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#268822 Coming Home
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A few of our players were selected in the team of the year:

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The Fans' Player of the Year was pretty predictable:

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And speaking of Lindström:

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He had another year left on his contract, but I wanted to lock him down for as long as I could. Really hope he can end his career with us as a one-club man.
#268789 Coming Home
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2015 Season summary:

Fixtures:

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Table:

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Graph:

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Transfers:

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Player statistics:

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A really tight finish to the season, Höllviken put up a real challenge for 1st place with us only securing the victory in the very last match.
#268771 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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Yeah, he's just not a centre-back. He had a decent spell there about 8 years ago. He's struggled basically every time he's placed there since.

Apparently Richard Dunne and Sven-Göran Eriksson makes anyone look good at CB.
#268690 Coming Home
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#268660 Coming Home
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The best player from this year's youth intake. Potential to be a good Allsvenskan midfielder, according to my assistant. Unfortunately he has a toxic personality that I'll have to try to change through tutoring.
#268622 Coming Home
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Made my only transfer of the summer:

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Signed him in spring after a trial but he couldn't join us until now due to his young age. Not a man for the first team yet, but I have hopes that he can develop into a striker of Allsvenskan quality.

I also made my first signing for next season:

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I beat 40 clubs for his signature, including big names like Feyenoord and Fenerbahce.
#268607 Coming Home
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The cup run won't be repeated next year:

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Dalkurd was a tough draw, but I've got more important priorities than the cup at the moment so I fielded a B-side. Probably not the right decision, in hindsight.

And some good news:

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Great to have him signed for two more years. We'll hopefully have secured promotion to Allsvenskan by the time his deal expires.
#268601 Coming Home
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Half-season report:

Fixtures:

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Table:

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Graph:

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We got off to a very dominant start, but then we went on a run of bad results that almost had me sacked, the media speculated a lot about it and the players called a team meeting after the 1-1 draw against Öster to express their concerns. We've turned it around now though and I have no doubts about catching up with the clubs that are ahead of us.
#268567 Coming Home
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Sad the cup run came to an end, but also proud to have put up a fight against the best club in Sweden.
#268565 Coming Home
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On to the quarter-finals where we'll face Malmö FF.
#268563 Coming Home
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That's alright I suppose. A draw against Superettan side Sirius in the next match would see us advance from the group.
#268562 Coming Home
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Who doesn't love a good giant-killing?

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Kalmar are a top-half Allsvenskan side. Not a bad way to begin the season and your managing career.

Have Örebro from Allsvenskan up next in the second group stage match.
#268560 Coming Home
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My formation for the season:

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Attacking, with high pressing and a possesion-oriented short passing philosophy. Should serve us well given how we have arguably the strongest squad in the division.
#268558 Coming Home
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My second, and likely final, signing of the season:

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Another once promising youngster who's career didn't pan out. Gives me a bit of cheap depth on the left.

Would like to add a proper, quality AML, but unfortunately I doubt our wage budget will allow it.
#268556 Coming Home
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My first signing:

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A nice rotation option to provide cover at the back, with experience from the Juventus youth team. Always nice to get players for free too!
#268551 Coming Home
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#268542 Coming Home
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Our barren backroom:

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Bringing in a physio, one or two scouts and another coach are urgent priorities.
#268539 Coming Home
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A look at my squad:

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7 strikers, no natural left wingers and only three centre backs. I definitely need to bring in some players on loan. (Or play a narrow 4-3-3 and pray that my CB's never get injured)

Key players:

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The biggest talent in the squad. A new signing who came to the club having missed almost 2 years worth of football due to injuries, including the entire 2014 season, he'd be making good money playing abroad by now had he been fit. If he can stay healthy he should be able to tear Division 1 defences apart with his pace.

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A very experienced nomadic striker, having played professionally in 7 different countries and represented both the Swedish and the Syrian national teams. "Mouradona" should do a good job for us as a target man.

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A striker with good mental and physical attributes for this level. Should rotate with Mourad playing the target man role.

