The Football Manager Thread [Archive] - Page 8

Mazuuurk

02-01-2016, 09:52 AM

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.

I guess I'm stuck in transfer fees from a few years ago or something then, because I think 20 million for a 18-year-old is quite a lot still, and may actually accept that sort of bid.

Yevrah

02-01-2016, 09:56 AM

Itching to get back into a game of this, just need to decide who to manage.

Leicester's quite appealing at the moment, it must be said.

Mazuuurk

02-01-2016, 10:56 AM

Vardy and Mahrez are appropriately tweaked to demi-gods in the DB so yeah.

Samadini

02-01-2016, 01:48 PM

The AI lowballing on this is a laugh. Just finished my first season with Birmingham, we were pretty useless and shat our way to a boring midtable finish, which is actually what I was after, so I can do a big rebuild this Summer. Clayton Donaldson finished top scorer for us with 22 in the league, so in comes a bid of 400k from rivals Derby, he's fucking valued at £1m. Same has happened with a few other players now, fuck off you gimps.

Charlie

02-01-2016, 03:55 PM

This version is doing my head in. I only find it satisfying when I can completely overachieve with some shitters, such as winning the league with Southampton or qualifying for the Champions League with Bournemouth in the first season. However, it just doesn't seem possible with this version.

Giggles

02-01-2016, 04:51 PM

This is getting serious now. I still don't think it's possible as I have had a run of the hard games near the end of the season, but still.

http://i.imgur.com/NhLbJI5.png

Giggles

02-01-2016, 04:57 PM

And, like clockwork :D

http://i.imgur.com/MX66KcK.png

John

02-01-2016, 05:24 PM

Four conceded. :D

That sort of run usually comes to an end against bottom of the league, so it could be considerably more infuriating than that.

Giggles

02-01-2016, 05:36 PM

No coincidence the two fullbacks were out for the game too with injury and yet another Semedo suspension.
The defence is unreal since Vallee came in, though I'm near glad it's over. I was starting to over analyse everything to try keep in going.

John

02-01-2016, 06:41 PM

I'll accept some of the credit for that run then. :harold:

Gray Fox

02-01-2016, 06:50 PM

I'm surprised you're still playing Reed Giggles. I'm in my 4th season and the assistant report has him at 2 stars.

wullie

02-01-2016, 07:00 PM

http://i.imgur.com/IAR199L.png

Bit of a window so far, with Mamadou Sakho on the way for nothing unless he goes for Huddersfield over me. Two fourth place finishes in a row, this is the season. At least a cup run or two.

wullie

02-01-2016, 07:03 PM

Of course

http://i.imgur.com/uz5nHX4.png

John

02-01-2016, 07:04 PM

Christensen and Rudiger are both considerably better than Sakho anyway, are they not?

Jimmy Floyd

02-01-2016, 07:17 PM

Giggles

02-01-2016, 07:27 PM

I'll accept some of the credit for that run then. :harold:

Yep. The difference between having pretty good centre halves and top class ones is huge. I always leaked goals with Mitrovic.

Giggles

02-01-2016, 07:29 PM

I'm surprised you're still playing Reed Giggles. I'm in my 4th season and the assistant report has him at 2 stars.

I didn't use him for a couple of years and loaned him out constantly until putting him first team in 2019. He's worth 40m and an England regular now though still only 3.5 stars.
Hes more rotation now as Ismael Smith starts mostly at DM. Think he was a regen.

wullie

02-01-2016, 07:29 PM

Christensen and Rudiger are both considerably better than Sakho anyway, are they not?

Yeah it's not a big loss, but having all three would be a considerable upgrade over the previous season's central selection of Mechele, Denswill, Ranocchia and Phil Jones.

TG09

02-01-2016, 08:08 PM

This game is just far too difficult. Do I really need to put 30-40 hours a week in to get anywhere?

