Football Manager

[Fappin Raptor]

5 games left in my first season with West Ham in the Championship and we are sitting in 1st and we qualified for a playoff spot, but I think we should win the league. I'm at work now but I should finish the season in the morning.

Swansea, QPR, and Norwich are all in the relegation zone in the EPL.

[Fappin Raptor]

Sounds like you need to sell off some expensive players and buy some cheap but decent players to hold you over for a couple seasons.

[calgaryballer]

When I took my CPU in, meant hard drive was wiped. Time to start again!

Picked Colchester in League 1, some good loan signings (Miquel from Arsenal, Gardner from Villa, Bostock from Spurs) and what I hope are some good freebies. Thinking top half is in sight

[Fappin Raptor]

Clinched the Championship trophy with one game remaining. I'm hoping to get quite a bit of transfer money for the next season so I can bring in some players to keep us up in the Premier League.

[Fappin Raptor]

I was only given $83,000 for finishing first. I'm so use to getting millions for finishing 4th-6th in the EPL. Fuck.

[Fappin Raptor]

Pacheco was doing awesome for me on his loan spell but got injured. Cole was/is my leading scorer and then got injured and was never the same. Zavon Hines is emerging as my top striker. My base squad is capable enough of staying up with the likes of Nolan, Palacios, Kyrgiakos, Tomkins and hopefully Cole who finds his form again.

[Lanteri]

Finished our first season in the Premiership with Forest. We managed to come away with 50 points and an 11th place finish. I'm satisfied with the results considering how weak our squad is for a premiership side. We've got no real attacking punch whatsoever. Merely average is I guess what you could call our side as we were 9th in goals conceded, and 11th in goals scored.

I briefly mulled over a job offer from Wolverhampton, but turned that down.

My summer window targets are most likely going to be once again a left back, and this time probably a target man. Neither Miller or Derbyshire is an ideal targetman for my formation, so hopefully I can get that fixed up. I may look into upgrading over Majewski at AMC. He had a decent season, but he's just soooo...average.

[Lanteri]

QPR, West Brom, and Burnely gained promotion for the 2012/2013 season.

[Lanteri]

Didn't exactly have the most exciting summer window, but I feel I strengthened the squad anyway.

In:

CB - Ryan Shawcross from Stoke for £8.5m
ST - Jonathan Walters from Stoke for £4m
CM - Dickson Etuhu from Fulham for £3m
CB/DMC - Sol Bamba from Leicester for £1.9m
AMC - Jonjo Shelvey on loan from Liverpool with £9m option to buy
LB - Volodomyr Polyovyi on a free.

Out:

LB - Evaldo to Fiorentina for £2.5m

Starting XI

GK - Fraser Forster
LB - Polyovyi
CB - Cahill
CB - Shawcross
RB - Gunter
DMC - Capoue
MC - Holden
MC - Etuhu
AMC - Shelvey
ST - Miller
ST - Walters

Subs: Camp, Majewski, Bamba, Derbyshire, Berezutskiy, Cohen, Moussi

[Lanteri]

Holden broke his leg in a friendly at the beginning of the August. *sigh*

Gonna look to bring in someone in on loan for cover.

[Fappin Raptor]

My transfers for the 2011-12 season in the EPL with West Ham.

 

My everyday team. Tomkins/Ferdinand will swap in and out until one proves to be everyday starter. Same with Reid/Spence. I'm still looking to shore up the defensive line but I think this is a team that can hold up in the Prem for this season. Through three games we are 1-0-2, losses to Chelsea @ home (0-1) and ManU away (2-3) and then a win @ home to Tottenham (1-0).

[Fappin Raptor]

Over a two day span Jack Collison requested a transfer because he wasn't getting time in the first team despite starting two games and coming on as a sub in 4 over the 9 games we've played so far. I place him on the transfer list and immediately get offers of $10 mil for him. I accept and place him in the reserves, you don't want to play here you get put off my team. He then says he is unhappy about being put in the reserves and I tell him to prove himself. Next day he says he doesn't want to be transfer listed.

[Fappin Raptor]

This is the kind of shit that irritates the fuck out of me.

I have several players do that. I sell them anyway.

I would have if he wasn't a home grown player.

[Lanteri]

I left Nottingham for Italy in November. Genoa approached me with a contract offer. They're currently 12th place in the Serie A, but IMO have a very strong squad.

[Lanteri]

I pulled a heels and did something dumb while drunk and tired.

No way would I leave Forest for Genoa normally. Fuck. lol