Recently, the game Football Club Manager has exploded in popularity. With the discounts during the new game festival, plenty of people have picked it up.
Players can build a club from scratch, or take an established club and lead it to greater heights, creating a new era of glory and winning trophy after trophy.
Livia was a cheerful, innocent little girl like that. She happily placed her order, then hesitated over whether to buy the "Elite Club DLC." After all, if you beat the game in a save file, you also get an invitation from an elite club and unlock its storyline.
After giving her wallet's feelings due consideration, she decided not to buy the DLC and to earn the Elite Club Chairman ending on her own.
It didn't take long for her to hit a wall.
It was incredibly difficult for an ordinary team to rise through the ranks.
She had thought that setting the timeline in Serie A during the era of the Little World Cup would offer plenty of opportunities and room to grow. But to her dismay, Livia realized she knew nothing about running a club, managing a team, or scouting and developing talent.
For a team to get good results, it needed good players, a good coach, and a whole support system to go with them. And to get all that, she needed to invest enough money. It might take ten years just to break even.
The starting funds the game gave her weren't nearly enough!
She couldn't be broke in the real world and broke in the game world too!
Livia refused to accept it!
So she threw herself into studying guides, looked at walkthroughs from all the big-name creators, and started a new save.
At last, she found a shady, unconventional strategy that took a different path.
Football Club Manager was a game heavily based on real-world conditions. At the start, players could go all in on financial investments and stock trading with their initial funds. Once they had earned back their principal, they could buy shares in an elite club!
Then they could keep building their own profile and wait for the major shareholder to show signs of weakness before making a move. That was how the club would be theirs!
The NPCs in the game couldn't understand why a rising star who was thriving in the financial world would put her money into the football industry. They couldn't understand why she had such a good eye for investments, either, when she didn't look all that smart.
But Livia didn't care about the gossip. Next up was her life as queen of AC Milan.
NPCs with incredibly high-quality models? Buy them!
Invest heavily in youth development and keep raising prodigies for the club!
Send the team's medical staff to Germany for training!
Recruit young people full of bright ideas, and use perfect marketing to help the team generate its own income!
Cultivate a warm club culture, and raise salaries and bonuses so every player works with total dedication!
Keep up the publicity, keep winning.
In the end:
Everyone is a Milan fan. Ask fans of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern, or Manchester United, and they'll say, "Oh, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern, and Manchester United are the best teams in the world." But Milan's dazzling style of play and unique culture will still draw them in, and they'll tune in to watch Milan's matches right on time. Once watching Milan becomes a habit and they find themselves shouting "Forza Milan!" along with everyone else, everyone is a Milan fan.
Theme: Find what you love, and stand by it.
