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

[cadete]

Folha salarial era de esperar...mas estamos a ter mais dificuldades do que esperava.

[Spiklas The Manager]

Ui, essa tabela. Que mau arranque. Mas tambem só pode melhorar.

[Banks29]

Arranque de época horrível, é preciso melhorias por todos os lados e rápido

[Burkina2008]

Citação de cadete, Em 01/09/2025 at 19:41:

Folha salarial era de esperar...mas estamos a ter mais dificuldades do que esperava.

 

Citação de Spiklas The Manager, Em 01/09/2025 at 22:03:

Ui, essa tabela. Que mau arranque. Mas tambem só pode melhorar.

 

Citação de Banks29, Em 02/09/2025 at 16:40:

Arranque de época horrível, é preciso melhorias por todos os lados e rápido

 

Sim tem sido horrivel...este inicio

[Burkina2008]

November 4th, 2033 - Slow recovery

Things were looking desperate with only 3 points in 7 games and got even worse when a visit to London’s Craven Cottage dictated another loss that put Sheffield F.C. rock bottom of the table with some folk questioning if Dolbeth was still what the club needed now that they were in the second tier of English Football. This made the game home against city rivals Sheffield Wednesday gain even more importance than it normally would and this did not start well with the visitors scoring in the 9^th minute and trying to pile under the pressure of Carlo’s boys. That said the response came only 9 minutes after when Gonzalez drew the game followed by Sanusi getting F.C. to half-time with a slim 2-1 advantage. It was something already, but a packed stadium erupted in the 80^th minute as Wednesday scored and own goal putting the boys 3-1 up. The Owls still managed to get another one in, but in the end, this was a kick in the crisis and what a kick. For the first time Sheffield F.C. defeated their city rivals!

The cheering did not go for long, with almost a month without games, the reality quickly settled in that the team needed much more than just beating their city rivals and on October 8^th in the Home of Football Shefield received  Charlton Athletic and almost managed to grab a second win, would it not be for the late equalizer from the visitors. Back in the road, and back to London two damaging results once again. The defense didn’t seem to be able to coordinate itself and first against Queens Park Rangers and then Plymouth Argyle, the boys suffered 7 goals becoming the worst defense in the league a quickly going back to the last place with only 7 points in 12 games. Something really needed to be done, and it was noticed at training that some new tactic was being employed by Dolbeth. That same tactic in a different 4-2-3-1 was then used for the first time in Sheffield against Watford and became an instant success by winning and scoring goals while only allowing one in.

It was the second win in the league and much more was needed, being that the next game against 3^rd placed Bournemouth would probably be a much tougher ladder to climb…but no, surprising even Carlos himself, the team played by far the best game of the season so far and trashed the visitors by 4-0. The boys managed to impress once again in the visit to Sunderland and with that also obtaining the first win abroad and the third win in a row, more than doubling the points in the Championship table just in the last 3 games. At this point Sheffield F.C. already find themselves 4 points over the relegation zone…was it just a bad start or are the boys now simply getting lucky. Let’s hope that the first one is true!

 

 

Cronica Leonina!

Eu acho que o Sporting deve ter contratado algum bruxo…de um momento para o outro começaram a jogar bom futebol. Alias neste momento vamos em segundo, a 4 pontos dos morcões, mas com menos um jogo e seguimos vivos em todas as competições apesar de um empate manhoso com o Benfica B da Reboleira. Alias na Champions 7 pontos em 4 jogos parece quase milagre! Vamos la ver se desta feita não acontece como no passado recente em que chegado ao Natal vai tudo com o crl!

 

Obrigado a quem segue e sobretudo a quem comenta! 

[cadete]

Que bom ver aqueles círculos verdes e a vitória num dos dérbies de Sheffield. Estamos no caminho certo.

[Spiklas The Manager]

Assim já está melhor, mas mesmo assim por um fio. Há que ser consistente a partir daqui. E quanto ao Sporting, nao digo nada antes de janeiro acabar. xD

[Maffu]

Isso está bem mais tremido do que esperava. Não foi o começo dominador da época passada mas, pelo menos, há bastantes sinais positivos nesta fase.

