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Snapshot Of Your Story - FM 11
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Currently bossing League 1, having gotten consecutive promotions from BSN:
Still waiting for Spurs to knock on my door :rolleyes:
Here's the squad:
Best players for me areFabio Zamblera, a class striker; De Abrue, a Brazilian centre-half who settles reasonably quickly and turns into a beast; Nathaniel Pinney, a dependable centre-forward; Kofi Poyser for the lower leagues, for some reason scouts diss on him, but he bangs the goals in.
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Newcastle boss
Andy Caroll declares for Scotland and even goes to the World Cup.
I was unaware he even qualified
Season 1: Finished 14th in PL, board were satisfied.
Best player by far was Jonas.
Season 2: Finished 11th in PL and won the League Cup :cool:.
Season 3: Currently in 7th but of course, there is a trade embargo and new takeover in August just as I plan to sign some players.
And the new chairman is rumoured to want to replace me and bring in Glenn Roeder :eek:
Newcastle, being ungrateful, a claseless organization and treating their managers with disrespect?
The programmers knew more then I thought
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Third season was great, even got an international job randomly!
Club: As St Pats, we won pretty much everything. The League, the FAI Cup, the League Cup and the Setanta Cup.
Also managed to get into the Champions League Group Stages after a truely epic encounter with BATE Borisov, which I won 5-4 on agg. (Already posted the pics earlier). Finished rock bottom of that group, with only one win coming on the last day of the season with a freak 4-3 victory over Leverkusen!
and, the group
The player of the year went to Joseph Lapira again, and in 2nd and 3rd were Ronan Finn and Seamus Conneelly. 3 of my players in the top 3
Best XI for the year, IMO was (Lapira misses out cos he was injured for ages!)
Made a fair few signings this season including the two Brazilian strikers, Nei and Cristiano, Conor Clifford, Stephen Kelly at right back, Rhys Taylor in goal and a few more... Got rid of a fair few players too.
Country: Australia. Got offered the job and immeaditely had a must win game against Syria in order to qualify to the final group stage of the AFC World Cup Qualifiers. Won that, then got drawn into a group with South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Qatar. First game was away to South Korea and managed to pull off a quality victory! Here's how the group looks at the end of 2012
Roll on the World Cup :P
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Hey all,
Anyone know how to get Barry Maguire to accept a call up to the Republic squad?
He is Dutch and plays for Utrecht in real life but has Irish blood and has said he wants to play for us, so I was impressed to see him correctly placed in the national pool for FM 2011, but he always rejects the call up.
He's now the most valuable player in the pool so I want to get him in the middle of our midfield or on the right and play Coleman back in his natural position.
Currently:
Keane-Doyle
McGeady
Treacy--O'Hara--Coleman
Ward-Dunne-O'Shea-Foley
Westwood
Subs:
Doyle (GK)
Gibson
O'Dea/Clark
Cunningham
Fahey/McCarthy
Long
You would think with the new 'have a chat' option that you would be able to try and ask him to play for you. His allegiance just seems to be screwed up in the database.
We have been doing well and qualified for the Euro's but were put in a group with Spain and Portugal so got knocked out after 1-0 losses, now starting the World Cup campaign. Generally win or draw most games though!0 -
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I started a game as Blackburn manager yesterday, I have just finished my first season - i kept playing because it was going so good for me, winning the League Cup and finishing 3rd in the League!
In terms of transfers i shipped off what I considered dead wood, for less than i hoped, which still limited me to just 2 transfers in. Players out were Jason Roberts, Pascal Chimbonda (which i have not been forgiven for) and Vincenzo Grella. This raised me just over £2million.
I signed Leigh Griffiths from Dundee for £1.5million ( a bargain seems as though i have never got him in my other games) and Martin Zeman from Sparta Prague for £1million.
