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Snapshot Of Your Story - FM 11
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04-11-2010 2:14am#1If a mod wants to merge this with the previous thread, fair enough, just thought with a new game and all, it might be easier to have separate threads....
Last year I brought Champions League glory with Fleetwood Town, however after being promoted to the BSP this season I have to pick a new club.
I decided on Farnborough as I lived near there for just over a year.
Farnborough were founded in 2007 and are a semi-professional club based in Blue Square South. They play their home games at Rushmoor Stadium and are affectionately known as Boro.
Minimum expectations are to achieve a respectable league position.
I have been given a transfer budget of 5k and a weekly wage budget of 6.26k.
This should be easily achievable as according to my assistant manager I have four 4.5* players and one 5* player
This guy looks to be my star man.
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Blue Square South - runners up (promoted after beating Braintree 1-0)
FA Cup - First round
FA Trophy - Final (Lost on penalties to Histon)
Top Scorer - Paul Dunphy - 21
Most assists - Ismael Fofana -21
Average rating - Ismael Fofana - 7.23 (53apps) Also got BSP signing of the season
18 players released on frees throughout the season frees as the wage budget was far too high.
16 players brought in to give me a surplus of 1k p/w.
Kit sponsorship deal up 2k to 10k a week.
I have been asked to avoid relegation for this season and have been given
0 - transfer budget
7.25k - wage budget
I am only 825pw below that because of contract clauses.
Main focus is to bring in some decent staff.
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Blue Square Premier - 2nd ( Beat Mansfield 3-2 on penalties in play off final)
FA Cup - 1st round
FA Trophy - 4th round
Ismael Fofana was again awarded our Player of the year.
Fabio Zamblera finished top scorer with 25 goals
The club have now turned professional.
I have been given a transfer budget of 20k and a wage budget of 8.5k p/w to avoid relegation.0 -
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Just finished my 1st full season so said i'd post how i'm getting on.
I took charge of German 3rd Division side SV Wehen Wiesbaden
The board were hoping to secure a mid table finish with a transfer budget of zero Euros, i signed a few players on free transfers and that was about it, they had a big enough squad so i was happy enough.
One my star players for the season was one of my free signings Leo Aro, 19 goals and 19 assists earned him the German 3rd Division Player of the Year award
I also picked up the manager of the year award 
My League position changed a lot during the season, i was about 6 points clear early in the season and was 6 points off 3rd place coming to the end of the season, we just about got there in the end, we won a play-off against the team who finished 16th in the German 2nd Division to win promotion
I still am not happy with my formation or training but i'll find something to work, depending on funds we will be hoping for a mid-table finish this season ready to build for promotion the next season, we'll see how it goes.0 -
On the final day, they through the league away etc
This is now my favourite FM ever, because never before have I won anything in my first season! Really surprised how it happened though!
Had a transfer budget of 0, and a wage butget of 8.75k/week. Released a couple of players and sold Danny North to Dundalk for 1k. I signed Terry Dixon, Joseph Lapira who made a huge impact upfront. Signed Clive Delaney at centre half, got a right winger from Peru (!) called Alex Becerra, a CM called Ben Webster and a young lad called Shane Williams, who looks decent according to my scout.
Brought Gareth Coughlan and Seán Stewart up from the ressies and they imporved loads over the season. Trained Coughlan to play on the left aswell as the right, and he was one of my best players over the season.
Lapira was the one who made the biggest impact IMO, scoring 26 league goals out of 30 odd games and won the Premier Division POTY award. Terry Dixon bagged 19 league goals too, and got runner up in the POTY.
My best starting XI was:
Rogers
Pender - Delaney - Kenna - Bermingham
Becerra - Webster - Stuey Byrne - Coughlan
Dixon - Lapira
Honourable mentions to Derek Doyle, Damien Lynch (who got into team of the year with Lapira and Dixon), Ryan Guy, Dave Mulcahy and Vinny Faherty!
Have let go quiet a few of those for the next season and have signed Karl Sheppard, Seamy Conneely and Ste O'Donnell from Galway, Liam Kearney from Drogheda and former Bolon Wanderers player Gavin McCann.
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Have just finished my first season, I am playing with Aston Villa and i don't think it could have gone any better,
I had an unbelievable end to the season, having 3* Cup finals in a row - *the last game was a shoot out for the final Champions league place between me and Liverpool, I had the advantage in that I was at home and that a draw would see me through - it finished 1-1.
The Fa Cup final was a remarkable story - the best game of the season by far - I won it on penalties after a 4-4 draw with Wolves!! I tried to upload the video to youtube but it wouldn't work. I had an "easy" semi final against Boro, after I got lucky in the 1/4's against United - That went to a replay at Old Trafford - in which i was missing my Irish players as they were travelling back from International duty!! United were missing a few - but they still put out a young team! I was delighted, strange seems as though they put a full strength one out in the first game.
I beat Spurs 3-1 in the Europa Final, I was a bit dissapointed in that I faced Liverpool in the quarters, Man City in the Semi's and Spurs in the Final of a European Competition
I had £14 million to spend at the start I think, I tried every way to get a little more, and it worked,
I sold Carew to Liverpool for £2.2 million, i tried everything to get rid of Heskey, even giving him away for free - but there was no shifting him - His wages were a real drain on me and it would have cost £6 million to release him!
