arca-33
13 years ago
2 months ago
96
Soon after 100 unsuccessful attempts I've decided to give a Sunderland Career one last go, just before the new game is released. So in order to prepare i decided to play a game with marseille to give tactics a try and feel out players and get better at the game and really i just wanted to find a way to talk about all the achievements i had with them this year!! So as you can see I'm bringing some high end experience to the club and clearly know how to win trophies which i can hopefully do at Sunderland!!!
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So I'm going to be using the latest LFC marshall update in this save and will of course be managing my beloved Sunderland. Ive tried to give myself the best opportunity so I'm using the full range of manager stats i can and changed them to what i think will help me
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Also here are my tactics, Transfers ETC to follow soon
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arca-33
13 years ago
2 months ago
96
Ok so the transfer window, the time where everything seems so positive and your convinced your team has signed the next Messi and this year is your year and everything will be different however for me as a sunderland supporter and a few other clubs it never really works out like that, you end up with one player who is ultimately to good to be at your club and will move on in January, 2 or 3 flops who just are not good enough and one player who's good but is always injured ultimately leaving you with a bigger squad and wage bill but none really moving your team forward.

So therefore i have HOPEFULLY changed that cycle and signed players who will improve our whole squad ultimately!! I also tried to get rid of players who had worth and weren't going to play and get the right mix where I'm not going to harm the squad and I'm going to get a good amount of money.

Firstly Bridcutt left, after being told he was the next makelele by Poyet and being told he would turn us into a high possesion, pass orientated team he never delivered, in fact his arrival pushed cattermole to the next level in real life, his passing improved immensely and became a far better player ultimately never giving Bridcutt a chance.

Then the two defenders left, O'shea and Roberge both going for their values i was never going to get more than that and I'm shocked i got as much as what i did for them. I didn't know who or how good roberge is when we signed him and 2 seasons later i still don't. The man is a complete mystery too me. Like the clitorus, magical, mysterious but always elusive.

Then the two strikers left, Graham was a great white hope signed in January under martin o'neill however o'neill did not take into account that graham was so effective for swansea because he was good on the ball and in a system where they actually played football, however was rendered ineffective in o'neills kick and run philosophy. Fletcher, i personally hate him. hate is a strong word i know but the man is a high earner, is made of glass and shoves his money in peoples faces, we fans do not appreciate that.


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So first of all i thought we really needed to sure up our defence, its filled with low quality older players at the minute both in game and in real life, the players their aren't premier league level and the ones that once were are now too old. Firstly we tried to bring in Dragovic but we were never going to be able to compete with Chelsea for his signature, the allure of london, money, titles, mourinho and champions league over shadowed our offer of cheap drinks in weatherspoons and some top notch indian takeaways. Therefore we moved for his team mate Vida, I've never heard of him before but his stats look amazing and i got him for a decent price so yeah lets take a chance.
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Then there is the saviour of all teams, this man can be put in notts county defence and can lead them to a champions league final (on FM of course) Eder Alvarez Balanta, i know this mans stats and details more than anything else in my life and for that i should be ashamed but I'm not I'm somewhat proud, i feel like i have raised him 3 or 4 times in fm 15, i feel like a father figure for him. Again we re-unite to dominate england.
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We also brought in Selin, again I'm not going to lie and pretend like i knew who this guy was and that I'm a terrific scout however Dnipro have a great squad with players who can fill out any team in my opinion and with us only having one left back in PVA, Selin was a great option to challenge PVA and looks extremely solid
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Then we move on to defence and to the wide positions where we really need help in real life and in the game, we have no pace at the minute apart from Lens. So we brought in Insigne, this man has been linked with us a few times and i don't understand why because he is way out of our league,he is a great player, pacey,strong,full of flair,technically gifted. Just a great player that we could really really use across our attacking midfield options.
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Then there is Krejci, i believe I've seen him in a few other stories and has become a great player i hope he offers the same, i got my scouts to scout the champions league and they picked him up in a qualifying match and I've decided to follow their advice and go out and get him and he looks great i jus hope it transfers onto the pitch.
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Next is Cauley Woodrow, I've never used this guy before and have opted for other wonder kid strikers such as carlos,mitrovic,barbosa ETC however i thought id go for something different and try woodrow, he reminds me of how Wickham was in past games and well Wickham didn't work out, woodrow on the other hand looks great in real life and in game so hopefully will become a great player, I've loaned him back out for 6 months as part of the deal.
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Gendo
12 years ago
1 year ago
1,194
Premium
Italian Messi! Good luck with him and the save, mate.
Sheriff Skacel
9 years ago
1 month ago
940
Premium
I can dig signing Insigne, great player

arca-33
13 years ago
2 months ago
96
Ok so not the start i wanted at all. We got absolutely hammered by Man City and i mean hammered, i cried. i don't mean i got angry i mean i cried, in a ball on the floor alone whilst listening to coldplay. It rocked me too my soul. But hey its a learning. One positive too take from our first load of matches is that we are scoring goals which has been a problem for Sunderland as of late however my wonder signings in defence have not done that much to stop us from conceding, just the one clean sheet in all of our matches so far this season.

We bounced back from our hammering with a league cup win with a second team and a 3-3 draw with Arsenal, however that feels like a defeat too me, we were 2-0 up in the match and looked comfortable however with many poor teams at the bottom of the table we conceaded easy goals and goals from set pieces however on the face of it i would have taken a 3-3 draw at the start of the game.

So feeling positive i decided that we could go and have a go at Everton.

Mistake, mistake mistake. Ive never heard that word so many times since my dad explained to me what my birth actually was. With exertions pace and physical attributes they allowed us to attack until they decided they had enough and just sprung a counter attack with pace and ease and scored 4 and again everything looked dark and bleak.

