Jake: Which Challenge should I undertake in FM2012?

Hey everyone!

Darren has done one of these polls in the past few days, and I think I would like the community to choose what I will be doing in the new Football Manager series too. Honestly, I have been thinking about the different options I could propose for a while now and I think I have devised four options that would set me through the whole year and get you lot excited at the story ;)

Anyway these are the four options to choose from:

Option 1 — Pentagon Challenge
You all know about Ana’s Pentagon Challenge (which she has yet to finish ;)). Basically it is where you set out to win all five of the Champions League trophies from around the different continents, starting with a ‘Sunday League’ rep. I have to confess that I tested one of these for myself, and I ended up taking a team in the Indonesian third tier for 8 years before residing with a Korean second division club. Its hard, but it was so much fun.

Option 2 — San Marino/Andorra Challenge
Quite a famous challenge in the FM community, but this would see me take hold of San Marino (the club) in the Italian third division and also the National side. Hoping to win the Champions League with the former, and get into the top 10 of the world ranking with the latter. There is also the possibility of me getting FC Andorra in the Spanish seventh tier and hoping to achieve the same objectives, but this is subject to me finding a custom database that will let me manage a team that far down the leagues.

Option 3 — Youth Academy Challenge
The youth academy challenge is something that is rarely seen on Football Manager blogs. It is where I take hold of a team that is in the lower divisions of a mediocre league system (Ie Varberg BOIS in the Swedish League) and try to only use youth players out of my academy to challenge for the ultimate goal of the Europa League title. That’s right, I can’t sign anyone. With the new youth system in place, it should be achievable.

Option 4 — League Title Challenge
So, the final challenge is basically for me to win all of the domestic titles in Europe, starting out with a ‘Sunday League’ reputation. Obviously because of the new database-league system it has made it easy for me to chop and change what leagues I can manage in so my system isn’t running too slowly.

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Well, they are the options boys and girls! I am looking forward to seeing what the result of the poll is going to be.

Cheers,
Excessive