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[Mr_Grieves]

Thanks guys. Lots of work to do this summer!

 

[Mr_Grieves]

End of Season Review

Plymouth are in the Premiership for the 1st time in there history. More history will be made next year as the most southern and Western side in the Premier Division history!
Huge changes at the big teams Louis Ban Gaal did the double with Chelsea then retired, Liverpool sack Breanda Rodgers replacing him with might Salzburg coach Adi Hutter.
David Norris retired from playing and joined the u18 coaching team.


Plymouth team
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Our midfield shot us up to the Premiership with Bressan being the buy of the year & Rog doing well if not living up to last years hype. Chico's late season arrival helped close the door at the back and guided our defensive improvement in the latter months.




Awards
Goal of the Season - Mervan Celik




Premier League
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Chelsea dominated the league with only Man City keeping in touch. Arsenal beat Real Madrid at Wembley to secure 5 English teams in the Champions League once again. Stoke Burnley & Norwich are relegated while Newcastle only survived on goal difference.




Championship
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Cardiff led the way all season and were deserved winners. Reading grabbed the points at the end to beat out Wolves. At the other end Wigan finished bottom and take Yeovil & Leyton Orient go down with them.



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[Mr_Grieves]

Season 5 Preview
2018/19




Pre Season
Lots of job changes after the world cup
Everton hire Glenn Hoddle, Man City take Evertons Marcelo Bielsa and West Ham bring in Roberto Martinez back to football.
Portugal beat Brazil in the World Cup final

Targets
Premiership -Avoid Relegation
FA, League Cup - Beat all lower league teams


Only focused on one thing this year and that is staying in the top flight. We need the cash from next season to start putting together a youth side which i had to abandon to get a 1st team together.






Transfers
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Man City broke the bank to try and get back on top. We went for quality over quantity, These guys MUST stay fit


In


Ander Herrera - MC
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What a player we got here. If he stays for 4 seasons however he could be looking at making £150k a week. His contract will need negotiated if we can stay up


Dejan Lovren - DC
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Never made it at Liverpool now he is here to rebuild his career


Verza - MC
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Will fight for a spot in the middle




Hector Bellerin & Marco Asesio join on loan






Out
2 Players from last years team were bought up by Premiership sides. West Brom bought Sergey Politevic and Marseille bought my star midfielder Zan Benedicic for £7m. Phil Mahony cased nothing but hassle so i sold him to Watford while Sidwell, Bullock & Fosu are not up to this level.




Starting team
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Herrera, Lovern & Bellerin all jump right into the team. Celik will have a shot at leading the front line.




Will be doing a Premier League 2018 review next to update everyone on who is where



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[Rootsey]

Good luck mate, going to need it!

 

[Mr_Grieves]

The Premiership 2018

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Strap yourselves in this is a long one


Arsenal
Manager - Andre Villas BoasView attachment 286357



Major News
One great season in 2015/16 where they won the League
Champions League win 2018
German Ralph Krueger took over After the title win in 2016 then led them to fail Financial fair play last year
Wenger Retired in 2017, his replacment Jorge Jesus lasted 5 months then Villas Boas came in and won the Champions Leagie
Spent like they were Man City with a net £210m spent.


Star Player - Aaron Ramsey
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Last Season - 5th




Aston Villa
Manager - Stale Solbakken
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Major News
Solbakken took over after Sherwood was sacked in the Summer
Been the quietest team in the transfer market during the save


Star Player - Jack Grealish
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Last Season 12th




Bournemouth
Manager - Vacent
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Major News
Taken over by Greek Millionaire Panos Pavlakis in 2016
Glenn Hoddle was in charge the last 2 years recently leaving for Everton
Built there team around Britt Assombalonga after buying him for there premiership challenge in 2015


Star Player - Britt Assombalonga
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Last Season - 14th




Cardiff
Manager - Tony Mowbray
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Major News
Gone through a manager ever year till Mowbray took them up this summer


Star Player - Alex N'Doumbou
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Last Season - Championship Winners




Chelsea
Manager - Frank De Boer
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Major News
De Boer in his 1st season replacing the retired Van Gall
Moved to Zola Stadium "60,000" in 2017 winning there 1st League title there last year
Julen Lopetegui's career was ruined during 1 sour year at Chelsea
Been stocking up on youth players over the past 2 years


