What is the best you've done with an Eircom League Club?

cournioni

I've won all the domestic trophies, and I am currently unbeaten all season and I'm in January at the moment with Dundalk. I'm in the second phase of the Champions League and am unbeaten in it. Here are some of my most notable results:

Rangers 0-1 Dundalk
Juventus 0-0 Dundalk
Club Brugge 0-2 Dundalk
Leverkusen 0-2 Dundalk
PSV 1-2 Dundalk
Dundalk 4-1 Leverkusen
Dundalk 2-0 Club Brugge
Dundalk 2-1 Juventus
Dundalk 2-0 Chelsea.

Lafortezza

Do you have any big name players?

What are your finances like? wage structure and all that?

Serbian

I personally never played with an Eircom league team, but my brother got into the second phase of the Champions league and had players like Marcelo Salas.

He got all his big players on a free, I don't know how he managed to afford their wages

Delboy79

Got Waterford United to the Quarter Finals of the Champions League and then got absolutely hammered by Bayern Munich.

In Another game Cobh Ramblers reached the UEFA Cup Final but lost 4-1 to Schalke 04

Have managed to get the likes of Phillipe Christanval , Milan Baros , Anatoli Todorov , Shaun Maloney to Ireland

Trick is to check a player for wages , if he gives you any value , say 7,000 and you can afford 2,000 , offer him a four week trial... They usually drop it down about 50% and then you offer a few quid for scoring goals and assists and he signs - very hard to get them to extend there contracts though


Finances - Dont really progress too quickly because the grounds are small and there is not much prizemoney in Ireland. I think Waterford had 13 million in the bank when i left for Paris Saint Germain

cournioni

I've got Roy Keane, Phillipe Mexes, and Liam Miller (and Kilbane :ninja: ).

Here's my starting 11:
GK. Rhys Evans (from Chelsea)
DR. Alan Tate (free from Manchester United)
DL. David Crawley (Dundalk)
DC. Clive Delaney (from UCD)
SW. Phillipe Mexes (free from Bordeaux?)
ML. Juan Manuel Simon (free from Spain, Spain U-21 star player and captain)
MC. Roy Keane (free from Manchester United)
MR. Jordi Prats (free from Spain, player of the year last year)
FC. Mark Williams (free from Manchester United)
SC. Jimmy Davis R.I.P. (free from Man Utd, my best player)
SC. Alidiere (free from Arsenal)

I've got a huge squad of players great strength in depth. Most of the first team players are on £1,000 per week. My finances are very good at the moment for an EL club. Money for transfers is £2.2million and the total amount is £4.8million. It helps alot when you make it to Europe and play big clubs.

cournioni

Originally posted by Serbian
He got all his big players on a free, I don't know how he managed to afford their wages

It is very hard, you have to pay a huge signing on fee. I payed £1 million for Keane, but well worth it.

ChumpStain

I won absolutely everything in Ireland with Bohemians in my first season. And the key my success I hear you cry? Loans, I loaned six players - Nardiello(Man Utd), Christanval(Barca), Stewart(Man Utd), Gavilan(Newcastle), S. Caldwell(Newcastle) and Bogelund(PSV). The following year I bought Nardiello, Stewart, Caldwell and Freddy Adu(Besiktas), I re-loaned Bogelund and Gavilan. I thought I was set for success but I only won the league and got the Second Phase of the CL. The following year I went on to manage Charlton where I won everything and out of loyalty I brought my former captain(Stewart) and star player(Adu) with me.

-=Most Famous Results=-
Bohemians 2 - 1 Rangers
Rangers 0 - 1 Bohemians
Bohemians 3 - 0 Inter Milan
Inter Milan 6 - 1 Bohemians(I think they were mad)
Bohemians 2- 0 Roma
Roma 2 - 2 Bohemians
Bohemians 1 - 0 Ajax
Ajax 1 - 1 Bohemians
Man Utd 4 - 0 Bohemians
Bohemians 1 - 2 Man Utd
Bohemians 7 - 0 St. Pats(My Favourite)

cournioni

Got to the Champions League Final with Dundalk there the other day and lost 6-0 to Lazio. All of my players were unfit because the EL season was over their condition was no more than 60%. :mad:

I was damn pissed off! I'm into the new season now and I'm manager of Sweden while managing Dundalk. Got John O'Shea, Roy Carroll, Pedro Munitis and a few others on free transfers. I'm flying now.

Ciaran

I got UCD to the Champions' League final in CM 01/02 and lost 1-0 to Inter. All my players were under 60% as well. Also got to the UEFA Cup final about 10 years earlier.

Boro

I won the Uefa cup with Shels in cm01/02. It was a really flukey run. Won the Champions league a few seasons later (lots of away goals and penalties wins). The uefa cup final was against lazio and i won with 2 own goals and a penalty - they had over 20 shots on goal IIRC. Cant for the life of me remember who i had in goal (think it might have been paul gallacher). David Connolly up front was the man (signed for 800k from excelsior - sold on 3 seasons later to rangers for £10 million!

DerekD Goldfish

I won the uefa cup with pats 2-1 with goals from alin stoica and mbabazi. I had a team of rejects but I had 11 internationals at one stage I had 24m in the bank but I could only offer €1,100 a week wages so it was tough to attract good players but the no hopers always pulled it togeter for inportant games.

Wompa1

Got to the knockout stages of the champions league with Bohemians and Jason Sherlock was the top scorer in Europe yet Ruud Van Nistlerooy won European player of the YEAR!

In my group I beat Celtic 1-0 then drew 0-0
I beat Deportivo 2-1 and then lost 1-0
And beat Stuutgart 4-0 and 2-0

Got the sh!t kicked out of me by Real Madrid!

After 4 years of managing them i got fed up and decided it would be easy to get a good job in England with 4 leagues,8 Cups and 10 manager of the month award so i resigned and left my players:Jason Sherlock, Freddy Adu and Glen Crowe only to find I couldn't get a good job and had to settle for third division Swansea Got them into the 2nd division whilst Bryan Robson took Bohs to the Champions league semi finals with his players: Neil Mellor and Rohan Ricketts! and my award money 7.5 MILLION!!

In the game now I am Swindon finished 9th in second divion after spells at Galway Utd and Carlisle Utd