A Journeyman's Journeyman

SR67

14 years ago

1 year ago

1,491

22 Jan 2014 06:57:52

Being in the merchant navy its safe to say I've done a fair bit of travelling. As of February I will have visited every continent on the planet (excluding Antarctica). So I've decided to mimic my journey on FM (or try at least).

This won't be in huge detail as I'll be trying to power through it leaving things like press conferences to the Ass Man. I'm not sure if I'll start in Scotland and do a full circle or start in Spain the first foreign country I visited the go through them in order. Once I finish at least one season in that country I can move on. However some are not available in the default database.

Edit: Another factor that will judge if I move or not is salary.

Countries to Conquer
~~Spain~~
Greece
Honk Kong
South Korea
~~Japan~~
Australia
~~New Caledonia~~
Malaysia
Cyprus
Gibraltar
Egypt
Turkey
Portugal
Senegal
Mauritania
Brazil
Holland
USA

and finally Scotland.

SR67

14 years ago

1 year ago

1,491

22 Jan 2014 07:11:59

SR67

14 years ago

1 year ago

1,491

22 Jan 2014 07:12:27

Applied for both jobs available in Spain, if I don't get one I'll look at Scotland.

SR67

14 years ago

1 year ago

1,491

22 Jan 2014 07:20:05

I chose Puerta Bonita over Salamanca because they have a full squad all on reasonable wages, whereas Salamanca have 8 players on ridiculous wages.

Time to win Los Portenos their first trophy.

The squad looks good at fist glance, could do with a centre back and left winger. You may remember Ruben Ramos who came from the Athletico Madrid ranks before moving to Real Madrid Castilla.

SR67

14 years ago

1 year ago

1,491

22 Jan 2014 09:10:12

SR67

14 years ago

1 year ago

1,491

22 Jan 2014 09:23:42

The staff aren't great but hopefully I can keep them with me on the first few stops. My assistant is handling team talks etc. it is the way I intend to do things but it helps in this instance as he speaks Spanish and I don't.

SR67

14 years ago

1 year ago

1,491

22 Jan 2014 09:33:21

Made some big changes and knocked the wage spending down from £9k p/w to just £7.5k p/w. The squad looks much stronger afterwards.

Next update will probably be mid-season in a couple days time...

SR67

14 years ago

1 year ago

1,491

22 Jan 2014 10:00:31

SR67

14 years ago

1 year ago

1,491

23 Jan 2014 19:22:35

This started off great, we even managed 12 games without a loss. And then reality kicks. Hard. We went spiralling out of play-off contention to mid-table mediocrity.

The chance of silver wear is over and promotion may as well be.

Next update will be end of season..

Dan

15 years ago

6 months ago

16,986

24 Jan 2014 08:35:49

Not doing too bad Sean, keep it going!

SR67

14 years ago

1 year ago

1,491

27 Jan 2014 18:30:19

By DanW19 | On 24 January 2014 - 08:35 AM

Not doing too bad Sean, keep it going!

Cheers Dan, looks like it going to be tough!

So the finances are dire and a few players won't sing new deals including my star striker Ruben Ramos. The ones who did all took wage cuts. I managed to cut over £1000 p/w off the budget.

SR67

14 years ago

1 year ago

1,491

27 Jan 2014 21:23:25

The season went from bad to worse. I got offered a good job just after the final game of the season. I think I might take it but it sways from my plan of doing everything in order but fits in with my new rule about wages.

If I do accept it I fully intend on finishing in Scotland.

SR67

14 years ago

1 year ago

1,491

27 Jan 2014 22:33:43

SR67

14 years ago

1 year ago

1,491

27 Jan 2014 22:51:43

So the second stage of my journey begins. Its not Greece but it would have taken too long to do it in the exact order. The £1.8k p/w wage rise also swayed my decision. We've got a decent squad but finished bottom of the A-League.