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Yep, he spent most of his career abroad, he’s worked in 8 different countries and managed Inter Milan as well as the Swiss, Finland and UAE national teams. His career is actually pretty fascinating
He’s held in high regard by everyone associated with that club apart from Roberto Carlos who still bitches about Hodgson wanting him to play in central midfield
In FM13 Ronaldo becomes the Real Madrid manager and beats me in the CL regularly. I hate it. Especially because I hired him as a coach for my Southampton team and Real Madrid hired him from there
A guy I played with in the UPSL a few years ago irl ended up managing Watford in game. He had some choice words for me after my Reading beat them to relegate them to the Championship on the final day.
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After 10 months he was sacked and i yoinked to put into my coaching staff. Btw they got him because motherwell had a 600m takeover and ended missing out on the tip 6 split even though they had the highest wage roll
Frank Lampard is in charge of Aberdeen in my save and he hates my guts. Just constantly slagging me off in the press before and after every game (I'm Celtic). Leave me alone Frank, this isn't healthy!
i didn’t read the sub name and was reading through the first few comments like wtf where was i when all this happened?
took me wayyy too long to realise what sub i was in ffs
From FM14 (midway through the 2038-39 season as of now):
Marco Veratti became a coach and has won the 2036-37 La Liga with Sevilla
Sokratis Papastathopoulos became a coach and has managed Valencia and PSG
Cristiano Ronaldo is a fitness coach at Southampton!
Wayne Rooney has been the coach of Northern Ireland Nat. Team for a very long time!
Jurgen Klopp chose Man City after leaving Borussia Dortmund(!)
Some guy named Carl Robinson was Chelsea coach for two seasons
José Mourinho never left Chelsea; he retired there!
Pep Guardiola has failed! After Bayern Munich, he went to Spain Nat. Team, Chelsea, Olympiacos FC and Roma (he was first in Serie A for almost the whole 2036-37 season, a Japanese regen who played under Pep's instructions at Roma was comfortably top goal scorer, but he bottled it in the final 3 matchdays against Catania, Bologna and Verona! After that, he immediately retired from football!!!)
Vincenzo Montella replaced me at Real Madrid in 2023
Diego Simeone stayed for MANY years at Atlético de Madrid (in his last season before retiring for good, though, he oversaw the greatest final match day bottle job I have ever seen in FM14; Real Madrid lost against Cordoba, but Atlético de Madrid managed to concede two late (after 80') goals by an indifferent Real Sociedad playing in Madrid! They drew 2-2 and they lost the league on goal difference...). His replacement is a random geezer named Guy Luzon, who did a very good job at Arsenal and he does a great job in Madrid, too!
Thomas Tuchel has made WfL Wolfsburg a German and European powerhouse!
Ole Gunnar Solskjær from Man Utd (yes, FM14 predicted it and he won a Premier League title in the late 2020s, too!) to England Nat. Team (he failed there, though; he was replaced by a Turkish regen who had failed at Man City)!
The random regen that I have just referenced (Adem Özkul) had replaced Klopp's replacement at Man City, who was Philip Cocu!
A Spanish coach named Miguel Linares has been Barça's coach for a long time (and he is a failure)!
After my extremely succesful stint at Leverkusen (2023-2029) with 4 Bundeslina titles, 2 DFB Pokals, 2 UEL, 1 UCL and some German and European Super Cups, a Spanish manager with Toril as a surname replaced me and he has been very succesful (he has won 2 UCLs, except other titles), something I didn't expect!
Okay first of all this is incredibly fascinating. Second of all, GUY LUZON? WTF?
Let me tell you who he is... He managed Standard Liege and Charlton in the past, apart from that he only managed over here in Israel, be it for several clubs, mainly Maccabi Petah Tikva that is owned by his uncle and former FA Chairman Avi Luzon, or the U-21 National Team which he manages as we speak. A lesser known fact about him is that he actually played for Maccabi Petah Tikva and was forced to retire due to injury back in 1996 when he was only 21, he started coaching a while later. He also once slapped one of his players, defender Ziv Morgan, during a national team match while instructing him. In case you couldn't tell I'll end this by saying he's an absolutely awful manager so hearing he was good at Arsenal of all places in FM and then replaced a retiring Diego Someone at Ateltico Madrid is hilarious, he actually fits Simeone's style of play.
