Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 Introduction After having a successful career with Charlton Athletic who I took to the Premiership with me only using players from the youth academy I have now decided to something similar with Barnet after being reccommended them due to their success record of producing good EFL players. I will be mostly just using my youth academy and selling on top prospects to keep the club afloat. I will also look to bring in former Barnet youth academy players and also raiding the English lower leagues as I have a file that lets me manage as low as Level 10 so I will be looking at trying to find the next Ian Wright, Jamie Vardy etc. My next post will be an overview of Barnet FC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 21, 2023 Author Share Posted November 21, 2023 Barnet FC History Barnet a club founded in 1888 is now it's 135th year of existence. Barnet currently play their football in the Vanarama Conference. Barnet were promoted to the Football League in 1991 after club legend Barry Fry led them to the Conference championship. They have mostly yoyoed between the Vanarama Conference and League Two until they got relegated to the Vanarama Conference in 2018. They have stayed there since then. Hopefully I will change that. Stadium Barnet are nicknamed The Bees and now play in the Hive Stadium which has a 6,500 capacity. Rivalries Traditionally the main rivals for Barnet have been Enfield, Stevenage, Wealdstone, Brentford & Boreham Wood. Barnet Squad ] 1. Sam Sargeant 2. Jordan Thomas 3. Josh Doherty 4. Josh Payne 5. Jamie Turley 6. Ben Richards-Everton 8. Mitch Brundle 9. Mason Bloomfield 10. Daniel Powell 11. Ephron Mason-Clark 12. James Callan 14. Adam Marriott 15. Reiss Greenidge 16. Kian Flanagan 17. Sam Granville 18. Wesley Fonguck 19. Harry Taylor 20. Serhat Tasdemir 21. Joe Widdowson 22. Antonis Vasilou 23. Sam Beard 24. Jake Askew 25. Aymen Azaze 31. Ben Nugent Former Barnet academy players include Ronnie Edwards & Ephron Mason who are both at Peterborough United, Oladapo Afolayan now at St.Pauli, Jamal Lowe who now plays for Swansea, Jack Taylor who plays for Ipswich now,Hakeem Odoffin now at Rotherham and Albert Adomah who now plays for QPR. Barnet also had the pleasure of having Edgar Davids playing for them for 2 years from 2012-2014. He was there as Player-Manager. Club Records Record attendance in League Two: 6,001 vs. Wycombe Wanderers, 2012–13 Record attendance: 11,026 vs. Wycombe Wanderers. FA Amateur Cup 4th round, 1951–52 Record home victory: 10–0 vs. Burton Albion (Southern League Premier Division) 7 February 1970 Record home defeat: 1–9 vs. Peterborough United, Third Division, 5 September 1998[46] Record away victory: 6–0 vs. Lincoln City, 4 September 1991, Fourth Division Record away defeat: 7–0 vs. Crewe Alexandra, 21 August 2010 Most League goals in total: Arthur Morris, 403, nine seasons 1927–36 Most League appearances: Les Eason, 648, 1965–74, 1977–78 Transfer Record (received): £800,000 from Crystal Palace for Dougie Freedman[47] Transfer record (paid): £800,00 to South Mimms FC for Paul Walsh 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 21, 2023 Author Share Posted November 21, 2023 Barnet On FM2024 Predicted to finish 6th I am hoping to get 6th place at least or higher in the first season. Barnet finished 5th in the league last season so I think the prediction of 6th is easy enough to get. Barnet have Great training facilities, Average youth facilities & Fairly basic youth recruitment. We have no transfer budget so we probably wont be making many transfers in the summer and just focus on what we have so far. Best Starting Eleven This is my starting tactic. I got no idea if it will work out but I have picked the roles the players are best suited for so hopefully it will work out well. Board & Fans Expectations Fairly simple expectations. We just need to develop young players, work within our wage budget and reace the play offs. Hopefully Ronnie Edwards or Ephron Mason-Clark will get a bigish transfer especially Ronnie Edwards because Barnet get 50% of any future transfer Edwards goes to. I will update as I go along. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 21, 2023 Author Share Posted November 21, 2023 Well this is a bit anti-climatic. I was hoping he would of got a bigger transfer. Oh well at least it has given me a bit of a transfer budget and money to put into the scouting department. Out of the red for now but the projection isn't looking good. We are predicted to be £2.87m in the red by the start of the 2025/26 season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 21, 2023 Author Share Posted November 21, 2023 First Signing Made First signing made was for Prince Mutswunguma who was a free transfer signing that was highly recommended by the recruitment team. He fits what I am looking for with him being a former lower league player with him previously playing for AFC Rushden & Diamonds, St Neots Town, Soham & Haverhill Rangers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 21, 2023 Author Share Posted November 21, 2023 Next Summer Transfers Sorted Mikael Bongili Ndoji a versatile forward player who can play on either wing or up front as a pressing forward. We signed him from Hartlepool for £25k. He has had previous spells at Radcliffe, Aldershot Town, Barrow and Gillingham. Not one for scoring goals but he might be good at giving us a target man to lug the ball to. Next player through the door is Leon Davies who we signed from Braintree Town for £28k. He can play as a right back or centre midfield for now but I will be retraining him as a winger. He has had spells at Southend, Weymouth and Cambridge United. I also signed Kingsley Latham on a free transfer as a back up goalie cover. He isn't very good but will be good enough for this season. Another player from the lower leagues of England with him being a former Farnborough, Gosport Borough and Havent & Waterlooville player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 21, 2023 Author Share Posted November 21, 2023 This tactic to try fit into keeping the players happy with their favourite roles aint working. The season started well with us winning most of our friendlies and the first 2 games of the season but we then went on a massive streak of bad form with us only getting 2 points in 8 games. I will change the tactics and hope the players can fit to the tactics and player roles assigned. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
