The Football Manager 2017 Thread - Sponsored by Brexit.

[Vim]

Dybala has randomly decided that he is ok with staying. Hopefully now that he doesn't have shit morale he can just win me the Champions League.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Oh and speaking of Toby, Dortmund and some other cunts decided to unsettle him by making shit bids for him.

http://i.imgur.com/g3Txq4h.png

Get fucked lads, he's going nowhere.

[Gray Fox]

Erm :-\ Speechless.


https://s20.postimg.org/k4byf4lq5/Wrexham_v_Manchester_City_Overview_Overview.png



Scoring 5 in a final and still losing. :D

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[Baz]

Do you chaps know if there's any way to turn off the current ability and potential ability star ratings?Why do you want to? That's how your assistant/scout communicates how good he thinks a player is.

[Yevrah]

10 games into my Lyngby career and it's been eventful.

https://s12.postimg.org/nav25rr3h/Untitled.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/fi4edsl49/)

The board just want us to stay up, but making the second phase by finishing top 6 would be nice.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I haven't made a tactic since 2012 or something but I'm thinking of doing one and going for a mental approach.

Tired of using these community ones only to see so many goals conceded because my defenders are sliding around like retards and my goalkeeper constantly grabbing air.

Going toe to toe and seeing who scores most would be so much fun.

[Dark Soldier]

So had to wheel and deal a little but I got my two main targets in, Dier, and the transfer listed Imbula. I needed a rotational roaming playmaker and he fit the bill despite being injured for a month. Bar those two, its all future youth although Kuki will get some game time this season:

https://i.gyazo.com/8200b53900c654070577ab1cf42125ee.png

Colback had a year left on his contract and was meh, Anita another who was distinctly average, and Dolberg, who was solid, kept getting niggling injuries so never really improved:

https://i.gyazo.com/ec35c531228b800b283c2cbc112f2013.jpg

That leaves this as my strongest line-up, plus main sub 7:

https://i.gyazo.com/56bb1d4e6e299431f527bd1b7835c3ef.png

[Dark Soldier]

Although my u18s now looks like this:

https://i.gyazo.com/e56c26b4667c7c11fdf37b8115437637.png

With three more 5 stars not on the screenshot so long term I'm set.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Did you do your potential fix again?

Any monsters popped up in the game yet?

[Raoul Duke]

I love getting to that point where you've got all the shit cleared out and have a youth squad full of only top quality scamps. Then it's just a case of slowly bringing them through as you sell off the expensive gimps in the first team :drool:

[Giggles]

I love getting to that point where you've got all the shit cleared out and have a youth squad full of only top quality scamps. Then it's just a case of slowly bringing them through as you sell off the expensive gimps in the first team :drool:

I tried to do that with Southampton in 2016. They had some great youth.

[Dark Soldier]

Did you do your potential fix again?

Any monsters popped up in the game yet?

Yeah every nation as at 200 youth rating :D

There's no beasts yet but I've got a few in my first team. However, game just crashed two days before auto save and I've now lost my entire summer business :(

That screenshot will make it easier, thank fuck.

[Vim]

I haven't made a tactic since 2012

It's interesting to see people playing the game quite differently, for example I basically never download tactics, I just don't find it fun to win like that. I research a bit on websites to see some things all relevant good online tactics have in common, to use as a guideline, but making my own tactics is one of the main sources of enjoyment from the game for me.

Maybe that's why I'm often not that great at the game, I have to spend a bit of time with trial and error of my own tactics.

[Yevrah]

How did you stop Brexit DS?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's interesting to see people playing the game quite differently, for example I basically never download tactics, I just don't find it fun to win like that. I research a bit on websites to see some things all relevant good online tactics have in common, to use as a guideline, but making my own tactics is one of the main sources of enjoyment from the game for me.

Maybe that's why I'm often not that great at the game, I have to spend a bit of time with trial and error of my own tactics.
I end up tweaking the downloaded ones because I just couldn't be arsed starting fresh every game. I'm starting to get the itch for it again though.

[Dark Soldier]

How did you stop Brexit DS?

https://community.sigames.com/topic/381137-advanced-rules-fm-2017-editor-ask-the-experts/?page=2

Just read the posts by harrycarrie (me) on there mate, easier than typing it all up again. My file is attached to one of the posts.

[Dark Soldier]

It's interesting to see people playing the game quite differently, for example I basically never download tactics, I just don't find it fun to win like that. I research a bit on websites to see some things all relevant good online tactics have in common, to use as a guideline, but making my own tactics is one of the main sources of enjoyment from the game for me.

Maybe that's why I'm often not that great at the game, I have to spend a bit of time with trial and error of my own tactics.

I was well into making my own tactics, but that was primarily around CM01/02 and the wibwob thing. Can't be arsed taking the time these days.

[Dark Soldier]

And now I've got past the crash and redone my summer, this are the two regens who will get first team games this season:

https://i.gyazo.com/4c1a1605b8cded3e9f0ead1b38264fc5.jpg

https://i.gyazo.com/bb879d87ed81848488d8d57c45bf685b.jpg

And this is one of my main geezers, scouts picked him up last summer. Relatively unknown, cheap and bossed my midfield last season:

https://i.gyazo.com/a1580044d20e94039fe5a18014893ee8.jpg

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[Dark Soldier]

Major Europe is always between 20th Feb to like 16th March. I just check youth intake twice a month and scout from any clubs (due to 200 youth rating some shit house clubs get five star regens).

[Dark Soldier]

:drool: £6.5mil end of season, currently two stars in ability:

https://i.gyazo.com/eb4e9b6c21e69efd87171a7a2a997c26.jpg

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[John]

Valerio Verre was an absolute hero on a previous version of this. Might have been somewhere around 10, I think.

Bought and installed this last night but went to bed before turning it on. Going to open up with a Rangers game now but I know I'll have started my youth game within a season. Any suggestions on where I should go for that one? Ideally it'll be a nation with an excellent youth rating and a shitty league, but I'm open to anywhere.

[John]

Just about settled on OFK Beograd in Serbia as my project game. I didn't really want to go back to Eastern Europe but there are just too many good stories. They're the oldest club in Serbia and one of six Serbian clubs ever to have won something, but the last time they did so the universe immediately rewarded us with the start of World War Two. They were relegated last season despite initially finishing thirteenth, thanks to a gloriously convoluted 'split' system, where all points totals are cut in half before the end of the season. They're also a club built from the ground up to facilitate youth, and there's the added bonus of eventually breaking the Partizan/Red Star duopoly.

