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The Back to the Future challenge - Mourinho edition
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Hello everyone and welcome to my new story! I've seen a lot of really great challenges being created on this forum over the last 2-3 years I've been here and it made me want to start my own. I'm not entirely sure if something like this has been done before but if you find any challenge that is similar, then let me know and I'll be sure to credit the person who created it!
This will be a story that I'll run alongside my Reviving sleeping giants (chapter 2): Aston Villa story with one day of updates for the Villa story and the next of updates for this one.
I've come up with this "Back to the Future" challenge from reading a lot of SAF challenge stories. In this challenge, you may choose any manager you want but the more successful and smaller teams managed, the better. A great example of this would be Carlo Ancelotti, who managed Reggiana and Parma before getting to the bigger teams managed in his career. A terrible example would be Pep Guardiola. Yes, he's a very successful manager, but has only won these trophies with big teams like Bayern and Barcelona, which wouldn't make this a challenge.
Once you've picked a manager, the idea is that you have to look through their stats to see how many games you're allowed to manage for, how much money they've spent throughout that career and how many players they've signed as well. The financial restrictions mean you cannot break a manager's transfer record (in Mourinho's case, Pogba for £89 million), and you cannot spend more than what the manager has spent over his career or sign more than the amount of players that manager has signed. This would make it more difficult for the smaller teams to win trophies which means that if you do want to get to the smaller teams, you better save up on your signings spaces when you're managing big sides like United or Real Madrid! After that, your career as a manager should last as long as the manager's picked. In Mourinho's case, 794 games. An added little bonus can be that if you reach the end of the games your manager has had in his career and you have a better record (in Mourinho's case a better record than 518-157-119), you get an extra amount of points. I haven't decided if it would be something huge like 200 points or a little less.
Oh, and I also forgot to mention that you may use the in-game editor to move from club to club, as building up the reputation to go from Porto to Real Madrid for example could take ages and therefore make the challenge impossible. The one restriction I'll put in place for that is you have to spend at least 2 years at a club before using the editor to change if you wish, since Mourinho stayed at least 2 years at Porto, Inter and Chelsea.
To explain my choice of José Mourinho: he's managed a few big teams in United, Chelsea, Real Madrid (and Inter who could be included in that list) but also two weaker teams in Porto and Uniao De Leira. This means that I could stay at a few big clubs for the duration of the story but wouldn't get as many points as I would if I managed one of the weaker sides. On top of that, he's made some pretty big signings in his career and has signed quite a few players which could make this interesting with regens being so expensive in FM.
The next update will be my club choice and an introduction to the manager I've created in-game. I also thought I could start a leaderboard in case anyone decides to take on this challenge; there could be multiple leaderboards per manager chosen so a Mourinho leaderboard, Ancelotti leaderboard and so on.
Hope you all enjoy this new challenge, in my head it sounded really interesting and unique but I guess I'll have to see what the community's reaction is to it!
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Hello everyone and welcome to my new story! I've seen a lot of really great challenges being created on this forum over the last 2-3 years I've been here and it made me want to start my own. I'm not entirely sure if something like this has been done before but if you find any challenge that is similar, then let me know and I'll be sure to credit the person who created it!
This will be a story that I'll run alongside my Reviving sleeping giants (chapter 2): Aston Villa story with one day of updates for the Villa story and the next of updates for this one.
I've come up with this "Back to the Future" challenge from reading a lot of SAF challenge stories. In this challenge, you may choose any manager you want but the more successful and smaller teams managed, the better. A great example of this would be Carlo Ancelotti, who managed Reggiana and Parma before getting to the bigger teams managed in his career. A terrible example would be Pep Guardiola. Yes, he's a very successful manager, but has only won these trophies with big teams like Bayern and Barcelona, which wouldn't make this a challenge.
Once you've picked a manager, the idea is that you have to look through their stats to see how many games you're allowed to manage for, how much money they've spent throughout that career and how many players they've signed as well. The financial restrictions mean you cannot break a manager's transfer record (in Mourinho's case, Pogba for £89 million), and you cannot spend more than what the manager has spent over his career or sign more than the amount of players that manager has signed. This would make it more difficult for the smaller teams to win trophies which means that if you do want to get to the smaller teams, you better save up on your signings spaces when you're managing big sides like United or Real Madrid! After that, your career as a manager should last as long as the manager's picked. In Mourinho's case, 794 games. An added little bonus can be that if you reach the end of the games your manager has had in his career and you have a better record (in Mourinho's case a better record than 518-157-119), you get an extra amount of points. I haven't decided if it would be something huge like 200 points or a little less.
Oh, and I also forgot to mention that you may use the in-game editor to move from club to club, as building up the reputation to go from Porto to Real Madrid for example could take ages and therefore make the challenge impossible. The one restriction I'll put in place for that is you have to spend at least 2 years at a club before using the editor to change if you wish, since Mourinho stayed at least 2 years at Porto, Inter and Chelsea.
To explain my choice of José Mourinho: he's managed a few big teams in United, Chelsea, Real Madrid (and Inter who could be included in that list) but also two weaker teams in Porto and Uniao De Leira. This means that I could stay at a few big clubs for the duration of the story but wouldn't get as many points as I would if I managed one of the weaker sides. On top of that, he's made some pretty big signings in his career and has signed quite a few players which could make this interesting with regens being so expensive in FM.
The next update will be my club choice and an introduction to the manager I've created in-game. I also thought I could start a leaderboard in case anyone decides to take on this challenge; there could be multiple leaderboards per manager chosen so a Mourinho leaderboard, Ancelotti leaderboard and so on.
Hope you all enjoy this new challenge, in my head it sounded really interesting and unique but I guess I'll have to see what the community's reaction is to it!
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