***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[Hunkerdown]

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At that point is the game even fun anymore?

EXACTLY

[Tomasperez9]

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With a little over a month to go in the season, I'm (Spartak Moscow) currently lying in 1st place (18-2-2, with a +36 GD), 2 points clear of Zenit. I was on a 10 match winning streak until an unfortunate 3-3 draw with Rubin ended that run, although I still am unbeaten in 24(?) games, I believe. Basically, my attack has been unbelievable (57 G in 22 played), while my defense has been solid, but not overwhelmingly amazing (23 GA in 22). Vagner Love (ST) and Ricardinho (LB/LM) have been huge signings, each contributing ratings over 7.0 per game. However, the best player of the year has to be Alexandr Prudnikov who has contributed an amazing 31 goals in 36 games (22 in 22 in the RPD). Other than that, nothing too amazing has happened, although I did beat Lyon 2-1 away in the UEFA Cup Group Stages, so I currently am lying in first place, although I'm only 2 games in.


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I couldn't fit all of the game on one screen, but here's the majority of the games I've played to date...

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[ChubbyBanana]

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Went back to playing my Reading game after a layoff on my end. Not playing too bad right now. Pleased with 4th.

[Perceptor]

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At that point is the game even fun anymore?

Not really actually. It was however the best collection of talent assembled by me in a FM game. Having said that, I went back to my Juve save ad am having more fun developing that team and not focusing on spending.

I did finally start a Gunners save Am focusing on developing talent and restricting myself to only buying young players. Will keep you guys updated on how that goes

[Tomasperez9]

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So I won the RPD with Spartak clear of CSKA Moscow by 4 points. I advanced to the quarterfinals of the Rambler's Cup, which continues in April, 6 months after the 7th round. After another win over Lyon, I sealed a trip out of the group stages in the UEFA Cup with 2 games to play (I only have one left to play, but I qualified with 2 to play). I had Ronaldinho locked up to come to Spartak on a free transfer in the winter transfer market (starts on 12.15 in Russia, but 1.1 everywhere else which is somewhat annoying when trying to work out loans and such) on a 2-year contract for 89k p/w with a 4.5mil signing bonus and loads of incentives (we'd been going back and forth for several weeks and I finally succombed to his "lofty" demands); however, he suddenly decided to retire in a year and a half and now I cannot even make an offer for him as the "make an offer" button no longer is there. I've been going after the top Russian players (you're limited to having only 5 foreigners in your lineup at a time), so Arshavin, worth only 2.5m, was my premier target. Even though he has yet to appear for Barca in 2(!) seasons he refuses to come over to Moscow as it is a step in the wrong direction. Nikita Chicherin is on his way to Spartak Moscow though and seems to be a great up-and-comer. As for the non-Russian players, I've been seriously looking at Ever Banega who is transfer-listed with an asking price of a mere 2.75m, but I have a logjam at CM/DM and don't really want to upset my other 3 CMs (Kovac, Mangala, and Noboah) as they have done a damn fine job for club and country. Both me and Werder Bremen have had our offers accepted for AM RC Leandro Lima, although I'm almost 100% positive that I'll lose out to the more prestigous Werder. I need a new keeper to back up Irigoytia (37), but I can't really find a suitable replacement who's willing to take a 180 degree turn and come to Russia. Bigger than any signing, however, will be Quincy coming back from a season-ending injury last season only 6 games in. I got him back up to only "lacking match fitness" for the last league game, through Reserve games and 10-15 minute stints off of the bench in cup games, but has since gone all the way down again to terrible shape in the few short weeks from the end of the Russian season to the mid-December UEFA Cup matches. We'll see how everything pans out in a little while, but for now, all I can say was that it was a great season.

[Bruins]

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Holy wall of text.

[Tomasperez9]

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Holy wall of text.

...complete with a crap load of grammatical errors and incorrect comma usage that I'm just too effing lazy to fix.

EDIT:
I should add that I'm currently unbeaten in 32 games and am hoping to extend in to 33 right now against Portuguese side Maritimo in the UEFA Cup.

[Perceptor]

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Very nice Tomas I am just about to roll into my FIFA World Club Cup with Liverpool and I am leading the Prem still...still haven't lost, but my defense has taken a step back this year and I'm conceding a high number of goals.

Also playing my Juve save and all I have to say is - homegrown talent FTW. My team is full of homegrown players and they're coming good.

Giovinco is a stud I would suggest that if you are starting a game, he should be a must buy. He becomes a star if you play him lots during your initial season and only gets better from there. He went from being worth 6 million at the start of the game to well over 17 million in my 2nd season.

Guiseppe Rossi is also a star. He scored 41 goals in his 1st season with me and was amazing. I have Aguero coming in at the end of the season to replace my aging strikers in Iaquinta and Amauri.

[ChubbyBanana]

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Just got this news in my Reading Campaign

[Tomasperez9]

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The transfer window ended a couple of weeks ago and I made some pretty big moves, most notably Leandro Lima (I won a bidding war with Werder) and Alex Teixeira. I'm currently lying in 4th place in the RPD (5W-1L-0D-+11GD) and was knocked out of the UEFA Cup by Rangers 2-3 (0-3 away first leg and 2-0 home second leg). The loss in the RPD was a fluke (my goalie scored an own goal -- off the woodwork, off his back, and then over the line -- and I lost 0-1), while my goalie also cost me the Rangers away leg (he was messing around with the ball in the box for a while, finally ran out of the box with ball and was tackled, putting me down 0-3, in essence knocking me out of the tournament). I was offered the job at Bayern Munich and Schalke but declined each one. My undefeated streak ended at 34 (5.2.2012 - 12.20.2012) with the loss to Rangers. Prudnikov won RPD POY last season, setting 6 Spartak records in the process.

Here's the table from last season (2012):

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Here's the rundown of transfers:

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My starting XI at the moment, although Irigoytia, Dominguez, and Mangala would be starting if they weren't injured (Vagner Love and Kovac were injured in my last game):

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[Perceptor]

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Nice team there Tomas Really enjoying your updates. I will be posting pics soon enough.

Still working on my Juve and Liverpool saves. Might consider starting a new Liverpool save with the updated transfers and such. I also started a Barca game so I will give updates on that season as well

[Mxracer23x]

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Nice team there Tomas Really enjoying your updates. I will be posting pics soon enough.

Still working on my Juve and Liverpool saves. Might consider starting a new Liverpool save with the updated transfers and such. I also started a Barca game so I will give updates on that season as well

I started as Barca save as well. Eto'o is having a brilliant season for me so far with 14 goals and 12 assist halfway through Liga BBVA. Problem is I can not win on the road at all and can't get Messi going at all only 8 goals and 5 assist.

[Bruins]

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[Tomasperez9]

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I'd put that one up there with my Serbia Euro draw for the worst draws I've seen. Then again, don't be fooled by Bayern's big name, as they always seem to suck in my saves because they don't bring in any new players.

[Mxracer23x]

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I started as Barca save as well. Eto'o is having a brilliant season for me so far with 14 goals and 12 assist halfway through Liga BBVA. Problem is I can not win on the road at all and can't get Messi going at all only 8 goals and 5 assist.

Amazing game by Eto'o for me. Going into the Game against ATL.Madrid I was 4 points back. Eto'o scores 3 goals and 1 assist in a 5-1 drubbing of A.Madrid. Full Time rating of 9.5