The Football Manager 2017 Thread - Sponsored by Brexit.

[Baz]

I can't see either of them.

[Yevrah]

Fucking crashed. Don't think I'd saved for 3 months.

Shitting game.

[John]

Does the Danish league do anything wonky with your points, Yev? The Serbian one cuts your points in half at the split stage so essentially the first thirty games are worth half as much as the last seven. It puts the league points record forever out of reach, since Red Star set it before this system came in.

After a seriously stinky start to the season we hit a patch of superb form that I reckon will ultimately keep us up.



The bonkers Serbian system means it's not as big a cushion as it might be, but we're thirteen points from the bottom at the halfway point so I'm fairly confident.



OFK Beograd youth products now doing good things elsewhere are a bit thin on the ground, but I've rescued one from a spell in Bosnia to cover three midfield positions.



Ultimately he'll probably become first choice in the middle, since Djuric is attracting bids from all over the place, but for now he's backup.

[Yevrah]

Nah, your points are carried forward.

[Baz]

Does the Danish league do anything wonky with your points, Yev? The Serbian one cuts your points in half at the split stage so essentially the first thirty games are worth half as much as the last seven. It puts the league points record forever out of reach, since Red Star set it before this system came in.

Thats dumb. Is it mathematically impossible, even if you win every game?

[John]

The most points it's now possible to finish a season with is sixty seven. The record is a hundred and one.

[Yevrah]

So before the game crashed I'd won my first three games of the six playoff ones and was easily heading through top of that group of four. This time round I laboured to second place and have drawn FC Midtiylland in the first (of an as yet unspecified number of rounds) of the Europa League playoff.

Two legged afair, we're at home first.

[Yevrah]

Lost 8-6 on aggregate. so the European dream is over.

Need to get rid of the whinging cunts and flaky wingers and bring in some replacements, all without fucking the squad harmony and on a budget of £12.50.

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[John]

I've conceded the most goals in the league as well. Mad attacking football seems to be what works this year.

[Yevrah]

I'm playing with a high line and offside trap, but my defenders have piss poor positioning and anticipation. Once I've improved the two centre backs it should be fine.

It's like watching a car crash at the moment though. That Euro playoff was fucking ridiculous.

[Yevrah]

Amazing.

On the plus side, I have a £9k headroom against that wage budget and we are £1.6m in debt, so it could have been worse.

[Yevrah]

Sponsorship and prize money has put us back in the black.

[John]

Are you at least getting a decent cut of transfers to reinvest?

We've been going through a spell of throwing away good leads in the last ten minutes, so the two month winter break is welcome.

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[Jimmy Floyd]

Can somebody explain why I have to play Queen's Park and Buckie Thistle in the group stage of the League Cup (I'm Rangers) before the season starts? Whoever thought this competition up should be hanged.

[randomlegend]

Into my second season with United. Thought that when I started coming up against the big boys in the Champions League our brand of football might come unstuck, but I've just donned Barca Mate senseless in the Super Cup with a 4-1 which bodes well.

[Yevrah]

30% John, but I think I've somehow managed to sell one of my kids to Watford for £1.4m, which is nice.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've managed to make my tactic pretty good defensively and offensively.

The problem is my shit heap of a keeper.



He's let in many like this and scored quite a few own goals now. He's the best I have but he's such a flappy cunt who is actually retiring at the end of the season

This one is my favourite though:

[Dark Soldier]

My against column, and full table:



A few seasons in playing the same system and it gets tighter at the back.

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[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Your videos are private, Mahow.

Fucking Youtube.

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[Dark Soldier]

Give us a few shots of the best rated youngsters that have come through with those changes you made, DS.

Here ya go, majority are at Newcastle. I'll leave out my keeper who has got even more beastly in the time since last update (spoilered for length):

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He's just done this to Chelsea in a 7-2 win:









(bid is mine, £15m release)

That's 3 and 3/4 seasons in, and leaving out a load of mine and others that are 2 to 2 and a half stars and will turn out fecking beastly.