In January Chelsea nabbed Jackson Ramm from me, and I recieved £1.1million from a tribunal for that, coupled with threatening the board with the fact that we would be left behind by our rivals i managed to muster up enough to sign a guy called Anele for £1.7million. I really needed cover for right back with Salgado being at the age he was.
Formation:
I mainly played 2 different formations, depending on who I was playing. In any match I considered myself good enough to win I played the following;
And against the bigger clubs, and to much success i played with just 1 up front and an extra man in midfield.
Competitions:
Final League Table:
Very tight at the top. Spurs were running away with it all season, United reeled them in a bit towards the end. I had a bad patch 3/4 the way through the season, and I thought I was going to miss out on a European spot (through the league), However we put a great run together at the end to secure 3rd spot!
Interesting to see Newcastle were only relegated on goal difference! Aston Villa had a tough season, nearly every week the press were saying Houllier was facing the chop, he never did get sacked though.
League Cup:
I have never found the League Cup to be too difficult to progress in with a Premier League team, I managed to win it, beating Portsmouth 2-0 AET in the Final.
Cup Final Overview
The best thing about winning it for me though, was that I done so without conceding a single goal throughout the entire thing
FA Cup:
I didn't get on so good in the FA Cup, I went out in the 4th round at Home against Derby, who beat me 2-1.
Key Players:
Leigh Griffiths scored 14 in 30, Kalinic netting 12 in 36.
Zeman had 12 assists in 30 games, only scoring 1.
The 2 stand out players though were David Hoilett, who I would probably not have used only for I had no money to spend. He managed to net 10 times and set up 6, and Christopher Samba who had a fantastic season scoring 10 goals! He continually told me he wanted to move to a bigger club, but i eased his worries saying we were getting there, hopefully championss league football will keep him happy next season.
Staff:
With my success came many clubs trying to sign key members of my staff! The bigger clubs managed to nab a few on me, and I hate having to sign staff :mad:, I decided to try sign some recently sacked managers for a new Assistant, Sven and Roy Keane who both gave me false hope in that they agreed to go away and look at the deal, but neither signed. I did manage to get Alan Shearer to sign as my assistant after that!
Next Season:
I have been given £11million of a kitty with the aim of finishing in the top half of the table. I have decided i need a better central midfielder, one who is natural in that position.
As always though I am nearly certain I won't have as good a season as last season, I am just hoping to have one that will add to my reputation.
Still though, £11million is quite a bit more than I was expecting, so onwards and upwards I say!!0 -
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Did a season with Arsenal and finished 4th. Should have won the league, was gutted as I drew 2 games 3-3 in may. Was winning 3 nil away to Bolton till they pegged me back. Against Everton the lead changed hands but neither of us could get that winner. Top 3 all finished on 83 points, I finished on 82. Utd have Rooney to thank as he scored 40 in the league and 51 in all competitions. Most of the matches I lost we were dominating but just not killing off teams (very familiar sounding).
Starting Transfers
Bought Shawcross (hoping for no revenge from Ramsey in training) and M'Vila at the start because A) Koscielny is muck statswise, Squillachi & Song were injured and
I needed some grit in defence and midfield. Plus M'Vila is an Arsene Wenger style signing.
Tactics
Played control and very fluid 4-2-3-1 and never really changed tactics even if I was away from home. Drilled crosses, press more, roam more and stay on feet. Touchline instructions were hassle opponents, stay on feet and work ball into box. If I needed a goal I would ask players to overlap more and change to attacking. It got a draw against Real away from home who went on and won the CL.
Striker's role varied depending on possession, DLF if we needed more possession and poacher/advanced forward if we were in control.
January Signings
In January I signed moussa sissoko to join end of the season and Rakitic once his contract expires. I also signed Lucas (Sao Paulo) and Zezhino (Santos). Both have good potential and Lucas was almost good enough for a spot on the subs bench. Finally I bought Phil Jones from Blackburn with an eye for the future.
