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    We've snuck into the Champions playoff with a win on the last day of the 'Preliminary Round', which is the thirty season standard season. Thirteen points off the title and ten off the European places though, which essentially means there's no chance, so I'm going to use these as free games and start blooding in the young players who'll be getting game time next year.

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    Download the demo to see if I fancy it this year (who am I kidding?) started a couple of games but binned them off within a couple of continue clicks, as I always do. Went with Crewe (as is pretty much the norm) and started the season like so:



    The only way is down from here

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    FUCKING GET IN:



    We lost in the quarters to United last season, then battered them this year 5-2 on aggregate in the semis. The final was close, but I bollocked fuck out of my side at half time (yes even at 2-0 up I regularly bollock my side). Isco was pathetic and may be sold as I've got youth CMs that will eclipse him in a season or two.

    Berahino and Cook are so fucking good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smiffy View Post
    I would have panicked the moment Ronaldo scored. "Here comes the quick fire double".
    I changed mentality to attacking and told them to concentrate. Then Real had a period of ten minutes with a couple of cracking saves off me keeper. Blitzed 'em on the counter after that.

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    Went to check how Rangers were getting on in my save and it's not great; they have four players. Joey Barton and Niko Kranjcar remain of the current squad, former Ibrox wage thief Francisco Sandaza has returned, and their 'key player' is former Celtic and Aberdeen man Niall McGinn.

    This has annoyed me far more than it should.

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    Start of 5th season transfer business. I doubt there will be anything more from me apart from selling some youth who didn't live up to expectations for a couple mil apiece, and a ton of outgoing loans:



    Suarez release clause He's a few months off 34, and was only valued at like £4.5mil so I took a punt and, alongside £275k a week and a 50% sell on clause, he signed. Handanovic is purely for tutoring, Tchakpessi and Robson are shite tier youths but I needed full backs for my u18s. Images:





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    If only they had listened to me and didn't get complacent

    Edit: Got a dump a day or two before an autosave, lost some wins, the above result and some players who I've forgotten about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danny View Post
    Download the demo to see if I fancy it this year (who am I kidding?) started a couple of games but binned them off within a couple of continue clicks, as I always do. Went with Crewe (as is pretty much the norm) and started the season like so:



    The only way is down from here
    And now the whole game is downloading. Didnt take long.

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    I had decided to keep his this year, however, he decided to get sent off in his first game of the season. £250k.

    3 reds in 16 games, fucking nutter.

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    How are people finding defending crosses. I'd say pretty much every goal I let in comes from a cross of some sort. Just lost 3-0 in the cup, all 3 from crosses, the first a cut back along the floor, the second a floating cross headed in and the third a cross to the edge of the area and a volley home. It's very annoying.

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    Anyone got advice with a cracking formation? I'm leaking goals like a bitch.

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    After being busy so hardly playing I've just had the transfer window close.


    Got Joel Pereira lined up to join at the end of the season too.

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    So we've just got past halfway point in my first full season (what kind of pervert league has an odd number of games?) and it's going quite well:

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    If you had told me at the halfway mark we'd be second I'd have snapped your hand off but we were on blistering form at the start of the season. We got an injury to our best player who was ripping the league a new arsehole and it all fell apart, really. Him being out coincided with us winning only 2 out of 7 and slipping down to third at one point. We've just got him back from injury, though, and he's scored 3 in 3 straight away. I'm just scared of over playing him and he goes down again. Here he is:

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    I also picked up a Danish forward who plays on the left side of the front three who is also doing exceptionally well. If everyone can stay injury-free we should get promoted, basically.

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    Happened pretty quickly (talks started on the 8th, so 19 days) and it's both good and bad for me.

    The £500k doesn't sound like much but we have £107k a week free in wage so that's a max of £6m or so which is huge for us. The bad is that the old chairman was a bit of a geezer. He accepted bids for about 7 of our best youth players since I've been here and always sacked the bids off when I complained, he really did listen to me. No idea how nice this guy is going to be. Could lose a lot of players if he's a dick as we get weekly bids for some players.

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    Mike Ashley has just sold the club, and I kept my job:



    The bonus?



    I had £52mil left to spend before this geez took over

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    First full season completed:

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    Would have liked to go up as champions but the kamikaze formation just wouldn't allow it. We scored 77 but conceded 46 for fuck sake. Anyway, a serious clear out and re-think of the formation is in order as the teams in the goat herding premiership are far better in quality than what we possess. In other news I had my first youth intake at the club and there were some very tidy kids that came through. One keeper and two forwards in particular are very promising and would probably make the bench straight away if I stayed in this division.

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    Fucking hell, that is obscene, DS.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 7om View Post
    Fucking hell, that is obscene, DS.
    Main issue is I can't adjust for more wages so can't sign anyone of worth ffs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Soldier View Post
    Main issue is I can't adjust for more wages so can't sign anyone of worth ffs.


    I hate when that happens.

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    My players are so shit at penalties.

    It seems that it has gone from one extreme to another.

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    I've gone mental in January



    As it shows though, I'm only £38mil down for the season on transfers. I primarily did it as, due to the new owners, my FFP looks like this:




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    To be fair though:


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    In my save, I've just been offered the job at Rhyl in the Welsh Premier League, although I think I'm going to turn it down. I'm quite intrigued by the group I've got at B71 and I've got room to add a few bodies in and I've already signed a top quality utility player on a free. I think we might just have enough to stay up and consolidate.