[Banks29]

Já se notou melhorias nesta reta final com 3 vitórias seguidas que te tiram do fim da tabela, que seja para continuar a crescer assim

[Burkina2008]

Citação de cadete, Em 04/09/2025 at 09:12:

Que bom ver aqueles círculos verdes e a vitória num dos dérbies de Sheffield. Estamos no caminho certo.

Sim estamos a encarrilhar!

Citação de Spiklas The Manager, Em 04/09/2025 at 14:09:

Assim já está melhor, mas mesmo assim por um fio. Há que ser consistente a partir daqui. E quanto ao Sporting, nao digo nada antes de janeiro acabar. xD

Sporting pela ladeira

Citação de Maffu, Em 04/09/2025 at 23:07:

Isso está bem mais tremido do que esperava. Não foi o começo dominador da época passada mas, pelo menos, há bastantes sinais positivos nesta fase.

Comecou mal mas esta a melhorar

Citação de Banks29, Em 05/09/2025 at 17:36:

Já se notou melhorias nesta reta final com 3 vitórias seguidas que te tiram do fim da tabela, que seja para continuar a crescer assim

E ainda vem ai mais!

[Burkina2008]

December 11th, 2033 - A small miracle

In and out of hell, was how the short season had been so far, with the team taking nine games to gather the first win, losing a few more after that and then changing the tactic and playing a completely different type of football that resulted in 3 straight wins and a climb from the bottom of the table to a half okayish lower mid table place. And this only with one third of the season played. Hopefully the month of November was bringing mostly games against teams that were similarly struggling, and it started with a visit to Norwich who were at that time dead last on the table. A very peculiar case of a team that had been recently in the EPL, had a huge budget but still was on the verge of being relegated at this point. Continuing the good form, Sheffield F.C. this time, only the second time in the season, managed to not concede a single goal and score 3 times at Carrow Road, for the disbelief of the Canaries fans who thought this was the game to go back to winning.

That said nothing could predict the game 2 weeks later in the Home of Football. Peterborough had been having a decent season, placed midtable so nobody could have foreseen that 15 minutes in, the boys were already leading by 4-0. Further at half the result was 6-1 with a bit quieter second half finishing up the game with a 8-2 victory, more like a hockey game than anything. With the fans gaining new hope with 5 straight wins the home stadium started to finally get some more pundits in and 4 days later another win over relegation battle contenders Huddersfield, followed by another win by the same result over the team of Coventry City, this time at the Building Society Arena, bringing the count to 7 straight wins! At this point miraculously, Dolbeth was now only 5 points away from the playoff places and 12 clear of the relegation zone and he had this to say to the reporters “Well if we could improve in defense, I think we have a chance at a quiet mid table spot”

That had been in reality the real improvement point as the team only had 2 clean sheets in 19 games…Last game of November was also against a team struggling for points and at the Peninsula Stadium the boys did not start in the best of fashions and were early behind after Salford scored early on. Sheffield did recover and at half the game was a draw that turned into total domination and another win in the second half. Already in December for the second time there was the visit of another team of Sheffield. Again, with a sold-out at the Home of Football, Dolbeth with a cagey tactic managed to win the second city derby in a row by a solitary goal of Rachid Kouda bringing the team more and more into an upper table position. As usual the visits to Wales have been good for Sheffield F.C. and the away game at Swansea was the 10^th win in a row for the boys. The series ended 4 days after with Brentford finally finding a way to beat our Carlos but with half the season played, after a horrible start, Sheffield is now not only the best team in town but 7^th in the table, only two points away from the playoffs!

 

 

Cronica Leonina!

Estávamos a ir tao bem…tinha que tudo ir com o crl…começou com um empate contra os Mouros para depois perdermos com o Boavista, levarmos 3 duns turcos e nova derrota com os lampiões. Epá nos últimos 40 dias a única vitoria foi por penalties contra o Penafiel para a taca…como crl não se consegue manter continuidade nesta equipa????

 

Obrigado a quem segue e sobretudo a quem comenta! 

[Maffu]

A correr tudo tão bem e vais perder com o Brentford? É época de playoffs, called it.