Rakitic is a replacement for Rosicky after me and his agent had a falling out on a contract renewal. Have a better replacement in Wilshire and the young brazilians will get more game time. Sissoko was meant to replace Diaby but after some fine performances he's probably done enough to stay. Think denilson and maybe ramsey might be let go as they didn't impress me as much though I may loan them out just in case. Jones is a long term prospect defender so I'll be playing him from the bench (covers 4 positions now) and give him starts occasionally. Djourou is the scapegoat for the 3-3 at Bolton so will be shipped out along with Koscielny who isn't up to scratch. Vela's versatility will mean he stays but Bendtner isn't good enough to challenge for the first team.
Future Signings
Looking for a world class striker and keeper as I want to develop my youngsters in midfield and defence. Chamakh and RVP did well for me but they never really scored as much as they should have. Both went long periods without scoring. Thinking Dzeko/Benzema or maybe try for Aguero. Akinfeev/Neuer/Adler are the other options. As I did a small database I limited my options.
Star Players
Nasri was amazing, averaging a goal every 3 games and almost that with assists. Chamakh was good too and then Vermalen/Shawcross were solid in defence. Walcott also hit 17 goals.
Manager Status
I promised the board a title challenge initially and January so I hope the board keep me on. I've a good relationship with the players and would hope that I stay in the job. If not I'll load up a large database (only did small first time round) and start again.0 -
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Just finished first season as Salthill Devon in Irish First Division. Finished second bottom (it was above expectations!) with a wage budget of £1,500 for the season.
Best player was Hakeem Adelakun - great physical stats and a bit of a Roy Keane.
Lapira got 10 goals in 34 games. Couldn't get a player to bang 'em in.
Terry Dixon, Chris Kerr, Moses Barnett, Nathan Rooney, Martin Bavidget and C Chantler were also good.
Bought Kofi Poyser as usual, but he was complete gash.
Currently being linked with the Longford job, but there's no way I'll move from my hometown unless it's a decent job calling (e.g. Galway United or, failing that, Spurs) 0 -
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Into season 2 with Salthill Devon - it's quite a challenge for you lower-league FMers! Wage bill is only £1,500 a week, so you're constantly looking at your top-paid players and, even if they're doing a job, looking to get someone in to replace them at £40-£60 a week.
Doing much better this season, currently in 1st spot after six games, just beat Shels away and had a good sneer at their manager after.
Bit of a managerial go-around going on at the mo, with Athlone, Waterford, Shels and Bray bosses all getting flak.
Current squad:
Tried to get a few older lads in there, as Hansen says "You'll never win anything with kids"!0 -
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antomorro-sei wrote: »Oh, how I love the Champions League.
Money, money, money...
Got the same with Rovers but to be honest I think it makes the LOI too easy; you get so far ahead of the pack thanks to CL money and the challenge of it is waning for me. I'll be looking to move jobs after this season I'd say.0 -
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This is my first serious game that I started last week. I'd played FM for less than 2 hours since release before I started this one, Fifa Ultimate Team was taking all my time!. I decided on Suwon because their stadium name gave me a chuckle. Big Bird Stadium...wtf.
Pre-Season Transfers:
Striker, Emile Mpenza - 750k
Central Midfielder, Ousmane Dabo - Free
Right wingback, Coelho - Free
You can only have 3 foreign players in the K-League so I decided I needed a ball winning midfielder(Dabo), an attacking defender(Coelho) and some sort of attacking threat which Mpenza would provide. My strikers were muck when I joined the team so he was needed even at 750k.
Tactics:
I employed an attacking 4-2-2 most of the time occasionally going to a 4-5-1 counter attacking if I was playing against one of the top teams in the league.
I'd stick to changing strategy in-game rather than changing formation. The only problem I was having with my 4-2-2 was my keeper was so slow he couldn't rush out and save anything that came via the long ball for my opposition. My formation was attacking so it cost me a lot of goals.
Board Expectations:
The board didn't care about the domestic cup competitions and wanted me to focus on the league and asian champions league.
