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Name: Middlesbrough

Nicknames: The Boro, Smoggies, The Red and White Army

Year Founded: 1876

Stadium: The Riverside stadium

Home colours: Red and White

Away colours: Blue and black

Rivals: Newcastle and Sunderland

Affiliations: Darlington

Legends: George Camsell, George Hardwick, Wilf Mannion, Brian Clough, John Hickton,

Willie Maddren, Tony Mowbray, Bernie Slaven, Juninho Paulista, Gareth Southgate

Most appearances: Tim Williamson - 602

Top goalscorer: George Camsell - 345

Favoured people: Juninho Paulista, Steve Gibson

League: Premier league

Media Prediction:

Team captain: Emanuel Pogatetz

Vice captain: Stewart Downing

Finance

Estimated value:71 million

Loan debt: N/A

Balance: 20 million

Transfer budget: 10 million

Remaining wage budget: 61k p/w

Stadium & Youth Academy

Stadium: Riverside Stadium

Capacity: 35,100

Expansion capacity:

Season ticket holders:

Average ticket prices:

Average season ticket prices:

Training ground: Rockliffe Park

Training facilities: Top training facilities

Youth facilities: Excellent youth facilities & Youth academy

Senior Squad

2 DF Justin Hoyte

3 DF Andrew Taylor

4 MF Gary O'Neil

5 DF Chris Riggott

6 DF Emanuel Pogatetz (captain)

8 MF Didier Digard

9 FW Mido

10 FW Jérémie Aliadière

11 FW Marvin Emnes

12 FW Afonso Alves

14 DF Robert Huth

15 MF Mohamed Shawky

17 FW Tuncay Şanlı

19 MF Stewart Downing (Vice Captain)

20 MF Julio Arca

21 GK Ross Turnbull

22 GK Brad Jones

28 MF Adam Johnson

31 DF David Wheater

Reserve Team

DF Matthew Bates

32 GK Jason Steele

33 MF Nathan Porritt

34 DF Joe Bennett

35 MF Graeme Owens

36 DF John Johnson

38 DF Seb Hines

39 DF Rhys Williams

40 DF Jonathan Grounds

41 MF Josh Walker

Tony McMahon on loan to Sheffield Wednesday

Academy Team

DF Derrick Bassi

MF Kieran Edwards

MF James Gray

FW Daniel Hawkins

MF Kyle Oliver

MF Patrick Otte

MF Cameron Park

MF Connor Sellars

DF Philip Shead

DF Paul Weldon

DF Nathan Bonar

MF Ryan Burton

DF Ashley Corker

MF James Cronesberry

GK Sam Filler

DF Theo Furness

MF Jonathan Harris

FW Gary Martin

DF Jordan Robinson

MF Richard Smallwood

MF Jason White

DF Joe Bennett

FW Jonathan Franks

FW Nathan Porritt

MF Shaun Saiko

GK Jason Steele

Staff

Chairman: Steve Gibson

Chief executive: Keith Lamb

Chief operating officer: Neil Bausor

Chief financial officer: Alan Bage

Head of medical: Grant Downie

Head of sports science: Chris Barnes

Head of physical development: Frank Nuttall

Conditioning coach: Nick Allamby

Senior physiotherapist: Chris Moseley

Manager: Gareth Southgate

Assistant manager: Malcolm Crosby

First team coach: Colin Cooper

First team coach: Steve Agnew

Reserve team coach: Martin Scott

Goalkeeping coach: Stephen Pears

Head of senior recruitment: Dave Leadbeater

First team scout: Gordon McQueen

First team scout: David Mills

Head of academy recruitment: Ron Bone

Academy manager: Dave Parnaby

Academy coach: Mark Proctor

Academy coach: Craig Hignett

Academy coach: Kevin Scott

Key players

Goalkeeper: Ross Turnbull

Defence: David wheater & Emanuel Pogatetz

Midfield: Stewart Dowining & Didier Digard

Forwards: Afonso Alves

Future Stars

Jonathan Franks

Nathan Porrit

Positions to strengthen

Goalkeeper: Ross turnbull is a good goalkeeper but a backup goalkeeper is needed as Brad Jones is not so good

Defence: An extra centre back would be a good addition to strengthen the back line

Midfield: Maybe an extra winger and centre midfield

Forward: Afonso Alves is the better forward but as Aliadiére is sometimes used as a winger a cover forward may be needed

Good Luck!