I've started games with more and more dominant teams to try and get into it but even now with Rangers I'm going six and seven games without a win in the Scottish second tier with vastly superior players and bog standard tactics. I've never been a massive tactical tweaker but that seems to be the only way of getting anywhere here and I don't have that sort of time.

One of the reasons I havent played this game for a long while. I downloaded someones tactic and I am using that on my 3rd season, seems to be doing the trick for me so far.

Just gutted the board has restricted my income from transfers to 35%, it was 75%, but they built a new stadium and put in undersoil heating now.

Board have just said I can now get 100% of the transfers :)

Giggles

02-01-2016, 08:15 PM

Gray Fox Here's Reed currently in mine.

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

John

02-01-2016, 08:22 PM

Nicky Butt incarnate.

TG09

02-01-2016, 08:23 PM

Defo a Nicky Butt regen. What skin are you using that highlights the stats like that?

Giggles

02-01-2016, 08:42 PM

Fmtgw.

Charlie

02-01-2016, 08:44 PM

Well now I can't play it anymore anyway. I keep getting a 'failed to load steamui.dylib' error whenever I try to start FM, and it persists even if I reinstall steam and everything.

TG09

02-01-2016, 08:53 PM

Fmtgw.

Cheers, this is for FM16, I am running FM15. Oh well, thanks anyway. I will keep finding one I like.

TG09

02-01-2016, 08:58 PM

Giggles

02-01-2016, 09:02 PM

Cheers, this is for FM16, I am running FM15. Oh well, thanks anyway. I will keep finding one I like.

Here's an FM15 version. I'm not sure how similar the player screen is but the screenshots shown look the same as mine.

http://www.fmscout.com/a-fmtgw-dark-and-light-skin-fm15.html

Raoul Duke

02-01-2016, 09:04 PM

Well now I can't play it anymore anyway. I keep getting a 'failed to load steamui.dylib' error whenever I try to start FM, and it persists even if I reinstall steam and everything.

This seems to be a Steam update bug, rather than anything to do with FM. I had it this morning. I "fixed it" by restarting my Mac and reinstalling Steam afresh, over the existing client. It downloaded an update and then worked, after another restart.

TG09

02-01-2016, 09:09 PM

Here's an FM15 version. I'm not sure how similar the player screen is but the screenshots shown look the same as mine.

http://www.fmscout.com/a-fmtgw-dark-and-light-skin-fm15.html

Perfect, top skin. Cheers!

Giggles

02-01-2016, 09:19 PM

I still don't get this youth intake thing. It's intake day and I could go to that screen and see players, but do I need to scout each one individually? There's over a hundred of them.

Mazuuurk

02-01-2016, 09:24 PM

I signed this pretty sweet-looking 16-year-old striker. But now I don't quite know what to do with him. He's got the potential for sure to be great, but he's nowhere near to get any games right now. What do you guys normally do with prospects like that? Leave them in the U21's for a season or two until they are about 18 or 19 or so?

Raoul Duke

02-01-2016, 09:31 PM

I still don't get this youth intake thing. It's intake day and I could go to that screen and see players, but do I need to scout each one individually? There's over a hundred of them.

Shit + click to multi select a bunch, right-click and scout.

I signed this pretty sweet-looking 16-year-old striker. But now I don't quite know what to do with him. He's got the potential for sure to be great, but he's nowhere near to get any games right now. What do you guys normally do with prospects like that? Leave them in the U21's for a season or two until they are about 18 or 19 or so?

For me usually:

16-18 - training at the club and being tutored. I normally keep them in the U18s until they're on a professional contract then move them to the U21s (if they're decent)
18-20 - out on loan, making sure they're getting lots of match time
20-23 - in the first team or sold, more tutoring

John

02-01-2016, 09:41 PM

Defo a Nicky Butt regen. What skin are you using that highlights the stats like that?

You don't need a new skin to highlight the stats however you like. Preferences > Interface > Skin Colours. You can pick at which threshold a stat moves from one colour to the next, and which colours those are.

