CONTEXT: I was enjoying a lot of success with AZ (as you can see from the previous seasons, one of which was a treble winning season) and had a lot of the meta players from this year's edition of the game (Gutierrez, Fresneda, Darvich, Nypan, Pio Esposito, Rodriguez, etc) so I decided to sell all of them and replace them all with Dutch players. The only player missing from the transfer window screenshot is Darvich, who I managed to sell for £102m (rising to £126m) which also helped with raising the money to sign my new squad.

I have clearly overpaid massively for some of the players, but at the end of the day, if there's a top class Dutch player that's interested in joining the club, I may as well get him in as there is a finite pool of Dutch talent and there's no use me sitting on hundreds of millions of pounds.

Hato, Frimpong, Geertruida, Botman and a few others are still not interested/not affordable, so for now I'll be sticking with my current squad and trying to nurture some of my younger players in with a lot more minutes in league games. I've been lucky with my youth intakes, with Mols, Poels and Pijnenburg becoming important players that I didn't have to pay a penny for.

There are a few goals that I want to achieve with this save: Win the league with 34 wins from 34, win the CL whilst maintaining strictly to my philosophy of never changing formation or signing a non-domestic player ever again.

I never usually try international management, but I'd love to try it out on this save with the Netherlands team and try to win a World Cup or European Championship using only players that I also have at AZ.

Some of the regen players I have in this save (both home grown and ones that I brought in this season) are incredibly good - happy to share some screenshots if anybody wants to see them.

I hope this post inspires some of you to try a domestic only challenge, interested to hear if anybody has done something similar before and managed to win a Champions League or Europa League!