[FM24] [EN] LLM - The Oldest Club in the World - A Carlos Dolbeth Adventure

[Burkina2008]

Citação de justnpen, Em 12/08/2025 at 10:11:

as contratações é para titulares ou para backup? boa pré temporada para os lados da escócia.

Alguns vao jogar no 11 outos mais backup

Citação de cadete, Em 12/08/2025 at 10:56:

Já está. Parabéns pelo título. E grande Sporting com a conquista europeia.

Sim safaram a epoca

Citação de Sir Esquilo, há 9 horas:

Promocao mais do que merecida! Agora para mim o verdadeiro teste que é o Championship, o salto de dificuldade quando se chega nesta liga é enorme a meu ver.

 

Quanto ao Sporting, com a conquista da Conference até que nao foi uma época muito má, apesar de internamente deixarem um pouco a desejar

A Championship vai ser f*dida

Citação de Maffu, há 2 horas:

Sem playoffs a coisa vai ao sitio. É uma temporada muito positiva. Acabas a conseguir o grande objectivo, da subida.

Agora vem outro grande obstáculo, lidar com o dinheiro do Championship. É acreditar que ficas ali a meio da tabela, senão melhor.

Venha o dinheiro que bem precisamos

[Burkina2008]

August 4th, 2032 - Championship

While it was true that a lot of changes had already happened in the squad during June, the real start of the season would certainly bring more and more surprises, and the month of July was hectic in the transfer market. Besides the permanent move of ex-loan Patrick Maric, Sheffield fans saw the arrival of another 10 players. Some with a fee attached as it was the case of Isaac Obeng, coming directly out of Africa after some scouting in the country and filling an ESC place, other on a loan, this time from Premier League teams and free transfers after the contract ended or because the club wanted to get rid of them. All areas of the team were reinforced and the total spent was far less than was expected early on. That said the biggest achievement would have to be secure of a loan of a U-21 Portuguese player from Leicester City. Carlos Alvares is expected to be boss in defense this season and showed good signs in the pre-season.

Despite the growth of the club there were, nevertheless, players that decided to move to other (even if not greener pastures). The case of Nabil, last year’s top stricker of the team, who decided to go back to his home country where he will be in a team with title chances, is understandable but did hurt Dolbeth, reports said. The pre-season in Scotland can only be seen as very positive, with the boys winning all 3 games, including against tougher opponents Aberdeen and reasonable strong Dundee. The return to England saw the team lose their only game of the pre-season against Birmingham, but much was correct later in the win over Belgium title contenders Gent. The last game was a dull affair with the first official game already in the minds of the players, who will, as traditionally, start their season in the Carabao Cup, to the displease of Carlos, who is known to dislike such cups.

In the first round, the boys will play in a Home of Football still being renovated and are expected to win over League Two Cheltenham Town, even if not fielding the best 11 possible. Of course, the top competition and the one where all the efforts will be put in is the Championship. Dolbeth is expecting to face a fierce relegation battle as the team is tipped by the bookies to finish dead last. This is not news to the team and in the past, they managed to go “against all odds”. This time, they are really facing top competition with Brighton being clear favorites to return to the EPL after spending 70x more money on transfers than Sheffield and the likes of Fulham, Ipswich, Wolves, Blackburn and Bournemouth will all be very hard games. The most interesting affair will nevertheless be Sheffield Wednesday…yes, Sheffield FC caught on to one of their neighbors and the games are expected to be highly interesting affairs. Let’s see if Dolbeth and the boys can gather some points there!

 

 

Cronica Leonina!

Vai ser um Europeu de má memoria para Portugal…em Inglaterra apanhamos um grupo acessível e desde o princípio parecia que a luta seria entre nos e os espanhóis pela vitoria no grupo. Ninguém estava era a contar com uma derrota contra aqueles indivíduos de kilt…mesmo assim passamos em terceiro, para perder com…a Irlanda nos oitavos. Alias a Irlanda acaba por ser a grande surpresa e apenas perde na final com a Franca. Pelo menos os ingleses também foram de vela cedo com os ucranianos e os espanhóis também não passaram dos quartos!

Obrigado a quem segue e sobretudo a quem comenta! 

[cadete]

Agora sim, estamos em níveis muito superiores. As odds são assustadoras.

