Snapshot of Your Story - FM 2010

cashville

Team: AS Roma

League standings:
09/10 - 6th
10/11 - 2nd
11/12 - 3rd

Cup:
11/12 - Winner

Europe:
09/10 - Lost in 2nd Knockout round of Europa
10/11 - Lost in Semi-final of Europa
11/12 - Lost in Semi-final of Champions League

Top Goalscorer:
09/10 - Vucinic 17
10/11 - Vucinic 39
11/12 - Vucinic 28

Fans Player:
09/10 - Vucinic
10/11 - Vucinic
11/12 - Diego Benaglio

Current 1st team:
GK - Diego Benaglio
RB - Marco Motta
LB - Alessandro Crescenzi
CB - Phillippe Mexes
CB - Dennis Appiah
MD - Daniele De Rossi
MD - Andrea Poli
MD - Nuri Sahin
AM - Yoann Gourcuff
ST - Mirko Vucinic
ST - Edin Dzeko

Dodgy first season, 2nd season did really well and pushed Inter to the last few games. It helps I got 70 million TV rights so had a hefty budget. 3rd season the lad I'm playing the game with won as AC Milan, I finished 3rd on goal difference behind Juve. I had 5-6 good midfielders but getting rid of Pizzaro and Perotta is retiring, so I definitely need to stengthen now.

Was delighted getting to CL semis, in fairness I got Hamburg and a weakened Arsenal team in the knockout stage so I was lucky. If you're wondering how I got Dzeko and Gourcuff - they got unsettled by bids being refused and I moved in with my massive wads of cash! Has anyone signed Hugo Lloris??? I bid 50 million and it got rejected, got Benaglio instead but he's pretty good.

Anyone got an interesting game going you'd like to share?

cashville

I got Miguel Veloso in to strengthen the midfield, Juan Forlin for defence and Oscar Ustari as backup keeper. Fairly strong in all areas, have started 12/13 with 3 wins and draw in the league and beat Villareal in CL (Marseille and Litex in the group too).

Lost the Supercup to the lad I'm playing with (AC Milan).

On a sidenote, Lyon wanted 114 million for Hugo Lloris!!!! Madness!!!

Krusader

Team: Gillingham

League standings:
09/10 - 11th
10/11 - 16th


Top Goalscorer:
09/10 - Simeon Jackson 29
10/11 - Andy Pugh 15

Fans Player:
09/10 - Simon King
10/11 - Zak Whitbread

Current 1st team:
GK - Jake Kean
DL - Danny Murphy
DR - Godwin Antwi
DC - Gavin Peers
DC - Pat Kanyuka
ML - Danny Jackman
MR - Chris Zebroski
MC - David Noble
MC - Magnus Eikrem
ST - Dylan McGeouch
ST - Simeon Jackson

With a mid table finish in my 1st season the board were delighted, given my objective was to consolidate our position in L1.
In the 2nd season at the start we kept the momentum going and we were in the play-off places for much of the first half of the season, then Simeon Jackson got a long injury and we struggled for goals and eventually finish 16th.
Got Zak Whitbread on a Free within a year he had moved to Southend Utd for €1M when the board intervened.Currently in 8th 4 pts off the play-offs at the end of November.
Average team age is 23 with the league average of 25, so I'm hoping in a year or 2 the team will have mature and be pushing for trophies.

cashville

Absolute disaster Jackson getting injured for you considering how many goals he got! Did you get any of that 1 million squid to spend? Tough tough challenge you have there, any reason you picked Gillingham?

Frisbee

1st year with Arsenal I sold Almunia and splurged my transfer budget on Akinfeev.

Won the Premier League
Won the Champions League
Knocked out of Carling Cup in Semi's by Chelsea
Knocked out of FA Cup in 4th Round by United

Second season sold Rosicky and Senderos and bought Kacar. Also bought Otamendi, Opare and Salvio but they're in the reserves/on loan getting experience. Currently looking into bringing in another striker and CM and shipping Eduardo and Gallas out in the summer. Considering getting rid of Denilson also. I'm also considering cashing in on Arshavin in the summer, he'll be 31 by then and Nasri is starting to get really good and I have Walcott/Salvio for the AMR position, I'll prob try hold onto him for another season though unless I get a huge bid.