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Just joined the boro from dominating serie A with inter thought a new change in 2013. So far brought in delph, upson, edwards, convey and this striker which i have forgotten. Best players are wheater and cattermole with lennon looking good. Need to improve left back and striker. Any opinions?

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Just started a season with Boro and the fixture list has been kind enough to throw up the top seven teams in my first nine games, and I'm now perilously perched above the relegation zone.

I've sold on Pogagtetz, Mido, Jones and Turnbull £9M and reinvested in Leo (GK), Thiago Silva (DC) and Falcao (FC) for £13.5M.

Got Juan Pablo Angel and Guillermo Giacomazzi on the cheap as cover, but the less sais about them the better ...

Hopefully I will now turn my fortunes around with a run of "must-win" games. Well, at least that's like real life - every game's a "must win" for the Boro these days.

A problem I'm having is getting the best out of either O'Neill or Digard. Any hints?

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I'm playing Shawky as the defensive midfielder role and either Digard or O'Neill or as attacking centre mid (both CMs, not DM/ACM). Giving the role a fair amount of attacking freedom but neither Digard or O'Neill is rating more than 6.8 so far this season.

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Any advice on who to go for as a left back? Needs to be four/five star, not interested in potential players but someone who can come in and add to the squad, I currently have Taylor and Grounds. Just about to hit the January transfer window of the first season and could raise at the most about £4M. I know Razvan Rat's available at £2.7M and he's ok, anyone got any better ideas?

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Any advice on who to go for as a left back? Needs to be four/five star, not interested in potential players but someone who can come in and add to the squad, I currently have Taylor and Grounds. Just about to hit the January transfer window of the first season and could raise at the most about £4M. I know Razvan Rat's available at £2.7M and he's ok, anyone got any better ideas?

Can you not play Hoyte there? You could perhaps try Stephen Warnock, Jeremy Mathieu or Paulo de Ceglie from Juve. Or maybe Miguel Torres or Marcelo on loan. If these players are all unavailable you could just go with Razvan Rat tbh.

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I found my first 2 seasons with Boro hard but i've found buying young talent like rafael carioca and feghouli are the best way to go. I've just changed my tactics to a 4-2-3-1 using AM's. Found it makes the most of the pace within the side. Currently in 2nd 1 point behind Everton with 22 games played in the 3rd season.

Also make the most of sturridge and bojan being on frees at the end of the 1st season

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Just started season two, I've sold Thiago on for £16M to Arsenal (£10mill profit) and given the squad a lot of depth.

playing 442 diamond:

Leo Franco

Francois Clerc, Robert Huth, David Wheater, Guilherme

Didier Digard

Gary O'Neill Stew Downing

Marvin Emnes

Afonso Alves, Falcao

I've scouted a lot and out of all the players I've bought to reinforce the squad, the following young 'uns look particularly good:

Willians Santana

Sercan Yilderim

Franco Zuculini

Jonathan Cristaldo

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Started as the Boro' as I wanted a challenge as it has worked perfectly, after 15 games I'm second in the league behind Man Utd by 1 point. Brought in some quality players and off-loaded alot of 'deadwood'.

Transfers In:

Jozy Altidore 4.2 Million - Has been a real gem for me.

Bogdan Lobont - 2.1 - Backup currently.

Guillermo Francisco Ochoa - 2.8 - Has been a star.

Andriy Nesmachyi - 1.4 - Got him as a replaced for Potegaz and has been quality.

Lincoln - 5 - No words but Woah!

Borja Oubina -3 - Solid

Transfers Out:

Mido - 4.6 Million to West Brom

Brad Jones - 1.2 - Wolfsburg

Gary O'Neil - 5 - Stoke

Playing a simple 4-4-2 and use Lincoln as the playmaker.

Good luck!

