Makoto Nakamura Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 He was truly amazing for us! I'm coming to the end of September now so I thought I'd share my transfer dealings as I finally splash the cash. The idea was to strengthen the defence and add depth to midfield and attack. Jonatan Protti Daniel Thys - Wonderkid Pablo Gonzales John Garrido Juanjo Sardinero Angel Andoni Merino Charles Lingwati Josh Davies The Goalkeeping Situation: We have one senior goalkeeper and one who isn't very good compared to the rest of the squad, here he is; Abdel Rahman Salah - He is currently injured leaving us with the youth goalkeeper who came through this season - Stuart Holmes. So now I've decided to buy a new first choice goalkeeper and a very good one at that coming in for £19m from Torino although this could increase to £21m Fabrizio Bertini is a 23 year old Italy international and a real star for Celtic once he arrives on the 2nd of January!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Looks like a fantastic keeper! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Kind of stalling at Bradford, need to find another save for a bit for a change of pace. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTHerringbone Posted December 9, 2015 Author Share Posted December 9, 2015 I've had the mother of all transfer windows so far. Ridiculous After deriding the PL for having too much money (I am right!), I've had a lovely few weeks of in game time switching from a 4-3-3 to a 5-3-2, and I'm not done yet Will post the Ins and Outs when I'm done...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 After deriding the PL for having too much money (I am right!) You are right. That's part of my problem with Bradford, the last season, when I won the league, I had spent about 420m. Even the Oil Tycoon couldn't account for that, as I'd well over 300 done before he hove into view. 500-550m spent, two years out from League One. Mind I'm not blaming FM, or SI, but I think despite being exaggerated by my financial stretching and mortgaging the clubs future on players today, in real life these new tv deals mean the Premiership is about to go effing mental. Hell look at this year even, Bournemouth spent what, 8m on Tyrone Mings to never play him? Crazy for a newly promoted team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 End of Season 2026/27 - End of Celtic Reign An amazing 3rd season at Celtic which culminated in us being so so so close to being the Europa League champions! We took Dortmund all the way to penalties and ended up losing 9-8! At the start of the season I set out on fixing up the defence and I'm sure I've done with that an amazing back 5 now, hopefully with me being gone the squad will stay pretty much the same and whoever manages Celtic next will carry one what I've left behind. Key Players: Jack Grealish Andoni Merino Ralph Collard Matthew Ballantyne Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Hard luck in the Europa, but an incredible season! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Thanks BoxToBox, I'm taking a somewhat different path for the time being! End of 2027 An amazing start to life as the Columbia manager, an unbeaten start sees us top the group and an astonishing win over Argentina!!!! Here are the best players in the setup, just to give an idea of the quality I'm working with and the tactic I'm using is an attacking 4-2-3-1. Last Used Squad Jorge Montano Fernando Patino Diego Castro Eugenes Sanchez Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTHerringbone Posted December 9, 2015 Author Share Posted December 9, 2015 Quiet transfer window. Not convinced I'm done yet, but this represents a Net profit of about £23m! EDIT - So our squad now looks like this (5-3-2 being used) GK - Horn, Mignolet DC - Rugani, Sakho, De Vrij, Mustafi, Munoz WBL - Rodriguez, Moreno WBR - Clyne, Montoya MC - Kramer, Maia, Ozil, Wilshere, Henderson, Hojbjerg ST - Firmino, Coutinho, Kane, Gotze, Ibe It's really very good now, but probably not a really "elite" squad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Just preparing for the Olympics when suddenly... I have to accept!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 2028 - England 2028 saw me take charge of my first 5 games as England manager, the only one where we struggled was the away game to Greece, other than that it's been pretty much plain sailing with Ethan Leek and Adrian Charles at my disposal. 