FM16: Portsmouth FC - Fan Owned & Debt Free!

[Norfolk Enchants]

That helped quite a bit, thanks. Does pace still rule all in the lower leagues?

[stevemc]

Managed to keep hold of Fede and Villalba in the final week of the window.

Had a really tricky start in the league, played Liverpool, Chelsea, Man United and Liverpool in the first 7 games, so my league position isn't looking great. Drew Southampton away in the League Cup, lost, mainly due to fixture congestion, I had to play youth/reserve players. Flying in the Europa League though, 3 wins from 3. I think I need to develop my tactic more for against the big teams away.

Crystal Palace have just been taken over by a tycoon, so the next 2-3 years should see them start to be a threat.

Aguero hasn't kicked a ball for me yet due to 3 injuries, glad I offered just a one year contract

Rui Pedro the Portugal/Porto striker ? If so 22m is a bargain he's looked amazing on the FM2016 saves I've had so far. Your AMs look great!

Yes that's him, he was transfer listed by Real Madrid. He's great, started scoring straight away too, hat-trick against Chelsea on his debut

[SpillBlood]

That helped quite a bit, thanks. Does pace still rule all in the lower leagues?

It certainly helps .

[CasillasFMB]

just finished third seasn with Portsmouth and win sky bet championship. board gave me 27 million €, can you recommend me best players who wants to join me on DC, AMR(left foot if it is possible) and SC position.

thanks.

[SpillBlood]

just finished third seasn with Portsmouth and win sky bet championship. board gave me 27 million €, can you recommend me best players who wants to join me on DC, AMR(left foot if it is possible) and SC position.

thanks.

Welcome! Glad you took my advice of joining us in the Portsmouth thread .

CB - Tommie Hoban, M. Keane, Marco Chiosa, Jason Denayer, Patrick Bauer, Ryan Nyambe, Sherel Floranus, David Costas, Uros Spajic, Andre Wisdom, Milos Veljkovic, Diogo Verdsca.

AMR with left foot - Iuri Medeiros, Renato Steffen, Edison Flores, Riyad Mahrez, Dorin Rotariu, Patrick Roberts.

AMR with either feet - Bozhidar Kreav, Jesus Corona, Giuliano(Gremio), Dor Micha.

ST - James Wilson, Fabio Borini, Imoh Ezekiel, Hassan(Braga), Carlos Fierro, Moussa Dembele, Luka Jovic, M'Baye Niang, Sardar Azmoun, Thalles(Aletico Mineiro)

[MatthewTheKid]

How did you guys sign Del Piero in the beginning? I wasn't even allowed to negotiate a contract with him as his agent say the club's finance is not good enough to offer him a contract that would satisfy him.

[Pompeyboyz]

How did you guys sign Del Piero in the beginning? I wasn't even allowed to negotiate a contract with him as his agent say the club's finance is not good enough to offer him a contract that would satisfy him.

Those of us that started careers from the beta had access to him, but once the first patch dropped he didn't

[stevemc]

Portsmouth 2021/22: Premier League (mid-season)

Bit of a mid-season review, changed my approach a little this season and its seems to work really well:

• Set up "counter" in all away games

• Praise players after every good game

• Fine players 2 weeks wages for performance below 6.4

• Regular review player form, warn if its under-par

Anyway, here is the league, we are playing far better football, Mohammed Salah was a master stroke signing (12 goals, 8 assists in 17 games).

The perfect game cam against Aston Villa:

Topped out Europa League group, determined to go one step further than last season (losing in the final):

The FA Cup has drawn us away at Gillingham:

And Crystal Palace's tycoon buy out is now official:

[CasillasFMB]

Welcome! Glad you took my advice of joining us in the Portsmouth thread .

CB - Tommie Hoban, M. Keane, Marco Chiosa, Jason Denayer, Patrick Bauer, Ryan Nyambe, Sherel Floranus, David Costas, Uros Spajic, Andre Wisdom, Milos Veljkovic, Diogo Verdsca.

AMR with left foot - Iuri Medeiros, Renato Steffen, Edison Flores, Riyad Mahrez, Dorin Rotariu, Patrick Roberts.

AMR with either feet - Bozhidar Kreav, Jesus Corona, Giuliano(Gremio), Dor Micha.

