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The way I play: a Football Manager Story
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Read about my experience with the best football simulator of the world: Football Manager 2009.
Here you can find my stories, my impossible challenges, the winning tactics I created and the players I bought.
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You cannot be serious!
It’s time to tell you about my second season at Peterborough, in this post I’m going to talk about my whole season, a very strange second season, lots of things happened and I really hope you could be interested in. The first thing I̵...
Working on the transfer market
Darragh MacAnthony, my chairman, is a funny man, he gave me the chance to spend 24 mil. on the transfer market, the odd thing is that we don’t have such a huge amount of money in the bank, our balance is no more than 1,5 mil! Gunnarsson I kno...
Planning for the EPL
Yesterday I asked Steve Gatting, my tactical coach, his opinion about our team, to better understand if we were ready for our oncoming debut in the Premier League. Steve didn’t comfort me so much, I was aware we needed to improve our team but...
No time for losers
Last fixtures of the season: We did it! Defeating Plymouth 3-0, we gained direct access to EPL, next year Peterborough United will join top flight football! Man of the match: Nikita Andreev Andreev scored two, Motaeb added another one, Grandi...
A thrilling finale!!
Well, to be honest I would have avoided that, just one match to play and we don’t know yet our final position, above all we don’t know if we’ll be able to have direct promotion to EPL. These are our last results, some up & down ...
Always closer…
Here there are the fixtures you were waiting for, 6 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses inthe league, the top of the table is very close for us but the race for promotion is far from ended, too many teams in few points and eleven games to be played. The ba...
Thank you Darragh!
Yakubu will join Swansea City During a season in the Coca-Cola championship many things could happen, it could even happen that your Chairman decides to sell your best defender, Abubakari Yakubu, my precious right back. I signed Yakubu ...
My name is Boyd, George Boyd.
My next matches were two difficult away games, Newcastle United and Sheffield United our opponents, but I was curious to see if we were already mature to aim for something more than just avoiding the drop. We did two 2-2 draws, both matches had a...
Do you need a comeback?
October was a really good month for us, we started slowly, two draws, with Nottingham and Bristol, then we had a sudden change of pace. Everything happened during the match vs. Doncaster Rovers, an away tough game, after few minutes we were already 2...
Let’s play!
The dawn of a new season. We were eagerly waiting for our travel to begin, even if the odds were clearly against us, I was confident enough for this brand new adventure, a good start could be determinant for the continuation of the year. To be...
…the tough gets going
…and now the end is near….no, it’s not a Sinatra’s song, it’s really the end of this riveting season and we have few key matches to play, these match will decide if this season will be remembered for years to come as a t...
When the going gets tough….
Before our successful Juventus match, we had to play another important game away vs. Fulham, it was the FA Cup sixth round. We did very well and our Dc Leandro Gioda got a deserved MoM, now we’ll have Chelsea in the semi-final. After that the ...
Stoke City – Juventus: a bridge too far?
If we want to continue our european campaign we need to defend our away win (1-0) in leg one, but I’m sure it won’t be so easy, our margin is too restrained. My regular Gk, Pontdemè is out so Olimpa will be my goalie, Celozzi will play a...
Juventus-Stoke City: 1st knockout round ECC
We’re in Febraury now, and the most important match of these months is the big clash vs. Juventus, for sure not an easy draw for us, they have a lot of international experience and we’ll have to play a careful game away from home, then ...
A mutiny at Britannia.
Unhappyness is a dangerous virus that could ruin your team, if you don’t stop it early. We’re in December now and I need to react to a difficult situation before it’s too late. Some of my backup players started, some weeks ago, to a...
Season 3: bringing home more silverware…
First match of the season, the Community Shield, and first trophy for Stoke City, a win over Liverpool on penalties after an even match, well I was a bit lucky but a win is always a win and Liverpool is a difficult team to beat, so this trophy is a...
Third season at Britannia Stadium: here comes the Hulk!
Here we are, for my third season in charge with the Potters, after the unexpected double made last season I tried to add some depth to my team for a season full of fixtures to play, above all our Champions League debut, for the first time in the hist...
Stoke City: season 2 summary
The season that just ended with the conquer of the double for us, saw some remarkable performances from my players, so a brief recap is needed. Key players of the season: Quite difficult to choose, but I’ll try to point out my best men. 1. Joh...
Bringing home the Euro Cup!
The last match of the season for Stoke City finally arrived, we want to raise this trophy, we’ve done so much to gain this final, but Hertha is a consistent and determined team that dosn’t concede many chances to score. As I thought they...
Season 2 finale,Third Act : chasing the Euro Cup
Yes Sir, I didn’t forget it, there’s still something to tell about this season, our run in the Euro cup is not finished and in the semifinal we have to clash with Liverpool, first match at Anfield Road. This time Liverpool players seemed ...
Season 2 finale: Second Act.
I imagine you’d like to know who won the league, correct? Just trying to add more pathos, cause this has been a very strange season ending. But let’s have a look at Stoke and Arsenal fixtures. The table 1 Stoke City 81 2 Arsenal 7...
Season 2 finale: First Act.
In my last post I told you that with 7 games left to play in the League, we were 3 points clear of Arsenal, now it’s time to discover how this season is going to end. Next match at home with Boro, our winger Krivets scored twice and let us...
Roman Holidays: Lazio-Stoke City & other fixtures
Our next opponent in the Euro Cup was Lazio. We played the first leg away and we brought home a deserved 2-2 draw, that let us stay confident for the second leg. The home match saw our total dominance, despite that we were able to win only 1-0, w...
A Night to shine: Stoke City – Stade Rennais
The long awaited match finally arrived, after a not easy 1-1 draw in leg 1, we have the chance to advance to the next round of the Euro Cup, an obliged step to raise our international reputation. As you remember, we come from a period of ups and do...
Still topping the table but…
My team had to cope with some ups and down recently, actually I’m missing Gignac and his natural backup upfront, Marius Niculae, they’re both injured and my attack is a bit lightweight without them. Finally Manchester City put an end ...
Adu agrees to join!
The promising American attacking midfielder, Freddy Adu, is now a proud member of the Potters, he arrives from Benfica for 5,5 mil. of euro, I’m going to retrain him as a striker so he could cover many roles upfront for us, the man I was looki...
January update: Surprise, Surprise….
Are you comfy enough? If not look for an armchair, this will be a long update, I’m going to tell you what happened to our brave Potters in these first 4 months of my second season in charge. Many matches have been played and the most important ...
Season two: a good start!
After lots of planning, finally the new season starts , it’s the moment when everything you built during the summer will be heavily tested by the pitch, the only judge for every football manager, real or virtual… So a good start is the pe...
Stoke City: improving the team for the second season
A complex transfer market session kept me busy lately, the board, probably impressed by my tight control over the wage budget, gave me a huge 38 mil. of euro to spend in new players! Of course I’m not going to spend all that money, it’...
4-4-2: a tactical survey
In modern football 4-4-2 remains the tactical shape that let you fill better every spaces on the pitch, without having world class players, if you’re looking for a safe tactic that let you avoid big holes between your lines, a simple 4-4-2 co...
