:D

Beat Hoffenheim 3-0 at home and then 1-0 away to win 4-0 on agg in first knockout round.

Drew Chelsea in the quarters... managed a 2-0 home win which was great.

In the away leg, was 2-0 down inside 20mins. Settled it down and it was 0-2 at HT.

Just after HT Ramires scored a BS goal to put them 0-3 up, and 2-3 on aggregate.

Lukaku had been quiet all day, but from my first meaningful attack really, was crossed it and he towered up and planted it top corner. 3-3, winning on away goals in about the 65th.

Tried to hold on and shut them out, but they got a penalty in the 90th minute ](*,) WHICH MUSLERA SAVED \:d/ \:d/

Finished 1-3, 3-3 on agg and won on away goals.

Drew Barca in the semis :lol:

3rd in the league, 5 pts from the top with 5 games to go.

Hmm. I've got a dilemma.

I took over Holland, and won our first 3 matches in the WCQ's, pretty comfortably. They have a good squad, should make the the last 8 I think in the WC.

Our next match was a friendly in Brazil.

We beat them 2-0.

They sacked their manager (not sure why, he's won all their WCQ's).

A couple weeks later they want me to replace him.

Im not sure whether the Twente thing is still going or not if so can i join? im on FM10 and im a bit late but eh

I fucking hope so as Im 10 seasons into it and still at Twente.

Don't ever withdraw your players from internationals if you want them to ever play them again.

Fucking bugs :/

Nantwich - Premiership 2036/2037
Media Prediction - 3rd (really? I"ve won the title for about 6 years in a row, and barely lost a game, and you say I'm only going to make 3rd?) out of 20th.
Actual Position - 1st.

Premiership Retained - Carling Cup Retained - FA Cup Retained - Champions League Retained - Community Shield Won - European Super Cup Won - FIFA Club World Cup Won

This season was a testament to keeping an experienced core of players together despite them hitting their 30's, as well as deep and intensive world-wide scouting.

Community Shield - 3-0 Win vs Arsenal

European Super Cup - 3-0 Win vs Wolves

Carling Cup - West Ham, Arsenal, Man Utd, Liverpool, 4-0 vs Manchester City (Final)

FIFA Club World Cup - Tampines, America (MEX) 4-0 (Final).

FA Cup - Doncaster, Cardiff, Newcastle, Arsenal, Liverpool, 3-1 Man City (Final)

Champions League - Lyon (for the 5th time in 6 entries), Bayern, Barca, 4-0 Arsenal (Final, and I bet they are right sick of me by now).

League - 1st on 94 Points, 30 wins, 4 draws, 4 losses + 55 GD, 2nd City, 3rd Arsenal, 4th Liverpool.

Having won the challenge, I decided to stop really caring about the financial side of things, and let the dice fall where they might, so I went out and signed 40 million dollars worth of youth talent, 15, 16 and 17 year olds. I literally scouted every 15 and 16 year old in the EU, as well as most of the 17 year olds.

Financially, we've got all our income for the year and are still £18,000,000 in the red. Chairman stumped up £47,000,000 and brought us back to £30,000,000 or so. Also upgrading our Youth Recruitment Network.

A few of them slotted into the first team such as my 4 star potential Spanish Striker Marti Porras who made 27 appereances at the age of 16, scored 6 goals, 3 assists and an AvR of 7.00, often playing at AML.

I've got "The Next" Guti, Morgan de Sanctis, Paul Breitner, Jurgen Kohler, Michael Dawson, Rio Mavuba, Vicente, Gael Clichy, and a couple are wonderkids.

I farewelled my long-serving Assistant Manager Tosh Farell, who was replaced by an Argentine with similar stats who should develop quite nicely with experience.

I took over Holland, then moved to Brazil, and we are on track to qualify for the World Cup quite easily.

I'm taking out player achievements because there's so many I lost track and cbf writing out the 40+ awards they've achieved.

