Football Manager 2018

[Mazuuurk]

I half do, but I usually look around forums a bit at the start (read: after getting the sack on my first save) to see a bit what works and what doesn't, and making what usually is some sort of tweaked copy of a successful tactic.

I did that this year as well, but then I ended up going with the one tactic I had completely made myself and it really seems to work.


Of course, my latest game was a 6-0 loss to City, but up until then it had worked :uhoh:

[John Arne]

Are the blue things supposed to be eyes?

https://gyazo.com/07a44f5f994de0634672569b57d465ff.png

[John Arne]

Also, what's the difference between the number rating and the star rating?

[Mike]

I half do, but I usually look around forums a bit at the start (read: after getting the sack on my first save) to see a bit what works and what doesn't, and making what usually is some sort of tweaked copy of a successful tactic.

I did that this year as well, but then I ended up going with the one tactic I had completely made myself and it really seems to work.


Of course, my latest game was a 6-0 loss to City, but up until then it had worked :uhoh:
Every year I seem to make tactics that work well a lot of the time but when they don’t work, it goes VERY wrong.

Like on my Liverpool save we looked amazing then got thumped like 5-0.

Are the blue things supposed to be eyes?

https://gyazo.com/07a44f5f994de0634672569b57d465ff.png

Binoculars?

[John Arne]

Oh yeah, of course.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I like the idea of scouts being defined by binoculars, as if they're all peeping toms perving on reserve team players.

Similarly the magnifying glass that is definitely required to look down a list of names.

[wullie]

Promoted before the end of March

https://i.imgur.com/7HIrYpl.jpg

A veritable goals bonanza

https://i.imgur.com/YbvW2SQ.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/5JY8n6A.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/IuFAIEX.jpg

[Giggles]

When it asks you for a match plan on Instant Result, what does Next Match and Last Match mean? On 2017 it had things like 'Play for a Draw', 'Control the Game', etc.

[Mike]

Right, started my big journeyman save. Started jobless.
https://i.imgur.com/amsvzU9.png

Might as well just give me the league title now.
https://i.imgur.com/lOoT8A1.png

Can't afford scouts or anything but John is in! :cool2:

Hardly going through this quickly but I just finished my first season. Won the league with a game to go.
https://i.imgur.com/vdzeTGw.png

Not sure why my badge has changed.

https://i.imgur.com/ykvF8WW.png

https://i.imgur.com/ltW793p.png

[Giggles]

Well now I know I shouldn't have bought this. Tried a few saves initially and I had actually forgot I even had it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Does 'Instant Result' speed it up a lot? I'm debating whether to get it next month.

[Giggles]

Does 'Instant Result' speed it up a lot? I'm debating whether to get it next month.

Only way I've been able to play the last 3 or 4 versions. The match engine and commentary have no bearing on what's actually happening anyway, it's just a load of cobbled together preset stuff.

[phonics]

Instant Result on the last one was so broken. I'd win every game 9-0 and then you'd do a normal game and get tonked 3-1.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Only way I've been able to play the last 3 or 4 versions. The match engine and commentary have no bearing on what's actually happening anyway, it's just a load of cobbled together preset stuff.

Yeah the part of the game I find enjoyable is the actual management side with the transfers, tactics and lineups, youth development etc. I have literally no interest in what the match engine, which hasn't been improved for at least a decade, blurts out and it's a total slog to go through all the games.

If they took away all 2D and 3D options but just gave me a proper stats printout at the end (say, noting where the goals came from and what sort of move it was along with the overall game stats which they have already) I'd be a happy man.

[Mazuuurk]

How do you do instant result?

[Giggles]

How do you do instant result?

You need a skin that enables the button. Baz posted one earlier in the thread.

It was kind of broken compared to 2017 when I used it though. You used to be able to pick a game plan but can't any more.

[John Arne]

How do you do instant result?

Wannachup skin https://www.fmscout.com/a-wannachup-fm18-skin.html


You need a skin that enables the button. Baz posted one earlier in the thread.

It was kind of broken compared to 2017 when I used it though. You used to be able to pick a game plan but can't any more.

You can still use the Game Plan - but you have to set it up during the pre-match meeting the day before.

[Giggles]

Wannachup skin https://www.fmscout.com/a-wannachup-fm18-skin.html



You can still use the Game Plan - but you have to set it up during the pre-match meeting the day before.

Is that what the 'next match' 'last match' thing means? I thought it was a bug and just picked last match all the time.

That said I never did the meeting and handed it to the assistant as it's massively over complicated.

[John Arne]

Is that what the 'next match' 'last match' thing means? I thought it was a bug and just picked last match all the time.

That said I never did the meeting and handed it to the assistant as it's massively over complicated.

Yup, exactly. I do the same, let my Ass Man take care of everything.

[phonics]

I wonder if those stats go back to SI. If swathes of your customers are ignoring parts of the game, what's the point in working on them.

[Disco]

Because plenty of people do use them and removing different ways of playing your game is a terrible idea.

[phonics]

There's believing that Press Conferences add something to the game and then there's their actual worth.

[Giggles]

Removing them or forcing people to use them would be worse. Giving the choice is one of the few things they're getting right these days.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've been playing with the assistant doing everything for many versions now. Even training is largely his unless he fucks it up. Things like press conferences, team talks and such I have long since abandoned.

I think what I really want to play is Director of Football 2018. None of this downstairs tracksuit bullshit. They should probably have added a nuts and bolts DoF mode by now.

[Disco]

There's believing that Press Conferences add something to the game and then there's their actual worth.

The last version I played you can delegate them, I don't see the issue.

[Mazuuurk]

I let Steve Bould do my training. After a while I looked at it, and noticed we'd been doing 75% Defensive training, 2% Attacking and 0% Ball Control - in the last Year.

Seems about right, to be fair :cab:

[Giggles]

Most of what they fuck up each version at least has a way of handing it to a staff member, which gives them a pass for most stuff. The big outlier in 2018 is scouting though. You can't seem to really delegate it (and wouldn't want to, squad building is the main part of the game probably), but they have made it an absolute mess now that needs far too much time to make any sense of.

[Spikey M]

I wonder if those stats go back to SI. If swathes of your customers are ignoring parts of the game, what's the point in working on them.

Because most of what I don’t bother with is because it doesn’t fucking work. Press conferences being a prime example. Asking the reigning Premier League champions how they feel about drawing Burnley, with a number of replies all based around you expecting to get thumped is ridiculous. They have tied the questions to your reputation and it just doesn’t fucking work if you do well with a smaller club.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The reputation metric is bollocks, which is part of the problem.

Also the fixed player CA/PA thing that has been in the game for 20 years is bollocks. It's too easy to sort good from bad players, which is why they tried to introduce the ludicrous attribute masking thing ages ago to make it artificially delayed (I've been switching that off for 15 years). They need to revamp the entire player grading system and make it more fluid and changeable.

[Dark Soldier]

I took Bournemouth to the title in the first season (3 strikers is the most broken its ever been).

I had a 9 point lead over second and the press still asked me if I believed I could avoid relegation. Good shit.

[Dark Soldier]

The reputation metric is bollocks, which is part of the problem.

Also the fixed player CA/PA thing that has been in the game for 20 years is bollocks. It's too easy to sort good from bad players, which is why they tried to introduce the ludicrous attribute masking thing ages ago to make it artificially delayed (I've been switching that off for 15 years). They need to revamp the entire player grading system and make it more fluid and changeable.

It is, wonderkids now have a particular range they can hit, and they still may never hit that dependent on attitude.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That's been the same for yonks (hence 'potential' ability) but there are no such things as late developers, massive drop-offs for no particular reason, or people with shit 'stats' who do a great job on the pitch for years, as happens in real football. Spotting one of those would be one of the most satisfying bits of the game, if it were available.

I basically want them to move away from the fixation on 'Finishing 13' towards asking you to evaluate them on actual performances, but I dunno, maybe that's not arcadey enough for the majority of players.

[Raoul Duke]

I basically want them to move away from the fixation on 'Finishing 13' towards asking you to evaluate them on actual performances, but I dunno, maybe that's not arcadey enough for the majority of players.

