Official Football Manager 2011 Career Thread

[HalfTimeOrange]

Right, this is how my game currently stands:

Game Settings:
English (Blue Sq N/S), Spain (Liga adalente) & Brazil (Second Division) leagues selected.
Large Database.
Set myself as a semi-professional footballer.
Start of season expectations: Promotion (700k budget, £52k on wages.)

Date:
Saturday, 7th August 2010

Pre-season Results:
Brighton 2-1 Portsmouth (Murray x2)
Accrington 0-2 Brighton (Bennett, Murray)
Brighton 0-3 Wolves
Brighton 1-1 QPR (Soukouna)
Bognor Regis 0-5 Brighton (Nicholls x2, Murray x2, El-Abd)
Dorchester 0-3 Brighton (Elphick, Bennett, Nicholls)

Quite pleased with how pre-season went actually. Especially beating Pompey and drawing against QPR. Playing against Championship opposition and getting results like that give me a big lift into my chances this year.

Transfers In:
Matty Robson (Carlisle) £200k
King Gyan (Free Transfer)
Pelé (Free Transfer)
Ahmed Soukouna (Free Transfer)
Alex Nicholls (Walsall) £81k
Charlie Lee (Peterborough) 400k

Transfers Out:
None.

Screenshots:

Fixtures for the start of the season

Full squad for the opening game

Particularly pleased with this buy, according to the scout he will turn into a leading Premier League striker!

And finally my strongest team for the opening game

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Not sure anyone but JC is interested but:

For league ganme sin and Eastbournwe have a had a mixed bag ..

Fleetwood ghome 6-0 - easy... Mania and Dixon got a brace each
Luton home 1-3 - had both my forwards carried off inside twenty minutes and only had one on the bench... never got back in the game. Dixon out for four months
Histon away 5-0 Cherif two on his debut and another brace from Mania (great soft shoe shuffle for such a big player to celebrate!)
Crawley away 2-3 As Histon was a Tuesday night, by Saturday 9 first team players were unfit (never play player under 91%) and had to put in the second team .. then Reid got carried off.... Cherif and a monster header from Clancy.

Mitigating circumstances for both defeats and both against top teams in the division so not too unhappy... but had expected better.

 

[jcdenton08]

Not sure anyone but JC is interested but:

For league ganme sin and Eastbournwe have a had a mixed bag ..

Fleetwood ghome 6-0 - easy... Mania and Dixon got a brace each
Luton home 1-3 - had both my forwards carried off inside twenty minutes and only had one on the bench... never got back in the game. Dixon out for four months
Histon away 5-0 Cherif two on his debut and another brace from Mania (great soft shoe shuffle for such a big player to celebrate!)
Crawley away 2-3 As Histon was a Tuesday night, by Saturday 9 first team players were unfit (never play player under 91%) and had to put in the second team .. then Reid got carried off.... Cherif and a monster header from Clancy.

Mitigating circumstances for both defeats and both against top teams in the division so not too unhappy... but had expected better.

Brought a smile I'm noticing the injuries are mental too..

 

[questier]

Has anyone got any decent training schedules?

 

[WEVEGOT5FOOTCOX!]

Now got a bit of tiem so will give a bigger picture.

Cocnentratinmg on the furure and believing that much of the team was good enough for promotion I did the following in terms of transfers..... most going into the reserves and under-18s for the future:

IN
Omar Koroma -free
Christian Nanetti - free
Kingsley Grandison - free
Gael Nlundulu - free
Tim Hopkinson - free
Aaron King - free
Oliver Nicholas - free
James Dunn - free
Tomos Roberts - free
Craif Eastmond - loan
Sean Geddes - 45k from Walsall
Mathew Briggs - loan
Tony Diagne - free
Gyan King - free

Eastmond and Briggs are for three months in which time Grandison and Roberts will be ready for the first team

OUT
Gary Hart - 10k
Andy Whing - 12k
Alan Navarro - 40k

Have been hit by injuries left right and centre so have actually had to use 30 players already.

SEASON -
Posh - home - 3-1 Sandaza 2 and Muzza
Wycombe lc home 2-1 Nıcholas, Nlundulu but Baz was mom then fractures wrist and out for two months... also Barnes carried off with torn calf muscle - five months
Aints away - 3-4 Murray 2 Koroma. Ankergren had a mare and hasnt played since.... so did the ref who refused a good pen and dislllaowed a clear Muzza goal
Yeovil home - 3-2 Koroma, Lua Lua Murray Greer out for a month
Newcastle lc away 2-0 Elphick 2... after game Houghton started a spat with me so unlikely to keep Lua Lua now
Walsall away 4-1 Koroma 2 elbad lualua
MK Dons home 0-0
Swindon away 5-2 Koroma, Nlundulu, bennett, og, Muzza
Oldham home 5-1 Koroma 2 Nlundulu Dicker