I'm second in the league to Chelsea
Won the Carling Cup
Champions League Quarters
Knocked out of FA Cup in the third round by United (AGAIN, sick of these tough draws :pac:)

My usual team at the moment looks like:

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Akinfeev

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Sagna

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Vermaelen

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Gallas

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Clichy

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Song

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Diaby

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Fabregas

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Arshavin

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Nasri

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RVP

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With Ramsey and Diaby splitting game time and Walcott getting the odd run at AMR.

cashville

Fair play on winning the CL, Europe is so bloody tough...for me anyway, no matter which team I seem to be. Otamendi turns out to be very good, I remember my scouts recommending Salvio before as well.

Anyone in particular you want to bring at CM and ST?

Frisbee

cashville wrote: »

Fair play on winning the CL, Europe is so bloody tough...for me anyway, no matter which team I seem to be. Otamendi turns out to be very good, I remember my scouts recommending Salvio before as well.

Anyone in particular you want to bring at CM and ST?

Yeah I was delighted, I got Inter in the final and I was dreading that game, but ended up hammering them like 4-1, which was pretty amazing, especially after I'd scraped through the semi's on away goals. I just played this years QF first leg and lost 1-0 to Juve at home, I'll be lucky to get through now.

I'm not sure if I really want to bring in a CM. Ramsey and Diaby are both good, but not exceptional. Considering selling Diaby, bringing in someone awesome and using Ramsey just as cover, but that might hamper his developement. I'm leaning towards either Moutinho or Hamsik, however Moutinho has always been too inconsistent and Hamsik is going to cost huge money plus I'm not a big fan of his low work rate. Will probably go for Hamsik in the end, if I can get him.

At ST I'll probably try bring in Dzeko, heard he's a goal machine in this installment.

Krusader

cashville wrote: »

Absolute disaster Jackson getting injured for you considering how many goals he got! Did you get any of that 1 million squid to spend? Tough tough challenge you have there, any reason you picked Gillingham?

Yeah got 'bout €500,000 of it to spend
bought Danny Murphy from Pat's and Chris Zebroski, most of my other signings were on a Free
Just pressed the "pick a team for me" button and I got Gillingham, I find the game fairer that way for some reason

Frisbee

Frisbee wrote: »

I just played this years QF first leg and lost 1-0 to Juve at home, I'll be lucky to get through now.

I just had my greatest football manager moment of all time.

I was drawing 2-2 with Juve in the second leg, so ten minutes to go I went all out, took off my DM and one of my CM and put 3 up front and set my tactic to overload.

89th minute I win a corner.
Akinfeev goes up and bangs in a header, I am absolutely dumbfounded, my keeper has just scored to put me through to the Champions League Semi's.
I don't care if I go out losing 7-0 in the semi's now, it's things like that that make this game great.

cashville

Frisbee wrote: »

Yeah I was delighted, I got Inter in the final and I was dreading that game, but ended up hammering them like 4-1, which was pretty amazing, especially after I'd scraped through the semi's on away goals. I just played this years QF first leg and lost 1-0 to Juve at home, I'll be lucky to get through now.

I'm not sure if I really want to bring in a CM. Ramsey and Diaby are both good, but not exceptional. Considering selling Diaby, bringing in someone awesome and using Ramsey just as cover, but that might hamper his developement. I'm leaning towards either Moutinho or Hamsik, however Moutinho has always been too inconsistent and Hamsik is going to cost huge money plus I'm not a big fan of his low work rate. Will probably go for Hamsik in the end, if I can get him.

At ST I'll probably try bring in Dzeko, heard he's a goal machine in this
installment.

I tried to get Moutinho at Roma, very very hard, they were looking for crazy money. I have Dzeko, he is a class act but every now and then he'll go 5-6 games without scoring, maybe it's me playing him the wrong way. He does get a lot of assists though, the pairing with Mirko Vucinic is a very good one. Vucinic was missing a lot of chances 1v1 in the 1st season, I asked him to start placing his shots, well just look at the stats for his goals in season 2. Unreal.

I've never bought Hamsik in it, but the guy is quality in real life. If you get him let me know how it works out.

cashville

Frisbee wrote: »

I just had my greatest football manager moment of all time.

I was drawing 2-2 with Juve in the second leg, so ten minutes to go I went all out, took off my DM and one of my CM and put 3 up front and set my tactic to overload.

89th minute I win a corner.
Akinfeev goes up and bangs in a header, I am absolutely dumbfounded, my keeper has just scored to put me through to the Champions League Semi's.
I don't care if I go out losing 7-0 in the semi's now, it's things like that that make this game great.

