The Football Manager Thread

[John]

I've brought Eduardo back to Dinamo, and the fans are beside themselves over it. £275k is a bargain even at thirty three.

He's just spanked in a hat trick on his redebut. :drool:

EDIT - And now four goals in the first nineteen minutes of a Champion's League qualifier against Differedange.

[The Merse]

Eduardo :happycry:

That's the kind of signing I love in FM.

[Giggles]

Those are the sort of transfers that result in a stadium being named after you.

[Giggles]

I know it's just a game, but still :D


http://i.imgur.com/K4PoVrj.png


Also, Liverpool are after this guy. He's been a regular starter since coming through but looking back he only hit 7.06 for the past season and I'm quite tempted to cash in if they come in at his €40m valuation and then get another season out of Clasie.


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


I've this guy coming in after signing him on a free in January too. Not at the same level of ratings but looks like he's good enough to see some first team action.


http://i.imgur.com/K42jIFa.png

[John]

We've drawn Red Star in the third Champion's League qualifying round. That's a fixture with a shitload of history and they're 'fierce rivals' in the game, but I don't think they've played eachother in about twenty years.

If only the game simulated riots.

[John]

http://i67.tinypic.com/27ypb8z.png

There will be ethnic cleansing after that.

[Toby]

Good: We beat PSG in both legs of the Champions League Round of 16.
Bad: Bournemouth knocked us out of the FA Cup, we drew Real Madrid in the quarter finals, Mulumbu is out for most of the rest of the season

Still joint top of the league, and with a better run in than Arsenal who are the only other side with a reasonable shout. This season seems to have taken a real world month to get through though...

[Jeet]

Why is Newcastle's Perez been such a don in the last 2 versions of FM?

[John]

I've knocked back a million bids for him, had two fights with him, and had to promise a seventeen year old child that we would make the Champion's League, but Davor Lovren is beginning to look the part. He's going to be big.

http://i63.tinypic.com/b6wrnn.png

[John Arne]

I've just had a player actually miss a game because he got pissed and failed to catch the fucking team bus. He then failed to show up for traning on Monday morning, too. Twat.

https://gyazo.com/31235e8bf039366a6cd855e4e9738c66.png

https://gyazo.com/cb8c4bfae883c52a51bff311a05f5766.png

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is that a newgen? Must be on dodgy legal ground otherwise.

[John Arne]

I've knocked back a million bids for him, had two fights with him, and had to promise a seventeen year old child that we would make the Champion's League, but Davor Lovren is beginning to look the part. He's going to be big.


That's actually Dejan Lovren's younger (better) brother.

[John Arne]

Is that a newgen? Must be on dodgy legal ground otherwise.

It is. I guess the Crewe nightlife is just too tempting for him.

[John]

That's actually Dejan Lovren's younger (better) brother.

I mentioned that when I first posted about him. He was in and out of the team last year but he's first choice on the left this and he's been shit hot so far.

[Gray Fox]

Is it bad that I'm a little impressed that's been put in?

[John]

Why wouldn't he have been?

[Smiffy]

:drool: Good lord.

http://s19.postimg.org/856z1yihv/Stefon_Collinge_Overview_Profile.png

Tipped to be the next Gordon Banks.

[Sam]

Jeez, pretty sweet pull from the academy there.

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[Toby]

http://i.imgur.com/mkkRY5m.png

Sandwiched between their Champions League semi-final with Barcelona, which hopefully plays in our favour. I might go back to my first season approach and bore them to death for a 0-0.

[Toby]

Arsenal beat us comfortably, but we beat Everton on the final day to cap off the most unrealistic season I've ever played:

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

I still expect there to be a hard bump back to mediocrity coming, especially as the success feels largely dependent on three or four players doing brilliantly.

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

http://i.imgur.com/PGo3IsG.png

I don't have any strong transfer targets yet. I think I'm going to funnel some of my budget towards wages as I expect a few will want improved contracts now.

[Disco]

This game is taking the piss now, took a job in the Premiership with Southampton only for this joker to start giving me grief.

http://i.imgur.com/LTTY1TM.jpg

I wonder if there's a reason you're not in the starting line up...

http://i.imgur.com/0vgmgdY.jpg

[Giggles]

Arsenal beat us comfortably, but we beat Everton on the final day to cap off the most unrealistic season I've ever played:

I still expect there to be a hard bump back to mediocrity coming, especially as the success feels largely dependent on three or four players doing brilliantly.

I don't have any strong transfer targets yet. I think I'm going to funnel some of my budget towards wages as I expect a few will want improved contracts now.

I found that during the short spell I had managing the Irish team in my game that Nathan Redmond is really good in this.

[Demerit]

What tactic is everyone using :confused:

This year's version is killing me off.

[Toby]

I found that during the short spell I had managing the Irish team in my game that Nathan Redmond is really good in this.

Yeah he's brilliant. It's mostly down to being faster than almost everybody he comes up against though so not sure how long it'll last.


What tactic is everyone using :confused:

This year's version is killing me off.

I change all the time, but most commonly 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1. This coming season I'm thinking to start with an asymmetric 4-5-1 that would let me get Pjaco and Gotze in their best natural positions. My main problem with that idea though is that Destro is far, far better with a supporting striker alongside him.

[John]

http://i63.tinypic.com/1pcxlf.png

Attacking, high tempo, fluid, short passing, slightly higher defensive line, play the ball out of defence, and work the ball into the box.

Have you tried using a 'shadow striker', Toby? I'd imagine Gotze would be good at it and might give Destro enough support to let you change shape without sacrificing him.

[Toby]

Do you always have Lovren left and Pjaco right?



Have you tried using a 'shadow striker', Toby? I'd imagine Gotze would be good at it and might give Destro enough support to let you change shape without sacrificing him.

Not yet, but what's worked best in the 4-4-2 is that Van Wolfswinkel has offered the aerial presence that Destro lacks. I'll maybe give it a go though as Destro is ridiculously good at finding space, so having somebody in that sort of role might open it up for him.

[Charlie]

I have a 4-3-3, as its always been my favoured tactic. It generally scores a lot, but concedes loads, too.

As many people have been saying, this version is really lacking a master tactic so far. I suppose I have mid table level players, and get destroyed by the top teams every time, whilst beating most others.

[Giggles]

I've never varied from my 4-1-2-2-1. Next time I load up I'll post the instructions.

I must do soon actually as I bought Schurrle for my CL push :cool:

[Foe]

My Fulham side decided to shit the bed when it became apparent we had a shot at top 4. About 5 points from the last 8 games meant we finished 6th.

Good season. But fuck off.

[Manc]

What a wonderful player Coric is. I need to get my laptop fixed.

[John]

Do you always have Lovren left and Pjaco right?

Not yet, but what's worked best in the 4-4-2 is that Van Wolfswinkel has offered the aerial presence that Destro lacks. I'll maybe give it a go though as Destro is ridiculously good at finding space, so having somebody in that sort of role might open it up for him.

I've just noticed I took a screenshot from after a game where I'd changed it, Lovren plays as a winger usually. They always start that way around, but when Lovren develops his finishing a bit I'll try switching them around and playing them both as inside forwards.

The change I made to get Pjaca playing last year was to make Coric a shadow striker and Pavicic a playmaker. It's far from Coric's best role, but from the moment I made that change he's been miles better and everyone around him has gone up a level. Pjaca has eight goals and five assists in fourteen games so far this season, so it's definitely working.

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[Yevrah]

Are you on FM16 Smiff? If so, does the game suffer from a piss poor level of newgens when you get that far in?

[Giggles]

Demerit

http://i.imgur.com/YqkpT2A.png


http://i.imgur.com/1zdytqv.png

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[Jeet]

When you trying to sell players and clubs bid half the price....

[Demerit]

Cheers everyone, I'll try out Giggles and John's formations to start with.

[Giggles]

I lost my first game of the season 5-0 to Arsenal, slated the players, jacked it in, and I've now just been hired as manager of 18th placed Aston Villa in mid September.

[Browning]

Gillingham want £12.5m for the young CM I signed for free... and after declaring interest to unsettle him they were prepared to let him go for £3m. It's a rip off but as I was developing him myself I was willing to pay it. He then wouldn't negotiate with me because he didn't want to return to Gillingham on loan, and they refused to sell him without that clause. Fuck sake.

[Mazuuurk]

OK so first season finished, better results than I've had before in my first seasons with Arsenal, I think.

1st in Premier League
Everybody fucked up here. With 2 rounds left City were a point ahead of me, but they fucked it up somehow, and I managed to win - on only 71 points (!).

Semi final in Champions League
Also better than expected. Frustrating though, because I managed to turn a 3-1 deficit against Real Madrid into a 5-4 aggregate victory in the Quarter, only to go down 3-0 to Valencia (everything in my first season is fucking weird!) in the first leg of the semi. Back in London I managed to go 3-0 up, aiming for ET, but they scored 3-1 in the 90th and wend through to the final.