Code:

Season League League Finish Other Notes
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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
2014/2015 Blue Square Premier 12th
2015/2016 Blue Square Premier 1st Promoted As Winners
2016/2017 League Two 14th FA Cup Third Round, JPT North Losing Finalist.
2017/2018 League Two 1st Promoted As Winners
2018/2019 League One 4th Lost in play-off final
2019/2020 League One 2nd Promoted As Runner-Up. JPT Lost in Final.
2020/2021 Championship 6th Lost Promotion Semi-Final
2021/2022 Championship 8th
2022/2023 Championship 7th
2023/2024 Championship 2nd Automatic Promotion
2024/2025 Premiership 17th
2025/2026 Premiership 15th
2026/2027 Premiership 8th FA Cup 6th Round, Europa League 2nd KO Stage.
2027/2028 Premiership 6th FA Cup Winners.
2028/2029 Premiership 5th Carling Cup Runner-Up, Europa League 2nd KO Stage.
2029/2030 Premiership 2nd FA Cup Winners, Europa League Runner Up.
2030/2031 Premiership 9th
2031/3032 Premiership 1st
2032/2033 Premiership 1st FA Cup Winners.
2033/2034 Premiership 1st Carling Cup, FA Cup Winners.
2034/2035 Premiership 1st Carling Cup.
2035/2036 Premiership 1st Carling Cup, FA Cup, Champions League Winners.
2036/2037 Premiership 1st Carling Cup, FA Cup, Community Shield, Champions League, Super Cup and Club World Cup won.

Code:

League Competitions Won:
Premiership:
2031/2032, 2032/2033, 2033/2034, 2034/2035, 2035/2036, 2036/2037

League Two:
2017/2018

Blue Square Premier:
2015/2016

Blue Square North:
2013/2014

Cup Competitions Won:

Champions League:
2035/2036, 2036/2037

FA Cup:
2027/2028, 2029/2030, 2032/2033, 2035/2036, 2036/2037

Carling Cup:
2033/2034, 2034/2035, 2035/2036, 2036/2037.

European Super Cup:
2036/2037

Club World Cup:
2036/2037

Community Shield:
2028/2029, 2032/2033, 2033/2034, 2035/2036, 2036/2037.

Code:

Personal Achievements:
Manager Of The Month Awards:
Premiership:
2037: Feb, March.
2036: Jan, Aug, Oct, Nov.
2035: Jan, April, May, Oct, Nov, Dec.
2034: Jan, Dec
2033: Feb, Oct
2032: Jan, March, Dec.
2028: March

Championship:
2024: April
2022: Dec
2020: Dec

League One:
2018: Jan
2017: Dec

League Two:
2017: Aug

Blue Square Premier:
2015: March, Aug.

Seasonal Awards:
2036/67 Premiership Manager of the Season Winner.
2034/36 Premiership Manager of the Season Winner 2nd.
2034/35 Premiership Manager of the Season Winner 2nd.
2033/34 Premiership Manager of the Season Winner
2032/33 Premiership Manager of the Season Winner
2031/32 Premiership Manager of the Season Winner
2029/30 Premiership Manager of the Season 2nd Place
2027/28 Premiership Manager of the Season Winner
2026/27 Premiership Manager of the Season Winner
2019/20 League One Manager of the Season Winner
2017/18 League Two Manager of the Season Winner
2015/16 Blue Square Premier Manager of the Season Runner-up
2013/14 Blue Square North Manager of the Season Winner
2011/12 Blue Square North Manager of the Season 3rd

Code:

Hall of Fame
World Wide - 13th

Continent (Europe) - 13th

Nation (England) - 3rd

Nationality (Australia) - 1st.

Obviously against weak opponents, but is that not the greatest run of goal scoring you've ever seen? Before that Paraguay match, there's a Goalless game against Brazil, and then ANOTHER Hattrick.

CONCACAF is the Oceania of the Americas.

Finally come back to my Wimbledon game. Promoted with over 100 points in the Blue Square Premier, won the double quite comfortably with a squad that's easily League 1 quality. Got some solid youngsters and some great loaners. Brought in Will Keane toward the end of the winning season and he picked up about 15 goals in 17 games and I've been lucky enough to snare him for the coming season as well. Lauri Dalla Valle was my top scorer and won player of the season, and he's another I'll have for next season as well due to his love of the club and probably the biggest coup was the signing of Jason Brown (Blackburn backup) on a free at only 1600 pounds a week. I had a decent keeper before him, but I couldn't turn down the chance to sign him.
I'm looking for a mid-table finish in League 2, but I reckon I can get at least a top 5 finish with a bit of luck.