That'd require you to actually watch the matches though

[Giggles]

That'd require you to actually watch the matches though

What's the point though? The matches basically seem to be:

>goal required for Team B
>run preset goal sequence 74 for Team B

None of it is applicable at all to your setup or tactics. You'd still have stats anyway without having to watch that shite, which would be enough for what Jimmy means.

[wullie]

I had a 4-3-3 which walked all over League 2 and 1 but as soon as I hit the Championship it stopped working. Either there was an update to the game that broke it or I've just kept the majority of the players I started with in the bottom division and it's hitting me hard. Luckily I've been taken over by a guy who was on the board already and I've gone from having no money to having no money, plus I forgot to disable Brexit so it all points to an outstanding few seasons ahead.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That'd require you to actually watch the matches though

Not if they give me a decent array of stats or text commentary lines for the key moments - i.e. things that have actually happened rather than a number between 1 and 20. You can then combine that with scout/coach reports (I like the star system) to judge a player's current and future output.

I don't want to play Football Scout 2018 going to a windswept Boundary Park in disguise to see if I like someone's gait on the dreadfully animated 3D.

[Raoul Duke]

xG :drool:

[John]

I mused about a game where player stats were far more susceptible to outside forces on the old old board. Ideally they'd be completely hidden and would have to be inferred from other things, but even a mechanism where they could rocket up or down if the player moved clubs or whatever would be excellent.

As I remember it was inspired by Diego Forlan suddenly becoming Superman when he signed for Villareal.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There are countless examples. Think Drogba, who at 24 was scoring 5 goals in Ligue 2. By 30 he was world class. An FM game would never have something like that happen at those ages, sure there are small variations but in general, either someone is the bollocks from teenage years or they're not.

Luca Toni, Jamie Vardy, etc etc.

Similarly the Torres Collapse wouldn't happen on FM except for monstrous injury.

[Dark Soldier]

They need a new engine but as stated multiple times what is point when you own the market and its bought by the cuntload anyway

[Mike]

It's going to be a long season
https://i.imgur.com/gZxA1rn.png

[wullie]

I'm now on 39pts after 32 games. 50 tends to be the magic number to stay put in the Championship and if anything the 14th-20th slot in the division was our spiritual home at the end of the last decade so what I lack in swashbuckling wins I'm making up in nostalgia.

[wullie]

This 15-year old youth candidate is already better than the other keepers in the squad. Never had this happen before

https://i.imgur.com/48Bz31s.png

[Dark Soldier]

Dependent on his actual PA he could be beastly.

[Mike]

https://i.imgur.com/x85FAMu.png

A side step to most, but a step up in my eyes. I started my 2017 Journeyman save at Winterthr, a save I ended up going to France to win the league with Metz, Argentina and England with Boca and Man United where I won everything on offer.

[Mike]

https://i.imgur.com/qffyP77.png

Is this the one you want or the bad option?

[Jimmy Floyd]

That seems like no change, effectively, unless you had forrin homegrown players before.

[nsd]

That's the only option I've even seen this year.

[Mike]

https://i.imgur.com/cRi4qO6.png

Not having the best start.

[wullie]

I've got the bad one with a million different clauses of how foreigners can only get work permits by playing in 43% of all internationals against teams that start with a vowel if they're left-handed. Similar to the ruling that ballsed up my behemoth game on 17.

[John Arne]

I both times got the one Willie got. It’s great - being able to sign 16 year old Brazilians, Peruvians and Cambodians without a work permit. Plus, 17 players is a lot.

[Mike]

Never in doubt. Came down to the last game of the season just so when they make a film about it, it's more exciting.

https://i.imgur.com/niGkoIV.png

[Dquincy]

Never in doubt. Came down to the last game of the season just so when they make a film about it, it's more exciting.

https://i.imgur.com/niGkoIV.png

It seems not so many career updates to read through this year, which is a shame. Is that due to the game being not so popular?

Keep up the good work, Mike and Willie.

[Giggles]

It seems not so many career updates to read through this year, which is a shame. Is that due to the game being not so popular?

Keep up the good work, Mike and Willie.

Yeah I've never had so much time to play it but every element is so bad that you end up leaving most things up to staff, and at that stage you're not really doing anything. I tried it again last night and lasted 5 minutes.

[Dquincy]

Yeah, I hear you. Maybe you're just getting old (like a fine wine). I tried playing my FM11 career the other night but just not the same anymore.

[Dquincy]

How come you have more spare time?

[Giggles]

How come you have more spare time?

Just less to be doing, work has calmed down and I don't be home as late, and I've had a load of holidays saved up to take.

[Mike]

Speaking of updates. here is the full one.

The League
https://i.imgur.com/eItytmT.png

and to show what a big job it was...
https://i.imgur.com/aIRk79X.png

https://i.imgur.com/XW0L9ag.png

The games I was in charge of.
https://i.imgur.com/4FHtIEm.png

The 16 year old striker I found in the youth team kept me up really.

Half the squad is out of contract and we're in huge debt so the regens I got this year will just have to play next season. You don't win anything with kids!

[Demerit]

Getting into this now, I prefer it to last year's edition.

At work so haven't got screenshots, but led Watford to 5th in the first season.

Now halfway through pre-season and we've brought in Barreca from Torino, Mario from Villereal, Wilshere on a free transfer and Wallace from Lazio.

Andre Grey netted 29 times last year and we don't really need any reinforcements up front. We play a 4-2-3-1 formation with wingers and an attacking central midfielder.

I need Gomes replacement as he's retiring at the end of the season, then I'm ready to go.

[wullie]

Second season of the Championship I was hovering around eighth but leaking cash while I was linked with TOP TOP TOP CLUBS JEFF so I quit, went on holiday and applied for top division clubs. Thought I was going to end up in a team rock bottom of the SPL until West Ham sacked Bilic while in the top half. Took over, held that position then started overhauling a bit of a creaky old squad. Currently started well and would be top after five games were it not for an away defeat at Sheffield Wednesday

https://i.imgur.com/JsYBI8x.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Ffcu3mw.jpg

[John Arne]

Yes please...

https://gyazo.com/4b60754e248ae9aa7a1777ffc4ba022a.png

[Mike]

Got to the midseason break in my first full season at Winterthur and we're only 9 points off our total for the whole of last season. Which impressive when a bunch of the players, including my two strikers are 17 or under.
https://i.imgur.com/HaETHHk.png

[Mike]

If we'd have won the last game of the season and other results had gone our way I would have got 3rd place. I got beat.
https://i.imgur.com/fLoW4VR.png

https://i.imgur.com/KghtFJ6.png

https://i.imgur.com/VxM5m7N.png
https://i.imgur.com/kMlhv2O.png

https://i.imgur.com/GKF53wk.png

My contract is up, they've offered me a new one twice. Going to see if I can get a better club. Sadly because both teams I've had have been in money trouble I haven't been able to study coaching badges.

[The Merse]

Took on Hamilton in March 2018, who were sat second bottom in the SPL. After sending scouts out to watch every young free agent I could find, I turned up a couple of stinkers but four or five of them have worked out in 18/19, and I'm about to finish 4th.

My young Spanish left back left for Man Utd in January for 2.3m plus 40% profit from his next transfer, and a friendly, and I managed to get him loaned back until the end of the season, and subsequently to extend to the end of NEXT season. Another youngster who I signed and had played aplenty whilst looking a bit limited, a Scottish striker called David Dunn, was sold to Stoke for £1.3m plus 45% of the profit of his next move. That money has been reinvested largely into facilites, with the board approving youth and training upgrades.

I'll sort a proper update with screenies in the new year as I'm getting quite into this now.

[Mike]

Signed on for another year to see if the kids I’ve had come through can play (my left winger is 16, both strikers are 17 as are most of the Centre Mids)
I need to move to a club with enough money to let me do my coaching badges.

[randomlegend]

Is this worth getting over last year's?

[Mike]

Did you like last years/put much time into it?

[randomlegend]

Quite a bit, yeah.

[Mike]

It’s not a huge difference. Maybe grab the demo (I think there’s one)
I played loads of last year and have been enjoying this years too.

[Danny]

Finally got this installed and into a game.

Are corners broken? Man lurking on the edge for the free pass everytime is working again :drool:

[Mike]

Half way, or just past it, and I'm ten points behind :(
https://i.imgur.com/lF4hfwH.png

[Baz]

Finally got this installed and into a game.

