hi, I went on vacation from school and decided to entertain myself playing FM13
I can not write English very well, so I write the google translator and I apologize for the mediocre English.
 

I'm 16 and I'm from Portugal, at first did not know which team was to train and decided to search in several forums where the best team to start.
I selected about 10 leagues to try to have a dream career in FM13 being champion these 10 leagues.

I thought the VITESSE an interesting team to begin with, has many good young players and have a project that involves doing better than the middle of the table.
 

My objective for the first season is to qualify for the champions league.

In the second season will try to league champion.
I hope to get lucky

I have some young players who already have a very high market value.
My best players:

wilfried bony

Theo Janssen

Jonathan Reis

Renato Ibarra

Tomas Kalas

MY TOP STAR :

Mark van Ginkel

The beginning of the season

July:

Finally!
Decided to raise expectations and increase the amount of transfers
I have 15M to buy players, not bad for this team.
Allows me to buy many good players

My transfers:

de sciglio ( loan ac.milan )

Ivan cavaleiro ( Benfica 1M )

Josué ( Paços de Ferreira 500m )

Mattheus ( Flamengo 1M )

Milanov ( Litex 3,5M )

Vaclav kadlec ( Sparta de Praga 7M )

The board is very much wanting me to develop players from the youth system so am looking forward to adding to the young talent already at my disposal.

Here are another couple of youngsters in the youth team with good potential -

The idea will be to loan them out for a few seasons and watch their development.

My Targets and Style - 

My hope and desire for this team is to build a squad capable of competing for trophies on all fronts, Spanish Cup, Liga BBVA and the much coveted Champions League. This will by no means be a tough feat but I believe the potential in the squad, playing the right way at the right times and a few key signings here and there will allow me to do this hopefully within a few seasons, ideally three.

The style of football which I love is of the beautiful passing game and this is what I try to emulate with this team, retaining possession and carving out chances with patience and class. Being of mainly Spanish contingent this is more than possible.

Thus I will be playing with a 4-3-3- very fluid style or a 4-5-1 depending on your gaze. This is what my formation and instructions look like: 

These instructions will more than likely alter, hopefully not drastically, depending on how my pre-season pans out.

Transfers - 

The club starts with no budget but this can be altered to around £3M however I am looking to sell in order to purchase. This will be difficult as the club is not riddled with strength in depth. 

Going off the team report of my assistant the team does okay in the starting XI however I am looking to strengthen in central defence. The only player I would be willing to sell due to the lack of funds is Gorka Elustondo, I find him surplus to requirements due to his lack of quality and having multiple players in ahead of him in the pecking order.

I have identified this young gem as my target and looking for him to form a great partnership with Inigo Mrtinez 

Staff -

I felt that the backroom staff under current employment was not befitting of my goals so I unfortunately removed them all, which I always feel guilty for, and replaced them with some of my favourite staff which I have found through hours of searching. The only others I had wished to obtained were that of Massimo Bonini, a terrific defensive coach and Gialuca Bisciotti who is an excellent fitness coach. Unfortunately the wages were not me and they rejected but I will attempt again further along the line.

Key Players and Squad Review-

Players that will be key in this campaign and hopefully for the future will be that of Inigo Maritinez, Asier Illarramendi, Ruben Pardo, Xabi Prieto and Antoine Griezmann.Giving me a very good base to start with. The club also maintains a good goalkeeper, a good loanee left back in Jose Angel and hopefully I can persuade him to sign at the end of the season, hoping all goes well. Also we have a talented playmaker in David Zurutuza as well as the talented wide man of Gonzalo Castro. The strike force also has ability with three good options in Carlos Vela, him being the most promising forward and my number one, Imanol Agriretxe and Diego Ifran providing the back up. The defence is the weakest of my positions however the current squad should be capable for the short term.

So I believe that not much overhaul is required at this moment but in the long run then definitely. I am excited to see what they are capable of come pre-season. 

Pre Season, Training and Start of Season -

I have a few friendlies to test out my tactics before the start of season and I truly believe that we should be winning all of these games. My pre-season training is also set to intense fitness as I believe that this well stand them well come the end of the season and to focus on the tactics so that the philosophy and style of play can be emulated as quickly as possible.

