FM11 - Southampton F.C.

This was last year...

Are you ready for this year?...

Find out in Football Manager 2011

Use this thread to discuss your Football Manager savegames with Southampton!

Club Information

Home Kit for 2010/11 season White shirt with red sash, white shorts, black socks

Home Kit after 2010/11 season : Red & white striped shirt, black shorts, white socks

Away Kit: Black shirts with faint stripes and red trimmings, black shorts and red socks with black trimmings.

Rivals: Portsmouth

Minor Rivals: AFC Bournemouth

Affiliations: Eastleigh

Legends: Lawrie McMenemy, Matthew Le Tissier, Ted Bates, Mick Channon

Icons: Ted Drake, Charlie Wayman, Bill Rawlings, Markus Liebherr, Derek Reeves, Nick Holmes, Gordon Strachan, Kevin Keegan, Jimmy Case, Ron Davies, Bobby Stokes, Terry Paine, Martin Chivers, Alan Ball

Favoured Personnel: Peter Shilton, Francis Benali, Jason Dodd, Dave Jones, Mark Wright, Wayne Bridge, Gareth Bale, Chris Nicholl, Tim Flowers, James Beattie, Chris Marsden, Chris Baird, Matthew Oakley, Rod Wallace, Mick Mills, Mark Dennis, Glenn ****erill, Kevin Moore, Andrew Surman, Michael Svensson, Antti Niemi, Theo Walcott, Alan Shearer, Marian Pahars, Claus Lundekvam, Peter Osgood, David Armstrong, Steve Williams, Rickie Lambert

Disliked Staff: Harry Redknapp, Milan Mandaric, Rupert Lowe, Glenn Hoddle, Agustin Delgado, Ian Branfoot, Steve Claridge, Kenwyne Jones, Billy Davies, Eyal Berkovic, Graeme Souness, Nigel Quashie, Kevin Phillips

League: Coca Cola League One

Media Prediction: 2nd

Team Captain: Dean Hammond

Vice Captain: Jose Fonte

Finances

Estimated Value: £13.75m

Loan Debt: £0

Balance: £6m

Finances Secure

Transfer Budget: £500k to £675k (though with adjustments you can raise it to £1.9m)

Season One - Expectations

Stadium and Training

Ground: St. Mary’s Stadium, Southampton

Capacity: 32,689

Expansion Capacity: 54,000

Season Ticket Holders: 13,800

Average Ticket Price: £25

Average Season Ticket Price: £426

St Mary's Stadium

 

How St Mary's could look if expanded...

 

Training ground: Staplewood

Training Facilities: Good Training Facilities

Youth Facilities: Good Youth Facilities + Youth Academy

Staplewood Training Ground

Staff

Chairman: Nicole Cortese

Manager: Nigel Adkins

Assistant Manager: Andy Crosby

1st Team Coach: Dean Wilkins

Coach: Martin Hunter

Goalkeeper Coach: Vince Bartram

Fitness Coach: Nick Harvey

Fitness Coach: Louis Langdown

Fitness Coach: James Bunce

Youth Coach: Jason Dodd

Youth Coach: Matthew Crocker

Youth Coach: Terry Moore

Physio: Mo Gimpel

Physio: Steven Sparks

Physio: Chris Lovegrove

Physio: Matt Radcliffe

Physio: Mal Godtschailk

Physio: Emma Gimpel

Physio: Mark Forbes

Scout: Andrew Stone

Scout: Rod Ruddick

Scout: Chris Welman

Scout: Bill Green

Scout: Stephen Corns

Scout: David Burke

Squad Analysis

Goalkeepers

Current number one keeper is Kelvin Davis with two young keepers; Polish under 21 international Bartosz Bialkowski and Tommy Forecast battling it out for the number two spot.

Right Backs

Initially Danny Butterfield will be your right back due to fellow new £450k signing Frazer Richardson dislocating his shoulder in pre season and being out for the first few months.

Left Backs

Dan Harding is the current incumbent of this postion in the Southampton side. Summer signing from Brentford Ryan Dickson provides Harding with some stiff competition.

Centre Backs

First choice is January £1m signing from Crystal Palace Jose Fonte. Battling to be Fonte's defensive partner are the experienced Radhi Jaidi, January signing from Exeter Danny Seaborne and young Aaron Martin who signed last season from neighbours Eastleigh.

