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  1. I have just taken Luton Town to the Premiership in straight seasons.

    Interesting summer ahead....

    Quoted so people can read what I said before......

    Well it was an interesting summer....

    Transfers in:

    Barry Robson (Free from Rangers)

    Mikeal Silvestre (Free from Arsenal)

    Ben Foster (Free from Chelsea)

    Paul Codrea (Free from Genoa)

    Nicky Hunt (Free from Bolton)

    Maxi Lopez (Free from FC Moscow)

    Mark van Bommel (Free from Bayern Munich)

    Jack Hobbs (Free from Liverpool)

    Simon McAuley (£90,000 from Motherwell)

    Charlie Mulgrew (£425,000 from Rangers)

    So 10 players in for just over £500,000, which I was happy with, especially van Bommel and Ben Foster. I wanted to add a couple more but this is already pushing my wage budget to the extreme - I may tinker with my budgets come January....

    Transfers out:

    Lauren (£350,000 to Doncaster)

    Sun Jihai (£250,000 to Watford)

    Jordan Robertson (£1,000,000 to Cardiff)

    George Pilkington (£1,500,000 to Watford)

    Gary Naysmith (£775,000 to Plymouth)

    Ryan Stevenson (£550,000 to Cardiff)

    Diego Leon (£2,000,000 to Nottingham Forest)

    So 7 players sold for around £6,500,000 million. Not bad really. There were a couple of other players I wanted to sell, but clubs either didn't meet the valuation, or the player shunned the move. I also released a few more players.

    So now here I am on the first day of the season. Looking over my first three fixtures I can see I've got...... Chelsea at home, Man United away, Liverpool at home.

    :crying:

    George Pilkington? Christ, did you have some lewd photos of the Watford manager that you blackmailed him with to get £1.5mill?

    And muchos respect on getting Luton all the way up in consecutive seasons, that's some achievement, especially considering you managed to win the league in the first season...you must have won practically all your games to win the league. Hope you stay up, your team doesn't seem too bad (considering who you've brought in at least) so you'll at least have a fighting chance of surviving.

  2. A guy just came through the Chelsea youth team who is Scottish, has my surname and has me as favoured personnel so I have decided that he is going to be my son.

    Pity he's shit. <_<

    You should play him over the rest of your (*looking back at your end of season 2 post on the last page*) rather insanely awesome team as a kind of stereotypical, crazy Dad 'You're going to be the greatest footballer in the world so that I can be the greatest footballer in the world's Dad' kinda way.

    Either that or just release him to show him tough love.

  3. I'm currently in the midst of a Man City game, and I'm realistically having trouble purchasing the world's best players. For example, Liverpool came 7th in the first season, and as I came 4th and was challenging for the title for most of the season, I had a go at purchasing Gerrard and Torres; the prices I got quoted were deals worth £96million and £118million respectively. I didn't buy either of them, but it got me wondering...what is the most you have spent on a player?

    Mine would have to be £83million on Lionel Messi on FM08 - I was Arsenal in about 2013, and as per usual on that game they were absolutely loaded, worth over a £billion, an annual transfer budget of £150million (which was obviously capped because they never let me go any higher), and as I needed a left winger, and Messi was in his prime...deal kinda made sense, although I did have to take a brief rest after clicking 'confirm transfer', as I'm very much a wheeler-dealer by nature, so spending any kind of fortune on one man is very, very foreign to me.

  4. Fuck this game :angry:

    In my first season at Reading we finished fourth, but missed out on the Champions League because the winners (Man United) finished sixth. They got the CL spot and I went into the UEFA Cup.

    Second season we finish fourth again, and this time Chelsea win the CL but finish fifth so they get the place instead of me.

    Bunch of cunts.

    Welcome to the glass ceiling.

    The big two keeping you down!

  5. I finally played this game, My spurs were second all season before a late season slump on the part of Berbatov, Keane, Defoe...and well, all my strikers (except CROUCHALDINHO~!) saw us slip to third. I got offered the Australian national job after one season.

    This season, I knocked back Liverpool's $10million offer for Aaron Lennon because, well, obvs you keep Lennon. But then he started arking up about not being let go, so, seeing the writing on the wall, I couldn't sell him for 15mill, but Liverpool ended up taking him for 12.

    So my question is - What's a good sell price for Lennon? Did I do OK?

