Hi,
First post so I will keep it short.
I started a game with a medium sized database and with the English and French leagues selected. My LLM attempt actually started with me choosing Monaco to manage. They had a decent squad and loads of promising youngsters.
However, this quickly turned into my worst FM experience ever and I had not won a game in any competition by the end of January. Ashamed of this I walked, took a couple of months off and then took over MK Dons who were 16th in league two.
With only 8 game of the season left we were safe and could not go up so I had a little tinker with the next season in mind. Pre-season I brought my first ever Madagascan player and his goals confounded many critics and the new season saw us stabilise ourselves as playoff candidates. A playoff final victory over arch rivals Wycome took us into league one.
The dream continues. In short we were predicted to finish 23rd. The Madagascan got even better, our affiliation with Fulham wielded some class loan players and we were unbeaten at the start of December. Tailed off in the second half of the season but we finished 4th and my status as a demi-god was almost confirmed.
Back down to earth. A heart breaking penalty defeat in the playoff final means we must try again but the bookies have us as odds-on to go up this season. Will keep you updated.