With a look at the fixture list for the start of the season I believe that points have to be gained from the first four games as they are swiftly followed by a clash with the league giants in Barcelona and Real Madrid.

So that is all for now, sorry for it being long winded and detailed but I wanted to cover a lot of points and get stuck into the game. Any feedback and queries about my save are welcomed. 

I will attempt to get posts out as regularly as possibly and provide regular updates! And they will be much shorter post.

My next should be once my pre-season is over and when I am ready to start the season.

Wish me luck!

• Only use Scandinavian players
• Must start with Sunday League Reputation
• You may start at a club or start unemployed, your choice

This is my first story on this forum and infact on FM13. I've written a few before, my best probably "Renovating the Cottage" which was on another forum.

I've wanted to write one, but i never really had much success with FM13, until i started a Celtic save. I've finished the first season so i'll post that up sometime tomorrow, i'm pretty sure it'll blow you all away haha.

Anyways, i hope you enjoy reading what i have to write about and hopefully my story will last for sometime

I'll make a proper post about it tomorrow, but for now, it's a Celtic story.

I have really been searching for a team that I really wanted to manage, but I have also been searching for the will to get a story up on FMS after not really having a proper story on FMS this year. 3 things have inspired me to write this story, well 3 people. Kevin's story is a story I have really enjoyed reading over the past months, but his talk of new stories and his story ideas have really got me back into the mood for coming back to the forum, and also Ben's incredible Sofia story has guided me to choose a team that is one of the top in their nation but nowhere in Europe combined with Royman's Bilbao story and his talk of raising young, raw potential stars has led me too PSV, a team which ticks all the boxes

So lets have a bit of a look into what PSV are all about:

PSV play their football in the Philips Stadium, a stadium that from what i've been told is one of the best in terms of atmosphere and hospitality in Europe. 

21 times PSV have won the Eredivisie, 9 times less than Ajax - If that gap isn't bridged by the time I up sticks and leave Eindhoven then I will have seriously failed  . They have won the European Cup one time - 1988, they have won the Dutch cup 9 times, but something I find alarming is the fact that they haven't won the league in 5 years - that's gotta change. 

So, their called PSV Eindhoven, they play in Holland, their stadium is called the Philips stadium and they are a team with history and potential, did I miss anything ? probably but its an into, I don't want to bore you to death with info.

One last thing - The Eredivisie has been branded as a selling league in the last few years and probably rightly so, the teams just don't have the financial prowess to keep the endless superstars the teams keep producing, but its really affecting the league. I really enjoy watching the football in the dutch league, its a league with so much promise, and really, its perfectly run, the debt problem is pretty non-existent when you compare it with leagues like La Liga and Serie A. That is due to the fact that Holland produce player after player after player, all through the youth Academies of teams such as Ajax, PSV, Alkmaar and they go overseas for £15m +. It is a great way to run the clubs, but is it affecting the entertainment factor of the league ? I feel it is, and I just hope the PSV and Ajax can really lead the league to hold on to their players, and improve the league. 

So that's is all, ill be back pretty soon to show you how the first half of the season went. Thanks for taking the time to read, hopefully you will follow me the whole way. Please feel free to leave a comment below, im keen to hear opinions on this story and any suggestions you may have are more than welcome. Bye   

I will be managing Arsenal, to try and build them back up to the class they showed when going unbeaten in 2003-04. My motovation for this was watching Premiership Years on Sky Sports 4. 

Anyway recently for Arsenal a trophy would be nice, never mind winning the league and then again going a season without tasting a single defeat. Without any more heres my pre-season.

Before we could look at bringing in some fresh faces, we had to sell some dead wood. Mertasacker, Squalachi and Koscielny left from the defence, Koscienly the only one that I would have been happy to keep out of them. Gervinho I felt i would rather have 10million to spend. Arshavin went for 2.5m and Arteta, a decent player but 30 years old was the main reason why I decided to sell. So with an extra 40 million to spend, what did i spend it on?