[Spiklas The Manager]

Que melhoria. Mas vem o Brentford para te tirar dos spots do playoff. A luta continua 

[cadete]

Bela forma. Temos novo rei em Sheffield.

[Banks29]

E de repente estamos na luta pelos play-offs, que melhoria absurda

[Burkina2008]

Citação de Maffu, Em 07/09/2025 at 16:21:

A correr tudo tão bem e vais perder com o Brentford? É época de playoffs, called it.

Nao vamos meter a carruagem a frente dos bois

Citação de Spiklas The Manager, Em 07/09/2025 at 16:53:

Que melhoria. Mas vem o Brentford para te tirar dos spots do playoff. A luta continua 

a vida acaba por ser assim

Citação de cadete, Em 07/09/2025 at 17:30:

Bela forma. Temos novo rei em Sheffield.

teremos?

Citação de Banks29, Em 07/09/2025 at 19:12:

E de repente estamos na luta pelos play-offs, que melhoria absurda

absurdo mesmo

[Burkina2008]

February 3rd, 2034 - Calm market

A miracle had happened in Sheffield, after an awful start, the boys had risen from the ashes and were now gunning for playoff spots. Basically, in two months and 10 straight wins later, Sheffield went from the last place to being a few points from the top of the table. This was as spectacular as it was unexpected and despite the draw in the last game of the first round against Brentford, the team was alive. It was unfortunately also around that result that some discontent was coming out of the locker room, reached some internet pages who now had people specialized in following the club. Some guys wanted to play more, while other found the rise to the top as an opportunity to move to an EPL club, so some disruption was expected over the winter market. Still in December there were three games to be played, starting out with a visit from Fulham where Dolbeth managed to get a point, against a team that was clearly mounted to gun for promotion. There was quite a long interval, unusual for December and the team could not even play during boxing day, due to a waterlogged pitch.

Finally, a date was found and this time it was Sheffield F.C. that went to Hillsborough to gather another historic win in a packed stadium, making it 3 wins in 3 games against the town rivals. The year closed in Bristol on the 31^st of December for the FA Cup in a very complicated game against Rovers which ended up being dictated by penalties. Luck was on Carlos side who will face QPR later in January for the 4^th round of the competition. With so much written over players discontent, it was quite extraordinary that win the opening of the market on the 1^st of January, not a single arrival or exit was recorded in the club and the first game of 2034 was an 84^th minute winner at home over Queens Park Rangers, which was followed by the first away game of the year where Sheffield could count himself unlucky to not have gone out of The Valley with a better result than a tasteless draw. The boys deserved the win on this one!

Despite the slight delay the moves in the market started to happen in the meantime with two of the less utilized defenders, Ogundare and Rawlingson being loaned out with possible buyout clauses to lower division clubs and two new faces arriving from Colombia and Belgium on advice from the scouting team. Posetano as a young stricker will try his luck again in Europe after failing to shine for Porto, while midfielder Michaux leaves his club after 10 seasons. For now, despite interest from various clubs, Dolbeth was able to hang on to Isaac Obeng, but for how long? Already with the new faces, Sheffield received Plymouth and could not get more than a draw again…while for the FA Cup, in the second game of the month against QPR, and once more it is clear that this team is not cut for the cups. The close of the market was calm with only a sparsely used Colwill leaving and Dudziak being loaned out…the team was a bit short on defense but that was not the reason why the boys lost their last game of the month against Watford and again in what should be an easy win against Lincoln but the boys are still close to the playoffs with one game less than the opposition.

 

 

Cronica Leonina!

Tempos difíceis e jogos difíceis, a verdade foi que não conseguiram ganhar um único de 3 jogos contra os tripeiros e apesar de um bom resultado contra o Tottenham que mete a equipa nos playoffs da Champions e contra o Braga, continuam a perder pontos com os Estoris e Rios Aves da vida. Mais uma época em que com sorte ficamos em terceiro!

 

Obrigado a quem segue e sobretudo a quem comenta! 

[cadete]

Mercado calmo, mas a boa forma mantém-se. Será que é pedir muito sonhar com os playoffs ao novo dono e senhor de Sheffield?

