Hi there 
Every time i start a new game on fm I tend to be the same team, same transfers, same trophies always big budgets with big players and big wages and it was getting boring so I decided to test my self in the lower leagues to see how good I actually was.
I started with a randomly cpu chosen team in the second season of an existing save and I was chosen Sheffield utd. Great I thought they have a good squad with good facilities,I was expecting an easy ride to the championship oh god how I was wrong.
When I took over the club was 3million in debt which meant no transfer budget, and to add insult to injury all the key players were unhappy with only 3 weeks left on their contracts!
Come the end of the 3 weeks I had 8 squad players! So that's 8 squad players with no transfer money, I really thought about abandoning this project.
First thing I did was search for free transfers the most notable being Lee Boywer,kieron dyer, Floyd Ayite, Fancisco Sandaza,Mikel Alonso, Davide petrucci, ryan flynn and mark howard who all played amazingly for me.
Next was Loan transfers, I signed Jake kean who was a beast in my goal, Frank nouble who finished the season with 49 in 48 appearences! aswell as billy knott and a few others.
The board expected me to win the league and after my first 10 games things were not looking good! I was mid table and my job security did not look good.
After a while the team did hit form and I slowly made my way up to about 6th but crystal palace were raping the league a good 15-20 points ahead of everyone else.
The last third of the season was epic! I went on a mad unbeaten run to move up to second but palace were still way out in front I didn't hold out much hope of catching them. Last few games I managed to close the gap and with one game remaining I had 97 points, palace had 100 I just had to beat the 4th place team and hope palace lost. I won 7-0! and palace lost 2-1 away to rotheram! I did It I won the league 1 (just) and to top it off got manager of the year!
Onwards and upwards. I actually was offered jobs by both everton and sunderland and opted to take the sunderland role, kind of regretting it now wished I'd stayed with sheff utd but here's a list of all my transfers so far with sunderland:
OUT:
Craig gordon - Ac Milan 10m
David Vaughn -Derby 2m
Kieren westwood - liverpool 900k
Titus Bramble - southampton 800k
Seb Larrson - derby -1.8m
Elohamady - koln 1m
Chris cohen - west ham 2.2m
Chris Brunt - Liverpool 11m
Craig gardener - aston villa 3.2m
cristian riverios - sevilla 2.1m
Michael turner - Birmingham 1.1m
IN:
Carlos Kameni - Free
Jonjo shelvey - liverpool 6m
Scott sinclair - QPR 4m
Liam ridgewell - birminham 4m
thomas mangani - Free
Roque santa cruz - Free
Fernando Gago - Free
Bryan ruiz - fulham 3.2m
kyle bartley - Arsenal Free
agbossoumonde - Rostock 2.9m
fani karim - osk 3.1m
Stephen Ireland - aston villa 1.9m
Every time i start a new game on fm I tend to be the same team, same transfers, same trophies always big budgets with big players and big wages and it was getting boring so I decided to test my self in the lower leagues to see how good I actually was. I started with a randomly cpu chosen team in the second season of an existing save and I was chosen Sheffield utd. Great I thought they have a good squad with good facilities,I was expecting an easy ride to the championship oh god how I was wrong.
When I took over the club was 3million in debt which meant no transfer budget, and to add insult to injury all the key players were unhappy with only 3 weeks left on their contracts!
Come the end of the 3 weeks I had 8 squad players! So that's 8 squad players with no transfer money, I really thought about abandoning this project.
First thing I did was search for free transfers the most notable being Lee Boywer,kieron dyer, Floyd Ayite, Fancisco Sandaza,Mikel Alonso, Davide petrucci, ryan flynn and mark howard who all played amazingly for me.
Next was Loan transfers, I signed Jake kean who was a beast in my goal, Frank nouble who finished the season with 49 in 48 appearences! aswell as billy knott and a few others.
The board expected me to win the league and after my first 10 games things were not looking good! I was mid table and my job security did not look good.
After a while the team did hit form and I slowly made my way up to about 6th but crystal palace were raping the league a good 15-20 points ahead of everyone else.
The last third of the season was epic! I went on a mad unbeaten run to move up to second but palace were still way out in front I didn't hold out much hope of catching them. Last few games I managed to close the gap and with one game remaining I had 97 points, palace had 100 I just had to beat the 4th place team and hope palace lost. I won 7-0! and palace lost 2-1 away to rotheram! I did It I won the league 1 (just) and to top it off got manager of the year!
Onwards and upwards. I actually was offered jobs by both everton and sunderland and opted to take the sunderland role, kind of regretting it now wished I'd stayed with sheff utd but here's a list of all my transfers so far with sunderland:
OUT:
Craig gordon - Ac Milan 10m
David Vaughn -Derby 2m
Kieren westwood - liverpool 900k
Titus Bramble - southampton 800k
Seb Larrson - derby -1.8m
Elohamady - koln 1m
Chris cohen - west ham 2.2m
Chris Brunt - Liverpool 11m
Craig gardener - aston villa 3.2m
cristian riverios - sevilla 2.1m
Michael turner - Birmingham 1.1m
IN:
Carlos Kameni - Free
Jonjo shelvey - liverpool 6m
Scott sinclair - QPR 4m
Liam ridgewell - birminham 4m
thomas mangani - Free
Roque santa cruz - Free
Fernando Gago - Free
Bryan ruiz - fulham 3.2m
kyle bartley - Arsenal Free
agbossoumonde - Rostock 2.9m
fani karim - osk 3.1m
Stephen Ireland - aston villa 1.9m
I started the season with a budget of 6m which was then later increased to around 10m via a little begging off the board ha 
