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#184514 From Rags to Riches
clloyd
The Story up until now... :
The story has now been (rather rushed) written up until the present day, and will now continue in real time with proper updates Thanks for reading so far!
#184512 From Rags to Riches
clloyd
however we still took the title in spectacular fashion!
Alongside this league title, we came first in our Asian Champions League group.. having a hard time against korean sensation Suwon Blues however...
The round stages were also equally as simple, with no major team really coming up against me, the hardest challenge being CSL mid table contenders Jiangsu, of whom we just managed to scrape through on pentalties!
The final was alot easier than I had imagined! With a terrific 5:0 win my boys were up in the heavens. Fantastic way to start at this dominating team, winning what they were expected to plus alot more!
The two most notable performances were my young guns who had vital roles in both the ACL campaign and my domination of the CSL, giving they are only 19 this is great for our young prospects!
Jinkun was absolutely sensational, his stats mean that he can play in two very different roles very well, both AMC and DM which is very promising. I'm tempted to train him into an AMC force due to the potential unloading of my old foreign current AMC. He was outstanding and averaged 8.2 across the ACL!
Chuang was also dominating for a 19 year old, however this was more so in the league than in the ACL. scoring on average 1.9 goals per game throughout his campaign. He is unbelievable in his clinical finishing in front of goal, enough so to put out my Brazilian forward who was nominated player of the year last year. However I am not entirely sure how he is managing to retain his lowly potential ability of 2.5 even though he completely dominated the league and is now one of my highest value players!
#184497 From Rags to Riches
clloyd
Again I apologize for the lack of info in this first season, as again I wasn't intending to make a story, I'll try make the most of the stats I have for it though!
#184487 From Rags to Riches
clloyd
However, with hardly enough time to think about my life and the wolf spider in my toilet as I left Australia I receive a phone call from my old assistant manager of Kitchee, Mario Tot. On the phone my heart was beating faster than before, a bead of sweat dropping down my brow.. I could hardly believe my ears.
The dominant and all empowering Chinese Super League 1st team Guangzhou Hengda had sadly lost their manager to immediate retirement, the great Marcelo Lippi. His retirement cam with immediate effect and it seemed the Guangzhou board were in disrepair... that was until my old friend, of whom I hadn't heard from in over a year had put my name forward to the board. You guessed it, he had bigged me up so much to the board, reiterating that fact of being Kitchee title holders for two years.. I recieved an interview date. Then they approached me..
25th November, 2015, My world changed forever..
#184485 From Rags to Riches
clloyd
The days turned to weeks, and the weeks turned to months... Finally a job came calling, just under a year after my first resignation, to a place where everything wants you dead. Australia.
The Hyundai A - League bottom feeding team of Melbourne Victory FC had come calling, and the world now looked like a different place. I had to learn the new rules and regulations of the A - League, the ins and outs of the players and had to prevent them from becoming the bottom team all in half a season.. was this doable? Only time will tell..
#184483 From Rags to Riches
clloyd
Sitting in the lounge chair reading the international football management and coaching magazine, a Job opportunity came up that made me do a double take, a job in one of the lesser known leagues internationally, but the reigning league residing in Honk Kong.. The Honk Kong first division. After doing a little bit of research around the league I decided that this would be the perfect opportunity to launch my attack into football management, with the thought of managing my favorite and home team Aston Villa.. how marvelous that would be playing in the Premier Lea - Woah I'm getting way ahead of my self. For the time being my thoughts are with the two teams with openings in the HK First Division, Kitchee and their close rivals Eastern Athletic Association.
The job vacancy being advertised at Eastern was slightly more appealing, with a larger wage budget and a slightly better wage packet, however I applied for both. About a week later I had heard no news, and decided maybe I should be looking to more realistic targets such as my local team or coaching teenagers, until the phone rang, international number. Kitchee had decided to through a bone to me and offer me an interview! Result!
I must have done something right during the skype interview as they rang back the same day to say that they needed a manager desperately due to the current regulations and rules of the HK First Division. I accepted.
During the two seasons with my beloved Kitchee, we had filled the silverware cabinet - Me and the team had lifted two HK First Division trophies, the HK Senior Challenge Shield, the HK FA cup and the Asian Confederations cup. Even though we ploughed through the trophies the second season, the change in management team with my Assistant deciding to leave and run after the money with some reputable club found in the Chinese Super League (Remember this...), and the inevitable release of key players wanting a 'Bigger Challenge' played on my mind, and at the end of the second season I decided to resign and throw my bait into the pond, hoping a bigger fish wanted to come and play..
I know that the first few seasons will be very vague as I can;t find the team sheets or player stats for when I was actually at kitchee, didn't know I'd be doing a story!
#184256 One Massive European Tour
clloyd
Nice achievement mate! Definitely looking forwards to where you go to next. Love the idea of a career history post too
#184234 Chinese SL Players
clloyd
I'd also love your opinion on the comment above with johno about starting a story if you can
#184189 Where Can Football Take Me?
clloyd
Good luck mate! Looking on good form for the Suwon matches, I lost both group games against them but still managed to win the cup, hopefully you can fair better against them!
#184167 Chinese SL Players
clloyd
If I'm honest I wasn't really enjoying the Chinese league because of the foreign players rule, and the fact that most of the Chinese players are sub par.. Resigned with my head held high and took a year but I've just joined 2nd place Barnsley in the sky league 1, so a really nice challenge ahead to get into the championship!
Edit: Have decided to re-start the challenge so that I can start posting my story up on here - however I won't be allowed to use the chinese league as a first stop due to it being quite easy/fast to progress reputation and through the league. What do you think?
#184165 Chinese SL Players
clloyd
Thanks a lot mate, to be honest we had the easiest route I could possibly imagine aha including Tiangsu and Shandong. Looking forwards to your story update!
#183893 Chinese SL Players
clloyd
Well it happened to be a rather short stint at Guangzhou having smashed the league by a 14 point lead, then winning the Asian champions league final against Shandong and then unfortunately loosing on penalties to Bayern in the world club final.. So I don't think there is much point in me staying in Asia now the CL is won!
#183636 Chinese SL Players
clloyd
Ahh I see! I've done that now but everything is coming back as not viable so I'm guessing I need to wait until the end of the season until when all the youngns come through
Thanks! I've been reading alot of peoples stories, they're pretty fun
#183565 Where Can Football Take Me?
clloyd
#183514 Chinese SL Players
clloyd
Ah I see, thanks for the advice! just one quick question, I'm relatively new to football manager and was wondering how I go about scouting regens? Or is it just scouting the leagues that chinese regens will occur?
Have no idea if I'm here for the long run though as I'm not sure they can win the asian CL
#183485 Chinese SL Players
clloyd
I'm having extreme difficulty in finding any chinese players that are decent enough for the team as I have no more space for foreign players (have a 3 star rated foreigner that is refusing to leave without a £7m release fee, of which of course the board block), however I literally cannot find anybody..
I would love some help with the matter as I've never played in the CSL before!
IF you need pictures let me know