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Snapshot Of Your Story - FM 11
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Having won the league with Dortmund, coming back from 9 points behind when I signed to win by 3 points, the man who replaced me as Liverpool manager (Rafa Benitez!) has become England manager. So, in another spur of the moment decision, I re-applied to become Liverpool manager
Got accepted and am now back where I started. Not going to leave now until I win them the CL they, and I crave.
Also have set myself a target to barely use transfer funds for the next 2/3 years to help improve finances so I can upgrade my youth facilities and maybe after another 3/4 seasons I can finally bring through some homegrown youth players.
Side note: am slightly sickened that I've lost one of my best youth players that I signed originally, only because I signed him for Dortmund days before Benitez left :pac:0 -
My race for the title is more or less over if I lose this game against Arsenal who are 4 points ahead with Liverpool having a game in hand. Losing 3-2 with 30mins to go so Im going Gung Ho in order to win. If not they will be 10pts ahead but I sill will have a game in hand.
Only 7 games left tho and Chelsea are on equal points with me but a much greater GD. Could be a 3rd place finish.
*Liking this tho, as in previous games I was always top which got bored quickly.
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Just started my 2nd season as Villa boss, have a feeling it's gonna be a difficult one. First term was a successful one, finishing in 4th spot grabbing the final CL spot. Nothing of note in the cup competitions. Bought and sold alot of players in 1st season and someone already mentioned can't give Heskey away, he wants us to pay half his wages for any new club !!
Notable signings last season:
Michael Rensing €0
Gary Cahill €6.75m
Leonel Galeano €6.75m
Romelu Lukaku €9m
Have brought in alot this summer in the hope of kicking on but may well have been a mistake.
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Team: Arsenal
League
10/11 - 1st.
FA Cup
10/11 -4th Round - Reading
League Cup
10/11 - Winner
Champions League
10/11 - Winner - Real Madrid
Where any team listed above is the team I was knocked out by/beat and at what stage of the competition.
Transfers:
Akinfeev and Annan came in before the season started. Akinfeev was a brilliant buy, he saved 4/5 penalties over the course of the season. Including one in the 85th minute of the Semi Final of the Champions League against AC that would have sent it to injury time. The board very kindly decided to give me an extra 24M to spend in January so I brought in Hazard and Luiz. The rest are youth players I'm looking to develop. Wellinton and Martinez were arranged before I took charge.
Had problems shifting any players as most wanted compensation that high that I may as well just keep them. Eventually managed to shift on the deadwood in Rosicky, Denilson and Mannone. Tried to get rid of more youth players on loan/transfer but nothing doing.
Won the league with two games to spare over United. Good thing too as Liverpool and Chelsea were my last two games. Put out a reserve side against Pool and got a ridiculous waft of injuries. Eboué, Gibbs, Luiz, Djourou and Diaby all injured by the 60th. minute so I ended up playing a half hour with 9 men and managed to win 2-1!
Carling Cup run was fairly straight forward, City were poor and I didn't even have a full team out when I beat them. Villa were a much harder prospect and I struggled to beat them in the LC as well as the League. The final was very close and we were probably lucky to win it, Chelsea missed a waft of chances. Luckily no clangers between Koscielny and Woj :P
FA Cup was a nightmare. Knocked out in our second game by Reading. Board and fans weren't too happy with me after that.
Walked my group in the Champions League, put out reserve sides in the last two games and still finished on max points. I wasn't looking forward to playing Shakhtar but just before our game Neymar got injured and they turned out to be no great shakes and I had the game won in the away leg.
Next game against Chelsea was a very nervy affair and as you can see went to penos, I was on the edge of my seat for that one willing the little dots on :pac:
Went very defensive in the first leg against AC with a 4-5-1 and managed to eke out a 1-1 draw.
Second leg we were all over them and Chamakh (RVP was suspended) and Nasri missed a bucketload of chances each. When they got a peno near the end I was devestated and waiting for the sucker punch but luckily Akinfeev saved it and became a cult hero.
