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If the manager takes a new job while working on a coaching course, do they continue it or do they have to start over?

Min-Month Updates Coach Course: The board has agreed to fund my first coaching badge. I was really nervous asking since we are in the midst of the promotion play-offs, but luckily they have agreed to do it. Financial Status: We are in an okay po...

One thing that is a change for me is not having the editor turned on. I didnt realize that I had gotten so used to the other information that we have access to. Im not concerned about changing any ratings or anything, just less info available. I also...

End of Regular Season - February GamesWith only 3 games I didnt have much more time to see how the team would play before the playoffs. But, surprisingly things went really well.Elpida (H): W, 2-1. The game was not as close as the score indicated. 16...

Overall Organization ReviewThe organization is an amateur organization. There are U-21 and U-19 developmental squads. Coaching Staff - Since it is an Amateur organization, none of the staff have a salary. I have hired the following staff:CoachGoalkee...

And here it is, the signed, sealed, and delivered contract. The team reports and updates will be coming up. But as an Amateur team, lots of options for sure. 

This was followed up with the much anticipated interview offer….

After waiting until 1 January 2024, I expressed interest in a job in Cyprus and this was the reaction:

As I start the game, I have one additional “unwritten rule” that I will not apply for any jobs until after 1 January. So now it is just a waiting game. 

I am starting out as a 25-year old Sunday League player with no coaching experience, born in Bath, England (my favorite team even though I am an American) with a secondary nationality of German. I also speak Bulgarian, Italian and French. I am starting the game on 12 June 2023, the earliest day in Bulgaria. I have loaded the following leagues: Albania: 4 levels Andorra: 2 levels Bulgaria: 4 levels England: Vanarama North/South Germany: 5 levels Kosovo: 3 levels

I guess this is not drawing any attention. I am going to keep the save file, but will look to start another save. If anyone is interested, I will start running this one again.Thanks

1 Oct 2022As I was working on this, I decided to do it as monthly updates. I am going to provide a short summary of the matches and where we are, along with my thoughts about what is coming next. MATCHES27 Aug 2022BFD (9th) vs Meta (10th). Home, atte...

What is my Plan?I am going to have to remember how to post images on here, it has been a while. I could only post a single image per post, that is why it looks like this. I will pracitce and get better so there are not so many to look at like that. I also...

Current FinancesNeed to get some money coming in!

Remaining Matches

 League TableWhere we stand on 21 Aug 2022

What is that club vision?

And those all important supporters!

What do they expect?

21 August 2022And so it begins! BFC Daugavpils reached out to me and within 6 days I was hired to manage a team in my own nation!  BFC isnt a big club, only has 180 season ticket holders. We are going to be fighting to stay up in the couple of m...

30 July 2022 The phone has been pretty quiet. I guess not having any badges is causing many clubs to look past me, I know it isnt because I celebrated my birthday by counting gray hairs already.  I decided to not chase every opening that co...

I am 29, born in Poland to a Polish mother and a Latvian father. I have bounced from job to job, never really finding something to hold my interest for more than a day or 2. That is, except football. I play every Sunday afternoon, but am not good enough t...

Just a young manager starting his career in eastern Europe. Countries loaded: Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine I do have the editor and will use it only to make some improvements to my favorite club, Bath City FC. Who doesnt like to have that rich uncle who gives his fortune to a football club?

Okay, I have no idea why some of the images are not showing up. When I check the preview everything looks fine, but when I submit it they don't work. So if anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks!

End of the Preseason - Start of the 2020-21 Season The pre-season is over and along the way we received the obligatory promotion odds. I have to say that this gives me no pressure at all! https://imgur.com/yySpXZk The board is pretty clear on what they wa...

Thanks. I think having deep pockets helps all of this. I appreciate you reading along!

2020 Offseason I had not originally planned to do an update until after we had finished all of the friendlies. But as you are going to see, this has been a very active couple of months. As expected I spent quite a bit of time scouting new players. I also...

End of 2019-20 Season Finances in April 2020 https://imgur.com/QqezNeR Still doing great here! Now we are over $5 million in the bank. The true test is going to be next season. I requested that we move to semi-professional and it was approved. Initially...

