Doing the ultimate journeyman save right now. Just loaded up every single league from every single country in the world using a custom database. Started with zero experience / qualifications in the Cook Islands with Puaikura.
Finished 3rd in the 7-team league before leaving for New Caledonian side Baco in December. Haven’t started the season yet but i’ve assembled a great young squad including a 16 year old Libyan regen with huge potential, and a 16 year old French mid who’s a 5 star ability player already!
I’m playing this realistically, so my goal is to eventually move to one of the top New Caledonian clubs and then hopefully do well in the OCL/Coupe de France. This will get me ‘noticed’ by some mainland French clubs, and I’ll move over there to manage a low level (6th or 7th tier) club. I’ll work my way south towards the Pyrenees, having a go at an Andorran club or two, before crossing the border and taking over a club somewhere in Catalonia.
From there i’ll hopefully get the job at Barcelona B (never managed a youth side before, should be great fun), then if i’m lucky i could do a Pep and get promoted to the first team. Loading times are absolutely mental (maybe 5-10 minutes per day) but i just leave it loading in the background on holiday overnight, then get a few games in through the day.
Doing pretty well in this so far! Finished in third position in my first season with Baco, which was considered a big overachievement by the media so I was pretty proud. Five points off evential champions Thio Sport, would have won the league if I won against them on one of the final matchdays.
I was given absolutely no leverage by the board though so I ditched Baco to go to Thio Sport, who had a couple of incredible newgens. Won the league on goal difference in my first season, and won the league cup on penalties - qualifying me for both the OCL and the Coupe de France (all overseas territories of France have their cup winner qualify). OCL didn't go so well, finishing second in my group before losing 3-1 to Southern on aggregate in the quarters, but the Coupe de France... we started in the 7th round (256 teams) and beat 5th-tier Mulhouse 3-0, against all odds. Then came another 5th-tier team in Saint-Amand, who we beat 3-1 after extra time. I wondered how far we could keep this going, but i didn't expect to be drawn away against fudgeing PSG. We lost 4-1, getting dominated by what was essentially their under 19s, although a few big guns like Krychowiak, Sebastian Coates and Javier Pastore played. Really happy with the goal which came in the 37th minute to make it 2-1, giving us some far-fetched hope. The TV money increased our income by at least 10,000%.
I took advantage of the exposure and left to Carquefou, another French 5th-tier side. Didn't do too well and almost got sacked after a season but surprisingly I was offered the job by Real Sociedad's B side. Took it, brought over a few New Caledonian talents, and here I am now, in the Spanish third tier.