Taking Fortaleza to the top - Football Manager Stories - FM15

Johno

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Sorry that I keep making new thread I just felt I was getting bored of my other save so I decided to head to Brazil and start at the bottom, Went for Fortaleza cos I like their kit colour And we got 58,400 stadium capacity

My aim is take them to the top and turn them into best team in Brazil.

Transfers

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Johno

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16 Feb 2015 20:04:51

Booyah!

Johno

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16 Feb 2015 20:11:28

I have gone for this formation As we got quite alot of central midfielders.

We're currently in 51K red Projected to be in 150K red.

KEZ_7

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17 Feb 2015 11:22:21

You've made some good money in that first window so it's a surprise to see you in a lot of debt... although when you consider that it's Brazilian football it isn't! Good win over Paranaense. Good luck with this!

Johno

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17 Feb 2015 13:37:06

By KEZ_7 | On 17 February 2015 - 11:22 AM

You've made some good money in that first window so it's a surprise to see you in a lot of debt... although when you consider that it's Brazilian football it isn't! Good win over Paranaense. Good luck with this!

Cheers Kez

I thought I could have got more money from Sidney transfers. Other was where guys was in their 30's. We do have loan debt of 220K

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Seems we're getting deeper into red

Hopefully we can get promoted to make money.

Johno

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18 Feb 2015 00:51:38

A quick update on my save,

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Managed to overturn first leg defeat to win Ceara State

Went for 4-5-1 in second leg, and has to play a right back as winger and he bagged two goals \o/ We also has to play with 10 man on 23rd minutes. Thankfully we won a penalty with few minutes to go which was converted to see us win the state.

Johno

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Results so far, disappointed to see us crashed out against CRB. We dominated both games yet we found ourselves losing, an own goal on 88th minutes in 2nd leg saw us go out.

Just hope we can crack on with the Serie C league.

Johno

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18 Feb 2015 01:39:44

Drew 0-0 against Atlético Goianiense in 2nd leg which saw us go through.

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Oh yes!

Think we'll get stuffed but hopefully we will sell out our home game.

Cymro

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18 Feb 2015 09:18:49

Came across Fortaleza some years back on FM. Massive stadium but languish in the bottom leagues in Brazil. Good start here fella.

Johno

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18 Feb 2015 13:00:17

By Cymro | On 18 February 2015 - 09:18 AM

Came across Fortaleza some years back on FM. Massive stadium but languish in the bottom leagues in Brazil. Good start here fella.

Thanks Cymro

Was surprised to see they got a huge stadium even they're in Serie C. They have never won leagues titles apart from Ceara state championship 40 times (including recently).

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18 Feb 2015 21:25:50

I remember playing a game with Guarany de Sobral in Serie D a few years back, Fortaleza always battered us for the state championship every year.

Good start though mate.

TheMazzeRunner

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18 Feb 2015 21:52:43

Fortaleza its a really nice choice.

Good luck in Brazil and hope you will achieve the things that you want

Shedender

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18 Feb 2015 22:45:33

For the Palmeiras game, just think about the money

and maybe picking up a good result in the home leg.

Johno

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19 Feb 2015 14:49:23

Just finished Serie C 1st Stage.

Serie C results

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Such a shame we only sold 38,000 against Palmeiras in our home game. We was given 111K after we got knocked out by them.

Serie C table

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Johno

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19 Feb 2015 14:53:53

By Rick87 | On 18 February 2015 - 21:25 PM

I remember playing a game with Guarany de Sobral in Serie D a few years back, Fortaleza always battered us for the state championship every year.

Good start though mate.

Sounds fun

Cheers Rick

By TheMazzeRunner | On 18 February 2015 - 21:52 PM

Fortaleza its a really nice choice. Good luck in Brazil and hope you will achieve the things that you want

Thanks TheMazzeRunner

Will be tough to get to Serie A.

By Shedender | On 18 February 2015 - 22:45 PM

For the Palmeiras game, just think about the money and maybe picking up a good result in the home leg.

I think we made few decent money but not entirely sure how much tho. We gave it a good go in 1st leg but fell apart in 2nd /o\

Johno

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19 Feb 2015 14:57:55

Second Stage Quarter Final draw

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Hope we can get a good result in first leg. They finished 4th in other group.

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Serie C 2nd stage results

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PROMOTED

Thanks to Zuba saved 2 penalties

Players stats

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A special mention goes to him. 40 years old guy and amazing he's still going.

Johno

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19 Feb 2015 17:04:00

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Good to see our finances is starting to build up nicely

Cymro

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19 Feb 2015 17:08:35

Paraiba the man legend himself!

Johno

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19 Feb 2015 17:15:44

By Cymro | On 19 February 2015 - 17:08 PM

Paraiba the man legend himself!

indeed!! When I first took over, I was trying to sell him cos he was 39. No one wanted him and I didn't think he'd play and wow, he proved me wrong.

He just won top goalscorer with 15 goals and Uilliam came 2nd with 14. Paraiba dedicates his award to me \o/

I am also on favoured personnel on club list

Johno

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19 Feb 2015 17:23:47

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Slowly getting there..

Was given 71K transfer budget for next season. Hopefully I can pick up few free signings.

Johno

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19 Feb 2015 21:19:29

Pre seasons fixtures

Have I just arranged a hardest pre season for the club? It's like sending them to boot camp, club arranged Universitario and Viktoria match and I arranged the rest.

Transfers

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Transfers I have made so far and pretty happy with it.

Robertinho - Just been released by Sao Paulo. Brought him in with other 2 midfielders left the club, will probably be a starter for us. Seems I have signed Bruno Mars lookalike

Kaique - Been released by Corinthians at end of the season, snapped him up as we're short up front.

Abner - A decent signing for us, as we only got one left back at the club.

Misael - Just a back up signing, will sell on in the future.

Feeder club

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Board arranged new feeder club in Argentina.

Other news

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Decided to retire at end of the season Did try and convince him to reconsider but decided to retire in the end.

Johno

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24 Feb 2015 23:12:47

Oh not more bloody loans Gone up to 975K

Will post up my season so far

Johno

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24 Feb 2015 23:29:44

Season so far

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We didn't do too badly in our pre season, we took the lead against Sparta and Boca before crashing to loss.

Mixed start to our season, with us knocked out in Copa do Nordeste, which was poor from my point of view. I decided to use my 4-5-1 formation that I created with Excelsior against Ferroviário.

Disappointed that new chairman took our stupid loans But I can see why as we was around 900K in red and wasn't making any money, now we're 84K in black. Hate it when I see top clubs in Brazil are splashing alot of cash around on new players. So far we have brought in 2.8M and our expenditure is 3.4M Where we spent 1.1M on ground maintenance due to pitch was in poor state.

I have also added Eredivisie league, MLS and Mexico league. MLS doesn't take effect til December. Others will be up shortly.