Football Manager

[calgaryballer]

I actually have Jonathan Pereira on St. Pauli, funny to see him there.

Looks like a good transfer window, except for De Jong...

Yeah, well. Have to set aside personal grudges for the benefit of the squad

[Lanteri]

Italy won the Euopean Championships. 1-0 over Portugal in the final.

[calgaryballer]

Rio Ferdinand is without a club and his agent is shopping him desperately

[calgaryballer]

Colo is out for 6 months after getting hurt with Argentina. Fuck

EDIT - and he has now come out and said he will retire at the end of the year because of persistent injuries. His injury history consists of a strained neck (8 days), a dead leg (1 day) and now this damaged spine (my physios are now saying 2 months instead of 6)

Hopefully he will want to join the staff

[Lanteri]

Laundry list of transfers for our return to the Premiership.

In:

CM - Fabian Delph from Villa (villa did wind up getting relegated) for £1.8m
CM - Kevin Thomson from M'boro for £3.2m
FB - Romain Danze on loan from Rennes for £475k
AMC - Filip Djuricic from sc Heerenveen for £3m
CB - Dedryck Boyata on loan from Man City ( no fee )
FB - Stephen Warnock from Aston Villa for £3.3m
ST - Ikechukwu Uche on loan from Villareal for £550k
AML/R - Ryo Miyaichi on loan from Arsenal ( no fee )
GK - Fraser Forster from Newcastle for £2m

Total: £14.25m

Out

Rivaldo, van der Gun, Hill, Bogdanovic, Llera, Ormerod, Kevin Phillips, Lomana LuaLua, and Billy Clarke all gone on frees.
Bojan Djordicic to Sheff Wed for £250k
Jamie Mackie to Swansea for £800k
Stephen Crainey to Birmingham for £1m
Alex John-Baptiste to Southampton for £1.5m
Barry Ferguson to Newcastle for £50k (basically just wanted to get rid of his 18k wage bill)
Julian Speroni to Torino for £2m
Angel to Levante for £750k

Total: £6.5m

Starting XI

GK: Forster
LB: Warnock
CB: Cathcart
CB: Boyata
RB: Eardley
CM: Delph
CM: Thomson
AML: Sako
AMC: Djuricic
AMR: Grandin
ST: Musona

Bench: Gilks, Matt Phillips, Danze, Sylvestre, Evatt, Taylor-Fletcher, Uche, Southern, and Miyaichi

[Bigpapa42]

Rio Ferdinand is without a club and his agent is shopping him desperately

Too bad you couldn't get him on a "pay for play" deal like City did with Hargreaves.

[Lanteri]

[BigHouseUSA]

Just finished my first season in the Bundesliga, did alright. Was actually at 40 points in late March, then ran off seven straight losses, including an ET loss at Leverkusen in the German Cup semis, picked up one win from that point on. At that point as well I had the third most goals scored and third most conceded. Did all I could to fix up the defense, but they just weren't good enough. Hopefully I can get some money in the summer, but that's unlikely.

 

I'm happy enough with my squad, at leas the attack. Schindler and Periera are decent, but a little inconsistent, Hennings is a good option off the bench. Finks and Kruse had the season of their careers, and Funk was again a key part. Losing Boll means I need another defensive mid, and looking for a new centerback, two new fullbacks and a keeper.

 

Also, Mongengblach were in the relegation playoff last season and were first for most of this season. Would have been a great story to see them win.

[BigHouseUSA]

And Shearer has left Newcastle to manage Blackburn.

[BigHouseUSA]

9.2 million in transfer funds. :acid:

[calgaryballer]

Wow, Werder relegated

[BigHouseUSA]

They got off to the worst possible start and just kind of stayed there. It was almost impossible to get relegated with them and Bochum in the league.

[Bigpapa42]

The Bundesliga often seems to have a bigger club really struggle or actually go down. Hamburg were relegated in the Ajax game I played through, which I guess mirrors reality a bit.

Koln also seems to do really well for the first 2-3 season, finishing in the top 5 consistently and often the top 3. They drop once their starting manager leaves.

[Lanteri]

I've definitely gone with the approach of trying to outscore everyone with my Blackpool side. I'm diggin' the tactic I worked on. Nice to use my own for a change. Generating a lot of clear cut chances, and we're absolutely deadly on the counter attack. We do very little crossing, and I don't allow much creative freedom. My wingers are inside forwards.

May not challenge for Europe just yet, but we should be able to avoid relegation, finish mid-table, and certainly play some attractive football.

[Lanteri]

Knowledge Musona has 13 goals in 11 matches now. That was his first hat trick.