My First Ever Attempt At The Sir Alex Ferguson Challenge

[DannyC99]

Great read, have just caught up! Improving year on year....

I managed to win the league by 1 point in my first season over City!! Let's see if I can keep that up.

I started off unbeaten for about 14 games and didn't concede in about the first 6 games.
Wilson & King bagged about 65 goals between them.

Good Luck!

 

[jonysilva17]

Amazing story bro! Can you share the save file pls?

 

[FM_TNSSO]

August 2022

DannyC99 - "Thanks for reading mate. I do love Wilson on this game and this season he is proving that he is not ready to be relegated to the bench by Fiete Arp just yet"

jonysilva17 - "Thanks for the comments mate...much appreciated! I will see what I can do about uploading the save file"

August 2022; One Minor Blip But Otherwise All Good
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Emanuel Vignato was named the Young Player of the Month for July.

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Saturday 6th August 2022
English Premier League
Arsenal (Away)
Formation: 4-2-3-1 DM Wide

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A tight defence and a tidy strike from Emanuel Vignato was enough for us to get victory at the Emirates and consign Arsenal to a 2nd defeat in their opening 3 games of the season!


Tuesday 9th August 2022
English Premier League
Brighton (Home)
Formation: 4-2-3-1 DM Wide

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Look who lined up for Brighton...Jordon Ibe was sold by Arsenal for just £17.5 million, only 1 season after they paid us £50 million for him!! But getting back to the game, this was a very disappointing result for us, losing a match we never should have lost! Fiete Arp made his first start for the club and was extremely poor, whilst David Raya made a massive blunder to allow them to score their winning goal! Sloppy play all over the park and the lads got their first big bollocking of the season!


Saturday 13th August 2022
English Premier League
Manchester City (Away)
Formation: 4-2-3-1 DM Wide

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What's the best way to bounce back from a disappointing defeat...go away to Manchester City and win!! Get in there lads!


Saturday 20th August 2022
English Premier League
Newcastle (Home)
Formation: 4-2-3-1 DM Wide

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Newcastle had made a good start to their season, winning 4 of their opening 5 games, and it was obvious to see that one of their key strengths this year will be their solid defence as they proved very hard to break down! However, we still managed to come away with a narrow win and the 3 points was the most important thing!


We will take on local rivals, Brighton, in the 3rd round of the Carabao Cup.

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The Champions League Group Stage was also drawn and this year we were 3rd seeds, which meant we were likely to have it tough! And we will come up against one of the European giants in the form of Bayern Munich. Legia should be the group's whipping boys and it may come down to our results against Lyon as to whether we qualify.

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Saturday 27th August 2022
English Premier League
Manchester United (Home)
Formation: 4-2-3-1 DM Wide

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Now I'm not saying we are going to be title contenders this season, but surely beating the current champions is a massive statement from us right?!


August Review; Despite the **** result against Brighton, it's been a good month with wins in all 4 of our other games, which takes us up to 2nd in the league. Liverpool have already opened up a 5 point gap and set the early pace though. Arsenal and Chelsea have both had shocking starts and find themselves in the bottom 7!

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Player of the Month
Sandro Tonali

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The whole team has been pretty solid as a unit this month and the driving force behind that has been vice captain Sandro Tonali who is quickly becoming one of the best players in this league as far as I'm concerned!


September; Six games lined up next month although only 3 of them will be in the league as we kick off our Champions League campaign. We will kick off the group stage with the two pivotal matches against Lyon and I'd say a win in at least one of them is essential.

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[marsden1234]

Going strong mate.. Am loving the read!!! strong start from Liverpool this season but keep going, will win league sooner rather than later

 

[FM_TNSSO]

September 2022

​marsden1234 - "Thanks for the comments mate...much appreciated and I am glad you're enjoying the read! Liverpool are pretty ******* immense on this year's game and it will take a **** of a big effort to stop them....but we're gradually getting there!"

September 2022; Flying Through Our Champions League Group!
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The English Premier League clubs spent well over a billion pounds again this Summer, with Manchester City spending more than any other club...although Bayern Munich were only a million behind them! Chelsea boss, Maurizio Sarri, has got to be under pressure following their awful start to the season after spending well over £200 million in the window!

