Blackburn Rovers Road To Glory

Season 6 - A New Challenge

It's been a very busy summer, a lot has gone on but I'm delighted with some of the signings we have made and one in particular I couldn't believe I achieved! OH yeh and the owners left me to work with £11M this summer 'cunts' but it's a good job I made some good profit on players.

First of all! I got the England job! It's a great opportunity for me to get my players up to the national sides gain experience and grow, but also another challenge and excitement for me as it is my 6th season now! Haven't managed a national side since FM 2012 when I managed Ivory Cost so looking forward to this there isn't any competitions or many games atm so I can concentrate on Blackburn for the time.



Transfers In/Out

We've made some huge profits on players this summer most notably Chamberlain and as expect Lamela have left the club, but they have been replaced with some quality.

Transfers in - £61.65M





Calum Chambers - £3.1M

Had Chambers 2 seasons ago and did well, Arsenal didn't want to sell him last season but it's worked in my benefit as I got him half the price I would have paid, He's also in the current England side now.



Daniele Verde - £15M

Was brilliant last season I used the Future fee option to snap him up for this price can play in a few positions out wide so always useful for when injuries occur.



Henrikh Mkhitaryan - £5.75M

I almost signed him last year but chose Lamela over him the correct decision but now Lamela has left and Chamberlain Mkhitaryan can play in both these positions and I couldn't believe how cheap he was on the market for has had a great pre season and will be a key member of the squad.



Juan Diego Bueno Prieto - £15M

This lad was a must buy 21 years old worth £20M his attributes are insane for a defender and check out his average rating for the past four season and averaged 7.99 last season!



Martin Montoya - £2.8M

Doing a lot of business with Barcelona recently this lad was on sale and I needed another right back along with Donati signed for Man Utd a few seasons back then Barcelona bought him back good addition to the squad for a low price.



Pavel Larkin - £0

The best signing I've ever made on football manager and I don't know how he came about for free and nobody else wanted him? He's a goalkeeper the most important position I needed to strengthen and couldn't have signed a better player, He's a 20 year old wonderkid worth £18M, He's already a key player for the team was previously playing in the Russian league cant believe I signed a wonderkid for free resolute characteristics and his attributes are crazy. WHAT A SIGNING!!!!



Angel Correa - £20M

The most expensive buy of the summer, but worth every penny, well known player across the world for all football fans and a perfect replacement for Lamela. Already in pre season averaged a rating of 7.79 and some of his attributes are world class, another quality signing and key member for the side.



Giampaolo Corvesi - Loan

Back up for Robertson as Olsson his now aged 32 and declining has been excellent every season he's played, but with the champions league it could by way out his depth this season! Thank you for the services lad one of the last remaining original Blackburn players that has stayed.



Moise Vlad-Paul - Loan

Another wonderkid from Arsenal will be used as back up for Romero and Destro as I felt I could do with another striker last year especially with more competitions this year.



Transfers out - £73.17M







Made some great profit as mentioned this summer the likes of Chamberlain and Lamela for £33M each it allowed me to make many signings to strengthen the squad, Andre wisdom and Henriksen both didn't feature much last season and I made a some healthy sales from them.

Blackburn Rovers - Staff

There has been some huge changes in the backroom of the club Arsenal legend Dennis Bergkamp has joined the club as a coach along with Liverpool & Bayern legend Xabi Alonso as U21's manager, last year my previous managers for the U18 & U21's did a very poo job they are now both replacement and Alonso is smashing it up already with 3/3 wins. I also have a new assistant manager that has great attribute stats to help me with opposition tactics, players potential and current ability and to help motivate team talks!



Most notably we have the best coaches in the league now! almost 5 star in every department and best physio team! Players should be able to reach their potential much better now and with the Youth department been improved it's looking good for the club.



David Cole

Just a update on him, A few seasons ago I posted about his potential as he came in through the Youth ranks he's now 20 and has a wonderkid status, he grown so much very quickly his most recent loan spell was at West Brom he's only on 4.4K a week! He's now in the first team and has the potential to be a key member more he plays this season the better he'll get! Great to see a player grow so fast into a quality from the youth side. He's also in the England first team now!







