and then sack you for no apparent reason

I usually start low and work up to Arsenal or any big club.

It depends what job I'm working in, what level I set my experience to.

I do so they can highlight something like formational weaknesses.

- Key.
- No scouting.
- Self made tactics.
- Usually play as Manchester United for a few seasons, then start a "Dafuge Challenge" from the bottom of the English League System. Then I'll have a "Career" game, where I usually start in a self-made 4th tier in Australia, and try to play a more realistic career than just starting in the EPL.

Tell that to Kenny Dalglish.

Alan Shearer for that matter too

Gareth Southgate

I'm not an ex-international though xD

Nantwich - Blue Square North 2013/2014
Media Prediction - 18th
Actual Position - 1st

I'm still too lazy for screenshots.

Extremely good 3rd season. Another great increase in squad quality, brought in about 12 good players. After a decent start that put us around 7th, we quickly climbed to first, and stayed till about halfway through the season, where we dropped the 2nd and spent about 12 rounds catching up. With about 6 rounds left we hit first again, and stayed there, with a 1-0 victory in the last match securing 1st place (a draw would have left us in 2nd on GD).

Had an immense FA Cup run, making the 2nd round, only losing 1-2 to League Two Yeovil with their winning coming 15 minutes from time.

In the FA Trophy we only managed to reach the 1st round, losing 0-1 in a replay to Harrogate.

We'll obviously need some more squad improvement to survive next season, and I'll also be looking more strongly at the staff side of things. It's much harder this version of the game, as the Assistant Filter is useless for staff, as it doesn't filter out staff who want your entire wage budget even though you can only offer them a few thousand a year.

Season             League        League Finish              Other Notes
2011/2012    Blue Square North         18th      
2012/2013    Blue Square North         9th      
2013/2014    Blue Square North         1st                  Promoted As Winners, FA Cup 2nd Round

After winning the Europa League/EPL double in my first season (expected after some 59m investment in the squad), I moved along Konchesky and Kuyt and have invested in Sneijder (15m), Chiellini (16m) and Young (15.5m) - the former two both being unsettled.

pretty good ending up with Sneijder, how do you fit him into the first xi?

Ajax just bought Alsopp of me after a massive 4 months. 12 games 12 goals and 8 assists. 3 million. Time to bring in a new striker I guess.

Australia wins 2022 host bid in my FM game lol.

Just destroyed Rovers in the second Sydney derby 3-0, they finished with only 8 on the field after 3 red cards, 2 in the same highlight

Just got back into my FM 08 and I've continued my job as England manager. Currently in Euro 2012. My group game results are as follows:
ENG 0-0 BEL
ENG 0-0 SUI
ENG 0-0 UKR
And yet, thanks to a 93rd minute goal from Anthony van den borre, i managed to make the knockout rounds :lol:. Gotta be the first team to reach the knockout stages without scoring. Really sad.

The thing that pisses me off more than often is Owen and Rooney, my two main strikers, have a finishing rating of 19 and 18 respectively. Yet, both of them missed 2 one-on-one's with the keeper. Fucking irritating.

Benched Rooney and played Billy Sharp as the loan striker in the QF against the scots and was rewarded with a goal (at fucking last) from Sharp. Pity it was so obviously offside. I've now got to mastermind a defeat of Spain.

Currently in the 2019/2020 season with Boro and last season I picked up my first piece of silverware by winning the FA Cup.

Am sitting 3rd now with about 13 games to go, and am through to the 2nd knockout stages of Europa, and to the final in the League Cup.

Cech (37) is still keeping for Chelsea, Kewell is one of my coaches, and Cahill is managing Burnley after winning the A-League with Sydney FC.

Liverpool are currently in the relegation zone, while Villa won the EPl 2 seasons back. Man City are the EPL's Barca, and I dont think I've beaten them yet.

