Looking at saint billy's Southampton game, I think I may join him in trying to bring The Saints back to the premiership.

The only reason i started with them is because there known at 'The Saints'.

A £3m transfer budget to gain promotion for a League 1 team swayed it a bit for me too.

I'm in my 3rd season in charge of Bradford City. Got automatic promotion in my first season, would have been as champions but we had a bit of a newcastle style collapse towards the end of the season (12pt lead lost!!). but that was mainly down to losing my 35 goal striker, my mid field general and my 1st and 2nd choice keepers to injury.

2nd season was expected to finish in the bottom half but managed to get within touching distance of the play-offs

3rd season seems to be a bit of a stumbling block. Lost 1st game of the season 1-0 against Colchester but then went on a 5 game winning run. stumbled over the last few games and now currently 5th. but as I'm only expected to get a top half finish i'm not too down hearted as I think with a decent run we could make a splash in the play-offs.

Well I decided to get this, time to put Football Manage 2007 to bed.

Well I've sacked it off altogether after being rudely sacked to allow some random Mexican who my players have never met but all love to take my place. 2 league titles in 3 years and I'm evicted after a takeover? I feel the pain Mourinho felt, it's just not moral.

I did consider joining another team and stopping them from winning anything, but couldn't face the amount of work that would have taken.

That's a shame saddened because reading about your game was more entertaining than playing the current game I've got going with Leeds.

Well I've left Bradford because Chelsea came knocking mid November of my 3rd season. They were floundering round mid-table, I've not really managed to improve their league position but I've got us to the League Cup final, 5th round of the FA cup (so far) and turned round our champs league performances to get us to the first knock out stage

currently 8th in the table coming up to the end of Feb on 43 points with 9 games to play. 1st place is Man Utd on 58 points. So if I can turn round our league form I could maybe push for a champs league spot (mathematically I could still win the league but it's not likely is it?)

After much tooing and froing between which game to concentrate on I am now set on my Porto game.
My aim is to make them the best team in Europe as soon as possible.
Signed Sandro (Internacioanl £10m), Jorge Andrade (Free), Artem Milelvskyi (Dinamo Kiev £9.2m), Vasilis Torosidis (Olympiakos £5.75m) and Nicolas Otamendi (Velez £5m). Looking to domintate domestically and earn a huge transfer budget for next season in order to build a team of world-beaters.

Got promotion to the premiership with Southampton. I came 2nd, and i didn't half make hard work of it. I was clear, along with Wigan (who won the league, 20 points clear of anyone else), by about 6 points, and then next thing i was down to 4th, although only 2 points behind the 2 above me, fortunately, i climbed back into 2nd place and it stayed that way, i got promoted 2 points in front of those behind me. Started the season in the premiership with some massive changes to my squad. I was given £40million to spend for a top half finish. In my first 6 games i've played Man United, Chelsea and Arsenal, and i've give a good of my account myself on all occasions. Lost 3-1 to Man United, with them scoring a last minute penalty, otherwise i was well in the game. Lost 2-0 to Chelsea, with a late goal killing the game off also, and i drew 0-0 away at Arsenal. I have however, lost to West Brom (who i should have beat) 1-0, but i've also beat Everton and Wigan. I'm sitting in mid-table but its very early in the season.

One thing that's starting to get on my nerves, is players keep saying that they are worried about the squad harmony. How do i solve this? In the past, its been solved when we start to win a few games. I think this is happening because i've signed quite a lot of better players and sold quite a few players that weren't good enough to finish in the top half. This is to be expected when these players were at the club in League 1, never mind championship. I've filled all 25 squad places, as well as some players that can play without squad numbers due to being 21 or under. My squad for the premiership is as follows:

Murphy
James

Stoor
Belletti
Cahill
Brown
Fabio (Loan)
Da Costa
Fonte
Mills

Viera
Matic
Collison
Vukojevic
Guardado
Helge Riise
Bentley
Arteta
Blanco
Van der Vaart
Arango
Pacheco

Gudjohnsen
Dindane
Owen
Caicedo
Lambert

I'm a little bit worried about the age of my squad, but i felt that experience would be very good, and also with some quality signings, i am confident that i can push on and finish in a very decent position in the league. However, i'm looking in to signing some younger players, plus i have some decent youngsters coming through because next season is going to see a few changes with the likes of Belletti and Viera leaving.

