FM 2009: Official Hamburger SV thread - Die Rothosen

First of all welcome to the official Hamburger SV thread for Football Manager 2009, ready to see if you can take this big German club back to the big time?

A short summary:

Hamburger Sport-Verein is a German multi sport club ("Traditionsverein") based in Hamburg, its largest branch is the football department. The football team is one of the country's oldest, most well known and best performing clubs, with the unique distinction of having played continuously in top-flight German football since the end of World War I.

Major club honours:

German First Division Winners: 1923, 1928, 1960, 1979, 1982, 1983

German First Division Runner Up: 1924, 1957,1958, 1976, 1980, 1981

Third placed: 2000, 2006

German Cup Winners: 1963, 1976, 1987

German Cup Runner Up: 1956, 1967, 1974

German League Cup Winners: 2003

European Champions Cup Winners: 1983

European Champions Cup Runner Up: 1980

European Cup Winners Cup: 1977

Runner Up: 1968

EURO Cup Runner Up: 1982

Club Legends:

Kevin Keegan, Uwe Seeler, Manfred Kaltz, Horst Hrubesch

Club icons:

Felix Magath, Jorg Albertz, Thomas Doll

Club Information:

Full name: Hamburger SV

Nicknames: HSV, Die Rothosen

Nation: Germany

Founded: 1887

Status: Professional

Reputation: National

Chairman Status: Loves the club

Fierce Rivals: Werder Bremen

Other Rivals: St Pauli, FC Bayern

Finances: Secure

Average Ticket Price: £38

Average Season Ticket Price: £381

Season Ticket Holders: 34,600

Estimated Value: £81 million (loan debt £63 million)

Continental Competition: EURO Cup

Media Prediction: 4th

Board Expectations:

On the 9.3 patch, you have two choices, the first is "title challenge" and the second is "title winner", you are given very limited resources for both, in the first case, £0 to spend whilst £700K is given for your wage budget, the current amount of wages being given to the players amasses to just less than that.

Current squad, their value and their current rating:

GK Wolfgang Hesl - £210K - *

GK Frank Rost - £1.9M - ****

GK Sashca Kirschstein* - £1.3M - N/A

GK Khalid Sinouh - £525K - **

DR Guy Demel - £2.7M - ***

DR Collin Benjamin - £1.2M - **

DR Volker Schmidt - £75K - *

DC Alex Silva - £3.1M - ****

DC Joris Mathijsen - £4.2M - ****

DC Bastian Reinhardt - £300K - ***

DC Michael gravgaard* - £2.7M - ***

DL Jéróme Boateng - £4M - ***

DL Timothée Atouba - £2.1M - ***

DL Marcell Jansen - £3.3M - ***

MR David Jarolim - £4.7M - ****

MR Rafael Kazior* - £325K - *

MR Albert Streit* - £2.9M - ***

MR Otto Addo - £4.7M - ****

MR Romeo Castelen - £2.6M - **

DM Dennis Agogo - £3M - ***

DM Tomas Rincon* - £70K - **

DM Mickael Tavares - £2.2M - ***

ML Marcel Ddjeng* - £2M - ***

ML Jonathan Pitroipa - £2.4M - ***

ML Piotr Trochovski - £4.4M - ***

FW Ivica Olic - £4M - ****

FW Maxim Choupo-Moting - £2M - **

FW Mladen Petric - £2M - **

FW José Paolo Guerrero - £3.6M - ***

* - Indicates a player is on loan to another club.

* - Indicates the player is on loan from another club.

* - Indicates player is transfer listed at the start of the game.

As you can see the squad is very big, you can sell some of the dead wood to raise the transfer budget, who you decide to sell is upto you!

This game is definately a challenge when you consider the board expectations, so for those of you who decide to take it, good luck! And let us know how you get on!

If you have any idea's as to how to improve the OP then just say so.

Nice OP.

Cheers mate.

Good OP. Good luck with your game

Cheers pal, I will hopefully get some screenshots up soon.

Nice OP mate.

How did you do in your game?

And who do you advice to sell?

I took over Hamburger in March, when they were in 13th place. Olic, Thiago and Boateng were gone, but I got them to 7th place.

Then I left for Norwich, because I only got £5m to buy players for in the summer.