Career Neil Warnock Challenge - COMPLETED 8 SEASONS

[BigAl]

THE NEIL WARNOCK CHALLENGE. 

Hi Vibers 😄

My issue with FMM19 has been that I love managing a club for one season, then after promotion, I get bored and start a new save. It’s an endless cycle. 

I came across @danovic78 attempt at this challenge, across one save, and it sounded perfect for me! 

I can solely focus on getting clubs promoted, without worrying about second season syndrome 😍

WHAT ARE THE RULES?

- The rules are simple, start as a club of your choosing, get promoted, leave your position and apply for a job at another club (obviously not one in the top division!) 

- I will not be using any unlockables or in game editors. 

- Beat the current record set by @Cockers2505 of 9! 

our first club will be... 

 

 

Edited March 10, 2019 by BigAl

[Ran7777]

One of the most interesting challenge. Good luck👍👍

[BigAl]

PROMOTION #1 

Far from convincing but we won the league by 5 points. 

Quiet on the transfer front, only bringing in the brilliant João Félix on loan and signing Lahssaini as a backup winger. 

Habib Diallo ended the season as top scorer, with 23 goals. Not the most prolific I have ever had, but enough to fire us to glory. 

I enjoyed my first experience in the French leagues, but it’s now time to move on. Job done. 

Where do we go next.... 

 

[danovic78]

Nice start, always good to get one in the bag to start with.

QPR are an interesting choice, is there much budget to play with?

[FuddledFox]

First one on the board so well done mate 🙂

I think it will be easier to add your total on the leaderboard once the save is over.

If anyone else fancies ago at this the challenge can be found here.

 

[BigAl]

1 hour ago, danovic78 said:

Nice start, always good to get one in the bag to start with.

QPR are an interesting choice, is there much budget to play with?

Cheers mate 😁

Yeah QPR will be a challenge, they finished 14th last season. 5 million in the bank, will hope to generate more funds through player sales. 

It was the only job available at the start of the season, and I was too impatient to wait around 😅

1 hour ago, Foxy said:

First one on the board so well done mate 🙂

I think it will be easier to add your total on the leaderboard once the save is over.

If anyone else fancies ago at this the challenge can be found here.

 

Thanks man! 

Yeah no rush, can add me to the leaderboard once I’ve completed the save. 

Really enjoying this so far 😍

[BigAl]

QPR SUMMER TRANSFER WINDOW. 

16 arrivals, 24 players leave!!! 😎

I wasn’t fully confident I could earn promotion with QPR in the first season, but after some wheeling and dealing, the squad is looking good. 

What are your predictions? Winners? Scrape Play-Offs? Sacked?

Jordan Ayew for 1.8 million is the bargain of the save so far. 

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[FuddledFox]

I know exactly how good Ayew can be even in the Prem so I think if you get him firing you are going up.

[Fish18ish]

Will be following this closely. When you aren't settled at a club is when the game is hardest imo, so should be a bit of a challenge. 

[BigAl]

9 hours ago, Foxy said:

I know exactly how good Ayew can be even in the Prem so I think if you get him firing you are going up.

You’ll soon find out 😉

8 hours ago, Fish18ish said:

Will be following this closely. When you aren't settled at a club is when the game is hardest imo, so should be a bit of a challenge. 

Yeah mate, I’d love to get every club promoted first season, but I know that won’t always be the case. 

[Damilare]

Good start mate.... Very similar challenge to I and @Kanegan H2H but we move to specific lower leagues at the end of each season...

 

Keep it up....

 

[BigAl]

PROMOTION #2 

One of my greatest achievements on FMM19, getting QPR promoted in my debut season, with the club. 

Smashing that 100 points & goals barrier! 

You’ll see Jordan Ayew scooped both the Top Goalscorer and Player of the Year awards. He was excellent up until January, then started mouthing off about moving to a bigger club. Luckily we had Tammy Abraham to step up when Ayew stopped scoring. 

Goodbye QPR it’s been fun 😄

Next stop... 

[danovic78]

Nice work and interesting move up North.

I found these leagues quite tough too on the squads as there is quite a few cup competitions. 

Fill the squad is my advice.

