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

[Maffu]

Criar lá a equipa cria, meter-la lá dentro é que parece que está complicado. Vai ser uma recta final de nervos e tens de ser o mais perfeito possível. Cheira-me que pelo menos para os playoffs dá.

[Burkina2008]

Citação de Spiklas The Manager, Em 13/09/2025 at 02:19:

Estás ali tao perto

Perto mas longe ao mesmo tempo

Citação de cadete, Em 13/09/2025 at 02:56:

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

Sim o Sporting esquece

Citação de Maffu, há 18 horas:

Criar lá a equipa cria, meter-la lá dentro é que parece que está complicado. Vai ser uma recta final de nervos e tens de ser o mais perfeito possível. Cheira-me que pelo menos para os playoffs dá.

Duvido...

[Burkina2008]

April 29th, 2034 - Up until the last breath

Even if initially, this was not really in the cards, 8 games to go and Sheffield was a real contender to playoff spots. That said the calendar had some tough games with other teams up in the top, so the bookies still considered Dolbeth to only have a marginal outside chance to grab a slot. So, the truth is that although nobody would be demanding any resignation for not reaching that stage of the competition, the fans were hopeful that the boys could come up with a miracle in the 8 games left in the months of March and April. It did not start well though, with a visit to a struggling Derby counting ending up in an unfair 1-1 draw. Things improved in the next game at home with the team beating once again the likes of the historic team of Ipswich Town who were already in a middle table place without any expectation of improving significantly or getting into the relegation. It was a game where it was clear that Sheffield F.C. was the only team that really wanted to get the win.

Unfortunately, there were another 15 days between games. One of the biggest complaints of Dolbeth has always been the number of fixtures in some periods of the season that get mixed with longer 2-3 weeks periods without a single game…and these were normally not beneficial for Sheffield. In this case the first game in April was against title contenders Middlesborough and the first half was disastrous with the boys going to Half-Time 2 goals down. There was an improvement in the second 45 minutes, but in the end Dolbeth can count himself lucky with a draw. Another draw a week later in Bristol, was the other way around, with the boys getting unlucky to only grab a single point. Already 5 points away from the playoffs the next game across town against rivals and probably relegation team of Sheffield United. In a very full stadium, Carlos managed to not only get the win to bring the team back into playoff contend but also finish the “Sheffield League” with 4 wins in 4 games!

3 finals to go and the first was a visit from a bottom league (but safe from relegation) Swansea. Again, with the xG showing 2.73-0.44, luck was not on the side from Dolbeth with the team only scoring once and conceding also once, for a bitter draw. At Huddersfield, another very cagey affair with a solitary goal from the Portuguese Francisco Mendy being the difference which put Sheffield with one game to go, 2 points from the playoffs and depending on a bad result from both Charlton or Sunderland. That said the boys were also playing a team in a playoff spot above them and Brentford had been the favorite to get promoted at the beginning of the season. The game did not start well and by half-time Sheffield was down 0-3. Dolbeth tried to shift things a bit and the team scored right after the start of the 45^th minute, but a few minutes later was down 1-4 and then 1-5. Starting from minute 80, something shifted in the team, and they reduced by 4-5…which was not enough to avoid the defeat and so Sheffield finishes their second season in the Championship in the 8^th spot.

 

 

Cronica Leonina!

6 jogos seguidos a marcar apenas 1 golo contra equipas de m*rda, faz com que o meu clube do coração continue na mesma toada da última década…alias desta feita nem já nem apanha o terceiro lugar e ainda pode ficar em quinto…logo foi necessário. O Tevez, boa pessoa, mas não para um clube da grandeza do Sporting. Que venha alguém que consiga melhorar o clube e voltar a colocar a equipa todas as épocas na luta pela subida!

 

Obrigado a quem segue e sobretudo a quem comenta! 

[cadete]

Adiós Tevez, já vais tarde. Em Sheffield, tão perto dos playoffs, mas aquele jogo épico caíu para o lado errado.

