Spanky's 13 long termer....

I've decided to do some adding/removing of leagues. On the outs front are Australia and the US as I have already been and dominated both leagues. On the ins I have added Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Netherlands, Poland (a must for my national cause), Russia, Turkey and the Ukraine.

I've just arranged a friendly before the Qualifiers on the only available date against the Dutch. They are ranked 8th to Italy's 11th so will give me some sort of idea what I am up against.

Quick update on Montpellier, shit end to the season. New manager finished 8th with them, knocked out of the Europa League and no further then the quarters in the french cups. Improvement on myself?? I think not.

Monaco were taken over but finished 19th and were relegated. I have added French Ligue 2 but it doesn't come into effect for another month. Hopefully they don't hire anyone because I would be interested in the job out of spite if anything lol.

Encouraging signs. A few players were out injured for it and if I had a strong striker we could have possibly nicked one maybe even 2 goals.

Um okay, in recent years Chelsea, Man City and Liverpool have all offered me jobs, yet I'm not good enough for a Ligue 2 side. Fuck ya then.

Well doesn't the Monaco chairman look a right dick now.

Needed to win something, been a while. Build the trophy collection up again and move on.

Very small squad. Luckily I have money lol

First signing, Hong Kong I'm gonna call him

Marseille wanted £61m for him, I withdrew, he got unhappy, transfer request snagged for £19m. WHAT A BARGAIN

Next signing, good rotation player especially as I like to have a heavy midfield presence.

Last of my central midfielder signings. Will look for a GK and striker/winger perhaps to complete my window.

Purely a backup, needed another goalie. 1st choice goalie is 34 and I won't be renewing his contract. Ironically the first choice goalie is one I signed from Atalanta at my last stint at Liverpool and he didn't get many games or much of a chance with me there lol.

Will take some time this season to make sure I get the right guy as my new number one.

At only 26 he was already a Bayern legend and I paid through the roof for him. I did make a promise to the board to sign high profile players though and needed a striker.

The good thing about Man City is having the money to spend. The bad thing is players will always ask for so much more in wages then they should be on. I don't really care though I'm here to win some trophies and move back on to another project similar to Montpellier.



My final signing of the window. Cost me £34m but at only 20 has already played 3 full seasons with Milan first team. Kid is something special.

He will replace Bartczak who is 33 and unhappy. He also happens to be another one of my Liverpool signings that Man City snapped up and boy did he score some goals. Shame he wants to leave but I need space in my 25 man squad and he is just too old.

Onto the key players now.


He was the midfielder I was after when I was at Montpellier. I had been tracking him for months before Auxerre were relegated but I couldn't match the £33.5m that Man City paid for him.


Yet another one I had my eye on at Montpellier. Man City ended up paying £18.5m for him, I just can't match that. Glad I have him now though. Can bomb forward on the right or break up plays in the middle. Will be crucial wherever I decide to play him.


Very strong center back and has an equally strong partner.



Will outpace most and whip in a mean cross.

Relatively straight forward group, I would expect us and PSG to be one two.

some amazing players good luck with City

Comp crashed just before my Everton fixture but after the Champs league draw.

My transfers have all been the same and I haven't missed and fixtures but the group draw is different.



Prolly a tougher overall group but without a team like PSG in there I am still confident of winning the group.

I'm also looking at bringing in two or three loanees as cover as I've run out of money lol.

Amazing, I've only ever had one save where I have played for as long as this and that was FM06. I had a save with Valencia the whole way through, got over 1b in the bank with them and was the first time I had ever seen a stadium named after a manager.

Anyways things are going pretty rosey with Man City, have had some huge wins including an 8-2 over Aston Villa, however we are leaking far too many goals.

On the international front I would say we are doing okay.



A huge win over Iran, they were heavy favorites. The draw with Kazakhstan was very disappointing but we were never really in the game. The game against the Czechs was very good though and am happy with that. We currently sit 3rd behind Italy and Scotland who have won both their games, Scotland doing away with the Czechs easily.

I'm starting to find it difficult with injuries and suspensions creeping in. I can't believe how small the previous manager left the squad. I've done what I can to bring in loans but I don't have enough home grown players so it's fruitless trying to bring in more players as I can't register them.

Gonna be tough to get through, think I may need to use the under 18 squads for cup games.

I just have to post this win.


Of that squad, 4 are in the reserves (3 of the 4 started), 4 are in the under 18's ( they all started) and 10 in the first team. Of the 4 that started are yet to make a first team appearance. Swansea are a good premier league club so I was just so happy to nab this win.

Good stuff pal! Get the FGR save in the mix.

Just read through all of this, love it.

On my own career game at the moment, finally enjoying it!

Good luck with City. Show Liverpool how it's done.

Cheers mate, I just forgot what it's like to win things so I won't stay at City long. Truth be told I really wanted that Monaco job make them a force once again but ah well.

Cymro it's been a long weekend here so the last two days I haven't had much play cause I've been out drinking lol will get onto it soonish though, after my hangover feed.

Clean sweep. Barakos is really impressing me, thought he would be a rotation player at best but he's owning that midfield. Fusco is showing why at 20 he already has 3 full seasons under his belt at a top club and is repaying the huge transfer fee paid.

I like that City had a small squad when you arrived, makes life easier for a clear out! Good start with them so far

So I have revived this and start off with a bang....



Such a sexy win this was. There was a missed penalty here too.

Dominated the group stages despite a small squad, injuries and players not registered. Would like to say I rested some players for the last 2 games but can't with such a small squad.

Oh fuck right off, hopefully my squad stays injury free in this time.

So I have hit the half way stage and as you can see it is verrrrry tight from 1-4 then it's daylight from 5 down. Chelsea just don't seem to drop a game including beating us 4-2 recently and Arsenal always seem to have 2 or 3 games in hand so the pressure is constant.

I haven't helped myself with losses to Chelsea and Aston Villa recently along with a loss to lowly Charlton a few months ago. It's going to be very difficult with such a small squad, no money left to buy players and even if I could this window I couldn't register them as the previous manager has left me no home grown players.