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Decided that I would take the task of being Liverpool Manager. Hard I know but still, I was asked to get a Continental Finish through the League but for some reason the Board said they had the minimum requirement of reaching the UEFA Cup in the League.

Tranfers

This was a really weird one, I saw that moneybags Man City were interested in Jermaine Pennant for some reason, I didn't need him so I thought I would offer him for £11M to them. For some reason they bid it so I accepted it like a shot and he was on his way. I would have offered to carry him there for £11M lol. The only other notable departure was Yossi Benayoun for £7.5M to FC Porto, he went in January, I did see him part of my plans at the start of the season however he did not play very well and became annoyed at the limited amount of first-team opportunities. I never keep unhappy players where they do not want to be and FC Porto made an offer that I really could not refuse.

Onto the Arrivals, Gonzalo Higuain was the first for £9.25M, the Wondeerkid was brought in to replace Pennant and be a rotation player with Dirk Kuyt. Mickael Chretien was the next which would sort out out Right Back problem. In January after not having a good League campaign by that time I new I needed to strengthen team. The board were kind for once and gave me an extra £20M to spend, that went on Simao, I needed another winger of some sort because the crossing into the box was really crappy. Rodrigo Palacio was another arrival which we really did need as we were just not scoring the goals we should do, I was hoping he would fire some goals in for me.

Premier League
Pos 6th|Pld 38|Won 17|Drew 13|Lost 8|For 50|Ag 31|GD +19|Pts 64

Very disappointed with the way that we performed in the League. Annoyed at the fact we do not have Champions League football next year, so I will be looking to win the UEFA Cup. We just did not score the goals for some reason. We just lacked in that department. It was hard to get Torres scoring, also getting Keane to score is nearly impossible, just like real life eh? Anyway we finished 6th in the end which by January I would have taken it because we were in 9th at that point however an unbeaten run of 14 games seemed to help. Drawing is a problem as well, I kept drawing 0-0 or 1-1 which was annoying because I dominated the play. All that aside I somehow did not get sacked, yet, so I am looking for a top 4 finish next season.

League Cup

I decided that I would play my youngsters, just like Arsenal do in real life and in all fairness, it didn't pay off. The board really did not care what I did in the Cup so I thought lets give them some experience. It was good for the first game as we got through, then we met a full strength Newcastle United and the youngsters could not pull off a win. The score was 2-0 to Newcastle, but in all fairness, it could have been more.

FA Cup

We did brilliantly to get to where we did. I played the youngsters for a lot of it as we did get a really kind draw. The best team we had to play was surprise surprise Newcastle in the semi-finals which we beat them 2-0 however I had an almost full strength team out because I knew that this was our only chance of some silverware. In the final I met a brilliant Arsenal. Not only had they won the Premier League with only 1 lost all season they were also going home with the FA Cup by really out-playing me all over the place. The performance really wasn't that bad, it was just Arsenal's was terrific. So no FA Cup win for us unfortunately. An uncharacteristic Gerrard showed his frustration as well.

Champions League

We were playing really well in the Champions League group stages, we managed to top our group which had Bayern Munich, Zenit St. Petersburg and Galatasary. This unfortunately pitted me with Barcelona which I was disappointed to say the least. At the Nou Camp I was really out played, we managed to get an away goal though and the match finished 3-1. At home after 12 minutes I went 2-0 up and at that point I was going through on away goals, yet you know what Barcelona can do and they did it. Even with me playing by far the better at home Rafael Marquez managed a 30-yarder which sunk us. We tried top get another goal to take it to extra time but it didn't happen.

Key Players

Steven Gerrard

Games 48(2) | Goals 13 | Assists 4 | MOM 8 | Av. Rating 7.28

Ryan Babel

Games 43(4) | Goals 7 | Assists 9 | MOM 6 | Av. Rating 7.04

Fernando Torres

Games 36(8) | Goals 18 | Assists 6 | MOM 3 | Av. Rating 6.94

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Next Season: I will be chasing a top 4 finish and win some sort of Competition for some silverware

Summary of end of utd first season.

Transfers

Was happy with my signings, got a few youngsters in and Balotelli has probably been my best. Aguero unfortunately been an injury problem this season.


Champions League

Started off difficult when I had Villareal, Juventus and Cluj in my group and only got through 2nd place but luckily drew Porto instead of a bigger team. Beat them, then had Barca who were much more difficult but couldn't stand in my way. Real Madrid in the semi final and managed to beat them 1-0 at home with Rooney scoring, and got a 0-0 draw at the bernabeu to go through to the final, where I beat Arsenal 2-1.


Fa Cup

Don't remember too much about it but I know I mostly got high placed championship teams or relegation battling premier league sides. Beat Chelsea in semi final and beat Villa in the final on pens.


League cup

Knocked out in the 3rd round to Chelsea by playing youngsters while they played their best team. Was 2-2 and they beat me on pens.

Super Cup

I dominated Zenit but couldn't break them down and was 0-0 and went to pens and lost 8-7.

Community Shield

Way to early to remember but I won 3-0

Club World Championship

Beat some team 3-0 in the semis with Balotelli getting a hatrick and beat osaka 4-0 in the final.