They wanted me to challenge for the K-League and reach the Quarter Finals of the Champs League.
I was given a budget of €1.1m and €90k p/w to meet these goals which was reasonable.
Half way point:
In the K-League the season runs from March to December with a 3 week break in July. At this point I was tied first in the league, had successfully reached the final of the Peace Cup(I lost to Pohang) and had reached the Quarters of the champs league. I went out early on in the other cup.
Two of my signings were doing well. Mpenza had 9 goals in 14 games and Coelho had 3 goals, 2 assists and 3 MoTM awards in 10 games playing right back. Dabo wasn't doing so well and was really unfit. I got rid of him but I had to give him to Empoli for free, nobody would pay. West Brom offered €1.3m for Coelho which I decided to accept as my other right back did well in sub appearances and the offer was good.
I had to make 2 signings in the transfer window. Julio Cruz was offered to me by his agent so I offered him a 6 month contract to fill in for Mpenza who had just suffered an injury and would be out 6 weeks. I also signed Fernando Arce on a free transfer from Santos Laguna.
Final Standings:
Asian Champs League - Won
I beat Al-Ahli in the quarters(also went out of my way to talk some crap to David O'Leary
). Al-Arabi in the semis and then hammered the urawa Red Diamonds of Japan in the Final. Delighted to win it in my first year.
Peace Cup - Lost in finals to Pohang
KFA Cup - Lost in 3rd round.
K-League - Won.(You wouldn't know how pi**ed off I was when Cruz missed that penalty in the 92nd minute :mad:)
I had a terrible last 8 games in the league and dropped from second to 6th. The K-League has a weird system where the top 6 teams after the season qualify for the playoffs. Teams positioned 3rd to 6th face eachother in a 1 game knockout system which I came through beating both Ulsan and Pohang. I then beat rivals Seongnam who finished 2nd and then beat first placed Jeonbuk over 2 legs. it was 5-5 on agg after 2 legs and I won it on penalties
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Final Table
Future:
I've already decided that Mpenza is too old and unfit to stay another year so I'll sell him. Cruz is also too old so no contract renewal for him. I conceded too many goals so I need 1-2 defenders and hopefully I'll get a goalkeeper(Your keeper has to be South Korean so it's hard to get one good).
I've already got my 2 starting strikers sorted out. Amr Zaki is joining for €1m and I'm signing a Korean called Kim Young-Hoo for €800k.
It's been a lot of fun managing in the K-League and I'm looking forward to making some new signings and hopefully improving next year. I've got the Fifa Club World Cup to look forward to as well in a few weeks. 0 -
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Have just now finished my second season as manager of Blackburn, a quick update of Season 1. I finished 3rd in the league, also winning the League Cup with the achievement of not conceding a goal in it. I had been given £11million to improve the team and so set about my task, with some big nights in Europe in mind.
Season 2
First off the following is the players in and out this season:
I was Delighted with the Capture of Lukaku and at a very decent price. Viana was the best midfielder I could tempt and that was the position i had earmarked as the real need. Bueno was just someone I liked the look of and at a decent price, Brooks was a very good looking youth player at Hull who i nabbed - a 15 year old whose finishing was 16!
In January I recieved a bit more money, I was not really going to buy anyone until an agent approached me saying Srna was looking for a club, i would not have even noticed otherwise. I really wanted him as it was a position i needed cover for, so i adjusted my budget to give more money towards wages and was able to beat stiff competition to sign him. He is the highest earner at the club, if that starts to become a problem i could always sell him. I also signed Muriqui as he was recommended to me and I liked the look of him.
For players out it is a very long list, mainly just youths and reserves leaving on loan and a few others for free. I did not get any money in from the sale of players, basically as I had no dead wood left to sell - or that actually could be sold.
Expectations:
All that was asked of me was to achieve a mid table position, and this is all i set out for in the aims at the beginning, given that the difference in money did not justify putting down for European qualification - i chose to play it safe.