And their nickname is 'The Romantics', which is lovely.

[five time]

https://i.gyazo.com/257292eff512271b0630b5ead0c6c055.png

Thought this was a decent touch.

The pre contract 'promises' seem to be borked though. The agent will suggest something like 'we want a pay rise and to be played in the correct position', if I try adding something like 'we will try and finish in europe next season' (I'm Leipzig and just finished 14th) then they start getting angry and immediately pull the plug on the deal.

[Dark Soldier]

The pre contract 'promises' seem to be borked though. The agent will suggest something like 'we want a pay rise and to be played in the correct position', if I try adding something like 'we will try and finish in europe next season' (I'm Leipzig and just finished 14th) then they start getting angry and immediately pull the plug on the deal.

Think it comes down to manager stats as I remove all promises bar 'will send on an intensive language course' and the only agent who has kicked off is a 16yo regen's agent.

[John]

We're underway with OFK Beograd.

We play in this Cold War film establishing shot.

http://www.ofkbeograd.co.rs/slike/Omladinski%20stadion/Kole1.jpg

The wage budget is £2.6k a week, of which I'm taking home four hundred quid. We have no goalkeeping coach, one normal coach, and a medical team consisting of nothing but physiotherapists. We have six hundred grand in the bank but I've hit continue once and we're already running a three grand loss for the season so I suspect that money might vanish fairly quickly. Having just been relegated last season into a division containing sixteen teams, roughly half of which are professional, we've been handed a predicted finish of thirteenth. So we're poor, with few staff, no doctors, and apparently we're shit, the club is not in good shape.

But it turns out we're not shit, because the club starts off with what is for this level at least, a shit hot collection of young players.

http://i63.tinypic.com/358rosx.png
http://i63.tinypic.com/2hxrdon.png
http://i63.tinypic.com/keah01.png
http://i65.tinypic.com/2ugcfpu.png
http://i64.tinypic.com/milwea.png
http://i68.tinypic.com/2mh8nrn.png
http://i63.tinypic.com/257zpcw.png

All of those go straight in the first team, with Djuric, Denkovic and Gojkov in particular looking like they could become genuinely good, rather than just good for the Serbian leagues.

We'll open up the league season with games against Macva Sabac, who are predicted to finish third despite being semi pro and just having come up from the regional leagues, and BSK Borca, who embody their name well. The club predicted to win the whole thing are FK Zemun, who were promoted into this division for last season and have Nenad Lukic on loan, whose name somehow seems very familiar.

Our big rivals are FK Rad, who play in the top division so this year will be derbyless. They once played eachother on the last day of the season, with OFK Beograd scoring a last minute equaliser which meant Rad were relegated for the first time ever. By way of revenge for that, a load of Rad fans turned up outside the stadium while Beograd were playing a Europa League qualifier and started firing flares over the stands and onto the pitch. The match was abandoned with Beograd 6-1 up, but they were awarded a 3-0 defeat because of the flares. Were I appointed the actual manager of Beograd I imagine I'd get my head kicked in about once a week for lolling at that story.

[John Arne]

Heads up for LLM - have your DOF handle contract renewals - he always manages to get much lower salaries than me.

[7om]

Why do you want to? That's how your assistant/scout communicates how good he thinks a player is.

Just feels like cheating to me.

I prefer to judge a player based on performance / stats progression.

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[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just feels like cheating to me.

I prefer to judge a player based on performance / stats progression.

Backwards wanker.

[7om]

Backwards wanker.

Keep coming after me you spineless spaz. I'll have you.

[Vim]

It's not cheating though because it's just an estimate by the assistant calculated from the attributes, your own judgment is always going to be more accurate anyway. I guess you could hire an assistant with 1 for judging player potential so his star ratings are useless anyway.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Keep coming after me you spineless spaz. I'll have you.
Anytime, anywhere dickhead.

I'll batter you.

[randomlegend]

Batter you, deep fry you and eat you.

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[Dark Soldier]

I'm finding that 4-2-3-1 Wide is a formation I tend to struggle against. I just don't know why...

Same, its a cunt formation:

https://i.gyazo.com/f18d88dfeaba63061b788f8defe19e17.png

I do like how the AI has adapted somewhat to my 4-3-3 so they sometimes play with three centre backs and two dms to crowd the middle.

[Mike]

What made you choose Super Brighton, Mike? Other than the fact that we're super.

They seem to have a good set up behind the scenes, stadium and training wise, and they're super, obvs.

[Vim]

In general, I've found that if the opponents play with two DMs then my team just ends up taking an absurd amount of longshots.

[Giggles]

FInqlly getting going with it now that there's been a few fixes. No signings, this is what I'm going with:


http://i63.tinypic.com/2q24dnk.png


This in particular was glorious. He could have had 7.

http://i67.tinypic.com/2nh13xd.png

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[Mazuuurk]

Is this years version any significant upgrade on the previous year?

What's been fixed / improved? I'm a little bored and thinking of getting it.

But dunno if it's worth it.

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[Giggles]

Get on the proper version, Giggles.

It's too bloated and all that social media talk puts me off. This touch version doesn't even have the repetitive team talk shite :drool:

Plus my laptop is too big and needs to be plugged in too often. The tablet can go 4 times longer.

[Mazuuurk]

Meh, not now. Maybe next week. Lost the motivation for it now.

[Disco]

Had a look at the career of one of the bods I bought for Roma when he was 15/16, those international stats are ridiculous. Not bad for £3m.

http://i.imgur.com/c4Zcqmn.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/UXEKsTL.jpg

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://i.imgur.com/sWskwom.png

:sherlock:

I guess Miami didn't work out so well.

[Disco]

I love stuff like that, in my current game Raheem Sterling became Liverpool manager......and got them relegated.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://i.imgur.com/aUWQEFf.png

Fucking German snakes trying to piss Toby off again.

Edit: He didn't like that £20m price tag either, the cunt is seething.

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[John]

Ben Hiard looks like he'll be a bit good, but I'm getting a cold sweat just looking at that centre back partnership. 8 and 9 composure. :sick:

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[John]

I want composure and anticipation in all of my players.

What you've got there is a centre back pairing of David Luiz and Titus Bramble.

