Dans Journey Around The World [FM15]

It sure does make sense, makes it a bit more fun this season, its a shame about having no budget but expected, the finances aren't great at all, it'll be a sale to buy scheme this summer.

Despite going into the summer with no money to spend I feel I've really strengthened the squad ahead of the competitive season kicking off and with the promotion of a couple of younger players I feel we possess a really good squad for another top ten finish and hopefully European football come the end of the season once again, but thats a little way from now. Here is everything that happened on and off the pitch this summer.


I had to raise funds to bring in any new faces and thats exactly what I've gone and done this summer. A number of contracts expired at the end of the season and I decided against renewing them, felt it was next to pointless as they lacked quality and were not going to be knocking on the door for first team football. We then saw Sven Thiry join Q.P.R for six point seven five million pounds, Ajehandro Pace left for Sunderland in a big fifteen point seven five million pound deal and most recently Jay Marshall joins Newcastle in an eight million pound deal.


Just four players were brought in this summer and just seven million pounds was spent but I'm very pleased with the additions we've made. First through the door was Belgian midfielder Emmanuel Henrad who was snatched on a free pre contract from AA Gent. Definitely one for the next couple of years to shine. Bill Gutierrez joins from Pachuca for six million pounds. The American striker will put pressure on our strikeforce to achieve. Left back Patrick Lehmann comes in from FC Bayern on loan and is likely to just be a back up player whilst we scooped Peter Bullard in a free transfer late on in the window.


And here is the massive first team squad I now have at my disposal, I'm still trying to ship a couple of the weaker links out but we have plenty of players for squad rotation as well as for potential and current ability. I'm confident the few younger players that have been brought up to the squad will be able to handle the pressure and perform well for the club. If you wish to see anyones screenshot just ask.


A mediocre summer on the pitch, we've advanced in the Europa League after a convincing two legged win, we now face German side Nurnburg in the next round but I fully expect us to beat them and reach the group stage.

Next Post: West Ham United - August 2056

The season is here and has started pretty well for us. The summer went very well and saw us grow as a club, despite having a poor transfer budget we done what we had to do. The season was set to start with league and Europa League games as we tried to get off on the right foot.


The perfect start as we battle to five wins from five throughout August, kicking off the competitive season in great fashion! The three league games didn't really cause us a problem and never should of, I was always expecting three wins from them. We also dispatched Nurnberg as I was hoping to reach the group stage of the Europa League.

We kicked the league season off at home, welcoming Brighton where we claimed a one nil win. Devos netted the only goal of the game secured the win in the sixty fifth minute.

Staying at home we welcomed Nurnberg in the Europa League Playoff Leg One where we claimed a two one win. Gutierrez netted twelve minutes before the break whilst Ruiz made it two nil before the break. The German side struck an away goal ten minutes from time.

Travelling to Reading in the league we maintained our focus to beat them two one. Devos netted two, one either side of the break to continue his fine start to the season. Reading netted a second half consolation.

Back to European football and we travelled to Germany to take on Nurnberg but they posed little threat as we strolled to a three nil victory, all three goals coming in the second half. Ruiz, Gutierrez and Banali on target for us.

The month ended with us welcoming Q.P.R. where we grabbed a three one victory to make it seven wins on the bounce for this season. We trailed at the break however but turned it around as Hope, Perrow and Nasibulin struck to secure the points.


The league table is almost pointless to view this early into the season but what struck me the most was Chelsea as they've already scored sixteen and conceded eight in their opening three games, definitely keeping the fans on their toes over at Stamford Bridge. Manchester City lead the way early on and also coring for fun averaging four goals scored per game.


We've been drawn into an okay group, its not impossible for us to break through this group however we will need to work hard here. I am expecting us to go through as long as we make our home ground our fortress in Europe!


How annoying! Last years Capital One Cup Final is this years Third Round tie and the pick of the tie at that. We face Manchester City in the Third Round and to make it worse, we need to travel to Manchester for the tie as well!

