***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[Suntan Superman]

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So what happens when the Battle of Heath Derby hits the Danish Cup? FIFTEEN yellow cards.


Oh right, and a 3-1 Viborg victory!~

[jmaj315]

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Overall, a great season. Souleymane Coulibaly (ST) won the Champions Golden Boot by scoring 10 goals.

We played a 4-3-3 with Coulibaly-ST, Sterling-W, Chamberlain-W, Jesper Larsen-CM/AP, Joan Angel Roman-CM, Ryan Bennett-DM, Fernando Jose-WB, Riccardo Ferreira-CB, Liu Guojiang-CB, Neofytos Saitiotis-FB, Jake Kean-G. Subs/Rotation: Stephen El Shaarawy-W/ST, Johan Ferreira-W, Jonjo Shelvy-CM, Dady Kagabo-DM, Joe Bennett-FB, Grant Hanley-CB, Philippe David-G.

Goal Ldrs: Coulibaly-24, Roman-11, J.Ferreira-10
Ast Ldrs: Sterling-13, Larsen-11, Shaarawy-11
Rating: Coulibaly-7.34, Larsen-7.34, Sterling-7.22

I hope his nickname is "the magnificent" as it is only fitting.

[Kobalt]

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I sold Yohan Mallo to Tottenham for 37M. Sucks losing him, but I couldn't lose him for nothing. I brought in Lucas Andersen from Ajax on a loan.

I drew Man City, Valencia, and Rubin in the Champions League group stage.

[GOBLUE_08]

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Decided to start a new unemployed campaign since my Southend save got corrupted . I wanted to try a league that i dont know anything about so i applied for the FC Seoul (S. Korean K League) position and got offered the job. Havent had to work very hard so far as the team has won 12 of the first 15 games (12-3-0) scoring 40 goals and only conceding 11. There are only 2 maybe 3 other teams in the league that are competitive, which is kind of a bummer. I rarely have to make any adjustments or subs in game. They just run through everyone. Pretty boring stuff to be honest. Im thinking im just going to finish as strong as possible this season then try to make a move to a more competitive league once the season is over. The good part is, its opened my eyes to a bunch of new players that i didnt know existed previously. Lots of very good young players in S. Korea and their fan base kicks ***. 40,000 + fans at all of my games except against the smaller teams that cant seat that many. Sure as hell beats the pants off my Southend squad drawing maybe 9000 lol. Surprising amount of older Brazilian players in the league too. Some good under the radar strikers and mid fielders

[Suntan Superman]

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26 games unbeaten in league play, 31 overall, in the Danish Cup Semi-Final vs FC Vestsjælland, I fully expect them to put my squad to the test, and if we manage to best them after two legs, I'll most likely bare the full brunt of an FC Kobenhavn game, a year before my squad is truly "ready" At the same time, I feel this squad is underachieving. We win, but we should be winning decisively. Unfortunately with bigger clubs coming after some of my players it's created unrest in the clubhouse, I'll definitely be offloading some dead weight this summer. I'm hoping to win the Danish Cup so I can see some of that Europa League money.

[jmaj315]

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So on my Doncaster save, I drew rivals Hull and 1st placed Peterbourough 1-1. A little disappointed at the draw vs Hull because theyre in the relegation zone but it was an away match. Also, somehow I was the favorite at Peterbourough, my guess is that a few of their loaned players went back to their clubs and now they suck. They had lost 3 of their last 5 matches and we had 19 shots to their 5 :/

I really hope that my board increases my transfer budget for next season, so we can at least fight for promotion (currently 10th) and my season expectation was to avoid relegation lol

But we are not complacent as there are still about 15 matches left in the season

[Suntan Superman]

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I mistook Vestsjaelland for Nordsjaelland. Vestsjaelland is an easy win, and currently we're up 3-0 in the second leg(7-1 on aggregate). Danish Cup final against FC Kobenhavn, unless Avarta manage to overturn their 3-1 deficit to them.

In a bit of interesting news, my GK decided he didn't want to re-sign with me, so I benched him in favor of the B Team GK(My backup got sold during the January window). I can tell no difference, meaning, GL Somewhere else Ronnow!

[ronaldo9]

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I love when FM is nearly bang-on and realistic in "predicting" future events, but also laugh when it is spectacularly wrong: in my save, Canada and China are the surprise qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup

[thedudedominick]

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Oh man not happy after being fired. I took over a team mid-season who was 20th in their league. In 12 games I won 6, drew 3. My last 7 though had 5 wins and 2 draws as the team was completely in the dumps when I took over. I lose one game after that 7 game stretch and get fired. I took them from relegation to mid-table in 12 games and was only a couple points away from getting to the top third.