Are corners broken? Man lurking on the edge for the free pass everytime is working again :drool:Share your wisdom in the form of screenshots and/or a more detailed description.

[randomlegend]

Decided to buy it and have started my customary Man Utd game.

Transfers in:

Daniele Rugani £30m
Gelson Martins £44.5m
Leon Goretzka £30m
Joshua Kimmich £50m
Alex Sandro £50m

Total: £205m

Transfers out:

Chris Smalling > Tottenham £23.5m
Marouane Fellaini > Monaco £15.5m
Matteo Darmian > Stoke £22.5m
Daley Blind > PSG £27.5m
Ashley Young > Watford Loan
Micky Tarian > Real Madrid £45m

Not sure if they are total costs or before clauses but anyway. Also suspect it took me longer to type that out than a screenshot.

Game's going well so far. Martial is absolutely mental on this.

[Danny]

Share your wisdom in the form of screenshots and/or a more detailed description.

May have been a little reactionary as we scored a few early but we have 4 in 16 (joint most in the league) and I have had it set to mixed. Changed to penalty spot to see what that does.

https://i.imgur.com/YubZAl3.png

[Giggles]

Is there any way of selling this or when it's not a physical copy are you stuck with it?

[randomlegend]

You can refund steam games now can't you?

EDIT:


Valve will, upon request via help.steampowered.com, issue a refund for any reason, if the request is made within fourteen days of purchase, and the title has been played for less than two hours. There are more details below, but even if you fall outside of the refund rules we’ve described, you can ask for a refund anyway and we’ll take a look

http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/

[Raoul Duke]

Think it's about 14 days or something

[Giggles]

You can refund steam games now can't you?

I bought from the dodgy goodness that is cd keys. Wasn't too dear from them anyway.

[Mike]

Nah, you can’t sell it, even the retail box version you put a code into steam to get it to work so you couldn’t sell that either.

[Mike]

https://i.imgur.com/LMSbbO8.png

FFS :mad:

EDIT:

YES!
https://i.imgur.com/zCTGRQI.png

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've never understood that feature. A classic example of the bizarre desire for realism trumping what is actually fun to play. If you're the manager you should be able to reject bids, or the game might as well be called Football Interim First Team Coach Until The End Of The Season 2018.

Make the rules of football and the competition rules realistic, then give the player absolute freedom to create in every other respect.

[randomlegend]

Real Madrid have just transfer listed Marco Asensio in November on my game :cab:

[SvN]

Where's the cheapest place to buy this?

[randomlegend]

Giggles' steam account.

[randomlegend]

Real Madrid have just transfer listed Marco Asensio in November on my game :cab:

They've sold me him for £20m up front and £20m in instalments. He's one of the best players in the game.

[Dark Soldier]

God bless stupid FM transfers. Guido has a series of 'em on Twitter right now, as Fortuna Sittard. Snapping up fairly solid English youth on a free post-Brexit, then selling them to the top clubs for 50mil+ a couple seasons later.

[Mike]

https://i.imgur.com/B0d9oII.jpg

[Jimmy Floyd]

Why are they using A4 confetti?

[Mike]

It's all we can afford :(

[Disco]

I love how they keep trying to do 3d in an engine so obviously ill equipped to handle it.

[randomlegend]

That looks like something from about 1996.

[Mike]

WOOO Media prediction of 7th
https://i.imgur.com/k5ohHOZ.png

https://i.imgur.com/enTpL7h.png

https://i.imgur.com/C2CiNtc.png
https://i.imgur.com/QuOlVrZ.png

Basically, these three youth products won it for me.
https://i.imgur.com/3beleT0.png

https://i.imgur.com/Tp7DJA5.png

https://i.imgur.com/A7synyt.png

Contracts up, I don't plan on staying.

[randomlegend]

I tried to sign Zivkovic at the start of the season (who has just gone to Barca in January) but shouldn't get him, so bought Gelson Martins instead.

Dunno how good Zivkovic would have been, but Martins is insane. One of those players who plays way above their technical stats. Absolute assist machine.

[Danny]

I love how they keep trying to do 3d in an engine so obviously ill equipped to handle it.


That looks like something from about 1996.

Glad I am not the only one thinking this. I thought it was because I had pulled the graphics back as my laptop is a bit older. Seems it’s juts shit. I swear it looks worse than previous years.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't see the need to have 3D at all. They could spend all that time and money on the terrible interface.

[Disco]

So this guy exists but I bet he's left out of the name generation table.

https://i.imgur.com/Kpgk3fI.jpg

[wullie]

I remember him. Johan De Kock was the best name around until Argel Fucks hit the scene (shout out to Rafael Sheidt)

[randomlegend]

Just beaten Bayern 10-6 on aggregate in the Champions League Quarters.

Lost 5-3 at their place then beat them 7-1 at home.

Defending is for cowards.

[Dark Soldier]

So this guy exists but I bet he's left out of the name generation table.

https://i.imgur.com/Kpgk3fI.jpg

The classic:

https://i.imgur.com/uB4q4dA.gif

[randomlegend]

Chelsea nicked one of my scouts so I tried to sign a new one but the board blocked it because I already have too many.

Checked what my limit is and I currently have 34 of an allowed 18 scouts :cab:

[wullie]

2022/23, might have a chance of cracking the top 4 this time out. Also, who needs defenders when you've got strikers right?

https://i.imgur.com/gBpL9c0.png

[Mike]

https://i.imgur.com/nSieDh7.png

[Mike]

And I'm on the move again. Another side step really
https://i.imgur.com/dDBVbpm.png

[randomlegend]

Real Madrid and PSG are offering me batshit money for De Gea in second season transfer window (£100m), but there's nobody good enough to replace him, he's not kicking off and I don't need the money so guess they can swivel.

[Mike]

Replace him with Donnarumma if you can get him cheapish? (doubtful)

Won manager of the month in my first month in Sweden.

[randomlegend]

Replace him with Donnarumma if you can get him cheapish? (doubtful)

Won manager of the month in my first month in Sweden.

I did consider it but I don't think Donnarumma is actually as good and I have a very young regen goalkeeper who isn't ready for the first team yet but who I would like to bring through in the future. I could use the money to replace Lukaku with Griezmann or Dybala or someone but he scored 56 in 58 for me last season so not sure I want to even if they are 'better'. Also have a young regen striker I'd like to bring through as his replacement.

Think I'll just stick with what I've got.

EDIT:

https://i.imgur.com/YptHfLA.png

This is my team at the moment, there's nobody I really want to replace.

EDIT 2: I bought the in game editor - as you can see - because I had about 6 players get injured for about 6 months each within a couple of weeks and I raged. Fite me.

[randomlegend]

https://i.imgur.com/NYhDgif.png

I know my team's good, but starting to think I might have inadvertently made a really broken tactic...

[Dark Soldier]

Never pay for the editor when you can get a cracked FMRTE easily ;)

[randomlegend]

I was foomin' mate, I couldn't have been messing around googling stuff.

[Baz]

Proper addicted to this. Spent all day doing pre-season ready for my first season in the Premier League with Fulham after winning the play-offs in the first season.

Lys Mousset on loan from Bournemouth almost single-handedly got me promoted.

Only chose Fulham for Matt O'Riley and Ryan Sessegnon. I've had to promise the latter I'll sell him but I'e no intention of doing so not sure what'll happen when the transfer window closes and he's still here. I've bought well (despite being short in a few positions, mainly not having any secondary wingbacks) and can't wait to go again in the big league. Spent £50m. :drool: Will post screenshots next time I get chance.

[Danny]

That team is bonkers.

I am midway through my second season with Crewe. We won the 4th tier at the first attempt and sit in the playoffs mid way through the second season.

The board sold my hottest youth prospect (regen) to Bournemouth for 1.7m the bastards. Fuck knows if he will actually be good but considering they spend that much on him I imagine so.

[Baz]

The transfer window has closed and I'm all set to start my second season - Fulham's first one back in the Premier League since 2014. A lot of wheeling and dealing has gone on:

https://i.imgur.com/1fbmvNy.png

Florinel Coman (https://imgur.com/V0eSOjr) seems a bit of a bargain for £5m. I play 5-2-3 with the three strikers as one advanced forward (goals!) and two deep lying forwards (assists!) and ideally he'd play as one of the DLF and Paulinho (https://imgur.com/wEn64be) would play AF. However, the latter didn't get a work permit (I decided to sign him anyway cos £4m seemed too good to pass up) so he's gone on loan to Denmark for two years, with the hope he'll score tons and get Brazil caps and qualify for a work permit. I'll honestly be surprised if I ever see him play a game in a Fulham shirt.

