***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[Suntan Superman]

Juventus came calling, I interviewed, and got to the part where I go through all the backroom changes and I just don't think I'll be leaving Viborg unless it's for Arsenal. Into my 9th year at Viborg, and it's still only looking up.

Speaking of, I'm in a frustrating Arsenal-like position. My teams are very good, generally, I'm able to poach the good Danish talent, as well becoming a funnel into the "Big 5" for African, Scandinavian, and Eastern European talent. My teams are good enough that I'm able to pull away in the league and have won it four times in a row, and 5 of the last 6(first title was more of a fluke, but it counts) we also are fairly capable of getting out of the group stage of the Champions League, but there's no way we'll win it. I want to drop down to Europa from the Group Stage, but I can't bring myself to intentionally do that because I think that I could walk most of the Europa League.

Speaking again of Arsenal, Niko Kovac walked after two years on the job, I was rumoured to be the leading candidate, however I was never interviewed, and Vitor Pereira took the job with Arsenal, for the first time in the game as well, Arsenal is not qualified for any European Competition. It's gonna be an interesting job if they ever give it to me.

[Suntan Superman]

I'm paying the price dearly right now, I was pretty adamant about going for the Arsenal gig, then got caught up in the Juventus speculation which led to me simming more, and not executing ANY of my off-season programs. I did no player evaluations, I did no loan destination evaluations, I did no staff evaluations, we played 4 friendlies very close together before the start of the season. I didn't get the team up to familiarity, I accidentally left myself without a quality right back after selling last years starter so now I'm starting an 18-year old, to go with my midfielders of 16, 17, 22, and 27. It's September, and thankfully the overall talent of the team means that we're still in first place, and still doing well, but the results certainly are not up to par with what they should be. We're also one loss away from 5th place.

The last time I get caught up in job speculation, yikes.

[Zac]

I've gone back to my first save of the year. It was a journeyman, and currently at St. Pats in Ireland. We had qualified for the CL by winning the league the previous season, before I stopped playing the save.

Just about to go into a big game against Basel in the 3rd qualifying round.


Get the **** out!

[Zac]

We didn't play a single league game in the month of August, and now have five games in hand in the league.




And for our trouble of getting knocked outed of the UCL, we get this group in the EL. I predict a 4th place finish.



However, we may now be the richest club in Ireland with 5M in the bank. We got 2.xM for getting knocked out of the UCL. And we got 2.xM for taking part in the EL group stage. Plus I'm pretty sure well get around 1-2M of the TV money come the end of the tournaments. But I probably wont be here then.

[Kobalt]

Nothing worse than trying a possession based tactic in LLM save, but one misplaced pass leads to CPU countering with a long ball and an easy goal.

[jvalverde88]

Its a shame I'm losing him at the end of the season.

[Zac]

So, this happened...






My contract expires in 14 days. We drew Marseille in the first knockout round. But that isn't played until Feb. And I know we will lose to them. The only reason we got through, and the only reason we beat Dortmund, is they slept on that game and played a full B/C squad. We got lucky. We should have lost and Rijeka should have went through.

I've been getting an insane amount of interview offers. I've never had so many before. I've declined a lot of them. But I've done a handful. No one has actually approached me though. It seems the ones I want always go with someone else. So I'm probably going to just have to take a random one of these offers I know I will get.

[Suntan Superman]

look, i'm not saying it HAS to be in there, I'm just saying I'd love to have the option to laugh at transfer offers.