Central Midfielders

French youth international Morgan Schneiderlin is comfortable on the ball and he likes to sit in front of the defense and break out quickly. Former Colchester captain Dean Hammond covers every blade of grass to break down opposition attacks. Cover comes in the form of Oscar Gobern and experienced former Plymouth Argyle captain Paul Wotton.

Attacking Midfielders

Adam Lallana broke into the first team and the end of 2007/08 season and has this season made the left sided midfield spot his own. A naturally gifted player he has excellent technique both in distributing the ball and running at defenders. Jason Puncheon signed in January from Plymouth Argyle is the regular right sided midfielder. Brazilian Guly Do Prado on loan from Cesena provides competition both here and for the strikers.

Strikers

League One top scorer two years running Rickie Lambert would be the obvious choice for the strikers role. Partnering Lambert you have a choice of Lee Barnard and Irish international David Connolly.

Youngsters to watch!

Alex Chamberlain son of former England international Mark Chamberlain is a big prospect as an attacking midfielder. Nuture his talents well and he will make the right midfield birth his own. Striker Ryan Doble has already been called up to the full Wales squad despite not having played for Saints but looks a good prospect.

My tips for success with Southampton

• Ask the board for a parent club and you might get a top Premier League team to loan some youngsters from.
  
• Due to the big money backing from a billionaire's estate, spend the money very wisely to keep in the chairman good books as he doesn't have much patience.
  
• Make full use of the strong youth set up at the club
  
• Make Guly Do Prado's loan permanent in January if you can.
  
• Try to loan quality young players from the Premiership and upper Championship clubs in problem positions.
  
• Make a 4 year plan for a promotion push back to the Premiership.
  

Who to loan and who to buy for Southampton in season one?

Goalkeepers

Smithies, Alex - £650k

Defenders

Goncalves, Jose - Free Transfer

****tu, Danny - Free Transfer

Ball, Michael - Free Transfer

Coleman, Seamus - Loan

van Aanholt, Patrick - Loan

Midfielders

Kapo, Oliver - Free Transfer

Assulin, Gai - Free Transfer

Eikrem, Magnus - Loan

McEachran, Josh - Loan

Strikers

Aliadiere, Jermie - Free Transfer

Vassell, Darius - Free Transfer

Anyone else got Alan Bailey in their game? Saints U18 striker... there's no generated face on his profile, so i'm wondering whether he's popped up in anyone elses game at all? He looks pretty good...

Anyone else got Alan Bailey in their game? Saints U18 striker... there's no generated face on his profile, so i'm wondering whether he's popped up in anyone elses game at all? He looks pretty good...

He isn't real, he is a newgen. Everyone will have him on their game as the demo is a "quickstart", which basically is a savegame and everyone has the same savegame.

Matthew, have you noticed we have an agreed price of k875 for Guly but only 500k to spend so wont be able to get him anyway.

(note i also posted this in the other thread)

Why is Delgado in the list of disliked personnel?

I'm kinda wondering what the point of this thread is ? Doesn't seem to be for peoples' saves or stories...? More of a one-person Saints info we al already know w@nkathon.

Smithies 650k, we dont get that kind of money, who have you sold? And Sh***u wants 14k a week and the board doesn't allow that either, especially with the other players you want to bring in.

And Assulin isn't in my save game!

Got Sears, Wood, Randall, Spence in on loan so far, tried to change the backroom staff and been rejected by my targets, oops!

jay demerrit has been an excellent free transfer for me, good defending and scores goals

for peoples' saves or stories...?

That is its intention. But also for Saints fans to highlight any data issues t help improve the game. Thus I have listed a lot of the data and you can point out places where changes need to be made to help improve the game for all Saints fans playing FM.

Why is Delgado in the list of disliked personnel?

He isn't the most poplar person (people are largely negative about him on these forums) for the way he acted whilst at Saints. IMO he was a very good player but came to Saints with a lot of baggage. These things are of course subjective and I will consider your point.

Matthew, have you noticed we have an agreed price of k875 for Guly but only 500k to spend so wont be able to get him anyway.

 

(note i also posted this in the other thread)

The transfer budget is flexible. Plus you can now ask the board to do the transfer for you.

Why are the finances only secure when we are actually very very well off ?? And why is the training facilities only good when they are very good ? Why is Delgado in the disliked personel ?

Why are the finances only secure when we are actually very very well off ??

Saints still have a lot of money relative to the League and Cortese has a very high rating for resources available to him. The club no longer have sugar daddy ticked however.

And why is the training facilities only good when they are very good ?

