Took up the role of Dinamo Zagreb, hoping for a league and cup double and a good euro run.

Does anyone have a good go-to LB to sign?

For who? and how much do you want to spend?

Oh he plays left mid,
And he plays left back,
Even centre half,
And he does not slack,
He's our prodigal son and he hates the Huns,
He's Charlie mulgrew,
He's Charlie mulgrew,
Ooohhhhh, Ooohhhh.

Edited by Funky Munky: 30/12/2011 04:46:46 PM

If only I were in League 1.

Liverpool. Enrique's been making a lot of mistakes this season and as soon as he comes up against a RW with some pace he's shat on.

My budget is not an issue, put it that way.

Didn't realise that League 1 had risen to Europa and Champions League standards...

can't go past Leighton Baines, plus you have Robinson who will develop into the best LB in the game. Other options are Domenico Criscito, Cheikh M'bengue & Cristain Ansaldi

loaned out Robinson to Cardiff in the second season. They broke him for 7 months. He'll amount to nothing now. Coach says 2 stars at best.

Leighton Baines is one I've considered, but at the age of 29 he kind of goes against me transfer policy. And everton have been taken over by a crazy billionaire, so he'll cost me an arm and a leg.

Zenit just paid obscene money for Criscito :( ditto Chelsea and Ansaldi.

The current generation of LB's are remarkably mediocre.

My squad at Dinamo is more then enough to win the league comfortably so only made 3 signings:
ST - Mate Bilic 1.8m from Sevilla.
AML - Random quick Tunisian guy 800k.
GK - Improved Croat keeper, free.

Got Flora in the UCL qualifying so should progress easily.

Did actually end up making the ECL final.

R16: Man Utd 4-4(a)
Qrt: Torino 4-1
Semi: PSV 3-1
Final: Lyon 0-2

Was a disappointing loss. We matched them, but they defended well and kept us to mostly long shots, and as such, our accuracy was useless. Never expected to make it that far, so happy overall.

Reckon the youth I've found and bought/had coming through the youth team, will be good enough to get us to these heights again though. Will post some of them, would be interested to see what people think of them.

Vasilis Panagopoulos
Turan Aktas
Tommy Donnelly
Fabrizio De Gennaro
Essam Hanafi
Emanuele Rovini
Dimitris Tsilios
Davide Sannino

Fabrizio, Essam and Turan all have massive potential IMO. Dimitris would be up there if not for his physical failings.

Im probably way behind but this is the first time i ever remember seeing Flares in the game....

Flares pop up depending on the league...

Some decent young players there, Funky. I don't think Donnelly will make anything of himself. Nor Rovini. You've got a lot of left-sided players there too.

Just finished my first season with Spurs. Won the Europa League. Some awesome clutch performances from some of my players. Was 2-0 down to Porto after the first leg of the Semi, won the 2nd leg 3-0 with Defoe scoring in 90+2 mins. Fucking went off Lol. Beat Benfica in the final 3-0.

As for the premiership, finished 2nd, 5 points behind Man Utd, was keeping pace with them but lost to West Brom and Liverpool in the final weeks of the season, both games coming after away trips in the Europa League. Top scorer was Adebayor with 23, but after buying Llorente in January he ended up with 20 goals, beast like stats.

Probably gonna let Adebayor go back to City and might try and bring in Tevez if he wants to stop being a bitch. Lennon and Bale are my wingers, and im thinking of selling either Modric or VDV, most likely Modric as VDV was by far my best player winning the PFA Player of the Season.

Hit a poor patch losing three in a row (1-2 Barca, 2-3 Atletico, 1-2 Fiorentina) then Kanoute comes back from injury and the team is looking unbeatable, Kanoute now has 11 goals from 7 games and VDV is hitting some awesome form banging goals in from all over the place. A disapointing note is Fabiano and Escude, two senior high profile players in the squad have been absolutely rubbish. I gave Escude a run to rest Fazio and give him a chance to redeem himself and he scores 4.1, concedes a penalty and is directly at fault for another goal. My defence had no cohesion initialy but after dropping Escude the defence has been pretty impressive and Palop has lifted his game in goal too.

