Sticking with the red side of the force

[nie jem frytek]

Hi everyone! I've decided to start my own FM Career Update thread. As I'm not native English speaker and not best writer at all it won't be much text here and no background history. Rather screens and screens. :P However I'll try to improve my English by this thread. Pointing out errors will be welcomed here gratefully (not sure with this sentence). I hope you'll have fun watching this thread!

Leagues Loaded

England - Conference N/S
Scotland - Third Division

Career goals

- to become best manager in history
- score 147 goals in one season in top club
- to lose World Cup final twice
- reach at least second place in FIFA rankings with England
- to have a lot of fun

My first club will be...


Chelmsford City FC



General
Facilities
Squad
Manager profile

[nie jem frytek]

History

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Season    Club                  League             Position    FA Cup      FA Trophy    Achievements
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2011/12   Chelmsford City FC    Conference South   4th         2nd round   Runners-up   Lost in play-off final
2012/13   Chelmsford City FC    Conference South   3rd         1st round   1st round    Lost in play-off semifinal
2013/14   Chelmsford City FC    Conference South   1st         1st round   2nd round    Promotion!
2014/15   Chelmsford City FC    Conference         15th        -           -            Sacked after 4 matches
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Season    Club                  League             Position    FA Cup      League Cup   FL Trophy   FA Trophy   Achievements
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2014/15   Darlington FC         Conference         13th(13th)   1st round   N/A          N/A         3rd round   Hired after gameweek 11
2015/16   Darlington FC         Conference         3rd         3rd round   N/A          N/A         1st round   Promotion after play-offs!
2016/17   Darlington FC         League Two         15th        1st round   1st round    N 1st round N/A         Signed by Crewe after 19 league fixtures
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Season    Club                  League             Position    FA Cup      League Cup   FL Trophy   Achievements
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2016/17   Crewe Alexandra       League Two         4th(17th)    -           -            -           Promotion via play-offs!
2017/18   Crewe Alexandra       League One         16th        3rd round   1st round    North Final -
2018/19   Crewe Alexandra       League One         23rd        2nd round   3rd round    N Quarters  Relegation... and sacked
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Season    Club                  League             Position    FA Cup      League Cup   FL Trophy   Achievements
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2019/20   Millwall FC           League One         17th        5th round   1st round    S 1st round -
2020/21   Millwall FC           League One         5th         2nd round   2nd round    S 2nd round Lost in play-off semifinal
2021/22   Millwall FC           League One         9th         1st round   1st round    S Quarters  Sacked after gameweek 34
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Season    Club                  League             Position    FA Cup      League Cup   FL Trophy   Achievements
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2022/23   Notts County FC       League One         2nd         1st round   3rd round    N 2nd round Promotion!
2023/24   Notts County FC       Championship       19th        5th round   2nd round    -           -
2024/25   Notts County FC       Championship       17th        -           2nd round    -           Signed by Cardiff after gameweek 23
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Season    Club                  League             Position    Europa League    FA Cup      League Cup   Achievements
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2025/26   Everton FC            Premier League     11th(17th)   -                Runner-up   -            Hired after gameweek 20
2026/27   Everton FC            Premier League     -   x                x  x            -

[nie jem frytek]

Trophy Cabinet

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Chelmsford City FC
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2013/14 - Conference South
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Darlington FC
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2015/16 - Conference Play-offs
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Crewe Alexandra
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2016/17 - League Two Play-offs

[nie jem frytek]

Only one free transfer. Nsaku was recomended to me by my scout and, as he has 5 stars potential, I decided to snap him.



Fair friendlies, bad start to the season and then some thrashing. Hope we'll keep the form through next games.



Good position to attack.

[nie jem frytek]

We've made two further free transfers. Again it's my scout's job.



No draws at all. We're becoming uncompromising team. Two defeats in important matches, but fantastic display in FA Cup qualifying rounds. We've already eliminated team from higher league and advanced to main rounds of FA Cup!



Still good position, though rivals are performing even better. Will be tough challenge for promotion spots.

[wearesporting]

Don't worry about grasp of the language. Best of luck and have fun!

[Jason the Yank]

Aye, your English is better than my .... not-English.

[SRL88]

Solid start mate.

[deltablue]

- to lose World Cup final twice

Aiming high

[B.W.G]

Good start,hope you can keep up that impressive form.