Started with Southampton in League 1, Loaned in Craig Eastmond from arsenal, also brought in Jay De Mariet,Jordi Gomez and Andriano Basso on a free and also brought Aussie Jason Davidson for 170k, also have brought Terry Antonis for 300k but wont get him till he turns 18 which is 2 years away, started great am currently 1st but haven't won a game in 6 games, drawn 4 and lost 2,

The problem is in 19 games we have only scored 25 goals but have only let in 10,and we only have 3 strikers, who all happen to be going through an injury cloud atm so have to wait till a few weeks to January is upon us

UPDATE - after 27 games we have scored 37 goals and let in 17, i had to resort to using a rubbish youth striker who happen to get injured in the first 5 mins of hes debut game, i have now loaned in yaya sanago from manchester united and i am trying to get J.Edward Thomas from arsenal on loan aswell

Edited by pimpsta: 14/12/2010 05:15:03 PM

Depends on who I'm playing and who's fit...but right now my best XI is:
----------Torres----------
Coentrao--Sneijder--Zarate
-----Gerrard---Rakitic----
Regen-Agger-Chiellini-Cassani
---------Reina

I signed Vincent Enyeama for 425k, he's on a 'back-up to the first team' contract, and is upset because he only played 7 games last season. Meanwhile, Reina made it through the season conceding just 37 goals in 60 matches with 33 cleansheets - how do you drop a keeper in that kind of form?

I started an Atletico profile in the same save, keeping with my usual rule of 'no transfers between Liverpool and Atletico'. I had a budget of 50m (big surprise considering they've still got all their major players), picked up Hamsik (9m), Thiago Silva (12m), Renan (7m), Subotic (11m), Suarez (19m) and Vukojevic (1.5m)...sold a couple of dead-wood players to make up the difference there. And there was a LOT of deadwood...still trying to move some.

Does anybody know how well Alberto Botia develops? I'm considering purchasing him as a replacement for Martin Skrtel.

Kewell exploded into form scoring 7 goals in his last 5 matches and cutting up ACL

table currently reads

Sydney FC 57pts +35
Perth Glory 57pts +28
Geelong Wanderers 55pts +22
Brisbane Roar 46pts +23
Canberra United 46pts +13
Central Coast 35pts +1
Auckland Blue 35pts -6
Sydney Rovers 34pts -9

---

Newcastle 33pts -3
North Queensland 30pts -2
Wellington 26pts -17
Christchurch Ath 25pts -23
Gold Coast Utd 22pts -12
Melbourne Heart 20pts -13
Adelaide United 20pts -14
Melbourne Victory 12pts -23

dunno how melbourne went so shit when i gave them the best player in the league

One player does not make a team; even in FM.

yeah i know but like they had one of the strongest a-league squads before i edited things, and they've just gone bleurgh, lost like 5-0 in there first acl game

Well, for starters the coach sucks. Second of all, their squad isn't that strong to begin with. They came second last in mine (only Newcastle finished lower).

Where have the last few hours of my life gone? Oh yeah, I dusted off FM for the first time in months.

Managing Stockport. God it sucks. :lol:

Got promoted with Soton \:d/ it came down to the last day i was in 2nd spot and i was playing 3rd, all i needed was a draw to wrap up auto promotion and we drew 2-2 :)

Sold dead wood, alot of them i gave away for free to spare up my low wage budget, i brought in Mido, Bolo Zenden, Paul Stalteri and Jason Roberts, Jason Koumas all on frees and also Adam Bogdan as my backup keeper for free aswell, Even though we got promoted my transfer kitty didnt change from the season before - 200k

Edited by Qatar: 16/12/2010 09:56:18 PM

Won the regular season on the last day on goal difference, i think i've buggared up with the finals and i don't think i'll finish it with a top eight with 2 legs... great win though, i lost the week before away to brisbane while Geelong (1st) played Perth away (3rd) and the Glory got up leaving the table sitting at

Perth 66pts +32
Geelong 65pts +21
Sydney 63pts +37

Geelong was playing Canberra (5th) at home, when they haven't lost at home in the league all season, and Sydney at home against Perth... Canberra somehow knocked off Geelong 2-1 and i beat Perth 2-0 with Culina getting the first (Gold Coast bizarrely released him 2 weeks earlier and was on a free transfer), Geelong equalised late on but Canberra scored a late winner after Spira got sent off, could have had the top 3 finishing equal quite easily

Sydney 66pts
Perth 66pts
Geelong 65pts

I'm sorry, I misled you all. It's not Stockport, that would be a step up. It's Southport. Blue Square :lol:

Love last minute goals, but im still sitting 17th, so hard to get on a roll in FM11.

awesomness +5 minutes