[Maffu]

Auch. 1 jogo absolutamente ridiculo acaba por te tramar por completo. Ainda assim muito muito perto. Fica para o próximo ano.

[Burkina2008]

Citação de cadete, Em 16/09/2025 at 08:36:

Adiós Tevez, já vais tarde. Em Sheffield, tão perto dos playoffs, mas aquele jogo épico caíu para o lado errado.

O Tevez nem nunca devia ter vindo

Citação de Maffu, Em 17/09/2025 at 09:04:

Auch. 1 jogo absolutamente ridiculo acaba por te tramar por completo. Ainda assim muito muito perto. Fica para o próximo ano.

Para o ano vamos ver...

[Spiklas The Manager]

Baza Tevez, na viestes fazer nepia cá. Sheffield, oh sheffiel ... um daquelas derrotas no inicio do ano transformada em vitória e os playoffs eram teus

[Burkina2008]

June 24th, 2034 - Early arrivals

It was again a hard pill to swallow that last game, which could have seen the team go into a possible promotion to the EPL, but in all fairness, nobody was expecting that at the start of the season, let alone after 10 games when Sheffield was dead last on the table. Bournemouth and Millwall did manage to secure promotion in, again, one very tight table and the executioner of Dolbeth’s dreams, Brentford, got the third spot after winning the playoff final 1-0 over Middlesbrough. Sad ending for two historic teams, Coventry was bottom of the table and Sheffield United was not even close to salvation as we will head into the next season with only 2 Sheffield teams. On the way down will be Brighton, after a single season in EPL, as well as WBA and Blackburn.

Once more the attack was really where Sheffield F.C. was strong. Schulmeister, Obeng (a contender to player of the season), Gonzalez, Sanusi and Mendy were extraordinary with Dolbeth also being a contender for manager of the year, while the new arrival of Goalkeeper Olisa Emmanuel had brought a lot of expectations, but ended up being average at most. The plan for next season was clear, maintain the best players and make sure to get a few new faces for the defense, midfield and a new goalkeeper. Easier said than done, to be fair, but we know that Dolbeth normally did start to plan very early on, so there was definitely confidence in his capacity to improve on the team for the 100^th of time. Maybe even with a squad that would be able to bring Sheffield across the playoff line next season, even if that would not be the goal officially.

And things did happen quick, right in the market open, the club disclosed that they had sold one of the most important assets of the club, by a record breaking 17.5 million Euros, Isaac Obeng was unfortunately leaving to Sporting Lisbon, the club that Dolbeth supports and with that money, not one, not two, but 6 arrivals for even more money than was received. For free comes left defender Olesen from Portuguese side Boavista, but then all the rest were transfers are various prices, from 1.6 million to 9.5 million with Irish central defender Ross Flood making his way across Sheffield to play for F.C... Among the arrivals there is the expected goalkeeper, in Norwegian U-21 international Erik Murvold, as well as players for both defense and midfield. The market is still open for the next months, so more arrivals and departures are expected. That said the pre-season is just starting with a trip to the Algarve and the team seems to have found the fresh blood it needed. Let’s hope…

 

 

Cronica Leonina!

Isto com o Joao Pereira como treinador interino ainda foi pior do que com o anão argentino. Derrotas com o Boavista, segundo classificado final e os lampiões, ditaram um quinto lugar horrível atras de uma equipa de Barcelos…

 

Obrigado a quem segue e sobretudo a quem comenta! 

[Spiklas The Manager]

Pró ano há mais, já ficas top3 prá próxima época. Quanto ao Sporting ao menos tem europa pró ano xD Como é que vao 7 equipas a europa é q nao sei, mas n se fala nisso xD

[cadete]

Excelente campanha. Melhorando aos poucos, ao contrário do Sporting.

[Maffu]

Isso é o Sporting a injectar dinheiro para ajudar? 😁

Vais ter os jogadores cedo para começares a dar a volta. Havendo esse dinheiro é de acreditar que, em breve, a EPL estará ai.