[Dark Soldier]

Ah fuck it keeper update:



He's still only 3 star according to my main GK coach.

[Dark Soldier]

Oh and one more my scouts didn't pick up:



And this is my favourite prospect, he's a pure F9:

[Disco]

What is it with all the giant foreheads and horrific staring eyes in this game?

[Dark Soldier]

What is it with all the giant foreheads and horrific staring eyes in this game?

Its a bug at the moment, will be patched. Basically regen settings are fucked and the majority end up deformed or bald as fuck at 15.

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[Dark Soldier]

Mohammed Bah sticks out. Looking forward to seeing if it has a knock on effect this far down.

It should do. All making every nation 200 does is create more regens from lesser nations, and essentially creates more high end regens. They don't develop any quicker, but you do get the odd instant beast here and there. Which, eventually, leads to loads on free transfers due to small time clubs not being able to pay them enough to keep them. This past season there's been around 7 free transfer, minimum three gold star potential regens on free transfers available.

[Yevrah]

This Lyngby game is pissing me off (we're crap essentially) and I can't find any way to change that in the transfer market despite having £800k to spend.

Ho hum, back to the drawing board.

[Spikey M]

Ah fuck it keeper update:



He's still only 3 star according to my main GK coach.

Geezer could save MJ's marriage.

[John]

Pisser, Yev. Randers in the Danish league were one of the sides I thought about taking over. Thanks to them catching my eye as I'm scrolling down livescore I've been sort of accidentally following their results for about five years now.

Spikey.

The board have sold my best attacking midfielder, and my best winger and captain, out from under me now. This is getting silly. I have decent cover in those positions so it's not going to ruin the side but that's now five players in a season and a half.

Also, this.



I know what it's getting at, but the terminology just makes the player sound so pathetic.

[John]

The most promising players from the latest intake.

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Getting a goalkeeper through this early is particularly pleasing. The two I have at the moment are absolutely abysmal.

[Yevrah]

I'm toying between Paris FC and Rangers.

[Spammer]

FM17 Mobile comes out next Thursday

Also, new page

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[7om]

So I kicked off a journeyman save last night. Only loaded European leagues with a few custom ones (Estonia, Latvia, Faroe Islands and Cyprus) and jumped straight in with no coaching badges and Sunday league reputation.

I only applied for one job because the rest were a bit too high of a starting level so my new club is:



Sandoyar B71 of the Faroe Island first division (the lesser of the two leagues in the country). And this is our 'stadium':

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Beautiful.

As I took over, the league was 2/3's completed with 18 of 27 games already played with the team 6th (out of 10). The board just wanted a mid table finish which I agreed to.

The squad's ability is not bad at all but the variation in players was awful. No full backs, only two wide midfielders (one right, one left), no defensive midfielder and no attacking midfielder. So I had absolutely no choice but to go with a flat 3-4-3 with a target man and two poachers. Told the lads to pump it into the box at every opportunity and exploit the numbers we have up top.

We have no youth team, no staff and the board gave me a surprising 1.5K per week wage budget but that was the total of wages when I arrived anyway. No room for maneuver. From what I've seen, that proposed wage budget is going to get us in serious financial trouble so I've started to offer out contracts that have no weekly wage but are based on appearances, clean sheets and goals.

I actually finished off the season last night but my PC was being a knob and kept dropping the internet so no screenies yet.

So I'm just heading into my first pre-season with the goat herders. Last season ended with me going W5, D2, L2 in 9 games to finish 4th:

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As I said before the finances looked fucked and the projected balance after one year:

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This might be the lowest I've ever started a game. Worse than North Korea.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Projected balances are a bunch of shit though.

It was pretty swish having a projected budget of about -£300m last year with Fiorentina though.

[John]

We've just been biffed 8-2 by Red Star, with some shithead named Luka Belic getting six of them. I reckon if you added up his attributes they wouldn't be far off the same as if you added up those of my entire defence.

[Spammer]

How detailed is FM Mobile? Is it about at the level of cm0102 or more advanced than that?