Star Player - Eden Hazard
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Last Season - Champions



Everton
Manager - Glenn Hoddle
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Major News
Martinez & Howe both failed at the club til Bielsa turned it around in his 1 season
Worked the transfer market very well except giving away Ross Barkley for £20m


Star Player - James McCarthy
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Last Season 8th


Fulham
Manager - Michel
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Major News
Michel came in 2 summers ago and they have taken off since then.
Some amazing youth talent


Star Player - Cauley Woodrow
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Last Season - 10th


Leicester
Manager - Big Sam Allardyce
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Major News
Big Sam kept them up when they looked doomed last year
Built a very solid Premiership team


Star Player - Jody Clasie
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Last Season - 15th


Liverpool
Manager - Adi Hutter
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Major News
Still not won a Premier League title, Runner Ups 4 years in a row though
Nightmare last year cost Brendan Rodgers his job after some great season
Won the Europa League & Super Cup in 2015
Anfield now up to 58,800
Spent well up till last summer then they fell off as poor mid table German teams and Barcelona B players didnt live up


Star Player - Raheem Sterling
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Last Season - 6th


Man City
Manager - Marcelo Bielsa
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Major News
Retained title in 2014/15 then never been close again
Champions League in 2017 then sacked Pellegrini
Mancini then came back for a season before Bielsa came in this summer
Spent over £100m the last 3 summers


Star Player - Mateo Kovacic
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Last Season - 2nd


Man Utd
Manager - Antonio Conte
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Major News
Van Gaal almost got 2 season, Blanc didnt even last 1 year before Conte came in and steadied the ship.
1 Europa League win in 2017 & Carling Cup in 2018 all thats been added to the trophy cabinet
Spent a net £270m over the years to win very little. S


Star Player - Vincent Aboubakar
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Last Season - 3rd


Newcastle
Manager - Garry Rowett
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Major News
In 2017 Unai Emery won the Carling Cup ending the trophy drought
Billy Davies, Martin Jol & John Carver all sacked around then
Last major profit off a player was Selling Janmat for £21m


Star Player - Ruben Garcia
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Last Season - 17th


Nottm Forest
Manager - Oscar Garcia
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Major News
Gary Rowett took them up, Oscar Garcia kept them up


Star Player - Chuks Aneke
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Last Season - 13th


Reading
Manager - Gary Bowyer
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Major News
Yo-Yo team, Spent 1 season back in the top flight for 2015/16 before coming back up last season
Spent £50m last summer to get promoted


Star Player - Damarai Gray
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Last Season - Championship 2nd


Southampton
Manager - Aitor Karanka
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Major News
Gareth Rogers takes over in 2016 and in just over 2 years has sacked Michel, Nigel Pearson & Ronny Deila
Lost a major player every summer till now


Star Player - James Prowse
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Last Season - 11th


Tottenham
Manager - Manuel Pellegrini
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Major News
Moved to New White Heart Lane "56,250" This summer
Won the Europa League in 2016 & Premiership in 2017
Pochettino took them as far as he could then left to join Real Madrid
Overspent on Gerard Deulofeu "£17m" when replacing Eric Lamela


Star Player - Granit Xhaka
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Last Season - 4th


Watford
Manager - Eddie Howe
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Major News
Randy Lerner sells Villa & Buys Watford
Zinedine Zidane took Watford up before getting the England job


Star Player - Ciro Immobile
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Last Season - 16th


West Brom
Manager - Mark Hughes
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Major News
Tony Pulis sacked last summer after almost taking them down. Mark Hughes stedied the ship


Star Player - Saido Berahino
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Last Season - 9th


West Ham
Manager - Roberto Martinez
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Major News
Moved to Olympic Stadium "54,000" in 2017
Slavan Bilic replaced Sam Allardyce before taking the Belgium job in the summer


Star Player - Enner Valencia
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Last Season - 7th



History


Past Winners
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Player of the Year
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Manager of the Year
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Top Scorers
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[Mr_Grieves]

August


We make a dream start in the Premiership
Man Utd buy some good young players to celebrate.


Fixtures

Fulham 0-2 Plymouth
Lovren
Collins
What a great start to the season!


Plymouth 2-2 Aston Villa
Herrera
Collins


League Cup 2nd round
Chesterfield 0-1 Plymouth
Humphrey


West Brom 1-3 Plymouth
Rog 2
Bressan
A near perfect 1st month in the top flight!




