Johnny Karp

The founder and co-owner of the website, a Romanian Football Manager addict. He’s been playing the game since CM ’97-’98, never missed any of the versions since then. His footballing career stopped before it began, he liked playing the game but disliked having to run around like crazy during the pretty harsh training sessions. He’s a supporter of the Romanian national team, Universitatea Craiova, Arsenal, Barcelona and… the Blyth Spartans! You can contact him at johnny[at]footballmanagerstory[dot]com

Dec 102011
 
Romanian FM 2012 Story: Preparing for Europe

Hello folks, it’s time for the post-title episode of my Football Manager 2012 story! As you surely remember we have won the title last season against all odds and beyond my most optimistic hopes. That didn’t solve our financial problems though, or not yet… My main goal for the summer was to reach the group stage of the Champions League or at least fall back into the group stage of the Europa League in order [Read more]

Dec 062011
 
Romanian FM 2012 Story: Unbelievable Roller Coaster

Hello folks and welcome back to my Football Manager 2012 story! Sorry for keeping you waiting a bit for this update but I’ve been quite busy with less exciting stuff lately. A quick recap of the situation before moving on to the actual update: we were 2nd at the end of March 2014 in Liga 1, 2 points behind leaders U Cluj with 10 games remaining but also with a pretty bad injury crisis to [Read more]

Nov 302011
 
Romanian FM 2012 Story: Plan Undone

Hello friends and welcome back to my Football Manager 2012 story. As you remember from the last update I had a plan for the winter break: we were in third place at the halfway point of the season but still in financial trouble so I was planning to sell a few first team players to make room for a new Brazilian youngster plus a few of our own young talents. Well, the plan didn’t work [Read more]

Nov 272011
 
FMS Fan Shop Now Open!

Hello friends, I am happy to announce that we have opened up an online store with exclusive FMS merchandise just for you! If you love the game and our site then I guess you might like our products: T-shirts, mugs and mouse pads with humorous comments and, of course, a shiny FMS badge! You can visit the shop by clicking here! All the products are top quality and I can say that I have tried [Read more]

Nov 272011
 
Romanian FM 2012 Story: Finally Some Real Football

Hello friends and welcome to the latest episode of my Football Manager 2012 story! After a fairly successful pre-season in which I managed to sign a few good players despite the usual lack of money and after an exciting opening match in which we defeated last season’s runners-up FC Vaslui my Viitorul Constanta seemed to be prepared for an interesting season far away from the relegation worries. This update will cover the whole first half [Read more]

Nov 222011
 
Romanian FM 2012 Story - Another Summer With No Money

Hello folks and welcome back on the shores of the Black Sea for the start of my third season in charge of Viitorul Constanta! As you remember we ended our first ever season in the top flight in 10th place, we all agreed that it wasn’t too bad but I was eager to take the club to a new level. However, the lack of money was surely going to be a problem… On June 17th [Read more]

Nov 192011
 
Romanian FM 2012 Story - All About Survival

Here we go folks, it’s time to find out whether my Viitorul Constanta managed to survive in the Romanian First League or not… Welcome back to my Football Manager 2012 story for the decisive episode of my second season in charge, the final two months of the 2012-2013 season. As you know we were 11th at the end of March with a thin 5-point cushion over the relegation zone (the bottom four teams get relegated). [Read more]