Overhauling Man United...Then Travelling Europe

I swear Phil Jones scores in every final you play

Congratulations on even more success.

Thanks George, we haven't actually lost to Chelsea all season so hopefully we can keep that record for the Final and put the icing on the cake!

I know KEVO! Maybe I need to take charge of them at some point and create tension with united and actually sort their team out!

I only manage successful sides Shedender! Thanks though chum, we've had a very good season in the league, and domestic cups, now its just to secure the Champions League title to secure the perfect season! However it won't be easy against a resilient Chelsea side! The board are highly unlikely to give me a budget anywhere near that of last season but we will see, I will continue to look to improve the side.

I just generally think Jones scores all the time Number1, we do seem to have very free scoring defenders!





So we were to play Chelsea in the Champions League Final, a week after we narrowly beat them in the FA Cup Final two nil and beat them to the league title. Both sides looked similar to the FA Cup meetings however we were to field none of our January signings here who were cup tied, this saw us start with youngsters Abraham and Nicolas upfront, would they be able to muster anything together up top!


Yes! Three times in a row! The Champions League Final was to be played at our very own Old Trafford where there was a very close game. Throughout the ninety minutes neither side managed to make the break through in a very even match. As we went into extra time we broke the deadlock, ninety seventh minute when Ross Barkley netted what would appear to be the winner. However it wasn't over. Strootman netted a penalty in the final minute of the game as Chelsea had taken the game to penalties. Here we were to triumph four two, we netted all four of our goals, Nicolas, Bowerman, Bassey and Barkley netting whilst only two of Chelsea' four penalty takers scored, Robin and Strootman netted but missed penalties from Hazard and Roberto saw us win the match and another Champions League title!


Last season we came very close to the perfect season, winning six of the seven trophies on offer at Manchester United.This year we have managed to conqour the perfect seon, winning all seven of the trophies on offer. The FIFA Club World Cup, Champions League, Super Cup, Premimer League, FA Cup, Capital One Cup, Community Shield are all ours whilst we also qualified through the European Qualifiers this season.

Now to round this year off we head to the UEFA European competition, looking for my England side to triumph!

Brilliant achievement mate, absolutely outstanding

Fantastic stuff bud.

Keep it up and one day you'll be the best manager to have graced Old Trafford!!

Thanks KEZ! Its taken a while but finally we have completed the perfect seven!

Cheers KEVO! Hopefully, we are stealing trophies left right and centre right now!

So what are your goals now. Going to switch teams or go for an other perfect season?

Fantastic achievement Dan with some close fought games seemingly too. All the best with England!

I will see at least one more season out with United Dyrim, but a switch to another side could be on the cards in the next few seasons!

It wasn't the easiest season pntaylor, especially in the champions league, but we've done the perfect season on competitions! Now to put the icing on the cake hopefully!


it the European Championship just days away we had some time to warm up on the pitch with a host of friendlies, for some reason we faced Netherlands twice. We lost to them one nil at Wembley in our initial, warm up friendly before we beat Norway two nil and then beat Netherlands two one, both at Wembley. We ended our warm up with a trip to lowly placed Luxembourg which saw us stroll to a five nil victory, putting us in good shape ahead of the competition.


Here is the hand we've been dealt for the European Championships and if I'm honest, I don't see why we won't go through here. We have been paired with Ukraine, Belgium and Cyprus. Cyprus are likely to be the side 'bullied' in this group however they could spring a surprise. However it won't be straight forward to beat the other two thats for sure.

Good luck in the European Championship. May Holland win

It's a tough looking group chum but I'm sure you're able to get through.

If you perform well you should win all three of those groups games bud.

Good luck!!

Oh Dyrim, why'd you say that!

It is Shedender, but we are second in the world so hopefully!

Thanks KEVO!


We had done enough to survive through our European Championship group unbeaten but only just. We weren't brilliant but claimed a dominant four nil win over Cyprus in the opening group with goals from Bowerman, Jones, Sterling and Woodrow. We then went on to beat Ukraine two one, with a late winner from Wilshere! We then ended up drawing four a piece with Belgium in an eight goal thriller, this saw us head through, but where did we finish in the group...


We managed to top the group but only just, we remained unbeaten, picking up seven points along the way. Belgium also remained unbeaten throughout, picking up five points and finishing second. Ukraine manage to sneak through with the best place third finish, finishing with four points whilst Cyprus finished bottom without a single point.


Annoyed we weren't able to win this, we were very even and Netherlands took the lead after just eighteen minutes had been played. Second half we were level through Harry Kane before the Netherlands were reduced to ten men. We capatalised on this but couldn't find a winner. In extra time The Ox gave us the lead before the Netherlands struck back once again. They went on to win the penalty shootout six five after seven penalties each!


