All my weekend plans are cancelled. Going to switch off by doing an FM save and I want some inspiration
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Gaming Your most memorable Championship Manager or Football Manager save
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Took Vauxhall Motors to European football. We had one striker who'd been with us since League Two, originally a loan from our parent club, before it was made permanent. He was about to turn 30 when his contract was up and he wanted a massive pay increase so I decided instead we'd let him go and back his very promising 20 year old understudy. He signed for Chelsea on a free, who then proceeded to make a bid for the aforementioned 20 year old that the board accepted on my behalf. I was not a happy bunny and the save did not continue beyond a few disappointing early results.
A few years ago I got Forest into the PL but massively overachieved to get there and we had no money, so it was a bit of a relegation scrap. In the January of my maiden PL season Wolves, who were rich, offered me a job at the end of the campaign, which I accepted. Final day ends up being Forest v Wolves, with Wolves needing a point to stay up. We won 3-0, keeping our place in the league while sending Wolves down.
Naturally, I shot straight back up with moneybags Wolves and finished 2nd behind Man City in the league, so had the last laugh. But the best bit of the save was definitely relegating my new employers. It was a little disappointing that no mention was made of the fans hating me in the game, but it was funny to me all the same.
Naturally, I shot straight back up with moneybags Wolves and finished 2nd behind Man City in the league, so had the last laugh. But the best bit of the save was definitely relegating my new employers. It was a little disappointing that no mention was made of the fans hating me in the game, but it was funny to me all the same.
Just finished the 58/59 season in my FM22 save. I didn't buy FM23 and haven't played the latest version much because I am still enjoying this save, even after not playing FM for a few months I got right back into it. My "usual" way for playing FM is to pick a club and stick with it. After 10 or so seasons I would get bored and quit. I have tried to switch teams during a save to keep it interesting, but that didn't work for me. Perhaps something to do with all the real players starting to retire. With this save however I am at my fourth club and for whatever reason it has managed to keep my interest
Ryan Camp and Carl Case up front, the boys. Dirk Kooiman in defence, rock solid. You know you played too much when you remember your after 12 years.
I'm not good enough at the game to take Kidderminster Harriers from the National League to winning the Champions League so I'm boring and just win back to back quadruples with United and my longest save must have been like 100 years.
Turned Villarreal into the greatest club of all time, became a legend. Won multiple UCL, La Liga, Copa Del Rey's. The core team also won the world cup with Spain. The youth team was churning out top talent, one being 197PA who became the goa
They named the new stadium after Pellegrini which killed my love for that save
They named the new stadium after Pellegrini which killed my love for that save
Took Dulwich to treble glory. Resigned and simmed 5 years into the future and they were still winning regular league titles. Dynasty.
LMA Manager 2001. Ronaldo scored 96 goals in a season.
Very similar here
My brother did a save which took Telford from the conference to winning the CL. I couldnt manage it.
I have just won the Quadruple with United in FM12 having signed Cristiano Ronaldo back. He and Rooney up front were unstoppable. I need good players to do the game. I’m the Guardiola of FM.
I managed to take a West Brom team with Ibrahimovic and Zappacosta to the Champions League on one edition.
We did not last very long in that competition, but getting there was fun.
Before that I had a Palace save where Dikgacoi and Jedinak were amazing together, and Scannell was a goal machine.
We did not last very long in that competition, but getting there was fun.
Before that I had a Palace save where Dikgacoi and Jedinak were amazing together, and Scannell was a goal machine.
I used to play Championship Manager back in the 90s, even loved the Italian edition. I haven't played any versions since then until earlier this year when I downloaded FM24 Mobile.
I'm currently 24 seasons into the game, managing Salford City, and we've won every Premier league title since 2030, and 14 of the last 16 Champions leagues. I'm putting my success down to the game being really easy rather than me being any kind of master tactician.
My son did come through the youth ranks about 8 seasons ago, but he's now floating around the conference somewhere because he's shite.
I'm currently 24 seasons into the game, managing Salford City, and we've won every Premier league title since 2030, and 14 of the last 16 Champions leagues. I'm putting my success down to the game being really easy rather than me being any kind of master tactician.
My son did come through the youth ranks about 8 seasons ago, but he's now floating around the conference somewhere because he's shite.
I somehow ended up at Birmingham (think I started at United and got fired) and managed to propel them to back to back CL titles, but couldn’t get over the line in the PL, finishing 2nd for 3 seasons in a row. Cheeky bastards sacked me saying they ‘think I have taken them as far as I can’. Fecking Birmingham.
Had great pleasure in taking over Palace and turning them into the dominant force in England and Europe at the expense of my former employers. Strangely, Carlton Cole was my star player.
Had great pleasure in taking over Palace and turning them into the dominant force in England and Europe at the expense of my former employers. Strangely, Carlton Cole was my star player.
