Norwegian Vikings hunting for glory

Keep the updates coming! like reading someone doing a similar save to me.

The board has improved the wage structure a little. Can now have a budget of 51k p/w for the wages instead of £41k p/w for the squad and also instead of £350k transfer kitty I have £2.5m to spend. Only problem is I have no room really for overseas players so Looks like ill only be spending on Home based players. Problem is deciding who. Anyone with real talent cost well over £1.5m so that will take a huge % of my budget. To be fair im quietly confident I could win the league with the same squad but just want a bit more strength in depth.

Really trying hard to sign Torstein Andersen Aase from Stabaek. End of the day they want £1.3m for him and they've just been relegated so Im hoping I can knock the price down more. I had been trying to get him before my budget change but was dead against using the 24/48 month payments exploit as I dont want to cripple the poor club. Trying to decide whether to splash out fully on him. Nevland isnt getting any younger and beyound him and Soukouna im light up top. With the added bonus of trying my hand within the champions league format I certainly need to strengthen, but with home grown talent if possible.

Keep up the good work

April, May and June

Once again there will be a three months update. But these months has been great in the league, but not good enough in the cup.

Results

April

Viking 4 - 0 Odd Grenland

Sarpsborg 08 0 - 2 Viking

Viking 4 - 1 Fløy

Bodø/Glimt 1 - 4 Viking

Viking 3 - 0 Brann

May

Tippeligaen

Lillestrøm 0 - 2 Viking

Hønefoss 0 - 1 Viking

Viking 1 - 1 Sandefjord

Norwegian Cup

Kvik Halden 1 - 5 Viking 1st Round

Skeid 0 - 7 Viking 2nd Round

Molde 3 - 2 Viking 3rd Round

June

Viking

Tippeligaen

Stabæk 0 - 2 Viking

Friendly match

Viking 2 - 0 Vaulen

Frigg 0 - 4 Viking

Ivory Coast

Egypt 2 - 3 Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast 3 - 0 DR Congo

Table

We are still on top. With a margine of 4 points to the 2nd place, this can be a tight race.

Fixtures in July

Viking - Rosenborg
Tromsø - Viking
Viking - Molde
Vålerenga - Viking

Match of the month:

Can Viking get their revenge on Molde after they sent Viking out of the cup. Manager Henrik Steinnes is looking forward to face colleague and friend Ole Gunnar Solskjær once again.

How will I do it next month? What do you think of the three last months?
Please comment :-)

First update from the Netherlands!

I have now been PSV Eindhoven's manager for ca. one months, and we have played well.

Match reports

PSV Eindhoven

Dutch Supercup

PSV 3 - 0 Heerenveen
Matavz
Hutchinson
Baffo
Matavz

Eredivisie

Sperta Rotterdam 0 - 1 PSV
Matavz (pen)
Veldmate

PSV 4 - 0 Heracles
Fonte
Hutchinson
Toornstra
Pasveer

VVV Venlo 0 - 3 PSV
Krychowiak
Pedersen

PSV 2 - 2 Groningen
Pedersen
Matavz
Sparv
van den Ouweland
Boateng

Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast 2 - 1 Cameroon
Koné
Doumbia
N'Guemo
Koné

Table

After 4 matches, we are doing as expected.

Transfers

Transfers in:

Kevin-Prince Boateng (28, free transfer)
Ricardo Kishna (20, from Chelsea on loan)

News update

Champions League groups drawn

PSV Eindhoven has been drawn in Group C along with Lyon, Shakthar and Rubin Kazan.

Qualification groups for the African Cup of Nations drawn

Ivory Coast will play against Mosambique, Equatorial Guinea and Central African Republic for the qualifiers for the ACN.

Fixtures in September

PSV Eindhoven

Eredivisie

AZ Alkmaar - PSV
PSV - ADO Den Haag
PSV - Heereveen

Dutch Cup

Almere City - PSV

Champions League

Rubin Kazan - PSV
PSV - Olympique Lyonnais

Match of the month:

PSV will play against French league title holders Lyon in their first home match of the Champions League group stages. PSV manager Henrik Steinnes has said that his team is good enough to grab at least one point against them.

