Football Manager 2012..

[Plymouth Gull]

Yeh still doing alright. Realistically 40 points is the target, we're on 18 after 14 games (W6 D0 L8).

Narrow defeats to Man Utd (H 1-2), Spurs (A 3-2 (93rd minute winner for them)), Chelski (A 2-1) and most recently Sunderland (H 2-3) have seen us slip to 10th.

Still, long way to go yet and we're without Rodallega for 3 months through injury, so Franco Di Santo is the lone striker at the minute. Martin Olsson who I signed in the summer is being chased by Spurs..

EDIT: Into January now, sat in 9th place. 27 points picked up from 20 games. I was hoping I wouldn't need to change much of my squad but Spurs have activated a £15m release clause in Olsson's contract, just 6 months after I picked him up for £7.5m. Foolishly didn't realise that I left that clause in the contract, but £15m is a lot anyway, and a decent profit. Just hope it doesn't harm me too much as he has been excellent for me, covering for Figueroa at LB on occasions too, aswell as being part of my front 3. Hmm.

[PlainmoorRoar]

Nick, im getting bored now!

[Plymouth Gull]

Villa were in the BSN?!

[PlainmoorRoar]

yea they had a financial melt down, lost every player!

the squad i got in the BSN had an average age of 20, and had played every relegation season

still got an average crowd of 8K so the budget started going well

[Plymouth Gull]

Haha blimey. Nice footing to start you off then. What gates were you getting in L1? 18-20000?

I've finished my first season with Wigan, finishing a very respectable 10th place. Delighted with the top half finish!

Di Santo hit 17 goals for me, a surprisingly good return as I was going to get rid! Rodallega was rubbish though so I may listen to offers.

As I've said above somewhere Martin Olsson joined me for £7.5m in the summer, and then left for £15m in January, to Spurs. I used that money effectively, bringing in Adam Johnson for £7.5m as his replacement. Quite happy with that swap as Johnson is just better. David Bentley also came in on loan for the rest of the season (mainly as cover as Moses was away at ACoN in January + Feb). He was pretty crap though.

My usual team was;

Al-Habsi

Stam - Boyce - Piscu - Figueroa

Diame

McCarthur - McCarthy

Moses - Olsson/Johnson

Di Santo

QPR, Newcastle and West Brom were relegated, so I've brought in Cheik Tiote for £4.3m, which isn't a bad price. I was beaten to Demba Ba by Fulham, and they want nearly £10m for Cisse, which I don't want to pay. Don't think much needs doing to my squad just yet, the front 3 are quite good, though if the opportunity arises to bring in an extra targetman, I'll try and take it.

I do want to get myself a new right back in the summer though..

[royalgull]

Took over Coventry 8pts away from safety with 6 games to go, couldn't keep them up despite winning more matches than they'd managed all season to that point

However just won League 1 at first attempt with 107 points and got to the FA Cup Quarter Final lost to Cardiff annoyingly having beaten Cheslea away and Swansea at home en route.

Even more annoyingly I've been given sod all finance to add to my squad, lost 2 loan players and sold my top scorer for £1million because the board stepped in and accepted it. Cheers then!

[Plymouth Gull]

Who were you managing before Coventry, Royal? Torquay?

[royalgull]

Always start unemployed mate then take on a challenge which i fancy. Just started the season with 2 away draws and a 3-0 home win. Was offered the Newcastle job but fancy carrying this one on for a bit.

[Plymouth Gull]

Fair enough! Whats your career been so far then? Guessing you're a few years in..?

[royalgull]

3rd season with this game, took over them at the back end of the first season of the game. Won the league so now it's 2013/14 season I think.

After 4/5 seasons on oen game I lose interest as all the good players start retiring and all the fake players start becoming good, can't be bothered with that.

Done 3 good games on FM 12

1, started with Chelmsford, won Blue Square South, had them 12th in BSP, took over Bournemouth, kept them up, finished runners up in League 1, had them 10th in NPC, Took over West Ham, won the league and was 14th in Premiership.

2. Started unemployed, took over Millwall, kept them up, won the playoffs the next season, then finished 16th in the Premiership beating Spurs on the last day to stay up.

3. Current one with Coventry.

[stevegull]

BUMP.

How's it going for everyone?

I'm in season 3 and my QPR team is currently challenging for the Europa League after i finally managed to trim the expensive and overpaid older generation from my team. I've signed a good crop Brazillian youngsters and also some French ones. I've also taken Scott Sinclair on loan from Man City for the last two seasons. Podolski has also just joined me on loan until the end of the season so I'm excited about that!

Joey Barton continues to be a liability and just loves a booking!

What's happening in all your games?

[Plymouth Gull]

Why've you resurrected the FM12 thread Steve, not the Fm13 one?!

[stevegull]

Why've you resurrected the FM12 thread Steve, not the Fm13 one?!

Because Nick, I'm a Grade A fool!