I've signed Daniel De Rossi, Stevan Jovetic, Marco Verratti, Moussa Sissoko and Edin Dzeko. I felt that we was a little weak in midfield with Scholes ageing and Hargreaves out for a good while, so i signed De Rossi, who is world class and also Sissoko who is only 19, with loads of potential. Also felt that we needed another top striker, so brought in Dzeko and obviously Jovetic is a wonderkid so i brought him, with the view to replacing Giggs in a season or two.

Sold Nani for £10million and sent Tosic out on loan, with the view to a permanent deal. Lost the community shield to Chelsea on penalties, in a very even game. Beat Portsmouth 1-0 in the opening league game of the season.

How much did all those signings cost and where did the funds come from? You surely don't get that much to spend as Man U given their financial predicament? De Rossi and Dzeko would probably run to about £50m on their own.

£72million i got, but i am expected to win the league.

De Rossi cost £45million and Dzeko cost £20million. Although, i used a lot of installments. I had £30million remaining after signing those players, and i've just signed Maxi Rodriguez to give me some cover on the right on a final day deal, he cost me about £20million. If you use installments, then it doesn't take that out of the transfer budget, but obviously you have to be careful, otherwise it hits you hard as you get into the game.

I'm close to losing my job as City, I'm down in 6th but in touch with the top 4. Apparantely I have a few games to save my job.

I could do with a left back as I had to sell Figueroa and only have Edman who is getting on a bit and N'Zogbia who i'd rather play at LM.

Anybody know any decent young left backs for around the £4m mark that would sign for Wigan?

Love a network game me.

3 of us playing, lowest place finisher in prem buys 1st round of shots on holiday

Quote ="Conroy"I could do with a left back as I had to sell Figueroa and only have Edman who is getting on a bit and N'Zogbia who i'd rather play at LM. Anybody know any decent young left backs for around the £4m mark that would sign for Wigan?'" There's a player on my game, he just came second in the world defender of the year award, despite playing for Zaragoza. He's not got great stats, but he must be doing something right, have a look: i49.tinypic.com/jfartg.jpg Ivan Obradovic he's called.

Quote ="Conroy"I could do with a left back as I had to sell Figueroa and only have Edman who is getting on a bit and N'Zogbia who i'd rather play at LM. Anybody know any decent young left backs for around the £4m mark that would sign for Wigan?'" There's a player on my game, he just came second in the world defender of the year award, despite playing for Zaragoza. He's not got great stats, but he must be doing something right, have a look: i49.tinypic.com/jfartg.jpg Ivan Obradovic he's called.

Maybe it's just me, but does anybody else feel that the game has a habit of going to ET/Pens whenever it's available?

I've played two champions league finals, two FA cup finals and two league cup finals, all but one of them went to extra time. I've played two community shields, both went to penalties and the world club challenge game went to penalties as well. I don't draw a lot of games and scoring is never a problem, but I've had two goal leads in games that have been lost in the final 10 minutes. Maybe it's just coincidence, who knows?

Not really. The finals I've been to have all been won in normal time. Even the one's I've not played in have rarely gone the ET route

It must be your 'park the bus' tactics

I've only had one penalty shootout in my four seasons on the game.

Surprisingly, the only final that didn't go to pens was a league cup final against Everton which I won 6-0



I don't actually have park the bus tactics, 4-4-2, no holding midfielders, my wingers play in the AML and AMR positions, full backs play as attacking wing backs, very fluid, attacking mentality. Seems to destroy everybody along the way but as soon as a final comes around, it just doesn't happen for me.

You must come a cropper away from home occassionally with tactics like that? And even at home to the bus parkers at the bottom of the table?

Everton have won 3 of the 4 league cups on my current game. Bit optimistic given we've never won it outright I don't think and we very rarely get anywhere in the competition.

After beating Stoke, Arsenal and Chelsea, my job status has changed to stable. I'm now closing in on the top 4 with Robinho on top form and Carlos Tevez back from a broken foot.

I've made a great start to the season, 6 games in the league and currently top, winning 5 and drawing 1. Also, i've yet to concede a goal. Also, drew my first Champions League match. My results so far:

Portsmouth 0 - 1 Man United
Man United 3 - 0 West Ham
Hull 0 - 4 Man United
Burnley 3 - 0 Man United
Arsenal 0 - 0 Man United
Sporting 0 - 0 Man United (Champions League)
Man United 4 - 0 Bolton.

Yet to play the big teams though, apart from Arsenal and i dominated that game, but couldn't score. So far so good. Berbatov has been on fire for me, well in fact all my forwards have been very good so far.

