Career Mode Discussion 28

After a well earned promotion to the Premier League all the hard work starts again for Brian McDermott and his squad. McDermott has already signed Gareth McCleary on a free from Nottingham Forest and has been linked with numerous other players. However, McDermott said his squad needs to be "perfect" for them to survive relegation this coming season. Reading have recently been linked with audacious moves for Michael Ballack and Alessandro Del Piero after both players were released from their old teams. Reading will line up against three teams in pre-season to test their players ability and work rates so McDermott can assess which areas need improving.

I am very proud to be manager of this great football club. The club and fans deserve to be in the Premier League and i am delighted i managed to lead them there. I think it's going to be a very difficult season as we have a considerably lower transfer budget than others, but i have belief in my players to stay clear of relegation. I saw how the other day we were linked with Ballack and Del Peiro, they are world class players and i would love them to join our club but i think bigger teams will be in the hunt for them and we would probably lose out. We have a little belief we could snatch one of the two but it looks highly unlikely at this point. Other transfer negotiations are going well at the moment and i expect quite a few transfers to be completed in the coming weeks. - Brian McDermott (Reading manager)

I do it in paint, then you can move the white bit down to the size you want with them little squares on the side of the white bit. If that makes sense.

Brain McDermott has added bags of experience to his team ahead of the upcoming Premier League campaign. They have 276 caps between them in which they have scored 77 goals. Many Royals fans are looking forward to seeing these magnificent footballers at the Madjeski and many pundits are surprised they have joined. John Madjeski said he can spend more on these players as they don't have fees.

Craig Gordon - Free - The 28 year old keeper is a magnificent player but his career has been plagued by injury. He would most likely still be at Sunderland if it was not for these re-occuring injuries and McDermott was quick to get in contact and get a deal sorted.

Asier Del Horno - Free -The 30 year old is a very experienced defender who is nearing the end of his career but is still such a good player. He still has lots of pace for his age and reads the game superbly. He will be a major player on the right hand side.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy - Free - - Van Nistelrooy had recently said he wanted to join a new English club for a final challenge in his career. Many people were tipping him to join a team such as Liverpool but the forward joined Reading due to no other others available.

Adriano - Free - The biggest shock in my opinion. Brazilian striker Adriano was released due to only playing 4 games in a year due to a long term injury. He had been a free agent for a number of months and Reading have decided to take a gamble on an overweight striker with low fitness levels, taking that into account he only signed a one year deal.

Clarence Seedorf - Free - Another huge shock as many pundits still felt he had something to give. McDermott said that Seedorf will join up on a one year deal after Euro 2012 where he is working as a pundit. Seedorf said he would like to return to Holland in his final years as a player and will most likely do so after this coming season.

Marvin Wynne - £500k - The speedy defender was brought in just for his pace. McDermott felt his side could struggle against the faster opposition and Wynne is a player who can keep up with the faster players in the division.

Akos Buzsaky - Free - The Hungarian midfielder has been brought in as a partner at the side of Seedorf. He is a good midfielder with an eye for goal and is also very creative. McDermott tried to sign him last season but QPR were reluctant to let go of him.

Cristian Brocchi - £120k - The 35 year old Italian midfielder has been brought in as a rotation player, most likely for Clarence Seedorf. He is a very good defensive midfielder who could be used in a defensive role against teams such as Manchester United.

Reading have also transfer listed the following 10 players, all will leave the club this summer; Mills, Gunnarsson, Williams, Locke, D'Ath, Morrison, Andersen, Cummings, Howard, Mills.



I am delighted with our transfers. We have managed to bring in much needed quality to provide a step to build a very good squad on, also if Adriano can recapture his form from earlier of his career we have one of the best strikers available, and we are moving out the dead wood who we feel wont get much of a chance here. Up to now i am pretty sure they wont be any more transfers coming into the club as all i want to do now is get the squad sorted and push on into pre-season and the Premier League campaign ahead. - Brian McDermott (Reading manager)

robzda

edit: as Sigge said.

Should be an update on the opening day soon.

Today manager Jürgen Klopp and his team will begin pre-season training ahead of the new season. Klopp and his players managed to win the Bundesliga pipping Bayern Munich to the title and becoming a well known team around the world. Dortmund have got a huge fan base and are one of the most supported clubs in German football and they play in 80,000 seat stadium named Westfalenstadion. Dortmund also have a great team spirit and have amazing players such as Mario Gotze, Matt Hummels and Shinji Kagawa, however, there are rumours that Dortmund may have to part with some players due to clubs such as Inter Milan, Manchester United and Chelsea sniffing around their talent.