[Giggles]

How detailed is FM Mobile? Is it about at the level of cm0102 or more advanced than that?

I had it last year. It'd be about along the lines of 01/02 but with a few more details. Like 01/02 all you seeem to do is play match after match though. There is a 2D match engine instead of just the commentary.

[Spammer]

Sounds great to me. Cheers.

[Giggles]

Sounds great to me. Cheers.

It has the player roles and all so the tactics are a bit more in depth over 01/02. Definitely feels more involved without the bloat of the PC version.

[Bernanke]

Any ideas for a save with a top-third PL-club that needs a new CB early on?

I want to buy Nilsson-Lindelöf from Benfica, but I don't know where to.

[John]

Liverpool could probably do with a new defender.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

GKS Katowice 2018/19 Season:



We did really well before the winter break but we came back against Pogon and really struggled even during our wins.

Here's how we finished the main league:



Annoyed that we didn't manage to sneak third but my goal heading into the season was 7th or 8th to sneak into the championship group.



We fucking smacked the shit out of it though, the draw was a really killer though. They equalised in injury time and it fucked us over.



One pissing point Fucking Jagiellonia.

Here's our cup results:



We went from not winning one under my tenure to almost winning the whole thing. I was really impressed with our run.

Transfers:





Broke our record for transfer fee paid and received so a big window. I wanted to cut a lot more of our shit who always fucking complain but people wont even bid £0 for them, luckily a lot of them are retiring or their contracts are ending. It's going to be very much my squad from now on.

Here are the players we bought:

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A really good deal for us I feel, his pace causes a lot of problems and he's a decent enough finisher for this level. He did well in the few games I gave us and really well for Korona who loaned him out.



Scouts love him and he's done well in his loan move but christ, those down arrows to a player who is lacking. He hasn't been injured either so it's worrying. I'm not confident that he'll do anything.



For me he was our signing of the season (although fans disagreed), he's a proper geezer who has done a lot to get our team better defensively but he's so damn dangerous when he runs forward. 4 goals and 8 assists in his 40 games and he could have had more.



He's been a rock and doesn't deserve (along with the rest of our defence) to have been trying to protect my shit heap of a keeper for so long.



Our highest ever transfer and he's done really well although he's been used very sparingly. He got a few games near the end of the year because of injuries and I think he could be a big part of the team next year.



He joined up in February and he's had to play a lot since joining but he's done so well. He's going to be mega in a year or two.



He went straight out on loan as I didn't want him kicking around not playing as we can only use 2 foreigners in our first 11 at a time. He's performed brilliantly for Arka though.



I wasn't happy with some of our midfield options so he came in and really gave a spark to the team.



Really pissed me off when he came in as he was sent off after about 20 minutes in his first match. He did very well when he came back, then got sent off again I'll probably look to sell him because as good as he performs I can't trust the mentalist.



Not sure why I bought him, I've barely used as he's most suited as a winger but I don't play any.



Bought him as I was getting so annoyed at Nowak, our number 1. He had an awful debut letting in 3 goals, but he picked himself up and kept us in many games. The fans were clearly pissed off at our old keeper as he was voted our best signing despite playing in only 16 games.

And a special mention to this chap:



He was signed last year on a free and I tried to get him involved this year but wasn't doing much. He then scored a hattrick against Lech in the second leg of a cup game and that seemed to give him so much more confidence. He turned into a proper finisher and I was crowbarring him into a lot more games.



Considering it took him a few matches to score a goal it's a damn good tally that he finished on.

Future is bright for us now.

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[John]

Looks like Poland uses the same system as Serbia, and that post has highlighted a consequence of it that I hadn't properly considered. If you're top of the league going into the last seven games of the league your lead is just arbitrarily cut in half. It would be a proper shitter to be ten points clear going into the last seven games and end up losing the league by less than five.

[Dark Soldier]

My keeper has finally had a bad match, a 6.3 away at United. Still won 3-2 however, on the verge of the CL final.