[justnpen]

Bem vem ai uma dura batalha no championship com equipas que nos dias de hoje contam para a Premier, estamos em 2032 não sei como estarão em termos de finanças e plantel, no entanto mais uma vez vais tentar desafiar as ods e tentar sobreviver, a manutenção é imperial.

Boa sorte para essa temporada.

Quanto a portugal só existe uma coisa a dizer....MISERÁVEIS.

[Sir Esquilo]

agora vai ser a doer, muitas entradas na equipa, esperemos que acrescentem qualidade, diria que nesta primeira época o objectivo seria a permanencia!

 

E nao sei o que é com o FM, mas a Irlanda sempre se torna numa powerhouse com o passar dos anos no jogo

[Maffu]

É meter uma moedinha num top12 finish que dá bom dinheiro. Menos que isso não acredito.

[Burkina2008]

Citação de cadete, Em 14/08/2025 at 12:59:

Agora sim, estamos em níveis muito superiores. As odds são assustadoras.

Sim mas isso passa nos ao lado

Citação de justnpen, Em 14/08/2025 at 18:15:

Bem vem ai uma dura batalha no championship com equipas que nos dias de hoje contam para a Premier, estamos em 2032 não sei como estarão em termos de finanças e plantel, no entanto mais uma vez vais tentar desafiar as ods e tentar sobreviver, a manutenção é imperial.

Boa sorte para essa temporada.

Quanto a portugal só existe uma coisa a dizer....MISERÁVEIS.

Portugal ja anda assim ha uns anos infelizmente

Citação de Sir Esquilo, Em 15/08/2025 at 02:40:

agora vai ser a doer, muitas entradas na equipa, esperemos que acrescentem qualidade, diria que nesta primeira época o objectivo seria a permanencia!

 

E nao sei o que é com o FM, mas a Irlanda sempre se torna numa powerhouse com o passar dos anos no jogo

Ha sempre assim umas wild cards no FM...

Citação de Maffu, há 1 hora:

É meter uma moedinha num top12 finish que dá bom dinheiro. Menos que isso não acredito.

Isso seria excelente. Assino ja

[Burkina2008]

September 14th, 2032 - 500th game

The start of the season with the Carabao Cup saw for the first time in this competition, Dolbeth on a happy note. Happy because Sheffield was clearly favored to win and happy because this was as close to a field of dreams as anything for the 78-year-old coach. The home atmosphere lacked a bit with only 3,000 strong making it into the stadium currently being remodeled, but those that did come had a very nice spectacle with a total of 9 goals to start the season. Cheltenham, being in League Two, had a good display and even managed to draw the game 3-3 but the final 25 minutes were all Sheffield who saw themselves through to the next round. A bit more anticipated was the first league game. A visit to Watford would never be easy but when in the 22nd minute, Shefield F.C. was awarded a penalty which Ramiro Garcia converted, a light of hope for a great start entered the minds of the fans…Shefield did manage to hold on heroically until the 70^th minute…but the 30 shots from the home side in the end made two dents and Watford won it fair.

It was just the first game and in the second match, playing at home, the visitors were of a more accessible kind. After a boring 0-0 at half time, it was only in the 70^th minute that once again the boys started to play well to finish scoring 4 goals in the last 20 minutes and grab the first club win in the second tier of English football. Winning against Lincoln City was one thing, but in the 3^rd round of the league, going to London and beating promotion contenders Fulham away, was quite another level of achievement. It was not pretty, Sheffield was not the better team on the field, but somehow with a bit of luck and a lot of passion, Dolbeth’s team managed to grab what can be considered the best achievement in the last 100 years for the club. They almost did another unexpected result as in a full Home of Football, the boys managed to hold on to a 2-2 draw against Wolves, for 85 minutes. It was not to be, but the loss 2-3 did not embarrass anyone and the team left the stadium to a standing ovation.

It was not all league games, and the second round of the Carabao Cup was just around the corner. Playing at Salford, this was supposed to be a tight game with Dolbeth rotating a bit which result in a 1-0 defeat that left no one feeling sorry…but the league games were no so unimportant and the next 3 matches ended up in defeats, some of them quite damaging as the away result at Oxford, giving Carlos, the players and the fans a harsh slap of reality on what would not be an easy season. On September 11^th tough, for the 4^th time in a row, there wasn’t a single seat unsold for the home match against Bournemouth…but watching this Championship game was not the sole reason for another sell out: it was Carlos Dolbeth’s 500^th game in charge of the club. What a milestone for the Portuguese coach who saw the team beat AFC and climb to the 14^th place on the table. This is what football is all about!