I am looking forward to this new season and our first game against Hamburger. We have now won the league and have a great team and spirit. People behind the scenes at this club do a massive job in helping us succeed and i would like to thank them. I believe we will be able to qualify for the Champions League this season and maybe push on for another title win. Unfortunately it is likely that Shinji Kagawa will be leaving us and moving to Italy (** because of his move to Manchester United) and a lot of other players will also be leaving to enable us to bring in more young quality players and to focus on our growing scouting network. - Jürgen Klopp (Borussia Dortmund manager)





Inter Milan have agreed a deal reported to be worth an intial £21m to sign Japan midfielder Shinji Kagawa from German side Borussia Dortmund. The 23-year-old needs to pass a medical and obtain a work permit. Kagawa scored 13 goals in 31 Bundesliga games as Dortmund won a league and cup double in the 2011-12 season. The Japan midfielder has signed a four-year deal after passing a medical at the San Siro on Friday.

Other players to leave Borussia Dortmund are;

Barrios - £12,500,000
Kehl - £2,500,000
Rangelov - £1,100,000
Sobeich - £1,100,000
Hubner - £625,000
Grobkreutz - £5,500,000
Owomoyela - £925,000
da Silva - £850,000
Facher - £450,000

Borussia Dortmund have also completed the signings of;

Martin - £15,500,000
Hernandez - £17,500,000
M'Bia - £18,000,000
Schennikov - £6,800,000
Leali - £9,500,000

I am delighted with our transfers for this season. I am not happy to have lost Shinji Kagawa but i wish him all the best at Inter Milan and Lucas Barrios had an argument so i put him up for sale and he moved to England. As for the transfers in to our club i feel they all have lots of potential and they all, apart from Leali, will feature in my first team this season. We still do have a good budget left but i am going to invest that into our scouting network so we can bring in some of our own players and hopefully they can make our first team in years to come. - Jürgen Klopp (Borussia Dortmund manager)

Sigge Astbury D3structor

Out

Robert Lewandowski - £25,000,000 - A bid of £25,000,000 for a striker who only scored 18 goals was too much for me to turn down. He is a very good player but i felt with that money we could strengthen in 1 or 2 other positions.

Jakub Blaszczykowski - £5,000,000 - Never impressed me last season. He has good pace yes but he couldn't score to save his life. When QPR came in with the bid, even though it was £1,000,000 under his price i accepted.

Łukasz piszczek - £5,000,000 - Good defender, would definitely be in my starting 11 this season if he hadn't put in a transfer request and upset the board so they sold him at a cut price!

İlkay Gündoğan - £7,000,000 - I had much better targets in mind for the CDM position and whenever he got a chance to impress he never did and for £7,000,000 i had to sell.

Ivan Perisic - £6,500,000 - He is a good player but i saw him as going to waste. He was on the bench week after week and was never getting played. I also saw better players that i could bring in for his position who are younger and have better potential.

In

Manoel Reina - Academy - He is a great player who starts at a 65 and has the potential 85-91. He is a quick tricky winger who i will look to send out on loan in January.

Welliton - £25,500,000 - A direct replacement for Lewandowski. He is a very quick striker who is great at finishing and he also is pretty good at getting assists due to his pace. He can play on the wing or up front and in either position he is a threat.

Gary Madine - £3,900,000 - He is a very good young striker with decent potential. I felt we needed something different, like a target man, and Madine fits that role well. He is a very good header of the ball and is also good on the ground.

Eder Luis - £6,500,000 - I was flicking through Benfica's squad when i saw him. He has lighting pace, he is skillful and can dribble very well. I saw he was transfer listed and he was the guy i was going to replace Blaszczykowski with.

Wakaso Mubarak - £3,500,000 - He is the definition of a beast. The CDM is back up for Sven Bender and M'Bia but could easily fit into the first team due to his amazing Physical attributes.

Cicinho - £3,500,000 - Łukasz Piszczek's replacement. He is a very fast defender with great stamina who likes to get forward and trouble the opposition. He will be key for our counter attacking pplay.

Adryan - £14,500,000 - The 18 year old wonderkid had impressed me in a pre season friendly so i decided to snap him up. He reminded me of a younger Ronaldinho so i offered him a 5 year deal and £14,000 per week.

Gabriel - £8,500,000 - I think this will be the biggest coup i have managed yet. He has amazing potential and is only 19. I think i will slowly add him to the first team as i have such high expectations from him.

