Hey everyone I'm Joey. I have started new youtube series going from non-league and beyond. We might succeed or we might not, what is important is the journey of it so that's why I'm happy to invite you to join me in my journey.
The story,
After getting a loan of few thousand euros I finally was able to fly to UK and manage Curzon Ashton, I've just recently finished my National C Licence and was ready to face my challenge that is Curzon Ashton.
Immediately I noticed we have 4 very good players on the but we have no budget. Striker Adam Morgan, goalkeeper Hakan Burton, midfielder Tomsett, defender John Hunt real veteran of the team. So basically we had little of everything. We start hiring scouts left and right we have nothing in the team not even physios. Later on I checked we have the smallest budget of them all and.... almost no fans, one of the lowest attendances in the league. So if I want to return that loan I should be very creative with my budget.
Curzon Ashton hired me on the basis of my previous management experience that was Football Manager series, they wanted to try something new and I decided to give them something new. I immediately decided I shall use FM tactics 5-2-1-2 I used previously but decided I need something stable that would work in other clubs. I'm more of a defensive type of manager so I just decided to transform that to 4-3-1-2 and it....failed. Lost to under-23s.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OidDTbYXF-Q&t=1" rel="nofollow">[video=youtube;OidDTbYXF-Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OidDTbYXF-Q&t=1[/video]
Don't read next text if you don't want spoilers!!! You have been warned.
After quite few matches and changes to tactic I've decided to stick with defensive minded 4-3-1-2 in friendlies we were pretty poor buuut we mostly played against poor teams against which this wouldn't work well, we were very unstable. After all the transfers we kind of had a team but still only 1 quality striker that is Adam Morgan.
We couldn't have asked for worse opponent in the first match, it's Kidderminster team that is aiming for the top of the league. While we are scrambling for survival.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnMNyuFpdYU&t=1s" rel="nofollow">[video=youtube;mnMNyuFpdYU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnMNyuFpdYU&t=1s[/video]
Third part / spoilers alert!!!
To my surprise tactic is working amazingly, we are currently 3rd in the league with only one loss. Can we actually do it and stay in the league maybe even surprise people?!? Is that even possible??? Next two league games are against Altrincham and Salford we should be beating both of them based on results before but team is very shaky in defence, I don't know how to fix it... Maybe dropping defense a bit deeper and no offside trap? John Hunt is great player but very slow. I don't know about our defense yet. We didn't do any transfers or anything after start of the season and we have lowest salary in the league. How are we doing it? Can we keep going here? Or will Altrincham and Salford get us from the clouds... See everything in the next episode.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e66Pg809i04&t=1s" rel="nofollow">[video=youtube;e66Pg809i04]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e66Pg809i04&t=1s[/video]
I hope you like it, any criticism is welcome.
Best Regards, Joey
P.S.I edited everything after writing the story and adding it, new episodes will have stories. Whole playlist
The story,
After getting a loan of few thousand euros I finally was able to fly to UK and manage Curzon Ashton, I've just recently finished my National C Licence and was ready to face my challenge that is Curzon Ashton.
Immediately I noticed we have 4 very good players on the but we have no budget. Striker Adam Morgan, goalkeeper Hakan Burton, midfielder Tomsett, defender John Hunt real veteran of the team. So basically we had little of everything. We start hiring scouts left and right we have nothing in the team not even physios. Later on I checked we have the smallest budget of them all and.... almost no fans, one of the lowest attendances in the league. So if I want to return that loan I should be very creative with my budget.
Curzon Ashton hired me on the basis of my previous management experience that was Football Manager series, they wanted to try something new and I decided to give them something new. I immediately decided I shall use FM tactics 5-2-1-2 I used previously but decided I need something stable that would work in other clubs. I'm more of a defensive type of manager so I just decided to transform that to 4-3-1-2 and it....failed. Lost to under-23s.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OidDTbYXF-Q&t=1" rel="nofollow">[video=youtube;OidDTbYXF-Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OidDTbYXF-Q&t=1[/video]
Don't read next text if you don't want spoilers!!! You have been warned.
After quite few matches and changes to tactic I've decided to stick with defensive minded 4-3-1-2 in friendlies we were pretty poor buuut we mostly played against poor teams against which this wouldn't work well, we were very unstable. After all the transfers we kind of had a team but still only 1 quality striker that is Adam Morgan.
We couldn't have asked for worse opponent in the first match, it's Kidderminster team that is aiming for the top of the league. While we are scrambling for survival.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnMNyuFpdYU&t=1s" rel="nofollow">[video=youtube;mnMNyuFpdYU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnMNyuFpdYU&t=1s[/video]
Third part / spoilers alert!!!
To my surprise tactic is working amazingly, we are currently 3rd in the league with only one loss. Can we actually do it and stay in the league maybe even surprise people?!? Is that even possible??? Next two league games are against Altrincham and Salford we should be beating both of them based on results before but team is very shaky in defence, I don't know how to fix it... Maybe dropping defense a bit deeper and no offside trap? John Hunt is great player but very slow. I don't know about our defense yet. We didn't do any transfers or anything after start of the season and we have lowest salary in the league. How are we doing it? Can we keep going here? Or will Altrincham and Salford get us from the clouds... See everything in the next episode.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e66Pg809i04&t=1s" rel="nofollow">[video=youtube;e66Pg809i04]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e66Pg809i04&t=1s[/video]
I hope you like it, any criticism is welcome.
Best Regards, Joey
P.S.I edited everything after writing the story and adding it, new episodes will have stories. Whole playlist
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