Re: Football Manager 2010 : Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:59 am  

saint billy wrote:

The only reason i started with them is because there known at 'The Saints'.

A £3m transfer budget to gain promotion for a League 1 team swayed it a bit for me too.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:44 am  

I'm in my 3rd season in charge of Bradford City. Got automatic promotion in my first season, would have been as champions but we had a bit of a newcastle style collapse towards the end of the season (12pt lead lost!!). but that was mainly down to losing my 35 goal striker, my mid field general and my 1st and 2nd choice keepers to injury.

2nd season was expected to finish in the bottom half but managed to get within touching distance of the play-offs

3rd season seems to be a bit of a stumbling block. Lost 1st game of the season 1-0 against Colchester but then went on a 5 game winning run. stumbled over the last few games and now currently 5th. but as I'm only expected to get a top half finish i'm not too down hearted as I think with a decent run we could make a splash in the play-offs.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Wed Mar 17, 2010 12:50 am  

Well I decided to get this, time to put Football Manage 2007 to bed.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Wed Mar 17, 2010 3:49 pm  

Well I've sacked it off altogether after being rudely sacked to allow some random Mexican who my players have never met but all love to take my place. 2 league titles in 3 years and I'm evicted after a takeover? I feel the pain Mourinho felt, it's just not moral.

I did consider joining another team and stopping them from winning anything, but couldn't face the amount of work that would have taken.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:05 pm  

That's a shame saddened because reading about your game was more entertaining than playing the current game I've got going with Leeds.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:20 pm  

Well I've left Bradford because Chelsea came knocking mid November of my 3rd season. They were floundering round mid-table, I've not really managed to improve their league position but I've got us to the League Cup final, 5th round of the FA cup (so far) and turned round our champs league performances to get us to the first knock out stage

currently 8th in the table coming up to the end of Feb on 43 points with 9 games to play. 1st place is Man Utd on 58 points. So if I can turn round our league form I could maybe push for a champs league spot (mathematically I could still win the league but it's not likely is it?)

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:59 pm  

After much tooing and froing between which game to concentrate on I am now set on my Porto game.
My aim is to make them the best team in Europe as soon as possible.
Signed Sandro (Internacioanl £10m), Jorge Andrade (Free), Artem Milelvskyi (Dinamo Kiev £9.2m), Vasilis Torosidis (Olympiakos £5.75m) and Nicolas Otamendi (Velez £5m). Looking to domintate domestically and earn a huge transfer budget for next season in order to build a team of world-beaters.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Sat Mar 27, 2010 11:41 am  

Got promotion to the premiership with Southampton. I came 2nd, and i didn't half make hard work of it. I was clear, along with Wigan (who won the league, 20 points clear of anyone else), by about 6 points, and then next thing i was down to 4th, although only 2 points behind the 2 above me, fortunately, i climbed back into 2nd place and it stayed that way, i got promoted 2 points in front of those behind me. Started the season in the premiership with some massive changes to my squad. I was given £40million to spend for a top half finish. In my first 6 games i've played Man United, Chelsea and Arsenal, and i've give a good of my account myself on all occasions. Lost 3-1 to Man United, with them scoring a last minute penalty, otherwise i was well in the game. Lost 2-0 to Chelsea, with a late goal killing the game off also, and i drew 0-0 away at Arsenal. I have however, lost to West Brom (who i should have beat) 1-0, but i've also beat Everton and Wigan. I'm sitting in mid-table but its very early in the season.

One thing that's starting to get on my nerves, is players keep saying that they are worried about the squad harmony. How do i solve this? In the past, its been solved when we start to win a few games. I think this is happening because i've signed quite a lot of better players and sold quite a few players that weren't good enough to finish in the top half. This is to be expected when these players were at the club in League 1, never mind championship. I've filled all 25 squad places, as well as some players that can play without squad numbers due to being 21 or under. My squad for the premiership is as follows:

Murphy
James

Stoor
Belletti
Cahill
Brown
Fabio (Loan)
Da Costa
Fonte
Mills

Viera
Matic
Collison
Vukojevic
Guardado
Helge Riise
Bentley
Arteta
Blanco
Van der Vaart
Arango
Pacheco

Gudjohnsen
Dindane
Owen
Caicedo
Lambert

I'm a little bit worried about the age of my squad, but i felt that experience would be very good, and also with some quality signings, i am confident that i can push on and finish in a very decent position in the league. However, i'm looking in to signing some younger players, plus i have some decent youngsters coming through because next season is going to see a few changes with the likes of Belletti and Viera leaving.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Sat Mar 27, 2010 3:45 pm  

My Porto game has become corrupt so I've started a new game as Juventus. I'll update on my progress.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:07 pm  

Rughead wrote:

My Porto game has become corrupt so I've started a new game as Juventus. I'll update on my progress.

As corrupt as Turkish football?