Ok first off I'll do like Cody and prove I kept to the rules I set myself. :)

As you can see I've already been playing a while. Next I'll post my transfers and the one that's following. I haven't sold any players, as I didn't think I needed to. There is interest in Michel Rodriguez from Caen, however.

So far I've played 4 friendlies.

I've lost one, to Wisla Krakow, after a 3-1 loss in the penalty shootout. 0-0 at the final whistle.

I've won 2-0 against Wolves, 2-5 at Bastia, and 3-1 against Celtic. I'm starting to fear Cody was right about this going to be an easy league...

Of course, it's just friendlies, we'll have to see.
Next I'm playing Dortmund home. I'm starting 14 year old Belgian GK Gabriel Gulyas in this one. He's had 4 good sub appearances for me so far, conceding 2 against Bastia, but keeping his net clean the other games.
Suleiman Mohammed is a 19 year old Nigerian, who's going to be my captain it seems. My team works better, when I give him the band in stead of Laurent de Palmas.

This is Suleiman's report card, great find, hope he gets a bit better still :p

wtf?? He's awesome

I know! His physical stats are through the roof for a 19 year old. :D

How the hell did u find him!! Ive found quite a good few players. But nowt that matches him!

I've also signed some extra staff:

Ruud = MASTER

I knew about him from my first 03/04 game with FC Den Bosch. He wouldn't come to me there, but here he did want to come :p

I realise now, that I only signed one under 18, so Beardsley will mostly be managing randoms for me now. The only under 18 I have has even become my second choice Gk :)
I tried to get Ben Arfa, Zwikker, and Jo, as I wanted some good young strikers in the backup, but they wouldn't come. I'll see about some in a bit as well.

Originally posted by rpvankasteren
I knew about him from my first 03/04 game with FC Den Bosch. He wouldn't come to me there, but here he did want to come :p

I realise now, that I only signed one under 18, so Beardsley will mostly be managing randoms for me now. The only under 18 I have has even become my second choice Gk :)
I tried to get Ben Arfa, Zwikker, and Jo, as I wanted some good young strikers in the backup, but they wouldn't come. I'll see about some in a bit as well. i always get Zwikker on my man utd game, hes like 14 at the start :p

Dortmund was a good beating, as expected. The first half went better than expected, actually, only conceding the one goal, but my young GK finally really cracked under the pressure of Koller and Addo after half time. My first GK, Padovani, kept a clean sheet afterwards, so good result really, and the crowd turn up was good as well :p

After selling Rodriguez to Caen for £45k, I signed this guy for £65k:

I won my first match away at Ajaccio, 0-1. Nothing special.

Update after 10 league games. First the results:

This adds up to these standings:

I got this message after the Sannois match :(:

god, you play much better than I do (my board is already unhappy)

But his performance is still pretty good :confused:

(after 10 games)

Originally posted by PSVFOREVER
(my board is already unhappy)

My board is just satisfied, the supporters love me though :)

Halfway point. I think I might come out on top at the end of the season (:/)

Games I played since earlier today:

My board was just "Satisfied" at one point. now there happy with me, but the fans have always loved me. :D

My last match, the team was playing like ****, and actually fell behind. I was 'worrying' I might even lose this game, but suddenly they started playing their usual game...

By now, the board also loves me. The scene however seems to have their doubts:

you seem to be doing very good, keep it up.:rockman:

Target reached! 9 matches to play in the league, and I've become unreachable to all the others. My championship match against Raon-l'Etape was a tribute to the season. Good to be back in form, as I was 'struggling' a bit earlier on, with two draws and a loss in a small period of time. I've got the quarter final coming up for the French Cup, against Laval. Only 4 teams from the First League still in it, but three will probably make it through to the semis, as two face each other, and two face non-league sides :|...

god, you're too good. Who do you play in the quarters?

