Rangers anyone? :lol:
Football Manager 2012
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Rangers anyone? :lol:
Rainey
Registered User
Update:
Finished first season with Pro Vercelli, won the league so I'm not promoted to Serie B. I also won the Serie C 1 Super Cup (the match between the winners of the Serie C 1/A and 1/B). Going to be a big summer as a lot of my players will returning to their parent clubs their loan spell with me.
Finished first season with Pro Vercelli, won the league so I'm not promoted to Serie B. I also won the Serie C 1 Super Cup (the match between the winners of the Serie C 1/A and 1/B). Going to be a big summer as a lot of my players will returning to their parent clubs their loan spell with me.
Ali
It is happening again
You won the league but you're NOT promoted? Is this some weird Italian thing?
In terms of your competition with your mates, is the winner the first person to do it in real time, or the first person to do it in game time?
Bež
Registered User
Great work. You get through a season rather quickly.
I'm at Torino on my current game, a few months away from 2014. I started my career in charge of the England U21s for a change; qualified for the Euro Championships easily but got knocked out of the group stages. Had France and Spain in my group :crymore:
Anyway, I resigned after that disappointment and then took a short holiday... Got a job offer from recently promoted Torino, and that's where I am now.
Was given a cool £16m to spend in the summer, and I've strengthened the squad enough to stay up this season easily. Hoping to finish 12th at least, I think that's a fairly achievable feat. Apart from the 2 games against the 'big guns', I think we can get our fair share of wins
Enjoying it so far, only thing I dislike about managing in Italy is the fussy co-ownership deals, and how you always get a load to pile through at some point in the season, but hopefully I can bring the glory days of Il Grande Torino back :w00t.
Dundon's
W.G.P
I put down a good 5 seasons with my 2 brothers in the multi player option. I ended up with a sick team. The trick I found with Arsenal was to buy all the best young potential 4/4.5 young players and develop them quickly by playing them in the first team. By the time they hit their mid 20s all the best players are burnt out.
Great game though if you got like a few spare weeks of your life knocking about. A season takes fudging ages...
Great game though if you got like a few spare weeks of your life knocking about. A season takes fudging ages...
Rainey
Registered User
Well, it's the summer and I'm not working much so it's been pretty much just FM for me. I'm loving it. Although the days fly in...
Co-ownerships can be problems but I find them very helpful especially if you're a smaller team. It's like a better version of a loan. But my problem with Italian football in FM is that you can only have 2 non-eu players and in the lower leagues you can't even sign a non-eu player from abroad!
Jonny2J
Registered User
Newcastle United Season 2011/12 Review
Decided that I would do one more Newcastle United game now that the transfer window has shut using the excellent LFC Marshall update.
I decided to make wholesale changes to both playing personnel as well as the coaching staff.
Transfers In
Wesley Said - Rennes
Joel Valencia - Zaragoza
Matthew Urwin - Blackburn
Yaya Sanogo - Auxerre
James Ward-Prowse (never heard of him but 15 year old AM from Southampton with 4.5* potential)
Robbie Cotton - Blackburn
Tobias Figueiredo - Sporting Lisbon
Mathieu Debuchy - Lille
Yassine Benzina - Lyon
Sime Vrsaljko - Dinamo Zagreb
Lucas Digne - Lille
Nathan Redmond - Birmingham (Loaned to feeder club Gent)
Romario - Vitoria (Loaned to feeder club Gent)
Jack Butland - Birmingham (Loaned to feeder club Gent)
Daniel Van Buyten - Loan from Bayern
Transfers Out
Steve Harper - Everton
Mike Williamson - Villa
Dan Gosling - Cardiff
Danny Simpson - Southampton
Haris Vuckic - Man Utd
Gabriel Obertan - Loan to Bolton
Steven Taylor - Loan to Fulham (trying to sell him as with Douglas coming in, also Van Buyten is on a free in the summer and hoping to get him on cheap wages for tutoring purpose)
Of course I've also loaned out loads of the young 'uns as well.
I've also got Douglas and Coutinho joining at the end of the season on a free transfers.
