The Chronicles of Charsenal: Episode 1

1) New owner: would make sense. lets say Roman and the Arsenal guy were bankrupted and bought by some ruthless amoral parent who forced the two to sell their clubs and merge. And a rich owner.
2) New stadium: the Bridge is too small, and the Emirates is…-shudder-. Of course, it would have to be large enough to accompany our combined fan base. Say 80 000
3) Nickname: The Doubles.
4) Board: Why not mix WAGNH with TSF?
5) Just move the players over
6) Mix and match the staff
7) 18 Team league – who needs QPR >=)
8) Captain? JT obvs

…given that we have to pare down the squad list anyway.

I think it’d be fun.

1. Someone suggested Emirate Bridge I like that
2. I for one like the sustainable model
3 Make up a guy or Stan and Abramovich can be co-owners
4 433
5 Let’s not have the most expensive tickets in the league
6 I don’t really care if no one likes qpr we can dump them
7 standard # of leauges
8 ?
9 I don’t want us to look like barca
10 go for it
11 yes
12 Spurs ManU Liverpool Stoke Wolves who ever else
13 add them both
14 retire them both
15 keep Cech JT TV5 DL Kosc Sagna Santos Szcz Mata Ramires JW Song Oreo Studge RvP AOC Yennaris Miquel Bennyooooon and others……
16 Do what you want with the staff but I like Pat Rice can we keep him
17 You can be manager… AVB assistant and AW DoF or head scout guy or whatever or you could retire them
18 New board let’s get TSF guys in on this
19 I don’t know about having JT be it. What if he ends up being a convicted racist?
20 The Gunning Lions (yeah IDK)

4) 4-2-3-1
6) 20 teams – We can’t get rid of QPR because otherwise we won’t be able to hammer them twice a season. I’d like to see West Ham as the team to come up for the same reason.
16) Just keep whoever is best at each position
17) Wenger clearly needs to be youth team coach. AVB could either coach the ressies or be assistant manager or something.

The players to keep obviously needs to be a wider discussion, but apart from that I don’t really know about the other things

And stuff like who starts and whatnot?

Who out of Almunia, Diaby, Sagna, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Koscielny, Rosicky, Arteta, Park, van Persie, Santos, Walcott, Song, Squillaci, Djourou, Fabianski, Arshavin, Gervinho, Gibbs, Chamakh, and Benayoun do you think is worth keeping? [I’ve not included u-21s, who are free, squad-wise.] Also, are any of them home-grown, and if so, which?

Goalies- Cech, Sczcesney, Hilario
Defense- Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Ivanovic, Terry, Cole, Koscielney, Sagna, Cahill
Midfield- Lampard, Romeu, Wilshire, Arteta, Essien, Song, Ramires, Rosicky
Forwards- Van Persie, Mata, Torres, Gervinho, Sturridge, Drogba

This would be my first team, youth/reserves coming soon

Is it possible to have barcelona as a club rival? Both teams have had some shady losses to them in the CL… plus I hate barcelona. I’ve never played FM so i don’t know the rules

Does this mean that there’s a Manchester Cited? Or an Everpool?

Home-grown:
[Chelsea:] Terry, Cole, Lampard, and Sturridge.
[Arsenal:] Gibbs, Djourou, Walcott, Song.

You could also have Cahill, rather than Djourou, but I figured we wouldn’t have bought Cahill in this scenario. I can buy him and sell someone else, though.

Other:
[Chelsea:] Cech, David Luiz, Ivanovic, Mikel, Meireles, Ramires, Essien, Mata, Torres. [Arsenal:] Fabianski, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Sagna, Arteta, Rosicky, Gervinho, van Persie.

I picked Fabianski for third keeper, but any of Almunia, Mannone, Arsebadger, or Hilario could go in. I also didn’t pick Drogba, because I figured there was enough in attack, I had an extra player to get rid of, and he’s the oldest.

Players not in the squad:
[Chelsea:] Drogba, Malouda, Bosingwa, Kalou, Arsebadger, Cahill, Alex, Hilario. [Arsenal:] Almunia, Diaby, Koscielny, Park, Santos, Squillaci, Arshavin, Chamakh, Benayoun.

As I said above, I haven’t included any of the U-21s, like Josh, LUKAKU, AOC, or Wilshere. I also haven’t included loaned players. If anyone can convince me to change something, I will, but I think that’s a good mix. I had to try to strike a good balance of depth and quality. I’m sure some of the players I’ve cut are better than some I’ve left in, but that’s a product of the squad rules.

1. I like the idea of a new stadium. Emirates Bridge was suggested and I like that. 70,000 to 80,000 sounds good to me.
2. If we are going to have the best players from both teams we are going to need to be rich. I like the idea of keeping Chelsea’s current wealth.
3. Mikhail Prokhorov is the only mad Russian I can back for the position of New Mad Russian.
4. I would love to see a 4-3-1-2
5. I like what you already have proposed.
6. 20
7. Standard
8. I’ve never played FM so I’m not sure.
9. My favorite jersey in all of the EPL is Arsenal’s 3rd. The yellow and brown.
10. No opinion.
11. Merge.
12. Spuds, West Ham, Pool, Man U and C
13. Merge
14. Fresh made I suppose.
15. Will have to think about it. I know from Arsenal I absolutely want RvP, Vermaelen, Ramsey, Wilshere, and Gervinho
16. Pick the best I suppose.
17. Retire.
18, WAGNH and TSF merge is the best
19. Alternating between JT and RvP
20. No clue.

