[FM17] Friends in Arms (Two friends doing football management)

July 1, 2016
Chapter 1: The start
“Are you sure this is the best way of doing our journey,” said a voice that wasn’t known
“Look Dean, I know this may sound stupid but it might be the only way of doing it,” another voice said.
“I know that Evan, but what is the problem of having a little bit of fun along the way. We can tell our children about the adventures of the brothers.”
“Yeah, the chances of that happening is probably none as you know how many leagues there are, there is no way that we can win of those in our lifetime?”
“How about this, we do our separate journeys and put into a diary format and after that hand it over to our children and keep it going from there.”
“Fine then, so it will be a deal then.”
“A deal indeed.”

Hello and welcome to the “Friends In arms” on FM17 where I will try and win all of the leagues with the two friends of Dean Vak Bakel and Evan Ritsmal as they travel the world and discover new lands that they didn’t expect. As you read by the dialogue, I have separated the two into different forums so that one half of the story will be done on here while the other one would probably be somewhere different. The challenge is simple and that is to win every single top division and cup that is around the world using classens mega pack.

So sit back and enjoy the career as I know I will challenge myself to completing all of the leagues that is on the FM17 database.

Here is our manager on here in Dean van Bakel and he is a person who likes try and play defensive instead of his other friend who prefers to go on the attack. With the person being the younger of the two, he hopes that things can go right for longer compared to his older friend. If you want to see the other side of the story, I will be posting it on my blogspot page on both counts. So hopefully this will be a long one.

https://friendsinarmsfm.blogspot.com.au/2017/12/introduction-to-our-managers.html

After looking for a job in the Pacific, I found a job which I would enjoy in heading down to Oceania into unfamiliar territory, that territory being in American Samoa which I have never even heard of until I got the job opportunity. After signing the contract to signify that I would be heading there, I looked at the squad that I had to try and work with as the transfer window was basically closed for me.



Two names jumped out of me and it was Rocha and Bartley who both could guide us to the trophy with the main bit of Rocha speed and the work rate of Bartley, we could easily get a trophy to kick-start the journey that is laid in front of us.



Of course, nothing is complete without the fixture list and with a short nine round season plus the cup which I didn't even know existed until I looked at a quick search and hopefully we can guide the team to both titles so I can leave here in a flash.

Update

So as my pictures for the first half had disappeared I had to keep playing before I would lose these ones as well. After knocking over the easy teams in PanSa and Royal Puma we were in the hunt with eight points after the opening four games. I thought that this could be heading to a good result and after a little slip-up Tafuna Jets away from home, I thought that we had a really good chance and that was further proven with wins over Black Roses and Valala Tongan. But the final two games was a disaster with us getting smashed 5-0 against the leaders with every single one being in the first half before falling short against Green Bay.


The hell which was the match against the current leaders.


Which means as we head into the split, we lie in fifth place nine points behind the leaders and it looks like I will be staying for another season in this league while my friend is going to move from Bhutan as he won his league which just sucks.

Update

The season review and it was the domination of Marshall Tuitamai who completely dominated the season as he became our best player for the 2016 season and he will be continuing to go on forward with the rest of the team.


All of the stats from the players this season.


This season we would end up winning the Cup over Ilaoa & To'omata 5-2 in the final and despite the match having to go to extra time, we held on and took the cup from them, but did we win the league from the impossible position.


The answer was no as we couldn't stop Ilaoa & To'omata from winning the league by a convincing margin and would almost have to be favourites going into next season. On my side though, I will have to stay in American Samoa while my friend will be leaving Bhutan after his team won the league.


The results that we gave in the last month and a bit of competition.

Chapter 3
June 19, 2017
As I continue to work out my strategy for the new season, I saw a message on my phone stating that I had two new messages. Now at first, I thought that it was a bit weird to see these new messages coming up when I wasn’t here and instead of working on my team.

The first message was from my friend who said that he had moved to Micronesia which was weird as that meant both of us were now in Oceania. As I continued to read the message, I noticed that he became the first of this friendship to get a national job with him managing the U-23s over there. This was ok for me as if he wanted to more manager time then that is fine.

The second message was from a random number and thinking that being nothing, I quickly deleted the post thinking that it was possibly spam. Looking through the football news to see if anything had popped up. This was because I knew that the FIFA Confederations Cup was starting in Russia and predictions was that Germany were the favorites to win the title.

Well, they were until the debacle happen when some of the dual-citizens of the country started to leave because they weren’t being picked in their senior squad and moving to other countries. The main ones benefiting being Turkey as players in those leagues have an easy time in getting Turkish nationality and could be a big force with those new faces in the side. I even heard that Afghanistan and Sierra Leone of all places got a new man because of this little debacle. It would be interesting to see what will go on with Germany now.