Consider me invested

Another great write up mate keep it up

I had the same thing, turns out the game had created a folder in my One Drive, in a different place than the usual graphics folder and saved games folder in My Documents. Maybe look there, put the graphics folder in the sports interactive folder if there is one in one drive too, that's how I've got graphics in the game. It's not even looking for graphics in the usual place, I don't know why and it saves game in One Drive as well

You need to go into the dev center bit

I just use this image resizer website, resize it to 200x200 for the main logo then to 20x20 for icon logos. I've had a few custom logos made and all work fine and not blurry when I've done this.

Ahh snap nah I only copied the files across, what do I need to change?

Mine aren't, I'm only getting static black ad boards when I've moved the folder into FM24 😢

Yeah I'm with SI on this, Martinelli is decent but won't be at the top level much longer, from the end of this season he'll go down in production and stats. Same with Saka, might have a couple of good games here and there but as a top tier player long term, nah

Got caught up on here, since I last logged in you've gone from MLS, to Mexico, back to MLS and now back to Mexico. Maybe you'll get your head round the MLS rules eventually hahah

I live in York, so not too far from Leeds / Farley. Def following this.

Just caught up on this, good going and seems that FM23 saves with added leagues work fine in 24. What skin is that you're using?

I caved and got 24, whether it runs quick on my laptop will have to see, and I am hoping to get a new one for when 25 hits too. They have marketed 24 well and with Japan as a main feature got me hooked, imagine if you could've gone to Japan on journeyman's journey!

Yeah it's got that silly average points system most of South America use. Plus the opening and closing stages as well.

That’s the thing isn’t it, getting time to actually play it now and get it posted up on to here. I always end up going back to 17, even though I caved and got 24. 

Hahaha oh dear! Where did I get Chile from?!? I know it’s Uruguay as well haha. 

This is just going to be a log of what's gone on in my save in the FM24 beta. No long term aims, no youth development, no trophy hoarding hunting, just your bog standard journeyman save.

This won't be in narrative form either, that will be reserved for my long term save coming to the forum on on just after the release of the full game in a couple of weeks time. 

That handy little pick club for me button pulled it out the bag, as it has sent me to Uruguay and to Atletica Potencia. No, me neither.

This club is expected to finish bottom of the Segunda division, and I join them with them in the dizzying heights of 13th of 14 teams

Winger / forward  Brahian Ferreira and keeper cum left full back, randomly, Esteban Correa are what the staff think are the best of a bad bunch of players. Not world beaters by any means but for this league, it is what it is I guess and what I'm working with for now

1 win in 8 legue games isn't the best form, and I'm not sure what the Torneo Competencia is, but they got to the final of it so maybe they're not as bad as it looks?
 

I'm not sure as I've not checked yet, I've just loaded the game but I'm sure Uruguay  has that God awful average points crap teams in South America do, so we need to be picking points up as soon as possible. that new set piece thing looks canny enough, so I'll probably be instructing them to play for set pieces, assuming we've got some good dead ball takers of course.

Updates will be as and when I can get them up, I don't get to play FM as much as I used to do, damn you age, work & responsibilitites!

Great name Willie, playing well too

I've just noticed you've got a striker called Canada, who's from Canada and plays in Canada WTF 

😁😁 I'm toying with the idea of 24 and what to do in it or to stick to an older FM, but will definitely be getting something else soon mate

Hard lines with Galaxy, I always struggled in the MLS that bloody salary cap and DP players is confusing as hell. But what a good start in Canada though. Do you think you'll have a crack at the CONCACAF Champs league, if Canadian teams can get into it?

That would be great thank you

Why is it now a megapack? Why can't we download individual packs any more?

Blows my mind that Bellingham is sooooooo good already AND is still classed as a wonderkid!

Great skin, but can you do it without the club finances on the club screen? I

Seen Kev over on the SI boards went the full first season un beaten with Celtic, think he only drew 4 games and won the rest. Not saying Celtic are overpowered in FM24 but that's gonna take some topping 

I watched the first episode a few days ago, not caught up on the others yet.  Will catch up on the others though for sure

I'm on board just from this graphics mate!

I remember Journeymans Journey, what a save that was! You've had a couple of good saves on here as well mate. I'm like you, always keep going back to FM17, I am planning on playing 24 though. Currently playing another save in FM17 in Brazil.

Love a good journeyman save with random countries, so def following this if you keep at it 

The end is near (Back to the journey, man Ep:6) 

‘That was great Cedric, but you didn’t need to scream at the top of your lungs just to get a game, you’re starting today’

‘Strike?’ He still hadn’t mastered the English saying of striker, so I replied ‘No son, you’re on the right wing’. He just smiled and walked back to his seat in the dressing room. Most of the other players looked like they would rather be somewhere else, much like me.

I didn’t want to get up today. Getting up and heading to our ground meant I’d be that much closer to seeing DRB getting relegated, in my first ever role as a manager for good measure. But not to be a downer I get the team ready for the game. I also tell them I won’t be keeping an eye on any of the other games as we just need to concentrate on our performance and nothing else. A clear lie, as I would be checking the scores at half time.

The game starts and we’re looking sloppy already, misplacing passes, not closing down quick enough but our keeper doesn’t have anything to do luckily. 18 minutes into the game though and I’m told that Kuantan have taken the lead in their game at home to Negeri, so we need to press on. I refrain from telling the players the score.