2028 Best XI Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Started an unemployed save max rep, holiday for a good job. Fiorentina, fighting relegation in November, score! Boubacar misses the next three games, fine I can scrape by. 2 days in job, two messages pop up, Guiseppe Rossi had done his cruciate(how couldn't he?), but also, top CB Gonzalo Rodriguez had knee tendonitis. Should be fun, eh...... Interestingly, in my first game, after 60 minutes of nothing, right wingback Gilberto gets in the box, and launches a rabona cross for Kalinic to head in, 1-0. In the 90th minute Bernardeschi(a wide man playing as striker because of squad depth) slips a nasty through ball for Kalinic, and he gets his 2nd. 2-0, up to 18th, and Kalinic had doubled his season total. EDIT: Also I set up a deal for transfer listed Mangala to arrive in January. Two weeks later, Borja Varelo, Davide Astori and Nikola Kalinic all out injured, though for shorter terms.EDIT: One more day, Ron Vlaar out for 4 months. Posted these in the 15 thread by mistake. Going well enough, whether by luck or skill, I'm not sure. Though I'll keep the tactic for future use. Unbeaten in the league, with 3 wins and 2 draws, taking us comfortably out of the relegation spots for now(14th, but only four points clear of 18th), one win in Europe to leave us 2nd in the Europa group(above expectations), and drew Dortmund in the first knockout. Sadly knocked out of the Cup at the first round, massively underachieving, but with a heavy run of games and few players, I had to chuck some rubbish but fresh legs at it. Mangala quickly picked up a 3 game injury, and I had to chuck players(Tomovic & Roncaglia) who agreed contracts with another club. Their sales gave me a few pound to play with, and the club gave me a bit more at my request, so I brought in a handful of loans in Wilfried Bony, Andrea Poli, Andrea Rannochia, Bruno Zuculini and Davide Santon. EDIT: I forgot a 800k deal for Trinidade de Vilhena, who was leaving his old club on a bosman. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 England - 2029 I hope I've made the English proud! A great qualifying campaign with a GD of +31 and only a friendly loss against Portugal to put a dampener on things, next year we have the World Cup and here's the groups: A tricky group with a couple of good nations and my past employers Colombia, we should beat Uzbekistan with ease though. Best XI - Even though it shows the best XI as a 4-4-2, that is definitely not the formation I've been playing!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heron Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Wanted a new challenge, so figured I should go to Spain. Found a nice team in Real Sociedad, so the target is clear: perform better than a certain mister Moyes has. Compared to the EPL, there's not much cash (3M euros transfer budget) and the team is technically very proficient, but physically rather weak and brittle. Figured I'd rather not bring anybody in and see for myself what each team member is capable of before clearing out the deadwood. Given that we're technically so good, we're playing a boring passing game, trying to keep things thight at the back. Right now, we're 10 matches in and we're still unbeaten! I do draw quite a lot of matches though, so I'm sitting in 4th place: Won 5, Drawn 5, GD +5. Will try to post some screens when we're half way through. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 *sigh* I'm going back to club jobs for a while!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Key Players: Geoff Thompson Evgeny Iljin Francisco Chaby David Van Den Berghe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Unlucky Nakamura Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maw74 Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Posted these in the 15 thread by mistake. Probably because I bumped that thread with my game. @Makoto Nakamura , after all the great results you let me down with England, No pressure now though as I don't mind seeing Liverpool lose. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Probably because I bumped that thread with my game. That's right! I was reading your posts, and when I went to add that stuff, forgot which thread I had. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Deadline day was bafflingly good to me, a sale and some financial magic set up the arrivals of Riechedly Bazoer and Mattia Perin. Squad was short of young blood in CM and had a weak loanee goalkeeper. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heron Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Half way in my first season with Real Sociedad. It's refreshing to play a club where there isn't any money to buy or loan players and where expiring contracts are really an issue, since players all want far more money than that thery're currently on. And there isn't any wiggle room in the wage budget. Offers for players are mode sometimes, but no club is willing to go (much) above my player's valuation. We had a great run of undefeated games going, only losing out embarrasingly to Girona in the Cup. But then came an away trip to Real Madrid, which we lost 1-0 due to a free kick by Cristiano Ronaldo. My team's morale seems to be greatly affected by this, since we also lost to Rayo and Valencia after this, making three games lost in a row. Right now, we're sitting in 4th place, only due to Barcelona having played a couple of games less. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Great position to be in, regardless! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Just hit December 2016 with Getafe, currently 3rd. Finished runners up to Arsenal in our Europa League group. Then this pops up, I declared interest in this job last season when De Boer, was under pressure. Surprised to see this popping up, shall I go with Ajax if they sack him or offer me the role? or stick with Getafe? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heron Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Ajax is a great club. But winning in The Netherlands will be easy. So the only challenge lies in Europese. With Getafe, there's more tot build yourself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Ajax is a great club. But winning in The Netherlands will be easy. So the only challenge lies in Europese. With Getafe, there's more tot build yourself. My thoughts exactly Ajax will be too easy. But I do have my eyes on Atlético Madrid job whenever they get rid of Diego Simeone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTHerringbone Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 It has happened. I have started a Southampton save. All other saves and tactics deleted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maw74 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 It has happened. I have started a Southampton save. All other saves and tactics deleted. Crazy stuff! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Finished the season with Fiorentina scraping an Europa League spot. In the Europa though, I won it, and secured CL football. The summer, has been intense, only 10 of the previous seasons squad remain, as I sell 100m worth of players, and buy for 160m. Key signings include, Domenico Berardi, for 14m, Sassuolo's relegation gave me an incredible opportunity to land one of the top young forwards in Europe(just pipping Milan & Arsenal) and a national at that. Fits both my tactics magnificently. Alessio Romagnoli, for 38m, pricey, but a young Italian titan who can be my defensive lynchpin for a generation. Also a capable, if limited left back. Him and Mangala should be a nightmare to get past. Mateo Kovacic, for 22.5m, transfer listed by Real Madrid, their loss is certainly my gain. His years at Inter mean he shouldn't need to adjust and hopefully he can pull the strings quickly. Anthony Martial, for 27m(rising to 35m), fast, technical, has everything in his locker barring an air game, can also cover the left wing, a monster in the making. Lorenzo Insigne(9m), Ruben Neves(7m listed), Cristian Pavon(6.25m), Nicola Murru(9m), Mayke(6.75m), Sime Vrsaljko(2.8m listed), Luigi Sepe(1.7m) and Alex Telles(7.5m) fill out the squad. Younger, stronger, and more Italian, the perfect(for me) transfer window, despite expense. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTHerringbone Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 Neves for £7m?! Why did Porto list him for peanuts? Seems mad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Neves for £7m?! Why did Porto list him for peanuts? Seems mad. They didn't give him enough football, so it was a requested transfer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 CL group with Bayern and Barca. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyro Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 You guys are really advancing nicely. Me on the other hand still looking for the save to keep me interested beyond a couple of games. I might have found it with Werder Bremen. Club with a lot of history but little money. They used to have Mesut Özil in their team. I only recognize a few of their players as compared to 2 years ago but I think it will be a fun save to see what I can do with little but still being in the top flight. Settled on a 442 narrow diamond and going through pre-season. Have €2.9mn to spend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Everything is going well in Florence. Undefeated in the league, with 5 wins and 1 draw. Europe has been the surprise though, as we go down a goal in Germany, but a late equalizer from Martial gives us an unexpected point. Next Barca visit us and I just don't know.... I set up to counter, and get a draw, but they didn't even get a sniff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyro Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 1-0 with Fiorentina vs. Barcelona. Nice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Next big European night in Florence, and we repeat the feat, with a powerhouse Bayern side. It's strange, as it's a pretty average 4-1-2-3 DM tactic I built for games I expect to loose. Basically, "go out there, hold the ball, and if we get a draw, happy day", but the big boys don't get close to us, not in any meaningful way. Barca, Bayern, and Juve have all fallen under it's sword, along with any game I'm comfortable to close out a lead. Also of note, 9 starts and 4 sub appearances for Martial, 11 goals and 2 assists. When he plays, he has an impact. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heron Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 It seems that playing risk-free, slow, patient passing football yields some very good results. A bit like Van Gaal is trying to do IRL :-) With my Real Sociedad save, I'm currently almost finished with my first season. It's still very close in the race for 4th place as you can see below. I'm proud of my "goals against" column, but to be honest, I still have to play Real Madrid and Valencia, while Sevilla only play lesser teams. So, I'm hoping to get a Europa League place, UCL will probably be too much to ask. Especially now that two key players have been injured. Only transfer activity was accepting a bid from PSG for my right back Zaldua (10.75M euros - too good to turn down) and from Watford for Agirretxe (4.4M - didn't get much games). As replacement for right back I brought in Julio Buffarini from San Lorenze for 4.3M euros, who is a good, professional player. No world beater, but he fits the system. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 BoxToBox - Superb win over Barca and Bayern Superb signings for Fiorentina. tyro - Good luck with Werder Bremen! heron- Hope you can nick CL spot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Big signing for next season, hopefully we can kick start his career again. Had the chance to sign Giuseppe Rossi, on free but pulled out in the end. EDIT: Another signing, to boost our goalkeeper options as other 2 back ups aren't good enough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heron Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 john1p Great free signings, with great wages too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTHerringbone Posted December 15, 2015 Author Share Posted December 15, 2015 Had the chance to sign Giuseppe Rossi, on free but pulled out in the end. Such a great player but those injury issues are a real kick in the teeth Annual Saints save is up and running. I'm hindering our progress a bit by tinkering with a disingenuous amalgamation of a counter attacking, possession style within a 4-4-2. It's also strikerless, so is a real bloody mess Two signings - Gabriel Barbosa and Daniel Amartey. Outgoings were Yoshida, Isgrove and Pelle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heron Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Finally had enough time to finish my first season with La Real. A bad run of form, especially in the last 3 games when my keeper was out injured, saw us unable to get to an UCL place. 6 points from the last 6 games was a great disappointment. Especially since Real Madrid picked up only 5 points in that run, so we would have been able to overtake them. But still, European football for this club is a very nice achievement. The summer will see some rebuilding of the squad. I'll lose both my left wingers: one was on loan and the other wanted very high wages, so I didn't want to renew his contract. At the back I only have 2 good centre backs, so I'll need to find some reinforcements there too. And, given the stature of the club, some players will be coveted by bigger clubs and probably have their heads turned. So I hope I'll be able to sell some assets to fund the rebuilding needed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTHerringbone Posted December 15, 2015 Author Share Posted December 15, 2015 That's a very good final league position heron. The issue appears to be scoring goals? Any plans to remedy that next season? Just a question of personnel or is a switch in system in order? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heron Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Scoring goals is an issue, but also a logical effect of trying to keep the ball, not taking too much risks and keeping everything tight at the back. I had Xabi Prieto and Gonzalo Castro on the wings. The latter will leave on a free and Xabi is getting old (dribbling of 18 and acceleration of 10 means he tries to walk through defences instead of running past them). So whilst I want to keep the 4-3-3 (DM) shape I'm so fond of, some roles might need a tweak. It'll depend on the transfer window and who we're able to get in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 BoxToBox - Superb win over Barca and Bayern Superb signings for Fiorentina. Cheers! Team is quickly becoming a monster, and delightfully, with an Italian core. One of my CB's done his cruciate and at 32 is probably done, luckily the board gave me a cash boost(without me asking), so John Stones will join in January. Big signing for next season, hopefully we can kick start his career again. Had the chance to sign Giuseppe Rossi, on free but pulled out in the end. EDIT: Another signing, to boost our goalkeeper options as other 2 back ups aren't good enough. Brilliant signing with Munir, and an excellent decision to pass on Rossi. Such a great player but those injury issues are a real kick in the teeth Magic player, but the injuries, combined with such a low Natural Fitrness(2) means he melts quickly. I sold him in the 2016 summer while he still had value, 20m. Had already lost a yard of pace at that point. Finally had enough time to finish my first season with La Real. A bad run of form, especially in the last 3 games when my keeper was out injured, saw us unable to get to an UCL place. 