[nie jem frytek]

Don't worry about grasp of the language. Best of luck and have fun!

Aye, your English is better than my .... not-English.

Solid start mate.

Good start,hope you can keep up that impressive form.

Thanks for support!

Aiming high

It's something like an inside joke and I don't want to fulfill this goal actually. If I advance to the final I'll do my best to win it.

We've been eliminated from FA Cup by third tier Brentford, but advancing to the second round was our success. Terrible form in December unfortunately dropped us from top 5 in the league.



Still not time to panic, but after a half of the season we aren't in the position we want to be. We definetely need to perform better after that three loses in a row. Hope we can do it.

[nie jem frytek]

My first big comeback. And we've been down to 10 men! Hope this is a good sign for the future.





What do you think about it? If they offer me a job should I accept it?

[nie jem frytek]

Nothing came and I stayed in Chelmsford. In January and February we've been fantastic losing only one game and going up in the table. Strong run from us in FA Trophy too and we've been already in semifinals against Mansfield Town.

[nie jem frytek]

We've advanced to the final of FA Trophy. And look what Yann Nsaku did in this semifinal!



Youth Intake



And two best players in there.

[deltablue]

The force is strong with these ones.

[nie jem frytek]

Yes, but I'll rather be in better club without them, as it's not a one club career.

Well... end of the season wasn't good. We've lost two finals in a space of 5 days! What a shame. Maybe it was too much for us and we should have been concentrated on only one of them...

FA Trophy Final

Play-off Final





Squad



Top 5 Players

5. Sam Corcoran
4. Yann Nsaku
3. Adam Tann
2. Damian Casalinuovo
1. Ricky Modeste

[deltablue]

Bad luck in the playoff final.

[SRL88]

Ahhhh such a shame .

[nie jem frytek]

After dissapointing finish of the last season I've decided to rebuild the squad "a little". We'll see 10 new faces in Chelmsford for 2012/13 season. On the other hand 10 players left us. At last we have decent keeper and more depth in both defence and attack.



Squad



Not too much to talk about friendlies. Unexpectedly we lost to our own reserves with a brace from Femi Hutchings.

[nie jem frytek]

Crazy result. Never had such game and I'm playing FM since 2007.

[nie jem frytek]

Fantastic start of the season then injury crisis causing two further transfers, quit exit from FA Trophy and good end of the year. Well, perhaps I have to hire a new physio.

[nie jem frytek]

Again we are losing form in the most important part of the season. Hope we can win promotion this time.

Further transfers and player we sold

Youth Intake





Fixtures and table

[nie jem frytek]

This time we lost in play-off's semifinal. Not sure if I'm staying in Chelmsford for next year.

Fixtures



Table



Squad



Top 5 players

Not much of change compared to the last season.

5. David Rainford
4. Yann Nsaku
3. Ricky Modeste
2. Adam Tann
1. Damian Casalinuovo

[deltablue]

Darn, more playoff disappointment.

[nie jem frytek]

I've stayed in Chelmsford. There wasn't any offers apart from Chelmsford's one.

Transfers



Squad at the start of the season



Fixtures



Table



Hopefully this time we can win this league. After half of the league fixtures we have exactly half of the points which were needed for 1st place in last two seasons. Our goal is another 41 in 21!

[Deisler26]

Ahh, Jamil Adam. The non-league favourite!

[nie jem frytek]

Ahh, Jamil Adam. The non-league favourite!

I hired a new scout and he recommended him immediately. As well as Richie Barroilhet.



I've made only one free transfer in January, a quite good backup for both side of the defence.



Youth intake was poor this year.

We're surely scoring a lot of goals this year...

...but we recently lost 1st place in the league.

[deltablue]

Jamil Adam <3 Definitely giving you a boost for most of the season so far.

[nie jem frytek]

Would've been great news if not that I'm losing my best defender at the day of the most important match in my career, an away game versus Tonbridge. :/

[nie jem frytek]

This match shows what Yann Nsaku means for us.




6 points behind the leader. Another play-offs?

[nie jem frytek]

Promotion!!!

It sound unbelievable after being 6 points behind Tonbridge with only 6 matches to go, but Tonbridge had lost 5 last fixtures!


Last Fixtures



Table



Squad



Top 5 players
At last new faces here.