[BigAl]

37 minutes ago, danovic78 said:

Nice work and interesting move up North.

I found these leagues quite tough too on the squads as there is quite a few cup competitions. 

Fill the squad is my advice.

Cheers mate. 

Yeah gonna make sure I have at least two players for every position, and a couple of utility players. 

Ross County finished second bottom, two consecutive seasons, so current squad is useless 😂

#WheelingAndDealing

[BigAl]

PROMOTION #3

I tried to plug-and-play my QPR tactic, but quickly realised this wouldn’t work.

The quality of player I had at Ross County was nowhere near good enough, to pull it off. 

After adapting my tactic, we won the league by 6 points 😄

KEY PLAYERS 

Marvin Sordell scored 28 and assisted 13 as our first choice striker. He hasn’t been prolific with other clubs, but has clearly found his level. 

Sam Stanton surprised me, as he was initially signed as a back up. Once he got a run in the side as an AP, he cemented his place. 15 goals and 17 assists is great for a player in a MC role. 

Jamie Walker was playing in the SS role, he performed well, although not as good as I had expected. He did score some very important goals, which is why he makes this list. 3 red cards shows he was sometimes a liability 😂

There were no surprises when I won both awards, considering we’d finished 11th two seasons in a row, prior to my arrival. 

We remain in Scotland next, but this next promotion challenge, will be more difficult than it looks on paper... 

That is because Hearts are BANKRUPT. 

The board insist I move players on to balance the books, I see no other option, as I have £0 transfer budget and the wage budget is minus 54K 😅

BRING ON THE CHALLENGE. 

[Ashez]

Nicely done mate!

[BigAl]

7 hours ago, Ashez said:

Nicely done mate!

Cheers mate, taking advantage of a weeks annual leave, by getting in some serious FMM19 time 😂

[BigAl]

PROMOTION #4 (JUST!!!) 

For the first time in this save, my side didn’t win the league. I thought I’d be smart and play a 3-2-2-2-1 formation, this clearly didn’t pay off. 

15 draws!!! You can sense how frustrated I was that we couldn’t hold onto a lead. 

We sneak through in the playoffs, so the job is done. No players are getting recognition after this catastrophe. 

Ironically despite this being my least successful side, it’s the first time I’ve lifted any domestic cups. I do tend to play weakened sides in the cups, as they’re irrelevant to the challenge. This time around I stuck by my first team, to avoid being sacked for my poor league form 😅

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I mentioned previously the club were bankrupt. It meant I was forced to sell the clubs top talents, would have loved to keep hold of Cochrane, Clare and Ikpeazu. 

I brought in 3.3 million in transfer fees, spending just 200K of this. It helped to balance the books, but did make this my hardest challenge yet. 

Rangers were kind enough to loan us 3x players with 0% wages paid by us. 

I think it’s time for a change of scenery, a new league we’ve not yet sampled. 

Next stop... 

 

[danovic78]

That was a tight one but promotion was achieved!

I nearly took the Augsburg job myself a few times but went for other ones instead.

Keep it going.

[BigAl]

2 hours ago, danovic78 said:

That was a tight one but promotion was achieved!

I nearly took the Augsburg job myself a few times but went for other ones instead.

Keep it going.

Yeah I’ve noticed that joining a recently relegated club, can be more difficult. 

You have a better quality player but majority of the squad have put in transfer requests and are unhappy. 

It’s a case of selling on and rebuilding. 

[FuddledFox]

Another one in the bag, well done 👍🏻 

[BigAl]

PROMOTION #5 

An UNBEATEN league campaign 😍

I really enjoyed my time at FC Augsburg, easily my favourite club to manage, on this save so far. 

I do have to admit I kinda cheated though... I did have Jonjo Shelvey pulling the strings in midfield... the equivalent to having an extra player on the park. 

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FAVOURITE SIGNING. 

Babacar Gueye was signed because he had a track record, of scoring goals in Bundesliga 2. 

He managed an impressive 27 goals and 19 assists in 35 appearances. 

Playing as a Target Man, he finished the season with an 8.00 AVG rating. 

We won’t be travelling far, as we move to Union Berlin. My second Bundesliga 2 club. 

