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I’m starting off trying to make a difficult game by limiting what I can do transfer wise. It also seems good to combine that with getting a lowly team up to the Premier League.

Rather than starting unemployed, I thought I’d jump in with a team that just got promoted to the VNS/VNN.

So I landed in Truro who got promoted to the VNS via the playoffs (a 95th minute winner in the playoff final!).

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I’ve decided to only allow myself to make free transfers, make no incoming loans, and to never go over the wage budget

(Truro have a player on loan at the start of the game, and as the club is paying 100% of his wages I’m letting him stay.)

I’ve also loaded up 5 leagues: England, France, Italy, Spain and Germany. I don’t know how far I’ll get with Truro but at least I’ll have options if I’m sacked.

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A difficult yet exciting challenge. I wish you success in your career and I hope you escape the layoff! 😁 I tried a similar challenge a few months ago, with the Yeovil Town team, but I ran into many problems with this team, such as: the salary & transfer budget, totally useless, being almost non-existent, then the problem of signing players free, signing could not be done due to work permit, signing of these free players was limited, managing to sign players as modest as those in the squad, which was not a delight, the fact that in the league there were teams with decent budgets and rated players even at 1 million € it was another problem, although I had a good start to the season, after stage 15 the team stopped performing, I lost 8-9 matches in a row and I was fired, the same thing 5 times in a row, starting my career from scratch , always trying another strategy, but in vain. Yeovil seems to me the most difficult team to manage, but that was in FMM 23, maybe in FMM 24 things will be different, God help 😁.

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Thanks @Bernardht Andy. I was surprised by Truro. The squad wasn’t that bad and the wage budget was 6.25k per week. Not as bad as I thought it was going to be!

Season 1

I had a lot of trouble offloading unwanted players. There would be some interest but it would always fizzle out. Luckily I had a bit of room in the budget to bring in new players:

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(The one player I did sell didn’t go until after the final game of the season. A bit unhelpful but there you go.)

The players that did come in did really well. So much so that we spent most of the first half of the season in first place.

But injuries and back to back matches finally caught up with us. Ultimately the squad was too small and I could only trust around 13 players to put a shift in. Still, we finished second in the league:

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And so to the playoffs. We made it to the final and battled past a decent Dover team:

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And up we go!:

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To be honest that turned out a lot better than I thought it would.

The other good thing is all the unwanted players will be at the end of their contracts, and I’ll be able to free up some wage space for next season. 

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Congrats! 2nd place + promotion is impressive 

This is a nice (and difficult) challenge - with many of your players having expiring contracts, you should be able to build a pretty good free squad for next season with just free transfers …

… but how good will it be?! 🙂 

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I saw tht u said u hv trouble selling players 

Idk uf u want to do this but it's a trick I figured out in last years version of the game 

Put the players u want to sell on the loan list and wen a loan bid comes in for the player switch to transfer and put a decent amount of money u want and the team would either accept it or come in with a counter offer that is pretty decent as well.

I've tried it in this year game as well

Got 55mil Kelvin phillips 

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@DoneHisCruciatethis performance must to  enter in the annals of the hall of fame, and if you manage to get promoted every season until you enter the Premier League, you will enter the top 3 all-time major performances of the hall of fame.

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3 hours ago, Jervon Esprit said:

I saw tht u said u hv trouble selling players 

Idk uf u want to do this but it's a trick I figured out in last years version of the game 

Put the players u want to sell on the loan list and wen a loan bid comes in for the player switch to transfer and put a decent amount of money u want and the team would either accept it or come in with a counter offer that is pretty decent as well.

I've tried it in this year game as well

Got 55mil Kelvin phillips 

Thanks I appreciate it but I’m trying to make it harder and so avoiding those kind of accidental quirks that make it into the game. 👍

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13 hours ago, DanEnglish said:

Congrats! 2nd place + promotion is impressive 

This is a nice (and difficult) challenge - with many of your players having expiring contracts, you should be able to build a pretty good free squad for next season with just free transfers …

… but how good will it be?! 🙂 

Definitely promising so far. I might have gone the other way built too big a squad..