[Maffu]

Essas duas derrotas no fim acabam por manchar a boa sequência. Ainda assim estás na luta. Do 6º para baixo está renhido e o Championship é de surpresas. Tudo em aberto.

[Banks29]

A luta pelos play-offs ainda está em aberto mesmo com estas duas derrotas

[Spiklas The Manager]

Um Janeiro complicado deixa fugir os lugares de promocao. Ainda vais a tempo

[Burkina2008]

Citação de cadete, Em 11/09/2025 at 09:28:

Mercado calmo, mas a boa forma mantém-se. Será que é pedir muito sonhar com os playoffs ao novo dono e senhor de Sheffield?

Impossivel nao sera mas esta longe de ser facil

Citação de Maffu, Em 11/09/2025 at 17:53:

Essas duas derrotas no fim acabam por manchar a boa sequência. Ainda assim estás na luta. Do 6º para baixo está renhido e o Championship é de surpresas. Tudo em aberto.

Sempre muito complicado e denso nesta divisao

Citação de Banks29, há 21 horas:

A luta pelos play-offs ainda está em aberto mesmo com estas duas derrotas

sim vai ser luta ate ao final

Citação de Spiklas The Manager, há 15 horas:

Um Janeiro complicado deixa fugir os lugares de promocao. Ainda vais a tempo

ate ao fim da vindima!

[Burkina2008]

March 13th, 2034 - Yo-Yo for the playoffs

At this stage and even if this was far from a season objective and completely unthinkable with one third of the season gone, the reality was that the change of tactic and the increased number of goals and points had brought Sheffield to a zone where playoffs were not as farfetched as initial thought. Still, it was 16 long games for the season end and with the quality of the team in this division and a packed midtable, anything would be possible. Following the defeat against Lincoln, quite unexpectedly in the beginning of the month of February, the remainder of the month was much better. At the Home of Football against a Salford in trouble the boys managed to get again one very high score with 3 points and then in a continuation of the games home did a decent result against league leaders Millwall by drawing to one.

Against the teams at the bottom of the table, the difference to Dolbeth’s team was significant, with red lantern, Coventry City getting more and more into trouble after visiting Sheffield. February despite only 28 days was overpacked with games and a few days later it was a visit to Oxford, where Carlos managed to grab another 3 points, while only scoring the winning when Jesus Largo headed the ball to the net 5 minutes already into injury time. By mid-February, Sheffield was now in the playoff spots…but not for long as a visit to Bournemouth was a waste, with Sheffield F.C. being 0-2 up at half-time but not managing to grab on to the lead against an adversary that is really in the tight battle for the first two spots of direct promotion together with Millwall and Middlesbrough. At this time, it started a bit of a yo-yo series for the team who alternated being in and out of the playoff spots, with Brentford and Oxford.

6 straight points with a very difficult win, achieved by only one single goal from Godwin Moses at home against Sunderland and again pilling under a team under pressure in the relegation battle, did put the boys once again in a very good position inside the playoff spots, but a visit to Peterborough, which together with Sheffield F.C. were the big surprises of the league, also in the fight for a possible promotion chance, saw Dolbeth once again drop to the 7^th spot, 2 points away from the new objective of the team. If we account for the xG, Sheffield F.C. would be at this time in the top of the table…it does not count though, and we will see in the next 8 crucial matches if a new miracle is possible.

 

 

Cronica Leonina!

Provavelmente a única coisa positiva nesta época acaba por ser mesmo a participação na Champions. Já não chegávamos aos oitavos de final há muito e depois de termos ultrapassado o Mónaco, acabamos por apanhar o Real Madrid e ficar por ali…. De resto, o campeonato continua a mesma m*rda, com a equipa a empatar contra equipa menores e mesmo contra Vizelas da vida fica tudo a rasca. A coisa esta tao mal que estamos mais perto do Gil Vicente em quinto do que do Boavista em terceiro…

 

Obrigado a quem segue e sobretudo a quem comenta! 

[Spiklas The Manager]

Estás ali tao perto

[cadete]

Nem vou falar do Sporting. Mas a saga do Sheffield continua tal como o sonho está bem vivo.