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#358643 From Unemployed To Wherever...
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#358640 [FM17] Journeyman's Journey I
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#358633 Celtic - A Squad Building Exercise
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First glance of the squad was just as I expected. A bloated squad, more quantity than quality really in the first team. The u20s look like theres a few gems to be polished. I plan on bleeding a few in at the end of the season.
Goalkeepers
We could improve here, however Craig Gordon is more than adequate at the moment. Doris De Vries/Logan Bailly/Leo Fasan will do as back up for now but I would like to bring in better eventually. Ideally I want my keeper to be with the ball at their feet.
Defenders
The defence looks solid. At full back you have experienced Mikael Lustig and a phenomenal talent in Kieran Tierney. Tierney, if I can keep hold of him will be top class when he is developed. We have decent back-up in Cristian Gamboa and Emilio Izaguirre. Izaguirre might end up wanting to leave due to his age and being 2nd choice to young KT.
The centre backs are solid. Erik Sviatchenko is a starter with rotation between Kolo Toure and Jozo Simunovic. We also have Eoghan O'Connell who looks more than capable of stepping in a a talent going forward. There is also Efe Ambrose and Dedryk Boyata who probably won't be around long. The worry is finding a long term replacement for Kolo.
Midfielders
In my opinion we are one top class playmaker away form a very good side. This is likely to be my priority target in January along with a AMR at the end of the season.
The two starting holding midfielders will likely be Scott Brown (c) and Nir Bitton. Brown is Mr. Dependable, however I suspect he may miss a few games through suspension due to his role so adequate back-up will be necessary. I plan to utilise Liam Henderson this season as he looks exactly the sort of player I want in my side, for his age he has all the right attribute to make a great playmaker. Callum McGregor can work as an engine room player when Brown is out. Kristopher Ajer is also knocking on the door for a start. Stu Armstrong and Tom Rogic should fit in fantastic behind the striker and hope to see big assist numbers. There is also young Ryan Christie who I don't quite know what to do with. He will most likely be a utility player this season to maximise game time.
On the wings we have some real quality. New Bhoy Scott Sinclair is a class above, used as an inside forward I expect a few goals from him. Loanee Paddy Roberts is his opposite number on the right and had bags of tricks. James Forrest and Gary-Mackay Steven can step in when needed, more-so Forrest who I want to get the best of.
Strikers
Up top we are light but have two fantastic options in wondered Moussa Dembele and 40 goal striker Leigh Griffiths. I expect both of them to score a-lot of goals this year. I hope I can eventually accommodate both of them at once. Young Jack Aictchson will also feature at some point.
Other players we have but unlikely to feature are Kris Commons [I'll maybe give him a send off in the cups] and Nadir Ciftci.
#358632 Celtic - A Squad Building Exercise
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#358584 Celtic - A Squad Building Exercise
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So game loaded with the following leagues including players from the top division clubs in Europe. This set up should give me a good pool of talent to search from.
I have started with Celtic for a couple of reasons; (a) I am Celtic supporter, (b) some of the young talent at the club is unbelievably good and (c) Scottish football is in a weird place right now [I will go into this in greater detail later].
The goal is to help improve the reputation of Scottish football overall, do well in Europe with Celtic and win 10IAR with a business model close to real life.
So how do they measure up against the first three points mentioned in the previous post?
- The scouting network isn’t great, with just 25% of world knowledge. For a club of our size it should be much higher. My target is to reach around the 50% mark after a couple of season. We only have 5 scouts at the moment so I will be looking to add here as well as bring in a few extra coaches to aid player development. We have a few affiliate clubs but none that we can loan players out to.
- We currently have 69 players on the books, from the math in the first post I’m looking to have between 50-55. A lot of players will leave next summer and don’t expect to sign to many. I expect to be in range within a season and a half, then implement the one-in-one-out policy.
- Player turnover will be considerably bigger in summer 2017 as transfer budgets are disabled and a lot of players will go out on loan this season to ‘put them in the shop window.’
Backroom Staff First TeamFirst order of business was to bring in my own coaching team. Nick Harvey [fitness], Bobby Mimms [goalkeeping], Neal Reynolds [physio] and Kenny Crichton [physio] were brought in and Colin Meldrum [u20 GK] left by mutual consent. This leaves me with plenty of improvement to be made, but this along with scouting will be improved when a transfer budget is available for staff compensation.
