Career Updates Forum Mini Updates Thread

[likeabawss]

2-0 victory in the end for me, with Messi scoring twice. It was in Russia too, and I've already beaten Juve in Italy, so I've got my group all wrapped up.

[mackemforever]

Well I am a few weeks into my first ever real lower league game, playing as Backwell United, and I am enjoying it so far.

You can follow my game here:

Clicky!

First 2 league games resulted in 2 wins, although both were pretty unconvincing.

[Hershie]

Just beat Izarra. Got distracted.

[Deisler26]

Just beat Eibar 3-1.

We're unbeaten in 4.

[likeabawss]

Lol, here are my stats with Barca so far this season

Played 8
Scored 26
Conceded 2
4th top scorer - Ibrahimovic
Xavi - 5 assists (leader)
Messi -4 assists (second)

Won all 8 games so far

[Hershie]

Played 13
Scored 29
Conceded 11

Derlei - 13 games, 14 goals, 4 assists

32 points and 5 points clear

[Deisler26]

Played 15
Scored 18
Conceded 18
Top Scorer: Pierre Achille Webo/Jordan Dupray 5
Top Assists: Guiza 4

[Hershie]

My star CM, weirdly, has been Lauren. Have a good enough DR to put Lauren back into midfield where he started.

[Hershie]

Cultural Leonesa 0-1 Pontevedra

Disasterously lost both of my strikers to injury for the next month though. Moreno and Derlei.

[Deisler26]

3-0 over Alaves.

We've won 4 out of 5 so far and made me jump 5 places.

[likeabawss]

The El Classico is about to start! Hopefully I'll be able to knock a few past Madrid

[likeabawss]

Ah, Messi such a hero. 1-0 up on Madrid

[Hershie]

Pontevedrea 2-2 Lugo

Shockingly wasteful.

[likeabawss]

And now 2-0 through Pedro who scored a goal that looked almost identical to Robben's goal against Man. United, if not better

[likeabawss]

Ended 2-0, it was a great game as well. Both teams had high numbers of shots on target, and I'm really surprised that I kept a clean sheet. There was one play where Raul was played clean through on goal with only the goalkeeper to beat, and he blasted it right at him.

Messi got MotM

[Hershie]

Bilbao Ath 2-1 Pontevedra

Looking awful.

[Deisler26]

4-0 against rivals Levante. We're up to 9th now.

[Hershie]

Pontevedra 4-1 Lemona

1st vs 2nd. Massive win. Gerardo gets his first 3 goals of the season!

Only 5 points clear still - Lemona dropped to 5th. Top 8 are within 10 points of each other.

[Deisler26]

Hersh, I've got Pontevedra now!

Wow. That Pens/Sens matchup was insanely good!

[Hershie]

I've just noticed that I have a very good looking striker called Igor out on loan at Levante and may get him back in a month or so!

Might be too late to register him though.

edit: I can't have non-EU players, but he has only Brazilian nationality. He qualifies for Spain in a few weeks though, so fingers crossed he gets Spanish citizenship soon. Weirdly, his history shows him having played 3 seasons for us previously, with a great return.

[Hershie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_de_Souza



oh, nevermind. He has Portugese. -idiot-

God only knows why they loaned him out. His attributes on the game are immense!

[Hershie]

How the mighty have fallen.

Alaves 1-2 Pontevedra.

How'd your game go Deisler?

[Deisler26]

Drew 1-1 with Pontevedra.

Just couldn't get the team to break through. We were all over them, they had 3 shots, one on target.

[lurkingwithintent]

Any suggestion on improvements?

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...ac/Arsenal.png

About to enter season 3, 30 mil to spend. Just got Pato after he became unsettled via my consistence and also the fact that AC Milan finished 14th in Serie A.

[Hershie]

Into the Christmas break. Looking for a few frees to strengthen my title push.

[Hershie]

imo just go for youngsters, perhaps as long-term options for key positions or those to give a chance in the cups.

[Hershie]

Baseggio to join to strengthen the midfield.

I need more youngsters. 6/22 have to be U23..

[ArsenalFan7]

Which region does Russia belong in on the scouting?

[Hershie]

Eastern Europe iirc.

[ArsenalFan7]

Eastern Europe?

