With Inverness-Metros now gone, I now feel a hole in my Football Management life, I haven’t got a fictional team to support and to watch progress through the years. So I think it is time that Life in FM had it’s own team to support, a team that we can all watch through the good times and the bad, to cheer on to success. A team that we can all have an opinion about and how we would be able to do it better. Yes that is right, I think that Life in FM needs to get a team for us to support and track there development throughout. It will be interesting to see how a lower league side will cope with having the players capable of playing on the international stage, how they handle having alot of money but maybe not the reputation to attract a decent manager to spend it and just how the sides around them are going to cope as well.
The team name has already been picked courtesy of my Egyptologist girlfriend, kindly naming them Ramesses Rovers, after one of the most powerful and long serving pharaohs that ruled over Egypt for 66 years, his power is captured in the temple of Abu Simbel which he was responsible for building.
So The Pharaohs as they have been dubbed now will need a team to take them forward, it is hard to think how you should put a side together in the games. So why not give them the best players available and see how they cope down in the lower leagues, I am going to put the spine of the side together with all 20’s in attributes and then the rest of the side will have attributes of all 15’s, although I do expect The Guardians of the game to alter the statistics a little both Current Ability and Potential Ability will be set up at 200 in the game again I expect this to be reduced a little. All but one of the players will be 17 giving them all a long future ahead of them and hopefully using the other players age to guide to tutor them and guide them up the league.
The team will start off with £30m, a lovely new stadium called Abu Simbel not far from Liverpool in St Helens has been built, which will be seat 30,000 in the stadium at the moment and a chance to expand up to 100,000 when needed, adequate training facilities are supplied but a top notch academy will hopefully see the stars of tomorrow develop at the squad and it will be interesting to see how they use the ability to develop players, will it be a money making exercise or will it be a way to push them up the league in the long term. But added with all that is that fact that The Pharaohs will have an agreement with the major clubs across Europe to become a feeder team for them, this could work in two ways, the first is that the top teams will snap us the players from the Rovers side or Rovers will use the ability to get some of the best youngsters from around the world at the club.
Joining the coaching side to help get this venture off the ground are a few managers that have been looking for some work during a time of unemployment and gardening they have got restless, Billy Davies and Steve McLaren will both join as scouts to the side and the coaching team will be made up of Venables, Mourinho and Zidane. A manager has not been put into post and the job will be advertised at the start of the season and appointed within the game.
To add something different to this I will also be downloading a in game data editor so that I can play god over the side, see what I can change in the game and seeing how things play out around the game, please do send your suggestions to the side for what we could experiement with using the in game editor. So basically it in the same vain as the AI experiment that is so big over in the SI games forum, it will be interesting to see how the two games compare this one being played out in FM 08 as opposed to last years edition and with a few other change made here and there it will be good to get to grips with support a fictional side once again.