Arsenal
Manager is still Arsene Wenger.
Results
Season 1
1st place in PL! 102 points taken!
Lost in European Champions Cup semi final
Winners!
Winners!
Season 2
2nd place in PL
Lost in European Champions Cup semi final
Lost in FA Cup semi final
Lost in League Cup third round.
Current squad
Captain: Francesc Fabregas
Transfers
Season 1
New players were not bought.
Season 2
New players were not bought.
Player statistics
Chelsea
Manager is still Luiz Felipe Scolari.
Results
Season 1
2nd place in PL
Lost in European Champions Cup first knockout round
Lost in FA Cup final
Lost in League Cup fourth round.
Season 2
1st place in PL! 84 points taken.
Lost in European Champions Cup first knockout round
Winners!
Winners!
Current squad
Captain: Deco
Transfers
Season 1
Season 2
Player statistics
Liverpool
Manager is Louis van Gall. Rafa Benitez was sacked during winter transfer window of the 1st season.
Results
Season 1
10th place in PL
Lost in European Champions Cup final
Lost in FA Cup semi final
Lost in League Cup fourth round
Season 2
5th place in PL
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Lost in FA Cup fifth round
Lost in League Cup quarter final.
Current squad
Captain: Steven Gerrard
Transfers
Season 1
Season 2
Player statistics
Hope you like this information! If you want me to continue posting info about successes and failures, players and transfers of other Premier League clubs – write in comments. 
FM 2009 tactics of different teams
Hello, dear readers! I have prepared very interesting and pretty unusualinformation regarding different tactical approaches used by Premier Leagueclubs in my Hull game. We will try to understand together what tactics AI clubs prefer more and what tactics lead to success. I reviewed all the tactics used inPremier League one by one. Here you can find also enumerations of clubs with their positions in the league per each tactics.
Classic 4-4-2 formation
1. Arsenal
2. Manchester United
3. Tottenham
6. Aston Villa
7. Blackburn
10. Newcastle
11. Middlesbrough
12. West Ham
14. West Bromwich Albion
16. Fulham
17. Sunderland
19. Stoke
20. Bolton
4-4-2 is the most classic tactics for the whole history of football. 13 of 20 teams have been using this tactics since the start of the 3rd season in my game. Among them are top 3 teams (Arsenal, Man Utd, Tottenham) at the moment. Yes, of course, they have different tactical instructions which I cannot investigate so easy. But anyway we can see that this FM 2009 tactics may lead any team to success. It’s just matter of careful tuning of team instructions and selection of squad members.
4-1-3-1-1 – tactics of sacked coach 
4. Chelsea
Luiz Felipe Scolari (who was sacked few weeks ago in real life) uses strange centre-concentrated tactics with one forward. As you see he is still ruling the club in my game. This means that he is on the way of success with it! And actually Chelsea won Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup of the previous season (2009/2010) following this smart tactical approach of famous Brazilian coach.
The main strength of this FM 2009 tactics is strong and mobile centre of midfield. Such guys like Essien, Ballack and Mikel can enclose flanks when it’s needed.
If you have some time I will try to investigate this tactics more. I would even like to tune for my team… But it can only happen in case if I’m not happy with the current one. 
4 in advance, 6 behind
5. Liverpool
What have we here? Another quite rare approach of team work when 4 players are used only for wide attacks and 6 playersthink about defense. It’s pretty fluently because either defensive midfielders or wing backs can be involved in attacks in case when it’s necessary.
By the way, in my game this tactical style is produced by Louis Van Gaal – not Rafa Benites because he is sacked already.
Standard 4-4-1-1 tactics
8. Everton
18. Wigan
This one is hard to implement for me! I used this formation in different versions Football Manager and actually FM 2009 with Hull. Unfortunately it didn’t give me results I expect. But Everton performs quite good in my game anyway.
Though potentially it looks smart and tough because of 5 midfielders and 4 defenders together.
My 4-1-2-2-1 FM 2009 tactics 
9. Manchester City
13. Hull
15. Wolves
There are 3 teams including my Hull left without being discussed. All of them use formation of my best FM2009 tactics! If you are permanent blog reader you should know all its features from this post. Manchester City doesn’t have high achievements with it, though Hughes is still Man City manager. We will see if my Hull is able to prove that this tactical approach is one of the most effective!
And what tactics do you use in FM2009? What’s your favourite?
“Second start” in Premier League
Hello, my dear readers! Today I’m sharing information about the second attempt of Hull in Premier League. The 3rd season has started!
Matches and league table
Here goes.
The strongest league in the world has started to resist my season expectations of mid-table position. We had 12 matches: 4 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses. I would prefer more victories, of course 
. But Hull board is already pleased by 12th position in the table. So I incline to be pleased by my team’s start as well.
By the way, Media Prediction for Hull in this season is 17th position (which is not good for me certainly).
The following matches were played by Hull:
Here I can single out very confident 3:0 victory against Stoke (our former competitor for the first place in the Championship) and cool game withBlackburn that is considered more strong team by squad.
The most negative match is the one at home against Middlesbrough (0:2 loss). Their players are not, surely, better than Blackburn players in my game. And I expected to win this match. But somehow my guys gave away advantage of ball control during almost all the time of the match.
Players
Lets review how my players performed during the first Premier League and League Cup matches:
The best two are Olexander Chyzhov (DC) and Fransisco Ochoa (GK). The goalkeeper whom I bought during transfer window is absolutely fantastic!!! He makes brilliant saves very often. And he has already managed to get 4 Man of Match awards in 14 matches!!! 
Moreover, I decided to build team over his personality setting him as captain!
Olexander Chyzhov (age 24) has becoming better and better footballer since the moment I bought him in the first season. Confident determined central defender with high Pace and Acceleration attributes of 15 points both!
The start of the season was darkened by injuries of the first squad players(you can see this fact in the screen shot by the amount of matches played by each of them): Abdou Rasack Traore, Jonathan Spector, Andriy Rusol and our new leading forward Falcao.
Falcao had actually played 9 games and scored 4 goals. My first impressionsof his performance are fine. I think he is worth of $26.5M paid for him. But unfortunately Falcao has torn a calf muscle in the match with Everton and will be away of football for 4-5 months 
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