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Career FMM23 Youth Only Career!


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(This is my first vibe post so bear with me 😂)

I have been playing FM for about 4/5 years doing road to glory's, rebuilds etc... but one 'challenge' I have always thought about but never tried was the idea of a youth only career. In previous versions it looked almost impossible as often with low rep low facility clubs you would get no players or maybe 1 or 2 really bad players. But with the headline feature of the development hub and youth squad being added to the game this year it changed the youth system substantially. More players being generated (even if they are all goalkeepers) and more flexibility with the youth portion of the game with promotion of youngsters and scout reports/grades. This meant finally, a youth only career could actually be possible!!! 🎉

Rules:

I think its pretty self-explanatory, only way to get players is through the youth squad/intake, no signing players or free agents etc. The only exceptions I will make with the rules are; allowing the signing of greyed-out players (this is more for squad depth than anything), and allowing the signing of academy players from other teams if the event 'shows up' as the player technically isn't at a team yet and youth players do get poached for other teams irl. 

The manager will start with a bronze badge and unknown reputation with youth specialty, just to see how it will develop and not enter the game with unfair advantage (i'm not sure what effect badges have on the game) 

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So Now to the team: Cheshunt FC

I have decided to only load England in this save more for game speed reasons and its not really necessary to load any other nations as its not like I'm going to be able to buy anyone 😅. And starting with newly promoted side. There isn't much logic behind this choice, they are just a team I haven't seen before and have a pretty cool logo 👍. The team has 1* 1* facilities so not totally awful but not good either. 

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As for the starting players...yeah. Nothing much to say about them, no-one with any sort of potential and a lot of old players. But what would you expect at this level 😂

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Goals of the save: 

In an ideal world, I win the Premier League, Champions League and more ambitiously the world cup with England (only Cheshunt players allowed), but I'm also realistic, I know with the games regen system and the fact that there isn't newgens unlike pc, it will be very difficult to reach that extremely high level, so I think finishing a season in the premier league within the allocated 30 years would be a great achievement. Maybe i could go for some more...outlandish goals. Like maybe a Ballon D'or, a 1kc goals & assists or strikerless formation but achieving any of that would be more of a bonus then a requirement

I think that's about it, I will try and do seasonal updates with the save, have a shortlist of former players/players that don't make it and a few more surprises that will come later 🤫.

Wish me luck 😂

 

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Good luck, I've fancied trying something similar to this but never have. I'll follow with interest, I'm sure you'll clean up but I imagine you might need some patience for those times when you are just that bit short on quality in 1 or 2 areas

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Love it. 

I've played all sorts of saves, from goal-scoring ones to H2H competitions with fellow Vibers to tactical experiments and so on. They all bring something different, but the one that's dearest to me (hands down) is my Torino save, where I attempt something similar building the club up from scratch with youth players. You become so invested in it that you create a bond with the club that lasts until long after this career.

I would not at all be surprised if you buy a Cheshunt shirt a few seasons into your save and it becomes the dearest possession you own 😁😁

Goodluck!!

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firstly I would kinda like to apologise for the long wait for a career update but I've had stuff I need to do (if it's any bonus I've basically finished season 2 as well) But the save is not dead!! I think with that out of the way I should get to the season review.

Youth Intake:

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Season 1's Youth Intake probably couldn't have gone much better, 5 players with 5* potential (it's 6ty tier so it's not like this means anything) but one player that could immediately slot into the first team in Andrew yates

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he looks like a quality player for this division and one I hope I can keep around for a while, The other player that looked quite promising was Waylon Kent 

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no nonsense Centreback who comes in with a 1 star instead of a half star, fairly average all round, probably won't break into the first team this year though 

One interesting thing that did happen was a youngster wanting to leave from Bognor Regis' youth academy, I decided that It would probably be in my best interests to sign the guy up for squad depth reasons but he isn't half bad.

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Season Review:

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Yeah 😅, in the history of all non league seasons I've done in fm, this one probably wasn't one of my greatest, survived by the skin of my teeth, I really struggled to defend this season, like at all, the team again wasn't great, no one really progressed and Yates was being a prick and saying the level of play was to bad for him to improve 😡, but I wasn't expecting much seeing as the team was probably one of if not the worst team in the division and I didn't have the ability to make signings other than youth promotions 

I think that's it for season 1 if there is anything that you want me to fill you up on lmk, im always open to improve these season review things and would love to see some more added to it 😄

 

 

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Oh my God man, i am playing with this team right now, but its so hard even without that challange, but i play in my own club with cheshunt player retain, and make youth and training facility poor hahaha.

