Official Football Manager 2013 Career Thread

[jcdenton08]

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Selected Leagues: England (BSP and above), Germany (Second Division and above), Italy (Serie B and above), Holland (Jupiler League and above), Russia (First Division and above) and Spain (Liga Adelante and above)

Large database, player masking enabled. Started unemployed (England, July 2012) as Former Professional as past experience.

Offered Bournemouth job, accepted on 22/07/2012


PRE-SEASON:

Poole Town (A) 2-0
Hereford Town (A) 4-0
Me the Thirteenth Duke of Wimborne (A) 2-0
Charlton Athletic (H) 1-3
Dorchester (A) 3-1

Lost badly in the only "challenging" game against Charlton where I fielded what I thought would be my strongest team in my strongest formation. Panic bought a couple of players when I realised how shit my team was.

Large number of injuries and knocks which is quite realistic I suppose - if a little irritating. Four/five days here and there, three/four first team players at any given time. Assumed I was training the players too intensively so went to light training and injuries got worse. Gave up worrying about it!

SUMMER TRANSFER WINDOW:

OUT:

Mark Pugh had already gone to Blackpool for £1.6m (upfront fee + monthly payments of £60k + 10% of profit from next sale, apparently)
Alex Moth - Released
Mark Molesey - York (16k)
Darryl Flahaven - Middlesbrough (£45k)
Jayden Stockley - Preston (Free - 50% of next fee)
Wesley Thomas - Scunthorpe (£100k)
Lewis Blackmore - Released
Lewis Lindsay - Released
Shwan Jalal - West Brom (£500k + friendly and 10% of next fee)
Stephane Zubar - Oxford (£7k + 50% of profit from next transfer)
Steven Gregory - Torquay (Free)
Thomas Turner - Released
Charlie Davis - Released
Anthony Harris - Released
Callum Buckley - Released
Jamie West - Released
Baily Cargill - Released
Sang Jo Young - Released
Josh Kay - Released
Brandon Goodship - Released
Josh Wakefield, Dan Strugnell, Benjamin Buchel and Joe Partington went out on loan to lower division clubs.

IN:

Eric Lichaj - Aston Villa (Season Loan)
Danny Potts - West Ham (Season Loan)
Jordan Obita - Reading (Season Loan)
Marcel Eger - Unattached (After Trial)
James Knowles - Unattached
Junior Agogo - Unattached
Liam O'Neil - West Brom (£100k)
Cristiano Zanetti - Unattached
Mark Yeates - Watford (£85k)
Luke Daniels - West Brom (Season Loan)
Radek Cerny - QPR (Season Loan)

CUPS:

League Cup - reached 4th round (Bristol Rovers (H) 2-1, Leicester (A) 3-1, Middlesbrough (A) 3-1, Wolves (H) 1-4)
FA Cup - reached 2nd round replay (Hartlepool (H) 2-0, Rochdale (H) 0-0, (A) 3-5 AET)
Football League Trophy - reached Southern Quarter Final (Yeovil (H) 3-1, Swindon (A) 2-2p

My reserves played in the cups including two upsets, Leicester and Middlesbrough. Got smashed by Wolves though. Full strength sides against League 2 Rochdale and we were proper shit.

LEAGUE:

Ten points clear at Christmas. Then shit loads more injuries.

JANUARY TRANSFER WINDOW:

OUT:

Richard Hughes - Forest Green (Loan)
Stephen Purches - AFC Wimbledon (£14k + add ons)
Lewis Grabban - Gillingham (£22k + add ons)
Leo Fasan - Cambridge (Affiliate - Loan)
Benjamin Buchel - Oxford (Free)
Gary Bowles - Released

IN:

Leo Fasan - Celtic (£26k)
Kevin Kyle - Rangers (£5k)
Eric Odihambo - Denizilispor (£180k)

Kevin Kyle filled in the part of fat, useless aging target man who can't run whenever Steve Fletcher was injured or on 60% condition after 12 minutes. Odihambo was signed sight-unseen with Mark Yeates, a fellow panic-buy, out injured most of the time.

FINAL LEAGUE POSITION:

TACTICS AND FORMATION:

And this is how I ended the season...

Played this formation all season - practically the same one since FM08, but I modify and dick around with it every year to see what has changed...



I need to know everyone else's stories!

 

[jcdenton08]

Nobody else playing this year, then...?

 

[Ali_rrr]

I've got a save where I'm in 2017 I think with Norwich. Started off unemployed with sunday league footballer, got the Havant and Waterlooville job. Won the league and I've done various things with other clubs, such as promotion with Barnet, Leyton Orient and Portsmouth through the playoffs.



Also I've won the Championship with the Albion. As well as being manager of us for 20 years. Stopped playing it for a bit now though, getting a bit boring.