I've spoke with Shedender and can now confirm the 'challenge' of winning the most trophies is off, with him almost 10 trophies ahead of me by the date he is on I've decided I am going to play this save meerly for fun now and not making the 'perfect move to the bigger clubs constantly' I'll still try to tick off trophies but will look to enjoy the save a little more than I was.

Next Post: West Ham United - September 2056

Great batch of results for you early, mate. And that looks like an easy Europa Group to me. (Though 2056, anything could be possible.) Keep it up!

Good luck against City . And it looks like you will be able to continue from that group at EuropaLeague

Its an easy enough group Gendo even to this year!

Thanks TheMazzeRunner, I expect us to!

Following a superb start to the league and the Europa League we flew into September with confidence sky high. We still had a few very busy months ahead, one of them being here in September but if we could keep the run going who knows where we'll end up at the end of the season.


The form has continued in the league at least we've been superb to date. Only three more league games were played but we held our own as we won two expectedly and then drew the remainder at Manchester United. We crashed out the Capital One Cup and won our first two Europa League group games.

A trip to Crystal Palace saw our league run continue, winning three one. Gutierrez played very well netting twice. He opened the scoring before the host levelled. We left it late as Perrow fired us into the lead three minutes from time before Gutierrez added his second.

We returned home and welcomed Dutch side Heerenveen who we beat three one to open the group stage. Roux netting first with Ruiz converting a spot kick two minutes after. It was three nil come the break thanks to Llor. We conceded in the second half.

Staying at home we welcomed Ipswich and beat them narrowly, one nil as Llor struck for a second game running.

The repeat of the Capital One Cup Final last year saw us crash out the competition in the third round this year, Manchester City were so much better than us, beating us three nil.

We held on to a big point against Manchester United away from home. Gutierrez netted first before the host levelled before the break. They then went two one up before Devos netted the equaliser twenty three minutes from time.

The month ended back in the Europa League as we travelled to Spartak Moscow and won two one. Devos fired us into the lead however it was all square come the break. Second half Llor netted for the third time this month to secure the points.


Liverpool unbeaten and scoring for fun at the top of the pile, we sit second, way above expectations and way higher than I imagined we would of been, however we are only six games in remember so plenty can change. Manchester United sit rock bottom after six games, without a win.


Close group early days with us and Stuttgart, they were the side I was expecting to be competing with for the top spot. Both have won our opening two games of the group which sees us tussling for the top spot. Early breathing space up there.

Next Post: West Ham United - October 2056

How the hell was Peter Bullard a free agent, have Reading gone mad? He looks a great player though!

Who knows bmg033, its a great addition for us though!

Very happy with the way we've started our competitive season this year, despite the exit from the Capital One Cup, not being able to compete with City, we are performing way above expectations in the league as well as getting off to a strong start in the Europa League now we've reached the group stage, I was hoping we could extend that run.


A good month on paper for us and we performed very well on the pitch as we won twice and lost twice in the league as well as picking up a third Europa League group win as we beat the German side! Spurs and disappointingly Sunderland the sides to beat us this month.

We welcomed Sunderland and lost out two nil, we lacked any real desire and impact on the pitch.

We corrected that though as we travelled to Arsenal where we won one nil. It was late but Arkine struck the winner a minute into injury time to seal the points!

A great Europa League win came as we welcomed the German side Stuttgart and won three two. A tough game, trailing one nil early before Devos struck twice before the break and Boeck quickly made it three one after the restart. We conceded another late goal but topped the group with this.

Same result again at home this time against Cardiff, goals from Boeck and Devos in the first half and Ruiz netting the winner nine minutes from time helped secure the points.

A trip to Tottenham saw us end the month on a sour note, the way we started it, losing two nil.


That leaves the league table looking like this. We are still way over achieving up in third place come the end of October. Defintiely didn't see this coming but I'm hoping we can hold on to it and keep pressing the top teams through the league.


Topping the group after the first three games! We still have three tough games to go but we should now go through this group and really make an impact on the Europa League this year!

