Hello!
I've been reading some of these Football Manager stories the last few days, and I've really been enjoying them, the Alex Ferguson story stood out in particular.
The rise to greatness really inspired me to make a new save, where I'd fight myself up from the (relative) bottom.
The (relative) bottom being one of the major countries second league (Serie B, Coca-Cola, etc), and from there just try to do as well as I could, and try to make a name for myself.
The plan is to cynically swap clubs to get better saleries, players, transfer money, reputation.
I have no specific goals as to a favorite club I want to lead, nothing like that. I just want to be famous, get all the money, and all the sexy football groupie chicks.
I made a new game with all of the major football nations in Europe; England, Spain, Italy, France, Holland, Turkey, Germany, Portugal, and Scotland (for some reason).
Then I picked a team in one of the second divisions, and I wanted a team with some talent (but not too good), a decent economy, and decent training facilities. Preferably with youth academy.
After narrowing it down, it was down to Brescia, Reading, Angers (french), and a couple other teams, and after some debating with myself, I picked Reading!
Here's the deal, I haven't really played any manager games since CM was the ****, namely 00/01 (if I remember correctly) until I picked up FM 09 late last summer.
In FM 09 I played three seasons with Sporting CB, and in FM 10 I've played maybe two or three seasons total with various teams, mostly Wolves.
Therefore I consider myself to be pretty bad at FM, and at football in general (I don't pay much attention in real life unless it's a big CL game or something).
I know pretty much **** about strategies and tactics and all that stuff, so I didn't feel like coming on here and share my FM story with you guys, and totally embarrassing myself.
What I did was this, I made a forum at freeforums.org, and made a thread for my own sake, for my eyes only. But as I went on I thought I might as well share it. It might not be any good, but whatever, you guys might teach me something, if you can suffer through reading it.
So I'm going to start copying the posts over from my private FM story forum over here, so you can see it.
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Season 1 - Reading.
Inexperienced manager, American Samoan national (that's right), Gink Wolf has taken the manager seat at Coca-Cola side Reading before the new season.
Wolf is a known international footballer, with 7 caps and 0 goals (what the ****?) for American Samoa.
Wolf proclaimed that's it's hardly a dream come through, but it's good to be here, and as a very amitious individual, he'll be heavily involved and heavily invested in the club.
Coca-Cola Championship. Media Prediction: 5th.
250k transfer budget, 9k left on wage budget.
Good in-house prospects, and potential key players:
Matt Mills:
CB - 23 year old ambitious, and nomadic, CB. Several seasons in clubs such as Southampton and Man City in Premier Division, before ending up at Reading after a short stay at Doncaster. Mills has good aerial and defensive skills, completed with a high work rate, good strength and stamina, and a good sense of teamwork.
Alex Pearce:
CB - Resolute, level headed 20 year old talent with class aerial ability (18 jumping and 18 heading), high aggression, determination and influence, I made him captain mostly due to lack of better options. Alex himself claimed he was too young, and that he's put under too much pressure, but I'm confident in the young lads ability to shine.
Though scottish, he's homegrown at club, and hopefully, with the right training and guidance, we got a future Reading legend in our ranks.
Jem Keracan:
MC - 20 year old ambitious, hot headed, turkish brit, whose work rate, teamwork, bravery and stamina are all world class, and he's showing signs of potential very good technical skills and creativity, though he lacks a fair bit of flair.
Jems ambitious and enthusiastic character traits, along with his reasonable good influence in the squad, has earned him his position as vice-captain, in which he responded with delight and gratitude.
Jem had two seasons at Galatasaray, before he joined Reading already back in 2005, making him homegrown.
Marek Matejovsky:
AMC - 27 year old czech midfielder with heaps of skill and mental awareness. His big weakness being his slowness, and his inability to competently head a ball.
Very good passer with a lot of flair, first touch and technique.
Khalifa Cisse:
DM/MC - 25 year old french malisian Cisse is a rock solid midfielder with a defensive touch. Good header with a strong physical presence, he is a tough man to get by with his good defensive abilities, and with a very high bravery rating he isn't afraid to get stuck into challenges.
Cisse joined Reading in 2007, after gaining experience in clubs such as Toulouse and Boavista.
Others worth mentioning:
Brynjar Gunnarson - islandic 33 year old defensive player. Experienced and strong, good aerial player, though bit on the slow side.
Chris Armstrong - 26 year old left back, determined and brave scottish team player. Solid.
James Henry - 20 year old right winger with some promise. Fairly quick and with decent technical abilities. Homegrown.
Jay Tabb - 25 year old irishman. Feels at home out on the left wing, is decent, but will probably never be great. High work rate.
Brian Howard - 26 year old versatile english midfielder.
The Madejski Stadium!
