FM 2008 Stories

im addicted aswell... just pipped rangers to the title. Had to beat them in the last game of the season to win it. Beat them 2-1 away from home!

 

In 1st Season (v8.0.0)

Walter Smith got sacked
Signed Felipe from Udinese and Omar Bravo from Chivas, both quality signings.

Into the UCL 1/4 Finals
Knocked Rangers out of the SC and LC
Lead the league by 12 pts with 9 to play

I have all my coaching categories at 6-7 stars, hard to keep at all 7's some coaches stats drop and I have a few top scouts brought in to find me talent!

 

Just finished my 2nd season as boss as both Celtic and Queen of the South.

Celtic won the league and Scottish cup and my young boys got papped out the league cup in the Quarters in my first season. Got to last 16 of CL. Queens got promoted on the last day of the season and made the League cup Semi. Dobbie finished with 50 goals from about 42 appearances.

2nd season I won the domestic treble and got papped out the CL in the last 16...AGAIN. Queens got papped out in the 3rd and 4th round in domestic cups but came 7th in the league (with more points than 6th place).

3rd season is looking bright for Celtic but less so for Queens, hope 2nd season syndrome in the SPL doesn't rub off on my team.

 

6 games to go in the SPL and Walter Smiths replacement, Adrian Boothroyd was sacked after a 3-2 defeat to me in Ibrox, HAHA.

 

My pc must be slow as * , takes me ages to get through one season let alone 2 or 3

also do you guys ever choose the 'go on holiday' option ? sometimes theres like a gap of 12 days due to international games and i just go on holiday ,dont see the point of sitting continually clicking/or hitting the space bar

 

Mine is much quicker with FM2008 than FM2007, must be making better use of my CPU (X6800 :icon_mrgreen. I run 30 playable leagues on mine too.

Never go on holiday in case i miss a potential signing or loosing a staff member

 

I've just won the SPL (1st season) with a 3-2 victory over Rangers in Ibrox

Omar Bravo with the winner in the 92 minute, haha

 

Im 10 years into my Celti career (addicted)
9/10 leagues
7/10 Scottish Cups
7/10 League Cups
Knocked out in CL qualifiers once, knocked out in groups three times, last 16 four times, and quarters -finals twice.

Basically dominated domestically and done okay in europe. I used to play high tempo attacking stuff and it worked ok. But i play short passes and patient style now (still attacking) and its loads better defensively.

One season i only lost once (to Inter in last 16 2-0 away, 0-0 at home). Won both cups and was unbeaten in the league. I am currently on a 76 match unbeaten league run.

My success came from hiring scouts from other countries and sending them to scout there (eg hiring an italian to scout in italy). And i will sogn a ton of youngsters. Just keep giving them long-term deals and i make a profit at least. All the big clubs are after some of my guys. Bought a 17 year-old italian striker (£1.9m) and sold him 2 years and 66 goals later for £19m plus 40% sell on clause.

 

I'm into my 4th season now, nearing the end of actually and i am top of the league by a country mile again.

First team Squad -- Season 4 (2011)




League Table 2011



Beat Roma - Into Quarter Finals Champions League 2001

 

ive only started playin this week, i tink i must be related to john barnes or sumtin cos i'm absolutley pish. i started of wit cardiff sacked before december, then i played wit west ham sacked in jauary. does any1 have any tips on tactics and trainin
wit training i just go to assign all, is ter antin i could do to improve it?

and with tactics like tempo and passsing style i just dont no wat to put i usually just leave it at mixed.
please give me some tips

 

Have you patched the game at all?


I just got drawn against Rangers in the quarter finals of the champions league.

 

I got sacked from Celtic after my second season after winning the Treble with the Champions League, SPL and CIS Cup. They offered me a 1 year contract extension and I wanted a 4 yr extension with 20M to spend.