Hows this for a group to get, in your first ever venture into Champions League football:
Marseille
Real Madrid
Celtic
Bristol Rovers

First ever Champions League match will be away to Celtic, my old stomping grounds. Insane. Thank god the board are only expecting us to finish 4th.

any suggestions of a new Attacking Right and Left Wing Back? Cash is no problem btw im loaded

Picked this up again, after I got sick of Twente

Signed on with Blackpool, taking them from the Championship to EPL. I didn't realise when I first signed, but the club has a value of 8mil (7.25 loan debt), this in turn means I only keep 5% of the transfer fee revenue #-o.

Currently in December in 3rd spot, 2 points from 1st. Looking very shaky at the back, but Charlie Adam and co are controlling well and scoring plenty. My pride and joy is Diego Costa, AM/FC, who is in top form.

It's a new game i am just starting 2010

Renan, Ansaldi, Rafinha, Maicon, Zuniga. Just some suggestions, they might be crappy in your game.

Ill try Maicon and Renan. Thanks for that.

Club World Cup hosted by Australia. I'm playing Melbourne Victory at the MCG in the Semi-Final :o Attendance 97,000 :D

Made some new kits for my team using SmartShirtDesigner2



Edited by macktheknife: 12/5/2011 12:38:38 AM

Edited by macktheknife: 12/5/2011 12:40:14 AM

Possibly one of the greatest, most insane matches I've managed on FM. Just end to end, ridiculous football. So proud.

Nantwich - Premiership 2036/2037
Media Prediction - 3rd (really? I"ve won the title for about 6 years in a row, and barely lost a game, and you say I'm only going to make 3rd?) out of 20th.
Actual Position - 1st.

Premiership Retained (7 in a row) - Carling Cup Retained (5 in a row) - FA Cup Retained (3 in a row) - Champions League Retained (3 in a row) - Community Shield Retained (2 in a row)- European Super Cup Retained (2 in a row) - FIFA Club World Cup Retained (2 in a row)

I have to say this is the best team I've ever assembled in FM. The massive search for young talent really paid off, quite a few of those players made great impact when I was expecting a rebuilding phase to begin.

Community Shield - 3-1 Win vs City

European Super Cup - 3-2 Win in Extra Time vs Roma

Carling Cup - Watford, Newcastle, West Ham, City (3-1 Agg), United (4-2 Final)

FIFA Club World Cup - Melbourne Victory (this was hosted in Australia, and as an Australian, I thought the idea of 97,000 people packing the MCG to watch these matches was brilliant) and LA Galaxy 3-1

FA Cup - Wolves, Bolton, Tranmere, City (in a replay), Liverpool, Tottenham (5-0 Final)

Champions League - Roma, Arsenal, Milan (12-1 on Agg), Real Madrid (6-0 in Final, they had a player sent off very early and never recovered).

League - 1st on 90 Points, 28 wins, 6 draws, 4 losses + 65 GD, 2nd City, 3rd Arsenal, 4th Liverpool.

Financially, we're heavily in the red. £46,730,800 to be precise. Chairman will need to kick in or who knows what will happen.

I've got "The Next" Franck Ribery, Michael Dawson, Gael Clichy, Morgan De Sanctis, Peter Crouch, Paul Breitner, Jurgen Kohler, Michael Owen and vincente.

I lead Brazil to the World Cup during the off-season.

I'm taking out player achievements because there's so many I lost track and cbf writing out the 40+ awards they've achieved.

