***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[Tomasperez9]

Quote: Originally Posted by rsnomar05

I just got offered Vukcevic for $13 mil. Chelsea, Inter, Man Utd., Liverpool, Barca, Bayern, and many more high profile teams have all put in bids, but I'm apparently the favorite to get him.

He is a very good player. I had him on Roma for a while in one of my saves. He is dynamite in a free role position in the middle (either AMC or MC), bagging some goals, but mostly setting up teammates for loads of their own. What grade did your scouts give him? If I remember correctly, my scouts only gave him 5*, even though he played like a 7* player game in and game out.

[ChubbyBanana]

You guys are making me want to go home and fire this game up again.

I haven't played in awhile...

[Mo]

With eleven games left to play in my first season with derby, I'm in 5th, six points out of first. Made it to the quarters of the Carling Cup, and lost in the 3rd round of FA Cup.
Haven't really had a stand out player all year, GK Roy Carroll has been a welcome surprise, and Rob Hulse has chipped in with 10 league goals.

[Bruins]

Lost 2-0 to Iceland in my first match with San Marino. Eggert Jónsson had both goals.

Overall, not a bad result. Iceland is 100-something places higher than me in the rankings, so it could have been worse. We managed to keep Eiður Guðjohnsen off the scoresheet, so that's a victory in itself.

Here's our WC qualifying group, by the way:

Czech Republic
Poland
Slovakia
Slovenia
Northern Ireland
San Marino

Obviously looking toward the NI games for a victory(ies), and hoping we might be able to squeek out a draw or two from the others.

[chestnutz6]

Hah, I remember on my soccer trip to Italy last year we went to San Marino, and how it was like the smallest "country" if you could call it that, in the world. Have fun with scouting talent :P

[Bruins]

Smallest country in Europe, population wise. About 30,000 people in just 23.5 square miles. Also the oldest in the sovereign state/constitutional republic in the world.

[Tomasperez9]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bruins

Smallest country in Europe, population wise. About 30,000 people in just 23.5 square miles. Also the oldest in the sovereign state/constitutional republic in the world.

Don't mean to call you out, but Vatican City is actually the smallest country in the world with a population of ~830, in only .17 square miles. Don't you just love Wikipedia?

[Bruins]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tomasperez9

Don't mean to call you out, but Vatican City is actually the smallest country in the world with a population of ~830, in only .17 square miles. Don't you just love Wikipedia?

You got me there. Technically San Marino is the smallest member of the Council of Europe, whatever that means.

I wish I could manage the Vatican City national team, or even better, Vatican City FC, aka the Popes!