Another player I signed despite not having a work permit is goalkeeper Predrag Rajkovic (https://imgur.com/OMqPybW). My scouts rated him as 100 so for £4.2m I was definitely gonna bring him in. I was hoping to get in Guillermo Ochoa to play while super-100 keeper was out on loan in Italy, but I couldn't raise enough funds on deadline day so I've ended up with Adam Federici (https://imgur.com/O4RKRg3) as my sub and I'll be playing Marcus Bettinelli (https://imgur.com/aiidtR9) for another season and hoping the new defensive three in-front of him do their job and keep us up this season.

I've actually bought three and loaned one: Jason Denayer (https://imgur.com/jEzbidx) came in on loan from Man City, as per my new Director of Football Gianluca Nani's suggestion, and I've bought Lewis Dunk (https://imgur.com/OPyBvzZ), Denis Vavro (https://imgur.com/p8rOuMC) and Lautaro Giannetti (https://imgur.com/qeTHN3H). I've never heard of the latter two but my scouts and coaches seem keen on them, so fingers crossed.

My biggest signing was another play rated 100, Lucas Torreira (https://imgur.com/cll1DCA). £25m on one player was pretty risk, but I needed a ball winning central midfielder, and my scouts honestly couldn't stop wanking over him. It took a long time to get him to agree to discuss terms, so I'm really hoping he was worth all the effort. The negotiations were super tense though, because he asked for nothinig and I had to smash out a deal from scratch. Thankfully it went green one the second attempt and Fulham had a new record signing.

My director of football also signed (I get final say, he just makes offers) Patrick Cutrone (https://imgur.com/0Ww65bx) and Facundo Colidio (https://imgur.com/Huj0r7f) on loan. The former will probably play as my advanced forward, and the latter will come off the bench when needed. Calvert-Lewin (https://imgur.com/uDbu0Eq) and Isaac Hayden (https://imgur.com/iy8YIZv) are also just for the bench, really.

Oh, last season I had van der Vaart and he was pretty rubbish. He retired at the end of the season so I took him on as a coach and asked him to recommend a signing. He said I should buy Nicolas Dyhr (https://imgur.com/9FTWSQl), so I did. I'm training him to be a deep lying forward. Come on Rafa, don't let me down again.

Here's my team:
https://i.imgur.com/5vZovSB.png

Has anyone any experience with those players?

[Mike]

Three player save with The Reid then Baz? :D

[Baz]

Three player save with The Reid then Baz? :DIt would have to be a network game, and Mike would just be on Overwatch.

[John Arne]

Thanks...

https://gyazo.com/84521bf6d808745560d17c8be519f435.png

[Mike]

Stayed up. Came in towards the end of the season with them sat in the relegation zone. They play easily the worst football of my three sides so far. Wholesale changes are needed in the summer.
https://i.imgur.com/9pyWSOt.png

[Baz]

https://i.imgur.com/WQWpWgR.png

That doesn't sound good.

[wullie]

That's what I got, when a player gets turned down a work permit you seem to win about 8/10 appeals so it's not as game-breaking as I had in 17.

[Bam]

Got this arriving tomorrow:

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/dell-inspiron-13-7373-13-3-touchscreen-2-in-1-grey-10169905-pdt.html

How many leagues do you think that could run smoothly?

Also how can I transfer FM files across form laptop to laptop without an external hard drive? Oh and can I just re-download FM from Steam when I sign in on the new laptop?

[Mike]

Just download through steam.

[Bam]

Cheers, how about moving files? I wouldn't mind moving my current save over and all the graphics ect.

[Mike]

You could save your game to the steam cloud of upload it somewhere and download it again.
The rest you’re going to need external storage really.

[Bam]

Ah right, I'll have a look into that, cheers. You can't just get a usb and connect them both to move the files across then?

[Baz]

Ah right, I'll have a look into that, cheers. You can't just get a usb and connect them both to move the files across then?You can do but moving graphics will take ages if you have the faces megapack. It’ll be quicker to redownload it direct to your new device.

You can move the saved games easy enough though. They in My Documents/Sports Interactive/FM18/games

Tactics are in the tactics folder in the same directory.

Graphics are in the same place too but like I said, depending on how many you have, I’d just redownload them all.

Don’t forget to do the real name fix, https://sortitoutsi.net/downloads/view/35729/fm2018-real-names-and-german-national-team-fix

[Baz]

https://i.imgur.com/cBdJcY5.png

Exciting end to the season!

[Spikey M]

Southend are back in the Championship lads. Nearly reached the League Cup final as well, but got dicked by Chelsea. Which is another thing that needs fixing, with all the big teams field their first 11 in the cups.

[randomlegend]

The board have just chucked another £100m my way mid second season, but everyone is playing so well I don't know if I want to buy anyone.

Lukaku is probably the position I could most 'improve', but he's got 29 goals in 22 games so far this season...

[Baz]

What a season for Fulham. Back into the top league via a Playoffs victory and predicted to come 20th by the media. Well I proved them wrong and we finished 6th (https://i.imgur.com/yp1F0uP.png)! Not only that but we also won the FA Cup (https://i.imgur.com/ny6E9zV.png). Made even better as the final was against Middlesbrough who won the Championship last season and got relegated this season, har har.

I was propelled forward by two of my summer signings, Florinel Coman (https://i.imgur.com/2AVPlpX.png) and Paulinho (https://i.imgur.com/EZlWhIv.png). The latter got a work permit in January, after tearing it up in Denmark for half a season, so I recalled him and he went absolutely mental in front of goal, scoring 24 goals in 16 games (https://i.imgur.com/oF0GZnk.png). He also came third in the golden boot despite only playing four months of the season. He could post some Ronaldo numbers next season, if I'm lucky.

Another player who was out on loan to get a work permit was my goalkeeper, Rajkovic. He was playing every week at Napoli and, like Paulinho, was granted a work permit in January and recalled to Fulham. However he was "ineligible to play for more than two teams in one season" so spent the remainder of the season keeping goal for my U23 and U18 team, whoops. So I loaned in Rafael (https://i.imgur.com/c45ky3r.png) and sorta rotated between him and Bettinelli, who is now worth £14m, somehow, so I may try to cash in on him in the summer.

Other than that, I'm currently studying for my Continental C License (I started from the bottom) and we've set up an affiliation with Australian side Perth Glory to make some dollar, so I'll hopefully tour there in pre-season and sell some Jackson Irvine shirts. Transfer-wise I've got yet another goalkeeper, Juliano (https://i.imgur.com/NSJc7O0.png), coming in (and he got a work permit so no faffing this time) along with Joaquin Rikemberg (https://i.imgur.com/YrmFaei.png), who can hopefully be trained as a deep lying forward to join forces with Coman and Paulinho. Frightening front three, even if I do say so myself! Oh and in January I bought a right wingback who is very raw, but hopefully a long-term replacement for Debuchy, called Robson Zabotto (https://i.imgur.com/gbJ1VZi.png) but he didn't get a work permit yet.

I've also signed Martin Hanson (https://i.imgur.com/xZjhnYV.png) from Birmingham for £575k because his determination is 20, and made use of my affiliation with Leyton Orient to bring in Mike Griffiths (https://i.imgur.com/DN0xuy4.png) for £100k, who doesn't look like anything special but has been seriously tearing it up as a box to box midfielder for the U23 team. I doubt he'll ever take my boy Matt O'Riley (https://i.imgur.com/YMcFNxM.png)'s place in the team though, considering I only chose Fulham for him and Ryan Sessegnon (https://i.imgur.com/caviYjn.png). Blimey, didn't realise he's worth £31m now. Crazy! Mbappe is worth £98m (https://i.imgur.com/cxbzhon.png) lol.

Here's my team (https://i.imgur.com/K123kfl.png). Oh and I'm also the Turkey manager. :cab:

[Mike]

Nice work Baz

I had a busy summer trying to turn my side from one playing awful football to a side I like.
https://i.imgur.com/SHOqdRt.png
I also released a further 15 players on free transfers.