FA
Went out against City in a quite early round.

Top performers:
Sanchez has been good, Berardi (bought) stepped up although he's only 21, and Koscielny has been really solid throughout the season.


All in all, pretty decent season.

[randomlegend]

Every fucking team in the league rocks up playing some bullshit ultra-defensive formation with 2 defensive midfielders against me at the moment, even when I'm away.

Fuck off.

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[Raoul Duke]

I think I've managed to find a game that might stick - I've downloaded some random person's save I found on the internet and have taken over Utd in 2024.

The club has come 3rd for the past two seasons and won it three times since the start of the game. Jogi Low just got the boot and I've jumped in. The squad's pretty full of quality but there are very few home grown/English players here. I've mainly spent my time flogging some of the ridiculously overstocked midfield/strike force. I bought in a RB from Inter for about £35m and have signed some epic French kid for next season who looks like the lovechild of Vieira and Makelele.

There's a good few youngsters at the club, either here or out on loan, and there are three who, whilst being years off first team-ready, I reckon after a loan or two maybe could be pretty nifty. They're all 4 gold/1 black potential and have some cracking stats in the right places.

Also - I signed Ronaldo as my assistant U-18 manager :cool:

[Raoul Duke]

Milne's a dreamboat :wub:

[Dark Soldier]

I think I've managed to find a game that might stick - I've downloaded some random person's save I found on the internet and have taken over Utd in 2024.

The club has come 3rd for the past two seasons and won it three times since the start of the game. Jogi Low just got the boot and I've jumped in. The squad's pretty full of quality but there are very few home grown/English players here. I've mainly spent my time flogging some of the ridiculously overstocked midfield/strike force. I bought in a RB from Inter for about £35m and have signed some epic French kid for next season who looks like the lovechild of Vieira and Makelele.

There's a good few youngsters at the club, either here or out on loan, and there are three who, whilst being years off first team-ready, I reckon after a loan or two maybe could be pretty nifty. They're all 4 gold/1 black potential and have some cracking stats in the right places.

Also - I signed Ronaldo as my assistant U-18 manager :cool:

Got a link to the save? PM if necessary, cheers mate.

[Gray Fox]

Why wouldn't he have been?

I'd had the tab open a while before commenting and the new posts hadn't showed up. I was on about the newgen being out on the piss and missing game day.

[Smiffy]

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[Gray Fox]

Did you install a hair pack Smiffy?

[Raoul Duke]

Got a link to the save? PM if necessary, cheers mate.

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/football-manager-2016-discussion/352114-tycoon-takeover-save-games-2.html

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[Dark Soldier]

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/football-manager-2016-discussion/352114-tycoon-takeover-save-games-2.html

Cheers bro.

Up yours too Smiff, I'll give it a whirl. Got a lot of free time after Christmas so gonna get stuck into a save

[Gray Fox]

I did at some point but as to what it was called and where it was from, I have no idea.

On subject of graphics, I want backgrounds and is there a way I can edit the profile screens myself? I want a similar skin to the default one but with a darker background and less clutter on the profile page like above because my screen must be too small.

Try the usual suspects, FM Scout, FM Base, Sortitoutsi etc.

http://www.fmscout.com/c-fm16-mods.html

[Raoul Duke]

We start the season off by fisting Man City in the Charity Shield.

I must say - the new regen faces + the hair pack thing I downloaded make the game way better. They look much more interesting and varied. Subtle, but really cool.

[Demerit]

I've tried Guido's strikerless formation, my own formation, Giggles formation, John's formation.

Played 23. Lost 21. Drawn 1. Won 1.

I don't know what it is with the game. It happens with every team! I've played as Real Madrid and lost my first 6, Barcelona and won 2 in 10. Watford and had the record above.

And players with 'Backup' as their squad status, getting 13 sub appearances and 4 starts from 23 games and causing trouble in the dressing room is officially game breaking.

[randomlegend]

Pogba has just requested a transfer from Juve in January of the first season :drool:

I'll sell my nan if I have to.

[Chrissy]

I've tried Guido's strikerless formation, my own formation, Giggles formation, John's formation.

Played 23. Lost 21. Drawn 1. Won 1.

I don't know what it is with the game. It happens with every team! I've played as Real Madrid and lost my first 6, Barcelona and won 2 in 10. Watford and had the record above.

And players with 'Backup' as their squad status, getting 13 sub appearances and 4 starts from 23 games and causing trouble in the dressing room is officially game breaking.

Try these, go with the counter high to begin with,

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/share-download-fm-16-tactics/352622-laldy-counter-control-tactics.html

[randomlegend]

He's cost me £70m (30 up front and the rest over 48 months) but I got Pogba.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WAOxKOmR90

Ineligible for the Champions League this season which is a bit annoying, but I've still got decent strength in midfield even without him.

Juve were prepared to pay £40m to get Herrera in as a replacement and I considered taking it, but he's my (now second) best midfielder so I've decided to try and get them to forge a partnership instead. Possibly bring in Schneiderlin for the tough games to give a bit more steel.

[Browning]

My team has been awful at learning any tactics with the bars still like 20% full at the start of the season and a dire opening performance. This could be fun...

[Baz]

My Irish scout's been wanking in his homeland and now there's papertalk of an Irish revolution at Luton, starting with Shamrock Rovers' Mikey Drennan and Cork City's Danny Morrissey. :cool:

[John Arne]

Dundalk seems to be a decent youth system.

[Baz]

Made a few changes to my tactic ready for League 1. One up front, still, but moved the AM to DM and pulled the wingers back to midfielders.

http://www.littlemonstersforum.co.uk/images/q/4paqtj59.png

Finally sacked off "complete forward" too, because none of my players were good enough. Won some friendlies with this new one, so fingers crossed it works in the league because I need consecutive promotions for it to hold my interest.

[Jeet]

Yeh I scrapped Complete Forward, used to use False St in previous version, that didn't work aswell, but Advanced Forward seems decent for me now.

Sold Baines, Mirallas for their value amount as cannot get any high bids with clubs offering half the price they are worth, so was lucky to get that.

Got in Chambers £14mill as he was really good in my Arsenal save. Also signed Rulli on a bosman, will replace Howard

[igor_balis]

Having real consistency issues. Excellent form until Novermberish, then terrible form. Same with Montrose and Crewe. Morale and fitness still alright for both as well.

[Browning]

What is the best way for me to improve familiarity with a formation? I never normally touch training etc but I feel like my team will get destroyed if I don't improve this fast. Don't remember having this issue before either.

[Dark Soldier]

Put the tactic in all three slots and set training to match tactics.

[Mazuuurk]

I get really fucked off with how transfer fees work in this game. I'm bidding for Jonathan Tah, a talented player for sure, but he's 20...20! And Leverkusen want 70 Million for him. 70 fucking million for a 20-year old. It's not as if he's the re-incarnation of Messi or anything.

[AE]

AE has just scored a penalty against me :D

What? Who am I playing for? :cool:

[randomlegend]

I get really fucked off with how transfer fees work in this game. I'm bidding for Jonathan Tah, a talented player for sure, but he's 20...20! And Leverkusen want 70 Million for him. 70 fucking million for a 20-year old. It's not as if he's the re-incarnation of Messi or anything.

They just don't want to sell, but are saying if you are stupid enough to pay that much then they'd take it.

When teams are actually prepared to (or are having to) sell a player I find the prices are pretty reasonable.

[Byron]

What? Who am I playing for? :cool:

Carolina Railhawks. Also been capped 5 times for Tanzania.

[John]

Asking for seventy usually means they want thirty five. Or halfway between whatever you've offered and seventy if you aren't just enquiring.

[Giggles]

I've binned my game after quitting last night. Need to check if there's a backup before I did.

[Mike]

Took them up against all odds and now this:
https://i.imgur.com/CJyVphL.png

[Baz]

El payaso gets el sackico. :youpi:

[Jimmy Floyd]

In my game, David Beckham has just bought Hull City. And why wouldn't he?

A consortium is approaching Cellino as well which would be marvellous news as he's a tight fucker and the only signing I was able to make was Giorgos Samaras on a free.

[Foe]

Going to attempt an overhaul of my Fulham team. Out go the whiners first, and in comes an argentine guy called Romero who my scouts seem to think is the bollocks in anticipation of one of the FOURTEEN clubs after Rincon actually force my hand.

[Mike]

It's not looking good
https://i.imgur.com/K1dTRX9.png

[John]

I think there's some low level match fixing going on in my game.

http://i67.tinypic.com/25f1vmg.png

He hasn't got many caps but he's shit hot.

http://i66.tinypic.com/2wluj9k.png

Go on, Senol. Explain yourself.

