midway league split they performed much better and finished top of the relegation play-off group. This resulted in his job status becoming secure again. In the end, it turned out to be none of the current Ligue 2 clubs that I signed with. I was still unemployed come the end of the season, so I looked at the Ligue 1 sides who were being relegated. AS Punaruu sacked their manager, and I pounced. --------------------------------------------------------------

November 2034 - Dushanbe-83 Squad Stats With his 19 goals Shahboz Habibov was the league's top scorer. -------------------------------------------------------------- History Although it looked like it might not happen at times, I added another promotion to my record. Luckily whenever we slumped we managed to turn it around before it ended up as a big problem. -------------------------------------------------------------- Language I've learnt Tajik to a good level. -------------------------------------------------------------- Job Search Here we go again. With Asia ticked off, that now leaves just Oceania. And Tahiti is the only nation with a second playable league eligible (Tuvalu has a second division, but doesn't have promotion between the two). So for now I will be only be looking out for jobs in Tahiti (although that may change if it takes too long and I get bored). --------------------------------------------------------------

November 2034 - Dushanbe-83 First Division Well this is a good time to turn competent again. The win against Barkchi confirmed promotion, the win against second placed Vahdat gave us the title, With the amount of goals we scored this should have been more convincing, more than once I thought we were going to bottle it. --------------------------------------------------------------

October 2034 - Dushanbe-83 First Division Well this is a bad time to turn rubbish again. The one positive is that the one win against Kuktosh was a 1st v 2nd clash, losing that one would have been disastrous. It could be any two from the top three, I wouldn't like to bet either way at the moment. --------------------------------------------------------------

September 2034 - Dushanbe-83 First Division There was a month's break after our last game in July, so I put together a couple of friendlies to keep us active, and also hopefully see us play our way back into form. And it worked. Since then we've gone six games unbeaten, scoring 18 times. Shahboz Habibov scored in each of these matches and is now at 16 for the season. We dropped to third after the draw with Shohmansur, but now we're back in the driving seat. Vahdat struggled this period, only picking up six points from six games. --------------------------------------------------------------

July 2034 - Dushanbe-83 First Division The odds for us to win the league were 91-1 on. So that tenner would get me a return of about £10.11. But after six games we're looking good for that 11p profit. After 11 games however, we very much are not. Our form has just imploded with four losses in the last five games. The 5-4 loss to Dushanbe was just embarrassing. We were 3-1 up with then minutes left, then 4-3 up with two minutes left. Just appalling all round to throw that away. Top two get promoted, and we're there at the halfway stage. But if we continue as we have been we'll swiftly be overtaken by the chasing pack. --------------------------------------------------------------

November 2033 - Dushanbe-83 First Division Well that was easy. Don't know what they were doing before to be in such a mess. Ended up in midtable, a long way out of trouble. -------------------------------------------------------------- History I'll put a tenner on us winning the league next year. --------------------------------------------------------------

November 2033 Job Search Tajikistan also run a summer league, so when I applied for the job it was near the end of the season with four games remaining. A few weeks later I got the Dushanbe-83 role, with just two games remaining. And it is tight at the bottom. Our final two games are against Fayzkand (2nd) and Mohir (11th). Beating Mohir will be the vital one, get that wrong and we could well be relegated, which would make for a very short spell here. We've scored just 14 goals all season, and our top scorer has two. This may have been a silly move. --------------------------------------------------------------

September 2033 - Atyra Squad Stats I'm pleased with four players getting into double-figures, our left-winger and two strikers were generally deadly throughout the season. Not that I'm going to, but I think this would have been a fun squad to carry on with and give a go at a higher level. -------------------------------------------------------------- History Lucky number seven, again completed within two seasons. -------------------------------------------------------------- Job Search Once more into the unknown. With South America ticked off I'm planning now to move to Asia or Oceania. And there's no wasting time, I've already thrown my name into the hat for a job in Tajikistan. --------------------------------------------------------------