[igor_balis]

I'm actually into this now. Only way I could think of getting some fun out of it was getting the level 10 mod and starting with the mighty Rugby Town (they start 2 divisions below conf north/south), because obviously everyone is so rubbish it's really easy to build a side, and you don't need to worry about training and stuff.

Justifying having ridiculously overpowered manager stats by getting all role-playing about it:

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/26910854_10159813064730384_8410219234746342483_o.j pg?oh=942a5ca196a236cbe888df327c10b6e9&oe=5AFD49D9


It also helps having an absolute monster at this level playing up top:


https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/26841044_10159813064690384_251200695067815191_o.jp g?oh=382c226203ee2933d7ff37a2890cae3e&oe=5AF863E8

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/26758435_10159813064725384_7194766482333079584_o.j pg?oh=bf7fcc2986503b2a8a65ce5f25199ab4&oe=5AE06385


Lots of fun so far.

[Byron]

Lads, anyone got a good broken tactic? Just need something to ensure I don't get sacked while I figure out my own.

[Spikey M]

Lads, anyone got a good broken tactic? Just need something to ensure I don't get sacked while I figure out my own.

https://www.fmscout.com/a-nunos-vision-fm18.html

I don’t know if this is the one I used before developing my own, but it’s the same set up. It worked too well in the end. I won everything with Derby (league and both cups) so sacked the save off and started a fresh without it.

[Bam]

Anyone know how to get the steam cloud working? I've saved my save to the cloud but its not appearing on the cloud on my new laptop when I try to load it.

[Limoutsonik]

https://www.fmscout.com/a-nunos-vision-fm18.html

I don’t know if this is the one I used before developing my own, but it’s the same set up. It worked too well in the end. I won everything with Derby (league and both cups) so sacked the save off and started a fresh without it.

Jesus H Christ is this tactic good.I am managing Olympiakos and won 4-1 against a full strength Barcelona side at home.Dispatches teams for fun and it's not too shabby defensively.The wing backs are really key to the tactic working.

[Dark Soldier]

Jesus H Christ is this tactic good.I am managing Olympiakos and won 4-1 against a full strength Barcelona side at home.Dispatches teams for fun and it's not too shabby defensively.The wing backs are really key to the tactic working.

Three at the back with wbs and three up top (either strikes or AMs) is this game's broken one. There's a Chinese tactic going about that took me to unbeaten in about 80 games with the starting United squad.

As ever wingers/inside forwards are generally useless.

[randomlegend]

https://i.imgur.com/YptHfLA.png



Three at the back with wbs and three up top (either strikes or AMs) is this game's broken one. There's a Chinese tactic going about that took me to unbeaten in about 80 games with the starting United squad.

As ever wingers/inside forwards are generally useless.

https://i.imgur.com/xC1UUR4.jpg

Naaaaah mate.

[wullie]

Having scored 108 and conceded 80 last season, I've started tightening up the defence this one. Still not amazing compared to the teams I'm trying to compete with but I'll be disappointed if I don't get a Champions League spot out of this campaign (2023/4). Hell of a relegation fight building too


https://i.imgur.com/h1UxTJC.png

[Dark Soldier]

https://i.imgur.com/xC1UUR4.jpg

Naaaaah mate.

Compared to 50-70 goals and around 40+ assists each from three strikers its League Two tier fam.

Upload your tactic though, would love to give it a go please. Tired of three strikers.

[randomlegend]

40+ in 20 games?

[Dark Soldier]

40+ in 20 games?

One game m8

[randomlegend]

Wew lad, I might as well quit now.

Where's the best place to upload the tactic?

[Dark Soldier]

Wew lad, I might as well quit now.

Where's the best place to upload the tactic?

http://www.filedropper.com/

Piece of piss to use

[randomlegend]

http://www.filedropper.com/

Piece of piss to use

http://www.filedropper.com/fordsthegoodcunt

There you go lad.

Inb4 you get bongoed 5-0 by Crewe.

[Dark Soldier]

Me love you long time

[Bam]

Tbf you're united, that tactic has hardly been tested. A trained monkey could win the league with them.

[randomlegend]

Alright mate, I only uploaded it because he asked.

[Bam]

Ok mate.

[Giggles]

M8s.

[Bam]

:beer:

[Spikey M]

Blates mates

[Bam]

Boyz 4 life yo. :rasta:

[Giggles]

Fired up the last save I was on and this is the first silverware. As normal I didn't take a job for the first two seasons, so this is my first club.


http://i63.tinypic.com/6puhwi.png

[Giggles]

A week later, Spurs sacked Pochettino and I applied. Sacked instantly :D

[Giggles]

And, as seems to be the norm in all my FM games, I'm back home.


http://i64.tinypic.com/1zg3u6u.png

[Dark Soldier]

Welcome to heart attack football (do not use it away unless chasing a game):

https://i.gyazo.com/89935db3a1668d42f1f8f167c89c23c4.png

kung fu 343!, listed on the right, is the best tactic in the game btw.

[Dark Soldier]

Your tactic is good RL, but as stated as United it is easy mode. Also realised why I don't use IFs or Wingers, I find it fucking boring.

[Bam]

Well you did ask him to upload it mate.

[Dark Soldier]

Well you did ask him to upload it mate.

Sherlock over here

[Giggles]

Sherlock over here

You can't go out of your way to be a complete tosser about the game and then expect everyone to sit back and give you a big thumbs up.

[randomlegend]

Huh?

[Dark Soldier]

You can't go out of your way to be a complete tosser about the game and then expect everyone to sit back and give you a big thumbs up.

Where am I being a tosser you absolute fucking mong? <---- except for there, but its justified as ever.

I used RL's tactic for ten games, won all ten and it played very good football, then decided to switch it up to the mental tactic above. Only thing I found lacking was the AMC role but I've found it hard to get a lone one doing brilliantly.

[wullie]

https://i.imgur.com/f8820LW.png

Watford was the last game before I paid a bit of attention to the defence at last and apart from the Villa game it's been alright, actually closing in on the top on this form too, only six points off Man Utd.

PS Fuck you Stoke

[Spikey M]

How do you have form like that and not have a 12 point lead?

[wullie]

Because of this bunch of twats, who also just beat me 3-0 to knock me back down to size

https://i.imgur.com/Xfir345.png

[randomlegend]

. Only thing I found lacking was the AMC role but I've found it hard to get a lone one doing brilliantly.

Same. I'm going to try again to get Asensio working as a shadow striker, since he's got nutty striker attributes.

[The Merse]

Career so far, having taking charge of Hamilton, second bottom in January 2018... Will do a big one then update a bit more regularly moving forwards.

http://oi67.tinypic.com/30m7k1y.jpg

I spent the first couple of months scouting all of the 16 and 17 year old free agents I could find after searching a, b, c, d etc in the player search. The good old, select loads, get scout report unearthed a few shite ones who've since fallen by the wayside, but also several gems and I've rinsed and repeated each year since. From the first batch, most of whom debuted in 18/19 (and several of which remained on trial until late on that season due to U18 transfer law bollocks), a few stick out:

David Dunn, Scottish striker (b. 2002), joined Stoke City for £1.6m in summer of 2019. Currently on loan at Dunfermline after returning to us on loan last term but not making much of an impact. Nonetheless looks a good prospect.

Joe Richardson, Scottish winger (b. 2001) Still with us, and attracting firm bids of £20m+ from OM and Bayern Munich amongst others. A Scotland regular, who knows he's too good for Lanarkshire and with a £25m release clause, sure to leave by next summer. Destroyer of defences in Scotland and my biggest hope in European ties, where he's had a more than reasonable impact.
http://oi68.tinypic.com/svm2ps.jpg

Scott Gallagher, Scottish midfielder (b. 2001) Technical midfielder who is excelling as a box to box player after being an ok attacking midfield option.
http://oi67.tinypic.com/xm5312.jpg

Gerardo, Spanish left back (b. 2002) Quickly established himself as no. 1 left back in 2018/19 and secured a move to Manchester United for £2.3m + 40% profit on his next sale by the January of that season. A loan back until the end of the season kept him in the team, and since then he's played 4 league games for United and a further 35 top flight games last season on loan at Watford. Rated at £25.5m, likely to add more to the coffers should he move on again.

