No sooner do I make this post than Pep puts the ball into his own net in a 5-1 win over Leicester. Lame-O.

My youngsters have been developing nicely this season. Busy summer of scouting is going to pay dividends next season.
Eric Parris, 17, ST
Lee Cavey, 16, MC
Mario Heinrich, 17, GK
Max Brown, 20, DM
Oskar Valcarcel, 17, MC
I'm not sure how I'm going to fit Velcarcel into the midfield with Gerrard, Cavey, Brown, Lucas, Hamsik...and I picked up Canales for 2.5m as a back-up. Kinda hoping Gerrard calls it quits soon :lol: 7 midfielders battling for 2-3 spots is killing me.

Just had Nigel Hinnigan, 15, DRL appear in my youths as well. A great addition given that my FB's are Johnson and Enrique who are constantly beaten for pace.

Cavey is fucking nuts.

Mid January atm.... Buonanotte came in for 1.1mil, as did Viatri on a free, and 16yo regen DM. 2mil all up.

Buonanotte assist for Viatri winner v Inverness was nice I must say :P

Villareal just triggered Ki's release clause which is a bit shit... Liverpool sent me Shelvey on loan though, and he's more than good enough to step in and start for me, so the problem kind of solved itself.

Also agreed to sign Guillermo Burdisso at the end of the season on a free, and he's quality. He'll be my starting CB next year alongside Canuto.

Belluschi slotted his 20th of the season v Hearts on the 2nd of January... what a fucking hero this fella is.

Ok...Pepe Reina in the last 2 games...
Concedes 2 goals from 2 shots on target (4 total), completes 12 of 13 passes. 6.9 rating.
Concedes 2 goals from 5 shots on target (7 total), completes 33 of 42 passes. 5.8 rating.

What the fuck, FM?

Sigh. Take France to the WC with only a 22 man squad because of the Selection bug I mentioned earlier, get through a relatively easy group, then get given a dick of a draw.

R16: 2-2(4-1) v Argentina
QF: 2-2(3-1) v Spain
SF: 1-0 v Belgium
F: v Brazil

Played the final earlier today, was leading 2-0 in the 61st, and my computer crashed. Just replayed it now, lost 1-3. I really don't want to take that, but it'd feel hollow replaying a WC final.

That's so lame. I wouldn't take it, but that's me :lol:

At my brothers place tonight and all day tomorrow, so no FM for me. :(

Canales has played 6 league games and made 4 cup appearances since joining me in January and he's complaining about not getting enough first team football. You're contracted as a back-up FFS! I want to punch him right in the dick.

10 wins on the bounce
6 clean sheets
New signings pwning.
Into the Scottish League Cup Final, and the Quarters of the cup
Top of the league by 5 points
Belluschi is still a hero
Bayern game coming up in a few weeks.

Sums it up :P

Continuing my LLaMa adventure... now with AFC Wimbledon, have plugged away over several years to take them from BSP to League 1... Going so well that I turned down Crystal Palace to stay with them.

Just stumbled across this screeny from my FM10 days



Just, lol. I've never seen anything that bad.

Terrible start to my 3rd season. Seems i can score plenty of goals but still cant keep them out! 9 goals for, 11 against! Loss and a draw in the champions league group. Sold Leighton Baines to Citeh for 15M and signed Samba from Blackburn for 20M after a bidding war with United. Also signed Yettrgard Jenssen and Boussouffa to bolster my midfield. Will most likely try and get a young striker to challenge Tevez and Llorente up front.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I don't know what is worse imno, no wins? 44 losses? 9 goals? 159 against?

:lol: I always check the tables in the lower leagues at the end of the season now to try and find anything as bad as that.

I mean... 159 goals against and 9 goals for. My god.

Leeds are currently last in my game with 3-6-27. 35 for 101 against. Most of that's come since the top 4 secured continental football too. At once stage they had just 7 points. and 99 against.

Decided to start a new save with France and see what I could do at Euro 2012. Got a group with Serbia, Spain and Slovakia.

Beat Serbia easily 3-0. Got a good 1-0 win against Spain after they had 2 players sent off. Needed only a draw against Slovakia but got a 2-0 win.

Easy 2-0 win against England in the QF, was never really challenged. Kevin Gameiro at this point had 3 goals. Comes to SF time he decided to go berserk.

How many managers went through them in the season?

:lol: Not sure... uninstalled FM10 too.

Why does everyone else's game have these obscene scorers? :lol:

:lol: I remember in FM11 Benzema once scored 12 goals in 6 matches at Euro 2012.

Gameiro is a gun also, haven't seen whats he's like in FM12 but if he's as good as he is FM11 he's damn good.

Into the Scottish Cup final with a 5-2 win over St Mirren. Both of their goals were own goals ffs :lol:

Have you noticed a sharp increase in the amount of OGs?

3 games to go in the league, 5 points in front of Rangers too. Last game is against them.

If anything I've noticed a massive decrease because I used to get loads in FM11.

Don't think I have scored one yet...

I see at least double what I used to see. Buddha said something similar too.

Wrapped up the league with a 3-1 win over Inverness, with Rangers going down to Dundee. Woo. League and League cup down, just the Scottish Cup final to go. Would love to do the treble.

I've noticed the opposition score a lot of O.G's, but a fair few come when the ball is going in the back of the net and a defender slides into clear and gets a touch.

That was actually me. :lol: They always come in runs too. Like, 3 or 4 games in a row.

Yeah, but I was chatting to Buddha the other day and he said it too :P

Clearly an ongoing bug.

Sydcro and Gooner's games have strikers scoring obscene numbers of goals...we have defenders scoring obscene numbers of OG's. I kinda wish the game kept a tally of OG's.

I've had the OG thing too. Ridiculous amounts of them.

Decided to start for scratch and unemployed. Holger gave me the U/20 Australian side, failed to get out a tough group at the U/20 World Cup and took over Dover in Blue Square South, have won 3 on the trot to move up to midtable. Should get promotion, if not this season, next for sure.

The best thing so far though, only 10 games into the season AVB has been sacked. Chelsea sit in 13th. Roman cracked the whip big time. Not even the end of October.

Gearing up for the 2014 WC...and I've got serious striker problems. Carroll has scored 1 goal in his last 19 games...Defoe isn't playing first team football...so my options are Rooney or Hooper.