January 2020 Finances https://imgur.com/GjkM3sO Wet, wash, rinse and repeat. The bank balance continues to grow. Which I am not going to complain about! This looks great and I cannot see any reason for that to change. Match Results https://imgur.com/rxY...

I am going to make a minor change in the way I am doing this. I am going to shift to posting the updates every 3 months during the season. I will post an update at the end of the season no matter when it occurs. I think it will keep it from becoming "...

December 2019 Finances https://imgur.com/iS2NmJB I feel like a broken record. But as you can see, we are still growing that bank account. Not a bad month, looks like it will continue as well. The crazy thing is that we only had 1 home match this month an...

November 2019 Finances https://imgur.com/Dg7OOka This money train keeps rolling along. I did see an unexplained drop at the end of September and October though. Even though we had over $2 million at the end of the month we dropped about $700K on the first...

Sounds good. I am really interested in how things go for you. I think the Everton match today shows what this team is capable of, but I hope that you can right the ship much quicker than we have seen so far in real life. How sad is that, I am talking abou...

How dare them not hire you??? I would have given you an awesome recommendation, I mean, just look at what you have done here! I am sure that finishing 8th will be nerve wracking, but here is to hoping that you do better than that. Getting that win agains...

Congratulations on pulling this off. It is really interesting to read your thoughts on team cohesion. I may have to reconsider my approach to signing players like I have been in light of this revelation. So are you going to stay now that you have gotten t...

Really nice start to the season. I really like the conversational way you present this. What kind of contract is Marquis on? Any concerns about being able to hang on to him in January if his form continues like this? Keep rocking and rolling!

I am sorry to see this won't pan out for you. Would love to see Arsenal have some success again

October 2019 Finances https://imgur.com/Cgub0if We continue to make money, so I think it will just be a matter of time before we decide to go up from amateur status. No other big changes or shocks. Match Results https://imgur.com/JIXFaU0 So far so good...

September 2019 Finances https://imgur.com/1et7fCD This pretty much speaks for itself. One minor change, I switched from English Pounds to US Dollars. It is just easier for me to type the "$" sign. What is so crazy, the vast majority of this com...

August 2019 Club Finances https://imgur.com/iTP7BrT As you can see, we had a great month. Our biggest expense is taxes. VAT has been over 260,000 so far this year. But even with that, we are doing very well. Match Results https://imgur.com/WDo5LrD We ha...

Lastly, for right now, how did we do in the pre-season? The friendlies are over and the starting first team is set along with the coaches. It is time to get serious now! The Results https://imgur.com/K14esLL Starting Bank Balances https://imgur.com/2pUT...

Also, since I am getting ready to start the season I will share my staff with you. We are all on Amateur contracts so I am going to be constantly scouting for replacement players as well as staff. I do not have any very exciting players at this point sinc...

I have made it through the 2019 friendlies so I thought I would bring you up to speed with everything. The Club Overview https://imgur.com/s0tsknC The Facilities https://imgur.com/HnwSZiQ Starting 2019 Finances https://imgur.com/ApqULNg As you can se...

They are worth 2 billion. I am not sure how. They are now the 19th richest team in the world. Thanks for reading along!

So let me set this all up for you. The club is Tooting Bec Rec located in London. The information I will share about the club is based on the information in FM 20, since that is where the game will be played. Before I share the information about the club...

I am a big fan of the custom databases that The FMEditor makes of the lower level league structure for England. In one of his recent updates it was found that an amateur club had been made the richest club in the world. In his latest update he has said he...

December 2019 Review I guess one of the advantages of playing at this level is how matches are cancelled due to a water logged pitch. I had that happen twice this month so we only had to play 4 matches. The Broughty Athletic match was pretty easy as th...

Thanks guys! Yea, I am happy with how things are going. I appreciate the ideas about the fouls. I am going to see if I can adjust that then. I think I am going to stick to the monthly write ups for December and January. Because of cancelled matches, I onl...

Congrats on that first season. Great results there. I will be following along with this. Good luck