smp20 Posted October 9, 2016 Author Share Posted October 9, 2016 Europa League Winners!!! It was a nail-biting game but we managed to come away with the win. Diaz scored in his 6th consecutive game, bringing his tally to 8 in 9 in EL knockouts. Salah got one back for them, but Bahoui put us back in the lead and then doubled our lead late on sending the fans into jubilation. 3 shot on target, 3 goals . Roma may have had more shots, but we had the better chances and I feel that we fully deserved the win. Pjanic was a creative force that was hard to stop and Salah was a constant pain in the backside with his blistering pace. But, we exploited Roma exactly how I wanted to. De Rossi was given the run around and we got down both wings very well, getting in behind particularly on the counter. We also managed to nullify Canales and Dzeko and their replacements didn't do well either. What a great performance from the side, but a very well deserved man of the match performance from Bahoui. We were solid at the back and creative going forward. Hedlund came on for the last half hour to cause even more pace problems for the Roma backline and it seemed to cause panic. Diaz unfortunately picked up what looks like a serious injury, but received an incredible standing ovation for his contribution in the campaign. An overview of our run. A season to be very proud of. Two trophies so far, let's hope there's many more! I can just imagine the streets of Stockholm... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smp20 Posted October 9, 2016 Author Share Posted October 9, 2016 May 2017 Overview What. A. Month. If only we had won the Swedish cup as well, but I know which trophy I, the club and the fans really wanted! We are in a very comfortable position, sitting top with a game in hand against the team who are rock bottom. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPQR Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 quite unbelievable, mate it seems defensive tactics are a monster if you get it right Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oriole01 Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 What the hell!?!?!? It only speaks too kindly to your ability as a manager if you go out and win a Europa League in your second season... with Hammarby! I don't know how you're able to do this sort of stuff, but my goodness, you deserve some props. Very much looking forward to seeing how far this team can go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smp20 Posted October 9, 2016 Author Share Posted October 9, 2016 4 hours ago, oriole01 said: What the hell!?!?!? It only speaks too kindly to your ability as a manager if you go out and win a Europa League in your second season... with Hammarby! I don't know how you're able to do this sort of stuff, but my goodness, you deserve some props. Very much looking forward to seeing how far this team can go. Thanks @oriole01 - though it was 3rd season as I started in 2015 . I'm not sure how well we would have fared against a huge club mind, like R. Madrid, Barca, Man City, who you often find in the Europa League. But I'm very happy with the team, beating the likes of Liverpool, Shakhtar and Roma is well above expected. 7 hours ago, LPQR said: quite unbelievable, mate it seems defensive tactics are a monster if you get it right Cheers @LPQR . I wouldn't say its defensive, but its not a gung-ho style. Neutral, but still aggressive and high pressing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smp20 Posted October 9, 2016 Author Share Posted October 9, 2016 July Spoiler: He's Home A signing to get very excited about!!! Zlatan, the Zlatan Ibrahimovic is moving back to Sweden. Although he's 35 nearly 36, he is still class. In our system, he will be a Shadow Striker / Trequartista in AMC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oriole01 Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 You seriously need to stop... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smp20 Posted October 9, 2016 Author Share Posted October 9, 2016 July 2017 Update Transfers This month we were hit with offer after offer for nearly all of our players, I assume with them being in the limelight after the Europa League win. After that success, I've decided I want to go in a slightly new direction. I want to build a team of players eligible for Sweden, really building the nations future. I've allowed our foreigners to go for the right deal, the 4 starters from the EL final. We've made a huge profit from them and Rahmani, Diaz and Lentsevich all have 50% sell on clauses as well. This leaves us (after a couple being released at the end of the season) with just two foreigners, Jung-Soo and Etuhu. Once again I will let them go, but only for the right deal. With the players heading out, they needed to be replaced. We had already secured Ibrahimovic, the start of the Swedish revolution. Tibbling was secured soon after the rales of Rahmani and Diaz, while Khalili adds a good option to our midfield and Johnsson is a direct replacement for Hortalin. The clubs record signing by far and also now our highest earner ahead of Zlatan. He is a quality player who I can see playing as RPM or WM on either flank. A creative force. A good all rounder to have. I really like his attribute build up. He will push Cajtoft for the No.1 shirt. Results We are smashing it at the moment! Zlatan hasn't set the world on fire in his opening 4 games but finally bagged his first goal in the last game of the month. We are quite simply running away with it. Malmo have been very inconsistent and nobody looks like they can touch us. Interesting to see our Stockholm rivals Djurgardens and AIK up near the top. Swedish Football Rises Would it be possible to drag Swedish football up with the big boys? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smp20 Posted October 9, 2016 Author Share Posted October 9, 2016 28 minutes ago, oriole01 said: You seriously need to stop... My only other save in Sweden was with Malmo on FM14 where I brought Zlatan back as well...was very surprised when I saw he wanted to join but he must want to live in the capital. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smp20 Posted October 9, 2016 Author Share Posted October 9, 2016 I can't believe this. My laptop blue screened whilst my game was saving. The save is lost. I have backup saves, but they are from before the EL final :/ I seriously think I need a new laptop, this has happened too often. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oriole01 Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 I think I'll have to personally buy you that laptop, it's too agonizing to see this sort of thing happen repeatedly. This is why I autosave every in-game day. Expect a new one in the mail any day now! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCtheOnly Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 That's a bummer but I still have to congratulate you for managing to win the Europa League so soon with Hammarby. Hopefully you're able to keep motivation up to keep going because I'm curious to see how far you could go but alas having to replay it all isn't the definiton of fun I guess. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smp20 Posted October 11, 2016 Author Share Posted October 11, 2016 Thanks both. I think i had left my laptop on too long which ended up messing up the memory. Tried to restore the file but no luck. I think that is me until FM17...time to order that BETA! I wasnt even planning to get it until xmas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smp20 Posted October 11, 2016 Author Share Posted October 11, 2016 On 09/10/2016 at 21:24, oriole01 said: I think I'll have to personally buy you that laptop, it's too agonizing to see this sort of thing happen repeatedly. This is why I autosave every in-game day. Expect a new one in the mail any day now! I had monthly autosaves but if you manually save it overwrites only the most recent. I may have to do weekly saving in the future. I get too frustrated with the time it takes to save though. What laptop you sending me? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davehibb Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Sad to see what happened to your laptop and the save. I had thoroughly enjoyed reading the thread up until now and it's given me another potential team to consider for FM17 or as a save to tide me over until it comes out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltablue Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 I've done weekly autosaves for years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfkllasdfaslkdfj Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 @smp It's hard to believe that you have no holding midfielder in your tactics. How is it going? Please share with us your vision of the gaming outline (TI/PI), responsiveness and adjustment to the opponent, recruitment and cultivation of players. In future histories it would be interesting to monitor the analysis of matches and the progress of players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
noikeee Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Erm, it appears that a lot has been happening here, unfortunately it's over. Winning the Europa League is insane, and so is poaching Zlatan. Shame we won't get to see how Zlatan will perform. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smp20 Posted October 11, 2016 Author Share Posted October 11, 2016 Cheers for the support @noikeee and @davehibb - I've decided that unfortunately this save is to end. But there is good news, I'm going to continue my Fiorentino / San Marino save @deltablue - frequent saving will be needed. I never learn. I think there always used to be this stigma behind regular saving on an old forum I used to post on, people used to say that people were often 'cheats' if they had saved hundreds of times because it meant that they were likely to re-load games. All a bit silly really. @cfkllasdfaslkdfj - the DM(s) is quick to get back in a holding role when we lose possession and with the RPM dropping back not long after we very rarely lose out in the middle of the field. On my Fiorentino thread I would be more than happy to delve into my tactical approach more if that is something people are interested in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oriole01 Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 11 hours ago, smp20 said: I had monthly autosaves but if you manually save it overwrites only the most recent. I may have to do weekly saving in the future. I get too frustrated with the time it takes to save though. What laptop you sending me? This beauty. Cost me an entire week's salary. Royal Mail says it's delivered already. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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