[Banks29]

Com esse dinheiro a entrar é obrigatório lutar pela subida direta

[Burkina2008]

Citação de Spiklas The Manager, Em 20/09/2025 at 01:51:

Pró ano há mais, já ficas top3 prá próxima época. Quanto ao Sporting ao menos tem europa pró ano xD Como é que vao 7 equipas a europa é q nao sei, mas n se fala nisso xD

Portugal esta bem nos rankings, sobretudo devido ao Porto

Citação de cadete, Em 20/09/2025 at 02:28:

Excelente campanha. Melhorando aos poucos, ao contrário do Sporting.

Siim...

Citação de Maffu, Em 20/09/2025 at 07:21:

Isso é o Sporting a injectar dinheiro para ajudar? 😁

Vais ter os jogadores cedo para começares a dar a volta. Havendo esse dinheiro é de acreditar que, em breve, a EPL estará ai.

Dinheiro entra e sai com a mesma rapidez

Citação de Banks29, há 5 horas:

Com esse dinheiro a entrar é obrigatório lutar pela subida direta

Vamos tentar

[Burkina2008]

August 11th, 2034 - Everybody wants them

After that very intense June when Sheffield managed to secure many good players, July was clearly calmer in the arrivals. That said two new faces joined the club, Maquet on the end of the contract with Belgian side Paulus Maquet was one, but the big arrival was a free transfer, u-21 international and ex-Chelsea player Sean Thomas. After a few seasons with Chelsea and constant loans the young attacking midfielder was finally ready for another challenge and Sheffield will be his home for the next couple of years to the delight of the fans. The biggest challenge of the market ended up being really on the constant bids for the players. Dolbeth had his hands full of proposals for both selling and loaning a significant percentage of the players on the squad. In the end only 6 sales with the most relevant exists being captain Vincet Ogudare and Patrick Maric. In both cases the club saw the buyers getting away with the price in the clause.

That said, there are limited complaints as the team seemed to have gathered a lot of good new faces and the results in the pre-season were as usual of good quality. Following 15 days in the Algarve the team came back to England, to beat the u21s and drew against Crystal Palace. After that in 10 days another 4 games, all resulting in high scores (a trend very particular to the Dolbeth squads since the beginning) and all wins against some stronger opponents. Particularly celebrated was the presentation game against Anderlecht which ended in a beating of the Belgian Champions, 5-1 to the delight of 4000 fans present. For the league this year, the bookies see the team as contenders for a playoff spot and 6^th favorite to win the division. Of course, Carlos tried to brush off these predictions and stated that the team had a mid-table objective…lets wait and see what happens, as Brighton, Sheffield Wednesday and Blackburn are deemed to be clearly more favorite than our boys.

That said even prior to the first league game, home against Oxford, the boys had to play the first Carabao Cup round at home against Rotherham and the expectation this season was for the team to take this seriously. And this time with a lot of new faces making their official debut, the quality of the play in the friendlies transported to this competition. It was just a pity to see a very empty Home of Football, because the result and performance were top notch in this 4-1 result with newcomer stricker Suclupe scoring a poker on his debut! I have a feeling this will be a great season!

 

Cronica Leonina!

Ano de Mundial, e mais uma vez ficamos como o Sporting, abaixo das expectativas…num grupo com México, Peru e Guine, só vencemos os africanos tendo assim passado aos 16-avos em terceiro no grupo. Depois ainda vencemos a Servia, mas ficamos no lado mais complicado do bracket, perdendo nos oitavos com os cabroes dos espanhóis no prolongamento, que foram eliminados depois pela Argentina, que acabou por vencer isto na Coreia…vem a Argélia (onde andas Slimani?) que chegou as meias!

 

Obrigado a quem segue e sobretudo a quem comenta! 

Editado 22 Setembro 2025 por Burkina2008

[cadete]

Que final entre Argentina e Inglaterra. Ai ai Portugal, mas bora lá Sheffield. Mexer o suficiente para fortalecer a equipa.