 

 

Cronica Leonina!

Desta feita o Sporting resolveu investir e gastou quase 15 milhões em compras, tendo vendido quase nada…isto era um sinal de que mantínhamos a espinha dorsal da época anterior! O problema foi mesmo que os rivais ainda investiram significativamente mais e no início da época, levamos logo uma tareai dos morcões. Para o campeonato também já andamos a vacilar contra equipas medianas…enfim mais uma época que se espera difícil!

 

Obrigado a quem segue e sobretudo a quem comenta! 

[cadete]

500 jogos "é muita jogo"...início muito bom a meu ver. Espero posição confortável.

[Burkina2008]

Citação de cadete, Em 16/08/2025 at 09:10:

500 jogos "é muita jogo"...início muito bom a meu ver. Espero posição confortável.

Vamos ver...os finais teem sido madrastos...

[justnpen]

500 jogos enorme marca amigo. Quanto ao campeonato não começou mal, acabas-te de subir e estás acima da linha de agua, mas vai ser uma época dura, o championship é uma liga complicada.

[Burkina2008]

November 5th, 2032 - Remodeled stadium

Despite a patch of 5 straight loses between August 21^st and September 4^th, the fans had little to complaint as with 8 games into the season, the club was comfortable in a mid-table spot and the ones that managed to do the trip to Huddersfield were awarded with another thriller and with the late goal of Dominik Schulmeister, which gave Sheffield F.C., the forth win one the season. Better even was the dominant 3-0 result when Peterborough United visited the Home of Football which might have been exaggerated in terms of a goal difference, but certainly not undeserved in any way. That said, the good results were just starting to pile up. Following a month of only international and cup games, the boys went to Coventry to get a 0-2 win with all the goals appearing in the last 10 minutes, but even more surprising 3 days later they went to the coast where Dolbeth managed to beat the biggest contenders for a promotion by the same result. Truly an amazing feat by all measures, it is good to mention that Brighton has a squad with a value 30x higher than our boys and just spent 70 million Euros in the transfer market…

5 straight wins and this was an amazing time to be a Sheffield fan, as the remodeling of the stadium was now complete and more than doubled the number of seats, to a total of 12,000. Still shy of all teams of the division, more than the stadium size, what began to be a worry was the quality of the youth system and the training grounds as a whole. The pains of growing too quick for sure. So, the first team to play against the boys in the renovated Home of Football was a mid-table team of Millwall and it was clear that a win would be the cherry on top of the first game of this renovated historic ground. It wasn’t meant to be. Sheffield was the better of the two sides, outpacing the foreigners in all aspects, except the one that mattered. The boys even scored first but could not keep the 1-0 for long…still the fans did party, the are just happy to be in this division.

Until the end of the month, the results were not as good, but the crowds were getting larger and larger as Sheffield played three straight games home. 7900 watched a good win over the Welsh side of Cardiff City and close to 8400 saw a 3-4 thriller against Blackburn Rovers, in a game of back and forth that could have gone to any of the two sides but where the boys only managed to be effective in front of goal in the first half. Finally and to finish a 6 game tally in just 18 days, a very tired side made the trip to Wales and managed to secure one point at the Swansea.com stadium, that leaves Carlos with a lot of breathing space in the higher middle of the table. This is what Championship is all about! A ton of very even teams with every game being a fight for the points and absolutely no favorites.

 

 

Cronica Leonina!

Não se aprende nada da época passada. A coisa até parecia estar a ir…até vencemos para a Champions contra os otomanos, mas depois saímos da taca contra uns do Porto que já não cheiram a primeira liga desde os anos 90 e a partir dai começou de novo o descalabro. Últimos 3 jogos, 3 derrotas por 1-0…se contra o Inter se entende, contra o Académico de Viseu e o Feirense nem por isso. Mais uma época em que já vamos em quinto…

 

Obrigado a quem segue e sobretudo a quem comenta! 

[cadete]

A remodelação do estádio está a dar ânimo à equipa. Ai o Sporting.