I told the board I could get champions league football, which recently for Arsenal seems to be their own trophy. So with 40million plus 25 million, we had 65million to spend but unfortunately i had to use a lot of installments as our 

total spend was 102million.

Dede was my choice of a quality centre half to replace Koscielny. Fierro was a young striker that i think could add some goals. Jovetic was bought to replace Gervinho, Fellaini and Isco to replace Arteta and also add some vital quaity in the centre of the park.

Right thats it for now, in this relatively short post, next post will be before the weekend with pre-season results and our start to the season.

Thanks for reading, please comment

So having spent almost no time playing this game I felt the urge to have another go having really failed in my early attempts but having read that the game is more fixed I decide to well start a story and see how it goes!

I have wrote stories for the past editions and I guess it felt a little strange to not write one this time so fear not as I will bring to you my new journey!

Turkey it is and the plan is simple take the worst team and build a history, I chose wisely picking a club with no history no legends an excellent platform to deliver my end goal a history to look back on and be proud of.

Welcome to the future of Turkish football, Eyupspor.

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Honestly I have no idea what drew to me to Turkey or indeed this team maybe fate!! Or maybe the fact that they had a purple (my favourite colour!) strip but the fact is they play in the bottom division in Turkish football based in the beautiful city of Istanbul.

So poor facilities, small stadium we have grass at least! Even though the condition is already very poor and there is yet a game to be played on it my first task is to hire a groundsman I guess.

Financially to too bad not great just not brilliant and am sure we will steadily lose a fortune each month until their is nothing left, but the upside well am sure there is an upside somewhere maybe my team is brilliant!

Hmmm not too bad I guess I always seem to get a superb center forward on these low level stories guess am just lucky! Seems a decent team to inherit needs a little work and with a poor scout and almost zero knowledge of Turkish football signings will be very hard to come by.

A look now at the best player, Ersen Martin :-

Super tall and 17 for jumping! Time for some trademark English tactics and big long balls to him! Joking of course please dont get mad at me English fans!

I guess that tactic might work though especially from corners and crosses a speedy player beside him and we might score goals this season.

The Turkish rules, very similar to lower league Spain which is nice as I know how that works but essentially two groups A and B and the winners get promoted out right from both the four that finish in the playoffs from A face the other teams for B and only the winner gets the final promotion so eight teams for the final promotion place, playoffs...........

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So that's it for now!

Hopefully the layout looks ok its been a while since I posted on a forum so any changes just let me know, the title Turkish Delight is terrible I know my boyfriends suggestion and to be honest I was desperate so it will do for now!

My goal will to build a legacy and one day maybe even get to Europe, I have managed in maybe 90% off all the leagues but never Turkey so hopefully this will provide a new experience.

As always I will continue as my time allows, full time job and full time boyfriend but I will do my best to keep the story flowing at a reasonable pace.

Thanks for reading and hopefully I can bring you something a little bit different I did notice they haven't changed the female questions from last years game when you join a club!

Time for me to stop talking I guess! I tend to go on a little so I look forward to your thoughts as I rejoin the madness but hopefully you can keep me sane on this journey!

- keep the tactics consistent during the game

- handle team talks and make substitutions
End of the season:
- resign and look for a new club

The reason behind this setup is that I want to gain some pace during the seasons without losing too much time on useless aspects of the game because honestly, after my previous experiences I do believe they are useless. Anyway, after spending a whole day searching for ways to counter attack these glitches and shortcomings of this year's edition, I've come to the conclusion that there are only 3 decisive factors in this: a right tactic, a good line-up and a successful team talk. So let the journey begin...

"I did not trip and fall. I attacked the floor and I believe I am winning." - Anonymous (45.25000000,19.85000000)

This is my first ever post on this game and I hope you enjoy it.

I have decided to try and resurrect the great days of Deportivo La Coruna, when just after the turn of the Millenium, they won La Liga and made the semi-finals of the Champions League, playing attacking football and thrilling the crowd with players such as Roy Makaay. Sadly they have just been relegated out of Spain's top flight and I aim to go straight back up.

If this link works, you will see how when I just took over, we have no transfer budget and are - £60,000 in the red for wages, as you will see later in the post I have cut this down significantly.

