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Football Manager Handheld 2009 (PSP)
Nov 28th
A loss to Ebbsfleet and a win against Southport in the league. We’re still top of the table, but our lead’s been cut to two points. Scary stuff.
We’re also through the first round of the FA Cup. We’re going to be playing Hampton & Richmond away.I won’t be too upset if we lose – the fewer games the better, I reckon, when you’re going for the league title.
Football Manager Handheld 2009 (PSP)
Nov 28th
Still top of the table and now a few points clear.
All is well right now, but we have a few long-term injuries and another one in the wrong place could send us hurtling towards oblivion.
I should mix up my tactics a little more to stop opposing teams getting used to my style of play, but I’m not much of a tactician. I tend to choose the best players to fit into a standard 4-4-2, only deviating when forced to by injury. The usual extent of my tactical changes is asking the players to play more attacking football now and again.
Football Manager Handheld 2009 (PSP)
Nov 27th
And we’re back to our winning ways and top of the table again.
Not bad with such a small squad.
According to my stats, I’ve bought twelve players for a total of £95,000 and sold six players for a total of £425,000. I’m great at transfers, me.
Football Manager Handheld 2009 (PSP)
Nov 26th
Harumph.
Down to second after a loss to AFC Wimbledon.
They were meant to be rubbish, but they tore us apart.
Grumpy now.
Football Manager Handheld 2009 (PSP)
Nov 25th
Oh, and now most of my players are unhappy because good players have left the club.
There wasn’t anything I could do!
And Trainer’s annoyed becuase I wouldn’t let him move to Carlisle. Carlisle! I’m doing him a favour!
Hopefully things will settle down the transfer window’s closed. I just know Trainer’s ging to hold a grudge, though. Idiot got himself sent off at the beginning of the last match. We were lucky to escape with a draw.
Football Manager Handheld 2009 (PSP)
Nov 25th
Noooooooooooo!
I hate you Big Club Release Clause! I hate you, you filthy thing!
In other news, we’ve won four of our first five games and we’re first in the table.
Won’t last long with my team being decimated before my helpless eyes.
Football Manager Handheld 2009 (PSP)
Nov 25th
Well, we finished sixth in the end, one place of the play-offs. D’oh!
However, we also won the Setanta Shield and the fans and board were very happy with that, so my job is safe.
And I’ve got the wage bill down by, er, selling all my good players and replacing them with tramps I plied with gin.
This season should be interesting…
Football Manager Handheld 2009 (PSP)
Nov 25th
Still fifth, but York in sixth have a game in hand and a massively better goal difference than me. Only five games left in the season so, er, gulp.
We’re in the final of the Setanta Shield after a glorious hammering of Cambridge in the semi-final.
And my Nigerian striker who has been wanting to leave all year has now signed a new contract for less than he was asking for and is now happy to stay at the club. On the one hand, that’s excellent. He’s really good. On the hand, oh dear, that doesn’t help the wage situation.
Football Manager Handheld 2009 (PSP)
Nov 25th
We’re now fifth in the table and still in some cup for rubbish teams. I forget the name.
Pretty good, right?
Yes, as far as it goes, but I’ve got a problem. My wage bill is too high. Oh sure, it’s currently showing as being £1,000 below the limit, but as soon as the new contracts kick in it’s going to be far too high. Which is why I tried to sell some players during the transfer window. Unfortunately, I failed. I got a couple of offers. Someone bid £0 for one of my strikers, Millwall bid £30,000 for my Nigerian striker, who’s worth almost twice that. I tried to negotiate, but as soon as I asked for more money the other clubs ran away.
So I’ve got a huge squad who are costing me a lot of money. I’m not quite sure what to do. I have applied for the West Ham job, but I’m not sure I want it and I don’t expect I’m going to get it. And I don’t really want to leave Oxford, I just want to stay within financial targets.
Maybe I shouldn’t have signed quite so many players, eh?
Football Manager Handheld 2009 (PSP)
Nov 24th
There’s a curse on Oxford United. Anyone who plays on the left of midfield gets injured. Except, so far, my Belgian signing Van Damme. But he’s only played two games, so we’ll see.
Anyway, with people coming back from injury we’ve started getting some more wins. We crashed out of the FA Cup, losing 3-1 to Rochdale in a replay, but the fewer games the better, if you ask me. In the league we’re to sixth from seventh and are once more looking towards the play off spots.
Things are beginning to look up again… fingers crossed.