I went into the Final expecting a hammering off Madrid who had walked La Liga. Ronaldo/Di Maria/Ozil/Higuaín had 97 goals between them. For the first 27 minutes exactly that happened, they battered my goal and I couldn't get out of my own half. However in the 28th minute Nasri managed to get the ball down and sprung a counter. Just as he entered the Madrid half Ramos took him down from behind and got a straight red. Went in 0-0 at HT then a minute after the restart Fabregas banged in a 25yard curler. Switched to a counter attacking style and caught them on the break near the end when Walcott had a shot deflected into his own net by Arbeloa
A number of awards in our team too:
van Persie - Footballer of the Year (Wilshere came 3rd.)
Fabregas - Players' Player of the Year
Nasri - Players' young Player of the Year
Me - Manager of the Year
Sagna, Fabregas, Wilshere, RVP, Vermaelen - Team of the Year
And RVP came 3rd in the Top Goalscorer stakes.
Squad:
Regarding Squad for next year there will be a few moving on.
Koscielny has never liked me and keeps filing transfer requests so I may have to let him go come the summer. If nto one of Djourou/Squillaci will be sold and another CB brough it.I wanted to get Mexés on a free but Bayern got there before me
Diaby is to be sold. He's useless.
Will probably sell Arshavin too and look to bring in a better wide man. I had my eye on Alexis Sanchez but he's currently tearing it up at Sunderland who I doubt will sell.I'm going to try and shift as many reserve team players on as possible too, some of them are on ridiculous wages.
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2010/2011
Finally finished the first season (Once again) with Liverpool But forgot to take screenshots or note any in-dept details
Players In
Dafour - €12m
Cairny - €3.8m
Verratti - €1.5m
Cissokho - €27m
Lucas - €8m
Medunjanin - €1.7m
Thorgan hazard - €2.6m
Players Out
Jovanovic - €4m
Spearing - €1m
Top Scorer - Suarez - 28 goals (18 league)
Highest Avg. rating - Steven Gerrard - 7.31 (58 app)
Fans Player of The Year - Steven Gerrard
Final Standings
English Premier League - 2nd
The Premiership was crazy close, unfortunly the bad start to the season caught me in the end with Arsenal winning with 87 points, myself on 86 and Chelsea with 85. Could have finished equal with Arsenal but I could only manage a draw in the second last game, tho Arsenal would have still won on GD. (had 2 games within 3 days so that didn't help)
League Cup - Knocked out 4th round - Chelsea 2-1
Didnt get as far as I would have liked but I dont mind, tis only the league cup and reserve/youth players gave it the best they could against a full strenght (Wtf?) chelsea. Torres and Drogba scoring.
F.A Cup - Lost in the Final - Chelsea 1-0
Sickened to have lost, especially when it came down to Skrtle being caught out of position and Torres scoring :mad:
Europa League - Won - Juventus 3-1 on penalties.
Had this game just after the loss to Chelsea in the F.A so the team was pretty demotivated. Dominated the game but no one had their finishing boots on and dragged on the whole 120 minutes.
Line-up - 41212
Reina
Johnson--Skrtle--Agger--Cissokho
Defour
Veratti
Miereles
Gerrard
Carroll
Suarez
Subs
Kuyt
Lucas
Medunjanin
Cairny
Lucas
Carragher
Wilson2011/2012
Only after the pre-season but have made some changes. (70m/2.2m budget)
Players In
Eden Hazard - €25m
M'Vila - €5m
Falcao - €6m
Turan - (P/x with Insua) - €12m? (Work in progress)
Players Out
Lucas - €12.5
Raul Meireles - €12m
Aquilani - €14m
Maxi Rodriguez - €5m
Considering Paulo henrique but they want 38m for him.. Tempted by him but I think I have plenty of CM to get me through this year. Especially with great youth prospects like Cairny, Verratti, Kevin, Suso breaking into the first team. Might still buy him and loan Verratti/Kevin/Suso.
Well thats all for now. Should be a few new faces coming in and a few old faces moving on. Still have to get rid of Joe Cole and Konchesky
Current mock Line-up
Reina
Johnson--Skrtle--Agger--Cissokho
Defour
Henrique?---Gerrard
Hazard
Falcao
Suarez
Subs
Carroll
Lucas
Verratti
M'vila
Wilson
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Team: Arsenal - Season 2
League
10/11 - 1st.
11/12 - 1st.