Can we repeat our success? It’s too soon to tell. Berlin finished 8th last season, I’ll be looking to push on and win the title, following the blueprint which has already brought me success, in this league.

[BigAl]

UNEXPECTED EUROPEAN APPEARANCE. 

Picture the scene...

Transfer Window closes, pretty happy with my business, then a message pops up to tell me my Europa League draw. How is this possible for a Bundesliga 2 club!?

Union Berlin won the German Cup last season, and because they beat Bayern Munich in the final, they automatically qualified for the Europa League group stages. 

This was a massive surprise, as I never expected to appear in Europe during this challenge 😅

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[FuddledFox]

That could be a fun European adventure then so long as it doesn’t detract from the main goal of promotion.

[danovic78]

What a great unbeaten season, I have never come close!

How odd they won the cup? I never really paid any attention to the cups in my career so far, always played the reserves.

[BigAl]

15 hours ago, Foxy said:

That could be a fun European adventure then so long as it doesn’t detract from the main goal of promotion.

That’s it mate. Promotion is the goal, anything in Europe is a bonus. 

1 hour ago, danovic78 said:

What a great unbeaten season, I have never come close!

How odd they won the cup? I never really paid any attention to the cups in my career so far, always played the reserves.

They were a consistently mid table club, so yeah it’s a strange one. 

I’ll be resting some key players in Europe, yeah I’ve never paid much attention to the cups either. Won them by accident with Hearts 😂

 

[BigAl]

PROMOTION #6 

Not as comfortable a win as with FC Augsburg, but our squad wasn’t as good so I did expect it to be tough. 

Great to win Bundesliga 2 back to back. 

We topped our Europa League group, but went out in the 1st knockout round. This wasn’t part of the challenge, so I didn’t play my strongest team in Europe. 

Umar Sadiq was someone I was weary of signing, as he was a flop for my club Rangers in real life. 

He turned out to be an excellent target man, scoring a goal a game. 

He did experience injuries throughout the season, if he remained fit I’m sure he’d have scored 30+ goals. 

This offer from FC Bayern was nice, but as you’d expect they haven’t been relegated to Bundesliga 2 (if only 😂)

Instead we go back to my home country, to take over at Inverness. 

This is our third stint in the Ladbrokes Championship, I have unfinished business as I didn’t lift the title last time I was here, with Hearts. 

[BigAl]

MANAGER PROFILE. 

I am really enjoying this save, I would highly recommend this challenge to anyone. 

I plan on continuing this save for as long as I am having fun.

I do wish I had included extra leagues, as I only have the option of Bundesliga 2, Domino’s Ligue 2, Ladbrokes Championship and Sky Bet Championship. 

I may include some challenges within the challenge as we go on, so stay tuned! 

[BigAl]

PROMOTION #7 

I said we had unfinished business in this league, we smashed it to bits with an unbeaten season. 

I was delighted with the 32 point gap we had above 2nd place. 

Denny Johnstone was our top scorer with 23 goals in 38 appearances. 

You’ll see I followed my normal process of signing a striker, with a proven goal scoring record in the league. 

69.02% win percentage is pretty good. I want this to exceed 70% by the time I finish the save. 

I am beginning to lose interest in this save. I think it’s because it’s the longest I’ve ever played a save for, and majority of players in the game now are regens. 

I am going to do one final season, hopefully to achieve promotion number 8! 

Its time for a reunion... 

I successfully helped QPR into the Premier League in my first spell at the club. They’ve just came back down and what better way to end the save, than with the favourite club I managed. 

[BigAl]

FINAL PROMOTION #8 

Not the way I’d like to end this challenge, as miss out on top spot to West Brom, by just one point! 

It’s still a promotion none the less, number 8 doesn’t give me top spot on the leaderboard, but by continuing the save, I wouldn’t be enjoying the content I was posting. I love FMM19 and will be moving on to a new career. 

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TOP SCORER 

I’d always wanted to manage this lad and he didn’t disappoint. QPR signed him for 27 million 6 seasons ago. I helped him to his best scoring season. His record for USA is exceptional, 52 in 77. 

CAREER SUMMARY 

I hope you enjoyed reading this thread. 

To conclude :-

- 8 promotions

- 68.25 win % 

- League titles in 4x countries