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Rebuilding Stockport County - Season 10 - Added Time! | Football Manager 2019
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Benfica vs Porto Combined XI
@FridayNightFM & @DaveAzzopardi are battling it out in the #OClassicoSave . Benfica are currently reeling from a resurgent Porto and are in pole position to claim their second championship in as many years. Here WeStreamFM selects who would
Rebuilding Stockport County - S10-E12 Closest Title Race In History! | Football Manager 2019
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Football Manager 2019 | Lyon Live #14: £7m Panic Buy? #FM19
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Atalanta Avventura | Part 28: Seventh Heaven
We moved into the new decade of the 2030s on a hot streak of league form and having won all bar two matches thus far in the season. The year began with one of our players winning the European Golden Boy for the first time, which is a bit of a surprise given the rich […]
Nordic Nights | Chapter 10: Comfort is the Enemy of Progress
You join us back in south central Finland, 390km NNE of Helsinki in the city of Kuopio where I'm with KuPS, preparing for my second full season in charge. The journey so far... 2018 - started unemployed (Sunday League experience, no badges) before getting the job at Nosaby IF in the Swedi
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..... so I am Nottingham forest and after promotion finishing 2nd in my first season. my first season in the premier league I...
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It’s finally in video format
Apologies on this taking so long, real life and the like has gotten in the way again (and you’d think it would be more considerate really), but part one of the video series accompanying the posts here will be going live tomorrow, that’s Monday the 11th of March, 2019, on my YouTube Channel at 7AM […]
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[FM19] Return Of The Legends
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1.8. The Playoffs
Contents: Where will we be playing our football next season? 🎵 Suggested tune: “The Final Countdown – Europe (Spanish Acoustic Version)” Having never really expected to have a realistic shot at promotion, I also never expected that I would be simultaneously fighting for my job at the same time considering we were touted to finish in 9th position at the start of the season! Despite my pleas to Senior Concepcion over some tapas and sangria that 4th place was a more-than-respectable finish, the board are convinced that only promotion will be considered as a worthy achievement in our first season at Los Chicharreros. We now move on to the playoffs where we basically have to start over and have 4 games in order to gain promotion to La Liga and potentially save our job here on the island! It has been a epic season, and regardless of whether we gain promotion I think we can take a lot of positives from our performance, particularly from the younger players that have kept us going and put us in a really good position which we would certainly have taken at the start of the save. Xadas has been immense all season, amassing 16 goals and 13 assists in his 38 starts for Los Chicharreros – surely a candidate for player of the season but time will tell! (the fans voted for him anyway :D). Real Zaragoza‘s 5th place finish (interestingly also where they were touted to finish at the start of the season) means that they will be our opponents in the SD2 Playoff Semi Final, with the first leg taking place at La Romareda. The last time I endured a playoff was managing Gateshead FC back in FM18 in the Vanarama National League after a grueling 46 game season (which sadly we lost to Leyton Orient) so needless to say I am keen to get a win and break the MaddFM playoff curse. Zaragoza have a rich history of developing a lot of Spanish and South American talent, and its only upon researching that we discover the likes of Cafu, David Villa, Fernando Morientes, famous extravagant Paraguayan goalkeeper Jose Luis Chilavert and one of my all time CM/FM heroes Juan Eduardo Esnaider (my first ever signing on Championship Manager 3!!) all were developed at Real Zaragoza before moving on to enjoy huge success at club and international level. Thankfully their current squad doesn’t boast the same level of talent – although for some reason they fielded almost two completely different sides against us in each leg! There were some international matches taking place (we were again missing our 1st and 2nd choice goalkeepers