I made a patch but don’t know how…

Arsene- Head of youth football
ABV- Reserve Coach/ Interview Manager

Nickname- The Londoners? The Chars? The Liongunners?

Why don’t we just buy Robin van Persie and Alex Song and call it good

a) Chelsea in FM are a cakewalk even with the “default” squad. If you really want to “merge” it with the Arse, just buy RvP. Or, hell, since you’re clearly not averse to it, use the editor and put him at Chelsea.
b) The thought of merging anything Chelsea with anything Arsenal rankles a bit.

United and City are teaming up against Charsenal. It’ll be called Man-chest/ United City/ Men United.

Regular FIFAer but tried fm and gt tired in a minute

I haven’t gone very far, but everything seems to be working. The only glitch I’ve found so far is that we have to have a random chairman, since it won’t recognise Graham as chairman, only as a director.

Otherwise, I’ve used everything as it’s listed in the article for now. I think it’s good as is. Once I find a place to upload it, I’ll post the link so the FM players here can test it if they like. I use FM 2012, so you’ll have to upgrade or make your own if you want to use an older version. You can use any tactic, formation, squad, or anything that you like.

Give me feedback if you do download it and play, and I’ll consider making changes.

it seems I missed most of the fun after I went asleep yesterday. Time zones are just ridiculous. I stayed up till the middle of the night yesterday (today, to be precise) and still missed all the fun. Like in the gamethreads/after-game discussions in CL games which are late in the evening for me (CL games are scheduled CET … :P). Now I’m sad. Where’s my corner … :P

So before I go on-topic some slightly OT-stuff

1) @Kevin: now that I know your real surname, could I also call you KK in case I become too lazy to write out “Kevin”?

2) Do we still need to design the Charsenal crest? I’d like to do that … and I can imagine some ways to combine the Arsenal gun and the Chelsea lion and combine both the shield and circle form of both crests. I’d like to suggest I do a couple of examples, put up a fanpost (or Kevin edits them here) and we vote the best one!

3) I can help out with designing the shirts, too … maybe there is a shirt design simulator out there which would make it easier, but I can easily get a CC-shirt 3D model (or do one myself) and color/texture it. I’m so specialist in that though, so if anyone else volunteers who can perform that task better – I won’t cut in line

where John Constantine is fighting some hooligans that a demonic presence has merged into one ten-armed hooligan fighting machine, and, to defeat the hooligan monster, he merely points out that they sport both an arsenal and a chelsea tattoo, and he asks them who they support on saturdays, and the monster fights itself and tears itself in half

oh, to be English in the early 90s!

might be a bit “conservative” since it’s nothing flashy and nothing fancy. I didn’t do enough to justify an own thread for that. Kevin might put up a poll which one we take since we have three now

Now those are the “conservative” ones, meaning I just combined the leading elements of Chelsea and Arsenal crests. However I could also paint myself something new … but that’ll take some time and some brainstorming. Unless you faithful Charsenal supporters decide to take one of three existing now (Chelsea01’s or one of those two) I’d definitively like to present it!

is it only me, or is there really “Epsiode” in the headline?

I seriously am floored by this suggestion that, in the event of a merger, ANYONE would keep Torres. Dammit – sell the bum and go out and buy something else. New balls or something. Between RvP and Drogba, who needs another striker?

Anyway, before we go too far… what is the general opinion of Tottenham on this side?

As an obsessed fan of all things FM (I was even an African database contributor…) I’m down with this idea.

Ok, eventhough (thanks to timezones, working all night and sleeping most of the day) I missed a majority of this thread and you’ve already done the database, I want to add somethings.

First of all, the squad, a 25 man team that ignores U21, should be
GK: Cech, Szcz, Hilario
DF: Terry, DL, TV5, A.Cole, Ivanovic, Sagna, Santos, Mertasaker
MF: Arteta, Mikel, Essien, Ramires, Lampard, Song, Meireles,
FW: RVP, Torres, Drogba, Walcott, Mata, Arshavin, Malouda

I think the club should start with a very small transfer fee (like 1m) but the Chairman should be made an underwriter Sugar Daddy like Roman is. That way, if you want players you’re forced to sell first…

I think both AVB and Arsene should remain as Assistant Manager and Youth Manager respectively.

A new stadium with 80,000 sounds like a good idea. 2/3 of that shuld b season ticket holders.

Fierce Rivals should be the london clubs: QPR, West Ham, Fulham and Tottenham
Other rivals should be the Manchesters, Liverpool & Barca.

I agree with the board of directors concept

TSF should be involved and the database should be made available to them…

I would suggest you make the youth academy and training the highest levels bcos a combo of the 2 clubs wuld result in the best youth recruitment,academy and training facilities in the country.

Dr. Eva should be made a world-class phsio (the main physio)

Pat rice shuld b a 1st team coach.

Ok, post over

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4:Maiev’s proposal to draw a new lion and cannon
5:Something entirely new.

Home is purple, from the combination of red and blue, and the white sleeves of Arsenal. [Oddly, if you take the actual combination of Arsenal’s red and Chelsea’s blue, and blue and white on the sleeves, it’s a perfect West Ham claret and blue. I added more blue to the purple to avoid that.]

The Away is a combination of the Arsenal 2011-12 away design, and the Chelsea 2011-12 away colours.

The Third is a combination of the Chelsea 2011-12 third design, and the Arsenal 2011-12 third colours.

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. 5th in November; willingly stepping down to take the vacant France job. Booo this, he says!