the--dud Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 FC Sochaux-Montbéliard, do you want a proper challenge in FM09? Well here's the team for you! In real life they are sitting in 19th position in Ligue 1 as I'm writing this, with only one win this season. To put it blunty you have a Ligue 2 team in Ligue 1, where you're gonna struggle to find players with higher than 16 stats for anything. But it really is a proper fun challenge, and you're given an OK transfer budget. An interesting thing to note is that your stadium is a good size, but it can actually house 70% of the town's population. Must be a football mad little town! You can be their hero and save this team from certain relegation! Town of Montbéliard: Montbéliard is a commune in the Doubs department in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France. It is one of the two sub-prefectures of the department. After the French Revolution, it was briefly incorporated into the Rauracian Republic. In 1793 the town was annexed to France, which was confirmed in 1796 and by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1806, when Württemberg was compensated with other areas, and became a kingdom. As a consequence of the former rule under the dukes of Württemberg, it has been for centuries one of the few Protestant (specifically Lutheran) enclaves in France The main manufacturing plant of Peugeot is partly located in Montbéliard and the industrialist Peugeot family is a Protestant family from the vicinity of Montbéliard. Even though I've never been there, I don't think there is too much you can say about this small town inhabited by 28,766 people. Although their castle looks very nice... FC Sochaux-Montbéliard: Full name: Football Club Sochaux-Montbéliard Nickname(s): Les Lionceaux Founded: 1928 Ground: Stade Auguste Bonal, Montbéliard (Capacity: 20,005) Chairman: Jean-Claude Plessis Manager: Francis Gillot League: 2007/08 Ligue 1, 14th FC Sochaux was founded in 1928 as a works team for the Peugeot motor car factory in the village of Sochaux. The following year, Sochaux's management sought to attract talented players from around Europe to become France's first professional soccer club.Results soon followed as Sochaux captured the 1935 and 1938 league championships. In the post-war era, the FCSM saw its stature in French soccer steadily diminish from a league heavyweight to a middle-of-the-table performer relying more on its excellent youth development program than on the substantial budgets of yore. Although rarely relegated to the second division, Sochaux would not hoist a major trophy until 2004's Coupe de la Ligue. The current renaissance of les lionceaux ("the lion cubs") has seen the club finish in the top half of the Ligue 1 table three years running and compete in the UEFA Cup, as well as acquire French Cup in 2007. It is recognized as one of the very best sources of young talent in France, with players like Benoît Pedretti and Pierre-Alain Frau finding their way to top clubs and the French national team. Squad: As mentioned earlier, your team is very weak, quite possibly on of the weakest in Ligue 1. You don't really have any stars, and even your captain isn't very good. However, on the bright side there is a couple of players that should be able to provide decent service for you... Goalkeepers GK - Teddy Richert* GK - Matthieu Dreyer^ GK - Jérémy Gavanon Defenders DRC - Jacques Faty DR/WBR - Stéphane Pichot DC - Damien Perquis* DC/DMC/MC - Hakim El Bounadi DLC/WBL/DMC/MC - Carlão DL/WBL/ML - Bojan Jokič DRL/WBRL - Frédéric Duplus^ (in reserves) Midfielders DMC/MC - Valéry Mézague DMC/MC - Romain Pitau DMC/MC - Loïc Poujol DMC/MC - Badara Sène* MLC - Stépane Dalmat AMRL - Ryad Boudebouz^ AMRLC - Michaël Isabey AMR - Vincent Nogueira ALC - Nicolas Maurice-Belay AMC - Marvin Martin Forwards AMR/ST - Valter Birsa FC - Álvaro Santos ST - Edouard Butin ST - Mevlüt Erdinç* ST - Santos The players marked with ^ are promising and capable youngster, the ones with * are important and established players. In my opinion of course... Players out: (Most important transfers, not complete) DC - Boukary Dramé (loan Real Sociedad)) MC - Guirane N'Daw (FC Nantes) ST - Moumouni Dagano (Al-Khour) ST - Robin Previtali (loan CS Louhans-Cuiseaux) Souchaux hasn't really done much in terms of transfers, apart from getting rid of some dead-wood. Although letting N'Daw go to Nantes might have been a mistake. State of Affairs As mentioned a couple of times, you squad needs to serious shaking up if you're going to survive in Ligue 1. I can't stress this enough. Ever area of the field needs to be improved, perhaps apart from your goalkeeper. Teddy Richert is a good goalkeeper, FC Bayern wanted to sign him on my save. You're in dire need of some defenders and you absolutely need to get a quality strikers as the once you have are quite bad. Realistically, this is always going to be a relegation battle. Even with good signings most games are going to be touch and go. But prove everyone wrong and excell