ST - James Wilson, Fabio Borini, Imoh Ezekiel, Hassan(Braga), Carlos Fierro, Moussa Dembele, Luka Jovic, M'Baye Niang, Sardar Azmoun, Thalles(Aletico Mineiro)

thnaks for help, i will pay attention on that playersin the futre. this is how I done buy/sell players for my first season in EPL:

in my first season I suffer defeat in first round at jpt and carling cup, but ni the fa cup:

in my secound season I suffer defeat in first round at jpt and fa cup, but ni the carling cup:

in my third season I suffer defeat in first round fa cup, but ni the carling cup:

[Norfolk Enchants]

I don't know what you guys are doing to get three consecutive promotions, I'm struggling in the lower leagues.

Sitting on top in League 2, but not by any means comfortably.

[Pompeyboyz]

Portsmouth Season 2 - 2016-17 Mid Season

This is where I currently sit in the league

I had a pretty sporadic set of results for a while but suddenly hit a run of form that is only blighted with 1 defeat that was unlucky due to a sending off

My FA Cup run has been interesting to say the least so far

I had some concerns after flashing £1.4m on this guy but he has been a decent purchase.

[CasillasFMB]

Luke Norris from Gillingham is goal scoring machine for less then million €. I payed him 625 000 € and he scored 30 goals in secound season(league 1).

[Pompeyboyz]

So.....this result happened

[CasillasFMB]

need help again i just finished fourth season with portsmouth and my first season in EPL. so i need recommendation for 2 MC players, one for DLP(D) role and one for BBM(S) role. My TB is 7 million €.

thanks again.

[SpillBlood]

Played Southampton twice in two weeks.

need help again i just finished fourth season with portsmouth and my first season in EPL. so i need recommendation for 2 MC players, one for DLP(D) role and one for BBM(S) role. My TB is 7 million €.

thanks again.

Wow that's a small budget to work with. Check loan listed players or free players?

[pompeyfan]

Finished Season 2026/27 and it was pretty successful - Won the premier League Title and the Capital Cup, lost in the FA Cup 5th Rnd, Finished 3rd in the CL group and got to thr Q/F of the Europa League.

[Norfolk Enchants]

Just got to Christmas, sitting second behind Leyton Orient on 45 points. Can't find a consistent starting eleven due to injuries.

I loaned in Alex Kiwomya at the start of the season to inject a bit of pace, he's been fit for one game out of twenty-three.

Best player for me so far has definitely been Elliot Lee (from West Ham) and Vanja Milinkovic Savic (from Man Utd).

[stevemc]

Portsmouth 2021/22: Premier League

So I hit my target of the top four, secured Champions League qualification, there was a title challenge on for a bit until fixture congestion and injuries put that to bed:

Also had a great run in the Europa League, and losing the final last year in the last minute offered good motivation, had to overcome a strong Dortmund team on the way:

The final was relatively straight forward:

We also lifted the FA Cup:

Here's the season review:

And here's my story so far:

[SpillBlood]

And here's my story so far:

Very nice indeed . Glad you're doing well .

Just got to Christmas, sitting second behind Leyton Orient on 45 points. Can't find a consistent starting eleven due to injuries.

I loaned in Alex Kiwomya at the start of the season to inject a bit of pace, he's been fit for one game out of twenty-three.

Best player for me so far has definitely been Elliot Lee (from West Ham) and Vanja Milinkovic Savic (from Man Utd).

I had him on FM15 iirc and he didn't really do anything for me. I'm surprised you've needed another goalkeeper .

I'm curious - which players have you loaned for this season?

[Norfolk Enchants]

I'm surprised you've needed another goalkeeper .

I didn't need one, Man Utd just offered him to me, so I could save some wages by letting Brian Murphy go in January.

I'm curious - which players have you loaned for this season?

I cancelled most of the loan deals you start with and loaned in;

Sean Goss

Mason Bennett

Sean Long

Elliot Lee

Alex Kiwomya

Vanja Milinkovic Savic

Jake Forster-Caskey

Josh Harrop

I also got Roy Heeson, Frans Putros and Remco van Wingerden on free transfers (all on one year deals).