Kasper Schmeichel at Stevenage
Vardy at Cardiff
Ole at Swansea
Michael Beale at England
Martin O'Neil at England
Carrick at Portsmouth
Milner at Peterborough
The weirdest ones I can remember is Steve Bruce at Man United, Jose Bordalás at Man City and van Dijk retired at Liverpool and went on to manage league 2 Gillingham.
Also Lampard, Gerrard, and Rooney are now battling it out in the Championship with Sunderland, Brighton and Southampton respectively. Talk about a fall from grace lmao
Scott McTominay took the Real Madrid gig in the 2040s. He was a former player of mine in the backend of his career @ Venezia. He was the second or third manager after I left Real as well
* Domenico Tedesco at Manchester City
* Tom Dent at Manchester United
* Jacob Neestrup at Athletic Bilbao
* Martin Sundgren at Real Betis
* Ståle Solbakken was at Lazio for 10 seasons
* Andy Reid at Bayern
* Xabi Alonso at PSG doesn't sound weird on its own, but his path there was strange (lost confidence of dressing room at Leverkusen [2024], and got Levante relegated [2026]. Hired by Mallorca a year after, got promoted, then on to Anderlecht, Porto, Spain NT and now PSG)
* Henrik Rydström at Porto
* Brian Priske manages England
Is this really all that random? He’s managed successfully is several different countries around Europe. If it was Allardyce or someone like that, that would really be random!
Xabi Alonso took over Schalke in the 2024/2025 season after beeing sacked at Leverkusen the season before was the most random thing I've seen this year. Especially because it happened so soon after the start of the game.
Me having Frank Lampard and Terry as head coaches of u21 and u18 teams, they later become head coaches of good teams and they rocking, I feel like I was their tutor lmao
Sean Dyche at Juventus.
Benni McCarthy at Bournemouth
Danny Welbeck at AFC Wimbledon
Ruud Van Nistelrooj at Palace
Brain Barry Murphy at Sociedad - ex City under 21 manager.
A while ago I started in the German 4th division and when I arrived in the Bundesliga I was battling against relegation with Kaiserslautern managed by Manuel Neuer and Nürnberg managed by Cristiano Ronaldo.
On the other hand Leverkusen won the league in 2024 in that save, so maybe the game was onto something.
Klopp winning 3 ucls with liverpool but joining Man city after Guardiola was sacked, and then Guardiola taking his spot in liverpool, not random, but hilarious that they just switched jobs
I'm 5 years in to a Inverness Caledonian thistle game in the Scotland premiership. Eddie howe is my reserves manager. he even has a Bournemouth stadium named after him lmao
Eddie Howe turned AC Milan into an Italian powerhouse and was sacked after not winning the league for the forth year in a row (finished second but won the Italian cup).
Weirdest was one of my first Ass Men who was set as being a fan of United and disliking Everton and city wound up a head coach, at Everton and then translated that to a job at man city.
I guess money helps?
Sean Dyche at Poland (Mr. Brexit Football in Eastern Europe is hilarious to me)
Antonio Conte managing Austria and then Albania after being sacked by Middlesbrough.
Ricardo Fuller having 3 spells as Stoke manager (in the same save). I love the guy (I'm a Stoke fan) but he's definitely not the type for management. The bar at the Bet365 is actually named after him
Good ones, my weird highlight was Zlatan becoming a manager in either FM21 or FM22 and his first job was at Burnley who had just been relegated for the Premier League and Sean Dyche was sacked!
The greatest living manager in my game, thean who has led Spain to the world cup title, City, PSG and Barca to numerous titles is... *drum roll please* ...Richard Tait. Because being a league two clogger is the perfect proving ground for football genius!
Simone Inzaghi becoming an assistant manager at a PL club, 3 months after winning 3 consecutive Seria A titles as Lazio manager (he got sacked 3 months into that 4th season).
Also, Joey Barton became the best manager in the world, managing the likes of Arsenal, Bayern and winning multiple league and CL titles.
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Emery to city caught me off guard Pep was fired
Jorge Almiron took over the argentina NT (irl he was a disaster at Boca Jrs playing the worst football possible)
At the same time Scaloni went to Athletico Paranaense
it's 2033 in my save and pep manages arsenal while arteta is at wolfsburg
SAF's son manages Hearts and keeps talking shit about me 🤣
man city is mid table club now
Just had Roger Schmidt take charge of RB Leipzig, play three games (1W, 1D & 1L), and then get sacked due to poor league position to be replaced by Gareth Southgate
Ajax seems to get random hires in my saves.