FA Cup
10/11 - 4th Round - Reading
11/12 - Crystal Palace - 4th Round Replay - 1-3
League Cup
10/11 - Winner
11/12 - 3rd Round - Wolves (p)
Champions League
10/11 - Winner - Real Madrid
11/12 - Semis - Barcelona
Other
11/12 - Euro super Cup - Beat Spurs 2-1 in final
11/12 - World Club Championships - Beat Internacioncal 3-0 in final
Where any team listed above is the team I was knocked out by/beat and at what stage of the competition.
Transfers:
Pastore turned out to be an unbelievable buy and well worth the money as can be seen below:
17 goals and 10 assists in his first season was a fantastic return. Played him in the AMC position as an Advanced Playmaker with Roaming on, Creative Freedom Much, Run with Ball and Long Shots Often and he tore it up.
Sanchez has a fractured arm when he arrived, ironically picked up in the match against me only a few days before he was due to join. Just as he was bedding in he suffered a sports hernia and then sprained his ankle so while a return of only two goals seems fairly underwhelming I'm confident he'll rip it up next year.
Sakho was a rock at the back for me and has formed a great partnership with Vermaelen.
Kadlec is backup to RVP and himself and Vela did that job reasonably well.
Finck and Thorgan Hazard are possible wonderkids I'm looking to develop.
I've Lukaku arriving in the summer transfer window for £3M also. Mexés is joining on a free after only getting a one year contract with Bayern, he'll be mainly cover. Vanden Borre is coming in the summer on a free too until I can find a better backup RB for Sagna as Eboué was very poor this season and I might look to ship him out.
Squad looks as so as of the end of the season:
Fairly strong in all areas and it's just decent competition for Sagna and Clichy that is needed as neither Gibbs nor Eboué are up to it.
This was my staple formation for 90% of games:
Worked really well for me. I thought I'd get slaughtered against bigger teams but I tended to win the ball back so high up the pitch that I was rarely under pressure at the back and most of the goals I conceded were when I was caught on the counter.
Finished top of the league again and it was at a canter this time really:
Champions League run below:
Coasted the group and played the reserves in the last game. Hammered Shakhtar away from home for the second year running and played the kids in the second leg and drew 0-0 to go through.
Madrid were missing Ronaldo and Higuaín which was huge and I just about managed to sneak through with a 4-5-1 at the Bernabeau.
Barca were all over me in the first leg and looked like winning until I got a 90th. minute peno which Fabregas duly dispatched to give me a vital away goal. Unfortunately I just couldn't break them down at The Emirates and a second successive final was not to be.
Domestic cups were a disaster this year. Usually play the kids/reserves to give them game time to garner up some interest so I can send them out on loan but I'll be taking the FA Cup seriously next year for sure.
A few individual awards in our team too:
van Persie - Players' Player of the Year (Hazard 2nd & Pastore 3rd - Clean Sweep )
Akinfeev, Sagna, Clichy, Hazard, Pastore, van Persie - Team of the Year0 -
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tinofapples wrote: »Got Blackpool job so rather than heading one direction I've gone the other, The Championship !!
Yeah thought Carroll was for nothing but he never got the chance to breakthrough with lukaku,agbon and macheda (on loan). Gonna try and bring him to Blackpool now where he'll start week in week out at a lower level.
Narrowly missed out on the last play-off spot for Premiership so the Championship for another season. Brought in Rafael Sobis in January and he returned 7 goals in 11 appearances, he picked up an injury. He could have been the difference between play-offs and missing out had he stayed fit.
During the pre-season I've made some dealings:
One nasty clause when negotiating contracts is Match Highest Earner, I've got 5 players on 56k a week which isn't really sustainable in the championship.
I've made a great start to the new season:
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2010/11 Season
Liverpool FC
Just finished the first season there yesterday, which went reasonably well. Using the latest update too, 11.3 is it? The only trophy I won was the FA Cup, but, I just about finished 4th so qualified for the CL. It took me a fair few games to sort out what way I wanted to play and who I wanted in my starting XI, but eventually got it all sorted out. Also probably spent a bit too much on Lukaku, 11 million plus clauses that can bring it over 20 million...
Top Scorer: Gerrard - 20 goals (12 league)
Fans POTY: Gerrard
Premier League POTY: Eden Hazard, 8 goals, 32 assists, 12 MOTM's with an average rating of 7.46 (7 goals, 21 assists, 8 MOTM and AvRating of 7.56 in league)
Honourable mentions go to Suarez, Kuyt, Lucas, Danny Wilson, Lukaku, Carroll, Lugano, Kadlec and Miereles (...when not injured)
Just gonna post the screenshots for Gerrard, Hazard and Suarez, but I've played one game in the 2011/12 season so dunno how to get their stats from last season up on the screen!?!