in Leg 1 as mentioned in my last post) so perhaps this explains it – either way, after winning the first leg 2-0 (Naranjo, Xadas) – it was too little too late for Zaragoza as we then stormed to a 3-1 victory at home in the second leg to take us through to the Secunda Division Playoff Final; our opponents and the only thing between us and top flight football next season: Albacete Balompie. The Playoff Final It’s a sellout at Estadio Heliodoro Rodriguez Lopez as Tenerife seek to return to La Liga Santander for the first time since the 2001/2002 season when were spearheaded to promotion by a pre-Valencia, Liverpool, Inter Milan, Chelsea, Napoli, Real Madrid and Newcastle Rafa Benitez. Tenerife field an almost full strength side with Fernando Coniglio returning up front to lead the line despite going almost 15 full games without scoring. Xadas and Naranjo have been in decent form for Los Chicharreros, who also give a start to 17 year old German Central Defender Yann Aurel Bisseck after impressing when called upon this season. Albacete have a surprisingly decent side, with key player Nestor Susaeta their strongest attacking threat having already clocked up 19 goals and 16 assists this season making him top scorer in the division (not bad for a 34 year old). Arsenic and Arroyo are also solid at the back, and might feel confident against our Attackers today who have been rather goal shy during the second half of the season. Here is how the teams line out this afternoon: Thankfully – goal shy the game was not!! Despite going a goal behind on 10 minutes, a red card for Zoran Arsenic led to two goals in quick succession by Xadas (including a well taken penalty), and Naranjo added a third just before Half Time to make it 3-1 at the break. Albacete attempted to park the bus and succeeded for most of the second half until the unthinkable happened….Fernando Coniglio, on a 15 game goal drought, popped up out of nowhere and smashed home his 11th goal of the season – crazy to think he had scored 10 goals in 21 and will finish with 12 goals in 36 appearances!! Albacete (worryingly) scored a consolation goal on 88 mins and the game finished 4-2 to Los Chicharreros – advantage us for now! The second leg at Estadio Carlos Belmonte started equally disastrously (might have to work on that) with Gentiletti smashing home on 12 minutes for Albacete to make it 4-3 on aggregate, however an own goal from Blas five minutes later levelled the game, and whatever Manager MaddFM said at half time (in his broken Irish/Spanish accent) must have worked as a resilient Tenerife emerged from the dressing rooms to score a well worked team effort which was neatly finished by Box to Box Midfielder Luis Milla on 49 mins to seal promotion for Los Chicharreros – La Liga football next season confirmed!!! So – mission accomplished for Season One! Our original objective was to get promoted within two seasons, I fear that we may be getting promoted slighthly prematurely as our squad is largely a Secunda Division squad (with the exceptions of Marin, Xadas, Bisseck and perhaps Lasso and Naranjo) – major squad rebuild will be required assuming Senior Concepcion is willing to invest some funds during the summer!! Xadas was also deservedly voted as Signing of the Season for SD2, hopefully he can take that form to the next level next season when we face a much tougher level of opposition in the form of Barcelona, the Madrids, Sevilla and Valencia. And that was Season One! Before we leave it there and the lads head off on their holidays, I think now is a good time to have a quick recap on our original objectives and see how we have been progressing after our first year as Manager of CD Tenerife: Obtain Promotion to La Liga within first 2 seasons – Complete! ✅ 2. Build a concentrated and extensive team of staff with a particular focus on Youth Coaching and Recruitment – Work in Progress🛠️🏗️ 3. Try to sign as many Spanish speaking staff members as possible ✅ 4. Develop a strong affiliate network domestically and internationally, both for inbound loan benefits as well as youth development ❌ 5. Minimum of 50% of all incoming transfers will be paid up front✅ 6. Develop at least one youth prospect or uncapped player to obtain an International Cap for Spain within first 3 seasons❌ 7. Find our “Roy de los Rovers” – an absolute shithouse of a centre-forward the like of which Los Chicharreros have never seen before ❌ Our top scorer wasnt even a Striker – Xadas topped the charts with 16 goals, followed by Coniglio with 12. Much to do here – watch this space! 