sortitoutsi
Football Manager Graphics
- FM24 Graphics
- FM24 Player Faces
- FM24 Logos
- FM24 Kits
- FM24 Backgrounds
- FM24 Installation Instructions
Football Manager Guides Database
Football Manager Data Update
Football Manager Shortlists
- FM24/25 Update Guides
- FM24/25 Update Shortlists
- Best FM24/25 Update Wonderkids
- Cheap FM24/25 Update Wonderkids
- FM24/25 Update Young Players aged 21-25
- FM24/25 Update Best Free Players
- FM24/25 Update Expiring Contracts
- FM24/25 Update Bargain Players
- FM24/25 Update Injury Prone Players
- FM24/25 Update Richest Clubs
- Best FM24/25 Update Facilities
- FM24 Guides
- FM24 Shortlists
- Best FM24 Wonderkids
- Cheap FM24 Wonderkids
- FM24 Young Players aged 21-25
- FM24 Best Free Players
- FM24 Expiring Contracts
- FM24 Bargain Players
- FM24 Injury Prone Players
- FM24 Richest Clubs
- Best FM24 Facilities
This site is not endorsed by Sports Interactive or SEGA and is intended for entertainment purposes only. The views expressed on this site are the views of the individual contributors and not those of Sports Interactive or SEGA.
IVIarrow
Was alerted that "wonderkid" Castro had turned down his latest contract at Barca and, whaddya know, his contract expires in 6 months..
Turned down a contract offer from Barca to accept ours
Gonna be the star of my midfield for years to come.
IVIarrow
Lots of promise but an inevitable collapse, by the end of our progress I think we had about 4 first team players injured
Club related news
Didnt want to sell, but the club is hemorrhaging money atm due to our wages and the fact we're not even filling out a 5000 seater stadium, so the offer was just too good to turn down. He's gonna have a bright future in the file i reckon
We've also managed to capitulate and go out of both cups
The taca de Portugal exit I can kind of understand as it was against a resurgent Benfica side, but the league cup exit is extremely disappointing with us not being able to qualify from that group. Rio Ave have been bottom of the table for nearly the whole season D:
Currently top of the league, struggling to hold off the advance of Porto, but the patchy form and morale from the losses in the cups is doing us no favors whatsoever.
IVIarrow
The league is incredibly tight going into the last 5 games, with the table currently looking like this
Here is ours and Porto's remaining 5 fixtures, respectively
Similiar in truth, Porto's perhaps slightly easier as they don't have to go to Braga on the last day. Reckon it'll come down to whoever manages their squad better through the Europa league ties, but even coming this close is some achievement considering Porto's wage bill runs about 5 times higher than ours.
IVIarrow
We've f*cking bottled it! Still got Sporting and Braga to play so a most unlikely first ever league title for Nacional is looking even more improbable now
As if that's not bad enough, those dropped points mean Sporting are now just 1 point behind, and we play them next...
IVIarrow
An absolutely gutting loss. That OG really sent us chasing the game and despite having more chances, our strikers who have been decimating the league all season couldnt find the net. What makes it worse is that Porto drew their game in hand, leaving the table looking like this
Somehow, Sporting have mounted the latest of late charges and it's now theirs to throw away, I need a bloody miracle. Dust off your TVs and Jeff Stelling, it's Super Sunday time...
IVIarrow
Extremely disappointed to finish the season with no trophies, reckon the squad was definitely good enough to win something, we just choked at the finish line. Boavista won the FA Cup and a league 2 side managed to reach the final of the League cup, so a trophy was definitely doable.
Star Performers
Valery Potapov - The mean green Russian goal scoring machine, Potapov scored 51 goals in 53 games with a 7.77 rating, a was deservedly named Forward of the year, as well as earning team of the year and top league goalscorer offers. Really surprised a bigger club hasnt come in for him yet.
Filip Paunovic - Valery's partner in crime, notched 38 in 52 games and was also named in the team of the year. The was one point in the season where he was outperforming Potapov, and boy did I resent him for it
In other, slightly unexpected news...
A new stadium is obviously good, but no idea how this will affect our already bleak finances
George14brfc
Johno
Eric Portapotty
IVIarrow
Cheers for the comments guys, it sure sucks but hopefully will make the team stronger as a result (I doubt it though)
Here's our signings for the new season, blindly ignoring the fact we're already leaking money from every orifice.
Note the sale of Paunovic, one of the stars of last season, but for that kind of money I couldn't say no.
Decent player down the spine of the team, can cover at MC or at DC if needed.
Strong 3rd CB at the club, will get gametime in the cup competitions etc and im hoping will force out Robles (who hasnt exactly been an unmitigated success story so far)
Backup and eventual first team starter at LB
Star player, straight into the first team to play alongside our other young talented midfielder (some young greek guy, top clubs have been sniffing around with hints of an 8m+ bid, bloody hope not as I couldnt say no to that either)
Adds a rotation striker to my options up top.
Backup at RB but has no real hope of forcing out the existing starter.
See Bertrand.
Brought in to replace Paunovic, and could quite conceivably be an upgrade when he adapts to the league, scouts already rate him at 4star with potential of 4 1/2. High hopes for this guy.
Johno
IVIarrow
Cheers mate, he's done very well so far, one of only I reckon 2 starting players not to pick up an injury so far this season -.-
Here's our Europa League group
Was a great draw til f*cking Schalke came out the hat, reckon it'll be between us and Red Bull for second.
Anyway, turns out the club is in a worse position than I thought, losing money faster than the Titanic took on water... That 9m sale of Paunovic put us 6m in the black, come December and its fallen to 100k... Cone on tycoons, lets be 'avin yaaa
IVIarrow
That remarkable final day victory against Schalke means we overhaul them and finish top of the group for the second year running. Counter is the way to go baby.