Nlundulu is absolutely on fire at the mo and keeping Bennet out

How weird- My uncle is youth director for fourth division Spanish team Racing Club Portuense and as a side project has set up this academy within the club where released premier league players can come and play competitive football in the spanish leagues where numerous English scouts come out to Spain to watch the players called 'nextstars' ( this is similar to Glenn Hoddle's academy in Jerez which I also spent time at watching numerous training sessions and games). My uncle brought over two players from England this year- one a centre back formerly of Nottm Forest (Karl/Carl Sibson?) and the other Kingsley Gradison (ex- Man City) a winger who when I met him I thought he looked remarkably similar to Robinho. Strange

 

[chez]

I am just over half way through my 1st season at Danish 2nd division east side "Nodvest".

Having just returned from the 4 month break that they have in Denmark I find myself in 3rd position. It's quite a hard league to get out of as only the winners have a chance of promotion and even they have to go through a play off.

Anyway, I will post some screenshots when I get a chance but am really enjoting the game so far although I must agree with what somebody siad earlier , there are way too many penalties given.

 

[chez]

Slightly different to what I said - I'm actually top at the moment!

 

[HalfTimeOrange]

Update of my game from January:

Date:
Monday, 3rd January 2011

Transfers In:
Jennison Myrie-Williams (Kilmarnock) Free

Transfers Out:
Kazenga LuaLua (Newcastle) back to club after loan.

Season So Far:
Brighton 4-1 Bristol Rovers (Robson, Soukouna x2, Bennett)
Lg Cup Rnd 1: Stevenage 3-2 Brighton (Henry OG, Nicholls) was playing 2nd XI though.
Rochdale 2-3 Brighton (Bennett, Soukouna, Nicholls)
Southampton 4-1 Brighton (Soukouna)
Walsall 1-2 Brighton (Robson x2)
Peterborough 2-1 Brighton (Murray)
Brighton 2-1 MK Dons (Soukouna x2)
Sheff Wed 0-3 Brighton (Bennett, Nicholls, Soukouna)
Brighton 2-1 Plymouth (Pelé, Johnson OG)
Colchester 0-2 Brighton (Sandaza, Murray)
Brighton 3-2 Exeter (Soukouna, Nicholls, Kyrsiak OG)
JPT 2nd Rnd: Southampton 3-3 Brighton (Caskey x2, Murray) Lost 4-3 on pens.
Brentford 0-3 Brighton (Nicholls, Bennett, Soukouna)
Brighton 0-0 Bournemouth
Leyton Orient 0-2 Brighton (Bennett, Greer)
Brighton 4-2 Oldham (Nicholls, Soukouna x3)
Charlton 1-0 Brighton
FA Cup 1st Rnd: Brighton 3-0 Gloucester (Nicholls, Bennett, Murray)
Brighton 3-1 Dag & Red (Nicholls. Bennett x2)
Notts Co 0-0 Brighton
Brighton 3-3 Hartlepool (Sandaza, Soukouna, LuaLua)
FA Cup 2nd Rnd: Rotherham 1-1 Brighton (Nicholls)
Swindon 1-2 Brighton (Nicholls, Gyan)
FA Cup 2nd Rnd Replay: Brighton 4-2 Brighton (LuaLua x3, Caskey)
Brighton 2-1 Yeovil (Sparrow, Soukouna)
Carlisle 0-1 Brighton (Soukouna)
Brighton 2-2 Huddersfield (Soukouna x2)
Bristol Rovers 1-3 Brighton (Soukouna, Sandaza, Bennett)
Brighton 4-0 Rochdale (Nicholls, Soukouna x2, Greer)
Tranmere 1-3 Brighton (Soukouna x3)

League Standing:

Currently 2nd after 25 games, on 58 points. 3 points behind Scumhampton at the top (who I have next) so hope to shorten that to no points rather soon

Pos Team P W D L GD Pts
1st Southampton 25 19 4 2 +36 61
2nd Brighton 25 18 4 3 +28 58
3rd Peterboro 25 17 5 3 + 28 58


Got Soukouna currently at the top of the scorers list with 23! I would recommend that you should buy him when starting a new game. On mine he was free and is now worth around 750k...and is an absolute cracker up top.

Strongest XI:
Casper Ankergren
Inigo Calderon
Gordon Greer
Pelé
Marcos Painter
Elliott Bennett
Matt Sparrow
Radostin Kishishev
Matty Robson
Alex Nicholls
Ahmed Soukouna

 

[HalfTimeOrange]

WTF..the board just accepted a deal for a player of mine that I didn't want accepted :S and now he's leaving me. He's my top striker on 28 goals!