I will look to bring in a technical coach and an attacking coach, along with scouts from several regions. I could probably also find a better HoYD and am lacking a u20 set up.
Transfers
Like I said there won’t be much activity here other than players leaving on loan. Off the top of my head the likes of Ambrose, Cifti, Boyata will hopefully get first team football elsewhere and attract bids at the end of the season. I will have a brief look at the free transfer market. I will try to avoid the loan market, unless it is a loan-to-buy or short term emergency.
Tactics
A dedicated post to this will be up after pre-season but I will most likely be using the 4-2-3-1 wide in an attacking/controling sense and looking to assert dominance in domestic competition.
#358583 Celtic - A Squad Building Exercise
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Thanks @Dan, I was half expecting that joke to appear at some stage
#358498 Celtic - A Squad Building Exercise
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I have decided to document the process I go through building a squad, this will double as my annual Celtic save. It will be heavily focused on player and staff recruitment, stemming into how they fit into the philosophy I am trying to implement. I will try to touch on everything from scouting, loans, transfer polices, tactics, training at some level. I hope to give you an insight of how I play the game and my thought process as opposed to just what I have done.
As the focus of this is my squad building process, here are the guidelines I will stick to:
- Build an extensive scouting network similar to that of Udinese, regarded as one of the best in the world. A network that became so successful their owners had to buy another club to farm them out. Like Chelsea/Vitesse I plan on linking up with a club on the continent to get some players first team football.
- I will build two 22 man squads, first team and u20s, with allowance for 8 players I will send out on loan. Once I reach the magic number I will operate a ‘one-in-one-out’ policy. Key to this is point #1 to identify the target first.
- Minimise player turnover as to avoid disruption, obviously the first two season will not apply.
- I will mainly focus on players 16-24, a mixture of first team ready and raw talent.
- Avoid signing players over 24, unless they will be a key player that significantly improves the starting XI. Players over 29 will only ever be a free transfer, a la Kolo Toure.
- Arranging future transfers will be avoided, Bosmans exempt. However Bosmans will be limited to 1 or 2 and should be an exceptional prospect or starting XI player.
- I will try to avoid the ‘player search tab’ except for expiring contracts/free transfers/transfer listed players. Instead I will use the ‘all scouted’ tab.
- Be profitable – every player has their price.
Note: Emmulating Sacchi is still underway.#358278 Standard Fantasy/Request Logo only (NO PACKS) Thread
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#357814 Rags To Riches: A Managers Career (FM17)
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#357696 Emulating Sacchi
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National CNational B underwayThe bad
And the ugly
#357128 Emulating Sacchi
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#356951 Emulating Sacchi
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#356942 Emulating Sacchi
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#355712 Emulating Sacchi
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#355644 Emulating Sacchi
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#355643 Emulating Sacchi
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#355638 Emulating Sacchi
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#354748 Emulating Sacchi
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#354747 On a quest to be the best II
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#354732 Emulating Sacchi
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#354719 Emulating Sacchi
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#354604 Emulating Sacchi
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First impressions are good.
- The club is in the black with a healthy balance upwards of £230k
- Decent size squad for that level and some promising youngsters.
- Enough left in the budget to get two good players in at that level.
First things first though...#354600 Emulating Sacchi
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#354597 Emulating Sacchi
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#354596 Emulating Sacchi
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#354480 Emulating Sacchi
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Back-to-back UCL Winner? Probably not.
The set-up: Scottish, Irish and rUK leagues loaded. No qualifications and an unemployed former Sunday League player. What could go wrong?
I plan to start this when the full game comes out and hopefully carry it through until
completionthe next version comes out.Stirling Albion: 10/7/2016 - 10/5/2016
TNS:
#301384 Rise and Rise Again, Until Lambs Become Lions
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#298622 Rise and Rise Again, Until Lambs Become Lions
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Couldn't quite believe it. Would have been more excited than happy with a EL spot. Hopefully I can scrape through to the last 8. Would be quite an achievement.
#298367 Rise and Rise Again, Until Lambs Become Lions
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#297455 Rise and Rise Again, Until Lambs Become Lions
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Douglas - back up for Izzy and on a free with relatively low wages. If it doesn't work out I'm sure I could pocket half a mil for him.
I'll post a pic of it later. Got a few that you mentioned. But yeah I do that too and it was touch to get a good set up last year. Easier this year