[FMT17] - Mawborough (A Little Touch of Fantasy)

[Maw74]

 

NEW GAME, NEW TEAM.

Bye Bye Dons, Hello Mawborough.

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 BREAKING NEWS

Milton Keynes Dons Football Club have been taken over by Maw74, all staff and players have left except Pete Winkelman who will stay on as chairman for new club Mawborough Football Club, the new club will remain based in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, and will continue to use Stadium MK. As of the 2016–17 season its first team plays in League One, the third tier of English football.

 

Self imposed rules for my team are as follows:  (Updated 7th December 2016) --- (Game Time: 10th September 2019)

1 - Player Recruitment --- (Only Youth Players and Players Under 24) Not doing youth only because I enjoying making transfers. 

2 - Staff Recruitment --- (Only Staff That Apply Until We Get To Premier League)

3 - Unlockables --- (I will use two Unsackable & Son) NO OTHERS WILL BE USED IN THIS SAVE.

4 - Foreign Players --- (A limit of 10 Non-English Players)

 

So after the false/messed up start it is time to restart, game begins again HERE

[Maw74]

Reserved for later use.

[BoxToBox]

In! Can't wait to see what you have up your sleeves.

[Bedese]

Anyone who gets rid of the franchise has a fan in me Good luck!

[Maw74]

5 hours ago, Jupjamie said:

Anyone who gets rid of the franchise has a fan in me Good luck!

Thanks, yeah I thought they would be a good club as I don't feel even a little bit guilty about losing them from the game.

5 hours ago, BoxToBox said:

In! Can't wait to see what you have up your sleeves.

At the moment I'm just trying to decide on how I get my starting squad, select a load of players (myself or random) before starting game or start game with empty squad and then sign players.

EDIT - I decided on the latter as Auto-Fill didn't really work out as it took us way over wage budget and unable to employ staff.

[Maw74]

 MULHERN SCORES MAWBOROUGH'S FIRST GOAL!

It wasn't a good start for the club but Mulhern sparked a great comeback win.

[BoxToBox]

What a game!

[Maw74]

CLUB INFORMATION

 

CLUB STAFF

Transfers - A lot of activity here.

FIRST TEAM SQUAD

Reserve Squad

So I signed a lot of players, can't say I know a lot about them.

BOARD EXPECTATIONS

[Maw74]

JULY & AUGUST 2016

We have found it very tough so far, will need to work on our tactics.
This is going to be a very hard season, the board wanted play-offs.
 We will be lucky to stay up.

 

[BoxToBox]

Hell of an opening window.

[Maw74]

7 minutes ago, BoxToBox said:

Hell of an opening window.

Yeah, though the outs was all the MK Dons players apart from one player loaned out.

[Maw74]

 MAWBOROUGH PICK UP FIRST POINT!

It has taken 8 games but we finally get a point.

Our next game is top v bottom as we take on Fleetwood.

 

 

[Maw74]

SEPTEMBER 2016

The struggle continues though we finally have some points after a couple of
goalless draws against Oxford and Bury, Hopefully I can turn things around.

If I don't manage it soon then this could be a very short reign.

[Maw74]

OCTOBER 2016

Well not exciting stuff for our fans, just terrible.

After just 17 games in charge

[BoxToBox]

Ouch.

[Maw74]

17 hours ago, BoxToBox said:

Ouch.

Yeah, messed up my plan, tbh I messed this up from the start, I really should have spent more time thinking and getting my starting squad.

I am thinking about making a fresh start to this, only this time I will use the create player option to get my starting squad, plus rather than try and fill the reserves as well I will just concentrate on first team and start with a squad of 21 players.

Also need to decide how I will play this in terms of manager, maybe use the unsackable when it is available or create a new manager if/when one gets sacked.

[noikeee]

2 points in 13 is an achievement! 

Better luck next time.

[Maw74]

On 10/23/2016 at 17:45, noikeee said:

2 points in 13 is an achievement! 

Better luck next time.

Yeah quite a start to the new game. 

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I had my squad set up but then saw this thread.

