Snapshot of your story - FM 12

^^^ Well one!! How many seasons did it take you to win your first League? ^^^
Any chance of a squad screenshot
Its odd looking to see the big 6 all finishng in the top 7, I love to see a couple of the big teams slide down the table.

tvercetti wrote: »

^^^ Well one!! How many seasons did it take you to win your first League? ^^^
Any chance of a squad screenshot
Its odd looking to see the big 6 all finishng in the top 7, I love to see a couple of the big teams slide down the table.

Six seasons to win my first league. Shocking I know! But have won it four in a row now! Hammered Spurs 4-0 in Champions League final. Chelsea also won the Europa League.
The top sides tend to yoyo every season! Tottenham are playing really well for the last two seasons. Will see if I can get a screenshot.

My best player decided he was too good for me and wouldn't sign a new contract. Lost him on a free. Could easily have got half a million for him. :mad:

PerrinV2 wrote: »

Thats an absolute killer when you're with the lower reputation clubs especially when you could have made good money on him.

They've been kind enough to let me have him until the end of the season. He's only 21 too. It was Frankfurt who bought him.

Just had my best season ever in Football Manager. Seven Trophies!















And my best player this season:

Started out as the San Marino NT last night. Went super defensive for a friendly with Romania. 2-0 down after 80 minutes and only one attempt on goal. Changed to my normal more attacking formation and got 5 attempts in the last ten. Next game was against Holland. Figured I was going to lose anyway so started with the attacking formation instead of inviting them on to me. At least fight back was my thinking. Good news? I scored. Bad news? They scored. 17 times

Weird session last night.

I had gone on a pretty relentless domestic run winning 15 games on the bounce and then came up against wolves and bolton and pulled out two draws. Scoring hasn't been my problem and my defence has been solid but both ended with 1-1 draws.

Chelsea were up next and are potential title rivals and after opening sensationally to a 3-0 lead the game finish 4-4 : /

I held a team meeting where I outlined that I wasn't impressed and with City up next, we romped home to a 5-0 victory, and Mancini, currently languishing in 8th is under serious threat.

I think the slump has come with some of my defensive players getting a bit jaded. Carrick has been playing mostly every game as Fletcher is out injured again, so I'm looking into investing in a backup DM in the January window.

My CB's are rotating well and being kept fresh. Ferdinand and Jones are my main pair, with Vidic replacing Ferdinand every third game. Evans is replacing Jones at the same pace and in some lesser important games Rio and Jones are both getting rested.

My Full back positions are looking a tad bit better. Smalling is turning into a quality RB, but suffers from a serious amount of yellow cards.
Rafael has come back from injury and I'm breaking him in gently to relieve Smalling during less important games.

Fabio has been stellar this season, making his way into the Brazilian first team and has been quality all season. De Laet leaves alot to be desired but he is solid enough and can do the job when I need to rest the LB or RB positions.

Marko Marin has exploded in the last three months. He is starting to score now and has nailed his place on my left wing, with some undecisiveness on my part for the right wing. Ashley Young has dropped off big time, so Nani has been taking most of the starts.

Hamsik is worrying me a little. Anderson replaced him through injury and was performing really well, but as a £35m signing, I gently eased Hamsik back into the starting lineup when he became fit. This co-incided with three draws on the bounce. With Andersons performances this season I definitely regret splashing out on Hamsik, and feel Anderson starting with Cleverly as cover would have been fine.
Anderson has generated massive interest from abroad and is valued at £20m so I might be able to sneak £30m for him, so I'm giving that one serious consideration.

Up front my strikers have been ruthless. Rooney has bagged 30 goals in all competitions and we have only just hit January. He is up for World player of the year and is a major player. Berbatov, suprisingly, has also been a big player for me. He has bagged 15 in all competitions but has also accumulated 13 assists. Welbeck has finally made the move into my first team and is doing ok, scoring a couple in the league and fa cup, with Hernandez being a really good impact sub scoring 13goals this season with only a handful of starts.

