Jon Harrod Activity
The situation at takeover
LA Galaxy - I've started the game on 1st July, so the MLS is mid-season. Galaxy are currently 4th in Western Conference (9th Supporters Shield). Also, upon taking over, the Galaxy board opted to give Bruce Arena the DoF rol...
I will start the game with the leagues for all our clubs running, plus the following additional leagues.
Australia, China, Japan, South Africa, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Colombia
Cheers.
I've run a few seasons this morning without any real issues. Galaxy and Oldham are under performing, but I'm hopeful I can correct that by being in charge.
The thing I hadn't realised, is that Algeria do not allow foreign players in...
Now that everything is set up, I'm going to run a test save for a few seasons to make sure nothing strange happens, and then I will begin playing.
When I begin playing this save, I will take control of all 7 clubs. However, the aim is that I will oc...
Affiliations
Any current affiliations (with the exception of B teams and such like) will be removed. Each club will then be Parent club to all the clubs with a lower rep.
The following options will be ticked for all links:
Players go on loan
First option...
Finances, Reputation and other boosts
Each club in our new alliance will receive a small reputation boost (as you would expect when being taken over by a multinational company). I have chosen 10% as an acceptable increase. Monster will also increase the s...
England
For our English club, I would like to choose a former Premier League team currently playing in League 1 or 2. This gives the following options.
Blackpool, Bolton, Bradford, Charlton, Coventry, Oldham, Portsmouth, Sheffield Utd, Swindon and possibl...
UEFA
Our club in continental Europe needs serious consideration, as there are plenty of options. Ideally, we want to be a country that produces a decent amount of good young talent, so we are looking at some of the top ranking nations. We'd also like...
CONMEBOL
As with North America, 2 countries dominate here. Argentina and Brazil (Although Colombia are ranked higher than Brazil currently). Last years Libertadores final was betweens teams from Colombia and Ecuador, but generally, teams from Brazil or Ar...
CONCACAF
North America is dominated by USA and Mexico. Although, Costa Rica are actually ranked above the States at present. The Champions League here has been won by a Mexican club for the last 11 years, and in 8 of those they had the runner up spot too....
AFC
Asia gives us some interesting opportunities. The easy option here would be to take a team from the Australian A League, since they are franchises and there is no relegation. However, I want to explore all options before deciding.
The highest ranked n...
CAF
Africa gives us a similar problem to Oceania, in that there aren't enough leagues available as default. As South Africa are currently the 15th best ranked African nation, I don't feel that this is the best place to put our club. But I know t...
OFC
Since Australia left OFC, New Zealand have dominated both the Nations Cup and Champions League. (Auckland having won the last 6 O-League titles). So it seems that New Zealand is the place to be if I want the club to be a success at a continental level...
Monster Energy have seen what Red Bull have been up to and feel that they could do a better job. Red Bull currently control 4 clubs (NY, Leipzig, Salzburg and Brasil), they were also involved with a failed club in Ghana and are rumoured to be looking at a...
Red Bulls biggest rival, Monster, have been buying up some football clubs. Can they do a better job?
I'm aiming on editing the database to encompass a new global brand taking over a group of football clubs in the way that Red Bull have. And I'd be happy to receive any feedback.
Red Bull currently own/control 4 clubs (NY, Leipzig, Salzburg, Bras...
And so it begins...
I begin my career unemployed and I am offered the chance to start at Stirling Albion in Scottish League 2.
I currently have 2 non-British/Irish players in my squad, including Mazel, probably my best player, so I'll list them and g...
My first (and hopefully only) attempt at the British Steel Challenge
This works, but isn't compatible with all other leagues. I've noticed that the 2016 dates are greyed out if I select the USA as a playable nation. Maybe some other nations have the same effect.
A busy January, means I've not played much, but just caught up and finished the season. Defeat in the final 2 games thankfully didn't stop us winning the league!
My 34 year old center back wins fans' player of the season.
October Report
We win the league with 2 games to go! But we are disappointing in the cup final, which goes to penalties after a 0-0 draw.Our final pen is saved as we go down 4-3 in the shootout.
Champions League draw is in and I don't get an easy group!
Auckland have won this for the past 5 years...
However, there are 3 groups, with the group winners and the best runner up progressing to the semis.
As this doesn't start until April, I&...
So after a run of 16 games we finally succombe to defeat, thanks to a late, questionable penalty...
However, September wasn't too bad as we've started to get some wins rather than draws, and had a convincing win in the cup quarter final.
We cur...
I think I'll try and go with a monthly update. So this is my August review (including my 1 match played at the end of July due to mid season break).
As you can see, we remain unbeaten, but I have a problem with draws...
When I arrived, the club had...
Thanks for the good luck!
I'm quite new to posting about this, so I'm not sure on the information and pictures people would like to see, but I'll try and mention anything relevant.
As far as season expectations go, I need to win the league...
For those that don't know about New Caledonia, it's a French territory (so all players have French as a 2nd nationality).
It's 750 Miles off the east coast of Australia and has a population of around 270,000
If we win the league, we'll...
So I didn't want to stay out of work for too long and wanted to start somewhere that at least gave me a chance of qualifying for the OFC Champions League...
Welcome to New Caledonia!
I apply for, and subsequently offered the job at AS Magenta, top of...
CollectaBubble just completed the season in the year 2015 managing AS Magenta in the Division d'Honneur in their FM Career The Hexagon Challenge
To start with, I'd like to mention that I'm limited in processing power. So to help speed up the game, I will mainly load leagues from the continent that I am using at the time. My aim is to move through them on a reputational basis, so it'...
My main problem with FM careers, is that I get bored after 4 or 5 seasons. So, to try and prevent that this year, I'm going to try the hexagon challenge, and try and win the main continental cup on all 6 continents. I will be using some of Claassen's leag...
I got mine from fmforumonline. It's an Italian site, but it translates well. It include the Eccellenza too, for anyone that wants it
Scratch that. Realised that alt+F9 is still working!
This is me taking over
Ive not joined in with these challenges before so thought I'd start here.
I've downloaded a Serie D update along with Claassens San Marino league (which is as accurate as it's going to get!)
I like building up clubs using the youth academy,...