D4N

He plays for Flamengo and is only 16! You cant sign him straight away though. He is pretty speedy, skillful and is very good at dribbling.

He just got injured in my game for 2 months

Borussia Dortmund are back in training after securing their third title win in as many seasons. Dortmund are now a dominant force in the Bundesliga but seem to drop in form when playing in the Champions League, can Jurgen Klopp sort this issue? He has done all his transfer dealings for the first half of the season...

Out

Reina - Season long loan - The 16 year old midfielder is one of the best prospects so far to come out of Borussia Dortmund's academy. He is a very good left winger with good pace, dribbling and shooting ability.

Madine - £2,700,000 - After a poor season in which he managed 13 appearances, scoring only two goals, the 22 year old striker has been allowed to move back to England and he chose Birmingham as his new club.

Schoutden - £240,000 - I never noticed he was in my team. He is a pretty poor player and was allowed to move on for a very cheap price.

Nieto - £375,000 - An academy product that many people had high hopes of. However, he never produced the goods and couldn't settle so he demanded a move away so Jurgen Klopp decided to sell him at a cut price.

Martin - £12,500,000 - Martin is a very good player and had plenty to offer the team but he wasn't getting a look in and i feel he is to good to be on the bench. He was able to move to Bayern Munich for £12,500,000 and these funds will go to a new CAM.

Hernandez - £17,500,000 - The promising striker never really set the Bundesliga alight. He managed just three goals in 13 starts and due to us only playing with one striker and the arrival of Welliton he wasn't going to be playing in the first team any time soon.

In

Honda - £22,000,000 - The 27 year old Japan international was upset at CSKA Moscow and handed in a transfer request. As soon as Jurgen Klopp saw this he made a move for the free kick specialist and he has signed a 5 year deal with the German club.

Carroll - £15,500,000 - Andy Carroll was going to waste at Liverpool. He was injured for a major part of last season and he never recaptured his form from his first season at the Anfield club. Carroll was made available for £15,000,000 and with such great potential i had to buy him.

Pirlo - £9,500,000 - A hefty fee for a 34 year old but i felt his passing ability is better than any and we needed that in our midfield. He is vastly experienced and will offer a good balance across the midfield and hopefully he can get a lot of assists this season.

I am very happy with how pre season has gone and the players we managed to bring into this club. I feel we had to sell players like Hernandez and Martin as they were becoming unhappy at the lack of playing time but we've used the funds raised to buy equal or better replacements who i feel will benefit the squad hugely. We also have three top class scouts working to find new players for our youth academy and hopefully we can see a few more players come through this season and we will most likely loan them out to help them develop. - Jurgen Klopp (Borussia Dortmund manager)

Any ideas who to sign for Anzhi? Got a £43m budget

Sigge

Where have you been!?

Good update btw, Sturridge seems to be a good player?

Sigge

Maybe try someone like Birmingham? They have good players and i'm sure you'd do well up front for them.

Oh by the way, i am going to start A Middlesbrough CM later today

KillaAshley

haha thanks, edited now and i changed to Leicester because of Ben Marshall.

Avram Grant and co have today announced that the transfers coming in and going out of the club have been completed and that they are very very happy with the dealings.

Transfers in

Nikola Zigic - £1,700,000 - Avram Grant said that he wanted to have a strong target man in his team and he has paid £1,700,000 for the 30 year old former Valencia striker. Zigic will bring a new style of play and can be used as an impact substitute.

Marc Richards - £360,000 - The 29 year old had caught the eye of Avram Grant in a pre season friendly in which he scored against them. Grant has brought him in as back up to the substitutes.

John Smith - Free - The free agent has joined Leicester on a one year deal and has got to earn his self a new contract and a place in the first team. Smith will be back up to Leicester's current number 1 and may feature in cup games.

Peter Whittingham - £4,600,000 - The Englishman is the perfect player for the CAM role that Avram Grant wants to bring in to Leicester. He is good on the ball, a great passer, good at set pieces and can score plenty of goals.

Joseph Akpala - £1,900,000 - The Nigerian striker has joined the club after he was unhappy at Club Brugge KV. He is a fast striker with excellent finishing ability and is the short term replacement for Jermaine Beckford.

Aleksandar Luković - £1,900,000 - He signed from Russian side Zenit to replace the aging Paul Konchesky. He is a good passer of the ball and is also a very good crosser. He is decent defensively and should be a good option down the left for Grant.

Jon Taylor - £700,000 - The speedy 18 year old winger joins from League 2 side Shrewsbury. He has a good reputation in League 2 and Avram Grant said he deserves to play at a higher level because of his skill and speed.