8. Get the Ireland job and manage both club & country, ensuring qualification for all major tournaments ❌ 9. Sign and develop a young Irish player for the first team and also get him capped by the Republic of Ireland – Work in Progress 🛠️🏗️ Ryan Nolan‘s impending arrival is a step towards this but I am not convinced he will be good enough and will be aged 20 when he gets here. Ryan Johansson is another option, however he has recently declared for Sweden which might put a furhter spanner in the works!! The most exciting Irish prospect I have come across (thanks to @FMCatenaccio ) is Gavin Bazanu, who is a half Irish / half Nigerian Goalkeeper currently on the books at Manchester City. The chances of us getting him are slim however he will be closely monitored – look at those attributes for a 17 year old: So, overall we aren’t doing to badly and by and large the save is going to plan with La Liga football secured for next season! In other news, the aforementioned Manchester City won the English Premier League, narrowly pipping Tottenham to the title by just a single point – Arsenal and Chelsea take the remaining Champions League spots and somehow Chris Wood finished as Top Scorer with 22 goals; explain that! Despite Liverpool not getting a Champions League spot in the league, they will be in the competition next season after beating Juventus 2-0 in the final, two goals from Bobby Firmino crowning them Champions of Europe. Here in Spain, Real Madrid are the champions of La Liga finishing 3 points ahead of Barcelona and 5 ahead of A. Madrid – dreading the thought of playing them next season! Antoine Griezemann was top scorer on 23 goals ahead of Kevin Gameiro on 21 and Gerard Moreno on 19. And I guess that’s it!! Thanks very much for reading, hopefully you are enjoying following our progress and also the content of this blog – any thoughts or feedback are greatly appreciated so I can continue to improve (please comment below!), and as usual likes, shares and retweets etc are very welcome. Can’t wait to get cracking in to Season 2 in La Liga where I have no doubt the going will be tough and Los Chicharreros will have it all to do in order to survive and compete at the top tier of Spanish football!! For now I will say gracias y buenas noches, and once more leave you with this, our goal of the season from Luis Perez: Cheers – MaddFM.
1.7. El Bueno, El Feo y El Malo (The Good, The Bad & The Ugly)
Contents: contract negotiations; signing an Irish youth prospect; the Good, the Bad & the Ugly; self-destruct buttons; promotion within our grasp and the return of Los Vengadores 💪 🎵 Suggested tune: “The Good, The Bad & The Ugly – Flamenco Version” When we last left off, we were sitting joint top of the Spanish Secunda Division (SD2) with CD Tenerife after a somewhat underwhelming January transfer window (considering we had no funds to spend on players) – level on points with surprise leaders Real Zaragoza and only behind them in 2nd place due to the fact that they beat us earlier in the season which as per the Spanish league rules is more important than goal difference in differentiating teams that are level on points (see my last post for more info on this). Speaking of the transfer window – one deal which we forgot to mention and which is part of one of our key objectives for this save/blog was the signing of Ryan Nolan who will join the club at the end of the season when his contract expires at Inter Milan. As suggested by @FMEdmundo, our objective is to sign at least one Irish youth prospect and develop him in to a first time player and eventually a full Irish international, so hopefully he can help us to fulfill this objective and show the same potential that he is currently displaying at Internazionale in real life (great article about the lad here). Just before the business end of the season is about to kick off, beloved Chairman Miguel Concepcion approaches with an offer to sign a new contract at Los Chicharreros – our current contract is up at the end of the season as is usually the case when starting a new FM save. Due to our current league performance, our expectations have risen significantly with the board now expecting us to win promotion at the first time of asking – they’ve clearly forgotten about our initial media prediction which was to finish in 9th place well outside the playoff spots. Having signed a deal worth €7,500 per week at the start of the season, I think €10,000 per week is a reasonable request – not that its all about the money (unless you are attempting Top Notch FM’s money grabbing journeyman challenge – well worth a read here!) – however we will need a solid contract to