Marcos Gerardo, Spanish centre back (b. 2002) Strong and quick, but hasn't yet established himself as first choice in defence. He's joined Levante on loan for the season in the Spanish top flight and is improving still, whilst being ever present for them so far.

Mustafa Kurt, French winger (b. 2002) The cream of the crop, had two and a half wonderful seasons with us before heading to Man Utd in January 2021 for £23m plus add ons (£4m) & 40% profit. Played 4 league games for United, and now is on loan at Roma where he's holding down his place. Two caps for France at the age of eighteen has me praying for a £60m+ move to PSG.

http://oi64.tinypic.com/2h573is.jpg

Club improvements
Stadium - we're expanding. So we're sharing with Kilmarnock for now in a Stadium which dwarves our own at c. 18,000.
Training & Youth - Both improved twice now, and producing results.
http://oi65.tinypic.com/1625s36.jpg

This season so far (November 2021)

The squad remains very young. Gallagher, along with Scott Guest (signed from Hibs 2020, 18) and Gardner Neil (from youth, 18) are lynchpins of the midfield. Belgian Mathieu Marchal (17) inexplicably came through my youth side and is probably my best attacking midfielder, or at least the most injury free with Jamie Walker spending half his career on the treatment table. Two players returned from loans they'd been on whilst awaiting work permits - 20 year old Brazilian striker Vainer Tavella and Aussie winger Josh Coggan, who will succeed Joe Richardson when the inevitable occurs. 18 year old Craig Cooper, signed for pennies from Dundee Utd last season is establishing himself up front. At the back, there's experience, with four Scottish internationals competing for the centre half sports - Harry Souttar, Paul Hanlon, Michael Devlin and Scott McKenna, and Jack Grimmer as my most consistent player from right-back. Scott Bain in goals is yet another Scotland cap.

We're second in the league, chasing back to back titles, and have made a good start in Europe, following up making the knockout stages in last years Europa League with a win, draw and loss in our first three group games in the Champs League.

http://oi63.tinypic.com/71796e.jpg

[Baz]

https://i.imgur.com/8CxVUnt.png

:yn:

(I've signed one Australian.)

[Baz]

:thbdn:

[The Merse]

Got offered the Scotland job after Czaba Laszlo failed to get them to World Cup (2022). I'll be continuing dual-roled with Hamilton until the season end, with only one international before then, and then resigning my club post to concentrate on making it to the Euros in 2024.

We made it out of the CL group, beating Atletico Madrid 3-0 in the final game. Bayer Leverkusen await us in the knockouts, which could be worse.

http://oi65.tinypic.com/2prd4j8.jpg

Unfortunately, Werder Bremen activated Joe Richardsons £25m release clause, so my star man is gone. I've got a £50m transfer budget, but only £150,000 for wages and no one interested worth spending it on.

[randomlegend]

Every fucking team has started playing three at the back in my game.

[Mike]

https://i.imgur.com/NOIOPNu.png

[Adramelch]

Anyone tried a Journeyman save? I still had some reputation issues in the last one (getting offers from bigger teams than I should). Is that still a thing?

[Mike]

Season is over :D
https://i.imgur.com/Ld64Ust.png

Not bad for a team I took over last year that was playing genuinely the worst football I've played on any FM game.* Had a bad start to the season but once my tactics kicked in and my signings got to know each other it was smooth sailing.

https://i.imgur.com/m7swyXZ.png
https://i.imgur.com/appEg8x.png

https://i.imgur.com/dOKWkdj.png

https://i.imgur.com/UdklRw0.png

The plan was to leave at the end of the season, but I'm staying on for a crack at Europe.

[wullie]

I narrowed down Man Utd's lead and then ran out of games. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

https://i.imgur.com/WY53DeS.png

[Mike]

With Europe (the qualifying rounds) on the cards next season I've signed 9 free transfers and paid for this absolute diamond my scout found in Brazil
https://i.imgur.com/MALpowB.png
£96k well spent.

[Spikey M]

After just missing out on a playoff spot last year, Southend are currently sitting top of the Championship, unbeaten, at the end of January.

The only downside is that I signed Jamie Hanson to replace the ageing Anton Ferdinand, but he can’t actually play this season as “the player cannot play for more than 2 teams in a season”. Thanks for loaning him to Blackburn, Derby, you shower. He can play in both defence and midfield so he would have been really bloody helpful right now.

[Baz]

Couldn’t read the entire report for one lad cos my scout had soaked it in jizz, wanking over this Argentinian wonder kid with a £5.5m release clause. :drool:

Hopefully finish my third season this weekend so will post him soon.

[Spikey M]

Real or regen?

[Baz]

Real or regen?Regen, from Newell’s Old Boys.

[Baz]

Well I've made it through another season on my Fulham save. It was touch and go in December when the Liverpool job came up and the press were going bananas (https://i.imgur.com/8CxVUnt.png) over whether I'd take the job. I interviewed and got turned down because I asked for more transfer budget. Ah well, viva la Fulham!

Then in January, something bad happened. Dortmund activated Paulinho's £75m release clause (https://i.imgur.com/qwUbsmc.png) and off he went, bagging me a £71m profit in the process.

Before selling him, I'd already raised quite a bit of money in the summer from selling Mings (£8m), Bettinelli (£15m), Rossi (£2.5m), Dunk (£15.5m) and Ream (£3m) for nearly £45m.

But I'd also spent quite a lot, bringing in the following:
Juliano (https://i.imgur.com/4viBZFe.png) £4.5m
Joaquin Rikemberg (https://i.imgur.com/9zvRG41.png) £3.5m
Chris Smalling (https://i.imgur.com/6SavXE5.png) £13.75m
Caglar Soyuncu (https://i.imgur.com/oxfXkk6.png) £16.25m
Christian Pulisic (https://i.imgur.com/qBtkVrk.png) £16.5m
Thomas Meunier (https://i.imgur.com/Z8goPgO.png) £10m
William Benavides (https://i.imgur.com/6jR7boA.png) £475k
Rossaldo (https://i.imgur.com/CxG3PVH.png) £10m

Then when the big money came in just in time for the January transfer window, in came the following:
Walter Troncosco (https://i.imgur.com/Ufjc49O.png) £5m
Andres Rezzonico (https://i.imgur.com/Mj64zM4.png) £4m
Julian Draxler (https://i.imgur.com/3llXNmo.png) £26m
Ernesto Gonzalez (https://i.imgur.com/HQKdUNp.png) £5.5m

Rossaldo (nicknamed by me) was one of the most highly recommended players my scouts have ever found, and he's proving to be a hit so far - when he's not injured, anyway. But then came 100 rated "sign him whatever the price" Ernesto Gonzalez. And when I found out he had a £5.5m release clause, he was on a plane to Fulham before the scout had even finished wanking over him.

One problem I do have is I play three strikers (two deep lying forwards and one advanced forward) yet have signed players like Pulisic and Draxler purely because they seemed like a bargain, even though they're wingers or attacking midfielders and simply can't play up top. I've started re-training them the position but they'll never be as good as proper strikers.

Another problem I have (and not purely because of Brexit) is work permits, or more specifically signing players without them. I've already got six players out on loan with a view to get a work permit (I still don't have a work permit feeder club so am relying on them playing lots of club games, getting called up to their international team and subsequently getting a work permit) and have another eight players arriving in the summer, and I've lost track of who did and who didn't get a work permit. These are the new arrivals:

Hideo Chiba (https://i.imgur.com/rNARW62.png) £1.4m
Sasa Petranovic (https://i.imgur.com/ZkXr7ak.png) £375k
Hamad Mohammed Ahmed (https://i.imgur.com/D2gP4F2.png) FREE
Wilson Dionisio (https://i.imgur.com/McIG1yY.png) FREE
Lars Auernhammer (https://i.imgur.com/NATxqYB.png) £900k
Marcio Roberto (https://i.imgur.com/nv32oQm.png) £30k
Rosario Sperandeo (https://i.imgur.com/ndNCojd.png) £15m
Rodrigo Banobre (https://i.imgur.com/DU7NBw9.png) £750k

I'm sure I've never posted screenshots of some of my other non-WP regens, but ehh they're not important yet. I've collected an American, a Japanese player, someone from UAE, and loads of South Americans. Hopefully I can get an American feeder club next because the regen combined with Pulisic should result in some decent merchandise money. We'll see though, every time I try to choose my own affiliate it fails, so next time I'll probably leave it upto my chairman.