Next Post: West Ham United - November 2056

Great win over Arsenal, still doing well. KIU.

Perfect EL Group so far, mate, can't ask for anything better!

I love how deep you have gone on in this! Impressive to be fair.

We are having a surprisingly good season so far Shedender!

Thanks Gendo, hoping we can keep it that way!

Thanks Cymro! After the past few years and misstarts that I've had and being promoted to staff last year, I really needed to have a good career run this year, this has lasted much longer than I ever imagined and I don't plan on it stopping any time soon! Appreciate the kind words sir!

Into the penultimate month of the calender year, November and we would see our Europa League group come to an end come the end of this month should we be able to hold on we are set to qualify, but nothing is confirmed yet. We also sit third still in the Premier League heading into November, holding on to such a great league position would be very good.


Another near perfect month, disappointed with the defeat against Barnsley, especially after recording wins against Liverpool and Stuttgart this month but I can't complain too much from where we are and how we are performing, the club have come along way in eleven months when I took over. Another four wins, one draw and one defeat to add to the record.

The month kicked off in Germany as we travelled to face Stuttgart but we went on and won there! Devos netting after twelve minutes enough to secure the win!

Welcoming Liverpool saw us pull off another shock win, after beating Arsenal last month we beat Liverpool here four two. Raf De Boeck was brilliant, netting a superb hatrick whilst Yakubu was also on target for us as Liverpool struck twice.

A trip to West Brom saw us win one nil, De Boeck netting again.

A trip to Netherlands saw us face Heerenveen and drop points for the first time in Europa this year. Ruiz netted from the spot to put us ahead after twelve minutes, we trailed two one at the break. Second half goal for Devos brought us level before we went behind again. It was Yakubu late on to steal the point for us though.

A trip to Barnsley saw us lose out three nil, very poor!

However we end the month on a much happier note as we won three nil at home whilst welcoming Spartak Moscow in Europe to end our group. Benali striking after just two minutes set us on our way. Second half goals for Devos and Watson helped secure the dominant win.


Our high position run continues to! We stay up in third place in the league trailing just Chelsea and Liverpool. We do trail by a fair margin to be fair to them. Chelsea sit eleven points clear of us whilst Liverpool sit seven points above us, comfortable margins for both sides. We do have a game in hand which could see us close the gap a little whilst we currently sit three points above fourth place Sunderland. Manchester United continue to struggle, sitting fourteenth in the Premier League after thirteen games.


I always expected us to qualify from this Europa League group but not as easily as we did. We were barely challenged as we go through the group unbeaten picking up five wins and a draw from the rest of the pack seeing us qualify six points clear. Stuttgart have had a shocking second half of the group and that saw them drop to third and Dutch side Heerenveen qualify a point ahead.

Next Post: West Ham United - December 2056

Thought you would have threw the game vs. Liverpool.

No course I wouldn't Shedender

The final month of the 2056 calender year was upon us and a wintery look to end the year would see us try and maintain our top league position to date. With six more league games to go this calender year, could we head into the 2057 New Year sitting among the top three in the Premier League after easily securing qualification in the Europa League...


A near perfect end to the calender year as we rack up five wins and one defeat in our final six games of the year. We kept just two clean sheets this month but it doesn't matter, the 'score one more than you concede' approach worked well. However we did go to Chelsea and stuff them four nil, another superb showing against a top team.

We welcomed Brentford to kick off the month, with them leaving empty handed in this dominant four one showing. We netted three goals before the break with De Boeck, Gutierrez and Ruiz netting whilst Ruiz struck one in the second half as well to seal a brace.

A trip to Middlesbrough saw us come up as one nil winners. Ruiz netted in the sixty sixth minute to seal the narrow win.

Our only defeat this month came as we travelled to Newcastle and fell to a two one defeat. We initially took a second minute lead from Ruiz netting a spot kick as well.

Our final home game of 2056 saw us welcome Charlton and win three one. Ruiz netting again before Devos and Llor sent us three nil up at the break. Second half we conceded a consolation.