I am playing this game less than a month, trying to figure it out about how to play this game in the right way. Right now i got lose strike but i enjoy it. let me know the update man, and i wanna ask you about the tactic that you use with this team?

i am very appresiate if you answer my question, thank you

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yet again I have taken quite a while to do another update 😂 but it's actually here, season 2! 

Youth Intake:

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This Year's Youth Intake has me very hopeful, with my upgraded facilities (1.5/2*) I am definitely expecting a better intake, cheverton and Tavernier are the stars of this year's intake. Cheverton already looks pretty good with his technicals and Tavernier is a solid all round player.Screenshot_20230213-064213.thumb.png.cdfdcb1a2ee69694fd795557670b52ca.png

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Unfortunately it seems the screenshot I've taken about the league table has disappeared 😭. But to give you a run down we won the league this year, with 1 or 2 of the youth players getting an extended run in the team and the players in the team maxing out on potential our team was actually good enough to get promoted top of the league.

As I mentioned before with the sale of a few of the worse players in the squad I managed enough money to muster up increasing the facilities from 1/1 to 1.5/2 and we also got a stadium expansion in there as well (2k to 7k) this year definitely had quite a lot of improvements and I am hopeful for the next season in the national league.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On 20/02/2023 at 21:52, Kyou said:

Oh my God man, i am playing with this team right now, but its so hard even without that challange, but i play in my own club with cheshunt player retain, and make youth and training facility poor hahaha.

I am playing this game less than a month, trying to figure it out about how to play this game in the right way. Right now i got lose strike but i enjoy it. let me know the update man, and i wanna ask you about the tactic that you use with this team?

i am very appresiate if you answer my question, thank you

I'm kind of concerned if you want to use my tactic and I came 18th in the 6th tier💀💀💀 but I'll go ahead and show you anyways to see if the tactic helps

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I change around the midfielder roles sometimes same as defensive roles and the striker role I change sometimes but this one seems to be working 

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On 04/02/2023 at 18:03, BatiGoal said:

I would not at all be surprised if you buy a Cheshunt shirt a few seasons into your save and it becomes the dearest possession you own 😁😁

Tell me you got one already 😁

High hopes for Cheverton and Williamson, and even Tavernier. Promosing start!

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season 3 review!!!

This season was very up and down and had a lot of stuff happen a lot of good things for the progress of the save and was just crazy overall

League Table:

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WE SURVIVE, honestly with the team I wasn't expecting much, the board weren't expecting much , but we scrape through, this should hopefully mean a bump in reputation and allow for better youth intakes. Don't mind the horrific defence as well it got results 😂.

Top Performer :

 

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Probably the best original player of the team, he isn't that good but he just gets goals, hopefully see some more attribute growth but I doubt he has got high potential.

Youth Intake:

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Interesting youth intake, only 1.5/2 facilities so I'm not expecting much but 2 quality players in Dawber and hall coming through, unfortunately the youth academy is still allergic to producing defenders and it's starting to get annoying 😭.

Anyways here are what they look like

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(Dawber was kind of a flop so I didn't think it was worth showing but he does have potential )

Interesting stuff:

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We mad a valiant run in the FA cup got to the third round which really surprised me but then we ran into competent opposition in wolves. And we'll yeah, Could be worse 💀💀💀💀 but to get 2 goals against premier league opposition gives me a lot of faith that 7 conceeded really hurt though.

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my favourite youth player, Gone 😭😭😭 2.2 million in the vanarama national probably gonna go a long way for facilities but it's sad to see him leave, club legend for 3 years, a starter out of the youth team but he had to go, maybe one day we can bring him back in the future and win a UCL with him but he has done a great deed to this team giving us the money so we can hopefully have an amazing intake next year🙏🙏🙏.

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(took us from 1.5/2 to 3/3.5)

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also this was annoying, the 'next James Ward prowse' got loaned out and injured on the exact same day, which is just crazy to me I hope it doesn't stunt his growth too much

anyway that's about it for this season hopefully the team can build on these results and fight for a better league position : )

 

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On 06/03/2023 at 17:46, BatiGoal said:

Tell me you got one already 😁

High hopes for Cheverton and Williamson, and even Tavernier. Promosing start!

I mean I would love to but the shipping would be a long time and the only player I've really fallen in love with Is Yates and he's gone now 😭, but one day I will defo imvest, probably at the end of the save tho

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