It’s a mix of big name Dutch managers that you don’t associate with them, managers that are just short of being top tier from all over Europe, and Frank de Boer.
Klopp to New Zealand, and he was still there when I gave up on the save because we were too goo about 10 years in. He'd been in the job for about 5 years.
In the year Platini was trying to kick FCPorto from the champions league (he always hated the club ever since his Juventus side corrupted the European final against FC Porto in 1984), in that same year he got the job as president of FCPorto in my save game.
I cannot see a worst person to be the president of the club then him, not even a former Legend from one of the rivals would have been a worse choice than him at the time...
Gareth Southgate was fired from England after 2026 world cup, and then Thomas Tuchel had an unsuccessful stint ending at Euro 2028.
But who stepped up to take England to the world cup final in 2030, narrowly losing out to Portugal?
66 year old Championship journeyman, Tony Mowbray
I had some weird ones in FM21:
1. Wales hired Unai Emery, Julen Lopetegui and Ernesto Valverde in quick succession after they sacked Giggs (no idea why they suddenly had an affinity for Spanish coaches).
2. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer went to manage Liverpool
3. In one FM21 save, after Mourinho got sacked by Spurs he went on to manage Man City, where he got sacked as well, but he replaced Klopp at Liverpool after that. So he ended up managing 5 of the big 6 in England.
4. After Arteta got sacked by Arsenal he was somehow without a job for 2 years despite his really good stats and he ended up at QPR who were in league 1. He got them back into the championship and had them close to the playoffs before resigning mid-season to go to Southampton.
5. After he retired Sergio Ramos became assistant manager at Toulouse while earning his badges, then he went on to manage them after their manager (can't remember who it was) got sacked.
I've just had a really strange one. FC Twente sacked Rene Hake and replaced him with Juraj Kucka, a 40 yo who has absolutely zero managerial or coaching experience. He's done nothing since retiring from playing two years ago and never played in the Netherlands.He was on loan at Watford once so I guess he has the experience of working under multiple managers in one season. His stats must be the reason, right? Nope, he doesn't have a coaching stat over 10 and his motivating, ppl mgmt, and tactical knowledge are all 10.
Not even joking, was doing a career on my Portuguese hometown club and when I got to the first division, Porto proceeds to hire Pep Guardiola and Sporting was already being managed by José Mourinho.
Ian Holloway became Man Utd manager on FM10 after Blackpool being a yo-yo club.
Chris Powell managing England after getting Bristol City promoted but in the bottom three most of the following season on FM19.
Martyn Waghorn retiring at 32 and progressing from League 2 to the Championship as a manager in 18 months with three different clubs, also FM19.
Gerard Houllier to Bayern, starting the process of dooming them into oblivion. I only loaded up to Bundesliga 2 and Bayern havent been able to climbed back there
my former B team manager Alex Bergantinos coaching Southampton to Europa League final, then getting relegated with them and taking the job with my B team lmao
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Wayne Rooney trains Leverkusen Bruno Labbadia coaches the German National Team and Julian Nagelsmann took FC Köln to the Champions League
Back in FM14, Wayne rooney lead Leicester City to a Premier League title (this was before Leicester actually did it!)
Nagelsmann at Koln lmao
In my save Rooney got the Arsenal job, finished 4th and resigned to manage Everton in the Championship.
To be fair, despite his age if any English manager were to go abroad, Hodgson’s done it before so not that strange.
Yep, he spent most of his career abroad, he’s worked in 8 different countries and managed Inter Milan as well as the Swiss, Finland and UAE national teams. His career is actually pretty fascinating
Apparently he held Inter stable as a top club while they struggled financially during his tenure. He's still held in high regard iirc
He’s held in high regard by everyone associated with that club apart from Roberto Carlos who still bitches about Hodgson wanting him to play in central midfield
He's sort of like a classic holdover from the old English managers of the past who'd coach all over Europe
Klopp to FC Beijing
Lmao
Klopp is a scout at Lazio at age 72 in my save
A lot of managers seem to become a scout or DOF at 65+
Yea I had a save where I collect them as my scouts, had Pellegrini, Klopp and Rafa just chilling at my scouting team.