Eliseu - £2,200,000 - Another defender, this time from Spanish team Malaga. He is one of the fastest players in the game and provides a very good attacking option as he is good at finishing and long shots.

Antoine Devaux - £1,600,000 - The 26 year old French midfielder will provide very good balance in Leicester's midfield and he is mainly defensively minded but he can also grab a few goals per season if given the opportunity.

David Beckham - £750,000 - A major shock. David Beckham has put pen to paper on a two year deal with Leicester and Avram Grant is said to be ecstatic with his new signing. Beckham is an amazing passer and has bags of experience.

Ross Barkley - Season long loan - The 17 year old midfielder will be used in rotation with Peter Whittingham. The loan deal has a clause that Leicester can buy him for £4,500,000 during his time at the Walkers Stadium.

Transfers out

Richard Wellens - £525,000 - The aging midfielder was forced out of the team due to having too many CM options available. He joined Birmingham on a two year deal and was "sad" to leave Leicester.

Martyn Waghorn - £875,000 - The young striker handed in a transfer request after the signing of Nikola Zigic and the board decided to sell at a cut price to league rivals Millwall.

Bruno Berner - £25,000 - Berner wasn't going to get a look in and is most likely going to retire in the coming years. He was sold to struggling league 1 team Chesterfield for next to nothing.

Darius Vassell - £575,000 - This was a shock move for many as he moved to rivals Derby County. The former England striker never really delivered and was moved on as Avram Grant builds his new squad.

Matt Mills - £1,300,000 - The defender who joined from Reading for a huge fee left on a small fee as Premier League Norwich came knocking for him. Grant said he couldn't relieve him of this opportunity.

Hopper - £110,000 - The young striker was around 7th place striker and was allowed to leave to cash strapped Plymouth in League Two.

Jermaine Beckford - £3,000,000 - The striker was annoyed at the sacking of Nigel Pearson and Avram Grant didn't like his attitude. Blackburn put an offer of £100,000 under his asking price and Grant decided to sell.

Everton's chairman Bill Kenwright has announced that David Moyes has stepped down from the managerial position due to "family reasons" and that former Basel manager Heiko Vogel will take over from next week. Vogel has managed only 32 games so it is a bit of a risk but he won 24, drew 6 and lost only 2. The 36 year old has also got the following honours to his name - Swiss Super League: 2010, 2011, 2012, Swiss Cup: 2010, 2012 and Uhrencup Winner: 2011. David Moyes 49, had a great time at Everton and finished his era with a 41.86% win ratio as he was in charge of 473 games, winning 198, drawing 123 and losing 152 games.

I am very sad to be leaving Everton. This is an amazing football club but unfortunately my family has to come before football. I hope once this issue is resolved i can get back into football management and one day i would love a return to Everton. I loved my time here and i will always remember my time here. I have heard that Heiko Vogel will take my place and i believe he is an amazing manager and he is young so hopefully he can continue my work and do well here. - David Moyes (former Everton manager)

Today Everton have officially confirmed that they have a new deal with Unicef to become their new sponsor. The deal will be a three year deal with a new set of kits every season or two. These new Everton kits are a hit with the Toffee's fans and have sold thousands already. Officials at Everton have also confirmed the transfers Heiko Vogel has made so far since joining from FC Basel.

AC Milan have today confirmed that with one day left of the transfer window they have currently spent £140m on new players after the departures of key players earlier in the summer. AC Milan president still expects Milan to win the league title after losing players such as Pato, Robinho and Silva because of financial problems within the club. However they have managed to sign 9 new players and still want more with a day left of this transfer window.



I am delighted with how our transfers have gone. I think we have some of the best players in the world in their positions here and we are in talks with two more who we hope to sign tomorrow on deadline day. I think our team is strong enough to win the league again and we have some young players in our academy who show real promise and could make it into the first team in the coming years. - Paolo Maldini (AC Milan manager)

Sigge

Sold no one first season but bought Ogbonna, Kalas and ter Stegen.Oh and Ibrahimovic is a beast!



The game kicked off to a deafening roar from both sets of supporters. Milan had a new hope with Paolo Maldini whilst Juventus were looking to bring back the golden days. In the 8th minute Andrea Pirlo won a free kick, took it, and it rattled off the bar. There was a silence like no other watching the ball fly through the air looking as though it would beat ter Stegen. In the 15th minute new signings Moutinho and Higuain linked up and Higuain had broke the offside trap and was clean through but Buffon some how pulled of one of the saves of the season. In the 20th minute there was a confrontation between Ibrahimovic and Chiellini who squared up to each other after a rash challenge which saw the Italian booked. The game calmed down a little until the 34th minute when Didier Drogba had the ball in the net with a smashing effort only to be ruled out by offside.