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Just started a game with 'Boro

Transfers In:

Jimmy Bullard - £0 (P/Ex) - Fulham

Neil Alexander - £1.4 mil - Rangers

Pavel Prognebyak - £2.6 mil - Zenit

Thiago Silva - £2.4 mil - Fluminense

Total - £6.4 million

Tranfers out:

Tuncay - £0 (P/Ex) - Fulham

Ross Turnbull - £1 mil - Rangers

Total - £1 million

Team (start of season)

Alexander

Hoyte Wheater Silva Pogatetz

O'Neil© Bullard Digard/Arca once fit Downing(vc)

Alves Prognebyak

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I had an awsome team before my computer crashed now im starting again, it was:-

Gk Labont

D Taylor, wheater, Huth (dont remeber other bloke) also had another dude i rotated as rb Jiranek or something

M Pedro Leon, Palicios(awsome player single hand stop me from relegation) Oniell (but changed him for someone dont remeber who), Downing

FC Marqunios/sturridige, Adrian (best buy i ever bought, scored 47 goales in first season, sensational, bought him for 7m, arsenal offerd me 50m season after)

Well I had a great team i think but my computer crashed, and now i have to start again

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joined at end of first season after southgate sacked and relegation. Got 15 million to spend. Any decent suggestions?

Also what patch? if on 9.2.0 try Paulo Ferreria (you know, the Chelsea one, shocking spelling :p) if he hasn't already moved last season as he was solid for me on my Man City save. Also, try Bernardo from some brazilian team. Has a minimum fee release of about 1.7m and becomes amazing. Maybe Rafael Carioca for 3m minimum fee release?

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Just started my career game with Boro on 9.3.0

Transfers In:

Enyeama - £250k

Emerson - £675k - Milan

Mota - £2.1m

Appiah - Free

Daniel Parejo - £4k (!) - Real Madrid

Tranfers out:

Aliadiere - £3m - Sheffield United

Shawky - £1.5m - Fulham

Brad Jones - £2.1m - Benfica

Chris Riggot - £1.5m - Sunderland

Strongest team.

Enyeama

Hoyte Wheater Huth Pogatetz

Digard Emerson

Mota Tuncay Downing

Alves

I'm just approaching the January transfer window and need to invest as i have a decent budget built up. Would like a new left back and another central defender. Desperately fending off bids for Tuncay and Downing, mainly from Aston Villa! Best performers are Tuncay, Downing, Wheater and Enyeama.

Can anyone recommend a good left back for £4m?

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Just started my career game with Boro on 9.3.0

Can anyone recommend a good left back for £4m?

If you can get Guilherme in he'll do a grand job for you, but I don't know if you'll get him for £4m. I got him for £3.8 from Almeria at the beginning of the first season, so he might have already moved on.

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Hey guys.

In my second season with Boro, after avoiding the drop im now sitting in 8th, just got beat in the FA cup by United, 5-3 after extra time, gutted!

Ive found the besy way to keep success is no matter what dont sell your stars, ive sold Downing/Mido/Alliadiare/Shawky from the original team to bolster my funds and get rid of the 'bad apples' but ive used it to purchase wisely. Im over performing at the moment and currently 3 points behind 5th place (in March).

Team (4-4-2) as follows -

Foster

Hoyte/Dianak (spelling?)/Wheater/Silvestre

Beckham/Digard/Montgomery/Albin (star player)

Ashton/Fleck

Subs -

Brad Jones

C Berra

S Maloney

T Huddelstone

S Parker

Ismeal..something. I forget his name, in the library not as my desk.

G O Neill

Josh Walker (the young chap)

Team may look odd, Ashton was bought to fight relegation but he's on 16 goals for the season and AC Milan and the Pool have been sniffing, Fleck has been outstanding, a very slow start saw him not score last season, this season he's on 15 with 10 assists.

Got Bojan coming in this summer with Carlos Vela just sold in January.

Pushing to stay in the top 10, fairly nervous about next season, ive definitly performed above expectations (tipped to be relegated no less!) and feel the board will ask for Europe.

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Well, summer transfer window has come and gone and im nearing Jan.

New line up is..