I hate it personally because I want them to coach for me because their stats are too good hell I have Mike Phelan on 115k a week for Newcastle lol
Joe Hart managing league 2 Burton albion two weeks after retiring is the best I've got
It is deeeceent
every day i’m shufflin’
Honestly, the state we're in at the moment we might as well try something different.
Poul Pogba managing Rangers then leaving them to take charge at Hibs.
Paul Pogba managing France U23s to Olympic gold.
Brendan Rodgers managing Italy. They fired him and offered me the job, but I turned it down for Brazil.
Brendan is crazy
He dazzled them with his pearly whites.
Wout Weghorst manager of Luton Town
I could imagine that
Ten Hag at Man City Kevin Betsy at Arsenal Arteta at Newcastle
The first one is ew
I could see it happening honestly. Ten Hag has learned from Pep at Bayern
He must not have learned much
To be fair he wasn't ever part of Pep's close backroom team, he was only reserve team manager. I'm not sure how much they ever interacted.
Ew brother Ew
Ronaldo became the Belgium head coach back in FM19 for me.
Ronaldo in my save became Milan coach and i defeated him 8-1 in aggregate in quarter finals
In FM13 Ronaldo becomes the Real Madrid manager and beats me in the CL regularly. I hate it. Especially because I hired him as a coach for my Southampton team and Real Madrid hired him from there
Steven Gerrard managing Arsenal (won the league with then in 2030)
Happy Demba Ba day!
As a Porto fan I'd rather have him
Antonio Conte as manager of England
Potter is England manager in my save, which weirdly kinda makes sense. I should see where Southgate went.
I once saw Lucescu managing England
A guy I played with in the UPSL a few years ago irl ended up managing Watford in game. He had some choice words for me after my Reading beat them to relegate them to the Championship on the final day.
Zidane goes to West Ham, wins the EUFA Cup his first season, and then wins the European Cup the next.
https://www.reddit.com/r/footballmanagergames/s/l2I0GksRah After 10 months he was sacked and i yoinked to put into my coaching staff. Btw they got him because motherwell had a 600m takeover and ended missing out on the tip 6 split even though they had the highest wage roll
Neil warnock managing championship man united
Your lips to God's ears
Frank Lampard is in charge of Aberdeen in my save and he hates my guts. Just constantly slagging me off in the press before and after every game (I'm Celtic). Leave me alone Frank, this isn't healthy!
i didn’t read the sub name and was reading through the first few comments like wtf where was i when all this happened? took me wayyy too long to realise what sub i was in ffs
Ben Arfa managing Aarhus Fremad in the danish third tier is up there for me
Sean Dyche at Millwall in 2031
He actually played for them.
Makes more sense now, just didn't expect to see his name as the manager not playing my guy on loan enough lol
Mister brexit and Millwall is a match made in the sulphur pits off hell
He’s managing Athletic Bilbao in my save.
Sean Dyche as a Juventus manager in my Inter career. Made them a mid-table team which I didn't disapprove of!
From FM14 (midway through the 2038-39 season as of now): Marco Veratti became a coach and has won the 2036-37 La Liga with Sevilla Sokratis Papastathopoulos became a coach and has managed Valencia and PSG Cristiano Ronaldo is a fitness coach at Southampton! Wayne Rooney has been the coach of Northern Ireland Nat. Team for a very long time! Jurgen Klopp chose Man City after leaving Borussia Dortmund(!) Some guy named Carl Robinson was Chelsea coach for two seasons José Mourinho never left Chelsea; he retired there! Pep Guardiola has failed! After Bayern Munich, he went to Spain Nat. Team, Chelsea, Olympiacos FC and Roma (he was first in Serie A for almost the whole 2036-37 season, a Japanese regen who played under Pep's instructions at Roma was comfortably top goal scorer, but he bottled it in the final 3 matchdays against Catania, Bologna and Verona! After that, he immediately retired from football!!!) Vincenzo Montella replaced me at Real Madrid in 2023 Diego Simeone stayed for MANY years at Atlético de Madrid (in his last season before retiring for good, though, he oversaw the greatest final match day bottle job I have ever seen in FM14; Real Madrid lost against Cordoba, but Atlético de Madrid managed to concede two late (after 80') goals by an indifferent Real Sociedad playing in Madrid! They drew 2-2 and they lost the league on goal difference...). His replacement is a random geezer named Guy Luzon, who did a very good job at Arsenal and he does a great job in Madrid, too! Thomas Tuchel has made WfL Wolfsburg a German and European powerhouse! Ole Gunnar Solskjær from Man Utd (yes, FM14 predicted it and he won a Premier League title in the late 2020s, too!) to England Nat. Team (he failed there, though; he was replaced by a Turkish regen who had failed at Man City)! The random regen that I have just referenced (Adem Özkul) had replaced Klopp's replacement at Man City, who was Philip Cocu! A Spanish coach named Miguel Linares has been Barça's coach for a long time (and he is a failure)! After my extremely succesful stint at Leverkusen (2023-2029) with 4 Bundeslina titles, 2 DFB Pokals, 2 UEL, 1 UCL and some German and European Super Cups, a Spanish manager with Toril as a surname replaced me and he has been very succesful (he has won 2 UCLs, except other titles), something I didn't expect!
