Chelsea FC : The Eclipse of the Blue Empire

I've decided to begin my managerial career at West London by managing Chelsea FC. I've decided to start with The Blues for two reasons. Firstly, because I'm a Chelsea FC fan myself ( ) and secondly because it will be a challenge for me to bring in and establish fresh young faces in the Chelsea FC squad to replace most of the ageing players; the next set of football's rising phenomenon. By doing so, I will have accomplished my goal of building "A New Stamford Bridge Legacy".

My target for the season is to launch a competitive title challenge where the board has given me a transfer budget of £14 million.

I feel my first-team squad is capable enough to invoke a serious title challenge. But, however there isn’t much cover for the first-team in case of injuries and suspensions. I will be promoting some of the younger players from the reserve squads to the first-team squad, such as J.McEachran, D.Sturridge, R.Lukaku and O.Romeu.

I will be hoping to strengthen my squad in the summer transfer window. One major signing I will am hoping for will take place is X.Shaqiri to Chelsea FC. He is a very talented young right winger and I feel he can make a huge contribution to the success of this club. He will also be a good choice to replace N.Anelka who will most probably be heading out of the club either at the start or the end of this season.

I will also try to sign a central defender in order to strengthen my defence even further. I will be looking hoping to purchase a young central defender whose value isn’t so high so, I can buy him cheaply. Two defenders that meet this criterion are J.Tomkins and R.Toloi and I might be making a move for them in the future. Another central defender that really captures my attention is N.Onouha and I will try my level best to sign him although he might be a bit more expensive.

Also, there is already a transfer confirmed before I joined The Blues, which will take place in the January transfer period, L.Piazon (Forward) will join Chelsea FC for £6.95 million. This really helpful since D.Drogba will soon retire and I will have three capable young strikers to replace him (D.Sturridge, R.Lukaku, L.Piazon).

Hopefully, the next string of matches (pre-seasons) will help me figure out my tactics and best eleven for the start of the competitive season. For now, I will be starting with a balanced formation of 4-5-1 with an anchor-man, box-to-box midfielder and a deep lying playmaker in the centre of the park.

I hope most of you that read this are intrigued to continue reading about my FM story in the future. So until next time, peace out …..

i like you story mate. Im an Arsenal fan but i respect the philosophy you are trying to create by creating a team with your young players, good luck creating your very own stamford bridge legacy.

good philsophy u got going mate. so much more satisfying bringing up your own youngsters than spendings million on superstars. and saves youn monet in the long run aswell.

i suggest u look at trying to Develop Conor Clifford his stats are pretty decent as it is. and he only gets better .

good story so far mate

Looks like its going to be a great story, by the way, You will be competing with Newcastle for James Tomkins, they go from like, 4.2M-->4.8M---->5.2M on the game when i was playing west ham. so i'd put a bid of 4.5M or so in for him.

Try and get Nilmar From villarell he is amazing for my chelsea squad i originally signed him because torres got injured and he was going to be out for 6-7 months so i noticed Nilmar on transfer list and the asking price was 8.25mil and now he 1 year later he my first choice right winger. In his first ten games for me he got 12 goals for me and 8 assists and an average rating of 8.10 or something like that but after that he went through bad spell cause he stop scoring but still created but in february he got going agian with 5 goals agians blackburn and he won player of the year with average rating of 8.06 also he got the golden boot with 32 goals and was 3rd highest at creating assists 16 assists.

This is a hard job, Chelsea have so many ageing key players that it'll be hard to replace them all and keep the team spirit high! Good luck.