Ana, FM 2012 : Season 3 Seoul 2024 -2025

Hi everyone!

Welcome back to South Korea in my quest to obtain the Asian Champions league for the third champions league I require. Last season we fell in the first round knockout stage to eventual winners Guangzhou so I was hoping for a little better this time.

I managed to conquer my playoff woes also by beating my big rivals Ulsan to the K-league title but am sure they will back better this season so I needed to keep winning in order to hopefully win another K-league title.

So here we go on yet another up and down season at Seoul.

Managerial C.V

— Black Aces (June 2011 – June 2018)

African Premier League : 2016

Super 8′s Winner : 2015, 2016

First Division : 2012

South African Knockout Cup : 2016

The African Champions League : 2017

— New York Red Bulls (January 2019 –December 2021)

U.S. Cup : 2019

MLS : 2020, 2021

North American Champions League : 2020

— FC Seoul ( January 2022 – Present)

K-League : 2023

Korean FA Cup : 2022

International Career

— U.S.A (May 2017 – July 2021)

Nothing.

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So our club info remains almost the same as last season, our club value went up by £250k and Kim Jae-Hyung joined the favoured personal list he was our top scorer last season.

So after our board wasted massive amounts of money last season I tried to curb most of my spending. I didnt really want to sell anyone as I was very pleased with the squad I have so our finances did go up slightly from last season  as we almost doubled our balance to over £3 million pounds.

I made no transfers as there wasnt really any decent players, seeing as I have my three foreign players I am just scouting South Korean players and none I felt would have added anything to my team.

The K-League Results 15 games In

So for the first time since I have been in Korea I suffered back to back defeats!

Away at Chunnam we were so poor it was embarrassing to be honest, we did improve slightly away at Ulsan but still lost but my team did react after a big shake up winning our next six games.

A Dream Come True!

I finally broke the Guardiola/Luis Enrique monopoly!!

If you remember from my last post they had pretty much managed the national side almost taking it in turns until Luis Enrique was sacked and I applied (just for fun really) and they offered it me!

So I am now the manager of Spain, the team I support and the place where I was born. :)

However it seems Guardiola and Luis Enrique havent fared too well as you will see in the next picture…..

17th!!

I couldn’t believe it, Spain have tumbled down the world rankings and guess who is the top ranked team in the world?

Thats right its Mexico! :)

I guess I didnt too bad at the USA seeing as Mexico are the current world cup winners and the best team in the world followed by the usual teams of Brazil, Argentina, France etc

My first task is to climb back up the rankings, usually at international management I am terrible! But now at Spain I cant afford to be as they may sack me like the USA did.

So according to the Spanish overview they have this guy as my best player, I must agree.

How Villarreal could do with someone like this in real life, he came through their youth system scoring lots of goals every season. Has a David Villa like international record also!

De Gea and Montoya are amongst some of the ‘real life’ players still involved in the Spain set-up along with a few others but are now in the twilight of their careers. :)

Milestone 600 Games

So 600 games and that game will be the final of the league cup against Gyeongnam so to see how I did just keep reading. :)

Transfer Window — Second Window

So pretty quite with one in and one out, our finances are declining so no big money transfers.

Cha Ji-Soo was just a back-up forward but he didnt really play that often.

Lee Kwang-Min

So I have a real obsession with central midfield players!!

If I see one I like I just buy them all the time so I payed £100k pounds for this player looks pretty promising for 21 so hopefully he can develop into a first team regular.

The K-League Final League Fixtures

So I can only compare us to last season as we finished top once again.

We were a point worse off than last year and we also scored thirteen less but we did also concede mine goals less so our goal difference from last season was only -4.

Twelve points clear of Ulsan but guess who we meet in the playoff finals, once again I meet my big rivals.

K-League Playoff Final — First Leg vs Ulsan

As expected it was close, very close we had our star defender Edison West after he struck twice.

28 minutes gone when he headed in from a corner, against the run of play I must say and Ulsan did get back into albeit from an own goal from the excellent Ham Sang-Woo (my defensive midfielder).

However West spared his blushes heading in from another set play, this time a free kick to give us a narrow advantage.

K-League Playoff Final — Second Leg vs Ulsan

Take that! :)

What can I say, but we finally found an excellent performance as Ulsan were totally out-classed. An early goal from Kwon settled any nerves before youth academy rising star Min Jae-Suk doubled our lead.

Kim Jae added a third whilst Warren Donald (our center back who keeps taking penalties even though I have selected about six players who all started ahead of him?) but he did score despite what must be a glitch or something.

But anyways the K-league title was ours again!

Cup Competitions

The Asian Champions League

So we made no progress from last season as we once again crashed out in the first knockout stage, however my big rivals Ulsan took some revenge for their playoff final defeat beating us by two goals to one. We didnt really deserve to lose but thats how it goes I guess. :)

The Korean FA Cup

So no FA cup this season as we were hopeless against Sangju, who manged to score four time against us!

I have no idea what happened we were just so poor, it seems we can fall into a very complacent mentality which led to another mini-shake up. :)

The Korean League Cup

The Final

So my 600th game was a trophy, which was very nice!

Although I was very pleased to win the league I was far more happier by beating Ulsan by six goals to one! :)

Final Player Ratings of the Season

So two players really stood out the same two that have been brilliant every season.

Kim Jae finally overtook the amazing Edison West but with 36 goals and 21 assists I cant really argue and with teams as big as Lyon interested in him I may struggle to keep a hold of him.

West was brilliant as usual scoring 14 times from center back, creating goals from midfield when I need him there and Toure had another brilliant season from wide left in both scoring and creating.

Kim Jae Woon also really impressed from the center of midfield creating 24 goals and scoring a couple also.

Star Man of the Season — Kim Jae-Hyung

End of Season Finances and Save Game Status

So not great but too bad either I guess, we are losing rather a lot of money each season so my spending will have to be low again for the upcoming season as well.

I hate debt and even though I can leave at anytime I always like to leave clubs in a better state than I joined, so no spending again it seems.

End of Season Round-Up

So a good season overall I think, we still havent really performed in the champions league as of yet and the amount of money we keep losing is also quite worrying.

But we did retain our K-league title and I won another playoff game! Which is always nice especially for me seeing how many I have lost on this game. The squad is thankfully very good so I wont need to spend too much next season but with our very poor youth facilities I cant rely on the younger players coming through.

Am very excited to manage Spain! My record at international level is well as you have probably read is very poor and my record at world cup’s is horrible having only ever won it three time (twice with Spain once with Brazil) during my time playing this game.

So hopefully that can change and I can take Spain back to the the number one side in the world also!

As always thanks for reading and happy valentines to you all!

I hope you all get to spend some time with the one you love and if you are single then have some free kisses from me. :)

xxxxxxxxx!!

LoL! Anyways thanks for reading and until next time bye bye!