Code:

Season League League Finish Other Notes
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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
2014/2015 Blue Square Premier 12th
2015/2016 Blue Square Premier 1st Promoted As Winners
2016/2017 League Two 14th FA Cup Third Round, JPT North Losing Finalist.
2017/2018 League Two 1st Promoted As Winners
2018/2019 League One 4th Lost in play-off final
2019/2020 League One 2nd Promoted As Runner-Up. JPT Lost in Final.
2020/2021 Championship 6th Lost Promotion Semi-Final
2021/2022 Championship 8th
2022/2023 Championship 7th
2023/2024 Championship 2nd Automatic Promotion
2024/2025 Premiership 17th
2025/2026 Premiership 15th
2026/2027 Premiership 8th FA Cup 6th Round, Europa League 2nd KO Stage.
2027/2028 Premiership 6th FA Cup Winners.
2028/2029 Premiership 5th Carling Cup Runner-Up, Europa League 2nd KO Stage.
2029/2030 Premiership 2nd FA Cup Winners, Europa League Runner Up.
2030/2031 Premiership 9th
2031/3032 Premiership 1st
2032/2033 Premiership 1st FA Cup Winners.
2033/2034 Premiership 1st Carling Cup, FA Cup Winners.
2034/2035 Premiership 1st Carling Cup.
2035/2036 Premiership 1st Carling Cup, FA Cup, Champions League Winners.
2036/2037 Premiership 1st Carling Cup, FA Cup, Community Shield, Champions League, Super Cup and Club World Cup won.
2036/2037 Premiership 1st Carling Cup, FA Cup, Community Shield, Champions League, Super Cup and Club World Cup all retained.

Code:

League Competitions Won:
Premiership:
2031/2032, 2032/2033, 2033/2034, 2034/2035, 2035/2036, 2036/2037, 2037,2038

League Two:
2017/2018

Blue Square Premier:
2015/2016

Blue Square North:
2013/2014

Cup Competitions Won:

Champions League:
2035/2036, 2036/2037

FA Cup:
2027/2028, 2029/2030, 2032/2033, 2035/2036, 2036/2037, 2037,2038

Carling Cup:
2033/2034, 2034/2035, 2035/2036, 2036/2037, 2037,2038

European Super Cup:
2036/2037, 2037,2038

Club World Cup:
2036/2037, 2037,2038

Community Shield:
2028/2029, 2032/2033, 2033/2034, 2035/2036, 2036/2037, 2037,2038

Code:

Personal Achievements:
Manager Of The Month Awards:
Premiership:
2038: Jan, March.
2037: Feb, March, Nov.
2036: Jan, Aug, Oct, Nov.
2035: Jan, April, May, Oct, Nov, Dec.
2034: Jan, Dec
2033: Feb, Oct
2032: Jan, March, Dec.
2028: March

Championship:
2024: April
2022: Dec
2020: Dec

League One:
2018: Jan
2017: Dec

League Two:
2017: Aug

Blue Square Premier:
2015: March, Aug.

Seasonal Awards:
2037/38 Premiership Manager of the Season Winner.
2036/37 Premiership Manager of the Season Winner.
2034/36 Premiership Manager of the Season Winner 2nd.
2034/35 Premiership Manager of the Season Winner 2nd.
2033/34 Premiership Manager of the Season Winner
2032/33 Premiership Manager of the Season Winner
2031/32 Premiership Manager of the Season Winner
2029/30 Premiership Manager of the Season 2nd Place
2027/28 Premiership Manager of the Season Winner
2026/27 Premiership Manager of the Season Winner
2019/20 League One Manager of the Season Winner
2017/18 League Two Manager of the Season Winner
2015/16 Blue Square Premier Manager of the Season Runner-up
2013/14 Blue Square North Manager of the Season Winner
2011/12 Blue Square North Manager of the Season 3rd

Code:

Hall of Fame
World Wide - 4th

Continent (Europe) - 5th

Nation (England) - 2nd

Nationality (Australia) - 1st.

The 2038 World Cup was interesting.

I took Brazil to the Quarters then got knocked out on Penalties. Our defence had a major issue with conceding first, and our strikers weren't firing enough.

Italy defeated New Zealand of all places in the final.

I quit Brazil, tried to take on the England job, rejected Italy, Argentina and France then got rejected by England.