Laval away, I lost 3-0. I'm only human, I guess. :p

The money is always useful, though :rockman:

Season's over. I dropped some more points, but the end-of-season effect didn't cost me too much:

My players got pretty good ratings all year, especially Marsiglia:

Here's the reason why:

Wow, 102 pt's, amazing Ruud. (Y)

(H)

I'm actually quite unhappy with my defensive players. Both losses and one of the draws were due to stupid red cards my defenders were dealt. That's what happens with young defs, I suppose...

How the hell got Marsiglia 54 goals? He's a midfielder:o

That's my tactic. I have the MC running forward when we're in possesion, and it suits Marsiglia very well. He becomes the most forward striker, really, with Kristjánsson and Zoko a little further to the side and back.

The team of the year, and player of the year, domination :):

Very good, damn Ruud do you have a job or go to school:crazyboy: You went thorw 1 season very quickly, its takes me a while to get thorw 1 season.:o

I was off the whole weekend, and monday's I only have 2 hours of work, so that explains that. I'll slow down now, probably :jap:

I've been given a £2.1M transfer budget, which was boosted by the sale of De Palmas for £925k +50% to PSG. I also had a big boost in wages, so I decided to expand my player-count. I brought in these:

New update. I have one transfer arranged for the winter. Strasbourg came to me with this offer. And although Zoko has been exceptional for me, I don't see this deal getting any better. :)

These are the standings one third of the season gone:

And how I got there:

Carlier (Y)

I know :shades:

He scored 228 and gave 117 assists for my team in 241 (81) matches

His coming and Zoko's leaving alos solves the problem of having 4 non-eu players in my squad. I'm just as happy about that as about Carlier's individual quality.

Next update!

Games played:

The standings:

Carlier is a starter already, but he gets tired fast, due to his age. I'll rotate him and Villanueva for the rest of the season:

yes Rudy Carlier :D

and isnt it so UN surprising that freddy adu is in the news...havent we expected that for years

btw did you get thrashed by Monaco or did u thrash them 7-0 ?

infact i dont think you need to answer that...i just saw that you beat angouleme 7-0 so i would say that pretty much explains it...

btw what happened in the game that Rudy got a 4 ? the game against lorient...

Yeah, Monaco are absolute crap in my game :S

As for Rudy's 4: The whole team was crap in that match. It ended 0-0 because of my GK, Lastuvka.

Second season over. My team did well. First title was the League Cup (I have my GK on penalty-duty):

Second was the league title (check Monaco :rolleyes: ):

Average ratings in the league:

Goals in the league:

Team of the year (not as dominant this season):

Third! title was the French Cup:

And last the final fixtures:

******* hell, well done Ruud!

pat on the back

TROD.

Guy is a master at ths game :Bow:

nice unbeaten i see. quality

Thanks :shades:

I feel very good now. :p


And the money is soooo good...

2nd League title: £535,000
French Cup: £1,200,000
League Cup: £1,500,000

Plus I had steady gate receipts at ~£500,000 per month all season :D

Another half a season done. I'll give you a bit of an overview again.

First the transfers:

Which gives me this for the first team:

The current standings after 18 matches played:

And the games I played:


(I'm still in all the cups :))

I'm up against Besiktas in the next round of the UEFA cup. More serious competition. They have just 14 regular players, so it's a bit of a long shot, considering all the randoms there, but I think I can do it.

It's the 1st of January. Mexès has arrived injured (:/)... only 5 days though. phew. At least the commercial manager was content :rolleyes:

Rudy Carlier got some acclaim as well:

Great work man (Y)

Thanks :)

New update, I was knocked out of the league cup by Montpellier after penalties, meh...

5 weeks later I was offered the position of manager for Cameroon. With the World Cup coming soon, and the group stage they had drawn ((H)), I decided to extend my game by a tournament.

League and French Cup going very well. I'll post about those when I'm kicked out/finish.

you should get through ruud.

TROD.

I know. It's between me and Paraguay. I give myself 1-4 odds.

Obviously the bookies think different:

Cameroon is a good squad, I won Africa cup 2008 with them, and ended 3rd in WC 2006. (In my Strasbourg game)

I'll come back to the WC later, as I haven't played it yet, and Cannes is more important here anyway.

