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The Valiants
Port Vale FC, a club with a record that nobody would ever want. They are the longest club to be in existence and to never play in the top flight. 113 season without top flight football for the second team in Stoke. The club's traditional rivals are Stoke City, and games between the two are known as the Potteries derby. Port Vale's highest Football League finish was fifth place in the second tier in 1930-31, whilst their best FA Cup finish saw them reach the semi-finals in 1953-54. In the 2023-24 season, they reached the quarter-finals of the League Cup for the first time. In 2023-24, Port Vale were relegated from league one to league two. That is where our story will begin, in Feb 2024, fighting for survival in league one. The end of this story will determine where I start my CM in FC 25 in a few weeks. Will we survive and start the FC 25 career in league one? Will we be relegated and have to start all the way down in league two and fight for promotion again? That is what we will play for over the next few weeks...Tottenham Insider (FC 25)
Getting an early start on the FC 25 career, giving me a chance to work out graphics, story line and set up a preseason preview. I am going to do a career a little different this season. Instead of being the manager, I am going to be a Tottenham Insider. Following the club, interviewing key members, game summaries, youth updates (with the new youth tourny feature) and player profiles throughout the season. System: PS5 Difficulty: TBD, usually legendary with sliders adjusted Weather impact: on Wind impact: high Squad rules: Copy real life rules Transfer rules: Realistic for Spurs, additional details will be explained during the window AI Behavior: Dynamic Gameplay: Simulation Graphics: For league and big European matches it will be a full stats and write up. For matches not as important, just a simple write up summary.Up the Us
Up the Us Promoted to the football league in 1950, Colchester United have spent all but two seasons in the bottom two divisions, bouncing between the third and fourth tiers on a regular basis. However, calamity struck in season 1989-90, when they were relegated to the Conference, where they stayed for two seasons before roaring back with a Conference and FA Trophy double, under ex-player Roy McDonough. Fifteen years of subsequent see-sawing between the bottom two tiers ended with jubilation for Us fans, as they finished second in League 1 to local rivals Southend United at the end of the 2005-6 season, to join their Essex rivals in the Championship for the first and only time. Manager Phil Parkinson thus assumed legendary status with fans but then ruined it by leaving the club for ‘bigger club’ fellow Championship side Hull City before a ball had even been kicked. Later that season, the fans would get their revenge for what they saw as betrayal, after Parkinson was sacked by Hull City, following defeat to the Us in the league. The first season in the Championship, under Parkinson’s replacement, Geraint Williams, saw the Us attain their highest-ever season finish of 10th in the second tier. They spent a number of weeks towards the end of the season flirting with the promotion play-off places, only to miss out late on. The key to their success that season was the cramped, decaying Layer Road stadium, which ‘bigger clubs’ simply did not like visiting, and a number of scalps were claimed that season. Some years before, to stave off financial ruin, the club had sold the ground to the council for housing, and now the council were building a new, 10,000 seater stadium next to the A12 trunk road to London, with the intention of filling it every match in the Championship. It was even constructed with the ability to fill in the corners, raising the capacity to 15,000 (although this has never happened), as fans, club and council got over-excited at the prospect of sustaining the club’s new-found tier two status. However, before they got the chance to star in the new council-owned ground, they suffered ‘second season’ syndrome, and finished bottom of the Championship in 2007-2008. A few years of respectable finishes in League 1 came to an end when the owner reduced his own personal funding to the first team, in the wake of new FFP rules, and, having one of the smallest attendance records in the football league, financial gravity saw the Us drop to the bottom tier. The last three seasons have seen a constant battle against relegation from the football league, and fan resentment at the owner they claim has overseen this decline. Until recently, the owner had favoured ‘promotions from within’, from the backroom, for a succession of managers who simply did not make their mark on the team. However, with the appointment of brothers Danny and Nicky Cowley as the management team, there are hopes that a new beginning may happen. Cowleys to the Rescue The Essex-born Cowleys have had success elsewhere, most notably as managers of what were at the time Conference side Lincoln City, who they not only eventually led to League 1 but also famously beat then-Premier League side Burnley