with Souchaux! Best Established Player Teddy Richert - GK Teddy Richert (born 21 September 1974 in Avignon is a French football goalkeeper, currently playing for FC Sochaux-Montbéliard. He is regarded as one of the best keepers in France. Playing for Toulouse FC for eight years, he was signed for Bordeaux in 1999 where he was never successful, he went on loan for the 2000/2001 season at Lille Olympique Sporting Club in an attempt to revive his career, where he was a victim of a terrible knee injury that kept him out for the full season. It was Sochaux that managed to relaunch his career. Signed for Souchaux in 2001, Teddy Richert is fast becoming an idol at Stage Bonal. He won Souchaux the French Coupe de la Ligue trophy in 2004 and Coupe de France in 2007 making vital saves. In the 2006/07 season he was awarded by being elected by his peers as the best goalkeeper in Ligue 1, thus ending the hegemony of Lyon Grégory Coupet. His stats on FM09 might be slightly under-rated compared to the status he enjoys in France but he is still a very decent goal keeper. He's getting old so he shouldn't have the same stats as many years ago, but I still feel his stats should have been a bit better Best Young Player Frédéric Duplus - DR/WBR Duplus has been with Souchaux since 2005. He made his highly anticipated professional debut in Sochaux's 3rd round 1-0 win over Olympique Marseille in the 2008-09 edition of the Coupe de la Ligue coming on as a substitute playing 11 minutes. He made his league debut on October 29, 2008 against Olympique Lyonnais, however he was substituted out after only playing 32 minutes Duplus was a member of the France squad that participated in the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup helping France reach the quarter-finals before being eliminated by Spain. He is currently playing on the France U-19 squad. He made his debut participating in the opening match of the 2008 Sendaï Cup. (Sorry about the poor picture, but it was the best I could find...) On FM08, Duplus was one of those French youngster that you always tried to sign for the future and he still is. He's got amazing potental, and is regarded extremely highly in real life as well. He looks to be another amazing youth that's came out of Sochaux. Previous gems that Sochaux has produced includes: Benoït Pedretti, Karim Ziani, El-Hadji Diouf and Abdel Djaadaoui. Misc...:: If you feel I've said something wrong or picked the wrong people or whatever, please shout out. As always, any comments/corrections/feedback more than welcome, don't hesitate to get involved! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestroik Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Valter Birsa used to be quite good on 8.0.2. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the--dud Posted November 11, 2008 Author Share Posted November 11, 2008 Valter Birsa used to be quite good on 8.0.2. He's been downgraded a bit, he'd probably be an amazing striker for tier 2 if you know what I mean... But he can give you decent service I suppose, but he's not a star striker... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the--dud Posted November 13, 2008 Author Share Posted November 13, 2008 I take it not a lot of people are interested in the challenge of Sochaux then? Any one gonna start a game with them tomorrow? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonTheGTFCFan Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 I'm probably going to start with Nancy, so came in here to see if there was any tips for signings in Ligue 1. Not to worry ....... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iolodavanki Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Erm, Sochaux are top of the table in second season (I play as PSG) and Birsa and Mevlut Erdinc are banging them in. It convinced me to buy Erdinc for £11.5M in january window (2nd season) and he has been a revelation for me as well. even by March 12th 2010, they are still top. I think they will be overrun now though. Their stars (beside their attackers) are Jacqeus Faty, Francois Marqué, Damien Perquis, Osmar Ferreyra and Mota. All but Perquis were bought by Sochaux during the game. Just som inspiration for you if you think Sochaux are hopeless! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the--dud Posted December 31, 2008 Author Share Posted December 31, 2008 Hehe, that's quite cool iolodavanki Funny because purely based on his stats Erdinc looks quite average... But there's without doubt hope for Sochaux that's good to know! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisandro Lopez Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Hehe, that's quite cool iolodavanki Funny because purely based on his stats Erdinc looks quite average... But there's without doubt hope for Sochaux that's good to know! Valter Birsa is actually quite decent even though he doesn't look that impressive stat wise. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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