Real Madrid had shown interest in Berbatov, who had me split. He is a top performer, but at 30 years of age, and a 80k a week contract I figured if I could grab a good price for him I'd take it. Unfortunately I didnt realise when you offer to clubs, the player is notified, so immediatly press speculation started and he was unhappy. Berbatov in real life is my favourite player, and he did so well for me, its weird how you build these bonds to players in the game.

I ended up making the tough call and letting him go to Madrid for €25m which I think was a massive PLUS for me, getting that value for a 30 year old.

Rooney, Welbeck and Chico are my three strikers now, and I'll probably go with Rooney and Chico up front. I also have a fella coming to me end of season that looks like a really promising talent, at 17 he has currently 17 goals in 12 appearances and other posters claim he is the real deal.

Cruising in all competitions, a slight blip in form domesticly but I'm still about 7 points clear.

• I'll have a look for value this January but won't splash big, but there are a few decisions to be made come summer time I'm thinking about already.
• I need a LB to provide cover for Fabio.
• I probably need a new CB as Rio and Vidic are getting old.
• I definitely need a DM. To either cover for Carrick or replace, as he is old aswell. Been looking at M'Vila here.
• I'll have a new striker coming in to make four, so I think I'm ok here.
• Marin looks to have nailed the left wing, with Young as cover I'm fine.
• Nani is wanted by a number of clubs, so I'm not sure to keep or sell and maybe bring in a fresh winger.
• Anderson has been electric and is wanted by alot of clubs, could provide me about £20+m.
• Hamsik after my 35 splurge has been dissapointing if I'm to be honest, although two big injuries. Will give him another season.

WOW.What a way to end a season. One game to go and 3 points down.Needed a win and needed Exeter to lose and also needed to scored 2 more goals than they did. The stuff dreams are made of.

Before:

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After:

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This game is unreal when things go your way:D:D:D

Well January transfer window has opened and I made a few decisions that I felt couldn't wait.

Berbatov completed his move to Real Madrid. Sad to see him go, fans were very upset but the money was too much to turn down. Came to a total of £25m and Berbatov took 10% as part of his contract arrangement.

I decided to move on Nani. Chelsea came in with a £15m offer, but I felt I could get more so I offered him to clubs. He came in asking for a new contract and I ended up telling him he was off. He made alot of media noise which played into my hands as I got six offers and rejected anything below £20m. He ended up moving to Totenham for £26m which I found good business.

Inter Milan started making noise about Anderson. I have been humming and haughing about what to do with him since the 35m arrival of Hamsik, but felt that he was providing good backup and to be fair was even making a good run in the first team. So I turned down the measely £8m that Inter offered. However this spurred Anderson to demand a new contract, and it was pretty unreasonable. We negotiated something in the end but now he is on the sort of wages that I find hard to justify for a player who I'm swopping in and out of the team.
If I can get his price to rise to £25m+ I'd probably offload him, maybe. It is a tough call.
Hamsik is starting to play well and perform thank ****, that £35m was starting to look like bad business.

I straight away put in three bids for players.
£15m for Hulk
£15m for Javi Martinez
£7m for Martin Olsson.

This was to test the waters. All three declined.

I upped my bid for Olsson and Javi, and Athletic came back asking for £30m total for Martinez. This was a pretty large sum, but I figured from the sale of Nani and Berbatov I could afford it, and I needed a new DM. Carrick was jaded and is the wrong side of 30.
What I did not expect where his contract demands. Currently on a tidy sum of 40k with Athletic, his agent came in and demanded 140k wages and outragous fees and appearance bonuses.

Negotiations took time and was intrictue, but he now sits on 80k a week and will take a chunk of my wages and was pretty much all of my transfer budget. I sincerely hope he does not flop, I'm not expecting goals or anything from him. He is being deployed as an Anchor man in my two man midfield allowing Hamsik to play the advanced role.

