Football Manager 2014

[stokeriño]

I dunno. Are they just sending them to people who have already bought FM14? Because that's a bit silly.

[EddieG]

Where did all you bastards nice people get these vouchers?

You want one?

[Chael P. Sonnen]

I've got one..

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

I have one too if someone can tell me how to gift it

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Also, what the hell are these trading cards? I have five of them in my inventory, an Inside Forward, two Target Man, and two Trequartista. What are they for?

[Gazz]

You can sell them

[The Lusophone]

I dunno. Are they just sending them to people who have already bought FM14? Because that's a bit silly.

Yep. They did the same with Crusader Kings 2.

[Whisper]

Also got a voucher if anyone wants one.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Eriksen just curled it over the keeper and into the opposite top corner....from a corner. Stonking.

[Gazz]

Fluke

[stokeriño]

All these things that Hammy describes in his FM game (mainly defensive fluffs or ridiculously flukey goals) are all things that happen AGAINST me when I play in FM Classic.

Honestly, I sometimes wonder if the FM Classic match engine is running on different rules to the normal FM engine, because for whatever reason the players always seem to be a lot more loopy and/or batshit insane in them.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Gylfi also just scored a couple of odd goals - one was his corner that curled and beat the keeper at the near post after the defender moved off the post early.

Second was when the keeper came off his line and controlled the ball horribly and it bounced to him to score.

Anyway, four games left of the season and we're top! Huzzah!

1. Spurs - 77 (34 played)

2. Man City - 76 (35)

3. Man Utd - 73 (34)

4. Aston Villa - 59 (35)

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5. Southampton - 58 (34) - playing me next

6. Arsenal - 57 (35)

7. Chelsea - 56 (35)

8. Everton - 55 (35)

9. Liverpool - 53 (34)

10. Swansea - 45 (35)

So it's top three for the title (the pundits would be loving that as they are this season) and then six points and a game in hand separating 4th-9th (which they'd also love). But seriously ASTON VILLA!

It looks like West Brom, Stoke and Sunderland are going down. They're cut adrift a bit with Sunderland (who won the League Cup) 5 points off West Ham in 17th.

[Hobo]

I decided in my silly FM 12 Bohemians game to look up who the managers are in the Premier League in 2020. (It is worth noting that Sunderland and Newcastle are currently leading the league with Sunderland seven points clear as of 18 December 2020).

Arsenal - AVB

Aston Villa - Dan Petrescu

Bermingham - Henning Berg

Blackburn - Aaron Mokoena

Chelsea - Pep Guardiola

Everton - Lee Clark

Fulham - Ivica Vastic (!?!)

Liverpool - Lars Bohinen (just replaced David Moyes and brought in Steven Gerrard as is his assistant)

Man City - Roberto Mancini (in a second spell)

Man U - Michael Laundrup

Middlesborogh - Steve McClaren

Newcastle - Alan Shearer (including his real life 2009 caretaker role he is now in his 3rd spell as manager as far as this game is concerned after replacing Roberto Donadoni)

Nottingham Forrest - Paul Jewell

QPR - Nigel Adkins

Stoke - Julian DeGuzman

Sunderland - Paul Lambert

Swansea - Dale Cockril (?)

Spurs - Kenny Jackett

West Ham - Rory Fallon (?)

Wolves - Keith Curle

[9 to 5]

Jeez, it is a Blackburn dominated manager field that.

[Gazz]

I don't know what's worse, a Paul Lambert led Sunderland topping the league or my FM13 game where he became Barcelona manager.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

I kinda wanna see the full history of managers there, that's a very strange set .

[Hobo]

I kinda wanna see the full history of managers there, that's a very strange set .

Arsenal - Wenger - 1996-2014; Marcelo Bielsa - 2014-17; AVB - 2017-

Villa - Chris Thorpe (?) 2012-13; Alan Pardew 2013-14; Tim Blankley - 2014-15: Kenny Jackett 2015-19: Paul Lambert 2019; Dan Pretescu 2019 -

Birmingham - Lee Clark 2012-2018; Henning Berg 2018-

Blackburn - Steve Kean 2010-14; Slaven Billic 2014-16; Richard Money 2016-19; Roy Fallon 2019-20; Aaron Mokoena 2020-

Chelsea - DiMatteo 2012-2018; Tito Villanova 2018-19; Antonio Conte 2019; Pep 2019-

Everton- David Moyes -2002-2013; Martin Jol 2013; Mauricio Pochettino 2013-15; Steve McClaren 2015-18; Henning Berg 2018, Lee Clark 2018-

Fulham - Martin Jol - 2011-13; Tony Pulis 2013-14; Mike Phlean 2014-15; Chris Hughton 2015-17; Steve Eyre 2017-19; Richard Money 2019-20; Ivica Vastic 2020-