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Josh Tymon has earnt his first cap for the England national side!

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Saturday 10th September 2022
English Premier League
Stoke (Away)
Formation: 4-2-3-1 DM Wide

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Ultimately, we had to play too long with only 10 men here and it cost us as we looked tired toward the end of the game and Stoke took full advantage!


Sandro Tonali signs a new contract with the club that will keep him here for another 5 years....that is unless someone meets his £105 million release clause!

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Wednesday 14th September 2022
Champions League Group Stage
Lyon (Home)
Formation: 4-2-3-1 DM Wide

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Fiete Arp finally came to life and bagged his first goals for the club...after he missed a 1st minute penalty that is! Even though it's our first in the group stage, I saw this as a must win game if we want to qualify and am happy to have comfortably beaten our French opponents here with relative ease.


Saturday 17th September 2022
English Premier League
West Brom (Away)
Formation: 4-2-3-1 DM Wide

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Fiete Arp followed up his Champions League goals with his first Premier League goal here and I can only hope the striker is finding his feet at the club! This was a good performance and a decent win to get us back on track in the league after the loss to Stoke.


Alex Pritchard will miss about a month through injury.

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Tuesday 20th September 2022
Champions League Group Stage
Lyon (Away)
Formation: 4-2-3-1 DM Wide

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A surprisingly easy win out in France puts us in an exremely strong position now to qualify for the knockout stages of the competition!


Saturday 24th September 2022
English Premier League
Aston Villa (Home)
Formation: 4-2-3-1 DM Wide

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******* Aston Villa are definitely a bit of a bogey team for me and I always struggle to beat them! Even though we were all over them for the entire game here, we couldn't get the win and have to settle for a ****** point!


Tuesday 27th September 2022
Champions League Group Stage
Legia (Away)
Formation: 4-2-3-1 DM Wide

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Not quite the whipping I expected us to give Legia, although it could have been with the amount of shots we had!! Still, we return to England with all 3 points which is the main thing and we have all but qualified for the knockout stages with 3 wins from 3 games!


After 3 games in the Champions League, it looks like us and Bayern are flying through to the knockout stages, with the only real question being who is going to top the group?

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September Review; Playing with 10 men for most of the game against Stoke really cost us, but since then we've been in great form again recording another 5 games unbeaten run. Our defence looks solid with only 2 goals conceded in the last 5 and hopefully we can keep things tight at the back this whole season to give us a real shot at winning at least one trophy this year. In the league, we sit 4th and right amongst a handful of clubs that are chasing current leaders Liverpool, who have had made an impressive start and already find themselves 6 points clear! All three of the big London clubs, Arsenal, Tottenham and Chelsea continue to struggle and it's newly promoted Brentford who prop up the table!

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Player o[FONT=&quot]f the Month[/FONT]
Fiete Arp

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The club's record signing is finding his stride at last! After 8 games without scoring, Arp now had 5 in his last 5 games for us and that's good enough form to earn him his first player of the month award.


October; With the Winter World Cup in Qatar approaching, October is set to be a busy month for us with no less than eight games schedules across three competitions. We'll take on Brighton in the Carabao Cup and Bayern in the Champions League, in amongst six Premier League games. We kick off the month with a really tough away day at Liverpool, a team we've lost to 9 times in 11 meetings.

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[FM_TNSSO]

Game On Pause....

So I've had a bit of a nice surprise this afternoon! Been into the office for our end of year meeting and the boss has announced that they are taking our laptops from all of us, and have handed out brand new Surface Pro 6's! However, what this does mean is that this current save is stuck on that laptop...have spoken to the IT guy and he is going to backup all my files to an external hard drive for me to collect in the New Year. So this save has to temporarily go on hold...

I may start a new save and story on the new laptop in the meantime and will look to revisit this when I get my hard drive data in Jan! The plan will then be to continue both saves or go with the one I am more interested in and enjoying! One thing I will say is that this save will take some beating as I'm loving it....please look out for a new story from me at some point over the next couple of days - I'll be looking to do something different...probably at a lower level!

 

[grifty]

Ah that's a shame, I was enjoying that! Has Brexit happened yet? Anything changing the game/were you preparing for it?