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Transfers


Not much to say really. Matty Hughes is a decent signing and plays either AMR or AML, and Tony Thompson is a fairly bog-standard keeper who replaced the keeper we had last season who was a loanee from Man City.

All outgoings were fringe players who were hogging up the wage budget.

September 2015


One clean sheet was miraculous. Two, and in a row? UNBELIEVABLE JEFF! A great game where we pretty much were just hanging in there for most of the game against 2nd placed Alfreton. Two late goals from 2 substitutes no less earned us a vital 3 points.


Obviously my outstanding managerial ability is rubbing off on the players now, as we record another clean sheet and take another 3 points, this time against Stalybridge who were probably the worst team we have faced this season. Three first half goals and we just cruised the second half and saw out an easy 3-0 win.


I'd be lying if I said a draw was a good result. Tamworth were bottom of the league, but they caused us a fair few problems early on. Second half it was all Hyde, and we should have won. Oh well, another clean sheet is great though.


Very poor game. Leamington had three penalties, but could only convert one of them. We only managed 5 shots all game. We deserved to lose, simple as.


FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round
Unlucky loss to inferior opposition, but we simply got hit on the counter 3 times and they scored all 3 times. Oh well, the FA Cup will have to wait another year.


2 wins, a draw and a loss this month. Could have been better, but I'll take it. At least I seem to have plugged up our leaky defence in the league at least.

An update on transfers will be coming in a seperate post.

I may or may not have forgot to arrange friendlies for the 2015-16 preseason.... whoops.

I was too busy trying to nudge the squad around and get some new fresh players in. I'll post a full review of all transfer activity at the end of the next month.

August 2015


Our opening game of the season against newly-promoted Hereford. They are tipped to win the league at 5/1, but we put in a decent performance before falling to a sloppy goal from a corner 18 minutes from time.


Much better performance, with the brace from 15-year old youth player Derek Pilsbury the highlight for me. 61% possession is great to see too.


After the result against Harrogate, I was hoping to kick on and take another win, but it wasn't to be. Joel Ambalu's first-half hat-trick had us 3-0 and our heads dropped. We had plenty of attempts 2nd half but never really looked like getting back into it.


Argh! Another early goal conceded and it's always going to be hard to come back away from home. O'Connor's sending off made things even tougher 2nd half.


Oh dear, another heavy defeat, and our poor run is taking its toll on the players, as we had 7 (seven) bookings for 7 different players. We got fined after the game for failing to control our players. We committed 28 fouls :O.


Technically not August but shhhh!
A WIN! We stopped our average of about 8 goals conceded a game and kept a clean sheet! We also bagged 2 great goals to stop the rot (sort of).



Currently sitting in 17th. It's been a poor month, but our performances haven't been atrocious, just our defending .

Thanks Dan, I wanted to get a full season under my belt first, just incase I decided to call it quits.

So, it's been a while since I was last on here. After suffering the agony of losing my monster FM14 61 season save-file, I completely lost interest in FM14 and never touched it again. However, now the new FM has come out, I suppose it's time I start again isn't it?

In this career, I started unemployed with no coaching badges and only Sunday League experience, and also with just the English leagues (down to the Conference N/S) loaded, as I don't exactly plan on jumping ship over to Europe until I've established myself as a decent manager in England first.

I have already finished the 1st season, so the rest of the post will be a quick summary of my first season.

After around 2 months of selling fake Ray Ban sunglasses on Bilston Market, Hyde were looking for a new manager and I applied. A decent interview later, and im the new boss. No sweat.



After suffering the ignominy of relegation and just 10 points to boot last season, Hyde are currently plying their trade in the newly-named Vanarama Conference North. I arrive with the wage budget already exceeded by nearly £600 a week, and a transfer budget of £5k. I have promised the board that a mid-table finish will be attainable, and that I will bring the wages under control. I inherited a fairly small squad, but I kind of prefer that as there is less deadwood to get rid of.

End-of-season


A fairly nervy season to be honest. As you can see from the league position graph, we were in the lower reaches of the table for much of the season. My job was under question for a few poor home defeats in the middle of the season, but we gradually started to put together a few results, and finished the season undefeated in 10 games. This gives me confidence for next season as we pulled out some great results against teams above us, and we also did the double over league winners Lowestoft. With a few new faces and a better start, im confident we can at least make the playoffs.

Anyway, I'll start doing monthly updates from here on out.

Should get started on this tomorrow. I forgot to post my 3rd season in the Feyenoord thread so miss out on points for that season like the donut I am.