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The captain. With his excellent mental attributes, Lindström will be bossing our midfield for years to come.

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A very versatile and hard-working veteran, can play up front and anywhere on the flanks but I'll be using him as a complete wingback on the right. An old fan favourite from the most recent season in Allsvenskan who has returned "home" after four years at BK Häcken.

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Another recent signing from BK Häcken and by far our most experienced player, with almost 300 appearances in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian top tiers to his name. Probably the best defender in the league.

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Outrageously slow, but otherwise a good defender for this level, he'll be forming a pairing with Björck.
#268458 Coming Home
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Division 1 Södra has never been tougher. Aside from ÖIS, Landskrona, Trelleborg and Öster also have recent history in the top tier.
The league champion gains automatic promotion, the runner-up will face a team from Superettan in a play-off. It's going to be a tight race for the top places.
#268456 Coming Home
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The oldest club in Sweden naturally has an impressive trophy cabinet, though the game doesn't accurately mirror the complex history of Swedish football and the strange situation regarding what counts and what doesn't count as a Swedish championship title. Örgryte have been crowned Swedish champions 12 times but have only won Allsvenskan twice, neither of which count as a Swedish championship title, and all but one were won before 1930, the championship win in 1985, which was decided by play-offs is the only Swedish championship and along with the Swedish Cup title in 2000 the only major silverware that the club has won on this side of the Second World War.

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While the club has a great history, the last decade has been a dark period, since suffering relegation in 2006 the club has only returned to Allsvenskan for one ill-fated season and this year marks the fourth season in five years that the club has spent in the third tier, the result of a bankruptcy after the 2010 season. The days of my youth where the club was a regular in the top half and even challenged for the title in 2002 are long gone. Leading the club back to those heights is my ambition.
#268441 Coming Home
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While I played earlier CM games like 00/01 and 03/04 a little bit, I didn't get truly hooked until FM06. In the 10 years that have passed since then I have managed at every level in England, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Holland, Brazil and Portugal, I've managed in Denmark, Russia, Poland, Scotland, South Africa and Turkey, I've made the MLS my bitch, led France to the World Cup and won the Champions League with both Sampdoria and Besiktas but I have never actually managed the team I support. Until now.


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#268403 Megapack - Missing image request thread
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Player Name: Henrik Carlsson

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#268392 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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Apparently we have signed Micah Richards. Decent signing if true, though the club has yet to confirm it.

Poor Oldham. For a while it looked like they would strike a jackpot thanks to him.
#268360 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Christopher Lee has died.

He had quite a life. Definitely a candidate for the "most interesting man in the world"-title.
#268258 Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise
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Always good fun to extort the big Premier League clubs and the likes of PSG when they come asking for your players.
#268029 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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Not a fan of the rumours of Gervinho moving to the UAE. Roma would be a lot less interesting to watch without him.

Re Ayew, Newcastle apparently offered him a deal months ago. Apparently thought he is asking for more than he's worth.


Free transfers always get over-paid.
#267925 The FIFA Thread
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There's plenty countries that could - I'd say England could too, maybe France too.

They don't have the stadiums required and I doubt they have the infrastructure.

No they couldn't really. There's other criteria than "Have some stadiums". You have to have "villages" or some shite within 200 yards/metres of the stadium or something stupid like that

There's requirements on stadium capacity and facilities, and there's requirements on infrastructure and things like available hotel beds, never heard anything about any "villages". Event areas can be built in a fortnight.

One of the big arguments for the US bid was that it wouldn't require any new infrastructure to be built, there's already something like 90 different stadiums in the US that are up to standards, and major US cities won't have any issues with hotel beds, airport access and whatnot.
#267893 The FIFA Thread
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Germany or the United States could host on 2 years notice. Hell, the US could host on 3 months notice without any issue.
#267565 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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We wouldn't have 8% unemployment if things were that easy
#267544 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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They don't employ any person off the street though ffs. We're not Belarus.