And I'm so glad I went for so much cover, injuries have been the bane of my Portsmouth tenure. Kiwomya had two eight week long injuries, Elliot Lee and Mason Bennet have both had extended spells on the sidelines, Forster-Caskey, Josh Harrop and Sean Goss have also had injuries that has forced me to rotate more than I'd like.

[stevemc]

You can play Sean Goss all the way up to the PL, I loaded him every season, goal machine from midfield!

[SpillBlood]

You can play Sean Goss all the way up to the PL, I loaded him every season, goal machine from midfield!

I did the same . You can do the same with Sean Long and Mason Bennett.

[Norfolk Enchants]

Looks like I'll be building a completely new team for League 1 (or League 2 if my form continues), I've set most of the current first-team for release.

edit: I've also had the easiest FA Cup run to the quarter finals.

Gateshead > Swindon > MK Dons > Bolton > Brighton > Millwall.

I won't make it any further than Millwall (if I beat them) with nothing but Premier League sides left.

[SpillBlood]

End of Season 2019/2020! This makes this save longer then my Rotherham save .

Holm came out of know where for this. He fit in when Long or Wilson got injured and took me by storm!

Shane Long came 3rd in the top goalscorers . He's scored more in this league season then he had at 4 at Southampton .

To finish off:

Need some new blood, especially at the fullback positions and a CM/AMC.

Draxler and Stendera are both going on a free - but they want 90/100k P/W each . Firmino is going on a free but has no interest currently. I missed out of Tielemans on a free as I offered 60k P/W and well Wolfsburg offered 90k P/W. I have 50million to spend, it'll be spend so I can push for the title and do well in the Champions League.

I need to look into a tactic with an AMC aswell. It's what Chelsea/Arsenal play and they're unreal, they're so hard to beat. Butland 18 clean sheets for Arsenal, Courtois 17 clean sheets for Chelsea and Zoet has 10 for me. Check their GD, it's amazing. Both play 4 - 2 - 3 - 1.

[Norfolk Enchants]

How did you get top-4 with Shane Long as your main striker

And yer, 4321 reigns supreme in the Premier League.

[stevemc]

Very close to adding a 27-year-old Kurt Zouma to my team for around £26m, with the exception of being gazumped.

I've been after a top centre back for a while as my defence is poor in comparison to the rest of my team, but the board only gave me £13m this Summer, despite qualifying for the Champions League for the first team.

[SpillBlood]

Transfers done! Now to edit my tactics.

[Norfolk Enchants]

Confirmed automatic promotion on the final day after a 1-0 loss to Northampton. We really sh*t the bed the last month.

The board has set our initial budget for £3,960,000 for next season, that doesn't sound right though. Isn't this how they had their problems in the first place?

[Quinby]

What was everyone's budgets for season three in the Champ?

I'm bleeding money coming towards end of season 2 and am thinking I won't have much to play with meaning i'll have to settle for maybe a mid table spot next season...

[Norfolk Enchants]

End of season.

Transfers In - Transfers Out.

League Table - League Stats - Team of the Year.

End of Season Awards - Season Review - Confidence Review - Injury Report.

FA Cup Dream Run - Capital One Cup - League Fixtures (until January) - League Fixtures (end of season).

My first ever season in League 2 and I'm glad to make it out of there. Guaranteed promotion was decided on the final day and I'm lucky results went my way as I did myself no favours by losing to Northampton. The players provided a lackluster performance that didn't reflect the early part of the season. Really, the title should've been wrapped up with about ten games to go, but it just wasn't meant to be.

I think my signing of the season was Elliot Lee. He was good for a goal every 110 minutes which was the best mark in the league. The fact that I was rotating him with two other strikers and probably wasn't giving him enough game time just shows how much quality he was showing for my side. Another player that was consistent was Vanja Milinkovic Savic who played all but four games throughout the season. Hopefully I'll be getting him on loan again as he definitely looks good enough for League 1. Sean Goss didn't make as many appearances as I would've liked because of that five loan player rule, but he was still a quality player to have rotating into the side.

Overall I'm quite pleased with how the season went.

Manager Stats.

[SpillBlood]

How did Sean Long and Mason Bennett do for you? Shame about not winning but alteast you got promoted . This is where you can basically try to find cheap quality that'll help you push the next two leagues since you get quite a nice transfer budget.