Lining up
--------------Palop----------------
--Adriano--Subotic-Fazio--Navarro--
----------VDV------Escobar*--------
---Navas------------------Di Maria-
----------Negredo--Kanoute---------

*Escobar, not sure whether he is a regen or not because I haven't seen him in any other game but he is a quality 21 y.o young DM/CM with good passing, long shooting and tackling, my coaches think he is a potential world beater. Has dual French and Spanish citizenship and got capped by France after his third appearance in my first team

Yeah, those two are the weakest. Although Rovini did just put in a very good season as AMC. As for the left sided players, that wasn't deliberate, they all just sort of popped up at once :lol:

Should I sell my star CM for 9.25 million? He's a beast and my team wouldn't be the same without him, I do have decent back up for him though.

Started a new save with Arsenal. Won the League in the first season, but not before almost giving up a 9 point lead and only winning on the last day thanks to City beating Liverpool.

Lost to Chelsea in the League Cup Final as well as the FA Cup semi and lost to Real Madrid in the Champs League quarters.

Just started the 2nd season won the community shield 5-1 over Blackpool(Who beat Chelsea in the FAC :lol:) and beat Sp*rs 3-0 away opening game of the season.

That's actually good money for Badelj, him and Vrsaljko usually go quite cheap to big clubs right at the start of new saves I find.

Yeah, I just sold Vrsaljko for 3.5 to Wolfsburg. Think I'm going to do it.

So now that Belgium requires you to serve the time consecutively, what are the best leagues for work permits?

You do realise there's a leeway of 62 days that you can have between loans? So if you send a player on season loan, and then send him back there the season after, as long as its within 62 days, it's still consecutive.

No, I didn't realise that. Looks like I fucked up with Bryan Rabello then.

Does a player still count as HG if they spend the time out on loan for WP?

Steam crashed on my computer and lost all my saves.
I started again with Sydney and had a disappointing 5th and lost first week of the finals against the Mariners.
I sold Carle and replaced all the foreign players with Redondo, Luque, Broich, Chinese utility back and an 18 year old Italian centre mid. I am stuck with 6 goalkeepers after promoting youth, buying Nathan Coe and Reddy and Necevski refusing all transfer offers. I bought Ognenovski to cover losing Bosschaart and he has got sent off in the first 20 minutes of all 3 game he has played in.

first time this has happened to me on fm goal goes in and the commentator goes argentinian style then goes back to english :lol:

Going to get FM12 tomorrow. Have been putting it off but might as well get it now. Gone as far as I can in FM11. Took Sheffield United into the Europa League via my cup run. Was struggling in the league, sitting around 15th for the whole season. Had an amazing Europa League run, somehow making it to the final.

In the quarter final, I beat Dortmund, came from behind in the semi final to beat Atletico. Thought the momentum would carry me over the line facing Roma in the final who were sitting in about 8 or 9th in Italy. Was confident of yet another upset. Got beaten 7-1 in the final.

Time to try my luck at FM12 :lol:

i tried to sign tevez but his salary was massive and his agent wouldnt bring down the price. Also, does every time you say something in your pep talk lennon switches off? no matter what i say he looses focus/switches off

Sydney sacked me for finishing 6th in the league before the finals started.
My reputation was so low that everyone just laughed off my interest. I wasn't even good enough to manage the Cook Islands but they did offer me the u21's job which I took. Hopefully I can work my way up from here.

That happened to me once with CCM, took me two years to get a job. I have never been able to get an under 21 team or anything.

Had a new one today, You know how players can sometimes ask for a new contract when you reject a bid? Had a player ask for a new contract in light of his becoming a 'regular international player, and the quality of his recent performances for Scotland'.