Olssons deal is also sealed and in total cost me £10m and his wage demands were small enough. However I got that message that no transfer funds are available, so its delayed a week till I see what I can do.

That immediately puts the Hulk thing off, who reading around, settles nicely into the EPL and turns into a monster of a AMR.

I'm sitting pretty at the top of the league still.
I'm progressing nicely through the cups
And I drew an easy tie in the first round knockout of the CL.

The transfer budget conerns me, as does my finances. The board confidence has shot down as they feel the signing of Martinez is bad business. I was up at superb and it is down to secure. I'm sure I will be fine, and I'm sure Martinez will also do well. There is a part of me saying " hmmm asemoah probably would have been cheaper" but I literally havn't heard anyone saying Javi flopped in their team.

I also wrapped up Yaya Sonago ( spellcheck?) after my scouts informed me was not happy with contract negotiations from his club, and his agent had made contact after I made some media noise early in the year. I wrapped him up, on a free transfer and is only costing me about 20k a week in wages. So he is one for the future

I think my squad is looking sharp and healthy. Since starting Valencia on the right he has become very productive and Marko Marin continues to grow. The loss of Berbatov hasn't been missed with Chico stepping up to the plate, although Wellbeck is out now injured for a few weeks.

My defence situation is looking solid enough, injury to Fabio has made things complex in not having another left back. I sold De Laet for a tidy £5m to Newcastle. Hopefully I can get Olsson wrapped up or I'm probably in a spot of bother there.

I'll try get some pictures loaded up later on, I know its boring reading a wall of text

TheDoc wrote: »

I straight away put in three bids for players.
£15m for Hulk

It'll take a lot more than that. Probably at least double before they even consider it.

Finsihed the January window signing Romario to provide some cover.

League form is good but unfortunately got knocked out of the FACup to Burnley, shocking performance
And then after winning the first leg of the league cup semi final against Spurs 2-1, Vidic got sent off after 5 minutes in the second leg and I got hammered 4-1.

League and CL are the focus now.

Valencia has been playing well on the right and Marin continues to grow. Martinez has settled well and replaced Carrick whose morale has been poor to abysmal all season, not sure why.

Hamsik is really annoying me know. Inter have been after Anderson and offering £16m so I've set my asking price to £25 and if someone comes knocking I'm still unsure what to do. Hamsik has really dissapointed me, everyone on forums and lists and stuff recommend him as QUALITY in the AMC role but he has been pretty poor for me with bad form. Hopefully he can pickup next year.

I'm looking to strengthen again in the summer, with a new CB to compliment Jones and Evans, with Vidic and Rio getting over the hill (Vidic has generated interest from Barca so might offer him up in the summer). Smalling is turning into a quality Right back, but I would like to integrate Rafael there with Romario as backup.

Left back I've got Fabio out injured, currently deploying Rafael there as I've no actual cover for LB. Couldnt get any signings during January of quality.

Was after Olsson and Cissoko and could'nt land either : /

Neymar and Hulk are both unhappy at their clubs and have built a positive rapport with me in the media. I think I'm ok in the striker department with Fierro and Sanogo coming in, so might try nab Hulk.

Have a player who won't sign a contract for me and is now worth 2.2 million. He's gonna go on a free at the end of the season of the next season. :mad:

Started a new game with Limerick FC determined to win the champs league and well on way to doing just that!

Honours roll:
2nd in the First Division (promoted through playoff beating Drogheda 2-0 in extra time) behind first place Finn Harps (who I didnt lose to all season)
Munster Senior Cup Champions (beat Blarney 2-0)
Senior Challenge Cup Champions (beat Finn Harps 3-1) Qualified for Europa League

Best player: Steven McGann 23 goals in 27 appearances followed closely by an Uruguayan player I bought on free 15 goals in 11 appearances