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I’m still earning as manager while doing nothing but do get two friendly wins: 6-1 in Micronesia and 4-3 in American Samoa. In October we draw 2-2 in Fiji.

I then get paid for nothing at all until September as I don’t bother to arrange a friendly until Tuvalu come knocking, which is exactly in the spirit of the series I think. We win 2-0. So in the year 2022 I have been paid £171,000 to show up, take charge of one game, and fuck off. I am also now fluent in French.

Money Mode: With no badges, licenses, or reputation (or knowledge of or skill at FM21) try to sponge as much money as possible.

TL;DR Skip this section if you don't want spoilers!

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Management positions
Chennai City 31 July 2020 - 15 July 2021: £60,171.43
New Caledonia 1 August 2020 -

Milestones:
Chennai City - Relegated from 2020/21 Hero I-League

Complete competition record:
2020-21 Durand Cup (Chennai City): Group Stage
2020-21 Hero I-League (Chennai City): 10th in League stage - 5th in relegation group (Relegated)
2019/21 OFC Nations Cup: OFC World Cup Qualifiers (New Caledonia): Group Stage
2023 Pacific Games (New Caledonia): 3rd
2023/25 OFC Nations Cup (New Caledonia):
-Group Stage
-OFC World Cup Qualifiers: Group Stage
2027 Pacific Games (New Caledonia): 4th
2027/9 OFC Nations Cup (New Caledonia): Group Stage
2031 Pacific Games (New Caledonia): 2nd
2031/3 OFC Nations Cup (New Caledonia):
-Semi Final
-OFC World Cup Qualifiers: Group Stage
2035 Pacific Games (New Caledonia): Group Stage
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Firstly, I applied to every single vacancy in the game. Nine teams came back to me with an interview. Three came back with an offer: Chennai City the most valuable at 1.2k a week. I signed up right away. My contract lasts 11 months and they want me to be mid-table in the league. Can’t be too hard.
Although the Hero I-League in which Chennai play is the second tier in Indian football, for some reason they don’t have the top tier, so I can’t get promoted. While I joined the club in the 31 July 2020, the first game is on August 1 in the Durand Cup, which the board don’t care about. We don’t even play a league game until January. My squad has 23 players, and there is no youth team, and I’m immediately flung into a transfer window, and I immediately sell one player. Thankfully my scouts find Kyle Richford from the Scottish non-league to play up front who I immediately snap up. We haven’t played a game since January, Richford hasn’t arrived yet, but our first game is in the cup away to North Eastern FC. A 2-1 win thanks to a penalty save and disallowed goal proves I’m a genius. Clearly New Caledonia are convinced, as they offer me a job at £3,300 a week, beating offers from American Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu, and some other youth teams. I can manage both a club and a country, so now the fun begins.
Someone with no experience earning 4.5k a week in total. Because I don’t care about this competition, I then make 11 changes against Aizawl and we lose 4-2. A loss in the next game means we’re out of the cup and there’s no games until January.

Meanwhile, I repay New Caledonia’s faith in me with a 3-0 loss at home to Vanuatu in a friendly, although we do win 3-1 in Kiribati on a pitch made out of sand. Two more friendly wins in October and in November the World Cup qualifiers start. Inexplicably, the board are annoyed I failed to reach the final of the OFC Nations Cup, despite the fact I didn’t actually take charge in any games in the competition. A 2-0 win over Tahiti in my first qualifier cheers me up, but we then lose 2-0 to Vanuatu. Given that only the top team qualifies from the group it’s looking ropey.

Meanwhile, I realise that Chennai’s squad is a bit crap, so sign all these new players. However, the transfer window doesn’t open to 1 January, and squad registration closes on 26 December, so I can’t register any of them for the new season. Fucking hell my team is atrocious, but I’m still getting paid. A lifeline is when crap midfielder Sriram Boopathi gets injured and I can have an emergency replacement in new signing Reynier Fernandes who is much better. I draw 0-0 away to Punjab who were heavy favourites in my first game. New signings Fernandes, Fernando Recio and Anas Edathodika are a brilliant defence but Richford isn’t all that and so we are the Indian Burnley, destined not to score and not concede. I go Very Defensive in the next game against CB, but we concede early. Luckily we get a penalty to go 1-1, but immediately concede one, and then we go down to ten men. At 3-1 in the second half I go attacking, and we play some nice football, but eventually lose 3-2. A 1-1 draw against minnows Palian Arrows is very disappointing after we give away another penalty, but the same result against leaders Tiddim Road is more inspiring. We then lose against Aizawl and Kashmir and we’re last. A 0-0 draw against Kerala gives me two big injuries including one to Edathodika, and we lose our next game to Delhi. A 1-1 draw with MDHN and a 0-0 draw with North Eastern follows, which means we are in the bottom half after the (Scotland-style) split. We are woeful up front and the first 2 games are a 0-0 draw and 1-0 loss. A 3-0 loss in the next game leads to a target: 10 points in the next 5 games or sacked.

Meanwhile it’s the international break, and Vanuatu lose to Tahiti. We get a 1-1 draw in our game and so it’s all to play for, although a 4-1 friendly loss to Papua New Guinea is not ideal. I come back and lose the next game 2-1 to Kerala thanks to a 94th minute header which relegates us. I blame the Indian league registration system. My 4-1-4-1 DM didn’t work well as Richford was a bit shit up front and I couldn’t figure out a way to get goals regularly. I only won 1 game, the first in charge, but it doesn’t matter as I fleeced them for about 60 grand while doing it.
Inexplicably, I haven’t been sacked, and not only that, and Indian football seems extremely glitched, as it hasn’t set up new fixtures or even relegated me. I don’t know what’s going on right now. In fact, the board don’t let me go on a coaching course (as there are no fixtures scheduled) because it might lead to a “better club” coming and getting me. Hmmmm.
Anyway, it’s time for the end to the World Cup qualifying group. Tahiti play us, then Vanuatu, and we’re both on 4 points, Tahiti on 3. We need to beat the Tahitians, preferably by a big goal difference to win the group and advance. A penalty is the difference as they win 1-0, and mean we finish bottom of the group. I’m still not sacked, and manage the team to a 2-0 friendly win over Samoa.

Finally, on 15 July, I get sacked as Chennai City gaffer, 3 months after my last game. In that time, I’ve fleeced them for £60,171.43 and got them relegated – exactly what this playthrough is about – and I also learned “Basic” Hindi, even though they speak Tamil in Chennai. I reckon I’ll just focus on New Caledonia for now.

i'll give these a go