After releasing many players and terminating loans, this is the squad I have which I will take into my first game against Recreativo.

This is now a picture of the updated finances, we now have some wage budget but not enough to acquire the sort of players I need, so we have no incoming transfers and I have to stick with the squad I have.

I will post every 3 months in my game and any advice and support will be greatly appreciated as this is my first post!

Thankyou

Josh

We weren't in any danger of going down, but the same can be said for promotion, it just wasn't going to happen. We didn't have the funds available and since I only maybe got to playing it one hour a week it was too hard going.

But instead of throwing in the towel, I have just decided to start again!! It has worked out pretty well because now there are several more playable leagues available to me.



So these are the leagues of countries that used to be part of the former USSR. Much better than the 5 I had before. Same rules apply.

Start unemployed with sunday league rep.
Try and win the CL with a team in a country in the former USSR.

So I started and let my PA find me a job while I laid around the beach on holiday and it wasn't long before I found a job.


FBK Kaunas did not have a manager and they very kindly offered me a job. I would be surprised if people knew which country this was from and I can tell you it is Lithuania.

They are currently playing in the second tier and are half way through their season. I am not quite sure why their old manager left as when I joined they are top of the table.

Here is some information about my new team!!




As you can see, our value is pretty good for a second tier Lithuania team. We do own our own stadium which holds a cool 9000 people. We are predicted to finish 2nd this season but I will be disappointed if we don't secure first place. And that is vital as only the champions are promoted!!




This is interesting as only a few years ago this team were one of the top teams in Lithuania. Only to be relegated last year. Let's hope the exile from the top isn't a long one.

So since I am in the middle of the season, this update will finish the half season when I joined. So first of all the fixtures, we were already knocked out the cup so only had the league to focus on!!






A couple silly defeats in there but a very strong end to the season with 5 wins on the bounce. Was that enough to secure the championship and promotion?




Yeahhhh!! Nevezis put up a pretty brave fight in the end, especially when the beat us and their ground. It is amazing to see the gulf in class between the top 3 and the rest of the league. We had almost double the points of 4th and only conceded 6 goals all season!!

So that was a pretty tame start to my career in Eastern Europe! Already I feel more comfortable than the last time and more into the save!!

I hope you have enjoyed my little mini update/intro and I will leave you with this that made me laugh!!


I think my scout got a bit lazy while writing a scout report for me...




Mind you, he only gets paid £120 a week!!

Thanks for reading and as always feel free to comment!!

I introduce myself I’m Seb from Gillingham in England. I work in IT. I have daughter who plays football and I coach. I’m qualified FA Level 2coach. I’m lucky in I can play the game while work quiet and don’t have anything to do.

So my aim is to roam around different countries improving each team along the way, try to experience different leagues and teams I’ve never played with before.

So I started out loading all leagues with Large Database. With English, Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Argentina, Brazil all playable the others as view for now. I did a randomise to pick team till i saw one I fancied trying and got Sporting from Portugal Premier League.

When I was a kid in the early to mid 80´s there where some really crappy football manager sims. I dont remember all the names, but there was a game called Football manager, back in ca 1982. Horrible stuff But it was all we had, and I for one, loved it! Before the computer games even came, I remember pulling out the goals from my STIGA table and making up games, me being the commentator, using Playmobile men as players and the ball from the STIGA. (if you dont know what a STIGA table is, google it, its awesome:) ) My kid brother looked at me as if I was from another planet:) Anyways, I really fell in love with football manager sims at the very beginning of the genre.

I played football since I was 6 uptill 18. After a few years brake from the game I did a few short stints in norwegian 8^th division. Now its just the occasional 7-a sides team with mates, but I´m getting older 37 in the fall. I did make the 1^st team junior elite for a norwegian 1^st div team (tier 2) for a period. That is my highest football credential. Knees and shinbone tendons would not allow me to expand further. But in my own opinion, I would have made a decent tier 2 or 3 striker (in norway at least. Humble as ever )