2 hours ago, Bernardht Andy said:

@DoneHisCruciatethis performance must to  enter in the annals of the hall of fame, and if you manage to get promoted every season until you enter the Premier League, you will enter the top 3 all-time major performances of the hall of fame.

Yeah I don’t see that happening! But I’d be happy just to make it at some point. 

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I have to admit to really liking most of the changes made to the game this year. So, I’m playing it way more than I intended. That will need to change for the 3rd season!

Season 2

The board kindly upped the wage budget to 14k per week. Which was a nice surprise, and with all the players I released I had plenty of budget to play with.

So, I was able to put together a good sized squad to get us through the tricky times. In fact I probably signed a couple of players too many.

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The season went pretty smoothly. There was one point when our title challenge looked likely to unravel but I managed to make a change that got us back on track.

I wouldn’t say we steamrollered teams as there were plenty of matches we had to battle through but we took the title with three games to go.

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And, I got some titles this year:

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Although 14 of my squad hate the entertainer title. Apparently it means my style of football is too demanding of them..

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On 09/11/2023 at 21:27, StuartM said:

Very nice start mate, you're flying through this!

Long time no see! I hope life is treating you well. Yeah, I’m a bit addicted to this version.. 

The new manager titles are kind of interesting. I won the National League and had a squad harmony rated as an A. Then got the Entertainer title and it went down to an E rating! 

I was really worried I’d have to change my style of play to suit most of the guys in the squad who were getting annoyed by this awful attacking football of mine 😂. I only had one guy who was giving me the thumbs up on that one!

Then I got this message:

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Which I thought was interesting as I’d just decided to plow ahead without changing anything tactically.

It led to this question:

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which meant I could turn off the Entertainer title and please most of the guys again. I’m kind of curious if the titles remain unlocked for every career like the gold badge does.

I’ve also picked up Survival Specialist, Star Maker and Penny Pincher (no surprises there..)

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Season 3

I figured I might be in for a season of consolidation—the board only upped the wage budget to 15k per week and half my squad were demoralised by my style of football. I wasn’t really sure what effect that might have going forward. 

But then we sold a player for 350k pre-season and the future seemed a lot brighter. I was able to use the money to upgrade the training facilities, the youth facilities and the stadium over the course of the season:

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And of course we were in the kindest league—League Two where there are 3 glorious promotion spots and even if you have a dodgy season you still get a punt at promotion finishing 7th.

I also had enough money to be able increase the wage budget nicely. (We also ended up selling a player for 350k at the end of the season.) So all in all a profitable season:

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Anyway I was able to bring in some good free transfers to build a decent team.

The season was superb. We were front runners from the start and it looked like we would run away with the title. Then with ten games to go FMM switched to “🤬I hate you mode🤬.”

There were no obvious indicators. The opposition tactics hadn’t changed, the squad were in good spirits as I had managed to ditch the Entertainer title, players weren’t out of form and the Team Mood in games was generally good. But we just couldn’t get a win.

Luckily we had built up enough of a points cushion to limp our way over the promotion line. But the title challenge had disappeared.

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Still, I can’t complain. We got promoted which was the main aim. And, we have some money left over to hopefully do another club upgrade next season.

Overall this is going much better than expected. 

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(btw the formation is wrong. I’ve never fielded a 5-2-1-2 formation in this career..)

 

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 The star maker's adventure continues and the team progresses from season to season. 

Ha ha, penny pincher! 😂

Survival specialist, it describes you best! 

When you get promoted to the Championship, you will have to a massive wage budget to keep you at least in the first season (if you don't get promoted directly to the Premier League), here is the ultimate challenge, so that you don't come back after only one season in the League One.
Massive wage budget, to bring in players good enough to keep the team in the first half of the ranking.

 

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Season 4

Well, there wasn’t a lot of free players I was interested in this pre-season. I did my best to fill out the squad but I hoped I already had enough quality to stay up.

I figured the upgrades to the training facilities and trying to bring a couple of academy graduates up to first team level would be enough.