After being forced out of the League Cup thanks to my excellent penalty takers, I was left battling on three fronts only. First to be decided was the league. I'll post the final standings only, but it was decided the afternoon before my 32nd match, against Sochaux away. On this afternoon Auxerre, number 2 in the rankings, and playing the 33rd match of their league ties, had to face 3rd placed Guingamp, away. They took a 0-1 lead, early in the game, but after the break Guingamp hammered them down to a 4-1 loss. It was the 22nd of April. Our match ended a 1-1 draw, the last points lost this season as it turned out.
It didn't matter. :)

Final standings:

Next decider was the 24th of May in Rotterdam.

I had to play PSV in the UEFA Cup final.

The semi against PSG had been quite close, losing 2-1 away, and having a penalty against the 80th minute of the home/return game, at 2-0 at the time. My GK, young Belgian Gulyas, held it and Kristjansson finished it off 2 minutes later.

The final was lots less even:

:kader:

how dare you:kader:

PSV's manager thinks it was a fair result :read:

The fans had a ball as well :p

Then there was one left, the French Cup, the 3rd of June.

I wasn't going to let this one get away, of course, after recent successes:

Fans were less extatic, but still happy...

My players got quite some rewards as well.

1: Jasar Takak, best foreign player.

2: David Hernandez, 2nd best revelation of the year.

3: Gabriel Gulyas, most promising player.

4: Star of the year, Porarinn Brynjar Kristjansson.

5: Me, manager of the year (and also the season).

lol at Rudi Völler...

Team of the season, back to the old days...

Average ratings:

Top goalscorers in the league:

Why didn't Carlier get into the Team of the Season? I have no clue...

Finally: the fixtures list.

Now on to the World Cup.

Three of my players were selected by their national managers:

Phillipe Mexès, Suleiman Mohammed, and Jan Lastuvka.

Not too many, thank you, as I still had to play the French Cup final without them...

Ok, I've finished my game :(

I came to the world cup having been asked to reach the second round. As I said earlier, that shouldn't be too hard.

First game was Paraguay. My GK scored an own goal to get them up 1-0, well it was a deflected free kick really. My young striker Vincent Péricard scored 2 on his debut to keep the 3 points with us. Good performance all around, but the defense looked a little bit unreliable, really.

Second was Guinea, who were beaten 3-0 by Holland in the first match. The only highlight in this match was an excellent free kick by Achille Emana from the edge of the 16 yard box, a little left from the center of the opponents goal. Oh, and a fierce tackle from behind by Samuel Eto'o, injuring an opponent and earning him a yellow.
Holland had drawn against Paraguay, so I had qualified from the group stage already, needing a draw against Holland in the 3rd match to win the group.

Then Holland. This was always going to be a hard one. When my right back, Jean-Noël Perrier-NDoumbé, fouled Makaay in the box after 6 minutes, earning him a yellow which would have concequences later on, the lead was easily obtained by Holland. The match played out rather even, to my surprise, and my DMC Valéry Mezague was able to draw us level just after half-time.
Then there was my right back again. He complained about an offside call once too many, and he was sent off. Crap. Luckily I had Rigobert Song on the bench, so I brought him on for Samuel Eto'o. Which annihilated my chances of winning, but I was quite sure we were not going to lose. And we didn't.

In the second round I had to face Senegal. The game was very uneven, and I'm sure we would have scored a couple more if I hadn't taken off both my strikers and my GK to give some others their debuts.

Real opposition again in the quarters, facing the generic side of the U.S.A.. Thank you SI and MLS for your conflict. The match was completely theirs to be taken, especially in the first half, if only they had scored some. When Geremi scored a lucky long range effort, a couple of minutes before half-time, their side looked like it was demoralized. They couldn't get a good attack afoot in the second half, and my team didn't do anything at all. Only Eto'o, who earned himself his second yellow of the tournament, meaning he was suspended for the semi final. Later in the match my other striker, Péricard, got injured, resulting him to be out for a month.

