BoxToBox Posted February 27, 2015 Author Share Posted February 27, 2015 The World Is Romas! England got knocked out in the group stages again, in the harshest way possible. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Congrats on winning World Cup Surprised to see Chile finished bottom Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted February 27, 2015 Author Share Posted February 27, 2015 Congrats on winning World Cup Surprised to see Chile finished bottom That was strange, it was an odd cup all round. Spain also went out in the groups coincidentally, but they had Germany and Brazil in theirs, and it was but an extra time goal away from Denmark being the other team in the final. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted February 27, 2015 Author Share Posted February 27, 2015 Pre season update. Season 9 Expectations Serie A: Win the league. Champions League: Win the cup. TIM Cup: Not important Italy Nations League: Win the league. As you were, heh. CL group is nasty, Bayern, Man Utd and Malmo. Transfers Out. Alessio Cerci: Retired. Daniele De Rossi: 0, to AC Milan. This goes through, the fans and board loose the plot at me. Nothing I could have done about it, I wanted to keep him. Domenico Criscito: terminated. Had a year left, and no one interested, but I wanted to stick with the all HG or better squad. Ciro Natali: 21m, to Real Madrid. Great rotation option with was mighty in the air, but I had a youngster in reserve about as good as him, with world class potential who I wanted to step up to the first team. In. None. Only one good youth in the intake this year. Yet another CB with weak Jumping Reach...... This time I'm going to try and grow it for a change. This is how the squad stands this season Starters Politi Florenzi------------------------------Melis Casale--------Guglione Zanini Napoli-----Romagnoli-----Nicolini----Bettini Martinelli Secondary Bovio(Nanni) Lucchetta------------------------------Di Marco Antonini--------Montanarai Fioretti Paoletti-----Croci-----Zanetti----Bonechi Finardi Martinelli quickly took over first choice between the sticks, he's nothing special, but decent. I've never seen a player recover from a broken leg like Bovio has, quite near zero impact on him. Nanni doesn't deserve to be dropped to the reserves again, after stepping in for Bovio. Impressed for club and country, has been growing well, so I'll try and run with three strikers and a 23 man squad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted February 27, 2015 Author Share Posted February 27, 2015 Early season update. Matches We've picked up where we left off last season. Especially the trio. 5 clear in the league, and 6 in the CL. Somehow Malmo went to Germany and beat Bayern 0-2. Also... Watch Eden Hazard or somesuch win it now.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted February 27, 2015 Author Share Posted February 27, 2015 February update. Matches Moving through the season at real pace now, only 18 months or so until the Euros...... 14 points clear, and Chelsea in the CL. Transfers Only the one move made, Bovio to Napoli for 25m. Sad but it just wasn't working out. He struggles greatly to find fitness, which ended up with him picking up many knocks. The very few games he was match fit, he was in excellent form. 19 Finishing and 16 OTB meant despite not being special he could find the onion bag with ease. In the end though, all he was doing was wasting time that could be spent on Nanni who was developing nicely and preforming well too. Couldn't have him being held back any more. We dominated the Ballon d'Or, and Politi won the Golden Boy too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deisler26 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Amazing career so far... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 Amazing career so far... Cheers man! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 Late season update. Matches Couple of surprise losses, but wins when it counts, and we march on. Barca up next! Putting my money on Nanni has proven worthwhile. Had a few nice growth spurts, and is becoming a quality player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 End of season update. Matches Well, they freaking made us earn that CL title. Bayern, Man Utd, Chelsea, Barca, Madrid and PSG all in one run.... Stars Of The Season The trio smash all around them again. Enrico Politi, 38 goals(24 in the league), 23 assists. Davide Melis, 28(18 in the league) goals, 28 assists. Jacopo Guglione, 27 goals(20 in the league), 19 assists. Also worth mentioning. Mirko Nanni, stepped up big time, and grew phenomenally. 17 goals and 8 assists in 21 starts and 4 subs. Ermanno Martinelli, one that was never expected to be good enough for even a squad role, and is rated just 1.5 stars. 27 clean sheets in 60 game this season tells it's own story. A safe enough pair of hands for club and country. Review Obviously delighted with the results again. One of the things I'm happiest about though, is that the Roma Academy kids are holding their own, some excelling. Wouldn't feel as good were they just being carried by the players I poached. One of the true standouts in Melis is a Roma kid from Rome, and a key midfielder in Casale is too. Half my staff are retiring this month, going to be fun trying to replace Sabatini, Parnaby and Fevre..... On to the Nations League, and Euro Qualfiers! Getting close now.