Staplewood is not "very good" at present. Hence why they have plans to improve the facilities in real life. Remember this 1-20 is on a world scale.

Why is Delgado in the disliked personel ?

See post 28.

Central Midfielders

 

French youth international Morgan Schneiderlin IS comfortable on the ball AND he likeS to sit in front of the defenCe and break out quickly.

 

The capitals are the errors, jesus, nobody would have thought you did this at 1:30am would they

 

 

Also: I've had it crash twice now after the first game and then second game of the season!

Well, got my Saints game up and running now

INS

Danny Sh!ttu - Free

Jay DeMerit - Free

Gavin McCann - Free

Febian Brandy - Free

Chris Wood - Loan

Havard Nordtveit - Loan

Billy Knott - Free

------------------------DAVIS-------------------------

BUTTERFIELD-----SH!TTU-----DEMERIT©-----HARDING

-----------------------MCCANN-----------------------

---------SCHNEIDERLIN-----------GULY----------------

-----------------------LAMBERT-----------------------

--------------BARNARD---------BRANDY---------------

Subs: Bialkowski, Dickson, Fonte, Nordtveit, Puncheon, Wood, Lallana

Also MLG, noticed that Alex Chamberlain is called A Chamberlain rather than Chamberlain, A on the Motivation screen in TV View, something for you to fix there

God..I hope plymouth are not down as a "rival"...again

Nope, just P*mpey and Bompey, the Tweedledum and Tweedeldee of the footballing world.

Some pretty good frees on this game, i actually quite like it. Some good loans too.

Barnard was belting them in before getting injured, Guly is a beast.

Basso

Butterfield DeMerit Sodje Harding

Kapo Guly Schniederlin Lallana

Lambert Barnard

Davis Davies Puncheon Soares Styvar Aliadiere

Someone has far too much time on their hands.

Someone has far too much time on their hands.

Maybe you're right...but in my defence...

I just use the previous years thread as a template so doesn't take that long really.

Ok, played it for a while.

Why do i get SO MANY INJURIES.

Why is Frazier Richardson so so bad ? I mean terrible ??

Kelvin Davis is pretty poor too, infact you are told he is the worst player, which is slightly crazy.

Why can't i cancel loan agreements ?? Even after you get the pop up sayin 'Mr X has an injury perhaps you should cancel his loan agreement ?'

Why is Frazier Richardson so so bad ? I mean terrible ??

He is rated as one of the better right backs in League One. In any case he was rated by the Charlton researcher.

Kelvin Davis is pretty poor too, infact you are told he is the worst player, which is slightly crazy.

Again, one of the highest rated keepers in League One. Also coach/assistant manager reports aren't always accurate, especially if they haven't been at the club very long and thus don't know the players or have low judging ability & potential ratings.

I'm guessing the loan agreements thing is just a bug then?

My team is:

Smithies

S.Coleman Sh*ttu Fonte Harding

Guly Shelvey G.Mahon Lallana

Lambert J.Silva

Subs: Dickson, Chambo, Puncheon, C.Wood, DeMerit, Schneiderlin, Soares

No keeper on the bench?

No keeper on the bench?

Nah never bothered with that, the gk only gets done in once or twice maybe even less, in a season, so rather have an extra outfield option

He is rated as one of the better right backs in League One. In any case he was rated by the Charlton researcher.

 

No he realy is ****e, one technical rating over 10 and thats penalty taking.

No he realy is ****e, one technical rating over 10 and thats penalty taking.

I have to agree, for League 1's best RB to have tackling of 9, marking of 9, heading of 10, he really is awful, I would play Butterfield ahead of him every day

Not strictly speaking Saints, but has anyone checked just how good Brett Ormerod's stats are in this game!?

Not strictly speaking Saints, but has anyone checked just how good Brett Ormerod's stats are in this game!?

Ormerod is and was a good player, just the usual anti-player mongs usuing him as their latest anti-saints player in the PL.

Without him Beattie would have had another mediocre season.

Jay Emmanuel-Thomas is getting goals for me alongside Rickie, came off the bench and put three past Notts County within half an hour. Loanee from Arsenal.

Jay Emmanuel-Thomas is getting goals for me alongside Rickie, came off the bench and put three past Notts County within half an hour. Loanee from Arsenal.

Nile Ranger is a good loan as well, he scored loads for me.

Febian Brandy is a must-buy on a free transfer - he's scoring shedloads for me. Play him up front with Barnard and use Lambert as an AMC behind them and you're onto a winner.