English Premier League: 4th
Spurs ran away with the league, the bastards!
FA Cup: Won, 3-2 against Everton. Route to the cup final wasn't the easiest either, playing/beating Man City and Man Utd on the way.
League Cup: 3rd Round, lost 5-0 to Chelsea
Europa League: 2nd Knockout Round, lost on away goals to Borussia Dortmund. This was really annoying at the time as in the first leg I was winning 1-0, and in the 90th minute Reina dropped the ball and Danny Agger hoofed it into the top corner of our own goal. Pfffft.
Transfers
Here's the screenshot. Says it all really. Players in, players out
Eden Hazard was by far the best signing of the lot, and as mentioned above, won the Premier League Player of the Year. Kadlec starting becoming great towards the end of the season too.
Starting XI
This is the starting eleven I wanted to play when I could, but injuries in this game wouldn't allow for that all the time, I'd play a short passing, balanced game, which seemed to work best for me.
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^I always wanted to do that, but I just get way too attached to my team so I never have the heart to leave lol!
It was a very tough decision! Spurs won the league by 8 point the season after my departure. Left them in a seriously good position with no players over the age of 31 in my first 11 bar Gomes. Probably should have stuck around longer but maybe after a few more season in Italy I'll try go back 0 -
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Coming towards the business end of 2012/2013 and I've just had myself a treble clash, one after another with United... Champions League Quarter Finals 1st Leg - League game - CL 1/4s 2nd leg, all within the space of a week.
CL 1/4s 1st Leg
League
CL 1/4s 2nd Leg
My heart cannot take such epicness :pac:
My victories over United are not limited to these three meetings. They are in fact, the only team in the league, in my FM game anyway, that I've never dropped points to or lost to. Bizarre or what? I'm forever winning, losing, drawing with Arsenal, Chelsea, City, Spurs etc and constantly dropping points against Newcastle and West Ham but never to United
In the 13 games I've played them over the past 3 seasons, I've not lost to them. And my goal record is staggering, despite the games actually being closer than a lot of the scores give them credit for.
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2010/11 - Tottenham Hotspur
In:
Leighton Baines - £12m
Simone David - £1.5m
Mahamadou Diarra - £2m
Romelu Lukaku - £7m(January)
Out:
Roman Pavlyuchenko - £200k season long loan
Jake Livermore - loan
Mirko Ranieri - loan
Jamie O'Hara - £3m
Younes Kaboul - £4.7m
Kyle Naughton - £2.8m
Benoit Assou-Ekotto - £3.8m
Kudus Oyenuga - loan
Giovanni dos Santos - loan
League:
Started off well, unbeaten in our first 8 games - 6 wins and 2 draws - including a draw against Chelsea and a win against Arsenal - both away. We then lost to City 2-1 and drew 1-1 with Villa after going 1-0 up in both games. Patchy form from then up to Christmas put us in 10th place. We lost the first two games in the new year, but then went unbeaten up until the 36th game against Liverpool - which we duly lost 3-0. The unbeaten run, which included a 4-0 win against Arsenal, meant we were fighting with Everton for 5th place and the last Europa League spot. After the Liverpool game we played United - we won that 2-0 and Everton won their game, so they were one point ahead going into the last game. They had West Ham(10th) and we had Birmingham(18th). West Ham drew 1-1, but we lost 1-0. Absolutely raging.
Champions League:
We got Young Boys in the qualifying round and won the tie 3-0 on aggregate. We got a fairly tough group - Real Madrid, Lyon and Rubin Kazan. We lost the first game against Madrid - but we then won our remaining 5 games to top the group. Rangers in the 1st Knockout Round - sweet! Wasn't as easy as I thought - we won 2-1 at Ibrox and drew 2-2 at WHL. We were drawn against Inter in the next round. We came from 1-0 down at WHL to draw 1-1. At the San Siro we take the lead in the first half. A minute into the second Milito scored from a header. We held out and brought it to extra-time, but my players tired and we lost 3-1(4-2).
