[FM21: The English Football League thread]

10 hours ago, LincolnCanary said:

Good morning ladies and gents.

I'm firmly into January in my Norwich save. I'm having all sorts of problems with central defenders doing some very strange things, but otherwise it's going good. 

My biggest issue is scoring goals. I drew 1-1 with Bristol City just now. 30 shots. 18 on target. Can't buy a goal. Teemu Pukki is off to Dubai for £7.5m as a result, I'm shipping Adam Idah out on loan because after that performance he has the temerity to demand a new deal and Jordan Hugill is solid if not spectacular. So if you fine people have any striker suggestions, I'm very much all ears.

I also think it's weird that Norwich have sold £50m of talent in game and are still failing FFP. Definitely not like that in real life. 

@LincolnCanary I went for the other Anglian side and chose Ipswich, first season I got promoted and have started the Championship solid with 2 wins and a draw in the opening 3.

Onto Strikers though I loaned two legends from previous games and re-loaned them in the Championship and they are already banging them in ..... Pietro Pellegri & Lincoln

Both if not one will do the job they can't stop scoring for me, both pass WP issue (if you have it) and being a bigger club you might be able to get an option to buy in it, both as per previous games I'm sure are going to be unreal!!!

[[FM21] Ipswich Town: The Tractor Boys]

Ipswich Town Season 1 20/21

Great thread & totally agreeing with the above is why I started with Ipswich.

Well what can I say, I did a total overhaul of the squad, getting some amazing free signings and some of the usual names from FM20 with Lincoln & Pellegri spear heading my attack, who along with others demolished everyone in the league!!!

I wasn't too concerned about raising money for transfers for the first season given the amount of decent freebies you can get, it was reducing that wage budget to allow the manouverability for wages.

Once of the first things I did do however was ask for a senior affiliate, luckily the board granted me this, I had a choice of City, Arsenal or Spurs ... I went for City as I wanted Harwood-Bellis and that's exactly who I got, here are my transfers for season 1:

Transfers In 

Transfers Out

As you can see I did a fair bit, literally giving away some of the players I considered on high wages and were ageing. The loan signings I got were unreal, Wilshire & Sturridge came in later through the season as nobody snapped them up and were brilliant additions with wages of 2.5k & 1.8k respectively.

I got a few staff for my Under 18's, Darren Fletcher & Park Ji Sung being Model Citizens.

End Of Season

All in all the first season was a remarkable achievement, whilst I had confidence I would go up I dismantled everyone in the league, I was champions with 8 games remaining, I won the JPT and made it to the 5th round of the FA Cup before Man City knocked me out (who were the eventual winners). I beat a number of Championship teams in the FA Cup early rounds and Carabao which gives me huge confidence for the new season ahead. Here are the final standings for League One, in which my team broke nearly every record going:

Keeping up with previous FM tradition one of my defeats was at home to Northampton, it was a standard game of one shot one goal and I must of had 30 on target against them, it was just one of them days. My other defeat also came at home to Portsmouth, meaning I was unbeaten away all season.

I'm currently just in pre season of the second season, I was given £3.5m to spend and have so far managed to raise it to £7.5m, I will post further once I have an update of the transfers once the transfer window is over.

They want me to avoid relegation but I feel we can comfortably achieve this. Come on the Tractor Boys (PS: Norwich got promoted back to the Premier in mine so I'm hunting them down) but more to follow!!!

[Jack Wilshere]

I've picked him up for Ipswich, 2.5k per wk in Jan end of the first season. Done well and no injuries as of yet!!!