Football Manager 2024

[The Doctor]

 

Enough hypocrisy to power a small country

[The Doctor]

Full time score. Won 13-1 (!). Boring boring leicester.

[Dan LCFC]

On 19/01/2024 at 19:43, Dan LCFC said:

 

Wheel of Names | Random name picker

 

This is the wheel spinner. I've decided as a slightly niche, slightly insane idea to let the wheel decide where I'm going to.

 

I've listed every country in Europe on there that I have never previously managed in to ensure I get a totally new league to do and one by one eliminated countries until I am left with my destination. I have repeated this process with both the league and then the club.

 

The country is Sweden.

 

The league is the Superettan, the second tier.

 

The club is IK Brage.

 

We move.

Wonder if I've just played this so long that it's too easy now but this has been a near flawless save.

 

First season we finished midtable with a side predicted to be in the bottom half. Our performances were pretty strong but we were let down by pretty wasteful finishing and bad goalkeeping - the usual issues so I moved to fix both in the summer. In the second season we were promoted as champions and back to the Allsvenskan for the first time since 1993.

 

First season up was a pretty similar season to my first year, we finished 9th out of 16 which was very respectable. We were huge draw specialists, I think we drew 11 out of our 15 home games  we were very tough to beat but didn't score many.

 

The next season we won the Allsvenskan! We were profiling pretty well on the data again but a couple of subtle tweaks got us over the line. It was probably one of my best underdog runs as we seemed to change from draw specialists to win 1-0 specialists - not even exaggerrating when I say I think we won over half of our 30 games 1-0. Defensively an absolute rock and always seemed to have the knack of pinching a goal late on. Once I'd won the league I wanted to have a run in Europe and then move on although the fact the Swedish calendar ran from April to November meant I had another season in there which this time we finished 4th, which was another European finish.

 

The European run. I ran into Bodo/Glimt in what is possibly the dullest tie a Swedish side could possibly ask for in a first European outing and lost both legs, pretty unluckily as well. We beat Slovan Bratislava 4-1 on aggregate meaning we were guaranteed at least a group stage spot in one of the competitions. We beat Zrinjski in a thriller and bagged a place in the Europa League. Mixed results, the highlight being a shock 2-1 win over Wolfsburg which is probably the crowning jewel moment of the save so far, but were knocked out in the play-off round by Basel, a side who'd absolutely burgled us in the group stage with the most ridiculously one sided 4-0 win I've seen, and by one sided, I mean we completely dominated them and somehow contrived to lose it 4-0. We played well in the knockout game but just couldn't finish them off and lost 2-1 on aggregate.

 

As planned I left Brage and took the Mainz job. They were 16th in the Bundesliga with 8 league games left so a bit of pressure on it knowing there was a chance we were relegated, although Mainz' squad was probably in reality about 12th/13th best in the league so it would've been an underperformance to drop with them. We managed 8 points from 8 games and finished 13th. Not very convincing but over the line. Had a bit of an overhaul in the summer of the squad and brought in some key players such as Desire Doue and Leny Yoro - two players I debated for a while yet in time would wonder how it was ever in any doubt at all. We lost a starting winger to Wolfsburg on deadline day so late on that we didn't even manage a replacement and were playing a man down until January. Once again though the odds were defied and we finished 3rd in the league. I play this 4-3-3 system. No time for inverted wing back, however, inverted full back seems to be a bit overpowered where they seem to offer a bit in attack yet are totally solid at the back as well. We're like Brage very hard to beat and don't let in many goals at all. Currently in my third season at Mainz and 2nd going into the winter break, but Bayern are looking beyond us unfortunately - though I'm yet to lose to them.

 

It's been a fun save with hardly any setbacks at all. Your loss Setubal  

[Stinkenzo]

Sweden is a cracking league to manage in, even though I see you've left

[Dan LCFC]

The problem I had with Sweden was it was a bad 'spin' (which is how I ended up doing Sweden in the first place), and the reason is I'd just done a 10 year long save in Norway. Well the league systems are practically identical. I'd not try and discourage anyone from Sweden but I need a bit more variety.

 

Since that post I've lost 3/3 in all comps. A mix of AFCON, injuries and horrid fixtures. Bayern have basically won the league already. Part of me regretting turning down Juventus. If this gets a bit dull I may just spin the wheel again and see where I'm sent off to next.

[ARM1968]

Quite hilariously I have just completed the quadruple with the Foxes and with Daka as my main striker. Obviously picked up some absolute banging players along the way and now a new Greek striker who looks to have been modelled on prime Hamza - Sigalas, probably a new gen.