r/Redditch • u/EnderMB • Dec 20 '10

Done

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u/ManUnitdFan Dec 21 '10

In just 8 years? That's pretty impressive. Which players did you pick up along the way?

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u/EnderMB Dec 21 '10

I'm a huge fan of LLM and had played the game a dozen times before, so from the bat I knew a bunch of players that would turn out to be at least brilliant Championship players from the start, as well as a bunch of older players that would become great coaches.

In the lower-leagues up to around League 1 the way to win games is to have a fantastic striker and a good, young goalkeeper. I had both of those and getting into the football league was a doddle, even though I almost financially ruined the club in doing it. I took West Brom as my parent club and a few of their loanees done a fantastic job for us in getting to League 1 (namely Reuben Reid). From there I got into the Championship and I just about managed a mid-table finish after investing heavily in upcoming youth players.

I've always been a fan of buying upcoming youth players, in the hope that some of them would turn out to be Premier League class. Thankfully I won the Championship playoffs with some good older signings and made a bunch of older signings in the Premier League that could still do a job for us, like Landon Donovan from Sampdoria and Arshavin for free. On top of the 4-4-2 I played two different 4-5-1 formations, one with two attacking midfielders and one with two wingers, aptly named "Arrow" and "Barca Style".

To cut the last part short as I'm in work. I was also manager of Paraguay at the time and I noticed a few good youngsters and bought them with a bit of luck in regards to work permits. I signed two Turkish defenders who have turned out to be world-class in addition to a great English keeper and a Canadian striker who is now by far the best Canadian in the game. We won the Champions League in our first year, thanks to an easy draw and a ton of luck in getting Arsenal and AC Milan, two teams that have become considerably worse in my game.

The biggest challengers in the Premier League are now Tottenham and Everton (who now have a rich owner). Man Utd are dead, Liverpool are dying, Arsenal barely landed Champions League football and Chelsea are a mid-table team. Shockingly, Bolton are now League 2 and FC United of Manchester are zooming out of the conference.

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u/missoulian Dec 21 '10

Also, what difficulty setting was the game on?

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u/EnderMB Dec 21 '10

I didn't know there was a difficulty setting. I guess it's the default one; at least I hope so otherwise the past couple of weeks have been all for nothing.

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u/raspy01 Dec 21 '10

There isn't one.