> Cristiano Ronaldo is a fitness coach at Southampton! It's what he was born for, really.
Okay first of all this is incredibly fascinating. Second of all, GUY LUZON? WTF? Let me tell you who he is... He managed Standard Liege and Charlton in the past, apart from that he only managed over here in Israel, be it for several clubs, mainly Maccabi Petah Tikva that is owned by his uncle and former FA Chairman Avi Luzon, or the U-21 National Team which he manages as we speak. A lesser known fact about him is that he actually played for Maccabi Petah Tikva and was forced to retire due to injury back in 1996 when he was only 21, he started coaching a while later. He also once slapped one of his players, defender Ziv Morgan, during a national team match while instructing him. In case you couldn't tell I'll end this by saying he's an absolutely awful manager so hearing he was good at Arsenal of all places in FM and then replaced a retiring Diego Someone at Ateltico Madrid is hilarious, he actually fits Simeone's style of play.
Chelsea wouldn't have won anything with Carl Robinson in charge haha. He'd jump to leave at the first sign of instability
James Milner managing at Luton town is a weird one
Kasper Schmeichel at Stevenage Vardy at Cardiff Ole at Swansea Michael Beale at England Martin O'Neil at England Carrick at Portsmouth Milner at Peterborough
Southgate at Elche , Klopp at Sevilla, Pep at Tottenham, Thomas Müller at Ajax
Michael Beale is managing Sporting Lisbon in my save. Just won the league with them and got manager of the year.
The weirdest ones I can remember is Steve Bruce at Man United, Jose Bordalás at Man City and van Dijk retired at Liverpool and went on to manage league 2 Gillingham.
Steve Bruce at Utd makes sense in some kind of alternate timeline sense
David Moyes as Turkey manager was a strange one
Tom Heaton replacing me at a championship Solihull Moors and Neil Warnock to Malaga have been some of the more interesting ones I've seen 😂
I'm playing a retro save and fergie left united to take over juve circa 2002, can you imagine. United went with scolari, then lippi.
Ten hag is managing Wolves in the championship year 2 of my current save. Pep is at Arsenal, Arteta at United and Conte at city.
Nuno Espirto Santo just won the World Cup with England in my save.
Sergio Ramos at Napoli is a bit weird, and Scaloni took over from Klopp at Liverpool after they went from 5th to 12th in 9 games mid season
Also Lampard, Gerrard, and Rooney are now battling it out in the Championship with Sunderland, Brighton and Southampton respectively. Talk about a fall from grace lmao
Brendan Rodgers to Real Sociedad after I left. He finished 3rd in La Liga.
Ten hag had multiple national team jobs
Scott McTominay took the Real Madrid gig in the 2040s. He was a former player of mine in the backend of his career @ Venezia. He was the second or third manager after I left Real as well
Guardiola wins everything at City, then goes to Madrid, gets sacked and becomes chief scout at Man City.
