Winning ‘UE Olot’
OK, Firstly, i’m very very sorry for the horrendous pun in the title. However, it allows me to introduce my newest Football Manager adventure, after life and work have combined to get in the way for almost the entire game cycle (Is this adulthood?)
We’re off to the depths of the Spanish league system, taking over at UE Olot in the Segunda Federacion Group 3 (4th? 5th Tier? Its all a bit confusing for me).
Now, you might be wondering “well why on EARTH” — put simply, I wanted a challenge like Athletic Club, but without managing Athletic Club. Olot allow me to do that, with a transfer policy which only allows them to sign Catalan players.
Unfortunately, the Catalan-only policy isn’t hardcoded in the way that Athletic Club’s is, but the phenomenal FM Llama put together a lovely video on the save (which I confess inspired me) and there’s some helpful downloads to help in the Managers Seat Discord including a great filter showing players with either Catalan birthplaces, or who came through at Catalan youth academies.
It turns out, the Catalan-only transfer restrictions aren’t the only restrictions i’ll need to contend with, at least in the short-term: In Olot’s league, there’s also a range of league registration rules:
So: max 20 outfield players, Maximum of 22 players in the squad, and at least 6 Under 23s… For me, that 22 player maximum in the squad is a killer; I love hoarding players, and this is going to force me to be a lot more selective in the deals, signings and team selections that I go for.
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As we’re so far down the league system, i’ve also added players to playable teams, so we do have quite a lot of players at the club to work with at the start; the quality of those players is a very different story, but hopefully there’s a couple of useable players as we get started on our journey to the top of Spanish football.
That brings me to the long-term goal for the save: to topple Barcelona and become the best football club in Catalonia. So that means eventually coming away with:
26 League Titles, 5 Champions Leagues and 31 Spanish Cups
Ok, maybe thats a lot, but let’s see how close we can get, shall we?
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