Conclusion

We are predicted 7th I'm sure I can qualify for Champions league again, with the budget I was given I will struggles for the league title and I'm still struggling to find a away tactic so I'm going to keep the same tactics go again and hopefully we don't miss as many chances as we did last year We had a good pre season undefeated and the play offs for the champions league group stages coming up! We drew Porto a very tough tie but we'll do our best to qualify.

Season 6 - very painful

Well after what seemed to be a smooth running season had hit a block wall with 6 consecutive games without a win in all competitions!

I'm not going to lie I am struggling on this Football manager results go your way then they don't, for no reason what so ever. I've used the same tactics that got me some fantastic results which I've screen shot blow then somehow get beat to simple sides? I've spent so many hours researching tactics trying to get it right! The player's I have are all decent and all seem to get good average rating each season only a few players fell below the 7.00 average rating mark but its tough this year and I'm struggling to achieve higher than Champions league!

The new owners are very difficult everything I request gets rejected.. A £11M budget for champions league position is shocking and I honestly cant stand them! The last owners accepted everything, We are still in a £100M debt but I'm only going to get out of that been successful I'm surprised it wasn't cleared with the new buyers like it was on FM15 for me.

Premier league

We had a great start beating Liverpool and Arsenal, Southampton were top of the league when I went to their ground and was on fire until recently and we won then all of a sudden we couldn't win if the opposition didn't field 11 players, It's been tough, I feel like theirs a few more loses on the horizon too... I think we can achieve champions league again but I'm coming up to season 7 and it's getting boring and average now.













Result of the season so far! How things change so fast




FA Cup/Capital One cup

Well West Brom beat us very first game of the season, they then beat us at home in the Capital One Cup very poor performance not good enough, we fell very below expectations, Guess what We then draw West Brom again! AWAY in the FA Cup it could be very tough for us, I don't know what it is about West Brom,





Champions League

We were very unlucky not to advance in this, again we was dealt the hardest group! Like in everything this game doesn't like me, we got a draw against Munich! huge achievement but lost a home to Inter we played them at their ground and won! It came down to the final fixtures for all the clubs in the group and we didn't show up against Sevilla who we previously beat, inconsistency should be the my middle name, we finished bottom and missed out on Europa League been a dreadful season.












Player Performances

Goalkeeper

It's been dreadful to say the least someone help me because no matter who I sign in the net we just cant get a performance out of them, Larkin was quality at the begning but has been on dreadful form I've had to put Sirigu in goal for the past few games...



Defence

STILL DREADFUL Bueno Prieto has been a embarrassment his stats! recent performances, age, scout report was excellent, hes shocking! Chambers has been the been average and Roco has been the better of the center backs. Conversi seems to be a good signing keeping Robertson a running for his spot. Donati and Montoya can be excellent one game and shocking the next.



Midfield

Just want to mention this lad David Cole is smashing it 7.37 average rating doesn't have a bad game and atm is keeping the team together, Loftus, Guila and Aranguiz have all been average nothing special, Mkhitaryan did well at the beginning but is struggling now, Tore is playing well and bagging assists, Correa has been one of the better players and living up to his expectations!

I signed Kagawa on a free too to help with back up as we need to rotate more with extra fixtures!





Strikers

Finally Romero has risen! He's growing rapidly and a key player of the side 12 goals in 16 Apps in all competitions,just had to reject a £30M offer plus £16M add ons from Real Madrid! Destro is playing well too 8 goals in 10 Apps, I both have to keep rotating them due to fixtures.



Conclusion



David Cole is now my first team midfielder making 5 Appearances already! Love how he came from the Blackburn youth squad and is worth nearly £9M at age 20! On fire this season





I'm going to take a break from this career for abit! Has been going since November with the new winter update and bug fixes I am going to start a lower league career and try and wider my knowledge and experience! Cheers for those keeping up with the story put a lot of time and effort into it!

ANY HINTS AND TIPS ON TACTICS ARE MOST WELCOME