Premiership
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Chelsea, Man Utd, Liverpool and PLYMOUTH? Whats wrong with that picture?




August Transfer
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Man Utd spend to pick up two top kids Zivkovic & Harry Kane. Plymouth do nothing as the wage budget is maxed out!



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[clarky1683]

Brilliant signing of Herrera! And what a start to the Premier League! Good luck! Make your home ground a fortress!

 

[Mr_Grieves]

September


As i say in the Arsenal game this was a wake up call! 4 games 4 defeats. Stumble out of the League cup as the first wave of injurys see the goals dry up



Fixtures


Arsenal 3-0 Plymouth
Reality check!


Plymouth 1-2 Tottenham
Lovren
Led for 1 minute but Spurs had to fight for this one!


League Cup 3rd Round
Sheff Utd 2-1 Plymouth
Celik
Led for 79 minutes throwing away the lead at the death then loosing it in Extra time.


Plymouth 0-1 Everton
Finishing let us down. I cant say i wasnt warned about a weaker strike force.




Premiership
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We drop 10 places and are now only 3 points off the relegation zone after a horror month & its not going to get any easier with a trip to league leaders Liverpool up next



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[Mr_Grieves]

October


West Brom are take over and the new chairman does not like Mark Hughes who gets the boot. Cariff's Tony Mowbray takes over
Board confirm they will put £24m into the coffers for the January window to secure our survival




Fixtures

Liverpool 3-0 Plymouth


Plymouth 0-1 Man Utd
Ahh so close to a result!


Plymouth 6-1 Bournemouth
Sylla 2
Bordachev
Bellerin
Celik
Bressan
That was all the frustration of the awful run of fixtures we just came through and a inspiring team meeting from the boss!




Premiership
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It looked dire till we turned over Bournemouth fixing our goal difference issues and taking us out of the bottom 3. Liverpool, Chelsea & Man City split by a point at the top.



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[Mr_Grieves]

November


Southampton sack Karanka and hire David Moyes in his place


Fixtures


Man City 4-0 Plymouth

Watford 3-2 Plymouth
Ahh we came so close to getting a result but a late penalty gave Watford the win


Nottm Forrest 1-5 Plymouth
Collins 2
Saidi
Verza
Herrera
One again a few worrying results are instantly forgotten by a classy thrashing




Premiership
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Were mid table but only 3 point from safety! The highlight of the month is Ciro Immobile exploding with 6 goals in 3 games.




New signing

Raul Garcia AM
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My favorite signing from a Spanish save a few years ago. Scored lots of goals an was the best of the Atletico Players from that save. 32 now but required to do a job



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[clarky1683]

Good season so far man!

 

[Mr_Grieves]

December


Miracle month of results ending with true Christmas miracles against Newcastle & Chelsea
Aston Villa's turn to play the blame game as they sack Stale Solbakken his replacement is Celtic manager Dougie Freedman
Tottenham also decide its time for a change as Pellegrini gets the boot with another former Celtic manager Ronny Deila taking over.


Fixtures

Plymouth 1-1 West Ham
Asensio
The Real Madrid youngster dragged us out of a hole


Plymouth 4-2 Reading
Lovren
Vaza
Herrera
Collins


Cardiff 1-0 Plymouth

Plymouth 2-1 Leicester
Garcia 2


Southampton 0-1 Plymouth
Asensio


Plymouth 6-1 Newcastle
Nilsson
Collins
Verza 3
Garcia
Its a christmas miracle. We go into the Chelsea on the back of an amazing performance


Plymouth 2-0 Chelsea
Verza
Rog
We shocked the world by taking the lead just after the hour through our man of the moment Verza then with the last meaningful kick of the ball Marko Rog secured a legendary win




Premiership
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Look at the table and we've flipped it to look at the top half now! 14 points clear of relegation another 3 points would take us over the amount of points needed to survive in the last 3 seasons. Another 8 goals in 4 games for Ciro Immobile before injury puts Immobile clear top of the golden boot.



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[DeanHehe]

That was a brilliant month.

 

[stoarmy5994]

Great First season so far! I thought a relatively small club would not hold up this well in the prem, especially on this considerably harder 2015 game. Collins is an incredible gem, thanks to him might even push Europa League this season at a stretch, couldn't have even dreamed that at the beginning of the season. Keep up the good work! COME ON YOU GREEEENNS!

