I would say you need a Shaun Hines, but while he's still a legend I think he only has a 12 rating for penalties and he has missed a few.
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I would say you need a Shaun Hines, but while he's still a legend I think he only has a 12 rating for penalties and he has missed a few.
I had a midfielder back in League 1/2 who scored something like 12 out of 13 over two seasons and then proceeded to score 1 in 7 the season after. That said, the opposition seems to miss just as many penalties and courtesy of our shitty defenders, we give away more penalties than we get, so the shitty penalty taking kinda works in our favor. On that topic, a good set-piece specialist is also a thing I will be out for. I ran a fairly bad player that was good at taking corners in our first few seasons in the championship and he got a good 15+ assists per season.
Another thing I need is a proper leader. Shaun Hines is my captain now, but he doesn't particularly have the stats for it.
I also need more English players. We're ok for now, but with a 17 foreigner limit I could see us being a bit screwed in a couple or few seasons. My supposedly Level 1/Exceptional Youth Academy could really do with producing someone.
Something tells me we'll be back in the Premier League next season:
https://i.gyazo.com/2eb061121b6bcde8...6310ad4012.png
secretly preparing for 1 point in 13 games again
Making light work of that. :cool:
Oxford City End of Season 2035/36 Update - Championship
To tie up the loose ends from last season.
https://i.postimg.cc/TPSmvjLc/Fixtures.jpg
The Birmingham defeat made it three in a row and I really was starting to wonder if we were going to fuck it. I shouldn't have worried as we got back to winning ways against Notts Forest and then sealed promotion with the win over Blackburn. The game at home to Watford was amazing. Full house in attendance to celebrate our promotion and they were treated to a special performance. 4-0 up, then back to 5-3, then 5-4, we eventually ran out 8-5 winners with Hines scoring 4 and that was it the title sealed. Only my second trophy in 16 seasons.
https://i.postimg.cc/nL7VMqS2/League.jpg
Only downside was that West Ham beat Huddersfield to take the other automatic spot. However, 6th placed Stoke sneaking in is very pleasing.
We celebrated the championship with Hines signing a new deal.
https://i.postimg.cc/kGhPT5hD/Hines.jpg
No '10 goal contributions' bonus for this man. Straight in with pure goals and 30 of them before he gets anything. After seeing that I just gave him the £40k a week wages he wanted.
https://i.postimg.cc/tgbwtPC2/Best-11.jpg
Best 11 for the season. Think I'm gonna let France go back to Man Utd and see if I can get a better central defender on loan. Happy enough with the attacking midfielders and forwards, so the defensive side of things will be the focus.
Some records were also broken.
https://i.postimg.cc/856Z2z5j/Record-Breakers.jpg
And we did some more facilities stuff.
https://i.postimg.cc/vBrW7gTL/Youth-Level.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/vBrW7gTL/Youth-Level.jpg
And here's our WARCHEST:
https://i.postimg.cc/6pVtXB8b/Budgets.jpg
Was perhaps expecting more on the transfer budget, but the £1m for wages is :alan: We're only spending about £500k p/w at the moment so we can flip some of that should we need to too.
https://i.postimg.cc/FzKV9FFy/Finances.jpg
Another corking season for the finances, as I type we're sat on £90m in the bank. :chief:
Wrexham Football Club - Season 2034/2035
Summer Summary
Not as hectic as last summer as only three players departed this time round. Goalkeeper Callum Maggs joined Hibs for £1.5M, Jamie Shaw ran off to Preston for £350K and his attitude means he'll never make it whilst Charlie Summers joined Leeds United for £30M.
League
Arsenal claimed the honours this time round and although we weren't exactly close, we weren't completely out of it until late on. We did outscore the rest of the division for a second successive season but that's by the by really, isn't it.
Erling Haaland once again scored the most goals, meaning he has claimed it in eight out of ten seasons. Only Fabio Silva (17 - Man United) and Brett Parker (35 - Wrexham) have stopped him making it a perfect 10.
Craig Cummings grabbed himself 30 league goals and even that wasn't enough. 314 league goals in 456 games for CC now. Career total though is 584(28) games and 446 goals. :drool:
Anyways, 3rd is OK, it sealed European football again and cements us as one of the top flights big boys, I guess.
https://i.imgur.com/NjdhKXj.png
EFL Cup
Stevie Balfour's goal for Leeds five minutes from time killed is tbh. We'd lost the first leg 2-1 but Cummings did what Cummings does and we looked set to reach the final once again but alas it wasn't to be as extra time came and went and we were eliminated on pens.
https://i.imgur.com/DK6thbf.png
FA Cup
We were knocked out at the first hurdle by Man City who stuck five past us. 34 year old Phil Foden opening the scoring right before being loaned to Burnley. :moop:
Champions League
We progressed from the group stage for the first time, undefeated too which was pleasing. A hard fought draw in Italy against Inter was followed by a rout at home, a feat we repeated in the quarter finals against Liverpool. Borussia Dortmund took us to the edge but our quality told in the end. There wasn't anything fortunate about it.
https://i.imgur.com/EdsyDTR.png
I already made mention that you couldn't really write it much better, a Welsh club reaching the Champions League final for the first time in their history just as the final is held at the Wales national stadium. Surely it was written that we would over come Man United. We may have lost to them in the Community Shield at the beginning of the season but that was their only win in the last five games against us.