Giggles

02-01-2016, 09:45 PM

You don't need a new skin to highlight the stats however you like. Preferences > Interface > Skin Colours. You can pick at which threshold a stat moves from one colour to the next, and which colours those are.

Ah, that's handy. I'd rather have 15 in the green bracket than the orange.

Mazuuurk

02-01-2016, 10:27 PM

Shit + click to multi select a bunch, right-click and scout.

For me usually:

16-18 - training at the club and being tutored. I normally keep them in the U18s until they're on a professional contract then move them to the U21s (if they're decent)
18-20 - out on loan, making sure they're getting lots of match time
20-23 - in the first team or sold, more tutoring

Sounds reasonable enough.

Does tutoring actually help the development in any other way than that it may transfer certain PPM's from the tutor to the tutee?

five time

02-01-2016, 10:30 PM

Their determination trends towards the number of the guy tutoring them and they get a CA boost out of it also.

Yevrah

02-01-2016, 10:31 PM

I'm rubbish at tutoring. I seldem remember to do it and when I do I can't recall ever getting results.

Disco

02-01-2016, 11:30 PM

This transfer lark is a doddle, last season we picked up Yannick Carrasco for nothing and now we've bought Muniain for little over 500k just one season after Tottenham paid £18m for him. He must have backed over Levy's dog or something.

Raoul Duke

02-01-2016, 11:31 PM

As I've understood it/use it:

Try and get the tutor to have a higher Determination than the tutee. Determination is one of the biggest indicators of likelihood to achieve PA.

Make sure their personalities match.

If you want them to (potentially) inherit the tutor's PPMs then select the 'develop his game', if you want them to (potentially) inherit some of his mental stats (hidden) then select 'work off the field'.

Giggles

02-01-2016, 11:32 PM

Raoul Duke

02-01-2016, 11:37 PM

Go to development > tutoring on the player screen

Mazuuurk

02-01-2016, 11:50 PM

Samadini

02-01-2016, 11:54 PM

Feel like I've just sold my soul after finishing contract negotiations with Ravel Morrison, he and his agent are absolute wankers.

Shindig

03-01-2016, 12:01 AM

Destroy him. Set Obertan as his mentor.

Baz

03-01-2016, 12:04 AM

http://www.littlemonstersforum.co.uk/images/q/lpl1a8n1.png

:drool: Absolutely buzzing. Just about scraped in thanks to Coventry drawing 1-1 with Rotherham in the final game.

Samadini

03-01-2016, 12:05 AM

I'm losing 3-0 at home to Swindon in the cup after 20 odd minutes, at full strength.

ok.

John

03-01-2016, 12:06 AM

I'd have been fuming at losing the last two games in that situation, regardless of what lucky breaks arrived.

TG09

03-01-2016, 12:15 AM

You don't need a new skin to highlight the stats however you like. Preferences > Interface > Skin Colours. You can pick at which threshold a stat moves from one colour to the next, and which colours those are.

Nice to know, cheers pal. I have modified the colours now

Baz

03-01-2016, 01:28 AM

I'd have been fuming at losing the last two games in that situation, regardless of what lucky breaks arrived.I think you're reading it backwards. Won my last 3, including an epic 3-2 against Walsall.

Looking forward to smashing the playoffs tomorrow.

TG09

03-01-2016, 03:29 AM

How do you get the club to remove the board option I am not allow to bring in my own staff. I asked for me a new contract back there is no option.

Samadini

03-01-2016, 12:31 PM

4 wins in a row, my first winning streak, has resulted in a crash dump.

That's me done.

Dquincy

03-01-2016, 05:37 PM

: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:

Quoted above to recap my penultimate match.

Last day of the season:

Promoted :dance:
http://s13.postimg.org/8exjbzfev/Stevenage_v_Gillingham_Post_Match.png

The squad is shit, so shall be wheeling and dealing in the summer.