[Maffu]

Com esse season preview só pode dar promoção directa este ano. Playoffs é demasiado drama

[Banks29]

A pré-época foi agradável, vamos ver nos jogos a doer

[Burkina2008]

Citação de cadete, Em 23/09/2025 at 01:21:

Que final entre Argentina e Inglaterra. Ai ai Portugal, mas bora lá Sheffield. Mexer o suficiente para fortalecer a equipa.

Portugal horrivel

Citação de Maffu, Em 23/09/2025 at 03:12:

Com esse season preview só pode dar promoção directa este ano. Playoffs é demasiado drama

Sim a promocao para mim sera o objectivo

Citação de Banks29, Em 24/09/2025 at 03:09:

A pré-época foi agradável, vamos ver nos jogos a doer

Vamos a isso

[Spiklas The Manager]

Obah isto agora é subir como campeão.  Gostava de ter visto aquela final do mundial, que jogão hehe

[Burkina2008]

September 22nd, 2034 - Fire Starter

Following a quasi-perfect pre-season and a brilliant start in the Carabao Cup, the first league game at home against Oxford United was a bit of a downer. The boys had a horrible first half with too much overconfidence and ended up down by 2 goals at the start of the second 45 minutes. There was a correction in the late stages of the second half and one point ended up being salvaged from the penalty spot…far from brilliant. It is unknown if the rocky first games were the reason why Dolbeth entered again into further negotiations in the transfer market by selling Sandeman and Posenato and bringing to bangers…first on loan a Man City youngster that was disputed by a significant number of sides and a few days later, a promise from Porto that wanted more minutes. Jordi Garcia from Uruguay grabs the last ERC place and costs a record breaking 15 million…many times the budget Sheffield F.C. would have from 5 seasons in previous divisions.

Still without these players, the second league game away from Watford was better, although not perfect and Carlos grabbed the first win of the season for the Championship. Just 4 days later in a very tight schedule, it was back to the Home of Football for a reception and tight win over Lincoln City. All good for now, but as always Wales seemed to be a lucky place for Sheffield F.C. and just 72 hours later, the boys went to Cardiff and finally the fans could see similar displays as the pre-season and a 6-0 trashing with a poker from Maquet! The new faces were starting to shake things up for the team and in the second round of the Carabao Cup, Sheffield had once again home advantage, beating with ease the team of Grimsby Town and making the board happy in a competition for which Carlos did not really want to invest a lot in…

September started with a bang as the favorites to win the league, Brighton slipped in the Home of Football, continuing the unbeaten run of our boys. The Carabao Cup 3^rd round was a bit more complicated with a lot of rotation in the starting 11 but with Sheffield coming up on top and booking the ticket to the round of 16 where they will face Leicester, but what was really noticeable was that the team was playing like a very well-oiled machine and the next 3 wins resulted in another 3 wins, bringing the run to 7 consecutive league wins and bringing on a statement that Sheffield wanted to achieve promotion. At the moment, were it not for one game less than Blackburn, Carlos would have achieved the league lead. Yes, its early still and there are another 36 games to be played but contrasting this start with last season is day to night and even the fans are feeling it!

 

 

Cronica Leonina!

Bom com o final da época, o Joao Pereira que estava a interino la fez as malas e foi treinar para a segunda divisão, mas quem chegou acaba por ser uma surpresa…Farioli, sim esse mesmo, depois de andar pelo Qatar, Turquia e Nice vem para Alvalade e o início tem sido longe de perfeito. Muitos empates e já uma derrota com o Porto em casa, fazem com que tenhamos poucas esperanças de voltar a lutar pelo titulo que já nos foge há 14 anos…enquanto que o Porto ainda com Sergio Conceição, já vai em 10 títulos seguidos…

 

Obrigado a quem segue e sobretudo a quem comenta! 

