[Giant Crab Man]

Started unemployed with Sunday league rep and i'm only signing players who are from the nation i'm managing in so at the moment their Italian.

2010 18th Romanian Second League (Chiajna)
2010-2011 1st Romanian Second League (FC Silvania)
2011-2012 13th Romanian First League (FC Silvania)
2012-2013 13th Romanian First League (FC Silvania)
2013-2014 6th Romanian First League (FC Silvania)
2014-2015 4th Romanian First League (FC Silvania)
2015-2016 7th Romanian First League (FC Silvania)
2016-2017 1st Romanian First League (FC Silvania)
2017-2018 1st Romanian First League (FC Silvania)
2019 2nd Russian Premier Division and Russian Cup winners (Zenit)
2020 1st Russian Premier Division (Zenit)
2021 1st Russian Premier Division (Zenit)
2021-2022 8th Seria A (Roma)
2022-2023 3rd Seria A (Roma)
2023-2024 1st Seria A (Roma)
2024-2025 2nd Seria A, Italian Cup winners and Champions League winners (Roma)
2025-2026 3rd Seria (Roma)



I left Zenit after winning the league for the 2nd time and joined Roma after they sacked Totti with 8 games left.

This post has been edited by Giant Crab Man: 20 September 2010 - 04:53 PM

[Ehmo]

Crab tales

I like this career. Wish I could do something like this. Going from random to someone like Roma. Makes for such a good long game.

Squad screenie/top regens?

[Skacel]

You've done well to land at Roma, signing only home nation players will be good for you, adds that little bit more of a challenge to managing a team like Roma.

[Johno]

Loving the title Good luck with Roma

[Giant Crab Man]

Ehmo, on 26 August 2010 - 06:00 PM, said:

Crab tales

I like this career. Wish I could do something like this. Going from random to someone like Roma. Makes for such a good long game.

Squad screenie/top regens?

I signed them three in the summer window for ALOT of money so i'm hoping their gonna be worth it.

[Johno]

Salvi is a beast Ceccarelli looks quite good

[Yosemite Sam]

quite amazing achievements. what leagues did you load?

[Giant Crab Man]

champion, on 26 August 2010 - 07:17 PM, said:

quite amazing achievements. what leagues did you load?

[Skacel]

Austria is a good league choice, very few seem to ever hit it. Would be very interesting if you found yourself at a mid-level Austrian club in a few years time.

[Giant Crab Man]

1st February 2023



My aim at start of the season was to finish in the top 6 so I'm confident in doing that. Signing a new striker is definitely going to be my main priority in the summer aswell.



He was signed by previous manager on a free transfer, a couple of months later I made a tidy £5m profit on him

This post has been edited by Giant Crab Man: 27 August 2010 - 01:54 PM

[Giant Crab Man]

Champions League





I think that's the most I've ever spent in a season on FM10 though the first 7 players weren't signed by me.

[Skacel]

That is one hell of a deficit \o/

What is your balance sitting at now?

[Giant Crab Man]

I ended the season on about £15m but it's gone up now through sponsorship and stuff. Got £40m transfer budget so I'm hoping to sign a keeper, right-back, a couple of central midfielders and a striker.

[Ehmo]

Big Italian clubs get a sh*t load of TV money. At Milan I had a balance of like 10 or 20M in the first season, then around 100M in the second.

[Skacel]

Same happened to me at Roma on FM09, in the first season we had next to nothing, but come the 2nd season I had 64m in the bank.

[Giant Crab Man]

Another busy summer. Had to make do with signing Macheda for a striker but he still looks decent and will be a good tutor for some of my younger strikers.









Fariello came into my u20 squad and looks like he'll be a talent but it's a shame i don't play with wingers. Do you think i could train him into a decent centre mid ?

Champions League group:


Should qualify from that group, Atletico are the current holders so i'm expecting them to finish top and then Shakhtar and Toulouse both have average squads.

[Ehmo]

What system do you use? He's only 16, you could probably make him an attacking midfielder. I'm always iffy about narrow formations. I just have to have wingers.

[Giant Crab Man]

I play 4-1-3-2 with a DM and 3 CM's. I've used the same formation at Silvania and Zenit and I've always had the best defensive record in the league, I love it.

In the last 4 league games i've scored in the 90th minute can the run continue against Salernitana?!

No it can't.

This post has been edited by Giant Crab Man: 29 August 2010 - 12:17 AM

[Skacel]

Christ, you'll take the club under with that kind of spending \o/

How do the coaches rate Fariello? What do they have his CA and PA at?

[Hibee]

You can tweak the 4-2-3-1 to include a couple of wingers easily enough, I wouldn't bother retraining him as he could have a role as an impact player if your trying to get a goal and want to try a different approach.

Edit: Well, mayby in a year or two after he developes a bit.

This post has been edited by Hibee: 29 August 2010 - 12:54 AM