I even tried to throw Heskey in for West Ham but they wouldn't bite. I got Fahey for free in January, he crossed the city's divide! he was cover for Downing who was always fatigued! Santa Cruz suffered a great deal from fatigue too!
Im not too sure how much they will give me for next season, I'm delighted to be in the Champions league, but to be honest I don't think I will do as well as this season! The top 3 of Chelsea (champions) Man Utd and Spurs were 18-25 points ahead of me - so there is a big gap to plug!
I think Parker and Ireland work well together, I Play a standard 442 with Ireland attacking and Parker defending, my back 4 have no license to attack at all. It worked much better for me in europe than in the league - and on top of that it worked much better away from home too.
This is my formation and selection when all is well and good
As i mentioned Santa Cruz suffered from fatigue but never got injured thank god, Delfouneso and Stancu done well when he wasn't available.
I'm not sure where I can improve for next season, my defense was solid at times, but then leaky at times - see Fa Cup final - and a 5-1 defeat away to Bolton!
Will see how much money I have to spend before getting my hopes up - my biggest problem is wages - I need to clear a lot of deadwood this Summer - Heskey, Sidwell and Reo-Coker or Petrov to start with.
Just got the above bit of news, while I'm happy more people will see my work I hope to god it doesn't affect my budget next year! I have big plans for this club!!0 -
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antomorro-sei wrote: »^^
Fahey crossed the city divide, again, you mean :P
Yeah
He was still valued at £2.3million - and their asking price was free! I had no money in January so was delighted with that, as he could cover and come on for Ireland or Parker too. He didn't set the world alight - but he done his job!
The press conference when I signed him was mad, they wouldn't stop asking me questions about him having history with Birmingham!
Birmingham beat me 3 times anyways, so there is a big blotch on my Board Confidence - I won't live it down! Twice in the league and knocked me out of the League Cup!0 -
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I've just finished my first season with Cork City. I had to start the game with their status edited to semi-pro as they're pro according to the original database. Anyway i started the season by signing Will Snowdon and John Paul Kelly on free transfers. Could'nt sign more since i was over my wage budget. Also got Shamrock Rovers as a parent club but they did'nt send us any players.
The season started well. Graham Cummins was scoring for fun but he got injured for a while around mid-season and seemed to have lost confidence and did'nt score again for the season. The team did'nt perform well towards the end of the season and we lost a lot of games.
We ended up finishing 5th which was dissappointing as we looked like pushing for promotion up until the bad run towards the end. Still the board were only looking for a respectable finish so it's ok. I now have to try and get rid of some of our crappy players and cut the wage bill down so i can sign new players. I also had a falling out with Ian Turner so i've to try and get rid of him as too. Might look for a couple of loan signings as well.
Current team
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Playing with Man United, i am in January now top of the league 4 points ahead of Arsenal. I've only been defeated once in all competitions......0-2 Liverpool at Old Trafford of all times to lose
I have benfica in next stage of Champ league, and have spurs in semi-final of the carling cup. Rooney started for me in great form with 9 in 12, then went 10 hours without scoring a goal! before netting a peno in a win over city so all was forgiven! Started trying hernandez and playing 442 more often while rooney was ****e and chicarito is doing well. Nani is having the season of his life for me, 8 goals and 14 assists in 21 games! There were a load of games where he would get two assists from corners in the same match.
Signed Bale for £43.5m, the fans thought it was a waste of money but he started well and scored 2 on his champ league debut.........then broke his leg in his 4th game and is out to march/april. It still says the fans "hope he can continue his impressive start" and it went from a completely negatively viewed signing to a positive on the back of them 2 goals despite him being gone most of the season.
At the start of the Jan transfer window you are allowed change your season ambition which is a nice touch, i had chosen title challenge, but the board offered me a £20m budget for the window if i changed to "Winners" which i did, and im now trying to sign either Mata or Dzeko.0 -
Just finished my first season with Shels.
League: First Division
My Expectation: Promotion
Board's Expectation: Promotion
Finishing Position: 1st (FD)
FAI Cup: QF
League Cup: Winners
Had a brilliant first season in charge. Kept the team and didn't make any signings as I was already €200 over the weekly budget. Won the league on an epic final day. I beat Longford 2-0 at home whilst Derry lost away to bottom of the table Limerick. Meaning I won the league by one point
http://img715.imageshack.us/i/lastdayofseason2010.jpg/
http://img201.imageshack.us/i/1stdivisiontable.jpg/
Best achievement of the season had to be winning the League Cup. Was a bit of a pisstake until the final as I played 2 A Championship teams and 3 First Division teams. Beat Sligo 2-0 in the final though
http://img87.imageshack.us/i/leaguecupfinal.jpg/
Have a lot of new players coming in next season which is definitely going to strengthen the squad. I'm just hoping they settle quickly as my expectation for next season is a mid table finish.