Ha ha ha, BRILLIANT!!! Well worth the 30+ million you paid for him That's definitely what it's all about, when I went to the semis in the CL I beat Arsenal on penalties - sudden death 8-7 no less - in the quarters. Unbelievable tension, they are definitely the moments that make the game great, well done!

Frisbee

cashville wrote: »

Ha ha ha, BRILLIANT!!! Well worth the 30+ million you paid for him That's definitely what it's all about, when I went to the semis in the CL I beat Arsenal on penalties - sudden death 8-7 no less - in the quarters. Unbelievable tension, they are definitely the moments that make the game great, well done!

Big time, I was so happy.

Just lost the semi's to Chelsea 3-2 on aggregate.
And I'm ahead of Chelsea in the league on goal difference, by two goals with two games to go, edge of the seat stuff!

Krusader

Frisbee wrote: »

I just had my greatest football manager moment of all time.

I was drawing 2-2 with Juve in the second leg, so ten minutes to go I went all out, took off my DM and one of my CM and put 3 up front and set my tactic to overload.

89th minute I win a corner.
Akinfeev goes up and bangs in a header, I am absolutely dumbfounded, my keeper has just scored to put me through to the Champions League Semi's.
I don't care if I go out losing 7-0 in the semi's now, it's things like that that make this game great.

Great moment, Akinfeev has put himself in Arsenal folklore with that header
Great stuff!!

Gonzovision

Team: Fleetwood Town

League Standings:
09/10 2nd BSN
10/11 4th BSP
11/12 5th League 2 - Current position after 28 games

Top Goalscorer
09/10 Garreth Seddon 33
10/11 Branimar Kostadinov 32
11/12 Ryan Noble 14 - Current

Highest Fee Paid James Forest from Celtic €8,000

Best Players Thomas Kind Bendikssen and Inigo Idiakez


Current 1st team

Sammy Monin
Danny Foster
Sam Williamson
Laurence Gaughan
Matty Hughes
Aidan Downes
Dareen Smith
Nathan Fairhurst
Thomas Kind Bendiksen
Ryan Noble
Branimir Kostadinov

Got out of BSN pretty easy with a few free signings and offering my better players full time contracts. BSP was a battle and I was lucky to just scrape into the play-offs on the last day of the season before getting a last minute winner against Wrexham in the play-off final.

Bolstered the squad for League 2 and even though we were tipped to go down we are sitting inside the promotion places. I only told the board I would attempt to avoid relegation which is a pity as the extra wages on offer would have been handy. Plenty of excellent players available on a free at this level.
I would have liked to utilise loanees more but the right type of player wouldnt join me, so my sole loanee was Philip Quirk from Preston for 2 seasons.

Went through a takeover in the 2nd season but have seen no money invested in the club at all. I feel next season will be a lot tougher as I try to hold onto my better players and improve the squad.

Frisbee

Just thought I'd put this up, I'm still so proud of it, the boy has earned himself a lucrative new contract fo sho

cashville

Frisbee wrote: »

Just thought I'd put this up, I'm still so proud of it, the boy has earned himself a lucrative new contract fo sho

Did you save the match?? Any chance you could use fraps and get a little clip of him doing it? Ha ha something else, still can't get over that!

Frisbee

cashville wrote: »

Did you save the match?? Any chance you could use fraps and get a little clip of him doing it? Ha ha something else, still can't get over that!

Damn, that would have been smart..

cashville

I definitely would save a match if something like that happened. I remember a while ago I had a network game going and I was Arsenal, had Real Madrid in my CL group. Gallas sent off after around 20 seconds........ended up winning 5-4, last minute goal. Epic game,will try and get a screenshot.

Gonzovision

Just a quick update on my Fleetwood Town game. After a strong push towards automatic promotion from league 2 it came down to the last game of the season, between myself and Luton. Level on points but just ahead of them on goal difference. A 0-0 draw was enough to secure promotion to league 1.

With my wage budget buckling, 11 players were released on a free to free up space for new aquisitions.

A transfer budget of €500 :eek: awaits me to try and stay in league 1.