5. James Gray
4. Richie Barroilhet
3. Jose Madureira
2. Yann Nsaku
1. Jamil Adam

[nie jem frytek]

It came completely out of the blue and in fact Chelmsford City FC doesn't need new stadium. Not yet.

[deltablue]

Great work coming back and getting top.

[nie jem frytek]

Great work coming back and getting top.

Actually it was Tonbridge. They've continued to struggle and lost in play-off semifinals. I'm predicted to finish 20th next season, just above relegation places. Hovewer I believe we can do much better!

[nie jem frytek]

Let's start the 2014/2015 season!

Transfers

Squad before first kick-off



Friendlies and first matches in Conference



Table after first 4 fixtures








But...














I got sacked. I have no idea why...

[Helginho]

Very, very harsh.

[Razer82]

That's a very harsh sacking, you were doing alright for your first season after promotion.

Hopefully you'll be able to find another job quickly.

[nie jem frytek]

On 2nd October 2014 Darlington FC hired Allister Carter as their Manager! It was their third attempt to do so. It means that they really wanted me, but from the other hand it means it is really hot "hot seat".

Allister Carter's Profile and Overview

My second club is...



Darlington FC






General
Facilities
Squad
League Table

[nie jem frytek]

Long unbeaten run on the go!



8 points to promotion play-offs, 8 points to relegation zone. Everything can happen now.


Youth Intake



Craig Davison and Jonathan Walton

[nie jem frytek]

We were on 13th place when I got the job and we finished season on 13th. At least higher than my previous team - Chelmsford City FC.

Fixtures



Nothing special to say.

Table



Squad



Top 5 players
Nothing special at all.

5. Ashley Martin
4. Kevin Kerr
3. Paris Cowan-Hall
2. Danny Green
1. Darren Horn

Many players don't want to sign a new contract end, as we in debt, I don't see future in bright colors.

[Razer82]

Well done on the massive unbeaten run.

Good to see you finish above the team that didn't want you anymore. Show them what they're missing out on.

[nie jem frytek]

Well done on the massive unbeaten run.

Thanks!

Board provide cash injection so I managed to keep most of Darlo's best players

Transfers



Friendlies



Some big games means some big gate receipts!

Squad



I can see quality in there!

and we are starting a season away from home against my previous team Chelmsford City FC.

[nie jem frytek]

Serious fight for promotion!

[Razer82]

Nice to hand your old a team a first defeat in their new stadium.

Good luck for the rest of the season, fingers crossed you'll still be in the playoff places come the end of it.

[nie jem frytek]

Nice to hand your old a team a first defeat in their new stadium.

Good luck for the rest of the season, fingers crossed you'll still be in the playoff places come the end of it.

Yeah, I still can't believe they sacked me. I think that play-off spot is possible to achieve.

Youth Intake



Jordan Cowans

Fixtures



Rather poor run.



Compared to last fixtures we still have good position.

[cerud]

Just caught up to this. Good to see you in playoff contention. An improving form may still see you win the league yet!

[nie jem frytek]

Just caught up to this. Good to see you in playoff contention. An improving form may still see you win the league yet!

It unlikely because Newport County played 4 matches less than us, so they have to do the Tonbridge from 2013/14 to let us win this league.

[nie jem frytek]

Third time lucky!!!

Play-off final

Allister Carter wins promotion through play-offs at third attempt!

Fixtures



Table



Squad



Top 5 players

Horn will be out of contract soon and Darlington might (or may?) not be able to afford his demands.

5. Ashley Martin
4. Ehsan Zamani
3. Paris Cowan-Hall
2. Franck Guela
1. Darren Horn



We won promotion to League Two, but I could leave. Gillingham - recently relegated to League Two - are after me and they have better view on the future.

[deltablue]

Well done on going up again.

[PaulHartman71]

agree with Jason The Yank's earlier post, your "not English" is much better than mine! Nice work in getting promotion, enjoy the challenges of the football league if you stay at Darlington!

[B.W.G]

That was a poor sacking by the Chelmsford board but you've done incredibly well with Darlington and congratulations on winning promotion!

[Razer82]

That was a poor sacking by the Chelmsford board but you've done incredibly well with Darlington and congratulations on winning promotion!

Says it all really.

Good to see you getting promoted & Chelmsford relegated.

[Lenzar]

Your name is Allister Carter? You'll be fine unless a Mr. O'Sullivan turns up.