Even though my squad doesn't look too bad I don't really want to to edit too much player wise for the reason I mentioned in that thread, maybe it will be easier to start without players and then sign my 21 man starting squad, or just get on with it and see how it goes, ideally I need to wait closer to full release anyway so that I can use the unsackable.

[Maw74]

IT STARTS AGAIN!

CLUB INFORMATION

THE PLAYERS

[Maw74]

Staff Recruitment

Here are the applicants for my Assistant Manager and Director of Football roles.

Curbishley & Jol Join Mawborough!

Here is a staff overview after every position was filled.

I am happy with the recruitments and now I plan to make
just a couple of player signings during the first transfer window.

Player Contracts

Competition Expectations

[Maw74]

New Signings

The former Everton player was signed after being recommended by my scout.

I have broken one of my rules as he is 23 not under 23 but I wanted to sign
a number one keeper so this will be the only time that rule is broken.

My son brings the squad to 24 players.

[Raware]

Your son?  You've got a son already in the game?!?!  

[Maw74]

11 minutes ago, Raware said:

Your son?  You've got a son already in the game?!?!  

Yeah via the (Cheat) DLC.

[Raware]

1 minute ago, Maw74 said:

Yeah via the (Cheat) DLC.

I was going to say!!! I've been playing for years and have never been lucky enough to get a son.  I didn't even realise that you could "cheat" to get a son.

[Maw74]

Here are the players in more detail

  

                      

Tony Cooper is Captain and Dan Edwards is Vice Captain.

Note: 21 players are created players, the only changes I made were to positions and some name changes, everything else was random and I only added players valued at 300k or less.

[Maw74]

Pre-Season & August 2016

 TOUGH START FOR MAWBOROUGH!

A struggle so far in the league but we have had some joy in the cups.
Hopefully we can build on the last couple of league results though and move up.

 

[Maw74]

September & October 2016

 MAWS BOYS STILL FINDING LIFE TOUGH!

We are still finding life tough but we are showing signs of improvement.
Despite the struggles we have had some good performances and results.
It might not be so important overall we still have a great chance of progress
in the Checkatrade Trophy when we take on Luton in our final group game.

 

Thanks son

My pic looks like I have a scar lol, I don't, not on my face anyway,
also just noticed I don't have glasses.
I can use that as my excuse for struggling.

 

[Maw74]

November & December 2016

 RELEGATION BATTLE FOR MAWBOROUGH!

We have had an awful time in the league with defeat after defeat but finally
managed a win against Charlton, it was a fine display and should have been
a bigger margin and it is a result that makes me wonder why we can't perform
like that more often, it looked like we would return to losing ways straight away
but we produced a great comeback from 0-2 against Swindon with Morrison
scoring another winner home from the penalty spot.

We beat Luton 2-0 to win our group in the Checkatrade Trophy but we could
progress any further as we slipped to a narrow defeat to Peterborough Utd.
In the FA Cup we beat Forest Green narrowly in the 1st Round and then were
taken to a replay after a 0-0 draw with Gateshead, the replay was chosen for tv. 
We ran out comfortable winners in front of the BT Sport cameras. 
 

We are away to Preston in the 3rd Round.

 

 

 

[Maw74]

January to May 2017

 

January Transfer Window Signings!

Worrall joins for a fee of £100k from Nottingham Forest.

Oduwa joins for £115k (£140k) from the Mighty Spurs.

Biabi joins from Swansea for a fee of £300k.

Benteke joins for £205k from Crystal Palace.

These deals take our spending to £2.6m for the season.

We sold Alexander Gudger to Seattle in February for £875k (£1m) 

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Halsall Joins Wigan Athletic!

So in came...................

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MAWBOROUGH COME THOUGH RELEGATION BATTLE!

Well we did it, we stayed up, our media & board expectations might have been for us
to do much better and challenge for the play-offs but frankly that was bs as it is based on
the old club not for a club that is new and players just starting their careers anyway.
It was a struggle and painful to watch at times especially as we seemed to struggle against
teams around us and get our best results against teams higher up the table.