Now Chelsea manager and on course to do the Quad

 

I won 10 trophies in my first two seasons with Celtic...I was doing OK in my third, I had won the Super cup and the world club champs and was still alive in all competitions entered...Until I got humped 2-9 by Arsenal at home in the last 16 of the Champions league...My team was playing great fitba but the players were starting to lose trust in me and were all unsettled in some way so I decided to resign and swapped jobs with Martin O'neill to manage Aston Villa...I'm rank rotten with this * team, I'm only JUST hovering above relegation zone...Thankfully I'm hotly tipped to take over Rafa Benitez's position at Anfield...The Premiership is by far more fascinating btw, it's very challenging unlike the SPL...

 

Im in my 1st season with newcastle, crashed out of the lge cup in the semi's , fa cup 3rd defeat by chelsea but sitting 4th in the lge with about 10-12 games left

done quite well,had some good consistent performances

 

I'm the manager of atletico madrid, but i mostly get diabolically bored of the la liga so a make many databases, finished my 1st season 2nd drew my last game of the season against 5th place sevilla and barcelona beat struggling outfit Levente (pretty much like in real life) won my second season with 3 games to go Aguero won the golden boot in the CL bad thing was i got bet in the semis off of a amazing liverpool team bet them 3-1 at home and 2-0 away but i must admit they deserved to win, they went on to win the CL beating Bayern in the final 4-1!!!! in my 3rd season i brought in a few players and white-washed everything, won every tourneyment including the CL!!! mostly went through on away goals but lets be honest who cares? lol, 4th season and i'm doing great brung in alot of talent and i'm sitting first in La Liga January transfer time and i have 23m to spend!

 

I am about to Play Rangers in the QF of the Champions League in 20011. I am hoping to get a another job soon though as trying to get really good players to Celtic is getting hard now in this game for some reason. I have been linked with Chelsea so see what happens.

 

FS mate I've got Christiano Ronaldo to Celtic, got him when he was like 27 but still top quality

 

Currently on my second season in my new game with Celtic.. Won the treble in the first year, got through 2nd place in CL group with liverpool sevilla and anderlecht.. Knocked Arsenal out in the last 16, and got knocked out by AC Milan in the quarters on away goals.

This season im 7 points clear of the manky mob in the league, playing them next in the league cup semi final at Celtic park YES.. Undefeated against them in 2 seasons.. Played them 6 times won 5 and drawn one 0-0 at ipox.. Biggest victory against them was 6-0 at celtic park..

My current tactic is 4-1-2-3 which i posted on eve communities football manager forums under tactics.. it's working amazing for alot of people.

My team is
GK:- Boruc
LB:- Kleber
RB:- Hinkel ( playing consistently well )
CB:- Coloccini
CB:- Pablo

DM:- Miguel Veloso
CM:- Kim Kallstrom
CM:- Buononette (youth)

ST:- Huntelaar
RF:- Berbatov
LF:- Vela (youth) Although very well known

Subs:-
GK:- Kasper Schmeichel
DM:- Alou Diarra
ST:- Kuyt
CB/LB:- Sakho (youth)
CB:- McManus
AM/CM:- McGeady
ST:- Venegoor

In my first season i signed Huntelaar for 8mil. In 38 games he scored 36 goals with 9 assists and came second behind van nistelrooy for the golden boot although he scored more but cuz our leagues * and the point system it works on.

This season in the champions league i finished top of my group which was Inter Milan, Sevilla (again) and wisla.. Although me and Inter both finished on the same points, I was top due to head-to-head. I Have AC Milan again lol but im confident as my teams much better this year. Im in January and theres alot of teams in for mcgeady who i reckon im gonna sell as i've just been offered 12million for him and he doesn't fit into my system to well as he's more attacking mid and hasn't performed too well as a CM.

HailHail

 

Veloso and Vela are immense, bought Veloso at Chelsea and scored on his debut and got a 9/10 whilst breaking up attack after attack from Arsenal.

 

sorry dont know wat u man by patched? i havnt played any manager games for bout 3 years and i was usually pretty good but now im * but im only playin a week