How are you doing?

[Kevin]

It's about that time for another random idea & save.

The original game as in Champ Man 93 & once real players were introduced is 30 years old
Which side were promoted to the football league that year after dominating non-league doing the double and then went on to achieve back to back promotions the following year?

Wycombe Wanderers

Under quality manager Martin O'Neill and playing in their unique dark/light blue quartered strip, I'm going to see how I get on 30 years later.

They had a memorable FA Cup run to the semi finals in 2001 under Lawrie Sanchez, thanks to a shortage of strikers and a teletext advert Then more success under probably their best manager with a highest ever league finish of 22nd in the Championship courtesy of Gareth Ainsworth.

Anyway, enough rambling. Hopefully it will go somewhere as I've already spent the last 2 days looking at every unattached player with just England loaded, all 237 pages of them

I'll be happy to see lots of regens come through and be 1st teamers and also if can get in the Championship again but stay there to automatically set a new highest league finish. Fingers crossed no yo-yoing or dropping into League 2 either.

[Shiny]

Raging!!!!

Just had a awful first season with Rangers where I feel like the game has been out to fuck me over at every turn!

Finished 2nd in the league Celtic by 20 points! Lost the UEFA Cup Final 2-0 to Rosenborg having beaten Milan in the Quarters! Lost the League Cup Final to Hibs who were almost relegated and to finish things off nicely I've just lost the FA Cup Final to Celtic...

Handed in my notice after the final and walked away. I will never manage Rangers again! They are Cursed

On the run in I was getting a player injured every game which totally screwed me when it was my best players getting

I'm sure my 4132 formation is to blame so that needs looking at for future saves

[Here2Win79]

Raging!!!!

Just had a awful first season with Rangers where I feel like the game has been out to fuck me over at every turn!

Finished 2nd in the league Celtic by 20 points! Lost the UEFA Cup Final 2-0 to Rosenborg having beaten Milan in the Quarters! Lost the League Cup Final to Hibs who were almost relegated and to finish things off nicely I've just lost the FA Cup Final to Celtic...

Handed in my notice after the final and walked away. I will never manage Rangers again! They are Cursed

On the run in I was getting a player injured every game which totally screwed me when it was my best players getting

I'm sure my 4132 formation is to blame so that needs looking at for future saves

Were you playing a recent update?

[Shiny]

Raging!!!!

Just had a awful first season with Rangers where I feel like the game has been out to fuck me over at every turn!

Finished 2nd in the league Celtic by 20 points! Lost the UEFA Cup Final 2-0 to Rosenborg having beaten Milan in the Quarters! Lost the League Cup Final to Hibs who were almost relegated and to finish things off nicely I've just lost the FA Cup Final to Celtic...

Handed in my notice after the final and walked away. I will never manage Rangers again! They are Cursed

On the run in I was getting a player injured every game which totally screwed me when it was my best players getting

I'm sure my 4132 formation is to blame so that needs looking at for future saves

Were you playing a recent update?

No, ODB...

[Here2Win79]

Raging!!!!

Just had a awful first season with Rangers where I feel like the game has been out to fuck me over at every turn!

Finished 2nd in the league Celtic by 20 points! Lost the UEFA Cup Final 2-0 to Rosenborg having beaten Milan in the Quarters! Lost the League Cup Final to Hibs who were almost relegated and to finish things off nicely I've just lost the FA Cup Final to Celtic...

Handed in my notice after the final and walked away. I will never manage Rangers again! They are Cursed

On the run in I was getting a player injured every game which totally screwed me when it was my best players getting

I'm sure my 4132 formation is to blame so that needs looking at for future saves

Were you playing a recent update?

No, ODB...

Ooft, no excuses then

[Shiny]

Were you playing a recent update?

No, ODB...

Ooft, no excuses then

Nope! Gutted by how the season played out. I'd try again but I'm so disappointed I don't think I can go back to Ibrox

[Theov]

So the game screwed you over but you blame your tactic?
Making it to the Uefa Cup Final is a real good result. Celtic is really good and rich at the start. Thet spend 50-100M annually in my save, it's rediculous, and on good players, too.

I think you should take on the challenge!

[Theov]

I moved from Milan to Sparta Rotterdam, Netherlands near the end of the season. I cloned myself and my clone is continuing with Milan. So effectively I am managing two teams now. And the Dutch national team.

