Scoham

We're moving into a new stadium in 2 years time, 'San Marino Stadium' like a few of you have had.

Its insane though that they've taken out a £13m loan for it yet I've got a transfer budget of £30k. We're in Serie A after 2 consecutive promotions, we need a good budget

Scoham

We survived in Serie A, finished the season quite well beating 3 teams in a row, 2 of them being top teams (Roma and Inter). There's talk of a supporters group thing taking over the club, after only 3 years since the last takeover, and its not as the chairman wanted to leave. We're in debt though and only got £50k for a final league position.

Hopefully the new sponsor and TV money will be a lot more, and the takeover invests some money, though I doubt that will be much.

Marc Dobson

After reading this thread, I decided to start a game with San Marino.

Managed to buy a few decent youngsters in the first season from France and Poland and finished 3rd and lost in the play off semi.

2nd season managed to finish 2nd and got promoted to Serie B.

However my star defender has decided he wont sign a new contract and wants to leave the club, with only 1 year left on his contract I managed to sell him for 950K plus 50% of future transfer.

Its going to be a tough season I feel

Scoham

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They were so close They lost the last two games. Their manager still hasn't left, should retire in the next few seasons.

As for my club side, we're about 6th in Serie A, so comfortable and with a slight chance of Europe if we can keep it up.

We need the new stadium, only 7 months until we move in, as 7000 capacity is being filled, but the lowest average attendence is still just under 14000, which is higher than the capacity of our new stadium.

Scoham

Finished 7th in our 2nd Serie A season, so should now be in the UEFA Cup, if not Intertoto at least.

Moving to our new stadium in June, should generate a lot more income next season \o/

The Charlton job came up last season, will be the only club I will leave for, but it seems I wasn't well known enough in England does mean I can continue this challenge though. Hopefully we'll get our youth academy back after it was closed down to save money.

Scoham

Finally got the national team job, got the end of June and thought I'd check to see if their manager had a retirement date, and realised he had already gone.

Luckily had a save from the end of May, after the season had finished, so checked the date he was retiring on, got to that and applied for the job. They offered me the job, sorted out the staff, with most of them already working for me at the club.

Most of the players in the squad play for me or have done in the past. There doesn't seem to be any good players in the u19s or u21s, though I've got some scouts reporting back in case one or two have potential.

jamesf18

Giving this challenge a go and am on the way now. Will try and get some free transfers i, the squad is really weak in some places. Interesting to read the success of some people here.

Scoham

Doing well at that moment, although strikers keep getting injured

We qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Cup, beat PSV 4-0

We're also filling the stadium every home game (well close to capacity), making a lot more from ticket sales and season tickets now.

Got some good signings in after selling a 19 year old Norwegian striker I signed in January on a free for £10m. He did ok but I could replace him easily enough. With that money I signed a replacement, a new left winger to replace a loan signing that did well last season (but didn't manage to sign), a new right back, a promising Brazillian left back, commonly known as Carlos ('potential to be a leading Serie A left back, the scout reports said) and good DC/DM. Add to that a couple more signings and the squad is quite strong now :cool:

jamesf18

Finished 6th in my first season, behind playoff spot on results between teams. Gutted but determined. Although have no cash for transfers and loosing money every month it seems.

Tommy Hoiland looks as though he has been my best signing. Managed to pick him up for 5K and now loads of teams are in for him.

RufftyMan

Well i had kinda lost interest in FM again for the second time with this current version, so i decided to have a little go at this challenge.

So anyways, so far i'm just coming up to my first league game with a so-so pre-season, using a 5-2-3 formation. Played well in the Serie C Cup group with a 1-1 vs Pisa, 0-2 L vs Ancona, 4-0 W vs pistoiese and a 3-0 W vs Prato. It put me second in the group which wasnt too bad i guess.

Signings so far have been:
Aitor Fresan (Tudelano) £65k
Davide Giubilato (Napoli) £3k
Ismael Ehui (Fulham) £20k
Gianfranco Nardi (Free)
Jan Budtz (Doncaster) £1k

The most impressive so far being Ehui due to the fact that after settling in, bagged 5 goals in his first 4 games in the cup.

Anyways, if anyone is interested to know how things go, will keep posted

YNWA