Foster

Martin Jiranek/Pape Diakhate, Sebastien Faure (Or Wheather, not sure yet)/Gallas (or Silvestre...)

Ismael Bangoura/Tom Huddelstone/Didier Digard/Juan Angel Albin

Bojan/John Fleck

Subs -

Brad Jones

Wheather (or Faure)

Silvestre (or Gallas)

N Montgomery (Honestly a class act, great defensive mid)

David Beckham

Fernando Forestieri

Dean Ashton

I also have J Hoyte/C Berra/S Parker/S Maloney/ J Walker/ A Johnson who rotate in for games.

Van Der Vaart coming in January for 900k.

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Going to start up a game with the boro tonight

Have got a few games running already but being a boro fan i always seem to play as them first of all, fail miserabley and then give up but im gona have a good go.

First things first get shot of bloody Alves!

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Right finally started a game with Boro last night, didnt realise i would only get £2.6m transfer budget (top half finish)

Ins and Outs

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As you can see ive massively invested in youth and only signed a handful of what you would class as first team players, tried to get delph and mattock butb were quoted ridiculous prices

So far so good results wise

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First and Second seasons were fairly average- came 9th and 10th. Pretty much sold all of my squad and raised about £80 million. I was shocked at how clubs would pay for players if you set the price fairly high. For example Alves £11.25m, Tuncay £8.25, Mido £5m Hoyte £4.3m Pogatez £4.3m, O'Neil and Arca £5m Riggott £4m Degard £8m Huth £6m....the list goes on really. That was all a bit to easy for my liking.

So in these two seasons brought in loads of players.

Third season came 3rd

Fourth season 1st Prem, quarter finals of the Champions League and won the League Cup.

Surprised how easy it was and slightly annoyed how my buying power was increased so quickly. For example Aguero came to me in the fourth season.

If anyone wants screenshots, just let me know and I will learn how to do it !

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After the first season

In

Hamad Namouchi RW 2.1 Million (Tunisian International Ever present on the right wing and best transfer of the season)

Bogdan Lobont GK 1.6m (also everpresent as first team goalie)

Ola Touven AM/FC 6.5m (Brought in in January from PSV as a replacement for Tuncay, Nothing special)

Out

Tuncay 8m (To Everton in January after a meh 3 months at the start of the season.)

Staff

Malcolm Crosby sacked as assistant manager, Replaced with Peter Beardsley

Finished 14th in the premier league and made it to the final of the FA cup before being stuffed by Man Utd

Plans for next season: Get in some decent coaches to replace all the crap ones who were on short contracts, A new left back to replace Poggy a new attacking mid to replace O'Neill, try and clear out some of the deadwood (shawky, riggot, arca, bates crappy youth/reserve players) maybe a better striker to act as a backup/partner for alves. Maybe invest in youth if I can find any decent players

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finally cracked a game with the boro were i wasnt sacked by december. as someone mentioned earlier the best option is to replace everyone but wheater and downing (digard has done the business for me though). Right winger, keeper and strikers i found were a priority as i was at one point third in the league first season with a negative gd. transfers on 9.2 were

In

skjelbred 2.3

kightly 3.5

mosquera 1.8

rat 2.4

lewandowski 900k

labont 1.4 (must buy, fantastic gk)

out

mido 5

oneil 7

riggott 3

pogatetz 4

and a lot of reserve players for about 4 m overall

struggled for goals but backline was solid as a rock and i was 5th in january. Signed paloschi in jan but he performed as poorly as all the other strikers. Went on a typical boro post christmas slump and lost 8 on the bounce and finished in what i considered a disappointing 10th. Cant recommend lobont and mosquera enough, rat won player of the year and felt positive about next season as i got a ridiculous budget of 34m for next season (anyone else get this???)

Bought cardozo, guillherme (left back), acosta on a cheap 2m and sakho coming for 12m in january. 8 games in and Downing starting to really kick into gear, cardozo smashing in goals from every which way and paloschi and lewandowski even grabbing a few. Currently sat in 5th place and feeling pretty positive bout the future. Thankfully alves is going along with a few others in january to balance the books

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Into my second season now, building a fairly potent team, just needs a year to mature and got into Europe first attempt, then they gave me 40m to spend in the second.

