FC Luch-Energiya Vladivostok Succession Game

[Alex]

I'm fairly certain that is what it is. The game is holidaying now, I'll let you know soon. Guessing after this "championship/relation" phase, there will be a short break, and the season proper will start. The fixtures from last April aren't championship/relegation split, so I'm fairly sure this is a transition.

I'm ducking out for lunch now, but I'll use phone my PC to check soon

 

[Alex]

Yep. As expected. Season proper kicks off in August. You get what is essentially a practice season. Then they have a big break from November to Marsh.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Do the bottom 4 teams in the Relegation League get relegated?

 

[Alex]

Think so. But we're starting near the top, so surely should be safe??

Not sure if it's bottom four, or bottom from each region or something

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Alright cool. Will start playing very soon.

 

[Alex]

Wooooo

 

[Alex]

Just checked. Yep 4 bottom sides relegated.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Ahhh, Vladivostok in January

****. At least we have this

Wow. Don't know who I'm going to be able to buy worth anything near that amount, but I shall do my best.

Other rules we should know about: in the First Division we can only have 3 foreign players on the field, and must have a Russian U-21 player in the squad at all times. I assume this is more relaxed in the Premier Division, but I can't tell you for sure.

Everyone on the team I took over is horrible.

So with that in mind, and knowing that we can only have 3 foreign players, I set about building a team.

Let me tell you, there are NOT many good players that want to come to Vladivostok. The first signing is Tresor Mputu, a Democratic Republic of the Congo international, and the star player of TP Mazembe in the DRC. In 2010 they were the first team not representing CONMEBOL or UEFA to make the Final of the FIFA Club World Cup, knocking off Pachuca and Internacional before losing to Internazionale in the final. Not only that, but I actually read about him in real life in a book called Africa United!

No probelm Tresor. Next we signed the Iranian National Keeper who looks pretty good. 2/3 Foreign signings down.

On the home front, we grabbed a good young defender from Zenit's reserves.

The final foreign signing is a big Kazakhi dude

Wrapping up the signings in the winter is a Russian kid. Sadly I have 2 old guys coming in July, but I must have "Signed" them at the end of their contracts instead of offered a transfer fee to their clubs. Whoops.

I normally don't mess with this aspect too much, but I did at least get some good coaches in

 

[yoyo913]

Damn I remember trying to play with Anji last year but was put off by the foreign rule limit. Good signings so far... good Russian players will be very valuable. Long term goal could be to win the world cup with Russia too.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Honestly, I'm already regretting signing a foreign keeper, an entire 1 game into my career as manager. Russian keeper will be a top priority.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

FUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3 games from the end of the Relegation season, in 1st place by 6 points with only 1 draw the entire session, and the game crashes. I didn't save once. I'll make the same signings, although I might not go for the Iranian keeper and find some other foreigner. Son of a BITCH! Okay auto save, guess I'm turning you on now.

 

[Alex]

Haha, I usually save fairly often without autosave anyway. Often use autosave now though, because I've done that before

 

[ShiftyPowers]

I guess this gives me a reason to have my normal paranoia. Also, the game speed has a lot to do with it. I wouldn't have been half as far on my old comp. Games approached really fast.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Alright, here we are:

Kind of a meh performance, but at least it will get me to ditch the 3-4-1-2. I have made some legitimately great signings that I'm stunned we got to come to the Russian First Division (at least one anyway), but the transfer window opens on August 1, and sadly, the opening rounds of the Cup are played before then:

Looks like we won't be lifting this trophy this year.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

"This is a historic day for Luch and the city of Vladivostok. I would like to dedicate the great victory over the immoral capitalists of Anji to the memory of our recently deceased Dear Leader who taught me all about courage, strength, and football tactics."

 

[yoyo913]

You were very Luch-y.

 

[Alex]

The Dagestani's are GONE!

Basically a middle eastern side, playing an east asian side

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Signings!

Huge upgrades, particularly at keeper and right back. The Uruguayan kid looks to be amazing for First Division too. Oh, and I did promise you a blockbuster didn't I?

 

[Alex]

He looks really good. But quite low heading for someone that has generally target man abilities. Still, for First Division,

EDIT. I'm too used to higher levels I guess. At lower levels, he isn't so much a target man, as an all round striker. Fast enough, and good enough on the ball to hold his own....No JC Vinet though :P

 

[ShiftyPowers]

With such amazing jumping and finishing, I don't think his heading is too big of a problem. If I can get his pace and composure up he'll be a monster.

I actually was on the verge of signing him with Gladbach, so that he'd come to us now is really amazing. His story is that he transferred to Kuban in the Russian Premier League from CFR Cluj in Romania, and had a dreadful season in which the club was relegated. He was unhappy and now in the same division as us and as soon as he popped up on the interested players list I had a bid in for him.