Glazer no longer able to pay debt - Old Trafford and Carrington training ground that loans were secured upon repossesed, interest that had built up can't be covered even by that, so wages unable to be paid, all players allowed to be released from their contracts by order of FA and Premier League. With OT repossed, no ground registered for next season = kicked out of Prem/Football League.
Club reforms in Conference with merger with FC United. All players take the FA's offer and leave the club except Solskjaer, Neville, Scholes, but Scholes career ended by Injury, stays on @ club as scout. Bryan Robson agrees to take over as Manager, rest to follow in pictures(Once i've set it up )
Having to share a ground with City...
Best Squad
Solskjaer won't be playing much part
Robson + Cantona revolution
Rich, for a conference side
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Moores is implicated in money laundering, and so facing prison time he steps down as Liverpool Chairman. After being found guilty of gross financial misconduct, Liverpool are asset stripped and the FA forces them to drop out of the Football League.
Spending a difficult season in the conference and struggling to keep up with the hefty stadium maintenance costs, Liverpool face the prospect of selling Anfield and maybe even folding completely.
A consortium headed by Ian Rush buys out the debts Liverpool incurred during their year in the conference and appoints John Aldridge as Manager. Robbie Fowler re-signs for Liverpool and vows to play for free.
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Jack (Bauer) and Jill went up the hill. Only Jack came down. Jill was a fucking terrorist.
After years of lengthy discussions with Supporters Groups, Clubs, SPL and FAPL, Glasgow Rangers and Glasgow Celtic have been allowed entry into the English Setup.
Gretna and Livingston move into the SPL as a result, keeping the 12 team format. The move is welcomed as the Old Firm's grip on the game has finally been removed, a tighter and more competitive league is expected.
The move has however been met with dismay by some fan's, who are not prepared to travel the length of the country to see their team face the likes of Aldershot when just last year both clubs were competing on the European Stage.
As a result both clubs have seen major changes in faces, Celtic have lost virtually their whole management and coaching team, while also losing some of their big name stars in the form of Hartson and Petrov. Rangers haven't lost quite as many of their coaching staff, but have manager Paul Le Guen leaving his post just weeks after taking control. Ranger's have also lost some of their big name stars, but have managed to hold onto some of Le Guen's team.
The move has cost both club millions but they see this as a step in the right direction for their long term futures. Both clubs however, have a huge financial platform over the rest of the clubs in Conference North.
Rangers manager Paul Howie has drafted in some former fan's favourites to strengthen the support of the fans into his management team, while Nicholas has brought in a small team of inexperienced former players.
Can new Ger's boss Paul Howie and Celtic Boss Charlie Nicholas guide their teams through the divisions and reach the Premiership and European glory their fans demand? Can they cut it in the English lower divisons?
YOUR GAMES ARE THE GAYIST THING EVER ACRCADEN CRUSADE WAS EPIC FAIL AND SO WAS ANY THING U MADE WITH A P THE REST WAS JUST FLAT OUT GAY U DONT DESERVE LIFE NO U DONT DESERVE ANYTHING U ARE JUST A GAY MORON WHO NEEDS TO GET A LIFE
My current game with my brother... (we play as ourselves to keep the rivalry and are already in our 4th season)
After being promoted to league two under the guidance of Paul Fairclough they could not secure his position as manager for the following season. He wished to focus on the England national XI game that he believed could be taken forward under his guidance. Barnet's local rivals, who just missed out on promotion from the conference last season through the play-offs, Stevenage have removed their manager, Graham Westley, from his post and looked to appointed a fresh new face to gain them promotion.
Barnet appointed manager Simon Brown who aimed to follow Fairclough's expectations of his old team. Promotion was the goal. The fans were unsure of the appointment of an unexperienced manager, but the board were willing to gamble upon him. Stevenage Borough followed suit appointing David Brown, another unexperienced manager. Both boards were pessimistic about the up coming seasons, abviously willing to give their new managers time in their posts to gain their clubs success. Stevenage expecting to be pushing for a place in the play-offs whereas Barnet were expected to battle bravely against relegation.
S.Brown was very active in the transfer market, bringing in several players with league experience and taking Dexter Blackstock on loan from Southampton, who promised to be an exciting prospect for the future. D. Brown struggled to lure many players to his club, and the majority of players came to the club lacking much first team experience.
