Football Manager

[CaribbeanJoseph]

Van der Sar is your chairman lmao.

 

[Lanteri]

Van der Sar is your chairman lmao.

Yeah, that made me lol and cringe at the same time.

The thought of getting fired by Edwin van Der Sar is, ehm, irritating.

 

[Lanteri]

Made a pretty big splash in the transfer market bringing in several good English players in Cahill, Hart, and Wilshere.

Here's how we're lining up to start the season vs. Wolves

 

[Lanteri]

I have officially become a sellout.

I was offered the opportunity to manage Man U after Pep Guardiola (who took over for Sir Alex) got canned 12 games into the season. I had to take it. How can you turn down that chance?

 

[calgaryballer]

Mercenary!

 

[Lanteri]

I wasn't able to get things completely turned around after I took the helm, but did keep the team in continental competition with a 6th place finish.

First order of business in the coming transfer window is going to be to get rid of Ribery, and possibly Navas, looking for wingers with better teamwork/work rate attributes. They're both exceptionally talented, but I could really do without Ribery's constant whining, and Navas' just plain not playing up to his potential. I'm pretty well set at most positions, so it's just a matter of where/if I can upgrade.

 

[calgaryballer]

Looks like Rio fell off a cliff

 

[Lanteri]

Transfer window went well I thought.

Out:

Ribery to Napoli for 14m
Navas to AC Milan for 20m
Santacroce to Real Madrid for 13.75m
O'Shea, Ji-Sung, Rio on free transfers

In:

Ryan Shawcross from Stoke for 8.5m
Miles Addison from Sevilla for 45m
Alan Gatagov from Wolfsburg for 40m
Guiliano from Zenit for 50m
Coutinho from Inter for 100m
Jermaine Defoe from Tottenham for 4.1m

Yeah, I had a ridiculous transfer budget. Of course when the only two options given to me for expectations are title challenge, and winner, they better give me money, lol. Lots of talent, hopefully they can all work it together. I'm expecting big things.

Also, I've been appointed manager of England following yet another disappointing World Cup for them.

 

[Lanteri]

England selection

Man U selection

 

[calgaryballer]

2012-2013 Newcastle Transfer Window so far (still in the preseason)

Players In
Didier Drogba - Free from Chelsea - He has only bagged 20 goals in the three seasons of my game so far, muscled out by Ba/Sturridge/Suarez. Still, he has pretty good attributes and then he can be a bench contributor.

Simon Vukcevic - £17.5 mil from Zaragoza - Jonas is getting older and has never really had the all around skill I wanted from my wingers. He has great technical attributes and I hope he can really settle in. Also gives me some flexibility at the AMC spot

Ivan Fatic LB - £1.2mil from Genoa - a 23 yr old Montenegrin with 25 caps already. He has good marking stats and he will provide cover for Enrique

Nani - £3.4 mil from Man U - another discarded winger from a former Big 4 team. Kalou worked out great last year, and hopefully Nani can as well. He will provide cover to Simon and Kalou, and will get a lot of games in the rotation. Unfortunately, it may mean the end of Jonas as a regular, which is unfortunate as I do love him a lot.

The only player out was Xisco for £4 mil to Bristol City. Good riddance.

Ryan Donaldson has gone on loan to Crystal Palace. I have big hopes for him, but don't see him getting a lot of time in my single striker system

 

[Fappin Raptor]

Playing as Celtic, because I'm bored, and a scouting report came back for a guy named Calum Davenport. The guy is 26 and decently good and doesn't have a team. Then I notice that he is unavailable to play due to medical reasons until 1.1.2011. So I wiki'd him and it turns out the guy was stabbed repeatedly in the legs and lost 50% of his blood.

 

[calgaryballer]

I am playing against Wolves right now and Davenport actually just got carded for an elbow

 

[Pitty]

Started at Guingamp, won Ligue 2 in my first season by 7 points, decided to resign and move on since 2/3 of my goals came from loan Strikers (Yannis Tafer and Sebatsien Grax).

Got hired by a relegated Portsmouth for season 2. In ruin, I made some massive overhauls, signing Joe Hart (GK), Milan Stepanov (DL), Ever Banega (MC), Vlatislav Lokvenc (FC), and Rivaldo (FC) while bringing in Amine Linganzi on loan. Took a few games to mesh, but mixing in the veterans Lokvenc and Rivaldo on a rotation with speedster John Utaka is starting to provide some nice results.

 

[Pitty]

 

Just finished my season at Portsmouth, going to resign in search of a better job, left their cupboard dry, but I got them back to the Prem, so they can eat a dick. Also, got them 111 points in the Championship with old farts like Rivaldo.

Edit-I'm seen as an ideal candidate to run Real Madrid, apparently, doubt I'll get an offer though.

Career stats:

61% wins
243 Goals
158 Conceded

 

[Pitty]

Picked Bayer 04 Leverkusen after they finished 8th in the Bundesliga. They had a nice young core which I decided to build around, although this season's regulars are ridiuculous due to the 33.6 million I had for transfers, with another 33 million added on from the sale of Barnetta.

My starters as of right now are geared towards a fluid, Brazilian offensive tactic:

---------Helmes----Mouche--------------
----Renato Augusto---Kroos---Adu
------------------------------------------
--Kadlec-----Vidal--------Schwabb
------Reinhartz--------Sinkiewicz-----
---------------Adler--------------

Including the money I am going to paying off in transfer fees over the next 36-48 months, I'd say that lineup cost me around 60 million euros, but I don't think it has any chance of being stopped outside of Bayern.

 

[Pitty]

<3 sniping Brazilian talent.

 

[Pitty]

Got offered the AC Milan post in mid-season, but decided to stay at Bayer 04 because I want to see how I hold up in the UEFA next year.

 

[Pitty]

Here's a summary of my first season at Leverkusen:

-Won the Bundesliga by four points over Wolfsburg, also won the German Cup, yet my co-efficient dropped and I fell nearly 20 spots in the world rankings to the mid-70s. Still qualified for UEFA Champion's League as a 4th seed.

-Due to a drop in co-efficient I decided to restructure the personnel yet again, moving in were Altidore, Buonanotte, and a few journeymen for rotational duty. Ended up spending 40 million roughly in the off-season. Also sold Patrick Helmes for 22.5 million euros.

New Starters are:

------Altidore----Mouche-------
--Augusto--Kroos--Buon--------
---------------------------------
Kadlec----Annan--Schwaab------
-----Sinkiewicz----Reinartz------
---------Adler---------------

Also got offered the Liverpool post, but they were looking pretty putrid.

-Just drew into my Champions' Stage: Arsenal, CSKA Moscow, Celtic, and us.

 

[Lanteri]

Got bored pretty quickly with Man U (unsurprisingly).

I started over with Blackpool.

Made two signings: Robert Snodgrass from Leeds for 4m, and Amr Zaki from Zamalek, also for 4m.
Brought in CM - Glenn Whelan on loan to cover for Southern while he recovers from his injury, due back anywhere from 7 weeks to 3 months.

I'm running a 4-4-2 this time around.

----------Zaki -----Taylor-Fletcher----------
Vaughan---Adam---Whelan-------Snodgrass
Crainey----Evatt---John-Baptiste---Eardley
----------------Rachubka--------------------

I'm a little bit undecided on who my #1 keeper is going to be. I'm leaning towards Rachubka, but it's close between him and Gilks.

Probably should look into transfer listing Dekel Keinan since Zaki hates Jews and all, but he'll have to suck it up.

 

[calgaryballer]

Whelan is a decent CM, surprised Stoke let him go. When I play as Stoke, I find he's a great rotation midfielder