mattu29

22 hours ago, hugobomb said:

Having won my second treble in a row at TNS I decided it was time to move on. My choices were Queen of the South (Just won promotion to the Scottish Prem), Hearts (finished 4th in Scottish Prem) and Sheffield Wednesday (Just finished 9th in the Championship). Took the Wednesday job as Queen of the South and Hearts both seem to be working on very tight wage budgets and Wednesday had a bit of room to play with. This became a lot more room to play with after a few contracts expired, including saying bye bye to Jordan Rhodes and his £50,000 a week.

 

Board want a top half finish and third/fourth round in the cups. Only about £500,000 transfer fund but £100K a week spare wage budget. Areas that needed improving were strikers and wingbacks, not that they were awful, just not as good as the rest of the team. Loans have sorted the issue in defense and up front (Depaoli on the right, Hancko on the left in defense, Jay Rodriguez and Tammy Abraham up front which I'm very pleased about). Funded a bit more spending by selling Barry Bannon to West Brom for £9Mil (plus a potential £2mil in extras) which for a 30 year old I can't complain about. This allowed me to bring in Luca Mazzitelli for £450K who had been on loan with Wednesday last season and Mo Besic for £3.1M. Missed out on the chance to sign Jordan Pickford on loan for the season as Everton want his full wages AND £500K a month even though they have him listed for loan.

 

Start of the seaon has been iffy. A couple of good draws away at Middlesbrough and Sheffield United let down by a 3-2 home loss to Fulham, though just thumped Rotherham 5-1 in the Carabao Cup 1st round. Seven goals between Rodriguez (2) and Abraham (5, including a hat trick against Rotherham) in four games so far.

great deal for bannan there!

Whos Everton's no.1 currently?

some real good transfer dealings liam, enjoying reading about your save!

Blooding the youth is going well, basically a youth team beating basically a full strength leicester, Burkart shouldve had a hat trick before picking up a knock

On 25/11/2018 at 13:08, Liam Mk2 said:

Oliver Torres I believe his full name is. Got him from FC Porto for about £10m in the first season, my ideal long-term replacement for Sigurdsson. He’s doing quite well at the moment.

Jonjoe Kenny is also having a bit of a stormer this season since Coleman has been injured (he’s always injured, even missed his own testimonial). 

yeh think he was an athletico youth player prior to porto? always enjoyed signing him on fm as he was always a bargain

your the man luke! thanks bud

God i hope Torino follow thru with this, £91mi, wtf?!

Gotta love it when you randomly hand a youngster his first ever appearance and he scores and assists

I get bored of just signing big names so trying to blood the youth

3 hours ago, MexicoJack said:

The Swedish start date can be a big grim:

3 hours ago, Molly said:

Man Utd are surely on their 5th manager of the season, looking at that table. 

Nah that looks like a solid Jose set of results right there, and im a utd fan

Alexis Sanchez playing on the right wing seems to be the way to play him, getting the best out of a player where jose fails, altho thats not really that hard 😂

1 hour ago, mattu29 said:

god damn i see what people were saying on various sites about the number of injuries!!

An hour after posting that and both my strikers are now injured lol, FML

god damn i see what people were saying on various sites about the number of injuries!!

Nearest ive got

Just casually strolling thru saint denis and decided to take a short cut over a two foot wall, oh hey theres now a guy accusing me of trespassing and running off to let the sheriff know, so i slow him down and then am accused of robbery by another guy, who is now on his way to the sheriff, so i chase after him and ultimately this leads to me being chased by the whole law enforcement towards the train tracks, having to take out enforcers before highjacking a train to escape, some of them jump on the track to stop but crazily a full speed train isnt stopped by a man and a horse so more of them dead, finally i get away with a $200 bounty and jump out the moving train and hide in a hut until the issues pass.

That was an unexpected 15-20 minute excursion from just wanting to take a quick cut thru to my destination

1 hour ago, Ruki said:

The building and crafting. I just can't do it while trying to kill/survive 

yeh man, i hated that for months, and tbh if i didnt have mates playing alongside me, id have long quit, saying that, now when i play games like fortnite and dont build to block shots against me, it just feels weird lol

2 hours ago, Ruki said:

I installed the game to give it a shot because that new game mode sounded neat. I uninstalled it three games later. Not for me. 

lol what made u get rid after only 3 games?

On 12/11/2018 at 13:31, Colly said:

I saw it this morning, did I hear right that one of the commentators said it was the second latest stoppage? Who was later than that?!? 

I remember a few months ago, Paul Craig took a beating for the whole fight then snuck a sub and his opponent tapped at 4:59 of Round 3, guy was a bit like KZ in that he wouldve won had he lasted a second later, difference is he just tapped while KZ was obviously out

4 hours ago, ChrisO said:

I honestly haven't played in about a week or so.  I'll pick it back up soon I'm sure, I did this a a few months ago too, grind out, play way too much and then put it down for a while

I hear you, i played so much last couple of seasons and barely played this season due to the endless amount of lame additions and the constant need to take away weapons, ive got so many challenges to complete and not alot of motivation to do so! might make the last few weeks interesting tho if i choose to try and complete them all with not long left!

18 hours ago, MexicoJack said:

Oh that gives me just the right amount of retro vibes. Looks like a lovely middle point between the CM days and now.

In other news, this is great I went full Jose Mourinho on FM19 and this is what happened

As a utd fan, that is exactly how i see Jose managing us and how his mind works, that was hilarious!

So they’ve added redeploying of gliders and balloons, both suck, and they’ve taken away yet more guns, this game is heading towards being a build and fly game with no shooting

😂😄😁

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/29/18038258/red-dead-redemption-2-horse-cinematic-mode-fails?fbclid=IwAR1qYGd47l2jOJK_bWTg9rDpIlq4wKQeqHf9WKH1JiVzu-K4Dg3FG92lXRs

Think with the unfortunate event at leicester at the weekend, im gonna use them as my starting team, waiting for the full game tho, thats this week right?

Im glad to see im not the only one who has OCD and MUST have facepacks etc, ive spent hundreds of hours adding players from this site:

https://sortitoutsi.net/search/cutout

pretty easy to do really but eases my OCD so much 😁

people losing their hats has its own section on twitter 😄

https://twitter.com/i/events/1056329154914729984?fbclid=IwAR1NKSLLPUc31pbLWZLvMX_mcUyQ5uYOmN44qlyP3t4Jk7L9-tXig0ku32s

by no reason, i mean i did greet someone and they took that as a threat on their life lol

anyone having issues with one guy attacking you for no reason, you kill him, go to hide the body, get investigated then have to kill that guy, go to hide his body and rinse and repeat lol, this happened 4 times in a row before i thought sod this and ran away as far as i could, it was like a comedy sketch 😂

coming up to my 100th game for man utd, but my team is 'struggling' in the league apparantly, despite being 2 points off top with a game in hand, wtf foot man, wtf?!