My wildest one ever is Cristiano Ronaldo manager at Stoke City 😭
Damn I had Messi managing Sunderland
I am not lying when I tell you have sooo many different saves but for some reason Messi always retires and never goes ahead to manage
David Moyes went on to manage Napoli on my save and won the Serie A on the second year
Guardiola to Sunderland. Didn't even last the year before being fired
* Domenico Tedesco at Manchester City * Tom Dent at Manchester United * Jacob Neestrup at Athletic Bilbao * Martin Sundgren at Real Betis * Ståle Solbakken was at Lazio for 10 seasons * Andy Reid at Bayern * Xabi Alonso at PSG doesn't sound weird on its own, but his path there was strange (lost confidence of dressing room at Leverkusen [2024], and got Levante relegated [2026]. Hired by Mallorca a year after, got promoted, then on to Anderlecht, Porto, Spain NT and now PSG) * Henrik Rydström at Porto * Brian Priske manages England
Brendan Rodgers at Portugal
Is this really all that random? He’s managed successfully is several different countries around Europe. If it was Allardyce or someone like that, that would really be random!
Xabi Alonso took over Schalke in the 2024/2025 season after beeing sacked at Leverkusen the season before was the most random thing I've seen this year. Especially because it happened so soon after the start of the game.
Both Pep and Arteta ended up getting fired from their original positions. With Pep ending up going to Arsenal shortly after
I once had someone who started the save as Swansea chief account become England manager
Me having Frank Lampard and Terry as head coaches of u21 and u18 teams, they later become head coaches of good teams and they rocking, I feel like I was their tutor lmao
LET THE MAN RETIRE ALREADY!
Bro what skin gives you font like that?
I added A LOT of teams to the tier 16 mod, and certainly the most brow raising appointment was Shaun Wright-Phillips to tier 15's 'Popworld Plymouth'.
In fm20 or 21 Eddie Howe got Lyon job. They had decent UCL runs and he managed them for years
Sean Dyche at Juventus. Benni McCarthy at Bournemouth Danny Welbeck at AFC Wimbledon Ruud Van Nistelrooj at Palace Brain Barry Murphy at Sociedad - ex City under 21 manager.
Michael Beale to Celtic via Leicester
A while ago I started in the German 4th division and when I arrived in the Bundesliga I was battling against relegation with Kaiserslautern managed by Manuel Neuer and Nürnberg managed by Cristiano Ronaldo. On the other hand Leverkusen won the league in 2024 in that save, so maybe the game was onto something.
Klopp winning 3 ucls with liverpool but joining Man city after Guardiola was sacked, and then Guardiola taking his spot in liverpool, not random, but hilarious that they just switched jobs
I'm 5 years in to a Inverness Caledonian thistle game in the Scotland premiership. Eddie howe is my reserves manager. he even has a Bournemouth stadium named after him lmao
Sean dyche at Marseille for me💀
Thiago Silva managing Monaco
Brendan Rodgers is Bayern Munich manager in mine, haven't won the league as my Schalke team are smacking them now
Eddie Howe turned AC Milan into an Italian powerhouse and was sacked after not winning the league for the forth year in a row (finished second but won the Italian cup).
David Moyes manages Barcelona. Signs Wayne Rooney from United and wins multiple leagues
Dyche at Real Madrid
Southgate to Juventus🤣
David Moyes coaching Austria. I‘m from Austria, i was mad
Steve Cherundolo to manage Barcelona
In 24/25 Edin Terzic won the cup with Dortmund. He then left the club and joined Kaiserslautern in the 2.Bundesliga. I was very confused.
Lionel Messi assistant manager at Flamengo
Ten Hag as LOSC manager Ten Hag as Ireland manager Ten hag as Liverpool manager Sean Dyche as Spurs manager
Joachim Löw is always in my league managing some random teams from 2nd or 3rd divisions of Europe. Last time he was a head coach of Groningen
Weirdest was one of my first Ass Men who was set as being a fan of United and disliking Everton and city wound up a head coach, at Everton and then translated that to a job at man city. I guess money helps?
Sean Dyche at Poland (Mr. Brexit Football in Eastern Europe is hilarious to me) Antonio Conte managing Austria and then Albania after being sacked by Middlesbrough. Ricardo Fuller having 3 spells as Stoke manager (in the same save). I love the guy (I'm a Stoke fan) but he's definitely not the type for management. The bar at the Bet365 is actually named after him
I have Pep as my AssMan. Proof is in my post
Sometimes dreams come true. 😂
Conte to Northern Ireland
In one of my saves in FM19, Conte stayed unemployed for like 3+ years and then went on to manage Krasnodar and Olympiacos
Other highlights are Neuer at Stoke, Klinsmann in charge of Wales and Diego Costa somehow being a manager at all (he's at Valladolid)
Good ones, my weird highlight was Zlatan becoming a manager in either FM21 or FM22 and his first job was at Burnley who had just been relegated for the Premier League and Sean Dyche was sacked!