Bjarne Ingebretsen FM2007. Legendary.
A game I started on FM23 and converted to FM24 that I still play on to this day
Starter as an unemployed Spanish/Swiss manager (Wanted as many fluent languages as possble, shoot me) and after a short while I got an offer from Ranheim who were about to relegate from Norwegian 1st Division. Saved them from relegation and rebuilt the entire squad the season after via trials. Ended up winning promotion and loosing in the Cup Final against Molde.
During the offseason Vitesse fired their manager and struggled in the eredivision so I applied and got the job. Managed to climb to 9th, then 7th the following season. Signed players like Jasper Thorkildsen in goal, Kik Piere in defence and a big peruvian striker talent (won NXT-gen) but never felt I got the team firing.
When Young Boys came looking for a new manager I left for Switzerland, and that is where the real fun began. I managed to build quite a good squad (different good young regens, among them a scottish wing and striker, a good norwegian winger and a great german midfielder (Sergio Rupflin) who later went to Real Madrid and then Manchester City. Won the double for 2 years straight years and had a Quarter Final CL run before I got another offer I felt I couldn't refuse
Sporting came knocking after their manager got nabbed by a Premier League club. They ended 3rd the year before, and right after I joined the 2 biggest stars (Chermiti and Trincao) went to Chelsea as well as Essugo to Arsenal and Novoa to Wolfsburg. While this gave me a weaker squad it also gave me a lot of money and I managed to bring in , among others, Conceiao and Watjens. As well as some great regens (Dan Scott, half English halv Colombian DM, later went to Arsenal. Clecio a big Brazillian Striker who went to Man Utd the season after. Hugo Castillo, a Argentinan midfielder, later sold to Bayern). The season went much better than expected and ended up winning the league without loosing any matches. A great season, and kinda sad I left Sporting for Ajax the season after, but felt there was not much more to do. Sporting hasn't won the league since...
Ajax was a one season hit aswell, not that much to tell except we won the league, but it was pretty much just a stepping stone.
At the same time Chelsea had become the big English team, Graham Potter had done a great job, but for some reason I left for Man City. I decided it was time to try Premier League and joined Chelsea. Had a great transfer budget, and some old faces like Trincao and Chermiti, as well important players like Lafont, James, Fofana, Rodrygo, Havertz etc. Bought pretty much a new midfield by signing Bellingham and a dutch regen (Asthon Cruz, a DM with great physicals). Won the league in the first year, before finishing 6th the second season. Nothing really clicked and the young Spanish regen replacing Lafont who went to Barcelona wasn't a big hit. For some reason kept my job and finished 3rd while winning the Europa League the next season. Never really felt that the game was as much fun as earlier, so decided to leave Chelsea after 3 seasons. While we got 2 titles, I felt it was a bit of a let down considering Chelsea had won 3 league titles and a CL title before I joined.
Inter was the next step, deciding to try something new. When I joined the team was really old. Bastoni and Todibo in central defence, Di Marco left back, Fagioli in midfield, Cherki winger, Martinez striker etc. The team also had one of the best goalkeepers in the game, Greece Makkis Fekkas. That guy was a real fecker in goal... I signed a few younger players, among them a Mexican Centre Back and Swedish Right back (They won back to back NXT Gen), but played the first season with a pretty old squad. However it went really well, and while we started of bad we finished winning the last 15 games and winning the double. Started a rebuild of the squad and got the avg age pretty far down, while still having some oldies (Among others Hojlund joined on free) and won the league again in my second year. Kept strenghtening the squad and in the third year we did a double and lost the CL final. Decided again to leave after 3 seasons, and try a new league.
Bayern had just finished 3rd in the Bundesliga and naturally kicked their manager as far away as they could. I jumped on the chanse to try a new league and joined a weaker Bayern squad than I expected, and with a worse economy, but they had wont the CL just 3 years prior. Biggest star was a Brazillian midfielder (Valdomiro) they had bought from Leichester and Neilson Weiper up top. Also Hugo Castillo (that I had in Sporting) in midfield. Bought in some strong new players (Among them my former goalkeeper from Ajax, English International Regen Phillip Vincent-Day). The season was a hard one, had problems finding a good formation, but in the end we won the league by coming back from 2 under in the last game to win 4-2 and end 1 point in front of Dortmund.
And that is where I am now, most likely doing 1 or 2 more seasons at Bayern before leaving. Brest in France have had a sugardaddy takeover and I'm hoping that job will be available sometime to try to stop PSG (Who have won everything in France). Not open yet though
Til now:
1 Europa League
2 Superliga (Switzerland)
3 Serie A
1 Premier League
1 Portuguese League
1 Dutch League
1 Bundesliga
9 different cups
1 Promotion
Quite a carrer, in 2036 now
Starter as an unemployed Spanish/Swiss manager (Wanted as many fluent languages as possble, shoot me) and after a short while I got an offer from Ranheim who were about to relegate from Norwegian 1st Division. Saved them from relegation and rebuilt the entire squad the season after via trials. Ended up winning promotion and loosing in the Cup Final against Molde.