My Porto game has become corrupt so I've started a new game as Juventus. I'll update on my progress.

As corrupt as Turkish football?

7 Games left in my Liverpool season, I'm 2nd and 5 points behind City in 1st and have to play them away after the first leg of my Champions League game. On a 6 game winning streak and I'm also in the quarter finals of the Champions league against Lyon. I Have to be careful if I don't get to the top of the league though as 5 points separate 2nd and 7th. Top 7 at the moment is:

1. Manchester City (70)
2. Liverpool (65)
3. Arsenal (64)
4. Chelsea (63)
5. Wolves (63)
6. Manchester United (60)
7. Tottenham (60)

All played 31 apart from Tottenham and United who have played 32.

Wolves are going very well in my game also.

Wolves are second with 60 pts on my nal game, me being third with 59 pts and city being top with 70 pts with 8 games to go. And also into the quarter finals of ECC, against Barca though so ill get killed by them.

A disastrous 3 games has put me out of the running for the title and the Champions league. The first leg of the CL was at Anfield and I scored within 30 seconds, only for it to be disallowed (very frustrating in such a big game! ) but in the end lost 5-2. The game after that against City was a disaster too, at the City of Manchester stadium. I played awful without Torres, Gerrard, Mascherano and Johnson and ended up losing 5-1. Second leg of the CL was 2-2 so I went out. I'm 1 point clear of Arsenal in 2nd but Chelsea (in 5th) have 1 game in hand over me and are still 2 points behind.

Just hoping to get a top 4 finish and recruit well in the summer after being taken over, hopefully they'll give me some money...

Epic fail

I hate takeovers. I gave in and went back to my Arsenal saved game and took over Notts County following their relegation from the Prem. Four months into the job and I'm sacked again as part of a takeover.

3rd season done and dusted and another very reasonable season. Finished in 10th place, which i feel is reasonable, although i was a little disappointed as i was hoping to finish about 8th with the squad i had. A very inconsistent season, just when i thought that i was starting to play well after a couple of wins, i'd come back down to earth with a lose against a team that i should be beating quite easily. Players like Van der Vaart were very, very inconsistent, but i've just sold him anyway and recouped the money i paid for him. Big summer awaits with the likes of Viera and Belletti (and more) who were no more than squad players this season leaving due to the end of there contracts and i don't want to re-new them due to there age. I signed a few 16/17 year old regens that looked to have very good potential that will come at the end of the season, but they should only come good in another few years now i am established in the premier league i need to think about the future rather than just the present. I will be looking to bring in a few players in summer, as quite a few of my squad members are leaving.

I've just bought Naughton for £2million from the transfer list as back up as he can cover both sides of the field. Also, signed Kadlec in January last season because we wasn't scoring enough goals, and he played well for me.

For some reason, Southampton are rich and i haven't been taken over or anything.

On my Juventus game, I'm up to January 2010 and I'm 3rd in Serie A and still going strong in the Champions League. During my time at Juve I've signed Hulk, Gourcuff and Bruno Alves. I've sold Trezeguet, Marchisio and Legrottaglie. Amauri has been outstanding, bagging 12 league goals already. Unfortunately Del Piero has been somewhat injury prone, which has caused me a few selection headaches up front(whether to play 4-3-2-1, or Iaquinta/Giovinco up with Amauri). Next season I'll be looking to ship out the likes of Zebina, Poulsen and other fringe players.

I've signed both of them on my Celtic game. Shelvey is looking good, Pepper has gone out on loan.

I was just playing my Juventus game then, when I was met with a message from the board saying they were giving me £500million towards new players, wages and facilities. I then clicked to accept the bonus when a box popped up saying April Fool, as it was also 1st of April 2010 on my game. It really got my hopes up.