I try to encourage the players and get some fight in them, and we do respond with a couple of half chances, but nothing goes in the net right away. Bright Dike passed the fitness test on the morning and while he does look a bit sluggish he manages to give the us lead right on half time. A cross from our right is headed in by Dike, a typical center forwards goal

We’re still sort of in control of our destiny, as UiTM are doing their part in our survival quest by losing away to ATM, but Kuantan are winning meaning 3 teams are on 24 points, and we’ve got 23 at half time.

I tell the players we’re doing well at the half, and to be fair we are. Whilst we’ve been sloppy our keeper has only touched the ball a couple of times and we’re in the lead. I’m anxious that we’ll let slip defensivley but I’ve got to be optimistic heading into the second half

We start the second half on the front foot, just like we finished the first. We test their keeper with a shot from Dike that’s held easily, then we’re back in our usual slump of allowing the opposition time and space on the ball.

We ride our luck until the 70th minute when I get word that Negeri Sembilan have equalised away at Kuantan

I decide to tell the players that Negeri had equalised and we’ve just got to see it through although Kuala Lumpur woke up and in the final 20 minutes or so absolutely peppered our goal. We blocked shots, saw the post rattled twice, a goal line clearance but thankfully Lady Luck shone down on us and we saw it through to scrape a 1-0 win

With those 3 vital points, possibly the most important win so far in my time here, we’re only 1 point away from safety, with Perlis up next who are on 24 points

Things look a lot simpler now, as we need to beat Perlis to have any hope of surviving. We also need UiTM or Kuantan to lose or at least draw to secure survival. But mission objective number one is beat Perlis by any means and that’s the message I’m sending the players.

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Cross posted at The Journeyman Jock

Going down an ever dimming path into darkness (Back to the journey, man Ep:5)

‘You’ll be fine (I was lying) playing behind the striker, being out your comfort can be a good thing (another lie), plus you’ve scored a couple already haven’t you pal (the only truth so far)’ I said to Cedric M’Barga as I had to shuffle the team due to injuries to our 2 main strikers. ‘Plus you’ve got the young lad, the fossil kid to play off in the next game’

‘Fauzi’ Hamizar, my assistant corrected me

‘Yeah cool, I’m still picking up the native tongue, am sure he won’t mind me getting his name slightly wrong seeing as he’s impressed me immensely in training to be given his first start’

Another lie. I was only playing the young lad because I had no other options. Whilst he’s as tall as the other strikers in the team he doesn’t really do much else, but I can’t not let him start. I’m no tactical genius (yet) so playing a strikerless formation this early in my career would be career suicide, if coming to Malaysia and getting relegated right away isn’t.

I could sense morale was low despite winning 3 comfortably and drawing the fourth game during my first couple of weeks here, the mood dampened by the loss of our 2 main, best and starting forwards.

Not content on merely surviving by playing well and picking up points, my team had gotten themselves not 1 but 2 more injuries to key players in the training session before the next game, an away tie at Universiti Teknologi MARA, or UTM for short. Some of the team names out here are incredible.

It wasn’t 2 twisted ankles this time, oh no. Yoganathan had torn the ligaments in his knee, ending his season, his goal against Sabah the highlight. I was impressed with him since taking over, him and Johan in the middle seemed decent enough in the 3 games we dominated.

Joining him on the inactive list is full back Puvanarajah, another name I’m struggling to pronounce, pulling his groin out. He assures me it was in training and not at home doing things he shouldn’t be, I take him for his word. Luckily we’ve an abundance of mediocre full backs in the ranks, so we’ll be just as poor down our left hand side as we were with him in the team.

A bit of a reshuffle for the trip to UTM, and the reason this club were bottom of the league when I took over was apparent right from the first whistle. 5-1 flattered us really. Of those 21 shots on our goal, 14(!) were on target. 14 fucking shots on target! This game could’ve ended 14-1 and no one could argue.

Luckily mercy shone down on us as they decided to stop scoring for the final 20 minutes. The silver lining here would be that we didn’t suffer any more season ending injuries, just a nice big dent to morale, goal difference and overall happiness instead.

The M’Barga up top experiment clearly didn’t work, and I don’t feel comfortable sticking Fossil up top on his own, so we stick to 2 up top again against PKNS FC, I’m not going to attempt their actual name, not that it matters, as we were outclassed, outplayed and we were outscored by our more illustrious opponents, again. The match started off in the worst possible way after they scored in under a minute. I’d just sat down as they scored and was straight back up screaming at the players. Their heads dropped 60 seconds into a 90 minute I knew it would be bad.

In a familiar feeling to our last match, I’ve got nothing much to say to my players at half time other than it’s only 2-0 at the half so we’re still in the game, we just need to grab the first goal and then it’s game on. They score within 2 minutes of the restart so that’s the comeback well and truly off. I make a couple of subs but it’s all for naught. 5-0 at home is embarrassing.

That most recent result dropped us back into the relegation places, 3 points off safety with 2 games to play

Safety from relegation is pulling itself further and further away with every minute that passes, so we’ve no time to waste really. We need to win at least 1 of the final 2 games, hope Kuantan (at home to Negeri Sembilan) and Sime Darby (at home to Melaka) both lose their next game. It’s possible, improbable, but definitely possible.

The next 14 days we’re in training for 10 of them. I’m not gonna have anyone saying we didn’t try everything we could to survive the drop. Bright Dike might just make the team for the next game against Kuala Lumpur, with Yong also resuming light training in a couple of days. Depending on how they are on the day we might risk it, we might not.

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Cross posted at The Journeyman Jock