But most of it is in Asia, only about 1/3 of it belongs to Europe right?

Probably not even 1/3 if that

[lurkingwithintent]

Will be staying up for the duration tonight/today. Train journey from Sheffield to Cornwall = sleep time. Now = FM.

Bringing in Sulley Muntari for 20 mil. Last season if we didn't play Fabregas my midfield was a bit short but he would be able to fill the gaps. Absolutely insanely good on FM.

[Hershie]

Baseggio hit the bar with a 30 yarder on his debut.

Cristian Diaz sent off on his.

Sestao 3-0 Pontevedra. Shambolic defending.

[ArsenalFan7]

Does anyone else find that the AI doesn't seem to catch on with buying players and getting the right age of their squad?

I'm seeing alot of 30 year olds still around in teams...

[Hershie]

Ferrol 1-6 Pontevedra

Pretty even game with an insane score.

This team are good when they try..

[Hershie]

Two top quality players have agreed to join in the summer.

Jan Blazek and Botia.

On the hunt for more.

[Hershie]

We're in the playoffs.

iirc there's no auto promotion, but the top 4 enter a playoff. We're well ahead (thanks to a record 12 wins in a row!) and are thus guaranteed a playoff place with about 10 games to spare. 16 points clear at the top with 7 to go.

Weirdly this season we've not been in the Copa del Rey.

[Hershie]

A win (4-3!) vs Izarra, while Lemona lost at Leonesa means we win the league.

[Deisler26]

Lost 2-1 to 19th-placed Gimnastic.

We lost goals to mistakes and their keeper pulled a Gomes in the last 20 mins.

[Hershie]

Uh oh. I registered barely any natural DCs and now, predictably, both my main are injured. Luckily I think they're out for the frankly meaningless end of season games (which I may holiday) but back for the playoffs.

[Hershie]

Only 2 points from our last 3 games. Bad time for a loss of form - need to pick up for the playoffs.

[Hershie]

Only 1 win in our last 6 games of the season.

Playoff time.

[Hershie]

Promoted in the most dramatic way possible.

90+4th minute penalty. 1-1 in the first leg, 1-1 entering stoppage time in the second..

Then this happened.

[Hershie]

Hmm, wait a sec. It said I was promoted, yet now I have a final.

This is confusing.

[Hershie]

Pontevedra 2-0 Poli Ejido
Poli Ejido 3-3 Pontevdra



Shame my team's defending is so poor and my strikers have given up, but who cares now?

[Godlike_Trigger]

Bristol City 2-0 Plymouth

Its just not happening sat outside the relegation spots, De Laet is an absolute shocker of a player, so awful but I need a decent LB

[Hershie]

I wanted to loan De Laet but he chose Southampton. I've had to play the playoffs without centrebacks.

[Godlike_Trigger]

Lucky it wasnt 3 they missed a pen in the first half too

[Godlike_Trigger]

He's so awful, he's been at fault for almost 1 goal a game.

[Godlike_Trigger]

Plymouth 2-0 Ipswich

De Laet doesnt play and we win... amazing

[Hershie]

Just found an awesome assman who was willing to join for hardly any wages. :']

[Godlike_Trigger]

3rd 2-0 result in a row this time losing 2-0 away to middlesborough

[Hershie]

Taking the ambitious approach to signing new players now, hoping our finances hold out.

[Godlike_Trigger]

Drew 1-1 at home to Doncaster.
Zavon Hines finally scores and im finally happy there wasnt another 2-0 even though id rather had won it by that.

[Hershie]

Jan Blazek
Massimilliano Tagliani
Botia
Ariel Ibagaza

In so far.

[dafuge]

Taking the ambitious approach to signing new players now, hoping our finances hold out.

I've always been one to push the boundaries of the finances in the hope of future success. It hasn't backfired, yet...

[dafuge]

Jan Blazek
Massimilliano Tagliani
Botia
Ariel Ibagaza

In so far.

Means absolutely nothing to me, I've never heard of them

[Hershie]

I'm always ridiculously ambitious. High wages for the first team are fine if they're going to perform well enough to pay for themselves. Not looking to spend long in Adelante.