So it's quite possible that the club could financially implode?

got Barca in my Champions League quarter (2015... yeah im slow, but iv got uni work to do)... 2-0 down @ the Nou Camp in the first leg and looking uninspired, got an away goal in stoppage time from a set piece with Capt. Dawson heading home, back @WHL won 3-0 in a performance that would have made Fozzie proud by beating Barca at their own game, Balotelli and Vargas were immense... now got Real in the Semi in a rematch of the 2013 Final which i lost on peno's while the other Semi is Valencia and City (soft much?)...

really need to win the European Cup, i've made 2 finals and lost them both, lost last year to Inter in the Semi's when i was running over the top of them in the 2nd leg but they just held on... Would have preferred to play Madrid in the final, but it'd be pretty cool to win the Champions League against my nemesis in game, Mancini (whose already been sacked by City and then rejoined them 2 seasons later)

team that i mostly use in Europe at the mo is

----------Gomes---------
Walker--Dawson--Sakho--Bale
-----Kompany/Huddlestone---
-------Modric--Rakatic------
-Balotelli--------------Vargas
-----------Tevez----------

and in the league it's

---------Gomes---------
Corluka--Dawson--Sakho--Bale
---------Huddlestone-------
-Suarez---------------Vargas
----------Modric-----------
-----Balotelli----Dzeko------

If the chairman didn't give us his money and forced us to sell, I could cover it.

The chairman kicked in £70 million so we went back in the black. For a bit. We just started the next season (won Super Cup and Community Shield), and we're down £1,700,000.

He's poured in money every season for a decade now.

How has the ownership changed at the club over the what 25 years or so?

The first ownership change was in 2021 when a local businessman took over.
The next was in 2028 as a promotion from within the board.

That's it.

So he's been at the club for about 10 years now. He's been wavering in the last few years, and now his status is set to "Will listen to offers" so we'll probably have a take-over this season.

If I was looking at it realistically, It's probably one of the best potential teams to buy, because we only have the 16,000 seat stadium still, and that will be up for a new one in 3 or 4 more seasons.

Edited by macktheknife: 14/5/2011 03:35:42 PM

Just wrapped up my 2nd season at Arsenal winning the title at a canter. Absolutely spanked the competition and won by 21 points.

Yet somehow didn't win manager of the year :lol:

Rafa Van der Vaart or Angel Di Maria hmmmmmmm...

EDIT: Oops should of gone add reply seeing it has nothing to do with your topic #-o ](*,)

Edited by milan_7: 16/5/2011 08:17:13 PM

won the CL, had Canales and Aguero interested in coming to Spurs, i've got the money but i offered them a contract, then a week later they reject it (even though i gave Canales x4 what he was getting at Madrid) and then do scout report and now it says not interested... WTF

Second season with Newcastle picked up Balotelli and Boateng on loan from Man City halfway through and my injury list is dreadful.

Starting XI game 1:

GK: Krul
LB: Enrique
CB: Collo
CB: S Taylor
RB: Wilkshire
DM: Tiote
LM: Turan
CM: Nolan (C)
RM: Barton (VC)
AM: Ben Arfa
FW: Lukaku
FW: Balotelli

Injury List:

Colocini - 5 months Broken Leg
Lukaku - 3 months Broken Arm
Barton - 8 months Hamstring
Krul - 2 months Broken hand
S Taylor - 12 months Broken Leg
Balotelli - 1 Month Hamstring
Turan - 3 Months Ankle
Wilkshire - 2 months Groin

8 of my first XI out injured WTF! Never had this bad an injury crisis before.

On top of that Kewell, Simpson, Williamson, Kadar and Foster all bench players are out injured.

My first XI currently:

GK: Harper
LB: Enrique (VC)
CB: Woodgate
CB: Boateng
RB: Simpson
DM: Tiote
LM: Quentin Bernard
CM: Nolan (C)
RM: Gosling
AM: Ben Arfa
FW: Ameobi
FW: Ranger (developing quite well though glad I didn't sell him to Chelsea in January right now)

Probably one of the weakest first XI in the EPL atm.

so you found the cheat code for the extra player eh'

It's midnight >.<

3 - 1 - 3 - 1 -2 is the formation meant to put Cb:name/CB:name

Looks better than the current Newcastle XI...

:lol: Just got the job as Brazilian U20 manager and have John Lennon playing at RB