[Banks29]

Cheira-me que com jeitinho lutas pelos play-offs

[Maffu]

Para primeira época no Championship estás numa forma fabulosa. Bem acima das expectativas.

[Spiklas The Manager]

Estás bem pertinho dos lugares de playoff nesta tua primeira época no championship, que há quem diga ser a liga mais dificil do jogo. Por isso aplausos. Já o Sporting anda a gozar com os fans desde o início do save. Feio

[Burkina2008]

Citação de cadete, Em 18/08/2025 at 14:47:

A remodelação do estádio está a dar ânimo à equipa. Ai o Sporting.

Esta pois mas continua a ser pequeno

Citação de Banks29, Em 19/08/2025 at 02:17:

Cheira-me que com jeitinho lutas pelos play-offs

duvido

Citação de Maffu, há 22 horas:

Para primeira época no Championship estás numa forma fabulosa. Bem acima das expectativas.

Esta bem por enquanto...

Citação de Spiklas The Manager, há 19 horas:

Estás bem pertinho dos lugares de playoff nesta tua primeira época no championship, que há quem diga ser a liga mais dificil do jogo. Por isso aplausos. Já o Sporting anda a gozar com os fans desde o início do save. Feio

Sim a liga 'e bem mais dificil do que o resto e daqui a pouco vamos descer para um pouco mais de realidade!

[Burkina2008]

December 17th, 2032 - The new Sheffield Classic?

Sitting comfortably in 9^th place, the month of November was good enough to not drop any places and on the live table for a few minutes Sheffield was even in the playoff spots. The game in Luton was a very even affair with the 3 goals scored by the home team in the first half, ending up being too much of a mountain to climb for the boys, but home with another close to record-breaking attendance, Dolbeth manage to get a win that will remain in the heads of the 8300 fans present in the grounds (and the ones watching on tv) as Sheffield beat 4-1 Ipswich Town, a team that under Sir Bobby Robson was once UEFA Cup winners. A lucky win at Stoke City followed but again playing at the Home of Football against Plymouth Argyle, by some miracle the visitors managed to grab the 3 points. 20 shots, 12 of them on target was not enough to score more than once, as the team in green with just two shots on target managed to score twice…kind of a traumatic experience there.

December started with what was anticipated as the game of the season (or at least the first half of the season) for Sheffield F.C. as the boys travelled only a couple of miles to play against one of the two big clubs of the city. The Owls had a rich history with winning 4 First Division titles, the last one more than a century ago and three FA Cups. They were also a yo-yo team that was always between the EPL and the Championship in the last decades and were by far favorites not only in this game but also to get promoted. There was no history beyond some loaned players in the past, but it was still a match between two teams sharing the same fans in a lot of cases, so tensions and passions were high. Close to 30,000 fans watched a lively game where only the goals were missing. Sheffield Wednesday scored in the 20^th minute and then Dolbeth’s team needed to run after the result. In the last 10 minutes, Sheffield F.C. hit the bar twice but that was the closer they got to drawing the game. At the end the Hillsborough was not a lucky field for Carlos but there will be a second round in March…

Another two defeats in the next two games, with the home advantage not being enough to defeat the club from the capital in yet another of the famous thrillers with 7 games and with QPR scoring twice in the end to turn the result, while against Middlesbrough with the stadium attendance beating another record, the boys looked tired and were defeated in a fair way… After 4 straight losses, there was a small alarm ringing in the sub conscience of the Dolbeth and the win by a clear 2-0 result at home against Coventry was something that the boys definitely needed to finish to enter the second round of the season. The 12^th place, right in the middle of the table is a comfortable place to sit at, but in this league anything can happen and playoffs are just 4 points away, while the relegation is also not so far…

 

 

Cronica Leonina!

Apenas 6 jogos neste mês e meio demonstram como o futebol em Inglaterra acaba por ser bastante mais intenso…e mesmo assim apenas 3 vitorias. Na Champions mais duas derrotas e com Barcelona e Dortmund nas últimas duas jornadas, apenas um milagre nos salva da eliminação, enquanto no campeonato vai se fazendo o mínimo para manter o terceiro lugar mas os morcões já levam 11 pontos de vantagem…

Obrigado a quem segue e sobretudo a quem comenta! 