[cerud]

Great job on promotion! I'm also happy to see Chelmsford drop down as the first team I ever managed was Braintree years ago. Haven't liked Chelmsford since

[nie jem frytek]

Well done on going up again.

agree with Jason The Yank's earlier post, your "not English" is much better than mine! Nice work in getting promotion, enjoy the challenges of the football league if you stay at Darlington!

That was a poor sacking by the Chelmsford board but you've done incredibly well with Darlington and congratulations on winning promotion!

Good to see you getting promoted & Chelmsford relegated.

Great job on promotion! I'm also happy to see Chelmsford drop down as the first team I ever managed was Braintree years ago. Haven't liked Chelmsford since

Thanks guys!

Your name is Allister Carter? You'll be fine unless a Mr. O'Sullivan turns up.

Yes, my manager's name is Allister Carter. And I started in Chelmsford.

I rejected offer from Gillingham and decided to stay in Darlington.

Transfers

Friendlies

Big friendlies, big money, big defeats. We're on black at once!

Squad at the start of the season

and first fixture of the season. Another crazy result.

[nie jem frytek]

Fixtures



Bad start of the season, quick quit in cups and some good unbeaten runs recently.

Table



8 places to play-offs, 8 places to relegation. We're predicted to finish season on 16th so it's as it should be.

Squad



Darren Horn is a hell of a footballer, Cowan-Hall amazes me again and big rotation on goal.


Hovewer...















Allister Carter is heading to Crewe!

[cerud]

Crewe is roughly the same position as you in the table. Is it just the case of an unpeforming squad?

[nie jem frytek]

Crewe is roughly the same position as you in the table. Is it just the case of an unpeforming squad?

They're simply a bigger club and I just felt it's time to move. Darlo has young squad, hope they won't waste it like Chelmsford did.

My third club is...


Crewe Alexandra



Club General
Club Facilities
Manager's Overview
Manager's Profile

[Razer82]

Bit of a strange choice of new job, seeing as you're around the same position in the league at Darlington.

Hopefully you'll quickly go shooting up the table.

[deltablue]

Potentially good move.

[cerud]

I agree, a good move. The club is already established at this level and the move up should be easier.

[nie jem frytek]

It was definitely good move! Crewe is no longer underachieving.

Fixtures



A slight false start, but from then Crewe is playing fantastic football.

Table




And Youth Intake with some nice prospects.



Jamie Wright
Matthew Bennett

[B.W.G]

Fantastic start to life at Crewe.Hope you can keep that form up and claim a playoff spot.

[PaulHartman71]

Great start to life at Crewe and with Darlington considerably behind looks like you made the right choice in moving

[deltablue]

Looks like you have really got them playing well.

[nie jem frytek]

Crewe earned promotion throught play-offs!

Fixtures



Table



Squad



Top 5 players

Big names, unfortunately some on loan...

5. Luke Varney
4. Sead Hajrovic
3. Kruno Ivancic
2. Billy Sharp
1. Kevin Gibson

[deltablue]

Hope you can survive the loanees.

[nie jem frytek]

Friendlies

Transfers



I've decided to sign my old friend from Chelmsford! Hope that Adam can do it on this level.

Squad at the start of the season



My assistant unfortunately likes to overrate our players.

Fixtures



Not bad at all and again long unbeaten (this time only winning) streak.

Table



Safe mid-table finish is exactly what we want.

[cerud]

Adam is still rated highly for this league. Hope he's able to contribute.

[nie jem frytek]

Fixtures



Terrible form...

Table



Only 9 points to relegation.

Youth Intake



Neil Parsons
Mario Fitzsimmons

[noikeee]

Skimmed through this thread right now. Interesting choices of career moves so far, twice you've gone from a club to another club in roughly similar position, but with a bigger name and structure. Slowly climbing up the leagues, and you've already been through quite a few levels, keep it up.

[nie jem frytek]

keep it up.

I promise I'll do.

Fixtures



Table



Squad



Young squad with good view on the future, however we need a striker. We can't loan Sharp forever.

Top 5 Players

Kevin Gibson is a beast. Amazing 31 assist in a season!

5. Tom Eaves
4. Chris Jubb
3. Billy Sharp
2. Joseph Debayo
1. Kevin Gibson

[cerud]

Are you able to buy Sharp outright? Possibly work out a loan deal with an end purchase price?