afford my new beachside villa on the island andif you don’t ask you don’t get 💰. After some table tennis negotiating, Senior Concepcion agrees to our demands and we sign a 2 year deal that will take us up to the end of the 2020/2021 season. Unfortunately the players didn’t react as positively to this as I did, as February saw us take just 4 points from 4 games, a good win against Numancia overshadowed by poor performances against Almeria (H), Lugo (A) and crucially a home defeat to Deportivo La Coruna at the end of the month. A serious injury to key BBM Luis Milla also didn’t help our cause, with torn calf muscle ruling him out for pretty much the rest of the season. March was slightly better but only just – despite going unbeaten for the whole month, we completely forgot how to score goals and managed to pick up 6 points in 4 games, beating Alcorcon (A) and drawing with Real Zaragoza (H), Real Oviedo and Cadiz (meaning Cadiz also take 4 points from us this season). Unfortunately for us – while we were dropping points all over mainland Spain, league favourites Malaga CD were finding form and decided to go on a 12 match unbeaten run which resulted in them flying up the league, knocking Real Zaragoza off the top and making a clear statement on their intent to return to La Liga via the automatic promotion places. We touted Malaga as pre-season favourites at the start of this blog/save, and it seems now they are finally realising the hype and making a late surge up the league. Speaking of Malaga, it was great to see another member of the FM Community also documenting a save here in Secunda Division 2, with @ManagerDiaryUK currently blogging his own save with Malaga at the moment – really cool to read someone else’s journey at this level (even if it technically makes us enemies) and I highly recommend giving it a read here 👍. In addition to Malaga, Deportivo have also started to find form around this time, and as a result the pressure is on to see who will hold their nerve to obtain an automatic promotion place and who will be left to battle it out in the playoffs. El Bueno, El Feo y El Malo (The Good, The Bad and the Ugly) By the end of March we were sitting in 3rd place in SD2, a point behind Deportivo La Coruna in 2nd (I was so into it that I forgot to take screenshots of the league table!) – both of just a few points behind league leaders Malaga. It was here that things began to escalate: El Bueno (The Good) April was a slightly longer month and saw us play five straight league games in a row (not surprising seeing as we had crashed out of the Copa Del Rey on penalties back in October). The good thing about this was that 4 of those games were at home, and not only did we win all 4 but we also picked up a point away at RCD Mallorca who are probably most well known and loved by Barcelona fans due to the fact that they produced/developed both Miguel Angel Nadal and Samuel Eto’o before their respective moves to the Catalan giants. The highlight of this run was an epic hat-trick for Xadas against Cordoba – I probably haven’t mentioned him much but he has been outstanding all season, so far contributing 10 goals and 10 assists to our campaign. The result of this fine run of form in April left us in second place just one point behind league leaders Malaga. EL Feo (THE baD) Naturally it was at this point that FM decided we were doing too well (am I the ony one that has felt that before?!) – not only did our top scorer Fernando Coniglio (who had scored 11 goals up until March) end up going on a 15 match dry spell, the month of May saw us lose all four of our games and most importantly our Home tie against Malaga which effectively was a league decider. Talk about pressing the self-destruct button!! Somehow we only managed to score 4 goals in the whole month which saw us drop down to 4th place – almost certainly out of the automatic promotion places, and with the playoff’s looming it would take another 4 games in order for us to gain promotion to La Liga at the first time of asking. EL Malo (THE Ugly) It was also around this time that things began to get ugly behind the scenes at Los Chicharreros. All that Spanish charm and “looking to the future” contract negotiation talk with Senior Concepcion proved to be quickly forgotten, and suddenly we found ourselves in a highly insecure job situation whereby the board apparently have turned on us and our fate would be decided in our second last game which was an away fixture against Albacete!! As I have said before – if I wasn’t already feeling the heat down here by the Equator, I was certainly feeling it now. We