Here's how they all performed in all competitions:

https://i.imgur.com/gJgwl27.png

We managed to make it to the Europa League final, which resulted in a penalty shootout against Arsenal. Thankfully we held our nerve (https://i.imgur.com/ybW3yeV.png) and into the Champions League we sailed.

Although really, we were already there after finishing 4th in the league (https://i.imgur.com/N4QNlrf.png), which looked very touch-and-go after the sale of star player Paulinho (https://i.imgur.com/rgp67rT.png).

Next up is the Euros with Turkey and then getting ready for our fourth season, and also my first pop at the Champions League. Wish me luck!

[Mike]

I think for the first time on this save I've spent more than I've made in the transfer window.* After I made them £1mil last season I think I've earned it.*
https://i.imgur.com/2NlfnFy.png
They have a rule that you have to have 9 players classed as home grown in Sweden, so I've mostly signed those.

[The Merse]

http://oi64.tinypic.com/k9dldc.jpg

Fuck aye. Another £5m+ in the bank in TV money and a money spinning QF to go... Starting to regret deciding to be Scotland manager at the end of the season.

[randomlegend]

Caved in and sold Lukaku to Bayern for £80m, replacing him with Dybala for about a squillionty pounds from Juve.

Because Target Men are for uncultured neanderthals, or something.

[randomlegend]

I've just played PSG, and they've got rather an interesting situation going on with their goalkeepers. They spent a while trying to lob £100m at me for De Gea, but after giving up they still weren't happy with their two current keepers (Kevin Trapp valued at £31.5m and Alphonse Areola valued at £37m) so they went out and spent £8.5m on Mathew Ryan from Lokomotiv Moscow who now appears to be first choice :cab:

They also spent £120m on Gabriel Jesus.

[Mike]

Ten games in and things are going well
https://i.imgur.com/K0hoco9.png

[Disco]

I've just played PSG, and they've got rather an interesting situation going on with their goalkeepers. They spent a while trying to lob £100m at me for De Gea, but after giving up they still weren't happy with their two current keepers (Kevin Trapp valued at £31.5m and Alphonse Areola valued at £37m) so they went out and spent £8.5m on Mathew Ryan from Lokomotiv Moscow who now appears to be first choice :cab:

They also spent £120m on Gabriel Jesus.

The AI is silly, it took me a moment to work out why/how I kept getting confusing messages like this about one of my own players:

https://i.imgur.com/U4D64k8.jpg

[Baz]

I had Harry Kane signed sealed and almost delivered on deadline day but either my bad maths or the game pulling a fast one meant I was short and I ended up signing nobody. :uhoh:

[Limoutsonik]

Quick question,what's your take on multiple first teamers being loans?I am being priced out or flatly rejected by smaller teams for sensible bids i make and i am forced to loan players to fill my roster.I am in Lazio after 3 years and even though i have loaned Djibril Sidibe,Javi Martinez,Gabriel Barbosa and Krychowiak to name a few,i still need to get players when the season finishes.I know this probably doesn't bode well for the future but what's your opinion since the the player values are exorbitant?

[Spikey M]

There does seem to be a big difference between what other clubs can sign players for and what I can.

Every conference I’m being told I over spent on whoever I’m welcoming, whilst my rivals are still pulling in players for half what they’d accept from me.

[Disco]

Standard. The ai has always been able to get better deals done, who here hasn't missed out on a player who goes and signs for another club on half the wages he wanted from you.

[wullie]

https://i.imgur.com/gc68mIy.jpg

This is the point I've left West Ham. Load of big cheeses after me with Spurs, Arsenal and Liverpool offering me the job, but I was listed as favourite to take over an Inter team who are only second behind Juve on goal difference, so I'm off to Italy. That's a spicy meataballa.

Worst part is that the CPU either completely ignores the rules or is too stupid to process them, as the Europa League squad is six Italian players short of the minimum with only three replacements allowed, so I have to submit a 21-man squad to get around it.

[Mike]

Two and a half seasons ago I took over a club last in the league and just about kept them up

https://i.imgur.com/biW3dqJ.png
:cool2:

https://i.imgur.com/Rzeypni.png

Mostly down to this mans goals
https://i.imgur.com/sQwZo3h.png

https://i.imgur.com/pywEIap.png
https://i.imgur.com/Ww9MU2S.png

First time at the club I've spent more than I sold
https://i.imgur.com/m5wiAa3.png
and signed a lot of free transfers. (I trial anyone released and offer anyone with good stars a deal)
https://i.imgur.com/xWusBPw.png

I also got the Chile job :D

[Mike]

Contract ran out. After a failed interview at Birmingham, I'm currently the bookies favourites for the Sunderland job.

I'm on a month to month deal, something I hadn't seen before:
https://i.imgur.com/f2LpjVp.png

EDIT:
And I've gone!
https://i.imgur.com/Z7u7OO1.png

[Spikey M]

You look like a lesbian, Mike.

[phonics]

and in the game.

[Mike]

A sexy lesbian though.

[nsd]

I've just started a Blackburn save with a transfer update, they have some ridiculously good young players:


Jack Evans
https://i.gyazo.com/b5bbba1fcd96db6cf1f4233362ed92ae.png

Kyle Connell - no technical ability, just a battering ram up front :drool:
https://i.gyazo.com/88e090eeb01676edde87cb995f5bcc66.png

George Wilson
https://i.gyazo.com/facc44f3fb7b654b3f5ca5c3de6deefa.png

Tyler Magloire
https://i.gyazo.com/7370b49c77b9611789009128aac97cfa.png

David Raya - those PPMS on a keeper though :sick:
https://i.gyazo.com/66ba3744d40cda0e5654408f2384d625.png

Sold the 20% sell on fee clause for Phil Jones which got me just over 3m. Fully expect to go up as champions, and most of these players are good enough for the Championship. The board want me to sign high profile players so I need to remove that asap, cos who the fuck am I supposed to sign in League 1?

[Spikey M]

What’s PPMS?

Anyway, David Rays is currently my Southend ‘keeper. Signed him for £8 mil when we were promoted to the premiership. He’s pretty solid.

[Baz]

Preferred player moves, ie Tries to Play Way Out Of Trouble.

[Mike]

https://i.imgur.com/3Gf5jiP.png
FFS!! They've got like £10mil in the bank, why do they need the money :(

Last time it happened I could threaten to quit, I guess cos I haven't been there long I can't this time.

EDIT: The little legend turned them down :D

[Baz]

Anyone fancy winning £25k? (http://www.esportsinsider.com/2018/02/bidstack-football-manager-tournament/)

[SvN]

*checks for affiliate id in link*

[Spikey M]

“Norwich City Legends”

alright mate.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Is it worth (£20) it this year?

[Baz]

Is it worth (£20) it this year?yep

[SvN]

I asked this months ago and noone replied - where's the cheapest place to buy it?

[phonics]

Baz linked it for 20 quid in GameZine.

[Giggles]

Isn't CD Keys always the answer to that? I got it for under €30 at launch on there. And it was still a waste of money.

[Baz]

I asked this months ago and noone replied - where's the cheapest place to buy it?http://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?74-General-gaming-discussion&p=252672&viewfull=1#post252672

£18.81 if you get the Facebook 5% code.

[Disco]

It was on sale on Steam yesterday, other than that holding your nose and googling for a key site is going to be the cheapest.

[SvN]

Fuck me, linking to a post, with links to a post on reddit, which links to the website.

P.S. thanks

[phonics]

You've probably entered 6 affiliate links in that time as well.

[Giggles]

You never ever click on a Baz link.

[Baz]

:rolleyes:

Only Amazon (http://amzn.to/2ECvSXP) :checkit: (its £19.99 on there)

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Loading up 118 leagues from 75 nations.

A little reserved for me but Claasen has added some new nations which is cool.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://i.imgur.com/45PMkQB.png

Edit: Stupidly gave myself an A coaching badge and I had 150 offers in the first day. Retired and gave myself a C badge, should be less mental.

[Dquincy]

More updates please.