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 Pre season update. Season 10 Expectations Serie A: Win the league. Champions League: Win the cup. TIM Cup: Not important Italy Euro Qualifiers: Qualify for Euros. Train roll on. CL group isn't as bad as last year, Sevilla, Zenit and Koln. Transfers Out. None, only loans. In. None. Only one good youth in the intake again. This lad was half Ghanaian, so I gave him a quick NT game against Albania, just to lock him in. Don't mind the star rating, report says world class potential. Apparently 3 stars for me is world class. Chance to be a cracking attacking Inside Forward. This is how the squad stands this season Starters Politi Florenzi------------------------------Melis Casale--------Guglione Zanini Paoletti-----Romagnoli-----Nicolini----Bettini Martinelli Secondary Nanni Lucchetta------------------------------Di Marco Antonini--------Montanarai Fioretti Napoli-----Croci-----Zanetti----Bonechi Finardi Nanni grows at pace! Even since that late season screencap, he's shown notable growth. Wish I had him years ago..... With Italy, we retained the Nations League in summer, Greece proving little resistance in the final, and the Euro qualifiers are going excellently Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 Early season update. Matches Cracking start, one loss, sadly. Di Marco is a little trouble, good player, but picks up knocks so is missing more games than I'd want, not too much of an issue, but he's moaning about lack of playing time. Second choice goalie is too, and started missing training, Finardi will be playing for Torino(sitting on their bench, more like) as of January. Already promoted a lad from the reserves, who's nowhere near ready for Serie A football, but he's doing a job the odd game I throw his way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 I've seen players miss training, before, but never a matchday! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyro Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Nice to see this stuff happening in FMC. I wish my Roma save was half as successful as yours and I didn't even have the restriction of using only Italian players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truegunner Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Nice stuff winning trophies galore with Roma and even more impressive that your using a home grown side, I tried something similar with Roma in FM 14 I ended up with a few titles and two champions league titles, although I lost interest but good for you with that staying power the challenge of bringing through only youth is a great way to keep a save like this fresh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 Nice to see this stuff happening in FMC. I wish my Roma save was half as successful as yours and I didn't even have the restriction of using only Italian players. Nice stuff winning trophies galore with Roma and even more impressive that your using a home grown side, I tried something similar with Roma in FM 14 I ended up with a few titles and two champions league titles, although I lost interest but good for you with that staying power the challenge of bringing through only youth is a great way to keep a save like this fresh. Cheers guys! I tried a youth only in 14 with Crewe, but without this kind of success. My keeper broke his leg, and the only other one available was shipping 5 goals per game. I gave up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 Another important player down with a serious injury. 3 in 10 years though, can't complain too much. Another player lost a few months too, but he was on loan. Another absentee! Nanni hasn't shown any signs of unhappiness before.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 February update. Matches Had a mini slump there, quite a few points dropped overall, our fantastic start means we're still 9 clear, though! Dinamo Moscow in the CL next. Finished the qualifiers with no hassle. Transfers The only move was Mirko Finardi's 5.5m offload to Torino, well rid. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 Another! Wish I could recall someone from loan.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 Late season update. Matches We march on, but with the two key injuries, our secondary look much less convincing. The Inter game sealed the title, just the cups and the Euros left.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Massive win over Inter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted March 1, 2015 Author Share Posted March 1, 2015 Final update. Matches Incredible finish to the season. Beating Madrid 15-3 on agg. Don't even know what happened there! On to the Euros we went... Kings of Europe! Couldn't be happier with that! Stars Of The Season Jacopo Guglione: 25 goals(13 in the league), and 29 assists. Davide Melis: 32 goals(16 in the league), and 24 assists. Enrico Politi: 42 goals(21 in the league), and 21 assists. Mirko Nanni: 24 goals(20 in the league), and 20 assists. Review Champions of Italy, Champions of Europe, Champions of the World. Everything we could have dreamed and more. I've had an incredible amount of fun with this! So, with everything achieved, and with a homegrown squad, there was only one thing left to do. Also of note, in the middle of the Euros, I had a youth intake, and wouldn't you know, it's like the game knew I was retiring, THREE potentially world class kids land at once! First up, a natural successor to Jacopo Guglione. Second would have been a cracking DLP in my system. The third, would have been a great DMC for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Fantastic career What's next for you? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted March 1, 2015 Author Share Posted March 1, 2015 Cheers! No clue what to do next, we were talking about Wolfsburg in the other thread, perhaps them, haven't done a 15 save in France yet. Pretty wide open, still. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