[Dark Soldier]

Dier, my right CB has 15 in both composure and anticipation, Goldaniga 12 and 17, both playing the stock CD role. They are very important stats for all positions Smiff :D

[Dark Soldier]

Also Colidio is definitely this year's beast 16yo striker. Three saves, and he's developed well on all of them, still only 18:

https://i.gyazo.com/594b1c96d383c2916b0b0479e8d7dee4.jpg

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[Dark Soldier]

At a top level its vital. I play ultra attacking and my defenders, with those stats, basically average over 8 in the majority of games, with multiple MOTM. If I had an 8 composure guy who can whack a tackle and header in now and again every game would be 6-6.

Depends on how you wanna play I guess, you develop the youth to fit your team. Regens need at least a starting 8 in both for me to consider them, plus preferably concentration.

[Yevrah]

Not that I disagree with John and DS Smiff, but you're right about the lack of players with 15+ composure. You won't need it that high, but anything below 11-12 would be a worry to me at the highest level.

I never buy defenders for the first team (at the highest level) with anticipation or positioning below 15 mind.

[Dark Soldier]

Yeah I think anticipation is the most important non 'typical' defensive attribute. They'll just cut out most over the top balls and counter attacks with solid defensive attributes to back it up. The amount of interceptions my two make that aren't basic headers or tackles is unreal.

[Gray Fox]

Less than 10 composure would be like having Skrtel at the back IRL.

[Dark Soldier]

Not even in the top 5 in any category either:

https://i.gyazo.com/fdf5dd242a57de7e3021fabb42cd7d23.png

But I'm top in tackling in midfield (vital for this formation) and acceleration in my strikers (vital for the counter attack).

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[Dark Soldier]

Composure is the players steadiness of mind and ability to make intelligent decisions with and without the ball. If anything I would have thought decisions was more important.

Getting hit on the counter, two at the back, composure wins out over decisions. Staying calm, following instructions. Decisions is also valuable, but composure every time. High decision, low composure means he'll make the right choice but probably fuck it. Composure has a measure of decision in there already.

Get both and you've got Bonucci mk. (although his composure is surprisingly low, less composed than Dier ffs).

[Yevrah]

Decisions as a stat doesn't seem to have anywhere as much influence as you'd imagine, or at least I don't seem to suffer from it by not bothering with it.

[Dark Soldier]

Decisions as a stat doesn't seem to have anywhere as much influence as you'd imagine, or at least I don't seem to suffer from it by not bothering with it.

I think its more a ball at ya feet stat defensively. So picking what to do with the ball, so if you're lumping it out from the back or just making a simple pass to a DM or full back, it can be low as fuck.

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[Dark Soldier]

If VDV had been three years younger, then no. As is, depends what you're building towards. I'd trust VDV in a cloggers shore up defence with midfield and counter side, aye. Kempf's acc/pace lets him down however. Mentally a beast.

[Dark Soldier]

I've had this geezer for six months, Goldaniga to be his tutor. But two injuries, 8 weeks and 6 weeks has fucked it a tad but he's still young. If I can get that composure up (and preferably first touch to 12 or above), and being 18 there's still a ton of time, he'll be amazing.

https://i.gyazo.com/cc453283498a8ebe8a5209aa1ad5ee40.jpg

Likewise this guy, but I'm worrying about his anticipation a bit:

https://i.gyazo.com/8417e19488fe8439c609232efff6546e.jpg

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[Dark Soldier]

I bought him in the hope he would shore up a defence that just leaks goals like there's no tomorrow. Not even the relegated sides conceded as many as we did last season. :D

He could have 12, maybe 13 composure and around 14/15 anticipation when he hits late 20s/early 30s but for now try and partner him with someone with at the very least 15+ anticipation, and have VDV as the tough clogger who nuts balls for fun.

These are my two against Benfica:

https://i.gyazo.com/eb42b9de8cb2687a645a7878ce399753.png

Due to anticipation and good composure, they intercept like crazy, meaning actual tackles aren't really that needed.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://i.imgur.com/fvHa9JV.png

Got pissed after losing 2 in a row with my own 4-2-3-1 so I decided to make a 4-3-1-2 and we've donned it :cool:

[John]

If I go to all known players and select CD's, of the 3504 it finds, just 29 have 15+ composure.

757 have 10+ so over 2800 are below that. It's just not an attribute I look at all that much for defenders.

Do you switch off attribute masking? How many of those twenty nine are properly top defenders?

[Dark Soldier]

There's also the fact its ultra rare to get regen defenders under 25-28 with high (15+) composure, its a peak playing attribute built over the career.

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[Dark Soldier]

You needed to shore up a defence when you're smashing fuckers left right and centre? :D

I suppose the difference is in tighter games. In a 2-1 battle with currently, oddly high flying Norwich they made 22 and 24 each.

This is my most recent game, Arsenal went down to 10 after 9 minutes:

https://i.gyazo.com/1894d41a66761fa43c5fc97d56e08789.png

So I suppose the game classes even no use balls over the top collected as interceptions in their stats, as Arsenal did the sum total of fuck all the entire match. Getting to learn how the stat system works a bit better :D

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[Dark Soldier]

Apart from his ability being low(ish) for your side, and his first touch being a bit dodgy, he's a class defender :D

Just use the tactic I use and boss every cunt within 18 months.

[Dark Soldier]

My current form, without a genuine world class player in my squad (maybe Berahino who is unreal as a F9):

https://i.gyazo.com/d61a750740ab0ed567b202613d3c9bf7.png

Attack is OP yet again this FM.

[John]

He looks quality, Smiff.

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[John]

The star ratings are handy to see where your squad is at a glance, but they're next to useless for actually judging how a player will perform. I suspect they're based on CA at least as much as anything going on with the actual attributes.

My best performing central midfielder at Zagreb was a two star man, and my second centre back had one and a half while he was consistently turning in 7.8 average seasons

[Dark Soldier]

The star ratings are handy to see where your squad is at a glance, but they're next to useless for actually judging how a player will perform. I suspect they're based on CA at least as much as anything going on with the actual attributes.

My best performing central midfielder at Zagreb was a two star man, and my second centre back had one and a half while he was consistently turning in 7.8 average seasons

I'm a ruthless cunt, absolute lowest I'll have in my squad for a developed player is two and a half stars current ability.

[John]

I was going youth system only on that save, so I had to stick to what I had. I learned quite a bit about how to develop players properly and when to ignore what the game is telling you about a player though, so it was an excellent save in a few ways.