 

[Mental Lental]

January 1 2012. The transfer window opens and I need a new central midfielder. A quick player search reveals a certain rather famous chap has finished his contract in LA and is available on a free......

I guess that it must have been the Falmer factor that swung it........

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

For the last few weeks I set myself the challenge of starting from the bottom as a sunday league footballer manager. Took over as manager of Chelmsford and won promotion as leaders in first season of BSS. 2nd season neck and neck with Luton in BSP and 6 points clear of anyone else after 25 games... just got knocked out of FA cup in 3rd round by Manure 4-0 but beat Shrews and Borient on the way.

The interesting things was that just after mssing out on the playoffs... Brighton first season but then went into freefall after moving to Falmer. Poyet got sacked december with Brighton in 20th. I applied for the job but instead they chose Trabelsi... since which time Brighton have lost 8 in a row and rock bottom. Big possibility Ill be playing the Albion next season in league 2.

Anyon want to know great bargains for the BS?

 

[sten_super]

I'll skip the details, but won League 1 the first season and somehow followed that up with winning the Championship (I genuinely have no idea how; we were mediocre the first few games but then started winning games against poor teams and didn't really stop. My team should have been nowhere near). A desperate battle to stay in the Premiership, and at least somewhere near the supposed wage budget, followed, and I eventually finished 14th. Now in 5th place in January 2014, and my first choice team below;

GK - Sergio Romero (free from AZ)
RB - Lee Hodson (£1.5m from Man Utd, who signed him from Watford end of 2010/11)
LB - Carl Dickinson (£1.1m from Stoke)
CB - Kyle Bartley (free from Arsenal)
CB - Pichu Atienza (free from Atletico Madrid)
RM - John Fleck (£6.5m from Rangers)
LM - Joe Ledley (£5m from Celtic)
DM - Papa Diop (£2m from Racing Santander)
DM - Tom Cairney (£3.5m from Hull)
ST - Andy Carroll (£7.5m from Newcastle)
ST - Leigh Griffiths (£250k from Dundee)

Have Alex Smithies, John O'Shea, Håvard Nordtveit, newgen Hungarian wonderkid, Charlie Austin, Adam Matthews and Simon Church on the bench. Only Leigh Griffiths from that lot is from my first season, and only original squad member still around is Jake Caskey (but he can't get a game).

 

[brightonmark1234]

how did u get david beckham to sign mental lental

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

Really can't get into the game this year. Don't know why, just got through a few friendlies and lost interest. Never happened before. Help!

 

[brightonmark1234]

i feel the same mcshane in the 79th

 

[Mental Lental]

how did u get david beckham to sign mental lental

I was top of the Championship in January and his LA Galaxy contract had just finished. He asked for 8k a week and a bit of a hefty sign on fee (250k) but I had plenty left in the transfer kitty at the time. Surprisingly there was no competition for his signature.

He's been crap so far though, I'm hoping this is just down to lack of match fitness.

 

[Fawkesy]

id highly recommend signing Adam Le Fondre, 12 goals in 14 games!

Pushed me from 23rd in the league (i know) up to 11th

asking price is about 250k but they held out for 700k

 

[garethjamesuk]

Im back to playing football manager 2010 as i think the gameplay is more realistic, just 2 many goals in 2011 and hard to get team to play way want.
I still think that the gameplay is a lot worse than it used to be, the best one is still 2004, yes all the other bits to game is a lot better but the training and game control is a lot worse.

 

[The Ringleader Returns!]

Im back to playing football manager 2010 as i think the gameplay is more realistic, just 2 many goals in 2011 and hard to get team to play way want.
I still think that the gameplay is a lot worse than it used to be, the best one is still 2004, yes all the other bits to game is a lot better but the training and game control is a lot worse.

I haven't got FM 11 but can the goals be any more stupid than FM '10?

My current FM 2010 season...

 

[HalfTimeOrange]

Started a new game with Crawley Town. Now in the 2013/14 season..and sitting 1st in the npower Championship. Been the winners of the league every season and has been by a few points every time.

2010/11 : BSP Champions, 99 points.
2011/12: npower League 2 Champions, 108 points
2012/13: npower League 1 Champions, 110 points
2013/14: npower Championship current standings: 1st


Strongest Team is:
GK - Dean Bouzanis
RB - Steven Reid
CB - Ciaran Clark
CB - Elliott Ward
LB - Tomasz Brzyski
CM - Darren Pratley
CM - Jamie O'Hara
CM - Nick Brooker (English generated wonderkid, goes to leading Premier Division)
AM - George Boyd
ST - Benik Afobe
ST - Kyle Lafferty

In other parts of my game Brighton are 5th in npower League 1, managed by Lee Clark!

Pretty happy with what i've done, and hoping that if I keep it going i'll be in the Premier League in the not too distant future