Re: ***The Official Football Manager Thread***
It's been awhile since I've posted a real update, part of it was a situation in my Nottingham Forest save that almost made me quit, one of the last screenshots I posted was of Karl Darlow asking for first team football, well I figured I'd rotate him in against weaker sides so he'd stop complaining. At the time Hugo Lloris was my first choice keeper, so it was easy to see why Darlow was #2 Either way we had a bit of fixture congestion, so I decided to rotate my squad, fairly heavily against Watford, this was, and will remain my worst mistake as a Manager at Nottingham Forest. We lost heavily 5-1, and I lost it, after 3 costly mistakes led to goals, backup centreback Steven Taylor was released immediately after the game, brought in to mentor some of the kids and provide cover for the first team Taylor had been solid til this absolutely unforgivable, and appalling game. The number 27, will never be worn again as long as I am manager of Nottingham Forest due to the absolute shame Taylor brought to it in that appearance. I immediately demoted Darlow the U21s and transfer-listed him, he ended up leaving for 500k to Leeds United in January after never making an appearance again for the club. Jose Manuel Reina was brought in in January for 300k to provide cover for Hugo Lloris. Another person who played poorly was Denis Cheryshev, he also never made another appearance for Forest, and departed to HSV for an eventual £10m. I fined the entire starting XI for their poor performance in that game, debated quitting the job at Forest, but eventually hung on, we finished second to Chelsea by 4 points.
More club drama ensued though as Hugo Lloris told me he wanted to retire in France, and was immediately courted by PSG(they've bought half my team since then) and since he had done well and I understand where he's coming from I sold him to PSG for £15m plus incentives. Jack Wilshere took offense and demanded to know why, and there was no way to get him to calm down so he ended up going off to Bordeaux for £20m plus incentives. Since then we've been doing okay we finished 4th that year, though with more points than when we finished 2nd. The triumphs of that year however were beating Arsenal in the Europa League Final and beating QPR in the FA Cup Final to get an unusual double.
Then as per usual, success meant clubs came knocking PSG bought 3 of my players for a combined outlay of £100.5m + future incentives, Chelsea bought two of my players for a combined £40m, thankfully I've been able to keep my £51m rated striker Patrick Bamford. Along with my attacking trio of Mats Møller Dæhli, Martin Ødegaard and Henri Lansbury. 2020 has brought us my favorite success as well, we opened the new stadium in Brian Clough Park, and our first league game went well.
And phew, there's your Adventures with Forest update, lol.
It's been awhile since I've posted a real update, part of it was a situation in my Nottingham Forest save that almost made me quit, one of the last screenshots I posted was of Karl Darlow asking for first team football, well I figured I'd rotate him in against weaker sides so he'd stop complaining. At the time Hugo Lloris was my first choice keeper, so it was easy to see why Darlow was #2 Either way we had a bit of fixture congestion, so I decided to rotate my squad, fairly heavily against Watford, this was, and will remain my worst mistake as a Manager at Nottingham Forest. We lost heavily 5-1, and I lost it, after 3 costly mistakes led to goals, backup centreback Steven Taylor was released immediately after the game, brought in to mentor some of the kids and provide cover for the first team Taylor had been solid til this absolutely unforgivable, and appalling game. The number 27, will never be worn again as long as I am manager of Nottingham Forest due to the absolute shame Taylor brought to it in that appearance. I immediately demoted Darlow the U21s and transfer-listed him, he ended up leaving for 500k to Leeds United in January after never making an appearance again for the club. Jose Manuel Reina was brought in in January for 300k to provide cover for Hugo Lloris. Another person who played poorly was Denis Cheryshev, he also never made another appearance for Forest, and departed to HSV for an eventual £10m. I fined the entire starting XI for their poor performance in that game, debated quitting the job at Forest, but eventually hung on, we finished second to Chelsea by 4 points.
More club drama ensued though as Hugo Lloris told me he wanted to retire in France, and was immediately courted by PSG(they've bought half my team since then) and since he had done well and I understand where he's coming from I sold him to PSG for £15m plus incentives. Jack Wilshere took offense and demanded to know why, and there was no way to get him to calm down so he ended up going off to Bordeaux for £20m plus incentives. Since then we've been doing okay we finished 4th that year, though with more points than when we finished 2nd. The triumphs of that year however were beating Arsenal in the Europa League Final and beating QPR in the FA Cup Final to get an unusual double.
Then as per usual, success meant clubs came knocking PSG bought 3 of my players for a combined outlay of £100.5m + future incentives, Chelsea bought two of my players for a combined £40m, thankfully I've been able to keep my £51m rated striker Patrick Bamford. Along with my attacking trio of Mats Møller Dæhli, Martin Ødegaard and Henri Lansbury. 2020 has brought us my favorite success as well, we opened the new stadium in Brian Clough Park, and our first league game went well.
And phew, there's your Adventures with Forest update, lol.
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