[nie jem frytek]

His contract at Bolton just expired but he doesn't wants to talk with Crewe. And I actually cannot sign anyone for money, my only non-free transfer was Ehsan Zamani for Darlington. I can say that now I have acquired him for free to Crewe. He's not very good for that level but in Crewe there aren't many good central midfielders and we can actually afford his wage demands. And that's not the end; I also signed Darren Horn another player from Darlo. He was one goal short of becoming their league top scorer in history, but didn't want to sign new contract there.

[nie jem frytek]

Transfers



Two CM loans and two free transfers from Darlington. We have a good striker at last, but still only average centre midfielders.

Friendlies



As usual, some friendlies for money, some for better morale.

Squad



Even younger than in previous season.

[SRL88]

Neil Parsons
Mario Fitzsimmons[/center]

Neil Parson's looks brilliant.

[nie jem frytek]

I'll rather let him go at the end of the season.

[nie jem frytek]

It's a disaster!

[nie jem frytek]

Still in relegation zone and poor youth intake.

[cerud]

That's one hell of a diffucult bottom of the table! You can still save yourself

[nie jem frytek]

Second season syndrome?

Crap, we've got relegated...

Fixtures



Table



Squad



Top 5 players

5. Chris Hogg
4. Joseph Debayo
3. Jamil Adam
2. Darren Horn
1. Kevin Gibson

[nie jem frytek]

[nie jem frytek]

I wasn't waiting long for an offer.





My fourth club is...


Millwall FC



Carter's Overview
Carter's Profile
Millwall's General
Millwall's Facilities

[markyosullivan]

Your name is Allister Carter? You'll be fine unless a Mr. O'Sullivan turns up.

What's this about a Mr. O'Sullivan? You guys talking about me?

Read through this, very good read! Good luck with Millwall, one of the most hated clubs in the country

[deltablue]

Shame about Crewe.

[nie jem frytek]

What's this about a Mr. O'Sullivan? You guys talking about me?

No, unless your name is Ronnie.

Read through this, very good read! Good luck with Millwall, one of the most hated clubs in the country

Thanks. If I can make them even more hated I'd be really happy.

Shame about Crewe.

Nine defeats in a row is my new record at FM.

[nie jem frytek]

Transfers



9 out - 9 in.

Friendlies



Squad



Most players are English, but we have players from Uganda and Mayotte too!

[nie jem frytek]

Fixtures



Not bad at all.

Table



Closer to play-off spots than relegation's ones. Like it.

[markyosullivan]

Looks like the most famous player in your squad is Steve Sidwell. Nice start to the league

[cerud]

Great start to the season, especially since Milwall barely avoided relegation themselves last season.

[nie jem frytek]

Looks like the most famous player in your squad is Steve Sidwell. Nice start to the league

Great start to the season, especially since Milwall barely avoided relegation themselves last season.

Thanks for support!

Fixtures



Table



We won't get relegated, are we?

Youth Intake



Nothing to get excited even if it is 4 stars.

[markyosullivan]

Good start with Millwall. Guessing you'll be trying to sneak into the playoffs next season?

[nie jem frytek]

We'll see, however my main objective will be to not get relegated.

Fixtures



Horrible. One win in 16 matches...

Table



At least we're staying in League One

Squad



Top 5 players

5. David Gigliotti
4. Tamika Mkandawire
3. Ishmael Miller
2. Ravel Morrison
1. Martyn Waghorn

[deltablue]

Managed to survive though.

[nie jem frytek]

Transfers



Friendlies



Even at friendlies we are crap. Crap. Not only against big teams, but also agains teams like Ebbsfleet or Guiseley.

Squad

Possibly no updates till July.

[markyosullivan]

What happened during the friendlies? No updates until July?

[cerud]

Yikes...those friendly matche are something to worry about...

[SRL88]

Ouch. Some spankings there.

[nie jem frytek]

I'm back.

Fixtures

Table



Squad



Poor Youth Intake

Top 5 players

5. Jose Madureira
4. Adam Olszewski
3. Sofiane Amrane
2. Ravel Morrison
1. Gary Hooper


I've decided to do minimalistic seasonal updates.

[noikeee]

Doing much better now, after that.. erm.. unfortunate turn of events with Crewe. Great improvement over last season too, I want to see Millwall in the Championship next season, keep pushing.