In my own mind I wanted to qualify for a European tournament again and had my eye on retaining our League Cup to get that in early and so relieve some pressure.
Early Doors:
I got off to a decent start in the league, two wins out of two and then a draw away to Chelsea - it seemed to me that my luck was holding out from Season one. My group in the Champions League was drawn as
Blackburn
Werder Bremen
Shaktar Donetsk
Spartak Moscow
On first thoughts I was thinking crap, I didn't think there were any guaranteed points, I know there never are but there was little cause for optimism.
League form suffered a little when Europe came about, as expected, However i never fell outside the top 10 from my memory, but I did loose too much ground early on, and by the time the group stage was over and i could concentrate on the league, it seemed to me that dreams of a Champions League spot through the league were gone.
League Cup:
A competition i took very seriously, and in turn taking advantage of the big clubs not doing so. I managed to win it again, which had me in a great mood as i knew i could appease my big players, particularly Samba who was rumbling to leave for bigger things.
I conceded goals this time, mainly due to using some fringe players with my involvement in the Champions League, One tough tie against City that I overcame and didn't have trouble really after that.
FA Cup:
I didn't really want a good run in the FA Cup, but I wasn't going to try lose on purpose, I could do without the extra fixtures but still put out my strongest team. I was looking like going through to the semi finals being 1-0 up away to Everton, but 2 late goals saw them through. I never faced a team outside of the Premier League.
http://www.oneforthelost.com/Lifetimeimages/season2facup.png
Champions League:
I really wanted to make an impression in this, and after winning the league Cup and knowing any hope of a top 4 finish was gone, I put all my eggs in this basket and put it ahead of League games in terms of resting key players for it.
Final Group Table:
http://www.oneforthelost.com/Lifetimeimages/season2champgroup.png
I ended up winning my group, my defeat came in match day 5 away to Shaktar losing 1-0, I would avenge this in some style in the latter stages of the competition.
I got a great draw for the first knockout round, drawing Zenit St Petersburg winning both legs to see me through.
Next stage saw me drawn against Arsenal, which I was so annoyed with. I knew this was going to be tough and i really didn't want to go out to English opposition. I held them 0-0 at the Emirates, delight for me, but not having a goal was playing in the back of my mind.
I went on to beat them at home 3-2, I would have hated to have gone out on away goals but a 79th minute winner from Samba took me through.
I uploaded that game, out of sheer delight and to see if the youtube thing worked, it was the first time i had noticed it.
I eluded to getting revenge on Shaktar earlier on, and i did so in emphatic style. I thrashed them 6-1 away from home even after going 1-0 down early on. I still look back on this and can't believe it, it is by far my best result in this career. I was delighted after because I had one foot in the final and it would have took a major fook up to not see me there. I beat them at home 2-0 again like in the group and was through to face Bayern in the final.
The Final:
The final was held at the Allianz Arena so home advantage for Bayern who dumped Real out in the semis, I was dreading the thought of being thumped by Real in the final.
I had looked at the scoring charts before the game and had noticed Leigh Griffiths was 1 goal behind Higuain, who wouldn't play in the final, I said to myself if I wasn't going to win it maybe i could get Leigh's name up in lights.
What followed was a major mistake by myself, as i mentioned earlier, i had been basically playing my 2nd team in the League games with my sights set firmly on this competition. Lukaku and Viana could not play because for some reason they were never registered for it. Anyways I look back now and think because I had Griffiths in my mind I assumed i had put him back in, I fixed up the rest of my team and headed to the match.
Alberto Bueno was up front on his own in the biggest game of my career, how could i have been so stupid
and no chance left to change it now. He had complained with 4 games left of the season that he was going to have to move and so I promised him a shot. I had thrown him in, and to my disbelief and i'm sure if the game generates feelings then to his disbelief he was lining up in a Champions League Final against Bayern.
