ri916 Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 FC United of Manchester The Challenge My own . Seriously, this is an attempt at my youth academy challenge from CSE. The aim is to take a previously unplayable team from the bottom division of a European country to the top of the domestic and European game by winning your nations' top division and the European Champions League using only the youth products from your club. I've chosen England to attempt the challenge in and as you can see, after many hours of reloads, I picked one of the most popular teams to come up to the BSR leagues when reloading . The reason for this is because I originally wanted to get Kendal, but after they didn't come up I felt a bit of nostalgia for FC United from a save I had with them on FM12. I only managed to get them promoted once before getting sacked the following season but I really enjoyed it and feel I have some unfinished business there. Like I said, this is an attempt at my challenge and as such I will be following the rules exactly. The Database Leagues: England Down to Blue Square North/South Size: Medium (15000 players) Customisation: Players from top clubs in Europe and players from Regional Premier divisions (So I get as many 'real' players in my team as possible) I was partly inspired by SnakeXe to make this career thread as I've really enjoyed reading his and I guess I should also include AK22's, for the bit about knocking Fergie off his perch as manager of the biggest club in Manchester (City are a rich club, not a big club). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 nice title good luck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri916 Posted November 10, 2012 Author Share Posted November 10, 2012 nice title good luck Haha, sorry about the title, as I said I was planning to manage Kendal and I had a good title for that. Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltablue Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 What was it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri916 Posted November 11, 2012 Author Share Posted November 11, 2012 What was it? 'Mountains, Rain and Mint Cake' Okay, so it wasn't that good either You didn't have to call me out on it though, did you? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri916 Posted November 11, 2012 Author Share Posted November 11, 2012 Ri916’s FC United- Season 1 Preseason Board Expectations: Blue Square North - Mid-table position. FA Cup - 4th Qualifying Round FA Trophy - First Round My Expectations: Blue Square North - I’d be happy with Mid-table, but maybe we could make a run at the playoffs. FA Cup - This challenge is all about money, I’m hoping we could grind our way to the first round and draw a team that gets 15k crowds away from home. FA Trophy - I couldn’t care less, but I expect we’ll make it to the first round. Budgets: Wages: £4694p/w ( £1310 available) Balance: £232551 Squad: The squad isn’t too bad, and we only really lack depth in Strikers, Centre Mids, and Centre Backs, where we only have three of each. I’m playing a simple counter attacking 4-4-2, so I’m hoping we’ll get a decent CB, MC and ST so I have 4 in each position allowing a backup for each First Xl member. Key Players: Goalkeepers James Spencer – GK – He’s clearly one of our best players just looking at his attributes. Defence Adam Jones – DC – Our best Defender going by attributes, I hope he stays fit. Attack Nicky Platt – MC – Probably our best player, his technical skills are those of a league one player. Mike Norton – ST – He’s a finisher, I hope he can do that for us. I also managed to upgrade our junior coaching budget and got the board to try and take our http://i.imgur.com/OfdNl.png[/img]"]academy to the next youth level. It costs £600k so I would expect it to fall through unless we get a Derby against United at OT in the third round of the FA Cup. Is it just improving youth facilities but faster and skipping through levels? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogogo golem Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 I'm Going to enjoy this. I'm doing your challenge with Liege (a fallen Belgian giant) but couldn't be bothered to post on the thread: updates take too long. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.W.G Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 Best of luck with FCUM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri916 Posted November 11, 2012 Author Share Posted November 11, 2012 I'm Going to enjoy this. I'm doing your challenge with Liege (a fallen Belgian giant) but couldn't be bothered to post on the thread: updates take too long. Best of luck with FCUM Thanks guys. Good luck with Liege golem Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogogo golem Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 Thanks guys. Good luck with Liege golem Thanks. My main problem is my strikers are disappearing for ninety minutes, coupled with the fact that my CBs have made 3/4 costly mistakes, my goalkeeper is hopeless, and my only consisten scorer is my CM from long shots which he isn't even supposed to be good at. Other than that we're okay. The best bit is that my star player (the CM) is a relative of Yann M'Vila. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri916 Posted November 11, 2012 Author Share Posted November 11, 2012 August 2013 I included the preseason friendlies but won't go into them really apart from to mention the funny coincidence of the game giving me a match against Kendal. My reign as manager started fantastically with a 2-0 win against Stalybridge. Stalybridge aren't the biggest team in the league, so I wasn't getting carried away, but what was to come stunned me. First of all we thrashed former BSP side Droylsden 3-0 before being brought back down to earth with a draw against Tamworth. The team showed immense character to comeback and beat Chester from two goals down and despite the fixture congestion, we ended the month undefeated with a scrambling draw against Hyde and a confident dispatching of Histon which left us top of the league. Even though we've played a game more than everyone else I'm still over the moon with our first 6 games. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogogo golem Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Brilliant start!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.W.G Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Excellent start to the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypanimz Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Fantastic start. Keep it up Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltablue Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Excellent so far/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK22 Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Great start! I'd love you to become the biggest club in Manchester Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri916 Posted November 12, 2012 Author Share Posted November 12, 2012 Brilliant start!!! Excellent start to the season. Fantastic start. Keep it up Excellent so far/ Great start! I'd love you to become the biggest club in Manchester Thanks lads, so would I AK22! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri916 Posted November 12, 2012 Author Share Posted November 12, 2012 September 2013 We were brought firmly back down to earth this month. The month started poorly, when we suffered our first defeat of the season against fellow promotees Cambridge City. Things picked out however, as we claimed 4 points from two tough games against Altringham and Solihull with an impressive thrashing of the latter. Despite the 5-1 win we still hadn't shaken off our poor start to the month and succumbed to defeats against both Harrogate and Lowestoft to end the month outside of the playoff places. 1 goal in 4 games and no clean sheets says it all really, although I was worried that it might be too easy to get out of this division with my current side. I'm not bothered by that anymore. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogogo golem Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 Even though you haven't had as good a month as you started off with, you should still make a good play-off push. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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