If you're interested:

Jan Blazek - Pacey young Czech striker from Slovan Liberec
Massimilliano Tagliani - Italy U21 DC/DM/MC from Fiorentina
Botia - Spain U21 DC/RB from Barca
Ariel Ibagaza - Argentina capped (who isn't? ) AMLC from Villarreal.

[Hershie]

Three more in.

Julio Cruz
Fabio Celestini
Sashi Chalwe (legend)

[dafuge]

Sounds good

Are you in there with a load of B teams? They can be quite useful for gaining promotion from mid table

[Hershie]

Weirdly I don't think there are any. Some tough teams too. Sociedad and Osasuna amongst others.

We're predicted 17th (out of 22). At least it's a simple promotion system!

[Hershie]

oh yeah.

Salif Diao.

(and Tamir Cohen)

[Godlike_Trigger]

I cant seem to bring anyone decent in... I have all 4 U23 english loanees in cathcart, De Laet, Hines and Judge.
Snapped Richard Hughes on a free from portsmouth

All this happened in the summer, its just a shame I have 2k left in the wage bucket with a grand total of 325k transfer money.

[Hershie]

My team are really old.

[Godlike_Trigger]

Reda Johnson, my Benin CB has managed 3 assists in 2 games in international duty... are they playing him in midfield even though he is "inneffective"?

[Hershie]

Should say where he's being played under 'positions'.

[ArsenalFan7]

I haven't ever had much worse news. And the Spain manager was watching the match to keep an eye on him for his next Spain squad... The world cup is only a few months away aswell...

[Godlike_Trigger]

Zavon hines is on fire... but as per usual im gonna throw this 2-0 lead away.


already 2-1 after 50

[Godlike_Trigger]

Well that was unexpected, went down to 10 men with 20 mins left, and went on to score 5 mins into injury time

[Godlike_Trigger]

Plymouth 3-0 Barnsley

We've strung 2 wins in a row...its not even my birthday.
We do however do our utmost best to not have clean sheets though.

[Godlike_Trigger]

Another 3-0 win at home against a yorkshire team...this one being sheffield utd

[Godlike_Trigger]

4 game unbeaten run comes to an end away to swansea, even though I played my 2nd team. 2-1

[Suggy33]

Just managed a 1-0 away win at CSKA, bit of revenge for the Super Cup defeat.

[dafuge]

I don't mean to be rude, but do we need a post for every result?

I mean, I'm all up for a bit of informal discussion about our games but there's not really a lot we can say in reply to a one off meaningless result. Would it be possible to restrict it to matches/events that might be of a little bit more interest to people?

[Hershie]

Transfers done for the summer I think.

16 players in.

[Hershie]

I don't mean to be rude, but do we need a post for every result?

I mean, I'm all up for a bit of informal discussion about our games but there's not really a lot we can say in reply to a one off meaningless result. Would it be possible to restrict it to matches/events that might be of a little bit more interest to people?

I was thinking earlier I was drifting more towards that so I've already taken it upon myself to only post what's (hopefully) interesting.

[dafuge]

I was thinking earlier I was drifting more towards that so I've already taken it upon myself to only post what's (hopefully) interesting.

I did it in my own thread earlier on, just got a bit carried away with the takeover talk

I made 5 posts in a row

[Suggy33]

Heh, yeah, I'll try to cut down on the mini posts.

I miss the old thread

[Godlike_Trigger]

Pfffffft. Fine.

[Hershie]

First Adelante match is against our only rivals - Celta.

[Godlike_Trigger]

Cracking game against Preston
1-0 up after 8mins
3-1 Down by half time
Finished 3-3

[Hershie]

Celta 3-1 Pontevedra

We were the better team.

[Godlike_Trigger]

3 wins and a draw sends me from 21st to 9th
1 draw and 2 defeats sends me 9th - 15th

The top 6 look already sorted and its only christmas.

[Godlike_Trigger]

Christian Vieri finally scores for me a late equaliser against reading
BWP hit the bar at the death.

[Godlike_Trigger]

Man City only hit 2 past me
keeper saved about 60 shots and got a rating of 6.6.

[ArsenalFan7]

:'( I hate the miraculous team talks. This stopped me from reaching the final of the Champions League... And Rene usest to play for me aswell...