As you can see I'm focusing on youth although I'm looking to bring in a few more older experienced players on free transfers for tutoring purposes, plus I'm going to keep Colo and Jonas for as long as possible for the same reason. One of the things that I want to achieve is to try and get Adam Campbell to actually reach full potential.
I ended up mutually terminating the contracts of all of my staff except Graham Carr, Peter Beardsley (has quite good scouting attributes), Derek Wright (who I have found is often one of the best physios on the game and Dave Watson (youth coach).
Staff Recruitment
Tony Coton - Assistant Manager
Martin Keown - First Team Coach
Eamon Mulvey - First Team Coach
Massimo Bonini - First Team Coach
Tony Whelan - Coach
Phil Cannon - Coach
Andrew Cole - Coach
Billy Stewart - Goalkeeping Coach
Andreas Kopke - Goalkeeping Coach
Paul Winsper - Fitness Coach
Francisco Ayestaran - Fitness Coach
John Owens - Youth Coach
John Murtough - Youth Coach
Tosh Farrell - Youth Coach
Gary Lewin - Physio
John Steel Olsen - Scout
Soren Lerby - Scout
David Friio - Scout
Eduardo Macia - Scout
Pantaelo Corvino - Scout
Ian Bowyer - Scout
Roberto Baggio - Scout
Season Performance
My stock formation for the season has been a 4-2-3-1 which is quite similar to what Pardew was using towards the end of last season and what he should be using this season. (His persistence with 4-4-2 really grates on me) This is with Cisse as the lone front man, with Ba, Cabaye and Ben Arfa all supporting.
I managed to get knocked out of the League Cup in the third round by Chelsea and the Europa League 2nd round off Tottenham. (played a reserve team as my squad was quite heavily hit by injuries so wanted to focus on the league and FA Cup) Managed to the beat QPR in the FA Cup Final (only on penalties mind) which was quite an achievement as both Ben Arfa and Ba picked up injuries so missed the final. So next year I'm back in the wonderful Europa League again. I managed to finish 5th in The Premiership with 72 points. I was ecstatic with that as I had a really really bad start to the season. I was in the relegation zone till the 8th game.
One particular highlight was beating Sunderland 5-0 at the land of the unwashed which saw O'Neill get the sack the day after. They also ended up finishing bottom of the league.
Cisse as expected was my top scorer with 49 goals in 40 games in all competitions and 40 goals in 34 league games.
INJURIES, INJURIES AND MORE INJURIES!!!
One of the reasons I finished sixth was down to injuries as I had a horrendous start to the season as Cabaye, Marveaux and Ben Arfa all most between 3 and 4 months each before Christmas, and with the usual time it takes for formations to gel this is what really cost me consistency wise. Also Adam Campbell missed 5 months of the season which was disappointing as I was going to give him some first team action to try and bring him on.
I also finished the season as Manager of The Year.
Decided that I would do one more Newcastle United game now that the transfer window has shut using the excellent LFC Marshall update.
I decided to make wholesale changes to both playing personnel as well as the coaching staff.
Transfers In
Wesley Said - Rennes
Joel Valencia - Zaragoza
Matthew Urwin - Blackburn
Yaya Sanogo - Auxerre
James Ward-Prowse (never heard of him but 15 year old AM from Southampton with 4.5* potential)
Robbie Cotton - Blackburn
Tobias Figueiredo - Sporting Lisbon
Mathieu Debuchy - Lille
Yassine Benzina - Lyon
Sime Vrsaljko - Dinamo Zagreb
Lucas Digne - Lille
Nathan Redmond - Birmingham (Loaned to feeder club Gent)
Romario - Vitoria (Loaned to feeder club Gent)
Jack Butland - Birmingham (Loaned to feeder club Gent)
Daniel Van Buyten - Loan from Bayern
Transfers Out
Steve Harper - Everton
Mike Williamson - Villa
Dan Gosling - Cardiff
Danny Simpson - Southampton
Haris Vuckic - Man Utd
Gabriel Obertan - Loan to Bolton
Steven Taylor - Loan to Fulham (trying to sell him as with Douglas coming in, also Van Buyten is on a free in the summer and hoping to get him on cheap wages for tutoring purpose)
Of course I've also loaned out loads of the young 'uns as well.