declanelcocks Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 What kind of setup did you go for with this career out of interest? You mentioned its a 4-3-3 but what sort of instructions/roles did you go for? Seems like you stuck to a consistent system and built your team around it but your results have been ridiculously good! Cracking save anyway, especially your success with the national team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted March 2, 2015 Author Share Posted March 2, 2015 What kind of setup did you go for with this career out of interest? You mentioned its a 4-3-3 but what sort of instructions/roles did you go for? Seems like you stuck to a consistent system and built your team around it but your results have been ridiculously good! Cracking save anyway, especially your success with the national team. Cheers! I pretty rigidly stuck to the 4-3-3, I thought I'd have to change eventually, but it kept working. To be honest, it worked surprisingly well as it was quite a simple system. F9(s) IF(a)----------------------IF(s) DLP(s)--------CM(a) A(d) FB(s)-----CB(d)-----CB(d)----FB(a) GK(d) Standard Mentality and Structured Shape. The main TI's were Stay On Feet, Pass Into Space and Work Ball Into Box(to cut down on the F9's longshots). I'd add Exploit the Flanks if the opponents only had one wide man on either side, and switch Stay On Feet to Get Stuck in if I had a lenient ref, or if the opponents had too much control of the game. Chasing a game, I'd swap to Attacking, and add Higher Tempo, Push Higher Up, and Close Down More. The only PI was the goalkeeper was told Distribute to Centre Backs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
declanelcocks Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Impressive that such a simple tactic can get such great results, goes to show that training/buying players to fit your system can work really well! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted March 2, 2015 Author Share Posted March 2, 2015 Impressive that such a simple tactic can get such great results, goes to show that training/buying players to fit your system can work really well! Yup! I think as well, the reason this worked was there isn't a specific goal threat to stop. 4 of the front 5 are all serious goal threats, and the DLP added a touch of danger from distance, all 5 were very creative, and very quick too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidBeckham Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Well, that didn't take too long! What about a journey man save building from the bottom? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 Well, that didn't take too long! What about a journey man save building from the bottom? I started one with Wolfburg, but decided not to start a thread, as I didn't think it'd be interesting with no special rules or situations. Mistake in the end, it's quite good, after a 1w, 4d start, awful football, and trying 7 or so formations, turned the ship I almost sank around. Could try a journeyman w/thread after a few seasons of this, I usually get attached to whatever club I roll up at though, most I've ever managed in one save is 3 clubs, moving from non-league England(can't remember which team), to Barca B, to Espanyol. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshdweller Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 Sorry to drag this back up, but only just found the thread and really enjoyed it. I still play a bit of FMC15 and would love to know what skin you were using please? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted February 5, 2017 Author Share Posted February 5, 2017 1 hour ago, Marshdweller said: Sorry to drag this back up, but only just found the thread and really enjoyed it. I still play a bit of FMC15 and would love to know what skin you were using please? I never thought I'd see this again, geez! Glad you enjoyed it! This is the skin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshdweller Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 3 hours ago, BoxToBox said: I never thought I'd see this again, geez! Glad you enjoyed it! This is the skin. Excellent, thanks very much. That's a massive improvement on the standard dark skin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted February 5, 2017 Author Share Posted February 5, 2017 Glad you like it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshdweller Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 You've actually just jump-started my interest in an old FMC15 save, so I played on last night and sneaked a 2-1 win in the Champions League final as FC Volendam. You've also convinced me of the viability of a youth development-oriented save in FMC/FMT, so massive thanks for that too. Apologies if this sounds a bit gushy but your thread has had a profound effect on my enjoyment of FM and I'm very grateful for that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted February 6, 2017 Author Share Posted February 6, 2017 I'm glad it fired you up a bit, then! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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