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    I don't understand how he is doing so well.



    Am I missing something?



    30 in 23(1) now.

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    Three days until it comes out

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    I hope to God I get some funds to play with in January.




    @randomlegend - He'll make the grade but his brother is less likely.


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    I can't keep up with you.

    One minute you're Wrexham, then it's Liverpool, level 13 goat herders, Gibraltar and now it's Leeds?

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    Firstly it was Liverpool, then the full game came out so it was Wrexham for ten whole seasons, then the work permit/Brazilian stuff reverted to normal which was a shame so I went level 13 goat herders which burned my balls and Gibraltar I couldn't figure out how to stick the cup in which was sad as the bigger league was quite handy.

    Leeds because why not.

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    Think I've decided on joining Jim at Rangers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 7om View Post
    I can't keep up with you.

    One minute you're Wrexham, then it's Liverpool, level 13 goat herders, Gibraltar and now it's Leeds?
    I'm on a Romanian team within the next 5 days @ 11/1.

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    Having sneaked into the Championship Playoff phase of the league in the last fixture we wound up finishing fifth in the league. Ten points from seven games was enough to pick up three positions in the league. Also, it turns out the dickhead who scored six goals against me, Luka Belic, is actually a graduate of my own youth system now playing for West Ham, so he goes on the shortlist as someone who I might bring back some day. They want three million for him at the moment, which I can afford but won't pay, but I'm certain nobody else will pay it either so he'll be available on a free next summer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smiffy View Post
    @randomlegend - He'll make the grade but his brother is less likely.
    I'm not sure what this is in reference to/why it's aimed at me?

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    I'm not sure what this is in reference to/why it's aimed at me?
    Think it was leedsrevolution who asked about those two Leeds geezers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by leedsrevolution View Post
    @Smiffy can you grab us a screen shot of Ronaldo Vieira from your save.
    It was @Dark Soldier

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    They are pretty similar tbh.

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    Pre-season hasn't gone great. All of the players I've approached that would improve our squad have flat out refused to even negotiate and so I've been forced to sign a few that can only be described as filler. I've altered the kamikaze 3-4-3 into a 3-1-4-1-1 in an attempt to shore up against the tidal waves that are incoming. The top few teams in this Premier League will probably rip us apart but I'm powerless. I've drafted in more of the youth squad than I wanted to, as well. If the formation works out we could maybe get lower mid-table but if not I could see us getting annihilated.

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    Just had a classic FM dicking to send me out in the quarters of the CL:



    How the fuck their keeper got a 6.1 when he pulled off some amazing saves, fuck knows Complete second string defence due to bans/injuries.

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    The board have sold my first choice left back to Genk and he's almost immediately gone on loan to our local rivals Rad Beograd. It's like the game is bored of just frustrating me by having the board get rid of all my players and it's getting creative.

    I did notice there's a club in Serbia simply called 'Cement' though, so that's a positive.

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    Cement.

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    Has anyone kept the social feed active? I found myself getting annoyed at the pretend posters, always with the same pattern of two good, one prick.

    NEWS = Player has recovered from cancer
    'Yes, glad to have him back'
    'Awesome, great news'
    'I had cancer last week and didn't take a day off, footballers are all fannies'

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    The board have just accepted a fairly knockdown bid for my best striker. When we were skint and losing money in the second division I could understand the board stepping in for a cash injection that might save the club, but we have eight million quid in the bank now to support a wage bill of fucking four grand a week. There are a couple of young players I'm quite into developing so I won't be binning it off, but if this was a normal save it'd be pretty much unplayable at this point.

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    Two days

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    The board have just accepted a fairly knockdown bid for my best striker. When we were skint and losing money in the second division I could understand the board stepping in for a cash injection that might save the club, but we have eight million quid in the bank now to support a wage bill of fucking four grand a week. There are a couple of young players I'm quite into developing so I won't be binning it off, but if this was a normal save it'd be pretty much unplayable at this point.
    I reckon these things should be tweakable before you start a game, rather than hardcoded into the game engine. They must know people like to play in different ways. It's no different to having the fog of war switched on/off.

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    Don't they listen when you kick up a fuss?

    That feature never seemed to work for me last year but does without fail every single time this year.

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    They listened once, but every time since then they've said that having listened before they're making the decision without my input this time. The player they listened to me on has since left on a board sanctioned move worth less than the one they agreed to cancel too, so the feature seems entirely worthless.

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    Good first campaign at Leeds although it will come to no surprise to anyone that I think we may be fucked again financially or Massimo Cellino is having a laugh at their expense.



    Unfortunate not to finish in the top two and had we strengthened in January we may have done so.



    Although we came close to blowing it.



    We made it count in the end.



    Away from the league we came close to making Wembley twice in one season.



    But it wasn't to be as instead we took a pasting.



    On the field and it was all about one man who I hope will take the Premier League by storm.



    My man Marcus Antonsson who has enjoyed a stellar campaign as the middle man of our front three. If he scores goals at this rate then we've got bob hope of keeping him.



    The season hasn't been a complete success however as I got carried away and suggested we buy back our stadium. I didn't expect him to go for it but he did and now we've been left with this.



    Nearly three times our value?



    Finally, this was our best youth intake and Arsenal are already sniffing.

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    Oof.

    What to do about that lingering debt? Fucking Leeds.

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