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First off: The Premiership is but the Promised Land to us.
Second: I do believe it's possible to reach the Premiership with one club, but only on long, long term saves: 20+ seasons or something like that.
Third: The problem you state is a reputation one. Your board believes you'll never make it there, so saves money for when the inevitable thing (for the AI assessment) happens.
Fourth: There were two bugs in FM2005 which made it more difficult: the 'wage bug' and the more dreaded even 'can't offer the correct amount of wages to my players' one, which hopefully will be sorted for FM2006.
That being said, I must say I've enjoyed FM2005 a lot and I hope FM2006 is even better for LLaMaing.
Not exactly, it's to play the game as realistically as the game allows you, it's to have a good career.
If you get to the EPL, all good and well.
It could be by taking one team as far as you can or accepting reasonable job offers at higher reputation teams.
Ultimately, yeah, you could aim for either International management or Champions' Cup glory, but often just consolidating your place in a Division after getting promoted there is victory enough.
Originally posted by Stargate:
Cool, at what point do you stop, and start again?
Surely if you take say..... kettering to the championship and thats as far as you can take them. Getting the Man Utd job and having a career with them surely goes agains the ethos of LLM?
If you feel like you deserve the Man Utd job and you can stand to leave your genesis that you've no doubt built by that point, then by all means - leave. Provided you start in the lowest division and play according to our mantra (read the header), then jumping ship once you feel like you've achieved all you can in one job (to wherever it may be) then that's what we're all about.
Although as Ian says, it's more likely you'd be happy with staying up, rather than pushing for another consecutive promotion.
Originally posted by Stargate:
Cool, at what point do you stop, and start again?
Surely if you take say..... kettering to the championship and thats as far as you can take them. Getting the Man Utd job and having a career with them surely goes agains the ethos of LLM?
United's current manager did exactly what we attempt to emulate, in one way or another, by moving his way up to the job in Manchester via other jobs, each with higher reputation than the last. You can play the LLM style when managing a top division side, but to start there is a no no in these parts. Even iajafer has managed a top side, taking charge of Liverpool
Originally posted by Stargate:
Cool, at what point do you stop, and start again?
Surely if you take say..... kettering to the championship and thats as far as you can take them. Getting the Man Utd job and having a career with them surely goes agains the ethos of LLM?
Not if you do it the LLM way and start at the bottom. LLM isn't so much about achieving anything, it more an ethos of how to play the game. Play along the lines of the Forum Header, and then what happens is up to you. Some people like to stay with the same club, some like to have a 'career' like a real-life manager (just so long as the job offers are 'earnt' within the game), some like to try out different leagues in different countries. Whichever direction you take it is entirely up to you, it's your game, you paid the money for it.
All we ask is that you respect how we play the game and this forum's rules. If you choose to join our way of playing the game you're very welcome to get involved, if it's not for you, then fine - that's your decision.
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