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EDIT: Embedding the pictures won't work so there are the links.0 -
What a lucky goal my team scored against FC United in the FA Cup 2nd Qual Rnd, camera doesn't even move fast enough for the ball :P
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Just finished my second season which was far more succesful and eventful than the first.
I started off the season by letting Ian Turner go on mutual termination. I also decided to cash in on Graham Cummins since he seemed to have lost his scoring boots and sold him to Lincoln for 10k. My wage budget was the same as last season so i could only afford to pay the wages i had freed up with the players that had left. I signed Francis Jeffers which surprised me but he did well at the start of the season scoring in nearly every game for our first 9-10 games although his scoring rate dropped off towards the end of the season.
We did really well for most of the season and it was really between ourselves and St.Pats for the title as we were about 20 points ahead of the third placed team coming towards the final 6 games of the season. We had a 6 point lead on pats but a bad bit of form allowed them back into the race. On the final day Pats were on 67 points and we were on 64. We were playing Monaghan and managed a 1-0 win and luckily Pats lost 1-0 to Waterford which handed us the title on goal difference.
A lot of my players performed well over the season and i had a couple of the younger lads like Rory Morrisey and Eoin Forde make the step up to the first team which was handy considering i could'nt sign many players. My best player for the season was John Paul Kelly who finished the season with 9 goals and 9 assists.
I also had a good run in the FAI cup making it to the semis but we got beaten by Bohs. We also had a consortium take over which was a bit of a worry as they initially planned to replace me but decided to keep me on.
My main aim for next season is to avoid relegation which i think should be achievable with a few good signings.
Also here's my current starting 11:
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League: Premier Division
My Expectation: Mid Table (5th-7th)
Board's Expectation: Avoid Relegation
Finishing Position: 5th
FAI Cup: SF (1-0 loss away to Fingal)
League Cup: SF (2-0 loss away to Rovers)
Setanta Cup: QF (4-3 loss on agg. vs. Bohs)
Happy with the season overall. It was very very tight at the bottom of the league throughout the season so a strong enough finish put me 5th after being 8th with 3 games left.
I started the season using the same formation which I had done in the First Division the year before. This formation was an absolute disaster and I got just 4 points from my opening series of games.
Had to make a change so I devised a new 4-1-4-1 counter attacking formation which worked a treat and sent me on this run:
I have most of my players signed up for another season. At the moment I'm concentrating on getting the players who are part time to sign on full time contracts which is proving difficult with some of them. I am sceptical about how my 4-1-4-1 formation will help me progress in the league and I do think I will need to change it if I'm to pull away from relegation fighting next season.
Expectations for my third season are a 4th-6th place finish with hopefully a few of the younger players that I have signed making a breakthrough into the first team as they are going to be better than the players I have in those positions already.0 -
nPower League 1 - 13th
The FA Cup e.on - 1st roud
Carling Cup - 2nd round
St. Johnstones Trophy - semi final
A terrible start to the season. 1 win in the first 10 games and it looked highly likely that we would be going straight back down. But 5 wins out of the next 7 games gave us hope. Our form then dipped but we picked up towards the end of the season.
Mitchel Megginson was arguably my best player, scoring 16 goals in 34 games. He was signed on a free from Aberdeen, at the start of the season.
My squad was huge come the end of the season, so a lot of players will be moved along in the summer.
The board have announced our first stadium expansion with 1233 more seats being added. However they cancelled plans to build a youth academy.
On a side note I've just signed a 16 year old whoa was unhappy I put him in the u-18s, and has requested a transfer the day after he has joined
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Second season with Pats went very well. Won the league, the Setanta Cup, qualified for the group stages of the Europa League and was runner up in the League Cup. Also, got manager of the year for the second year running.
Here's how the final league table looked, I won it by around 12 points.
Because I had already won the league in the first season, the club turned from semi-pro to professional, giving me a bit more money, so I made a fair few signings. They were all free's, bar Ronan Finn, who was worth every penny of the 110k.
Ronan Finn got POTY and Joseph Lapira came 3rd in it. He was out injured for ages so didn't score as many as the first season but was still absolutely quality!
The formation/starting XI had to change a fair bit depending on who I was playing, as the fixture list got very congested! So here's the best XI for the year:
The highlight of the year for me was qualifying for the Europa League Group Stages, which came as a bit of a shock considering it was only my second season. Cos I won the league, I got Champions League footbal, which Partizan Belgrade knocked me out of in the 3rd Qual. Round, on away goals. So I then got a chance in the Europa League Playoff Round, and got drawn against Danish side, AaB Aalborg. Got drawn away first, and I really didn't know what to expect so I played 4-1-4-1, very rigid and counter and before 35mins, I was 3-0 up! I ended up winning 4-1 on AGG.
Got into a group with Bayer Leverkusen, Rapid Bucharest and Standard Liege. It was pretty hard, and I only drew 2 games, both against Bucharest.
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Finally got a game of this going. I've gone with Ashton United.
I've managed to bring in some decent players including experienced set piece magician Darren Barnard. Should have enough to stay around mid-table and build for a bright future at Hurst Cross
Dafuge's challenge by the way.0 -
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