[cadete]

Nada como dias de derbie...life is good.

[Maffu]

O inicio foi fantástico, agora estás a começar a "cair" para o normal. Ainda assim há um equilíbrio brutal. Tudo pode acontecer, estás ai perto de todos. A ver vamos o que acontece.

[The_Dark_Night]

O Championship está bastante equilibrado. Só diferença de 11 pontos da manutenção e muito pouco.

Força 

[Burkina2008]

Citação de cadete, Em 20/08/2025 at 13:56:

Nada como dias de derbie...life is good.

Isso mesmo

Citação de Maffu, Em 21/08/2025 at 08:40:

O inicio foi fantástico, agora estás a começar a "cair" para o normal. Ainda assim há um equilíbrio brutal. Tudo pode acontecer, estás ai perto de todos. A ver vamos o que acontece.

Sim foi aquela tusa inicial mas depois...

Citação de The_Dark_Night, há 6 horas:

O Championship está bastante equilibrado. Só diferença de 11 pontos da manutenção e muito pouco.

Força 

Tudo pode acontecer!

[Burkina2008]

February 4th, 2033 - So many changes

Mid of the table was more than what was expected at the beginning of the season, so there was nobody really complaining when the team loses a few games here and there…still in the mind of the players was the idea, that the playoffs were not really that far away and a revenge win against Plymouth Argyle by a solitary goal from Patrik Maric, did little to convince the players otherwise. The club was also growing, with the boxing day match home against Huddersfield Town, seeing yet again another record attendance. The 12,500-stadium capacity might be enough if the crowds keep growing and if the club keeps climbing up the ranks like they did recently. The game itself was yet another thriller, 3-3 result with the boys being a man down since very early in the game, making it a small heroic result. The civil year ended with a visit to Peterborough, a team which was also performing better than anyone expected and was sitting in a playoff space. Not a good game… 2032 which was a great year for Sheffield F.C. ends in bittersweet way.

The professionalism of the club and the number of better players also caused a few problems, and the beginning of the market sees 4 players leaving. While Junior Cesar, Garcia and Menzan, never had a spot in the starting 11 and wanted to go to greener pastures, Tylor Golden was past his peak, but the biggest transfer was Rigoberto Hernandez who forced the move to Nottingham Forest. With that money the club also tapped into the market and broke their incoming transfer fee for central defender Ken Campbell who had been shining in one of the overachievers of the league. The rest of the players coming in were loans from Burnley and Portugal, with Dolbeth making use of his Portuguese connections to reenforce the defense and the sticker positions in the team. Unfortunately, none of these players made it through the first game of 2033, which was a very early exit from the FA Cup against a League Two team. If it is true that Carlos rotated the squad, it is also true that the quality difference should have been enough to not even bring the game to penalties…

But now this was water under the bridge and the first game for the league in 2033 was a visit to giants, Blackburn Rovers. The historic home team was sitting on the top of the table and with Sheffield being one man down since the 17^th minute, they can count themselves lucky to leave Ewood Park only 2 goals down. The reality was that Sheffield only shot the ball once on target and it was not an easy game at all. The other two fixtures of January were also far from perfect with the draw home against Brighton coming to the last minute and the defeat at Milwall being again a bad game. Still looking for their first win in 2033, Dolbeth and his boys are now down to the 15^th place, but still comfortable…

 

 

Cronica Leonina!

Uma altura com jogos complicado em que mais uma vez faltou a solidez que o Sporting necessitava. Para o campeonato frente a 3 candidatos ao título apenas 2 pontos em 9 possíveis, atiram a equipa para fora da luta pelo título definitivamente. Na Champions uma surpreendente vitoria contra o Dortmund faz com que a equipa tenha garantido uma ida aos playoffs…contra o Benfica. Os morcões fizeram um brilharete e ficam em primeiro! Querem ver que vou voltar a ser temporariamente dragão pela primeira vez desde 2004?

Obrigado a quem segue e sobretudo a quem comenta! 

[Maffu]

Por um lado a promoção começa a ser uma miragem completa. Por outro lado, 1ª época e estás sólido a meio da tabela. Quebrou mas, atendendo as circustâncias, está bastante bom.

[cadete]

Chegaram as dificuldades, mas nada de anormal. Tudo dentro do plano.