Back in the (former) USSR!
A Football Manager Career by HMK JLeague
Romanian Second League
Nation
Romania
HMK J
Loaded leagues, since FM20 touch is quite limited you can only choose three nations. Let’s call this a poor mans journeyman or the commuting tzar. Included Russia because..well Moscow is the goal! We’re not stopping until we reached the top league in mother Russia.
TinakoFM
HMK J
As Mikhail puts out his last cigarette on the wet concrete away section after yet another disappointing season for his dear Dinamo Minsk, he mutters to himself that he played better than this bunch of sissies, it’s been almost 40 years since he played football on a national level.
After getting the boot from Volna Pinsk , because of him loosing his physique because of his many substances abuse, he also fell deeper into heavy gambling. Sitting on bus 147 towards his apartment complex, an old concrete high rise were the slowly fading facade was slowly deteriorating. He sits down at his small table in the kitchen and reach out for today’s newspaper and a pack of smokes...Blyat...I’m out of smokes again.
He opens the newspaper and turns to the job section...
Well let’s see what we can apply for here, I’ll update when some type of job offer is on the table.
Dan
HMK J
We’re starting of in the Romanian league Liga II with ASC Daco-Getica București, formerly known as Juventus București
“After relegating from Liga I at the end of their first season in the top flight of the Romanian football, the club was forced to change its name after being summoned by Juventus Torino to remove the word "Juventus". Thus, from the summer of 2018 the side is known as ASC Daco-Getica București”
“Daco-Getica dissolved its senior squad after 13 rounds played of the 2019–20 Liga II season.“
We might have some work ahead of us to save the future (past?) of the club
Anfield? Old Trafford? Camp Nou? Please this is Stadionul Colentina, a 6000 seater with those beautiful communist high rises in the background! This will be holy ground for our Romanian fighters in a couple of years!
The board is clear on the goals and future of this club, avoid relegation and stay in Liga II...forever. Great optimism in this club, let’s hope for a chance to get promoted in the future at least.
The current main squad, the depth is...unreal. Luckily we have a youth team with great potential! I think we got a shot at building something here, our facilities for youth development are “below average” so I’m not saying hooray just yet...
Main squad:
Youth
€830 in the bank, €0 transfer budget and pretty much no more room for any more wages, truly remarkable. Economy was “Ok” according to the game. Let’s make another goal for ourselves and not let the club go completely bankrupt trying to stay alive in this league.
Next update: After first friendlies. (31/8/2019)
DNZY
HMK J
Sadly, those leagues do not exist on FM20 Touch, if I had more free time I would have done this one on my PC, but real life sadly calls way too often. Now I can manage my semi-professional romanian team even when I'm in the bathroom, commuting or just slacking off work.
If I keep the story up until the end, I'll make a longer PC version one with even more eastern european leagues.
HMK J
We kicked of the season very early, the season in Romania starts in august, but we headed out in the snow in February to take a look at what we got to play with. I don’t know why I thought a friendly vs Levski Sofia was a good idea, I blame it on all the lager that night.
It was a very rough start as we barely kept up with our young reserve squad, first game I blamed it on “first game of the year” but when the second one rolled around and we were down by a goal until the 80th minute mark, it was time to do some changes.
Switched back to a 4-4-2 formation and started scouting our reserve team for any potential that could go straight to the senior team, no we don’t have a U-19 team, the youngsters play in the reserve squad.
I needed another striker since nobody could help out at the top, that’s when I called up Alexe, this is how desperate the situation is in the team. We call up a 17 year old striker to make sure we won’t get relegated this year. (Media prediction 19th).
But oh boy are we happy we did, even with a two star rating he is currently our top scorer, really great performance from him during the friendlies, even against teams from the league above us he is shining! And he’s locked up until 2022.
Ludogrets II , a team in the division above us did not even stand a chance, I know it’s early and wins against better teams don’t really mean too much. But it brought back some hope of surviving this season!
I guess the owner of the club finally got rid of that coke so he could help out his club a bit..
Still nothing for the transfer budget and the wage budget is capped, the money will be gone before our first Liga II game.
Since we’re a long way from starting the season, I’ll keep this updated with the progress of the players.
For now the biggest problem is the depth, set pieces against us and the fact that 1/2 of our team are youngsters. They look like hobbits running around on the field and throwing themselves at 95kg beasts from Levski Sofia. I guess I don’t have to mention the heading ability of this team...
Next: A look at the Important players that will keep this club alive
HMK J
Constantine Dedu
Our winger on the right, is one of the highest rated players in our team, will be essential to even stand a chance.
Got a love hate relationship with this guy, when he don’t got an injury and can play, he is amazing, but he also loves visiting the medical team every now and then, especially if we really need him for a hard game.
Sabin Alexe
One of our main strikers, only got moved up because the lack of any strikers at all, only 17, but hopefully my child labor won’t hurt is potential too much. We’ll see what he is capable of come season start
Our best right-back, on loan from FC Viitorul. Great start of the season, except a red card within the first minute in one of the friendlies.
Main goal keeper and guess what? Also on loan from Dinamo Bucaresti. The stats might not be crazy high, but in Romanian Liga II...well it’s a little bit better, sure he’s a part time janitor at the local nuclear reactor when he’s not playing ball.
As you can see, a bunch of my key players are on loan from other clubs, I’m hoping we can keep these for next year. Loan or contract. We need to assemble a comfortable squad for the next couple of seasons if we’re going to stay in this league.
Now the introduction and pre season posts will be over for now, I’ll start posting again after we played our first month of real games.
Next update: September 2019.
HMK J
We had a decent start to the season, it’s not perfect but it sure could be worse! Currently running a 4-4-2 but we lack depth and backups everywhere. The whole reserve squad is pretty much just a midfield section right now.
Games in August, we had so many scoring chances in all of these, but the praised 17 year old striker has not shown up yet and his partner either shoots way over or 25 yards outside the goal. But early season, I’m sure we can figure this out soon.
FC Rapid, 1-0 until the very end of the game, and they get two quick ones 77’ 83’
My team get too tiered from my tactic and run out of juice by the 60’ minute, and with no backups we’re going to end up in deep trouble down the road.
Lucky draw in the Romanian Cup, we should be able to pick up a win here and go to the 5th qualifying round.
It’s a must to keep the job
Standings after August, safe from relegation for now at least.
Next update September 2019
HMK J
Season is underway, and we picked up the must win game in the Romanian Cup. Board is happy and we hit our first goal for this season.
The overall mood in the locker room is starting to get better, we might actually do this!
F*ck me.. on the one position we can not afford to loose a player!
If you thought I was overreacting earlier in the story what an important role he played in our team...
Thirteen games without a victory, a new record in the club according to the media. The fans are outraged and says I’m stuck in my 4-4-2 formation and refuse to change. Damn right you fucks, we will power through this without changing the formation again. Mostly because this is pretty much all we can play.
Finally a win! Such a welcome sight, around this time I almost thought about leaving the club, I was fuming inside...morale was abysmal in the locker room, nothing worked. Slow, fast, high, low, defensive, aggressive...nothing!
We tumble down to 18th place and hardcore relegation territory....deep red.
As 2019 come to a close we’re nowhere we’re we need to be, injuries are stacking up and I’m hovering over the leave club button.
Next update: January 2020 - Season break.