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Mistakes, unluck… but we’re in the Final of League Cup

Posted: 27 Feb 2013 12:15 PM PST

Dear readers, As you understand from the post title today's article shares another portion of my Nottingham Forest story, not very successful portion. My main goalie Samir Handanovic started to suffer from a hip injury and had to leave the team for a couple of months. I decided to rely on young Alain Cornelissen and that became my main mistake…   Nottingham Forest suffering in many matches Here

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7 tips in FM 2013 you should know

Posted: 24 Feb 2013 02:47 AM PST

It's hard to impart how much Football Manager 2013 is complicated. There are so many different factors that may influence your team and results… Well as in real life. It's tough to become a good club manager, particularly if you don't tend to choose grand clubs. This is why I decided to share my FM 2013 experience giving 7 uncommon tips which my help to increase performances and get more pleasure

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Recovery after Euro Cup failure

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 09:36 PM PST

Dear blog readers, After the painful Euro Cup debut my team managed to recover and gain some successful results in the national tournaments: Premier League and League Cup. It helped to return confidence I had before the season start…   Nottingham Forest. Performance. 15 matches: 8 wins, 3 draws, 4 losses. I am more or less happy regarding the results. Of course, there were apparent poor losses

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Catastrophe in Europa League

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 09:42 PM PST

A short and tragic post today dear readers. The reply match against modest Valerenge transformed into a real catastrophic season start for me and the club. It actually became my first serious fail in Nottingham Forest story. I don't even remember when such kind accident happened with me in previous Football Managers when I didn't qualify to a group round of Europa League or Champions League

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Transfers and season 4 expectations

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 10:07 PM PST

Nottingham Forest story continues. My transfer posts are usually quite large and this one is not an exception. Thinking of future participation in Euro Cup, I decided to widen Forest squad to be able to cope with targets in all tournaments. Additionally, I decided to continue my youth transfer policy: more talented youngsters were bought and send into club reserve team… Though my transfer

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Squad analysis after season 3

Posted: 11 Feb 2013 09:19 PM PST

The 3rd season has finished. Nottingham Forest took the 6th quite confidently and qualified to Europa League. Surely, the squad review is needed because the club will debut in Europe under my management. So below you can evaluate the strength of the squad and correlate it with spent wages. Current squad report Players sorted by average rating Player wages Goalkeepers I want to sell Carlos

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Season 3: Forest qualify for EURO Cup!

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 10:07 PM PST

Hello my dear readers, I am truly excited to present you the third season results. As you see we managed to hold on the 6th line in the table what gives us right to play in Europe next year. As a bonus, I was awarded with $30M and became the 3rd head coach of Premier League. Premier League So here's the final table standing. If you follow my pictures and videos blog at FM Crowd, you should

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FM 2013: Head of Youth Development

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 10:12 PM PST

Ramon Martinez – Head of Youth Development in Real Madrid Head of youth development is a new role presented in Football Manager 2013. Let's try to figure out why and how FM gamers should use this kind of staff role. Head of youth development has the following responsibilities: Bringing new fresh youngsters into U18 squad. Handling and signing contracts with U18 players. Loan out or sell U18

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Having the main goalie is gone to African Nations Cup

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 09:13 PM PST

Nottingham Forest story. Season 3: January, February. Winter is over in my FM 2013 story. The Triple C tactics works very well, and I don't want to change nothing about it. Just improve squad strength, club facilities, level of coaches, etc. I had quite good matches, especially taking into account that my main goalie Carlos Kameni left the team for African Nations Cup. I had to use 18 year old

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Diskerud out – Cleverly in

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 09:41 PM PST

Hello my dear readers, Today's post is completely devoted to the latest winter transfer window in my game. As you understood I sold Mikkel Diskerud who has been making more key passes than any other Forest player in this season. Tom Cleverly from Manchester United came to replace him. Let's try to examine why I made this decision. Tom Cleverly instead of Mikkel Diskerud Firstly I'd like to pay