FA+League Cup:
Piss easy run to the semi-final in the FA Cup, MK Dons, Rochdale, Hereford and Nott'm Forest - an aggregate score of 22-2 in the four games. We then got Chelsea in the semi. Lost 1-0 in a drab game. Lost in our first game in the League Cup to Villa on penalties.
Star players:
Gareth Bale, Leighton Baines and Rafael van der Vaart. Modric had his leg broken by Fabregas in the first game against Arsenal so he missed 6 months of the season. Bale scored 9 goals, had 11 assists, 8 MotM and an average rating of 7.4 in 31 games the Premier League. Played either LM or AML. Won English Footballer of the Year. Baines is an absolute rock and he chips in with the odd goal and assist, plus rarely missing a tackle. He played excellently with Bale on the wing when he gets forward. VDV was injured at the start of the season and it took me a while to figure out how to play him, but he's an animal. His long-range shooting is ridiculous. 9 goals, 10 assist, 4 MotM and an average rating of 7.18. The one criticism I would have is that he tires an awful lot quicker than every one else.
Formation/Team of the Year:
Gomes
Corluka-Dawson-King-Baines
Palacios
Lennon
Bale
VDV
Defoe
Lukaku
Lukaku wouldn't be in there only hed played class against the shít team in the cup. I played this a bit more often:
Gomes
Corluka-Dawson-King-Baines
Sandro
Diarra
Lennon
Bale
VDV
Defoe
Trying to make Lukaku my main striker, but it's not happening.:/ Any tips on how to play him?
My team for the start of the 2011/12 season has been:
Gomes
Corluka--King--Gallas--Baines
Lennon--Modric--Banega--Bale
VDV
Lukaku
Got Banega for £5.25m as Valencia were relegated.
My defence needs some updating - the CDs are quite old.
The midfield is a bit weak, so for the top teams I'll probably swap Modric/VDV/Banega for Sandro or Diarra and put them DM. Tried to get De Jong, but he wanted like £200k in wages.
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Another season over, another couple of trophies
Season 2012/2013
Won the league this season, and completed a quadruple by adding the Super Cup, Club World Championships and the Champions League beating Marseille. Used the League and FA Cups to blood my younger players, lost in both 4th rounds (Chelsea in League Cup, Spurs in the FA Cup) due to this... clearly not ready for the first team yet.
The silverware contributed to my team being so highly regarded in the league and in the awards. I was delighted with my lads, locked out the PFA awards - second year in a row for Sanchez... a real diamond
And... Team of the Year, 8 of my boys got in
During the Preseason, I made the decision to bring in younger players rather than spend big on established players.
Barça came sniffing after Reina, dimissed their approach but he handed in a transfer request. Played hard ball after a derogatory first offer of £30 million and got £35 million plus add-ons to bring it up to £40 million. Thankfully, I had already agreed a precontract with Manuel Neuer of Schalke and signed him on a free. Delighted with that deal overall but he does make a lot of mistakes that often lead to goals.
Team:
Manuel Neuer
Glen Johnson
Martin Kelly
Phil Jones
Davide Santon
Steven Defour
Steven Gerrard
Alexis Sanchez
Eden Hazard
Luis Suarez
Sergio Aguero
Bench:
Danny Wilson
Jack Robinson
Daniel Agger/Raphael Varane (excellent CB btw)
Raul Meireles
Jonjo Shelvey
Lucas
Romelu Lukaku
My biggest achievement however, was finally getting the funds to complete the upgrade to Youth Recruitment after having it cancelled the year before due to a lack of funds. Am also now in the process of upgrading my Youth Facilities. Frugal spending is key to this tbh.
Am also delighted that, without me asking them, have decided to expand Anfield by approx 9000 which should also help with the clubs finances.
Am now in preseason for 2013/2014 and my recruitment drive has slowed, as I've a few young players I want to blood rather than spend big. Signed a young DM and a young keeper
Not sure if I need to add anyone else because, like I said, I'm trying to use my youngin's more often, and also I want to save my transfer funds to try and get Anfield expanded upon again, or even try and get the board to build a new stadium...fingers crossed
Looking forward to the new season. My young lads have an extra year of experience, and my other lads are getting better and better. Just worried about Barça trying to nick Aguero off me now... thievin' bastards 0 -
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