[Mike]

Ah well
https://i.imgur.com/23rYBDv.png

[Mike]

End of a legend. Got the record for most league appearances of all time at Winterthur this last season.
https://i.imgur.com/jxFxkJt.png

[Dquincy]

I would have never left cm 01/02 if this was my jam. You need to get with the 2D classic, Smiff.

What is it with many people and nostalgia for CM 01/02? I played it back in the day, but I can't separate it from the others 14 yrs later.

What was so good about it?

[Shindig]

Its quick and piss.

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[Baz]

4-4-2 Baz beat that son'bitch.

[John]

Complete shit in my youth intake once again. If the game doesn't throw me a quality regen soon I'm going to have to either park this game or change my parameters, both of which would be a shame because I'm seriously enjoying it at the moment.

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[five time]

If anyone fancies a challenge on this years version, have a look at Darmstadt. Tiny stadium, smallest wage budget, and the oldest squad in the Bundesliga. The bottom two teams go down, and we're five points clear of safety already after having not won in our first twelve.
https://i.gyazo.com/91715b327b8d48b885ab5a300d73cc27.png

We seem to be playing decent football, surprisingly most of our team are averaging above 7, but we just can't finish. Pretty sure we're going to have to rely on the free transfer market so I'm looking at either Michu or Adebayor to come in in January and save our season.

Another interesting save I considered in Germany before starting this was Red Bull Leipzig. They're in the second tier but have a 50k plus stadium and some decent players already, so look set up to challenge within a couple of years.

[Bam]

Can anyone recommend some decent Championship players? I'm at Huddersfield and struggling to convince players to join. I urgently need wing backs for both sides.

So far I've got Paul Robinson in on a free and Fredrik Nordkvelle from Fulham for £85k, still have £2m in the bank.

[Mazuuurk]

They just don't want to sell, but are saying if you are stupid enough to pay that much then they'd take it.

When teams are actually prepared to (or are having to) sell a player I find the prices are pretty reasonable.

Yeah but that's not quite how it works in real life. All players have a price, really. If anyone came to Leverkusen with 70 million today for Jonatan Tah, they'd be all over it, no matter his potential. If they really didn't wanna sell the price difference might be in the region of 25-35 million or so, not fucking 70.

Like I asked Milan what they want for Romagnoli, who is 21, and they said 112 million. What? He's really good, but he's still 21.

Juve wanted 108 for Pogba :cab:

Edit: to clarify, Pogba may indeed be worth 108 million. Romagnoli is in no way worth more than Pogba.

[Manc]

Avoid Michu like the plague.

[Mazuuurk]

Guys anyone 3-5 years in who could give me a screenshot of Calum Chambers?

I'm looking for a central defender to partner Koscielny (and beyond) and all options seem very pricey, but he may be good enough really.

I've got Koscielny and Mertesacker, but the latter is, well you know, and the only backup I have right now is this kid Bazoer that I signed, but he seems more like a DMC than anything.

[Bam]

Fuck this Huddersfield save, think I'll make a West Ham one.

[Mike]

Had an interview at Lierse :D

[Foe]

Football manager throws up some really odd transfers.

I'm playing FM15 and we've just finished the third season and Tottenham have just sold Harry Kane (their only striker) to Man City for £12million. :saywhat:

[John]

He was nowhere near as good on the last one. In my Maritimo game he was the man to break the Messaldo domination of the Ballon d'Or.

[John]

Some of the scheduling in the Croatian league is atrocious. It's been a fairly regular occurrence over the first two seasons to have two league games within a couple of days of eachother followed by an inexplicable week off that doesn't correlate with any international football, but the final week of the second season has just taken all the biscuits and all the cakes. I have a league game on the Saturday, followed by another one on the Monday, then the Croatian cup final on Wednesday. That Saturday game comes after a full week break for us and an eight day break for our opponents, so could easily have been rescheduled.

If I didn't already have the league tied up I'd be fully seething.

[five time]

Avoid Michu like the plague.

Because of the injury proneness? Just made him my highest paid player :uhoh:

[John]

And to make things better, this week with four games in it (I play the following Saturday too) fucking does coincide with some international football. It's under twenty one stuff, but that takes my right back, my second best centre back, and my first choice left winger out of the equation. Now I am seething, I have to play a cup final with half a squad.

[Foe]

He was nowhere near as good on the last one. In my Maritimo game he was the man to break the Messaldo domination of the Ballon d'Or.

Fair. I just found it odd that they sold literally the only striker they had in their first team squad for relative peanuts.

I've had a pretty good summer so far though. I've replaced both keepers with some Eastern European called rajkovic (?) who is 21 and looks the bollocks and Ron Robert zieler. Both on frees. Delefeu has signed on a free, Musacchio has come in as my
CB for about 6 million quid, Romero in for under 20 to partner rincon and I've nabbed odegard on loan to see how good he is.

Relying heavily on some young cbs (souttar and some regens) but it's nice to see the squad getting better.

[five time]

Reached the end of January and we still haven't won a game.

https://i.gyazo.com/90e623ee41247b323d44113499199f34.png

Michu on a free and Nikica Jelavic and Harrison Reed in on loan is all we can afford, but that does strengthen us quite a bit. Getting out of the bottom three is probably already too much, so we're shooting for 16th, which is a relegation playoff.

[randomlegend]

Yeah but that's not quite how it works in real life. All players have a price, really. If anyone came to Leverkusen with 70 million today for Jonatan Tah, they'd be all over it, no matter his potential. If they really didn't wanna sell the price difference might be in the region of 25-35 million or so, not fucking 70.

Like I asked Milan what they want for Romagnoli, who is 21, and they said 112 million. What? He's really good, but he's still 21.

Juve wanted 108 for Pogba :cab:

Edit: to clarify, Pogba may indeed be worth 108 million. Romagnoli is in no way worth more than Pogba.

But Milan have no reason to sell Romagnoli, so they just give you a crazy price in the hope you fuck off.

The £70m quoted by Leverkusen is mad, but as John says it will be negotiable. If they see him as a top prospect then they probably would try to bend you over - and I don't think it's that far off reflecting real life. Martial cost Man Utd £35m+ in the summer after all.

Pogba requested a transfer in my game as I said, and I got him for £70m which is pretty damn reasonable for one of the best players in the game.

I also got Rugani for £28m, Gimenez for £28.5m and Berardi for £32m - all of whom are top prospects.

I don't think the transfer market is perfect by any stretch: if you are actively trying to sell a player teams just give you fuck all for them for example, and some of the smaller clubs probably do refuse to sell players they couldn't realistically hold onto in real life, but overall I think this version and the last version are much better than previous years.

[Dquincy]

Which fm is that, dquincy?

Sorry, only just seen this (currently reading this thread back on pg 18).

I'm playing FM11. I love it, right level of depth on this version for me. Although I might buy FM Touch on the iPad for this years version. Has anyone had any joy with Touch?

[Raoul Duke]

Quick update on my Utd game (2025):

I sold a couple of players to my chums at Real Madrid (£50m for some pretty average Ivorian midfielder and about £30m for Icardi who is 31 and has yet to play for me as he has been injured 24/7). I spent about the same amount on a wonderkid Russian CAM and an English striker who's got beastly stats all over the shop and is only 24. 4-in-3 for him so far.

They wanted Martial initially but kept coming in with shit 'non-negotiable' bids. So dumb. Could have squeezed £70m out of them but I don't need to sell and he's ace.

Other than that, we're doing pretty well. We've only dropped a couple of points and seem to be scoring pretty regularly. Couple of shitty injuries but survivable as the squad's still a little bloated.

[Mazuuurk]

But Milan have no reason to sell Romagnoli, so they just give you a crazy price in the hope you fuck off.

The £70m quoted by Leverkusen is mad, but as John says it will be negotiable. If they see him as a top prospect then they probably would try to bend you over - and I don't think it's that far off reflecting real life. Martial cost Man Utd £35m+ in the summer after all.

Pogba requested a transfer in my game as I said, and I got him for £70m which is pretty damn reasonable for one of the best players in the game.

I also got Rugani for £28m, Gimenez for £28.5m and Berardi for £32m - all of whom are top prospects.

I don't think the transfer market is perfect by any stretch: if you are actively trying to sell a player teams just give you fuck all for them for example, and some of the smaller clubs probably do refuse to sell players they couldn't realistically hold onto in real life, but overall I think this version and the last version are much better than previous years.

All of those prices are reasonable, yeah. But 70M for an unproven 20-year-old isn't, I reckon.

[Raoul Duke]

Just noticed that my back-up left back is 5'4" :eyemouth:

[Browning]

In my first proper month at Palace (by which I mean the first month with games to be played) I've had to take on both of my former clubs, facing L2 Woking in the Carling Cup and then Gillingham in the league. Woking gave us a game as we were dire in my first few matches while we learnt the tactic, and we ended up winning 3-2. Gillingham rolled over though and we stuffed them 4-1. Things seem to be picking up performance and results wise by the end of the month after some terrible games to begin the season.