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[Dark Soldier]

Tell me more, John. I'm wanting to build an entire first eleven of my own Welshies. Thus far I've just been concentrating on boosting my facilities and recruitment in order to do that but blooding youngsters in isn't something I have a lot of experience in. I tend to just loan them out to a club in the division they're suited to and hope for the best, maybe pop in every now and then and tell them they aren't developing as much as they should be.

My major tip is only ever loan them to clubs where you are simming the league they're in. Development will be fairly consistent that way, and naturally check out each loan clubs facilities. If they're below good, reject the loan. Especially if your facilities are great, I find U18/U23 football enough to develop youngsters if you tutor them right, and bleed a few at around 18 as back-up players in your first team.

I never loan to League One/Two (if I'm a Premier League club) as fuck that bag of shite :D

EDIT: Oh and iirc star rating is only comparable to the players at your club. Example:

https://i.gyazo.com/5303fdc46594875eaffc21736d4aab8b.jpg

Clearly a top quality striker, but only 3 star, but he's compared to 4 star Vietto, Berahino, Mitrovic and the fast-developing 3 star CA Colidio. I've found if I sell a 4 star or above player some players will jump back up half a star.

[John]

Tell me more, John. I'm wanting to build an entire first eleven of my own Welshies. Thus far I've just been concentrating on boosting my facilities and recruitment in order to do that but blooding youngsters in isn't something I have a lot of experience in. I tend to just loan them out to a club in the division they're suited to and hope for the best, maybe pop in every now and then and tell them they aren't developing as much as they should be.

The big thing for me was to always assign a player to train for a specific role. If you're limited in which players you can use you have to make the most of every player's available PA, so any point your five foot winger gains in marking is basically a point wasted. It doesn't necessarily have to be the role they're playing, but pick the role which most closely matches how you want your player to develop and use the specific attribute option to boost anything it doesn't cover.

Only use the loan system if you're absolutely sure a player will get next to no football for you in a given season. I found playing one game for my side seemed to equate to playing about three or four for someone else in terms of how quickly the player would develop, so I quickly learned to keep hold of the players on the fringes of the squad and only loan out those who'd either stalled completely or who were going to spend the year outside the first team squad completely.

Always err on the side of caution when it comes to selling a youth player. When you're trying to build from youth only there's a finite number of players you can have, so you really can't afford to risk selling one who looks a bit shady now and have him turn into a top player elsewhere. I'd only sell youth players while they still had growth left if the offer was truly obscene, like fifteen million for a seventeen year old Croat right back obscene.

Ignore the star system completely. It's related to the above point, but since you can't afford to let a player go because some crap coach gave him the wrong number of stars, take the time to judge every player yourself. Take control of a few U19 games if need be. It also means you should be taking risks on youth in the first team. If you have a player who looks like he might do a servicable job but you'd usually ignore him because he only has five grey stars or half a gold star, throw him in. I did it loads of times with Zagreb and while it occasionally didn't work, it occasionally did. For example I started one season in the early going with a terrible right footed sixteen year old left back and a seventeen year old left winger with nothing but pace going for him. The left back ended up moving to Valencia for considerably more than he was worth before coming back three years later on a free and doing a great rotational job, while the left winger became a club Icon and ended up as a coach for me. Obviously you can't take that level of risk when you're in the Premiership, but the principle is good.

Basically, I spent all the time I'd normally spend looking for players, scouting them, combing Brazilian youth squads, etc. tinkering with the training for my own youths, properly evaluating every player, etc.

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[John]

I'd suggest buying Ben Hiard again at least. He'll be brilliant and make you a tidy profit should a youth emerge to take over.

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[John]

Stick with the save as it is. That way you can spend a season putting things into place before making the changes next summer rather than trying to change the entire system of the club over one summer.

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[John]

Have they binned the 'ignore the result you twats, you weren't fucking good enough' option in team talks? We've just laboured to a 1-0 win at home against a side we should have whomped and my only options were generally pleased or generally displeased. I could have just ignored them I suppose, but I'm not sure storming out of the room like a scorned fifteen year old girl and expecting them to work out what had miffed me would be the correct option.

[John]

I've just had five different clubs try to steal my head of youth development on the same day. What the fuck is that about?

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[wullie]

Got this yesterday and had to activate it via USB tethering which killed my data allowance for the whole month. Thought I was smart getting the disc too.

Whatever graphical upgrade they've carried out, the difference on my shitty card is that now there's absolutely no crowd. Luckily I'm Cov so you barely notice the difference, eyyyyyyyy

[Dark Soldier]

And the fans go fucking apeshit:

https://i.gyazo.com/18d774bb8a9ece42804665a05ed49f9b.jpg

£15mil with £9mil in add-ons :drool:

[phonics]

Got this yesterday and had to activate it via USB tethering which killed my data allowance for the whole month. Thought I was smart getting the disc too.

Whatever graphical upgrade they've carried out, the difference on my shitty card is that now there's absolutely no crowd. Luckily I'm Cov so you barely notice the difference, eyyyyyyyy

That stuffs a joke. I bought Shadows of Mordor, physically as I had no internet, which came with 4 DVDs. None of the DVDs actually had any information on them, just a Steam launcher.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That stuffs a joke. I bought Shadows of Mordor, physically as I had no internet, which came with 4 DVDs. None of the DVDs actually had any information on them, just a Steam launcher.

:D

Stunning.

[Dark Soldier]

Colidio has gone 9 games without scoring, 6.6 rating or below in every one of those games, so naturally I discipline him if he fucks up constantly. He's asked for a move as I've been treating him unfairly :D

Perhaps if you'd converted a couple of your 40 odd fucking shots I'd be a bit more lenient you precious little twat.

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[randomlegend]

Work in progress but so far it's been pleasantly surprising. It needs a little bit of work when playing away from home though so I think the two advanced CWB's need to be placed elsewhere when playing the bigger boys away from home.

Flippin' The Bird.
https://s20.postimg.org/hx8mtyebh/Untitled.png

What the fuck is that abomination?

[Jimmy Floyd]

The cock and balls.

[Dark Soldier]

Fragile bunch, aren't they?! Colidio is the one I had at Sunderland, yeah?

Probably, but yeah some players are right fucking sissies. He's not leaving for less than 40mil, otherwise he's in the u18s training as a GK.

[Dark Soldier]

Also I've had 8 penalties this season. Scored 1 :D

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[John]

Beograd might be over before it's begun. The entire first team squad have contracts which expire at the end of the first season, and not a single one of them is willing to even negotiate on a new deal. At the beginning of the game they have a load of youths in the first team squad, which is a positive right away, but it's because their squad from last season evidently all left. If everything goes as it likely will I'll have nineteen players on the books at the end of this season, youth intake included, and I can't buy more.