  6. I love bargain shopping on this game. I've just spent around 200k on about 12 players, all under 20, and all heading for my (already crowded) reserve team (I've developed a tendency to build huge reserve squads, as my first team squads at a team like Forest are usually quite small). 10 of these 12 players came from Scandanavia, and are all extremely promising. I've found that Scandanavia has always been a promising place, on all the Football Manager games, for talented youth players, along with South America. I think it's one of the better features of the game that you can send your scouts to find such gems for next to nothing.

  7. FM 08 i dont think is happening. They are putting all their efforts into Football Manager Live instead I think, so there might just be an 07/08 official update from Si rather than a new game.

    This was the impression I was getting as well. Maybe a feature or two sprinkled in, but other than that largely just a data update.

  8. Finished 8th with Lewes, and I've kept my job! My finances are going firmly and rapidly downhill though, losing 35k per month, which is millions to a conference south side.

    I finished with the best defensive record in the league (42 goals conceded in 42 games) but only the 14th best goals scored record (51 in 42), which is probably high I was no higher than 8th (although moving from 19th to 8th over 6 months isn't a bad achievement). I drew 21 games and only lost 8, and most of the draws were due to last minute equalisers from the opposition, which really gets quite tiresome after a while.

    Hopefully I can bring in a host of freebies in the summer so that I can build a team around a more attacking formation than 5-4-1.

  9. Managing in the Conference South is soooooooooooooooo hard!

    I started unemployed, and got offered the job at Lewes in mid-September. They were predicted to finish 2nd at the beginning of the season, and I joined them when they were 19th. With only 6k in transfer funds, which rapidly went on a physio, I'm literally haemorraging (sp?) money, even though I'm more than 1k under my wage budget.

    I'm got them to 15th by Christmas, although the league table is very tight at this stage. I've drawn too many games, and no semi-decent player wants to come to me. If I'm in the job at the start of next season, I'll be shocked.

  10. How successful are you at selling your players for either somewhere near, or more than their estimated value?

    Myself, I'm absolutely terrible, I can't seem to sell anyone on more than a free.

  11. True, but for some reason I like to look over all possible transfers I get, just incase I have a sudden change of heart or something. Not sure why, I just prefer doing it myself :-\
  12. This was an AWESOME film. Went to see it last night, and all my mates moaned about the length, but I thought that they filled all 3 hours really well, and kept the film interesting throughout. Johnny Depp continued to be absolute quality as Jack, and Keira was smoking hot (in my opinion anyway, I have grown to understand that she's now an acquired taste, so to speak.) Better than the first two (although they were both really good as well.)

  13. In 5-10 years time, I hope to make Forest a top 4 side, possibly with a cup or two in the bag. I've already tried managing England, failed, and resigned. My ultimate goal (as always) is to get to the top of the Hall of Fame on the game...highest I've ever got was third.

  14. AAARRRGHHH THIS GAME PISSES ME OFF SO MUCH. I hate how random it is as to whether you do well or do bad. Last night I won 12 games in a row, since I turned it on earlier I haven't fucking won once. It's absolute bollocks. I also hate how even though you've had all the possession and all the shots, the game gives your entire team 6s across the board just because you've lost the game. How is that logical? We had all the attacks and we played some good football, and we limited them to one chance which they scored, the snidey cunts. I don't understand how straight 6s is a just representation of our performance. Give the strikers six for not scoring any, or even lower if you want, but not the midfield that played their ass off <_< It's making my team sound worse than there were. It's not the fact that I lost that annoys me when I lose, it's when the team plays well and the stupid game doesn't give them credit for it.

    EDIT: And the reason this gets on my nerves so much is because whilst I'm pleased despite the result, if I say that I'm pleased despite the result when my entire team got 6s, they're going to think it's okay to get 6s. So I have to say they simply weren't good enough, which is going to sink their morale.

    This happens to everyone. It's called form. The game doesn't hate you.

  15. Oh shit, Mikel's on 13k a week and hes playin in Belgian division 3 for 3 years. Great. Thanx for the heads up.

    Mikel will have quite a big current reputation and a sizable potential ability which combined with the fact that he'll probably tear that league apart means theres a chance he might get a work permit after one year. Maybe not this time since it's only half a seaon but after another full one he might get it.

    Actually, hold the phone. Mikel? John Obi Mikel? Of Chelsea? How the hell doesn't he have a work permit? Are you like years into the game and he's done nothing but sit in the reserves?

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