Transfer wise we were very active as I spent £5m and sold players for £12m. The main sale was Jeremie Boga to QPR for £8.5m. I also sold Todd Kane for £1.3m while replacing him with Trippier for 300k, and sold Michael Ngoo to Sheffield United because of his obscene wages for about £900k. Most of my signings are youngsters that I instantly loaned out, one of which was Tarique Fosu from Gillingham for £1m. I hope he'll justify it one day, but he was free when I signed him for the Gills. I also signed Reece Burke and Kieran Dowell who I had on loan at Gillingham for all of my 2 and a half years there when their contracts expired. My "big name" is Fernandinho for 200k.

[igor_balis]

Apparently I broke financial fair play regulations with Crewe. Oops.

[randomlegend]

Damn, drew 1-1 with Madrid in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final at home and then got done 3-1 at their place.

Think Pogba would have made the difference but he was ineligible.

Mata came to me earlier in the season moaning about wanting to win the Champions League so I promised him I'd sell him if we didn't get to the 'later stages'. Not sure if this will be enough but I'd like to hang onto him.

[Baz]

http://www.littlemonstersforum.co.uk/images/q/2brklg4e.png

Best regen name I've seen for a while.

He's let me offer him a contract too. :drool:

[Giggles]

Do some of you have extra facepacks or a facepacks fix downloaded? All my 15 and 16 year old regens look 40.

[Baz]

I've not added anything to change the regen's appearance, just the usual cutout megapack for real players from sortitoutsi.

Absolutely stinking it up with Luton at the moment. Start of the second season I've lost the opening 3 league games and am out the league cup.

Not sure if it's my tactic or players that aren't upto scratch.

[randomlegend]

http://i.imgur.com/NKtXFUg.png?1

http://i.imgur.com/jRc7ERp.png?3

This is the team/squad going into my second season.

Transfers so far this summer have just been youngsters. I scouted over 300 of the English regen pool and brought in the best of them, including this beast:

http://i.imgur.com/a6cIQwS.png?1

:drool:

Only major outgoing was Schneiderlin, who Bayern came in for. I knew he wouldn't be first choice next season and I got them to pay £48.5m so it was time to let him move on. The rest going out are just loans/dross.

I've got Lingard, Pereira, Ould-Chikh and Ruben Neves out on loan.

Got £90m sat in the bank and I don't know what to do with it. I feel like I've got all the youngster I want and am happy with the first team. Mata is obviously 28 now but I'm hoping by the time he starts to wane that Ould-Chikh, Pereira or Januzaj will be stepping up.

I could go out and spend mega-money on someone but I'm not sure it's worth it.

Thoughts?

[randomlegend]

Oh and amusingly, half of Chelsea's first team are transfer listed by request after finishing 6th.

EDIT: England have just appointed Ranieri :D

[John]

Marko Pjaca finished the season as top scorer, with thirty six goals from the wing. Oddly not the league player of the season though, which went to a winger who averaged exactly eight over the season, a better average rating than everyone but my two full backs.

Pjaca has decided he's off now though, because he wants to win the Champion's League, so next season will be that little bit harder. He's not leaving anything less than his £21.5m release clause.

[Foe]

Team has decided to shit things up this season. Might just ring whole sale changes and give the backups a game.

[Jimmy Floyd]

After a great start, as a few are reporting on here my Leeds side has slumped in November and December to the extent that I can't see us winning again this season unless something changes. Teams are going 1-0 and 2-0 up against us in the first 15 minutes and then there's nothing I can do to make us threaten a goal. Also, the amount of time demanded by the game to set your team up properly and then watch the matches just isn't that enjoyable, I'm finding.

[Baz]

I've changed to the most basic bitch 4-4-2 in a last ditch attempt to save my Luton game. It's working. :joy:

[John Arne]

This guy is really starting to piss me off. He's either injured, or falling out of nightclubs. Missed training for the 4th time in less than a year - and he's surprised that I've fined him.

https://gyazo.com/6138fd1054ce5287ec60e8c78434bc3f.png

And he's a wonderkid.

[Raoul Duke]

That Zoran kid sounds like a total geezer.

@ random - there are some cracking youngsters who start at Utd alt Utd already (Tim F-M etc.). Are they kicking on?

[John]

Pjaca has decided to go about the process of leaving like a proper arsehole. He was fine with me rejecting fourteen million from Shakhtar in January, but when I rejected nine million off Man Utd he threw his toys everywhere. I told him I'd let him go if they came back with an offer that matched my asking price, set at his release clause, which he seemed fine with. They came back in at nine and a half, which was obviously rejected, and he's gone straight to the press, tried to foment a squad mutiny, and generally behaved in a manner that's tempted me to take the financial hit and just put him in the reserves for the next three years.

I've made the Champion's League group stages in both seasons so far, spent almost nothing in transfer fees, though I did pay out thirty grand a month in fees to bring in Dejan Lovren on loan for the second half of the second season, and I've brought in fifteen million in transfer fees. The result of all that is thirty six million in the bank, and the ability to write Pjaca off as a loss. The fucking twat.

In more pleasant and confounding news, Davor Lovren has become a club legend at the age of eighteen. The other two club legends are Velimir Zajec, who made two hundred odd appearances over ten years and managed them twice, and Drazan Jerkovic, who was there for a decade and scored a shitload of goals. Lovren has played sixty five goals over two years and done nothing of note. Even Zvonimir Boban, who was shit hot for a few years and publicly booted a Serbian policeman to defend a fan, is only an icon.

[MartinSAFC]

I got Football Manager 2016 for Christmas and started a save with Sunderland. (Somewhat unsurprisingly), the squad is shit to begin with and we have no transfer budget to speak of. I have sold some dross and ended Yedlin's loan to create around £7 million in funds but I need a left back, a creative central midfielder, a ball winning central midfielder and a left footed right winger. These players don't need to be world beaters just good enough to do a job (although I would prefer a better left back than van Aanholt and a better creative midfielder than Larsson). Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

[Dark Soldier]

Ludwig Augustinsson for left back, mate. Cheap and solid.

[John]

I got Football Manager 2016 for Christmas and started a save with Sunderland. (Somewhat unsurprisingly), the squad is shit to begin with and we have no transfer budget to speak of. I have sold some dross and ended Yedlin's loan to create around £7 million in funds but I need a left back, a creative central midfielder, a ball winning central midfielder and a left footed right winger. These players don't need to be world beaters just good enough to do a job (although I would prefer a better left back than van Aanholt and a better creative midfielder than Larsson). Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Andrija Zivkovic is your man for the right wing. Marius Lundemo is an all round midfielder who'd cost about eight quid and would do a good job as a ball winner. Ricky Alvarez is fairly heavily overrated in the game so he'd make a good creative midfielder on a free. Rodrigo Bentancur is a young player worth looking at too. He's a central midfielder who'd improve your first team right away, I'd imagine, and who can develop into a bit of a beast. Jorge of Flamengo develops into a Marcelo style nutter at left back but I have no idea how much he sells for in the beginning.

[John]

Marko Pjaca is off to Inter for his release fee. He'll be impossible to replace, but I'll charge on without him. Davor Lovren just played a perfect ten against Differedange, who we drew in the Champion's League qualifiers for the second time in three seasons. Four goals and three assists. :drool:

[Giggles]

Recovered my Southampton game. Had to go fairly far back but up to the new season now.

Final push for the CL in this one before dismantling the squad. Can't see a defender out there any better than I have so the only incomer, apart from the young Pole, is Schurrle for €26m from Liverpool. Sam Manning and Chris Evans also come into the first team squad from the youth setup.

[John]

Recovered my Southampton game. Had to go fairly far back but up to the new season now.

Final push for the CL in this one before dismantling the squad. Can't see a defender out there any better than I have so the only incomer, apart from the young Pole, is Schurrle for €26m from Liverpool. Sam Manning and Chris Evans also come into the first team squad from the youth setup.

From what I remember of your squad/tactic, you could probably make a big difference with a better defensive midfielder aswell as a serious world class centre back.

Thiago Maia is probably the go-to for a defensive midfielder. As for centre backs, Aymeric Laporte and Jose Gimenez should have release clauses, Niklas Sule shouldn't cost too much if he's still at Hoffenheim, Kyriakos Papadopoulos has been transfer listed by the third season in both the games I've played this year, and Eugene Khacheridi is great and always available. If you can spare eleventy billion quid, which you can after two years of the new TV deal, then Kostas Manolas is your man.

[Giggles]

:thbup:

The window has just SLAMMED SHUT but I'll check some of them out as it's only really for the latter stages I need someone in.

[Mike]

Basel are sniffing around my best regen. He's been getting game time and is coming along well. Promotion is looking a tough ask and if we don't get it I can't see him wanting to stay.
https://i.imgur.com/tJWDz2t.png

[Bam]

I'm really struggling to find a save that im happy with this year.