Raoul Duke

03-01-2016, 07:06 PM

Won the league and Carling Cup on my save (Man Utd, 2024/25). The league came down to the last game of the season but I was playing already relegated Southampton, so it was fairly straightforward. I reached the CL final but lost on penalties to Benfica, who are pretty bonkers on this game.

Started the process of trimming the squad of the last remaining dead wood and bringing in a load of nifty youths to set us up for the foreseeable.

One shitter is that this is the year the £75m per season kit sponsorship deal expires and it's been replaced with one which is only around a third of that :moop:

Browning

03-01-2016, 09:45 PM

Quoted above to recap my penultimate match.

Last day of the season:

Promoted :dance:
http://s13.postimg.org/8exjbzfev/Stevenage_v_Gillingham_Post_Match.png

The squad is shit, so shall be wheeling and dealing in the summer.

Good job. I had a similar season with the Gills although I ended up champions but it came right down to the last day like yours did. Unfortunately I'll never know how we would have done in the Championship as I've moved on to Palace, but I currently have 4 of my ex-Gills in that squad. One I poached for £1m (due to him having sky high potential, but he still seems shit), 2 were signed on Frees after their contracts expired (With West Ham and Everton, I loaned them at Gillingham... and one of the 2 has been loaned out by me to Gillingham :D) and 1 who I have loaned again having loaned him last year, and he's come off the bench 7 times and scored 5 goals at Palace. I might actually fork out the cash to sign him (Nahki Wells, who was my hero at Gillingham).

It's been a bizarre season and I'm not really sure I'm equal to the step up despite the fact we are 3rd and only 2 points off the top (in the Championship). To start with we were playing piss poor but getting good (not great) results and once I finally got them to learn my tactics performances improved but results declined. Only now in about November time are we getting good performances and results, but I'm still struggling with squad morale as the squad is way, way too big and every fucker who's not starting, and some that are, are moaning non-stop. We still have Joel Ward and he keeps asking to leave but seems OK when I promise him promotion this season. The same can't be said for out LB Van Aarnholt who just wants out no matter what. Problem is I can't sell him until January, and half the team have an issue because they "think he should be allowed to leave" whilst the other half "Don't want him to leave". Fuck sake. Add that to all the fringe players constantly bitching and demanding to leave and I'm not really sure what I can do as I'm struggling to get any offers for most of them. There are some players who I signed that I couldn't get anyone to take on loan for free....

Baz

03-01-2016, 10:19 PM

Clinton N'Jie is bloody Djalminha reincarnated. I'm so glad he's only on loan because even though he's way too good for League One, I hate him. He never listens to team talks, thinks I lack credibility, and doesn't even do anything remarkable on the pitch.

Into the playoff final against Bristol City and somehow we're penned as favourites despite the media predicting us to finish 19th at the start of the season. Obviously I want to go up but we will get tonked in the Championship.

P_3

03-01-2016, 10:58 PM

After a lot of faffing about with all manner of games, I think I've settled on Bolton. I've reached today's date in game and have good news for Charlie. Don't know what all the fuss is about. :drool:

https://i.gyazo.com/cadfc21831dc7a4c452ab88533ae7a23.png

Game of the season so far:

https://i.gyazo.com/9c7e9fed78ab39b51536a914945f301b.png

Dquincy

03-01-2016, 11:00 PM

After leaving Sheffield United in 2027 I found myself returning to the club after just two years as my successor Rui Jorge was dismissed having led the side to 8th. A season without European football beckoned for the first time in eight years.

I knew just how much missing out on European football for a second season would effect the clubs finances, I had caused most of it.
http://s22.postimg.org/pi4o5lqr5/image.png
Without the distraction of Europe I felt we had enough about us to make an instant return and whilst I had to convince the likes of Abdou Diakhate and Wesley Vissers to keep the faith, it was duly awarded by the seasons end as we claimed the Premier League title. In the domestic cups we were a flop but our main objective was sealed in a 1-0 win against fellow challengers Liverpool at Brammel Lane, our last season at the ground a title winning one. Our new move has been delayed until October, mind.

http://s22.postimg.org/jsoflakkx/image.png

The Squad.

