Managed to win the league with United, after beating Chelsea 0-1 late on at the Bridge. After that Chelsea drew 3 and won 1 of their last 4 games, so Utd were declared Champions with 2 games still to go. City also lost their way, finishing 7th, behind Spurs, Villa & Liverpool (who seem to prefer Jovanovic over Carroll). Also beat Liverpool 4-2 in the FA Cup final in extra time after finishing at 1-1 after 90 minutes. Brilliant game
Pre-season.
Need to bring in a quality keeper (as I'm going to sell Van Der Sar to a non English team to tie in with his real life retirement), and an understudy as Lindegaard didn't impress when he played.
My #1 choice of Neuer turned me down, after Schalke accepted a £22m offer. Bid for several more keepers, and eventually managed to bring in Akinfeev for £18m, and Joe Lewis (England U-21) for £2m.
Due to having extra games in season 2 courtesy of the Champions League, I opted to bring in an extra CAM & CDM. Rodwell was still up for sale, so gladly snapped him up. Also signed Ganso from Santos for £22m, who hopefully will step up to be Scholes' eventual replacement.
Eto'o was also up for sale, and was tempting, but decided to stick with the returning loanees for now - Welbeck, Diouf & King to support Berbs, Rooney & Chicho. A minimum £34m asking price also helped with the decision!
Start of season 2.
Community Shield against Chelsea. A good opportunity to see how the new players fit in, and it wasn't promising! Drogba & Malouda scoring early in 2nd half, with Torres coming off the bench for the 3rd in a 3-0 defeat. Had several chances, but couldn't beat the on-fire Cech.
First league game of the season - Chelsea. Again. At Old Trafford this time, and aiming for a 100% home record. Hmm...
I don't usually tinker with formations, just the players, but for a change I switched from 4-4-2 to 4-5-1 with Rooney on the left, and was able to return the favour, beating them 3-0. Could have been more, but Cech was still playing well.
Very happy with that, but paid the price with Bale, Berbatov & Valencia picking up knocks...
That's FIFA, I have the same thing with City and Adebayor at the moment,he's done me three times this season with sub 86th unstoppable tank goals...
I wish he'd sod off to Real...
I can sympathise with you as well. City were the only team I couldn't beat in season 1 - had to settle for a home draw & away defeat. Tevez, Dzeko & Aguero were tough enough, but the addition of him made it too much. Definately after revenge now!