Krusader

That'll be a challenge Gonzo but you've done well so far.
Have any clubs come knocking on your door for your services yet

Gonzovision

Crosáidí wrote: »

That'll be a challenge Gonzo but you've done well so far.
Have any clubs come knocking on your door for your services yet

Ye a few have alright. Inverness being the biggest, they offered me a transfer budget of €875,000 which would be lovely but I want to see how far I can get with this lot.
League 2 was surprisingly easy. Just played control at home and counter attacking away. The pace of my strikers was what did it for me.

I cant get anyone decent to join me on loan. Thought being in league 1 would allow me to loan younger premier league/championship players but no one will come.

I also still only have basic youth/training facilities so not much hope of developing any youth players in the near future.



Just had my best win so far. 3-0 at home to Championship side Blackpool in the League cup 1st round. Furthest I've reached in the cup!

Krusader

Did you try to get a Parent team, they will loan you players and pay their wages also

Gonzovision

Preston N.E. Only problem is their squad is so small they don't really have anybody.

Up to January 1st now sitting 3 points above relegation and really need to find players somewhere.

Krusader

You should look to sever links with them so, and if you stay in league one try get a Prem team.
Hope you don't get hit with too many injuries in the 2nd half of your season

Gonzovision

Right finished n=my 1st season in League 1 in 16th place, 5 points clear of relegation. Thought I might get some funds but again I get 500 euro. My wage budget was increased by 1k per week which didn't leave me much room to manouvere. Released 8 or 9 players and brought in a few on loan from Falkirk reserves, Dunfermiline reserves and Preston sent me a few players too. Nothing special but just enough to keep squad numbers up. Played 9 games now and am sitting mid-table. I don't see myself getting promoted either this season and I doubt I will see much funds. Currently 3k p/w over budget. ANy advice on how to generate some much needed cash?

Frisbee

Car Wash!

Real FM

Team: Man Utd

League standings:
09/10 - 1st
10/11 - 1st
11/12 - 1st
12/13 - 1st
13/14 - 1st
14/15 - 1st

Cup:
09/10 & 12/13 - Winner

Europe:
09/10 - Lost in 1st Knockout round of CL
10/11 - Lost in Semi-final of CL
11/12 - Lost in Quarter-final of Champions League
12/13 - Lost in 1st Knockout round of CL
13/14 - Winner
14/15 - Lost in Semi-final of CL

Top Goalscorer:
09/10 - Rooney 40
10/11 - Berbatov 37
11/12 - Rooney 35
12/13 - Rooney 35
13/14 - Rooney 34
14/15 - Rooney 42

Fans Player:
09/10 - Rooney
10/11 - Berbatov
11/12 - Rooney
12/13 - Rooney
13/14 - Rooney
14/15 - Rooney

Current 1st team:
GK - Hugo Lloris
RB - Rafael*
LB - Patrice Evra
CB - Jonny Evans*
CB - Kyriakos Papadopolous*
MR - Franciso Javier*
ML - Antoine N'Gossan*
MC - Cesc Fabregas
MC - Anderson
ST - Wayne Rooney
ST - Tom Molyneux*

S1 - Mark Brown*
S2 - Nemanja Vidic
S3 - Dodo
S4 - Andrew O'Brien*
S5 - Martin Galvan*
S6 - Franck Ribery
S7 - Danny Welbeck*

* Been at the club since under the age of 19

I play with a strict policy of bringing up players through my ranks and try and also try to keep my team fairly British. I also stick to bringing in players who were once at the club or are worldwide names (hence fabregas). At one stage 9 of Englands under 21 starting 11 were with me. I also try and keep on long term players as staff. I've got Gary Neville, Ferdinand, Giggs, Scholes, Beckham and Van Der Sar in my coaching staff. It would be far too easy being Utd so I try and put on these limitations and keep tradition within the club.

cashville

Fabregas to United, holy moly!

Real FM

Yeah only cost me 52 million and an amazing prospect goalkeeper. Average of 7.02 and 3 red cards halfway through the season...not really worth it!

cashville

Real FM wrote: »

Yeah only cost me 52 million and an amazing prospect goalkeeper. Average of 7.02 and 3 red cards halfway through the season...not really worth it!

Yeah it can be weird like that. I remember in FM 08 or 09 I was playing a network game with a mate, he was Inter I was Roma (I always seem to get Roma) and he tried to get Kaka, Milan wouldn't sell him to a rival and luckily enough I had the 60 million they wanted. He never really did anything for me though

Some waste of money.

Real FM

Can anyone recommend how you play him? I have him as a deep lying playmaker as Anderson is my advanced play maker.