I have so far managed 3 teams.

Arsenal, where I won 3 Premier League Titles, 2 Champions League Trophys and 1 FA Cup Trophy

Juventus, where I won 4 Serie A Titles, 1 Champions League Trophy and 1 Italian Cup Trophy

and Real Madrid, where I won La Liga Titles, 3 Spanish Cups, 1 Champions League and 1 UEFA Cup.

I am now managing England and Im in yea 2025

im managing Billericay Town and have won sweet FA in 3 seasons.

I'm a one woman's man, it helps that the woman is fockin rich though

Gotta ask, do you have to retire when you reach a certain age?

fair play to you Viazon. I have to say, when i start a game, my intention always is to build up a team so they are unstoppable, then switch to a team in lower league and do the same.

Done this once on FM07, started with Newcastle, had them winning everything, bar a few league cups then the Bristol City (my local team) job came up, them languishing in the bottom of League 1. Thought 'yeah why not', and by 2020, had them winning Champs League consecutively. Then i got bored lol

Now FM08 is out, started first game with Newcastle again and in the third season got bored lol.

So i started another one, searching the blue square premier for a team i liked and noticed Burton Albion. No great expectations, so i could just get on with the job.

Won promotion wiv them all the way to the Premiership, becoming champions in every league, and winning any tropht that came my way, on the way. Bar the League & FA Cup. This was all down to (apart from me lol) Daryl Clare in the first season, basically my only player who scored, but boy did he score - 54 games/52 goals. Then league 2 decided he wouldnt cut it so offloaded him and brought in Nathan Jarman, who single-handedly got me to The Championship. Now he's languishing in the reserves lol. Sorry Nath lol

In The Championship, i was randomly lookin around some foriegn clubs lookin to sign an unknown freebie and come across a player called Orlando who played for Porto i think it was, cant remember now and he done well, grabbing 29 goals in all competitions.

I struggled towards the end of the season, just limping over the finish line as champions by 4 points after havin a 12 point lead in march.

Up against the task ahead, i had to invest heavily and brought in 12 players, mostly Premiership rejects on a free. J Lloyd Samuel, Lee Martin & Isaiah Osbourne to name a few, and managed to sign Freddy Eastwood on a free, who grabbed 49 goals in 42 games in The Championship.

With my stadium only being upgraded to 10000 capacity i couldnt afford to splash the cash lol.

Currently 5 games into the season, in 11th place on 6 points after the FA decided to test me by giving me Man Utd, Arsenal & Liverpool (champions) as my first 3 games lol. lost all 3 by single goal margins so the future looks bright.

The only downside so far id have to say is the finance. By having so many players on the books, the wages overcome the gate receipts, so i need a stadium expansion (big one) soon lol.

Thanks for reading, if you could be bothered lol. I'm at work and no bosses are in today so im just gonna surf the net untill 4 o'clock, then play FM! lol

Oh yeah check my thread out below if youve got time, i sort of wrote the same thing but there's some questions i ask and i always just write them in there lol

Let me know what you think of my story so far....

I play LLM style so I start at the bottom and work my way up. In my current game I started unemployed here's how it's been since.

Veranopolis (Brazil) 2007 - 2008 Relegated, Sacked
Sousa (Brazil) 2008 - 2009, Nothing of note, Resigned.
Catanzaro (Italy) 2009 - 2015, Promotion from C2/C to B, Resigned.
Suwon (Korea) 2015 - 2016 - Resigned after 11 days.
Lewes (England) 2016 - 2016, Saw out the season and saved them from relegation, Resigned.
Cardiff (England sort of) 2016 - ...., Currently occupying a playoff space.

This is my first career game. I originally set out with the plan to work my way to Aston Villa and win every trophy I could with them, but I feel I have work left to finish at Catanzaro, so after I've finished my original plan I may well go back to Catanzaro and finish the job I started.

Chester 2013 in the Championship. Still only have a capacity of 6000.

finished

League Two 14th
League Two 13th
League Two 2nd
League One 10th
League One 1st
Championship 14th

Currently getting ready for a bumpy season in the Championship, no-one really wants to sign for Chester - not even on loan.

I'm thinking for a change of scenery yet I've only been offered 1 job in all this time, Bristol Rovers 24th in League 1 when I was top!

Surely someone wants a manager with my record?

i take it you didnt like the south korean league lol. seeing youve had a couple of jobs in brazil makes me want to start a game over there again, haven't managed a brazilian side for years.

Thats when my Burton game eventually runs its course, whichi hope it doesn't lol.

I have good memories of Italian LLM on my first ever game i bought, the legendary CM 01/02 (not 'official' LLM, as the LLMer's call it lol) when i took a team up to Serie A then took the Roma job. Found an absolute legend (possibly a regen, because i haven't seen him since on the game) called giuseppe manco.

Signed him from some C2 team for £20,000, had 20 finishing, 20 heading, 20 composure, 20 off the ball but everything else 5,6 & 7's. But it didn't matter becuase he was unstoppable, gettin at least 50 goals a season. Then i got the Italy job (picking most of my players lol) and he just didn't stop scoring, sometimes getting 4 or 5 goals against the crap teams.

I'll never forget him...

Took over Sunderland, sitting 12th first season, just before the January transfer window

Nope didn't like South Korea, would be ok as a starting point, but not somewhere you go to try and build your career after a successful stint in Italy.

Brazil is alright, there are long periods without games though if you don't progress through the stages, which is why I went to Italy after Sousa.

Starting in BSS, I'm now into "I'm a Football Manager Expert" and have made it to The Championship.

I've never yet taken a LL team into the Premier League but I'm determined to do so this time round.

Mind you, I've just been comprehensively stuffed by Sheff Utd in the FA Cup 3rd round; they're in the Premiership relegation zone so I'm not ready for Premiership survival yet.

Could be months before I start an 8.0.2 game at this rate.