Fuck right off. :moop:

[Dark Soldier]

Yeah fuck that John lol.

Newcastle have just broken their transfer record twice in four days.

First up, at £33mil, was this 22yo American. Scouts have gone ballistic for him, full yellow four and a half star. Was at Monterrey and had that amount as his release clause:

https://i.gyazo.com/a1b35180270f87ab9ff9c4a9e3fc2755.jpg

Will be trained as a F9 and will be first choice back-up this coming season.

Four days later came Dele Alli. Only £28mil up front, but another £20mil in clauses. He's now my joint most prized midfielder along with Isco:

https://i.gyazo.com/1b461a0a5b1d40424f3e6ab65a10990f.jpg

And I'm desperately trying to sign this beast. £30mil release clause but he only signed his contract a month ago so won't enter terms currently, I've left enough in the bank to snap him up asap though. No other clubs interested:

https://i.gyazo.com/414719df8654fa462202b08e2299d49b.jpg

Also joining the first two is a young Romanian CB, £5.75mil. Gonna be beastly in years to come, first choice back-up:

https://i.gyazo.com/33ce5bd23d38114f94a2ee03cf64145e.jpg

And this 21yo Argie CM for £12mil, potential, and already rock solid:

https://i.gyazo.com/916de8d038a24e6fc25768e42caffeb3.jpg

All funded by selling Imbula to PSG for £40mil, Zivkovic to Bayern for £43.5mil, and van Ginkel negotiating with Real for £30mil.

[Dark Soldier]

Haha, a day later (and with a bumped up signing on fee):

https://i.gyazo.com/77c30bb44d67b52a481ff009207a1c71.jpg

That's GK set for 15 years, or until I quit the save :D

[Raoul Duke]

That keeper is bonkers

[Spikey M]

Is that a regen?

[John]

Yep. Van der Sar's regen.

[Giggles]

I was wondering what the fuss was until I seen his age.

[John Arne]

Having been struggling in League 2 with Crewe lately (with a typically Crewe possession and passing tactic), I've just developed a proper long ball tactic, with a big man upfront.

Played 4, Won 4. :drool:

[John]

I've managed to rescue Beograd. A few players accepted contracts very quickly when I told my DoF to deal with it, which is annoying because it makes me feel like I've exploited a glitch but there we are. A few more softened on negotiations as the season went on, and one player actually requested a new deal, so I now have a squad I'm happy to be going on with. The board sold two players out from beneath me, my best winger and best defensive midfielder, which is a bit of a pain in the dick, but the money we got in should keep the club afloat for a while so my toys remain in the pram.

There was nothing outrageous in my first youth intake, but there were a couple of players who I suspect will get on very well in Serbian football.

http://oi68.tinypic.com/ilh93n.jpg
http://oi64.tinypic.com/vo65ae.jpg
http://oi65.tinypic.com/2d6wq6p.jpg

The tiny squad and current level of my other players means about half the intake has the full five star potential, but those are the ones I can see actually being worth something. Prazic will be getting intensive fourteen hour days on his passing ability, but he's the only one who goes straight in the first team squad, as he's needed to play second fiddle to the current defensive mid.

Relatively speaking a much, much better intake than I got out of the fate with Zagreb, so this has gone from the verge of being binned to a save I'm actually looking forward to going ahead with.

[wullie]

Has anyone had an issue with it saving? I played into September, saved and quit, but when I resumed the save the next day I was back in August. The timestamp on the save was right so I didn't accidentally just quit, it's been alright since though.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://i.imgur.com/fy3EzYr.png

Had a decent enough start but then it all went to shit, I decided to make a 4-2-3-1 wide for the Slask game. It got us some results but it looked dodgy as fuck so after those two back to back losses to Cracovia and Gornik I made a 4-3-1-2 and it made a huge difference. We looked a lot better and were getting decent results.

http://i.imgur.com/ts9ZbPg.png

I reckon if I changed my tactics earlier we could have gone top 8 to get into the championship group. Sadly we went to the relegation group:

http://i.imgur.com/JIdXSfk.png

Pretty good run from us, especially as we've struggled against teams in the group.

http://i.imgur.com/aVoIvIc.png

Shame we couldn't finish the group top but it was a good end to the season for us.

Only one player bought in the mid-season transfer window and here he is:

http://i.imgur.com/wsAx4vM.png

Freebie and my scouts think he could be damn good, clearly lacking in some areas but he'll be great in this league.

[phonics]

Freebie and my scouts think he could be damn good, clearly lacking in some areas but he'll be great in this league.

Like hair, why are all regens bald?

[John]

https://i.gyazo.com/bad3eca459180bd45b5977ee415bcd8c.png

Three games to go. This division is a complete mess. It was only with my last win I became mathematically safe from relegation. And the only player scoring or assisting with any regularity was one of those who wouldn't sign a new deal, signing a precontract with Dynamo Kiev instead. Assuming we can hold steady and get promoted next season is going to be a fucking slog.

[Yevrah]

Is that a long term, one team save John?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Like hair, why are all regens bald?

I've bought one with flowing locks now just for you.

http://i.imgur.com/pHoxYxG.png

Although it looks like it could be a wig.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://i.imgur.com/Q8cpeca.png

http://i.imgur.com/SfnrtwS.png

We're out of debt :drool:

I rejected an offer of £8m as it only came with 40% of profit of the next sale.

[John]

Is that a long term, one team save John?

I plan for it to be, yes. Doing the same thing I did with Zagreb on the last one, trying to build them into a force using nothing but players borne of their own youth system.

My prior posts in case you want a bit of background on the club. There's a story about their rivals in there that gave me a good lol.



I didn't really want to go back to Eastern Europe but there are just too many good stories. They're the oldest club in Serbia and one of six Serbian clubs ever to have won something, but the last time they did so the universe immediately rewarded us with the start of World War Two. They were relegated last season despite initially finishing thirteenth, thanks to a gloriously convoluted 'split' system, where all points totals are cut in half before the end of the season. They're also a club built from the ground up to facilitate youth, and there's the added bonus of eventually breaking the Partizan/Red Star duopoly.

And their nickname is 'The Romantics', which is lovely.


We're underway with OFK Beograd.

