RGUOR Minsk
I present you RGUOR Minsk, the team with the best youth facilities in FM12! Shortly known as RUOR, they are a Belarusian academy team. Many of the current Belarusian stars have started their career there, including Zenit goalkeeper Yuri Zhevnov, Freiburg midfielder Anton Putsila and Bari striker Vitaliy Kutuzov. I played as them in FM11 and I made them the best club in the world with £500m in the bank and winning every possible title. Basically, that's what I'm trying to do again. Utter domination. I will probably manage the Belarusian national team at some point too, and try to win the World Cup with them.
I am not exactly sure where RUOR are really playing, due to a general lack of information (a Google search using RUOR Minsk as a keyword and mostly FM stuff comes up! I would gladly put some real pictures of their ground and the team but there aren't any) and my non-existent knowledge of Russian but I think they are playing in the fourth tier in Belarus. In the game however I swapped Partizan Minsk's reserve team with them in the third tier, Vtoroja Liga.
This is not going to be a story story, where I write about my kids (I hope I get one though 30 years in to the game) and beautiful wife Svetlana, rather a monthly report about the matches, transfers, players and happenings in and around the club.
The manager
I am Mikhail Belukhin. I was born on June 31, 1985 in Starye Dorogi. My football career didn't quite pan out as I wanted it to as I ended up playing as an amateur in FC Starye Dorogi in the fourth level of the Belarusian league system. I quit playing a few years ago as I was more interested in coaching. I applied for a youth coach position in RUOR's academy, and got it. The setup there is simply amazing, no wonder they've developed so many good players. RUOR used to be an academy only, but recently the board made a decision to change the club to a normal men's team from the start of the 2011 season and naturally they were looking for a manager. Having been at the club for some time and having coached the youngsters, the chairman Vadim Verbitskiy gave me opportunity to take up the manager's position. The contract included a very good weekly wage of £75 so I of course took it. Vadim made it very clear to me that he wants immediate promotions in succession to the Vysshaya Liga, the top tier. I will start in the end of January 2011. The season starts in April but I want to make sure I get enough time to do the required transfers and make everything work.
The club
As Vadim had promised, he had recruited a good number of players before my first day. Along with the 18 youth players, he had given me 16 older players to work with. We still need a few full backs and our midfield is inadequate. We are spending £547 on wages per week and Vadim gave me a weekly wage budget of £4.2k. That's more than enough to get some quality players in. Our financial situation is not the best, the balance being only £13k. Vadim warned me that the first few seasons may be financially difficult as the youth setup costs an estimated £100k in a month. We must make it into Europe at the earliest possible chance and get success there so a cup run this season would make things quite nice. We are semi professional at the moment and will probably turn professional after this season if, as planned, we get promoted. The coaching setup at the moment is nothing special, only an assistant manager, a coach, a scout and a physio. I will address that when we turn professional. Our stadium Kamvolschik is decent sized at this level, but I hope the club are ready to expand it. We get about 70 or so people per match and with the ticket price of £0.70 we get a magic £49 per match in tickets!
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The players
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These are the players I start with. As you can see, there are players that are quality and then there are players that aren't. We have great potential in the youth team, but we need depth and I will be looking for loans and free signings. I know we can get in real quality for only a small amount of money. Savitskiy, Shtanyuk and Nesteruk are the brightest stars in the team at the moment.
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I will do the next update after the pre-season so I get all the transfers, friendlies and everything included.
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correct? Sid, where r u?
correct? Sid, where r u?