Anyways it was 0-0 at Half time and was thinking to myself I can do this. I replaced Bueno with Kalinic at half time and in the 65th minute Bayern took the lead. it stayed like that until Kalinic levelled in the 86th minute and Bayern must have been thinking Man Utd all over again.
It went to Extra Time. In the 91st minute Kalinic hit his 2nd and had me jumping about, the unthinkable was happening, but my luck soon ran out, bayern scored twice after that and beat me 3-2, from a massive high I was brought crashing down.
Still however a remarkable achievement, but i look back and wonder what would have happened if Griffiths or kalinic had have started, Bueno had chances that he missed first half, anyways its over and gone.
http://www.oneforthelost.com/Lifetimeimages/season2champknock.png
League:
I managed to finish 7th in the League, and so might have still qualified for Europe if i had not won the League Cup, I lost on the final day to Sunderland, a win which took them above me into 6th.
Liverpool won he league this season, finishing 7 points clear of Spurs who were last seasons champions. Funny thing when you compare it to real life, the news was littered with rumours that Hodgson might leave at the end of the season when his current deal was up, and the board were worried about this made me chuckle.
Remarkable that 22 points would have kept you up this season, 2 of the 3 teams which came up went back down, with Boro surviving and winning the FA Cup for good measure!
Interesting to note that Everton drew 18!!! of their games, just 1 under half!
Spare a thought for Sunderland who although finishing 6th won't make Europe thanks to their North East rivals Boro winning the FA Cup
Key Players:
My top scorer in the league, well joint top, was my Central Defender Samba who netted 14 times in the league, the same amount as Leigh Griffiths. This coming from a man who is told to defend, my whole back 4 are given no license to attack and Samba continues to score and score.
He is a machine! he got 10 goals last season, this season he has played 50 games scoring 19 goals, I would be happy with that from a striker. I urge everyone to buy him if they can, he is amazing in this game in my experience.
Lukaku didn't play as much as he maybe hoped, as I found it hard to get a good game out of him when he wasn't playing up front on his own. He still knocked in a tidy sum of 17 goals. Kalinic scored 18 with griffiths netting 25 to finish my top scorer in all competitions.
Martin Zeman again had a great season, an ever present in my team free from injury and setting up 23 goals. I signed Haris Medunjanin in January of the first season. I didn't play him much in season one, but this season he found his role playing behind the strikers, his creativity and set piece skills enabled him to finish 2nd in my assists table with 18. Praise must go to my Target Man Kalinic, who as well as netting his 18 goals he managed to finish 3rd on my assists table seting up 10 for others.
Hugo Viana the main signing for me managed to set up 10 goals also from his position on his own in the centre of the park. He finished with and average rating of 6.79 which does not seem too high to me, but he seems to have clicked and does his job.
The Future:
I have just received mega money from tv rights in the Champions League, I know Blackburn will back me in the transfer market, they have just cleared the cubs debts and are expanding the stadium by a couple of thousand more seats - they done that last season too.
I don't know though I think I have taken them as far as I can, in that I'm thinking it is downhill from here. I have to swap the Champions League for the Europa next season which is hard to take when I was so so close to winning it.
Sir Alex was sacked halfway through the season with United down in 12th, I missed out on that job and nearly lost the one I have because of it. It became public knowledge and i was offered a chance to resign before I was sacked. I clicked the apologise button and to my relief all was forgiven.
My reputation has gone up now with my achievements this season. There are rumblings at Chelsea and Man City about managers facing the chop. I'm keeping a close eye on proceedings and have not sorted out where my future lays just yet.0 -
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Desire to Aspire wrote: »I got success at all levels with Santa Coloma in Andorra.
I used to put a lot of effort into doing that in England years ago when i used to play, I'd spend hours scouting talented youngsters for free for my u-18's and made sure i spent all my transfer money so i could use back up players in the reserves
Nowadays i try get a decent feeder club and hope that they do well out of my players!
What happens in that second division? Do the top 4 have to play each other twice again at the end?0
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