We play in this Cold War film establishing shot.

http://www.ofkbeograd.co.rs/slike/Omladinski%20stadion/Kole1.jpg

The wage budget is £2.6k a week, of which I'm taking home four hundred quid. We have no goalkeeping coach, one normal coach, and a medical team consisting of nothing but physiotherapists. We have six hundred grand in the bank but I've hit continue once and we're already running a three grand loss for the season so I suspect that money might vanish fairly quickly. Having just been relegated last season into a division containing sixteen teams, roughly half of which are professional, we've been handed a predicted finish of thirteenth. So we're poor, with few staff, no doctors, and apparently we're shit, the club is not in good shape.

But it turns out we're not shit, because the club starts off with what is for this level at least, a shit hot collection of young players.

http://i63.tinypic.com/358rosx.png
http://i63.tinypic.com/2hxrdon.png
http://i63.tinypic.com/keah01.png
http://i65.tinypic.com/2ugcfpu.png
http://i64.tinypic.com/milwea.png
http://i68.tinypic.com/2mh8nrn.png
http://i63.tinypic.com/257zpcw.png

All of those go straight in the first team, with Djuric, Denkovic and Gojkov in particular looking like they could become genuinely good, rather than just good for the Serbian leagues.

We'll open up the league season with games against Macva Sabac, who are predicted to finish third despite being semi pro and just having come up from the regional leagues, and BSK Borca, who embody their name well. The club predicted to win the whole thing are FK Zemun, who were promoted into this division for last season and have Nenad Lukic on loan, whose name somehow seems very familiar.

Our big rivals are FK Rad, who play in the top division so this year will be derbyless. They once played eachother on the last day of the season, with OFK Beograd scoring a last minute equaliser which meant Rad were relegated for the first time ever. By way of revenge for that, a load of Rad fans turned up outside the stadium while Beograd were playing a Europa League qualifier and started firing flares over the stands and onto the pitch. The match was abandoned with Beograd 6-1 up, but they were awarded a 3-0 defeat because of the flares. Were I appointed the actual manager of Beograd I imagine I'd get my head kicked in about once a week for lolling at that story.

[John]

How the fuck have you negotiated that, Mahow? Depending on how they work out where the profit begins you could be taking eighty five percent of his next sale.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They came in with a shit offer and 40% profit.

I came back with mine including 50% next sale which I locked in and they accepted.

Although checking my club's clauses screen it's only got the 40% profit listed which is shit.

[Smiffy]

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[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Shambles. I rejected more because I thought I was going to make a huge amount.

[John]

https://i.gyazo.com/a7d2a74ed9cc8c86ced857be3f52d624.png

We went into the last day two points off the top, but we had Proleter at home and beat them 2-0. :drool:

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[Disco]

So Utd go back to being dominant winners and Liverpool return to mid table obscurity, sounds like the simulation works pretty well. Plus whoever had today in the 'When will Smiffs wages inevitably balloon out of control' sweepstake can come and collect their prize.

[John]

I really like the look of that young midfielder, Smiff. Obviously needs a bit of work but he could be a serious player.

My better players were as follows.

https://i.gyazo.com/796e3ad461c83aef7fb384eba6fb0995.png

Sold out from beneath me by the board halfway through the season, but the colossal wobble we had for a few games after he left spoke to how important he'd been. Dominated games from the base of midfield.

https://i.gyazo.com/c8382dec51d917577c0247ee2aecfd53.png

Fourteen goals and seven assists from the left wing put him joint top scorer and second on the assists table. As you can see though, he's off to Kiev so I'll have to figure out a new way to get someone, anyone, scoring next year.

https://i.gyazo.com/a9a018fefbbe6ec69d68a14a7d9f269e.png

Only got into the side because an excellent looking wing back got injured a couple of games into the season, but he made the position his own and I'll be keeping faith for next season. I suspect he played so well because I kept things simple with my defensive instructions though and I'll be changing the system a bit going into next season so fingers crossed.

This little wanker will be my starting striker going into the season, having developed well over the course of the season and scored twenty four goals in twenty eight games for the reserves.

https://i.gyazo.com/298e21f964ea026ce370af249c73ac82.png

[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:

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcStGHW6u9IMDOZGoz6nt5wdL8vtRUvYt OdpV_4GcXo5V9LCPWWE

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

http://cache.images.core.optasports.com/soccer/venues/600x450/2949.jpg

:drool: 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.

[John]

That's glorious. :drool:

[Dark Soldier]

I need another striker, I've realised that when drunk wheeling and dealing last night, outside my main four I'm relying on Adam Armstrong and two currently shite tier youths :happycry:

[7om]

What kind of position are Beograd going to be in going into the new league, John? Can they compete or are you thinking it will be a struggle?

[John]

I honestly don't know. I've had a look at the sides who were relegated last year and I think we're better than them, but there are some fairly wide gaps in my squad that should translate into weaknesses on the pitch. For example, I have one centre back who's any good in the air and he's a sixteen year old who's good at precisely nothing else.

Relegation wouldn't be a disaster though, since the wage bill will remain exactly where it is now and that's all the board expect, so I'm going to back us. I could probably Mourinho out a survival with some five at the back nonsense but that would be a struggle, so I'll be playing fast passing, attacking football and hoping for the best.

[John]

https://i.gyazo.com/d17b16f35a84132c0ebd203f797e3386.png

Yep, that should help.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's a cracking stadium.

[Dark Soldier]

Holy shit that Yank I bought is insanely good on the ball. Just beasts past 2/3 players like they're nothing.

[Smiffy]

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[Dark Soldier]

Horrible flair m8, dreadful signing.

[Smiffy]

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[randomlegend]

DS I've seen your formation, but what instructions are you using? It's all gone a bit too 1-0, 2-0. 2-1 for my liking at the moment in my game.

[Dark Soldier]

Opposition instructions?

https://i.gyazo.com/1607811ab207f73abe0f42c461687ce4.jpg

Plus all strikers set to weaker foot. It can take up to a year to gel though so don't expect instant domination.

[randomlegend]

Nah team/player instructions. As far as I can remember it was just a picture of the formation you posted.

[randomlegend]

Oh never mind is it the one from FM base you are still using?

[Dark Soldier]

Oh never mind is it the one from FM base you are still using?

Yeah mate:

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/share-download-fm-17-tactics/361014-jesaustralias-sublimity-17-4-3-3-a.html

v2 mainly.

[Smiffy]

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[Dark Soldier]

There's a template on that aussie guys Twitch page, rl. I forget what it's called but if you read that thread I'm sure it mentions it in there. Very handy as a start off point if you struggle tactically.

