So then, it looks like I’ve been enticed by the pleasures of potential in what looks to be yet another wonderful year of Football Manager.
With the new beta release comes fresh ideas and opportunities for myself and many others alike to implement in their very own footballing universe. With the fate of World Football in your hands, who will you be setting your sights on taking to the top?
Myself? Ipswich Town.
A typically traditional English side with a fairly successful history (albeit not so recently) who for the last few years have really begun to fall off into the deep dark abyss that is the English football league.
Having suffered the cruel realities of relegation from the Premier League at the end of the 2002 season, Ipswich have failed to make any inroads on their journey back to the top flight. Since then, they’ve established themselves as a Championship level club, and we even relegated three seasons ago down to League One.
My job? Take them back to the top. It’s as simple as it gets. With the ghost of Obi-W – Sorry I mean Bobby Robson on my shoulder I shall face the daunting task of making the clubs way back into the Championship and beyond.
I’ve many goals for this save, I shall list them all down below and we can talk about the realism behind each target.
Short Term:
Promotion to the Championship via winning the league
Materialize the leagues best backroom staff
Implement a possession based philosophy on the pitch
Long Term:
Promotion from the Championship
Establish selves as Premier League regulars
Push for European spots
Win the League Cup
Win the FA Cup
Achieve a top 4 finish
Win the Premier League
Win the Europa League
Qualify from Champions League Group stages
Win the Champions League
Win the Club World Cup
Execute the countries/worlds best youth system
These are all the goals I’m setting out to achieve during this save. To bring home just a selection of these accolades would be incredible in itself but I have lofty ambitions and believe we can go far here.
For the course of this save which will hopefully run for the life length of football manager 22 provided I don’t get the sack, I shall be taking a class of 92 approach.
Now this doesn’t mean I won’t be signing players – I will. Though the majority of them will be young and talented whilst I may decide to make a few more experienced signings every so often just to keep the hierarchy balanced.
So this does also mean I will be relying heavily on youth. This does obviously depend on the quality of intakes as well.
If they’re not good enough, I won’t sacrifice the teams performances for a vanarama level player that MIGHT one day be good. However should I have a decent young player with potential who plays in a position I need then he will get the nod to the first team before I think about signing anyone.
Should the intakes start poorly, I’ll look far and wide over the UK for the best talent and try to bring them over to the club in a bid to progress or even sell for profit.
The absolute dream here is to win everything with a squad built by our youth academy in majority.
I haven’t decided how I will update here yet. To start with I think I shall do as follows.