During the offseason Vitesse fired their manager and struggled in the eredivision so I applied and got the job. Managed to climb to 9th, then 7th the following season. Signed players like Jasper Thorkildsen in goal, Kik Piere in defence and a big peruvian striker talent (won NXT-gen) but never felt I got the team firing.
When Young Boys came looking for a new manager I left for Switzerland, and that is where the real fun began. I managed to build quite a good squad (different good young regens, among them a scottish wing and striker, a good norwegian winger and a great german midfielder (Sergio Rupflin) who later went to Real Madrid and then Manchester City. Won the double for 2 years straight years and had a Quarter Final CL run before I got another offer I felt I couldn't refuse
Sporting came knocking after their manager got nabbed by a Premier League club. They ended 3rd the year before, and right after I joined the 2 biggest stars (Chermiti and Trincao) went to Chelsea as well as Essugo to Arsenal and Novoa to Wolfsburg. While this gave me a weaker squad it also gave me a lot of money and I managed to bring in , among others, Conceiao and Watjens. As well as some great regens (Dan Scott, half English halv Colombian DM, later went to Arsenal. Clecio a big Brazillian Striker who went to Man Utd the season after. Hugo Castillo, a Argentinan midfielder, later sold to Bayern). The season went much better than expected and ended up winning the league without loosing any matches. A great season, and kinda sad I left Sporting for Ajax the season after, but felt there was not much more to do. Sporting hasn't won the league since...
Ajax was a one season hit aswell, not that much to tell except we won the league, but it was pretty much just a stepping stone.
At the same time Chelsea had become the big English team, Graham Potter had done a great job, but for some reason I left for Man City. I decided it was time to try Premier League and joined Chelsea. Had a great transfer budget, and some old faces like Trincao and Chermiti, as well important players like Lafont, James, Fofana, Rodrygo, Havertz etc. Bought pretty much a new midfield by signing Bellingham and a dutch regen (Asthon Cruz, a DM with great physicals). Won the league in the first year, before finishing 6th the second season. Nothing really clicked and the young Spanish regen replacing Lafont who went to Barcelona wasn't a big hit. For some reason kept my job and finished 3rd while winning the Europa League the next season. Never really felt that the game was as much fun as earlier, so decided to leave Chelsea after 3 seasons. While we got 2 titles, I felt it was a bit of a let down considering Chelsea had won 3 league titles and a CL title before I joined.
Inter was the next step, deciding to try something new. When I joined the team was really old. Bastoni and Todibo in central defence, Di Marco left back, Fagioli in midfield, Cherki winger, Martinez striker etc. The team also had one of the best goalkeepers in the game, Greece Makkis Fekkas. That guy was a real fecker in goal... I signed a few younger players, among them a Mexican Centre Back and Swedish Right back (They won back to back NXT Gen), but played the first season with a pretty old squad. However it went really well, and while we started of bad we finished winning the last 15 games and winning the double. Started a rebuild of the squad and got the avg age pretty far down, while still having some oldies (Among others Hojlund joined on free) and won the league again in my second year. Kept strenghtening the squad and in the third year we did a double and lost the CL final. Decided again to leave after 3 seasons, and try a new league.
Bayern had just finished 3rd in the Bundesliga and naturally kicked their manager as far away as they could. I jumped on the chanse to try a new league and joined a weaker Bayern squad than I expected, and with a worse economy, but they had wont the CL just 3 years prior. Biggest star was a Brazillian midfielder (Valdomiro) they had bought from Leichester and Neilson Weiper up top. Also Hugo Castillo (that I had in Sporting) in midfield. Bought in some strong new players (Among them my former goalkeeper from Ajax, English International Regen Phillip Vincent-Day). The season was a hard one, had problems finding a good formation, but in the end we won the league by coming back from 2 under in the last game to win 4-2 and end 1 point in front of Dortmund.
And that is where I am now, most likely doing 1 or 2 more seasons at Bayern before leaving. Brest in France have had a sugardaddy takeover and I'm hoping that job will be available sometime to try to stop PSG (Who have won everything in France). Not open yet though
Til now:
1 Europa League
2 Superliga (Switzerland)
3 Serie A
1 Premier League
1 Portuguese League
1 Dutch League
1 Bundesliga
9 different cups
1 Promotion
Quite a carrer, in 2036 now
I had a great Numancia save where my front two were Daniel Braathen and Anatoli Todorov as my front two on either the original FM or the very last CM, and I swear to god every Braathen goal was scored from a 75 degree angle within the 6 yard box.
