misterioBean
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Hello everyone!
After my computer ruined both my last saves I took a time off the game to think what I wanted to do regarding the saves. After a lot of deliberation, I decided to start my favourite challenge in FM - a youth to gold save. The rules are very simple, I can't buy players older than 19 years old. There's an optional rule you can apply which consists of not using any players over 30 years old but I decided not to do it.
As for the team we are starting with I decided to use the team I support: Vitória SC (named Vitória de Guimarães in FM) from Portugal. Although one of the reasons I chose them was because I support them; in March 2022 a new president was elected. One of his promises was to improve the youth facilities and use the club's youth system. A bit after he took over he announced the facilities would be upgraded and this season all efforts were put into integrating youth players into the first team, having an average age of only 24 years with 15 players under 23. Also, this season marks the club 100th year of existence! Having all of this in mind, I decided to continue the project using the youth challenge.
However, before I start sharing my journey, I need to say I'm not using the game default database. I'm using the last available update from Pr0 pack but I did do some changes to it: first of all, I changed the election date to March 2022, otherwise the club would go through new elections on the first season. The club's facilities were slightly upgraded, so did the importance of youth. I also did some transfers the pack doesn't include, for instance Zé Carlo's loan move becoming permanent (Vitória's president confirmed the buy clause will be activated no matter what) and Falaye Sacko move to Montpellier in the end of his loan deal. Finally, I changed some of the CA/PA of some players in the portuguese league because other than Porto, Benfica and Sporting I think the portuguese league players stats don't reflect their real life ability (for better and worse). This included some players from Vitória, some were upgraded and some were downgraded to better reflect how they have been performing this season. For instance, Ruben Lameiras has been awful this season so some of his technical stats and some mental ones were downgraded.
So, now that's out of the way, our journey as Vitória SC manager can begin!
After my computer ruined both my last saves I took a time off the game to think what I wanted to do regarding the saves. After a lot of deliberation, I decided to start my favourite challenge in FM - a youth to gold save. The rules are very simple, I can't buy players older than 19 years old. There's an optional rule you can apply which consists of not using any players over 30 years old but I decided not to do it.
As for the team we are starting with I decided to use the team I support: Vitória SC (named Vitória de Guimarães in FM) from Portugal. Although one of the reasons I chose them was because I support them; in March 2022 a new president was elected. One of his promises was to improve the youth facilities and use the club's youth system. A bit after he took over he announced the facilities would be upgraded and this season all efforts were put into integrating youth players into the first team, having an average age of only 24 years with 15 players under 23. Also, this season marks the club 100th year of existence! Having all of this in mind, I decided to continue the project using the youth challenge.
However, before I start sharing my journey, I need to say I'm not using the game default database. I'm using the last available update from Pr0 pack but I did do some changes to it: first of all, I changed the election date to March 2022, otherwise the club would go through new elections on the first season. The club's facilities were slightly upgraded, so did the importance of youth. I also did some transfers the pack doesn't include, for instance Zé Carlo's loan move becoming permanent (Vitória's president confirmed the buy clause will be activated no matter what) and Falaye Sacko move to Montpellier in the end of his loan deal. Finally, I changed some of the CA/PA of some players in the portuguese league because other than Porto, Benfica and Sporting I think the portuguese league players stats don't reflect their real life ability (for better and worse). This included some players from Vitória, some were upgraded and some were downgraded to better reflect how they have been performing this season. For instance, Ruben Lameiras has been awful this season so some of his technical stats and some mental ones were downgraded.
So, now that's out of the way, our journey as Vitória SC manager can begin!