Height in CM : 180cm

Weight in KG : 68 kg

Nationally: Mighty Gibraltar

Position(s) (Can have 2 positions) We will need a wide range to cover a team. : CM/LB

Preferred foot: Right

Best Attribute: Anticipation

2nd best Attribute: Passing

3rd best Attribute: Determination

4th best Attribute: Positioning

5th best Attribute: Tackling

Worst Attribute: Free Kicks

2nd worst Attribute: Corners

Haha, almost all the games have been pretty enjoyable to watch so far. I did stick FM on during the Iran Nigeria game though. I have finished my 2nd season now so will post up an update probably after the Brazil game.

Ah very nice. Clasie had a moan about wanting to go to a bigger club at the end of the 1st season, but nobody came in for him and he asked to be removed from the transfer list. I have shipped Tonny Vilhena off on-loan to Malaga for the year as he was ineffective first season. They even paid me £100k per month for the privilege.

I would have taken 5th first season, haha.

I have just started 2nd season and signed a few loan players which I don't normally do. Got quite a good team this time around, although could have been strengthened more as Valencia offered £22m for Martins Indi which I accepted and planned to sign some new talent, but they called off the transfer as they couldn't free up the funds. I also will probably offload Gaibor as he is the whiniest player ever, I think he has asked for a transfer approximately once every 4 days.

To be fair, look at who I had to play on the way to the final. I think I was favourite to win every game apart from the Semi-Final & Final.

As with everyone else, I seemed to get a lot of injuries too. I will get my first season summary up shortly.

Currently atop the table as of October 10th. AZ Alkmaar are currently bottom of the league without a point.

I also signed Fernando Gaibor for £500k after selling one or two fringe players. He has been my best player so far this season.

Wow, incredible!

Couldn't quite get the 3rd season done, only about 16 or so games in. Haven't beaten any rivals or anything either so virtually 0pts for season 3 anyway.

Yeah I lost both Supercup games in the first 2 seasons, and now won't get another crack as it seeing as I didn't win the league or cup. Oh well, got the Europa League to focus on this time around.

Hopefully I can get the final season done by the weekend or so, as I definitely need to rethink a few aspects following my miserable second season. I think I may have tried to reshape the squad too quickly, as I offloaded probably 1/2 of the playing squad and brought in a younger, more Turkish based squad. The two best youngsters (both regens IIRC) were ultimately Cengiz Yilmazer, a 19 year-old signed from Turgutluspor, who actually ended up as my top scorer, which says more about the rest of my squad probably. The second was Nurullah Yardimci, a 20 year-old who had the highest average rating of all my players with 7.14 over the season. He was signed from Giresunspor for £3m. He is now worth £9m, and has developed at an astonishing rate. When I signed him, he was a 1.5* CA and a 5* PA. He is now a 4* CA!

Pretty much the only other signing I made who turned out to be decent was Yunuz Malli from Mainz, but he kept picking up little injuries and missed about 14 games.

Yeah both teams had poor finances, but the disparity in point deductions was surprising. I haven't really had time to sit down and bash through the last 2 seasons yet, although im around 8 or so games into the second season with a pretty poor start of a few losses and draws already.

So starting my 2nd season now, but just noticed Gaziantepspor have a 2 point deduction, and Karsiyaka have a whopping 14 point deduction! No idea what they are for though.

Hopefully I can crack on with my last 2 seasons next week. Work and Uni have been a joke the last week, but I am off most of next week so should get them done!

I only noticed this feature recently doing the Melbourne Heart challenge too.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I'm pretty sure Super Cup games won't count as a competitive fixture. I think that decision was made in an earlier challenge.

Nice one itchycoo, exactly the same score as me too!

I plan on getting my 2nd season finished tomorrow night. I'm currently around 12 games into the second season and sitting in 2nd place behind Besiktas.

The first 2 seasons I believe.

He got a bit antsy for me at the end of the 1st season, and he is now on-loan at Newcastle with an option to buy for £8m.

I didn't sign anyone, as the transfer kitty was set at £900k and I couldn't find anyone suitable to improve the team for that low. I did let 2 players leave during the January window, one was a left-back who I sold for £4.2m, and another was a reserve player who I sold for about £1m. Also loaned out a few of the fringe players to get first-team football. I will probably revamp the squad with good Turkish talent before the 2nd season, now I have around £4m in the transfer pot, and also flog a few of the foreign lads because there are a few too many for my liking, as I can't include them all every game.



Thanks! I was down to bare-bones defensively, so I will also be shoring up the defense with a few young Turkish players to avoid bringing in yet more foreign players.

Cheers! I play FM at a pretty quick pace, just spending about 30 minutes at the start of each season setting up training/tactics and signing players, etc. I then pretty much fly through the games at max speed, only really slowing it down for important games such as the cup semi's and final, or if we hit a losing streak and I need to rethink my tactics. Maybe not the optimal way to play the game, but definitely the way I like to do it.