Ax3sss - Comments

What a crazy challenge. Until I could literally fix all the gaps in the squad with free players it was just so difficult. Had a decent start and then everything just clicked. Had a few set-backs and games where we just didn't look good enough. To be fair, we aren't. We just got the results with us. It was very close towards the split and it was literally a 5 point diff from Europe to Relegation. Never seen a table so close before. We fought hard and played some excellent football near the end. Really happy with it! Somehow qualified for Europe next season. No clue how we even did that after dropping 5 points in 6 games. Just proved how close everything was. 

As always, happy to post the save file if anyone wants it. 

So, the thing is. I just got through to the Championship series. Is that included in the challenge or not? 

I have survived relegation, and it was really close towards the end. Not a lot of points in it from 2nd to 11th. Never seen a closer table before. If I had won the final game I would have finished above HJK.

11.5 hours later, I can submit my go. Couldn't have done it at all without one thing I actually had no clue about. I've played a lot of FM over the years, but never have I ever heard of a ‘Work Experience' loan. A free loan! I've never heard about that before. Crazy. Got this guy from Wolves, and a GK from Villa. Did the mistake of sending back a loanee (tried to cheese it to get one more player on loan - but it didn't work). Worked out well in the end anyway. It was the shit winger, wouldn't even have played him. Relied yet again on set pieces, as we scored 30 goals from them in half a season.

Loved this challenge, but it took some time. Was defo worth it though in my book. I am always open to send my save file if someone wants it. 

Take care, Axe out.

I do know I have a few more saves than usual. This is due to me experiencing serveral crashes throughout the challenge, and I understand if anyone will be suspicious because of it. I just played through like 3 months for the game then to say (f u). This made me just so angered, so I started to routinely save after playing a few games (nothing close to every games either). I will, ofc, be happy to post the save file if anyone wants to look through it (which I will always say). 

I used the same tactic that I've used for the last 2 challenges. Had a lot of success with it as well, and it is proven to work. 

Made some crucial signings that helped ‘a lot’. Also departed with Origi, Emerson Royal and Jovic. Signed 5 players to help me, Messi (hehe - couldn't sign him in Saudi so had to try it now), Tah, Dumfries, Jorginho and Luis Suárez.

As always, 100% attendence at press conferences KEKW (I've actually found that it makes a huge difference when I do and when I don't attend. Is it boring? Yes….)

Mine is fully visible. I spend a lot of time on it fixing stuff and setting up coaching etc. Sometimes I just save a couple of times for a while so I don't lose like a few hours worth of progress. This didn't need so much setup, coaching and scouting tbf.

I think I filled it in correctly. Didn't really know if I should have put the previously played games of the AFC Cup, but hey, feel free to change. 

What was most crucial was that I made some nice signings - for example bringing in Micah Hamilton on a loan (unfortunately missed the registration for the AFC Cup by ONE day - or even less than that tbf.) As always, I am cheesing all transfers making them UNBEARABLE in the long term and viable in the short-term. 

Used the same tactic that I used last time out - and it turned out to be really good once more. Beat a North Korean side 11-1 in the first leg of the AFC Semis for example. 

As always, happy to post my save file if anyone wants to check it. 

[I also added the Semi Final score and the Great Final in the League score]

@Footygamer Could it be possible to delete this one =)
https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-challenges/entry/172 

Damn, this took forever. I will happily provide the save file if someone asks nicely for it 😉)

Didn't really do anything but play every game and rotated in all the games leading up to the ACL games. I mean, the group stages and the Preliminary games is one of the sole reasons why Crybaby was even able to get 53 goals. Will also post the tactics used. Change between this one (see tactic below) and my secret home-made beauty. Wished I signed Gyökeres and a new left-back - had my eyes on one special Italian, but I just ran out of money. Didn't really spend big up-front on anyone though - installments for the win. 

Furthermore, we dominated on set pieces - which got us a heck ton of goals in both the league and in matches. 

Also ended up only dropping 3 games. The final game of the season was just shit haha. Didn't really care about it either. 94 points and a treble. Nice one. 

As you can see I spent waaaaay too much time on this.

You couldn't have made him part Saudi to just make him almost automatically included. Well, he's scored 8 in 2 games so far for me. 

@FMStrawzy 

Also, is it possible to somehow get @Hossam ‘s save files for the 3 challenges so far. Just finding it very suspicious with the results he has had so far. Went unbeaten with Ipswich (that’s possible if lucky), but the most interesting one is unbeaten (with a gd of +35) with 12 matches. Just no. Would love to take a look at them to just see that everything on it is legit - cause it looks very cheety imo

Also, @Hossam ‘s , @ashtonwoodicon ’s  and @snafyr 's results should be one draw since they all won on either extra time or p's as well for one game. 

Okay, it is possible to win but I highly doubt it is possible to get multiple 3-4 goal wins. Cheesed it so bad this time. 

Happy to send game file if someone wants to take a look at it. 

This is the tactic I used which somehow worked. Not very goal productive - but it worked like a charm for keeping clean sheet, with a huge thanks to Donnarumma for saving our asses more times than we had chances.

Never doing this again - that's for sure.

Great stuff! Good job! Just wondering as well - @Footygamer - if there is a penalty shootout win, should it be listed as a draw or a win?

I am gonna replay it in a while. Gonna try n play full anti-football (0-0 every game hehe).

Tough one for sure. Not even sure it's still possible not to concede.

Edit: Please delete 🙂)

Could you post your save file? Would love to just look through it really quick. 

Wow, this is a new idea. Anyone who gets a gold you can probably rule out for all eternity. 

I do however have an idea for a tactic in mind - played with it a while back on a rtg. Let's see if Donnarumma can play CB🤣

Gonna boot it up first thing tmrw

Totally agreeing with you - but when you give the opportunity to win a free copy of fm25, there will be people trying to cheese the system. The only thing that someone could do is just have like a forced save after every game (which is possible with some skins). Also adding like a screenshot of the tactic/dynamic would also show proof if someone was using like external stuff like FMRTE. 

Yeah, I struggled massively to even get close. Never thought it was going to get possible. Only dropped 2 points though after a 0-0 draw against Ajax. It can't be possible to get +5-10 GD without using something. It was a really tough challenge. Had some luck with Free Agents though. £0 relegation release clause for the win ngl. 

A positive GD in the league after all games played. I got it on the final day. Those aren't approved yet and should be listed as ‘Silver’. 

Got the last goals needed for positive GD on the final day of the season. Amazing stuff! This was a tough one. Never thought it was going to be possible.

Feb 7th - and things are looking up. Had the Saudi clubs release some players. After a month they finally dropped enough in wage demands for us to afford them. They also became more interested as I made multiple other signings. Gonna look forward for the rest of the season. We have a tough draw against Spurs in the FA Cup. 

Tried to validate the rules so I could use it for the latest update, but, I can't validate Peta nogometna liga. I had no issues with the other 8 though.

Any news on National League South (that is where I'll start so). You are doing an amazing job m8!

For some reason I am struggling with opening the file into FME. It doesn't load at all, in the end.