[Mazuuurk]

I was just like 'man, I really don't need more attackers, I need to find some more defence' and also 'man, I really don't want to sign the same players I always do on FM'.

Then I went and spontaneously agreed a 117M deal for Neymar (whom I signed with Arsenal on FM15 as well).

Just can't resist :moop:

[Giggles]

He went to Arsenal? Interesting to know for my next game.

[Mazuuurk]

I think it's a matter of "if you pay enough" here. But I "only" had to raise his salary from 300k/week to 325k/week. He got a plethora of ridiculous sign-on fees and bonuses though. Appearance fee of something like 62k :cab:

[Baz]

If a player has the Frt icon because he's decided he's off at the end of the season when his contract's up, is there no way to change his mind? My right back is one of my best players. :(

[Dquincy]

I'd be pulling my hair out...we've all been there.

I have Ahlen next, before Bayern on the last day. I do not want it coming down to a last day showdown away to Bayern.

http://s16.postimg.org/v65s0pi39/Ahlen_v_FC_Bayern_Information_Overview.png

We won the league :cool: Which is ridiculous considering they were 9th when i took over them in September. Here's the pictures...

http://s4.postimg.org/i3c8f6on1/Dortmund_v_Ahlen_Information_Overview.png

http://s4.postimg.org/mgfdbcmrh/1_Bundesliga_Information_League_Table.png

[Dquincy]

I've never seen a team collapse like Bayern did, they really did hand me the title. Here's their end of season results.

http://s1.postimg.org/txjpfu4kf/FC_Bayern_M_nchen_FC_Bayern_Fixtures_2.png

[Dquincy]

In pre-season for the 2033/34 campaign. I receive this news item...think they need to freshen it up a bit...


Shouldn't they have retired a long time ago?...Although one is a Dr.

http://s9.postimg.org/a0hjgb8sv/Quincy_News_Inbox.png

http://s30.postimg.org/eb6uueush/Dr_Reinhold_Lunow_Profile_Attributes.png

[Baz]

Offer him a new one for as long as possible, just to see how old he gets. :D

[randomlegend]

Valued at -£1 :(

[Dquincy]

Offer him a new one for as long as possible, just to see how old he gets. :D

:D Great idea. He'll be 85 yrs old by the time his contract runs out.

http://s30.postimg.org/n1kh8qa1t/Dr_Reinhold_Lunow_Profile_Contract_Offer.png

[Baz]

Form has completely fallen on it's arse, mainly because of long-term injuries to some of my better players.

Also seem to have got a lot worse since deciding to save my tactic. :panda:

These are the games since switching to 4-4-2:

http://www.littlemonstersforum.co.uk/images/q/ks2mw26a.png

[Dquincy]

He rejected the contract offer. :(

[five time]

Jelavic hit the ground running with five in his first five games, with us winning three of those, but injuries to Michu and our best midfielder Vrancic have seen things turn to shit again. We actually closed the gap a bit but we've just lost back to back to Ingolstadt and Augsburg and lost all of our progress.

https://i.gyazo.com/917bc2607f46c1d87ed1bf841cdfa956.png

Just realised that I signed a few of our players up with free transfer relegation release clauses as well. :face:

[Mike]

Went up in the first season, down in the second. The third....
https://i.imgur.com/TPvh1GK.png

Been unstoppable since the winter break.

My squad:
https://i.imgur.com/hRAph2h.png

[Mike]

I like this:
https://i.imgur.com/nt248Xz.png

My time at Swiss super (not so super) side Winterthur is at an end.
https://i.imgur.com/MUWYbBi.png

[Mazuuurk]

Also seem to have got a lot worse since deciding to save my tactic. :panda:


Why would that matter...?

[Raoul Duke]

That's pretty awesome Mike.

I lost my first game yesterday, which seeing as it's November isn't too bad. This is the tactic I'm using: http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/attachments/share-download-fm-16-tactics/992270d1448822190-4-2-3-1-wide-gatling-project-invicible-142-goals-league-%2A%2A-update-%2A%2A-gatling-project-crag-tweak-_0446791d-d17b-4190-8b89-c2eb9373d66d.fmf

In other news: my squad's been decimated by injuries a bit, combined with players needing some time off means I'm down to a skeleton crew. On the positive side, my #9 has decided to have a haircut and now looks less like Mel Gibson circa-Lethal Weapon 3.

[Danny]

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/share-download-fm-16-tactics/351824-4-2-3-1-wide-gatling-project-invicible-142-goals-league-%2A%2A-update-%2A%2A.html

Looks decent. Might load it up to look at the instructions.

[Baz]

I'm playing to try and beat my mates in a game of who can get from league 2 to winning the premier league the quickest, so can't use downloaded tactics. Turns out I much prefer having to tinker my own creation to fit my team, rather than "plug and play, just won da league with west ham first season download here" type tactics, which I normally use.

[Mazuuurk]

Struggling a bit to find the motivation to keep playing my Arsenal save. It's quite fun, but it's just become extremely similar to last year. I even have a very similar team.

The quality of my squad - going forward - is quite astounding really:
Neymar, Sanchez and Berardi my 1st choice front three, and
Pablo Dybala, Oxlade-Chamberlain (who is too good to be benched really) and Theo Walcott as backups. Danny Welbeck is struggling to find a spot, as will Andrija Zivkovic when he gets back from loan.

In midfield, I'm safe for the two MC spots with Ozil, Ramsey & Wilshere rotating, and for the DM spot it's between Ajer and Bazoer, who are 18 and 20 respectively and not mature enough yet, although will both be good in like 3 years I think.

Defence is also OK now, although I was short on cover for a while.

All in all, this is my team

ST: Berardi / Dybala
AML (IF): Neymar / Oxlade- Ch
AMR (IF): Sanchez / Walcott

MC x2 (APx2): Ozil / Wilshere / Ramsey
DM (BWM): Bazoer / Ajer

LB: Bernat / Gibbs
RB: Bellerin / Chambers
CB: Koscielny
CB: Mammana / Gimenez

GK: Cech


The problem is not much excites me about this team. It's fun to have Neymar again, and even though I'm not even doing that well in the league, I just see myself walking it in 1-2 seasons once Bazoer, Ajer, Mammana & Gimenez are all 22-23 years old and more developed. I then will spend 2-3 seasons chasing silly records like trying to get all top 3 scorers and over 100 points, etc. I'll then want to make my squad more English but lose interest when I realize how few good English players there are that appears or whatever.

So it all feels a little pointless already.

May start up a Milan save instead. Been a while since I did a save outside England and it could be a bit of a fun challange to try to bring Italy back to the top in European football, as well as having Juventus as a real big brother in Serie A to try to dethrone.

That, or I'll do a few more seasons with Arsenal and then try to change teams in the same save (although that always pains me, as I've built something).

[Jeet]

Had Mammana & Gimenez in my Arsenal save, terrible. Espically Mammana. Started to play Chambers as a CB instead.

[Mazuuurk]

Really? Mammana actually already plays quite well for me, ha's averaging about 7.20 or so which is decent enough, bearing in mind he's only 20. His first season was really shaky though. Signing Gimenez may have been a mistake but it was a bit of a panic-buy. He provides cover on the right as well though which is nice.

I have a feeling Koscielny - much like real life - is carrying the defensive line though, and when he gets retired in maybe 2 years I may need something else. He's only 31 still.


Gonna play on with my save for a little bit longer, see if I can get my motivations up a bit.

[randomlegend]

Gimenez has been great for me.

[Dquincy]

I've just resigned as Dortmund manager.

This game started as a Journeyman save, so considering I won the Bundersliga in my first season and all of a sudden my local team (well, nearest league club) became available, I've decided to see if i can take them to European glory. Like some sort of big glory hole.

http://s23.postimg.org/kbl47d6iz/Quincy_News_Inbox.png

Could be a slog this, they're 18th and have been nailing mediocrity for some time now...look at that history.

http://s21.postimg.org/sohmai8xz/Gillingham_History_Competitions.png

Just got beat 4-1 and 0-2 in my first two games. :moop: ..taking their winless run to 11 straight games.

[Smiffy]

.....

[randomlegend]

Do you need the money?

[Raoul Duke]

If he's not that essential then I'd probably let him go - mainly for his wages. I'm sure you could find someone as good for half the salary.

It's a solid profit and you're 99% guaranteed to get the full amount in transfer fee.

If you've got someone lined up to replace him then I'd go for it.

[Smiffy]

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[Smiffy]

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[randomlegend]

He looks about 45 :D

I don't think I'd sell him. He looks good and unless you are going to bring in someone significantly better or use the money to strengthen another area of the team which needs it then I don't see the point.

[Gray Fox]

TimmSmiff Is it possible to accept the deal but set it to go through at the end of the season? It looks like the club could use a bit of cash there.

[Smiffy]

.....

