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2014/15 blackburn

first time in FM i have an all domestic starting XI. can't wait til the next english NT call-up

Madrid just beat Vallecano 13-0 in my save, Ronaldo scored 6.

He'd only scored 8 league goals all season before that.

EDIT: I was 3-0 up after 20 minutes vs 18th placed Girona, and ended up drawing 5-5.

it's so hard to make money investing in centerbacks. they can be world class yet no one still wants to spend big money on them

i signed david luiz from chelsea for €10m. he finished the season with the highest avg rating in the EPL and never lost a game when he played. market value €16m. yet when i tried to sell him, the highest bid i could get was €8m

grant hanley, consistently playing well for 2 seasons, finished the most recent season with a 7.5ish avg rating, good for top 10 avg rating in the EPL. only 22 years old. low wage demands. captained his team to the 2014 world cup quarter finals. highest rated center back in the world cup. market value €14m. no one wanted him even when i offered him out for €0m

lame

I know right Schnix, nobody wants CBs

beat United 9-0

WC14 final pre-match (i'm dual managing England/Blackburn)





Destro, Casarini (benched), and Crescenzi play for me under Blackburn

England wins the 2014 world cup!








team of the tournament

some awards









7 players tied for tournament top scorer (but rhodes and yilmaz played fewer games)

made some pretty drastic transfers ahead of the 2014/15 season

key transfers in: Butland (free, Birmingham), Chalobah (€5m, Chelsea), P.Jones (€25m, Man Utd), Pogba (free, Juve), McEachran (€7.75m, Chelsea), Lampard (free, Chelsea), Powell (€14.5m, Man Utd), Honda (free, CSKA Moscow), Sterling (€17.5m, Liverpool), Chamberlain (€28.5m, Arsenal), E.Torres (free, Guadalajara), Fierro (free, Guadalajara)

key transfers out:





Hanley's offer came just in time on deadline day. i quickly spent it on Nick Powell. completed the transfer on deadline day with 15min left to go

made: €158m, spent: €112m, profit: +€46m

my Blackburn all-English team is slowly coming along, and i'm making a profit out of it too

Started a new proper one with United. City's CL group is Barca, PSG and Dortmund.

Danny wrote:Started a new proper one with United. City's CL group is Barca, PSG and Dortmund.

that's the same as my CL group..... except replace PSG with Marseille. and Marseille has Neymar... =\

Think I got Benfica, Spartek and Montpellier.

o shit



jumped on it



good thing i didn't spend my entire transfer budget in the summer

hmm, shawcross transfer listed, €23.5m, to buy or not to buy... hmmm

Do you change your tactics when you play a "big" team?

Danny wrote:Do you change your tactics when you play a "big" team?

of course

vs regular teams: Butland || Cleverley Jones Dann Olsson || Ward Honda || Chamberlain Barkley Sterling || Campbell (4-2-3-1 with wingbacks, rigid counter narrow)

vs "big" teams: Robinson || Jones Dann Givet Olsson || Mudingayi || Cleverley Lampard Honda Pedersen || Holt (4-1-4-1 with fullbacks, rigid counter wide)

Why do you change your keeper?

And do you really play Cleverley at full back?

OMG WTFFF are you serious??



can't believe i got out-blackburned by barca

El Jefe wrote:Why do you change your keeper?

debut season for Butland. he's still nervous all the time

Danny wrote:And do you really play Cleverley at full back?

he puts in good crosses.....

more importantly, it saves me a substitution when i switch from a defensive formation to an offensive formation. against big teams, i would play 4-1-4-1 with Phil Jones at RB and Cleverley on RW. if i'm a goal or two down, i would push Phil Jones to CB, take out one of my CB's, then i would have to waste a sub by subbing on a RB in order to go 4-2-3-1 or 4-2-4. but after training Cleverley to play there, instead of having to sub on a RB, i can just sub in a supersub striker instead and push Cleverley to RB

Lost the CL Final on penalties to Barcelona. Went down to 10 men in the second half (van Persie sent off). I was 2-1 up and Messi scored in the 90th. Needed an equaliser from Kagawa in the 117th minute to force pens and I lost 5-4.

bad luck Daniel, I have heard that Messi is like real life Messi after the recent transfer update

Yeah, he got the stoppage time equaliser and their 3rd.

Their equaliser annoyed me. He ran on to a fucking long ball from Busquets, shite goal to concede.

Meanwhile Madrid have just bid £34m for Rafael.

Schnix, can you post your England tactic somewhere? I see that you rarely let in any goals. I suck at defending, could use some help.

Bye_Ya wrote:Schnix, can you post your England tactic somewhere? I see that you rarely let in any goals. I suck at defending, could use some help.

for me, playing 4-5-1 counter/rigid/drop deep/expressive works well as a defensive tactic. it covers all the bases

1 GK, 2 CB, 2 FB, 1 DM, 2 CM, 2 AML/AMR, 1 ST

got your PM. i dont do forums anymore. no time =[

Ok, thx. I'll give it a go and see how I do.

I went on Holiday until December 31st and took over West Brom who were bottom of the EPL. They were four points adrift of safety.

Things started off badly and I lost 3 of my first 4 games in charge in the EPL

but then things started to click, and we are currently unbeaten in our last 8 EPL games. With victory in our last three matches

I made alot of signings



I also have Leon Goretzka coming in from Bochum at the end of the season for £12M

Anthony Stokes coming in on a free and some regen from Boro who looks amazing

EDIT: I'm 13th now, 9 points clear of relegation with 6 games left. So I should be safe

Just started playing this for the first time in a while, actually enjoying it more than I have done in a long time. Hoping to keep a save going for a while, anybody got a decent game going on atm? Been a while since anybody has really updated us.

Templeton7|RFC wrote:Just started playing this for the first time in a while, actually enjoying it more than I have done in a long time. Hoping to keep a save going for a while, anybody got a decent game going on atm? Been a while since anybody has really updated us.

Currently in a save with Rangers ironically.

I strolled D3 and D2, also won Challenge Cup while in D2. Lost in two consecutive Scottish Cup Semi-Finals to Celtic. First one I lost 2-1 and second one on pens.

Currently in summer before D1. Made some good signings.

Trent wrote:

Templeton7|RFC wrote:Just started playing this for the first time in a while, actually enjoying it more than I have done in a long time. Hoping to keep a save going for a while, anybody got a decent game going on atm? Been a while since anybody has really updated us.

Currently in a save with Rangers ironically.

I strolled D3 and D2, also won Challenge Cup while in D2. Lost in two consecutive Scottish Cup Semi-Finals to Celtic. First one I lost 2-1 and second one on pens.

Currently in summer before D1. Made some good signings.

Post your signings/squad? Any of the youngsters made it for you?