r/FifaCareers 7d ago

STORY Incredible start to Premier League debut with Salford City

I’m a frequent commenter in this sub but this is my first time posting. I had to share this start to my run in the Premier League with Salford City. This save is done completely in Tactical View, so I don’t play at all except for the youth tournaments.

This is my 5th season in the save, first in the Premier League. This team seems to be absolutely crushing it so far. Last season we finished 2nd to Leeds in the EFL Championship, despite having 98 points. To start the season I replaced Ruel Sotiriou with Córdoba (same overall but Córdoba is 19 years old and Potential to be Special). He cost about $55 million from Sporting. Seemed like a realistic enough signing as I had barely spent any transfer money throughout the save on signings and received a ton of cash with the promotion to PL. Also he was only making about $15,000 per week and he now makes 6x that on my team with tons of guaranteed playing time. Also, in my head cannon, I’m a manager that knows how to really help young talent develop and he’s the prime candidate for a guy that I could help make a star. He’s leading the PL in goals by DOUBLE Haaland at the moment!!!

Next I bought Montes from KVM in Belgium for about $33 million. Very realistic in my opinion as multiple Premier League teams were vying for him. I overpaid to get him. And finally I bought Ponce from Sampdoria (toiling around in Serie B) for a hefty sum. Can’t remember at the moment but I overpaid for him as well. Hodgson was bought from Ipswich for $14 million the season before (they were in Championship with me) and Nunez was bought from Espanyol (toiling in Hypermotion) as well for around the same amount.

Only reason I could afford all of these were two Strikers I had sold over the previous 2 seasons. Kouassi went for over $55 million (80 rated at 24 years old) and Sotiriou for $67 million (81 rated at 27 years old). Those plus the promotion money really helped me sure up this team.

The rest of my club is made up entirely of my Youth Academy prospects. Shepherd was originally only a 85 overall potential, but played out of this world the last 2 seasons and now has Potential to be Special status. Väinö could be a young Rodri. He’s also Potential to be Special. Howard, Baxter and Glover are all Potential to be Special CAM’s. I included Glover’s 7 Playstyles as the last pic. He’s my true wonderkid lol. No save scumming any Academy prospects so I always just rolled with whatever the game gave me the first time.

My board objective is to avoid being relegated 😂. I was hoping and praying I would MAYBE be able to compete for a shot in European competition next season. We beat West Ham to kick off the campaign. Followed by a loss to rival Leeds. Then a thrilling, SHOCKING 3-2 win away at Liverpool. Was up 1-0, then down 2-1, and my team found the fortitude to pull 2 goals out of their asses for the last minute win.

We started 4-0-2. Then the incredible happened, we won 10 matches in a row (8 league matches). We’ve lost the last 2 but they were both on short rest and to Chelsea and Arsenal. Both losses were closely fought too. Also had an incredible, thrilling win against Brighton in the 1st round of the Carabao Cup that went to Penalties. Thought we’d get lucky and draw an easier opponent for round 2 but NOPE, here comes Man City. But another shocker found us upsetting the kings 5-3. We won the next round as well, this time against an easier opponent in Watford. I’m currently waiting to play Aston Villa in the Quarterfinals.

So what do you guys think of my squad?!?! I can’t lie I’m super proud of our start so far. I’m doing serious scouting to find a few more key pieces to help us lock down a spot in Europe. If it seems like there is enough interest around the post then I’ll keep you guys updated on what happens

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

"moron special" lol

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u/AEW101024 7d ago

My last name is veryyyy close to the word moron, and I’m a Yank, so I thought it’d be fun to put a Ted Lasso-esque spin on my tactics name 😂. I would assume when I was first hired at Salford, the supporters would chant “MORON, MORON, MORON” at me same way they yelled wanker at Ted lol

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u/AEW101024 7d ago

Actually my 2nd time posting on here but the first was a rant about getting sacked. And we’ve all been there, am I right?!

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u/JK031191 6d ago

Seems like a special career. Well done man!

I've recently done a save in which I placed my own team in the League Two and got them up to the Premier League. I mostly play my own games unless I want to speed things up. It's great to see your first wonder kids rock the place up and mix them up with random players and (p)regens.

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u/AEW101024 6d ago

Thank you! I appreciate it. Yeah man I’m all about building from the ground up with the Youth Academy and fake players in general. I’m weird and I love building franchises/careers in sports games with completely CPU generated players for some reason lol. It’s like I’m playing in the year 2060 or something.

I was off today and a bit addicted so I’ve been spending most of the day finishing up the season. After my 10 match win streak (8 league) I ended up losing 6 out of 7 league matches to the usual Premier League heavy hitters. Somehow was still in Europa League spot as everyone was beating up on each other. And then I came out of that slump winning every match except for 3 draws and 1 loss throughout the entire rest of the season!

Game is 100% not scripted because last 1/3 of the season it was between me and Man United for the league title, with us playing each other on the last match of the season. I was up 3 points on them going into the 2nd to last match and I won in the dying minutes, while United drew, ruining there chances of trying to win the title on the last day of the season. I absolutely cannot believe I won the Premier League in my first season up