Occasionally happens, sometimes sides like Arsenal and Liverpool can smoke me on the counter. Other times I dominate so much, teams rarely get a sniff.

Talk about walking a tightrope. My job security has been 'very insecure for the last 13 games, yet I've lost 1 of those last 13! In all fairness though, I promised the L1 title and was sat on 10 points after 10 games. Now 6 points off the top though so hopefully they'll get off my back soon. Must admit I feared for my job at 3-1 down away to Norwich with 10 men, but a 3-3 draw had me clinging on by a thread!

I finished 4th in my first season, may change to a 4-2-3-1 formation next season. Job security is still "insecure" though.

My formation is possibly a little odd. It's sort of 4-4-2 Diamond. But the diamond is a very tight one with a dmc, 2 mcs and an amc. my full backs double up as wingers when we're attacking. Yes, I am playing as Man City, but come on, we all are or have given it a go.

Won the premiership in my first season. Though that was touch and go until the last couple of weeks.
Just coming up to Xmas in my 2nd season. My CL group was me, Barca, Juventus and Trabzonspor. Not quite a group of death, but certainly one of the hardest groups of the competition. Managed to qualify 2nd in the group with 10 pts behind juve on 11 and got AC Milan in the next round. Currently top of the prem on goal difference (giving Sheffield Utd a 10-0 kicking helped that along

) and I've got Newcastle in the semis of the league cup and the 3rd round of the fa cup. So it looks like I'm breaking some geordie hearts before the season is out



Btw my squad is

GK: Hugo Lloris - £24m
DR: Micah Richards/Kolo Toure
DL: Wayne Bridge/Joleon Lescott
DC: Phillipe Mexes - £32.5m
DC: Naldo
DMC: Nigel de Jong
MC: Shaun Wright-Phillips
MC: Gareth Barry
AMC: Franck Ribery - £30m
FC: Carlos Tevez
FC: Cato Solstad -£12.5 (seems alot for a 20 year old, but you need to see his stats cos the boy is impressive. I signed him from Shakhtar but he starts at Fredristad and has already broken into the Norwegian first team and has bagged 10 goals in 15 club appearances this season)

My 2010/2011 Man City team :

1. Shay Given
13. Joe Hart
35. Igor Akinfeev (£27m from CSKA)

2. Micah Richards
3. Giorgio Chiellini
4. Nedum Onouha
5. Philippe Mexes
11. Darijo Srna
19. Joleon Lescott
28. Kolo Toure

6. Cesc Fabregas
7. Stephen Ireland
8. Shaun Wright-Phillips
10. Robinho
16. Danielle De Rossi (£55m from Roma)
17. Rafael van der Vaart
18. Gareth Barry
34. Nigel de Jong

9. Edin Dzeko
14. David Villa (£80m from Valencia)
25. Emmanuel Adebayor
32. Carlos Tevez

Just won my first trophy on my Liverpool season (The Carling Cup) on penalties against Chelsea 13-12!

Only 1 person missed a penalty throughout the shoutout, and that has happened in every shootout I've had, does anybody else have the same problem?

Yup. Beat Cruzeiro 13-12 on penalties in a WCC final and I was beaten by Chelsea in a Community shield final 13-12.

Last night, I saved my season 'as' and used my save as season to leave City and go on holiday for a couple of years. Went away and Guardiola took charge, sold loads of players, spent £49m on Jesus Navas and has played him 6 times in a season and a half. Anyway, he took my team right downhill, he sold all of the full backs bar Criscito and Richards because he played 3-4-3 in his first season, only to play 4-3-3 in his next year.

I only done it to see re-gen development and my younger player's development, Vaclev Kadlec turned world class and so did a few of my re-gens. I think there's an unhealthy amount of top drawer re-gens coming through every season on the game, they need to sort that out.

Started a game as Wigan, and I'm currently working my way through pre-season. Got decent squad and aiming for a top 10 finish.

In : Kris Boyd (£8m, Pricey but the goalscorer I needed), Gary Caldwell (£4m, Solid, strong and good in the air), Victor Moses (£3.1m, Has great potential, fought off interest from Chelsea for him.)

Out : Daniel de Riddeer (£1.5m), Rachid Bouzuouan (£2m), Cho-Won-Hee (Loan).

Also made a few staff replacements, and tied up Scharner, Koumas and Melchiot for a further 2 or 3 years each.

Anyone see Jason Manfords take on FM on Live at the Apollo? Thought it was hillarious



(After City lost)..."I haven't even saved it yet" Haha, we've all done that