After 90 minutes though....we couldn't be separated.
https://i.imgur.com/i1YqTfW.png
After extra time, we couldn't be separated....the 2035 final would go to pens.
To sudden death as Silva and Gvardiol missed for Man United, Stead and Cummings missing for us but someone had to be the fall guy....Joao Vitor stepped up for Man United and BOOM! 7-6. Tim Hunter had to score to keep us in it.
Tim Hunter had scored just two goals all season. Eight starts, twenty-four as sub, he is and forever will be the epitome of useless. He fucking missed.
:cry:
I think as far as this save goes, that is all she wrote. At least with me and Wrexham. It's time to depart after 15 years and seek a new challenge. Heart broken.
I don't think I'd be able to stop a save where I got so close and didn't get to taste success. 15 years are quite a long time though.
We did win the Premier League the season before tbf. Maybe one day I'll return with some unfinished business in Europe?
Looking for my next challenge and stumbled across this. I haven't paid a great deal of attention to what has gone on outside of Wrexham but Kylian Mbappe stayed at PSG from 2017 until 2035 before joining Real Madrid for a season and then swiftly retiring only to become PSG's next manager. He won the league in his first season but PSG have won 19 in a row to date so you know..
https://i.imgur.com/Gz4BDAU.png
https://i.imgur.com/10GCFtz.png
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58873132
Seems bad for FM in particular, if successful.
I don't think that will get through court. It's numbers anyone could count.
Are you all using your own tactics? I tend to start FM saves with the best of intentions but end up resorting to a plug-and-play tactic after realising that setting up and tweaking tactics remains a ballache compared to old school FM.
Getting inspired by the TTH exploits, though.
Take over Paris FC. @ Smiffy.
I am making my own tactics, and tweak them until I get them to a plug-and-play level. It's been harder for me in this version, but I now have something that seems to be working fine.
Same here. I alternate between a 4-2-3-1 and a 4-2-4, the latter being born out of sometimes needing two strikers.
And yeah, this version is the hardest one I've played by a mile. It's been six years since I played properly and the step up is out of this World.
It's torturous, but I'd suggest just sticking with something and it'll eventually click. I learnt more in my six years in League Two than I have at any other point in this save I reckon. Which I know sounds like total wank, but it's true.
I really don't know how SI have got away with what they do for so long. They're not even changing the names of a lot of the clubs they don't have licenses for, like EA do or Konami did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lofty
This summer is shaping up to be the best yet. We've got some properly good youngsters either here or on their way now. :drool:
I probably need an older English head or two to bring the PASSION in addition to Shaun Hines, but things are looking promising.
https://i.gyazo.com/5d60a661abc44fd1...7399256dc3.png
A picture is a thousand words and all that. We broke all kinds of records, winning the league with 6 games to go.
In sort of annoying news, those are the budgets we'll be working with:
https://i.gyazo.com/c196de054d752726...c074c4e5c4.png
Seems a bit too stingy all things considered. Maybe it's time to give the squad that smashed it this season a chance, with a few strong additions in the defence.
Seagulls! :cool:
Nice one Adra, smashed the fuck out of it.
Also Southampton, that finished in 14th place, won the Champions League, beating Dortmund, Bayern and United in the process. They only qualified for it by winning the Europa League the year before.
https://i.ibb.co/gP1YwVM/oxford.png
:D
I got the option to choose my own feeder team so of course I went for Oxford City. Hopefully I can send out some decent youth - they're still in the National League South.
:D Could be awesome to see how far you could get them with your feeder players.
For a second I thought that was Yev bringing us a ridiculous bug or I was reading it wrong and he was lauding it over Oxford United :D
Big fan of your chairman being called Peter Griffin too
We're gonna sell about 11,100 season tickets this season, so the board have agreed to expand our stadium. Don't get too excited though, I did and it was wasted.
https://i.postimg.cc/L40qbXV2/Stadium.jpg
If we need a John Woodley stadium III to get a decent capacity I'm going to cry. I like when they say start immediately they actually mean in 10 months. :cab:
So I offered a guy 80k p/w, Star player status, huge signing and appearance fees, but he chose to go to Villa as a squad player for 55k p/w. :moop:
I feel your pain. Lost out to someone who chose Bournemouth instead in exactly the same circumstances.
https://i.gyazo.com/581b88d15ab05cce...fae5548123.png
30 seats more you, so we are clearly the bigger club @Yevrah
Oxford City - Season 2036/37 Summer Business - Premier League
So business done.