[Raoul Duke]

Another pretty cool thing I just saw: Inter just moved Mancini from manager to DoF

[Smiffy]

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[Giggles]

Right, so this will be rather long and image riddled but I'm bored so I've started looking forward to next seasons plans. Regardless of what happens this year with the CL, the squad is getting broken up with a whole new philosophy towards the youth that have been appearing and acquired over the past few seasons.
I've attached images of the players who will make up the bulk of the squad next season in the best case scenario. Also looking at values of a lot of my current big names, if all were to go at their current value it's coming to €383m. Obviously it won't be best case as looking at that I definitely need to hold on to a few defenders as the lot I have look thin on the ground and not up to standard, and I might not even get to see the team as I could get the boot once I start selling, but we shall see.

Out of the players below, only Dobrolovny, Walden, and Manning are currently seeing any first team action, but keep 3 or 4 defenders and I'd be happy to see about a top half finish with this lot.


EDIT: I could also keep gradually doing it but they're all ageing and that'd be boring.


http://i.imgur.com/jW4q12a.png

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

http://i.imgur.com/lUn1oId.png

http://i.imgur.com/kaP9F9o.png

http://i.imgur.com/0HoIP8d.png

http://i.imgur.com/yvjpun0.png

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

http://i.imgur.com/bMoJj33.png

http://i.imgur.com/BtHA5M6.png

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

http://i.imgur.com/fkJAo2a.png

http://i.imgur.com/Vl63RUL.png

http://i.imgur.com/h4AVaZs.png

http://i.imgur.com/qQ8DO8a.png

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

http://i.imgur.com/ka5bdyc.png

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

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

http://i.imgur.com/YJ3fHA4.png

http://i.imgur.com/MvlUu2Z.png

[TG09]

I have resigned as Celtic manager at the end of the first season, won the league and cup and CL (somehow). I left and went Lyon to test my trade there. The interviews for Everton, QPR, Liverpool and Lyon were tough, but decided to got to France.
Not a lot of cash to spend, they finished 4th last season and I am in the Euro Cup. Some players want to leave due to now playing in the CL, had a chat and they are happy to stay to see if we can qualify for the CL. If not they will leave.

Got a few decent players but need to bring some decent backup players in now, Essian should be joining on a free.
Divock Origi from Liverpool in joining on a loan for the season.
Trying to get Alberto Cerri to come in on loan as well.
Losing Steed Malbranque as there are a few offers for him, he want CL football.

Any good players to bring in to help my squad.

[Smiffy]

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[Smiffy]

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[TG09]

God damn Arsene Wenger for trying to buy my striker Lacazette, 4 offer for him. 2.7m cash and the rest in monthly addons, the only thing he has changed is the next sale on profit from 10% to 40%.

[Toby]

Moving in to my fourth season and I'm pretty happy with the summer transfer business:

http://i.imgur.com/q8ZuoVP.png

I assume LaBrocca is a newgen, which seems a little surprising given his age. He must have been from the very first youth intake. Tielemans seems like a bit of a bastard but looks the business, especially at just 21. I lost Begovic, who was (amusingly) the only member of my title winning team to make it into the League XI, with Arsenal offering twice what I paid for him. I figured making a decent profit on a 30 year old made sense, especially with Butland available for fairly cheap. I'd tried to sign him when I signed Begovic anyway. Djourou was bought for cover and to boost my homegrown numbers a bit, but he may actually make the cut ahead of Arribas.

LaBrocca:

http://i.imgur.com/3wLuamV.png

First team now looks like this:

http://i.imgur.com/MCHUdc3.png

We've just whomped Chelsea 3-0 in the Community Shield, which is a very promising start as we hadn't beat them in the previous nine attempts.

[Smiffy]

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[Toby]

Yeah Pjaca is excellent there. He's scored a good number of goals and particularly good at popping up with important winners in big games.

[Gray Fox]

I've found you can't really get away with two IFs unless you have 2 deep lying midfielders.

To see the best out of them you need the full backs bombing on and that leaves you all kinds of open on the counter.

[Giggles]

http://i.imgur.com/7rilLkH.png

[Smiffy]

.....

[TG09]

Got a few good young players, picked up a good one as well.
Galzka Irlondo he is 17 picked him up from Athletic Club, he is my number one keeper. Risk but his stats are good.
Already with the club Mohamed Yattara and Yassine Benzia look promising.

[Giggles]

CL quarter final draw coming up and Barcelona have just been knocked out by Dortmund :drool:

Still a small chance but I'll never have a better one.

EDIT: PSG.

And now Szczesny is injured for a month playing for Poland. Fuckballs :mad:

[Giggles]

Never going to have a better chance than this. The best remaining challenger is City who are a distant 3rd in the league, though they had a bad start and have been on fire since bringing in Pogba in the January window.

http://i.imgur.com/neMvZy9.png


EDIT: City in the semi final.

[John]

I assume LaBrocca is a newgen, which seems a little surprising given his age. He must have been from the very first youth intake.

Twenty at the start of the fourth season doesn't seem unreasonable, but Americans can spawn at odd ages. He's definitely a newgen though, the generated face gives that away.

[Giggles]

One more league game to go before the final vs Benfica but the injuries are piling up like fuck. Currently missing Manning, Albornoz, Smalling, Van Dijk, Semedo, Hecker, Walden, and Dobrovolny.

[Giggles]

Job done \o/ Sleep!!

Record points total and only denied an invincibles season with a late season defeat in Swansea. Semedo was a beast yet again with 12 assists in the league and averaging 8.24.

Will be a shame to absolutely dismantle this squad now.


http://i.imgur.com/RXZ6fVp.png


http://i.imgur.com/0DyTOoo.png


http://i.imgur.com/Q3tvmtW.png

[John]

I might have been a bit hasty in writing off every youth intake I've had at Dinamo. A prospect has begun to show himself from the first intake after two seasons of faffing around in the unders, a German from the second intake looks like he might be a player one day along with a Croat winger, and another German in the third has joined a Croat in looking capable of playing football. Five players in three years definitely isn't good enough to sustain the original concept of this game, but it's much better than it seemed.

It is a bit unfortunate that two of the five play exactly the same position though. Particularly since that position is AMC, which Ante Coric has locked down for the moment.

[Giggles]

This dismantling isn't going well. Wasn't getting many takers for players so I've had to go another route of selling nearly anyone who I regarded as rotation and didn't see many games last season and just add the youth to the bigger hitters to make up the squad. I also bought a good young left back as Bertrand was sold after hitting 32 and Albornoz is over 30 also.

[Giggles]

The ins and outs, squad as it's looking now, and my new left back. If he's even half the player Semedo is on the other side :drool:


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


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


http://i.imgur.com/KJ8WCR6.png

[John]

A right footed left back is an odd one.

[Giggles]

Yeah, I'll rejig the tactic slightly to incorporate him attacking and his role being as an inverted, but his defensive stats look decent enough.

I've pushed Benzerga into the squad now too so that's him, Damen, Smith, Gvarnaric, Evans, and East in from last seasons U21's. Dobrolovny has had to get a new contract again too to get his release clause from €60m to €88m.

[Raoul Duke]

Daley Blind - 34 years old and having been at the club for 10 years, has got homesick for the second time this season :cab:

[Giggles]

Daley Blind - 34 years old and having been at the club for 10 years, has got homesick for the second time this season :cab:

I've just had the usual questioning about a manager calling out a player as a weak link and then more questioning because I didn't play him in the game in question. He's at 70% with an orange INJ after breaking his leg last season :cab:

They need to sort this stuff.

[Dquincy]

Reached the halfway stage with the Gills. The season has turned around somewhat. They were 18th when i took over them, albeit we were predicted to finish 6th.

http://s27.postimg.org/917cw98hf/npower_Football_League_One_Information_League.png

http://s14.postimg.org/4pikkuv4x/npower_Football_League_One_Information_Past_Po.png

First match with them was on 8.10.2015.

http://s16.postimg.org/s3j74scut/Gillingham_Gillingham_Fixtures.png

Squad stats at the halfway stage.

http://s9.postimg.org/ay7rhqcu7/Gillingham_Gillingham_Players.png

[Mike]

It was a very busy first transfer window for Metz
https://i.imgur.com/sizUK5m.png

[Giggles]

I've a decent looking 21 year old American central defender agreed for €8.2m but have had the work permit rejected. It's deadline day so I have asked the board to let me get an affiliate club and they've agreed to let me pick one. Is it easy enough to get a club to agree to affiliation as I want to pick an MLS one and sign him anyway to send him there. If not I'm stuck with a player that can't play.

[Bob Sacamano]

Rondon and Berahino always tear me to pieces :face:

[Giggles]

Just had a look when he still popped up in the Player of the Year awards nominations. 35 :drool:


http://i.imgur.com/Clf7FsP.png

[Raoul Duke]

He's still donning it at 37 on my game. Ronaldo retired...and is now Ass Man for my U-18 team :D

Neymar the queef has just turned me down to sign for Man City. I signed Christian Eriksen as I needed some cover on the left and he'll make a great tutor/impact player for a couple of years. Another cool thing was that some srs bznss guy said we'll sell about £3.4m worth of shirts a year if we sign him, so he'll pay off about half his transfer fee just from that.