Time is up at England, I figured with my team no longer fully English born and with the poor performance in the European Championships it was time to step down and focus on the United job.

Well even in FM England fails at penalties. So its just a year of ManU, or are you considering an other job already.

Typical England. At least it wasn't to the Germans this time!

Shame to see you leave your England post but the reasoning is sound. Still seems Holland still resort to kicking people to get through games.

Shame to see you resigned from your England job, I believe you have done everything with them.

Yeah it seems the way Dyrim! I will stick with United for the foreseeable future!

Yeah true story bmg!

Well I wasn't really using the post anymore pntaylor as I am now using foreign players in the Untied side!

Thanks Johno, there will be other intentional chances I'm sure.




Just one permanent deal away from the club so far this summer, reserve player Scott McTominay leaves for two and a half million pounds as he switches to fellow Premier League side Everton. He could have a bright future at Goodison Park but wouldn't of cut the mustard here at Old Traford.


Just three new faces this summer but another one hundred and thirty eight million pounds spent on some foreign talent. Firstly German striker Ufuk Ozcan was brought in, the twenty three year old set us back sixty million pounds from Schalke but will be a fantastic hit here in England. A new goalkeeper was brought in from Valencia. Jose Enrique will challenge Jack Butland for the number one shirt whilst thirty six and a half million pound signing Lucas Cingolani joins from Tottenham. The twenty one year old, Argentine midfielder is also likely to be a huge hit here!


The usual load of loan deals and load of money brought into the club on a monthly basis. Little here to talk about though. Dowell, Phillips and Mitchell all head back out on loan. Once again we will bring in roughly a million pound a month on these loan deals alone.


Not a bad summer on the pitch especially after the European Qualifiers, our players came back fresh and ready to fight for another title and they have performed well in pre season. We picked up five wins from our seven games including beating Red Bull Salzerburg, Stuttgart and Galatasaray who we smashed five nil. We drew with Schalke and lost to Barnsley surprisingly!

Looks like you have made three good signings, hope they perform for you chum. Good luck this season.

Thanks Shedender!






My new signings Ozcan, Cingolani and Enrique all started the Community Shield clash with Chelsea, whilst we kept plenty of English talent in the squad with Shaw, Jones, Stones and Bowerman all starting! Chelsea once again failed to name a single Englishman in their starting line up.


The Community Shield Final was again close, not quite as close as last years penalty shootout win we had but claimed a two one win after being behind. We fell behind after six minutes through Hazard and Chelsea seemed to hold onto the ball well. We managed to level with twenty minutes left on the clock when Gutierrez netted and went on to win when substitute Wilfried Zaha smashed home the winner!

Great signings that striker looks amazing! Very good start to the season too!

Ozcan already looks amazing, but he's only 23. Just imagine how good he'll be when he's 27-28 years old!

Thanks George, hes definitely going to be worth the money!

Indeed bmg! He has a huge future!




Not too much more to report on to you, a few more loan deals but no one really that bright for the future. However Jimmy O'Hara has now left the club permanently. He cost me three point three million a fair few seasons back now from Cardiff but now he won't cut the mustard, shipping him off to fellow Premier League side Southampton for seven and a quarter million.


A brilliant start in the league for us this season, we haven't played a big club as such but have dismissed the smaller clubs with ease picking up three wins from three and netting ten times in the process. We kicked the season off with a four nil win against West Ham. Barbosa got us the opener before Jones netted and German strike Ozcan netted two second half goals. We then beat Reading two nil, goals from Shaw and Ozcan before beating West Ham four two, again the goals from Ozcan netting twice and Barkley netting twice!


Premier League side Wigan are our opponents in the Capital One Cup Third Round to kick off the competition for this year. Hopefully we can retain our title.


Another tough Champions League group awaits us this season but being three successive time holders I'm definitely hoping we can secure the top spot and fly through the group. Once again we will face French giants PSG, seems to be a seasonly thing now! We are also joined by German side Gladbach and Greek side Olympiacos.


A fantastic showing in the European Super Cup this year saw us batter Italian giants Inter Milan with a stunning second half performance. The first half was rather even and both sides had chances to take the lead, but it was the second half where we began to run away with it. In form summer signing Ozcan netted first before goals from Barbosa and substitute Nicolas in injury time secured the fine three nil win, securing the double already.

nice way to celebrate 500.

I think after this season you should head to another nation and resume the nationalistic ways. Maybe an all Spanish or German side as far as you can

Great career, Dan. I didn't quite get why you abandoned the nationalistic idea. Was England out of talent? I know it can be frustrating when you "can" only buy half decent players to ridiculous prices. Or did you just want to burn all that money?!

And I agree with KEZ above, maybe try it abroad.