08/09 In's:

John Fleck - 2.2m

Davide Santon - 1.2m

Ochoa - 6.5m P/E (Brad Jones)

Kikin Fonseca - 1.7m

Mota - 1m

Oguchi Onyewu - 1.4m

Stephen Appiah - Free

Franco Zucillini - 210k

Razvan Rat - 1m P/E

Nicolas N'Koulou - 7.5m

Guilherme - 7.5m

09/10 In's:

John Bostock - 1m

Daniel Sturridge - Free

Emiliano Insua - 5.75m

Kerrison 15m

Lorik Cana - 7m

Paulo Ferrari - 7m

Out - more or less everyone apart from Wheater/Downing/Digard.

First team looks like:

----------Ochoa--------------

Ferrari-Wheater-N'Koulou-Insua

Mota--Cana--Digard---Downing

---Guilherme--Keirrison--------

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Finished second season in 9th place but got to finals of both cups and won the FA. Foster on a free from ma utd proved shrewd though acosta coulnt oust kightly all season. Cardozo stopped scoring mid season and had another bad slump after january so disappointing end i reckoned. For third season signed laurito on a free and xabi alonso for 24m. Pre season was quality and think i can finsih higher again while having a few cup runs. Reckon it might take a few more years to challenge for title though...

team is

Foster

Hoyte(no idea why i havent signed a right back yet!) Wheater Sakho Guillherme

Kightly Digard Alonso Downing

Cardozo Paloschi( now a wonderkid and AC bidding in the 20s for him)

Reckon its only a matter of time before paloschi has to be sold, same for sakho unless i can have a great season so keeping my eyes open for good english regens

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Whats the point of playing as Boro if you just sell off everyone apart from Wheater and Downing ? Might as well play as another team and buy those two! With that much money from selling deadwood, you could just buy yourself a great side, that would challenge for all the top honours in just 1-2 seasons. Me personally, I would get bored of that game very quickly. Much more satisfying using some of that Boro youth, but each to their own!

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Third season saw further improvement in the league, with a 7th place finish including a lovely 5-0 spanking of newcastle on the final day. Cardozo and paloschi were outstanding, and with only one signing i was pretty impressed with the league position. Spent 10m on a reading youngster who is already better than hoyte at only 16 and was surprised that i managed to hold on to the likes of paloschi and sakho. Injuries alone prevented me from finishing higher, with alonso and cardozo both missing the run in which left me stranded in uefa and fa cups. team is now

Foster (akinfeev signing on in december)

Sampson (Regen) Sakho Wheater Gullherme

Franks (showed remarkable improvements and now keeping out kightly) Digard Alonso Downing

Cardozo (laurito pshing on tho) Paloschi

Finally have some decent players in youth this year with a CB with potential to be sakho-esque and a DM to be one of the best.

In response to your comment deejay10 i actually agree that it would be better if u could make it purely on boro talent, and as a fan thats what i would like to do. However the team is useless bar downing digard and wheater tbh and i didnt get any good youngsters till this season so my choice was bring in new players and wait for good english lads to start coming through or get relegated.

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Started as Boro again on the latest Weegie update, so i have them in the championship.

Im into January on the first season and this is my team so far

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My Transfers have been

IN:

Jay Demerit - 2.2 Million

Mark Beevers - 1.5 Million

Ryan Mcgowan - 350k

Joe Ledley - 3.7 Million

Juan Pablo Caffa* - 750k

Marek Sapara* - 1.1 Million

Leroy Lita - Free

Jermaine Beckford - 2 Million

* = Key first team players

OUT:

Chris Riggott - 500k

Gary O'Neil - 5 Million

Julio Arca - 3.7 Million

Mohammed Shawky - 2.4 Million

Season So Far:

Championship - 2nd

League Cup - Knocked out by Tottenham (Quarter Final)

FA Cup - Knocked out by Aston Villa (Round 3)

Anybody see any rooms for improvement

I have 4.5 Million remaining

Thanks

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