My FM

[PSVFOREVER]

Playing with Newcastle, 6 league games to go until the end of the season, so far i'm sitting in 6th

Wage budget out of control (sold 5 players, only brought 1) and i'm making a financial lose of anything up to £1 million a month.

yeah, financial seems a lot harder, which is good IMO. On previous FM/CM I'd easily make a few million profit every month with PSV, now my highest profit was 275k € and mosly I lost money, until I sold Farfan for 33m (which I partly spend in Alex, Alvarez, Lagos and a new contract for Cocu)

 

[nor-rbk]

Well, my career with Rosenborg ended very early. When I started this game I thought that I could be able to win the league, but I took wrong there, and big time too.

I had millions of injuries and had to change my tactics all the time, but even so, this team should not be this crap. I couldn't believe what I saw when the league started, hundreds of passings going to the opposite, many enormous chances missed, and a defense that seemed to be playing in 16th division!

And this was the league table at the end!


Fixtures:


I also went on shopping during the season, but that didn't help at all:
Lebohang Mokoena (very disappointing)
Freddy Guarin (expected much better)
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (did quite well at the end of the season)
Ragnvald Soma (not bad, but far from good too)

I got fired at the end of the season. Surprised that I didn't get that earlier.

I know Rosenborg have had a bad season in real life too this year, but I didn't expect SI (or the researchers) to make them so crap! Maybe I didn't do a very good job, but I have never seen a team play like this, it was like leading a team that didn't knew what a football was.

 

[Johnny_Big]

Second season right now...I have 3 right-backs...all of them got injured for 3 weeks. I got lucky Diego Lugano e competent doing right-back service, but he can't attack as much. At the start of the season, lost the Supercup to Porto on penalties (I always lose on penalties... ). But after 6 matches, no loss so far. 4 wins, 2 draws. Even with some injuries, I went to Estadio da Luz to win Benfica 2-0.

 

[Lean]

Currently at the start of the 2nd season with Liverpool. My first serious attempt at FM 2005, didnt bother with the game before but now it's quite fun. On the first season i only bought one player, Mohammed Zidan, for 7 million Euros. Money well spent i reckon, even though i could've gotten him for less. I felt i had cover enough. What i didnt know was that Cisse is ****, Luis Garcia idem (even worse), and that i would end relying on Mellor as my main striker. He didnt do too bad, scored like 10-15 goals in the season. Baros was too inconsistent and with his big wages he was released in the end of the first season.

Got knocked in the 1st Knockout round in CL by Inter, 5-2 on aggregate, a bit unlucky, but well, none of my defenders could cope with Martins. Got knocked out of Cup competitions early, but i played a 2nd string side, and well, the cover i thought i had was a bit crap aswell. Ended in 2nd place on EPL, level on points with Arsenal, but i lost it on matches against (2-0 and 5-0 for them respectively, the 2nd one i had one player less for most of the match but i couldnt lose, so i kept pushing forward, it was do or die anyway, losing 1-0 or 5-0 wouldnt make much of a difference).

Now into the second season, i've decided a chance in tactics, going for a flat midfield 4-4-2, signed a few players : Javi Guerrero (free), Crespo (2 million, bargain), Santana (free), Smertin (free), Mansiz (575K), and i'm negotiating Vanden Borre (5 M) and Lahm (4.6 M). I'll probably go for another defender, more experienced aswell.

The team looks like this :

-------------------Dudek--------------------
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Finnan-------Carragher--Hyypia------Riise-(maybe Lahm)
---------------------------------------------
Zidan----------Gerrard--Alonso-----Santana--
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-------------Crespo-----Guerrero-------------

with Gerrard going forward and Alonso with a diagonal back arrow, he's the "DMC". Beat Man Utd 2-0 in pre-season, then i have one game against Arsenal and then another against Hamburg. I would say i have a good shot at the title this time around, i have plenty of cover, and a pretty good team.

 

[Filipower]

i just left lyon...the second season was going bad.... moved to arsenal

they've already got Morgan de Sanctis, Upson, and Andy Johnson....and sold Reyes oh, and i got ledley king for free, i released him just before going the englandand aimar

but i'm getting alex, lucho gonzalez and hitzleperger at the end of the season....(currently march in season 2)

i'm on the run for the title, in 2nd with man utd leading just 4 points ahead...i'm off the CL, and both league and FA cup, but the objectives are qualifying for europe, and that's easy..so let's see...

i currently play:
de sanctis
lauren, king, campbell, ash
fabregas(great player),gilberto
ljungberg, aimar, van persie/pires
henry

 

[elvpak]

Started with Arsenal. Only just missed out on the Premiership in my first season (Chelsea won it by a point). In the second season I was doing well and Milan came in for me twice. I turned them down the first time as I love Arsenal and wanted to win titles with them, but I just couldn't turn them down the second time as they offered me a good contract and almost £50m to spend on players. They let me stay at Arsenal for the rest of the season though and I won the league by one point.

Now with Milan I have the following:

----------------Dida

Simic------Nesta(c)----Givet-----Maxwell

Kaka------Pirlo-------Gattuso----Hleb

------Shevchenko----Gilardino

Rest of squad:
Kalac (GK)
Kompany
Stam
Mondini
Kaladze
Ambrosini
Vogel
Bona
Seedorf
Tevez
Podolski
Villa

Unbeaten in the league so far, lost 1 CL game to Valencia. Possibly too many top-class strikers in my squad

 

[ShiftyPowers]

ngyc, how exactly did you get Messi for 4.5 pound sterling at the beginning of the game?

 

[kingpug]

Liverpool bought him for 5 million after 1 season with me.

And Tevez, oh my god, I got him for free and I was over the moon, but he has to eb the worst player I have ever seen, played 4 games and got a 6 everytime, no goals and I would be surprised if he even had a shot, such a letdown.

I dominated in my first season, now in my second season the game is getting worse, it's now at the stage where I ain't even going to waiste my time playing this game and will end up going another team. After one season the game goes down the pan, it is ridiculous.

But Mokoena was quite good, took a while before he could play a full game without finishing on 60% condition.

Here is a tip: don't use good players in a cup.

I would have to say that probably 98% of my injuries happened in cup matches, it is ludicrous.

 

[Frostwolf]

ngyc, how exactly did you get Messi for 4.5 pound sterling at the beginning of the game?

Pre-patch Messi didn't have his new contract and therefore went at a much lower price at the beginning. Sucks.

 

[PSVFOREVER]

Tevez probably has to adapt, not fair judging him on his first 4 games. And it can be a series of unfortunate events (), like Kezman for Chelsea