Four years ago I started at university of Oslo. I quickly discovered a way I might be able to use my education for a career in football. The good thing is even if I fail, I would still qualify for a lot of other jobs. This spring I´m completing my bachelors degree and in the fall I will enroll in the masters program of educational science. My plan is to write about football in light of certain educational properties, wich I hope, may lead to some interviews and meetings with high level football people in Norway. My dream is to someday be a manager or a boardmember of a profesional football club

Thats the background of this game. I´m going to play as I´m there. The most realistic possible scenario. My background is, the equivalent of sunday league. The only thing I´m «makebeliving» is that my girlfriend and I suddenly sold our appartement and moved to the UK. She to become an acknowledged artist, and me to start a manager career. Learning from the bottom, and hopefully making a living of it. So we are going to pretend that I already did my masters, and the first 4 training badges (I dont know the system in England, but in Norway you need 4 courses to manage senior players) and headed for the football isles in search for a job....

I will be playing as the virtual manager as well who named, Jon Peterson! 

Stay tuned for the update!

Club History:

HISTORY

The Early Years

Founded in 1925 River Park F.C. is one of the youngest clubs in the professional football. Originally an amateur organisation, many of its founding members also made up a successful rowing team, which as legend has it, beat an Oxford crew by over 3 lengths during an unofficial warm-up for the University Boat Race.

The site of the original club house is only 2 miles away from the club’s all-seater stadium, known by many as ‘The Park’.

Having worked their way up through the ranks over the years, River Park finally found football success under the stewardship of HARRY PHILIPS, but suffered a dip in form at the end of this run, largely due to the serious and prolonged injury of their top goal scorer, the young DANNY DEANS.

PHILIPS was eventually replaced by CHRIS GILES, and the next season proved difficult for the club with players seemingly lacking confidence in their manager and with rumours rife that the club was in financial difficulty.  DEANS, who had been with the club since the youth team had become a formidable Captain, and threatened to leave if the club’s situation did not change.  GILES sold DEANS during the transfer window, which caused great upset among the players and fans.

Added to this, Boardroom tensions began to unsettle the manager, who walked out mid-season after almost 3 years at the helm. Confidence at the club slumped and the club seemed destined for a period without success in the doldrum.

The Return of Danny Deans

With attendances falling, the club was sold to local businessman, RONALD GOLD, who was able to fulfill a lifelong ambition of becoming chairman & owner of his boyhood club, for a very reasonable price.

GOLD appointed Spanish manager, ACIER FERRÓN.  He also succeeded in returning DEANS to the club, who by this time had five caps for England.  In order to ensure future success, the club launched its own young talent initiative to scout young players and bring them through the ranks of the club, creating a homegrown talent pool for the club to draw on.

The club’s results began to improve, but the development of youth team players and a limited transfer budget did not provide overnight success.

The club came under fire from some critics who became frustrated with the club for waiting for new, young talent to emerge rather than spending money in the transfer market. GOLD steadfastly refused to change his philosophy and despite the arrival of a young BILLY LAIDLAW, the team continued to rely increasingly on the ageing DEANS.

With River Park F.C. floundering at the wrong end of the table, FERRÓN returned to manage a Spanish side and was replaced by the relatively unknown JON PETERSON.  Controversy surrounded the manager’s appointment and his inexperience managing a club at River Park’s level made him the Bookies’ favourite for the sack. However PETERSON proved an inspired signing and results immediately improved under his leadership, as he quickly gained a reputation for being one of the game’s best man-managers.

With GOLD & PETERSON at the helm, observers feel that River Park has finally found the stability it needs to achieve lasting success.

Copied from: http://blog.iamplayr.com/river-park-fc-a-history/

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Hey, I decided to start a season with the Rangers, currently in this third division Scottish.

Seems like a good challenge, let's see how it will run.

I'm Portuguese and I can not speak English very well, so I use google translator   

I do not have a very high budget, so I will not spend much money, I'll just hire free agents and loan

In pre-season games, I won two and lost two, the greatest defeat was the santos laguna players had tired so was normal

Now will start the season, I hope to get higher division and win one of the cups           

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I am the winner of the third division

Summary of first season:

I won the third division  

I won the League Cup  

I won the challenge cup  

I'm ready for next season 

BUT I can not buy players over 18 years because of the ban on transfers of second season