The year is 2024; after 5 glory laden years at Man City I decided to put my mangerial whits to the test by taking over my beloved Sheffield Wednesday. Alan Pardew had well and truly worked his magic on the beleaguered Owls, testing the patience of Mr. Strafford and eventually getting the sack after turning us into a lower mid-table league one side.
Taking the reigns in mid December of 2015, I managed to scrape promotion via a penalty shoot out in the play-offs. I then went on to win the Championship the following season, surviving a slight late surge from QPR and eventually taking the title on the final day by just the one point.
Years of hard toil followed in the PL. We began by narrowly scraping survival via a 17th placed finish; then it was mid table mediocrity. This continued for a couple of years and when it looked like I couldn't take the team any further, the monotiny was broken by an almost unfathomable FA Cup triumph.
The EURO Cup campaign was harsh on my small squad and we fell at the first knockout stage to Lyon. As the years progressed and I began to replace stop gap solutions (ageing freebies and out of contract players - Gourcuff, Kaka, Sneijder... to name but a few) - with talented youngsters and more than a few experienced pros at the top of their games (most notably from Brazil), our progression up the league began.
Four years of consistently finishing in the top four followed, but I couldn't seem to knock my former club, Man City, off their perch (they had won 10 consecutive PL titles by this stage and were also 4 time CL winners).
I knew that a lot of this was down to the constant in and outs at Hillsborough, but I knew the turnover of playing staff was vital to our survival amongst the heavyweights of the English leagues.
Finally during the Summer of 2023, after a disappointing 3rd placed finish the previous season, I felt contented with my squad. Well... just about. I stumped up £25m for a Spanish goalkeeper from Betis (incidentally, one I had signed for only 500k during my Man City days) and was confident that I had finally built a side capable of breaking the Citizens monopoly over English football.
Finally everything seemed to click into place and whilst the ageing City began to falter, where they had once been so prolifc, there was no such problems for my side.
We won the title at a canter - by 18 points and also beat City 3-2 in the FA Cup final. Having beaten Porto, Barcelona (5-0 at Hillsborough, lost 2-1 at the Nou Camp) and Benfica, we faced a slightly anti-climactic Champions League final against Lyon, buoyed by our success that season, we effortlessly swepped them aside 5-0 to complete a momentus treble and definitely my greatest achievement in FM2010 to date.

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