 

[Mr_Grieves]

Great First season so far! I thought a relatively small club would not hold up this well in the prem, especially on this considerably harder 2015 game. Collins is an incredible gem, thanks to him might even push Europa League this season at a stretch, couldn't have even dreamed that at the beginning of the season. Keep up the good work! COME ON YOU GREEEENNS!

I too would have been happy just to stay up, Squad was built with the high earners having relegation clauses so that if we did go down we would have a great young squad to challenge right away without the burden of huge wages.

I think FM2015 a harder game in fact i think its MUCH easier than last year and one of the easiest in years.

 

[Mr_Grieves]

January

Busiest January ever at Plymouth as we play a game of Bargain hunt.
Liverpool put us out of the Cup but our amazing League run goes on


Fixtures


FA Cup 3rd Round
Wycombe 1-3 Plymouth
Verza 3


Plymouth 1-0 Fulham
Nilsson


Aston Villa 1-1 Plymouth
Garcia
Ends a 6 math winning run


Plymouth 4-0 West Brom
Garcia
Asensio
O'G
Herrera
Next easy fixture 23rd of march against watford. Top 7 teams till then


FA Cup 4th Round
Liverpool 3-0 Plymouth
Cup dream is over on the day our captain leaves




Premiership
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This is as close to the Champions League as were going to get. We have a impossible run in the next 2 months so would expect our challenge to fall away. But for now were 6th and challenging the established teams for a European spot. Were 10 points off Man City & Chelsea at the top but we cant rule out any of the top 5 yet. Watford are the leagues top goal scorers 6 goals in 3 games for Immobile. Best £5m Watford will ever spend!




Transfer Window
Manchester teams still dominate the spending but Plymouth make a few appearances.


In


Djamel Marouf - DL
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One for the future. Got the highest rating from our scouts loaned him back as part of the deal but will be my starting Left Back next season


Marcelinho -DR
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With Ross Rideout taking longer to develop into a starter than i hoped the Brazilian left back comes in as a insurance policy as Bellerin went back to Arsenal.


Lucas - DC
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seriously in Atletico's C team and going for £200k! I'll turn that around and make a 10 fold profit off him at least!


Sinan Kurt - AM
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Adding some more youth to my deepest position. Were quite strong and i was expecting to loose one of my current midfielders by deadline so for just over £1m will be another player i expect to make profit off.


Dean Freeman - AT
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A long term project but comfortably the best English 16 year old forward going




Out
Jesper Nillson
Only one player leaves and it was a man who had been a brick for us. Ave Rating of 7.52 but i kept my promise of selling him if a Champions League team bid a huge amount and a total of £14m & Future fee's is a mega deal we couldnt turn down.



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[stoarmy5994]

I too would have been happy just to stay up, Squad was built with the high earners having relegation clauses so that if we did go down we would have a great young squad to challenge right away without the burden of huge wages.

I think FM2015 a harder game in fact i think its MUCH easier than last year and one of the easiest in years.

In some ways, alot more random poor results and shocks against poorer teams, alot more than previous editions in my opinion, You seem to have been quite lucky on that front, underdogs usually do well within reason.

 

[SamPeters]

Only just seen this but Plymouth in the Premiership! wow! brilliant work mate, keep it up

 

[dilakh2]

brilliant first season so far, and i agree this years fm seems easier.

 

[Mr_Grieves]

February


3 points in a month would usually be a disaster or poor at least but with the teams we had and the trios we made i'll take it and be happy
Two impressive draws with Arsenal & Liverpool


Fixtures

Tottenham 6-2 Plymouth
Verza
Raul Garcia
Were solid enough till Verza got sent off right on half time then in the 2nd half we fell apart


Plymouth 1-1 Arsenal
Collins


Plymouth 1-1 Liverpool
Collins


Everton 2-2 Plymouth
Bordachev
Herrera
2 goals in the last 10 minutes save the draw


Man Utd 6-2 Plymouth
Verza
Lucas
After going unbeaten for 7 games we've now not won in the last 5.




Premiership
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Title race gets interesting as Liverpool catch up to the top 3 while despite our horror month of fixtures were still in the hunt for Europa League



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