Sparta made the sub-division playoffs and won promotion to the Premier division.
I invested about €30M in Sparta. (I sold 3 useless plyers to Milan for 30M).
Mostly in central defenders and midfielders.
I invested a bunch in coaches and physios, too. So we should be set to get this club off the ground.

The main challengers are PSV, who have 3 or 4 legit stars in their team and Feyenoord, who are the current back to back champions.

I expect a difficult season because most of the team now doesnt speak the language, but they should he able to end up somewhere in the middle of the league.

Goals are to get real quality youngsters, get rid of dead wood, increase status and sign some real difference makers and challenge PSV and Feyenoord next year.

Perhaps also to serve as a training ground for Milan talents or a landing spot for Milan cast-offs. But the difference between the clubs is far too large at this moment.

With Milan injecting money, the budget shouldnt be a problem.

[Kevin]

Midway through season 1 on April '23 and hovering between top half/playoff places in League One as Wycombe. Results on the pitch going ok but the squad has more 'Unh's before names than you could shake a stick at.

Half the squad want new contracts, the highest wage at the start was £3,500 and they wanted inbetween 4k and 7k plus I would have renewed some even being the tightwad I am but the board wouldn't let me offer anywhere near what players were asking. That's changed as I've got to January but I'm not renewing a lot of players from 1-2k a week to now on average 7k a week.

Then there's all the bids for several players, and any rejected leaving the player sulking at not being allowed to move. I did sell Josh Scowen to Swansea for 2.4m at the end of August and now Ryan Tafazoli (1.7m to Derby), Curtis Thompson (1.5m to Barnsley) as the January window has opened. I could have sold most of the 1st team if I'd accepted all the bids but don't want the side ripped apart during just the 1st season. The 2 biggest potential sales could have been Sam Vokes (3.5m to Villa) and Jordan Obita (3m to Millwall) both of which I've turned down, even knowing their contracts are expiring so I'm going to lose them on Bosmans. Tough decision to lose out on 6.5m for just a few months more out of them but there you go. They'll probably be rubbish as well given they're unhappy!

Back to my personal scouting of all the unattached players. Club legend and stalwart Joe Jacobsen probably wasn't enthused but this guy arrived before the start of the season to provide cover at LB

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This chap has just arrived in January and can now add Wycombe to the likes of Barcelona and AC Milan on his CV

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Finally I lost my last game of 2022 and it prompted a moan from a player (feels club needs to invest in better players), I had to criticise him rather than defend him as it was uncalled for and it prompted a line I've never seen before

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Don't be hard on yourself Dave, you're having a great season!

So hopefully the wheels don't fall off 2nd half of season, the squad is going to be so different soon enough with all the unharmony/bosmans/transfers. My main aim is to stay in League 1 for the time being and make money from transfers for improving the ground and training facilities, ready to actually be a championship side not having to constantly punch above their weight.

[Jan Deal]

Just had my star midfielder tell me that he no longer wants to move to a bigger club, boost!

However, he is now homesick!

[Jack Stein]

I'm back, after a break, on the hunt for the Catch 'Em All challenge. To recap, I had to abandon my last save after over 100 years as the file size was reaching the upper limit. Was pretty pissed off so tried the Burnley Youngsters challenge for a while but got bored with that

53 Brazilian Campeonato Mineiro (Brazil)

América (MG)

I can't really remember anything about this as it was the last one ticked off in the old save



I did manage to recruit the hottest young Brazilian keeper.



I took over at Iporá and over about three seasons tried to build a team to win the Campeonato Goiano. Got pretty close but just couldn't get past Goiás in the two-legged final.

*New save started*

54 Brazilian Campeonato Goiano (Brazil) Goiás

I took the liberty of picking the best team in the league! No problems picking up the Campeonato title at the first attempt



I decided it wouldn't be the best idea to quit immediately but try to build a reputation at Goiás. My main aim is to win the Copa Libertadores as that will give a major rep boost. Just had our first outing in that but went out with a pathetic showing in the quarter final. Next challenge is Campeonato Gaucho where the best club is Grêmio, followed by Internacional. The Internacional manager has been sacked twice but I didn't get the job. The first time thay gave it to some no hoper from Olimpik Donetsk who's main achievement was failing to get his team past the first round of Europa League qualifying. He was sacked with the team on 1 point after 5 Serie A games and they've appointed Gheorghe Hagi.