I was to face Mexico in the semi final. They had gotten some ok results against South Korea and Germany, but we should have been able to beat them. If we had any real strikers left. My backup strikers were my starting MR, Emana, and ML, Thomas Job, who are excellent on their favoured position, but not as good as strikers. I had rated them better than this when I selected my squad. My two backup wingers, Eric Djemba-Djemba on the right and Pierre Wome on the left, did an excellent job replacing them though. This led to a game that saw many many small chances for my two "strikers", and 2 for Mexico. They played very professional counter attacks, and we lost fair and square.

The last match then, the 3rd place playoff. I faced France in this one. They had an almost completely fit squad, and it was very good to beat them. The only one to be a bit doubtful was Vieira who started with a fitness value of 61.
They started the match off in a high pace, but my ML, Job, proved that he did know how to finish a good long run off. Vieira was bravely tracking him the whole way from the center of the pitch to the left edge of the 16 yard box. There Job left him standing and passed my Cannes player Phillipe Mexès like he wasn't there. No really, he ran straight through him. The finish against Barthez was an easy one. Vieira soon had to leave the pitch, when he received a push from Geremi, who collected his 2nd yellow of the tournament there, and will be suspended the next time I touch that game. The game then became more even. Until Pires' red in the second half, for kicking at my right center back, Lucien Mettomo, ended their resistance. We got two more goals after that, but they didn't really do anything anymore.

Obviously, I wasn't sacked after the tournament.

Rounding off the game, I'll post the full squad that was to start the next season, first team, reserves, and under 18s (who won the u18 championship as well last season) all together:

One future transfer, I've tried it before, but now I was able to sign him. Again his contract expires:

The finances I end the game with:

And the very last one, the title odds for the 06/07 season:

how did you get your reputation up so much :O

ive won the italian cup, the uefa cup, and both super cups in the last two seasons (08/09 now. 6,5 and 4 were my latest league placings) and i still dont even get a mention in the odds :rolleyes:

I don't know, I'm not a bookie. :confused:

My guess would be your reputation is lower, because you haven't won the league yet, and possibly neither have any of your players. The last year, the bookies noted me either 500-1 or 1000-1 as well. Now I won UEFA and the league, and it's up to 7-4 (1 new signing (Roncatto), 1 departure (Faubert)).

nice challenge and nice result, but you do know that you're winning these games with a crack in the pavement of tactics management....

considered a cheat on most forums, in fact...

i've participated in a few official challenges already in which this "running" midfielder tactic is simply prohibited...

lol, nevertheless, you did well, with some very nice finds, although again using thorarinn (note the spelling, lol, it follows icelandic pronunciation) brynjar kristjansson does not show too much talent finding skill either

would be good to see an "official" challenge here in which members can participate against each other...

I do know about the running mid, but I'm not going to drop my CM4 tactic. My tactic existed before the 'cheat', so I don't think it's cheating.

I never used Kristjansson before this game, and he was all that wanted to come to me. I needed some attacking strength. Carlier wanted to come, but I couldn't afford him with my funds. When Strassbourg offered him, I took him gladly.

Originally posted by rpvankasteren
I do know about the running mid, but I'm not going to drop my CM4 tactic. My tactic existed before the 'cheat', so I don't think it's cheating.

I never used Kristjansson before this game, and he was all that wanted to come to me. I needed some attacking strength. Carlier wanted to come, but I couldn't afford him with my funds. When Strassbourg offered him, I took him gladly.

lol, i was not calling you a cheat - no worries, i figured i might antagonize you a little, but was too tired to edit my post... ;)

but my point was simply that this is sometimes considered a a cheat in official competitions... (between cm players)

i don't know carlier, but then i usually just play the english leagues, with no other league... and i'm playing one now, and carlier isn't there... :(

kristjansson is a legend ;)

like thorhallsson (note spelling :P) in cm4

All Icelandic players are heroes in CM 03/04. :p

I made you a corrected version of your sig, btw. It was too big for this board (300x100 pixels max). URL is under right click / properties.