We took a trip to Chelsea where we surprised them and won four nil. Gutierrez netted in injury time of the first half before Devos struck twice and Ruiz netted his sixth goal in five games for us to seal the dominant win.

And we ended the month away at Brighton where we nearly blew a three goal lead. Gutierrez and Devos netted within a minute of each other sending us two up in fifteen minutes. Gutierrez made it three nil twenty four minutes from time, we conceded twice after but held on.


Unbelievable! We are heading into the 2057 calender year competing for the top spot as we sit way up in second place! Its only Chelsea in better form than us this season to date as they sit seven points ahead of us however we do have a game in hand heading into the New Year.

Next Post: West Ham United - January 2057

Happy New Year, yes thats right, another one! I can now confirm it will be the last one in England for a fair while as I've planned a long term move away from the country for a new long adventure at one club, more on that much later into the save though. For now we had to try and take our good form into January....


Overall round up rather than a match to match one for January. Our form has disappeared with us without a win in our last four games. Despite knocking Grimsby out the cup we then suffered a heavy defeat from Arsenal. The league form has disappointed as we went into the New Year though, just two wins from our six games we faced in the competition this month. We beat Reading and Crystal Palace whilst picking up a point away at Sunderland at the end of the month.


Despite the poor league form we've some how managed to hold on at the top end of the table and slip just a couple positions, sitting down in fourth place now but it remains tight at the top. We can move back to second with just a couple wins but we are overachieveing as I've mentioned plenty of times already this season.

As I said at the top, I will be leaving West Ham at the end of this season to take on a new lengthy one club to the top challenge, staying on this career!

Next Post: West Ham United - February 2057

Wow, what happened there!

It just didn't click that month Johno

If I'm honest, I was getting a little bored of my West Ham save now and I just needed to get to the end of the season and hand my resignation in, so decided to play through and then update as one big update with everything that happened over the course of the last few months and what the plan is for the next step, we were still in with outside shouts at the Europa League and the Premier League...


Our league form never really recovered after the woeful January, we certainly didn't hit the sort of form we saw in the first half of the season when we closed out 2056 up in third place. Just two wins in our final thirteen league games really cost us a strong finish as we lost seven and drew the remaining four. Horror times in the league..


We managed to extend our Europa League run a little further out the groups, We strolled part Estoril in the First Knockout Round and were rewarded with a tie against French giants Lyon, a two all draw away from home followed by a one nil home win saw us advance to the Quarter Finals drawing Real Madrid. And our final step was at Real Madrid, we lost three one away from home but went on to win two one at home, not quite turning the deposit.


Thats just how badly our form turn around, we ended up down in seven and I think we'll end up missing out on Europa League football next season as we haven't participated in a cup final either this year. Barnsley are set for Europa League football. Chelsea take their first title in years by a single point over Manchester City, Liverpool not far behind in third.


After five hundred and forty five days in chard I've resigned from my post at West Ham. The First of June saw me depart after eighty nine games played and forty nine were won. We've drawn sixteen and lost twenty five. Unfortunately conceding a lot and ending up with a plus forty three goal difference thats it and for once no trophy won here in this stint..my overall record speaks for itself...


This is whats happening now, those smaller, lesser leagues are disappearing and I'm throwing in some of the big boys, France, Germany and Italy all the way to the bottom. My next plan...To take a side from the bottom who has just been promoted, all the way to the top, I want a challenge...Its Time!

Next Post: The Next Step 2057

Ouch. Tough end to the season. Good luck elsewhere.

Still getting them trophies since I last been on mate.Unlucky this season.Im sure you will go and pick up more trophies elsewhere.

Sure was Fola, form went near the end!

Thanks SBR, not been successful as I was in the early days of the career, few sackings creeping in now.

We are now in July 2057 and its time I looked for a new job. I had only been out of work for a month or so but with the new leagues now in play it was time to get searching for the new job immediately. As you're about to see, there are plenty of jobs available and the perfect ones I was looking for, a newly promoted club with chance of building them up from the bottom tier, but where would I end up...