What do you think about this month? How will the next month go?
Please comment :-)

Good luck in Hollan! More trophies would certaintly be nice.

Announcement from the writer

Today, I decided that I will no longer update this manager story for various reasons:


1.As you can see from the last update, I was just finished with August. I am now in February on my save. That's a lot of results to write down.

2. It has not been much time for writing because of school. Therefore I'm not very motivated to write on my story at the moment.

I will anyways give you one last update. After the season has ended, I will give a season round-up.

And I will mabye start on a new story if I feel like going back to writing. Although everyone will have FM 13 soon (I'm not buying it in the first place) so a FM 12 story is no longer very interesting.

I just want to thank you for your great support and interest on my story!

PSV Eindhoven 2015/2016 season

This will be a round-up of the season that has passed. Enjoy!

Eredivisie

We won the league with a very clear margine, but it was as expected.

Some positive results:

PSV 5 - 1 Excelsior
PSV 4 - 0 Groningen
PSV 3 - 0 Alkmaar

Some negative results:

PSV 0 - 5 Utrecht
PSV 0 - 3 Ajax

Champions League

We were lucky to get the third place as Rubin Kazan scored a late winner against Shakhtar in the last match of the group stages.

Best result:

PSV 5 - 0 Shakthar

Worst result:

PSV 0 - 2 Shakhtar

Europa League

We made an extremely good effort in the EL, and got to the final. Sadly we had to see us beaten by a strong Montpellier side.

Our way to the final (result is aggregate)

1st Knock-Out Stage
PSV 4 - 3 Valencia

2nd Knock-Out Stage
PSV 4 - 2 Zenit St. Petersburg

Quarter-Final
PSV 5 - 2 Fiorentina

Semi-Final
PSV 4 - 2 Sampdoria

Final
PSV 0 - 1 (ET) Montpellier

Amstel Cup

This tournament was a huge disappointment as we were knocked out in the 2nd round against Almere City.

This was the last update of this story. It has been a great journey, and the support from you has been great!
I might do an other story if I miss doing one.

Hello, Henrik. As you already know, I have shown keen interest in your story from the beginning. The idea of reading a story from Norway, and that too, from a team that calls themselves "Vikings" is what makes this site so amazing. You have done some excellent work for that team and the readers knew you were outgrowing the club, and that you would be leaving soon.
..and what a perfect club to go to. If I learnt anything from your adventure in Norway, it was that you pick out gems for the smallest amounts, and PSV gives you that opportunity. It is a shame we didn't get to read your Holland career in-depth, but I'm sure you are having fun. Why else would you forget to update till February?
Anyway, I end this by saying - I hope you come back with FM13 or atleast with a FM12 story in the '13 forums.

2012-10-08 21:11#67199 akash.vidyasagar : Hello, Henrik. As you already know, I have shown keen interest in your story from the beginning. The idea of reading a story from Norway, and that too, from a team that calls themselves "Vikings" is what makes this site so amazing. You have done some excellent work for that team and the readers knew you were outgrowing the club, and that you would be leaving soon.
..and what a perfect club to go to. If I learnt anything from your adventure in Norway, it was that you pick out gems for the smallest amounts, and PSV gives you that opportunity. It is a shame we didn't get to read your Holland career in-depth, but I'm sure you are having fun. Why else would you forget to update till February?
Anyway, I end this by saying - I hope you come back with FM13 or atleast with a FM12 story in the '13 forums.

Thanks, Akash! It is great to see that you enjoyed reading my story, and a new story will might show up in the new forums (with the latest update, of course)

This story has been a thrill to read. Your consistency of your posts and the quality of your posts have been as great as Marit Bjorgen is at skiing.

You have a great story in this and you are a great writer.

2012-10-08 21:18#67201 The FM Rookie : This story has been a thrill to read. Your consistency of your posts and the quality of your posts have been as great as Marit Bjorgen is at skiing.

You have a great story in this and you are a great writer.

Thanks for the good words!

Great reference as well ;-)