Glad Mahow has got in on the action.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Had to change it a little as I got a couple of crash dumps so it's fewer leagues/countries.

I am now the proud manager of Montserrat Volcano Observatory Tremors.

Predicted to finish 4th in the 6 team league which is dominated by the Royal Montserrat Police Force who have won 6 of the 8 titles (it's been going since 1974 but a volcano has caused a lot of disruption). It's only a 4 month league (September-December) with 10 games so it's pretty slow paced.

We have no rivals but I'd like to unofficially declare the Seven Day Adventists and the Secondary School our rivals.

One of our strikers only has 5 finishing so that will be fun.

Stadium has a capacity of 1000 apparently so sadly we wont be able to accommodate the whole of the 6000 or so living on the island. Here is the stadium:

http://www.europlan-online.de/files/5a5d55882f7339cb9efc22af7cb1765b.jpg

http://www.europlan-online.de/files/73ef9df4dbdde47f9d5559df3bb79318.jpg

http://www.europlan-online.de/files/a48a4242155ab1bdc8959a436663e656.jpg

http://www.europlan-online.de/files/3404adb5b15357edc373a93d84f76861.jpg

Here's a picture of the island from Wiki:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Topographic-map-of-Montserrat-en.svg/744px-Topographic-map-of-Montserrat-en.svg.png

Here is our best player:

https://i.imgur.com/X3ClBeD.png

I'm training him to be a striker as I'll be using a 4-3-3 from the Steam workshop and I just hope that his pace will fuck everyone in the league.

[wullie]

There's a Hells Gate and half of the island is an exclusion zone? What a place.

[phonics]

Is this where Player Unknowns Battlegrounds happens?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Newgen day in Montserrat and our squad has a GOLDEN GENERATION. Here's the best:

https://i.imgur.com/8jOnR9a.png

Golden indeed.

[Disco]

Observaty?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's a display error or something I think.

It has the correct name (Observatory) when I click on the team page but it gets shortened to that everywhere else.

It's incredibly fucking annoying and I even bought the editor to try and fix it but I obviously can't change it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

And we're done.

https://i.imgur.com/M6H1tOG.png

https://i.imgur.com/agnoYuV.png

Had a few slip ups (fuck PC United and the church going wankers) but we had the title all but tied up going into the last game as we had a 3point and 5 goal difference buffer.

https://i.imgur.com/25q0Qzs.png

Steve Taylor was great. He scored 10 in 10 (4 penalties) so the experiment to turn him into a ST worked.

[Spikey M]

I’ve seen Mahows stadium from a helicopter :cool:

Nearly showered it with shite and vomit. Less :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Where were you to get a helicopter over Montserrat? Did you see bits of the exclusion zone? How much of a wreck was it?

[wullie]

You play the police, a school and what sounds like a death cult. Montserrat sounds more like a Bond villain's private island with each turn.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You play the police, a school and what sounds like a death cult. Montserrat sounds more like a Bond villain's private island with each turn.

Wherever I go next will be a clear step back.

[Spikey M]

Where were you to get a helicopter over Montserrat? Did you see bits of the exclusion zone? How much of a wreck was it?

On our Honeymoon cruise, got the helicopter from Antigua. It basically looked like a car park, but the pavement has been laid over whatever the fuck was there. Basically, the Volcano is the Pikey of the piece. There were still trees cracking on with life, which I found pretty mental. We mostly just circled the volcano though.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's fun to stay at the...

https://i.imgur.com/KOr2daQ.png

https://i2.wp.com/www.towleroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Article-Lead-wide998907805giq25zimage.related.articleLeadwide.7 29x410.giq271.png1438560535321.jpg-620x349-2.jpg?resize=480%2C269

Full name of the club is Young Men's Christian Academic Futebol Clube and I just couldn't say no.

We're in the East Timorese Football League Second Division Group A which is an incredible catchy name and we're predicted to finish second.

Here is our best player:

https://i.imgur.com/Wf9n6uE.png

Here is the stadium:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Timor_Leste_Nacional_Stadion.jpg

http://8319-presscdn-0-95.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/DSCN9006.jpg

https://photos.travelblog.org/Photos/30139/525818/f/5393284-national_stadium-0.jpg

There is £35k in the bank with a £17 wage budget of which we're using £13.

[Mike]

Someone's hit the big time!

[Mike]

https://i.imgur.com/zEMg4N9.png

Going well!

[Mike]

https://i.imgur.com/jREF1yU.png

Got Wigan first in the playoffs.

[Adramelch]

Sir Andy Mahowry: How do you find the reputation thing this version? Last version I went with the lowest possible options and still found that I got unrealistic offers quite often. Is it still the same?

[Dquincy]

Loving it Mahow. How many matches in a season with the new club?

Mike - you promoted?...or not.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Sir Andy Mahowry: How do you find the reputation thing this version? Last version I went with the lowest possible options and still found that I got unrealistic offers quite often. Is it still the same?
Too early to tell (I found last year it took about 3 or 4 jobs and then the jump was huge) but right now I've only been getting offers for interviews from half star teams and a few one star teams.

Loving it Mahow. How many matches in a season with the new club?

Mike - you promoted?...or not.

12 games, the winner of the two groups are promoted but they also then play in a 'GRAND FINAL' to determine who the ultimate champion is.

[Mike]

Loving it Mahow. How many matches in a season with the new club?

Mike - you promoted?...or not.
I have Wigan in the play offs, I’ll do them tomorrow :)

[Mike]

Play off time!
https://i.imgur.com/wWXX4bK.jpg
Not happy with that away goal, came late on and mostly as my left back had gone off injured so the right back was filling in for him.

https://i.imgur.com/1MWjpYT.jpg
Flippin eck. Turns out only having one left back and one good right back isn't going to lead to glory.

[Dquincy]

Shiiiiiiit.

Keep your decent players in the summer hopefully and build on it.

[SvN]

https://i.imgur.com/jREF1yU.png

Got Wigan first in the playoffs.

The Saddlers staying safe :cool:

[Disco]

The mighty Grecians falling short of any actual achievement is pretty realistic.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

3 league games in and I already have backups moaning about not starting enough.

It's nice to know that some things just don't change.

[Adramelch]

3 league games in and I already have backups moaning about not starting enough.

It's nice to know that some things just don't change.

My favourite thing in the previous version was rotation players moaning about not starting enough while starting half the games and featuring as subs in even more.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

This league is annoying as fuck.

12 games running from March to fucking September. June is the only month that no one plays as well so it's not like there is a huge period off.

https://i.imgur.com/hx9Df2V.png

Also my team hates me because of my lack of reputation, the wankers.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://i.imgur.com/8ROOE43.png

https://i.imgur.com/o086IEm.png

:drool:

Small pockets has also gone with Mancini replacing him.

[Adramelch]

Started my own Jman game although nothing as extreme as Mahow's. I loaded all the European leagues (no customs):

https://i.imgur.com/uDCSzET.png

Went on holiday until mid-November and then started applying for jobs. I got various interview offers as well as proper job offers and decided to go for:

https://telesport.cms.mtv.hu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/soroks%C3%A1r-logo.png

That's Soroksár SC from Hungary's second tier. That's how the league looks at the time I took over:

https://i.imgur.com/y8GRJiU.png

It's going to be an uphill battle, but the club is definitely underperforming so I think we can turn it around.

[Mike]

Shiiiiiiit.

Keep your decent players in the summer hopefully and build on it.

I’ve made some big changes as it was an older squad.

I’ve decided not going up is for the best as we’d come back down. Hopefully we go up as champions this year :cool2:

[Adramelch]

--
It's going to be an uphill battle, but the club is definitely underperforming so I think we can turn it around.

10 games later, in which we earned a grand total of 6 points and I'm starting to reevaluate my position. :rosebud:

Edit: And I got sacked due to losing the support of the players (even though we had started to turn it around a bit). What a nice little feature that is!

[Adramelch]

I see SI still haven't figured out how "Interfering with play" works in the offside rule.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://i.imgur.com/nDKhVk5.png

:moop:

Chairman also resigned a day after the initial news item came in.

Edit: A day later...

https://i.imgur.com/hMeyxVk.png

They don't fuck about in East Timor (despite having 50 odd days between matches in some cases), they came in on Sunday 19th and had it all completed on the 22nd.