I've filtered the jobs and come up with this list, from France, Germany and Italy and these are all the teams that I am now looking at and not only that, I've applied for all fifteen jobs! Now it was just time to sit back and wait and hope that fifteen interviews come in. Being such a big name in the footballing world now its fair to say the majority were 'flattered' with my interest.


Come the end I had twelve job offers, and eleven of them were rejected which you can see here. There were plenty of replies for me to become manager from Italy, to France, to Germany but none quite took my fancy. Three I did have on my mind was Castiglione, Barletta as well as Teramo However none of these done it for me...


Eventually I came to it and found a job more than suitable for the next step of the journey. I am heading to Italy to take the reigns of Lumezzane, a club that appear to have some finances behind them, offering me seven hundred and twenty five thousand to spend to strengthen the squad this summer and twenty three thousand pounds to spend on wages. A respectable finish is wanted by the board...here we go...

Next Post: Lumezzane Pre Season Round Up + Club Overview - 2057

Best of luck with Lumezzane, hope you can remain there for a few seasons at least.

Good luck with Lumezzane

Ever feel you've set yourself up to fail? Thats how I'm feeling right now after I've processed through the summer here in Italy with Lumezzane. Its been tough, I joined the club and had to bring in the whole of the backroom staff which is now done and the players were brought in by me as well. Hopefully we can kick start better in the league.


So this is the squad I've been able to assemble this summer, wasn't able to bring in anyone on loan as no one was interested, but still we've focused on free transfers and cheap transfers but its now assembled and the assistant manager thinks they are more than alright for this division, we shall see though.


Results suggest otherwise...this is going to be tough...

Next Post: Lumezzane August + September - 2057

Decent looking squad.Like you said though this will be tough.Not had the best pre season but not too bad a finish to it so hopefully the last 2 has raised morale a bit.Good luck mate.

Whose the best player in the World in your game? Must be some ridiculous records floating about

Love the idea of chucking a hero achievement into the mix! Good luck with it. Good question from Based Jorge too, would be interesting to see

Ugh, horrible preseason form. Hopefully that'll turn around once the season starts, mate.

It was a tough pre season SBR, just hoping we can turn it around come the competitive season!

Good question Based Jorge, this guy is currently the best and most valued player in the world, in fact, Liverpool own the top four highest valued players.

Thanks KEZ_7, lets just hope I can make it work, please see above.

It sure was Gendo, maybe we can turn it around.

Under pressure I felt before even going into the competitive season however come the end that feeling only rose! Its been a nightmare of a start to the league season as your about to see and I think I'm well and truly in a dead end job situation here!


The cup started alright, when we picked up our first draw I thought we may be able to sneak through the three team group with the top team going through. But a second draw killed that, everyone in the group finished with two and we were out, nevermind! The league form is horrible though, one win in my opening seven league games, one win in my opening nine games in charge competitively, its not a matter of if but more when I face a board meeting now...under pressure...

Next Post: Lumezzane October...Maybe... - 2057

Suppose you're lying rock bottom? It's a shame you couldn't build on that win away to Lecce. Been a horrendous start to the season.

We are indeed Shedender, there doesn't seem to be a cure for this poor form!

Apologise for this rubbish update, needed to get it posted before I switched off for the night and won't be back on until tomorrow evening so here is whats happened throughout October in a very brief manor, I'll try fix this post tomorrow if I feel I need to, we can all have one rubbish post now and again right...


October proved winless, three games played, two defeats and a draw, we can't get anything going here and I really feel this is proving to be a real dead end job and I've bitten off more than I can chew this time!


Big time strugglers in the league after ten games we have just four points, atrocious record!


The board then requested a meeting where they wanted me to explain our terrible form, seeming I had no answers and this was proving to be a dead end job, I refused to attend the meeting and walked out on the job, it was a dead ender for sure!

Next Post: Not Even I Know...

It's a shame you resigned but I completely understand, you just couldn't buy good form.