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Hi guys.

I first want to tell this is not glorify how good FM07 is compared later games, since there is the correct area of the forum to do that, but I decided to share my recent save game career in FM07.

Note: I use on FM07 I loaded the English, Spannish, Italian and Portuguese Leagues to the lower level, also the database is edited one. I changed Pepe and Liedson to nacionality Portuguese, added Hulk and Neymar (using his stats from FM12 database, but lower CA to accurately affect their ages for when the save game starts - 2006) and added some other teams. Also I added Sir Richard Branson as the new chairman of Hearts (because I like having Virgin logo in my teams shirts, which I edited myself), and decided to manage Hearts.

Background: Several teams from Scottish, Welsh, Irish and Northern Ireland have moved to the English leagues and was spread across the English leagues by their club reputation. So here are the teams in which leagues:

Barclays Premiership

Rangers

Celtic

Coca Cola Championship

Hearts (Me smile.gif )

Motherwell

Coca Cola League 1

Bohemians

Shelbourne

Shamrock Rovers

Coca Cola League 2

Linfield

Glentoran

Conference

Crusaders

I'm currently a few season played, so I will update them all, post by post.

My Ultimate goal this season is to accept a challenge Scolari said in an interview. What would be like a team to have both C. Ronaldo and Messi at the same team. With enough success I will be able to do that, and it is my ultimate goal for this save.

PS: I already posted this career in another forum, but decided now to share it here.

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Hearts

Season 2006/2007

I decided in my new database, add a new Chairman and to be exactly what I did I got 10 million for transfers. I know that will make a lot of difference for team at Championship level, but 10 million is hardly enough if the Hearts wanted to be enough quality to get promotion at first season.

I made major cleaning in the staff and team (I had lot of loan players and decided to do away with them to bring the loans I wanted, despite I can't get full time loans.

Here is my transfers, but I had only a few loans (when starting at Hearts you have plenty of loans), so no outs.

In

Kevin Larsen - €900k (Lyn)

Didier Digard - €500k (Le Havre)

Pedro Léon - €5.25M (Murcia)

Fábio Coentrão - €400k (Rio Ave)

Danny Szetela - €200k (Columbus)

Rubem Amorim - €240k (Belenenses)

Eddie Johnson - €2M (Kansas City)

Elano - €13M (Shakhtar)

I'm in September, I'm currently 4th. thbgrin.gif

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So I finally reach the closing of the January transfers. Let's start with Hearts.

Well let's start with bad news. I got in into the Uefa Cup group stage, where I was able to win 1 match, draw another and lost the rest, which I was knocked out from Uefa Cup. The good news, I gone through the first playoff of the FA Cup, I'm currently 1st of the Championship with the second (West Brom) about 3 points after me and I was able to reach semi finals of Carling Cup, after I defeated: Northampton, Birmingham and Arsenal (by 2-0) and got knocked out in semi-final by Charlton. In overall I'm quite happy for these results specially after winning Arsenal and in the first season.

Here is the general update of other clubs:

Premiership (EPL)

Celtic - 9th

Rangers - 7th

Championship

Hearts (me) - 1st thbgrin.gif

Motherwell - 21st

League One

Shamrock Rovers - 23rd

Bohemians - 12th

Shelbourne - 19th

League Two

Glentoran - 16th

Linfield - 23rd

Conference

Crusaders - 23rd

I'm not surprise the results of other clubs, since the other two saves (which i failed in the end, this is my third try), the results were pretty much about the same.

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Hi Guys, so I reach the end of Season 2006/2007. I finished 1st, best result I ever had with Hearts in all three saves I made with them. So here I go to Barclays Premiership. thbgrin.gif

Here is the final standings 06/07 season of other clubs:

Premiership (EPL)

Celtic - 4th (qualified to Champions League)

Rangers - 9th

Championship

Hearts (me) - 1st (promoted) thbgrin.gifnaughty.gifhenn0rz.gif

Motherwell - 19th

League One

Shamrock Rovers - 24th (relegated)

Bohemians - 13th

Shelbourne - 20th

League Two

Glentoran - 17th

Linfield - 24th (relegated)

Conference

Crusaders - 23rd (relegated)

I'm bit surprised with Linfield since it was a team that in other saves they usually barely stay in League Two, but it seems in this save their luck run out.

Once I reach the close of transfer window and beginning season 2007/2008 I will post my transfers.

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Hi Guys.

Here is my (Hearts) transfers in and out for 2007/2008 season.

Transfers In

Antonis Nikopolidis - free (Olympiakos)

Robert Pires - €325K (Villareal)

Paulo Ferreira - €3M (Chelsea)

Darron Gibson - €11.25M (Aston Villa)

Michael Mancienne - Loan (Chelsea)

Carlos Vela - Loan (Arsenal)

Transfers Out

Some youngsters that were release on free.

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Season 07/08

So I reach the mid-season and here is the update. So let's start with my January transfers.

Transfers In

Bruno Aguiar - €2M (FBK Kaunas)

José Gonçalves - €1.3M (FBK Kaunas)

Alexandre Pato - €10M (Internacional)

Transfer Out

I didn't sold anyone, which is one of my pet peeves of this game, it is hard to sell a few players I don't want, but not that worried.

