Ben's journeyman story 2010

[Ben]

Hello I have decided to do my own journeyman story. My aim is to win the Premier League with a side within 7/8 seasons. I won't start unemployed or in the bottom Indonesian league or whatever I will start in a decent league but as a poor side. I've loaded 8 leagues but only the top tier of each league. I am going to decide who I will start as in a minute. Oh and my past experience will be set to automatic. Please follow and feel free to comment, thanks.

[jhopper89]

Good luck but journeyman stories are better when you start unemployed because then its more of a challenge and more realistic

[Ben]

RKC Waalwijk

Ben Worthington a young 30 year old manager has joined Dutch club RKC Waalwijk on a seasons contract. Some RKC supporters are very unhappy at the appointment especially after Ben said that RKC is only a stepping stone to greater things for him. RKC are predicted 18th (bottom) in the Dutch Eredivise and Bens first season in charge may be very, very diffcult.

I chose Waalwijk as I thought it was possibly the most difficult challenge out of all the clubs I could choose.

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Got an unbelievably difficult start to the season. FC Utrecht, Ajax, AZ then FC Twente! Hopefully pick up a couple of points then go and get some wins on the table!

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I won't post pre-season. It is unimportant and is only to get people fit

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Just found a beast of a youngster in my U-19's. Juventus are interested and I am currently negotiating, I will post screenies later

[tiraths]

Good luck
You should have done the Braga Journeyman challenge

[Ben]

I was going to but decided against it.

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I will update in about an hour . Btw I am using JP Woodys 4-2-3-1 high scoring tactic, with a few tweaks.

[Ben]

Well I felt these were very good transfers however I calculated that I only got about 80% of transfer revenue which meant I had to use monthly installments for a couple of my transfers in.

[Ben]

We never played well against FC Utrecht and lost our first game of the season. This game was important too as we have some very difficult fixtures coming up

[Ben]

Nope, no hope of a giant killing today we were outclassed by Ajax, next match won't be any easier either, against AZ

[Ben]

Beaten again at the hands of AZ. Maybe a bit more of a chance next game against Steve Mclarens, FC Twente.

[Ben]

Our first points of the season come in an away game against one of the top teams in the league FC Twente! Next game ADO Den Haag.

[Ben]

We got another good win today against Den Haag and the team is now starting to gel, Sparta Rotterdam next.

[Ben]

Not a bad result against Sparta, neither team never looked like scoring with no clear cut chances in the match. Next match Vittese Arnhem.

[Aannddyy]

By the way, you can check your transfer income pecentage on the "Board Room" tab under "Finances" So you don't need to estimate

Good luck though mate, shame you couldn't join us in the FM-Base Journeyman Race!

[Ben]

Quoted Message: Originally Posted by Aannddyy

By the way, you can check your transfer income pecentage on the "Board Room" tab under "Finances" So you don't need to estimate

Good luck though mate, shame you couldn't join us in the FM-Base Journeyman Race!

Haha never knew that, thanks it is at 85%.

[Ben]

Was never going to be an easy game especially away from home and it proved to be too much for the lads, not good enough!

[Ben]

I weakened my side for the first time giving a few players debut's against FC Babberich. A good result takes us to the next round of the Dutch cup. We play Roda JC next.

[Max]

Good read so far, maybe do an update for games every 4 games or so, otherwise you'll end up with about 13 pages at the end of one season

[UKMACKIE]

Goodluck but can't really call it a Journeyman save if you don't start unemployed.

[Ben]

A very good win. Brilliant second half performance sealed it for us, well played the RKC players. Next up, Feyernood away!

[Ben]

Quoted Message: Originally Posted by Max

Good read so far, maybe do an update for games every 4 games or so, otherwise you'll end up with about 13 pages at the end of one season

Good point and now that I am now just into October I will do monthly updates, thanks

[Ben]

Won all our league games this month including the away game at Feyernood, out of the Dutch cup however (my own fault for weakening the team).

[Finn]

Great read so far man! I'll be following! Good luck

[Ben]

Thankyou very much Finn

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Interview with Ben Worthington!

Mr Worthington, your team is starting to come together now and you are getting some great results on the field, what is the key to your success?
It's obvious, no? The players are what make a football club and the players get the results. Michael Emerano, Jang Hak Young and Mitchell Donald have been some of our best performers so far and Jean-Daniel Padovani has made some great stops in goal while also being very consistent.

You talk of your admirance of Mitchell Donald and you have him on loan, do you wish to make his deal permanant?
Well... It is very very early days yet and we are just happy to have him here til the end of the season, that is when we will decide whether to keep him here and when we will decide whether to negotiate with Ajax for his services.

With the past few results, media have speculated that you could get a top half finish this season, do you think this is possible?
Maybe. Anything is possible with the players we have at the club. We have some brilliant talent but our aim is to avoid relegation, if we can do this we will push on from there and look to get as high up in the Eredivise as possible.

[Ben]

Well, first of all sorry, I haven't been posting on the site for ages now and second of all I will post more results tomorrow after college, thanks

[tiraths]

Well done against Feyenoord before lol

[joss]

Good luck, league screenshot?

[Ben]

Right, going to try and get back on track with this, I will post some more results in a sec

[Ben]

2 wins, 2 losses. The games we lost were very dissapointing with the missed penalty against Groningen and then Heerenveen got a very late winner against us

[Ben]

The PSV game was brilliant, we were so unlucky. 2-0 up after 17 minutes and we came in 2-1 up at half time. Sat back in the 60th minute and 10 minutes later they equalised. 10 minutes later they finished us off We bounced back well though and got 2 comfortable results against VVV and Sparta.

[Ben]

Roel Brouwers set for RKC Waalwijk?

RKC manager Ben Worthington has decided against commenting on the latest transfer gossip. Borrusia Monchengladbach's transfer listed central defender Roel Brouwers has been linked with RKC and Brouwers' agent has confirmed the over-achieving dutch club has shown interest. The price tag is thought to be up to £1 million though which could prove to be a stumbling block as RKC already has a good defense.

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