The second half was a fast flowing game with Milan just edging it with 58% possession. There were no chances up until the 60th minute when 18 year old Adryan tried an audacious effort from 25 yards which nearly caught Buffon off guard. In the 67th minute there was a cheer like no other. Zlatan Ibrahimovic had scored a loveely volley into the top corner and the fans and Maldini went crazy! They knew all they had to do was hold on but the players were tired. Maldini did a triple substitution, Ronaldinho, Juninho and Kalas on, Higuain, El Shaarawy and Lahm off. It worked. Milan held off Juventus and won the game 1-0.

Full time score - AC Milan 1-0 Juventus (Ibrahimovic)

Sigge

I played Boateng not Gattuso

Damn, i think i have deleted my results on my Milan save!!!!!!!

Going to have to just go straight to 2013/2014 season or start a new CM.



Just three days after Tito Vilanova left Barcelona due to Real Madrid dominating Spanish football at the moment president Sandro Rosell has today announced that former AC Milan manager Paolo Maldini, who won them the Serie A title, the Supercoppa and the Coppa Nazionale, has signed a one year deal to try and break Madrid's dominance. Sky sources understand that Maldini will be on around £10,000 per week and has been given a hefty budget to improve his squad.

I am very sad to leave Milan as i support them and i thought i would be there longer than two seasons. However, if a team like Barcelona approach you then in my opinion, you cannot turn this wonderful opportunity down. I won everything in Italy, the league and both cups and i want to try and challenge myself here and hopefully win as many trophies as possible over my career. Madrid have some of the best player in the world like Messi but i feel the squad needs fresh players to challenge Madrid. - Paolo Maldini (new Barcelona manager)

Sigge

I think i will do. I am planning to change jobs at the end of each season preferably to different countries. Don't know which to start in though (rubbish teams so i can build them as well)

Don't think i will do a journeyman haha. Any other ideas?

Sheffield Wednesday chairman Milan Mandaric has today announced that Sheffield Wednesday legend Roland Nilsson will become the next manager of the club following Dave Jones departure due to family reasons. Nilsson enjoyed 151 appearances for The Owls in a 5 year spell at the club and in 2007 he came out top in a poll on Vital Football to find the club's greatest ever right-back. Nilsson also played 116 times for his native country Sweden and enjoyed spells at Coventry, GAIS, Helsingborg and IFK Göteborg. Nilsson, now aged 48, played in 562 competitive games for club and country over his career scoring 14 goals from right back. When Nilsson hung up his boots he managed Coventry City, Malmö FF, GAIS and Copenhagen. He won seven honours as a player including Swedish champion four times, League Cup winner once, UEFA cup winner once.

I am very happy to be back in England. I enjoyed my time at Sheffield Wednesday as a player and to manage the club is a great achievement for me. They have great fans and unfortunately until Milan Mandaric joined the club they were on the brink of liquidation, but now me and Milan hope to rebuild this wonderful football club and take them to the top. They have a good set of players but i feel one or two positions need strengthening and i feel i need to inject some youth into this team to give the squad a good balance. - Roland Nilsson (new Sheffield Wednesday manager)

D4N

I think he turns out okay, but no world beater.

Manchester United are delighted to announce that former Borussia Dortmund manager Jürgen Klopp will become the new manager of the club after signing a two year contract with the club. Klopp, aged 45, led Borussia Dortmund to two successive league title victories as well as winning the DFB-Pokal and the DFL-Supercup. Klopp was in charge of Dortmund for 167 games, winning 96, drawing 41 and losing 30, which gave him a win ratio of 57.49%. Manchester United were supposedly close to securing a deal with former Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola but the deal fell through due the managers wage demands. New manager Jürgen Klopp has supposedly planned a 'clear out' at Old Trafford and aims to bring the best young talents available to the club as he looks to build for the future.

I am very excited about managing Manchester United as they are a massive club around the world. They have some very talented player who i will enjoy working with and they also have great fans which, like Dortmund, will spur the team on to success. I have been told to get Champions League football for this first season due to a clear out and i think we can achieve that. I look forward to the task ahead and i hope i do well at this great club. - Jürgen Klopp (Manchester United manager)

stanDRFC

Thanks mate, the header is not the best as the crest went over onto a different color on the website.