Dan, you have nothing left to prove at Manchester United so it's definitely time to move on at the end of the campaign, but at the end of the day that's your choice but it's something I would consider - head to Germany and try to do what Bayern are doing in real life with their long unbeaten league run.

Indeed it was a nice way to claim 500 games in charge KEZ! A move away from Manchester Untied will be in the agenda soon, very soon!

Itchycoo the money was there and I had to spend it after all those years, the all English squad finally battled the way through competitions and done what I wanted to do! It won't be long now!

Well Shedender, there are moves happening al the time, it won't take long now until I can move on, we've been fantastic over the years and I didn't quite know I had made five hundred in charge till that message popped up!




September and October have so far been swimmingly good months for my Manchester United side as we've remained unbeaten through the opening eleven league games, winning ten and drawing just one. We've picked up some massive wins this season including beating Chelsea four one and Liverpool five nil. Six clean sheets in eleven games has also been fantastic whilst the game we drew, we dominated as Blackburn held us to a draw.


We are out of the Capital One Cup! Any hopes of retaining all seven trophies this season is well out the window as we have blown our chances in a penalty shootout against Newcastle. We played well in the Third Round as we beat Wigan two one at home, a brace from Barbosa. We then faced Newcastle in the Fourth Round, we were two nil down but goals from Gutierrez and an own goal sent us to Extra Time. However we went on to lose five four on penalties, Ozcan missing the vital penalty for us.


Along with crashing out the Capital One Cup we are struggling to lay down any permanent form in the Champions League! It was admittedly a tough group on paper but I thought we'd do better here. We drew two all against Olympiacos before drawing one all against PSG. Our form looked to pick up when we beat Gladbach at home two nil, but losing away to them in Germany has cost us big time.


And the group shows how badly we are struggling! PSG are topping the group after four games, being unbeaten having picked up twelve points from a possible ten. Gladbach sit second place with six points, a point ahead of us in third as we are currently not on for qualifying. Olympiacos are bottom of the group with just a single point.


We top the Premier League though as already stated, remaining unbeaten this far in the competition and this sees us clear by just three points over second place Arsenal. Chelsea sit third, a further two points off the pace whilst the shock side in fourth is Wigan. Manchester City sit fifth with Tottenham tenth. But quite possibly the most surprising aspect of the start of the season are Liverpool sitting bottom of the table, on just four points!


My time at Manchester United is now up! With your recent comments and its been playing on my mind lately I've taken upon myself to leave Manchester United now and will soon move to Italy to take on the AC Milan roll. They are currently struggling in SeriA despite being the current title holders. My first game in charge will be in ten days time as we face Roma on Saturday 21st November. Manchester United were paid seven and a half million pounds in compensation.

Shame to see you leave United but, to be fair, you've fulfilled your goal of overhauling the side and bringing success. Wish you all the best with the Rossoneri.

Surprised you didn't stay at Old Trafford until the end of the season, good luck at AC though pal.

As you said pntaylor, we have won everything now several times and winning all seven in one season cemented my choice to be honest!

I was tempted to Shedender, but we seem to be on a 'down' season, struggling in the Champions League and out the Capital One Cup.




Three goalkeepers are currently at the AC Milan first team and I wouldn't say we have a great pick of the bunch. Our number one is clearly Kevin Tomassoni and he will be until I try and bring one of my United keepers over to Italy. Carlos Kameni appears to be past it and aging so won't be used much and will leave soon whilst Christian Bonometti doesn't look much promise either.


Eight key defenders in the squad and all look to have their qualities to fight for a first team place. There is also plenty of potential ability in the team. Davide Santon will have to work hard to fight for a starting place over Mattia De Sciglio whilst Gabriel Silva could miss out on the left back spot to Santon. In the centre of the defensive line we have quality in Papadopoulos, Romangnoli, and Kalas whilst Cantarini has plenty of potential.


Reunited with Oxlade Chamberlain, he could be a big part of this team for the remainder of the season. Former Spurs player Sandro is also in the AC Milan team and looks to be one of the strongest players of the side. Aging Javier Pastore is also in the team but probably has two or three years left at maximum. Likewise with Gullavogul. We do have talent in Pardo, Allione, Rafinha and Sakor though.


Bit of an issue, we only have three strikers in the main squad at the moment so come January its an area I am definitely going to have to strengthen and this could see me try and raid Manchester United. We have former United striker Angelo Henriquez who has now grown into a great player along with Ferreya and O'Connor with plenty of potential. Not a touch on the strikers I had at Old Trafford though.


Not quite the money I had with Manchester United but that was to be expected, however we can do a lot with the thirty five million I've been given to spend come January. That money will allow us to strengthen in the right areas. Along with that there is four hundred thousand pounds spare in the wages for us to improve.

Ox over Allione? Allione looks better in pretty much every way, apart from flair.