willemvandoorn15 Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 Ouch, hope u can build it back up. Good luck and nice to seem some saves in the national league/league two. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 FA Cup Giant Killing We somehow managed to beat Watford 2-1 in the FA Cup 3rd round. I love a cup game shock with the underdog winning. Gary Hooper turning back time with the 35 year old scoring and assisting for the other goal. What a legend. He has been superb this season. I just got him signed up to a new 3 year contract. I am hoping he keeps on scoring and helps us get up the leagues. We play Swansea in the next round. I was hoping for an away game to a big team to help our finances. We are currently 10th in the league with us being just 2 points behind 6th place Rochdale and 7th place Aldershot Town. We can definitely get into the Play Offs if we carry on with current form. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 (edited) Barnet First Season Youth Intake 3 x Elite Talents & 6 x Top Talents. Some mixture of nationalities as well with us having players coming from Australia, Zimbabwe & Nigeria. Anthony Heasley looks really good and I reckon he can definitely play up front for us for a long time. He has already played for the Northern Ireland Under 18's Edited November 22, 2023 by Ronaldo Beckham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 Barnet FC Season 1 Review So Far Competitions We have just snuck into the Play Offs. I was a bit gutted we didn't do better as I want to get out of the Conference asap but it is tough. We have managed to get to the Play Offs though so the board and fans are happy enough. We have Ebbsfleet United in the Play Offs first round. Hopefully we can beat and progress. Best players have been Gary Hooper & Idris Kanu. Hooper has scored 24 goals this season which is really good considering he is 35 years old. Idris Kanu has got 10 goals and 10 assists and also had the best average rating with a 7.04 rating. He has probably been our best player overall. Our signing of the season has been Prince Mutswunguma who scored 9 goals and got 7 assists. A great return for a player who cost us nothing. Squad Overview I will post match updates in here for the Play Off game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 Kanu gives us the lead 1-0 to Barnet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 Dale Gorman blasts it into the top corner to make it 2-0 to us. The crowd go crazy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 Ebbsfleet get one back 2-1 now!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 3-2 To Barnet at half time after 2 very quick goals were scored including Scott Barratt who smashed it from outside the box after a quick corner and then Poleon scored another goal for Ebbsfleet. We will be marking Poleon tighter in the 2nd half to try stop him from scoring. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 Get in Connor Hall scores from a corner. 4-2 to Barnet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 Oh No!!! Bingham scores to Ebbsfleet. Squeeky bum time. 4-3 to Barnet with 18 minutes plus to go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 Full Time 4-3 to us. Thank god for that!!! We have got FC Halifax Town in the Play Off Semi Final. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 1-0 to us against FC Halifax Town after Gary Hooper hits a nicely hit shot just inside the box to give us the lead. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 2-0 to Barnet after Gary Hooper calmly puts it on the penalty and bangs it in to give us a good chance of making it to the Play Off Final. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 Full Time 2-0 to us. We are going to Wembley. We have Oldham in the final. I will post live updates on the Final. Thanks for reading. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 1-0 to Barnet. Ryan Cassidy scoring a header to give us the lead. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 2-2 at half time after 3 goals were scored in the space of 4 minutes. Nuttal scored for Oldham to equalize and then Dale Gorman blasted the ball into the top corner again to give us the lead for us to then give Oldham a stupid penalty that James Norwood easily dispensed to make it 2-2 at half time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 (edited) We get a penalty. Hooper lines up to take it. Hooper scores. Never in doubt. Mr.Barnet scores again. Edited November 22, 2023 by Ronaldo Beckham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 3-3 after we concede from a corner. Come on Barnet!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 3-3 in normal time. We are going to have extra time or penalties to sort this out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 Ryan Cassidy scores in the 101st minute to give us the lead. Let's hold on to the lead now lads. You can do it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 Ryan Cassidy scores again to make it 5-3 to Barnet!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 We Did It!!! Barnet back in League 2 where they belong. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnetfan Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 11 hours ago, Ronaldo Beckham said: We Did It!!! Barnet back in League 2 where they belong. Good to stick it to Oldham after they humiliated us on BT Sport last night! Would snap your hand off for that season this year. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 14 minutes ago, Barnetfan said: Good to stick it to Oldham after they humiliated us on BT Sport last night! Would snap your hand off for that season this year. Cheers mate. Yeah I noticed that Oldham was playing Barnet in real life as I was playing the game live lol. Thanks for the comment. It is always good to know people are reading your progress. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToMexico!! Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 Congrats on the promotion, good luck in League 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 Just now, ToMexico!! said: Congrats on the promotion, good luck in League 2 Thank you buddy. Much appreciated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 Congrats to promotion! Lovin this! Barnet was my very first save when I played Championship Manager for the first time ever, so The Bees will always have a place in my heart will follow this! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 10 minutes ago, Carambau said: Congrats to promotion! Lovin this! Barnet was my very first save when I played Championship Manager for the first time ever, so The Bees will always have a place in my heart will follow this! Awww cheers mate. I always enjoy your career threads so you enjoying this is a big compliment. I am glad you like it and I hope the Bees continue to buzz to your liking 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 Transfers In Season 2 I didn't go crazy with my transfers in season 2 as I didn't want to disrupt the team too much. I concerntrated on players who were mostly released from teams based in London and a few players who have played in the English lower leagues. Here are a few that have done well so far. Luis Brown Played most of the season and has done well so far. A very good central defender who is way too good for League 2. Archie Chaplin Playing alongside Luis Brown is Archie Chapman. I find it quite funny that I got a central defense pairing of a former Arsenal player and a former Spurs player lol. I am amazed they get on so well but they have played very well together. Tom Knowles Knowles has played well when called up with 2 goals and 1 assist in 7 games. The former Cambridge United academy player was signed on a free transfer from Walsall and has done well so far. Brooklyn Lyons-Foster I managed to sign him on a free transfer after lack of interest by other clubs. Their loss has been my gain. He looks like a really good signing but he needs to improve on his performance levels to make it as a first team player for us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 Ryan Cassidy has been a really good free transfer signing with the former Watford academy player getting 9 goals from 15 game so far. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 A lovely 4-3 win for us against Newport County in the 1st round of the FA Cup. We got Boreham Wood in the 2nd round. Hopefully we can beat them and get a big away game vs one of the big teams to give us a nice financial windfall. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 We managed to beat Boreham Wood 5-2. A home game vs Preston in the 3rd round of the FA Cup. I was hoping for a big team at their ground but hopefully we might be able to beat Preston and get through to the next round. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 2-2 against Preston means a replay at their ground. Hopefully a few fans will come to Preston to cheer us on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 (edited) FA Cup journey is over for this season A valiant effort but Preston was too strong for us to be able to handle. A great test for our lads though and hopefully we will learn from it. We are currently 8th in the league at the start of January. We could definitely push on and reach the Play Offs. Edited November 23, 2023 by Ronaldo Beckham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 Barnet Season 2 Review We have somehow got back to back promotions. We finished 2nd so we didn't have to deal with the stress of the Play Offs. Get In!!! Zak Brunt was the star player for us with him getting 20 goals, 10 assists and also got the best average rating of 7.12. Signing of the season was probably unknown Kenyan internation striker Sydney Lokale who my scouts reccomended and he got 7 goals for me with 3 assists. It took him a while to score but he then went on a decent run. I am hoping he will go on to do better next season. Squad Overview We are not able to strengthen just yet as the club are under a transfer embargo due to the Fans Trust trying to buy the club from the chairman. I will let you know how that goes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 I literally clicked the next page and this come up. This is so cool to see. I am glad I am managing a club run by the fans. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 Look who we have just signed on a free transfer!!! DELE ALI!!! I am hoping it is the Dele Ali who was the next big thing for England and not the player he sadly ended up becoming. I hope he can go back to enjoying his football and do well for us. A former England international playing for Barnet. He is valued at £2.7m-£4.5m. If he does well I might get a decent offer for him and I can make some good money from selling him after I resurrected his career. The only issue is that he only signed a 1 year contract despite my best efforts to get him to sign a 2 year contract. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 24, 2023 Author Share Posted November 24, 2023 Another season with Barnet. Another FA Cup run ahead of us. We got Shrewsbury in round 1. I hope we can beat them and have another decent run. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 24, 2023 Author Share Posted November 24, 2023 Part 1 completed with a Dele Ali double getting us a 3-2 win against Shrewsbury Dele Ali started slow with us but the last 3-4 games he has played he has done well and scored some important goals. A difficult away game vs MK Dons awaits us in the next round of the FA Cup. I am hoping we beat them to progress as we need the money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 Dele Alli in League One ? How did you manage that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 25, 2023 Author Share Posted November 25, 2023 On 24/11/2023 at 10:58, Carambau said: Dele Alli in League One ? How did you manage that? He hadn't signed for a club in the previous two seasons. I got the idea from @theBlackPrince who signed him in his save with Boston United. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 25, 2023 Author Share Posted November 25, 2023 My internet went off for 24 hours so I have only just had to post my progress. I was able to play FM offline and I managed to beat MK Dons 3-2 and also managed to beat Luton 3-2 in the next round. We now have Arsenal in an away leg which will hopefully help us massively financially. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Beckham Posted November 25, 2023 Author Share Posted November 25, 2023 We lost 3-2 but what a performance with us being 2-2 up until the 92nd minute. A nice test for our lads. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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