[Suntan Superman]

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My two final tests for the Invincible season. First, I'm resting key players against HB Koge(2nd in the First Division) because in three days we take on FC Kobenhavn. I figure if we go behind, I'll sub one of my prolific strikers in, and go all out aggressive. My rotated squads have fared well so far, all I really want to do is not lose and keep this run of unbeaten games going into the Kobenhavn showdown.

Neutral site, FC Kobenhavn v Viborg FF. It's sad how well I know Kobenhavn, in FM '12 I scouted them inside and out, and I've done the same this game. We'll see if it pays off.

[jesmith29]

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Kicked off my 2021/22 season and our first game was against Chelsea. Chelsea scored at 15'. Okay, not to worry a lot of time left. Grant Hanley scored a header at 37' to level the score and it was just the start. Sterling scored at 41' and Coulibaly at 45+1 to give us a 3-1 lead at half. The rout kept going when Coulibaly hit his 2nd at 54' and Sterling added to the misery at 83' to finish the scoring at 5-1 Millwall.

Good way to start the season and hopefully it's a great sign of things to come.

Arsenal have won the league the last 2 years so they're the team to beat.

[Suntan Superman]

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Unbeaten Season completed. Won Danish First Division, and I'm now up 6-0 on FC Kobenhavn in the Danish Cup Final(seriously, you guys have no idea how much I've FM studied them). 50 seconds to go as I type this, so I'll have a screenshot of the league record, and the DAC shortly.

Here it is!

[jasontoddwhitt]

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Having learned the pitfalls of my Brazilian management (IE with a cheap board, try and sell your valuable players and get cheaper players instead of keeping valuable players and sacrificing depth)...I'm trying Fortaleza FC again, except I'm going with my trusted 4-3-3 instead of the Magic Box.

When I saw that there was no way I could resign my best player Elton to an extension (simply wanted too much money and the board wouldn't allow it), I sold him to Figueirense for $600k. Unfortunately, only 20% of transfer revenue is available by the board. So I brought in two cheap free transfers in Simao and Morais as well as a few loanees.

In the summer league (that's what I'm going to call it anyways), I developed quite a rivalry with Caera (the lone Brasileiro Serie B team in the competition, the other teams are either Serie C or lower). Lost to them in the final of the Opening Stage 3-2. However, we dominated the Closing Stage once my tactics took hold. Met them again in the final of the Closing Stage, which we won 1-0 with a goal in extra time. We met them in the Champions Playoff and drunk with confidence, we went into the first match as the away team.

We promptly got slaughtered 5-0. Guess they finally decided to take us serious, or maybe I should've pulled back a bit. But I don't pull back. Think mid-90s Newcastle United. In the home leg, we drew them 0-0. Still, we made the final, which is what the board wanted.

Board wanted us to make it to the second round of Copa Brasil. In the first round, we won the away leg against Alecrim (Serie D) 4-2, causing us not to have to play the home leg. In the second round, we won the home leg 4-1 against Paysandu (Serie C). Then barely hung on in the away leg, winning 4-3 on aggregate. Third round, we drew Sao Paulo (currently 2nd place in Brasileiro). We gave them everything they wanted, but we lost 4-2 on aggregate.

Now we are into Serie C play. Doing great in our group of league play. Have to reach the semifinals in order to ensure promotion to Serie B. The only thing not going well would be the bottom line. We're bleeding cash left and right and the board is wanting me to sell. Will have to wait till next season as nobody has the transfer funds left to buy my best players.

[HKPound]

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Just finished my second year with Reading. Finished 12th, started out amazing and had a bumpy rest of the year. However, Mauro Formica made the EPL Best XI with 15 goals and 14 assists. Long made the subs with 18 goals and 6 assists. Andy Carroll ended up being a great grab on loan and was a big part of my finish as well. He was getting back to England status again with his form, tailed off a bit at the end though going into the World Cup. I bought Kevin Mirallas in the January window. Not sure if I want to go with Mirallas as a 2nd striker and keep Formica wide where he fared better, move Mirallas to central attacking mid, or try to capture another target man and have Mirallas be a super sub.

[jmaj315]

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should i apply to be usa olympic 23unders manager? its currently february 2014 and my manager is american