I also picked up a few tidy newgens from South America as the U-20 Championship just started. Some striker who looks like Falcao (Porto/Atletico vintage, before he turned shit) and some Argie CD/R who already looks first team capable.

[John]

The game has fucked me. I've just rejected an offer from Man Utd for one of my youth players, and simultaneously got the event telling me he wants a word and from his agent telling me he wants a new deal. I can't offer him a new deal because he won't sit down, I can't reject the request because the squad will go potty, and I can't tell an already unhappy player to bin his agent.

Fuming.


I signed Christian Eriksen as I needed some cover on the left and he'll make a great tutor/impact player for a couple of years.

I've signed Mario Gomez on a free for similar purposes. It's still moving towards the end of a team from the youth system, since he'll be tutoring my young striker, one of the two Germans to have come through my youths, so I've justified it that way.

[TG09]

He is doing pretty well for me at the moment, might have to give him a new contract to keep the other clubs away. Also need to find a backup cover for him too.
http://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=19&stc=1
Made it through the group stage of the Euro Cup.

[TG09]

Damn it, my board wont let me bring in new staff as it was part of my contract not to replace the existing staff

Just got a new stadium capacity is now 58000

Now Italy just said they will be using our new stadium for their training camp for the Euros

[Raoul Duke]

An assist (free kick to Stones) and a brace from Eriksen on his debut, away to Man City in the Capital Cup in a 3-1 win :drool:

[TG09]

I have picked up Ashley Cole and Micah Richards, both on a free, cost a bit in signing on but manage to haggle a good price. Will need to off-load some players soon.

[Giggles]

I won't be winning the league this season anyway, City are romping. After bringing in Pogba and Guardiola they are a machine, just walloped me 3-1 at theirs.
I'm walking the CL group though with 5 from 5 including home and away wins over Schalke and Real.

[TG09]

Lacazette is on fire 32 games and 32 goals. Top of the Ligue 1 with a game in hand and 2 points up.

[Giggles]

I downloaded a facepack and, while it really does add to the game, I have been horrified to find out that my excellent holding midfielder is not some strapping Makelele lookalike.


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

[TG09]

Thats a bit gutting Giggles.

My Lyon team are doing aright, but my fans and board do not like selling average players. I need the cash but they moan. I can not win!

[Mazuuurk]

Giggles :D

[Giggles]

Still beasting it. It's only February too.


http://i.imgur.com/x7Ek0dk.png

[Giggles]

Laurent Blanc has got the bullet at Old Trafford. I'm fucking tempted.

[Raoul Duke]

On my game, Napoli have signed Mastour from Milan for about £6m earlier this season (August), not played him once, and then transfer-listed him now (February) :cab:

[Giggles]

On my game, Napoli have signed Mastour from Milan for about £6m earlier this season (August), not played him once, and then transfer-listed him now (February) :cab:

Exact same thing with Selnaes when I sold him to Liverpool for €8.5m at the start of this season. Not one appearance and is sitting transfer listed in the U21's.

I'm tempted to do a Keane and buy him back for around 2m.

[Dquincy]

Getting interesting this...the squad is shit, but i've got 3 decent players on loan who are carrying the team.

http://s4.postimg.org/dy4yyk3fx/npower_Football_League_One_Information_League.png

[Smiffy]

.....

[Dquincy]

Not sure i can get automatic promotion, but looks like i have play offs all but confirmed.

http://s1.postimg.org/3vi1tvdb3/Gillingham_v_Bradford_Post_Match.png

[Giggles]

I say I'm interested, promptly win my 13th trophy in six and a half seasons, and the cunts hire Philip fucking Cocu :mad:

[Smiffy]

.....

[Dquincy]

http://s13.postimg.org/4hhxn9ruf/npower_Football_League_One_Information_League.png

I've got Reading at home in my penultimate match. Slim chance of automatic promotion, if i beat them i can take it to the last day of the season.

[Dquincy]

:harold:

http://s18.postimg.org/dznfjsivd/Gillingham_v_Reading_Information_Overview.png

Final day of the season: I've got Stevenage, and Reading are home to top of the league Portsmouth. Exciting times.

EDIT : And my on loan star striker has just returned to Liverpool. :moop:

[Giggles]

No Champions League repeat but definitely the most successful season so far after bringing on some young players and having them involved in the big games. Really was an absolutely monstrous amount of matches though, seemed like 2 nearly every week.

http://i.imgur.com/hhmHe07.png


Final table and squad stats

http://i.imgur.com/K4Hrv9o.png

http://i.imgur.com/JZCf4zq.png


And another acknowledgement of this man. He may get booked in what seems like every game he plays but he is the best €21m I have ever spent in this game. The assists for a right back are unreal (was actually 27 in all competitions for this season).

http://i.imgur.com/OWJK8LP.png

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

[Giggles]

However....

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


We shall see in the morning.

[Boydy]

What is your name?

[Giggles]

What is your name?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BNFZWuNCIAA_jRx.jpg

[Clunge]

Amazing :D.

[Weaver]

I'm into Season 5 with Peterborough on FM14, and I'm sitting 15th in the Premier League with ten games to go.

I opted to buy conservatively, so in came Alex Mowatt (Leeds, £2.9m), Sam Johnstone (Man Utd, free), Jamaal Lascelles (Nottingham Forest, £3m) and then Ruben Loftus-Cheek in January (£120k) and I've stuck largely with the same tactics (5-4-1 w/three CBs, a DM and an AM) until the last few games, where I've needed more cover for the wing-backs and have moved my AM and ST to the wings. I've picked up a 1-1 away draw with Arsenal and a 1-0 win against Fulham, so something's working.

[Mazuuurk]

Guys can Consistency improve?

I'm scouting this keeper and the scouts say "Needs to work on becoming more consistent if he is to develop further" which tells me it could - but I've always been under the impression that Consistency was one of those (key) hidden stats that can't really be changed.


EDIT: Milan wanted 67M for him. He's called "Donadumma" or something like that, and is an 18-year-old keeper :D That is just ridiculous.

[Toby]

Donnarumma. They take the piss if you put an offer in for him but of all the real youngsters in the game he's up there with the very best in PA. He's already looking pretty solid at just 21 in my game.

[Giggles]

Turned down Chelsea and decided on one more season. Not too many transfers but wanted a good centre half to partner Denayer as Smalling is almost done and Mitrovic isn't as good as I'd like, and also a backup goalkeeper as Andre Lee is still a couple of seasons away from being good enough (though he'll eventually replace Chesney).


Vastly overpaid for these two at €62m and €6.25m respectively, but I had the money there after spending very little so far:


http://i.imgur.com/hh94u5b.png


http://i.imgur.com/zA8gflP.png



Though I got this nice bargain prospect for €1,4m, even though I've too many good prospect strikers. Might cash in on Zivkovic after this season though.


http://i.imgur.com/1A6XVpS.png


Squad as it stands after the window going into 2023/24:


http://i.imgur.com/5sj8zGL.png

[John]

Guys can Consistency improve?

I'm scouting this keeper and the scouts say "Needs to work on becoming more consistent if he is to develop further" which tells me it could - but I've always been under the impression that Consistency was one of those (key) hidden stats that can't really be changed.


EDIT: Milan wanted 67M for him. He's called "Donadumma" or something like that, and is an 18-year-old keeper :D That is just ridiculous.

Donnarumma. He's been playing first team football for Milan in reality for a few months now as a sixteen year old.

How many times are you going to tediously post about clubs wanting loads for young players before you accept it and stop? Milan aren't going to take eight quid for someone they consider to be Buffon incarnate, so it's not even unrealistic.

[Mazuuurk]

Don't really think you overpaid for Valee, he looks like a complete beast.

[Giggles]

Don't really think you overpaid for Valee, he looks like a complete beast.

There was another guy I could have got for €52m that was nearly as good but he wanted €300k a week in comparison to Vallee's €165k. He went to Madrid in the end.

[Mazuuurk]

Donnarumma. He's been playing first team football for Milan in reality for a few months now as a sixteen year old.

How many times are you going to tediously post about clubs wanting loads for young players before you accept it and stop? Milan aren't going to take eight quid for someone they consider to be Buffon incarnate, so it's not even unrealistic.

You know what, just because you said that I'll probably start doing it a little extra fucking much.

It pisses me the fuck off. And no, it's not realistic for a club to want 67M for any player. If someone had bid 67M for Neuer when he was 18, Bayern would have likely accepted to be honest and laughed in the fucking face at whoever would spend that amount on an 18-year-old. At that age, it's impossible to actually tell how good a player will be. Sterling being sold for 50M at 20 is pushing it, but that's still sort of realistic since he's proven he can perform.