Also for the second year running, the draw has thrown up relatively weak opposition, so I'm quietly confident of reaching the quarters once again
IVIarrow
Shit. Offered him a new contract to try and get rid of the release fee but he wasn't interested. Gutted as he was the best player on the team by a mile, but the money isnt half bad and 13m for a player we only signed 6 months ago is awfully good. Gonna scour the market and see if theres a cheapish replacement available, but the squad should be sufficient if not.
Screw you Castro, I wont forget this...
IVIarrow
What a guy. Will be the clubs record goalscorer before long, mark my words. (tbh though thats not saying much as the record is only about 80)
In the league Porto are running away with it and are about 12 points clear with 8 games to go, so now it all comes down to the battle for second between me, Benfica, Sporting, Braga and Belenenses, with 5 points seperating 2nd and 6th. Just being in this position is remarkable considering the injuries we've had, we had 5/6 first team starters out at one point, one for 4 months.
IVIarrow
Definitely lucked out into the easier side of the draw there
IVIarrow
This victory means we're in the final of both domestic cups this season, we're to play Benfica in the league cup final and Naval in the other. If we dont come away with any silverware this season it'll be an absolute travesty.
In slightly more worrying news
Awesome striker and consensus best player in the league (in my eyes at least) has managed to f*ck himself up, and most probably f*ck up any chances of us finishing 2nd. Hes also the latest in a veeeery long list of injuries... Bloody hope they have health insurance or something in Portugal.
Johno
IVIarrow
Sigh. This loss came the game after we lost 1-0 on aggregate to Malaga in the Europa League, so its down to the FA Cup final to secure any trophies this year.
Star signing Axel Gjesvold, who was meant to plug a gap up front, came back from a torn calf muscle to feature in that Malaga game, and came off with an injury, ANOTHER torn calf muscle. Somehow inherited the glass legs of Kieron Dyer this one.
George14brfc
IVIarrow
Thanks a lot mate!
So with 2 games to go the league situation is this
Up next? Benfica. Knowing a win would be almost good enough for CL qualification, could we put last years choke out of our minds and rejoin the big boys on the European stage?
You bet we could.
Another display of beautiful counter attacking football meant we were all but out of sight by HT.
Benfica went on to draw their final league game at home to Academica, meaning with a game in hand...
Johno
George14brfc
IVIarrow
Our last game of the season was the cup final against Naval, who have been a bit of a bogey team for me in my stay in Portugal so far, giving us a few tough games. The game was delayed for about 2 weeks due to "international callups", but come match day 5 first teamers were still away, so not really sure what all that was about... Anyway,
Turns out there was no need to worry, as we blew Naval out of the water (habloodyha) First (of many i hope) trophy at Nacional!
Heres our league finish and fixtures
Porto were only 9 points clear in the end, and the league could've and should've been much closer if we could cut out some of those needless draws against weaker opposition, and if the squad could stay healthy for more than a fortnight. Hopefully one of the two might happen next season.
Star Performers
Efrain Robles - Had started to resent him for his tendancy to give away stupid penalties and get himself sent off, but this year the young Bolivian cleaned up his act and was a 200cm tall tower at the heart of the defence. Got up the other end to score a tidy 7 goals all season too. In light of his value increasing by about 300%, had to offer him a new contract where he nearly doubled his wages and got himself a 10m release clause... *shudder*
Theo Bertrand - His numbers hardly set the league alight (14 in 40) but he really stepped up to the plate when our best two strikers were down, and deserved his first callup to the Swiss national team.
IVIarrow
Signed on a precontract, completely forgot about this one but looks like he could be a decent addition to the defence.
Signed on a precontract where the compensation was said to be 600k, turns out its 1.6m instead
Signed on a free from old club Guimaraes, gave him his pro debut there and should help us with our homegrown quotas etc.
Brought in to partner Potapov up top when Gjesvold inevitably gets injured again. Fairly cheap considering how decent he looks.
Brought in on loan for a backup LB. We're fairly stocked there already if im honest, but he has quality potential so i'm sowing the seed for a potential future move.
Another free transfer recommended by our scouts, provides depth right across the midfield, something we sorely lacked last season.
Here's the draw for our CL playoff
They're no PSG, but its still a stern test in facing Celtic. First leg at Celtic Park so fingers crossed we can nab an away goal.
In other miscellaneous news
How united signed this guy for only 2.9m is beyond me, look at those stats!
Also, France had won every European Championship game theyd played so far on this save, however theyve just been knocked out in the 1st knockout round by Wales of all teams
Good news as we can now finish 3rd and still enter the CL. My sights are set much higher than that though...
Agree with the Bertrand decision, but Gjesvold? A guy that missed about 6 months of the season somehow getting signing of the season..
IVIarrow
Routine wins over Celtic sets up a tie with Werder Bremen, we played them in a friendly this year and only lost 2-1 with a rotated squad, so fingers crossed we can come through this tie and reach the CL proper.
Managed to lose the Supertaca, wouldn't mind much but its against Porto who are beginning to piss me off
George14brfc
IVIarrow
Our starting XI is so OP, starting to think anything less than a league title is underperforming...
Rotated the squad a fair bit, 4-2 doesnt really do it justice as we were really poor and I was actually worried about letting a 5 goal aggregate lead slip. Big Val has continued where he left off from his injury last season, he's already got 8 CL goals this season.
What it's all about, dat cash money. Should mean we remain in the black for this season before the new stadium is completed, where our revenue should start to grow and grow.
Tougher than i'd have liked, looks to me like me and Basel will be fighting tooth and nail for a Europa League spot at best.
Johno
PT20