Road back to the Prem (leagues reversed)

Start of the save

Hello guys,

FMraynor here, you might remember me from the Road to the hall of fame save : if you are a fan of it don't worry I will still post on it here and there. This save is all about helping Manchester City get back in the Premier League after the leagues are reversed in England. We still are playing in the Community Shield and everything but we will be facing the North Premier league and Championship sides in this league, hopefully we can get early promotion and finish 1st as the media predicts us to do. It will be intresting to see, how the bad teams will do with sponsor money and the good teams, without.

After Luis Suarez denying to open talks with us the only player we have managed to buy is Samir Handovic : 50% of Samir Handovic but with them wanting over 50m combined for the player worth just under 11m altogether I canceled the bidding and will look for a new keeper.

First signing - Welcome Tim Krul

I am delighted to announce my first signings as Manchester City Manager, Tim Krul for 18.5m from fellow Conference North Side Newcastle United and now many players at top foreign clubs and even fellow North/south players are refusing to open talks despite us having Champions League football to look forward to

Community Shield

We faced Conference South Side Chelsea in the Community Shield, both teams are expected to finish 1st in there respective leagues and now they are fighting for major silverware. Yaya Toure got the only goal of the first half but was ruled offside. With 70 minutes gone Sergio Aguero scored what looked like the winning goal and it was! The Conference North side had won the community shield!

The road to the FA Cup

A great win in the 2nd qualifying round for the FA Cup. We scored so many goals and the 11-0 win suprised me, I thought it could of been somthing like 5-0 at least.

The road to the FA Cup

A great win in the 2nd qualifying round for the FA Cup. We scored so many goals and the 11-0 win suprised me, I thought it could of been somthing like 5-0 at least.

September 2012

Great month, we are 1st and unbeaten. Even though it was expected my best result has to be defeating Prescot 11-0. After 9 goals in 7 games my player of the month has got to be Sergio Aguero.

2 players join on loan.

I continue to look for Backup players in the goalkeeper and midfield department and today I can confirm the arrival of James Mackie from QPR on loan and Arsenal reserves number 1, Vito Mannoe will also be on loan until the end of the season (unless recalled), Even better I do not have to pay any monthly fees or the players wages!

Heskey joins Lescott leaves

It is with great pleasure I can announce the signing of Emile Heskey. With 548 games and 119 games in his career with many english teams and Newcastle Jets he seems like the perfect signing for us.

Meanwhile Joleon Lescotts request to leave the club has been accepted, after a goal and 2 assists in the 11 league games he has played in this season. the player who spent 4 seasons at Everton and 7 at Wolves is now avaliable on a free transfer : he is unlikely to join after clubs not bidding 7.5m, 5m, 3m, 1m or 0 for him so I wish him the best in whatever he does in the future.

Heskey joins Lescott leaves

It is with great pleasure I can announce the signing of Emile Heskey. With 548 games and 119 games in his career with many english teams and Newcastle Jets he seems like the perfect signing for us.

Meanwhile Joleon Lescotts request to leave the club has been accepted, after a goal and 2 assists in the 11 league games he has played in this season. the player who spent 4 seasons at Everton and 7 at Wolves is now avaliable on a free transfer : he is unlikely to join after clubs not bidding 7.5m, 5m, 3m, 1m or 0 for him so I wish him the best in whatever he does in the future.

How are you finding the database? I was surprised Liverpool went down and Manchester United struggled on my one

How are you finding the database? I was surprised Liverpool went down and Manchester United struggled on my one

How are you finding the database? I was surprised Liverpool went down and Manchester United struggled on my one

Edin Dzeko leaves

After 5 goals in 10 league games and 1 assist, I can now say Dzeko has left Manchester City to join PSG.

Joining the club however is Raheem Sterling, the 18 year old leaves Liverpool for 13m and can defiently improve and become a very good player. In a urge to sign players, and many players rejecting to join our Conference North club, Charlie Adam leaves Stoke to join us for 10m. Another former Liverpool player to join is Martin Kelly: he is a decent player who can improve our defense where we only have 5 available options.

A Player leaves and a player arrives

Martin Kellys profile on my FM save (Recently signed from Liverpool) included but lets get to the main point. David Silva has left my club. George Elkobi has left Wolves to join my club ; I know he is quite a bad player but he is one of the best that will open talks with me considering my division and with the teams in the above division he seems like he could be a OK player. We especially need a right back in this time where Kolo Toure is away in the African Cup of Nations as well.

However with our recent rush of signings we need a player to depart to maintain numbers so with regret, I can now say David Silva has moved to Barcelona for 20m. David only missed out on 3 league games this season but scored 0 goals those 18 games however he set up 5 goals for the Conference North side.

I like it yeah, Not all leagues are upside down some league 2 and league 1 remain the same but it is mostly upside down and still very intresting to do, Im quite suprised even though we got Champions League football this season no good players want to join. On my save I am suprised Everton and Newcastle are some of the main contenders for promotion. Liverpool are only 10th on my save and United 6th so are not doing as well as you would of thought. Weird to see Burnley in the contenders for the play-offs as well when bigger clubs should be earning their place. Ill defiently checkout your career update on this save if you post about it!

Nasri Leaves

Jem Kacaran has left Reading to join us as a replacement for Samir Nasri. Samir Nasri left Manchester City to join Real Madrid for 20m.

FA Cup 6th round

After staring off in the 2nd qualifying round with a 11-0 away win against Prescot we have secured a 6th round place with a 3-1 win against Charlton at the Etihad we found out we will host Swansea City in the FA Cup. The highest posisioned team through to this round in the league is Gateshead who lead the Npower Championship by 7 points

Bad Run of form

After conceding in the 3rd minute of injury time against Burnley, our bad form goes on, We went from being defeated once in 6 games to this.

Transfer Deadline Day- March 2013

After not receiving much first team action apart from the few games and basically not being good enough, I have decided to send James Mackie back to QPR. He got 1 goal every 6 league games while he was here what is really a bad record for a striker. As a replacement I have snapped up Danny Graham for 7.5m from Sunderland, Aspas will also join us, leaving German outfit Borussia Dortmund.

The only other transfer to go through was the release of Angus Gunn.

Elimination and Finalists

Sergio Aguero carried on his extraordinary goal scoring form in the FA Cup with our Game against Tranmere at Wembely. I had achieved my boards wishes and secured a place in the Final against Manchester United : both of us started off in the 2nd qualifying round of the FA Cup with City's first victory being a 11-0 win over Prescot away from home. Recently sacking Warren Joyce (been assistant with me in nearly every size) for my previous director of football has helped me inspire my team in the last few rounds of the cup including our 3-1 win today. Today also saw us qualify for the playoffs.

It has not all been good however, We, who the board expected to finish in the Final of the Champions League lost a 2-1 first lead league to be Eliminated 4-3 on aggregate by Real Madrid in the quarter finals.

New Contract Request

I asked for a new contract because my current one expires in June and after elimination in the Champions League and currently a trophyless season and a recent bad run of league form, i get rejected.

Final Day of the Season

A New contract and a place in the playoffs a good way to finish off the season!

Champions and Promoted

Everything is looking up for us after defeating United in the FA Cup final and securing a place in the Conference Premier for next season. I am looking forward to participating in Europe league next season.