First off, another on the work permit conveyor belt:
https://i.postimg.cc/PJpvfsMC/Humel.jpg
Been out on loan for the last couple of seasons and has broken into Croatia's first team squad. Looks a promising box to box mid which will allow me to move my 5' 5" Peruvian Chavez further forward.
https://i.postimg.cc/ZqbHLHmw/Duez.jpg
Duez who we signed last summer has landed and with a work permit. He'll play second fiddle to Kolar this season, but Kolar is whinging about moving to a big club and only has two years left on his deal so will be moving on next summer.
https://i.postimg.cc/hvTVnQgJ/Cipric.jpg
At £21m from Dinamo he becomes our record signing.
https://i.postimg.cc/sDzhSXsc/Crooks.jpg
Was with us on loan from Chelsea in 2033/34 in the Championship and he's improved hugely since them. Will hopefully add the steel we need in midfield.
https://i.postimg.cc/BbBtNT4C/Ruiz.jpg
Another loan, but should strengthen us at centre back. That position still remains a problem, but we did find one for the future this summer that I'm very hopeful about.
https://i.postimg.cc/63dQ5r2N/Mendes.jpg
At £11.5m from Palmeiras he's comfortably our most expensive youth signing, but with 15 tackling, 14 Anticipation and glowing reports from my scouts about his future I'm very hopeful he'll become what I need after he joins in 18 months.
And bar a couple of other youth signings who're not much to write home about at this stage, that is pretty much it. The Polish striker and Lyon keeper signed last summer will join in August when they turn 18 and the former will act as backup to Hines.
We start with Liverpool away then Spurs at home. :eyemouth:
Oh and we're also now spending £700k p/w on wages. It's amazing how the renewals add up. Every fucker wants £30k p/w minimum as well it seems.
https://i.imgur.com/mvs8c6s.png
Thought I'd drop in a screenshot of this kid that I just nabbed from Porto.
Who are Crescentwood FC Panda? Create a Club?
Serge :cool:
He'll finish everything.
Yeah, Create a Club that replaced Portsmouth in League One. Named in honour of a team I used to play for called Crescentwood Saturday whose founders were Portsmouth fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
https://i.postimg.cc/BvJdr2Tz/Spurs.jpg
Well this didn't happen last time.... They rested a few looking at their squad, but Spurs are reigning Premier League champions and that's our biggest scalp by a country mile.
We've had quite the busy summer, and I am generally quite pleased with how we did transfer-wise:
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And with all those guys, I really do fancy our chances, especially given our start to the season:
https://i.gyazo.com/cf128726c4ec2d0a...9eab89e945.png
We were the better team against Watford as well, and while we were bested by City, we more than held our own, so thinks look good.
obligatory we are going to get 1 point in the next 13 games disclaimer
Some quality buys in there Adra, the last two forwards in particular.
Yeah I think our squad is significantly stronger on every department compared to last time. I could definitely use your Croatian fellas and that Belgian full back though as I think those positions are were we are lacking the most. Mind you, I think it's my tactics that never allow our full back to shine, seeing as we demolished the league last season and they still had average ratings below 7.
On the matter of tactics, no matter what I've tried, it feels like a good deal of the counter attacks we have against us start from our throw-ins on their third. Just the taker throwing it straight to an opponent.
Charlie Capes is the least Columbian name I've ever heard.
One of the "headline features" for FM22 is a new role :D
Not a new position, or a new UI for viewing the tactics pitch - just a new role within an exisitng position to add to the 50-odd variations already.
Really slim pickings this year. I've still pre-ordered it, like a chump.
I'll be getting '22 seeing as the last one I have and play is '16, I think I'm due an upgrade.
So the bank balance was around £2m after promotion to the Championship and in the off-season, the board have come to me regarding increasing our wage budgets for coaches. I said no, that money would be better off elsewhere and suggested a youth facilities upgrade, as it has been a while. They were delighted with my suggestion and immediately agreed...
https://i.ibb.co/jwT6ny8/oops.png
:moop:
Suddenly any transfer budget I did have for upgrading the squad was gone. This combined with seemingly every player in my squad requesting ludicrous wage increases has got me a little worried for our first venture in the Championship.
Cappesh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
Bought this behemoth of a goalkeeper for just 9m, he will be joining us in January:
https://i.gyazo.com/fbe25f6ba9ff6ae1...a541267675.png
Which means we will have to get rid of some goalies seeing as we have 5 that are decent or better.
204 cm. :D
When you don't have the talent for basketball, evidently goalkeeping is the next best thing.
Surely his lack of agility will let him down massively?
It's kind of a "one or the other" sort of situation, no? His reach makes up for his lack of agility, one would assume. Nevertheless he's heaps better than what we have now and he's cheap so he'll do for a while.
You can train the agility up aswell. 10 isn't terrible.