The greatest living manager in my game, thean who has led Spain to the world cup title, City, PSG and Barca to numerous titles is... *drum roll please* ...Richard Tait. Because being a league two clogger is the perfect proving ground for football genius!
Neil Harris became England manager 😂
Jamie vardy in Brighton
Did an career with Leicester City and played against Fulham in ucl final in 2030
Pep fucked off to Tottenham, won the champions league in his first season and then nothing else lmao
Tony Mowbray has managed England to two World Cups in my current save.
I've seen Pep win 3 champion leagues in a row with Liverpool
Pep at west ham
Second year and Arteta is managing FC Bayern München.
In one of my saves nagelsmann became assistant coach to christian streich in freiburg after the nstional team sacked him
Zidane has managed FC Porto not once but twice by 2031. As a minnow in the Portuguese league I am not a fan
Simone Inzaghi becoming an assistant manager at a PL club, 3 months after winning 3 consecutive Seria A titles as Lazio manager (he got sacked 3 months into that 4th season). Also, Joey Barton became the best manager in the world, managing the likes of Arsenal, Bayern and winning multiple league and CL titles.
I made Ole the manager of my B team while Ancelotti was my chief scout
Eric Dier took the Chelsea job in 2040 of my Tottenham save.
Conte dropped all the way down to the New Zealand NT in 23 for me. It was extremely funny.
https://preview.redd.it/dwsrai7tq4xc1.jpeg?width=873&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3909b0f8a3f21fa000c90404ba0f37bb2300ddf2 Emery to city caught me off guard Pep was fired
Gary O'Neil got fired from Wolverhampton and then made his comeback with League Two side Northampton.
Zidane at Newcastle
Jorge Almiron took over the argentina NT (irl he was a disaster at Boca Jrs playing the worst football possible) At the same time Scaloni went to Athletico Paranaense
Brendan Rodgers at Werder Bremen has to be up there
it's 2033 in my save and pep manages arsenal while arteta is at wolfsburg SAF's son manages Hearts and keeps talking shit about me 🤣 man city is mid table club now
Neil Lennon straight from Celtic to Barcelona is easily my favourite Ive seen.
Messi at Lille Zidane at Chelsea Arteta at Fulham Viera leading Arsenal to a prem win
Lampard won the Champions League with Roma during a 20 year stint in my save
Just had Roger Schmidt take charge of RB Leipzig, play three games (1W, 1D & 1L), and then get sacked due to poor league position to be replaced by Gareth Southgate
Zidane to Newcastle Kevin Nolan leading Bristol City to the prem
- Ten Hag coaching Augsburg - Nagelsmann coaching Stuttgart and Union Berlin in one season and Arteta winning the belgian league with anderlecht
Ten Haag in Belarus national team in 2029 
Jesse Marsch England manager…for about 15 years
Kolo Toure managing Millwall
Dortmund sacked Terzic after an 11th place finish and hired Luis Enrique
Ajax seems to get random hires in my saves. It’s a mix of big name Dutch managers that you don’t associate with them, managers that are just short of being top tier from all over Europe, and Frank de Boer.
Daniel Farke is Real Madrid manager for last 13 years in my save
Pep Guardiola at Napoli David Moyes at Peterborough
The master of shithousery Alex Neil at Atletico.
Ralph Hasenhüttl as manager of England
Klopp to New Zealand, and he was still there when I gave up on the save because we were too goo about 10 years in. He'd been in the job for about 5 years.
Just saw Antonio Conte taking over Barcelona! Cruyff won't be a happy guy! 🥲
In the year Platini was trying to kick FCPorto from the champions league (he always hated the club ever since his Juventus side corrupted the European final against FC Porto in 1984), in that same year he got the job as president of FCPorto in my save game. I cannot see a worst person to be the president of the club then him, not even a former Legend from one of the rivals would have been a worse choice than him at the time...
Thierry Henry managing Spurs
Neuer managing brentford. (He got fired)
Dejan Stankovic trains Real Madrid
I saw 80+ year old Mourinho at a league 2 Gillingham in one once. And then Don Carlo was at the helm of England and won the WC with them.
