FC Bayern München: The Future of Football

AdamFinchale:Ah you should never chase the money. My contract is always put to the lowest amount as it has no impact on the game whatsoever. I'm the Reus of management!

qwertyman:Thanks for taking the time out to catch up. Sorry for beating your team but it was an important match for us so I didn't put out a weakened side. Please stick with the story despite this disappointing turn of events for you!

I didn't mean chasing the money in my contact i ment in the transfer funds as i wanted all the top players to see what i could do but unfortunatly for me not only did i leave my beloved newcastle hoping for higher heights with sexy football but now im in charge of aston villa but lucky for me i have them playing tiki taka football with confidence something i could never achieve with monaco but who knows what the future will bring maybe even head back to monaco and try and achieve things next time lol

You beat Man United in your home. Great job mate
I love your story, keep it up.

is mike ashley still chairman at newcastle in your save

beating united is a good achievement and i love this story

kernel:I am glad you are enjoying it as much as I enjoyed beating United.

AdamFinchale: Hope. Thankfully.

jasonvilla4ever:It was a great achievement to go alongside the wins against Liverpool and Chelsea. I hope there are many more to come.

When I first started writing stories on FMScout I tended to do separate updates depending on the competition; the FA Cup and Capital One Cup would get their own dedicated updates which immerse you in my cup journeys as well as league battles. This was something I was hoping to bring back now I had guided Newcastle United to their first cup final in several years and given them the opportunity to finally win some silverware. However, this time around, I felt that such the disappointment of our performance that it didn’t deserve its own update.

We were appalling from start to finish! We have become known as the club that heads into every game with the confidence of outscoring any opponent no matter the calibre. Come the end of the game we only had seven shots and only two of those were on target. I have spent time looking at the statistics and cannot figure out where we went wrong, apart from my choice of negative tactics from the start set us out to fail. I never understand why in real life managers take the blame when things go wrong in a game. It is the players on the pitch that go out there and have to win the game; you don’t go seeing players get sacked for poor performances but the manager does! Despite this opinion I have to be hypocritical and take the blame for the lads not being able to get into the game. Deciding to set the players out in a negative (standard) 4-1-4-1 formation meant there was never going to be an opportunity for them to get many shots on goal. My thinking behind that wrong choice was because of the attacking flair that City possesses. We had to consider the quality they have upfront and ensure that they didn’t send us to the slaughter. In hindsight I do wish I had set the team out in my preferred formation of 4-2-3-1 and have had a real go at them and if we had lost by a big score line we could have held our heads up high.

This is the first save, since my successful Liverpool one back on FM2013 that I have got to the stage where regens are taking over the footballing world. It is a whole new experience for me and is making me spend more time studying a player instead of relying on my knowledge of current players in the real footballing world. Diot was a player recommended to me by my knowledgeable backroom staff as a player to get into the club as soon as possible. To say we only paid £925k for the lad, he has already paid back with his performances so far. I am very excited about his future and when the likes of Faouzi Ghoulam, our first choice left back, have retired then he will get many opportunities to show his true potential.

Player of the Month – Diego Diot

Manager of the Month

cant wait for the new update from you and is Mike Ashley still in charge of Newcastle?

Good wins in the league but an unlucky defeat against City, otherwise another very good update!

AdamFinchale: I have already answered that....^^^^

Josh_MU:We just didn't play well against City so didn't deserve anything from it. It would have been a great way to ensure we have European football next season though!

Unlucky to lose in the cup final, but we all know how tough City are to beat

2014-05-18 13:47#175318 Justice : Unlucky to lose in the cup final, but we all know how tough City are to beat

Very difficult to beat. They have dominated the league in recent years. I can't be too harsh on them as it was my fault in regards to the formation and approach to the game. Congrats on posting the 400th reply on this story

Now we are heading into the latter stages of the season, it is vital that we are getting as many points on the board as we can. I am proud of the players for closing the gap between us and league rivals, Manchester City to just one point but there is still a lot of work to do. Now the FA Cup and Capital One Cup journeys are over for this season, the league title takes sole priority around the club. However, this task has become more difficult because of our poor performances against Liverpool and Chelsea this month, who we beat comfortably earlier in the season.

Unfortunately at the club at the moment we are lacking quality on the bench. Our starting line up is very strong. Jerome Sinclair is doing brilliantly upfront and is joint third top scorer in the league this season behind young starlets Mark Casey (Manchester City) and Henk Herder (Manchester United). Sinclair is also third in the list of players who have received the most Man of the Match awards this season. Alexandr Kokorin has done well when Sinclair has been jaded and has the fourth best shots on target ratio in the league. None of this would have been possible if it wasn’t for Zeli Ismail, who I am desperately trying to get to sign a new contract without paying over the odds on his wage, and Jack Grealish. Ismail has provided twelve assists and I am confident that if Grealish hadn’t been as fatigued as he has been in the past few games, he would definitely have more than the ten assists he has got to his name.

I am hoping that our lads can continue to perform at the highest level, which is what we need to do week in and week out for the rest of the season if we are going to win the league title, which is still a real possibility. I think if the club is going to continue to challenge in the league and compete in various cup competitions (including the Champions League next season (maybe)) then the club is going to have to invest in quality back up players. The difficulty with this is what any manager experiences and that is that players want game time and not to be sat on the bench game after game. This is something I have experienced with Thomas Carroll who has decided he doesn’t want to sign a new contract due the lack of the games; he won’t even engage in discussions but instead has stated he will leave at the end of the season. Thankfully Tomas Kalas has been convinced to stay and sign a new contract which should see him see out the majority of the rest of his career at the club. He is the kind of quality that we need to have as backup to the preferred starting eleven. The only stumbling block I can see in our way is the board of directors. Yes Mike Ashley is gone but this chairman seems to be even more stingy...

Player of the Month – Marcus Berglund

Creditable draws against Chelsea and Pool! You're doing great in the league man! Keep it up!

great to see mike cashley gone but what a pity about the new chairman really hope you manage to get the toon to win the league