6 points from the last 6 games was a great disappointment. Especially since Real Madrid picked up only 5 points in that run, so we would have been able to overtake them. But still, European football for this club is a very nice achievement. The summer will see some rebuilding of the squad. I'll lose both my left wingers: one was on loan and the other wanted very high wages, so I didn't want to renew his contract. At the back I only have 2 good centre backs, so I'll need to find some reinforcements there too. And, given the stature of the club, some players will be coveted by bigger clubs and probably have their heads turned. So I hope I'll be able to sell some assets to fund the rebuilding needed. Excellent work there! Hope the rebuild goes well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heron Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 My board set the budgets for the second season: 5M euros for transfers and about 30K p/wk in wages left in the wage budget. Which means I'll have to fund the rebuild by selling first. PSG have already offered 19M for my key defender Inigo Martinez, who's valued at 18.75M. So that's a big no. It seems that if you're a smaller team, the big boys will try to get your players cheaply. Edit: After some negotiations PSG have offered up 41M euros (5 of which is after 50 league games, which he might never reach). It's a tempting proposal... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTHerringbone Posted December 15, 2015 Author Share Posted December 15, 2015 This is our season so far: A false early position at the top of the league due to generous fixtures. We'll have played all the big boys by the end of the year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 My board set the budgets for the second season: 5M euros for transfers and about 30K p/wk in wages left in the wage budget. Which means I'll have to fund the rebuild by selling first. PSG have already offered 19M for my key defender Inigo Martinez, who's valued at 18.75M. So that's a big no. It seems that if you're a smaller team, the big boys will try to get your players cheaply.Edit: After some negotiations PSG have offered up 41M euros (5 of which is after 50 league games, which he might never reach). It's a tempting proposal... Hmmm, Martinez is a cracking player, but 41m is a lot of rebuilding power... This is our season so far: A false early position at the top of the league due to generous fixtures. We'll have played all the big boys by the end of the year. Must have been disappointed to drop points to a relegation level team like Chelsea.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTHerringbone Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share Posted December 16, 2015 Beat Man City at the Etihad in my final match last night This counter-attacking 4-4-2 seems to work so far, so I'm sticking with it. The Board has bumped our transfer budget to £11m in advance of the Winter transfer window opening, Usual suspects are listed (including Pastore, Mangala and Sven Bender). Bender for £5.5m and £45k p/w looks likeliest. I expected to need to sell Wanyama at the end of season one, so if that happens I'll have a decent replacement in place. Originally planned to use Amartey as his replacement, but he's done well at the back where we've had quite a few injuries. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyrefc Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Lost on penalties, what a terrific end to the season I'm done. so much for you suggesting fm touch haha think ill give that a miss Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTHerringbone Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share Posted December 16, 2015 Some fixtures have been and gone, but it's the transfer window which is looking lively. Bender has arrived for £5.5m, and on that same day United started to offer for Sadio Mane (rated at £28m, 5 goals, 2 assists, 7 POTM award this season). Negotiated them to an initial £22m, £20m over 12 months, £6.75m after 50 league appearances, £5.75m after 10 internationals and 30% future profit. Can't say no to that. I'm sure he'll go, so I need to get thinking. EDIT - Done! Mane has gone for that potential £55m fee. Replacement is Gokhan Tore from P-SG for £15m. Slots nicely into my WM (A) Role on the right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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