I've been reading some of these Football Manager stories the last few days, and I've really been enjoying them, the Alex Ferguson story stood out in particular.
The rise to greatness really inspired me to make a new save, where I'd fight myself up from the (relative) bottom.
The (relative) bottom being one of the major countries second league (Serie B, Coca-Cola, etc), and from there just try to do as well as I could, and try to make a name for myself.
The plan is to cynically swap clubs to get better saleries, players, transfer money, reputation.
I have no specific goals as to a favorite club I want to lead, nothing like that. I just want to be famous, get all the money, and all the sexy football groupie chicks.
I made a new game with all of the major football nations in Europe; England, Spain, Italy, France, Holland, Turkey, Germany, Portugal, and Scotland (for some reason).
Then I picked a team in one of the second divisions, and I wanted a team with some talent (but not too good), a decent economy, and decent training facilities. Preferably with youth academy.
After narrowing it down, it was down to Brescia, Reading, Angers (french), and a couple other teams, and after some debating with myself, I picked Reading!
Here's the deal, I haven't really played any manager games since CM was the ****, namely 00/01 (if I remember correctly) until I picked up FM 09 late last summer.
In FM 09 I played three seasons with Sporting CB, and in FM 10 I've played maybe two or three seasons total with various teams, mostly Wolves.
Therefore I consider myself to be pretty bad at FM, and at football in general (I don't pay much attention in real life unless it's a big CL game or something).
I know pretty much **** about strategies and tactics and all that stuff, so I didn't feel like coming on here and share my FM story with you guys, and totally embarrassing myself.
What I did was this, I made a forum at freeforums.org, and made a thread for my own sake, for my eyes only. But as I went on I thought I might as well share it. It might not be any good, but whatever, you guys might teach me something, if you can suffer through reading it.
So I'm going to start copying the posts over from my private FM story forum over here, so you can see it.
---------- Post added at 10:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:43 PM ----------
Season 1 - Reading.
Inexperienced manager, American Samoan national (that's right), Gink Wolf has taken the manager seat at Coca-Cola side Reading before the new season.
Wolf is a known international footballer, with 7 caps and 0 goals (what the ****?) for American Samoa.
Wolf proclaimed that's it's hardly a dream come through, but it's good to be here, and as a very amitious individual, he'll be heavily involved and heavily invested in the club.
Coca-Cola Championship. Media Prediction: 5th.
250k transfer budget, 9k left on wage budget.
Good in-house prospects, and potential key players:
Matt Mills:
CB - 23 year old ambitious, and nomadic, CB. Several seasons in clubs such as Southampton and Man City in Premier Division, before ending up at Reading after a short stay at Doncaster. Mills has good aerial and defensive skills, completed with a high work rate, good strength and stamina, and a good sense of teamwork.
Alex Pearce:
CB - Resolute, level headed 20 year old talent with class aerial ability (18 jumping and 18 heading), high aggression, determination and influence, I made him captain mostly due to lack of better options. Alex himself claimed he was too young, and that he's put under too much pressure, but I'm confident in the young lads ability to shine.
Though scottish, he's homegrown at club, and hopefully, with the right training and guidance, we got a future Reading legend in our ranks.
Jem Keracan:
MC - 20 year old ambitious, hot headed, turkish brit, whose work rate, teamwork, bravery and stamina are all world class, and he's showing signs of potential very good technical skills and creativity, though he lacks a fair bit of flair.
Jems ambitious and enthusiastic character traits, along with his reasonable good influence in the squad, has earned him his position as vice-captain, in which he responded with delight and gratitude.
Jem had two seasons at Galatasaray, before he joined Reading already back in 2005, making him homegrown.
Marek Matejovsky:
AMC - 27 year old czech midfielder with heaps of skill and mental awareness. His big weakness being his slowness, and his inability to competently head a ball.
Very good passer with a lot of flair, first touch and technique.
Khalifa Cisse:
DM/MC - 25 year old french malisian Cisse is a rock solid midfielder with a defensive touch. Good header with a strong physical presence, he is a tough man to get by with his good defensive abilities, and with a very high bravery rating he isn't afraid to get stuck into challenges.
Cisse joined Reading in 2007, after gaining experience in clubs such as Toulouse and Boavista.
Others worth mentioning:
Brynjar Gunnarson - islandic 33 year old defensive player. Experienced and strong, good aerial player, though bit on the slow side.
Chris Armstrong - 26 year old left back, determined and brave scottish team player. Solid.
James Henry - 20 year old right winger with some promise. Fairly quick and with decent technical abilities. Homegrown.
Jay Tabb - 25 year old irishman. Feels at home out on the left wing, is decent, but will probably never be great. High work rate.
Brian Howard - 26 year old versatile english midfielder.
The Madejski Stadium!
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