He offered to buy me next year's version on release because I kept bigging his tactic up in the thread, bless him :D

[Smiffy]

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[Dark Soldier]

I wonder if they actually make money from it all? The whole twitch, websites etc that some of them do.

Guido has done fantastic with the game to be fair to the man. It's really good reading the strikerless stuff.

With Twitch some do, there's an FM streamer with a sub button etc, must easily make a minimum of £50 a day.

[Smiffy]

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[Dark Soldier]

I've no idea mate, only graphics I ever add to the game are club badges.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Has anyone got a good name fix file? For the Spanish/German clubs and so on. I am really beyond going through doing it myself these days.

[Dark Soldier]

Has anyone got a good name fix file? For the Spanish/German clubs and so on. I am really beyond going through doing it myself these days.

This is the best:

http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm17-real-names-license-fix.html

[Raoul Duke]

Where's cheapest to get this from? I thought I'd be entitled to some kind of Steam discount (as I own loads of previous ones) but it's still £34, which is above 'impulse buy' territory.

[randomlegend]

Yeah mate:

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/share-download-fm-17-tactics/361014-jesaustralias-sublimity-17-4-3-3-a.html

v2 mainly.

Cheers FAM.

Think my problem is suicide formation + suicide instructions just leads to 500 million long shots a game.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://i.imgur.com/WDnr1wE.png

I've won a fucking cup game :drool:

[Smiffy]

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[Jimmy Floyd]

This is the best:

http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm17-real-names-license-fix.html

Thanks, apologies for being useless but I can't get it to actually work (put it in the 1701 lnc/all as stated, and the 1710 one), am I missing something or has the method changed since a couple of years ago?

[Smiffy]

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[Jimmy Floyd]

I've got it in three different ones.

[igor_balis]

delete system32 jimmy

[Jimmy Floyd]

You can't trick me that easily.

Fuck it, anyway I'm starting my first long game as Rangers, with the aim to restore Scottish football to its imagined former glory. I'll fail, but I'll get to slag off Catholics along the way.

[Shindig]

Keep Joey Barton along for the ride, please.

[Adamski]

You can't trick me that easily.

Fuck it, anyway I'm starting my first long game as Rangers, with the aim to restore Scottish football to its imagined former glory. I'll fail, but I'll get to slag off Catholics along the way.

Last sentence is the title of my autobiography

[Jimmy Floyd]

We've certainly hit it off from the word go:

http://i.imgur.com/sRZ8J9z.png

[Smiffy]

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[John]

:drool:

The man is a complete arsehole even in digital form.

[Reg]

What do you make of the Barton stuff IRL, John? I see his contract's been terminated.

[John]

I was never on board with signing him so the circus coming to an early halt is fine by me. Had we been getting the Barton of five years ago he might have been good enough at this level to make all the shit that comes with him worth holding your nose for, but he showed in the Old Firm game that he was done. He'd spent months talking about how he was here to be the best in the league, and when the moment came to actually stand up and show it he spent the entire game hiding while Scott Brown ran the show. He's a mouthpiece and I'm glad he's out.

[John]

Right, heading into 2017/2018, and we're in better shape than I expected at Christmas. A decent youth intake offers some depth, and one of the newbies from that intake will be a first teamer.

https://i.gyazo.com/6286925643badfed536d8fab21e57b65.png

I'll be playing that shape, with high pressing, and high tempo. The team is hilariously young, but this isn't even me throwing youngsters in early to have a pop. This is genuinely the best eleven.

https://i.gyazo.com/00115cb0093dd45f09455dd595a2140b.png

Djerlek turns seventeen on the first day of the season, but fucking look at that weight. Less than nine stone.

First game of the new season should offer a decent barometer of where we are. Proleter at home, exactly the same game that finished last season. They've brought in six new players for this year, two of whom look very good.

[Dark Soldier]

You don't win anything with kids!

Also, that development, I'm genuinely in love with this regen:

https://i.gyazo.com/609a9b2a382780bb6d024deaa9ff7662.jpg

Hasn't had a terrible game yet, consistently a 6.8 to 7.4 rating every match.

[John]

https://i.gyazo.com/4fea7ad266896b3fa55346a8b47dc76d.png

That can fuck right off.

[Dark Soldier]

:D Never seen that one tbh, although I never look anymore.

[Reg]

:D that's kind of likeably terrible.

Whereas the social media idea in general was just terrible. People will have got paid for it as well.

[randomlegend]

http://i.imgur.com/jKkjwY9.jpg?1

Lewis would have a field day with this poor lad.

[John]

2-1 defeat to start the season. Lovely.

Played some decent football along the way, but a home defeat against the other promoted side is not great.

[7om]

Fuck sake, that keeper is obscene, DS. How much did you pay for him?

[randomlegend]

Playing as Man Utd in my first season and just had the EURO Cup semi final draw. The four teams left are us, Southampton, Sassuolo and Man City :cab:

[Dark Soldier]

Fuck sake, that keeper is obscene, DS. How much did you pay for him?

I was hammered last night so convinced myself it was £30mil but today I discovered it was a £20mil release clause. Would have liked to see him as he spawned in game as he'd only been around a season and a half :D

Scouts didn't find him, did my yearly scouting of top nations u19/u20 squads and he showed up.

[Yevrah]

Is there any tangible impact on performance if you play a player in a position they're accomplished or a natural at, but they're dogshit at the role you choose for them?

[Dark Soldier]

Yes, a little. I've played a lot of APs, or DLPs, or RPs as CMs in my midfield. Train them in that role though and they'll pick it up.

I signed Lewis Cook from Bournemouth who is more of an AP/DLP, first 18 months he was hit and miss, picked up midway through second season and now, playing as a CM, he's been one of my best players this season. One of the first names on the England team sheet too.

Depends if you're willing to give them time and persevere.

[Smiffy]

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[Smiffy]

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[Dark Soldier]

Man mark that cunt.

[Smiffy]

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[John]

Stuck this on for a half hour before I have to leave and the board have immediately accepted an offer for my best centre back. The chairman is seriously accommodating on everything, I've already had the number of coaches and their wage cap increased, put some money into youth coaching, and improved the training ground, and he's decided off his own back to buy the stadium, but fuck me he loves selling players. I'm one year in and I've lost three players due to the cunt. I didn't lose any in the two decades I spent with Zagreb.