[Norfolk Enchants]

Sean Long - Mason Bennett.

Probably should've played Bennett a bit more than I did, but being a West Ham fan, I preferred Elliot Lee. I do have Bennett back on loan this season as Lee left the Hammers and won't sign with me permanently.

[Norfolk Enchants]

If Brentford could kindly f*** off, I'd be able to the signings I want. They've stolen four potential signings from me.

[Norfolk Enchants]

I've just realised I had two youth players come through with exactly the same name.

Chris Park (1) - Chris Park (2).

They were born a week apart and both have Premier League potential.

edit: Welcome to League 1, Elliot Lee.

[stevemc]

Portsmouth 2022/23: Premier League

Fairly quiet window after the board only gave me £19m, had no real drama's with any of my players wanting to leave this time, Kurt Zouma is the only starting eleven signing:

We are notoriously slow starters, struggling to figure out why, but that form continued into the Charity Shield & Super Cup:

Drawn a fairly tricky Champions League group, no real whipping boys in there, my task is harder now after Monaco beat me 0-1 at Fratton Park:

We are now starting to creep up the rich list too:

Sergio Diaz has started the season on fire, 9 goals in 4 games so far, helping me to top the table after 5 games (4 wins, 1 loss):

I'm looking for Champions League qualification again this season, and possibly a sneaky title challenge.

[Norfolk Enchants]

What's everyone's stadium looking like? Does it expand past 20,000-odd?

[SpillBlood]

Jed Wallace is still a class act in 2021!

[Norfolk Enchants]

Beefed up my squad considerably before the season.

Kept Vanja Milinkovic Savic, Sean Goss and Josh Harrop, though they don't show up on the transfer page.

[SpillBlood]

Beefed up my squad considerably before the season.

Kept Vanja Milinkovic Savic, Sean Goss and Josh Harrop, though they don't show up on the transfer page.

Daniel Bentley will be your goalkeeper to the prem, he's still good to call on now even though his "stars" shows he's championship at best. Maguire wish he was as good in real life as he was on Football Manager, he's quality on the right! Then again you have Wallace aswell . Wallace is amazing. Winger - Support = win.

Isn't Chris Herd seriously injury prone?

I mean Jed Wallace just scored like this for me .

[Ty]

Arranged a pretty awesome set of pre-season friendlies for the fans...

Either tour around USA for the die hard fans or see some big names come to Fratton Park!

After struggling to get into the game over Christmas, I managed to power myself through these friendlies and get into the 21/22 season and play my first Champions League game

Drew 1-1 with Benfica. My group consists of OM (top seed from France!), Benfica, someone else (I forgot ) and ourselves bottom seed.

Couple players unhappy I rejected bids for them. Mata and Zouma. Sold Mata, which pained me to do as he is amazing, to Barcelona to shut him up, and I am keeping firm on rejecting all bids for our vice-captain Zouma.

Meyer replaces Mata at the CAM place.

[Norfolk Enchants]

Daniel Bentley will be your goalkeeper to the prem, he's still good to call on now even though his "stars" shows he's championship at best. Maguire wish he was as good in real life as he was on Football Manager, he's quality on the right! Then again you have Wallace aswell . Wallace is amazing. Winger - Support = win.

Isn't Chris Herd seriously injury prone?

I mean Jed Wallace just scored like this for me .

[snip]

He hasn't been injured yet, though I've been rotating the side pretty heavily. Only on a two-year contract and I don't see myself keeping him past that.

Jed Wallace is coming off the bench for me, but he's really banging on the door to be a starter. It would mean dropping another loan player though

Pretty sure Daniel Bentley will be my starting keeper next season, just playing cup matches at the moment.

Also, what's your stadium situation looking like?

[SpillBlood]

He hasn't been injured yet, though I've been rotating the side pretty heavily. Only on a two-year contract and I don't see myself keeping him past that.

Jed Wallace is coming off the bench for me, but he's really banging on the door to be a starter. It would mean dropping another loan player though

Pretty sure Daniel Bentley will be my starting keeper next season, just playing cup matches at the moment.

Also, what's your stadium situation looking like?