The Power, that's a lovely presentation of your season there. Although your results have been quite unsatisfying I must say. I bet you must have been gutted to get Barca so early in the CL stage. Did Barca eventually win it in the end? I think Torres' performance throughout the season seems a little beelow par, however, you should be getting some silverware if you can get things right next season.

Any plans on signings?

RD4L: A not so good presentation, spoken in terms of markup etcetera, but your results have been pretty good! what formation and tactics are you playing? Also, how are your strikers performing?

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RD4L: A not so good presentation, spoken in terms of markup etcetera, but your results have been pretty good! what formation and tactics are you playing? Also, how are your strikers performing?

K, I'll work on it =) I usually play 4-4-2 with right back and left back with arrows forward and the same with the wingers but I like to keep it as simple as possible.

Rooney scoring about 20 goals that season and being top scorer for me pretty much sums up that my strikers were missing a lot of chances.

Anyway i'm in September in my 2nd season and i've won the community shield by beating Arsenal on penalties and won the super cup beating Shakhtar 2-0. I've signed Rene Adler for £20m, Fazio is coming in at January for 16.75m and i've also signed this spanish left back regen who looks a great prospect.

i need help with my grammer and spelling as i am dyslectic i will do all the writing i just need someone to correct the mistakes i make could someone please help me with this.(if you dont mind doing this can you pm me

Derby County

I'm always Derby on my first game, and 2009 will be no different.

First Season
Well the first season went really well IMO. Had a bit of money to spend, about 2 million, which i thought was reasonable. I decided to concentrate on the defence, and not conceding which worked quite well. Here are the signings i made:






Emiliano Insua: (LB) Great loan signing, played in nearly every match and was extremely reliable and solid. Would buy him permanently but is out of my price range.

Beto: (CB) Solid centre-back, very cheap, and his value has shot up, but i don't think he'l cut it in the premiership.

Michael Morton: (DM) A mate told me he was good, so i thought why not. Looks decent but got injured for 6 months! so cant make a judgement yet.

Alain Nef: (RB) Fans Player of the Year. Awesome right back, played nearly every game as well, was solid chipped in with plenty of assists.

Tomas Guzman: (AML/C) Was co-owned, so signed for 600k in total and worth every penny. Scored a few wonder goals and plenty of free kicks, as well as regular assists. Flair player who creates something out of nothing.

Diego Tristan: (ST) Considered buying him, thanks god i didn't. Loaned him, he played about 5 matches and i got rid of him. Looked awful for me.

Abreu: (ST) Top scorer. Quality player, not sure if he can handle the prem though.

Alexander Tettey: (CB/DM) Only signing in January as i needed another centre-back. Played really well for me in defence, relatively young as well.

Other notable players

Emmanuel Villa: (ST) Second Top scorer, played well all season.

Rob Hulse: (ST) Was my back up striker all season, but scored lots. Would make a good striker for any Champ. Team.

Kris Commons: (AM LRC) Great winger, can play on both sides. Got the most assists. Would recommend to any championship team.

Players Out

Needed money for transfers, so got rid of as many as i could. Glad to have got that much for Bywater, Teale and Leacock. Wasn't sure about selling Nyatanga, but he wanted to go so managed to squeeze 3m out of QPR.

Final Table




Was very happy with that. Reading were awesome all season, although i did mange to beat them 4-0 . Beat Forest three times as well, once in the cup. Was close to Reading all season, but then i lost 5/6 in a row, and only just finished second after changing tactics. Went out straight away in the league cup, which the board weren't too happy about. Then lost to Wolves in fith round of FA Cup.

(bolded that, just in case you've lost a few in a row and don't know why. I definately recommend changing your tactics)

So now im in the Premiership . But, the board have only given me 3m to spend, and a 350k wage budget. So far i have signed Daniel Sturridge for free, and Nordtveit from Arsenal (payed for last season). Let's see what i can do .

i think that the best fm 2009 story i have ever read is the one with benitez being sacked for having a affair with hicks' wife. read it, it is great!

Just took the Bath City job on 22nd october 22nd after 11 games i have set my sights on 7-8 players as i have 16 and 5-6 arent good enough for BSS won 1st game 2-1 at home to Hampton AFC Wimbledon away next up am going to try and get top 5 this season if i sign striker im after will be no problem

EDIT: Gutted 1-1 with AFC in 85th min i went defensive and in 91st i broke but striker hit post 92nd they score 1-1 the final score still im out of relegation zone now with a game in hand on most clubs round me and AFC are flying in league so did well considering

ginnypig, that's a really nice set out season with Liverpool. Well done, you should be pleased with the result. I had a Liverpool game ^^^ (3-4 posts above) didn't really go to plan, however reading your summary I have a feeling to go on and try a new season with them.

Here goes my attempt then. I plaigerised from the Powers excellent Liverpool review, so I hope he doesn't mind!

...Pre Season/Transfers


This message was edited by Huzzer1878 on Feb 07 2009.

This message was edited by Huzzer1878 on Feb 07 2009.