managed a 2-2 draw with Albacete (after going 2 nil up before half time), and Shakespeare himself couldn’t have written a better climax to the tale as our last game of the season (not including the impending playoffs) is the second Canary Islands Derby of the season and the return of Los Vengadores as we welcomed Las Palmas to Estadio Heliodoro Rodríguez López for what (somehow) could be our last game as manager of CD Tenerife. Los vengadores (the avengers) Although we are sure to finish in the playoff places and still have a great chance to gain promotion to La Liga at the first time of asking, somehow I am fighting for my job as we prepare to welcome UD Las Palmas for the second Canary Islands derby class of the season, and look to gain revenge for our 1-0 defeat earlier in the season. A win would see us potentially take 3rd place meaning a potentially easier playoff draw (as we would meet whoever finished in 6th position) – a defeat could see the board decide to sack their first ever Irish Manager and go it alone in their quest for La Liga promotion. I still have no idea how we are in this situation but we will battle on nonetheless!!! Both teams line out almost identically, and even though Las Palmas have nothing to play for apart from a chance to finish inside the SD2 Top 10, they appear keen to seal Manager @MaddFM‘s fate and put a dent in Tenerife’s promotion aspirations which already have taken a hit with the absences of first and second choice goalkeepers Dani Hernandez and Sondre Rossbach whom are both somehow on international duty with Venezuela and Norway respectively! The game started catastrophically for CD Tenerife, going 0-1 down after 12 minutes thanks to a neat header by Las Palmas CB Cala from a corner delivered by Tana. Set pieces continued to trouble the Los Chicharreros defence, and they found themselves 0-2 down on 21 mins when Cala’s CB partner Aythami rose above the Tenerife defence to smash in a header from another well taken corner by Tana, and a disastrous first half led to an absolute tyrannical half time team talk by MaddFM along with two changes in the form of Antonio Marin and Jose Naranjo – desperate times for the Irishman who’s job could be on the line if the result stays the same. Tenerife started the second half much stronger and the double change appeared to be an inspired one when Marin converted a cross from Naranjo (aided by the chest of goal-shy Fernando Coniglio). Marin and Coniglio combined well again on 80 minutes, this time setting up Naranjo with the equaliser on 80 minutes – could there be a comeback on the cards for CD Tenerife? The game looked like it would finish in a 2-2 draw, however it was not over for Tenerife Attacking Midfielder Borja Lasso who stepped up in the 91st minute to absolutely smash home a 25 yard screamer in the top right hand corner (recommend checking it out below). Absolute scenes at Estadio Heliodoro Rodríguez López, and Tenerife emerge victorious in what could be the last Canary Islands derby for a while if Los Chicharreros are successful in gaining promotion to La Liga. So, finally a win after going 5 games without one and more importantly, our job is safe even though overall we finish in 4th position which means we advance to the playoffs and the epic saga that has been Season 1 is not over yet!! In my next and final post for Season One I will narrate our journey through the Playoffs where hopefully we will be able continue our “Roy De Los Rovers” fairytale and achieve promotion to La Liga Santander and commence our quest to dethrone Barcelona and the Madrids from the peak of Spanish football. As always, thanks for reading!! Please feel free to comment and provide feedback (especially if you are enjoying the series), Retweets and Likes are of course always appreciated also. Really enjoying this save so far, so much so that I have to slow down just to blog it all :D. Cheers, MaddFM.
Atalanta Avventura | Part 27: Unbeatable
Last time out I established myself as the greatest English manager of all time by wrapping up a sixth successive Serie A title and a third Champions Cup crown for Atalanta.
Football Manager 2019 | Lyon Live #13: Short of Strikers #FM19
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Many players are labelled as legends at clubs every season but very few go on to become successful coaches and managers.
Rebuilding Stockport County - S10-E10 Gamechanger Tweak! | Football Manager 2019
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Football Manager 2019 | Lyon Live #11: One More Game #FM19
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