The Football Manager 2017 Thread - Sponsored by Brexit.

[Giggles]

Shit.

Adrian has just broken his collarbone, so I'm left with Darren Rudolph keeping nets for God knows how long.

Legend

[Yevrah]

6-8 weeks, so he'd better be.

[Vim]

Berardi certainly looks worth €18M there.

Alex Sandro is so good it's almost ridiculous. It's been that way in real life as well this season. Higuain on the other hand has only scored 4 goals so far but it's still better than Mandzukic's 2. I'm probably selling the Croatian in January to fund Berardi. I need to find some money to bring Benatia in permanently, he's a beast.

This is the current XI, but Bonucci's unfortunately just got a 4 month injury so he'll be out for a while:

[Dark Soldier]

Bonucci on this version is probably the best FM defender I've seen. Snapped him up when he hit 31 and he basically ran the defence by himself while spraying passes around like Pirlo.

[Vim]

Realistic: https://streamable.com/kcfi

How's Moise Kean developing in your game? He's meant to be Juve's best prospect.

[Dark Soldier]

Realistic: https://streamable.com/kcfi

How's Moise Kean developing in your game? He's meant to be Juve's best prospect.

He's very good (would be better if I'd kept him and trained him right, something the AI fucks up at times). Got him on compensation as Juve didn't offer him a contract for some reason, then got £41mil off Chelsea for him. His natural fitness let him down, besides that he was great:

[wullie]

I'm having to wait until we get internet before I can get in on this, can anyone do a screen of the starting Cov squad at all please?

[Bernanke]

36 here if you scroll down

https://www.kinguin.net/category/292...-steam-cd-key/

I don't deal with grey-market shit like Kinguin and G2A, so that's not an option.

Not to bothered by not getting it tbh.

[Yevrah]

Our form's gone to complete shit since Adrian was injured.

[Yevrah]

[Vim]

DS his natural fitness in my save is 17. Must be one of the random attributes.

[Smiffy]

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[Bernanke]

Apparently it's Sega-policy that the physical version of the game is cheaper than the digital version. Pay more to get the opportunity to be their QA for 2 weeks, thanks SI.

[Dark Soldier]

DS his natural fitness in my save is 17. Must be one of the random attributes.

FFS I woulda kept him if it'd been that on mine.

[Yevrah]

Laptop is dangerously close to going out of a window.

[Smiffy]

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[Yevrah]

How would I tell if I'm updated? I'm just playing through steam, so it does that automatically, no?

[Yevrah]

Three-nil down inside half an hour in the second leg at Old Trafford.

The transformation in this save is unreal.

[Dark Soldier]

How would I tell if I'm updated? I'm just playing through steam, so it does that automatically, no?

If its 17.1 you're updated.

[Danny]

I don't deal with grey-market shit like Kinguin and G2A, so that's not an option.

Not to bothered by not getting it tbh.

Fair enough. No issues with the former but I won't be using the latter again.

[Yevrah]

If its 17.1 you're updated.

Apparently not then. Having looked, the update is queued for some reason.

[Yevrah]

So after two months of shite, we rallied, winning the final three games to take 5th.



Not bad I suppose, but could have been a lot better. Clearly need to work on the goals against column.

[Dark Soldier]

Are you finding its away form mainly, Yev? Away games seem significantly harder this year.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, away is definitely where the difficulty creeps in. Every win feels well earned.

[Yevrah]

It's basically the tv revenue, but still, absolutely mental.

[Dark Soldier]

Haha yup, Premier League money is mental this year. City buy an 80mil+ player every year, Everton constantly linked with 60mil deals, Spurs just splashing 77mil on Pulisic, Bournemouth spending 20mil on a player like its fuck all etc.

[Yevrah]

I thought I was going to have to spend a serious wedge of it on a keeper, but Milan only want £15m for Donnarumma, so I still have £75m to play with.

[Smiffy]

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[Yevrah]

What was the non-EU shit in Italy? I take it the rules have changed.

[Dark Soldier]

What was the non-EU shit in Italy? I take it the rules have changed.

Some wank about can only play a certain amount of non-EU players. Juve bought Mikhi off me, then proceeded to not play him for two seasons due to it.

[Dark Soldier]

Also my Brexit is confirmed hard Brexit. Need passports for anyone outside UK (although most EU players get one anyway). Got a Swede youth player with no permit at the moment.

[Smiffy]

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[Smiffy]

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[Dark Soldier]

This is part of the reason I'm starting again.

I like the challenge tbh. Plus I'm set for the next 10-15 years with the youth I already have.

This lad I poached from Southampton for £1.5mil is my Icardi replacement, as he's finally started slowing down the scoring a bit as he approaches 30:



Plus this guy, because of the name:

[Smiffy]

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[Yevrah]

Business done.



I still have over £50m to spend, but I can't divert any of it into my wage budget (which is maxed) so I'll leave it there for now.

[Dark Soldier]

Looks like I may have to start again as patch has fucked the German names (Gelsenkirchen is back), and Germany national team has all fake players again. For fuck's sake.

[Smiffy]

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[Yevrah]

The one I got from SIOSI still has Schalke as Gelsenchirken, but the Germany team isn't greyed out.

It's such a fucking ballache that you have to piss around with that shit every time the database changes (or in reality, probably doesn't).

[Dark Soldier]

Not quite, DS.

http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm17-real-n...cense-fix.html

Just do it again and it fixes them again.

EDIT: Yes, that's twice I've saved your save. ;-)

Cheers Smiff, I tried another fix and it didn't work and now my data folders are fucked so I'll redownload and add them.

[Dark Soldier]

Fixed. You is a don smiff.

[Smiffy]

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[Dark Soldier]

Is it not a massive debt issue?

[Yevrah]

I'm bored already.

The thought of getting £90m a season to spend on players for doing nothing has killed it somewhat.

[Raoul Duke]

I'm bored already.

The thought of getting £90m a season to spend on players for doing nothing has killed it somewhat.

Go on another epic round-the-world tour, starting at Goatherder FC of Namibia. You'll feel like you earned it then.

[Smiffy]

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[Yevrah]

It's either the product of something that happened before last season, or it's broken as you haven't lost money since at least the beginning of last season.

[Smiffy]

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[Dark Soldier]

I can't see the pics so fuck knows

[Yevrah]

I save every save on May 30th so I could go back to the end of any season to find out but I still wouldn't understand it.

You wouldn't be able to anyway. The game simply doesn't give you enough info to work out (and therefore affect) the FFP position. I'd just crack on and see what happens.