> CLICK HERE FOR FULL MATCH RESULTS <

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Mawborough Football Club - Season Info

 

 

[Maw74]

CUP WINNERS

Checkatrade Trophy - Wolves Reserves beat Chelsea Reserves on Penalties

FA Trophy - Barrow beat Sutton Utd 2-0

Community Shield - Leicester City beat Man Utd 3-2

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Champions League - Bayern Munich beat Real Madrid 2-0

Europa League - Man Utd beat Roma 2-0

Super Cup - Real Madrid beat Sevilla 2-1

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Club World Cup - Real Madrid beat América (Mex) 2-0

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ENGLISH LEAGUE ROUND-UP

Premier League - Man Utd

Championship - Newcastle

League One - Wigan

League Two - Blackpool

National League - Eastleigh

National League North - Kidderminster

National League South - Ebbsfleet

[Maw74]

Pre-Season to November 2017

 

Transfer Window Signings!

Elder, Dempsey & Bennett are the key signings as Cotterill & Butroid
have been loaned out and will see how they develope but will probably
just be back-up players if they stay at the club anyway.

Sold some players who were whinging and requested transfers including
Shane Sanchez who missed training on several occasions. We also loaned out
some new youth players so that they can get some first team football.

Full Squad (Screenshot taken on 2nd December 2017)

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New Contract

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MAWBOROUGH IN PLAY-OFF CONTENTION!

So far so good, still could have been better but I'll settle for this compared to being
in another relegation battle anyway, also as you can see we are through in the 
Checkatrade Trophy again and we face West Ham Reserves, again it's not important
but from a personal point of view I would enjoy beating them, not so good in the
FA cup though as it was a sorry display against Leyton Orient who are a division below us.

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Star Player

He has been great and his value is nearly 4 times what we paid for him.
Proving to be a very good bargain and looking set to break our scoring record.
He will probably do it well before the end of season as he just needs 6 more goals.

[craigibhoy]

Good luck with your promotion attempts :), keep pushing and you could well do it.

[Maw74]

On 11/18/2016 at 19:41, craigibhoy said:

Good luck with your promotion attempts :), keep pushing and you could well do it.

Thanks, still going really well, will get another update posted soon.

[Maw74]

We are getting some interesting offers for this young player.

 

The offers................

I have already rejected a load of previous offers
and now it's getting very close to a possible £1m.

 

EDIT:

and the offers keep coming.

and this is how the offers were by the end
of the January Transfer Window.

All offers rejected.

[Maw74]

December 2017 to February 2018

 

January Transfer Window Signings!

Three players in takes our spending to £2.8m, one player left
and that brings total money coming in to £1.6m, Oakley was
moaning about lack of games and was third choice anyway.

Players Agree New Contracts!

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Players Out on Loan

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CAN MAWBOROUGH CLINCH PROMOTION?

It has been going great so far this season and we are very much in with a good
chance of an automatic promotion spot, failing that we are looking a very good
bet for a play-off place but of course anything could happen so we need to keep
things going, the only low point was the result against Chesterfield, not sure what
went wrong there as Ched Evans netted a brace as we were thumped.

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Player & Team Stats

 

 

[Maw74]

 

Update on players out on loan!

CAN WE CLINCH AUTOMATIC PROMOTION?

Looking good with four games to go, Portsmouth have a game in hand against Wigan.
We both have a game before Portsmouth play that Wigan game, not a bad position for us though
considering we recently lost 2-0 at home to Portsmouth that put them 7pts ahead of us at the time.

 

[BoxToBox]

Why is Zac Harper out on loan? Too much depth in his position?

[craigibhoy]

Was glad to see you rejecting offers for your 16 year old, if hes good enough to play i would play him, if he puts in performances then you may even get higher offers.

[Maw74]

44 minutes ago, BoxToBox said:

Why is Zac Harper out on loan? Too much depth in his position?

Well tbh looking at things now he probably could/should be in our starting line-up but at the time others were ahead of him and he was unhappy about not playing so I let him go out to get some games, anyway after following his progress I have already decided he will be getting games next season.