Then came our win against Villa, Our italian dream team of Insgine and Borini, the new baggio and del piero struck us too victory, with insigne I'm unsure where his best position is, is it an inside forward or is it the pinnacle of my attack in the attacking midfield role, however its still early days and I'm sure ill get the very best out of him soon

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This leaves us in 14th in the table, which is not where I'm expecting us to finish, i want us to win the title thats my ambition and my mindset but thats not what were going to get, ideally id like a top half finish this season so improvements need to happen and results need to pick up soon.

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Sheriff Skacel
9 years ago
1 month ago
940
Premium
Least you scored 3 of the 5 goals City have conceded this season. We'll not talk about the 7 of the 14 they've scored.
arca-33
13 years ago
2 months ago
96
Least you scored 3 of the 5 goals City have conceded this season. We'll not talk about the 7 of the 14 they've scored.



The less said about the 7 goals the better
arca-33
13 years ago
2 months ago
96
SOOOO As with any save that we've all done and started to upload, you get into the game and play way ahead without even considering updating your story as your convinced you can handle that later but of course you can't as your too addicted to stop so I'm going to give a 1st full season update then do 6 month updates to allow me to further feed my addiction.

So first thing then is where we finished in the league, we finished a really respectable 8th which we could only dream of in the real world, we could have finished higher if we had taken our chances in a few matches but again we could have finished a lot lower if other teams took their chances, yes its quite obvious both of those things could have happened but thats the height of in depth analysis i can come up with right now. Great to see we had the most goals scored outside of the top 3 but one of the highest goals against records, so null and void. Neither me or none of my players won any individual end of year awards so nothing to show just yet.
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Here are our final incoming and outgoings including January's transfers, throughout the season i found us being over run in midfield as we couldn't pass effectively enough and we never really had any player nail down the attacking midfielder role, whichever player filled the role didn't make enough assists or score enough goals so we brought in Rafinha on loan as he is a great talent and comes from a great footballing family with Thiago Alacantra of Bayern Munich being his brother, he could really make this role his own and bring us to a great finish for the end of the season. We brought in Besic on loan as we needed a defensive minded midfielder who could move the ball and finally Benat was on the transfer list and i really rate him in real life and having played an Athletic save he was a great ball playing midfielder, so all players improved where we needed and pushed us on.
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And finally Inisgne won our player of the year which he more than deserved he really is a top quality player which was proven in the following window with us receiving bids from Milan,Man City, Man Utd, PSG and a few other big european clubs, I've decided to make him my club captain for the next year and offer a new contract without any release clause as his current one had a 25 million clause for clubs in the champions league. He really is going to be the player we build our team around.
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arca-33
13 years ago
2 months ago
96
Sooooooooooo For the new season this update will be solely nominated to transfers. Holy shit we spent an absolute fortune!!!! We also got a lot in and what it doesn't show is that we got a huge amount of wages of our wage bill and managed to bring in better players for lower amounts. So lets break this down player by player. Warning there will be a lot of video tributes in this update.

We brought in Lucas Digne who was once one of the brightest young players in europe then went to PSG where it really hasn't worked out for him as of yet with him being loaned out too Roma in real life this season, i really needed a first choice left back, Van Aanholt was a liability and Sellin was like a poor version of ivanovic. So hopefully a great young left back who can really push us forward.

We also brought in Jefferson Montero from Swansea for quite cheap it doesn't seem like he has quite reached the heights in the game like he has in real life however he will be a great back up for us and his pace and dribbling is well suited for the premier league.

We then broke the bank to bring back Rafinha, I'm not going to lie he wasn't our first choice as Barcelona were so stuck on their asking price and i seen Douglas Costa was transfer listed for 3 million however Arsenal snapped him up which lead to us re igniting our love for Rafinha, the fee looks a lot but there are a lot of different clauses however he will really give us some additional class that we needed in the central attacking midfield role.

Then there was the two loan signings we brought in Andre Wisdom as back up for centre back and right back, young english athletic and has premier league quality. Then Moses was brought in, as with our infinite wisdom we didn't realise Montero's work permit was rejected and didn't have the back up we needed in the wide positions, So moses has been brought in as a short term replacement a saviour if you will like his name sake.

Then we wanted to bring in Yann M'Villa but Rubin wanted too much for him and he wanted to much wages, i loved him last season and in real life he's been a touch of class for us, we then seen that Stambouli was on the transfer list and to be fair he has some great stats and wasn't given the right chances at spurs and he wasn't going to be able to replace Veratti or Matuidi in PSG's starting 11.
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So first of all we brought in Gylfi Sigurdsson from relegated Swansea, in previous saves he's gone on to be a top player at some top clubs around europe, he's everything i needed in my playmaker central midfield role, a great passer, great technique and great shooting. For those of you who love a screamer watch the video below.


Then we have the biggest signing our club has ever seen......

MARIO BALOTELLI... Im just gonna leave this hear.


Then we brought in all this new attacking talent and a few back defenders to help sure up our defence, and i thought to myself that a lot of our goals last season were not from bad defending but bad goalkeeping, now in real life Pantillimon has been one bright star in our club and will one day have an 8 foot tall statue outside the Stadium Of Light in his own old. We then brought in Ron-Robert Zieler who is one of a few great german goalkeepers coming through at the minute and will be our star keeper for years to come.
Dan
12 years ago
4 months ago
16,964
Looks like a good first season mate, finishing above Liverpool! Now a strong transfer window!
KEZ_7
17 years ago
1 day ago
1,875
Solid first season, SAFC usually struggle in my saves so that's a great start. KIU

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