[Cockney Hammer]

Played 6 games in the league and won them all as Arsenal manager in my first season. Not really been hard games have been all against the lower half of the table apart from spurs. Struggled to win away at Doncaster in the league Cup only won 1-0! Only signed one player on loan Sanchez from Udinese who has done alright hes only a youngster but i want to sign him permanently if the price is right. Got 25 mill to spend dont fancy spending any of it at the moment.

[dafuge]

Man City only hit 2 past me
keeper saved about 60 shots and got a rating of 6.6.

Was he at fault for either of the goals?

[Godlike_Trigger]

Nope... my RB was at fault for the 2nd to due to his lack of pace against Adebayor!

[likeabawss]

Just got back from my game. Scored one, assisted 1, but also missed a PK, so I really didn't play that well

Summary of me with Barca so far:

Xavi has by far been my best player. He's got an average of something like 8.05 and assisted 15 goals. Ronaldo won all the awards that year, but Xavi came in second for a bunch.

Messi has been decent for me, which isn't good. I want him to be magical and score tons of goals. Playing him as the advanced playmaker with 'roam from position checked' on the right wing. He's swapping with Pedro and Ibra/Bojan. Anyone got anything else better?

My record:

Pld: 17
Won: 15
Lost: 1
Draw: 1
For: 52
Against: 6
Points: 46

[ArsenalFan7]

Results like these are cruel...



But especially when your team decides to waste a chance like this by running pointlessly down the flank and trying to score from a ridiculously tight angle and hitting the post two minutes earlier... And worstly this result could cost me the title if I don't win the next game and Chelsea do...

[likeabawss]

Another poor performance by Messi. Has anyone got him to work when playing as Barca/different team?

[ArsenalFan7]

Aaaarrrrrghhh!

My former player scored the goal that lost us the premier league and Monti my super defender will now miss the world cup because some Man City so and so injured him for 3-4 months

[ArsenalFan7]

I'm not entirely certain why but alot of my players are being injured for the world cup...

Just had another one... Vidal decided to ruin someone's opportunity to go to the world cup by injuring him in training.

Time to sell Vidal...

[Cockney Hammer]

11 games now played top of the league by 3 points. Got a game in hand over 2nd so i can hopefully go more points clear. Sanchez has been amazing on the wings him and arshavin or walcott terrorising defensse. Diaby is doing well , fabregas is amazing along with Van Persie am enjoying it so far can hopefully win the league and maybe the league cup as well, am away to Leeds in the quarter finals.

[Hershie]

Back from an evening out.

Almeria 3-2 Pontevedra

Drunken FM can't go well..

[Hershie]

We're doing really ****.

[Hershie]

I don't get this team.

5 games, 1 point.. then 2-0 win vs Osasuna.

[Cardiomolester]

Took a massive risk in my Liverpool save by flogging off Fernando Torres before the season starts for £29M.

He was injuried quite a bit and I now have 4 strikers competing for the lone roles;

Aymeric Garnier - he's our newest recruit from St Etienne for a compensation fee of £3M, potentially rising to 8.

Romelu Lukaku - Speaks for himself.

Sani Adams - Great looking player imo.

and finally Óliver Morales - Was one of my first signings and has improved alot since I bought him. He's rated the best striker but for a Complete Forward role, I'm not sure.

Did I make the right choice? Who is Nando's replacement?

[dire_f]

Took a massive risk in my Liverpool save by flogging off Fernando Torres before the season starts for £29M.

He was injuried quite a bit and I now have 4 strikers competing for the lone roles;

Aymeric Garnier - he's our newest recruit from St Etienne for a compensation fee of £3M, potentially rising to 8.

Romelu Lukaku - Speaks for himself.

Sani Adams - Great looking player imo.

and finally Óliver Morales - Was one of my first signings and has improved alot since I bought him. He's rated the best striker but for a Complete Forward role, I'm not sure.

Did I make the right choice? Who is Nando's replacement?

Only £29m for Torres? :O

Hulk is epic and should be able to fill his shoes well tho.

[likeabawss]

Ugh, some player from Athletic scored a late equalizer that was clearly offside. I complained about it in the later press conference, and I was right! Incompetent fools. Now Real Madrid is going to be able to grab a foothold in the title race.