Strengthened further in the January transfer window after the signing of Andy Smith from Preston on a free transfer, Barnet were flying high at the top of the league. They remained in the position for most of the season, but fell away near the end of the season. It went down to the last day where 3 of 4 teams could go up automatically from League Two. Barnet just managed to hang onto one of the places, finishing in 3rd. Stevenage faltered at the last hurdle finishing just outside the play-offs and suffering defeat in the final of the FA Trophy.
Even after preforming so well in the previous season, filling up Underhill from mid-season onwards, Barnet's board were once again pessimistic about the up coming season. The big signing for Barnet was Christian Bassila from recently relegated Sunderland and the capture of Dexter Blackstock on loan again after his 30+ league goals the previous season. Stevenage had hit some financial troubles and this led the board to believe the play-offs were unattainable, as they predicted mid-table mediocracy.
Barnet again went top of the league and were pushing hard for a third successive automatic promotion. This challenge fell away due to disappointing attendances meaning that S.Brown could not strengthen in January. They finished in the playoffs, and 4th in the league. They fell apart and lost 2-1, in both legs, to Gillingham. Stevenage proved their board correct and finished 7th in the league, however, they got back into the FA Trophy final but lost to Accrington for the second year running.
I am bored of writing about this now though... I will summarise the rest. The next season I finished second in league one, again leaving it to the last day. My bro won the conference and the FA Trophy. This season I am 23rd in the championship after a shocking start to the season. Started to pull it together now though and could get out of it... Stevenage should be safe already but are dipping in form now and could still go down. (and it's really bent that I am getting just 2,500 fans through my gate in the fucking championship when I was getting a full house every game in League 2! Even when I was doing well in League 1 I was just getting 3,000-3,500 max)
Squall wrote: (and it's really bent that I am getting just 2,500 fans through my gate in the fucking championship when I was getting a full house every game in League 2! Even when I was doing well in League 1 I was just getting 3,000-3,500 max)
There lies a bit of a problem with this FM. I'm playing as Stafford Rangers in one of my leagues, and I'm now up to League Two, but as the board won't upgrade the stadium, and I'm not getting sell out games (3500 capacity woo), its going to be virtually impossible to progress past League One should I ever get promotion from League Two.
I'm also having the same problem in my Elgin City game, I've had one expansion so far, but it's not enough, as my team can't really get above mid-team in the Scottish Premier as I simply can't compete with the millions teams have made from European competitions in the (10-15 seasons before me)
I 'should' be able to get promotion from the championship in time. I have a wage budget of 50k/week, but I am leaking money pretty regularily. In league two when I was getting a full house every week I went up to over 2 million in the black from one season. If I were getting such attendances in the Championship I would be fine financially. I just have no idea why I am not getting higher attendances!
I don't think Underhill can be developed in this game either. I was looking at the editor and it says that it's expansion capacity is only 5,500 (same as it is now). I've changed it to 50,000 on my editor but the game we are playing is unedited so i'll be fucked if I ever get to the premiership. It is true to life though that our stadium can't be expanded though, I dunno what will happen if I can afford an expansion, will be interesting to find out. I've already got some good signings for next season so should do well if I stay up this year...
Squall wrote:
I don't think Underhill can be developed in this game either. I was looking at the editor and it says that it's expansion capacity is only 5,500 (same as it is now). I've changed it to 50,000 on my editor
I never realised there was an expansion capacity in editor, that explains a lot.
Old Trafford can go to 100,000 according to it. Just looked at 'New Anfield' and it's expansion capacity is 0... I wouldn't try and expand it if I were you .
Squall wrote:Old Trafford can go to 100,000 according to it. Just looked at 'New Anfield' and it's expansion capacity is 0... I wouldn't try and expand it if I were you .
Surely that means that new Anfield could be anything from Current to 9999999 though? Or whatever the maximum is, given that 0 is usually a random value.
Yeah I know theres a stadium expansion thing in the editor, but none the less its a bit shitty.
Would prefer if it was a random value, in that, the worse your club does and hits financial ruin for example, the more run down thus capacity drops your stadium gets - like old versions. The more sucessful you are, you can increase the stadium at will.
The expansion thing has no bearing on rl expansions of stadium.
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