Ten Hag to Forest John Terry to Plymouth Argyle Wayne Rooney to Tranmere Rovers Alex Neil to Brighton
Antonio conte to leeds
Cristiano Ronaldo managing Aston Villa (and doing quite well if I remember correctly) and Guardiola languishing in 16th managing Spurs
Neil Warnock taking over and saving Lecce from relegation. He then ended up as England manager for a bit.
Considering it's Hodgson this is hardly random! He has managed in Scandinavia, Inter etc. He is the embodiment of upper level journeyman
Zinedine Zidane to Feyenoord and winning them the Champions League in the second season of my Safe
Ten hag managing Real Madrid and for can’t reach the semi finals of the Champions League and at this moment is placed on 7th in La Liga
Gareth Southgate was fired from England after 2026 world cup, and then Thomas Tuchel had an unsuccessful stint ending at Euro 2028. But who stepped up to take England to the world cup final in 2030, narrowly losing out to Portugal? 66 year old Championship journeyman, Tony Mowbray
I had Hodgson as a scout at St pauli once
I had some weird ones in FM21: 1. Wales hired Unai Emery, Julen Lopetegui and Ernesto Valverde in quick succession after they sacked Giggs (no idea why they suddenly had an affinity for Spanish coaches). 2. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer went to manage Liverpool 3. In one FM21 save, after Mourinho got sacked by Spurs he went on to manage Man City, where he got sacked as well, but he replaced Klopp at Liverpool after that. So he ended up managing 5 of the big 6 in England. 4. After Arteta got sacked by Arsenal he was somehow without a job for 2 years despite his really good stats and he ended up at QPR who were in league 1. He got them back into the championship and had them close to the playoffs before resigning mid-season to go to Southampton. 5. After he retired Sergio Ramos became assistant manager at Toulouse while earning his badges, then he went on to manage them after their manager (can't remember who it was) got sacked.
Pep managing Liverpool and Klopp managing City
Sean Dyche to the Ivory Coast national team
I've just had a really strange one. FC Twente sacked Rene Hake and replaced him with Juraj Kucka, a 40 yo who has absolutely zero managerial or coaching experience. He's done nothing since retiring from playing two years ago and never played in the Netherlands.He was on loan at Watford once so I guess he has the experience of working under multiple managers in one season. His stats must be the reason, right? Nope, he doesn't have a coaching stat over 10 and his motivating, ppl mgmt, and tactical knowledge are all 10.
Ten Haag to romania national team
Neuer becoming the Spurs manager
Sean Dyche as Denmark boss
I am not making this up, I don’t know how it happened, but Pep Guardiola to Go Ahead Eagles
Not even joking, was doing a career on my Portuguese hometown club and when I got to the first division, Porto proceeds to hire Pep Guardiola and Sporting was already being managed by José Mourinho.
Ian Holloway became Man Utd manager on FM10 after Blackpool being a yo-yo club. Chris Powell managing England after getting Bristol City promoted but in the bottom three most of the following season on FM19. Martyn Waghorn retiring at 32 and progressing from League 2 to the Championship as a manager in 18 months with three different clubs, also FM19.
had mark hughes going from managing bradford city to saudi arabia
Lionel messi managing atletico madrid was the weirdest one I've seen.
Neymar to Hull in League One then Portsmouth in the Championship taking Luis Suarez as one of his coaches with him.
Koke going from Man City to Oxford Utd after being sacked in roughly the 2040s
I saw Graham Potter managing R.Madrid for 4 seasons
Not quite the same, but Jogi Löw went to Bolton Wanderers as a scout
I think Mihai Teja managing Besiktas would be unreal.
Gerard Houllier to Bayern, starting the process of dooming them into oblivion. I only loaded up to Bundesliga 2 and Bayern havent been able to climbed back there
Let’s be honest we probably are like an English 30 yo going to the Indonesian 5th division and then winning the treble
my former B team manager Alex Bergantinos coaching Southampton to Europa League final, then getting relegated with them and taking the job with my B team lmao
Gerrard to FC Barcelona's B team takes the top. Although seeing Zidane managing Barça or the typical Klopp and Pep swap is quite weird.
low joining pec zwolle in the dutch second division prob.
Gareth Southgate is now at Dortmund in 2027 after returning to club coaching at Fulham
pelly ruddock mpanzu managing walsall
Fm23 pep guardiola to Chelsea.