Here is the mid-season standings 07/08 season:

Premiership (EPL)

Celtic - 16th

Rangers - 15th

Hearts (me) - 9th

Championship

Motherwell - 10th

League One

Bohemians - 20th

Shelbourne - 13th

League Two

Shamrock Rovers - 20th

Glentoran - 8th

Conference

Linfield - 4th

Conference North

Crusaders - 10th

I'm bit surprised how Celtic and Rangers fall down in their respective standings, let see if they improve in second half the season. I enjoying being in mid table at this point, but with Elano injured for next 4 months, makes me a bit worried. I guess I have to adapt Carlos Vela to replace him.

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Here is the end season standings 07/08 season:

Premiership (EPL)

Celtic - 16th

Rangers - 13th

Hearts (me) - 11th (qualified for Inter Toto)

Championship

Motherwell - 14th

League One

Bohemians - 24th (relegated)

Shelbourne - 12th

League Two

Shamrock Rovers - 21st

Glentoran - 4th (eleiminated on promotion playoffs)

Conference

Linfield - 2nd (eliminated on promotion playoffs)

Conference North

Crusaders - 9th

Well I it wasn't bad obverall for Hearts, but it made me clear there is some areas i need to improve. I was shock to see the Bohemians relegated.

On good note, Mourinho with Chelsea won his second straight Champions League.

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Hi guys.

So here is the mid-season standings Scottish, N. Irish and Irish teams in the English teams in 08/09 season:

Premiership (EPL)

Celtic - 11th

Rangers - 19th

Hearts (me) - 10th

Championship

Motherwell - 24th

League One

Shelbourne - 5th

League Two

Bohemians - 7th

Shamrock Rovers - 20th

Glentoran - 9th

Conference

Linfield - 6th

Conference North

Crusaders - 9th

I'm through the phase of groups from Uefa Cup, I will be facing Feyenoord in the playoffs. But I was defeated in the quarter-finals in League Cup, but I'm still in the FA Cup.

So I'm bit surprise how Rangers have fallen this season. Sometimes this game as a good sense of humour, since tends to predict as in real life, as what happen to Rangers this past year (I'm not kidding it happen the same time with the news of Rangers going bankrupt). Let's us see how they will do the rest of the season.

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Hi guys.

So the January transfers of 08/09 season at Hearts is closed. Here is my transfers:

In

Lassana Diarra - Celtic (€ 8M)

Daniel Carriço - Chaves (€250k)

Ryan Bertrand - QPR (€ 1.2M)

Out

José Gonçalves - Porto (€ 1M)

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Hi guys.

So here is the standings Scottish, N. Irish and Irish teams in the English teams in 08/09 season:

Premiership (EPL)

Celtic - 10th

Rangers - 18th (relegated)

Hearts (me) - 9th

Championship

Motherwell - 24th (relegated)

League One

Shelbourne - 13th

League Two

Bohemians - 5th

Shamrock Rovers - 21st

Glentoran - 11th

Conference

Linfield - 8th

Conference North

Crusaders - 14th

I was able to reach the quarter-finals of Uefa, after eliminating Feynoord and Marseilles, but was eliminated by Liverpool.

Also finishing 9th as put me away from the european competitions and I starting to have somewhat financial crisis, without European competition not sure how next season will go. In a good news I'm at the end of sponsor contract, so hopefully Hearts can get a better deal.

I was a bit more surprise with Rangers being relegated as it was something I didn't predict. I guess it is me and Celtic on premiership. razz.gif

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Hi guys.

Here is my transfers for the 2009/2010 season:

In

Fábio - Free (Man United)

Rafael - Free (Man United)

Angel Di Maria - Free (Messina)

Helder Barbosa - Free (Porto)

Coelho - Free (Inter)

Pedro - Free (Barcelona)

Michael Mancienne - €2.3M (Chelsea)

Joe Hart - €3.3M (Man City)

Michel Shmoller - €4.6M (Grêmio)

Out

Jonas Elmer - €1.5M (Cardiff)

Fabio Ferreira - €1M (West Ham)

Craig Gordon - €10M (Wigan) - not sure if it was the best deal

Antonis Nikopolidis - Free (Leeds)

released several other players on free including Neil McCann, Mirsad Beslija and Juho Makela.

I got a 4 year contract from the sponsor at 2.36M per season, which isn't much. I need this season to do extremelly well to get to uefa competitions and actual win some cups to try avoid to be like last season, ending €1M in the red. But I think it will work out in the end. thbgrin.gif

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Hi guys, back in my save.

So here is the standings Scottish, N. Irish and Irish teams in the English leagues in 09/10 season:

Premiership (EPL)

Celtic - 6th

Hearts (me) - 7th

Championship

Rangers - 1st

League One

Motherwell - 5th

Shelbourne - 11th

League Two

Bohemians - 14th

Shamrock Rovers - 15th

Glentoran - 22nd

Conference

Linfield - 2nd

Conference North

Crusaders - 7th

It has been a mix of a season, but with the aim of going to european competitions, the pressure is great (in me). I was able to reach semi-finals of Carlin Cup eliminated Arsenal, but in the FA Cup my team was eliminated by Chelsea in the first round. :( Nonetheless it seems I have been improving the positions season after season, but finding some good players that I want to join up, is quite hard and challenging. I was able nonetheless able to hire Neymar (I add him at the beginning of the save game using the information that came with FM12 database) and wil join at the end of the season (since he only turn 18 in February and transfer window was closed). However my right side of midfield seems to be lacking and it something I have to address in beginning of next season. :thup:

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