This is a dude that has played 0 - yes 0 - actual games for Milan so far, and has been on loan at Frosinone in Serie B where he's managed a meagre average rating of 6.70. How the fuck does that justify 67 million fucking pounds? It just does not. It's just because prices are based on the PA of a player and only that the AI clubs seem to have some sort of magic insight as exactly how valuable a player would be in 5 years (and even then, you would have thought they would consider the quick cash now and then).

If they would have maybe asked for 35M and settled at maybe 20-25M, I would have thought that a little excessive but maybe understandable, but 67? No way.
It's just fucking broken, is what it is, and not realistic one bit.

[Dark Soldier]

Its a videogame, they have to make it so you can't just scoop up all the young talent and be a world beater within three years. Its balanced within the game, as it should be. If you could get any 18yo for 5/10/20mil the game would be broken as fuck in no time. You'd turn Watford into Barca after four seasons ffs.

[John]

Bayern would have done well to accept a bid for an eighteen year old player who they didn't sign until he was twenty five.

As I've already said, and I think Boydy also did, that sixty seven million is a negotiation. If you just asked them what they wanted, the actual figure will be half that. If you made an offer, the actual figure will be halfway between that and what you offered.

[Giggles]

Yeah take that Vallee guy I posted above. He was valued at €33m and when I enquired they wanted nearly €90m, so the difference was basically split when after a few more bids.

[Smiffy]

.....

[Dark Soldier]

One of the plus points of playing with no work permits and all countries youth rating set to 200 is the amount of beastly youth Africans you can buy for about £25, plus £40 in wages.

[Mazuuurk]

What the fuck are you guys, Miles Jacobsons personal cocksucking gimps?


Its a videogame, they have to make it so you can't just scoop up all the young talent and be a world beater within three years. Its balanced within the game, as it should be. If you could get any 18yo for 5/10/20mil the game would be broken as fuck in no time. You'd turn Watford into Barca after four seasons ffs.

That's why people play this game, is it not? To turn shit clubs into Barca by snatching up bargains before they become too expensive. How come I can sign Berardi for 30M when he's a decently proven striker at 19, but can't sign an unproven goalkeeper that has yet to play a single game at the highest level, huh? They easily have about the same potential. And Berardi was for sure more important to his team that Donarananana is for Milan.


Bayern would have done well to accept a bid for an eighteen year old player who they didn't sign until he was twenty five.

As I've already said, and I think Boydy also did, that sixty seven million is a negotiation. If you just asked them what they wanted, the actual figure will be half that. If you made an offer, the actual figure will be halfway between that and what you offered.

I realize it's a negotiation, I'm not fucking daft, but it's a ridiculous one. I've never about a real life transfer saga where reports said the price would be 50 but it ended up being 25. It's usually a difference of 5 to at most 10 million, maybe 10% of the overall value at most.

When I negotiated it it ended in the region of 37M, which is a good 10-15 or so million more than I think would have been a reasonable price given the circumstances.

[Dark Soldier]

What the fuck are you guys, Miles Jacobsons personal cocksucking gimps?

Nah I just realise its a fucking videogame with fucking limitations. Bitching because you can't get that guaranteed wonderkid cheap is all a bit lol. If its that much of an issue just add yourself as Milan manager and get him for 10k, its only a game after all right.

[Yevrah]

The way I look at it is it's the club receiving the bid saying they don't want to sell, but instead of the THIS PLAYER IS NOT FOR SALE message ala CM93, you get a ridiculously high negotiated counter offer.

Ok, the values are a bit odd, there's no doubt about that, but I'd sooner it were this way as at least I have the option to pay the silly money if I want to.

[Mazuuurk]

Yeah take that Vallee guy I posted above. He was valued at €33m and when I enquired they wanted nearly €90m, so the difference was basically split when after a few more bids.

Yeah but this guy is valued 2.2 million....

[Giggles]

Yeah but this guy is valued 2.2 million....

Yep I'd misread so not really the same situation. I think Yev has put it best though, just treat it like they're saying he's not for sale.

[Mazuuurk]

Nah I just realise its a fucking videogame with fucking limitations. Bitching because you can't get that guaranteed wonderkid cheap is all a bit lol. If its that much of an issue just add yourself as Milan manager and get him for 10k, its only a game after all right.

I don't particularly mind that I can't get him, there's plenty of other options and I have 2 quite good keepers already.

I just think it's quite ridiculous - it being a game or not - that anyone would ask these amounts for such a young player when he hasn't even proven anything at all for the club. He's not even labelled a Wonderkid, which means his CA is probably still quite low.

I'm not asking to get him cheap, I'm asking for a remotely realistic negotiation.

[Dark Soldier]

I don't particularly mind that I can't get him, there's plenty of other options and I have 2 quite good keepers already.

I just think it's quite ridiculous - it being a game or not - that anyone would ask these amounts for such a young player when he hasn't even proven anything at all for the club. He's not even labelled a Wonderkid, which means his CA is probably still quite low.

I'm not asking to get him cheap, I'm asking for a remotely realistic negotiation.

Just put it this way. You get a player come through your youth system. Five star potential, all the key stats in the right place, he's guaranteed to go on to become a world beater, your fans will love him due to home grown, he's beasting the youth levels. Barca offer 10 mil, you're not gonna accept are ya? You're not gonna take 20mil, he's nailed on to be an unbelievable talent. You're gonna see that if you ever decide to sell, get him to his potential and rake in 80-100mil when he's dominating the game. And if for some improbable reason he doesn't make it, you're not gonna look back and think 'dang I missed out on 10mil!', that's fuck all in this game really.

The AI sides don't want to give up talent, you can snap up a load dirt cheap if you scout intake days so you can easily break it that way if you're so inclined.

[igor_balis]

WestHamMaz

[John]

I realize it's a negotiation, I'm not fucking daft, but it's a ridiculous one. I've never about a real life transfer saga where reports said the price would be 50 but it ended up being 25. It's usually a difference of 5 to at most 10 million, maybe 10% of the overall value at most.

When I negotiated it it ended in the region of 37M, which is a good 10-15 or so million more than I think would have been a reasonable price given the circumstances.

You may not be daft but you're doing a convincing job of proving otherwise here.

When you asked what they wanted they said sixty seven million, but ended up settling at thirty seven, close enough to halfway between the player's actual value and the amount they quoted. If you realise that it's a negotiating tactic why are you so outraged about the figures?

Rangers quoted Everton twelve million when they wanted Nikica Jelavic, because we didn't want to sell, but ended up selling him for about five. Hearts wanted the better part of three million quid for Templeton but eventually sold him for less than one. There's two counter-examples to your '10%' theory from just one club which happened in the same year.

To address something from further down the page, you can Berardi for less than Donnarumma because the former plays for a small club with limited finances, while the latter plays for a much larger club with far less limited finances. Would you be equally flummoxed if Man City wanted more for a player than Crewe would?

[Giggles]

What's this scouting of intake days?

[John]

If you know which date a particular nation's youth intake falls on you can nick the best ones before they've agreed terms.

[Giggles]

This is definitely my most complete side yet, it's like a machine. Still scoring with ease but now the goals have really dried up going in the other end. 15 wins on the trot now, going back to last season.

[Giggles]

If you know which date a particular nation's youth intake falls on you can nick the best ones before they've agreed terms.

Ah right, you've to get a look yourself? Might be worth doing though. I presume the other English sides will be the same day I get my own.

[Dark Soldier]

Ah right, you've to get a look yourself? Might be worth doing though. I presume the other English sides will be the same day I get my own.

Yeah, you go to World > Transfers > Youth Intake and scout all the youth intake. If you've only got a few scouts its tedious but as a bigger club you'll get 40-60 reports a day, then just snap up the ones with high potential. If you get on the scouting the day they come in, they won't have a contract so you can get them dirt cheap, if they want to come.

[Danny]

http://www.footballmanagerstory.com/fm-2016-regen-dates-youth-intake/

Slight variances but you can get an idea from that

[Giggles]

This is getting ridiculous now.

http://i.imgur.com/ypy1Stq.png

[TG09]

Just kicked on my 2nd season with Olympic Lyonnais.
Did make a few whole sale changes to the squad.
Sold my top goal scorer Alexandre Lacazette for 28.5m to Juventus should of got more for him.
Sold my top defender too Samuel Umtiti for 21.5m to Man City. Got 53.1m in and grabbed Vidic from Inter for 5.75m and Daniel Alves from Barc for 350k Kone my defender his agent is demanding a Agent fee over 1m i am telling Kone to sack him. So might end up selling the player. I dont bow down to agent fees over 500k if I could I wouldnt give any to them.:moop:
.http://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=20&stc=1

Just beat Bayern Munich 3 - 1 in the European Super Cup..damn!