FM 2007 thread.

[grayx]

Recently changed to 5-3-2 with the two wing backs pushing forward and results picked up.  Nicholas is weighing in nicely with a load of assists although all my scouts and assistants don't rate him at all.  Evo does a great job sat in front of the defence but will need to replace him soon as he is not getting any younger.

Haven't had the team come out and be too crictical of my management style yet, maybe I'm too soft on them and need to moan a lot more when we lose.  Have only had a go at them once and that was the last game I played last night when we were losing at half time to bottom of the table Hudersfield.  Scraped a 3-2 win so will see how morale is later.

Have put a load of the transfer list as they aren't in my plans at all but can raise any interest for them so they will just end up going on freebies.  The only decent bit of business I've done was selling Peacock for 250K at the end of my first year as I couldn't turn it down.  Of course with the board I was only allowed about 50 quid of that deal to spend on a replacement.

[flammableBen]

Just going into season 3. Got in Collins Mbesuma, Francis Jeffers and Paul Ifill in when there contracts were running out at there former clubs. Just offloaded Evans (old, been injured), Vincent (Old) and Ifil (not good enough anymore). I'll get rid of Nicholas as soon as I've got any left back cover and Pook and Bronlie as soon as anybody's stupid enough to take them.

Apart from Lee Peacock - who I'll keep for cover and Holgate - who I'll give another season on loan as he seems to be improving. The only other remaining original players I have left - Callum Kenedy, Comyn-Platt, Ben Wells, Aaron Brown (need more cover on the left mid so might keep hold of him), Ricky Shakes, Tom Ahmed, Jake Hyde and Jutkiewicz will all be off soon enough I'd imagine.

Still got £4-5 thousand left of wage budget and £240 thousand transfer budget to spend.

Need a decent Left Back and cover for AMC ML and DM. I'm tempted to play the random unscouted scandanavian youngsters game. Not gonna cost more than £20k and there wages are low.

[jayohaitchenn]

I'm tempted to play the random unscouted scandanavian youngsters game. Not gonna cost more than £20k and there wages are low.

thats how i found andrea russuto and teemu turenen on fm06. Andrea ended up my top scorer 2 years running. can't seem to find him in fm2007 though...

[sonic youth]

i cracked on with my stfc game for a bit earlier, i'd given up because i lost my first 2 games in league one. i hate losing.

6 games in and i'm 18th with 1 win, 3 draws and 2 losses. not too bad really.

i managed to get super sam back on a free transfer, i kept admiring him in the press and luton offered him to me for nowt! only scored 2 in 7 though but my team is shocking at goalscoring, we've only scored 6 in 6.

i had a mini-clearout in the summer, got rid of monky, fola, townsley, caton and a few youngsters

[flammableBen]

I just found a Patrik Turnunen, I wonder if he's Teemu's brother. He's a Left Back which is handy. I'm going for it.

[sonic youth]

ace!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jameswalsh/lutontrust.jpg

[jayohaitchenn]

I just found a Patrik Turnunen, I wonder if he's Teemu's brother. He's a Left Back which is handy. I'm going for it.

Have a look under personal in his profile. eg, jerel ifil has a good relationship will philip ifil etc

[Piemonte]

Sonic Youth - that is ace

[yeo]

I thought they had been trust owned for a while?

[Samdy Gray]

This should be fun

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i151/sam_stfc/swindon.jpg

[STFC_Chris]

Didn't really think this through, did I?

I offered 4 week trials to about 50 players, hoping for about 50% success rate...which I got. So now I have about 20-25 players in on trial but the squad are away on holiday so I can't see them play.

Managed to sign Tom Heaton for £20k, without really meaning to which means all but £900 of my transfer budget is gone and I'm already over my wage budget. Somebody is going to have to go...

[grayx]

Grrrr I'm getting annoyed now.  My board will only give me 70K to spend and about 45K on wages.

Had to release a load of people over the summer and bring in some more free transfers.

Oh well another relegation battle looms.

[sonic youth]

i've got four or five international players and everytime they go away on international duty, the fucking fa don't postpone my matches!

[STFC Village]

Just finished my 3rd season (2008/09) with Swindon. Had an awesome start which had me riding high at the top after 10 games, but then went on a horrible run of 8 games without a win. Managed to make the inspired signings of Antoine Sibierski and Lee Sawyer in January, which got us back on track in the New Year. We won our final 4 games of the regular seaon to finish up 5th, and move on to the playoffs.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b327/village1984/FinalTableL1.jpg

Played QPR, who had finished 4th, over two legs, had an awful start by losing the home leg 1-0. But i was still pretty confident, as our away form all season had been good. I was in for a major shock, though, as my team proceeded to thrash 'Gers 5-0 at Loftus Road Coventry beat Bristol Shitty to make it to the P/O final, as we walked the Wembley way again

Played a 4-2-2-1-1 for this game, abit different to my usual 4-4-2 diamond formation. It didn't work first half, as Kevin Kyle scored to give them a 1-0 halftime lead. Switched back to 4-4-2 for the second half, but Coventry continued to have the upper-hand. With 25 mins left, i switched to 3 up top, Peacock, Younghusband and Sibierski. The move paid off, big time, as Lee P equalised with 8 minutes left, before Sibs found a stoppage time winner

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b327/village1984/PlayoffFinal.jpg

Championship here we come!

[Leggett]

i find that last post is best read with the music from the final scenes of top gun (you know the one, where iceman says to maverick "you can be my wing man anytime" and then maverick says "no, YOU can be MY wingman"