Got expanded last year iirc - we played at Brighton for a season.

This better win goal of the season!

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[SpillBlood]

End of Season 2020/2021

We did well to finish 3rd - some hard results and some horrible injurys. Andre Silva seems quite injury prone so I'm 50/50 whether I should keep. I had easy runs in the FA cup and Capital One Cup.

Can see how Wallace is shoe-horned into the midfielder ? Need to make a few changes their. Some of them just are not good enough now or can't play how I need them too.

This came as a surprise!

And so did this .

And so did this! Altered my away tactic slightly and somehow we managed to smash Chelsea

I still think it's going to take about 3 more seasons to win the league, if not more. Chelsea and Arsenal are machines and I can't beat Manchester United - I haven't yet on my Portsmouth save .

[stevemc]

What's everyone's stadium looking like? Does it expand past 20,000-odd?

EDIT: Just started work on upping it to 33,000.

[stevemc]

Portsmouth 2022/23: Premier League (mid-season)

Solid start to the season see us in 2nd place:

During this time I turned down the Real Madrid job and surpassed 400 games in management:

We've done well in our debut Champions League season, but we've drawn Barcelona in the first knock out round:

We are out of the League Cup, losing at the Etihad in extra time. And we've got Manchester United away in the FA Cup 4th round - tough luck all round!

My favourite result of the season so far is this away win at Schalke, down to 10 men, comeback with a last minute winner!

In January I shipped out Dani Ceballos for £30m to Manchester United and replaced him with transfer listed Martin Odegaard for £19.5m.

[SpillBlood]

Transfers! Alot of 16/17 years old that cost a bit of money and alot of regens in general. Had to sell Firmino, he was average all season and wanted off the wage + money before he hit the wrong side of 30.

Best regens for first team:

Community Shield:

Used the same tactic as the FA cup win - some players still need match practice

Oh well, maybe next time.

[stevemc]

Portsmouth 2022/23: Premier League

Finished the season 2nd, Manchester United stormed away with it:

Here is my season review:

Diaz was sensational this season:

Shame this win against Barcelona only got us as far as the semi final of the Champions League, where Mourinho's PSG totally outclassed us:

Plans for this window:

• Ship out 2-3 underperforming players

• Bring in 2 world class players

[stevemc]

Portsmouth 2023/24: Premier League

Had a solid transfer window, didn’t lose any players I didn’t want to, which makes a change. Brought in 6 first team players, and 4 for the youth team. Smashed my transfer record on Maiorov for £70m, players are so expensive as you get further into the game, you’ve got to spend big to keep up:

Rui Pedro was brilliant for me in his first season, then a bad injury stalled his progress, so I shipped him out to Chelsea for £26.5m. 30-year-old Mohammed Salah went to Barcelona to replace Messi whom I replaced with Sanz, a regen from my youth team, who looks a bit special.

Champions League groups were drawn, what a surprise, Monaco in our group for the second year running, having also knocked them out in the quarter final last season too. Sporting and Sparta make up the remainder of a group I expect to qualify from with no real issues:

Superb start to the season, 4 wins from 4, no goals conceded, top of the league. Also drawn a home-tie against Championship opposition in the League Cup. Odegaard has started the season on fire…

Here are some of my signings from this window:

And I’m that far into the game that Messi has retired and become a manager…

[pompeyfan]

Quick update:

Season 2027/28 - failed to defend the PL title and finished 3rd, won the Champions League, FA Cup and Community Shield.

Season 2028/29 - Bit of a disasterous season as finished 6th, S/F Capital One Cup, 4th Rnd FA Cup, 1st Knock-out Rnd CL, but did win the World Club Cup. Lost 4 of my best players in the close season as they wanted to leave for CL football and didn't think my team was good enough to qualify even though we'd won it recently. I didn't want to sell, so the rest of the squad complained, so I gave in and they complained at me selling our best players. The board only giving me £2m transfer funds and 30% of sales didn't help with replacements.

[SpillBlood]

And I thought I had a good season - I finally beat Man Utd but so did everyone else .

I beat Chelsea in the Champions League though . On away goals, we drew at home and away, 1 - 1 and 2 - 2 . In FA Cup Final vs Sheff Utd and Champions League Final vs Benfica.