In FM 22 or 21 (can’t remember which now), I loaded the “Return of the Legends” database. I edited my home town team, Colchester United, to have a slightly higher reputation than the game starts them with, and edited my chairman to have 20 for business, patience, resources, ambition, negotiation, temperament, and buying players. Everything else I left alone.
I gradually got the U’s up the divisions and along the way was able to get some simply preposterous loans of young players who needed game time. For example, in my second season I was able to loan Cristiano Ronaldo, at 18, in League One . He was actually really erratic and not that great at first, but by the second half of the season, playing 90 minutes week in, week out, he was just tearing it up for fun.
I had so much fun discovering and signing players who were legends of the game in the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s, who have rarely featured in my love of the game, despite being a bit of a retro football anorak.
The highlight of the game for me was when, in the championship, and pushing for promotion but struggling to score enough goals in a tougher division, I took to the transfer market to try and find a solution. I was constantly refreshing and checking every couple of “days” throughout the window to see if anyone worthwhile was interested in coming to me. Then…..on deadline day, out of nowhere, there was a player at the top of the list that seemed like a gift for the gods. I had to check multiple times that I had the “interested in transfer” and/or “interested in loan” box checked, because it seemed like a mistake.
But no, there it was, in black and white, clear as day, Zico was interested in a transfer to Championship club Colchester United. He had fallen out with the manager at Flamengo over the treatment of a teammate (of all things) and had asked to leave the club. Because I was literally refreshing the players tab after every time I hit continue, and it was the last day of the window, no other club had registered their interest yet.
I immediate stuck a loan offer in, paying a paltry 10% of his wages (all I could afford), with no loan fee. Flamengo countered with a 100% wage coverage and an optional buy clause of 70m. Eventually I was able to secure a deal by paying 10% of his wages, paying a small loan fee and increasing the buy clause to 80m, which I knew I had zero chance of being able to afford.
For sox glorious months I changed my formation to use a #10, and peak Zico tore the championship apart with lowly Colchester. We went on a preposterous winning run, being seventh when he joined and ending the season top with most goals scored. He got somewhere between an 8 and 10 rating every game and was routinely belting them in from 30 yards.
The rest of the save was great fun, but that six months…..it was glorious.
I gradually got the U’s up the divisions and along the way was able to get some simply preposterous loans of young players who needed game time. For example, in my second season I was able to loan Cristiano Ronaldo, at 18, in League One
. He was actually really erratic and not that great at first, but by the second half of the season, playing 90 minutes week in, week out, he was just tearing it up for fun.I had so much fun discovering and signing players who were legends of the game in the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s, who have rarely featured in my love of the game, despite being a bit of a retro football anorak.
The highlight of the game for me was when, in the championship, and pushing for promotion but struggling to score enough goals in a tougher division, I took to the transfer market to try and find a solution. I was constantly refreshing and checking every couple of “days” throughout the window to see if anyone worthwhile was interested in coming to me. Then…..on deadline day, out of nowhere, there was a player at the top of the list that seemed like a gift for the gods. I had to check multiple times that I had the “interested in transfer” and/or “interested in loan” box checked, because it seemed like a mistake.
But no, there it was, in black and white, clear as day, Zico was interested in a transfer to Championship club Colchester United. He had fallen out with the manager at Flamengo over the treatment of a teammate (of all things) and had asked to leave the club. Because I was literally refreshing the players tab after every time I hit continue, and it was the last day of the window, no other club had registered their interest yet.
I immediate stuck a loan offer in, paying a paltry 10% of his wages (all I could afford), with no loan fee. Flamengo countered with a 100% wage coverage and an optional buy clause of 70m. Eventually I was able to secure a deal by paying 10% of his wages, paying a small loan fee and increasing the buy clause to 80m, which I knew I had zero chance of being able to afford.
For sox glorious months I changed my formation to use a #10, and peak Zico tore the championship apart with lowly Colchester. We went on a preposterous winning run, being seventh when he joined and ending the season top with most goals scored. He got somewhere between an 8 and 10 rating every game and was routinely belting them in from 30 yards.
The rest of the save was great fun, but that six months…..it was glorious.
At university (almost ten years ago) me and my friends edited the game so that a local club (Didsbury FC for me) were put in the prem. we had 400 million - no players and the same rep and stadium as Tottenham.
It was amazing. You’d have to proper scramble to get some players in at the start. I signed Mouassa Sissoko and Benteke who were great eventually.
First year I got relegated, second year won the Championship, third year FA Cup and fourth year CL. We all wore suits for the CL final which was known as the Sissoko final as he scored two late on.
It was amazing. You’d have to proper scramble to get some players in at the start. I signed Mouassa Sissoko and Benteke who were great eventually.
First year I got relegated, second year won the Championship, third year FA Cup and fourth year CL. We all wore suits for the CL final which was known as the Sissoko final as he scored two late on.