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14th May 2012 SKY SPORTS NEWS Mourinho leaves Madrid Just one day after the season finished, Jose Mourinho has announced he will depart as manager of Real Madrid, with immediate effect. He stated that he wanted to thank the club, wishing them the best for the future, also hinting at the...

Most FM13 players I know are very attacking in their mentality, look for exciting matches and spend big money on front-line, for entertainment value. Am I the only one who gets great pleasure from having a really solid defence? Whenever I'm watching a game and the other team has the ball, I find...

Started a save with Real Madrid and my biggest, and probably only challenge for the La Liga will be Barcelona. My minimum expectation from president Lopez is to win the title first time, presumably I can't finish second and avoid the sack, making the El Classico's all the more crucial. I...

I'm looking for a young deep-lying playmaker to provide short-term backup, and a long-term replacement for Michael Carrick at Man Utd. Carrick will probably go in roughly 3 years, so I'm looking for a player who's about 18, with the most important stats being positioning, and secondly passing...

It's nearly January, I'm Manchester United, 2nd in the table with our main problems being defensively. Should get at least £30 mil Jan budget as I actually made a profit in summer. Was pretty gutted to find that Mats Hummels had signed a new long-term contract at Dortmund. I had him in mind to...

Started a Man United save, Anderson is currently transfer listed and in the reserves. With a value of only about £5 million, the fact that he's still relatively young, and because players like Scholes and Carrick aren't viable long-term midfielders, I feel like I should take him off the transfer...

Hi all - I've started a game and the board's requirements are for me to be playing attacking football. The other philosophies are possession football and defensive football. I know what these are in terms of style of play, but what I want to know is: -How does the game calculate what...

Hi all- when a scout compiles a report on a young player, he takes an estimated guess on the players potential rating. If it's possible, I'd be interested to know what 'he' bases his assessment on and whether it is time specific. For example, at the beginning of the game, Mbaye Niang tends to...

decided to sell Berbatov, I've now got a partnership of Rooney and Hernandez for the Premier League games, but for the ones where I decide to rest my best players (i.e. carling cup, easyish champo league grp games) I've only got danny welbeck + will need one more forward. thought about getting...

Hi all- couldn't see a thread for him so wondered if anyone knows how good jack butland turns out? I think he's slightly overlooked considering you can get him for less than a million at the start of the game. But I spose how good he gets varies from game to game. Thanks :)

Chapter one- the mistake 22nd May 1994 The Cliff training centre I was the first one to walk, with my fellow teammates, through the tunnel that led me onto the field that I had grown to know and love growing up as a kid. It felt very special, very magical, to be walking through it for the very...

Hi all- this is for my story: http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/football-manager-2012-stories/99453-manchester-united-next-generation.html As this game is going to be very long-term based, I'm thinking of selling Rio Ferdinand, hopefully for just less than £10 mil, in order to free up the funds to...

Hi all- i dont know if anyone can relate to doing this, but somehow- when i play fm and one of my favourite players scores, i come up with a song for them. For example, to the tune of hakuna matata (from the lion king) I came up with a chant for Khouma Babacar: 'A-Khouma Babacar, what a...

6th July 2011 SKY SPORTS NEWS In a press conference earlier today, Sir Alex Ferguson has announced that he will step down as manager of Manchester United and retire from football with immediate effect. He said: 'I am so proud of what I have achieved, what we, as a club have achieved, during...

Wednesday 26th May 1999 A pub in Manchester "Beckham, into Sheringham... AND SOLSKJAER HAS WON IT!" Manchester United had won the Champions League for the first time under Alex Ferguson at the Nou Camp. They had dramatically overturned Bayern Munich with two goals in injury time to give them a...