I've also got Douglas and Coutinho joining at the end of the season on a free transfers.
As you can see I'm focusing on youth although I'm looking to bring in a few more older experienced players on free transfers for tutoring purposes, plus I'm going to keep Colo and Jonas for as long as possible for the same reason. One of the things that I want to achieve is to try and get Adam Campbell to actually reach full potential.
I ended up mutually terminating the contracts of all of my staff except Graham Carr, Peter Beardsley (has quite good scouting attributes), Derek Wright (who I have found is often one of the best physios on the game and Dave Watson (youth coach).
Staff Recruitment
Tony Coton - Assistant Manager
Martin Keown - First Team Coach
Eamon Mulvey - First Team Coach
Massimo Bonini - First Team Coach
Tony Whelan - Coach
Phil Cannon - Coach
Andrew Cole - Coach
Billy Stewart - Goalkeeping Coach
Andreas Kopke - Goalkeeping Coach
Paul Winsper - Fitness Coach
Francisco Ayestaran - Fitness Coach
John Owens - Youth Coach
John Murtough - Youth Coach
Tosh Farrell - Youth Coach
Gary Lewin - Physio
John Steel Olsen - Scout
Soren Lerby - Scout
David Friio - Scout
Eduardo Macia - Scout
Pantaelo Corvino - Scout
Ian Bowyer - Scout
Roberto Baggio - Scout
Season Performance
My stock formation for the season has been a 4-2-3-1 which is quite similar to what Pardew was using towards the end of last season and what he should be using this season. (His persistence with 4-4-2 really grates on me) This is with Cisse as the lone front man, with Ba, Cabaye and Ben Arfa all supporting.
I managed to get knocked out of the League Cup in the third round by Chelsea and the Europa League 2nd round off Tottenham. (played a reserve team as my squad was quite heavily hit by injuries so wanted to focus on the league and FA Cup) Managed to the beat QPR in the FA Cup Final (only on penalties mind) which was quite an achievement as both Ben Arfa and Ba picked up injuries so missed the final. So next year I'm back in the wonderful Europa League again. I managed to finish 5th in The Premiership with 72 points. I was ecstatic with that as I had a really really bad start to the season. I was in the relegation zone till the 8th game.
One particular highlight was beating Sunderland 5-0 at the land of the unwashed which saw O'Neill get the sack the day after. They also ended up finishing bottom of the league.
Cisse as expected was my top scorer with 49 goals in 40 games in all competitions and 40 goals in 34 league games.
INJURIES, INJURIES AND MORE INJURIES!!!
One of the reasons I finished sixth was down to injuries as I had a horrendous start to the season as Cabaye, Marveaux and Ben Arfa all most between 3 and 4 months each before Christmas, and with the usual time it takes for formations to gel this is what really cost me consistency wise. Also Adam Campbell missed 5 months of the season which was disappointing as I was going to give him some first team action to try and bring him on.
I also finished the season as Manager of The Year.
Ali
It is happening again
That's a lot of transfers! BTW, Ward-Prowse (now 17) has actually been featuring in Southampton's 1st team this season.
Jonny2J
Registered User
Somebody mentioned that to me on another board as well, I'm going to take a closer look at him as he's apparently really highly rated.
It was the legend that was Graham Carr that recommended I sign him.
It also a lot of transfers but most of them have went straight into my youth team or out on loan. That's my favourite part of FM, is bringing in youngsters and trying to develop them. Plus it fits in with our current strategy.
Also trying to be realistic and by bringing in Debuchy and Douglas who we have been heavily linked with.
It was the legend that was Graham Carr that recommended I sign him.
It also a lot of transfers but most of them have went straight into my youth team or out on loan. That's my favourite part of FM, is bringing in youngsters and trying to develop them. Plus it fits in with our current strategy.
Also trying to be realistic and by bringing in Debuchy and Douglas who we have been heavily linked with.
Ziss
The Three Amigos
FMC sounds decent.