[cadete]

O empate foi só "para inglês ver". Equipa reagiu muito bem e entrou numa série perfeita de resultados. 

Farioli no Sporting? Ai o FM.

[Maffu]

è ano de titoli, está mais que visto. Tem sido uma belissima razia e todo o investimento mostra que foi bem feito. A subida será uma questao de tempo.

[Spiklas The Manager]

É ano de promoção, soʻ pode. Siga pra Bingo

[Burkina2008]

Citação de cadete, Em 26/09/2025 at 00:59:

O empate foi só "para inglês ver". Equipa reagiu muito bem e entrou numa série perfeita de resultados. 

Farioli no Sporting? Ai o FM.

O FM tem destas coisas

 

Citação de Maffu, Em 26/09/2025 at 09:47:

è ano de titoli, está mais que visto. Tem sido uma belissima razia e todo o investimento mostra que foi bem feito. A subida será uma questao de tempo.

Vamos ver vamos ver

Citação de Spiklas The Manager, há 18 horas:

É ano de promoção, soʻ pode. Siga pra Bingo

Ha hipotese

[Burkina2008]

November 24th, 2034 - Virtual First?

Despite the numerous successes and progress of Sheffield F.C. under the reign of Carlos Dolbeth in the last 11 season, it never ceased to amaze the fans and the pundits what else was possible with the oldest but forgotten club in the world. Yes, it was just the beginning, but it seemed likely that the boys would be fighting for promotion or even for the title this season with 7 straight wins and an unbeaten season until now. Alas, the run did continue in the last game of the month, with Sheffield beating Stoke with a clear 5-2 result at the Bet365 Stadium, making it 8 wins in a row and for the first time ever, the first spot in the league. One of those long international breaks did not come at the best of times as it could take the team out of the “zone” they were in…no worries at first as close to 3 weeks later than the game at Stoke, the boys went to West Bromwich Albion and gathered yet another win. It was now 9 in a row and no loses after 10 games, more if you count the Carabao Cup!

But nothing good lasts forever and in Norwich against a team that was also guns ablaze to get promotion this season, Dolbeth faced his first defeat of the season. In reality it was a very even match that could have gone either way, but Norwich was a bit better where it counted and it was able to break Sheffield’s run and climb close to the top, which, after 11 games, looked like a 3-horse race between our boys, Norwich and Blackburn. The result gave even more importance to the next home fixture, the Sheffield derby against Wednesday. Last season Carlos was able to get 12 points out of the 4 games against Sheffield teams, but this one in a sold out ground did not start well with Wednesday scoring first…Sheffield F.C. did react well and drew the game just 7 minutes later but the after a complete massacre with 32 shots against 4 from the foreigners, the result did not move and the draw is a very bitter result that saw Carlos drop to the second place on the table.

Sheffield got back to its winning ways on the visit to Bristol and once again went back into the first spot on the table by the end of October. Prior to yet another away league match, there was the round of 16 where the boys went to the stadium of 10^th placed Premier League side of Leicester and gave a good account, by losing by a single goal close to the end in a very even match, still it was the best ever participation from the club in the Carabao Cup and management was happy. Unfortunately, 3 days later another loss of points was not avoided in the visit to Huddersfield with the boys’ showing signs of fatigue. Finally having a 7-day break between both games was positive as the visit from Ipswich resulted in a return to the wins and with 15 games played, Sheffield is second, one point from Norwich but one game less. The boys are also dominating individually the league ranking, so things look good!

 

 

Cronica Leonina!

Sinceramente não dá para entender. Mesmo com um novo treinador continuamos na senda de mais uma época miserável. Depois de um resultado relativamente bom contra o Porto, na taca somos eliminados por um time de várzea e depois perdemos em casa contra o Rio Ave…assim fica difícil. Houve melhorias em Novembro, mas já vamos com 12 pontos de atraso para o Porto. Algo tem mesmo de mudar em toda a linha neste Sporting!

 

 

Obrigado a quem segue e sobretudo a quem comenta!