And it almost was.. I think a period where we lost both our best strikers for a few weeks ultimately cost us. We went down on the last day of the season. Annoyingly we were playing Fleetwood and were even leading before a second-half collapse. That probably sums up the season nicely. 😁

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The good news is I didn’t get sacked. The board must still believe in this Penny Pinching Star Maker.

The best news is the my decision to work on the academy players paid off. We got a bid of 3.2m for our young goalkeeper. So money in the bank for more upgrades!

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So, yeah an ugly season but you know League Two has 3 glorious promotion spots..

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1 hour ago, Barga said:

Can you show me your best tactics when using Truro? 

I’m using a standard 4-3-1-2 formation. But I won’t say more than that as figuring out tactics is half the fun of the game 🤪

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Gutting! That should only be a bump in the road - I hope. You probably needed a season of consolidation and just didn't quite make it. I'd say you are still well on track so don't change too much.

All good here thanks mate. Bit busier these last few months so a bit less time for playing and posting, plus I seem to struggle to get on Vibe through my phone.

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They didn't fire you after the relegation? When I'm relegated with a team, I'm always fired.
It's been a tough season, but keep moving forward - now it's time to return to the higher league.

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Well, in bizarre off-field shenanigans my son broke our tv this morning in a fit of hulk rage. So,  no point having Netflix at the moment so it has been cancelled! 😬

The renewal date is only a couple of days away so unsure if this challenge will be completed. Maybe I’ll have a go with it on FMM23 😂

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6 hours ago, StuartM said:

Noooooo!

Yes! Unfortunately kids and flat screen tvs do not mix.. (not the first time either! 🙄) So no tv for us for a while (probably not a bad thing!)

Anyway, I thought I’d better finish the season I’m on.

Season 5

Foolishly I thought if I kept the squad  together then the team should walk into a promotion spot. I couldn’t have been more wrong. It was like the guys who were played well in the division above got nerfed somehow.

It took me a while to get the team dynamic back together and weed out a few inconsistent players. For most of the season we hung out at the bottom of the playoff spots (much to the disgust of the board..).

And so on the last day of the season (again!) we managed to grab 3rd:

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A lot closer than I would of liked but job done.

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Usual story with the transfers—only freebies and no loans. Not breaking the wage budget was pretty easy this year. 😁

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Also most of my staff have silver badges now, and the club is shaping up nicely:

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And, that’s where I’ll leave it unless we get Netflix again.🖖

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Wow man, so bad this new reality of subscribtion needed for playing. I embraced the same journey wth Truro a few weeks back, find so interesting to bring a team from Cornwall to the football league. But after an heroic season with an heroic goalscorer like tyler harvey I unexpected lost the playoff final. And I did a thing that I'm not proud of, the reload. The second season on national league the very same thing. So I was kind of feeling that I do not deserve it... 😂 Reading your career I noticed that I should have sold some of my players for the training facilities upgrades too, but I was so attached to this squad and with some kind of cornish nationalism, trying to build an english Bilbao 😅 Anyway, this is not an easy challenge and I suffer from the entertainer label too, I was trying to use the brazilian DKFalcon tactic with relationism and expressive aproach.

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On 07/12/2023 at 08:41, homerogalo said:

Wow man, so bad this new reality of subscribtion needed for playing. I embraced the same journey wth Truro a few weeks back, find so interesting to bring a team from Cornwall to the football league. But after an heroic season with an heroic goalscorer like tyler harvey I unexpected lost the playoff final. And I did a thing that I'm not proud of, the reload. The second season on national league the very same thing. So I was kind of feeling that I do not deserve it... 😂 Reading your career I noticed that I should have sold some of my players for the training facilities upgrades too, but I was so attached to this squad and with some kind of cornish nationalism, trying to build an english Bilbao 😅 Anyway, this is not an easy challenge and I suffer from the entertainer label too, I was trying to use the brazilian DKFalcon tactic with relationism and expressive aproach.

Ah well, good luck. At least you can turn off the entertainer label at some point.

Yeah a bit sucky no longer being able to play this version. I Tried to get back in to FMM23 but just couldn’t. I’m now playing Civ VI. I’m trying to get the Scythians promoted to the Information Era…

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