[Maw74]

15 minutes ago, craigibhoy said:

Was glad to see you rejecting offers for your 16 year old, if hes good enough to play i would play him, if he puts in performances then you may even get higher offers.

Yeah even though a lot of our social media feeds were comments about we should just let him go, fans not rating him blah blah blah, I was not interested in doing a deal, for starters those deals were with a lot of add-ons and I want to see how he will develope with us, he has been getting game time from the bench, scored 1 goal and has a average rating of 7.13 in the league.

If those deals had been with most of the money coming upfront it might have been a harder decision though.

[Maw74]

BBC Sport think it was good but the fans are split.

Here it is.

 

[BoxToBox]

I'd like to see more "bang average" goals, that's for sure!

[craigibhoy]

That was a very nice goal, well done kyle, actually seeing that goal has made me want to load up FMT now for a quick game

[Maw74]

On 11/23/2016 at 02:55, BoxToBox said:

I'd like to see more "bang average" goals, that's for sure!

 

On 11/24/2016 at 00:57, craigibhoy said:

That was a very nice goal, well done kyle, actually seeing that goal has made me want to load up FMT now for a quick game

Yeah I just guess some silly fans are hard to please, anyway some of the social media is good but some of it is utter rubbish.

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I'm a bit behind in my updating as I am now nearing the end of my 3rd season.

Just set a new record for the club............................................. ........................ not a good record though.

It will probably increase yet as well.

 

In terms of updating, after I get the previous season posted I will change to just posting at the end of each season a bit like dafuge does, with maybe a few snippets of stuff inbetween.

[craigibhoy]

Good luck with your 3rd season

[Maw74]

On 12/2/2016 at 00:50, craigibhoy said:

Good luck with your 3rd season

Thanks.

I will get Seasons 2 & 3 updated very soon.

[Maw74]

MAWBOROUGH SECURE PROMOTION!

Click Here For Full Match Overviews

Final Table - League One

Season Review

Awards & Stats

Commercial Summary

Full Squad Stats (Including players out on loan)

Best XI (Season)

Best XI (Overall)

Injuries during the Season

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Assistant Manager News

I narrowed it down to two.............then chose.

NATHAN JONES

Mawborough Staff

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So it was a great season as we gained an unexpected promotion.
My player of the season was Kyle Dempsey and at 250k he proved
to be a fantastic piece of business, I was a bit surprised the fans voted
for Luke Diaz but it seems like some have a problem with Dempsey
judging by some of the social media comments. though Diaz was also
great through the season so it was always likely to be close in the votes.
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NOW, CAN WE STAY UP?
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[BoxToBox]

You'll definitely stay up if this Nathan Jones is your assman.

[Maw74]

LMFAO, if it was him at the club I can't see that I would be his boss but I could see our squad getting smaller if players don't perform. 

Anyway the season is already done and I will get it posted shortly.

Also it is a rather different Nathan Jones (the current Luton Town Manager) who is my assistant, so less scary for me to go into work.

[Maw74]

MAWBOROUGH ARE RELEGATED!

Click Here For Full Match Overviews

Final Table - The Championship

Season Review

Awards & Stats

Commercial Summary

Full Squad Stats (Including players out on loan)

Best XI (Season)

Best XI (Overall)

Injuries during the Season

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Transfer News

We lost our captain Lundstram during the season, it was a shame
to lose him but it was a good deal for the club, Dempsey was made captain.

Also after all the offers for Danny Smith I decided to accept an offer from Southampton.
(as of September 2019 and he has only played 4 cup ties for them)

We had another big offer for a youth player from Liverpool, I decided to cash in.
(as of September 2019 and he has only played 2 cup ties for them)

Two players left at the end of the season, Archer had been making noises all season about needing
to move to a bigger club, so I already had this in mind when I signed Keranovic earlier in the season.

Dempsey was a big blow, even though I can understand his need to move I really wanted/hoped
I could have had him at the club for a season or two more.

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This season was very tough, too tough as we slipped to relegation and back to League One.
My player of the season was Kyle Dempsey and this time the fans agreed but sadly we have now lost him.
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NOW, IS IT GET PROMOTED or AVOID RELEGATION?
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