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Quite happy so far. It's took a while for my youngsters to gel but now we are starting to look like a team picking up points and wins over the top teams.
I'm hoping for a top half finish but you never know...
11-29-2007, 01:59 AM
Gundo's FM08 Small club from a small nation European adventure challenge Post #862
The post Odrobéna era started in comical fashion when shortly afterwards his new team came to visit, they got thumped, their boss got sacked with me as the top manager linked to the post, naturally I declined. Pivotal in this victory was the replacement, much cheaper and quite possibly better than the original.
The dominance of the first half the season didn't quite carry over to after winter, probably due to the not quite so suck arse cup. Even so the title was wrapped up with four games to go and we did the double taking the Hungarian Cup too. I was dreading the massive player win bonus, turned out to be £122K overall, although thankfully the prize money for the league was £200K.
Champions league to come next season, our current European ranking is 59 places to 326th with Hungary lingering in 32nd with a coefficient of 8.333. We've drawn some more Armenians and then Sparta Prague, updates to come.
In other news, Croatia won 2012 European Championships, I would have just said what the score was but then I saw that it was lol.
11-29-2007, 02:00 AM
Gundo's FM08 Small club from a small nation European adventure challenge Post #863
Also, I'm 30/40k in the profit for the season with the balance at roughly -110k at the moment. Things looking bright.
I've also began work on assembling my squad for the new season. Signing the players I expect to play a big part onto full-time contracts, with the excess to leave on frees at the end of the season.
11-29-2007, 02:01 AM
Gundo's FM08 Small club from a small nation European adventure challenge Post #864
In the 1st Qualifying we drew Ararat Yerevan of Armenia, they were a useless team and we spanked them 4-0 in Armenia and finished them off 6-0 on aggregate. The 2nd Qualifying was a much bigger challenge against Sparta Prague, we were unlucky to lose 1-0 at home with a disallowed goal and then got a 1-1 draw in Prague, not quite enough
Most annoying was that I was really hoping to reach the 3rd qualifying and be owned hard, it would have been against Real Madrid. On with winning the league again...
11-29-2007, 03:20 AM
Gundo's FM08 Small club from a small nation European adventure challenge Post #866
Well, a good season which ended with promotion. I was top for a couple of weeks, but was in 2nd position for a lot of the season. A bad run of 4 games without a win near the end almost cost us dearly, but the team pulled through and a win on the last day of the season confirmed promotion.
Had a decent run again in the Intermediate League Cup, getting to the Quarter Finals, but we lost to Lurgan Celtic. In the Irish Cup, we made it to a club best of the 5th round, but Ballyclare Comrades knocked us out on penalties.
Financially, the club had a slightly more stable season, breaking about even. However, I had to sell a couple of players to achieve this. I'm arranging as many friendlies as possible against lower league English teams this season to try and make some money. Also, a lot of youth contracts will expire so that should also help.
11-29-2007, 08:23 AM
Gundo's FM08 Small club from a small nation European adventure challenge Post #867
The year started off with me having a few youth players and no one on a senior contract, so I looked around the teams in my new division myself and found a few people willing to join up to create a new squad. Very little staff showed up for adverts so I used the search engine to look for them, other than these things I followed all LLM rules and plan to in the future.
Did rather well in the league that ended up with me being promoted, nothing spectacular happening except ending the season with a 5-0 win against the 3rd ranked team and followed that with a 4-2 win over Moyola Park to clinch the second promotion spot! Cups were rather disappointing and I got thrashed by several grey teams.
11-29-2007, 08:25 AM
Gundo's FM08 Small club from a small nation European adventure challenge Post #868
Your case with Odrobéna brings up an IRL memory: Békéscsaba had it's 'golden team' in the mid-90s, which challenged for the title for a few years. Then Győr bought 7 (!) players from them in a summer. Next season, first day, and a heavily-weakened Békéscsaba kicked Győr's arse 4-0
11-29-2007, 08:32 AM
Gundo's FM08 Small club from a small nation European adventure challenge Post #870
This season started out with me 100k in the hole financially due to promotion bonuses and a wage budget that's under the limit but it still too much for our finances. So I brought in almost no one and a very important MR on loan. Got a new good striker at the very end who got released, he scored two for us in the last game of the season.
To put it simply, the opposition was not improved at all over the second division and for the most part we dominated the first division pure and simple. We did much better in the Irish Cup getting to the quarters and losing due to two players getting two yellows. We were almost always on top in the First and trotted our way to the championship and promotion.
I have a bad feeling that after looking at the top clubs in the Premier Division that there will be a much bigger jump up in talent and I fear us being relegated next year. Hopefully we will make some money no matter what.
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