challenges on football manager 2011

What teams do you think will be an interesting challenge on football manager 2011?

I'll start

Blackpool

Portsmouth

Scunthorpe

hull, blackpool

Plymouth are always a challenge. Maybe getting someone like watford back into the big time? Perhaps stevenage fc in their first season in the football league.

Arles Avigon, First Season in French top tier after 4 promotions in 5 seasons.

Blackburn and Bolton are always a challenge. Rochdale? Bradford? Dag+Red.. Sheff Wed.. there's going to be plenty this time again.

Accrington Stanley, AC Milan

I agree with Scunthorpe. They're my team so Im hoping for a tough interesting forst few season's with them

Man Utd should be if they do it right this time.

I reckon trying to keep Valencia in the champions league places without Villa and Silva should be interesting

Bradford City

Steaua Bucharest (win the CL again)

Blackpool won't be interesting, it will be impossible.

No money, a squad full of players that are not premiership quality, not able to afford to bring in anybody who is premiership quality.

If they stay up this season I swear that I will leave this forum and never return.

Southampton

Nottingham Forest

Derby

Lazio

Elgin city,now that would be fun

Bursaspor, 1st ever entry into the Champions League I believe and the challenge of retaining the title

I regard Portsmouth as my second team (because my uncle takes me to a few games - I was at the FA Cup semi and final in 2008, but missed the chance of going to last season's because I had a sunday league match in Sevenoaks ) and it'll be a fun challenge I believe. But, I don't think SI will implement the transfer embargo.

Always be Portsmouth no matter what. In fact i started a save the other day, and it was the first time i wasn't Portsmouth on FM10.

Maybe I'll try AC Milan halfway through the season

Blackpool won't be interesting, it will be impossible.

No money, a squad full of players that are not premiership quality, not able to afford to bring in anybody who is premiership quality.

If they stay up this season I swear that I will leave this forum and never return.

We do have money (I am a Blackpool fan) it is the chairman that won't give wages higher then £10k-£15k a week for Premiership players, so I am guessing on FM11 we will have an easier time hiring players for the season ahead, unlike Ollie in real life who is fighting a losing battle

We do have money (I am a Blackpool fan) it is the chairman that won't give wages higher then £10k-£15k a week for Premiership players, so I am guessing on FM11 we will have an easier time hiring players for the season ahead, unlike Ollie in real life who is fighting a losing battle

can you blame your chairman. hes doing the right thing but tbh should have signed some players and there are and were some quality free agents which wouldnt cost too much in wages and could do a bit of a job with encouragement

Oh I don't blame him at all, sometimes I do wish he would act more as a business man then the trained accountant that he is (accountants don't make good businessmen imo), just wish he would have paid DJ's wages back in Jan so we should have been able to sign him for £250-£375k, and not the £1.5m+ that Fester are trying to get for him

That is another reason we haven't signed anyone due to the increase of the value of the players we were after, most of them have increase 4times in price to what we were being quoted in the January transfer window, Blackpool on FM could be an easy game but I would guess would get relegated in first season but be able to build a good solid team next season (But most of the players we have are championship quality anyway and think we will give a good showing in the Premiership... especially at Bloomfield road)

We do have money (I am a Blackpool fan) it is the chairman that won't give wages higher then £10k-£15k a week for Premiership players, so I am guessing on FM11 we will have an easier time hiring players for the season ahead, unlike Ollie in real life who is fighting a losing battle

Aren't all of your players still waiting for their bonuses from the end of last season?

Erm... nah that is sorted, it wasn't they weren't getting paid, it was the way they were getting paid. They believed they were getting it in one big chunk, where the club was trying to help them by giving them a percentage while putting the rest into a "retirement" fund for them after they left the club. But I believe they are now sorted

Erm... nah that is sorted, it wasn't they weren't getting paid, it was the way they were getting paid. They believed they were getting it in one big chunk, where the club was trying to help them by giving them a percentage while putting the rest into a "retirement" fund for them after they left the club. But I believe they are now sorted

i thought your chairman said they would get paid when you got your first lot of tv payments at the end of august. tbh there are some decent free agents like i said. im suprised you didnt go for david james, stephen jordan, steven caldwell etc. but i really hope you do well and stay up would be good.

i thought your chairman said they would get paid when you got your first lot of tv payments at the end of august. tbh there are some decent free agents like i said. im suprised you didnt go for david james, stephen jordan, steven caldwell etc. but i really hope you do well and stay up would be good.

The first load of money for the TV came on Friday hence why it is sorted, it was meant to be paid by our President, but the banking crisis hit his banks and thus didn't have the money to pay the bonus at hand.

We have looked at them, barring James as we do have 2 solid keepers and an up and coming one too! but they all want wages outside our wage structure

Birmingham City

Dagenham & Redbridge could be a decent challenge as well.

southampton

Southampton, Leeds or Nottingham forest i'd say. Try and turn them into established premier league teams again

crystal palace

rebuilding Boca

Man City, im gonna love watching Mancini crash and burn Just like i will IRL

Millwall, always Millwall.

Sheffield Wednesday.

The Wednesdays going up!!

Feyenoord no money and average players

MVV Maastricht dutch first division start with -7 points

Excelsior promoted last year to the dutch premier league, no new players and no money

While a lot of the aforementionned clubs are certainly short term challenges, unless they change the game significantly, in the long run, once you've got over the initial hurdle, you probably won't have a problem turning them into succesful clubs.

When it comes to a real long term challenge, assuming no "house rules", it's gonna be the same as ever: making Athletic Bilbao into a major force in world fottball, for the simple reason that no matter how rich or successful you become, you can't just go and buy the best players.

No team have been relegated from the conference and gone straight back up, so starting as Grimsby Town or Darlington and getting them promoted in the first season could be a decent challenge.

I quite fancy the idea of managing River Plate on FM2011, as they're in a relegation battle because of the 3 season average points system in Argentina.

I will start as Rangers as per usual.

Severly depleted squad, lack of funds and only one champions league spot up for grabs!

any team that gets promoted from bsn/bss at end of first season I think New York Red Bulls may have high expectations after the players they've signed

Grimsby or Darlington could be interesting, trying to get them back into the Football League, or maybe Stockport... no money and hardly any players

would like to see the game be more difficult. The fact that a practically everyone on these forums posts about themselves being small clubs and just gliding through the leagues means there is something wrong or maybe it just because they are cheating. I would like to see it be a realistic as it can possibly be.

Internationally: France after their awful world cup and the difficulty of trying to get them to gel

At club level: Southend with no money and no hope of new players

Keeping St. Pauli in the bundesliga, or taking a newly promoted english club to the premiership i.e. Farnborough, Dartford, Boreham Wood (the most difficult of the lot), Nuneaton, Boston, Guisley

im gonna go for my home team yeovil town or man united.

Southend by far. No money and no new players. Although, we have some now!

Sheffield Wednesday, Southend United (now in Npower league 2), Crewe..

Grimsby Town, trying to rebuild, get them back in the Football League

Stockport (of course!) and Southend. They even play each other on the opening day - we were robbed irl, but there'll be none of that in game!

Celtic for me.

Last year we had Robbie Keane to dig us out of a hole. This year we have 47 midfielders, no defence and a goalkeeper who is dodgy as hell.

Southampton!