FC Luch-Energiya Vladivostok Succession Game

[yoyo913]

In FM11 Lacina Traore would sign for Barcelona in the first season in many of my games.

edit: He transferred to Kuban in real life and is managed by former Chelsea and Romania NT player Shifty Petrescu (aka Mulder).

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Well, thanks to a massive 20 team First Division to go along with an enormous winter break, games are every Saturday AND Wednesday. Fuuuck!!

 

[Alex]

How many sides in top division?? That'd be no fun with Europe games on top!?

 

[ShiftyPowers]

There's only 16 in the Premier Division, so that's 8 fewer games, which is probably just enough to make it bearable. The cup also seems to be fairly short and mostly contested before the season starts. Tough start to the league for us, but we seem to have found our footing; we've had a lot of injuries, the most stunning of which left us with a 17 year old keeper in net for 7 games. However, we actually won 5/7 of those games, so it didn't end up being all that important. Still, I think you can pin almost all of that 1-3 loss to Khimki on the kid. Oh, and his debut was the 2-2 draw, where he got lobbed from about 40 yards in the 88th minute.

Check out those dates. Which puts us here.

Best player so far has actually been Mier the Uruguayan, although in limited games because of injuries. After him it's Traore and Mputu.

EDIT: At this point most teams in the Russian Premier League have played 9 games. That compares to 6 in England, 7 in Germany, and 11 in the notoriously early starting Ukrainian Premier League.

 

[Alex]

What are board expectations?

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Promotion. We're really clicking though, with the players healthy we've been on a real tear; Mputu, Traore, and Mier missed some or all of those first 5 games, not to mention our best defender Gadjibikov who is out until next year, and our #1 keeper.

 

[Juventino]

It's great to finally see this up and running!

I'll also have time to play in the next couple of weeks (after that it will be difficult again), so I'd love to go next if that's all right.

 

[yoyo913]

If Juventino goes next and does his in time I'd like to be in the mix for going next since it will probably sync with my time off for Christmas holidays.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

My question is: what happens if I don't get promoted and get sacked?

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Because of youth team callups I had to go on vacation for one match as I didn't have a single registered Russian U-21 player to put in the side. We won 3-0. Looked at the formation wondering what position my assistant played a random grey player that I couldn't find: didn't see one. He just played the regular starting XI without a Russian U-21 player. Whatever.

 

[Juventino]

My question is: what happens if I don't get promoted and get sacked?

Add a new manager? If our North Korean gets sacked it will probably push him over the edge and he'll commit suicide, so probably another name. I still like Uli Kunkel, the Autobahn band member/ porn star/ nihilist (from The Big Lebowski).

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Yeah I like that idea. Maybe just everyone isn't meant to be as successful as Pablo Castro, if one manager fails, someone else gets a crack.

Forgot to post this, good luck when you guys get to the Premier League

 

[Mandieta6]

How is that possible? Alex, you didn't increase the league's rep or something did you?

Although maybe it being the only playable league had an effect. Which would suck, really.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Alright, maybe I won't get sacked.

Sorry, there are the fixtures for October/November. To be honest I haven't played nearly that well IMO, and was surprised when I saw that record.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Winter signings!

I think the last guy could be really special. You might be thinking, "you won't be able to play all of your best players at once because of foreigner limits". Yup. I had like 75m to spend this year, so **** it.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

More talent to Russia:

 

[Alex]

How is that possible? Alex, you didn't increase the league's rep or something did you?

Although maybe it being the only playable league had an effect. Which would suck, really.

No, but (as I said in the discussion thread) I made some of the other Russian sides have sugar daddy chairmen as well...Usually only background sugar daddy, not foreground like ours. But it will still give them money to spend. The bigger sides would have already had decent rep, but I didn't raise it at all (in fact I think I lowered them ever so slightly to try and counter against the money they would now have).

Obviously the idea is that it makes it harder to get to the top, and the whole league can increase together - instead of just us improving, and the rest of our league becoming crappy. With only two tiers, it could have been a pretty quick game!

 

[Juventino]

Yeah, I actually don't mind it. Guys like Dzsudzszak have budged for Russian money in real life, although I'm not sure he's on the same level of potential as Pjanic and Hazard.

Makes for an interesting game.

Interesting signings by the way, all from former Soviet nations.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

I think it would have been more interesting to give a couple lower league Russian teams a deal like we have, but keep the top clubs about the same. I mean, the Moscow clubs are pretty rich anyway, and Anji has a sugar daddy. I'd like to see like Sibr have some gas sugar daddy or something.

 

[Juventino]

You can still do that, right? I like that idea.