[Smiffy]

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[John]

Oh it was big money, relatively speaking. If all the clauses are fulfilled we'll have got twenty times the player's value for him. That's only £2.1m, but still. The players he sold last season were for £1.3m and £400k, respectively.

Obviously the game isn't to know it, but I'd have rejected £10m for most recent player, because we're financially sound for the moment and I didn't have much of a defence as it was.

[Smiffy]

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[John]

There is the option to protest the transfer but it's inconsistent at best. I protested when they accepted a fairly low bid for my first choice attacking midfielder and they agreed not to sell him, so when they accepted for the defender it came with a message saying that having listened to me moaning before, they were going to deal with this one without my input.

[Smiffy]

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[Smiffy]

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[Yevrah]

So my first season with Lyngby has mixed attacking masterclasses defensive omni-shambles, and after the first stage we finished 9th vs. the board's expectation of us avoiding the drop.

https://s17.postimg.org/z39hj3ti7/Untitled.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/c1swdctuj/)[/url]

I thought that would see me out of the running for anything meaningful in the second stage, but while I'm in a relegation playoff (which I think it would be impossible to go down from given my points from phase 1 are carried forward), if I finish top two in my group I go into a European playoff. :cab:

Here's the group I'm in:

https://s21.postimg.org/8zaorg7br/Untitled.jpg (https://postimage.org/app.php)[url=https://postimage.org/app.php]

I play each team home and away and the possibility of still being in the European hunt is fapworthy. :alan:

In other news we're hemorrhaging cash, but I have had a couple of reasonable looking newgens come through, which is nice as that's why I picked Lyngby in the first place.

Final thought for now, that form guide on the main league table is an aberration, and yes, whoever designed it should be fired.

[Yevrah]

Do those images not work for anyone else?

[Reg]

Second one doesn't for me.

[Yevrah]

Cheers Reg. Both seem fine now. Postimage is no Tinypic.

[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.

https://i.gyazo.com/2c8e3cf9934c6c5530e594c84ac357b5.png

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.

https://i.gyazo.com/3f316963bd8d4cf13460d678b2f49da3.png

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.

https://i.gyazo.com/008e77a0d002ce160020ea6d9b1ac2f8.png

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. :cab: 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.

[Smiffy]

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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]

http://i63.tinypic.com/dtg0o.jpg

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. :jayjay:

[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.

https://i.gyazo.com/0664f81b86725e5e9990064bf34d30ba.png

[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.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvTjVLHrOA8

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 :drool:

This one is my favourite though:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA6itZBTx0s

[Dark Soldier]

My against column, and full table:

https://i.gyazo.com/a81772aba81ad23e4c71d88c3a3bf00c.png

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

[Smiffy]

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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):



https://i.gyazo.com/a7dcb1241cf16aaed3d7af9ed057c1fd.jpg

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

https://i.gyazo.com/dd861d4ac50d7acd8ec86ed0ca9fa47b.png

https://i.gyazo.com/9da1615ce5bc5a3f402c258e21be28e0.jpg
https://i.gyazo.com/a04ebe536b1801c1d281cca922b67807.jpg
https://i.gyazo.com/e121d4436699f9b7bf4ac910eed6c004.jpg
https://i.gyazo.com/fd9932536c462ed8ec0067b029a51b25.jpg
https://i.gyazo.com/7b4a6a177d30e1fdcad563e13f209473.jpg
https://i.gyazo.com/b04056f1b28e3e1c25f140543478f55e.jpg
(bid is mine, £15m release)

https://i.gyazo.com/ae5f9a3b5882e9cb14f061cf63ae9ccb.jpg
https://i.gyazo.com/3da8e7d4dc62f3e5e9506085f268a5e0.jpg


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:

https://i.gyazo.com/00464b557c3d941f09e08f3d45569967.jpg

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

[Dark Soldier]

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

https://i.gyazo.com/63f5acbe1ca7a1b83a42bc706f53013c.jpg

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

https://i.gyazo.com/569536d20e9ea53cadce2e1503b8dfba.jpg

[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. :cool: 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:

https://i.gyazo.com/00464b557c3d941f09e08f3d45569967.jpg

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. :D

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.

https://i.gyazo.com/74b0ddec1f6f2cbe934d025828337cd7.png

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.

https://i.gyazo.com/eb8a42a75853dcb42362de8e19434404.png
https://i.gyazo.com/09e2ecfb2d3b1f928235249ce6dc875f.png
https://i.gyazo.com/c6bc8b1ae6560fe4f65ac521fd99e17a.png

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 :cool:

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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:

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcStGHW6u9IMDOZGoz6nt5wdL8vtRUvYt OdpV_4GcXo5V9LCPWWE

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

http://cache.images.core.optasports.com/soccer/venues/600x450/2949.jpg

:drool: 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:

https://s21.postimg.org/q763p3j47/table_season_1.png (https://postimg.org/image/7rlmrp4zn/)image post (https://postimage.org/)

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

https://s13.postimg.org/8ct0fbzlj/Year_1_projected_balance.png (https://postimg.org/image/eqi3il4hf/)upload image (https://postimage.org/)

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. :D

[John]

Liverpool could probably do with a new defender.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

GKS Katowice 2018/19 Season:

http://i.imgur.com/WjtE7l4.png

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:

http://i.imgur.com/d8cvn3k.png

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.

http://i.imgur.com/jeOrX9y.png

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.

http://i.imgur.com/vUIMg29.png

One pissing point :( Fucking Jagiellonia.

Here's our cup results:

http://i.imgur.com/h0eCO1G.png

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

Transfers:

http://i.imgur.com/2OowdPO.png

http://i.imgur.com/F3ySg5j.png

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:

http://i.imgur.com/8DyODBS.png

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.

http://i.imgur.com/yMKspKo.png

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.

http://i.imgur.com/CwQrWJp.png

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.

http://i.imgur.com/JFXBar5.png

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.

http://i.imgur.com/zTE2Gzp.png

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.

http://i.imgur.com/posbxLK.png

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.

http://i.imgur.com/hCjc7eZ.png

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.

http://i.imgur.com/VGDTBmI.png

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

http://i.imgur.com/MqwvGzd.png

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 :moop: I'll probably look to sell him because as good as he performs I can't trust the mentalist.

http://i.imgur.com/4Dzj2Nd.png

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

http://i.imgur.com/gCxVwJ7.png

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:

http://i.imgur.com/hGMFjww.png

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.

http://i.imgur.com/goXWVf2.png

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.