Liverpool - Brendan Rodgers - 2012-2014; David Moyes 2014-20; Lars Bohinen 2020-

Man City - Roberto Mancini 2009-16; AVB 2016; Marcelo Beilsa 2017; Slaven Billic 2017-18; Rafa Benitez 2018-20; Roberto Mancini 2020-

Man United - Sir Alex Ferguson - 1986-2014; Michael Laudrup - 2014-

Middlesbrough - Tony Mowbray 2010-14; Henning Berg 2014-18; Steve McClaren 2018-

Newcastle - Alan Pardew 2010-13; Alan Shearer 2013-16; Paul Lambert 2016-17; Nigel Adkins 2017-19; Roberto Donadoni 2019-20; Alan Shearer 2020-

Nottingham Forest - Tim Blankley 2012; Ciriaco Sforza 2013-14; Paul Lambert 2015-16; Alan Shearer 2016; Mark Hughes 2016-17; Marcelo Bielsa 2017-19; Paul Jewell 2019-

QPR - Mark Hughes 2012-14; Steve McClaren 2015; Simon Grayson 2015-18; Dan Petrescu 2018-19; Aaron Mokoena 2019-20; Nigel Adkins 2020 -

Stoke City - Tony Pulis 2006-13; Mike Phelan 2013-14; Martin Jol 2014-15; Dale Cockril 2015-18; Alan Shearer 2018-19; Lars Bohinen 2019-20; Julian DeGuzman 2020-

Sunderland - Martin O'Neil 2011-13; Marco van Basten 2013-15; Mauricio Pochettino 2015-17; Alan Pardew 2017-18; Roberto Moniz 2018-19; Paul Lambert 2019-

Swansea - Michael Laudrup 2012-14; Steve McClaren 2014; Mark Hughes 2014-16; Alan Shearer 2016-18; Dale Cockril 2018-

Spurs - AVB 2012-13; David Moyes 2013-14; Brendan Rodgers 2014; Ciriaco Sforza 2014-15; Marco Van Basten 2015-16; Slaven Billic 2016-17; Paul Lambert 2017-19; Kenny Jackett 2019-

West Ham - Sam Allardyce 2011-13; Paul Lambert 2013-15; Steve Kean 2015; Gary White 2015-16; Paul Jewell 2016-19; Alan Shearer 2019-20; Roy Fallon 2020-

Wolves - Jamie Oliver (?!) 2012-14; Alan Pardew 2014-17; Tim Cahil 2017-18; Karl Robinson 2018; Keith Curle 2019-

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Laudrup as the successor to Ferguson sounds interesting think he'd be better than Moyes but a hard job none the less. Never thought he'd be the longest reigning current manager there.

Lambert and Pardew like to get around by the looks of it.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Ahhh Spurs with managers every few months. Very realistic.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Well, I just won the league! Hooray!

Eriksen was player of the year! Hooray!

Soldado was league top scorer! Hooray!

I was manager of the year! Hooray!

I just sold Livermore to Everton and Rose to Man Utd! Hooray!

The majority of my on-loan players have just returned! Oh....my......

My squad is now HUGE. I have to decide what I'm going to do with everyone.

Central to the first team

Hugo Lloris

Jan Vertonghen

Vlad Chiriches

Kyle Walker

Benoit Assou-Ekotto

Sandro

Paulinho

Erik Lamela

Aaron Lennon

Christian Eriksen

Lewis Holtby

Roberto Soldado

Fringes of the first team/Rotation

Gomes

Brad Friedel

Jack Robinson

Etienne Capoue

Gylfi Sigurdsson

Alexander Kacaniklic

Mousa Dembele

Harry Kane

Cody McDonald (Purely a fanboy signing from Gillingham - give him a run out in a few lesser games and give him his time in the sun)

Not really using

Nacer Chadli

Michael Dawson

Kyle Naughton

Emmanuel Adebayor

Getting too old?

Joleon Lescott (great signing for the season though. Cover for BAE while he was out on loan)

Youngsters I'm bringing through

Ryan Fredericks (D R)

Milos Veljkovic (D/M C)

Laste Dombaxe (M/AM R)

Thomas Carroll (M/AM C)

Souleymane Coulibaly (ST C)

Youngsters I'm holding on to / future possibilities

Matt Cunnington

Zodel Brown

Dominic Ball

Jordan Archer

Alex Pritchard

Kenneth McEvoy

Cristian Ceballos

Youngsters I'm not fussed about

Luke McGee

Grant Hall

Still on loan for a bit

Zeki Fryers

Iago Falque (I WANT HIM BACK)

Leaving soon as I haven't renewed their contract

Younes Kaboul (I should have renewed before I dropped him. Whoops)

Bongani Khumalo

Ryan Mason

Jonathan Obika

Shaquile Coulthirst

Actually. that list is useful. it's clearer who I should sell/loan out etc.