in the 5th round of the FA Cup as a non-league side, en route to a quarter-final defeat to the mighty Arsenal at the Emirates. Further roles at Huddersfield and Portsmouth led finally to this new job back in Essex, where they had previously managed non-league sides Concord Rangers and Braintree Town before their Lincoln stint. The fans are hoping that the Cowleys’ far more professional approach to team management will reap dividends, take the club away from the bottom of the division and maybe even some distance back up the pyramid. The Cowleys will need to work with a tight budget, as the owner continues to focus his spending mainly on infrastructure – coaches, etc. – and the promotion of talent from the academy. The squad does have a number of promising youngsters, notably Samson Tovide, Noah Chilvers and Bradley Ihionvien, hoping to follow in the footsteps of the academy’s currently best-known product, the Championship’s current top scorer Sammie Szmodics. We pick up the story in July, with the Cowleys appointing a number of first team coaches and hiring new youth scouts.M★RZEC - Man[ager] with a Mission
ENJOY THE STORY! Season 2: 2024-2025 starts HERE To quickly catch up, go through this regularly updated Wikipedia-page. Daniel Marzec is a semi-fictional, semi-truthful character. Most of up to 2018 is 'real life me' - then it becomes mostly fiction. Not long ago on May 14th 2022, DSC ARMINIA BIELEFELD drew 1:1 against RB Leipzig in the 34th and final round of the 2021/22 Bundesliga. A mere 14 months later on July 23th 2023, that same team from Bielefeld will have to kick of the 2023/24 3.Liga, having fallen right through the 2.Bundesliga during the 2022/23 season. THE YO-YO CLUB Having won the 2019/20 2.Bundesliga, DSC Arminia became the team to secure the most promotions into the German Bundesliga, tying with Der Klub 1.FC Nürnberg at eight. Having to play on the 3rd level of German football only three years later, shows clearly why Arminia Bielefeld is also referred to as The Yo-yo Club: the team moves up and down the German football ladder. In the 21st century alone, Deutscher Sport Club Arminia has spent 8 seasons in Bundesliga, 12 seasons in 2.Bundesliga, while the upcoming season is their fourth at the 3rd level. In theory Bielefeld ought to be big enough to host a Bundesliga team, or at least a team that swings up and down first and second tier: Arminia plays in the 18th largest city of Germany and the largest of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL) region. The OWL-region is part of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), the most populated state in Germany with cities such as Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, Bochum, Wuppertal, Bielefeld in 8th, former West-German capital Bonn and Münster - all cities with 300,000 or more residents. In that last city, we find Arminia's biggest rival Preußen, who also play in 3.Liga this season. The opening game of the season however, Arminia faces SC Verl, the club geographically closest to them as the two are only 18 km (or, a bit over 10 miles) apart. BIELEFELD BOLD: ARMINIA goes for AUFSTIEG (promotion) Daniel Marzec is appointed new head coach at The Arminians. For the 41-year old (September 5th 1981) it's his first job at a professional football team, having served only as youth coach at Wisla Kraków and Ajax Amsterdam before. His main task is a steep one: both the board as well as the stakeholders demand an immediate return to next season's 2.Bundesliga. "The club has a stadium and budget, big enough to comfortably play a level higher: it's where we belong, the new manager has to take us there!" Under Marzec, his youth teams often have played a fluid form where the attack ends up with a striker supported by wingers on both sides. This wing play-type tactic has a 4-3-3 as a foundation, but can easily move into a form of 3-4-3 when attacking, or 5-2-3 when defending. The new manager's main challenge is to mold a team out of a nearly total squad of newcomers: prior to the signing of Marzec, DSC Arminia has bought an entirely new squad. Six youth players were promoted, six players have come in for a single season on loan; all others come from different clubs, 15 players in total. The only remaining senior player that played for Arminia last year in 2022/23 2.Bundesliga is Fabian Klos (35). The striker has been playing at the club since 2011 and is indispensable as crucial striker, main goalscorer and captain of this side during what is probably the last year of his career.
CAREER MODE - FORWARDS/ WINGERS only accept important roles .
much like most of the folks who play career mode I’ve been playing since I was a child in 08’ . I find It criminal the intentional regression is . Nonetheless . I cant get any of my forwards to accept a less role other than important . Doesn matter if the players is a free agent . A youth player , high rated or low rated . All want an important role that cant be negotiated. I thought I found a way around it by changing the players position, but no chance . Has any come across sed issues ? CM Edit: Changed from all Upper case to normal sentence