Manoel - 22 year old Brazilian goalkeeper signed from Gremio. His £18.25m fee was offset by former number on Raktic moving to Man United. Eighteen clean cheets in his debut season.
http://s17.postimg.org/s2kvwola7/image.png
Daniel Montes de Oca - Signed from Portuguese heavyweights FC Porto, the determined centreback proved to be everything that was expected forming a rock solid partnership with Yohan Maillard.
http://s17.postimg.org/qv2cqq5rz/image.png

Yohan Maillard - After handing in a transfer request at Tottenham we met the centre backs £35.5m release clause. Now heading into his sixth season at the club he's been one of the best defenders in the country for a number of years now.
http://s17.postimg.org/7r91adsxr/image.png

Hampus Karlsson - Signed from Malmo when we first reached the Premier League and has since developed into the worlds best left back. Forgetting his quality, he has proven to be loyal and is due a testimonial. Arguably my best ever signing at £1.9m.
http://s17.postimg.org/se2c9g1q7/image.png

Luciano Fontana - Like Hampus, Luciano has been at the club for many seasons and has racked up over 250 appearances on the opposite side of defence. After spending just a season with Turkish side Fenerbahce we pounced and brought him straight over to England. He hasn't developed as much as expected but reliable as ever.
http://s17.postimg.org/qkuu7dr5r/image.png

Aad Schoenmaker - Bought from Feyenoord for £7m in 2026, the Dutchman has improved on a yearly basis and is now considered one of Holland's best ever products, bizarrely though he's still not good enough to gain regular international football.
http://s17.postimg.org/mxf31biyn/image.png

Abdou Diakhate - Another who is heading into his testimonial year and although the last two or three has seen him decline, he's still been a machine in the middle of the field. With over 300 appearances to his name and numerous honors, the CAF Footballer of the Year runner-up is probably going to see his career out at the club now he's signed another deal.
http://s17.postimg.org/5vm8z843j/image.png

Joao Jose - Another Brazilian but not one with many uses. He's been consistant enough but doesn't really offer much. He's improved since his first season by adding a few goals to his game but his age now counts against him given what he contributes.
http://s17.postimg.org/6il5or0zj/image.png

Wesley Vissers - Having just recorded a career best with 14 goals in 28 appearances, this former Feyenood winger has seen his career change course since being played as a shadow striker. With 51 caps for Holland the 25 year old is set to become one of the clubs best ever.
http://s17.postimg.org/i559pvoan/image.png

Jordy van Essen - Another Dutchman and another success. After a £20m move from Ajax in the summer he hit the ground running and ended the season with 21 goals in 36 games. Whilst his partnership with Milne was stop start due to the formers injury issues, it bodes well for the forseeable future.
http://s17.postimg.org/3n82hvwzj/image.png

John Milne - The 24 year old Scottish striker had an injury hit season but still came away with 16 goals. His development has slowed a little and does miss a lot of chances but he'll be here until the day he retires.
http://s17.postimg.org/lftmpre7z/image.png
Those salaries! Shit me, even with European football surely you still make a loss?

Gray Fox

03-01-2016, 11:06 PM

The money in England is mental when that new TV deal kicks in. Combine that with Champions league money and it's not hard to get Barcelona/Madrid style wage bills.

Smiffy

04-01-2016, 09:10 AM

.....

Weaver

04-01-2016, 12:10 PM

I'm not an accountant or anything, but I think you're fucked.

Weaver

04-01-2016, 12:22 PM

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.

Didn't get those wins I needed, and ended up getting relegated.

I've kept the bulk of the squad together - Bobby Olejnik/Dan Kearns were released on frees, Tyler Blackett moved to Newcastle for £750k and Courtney Meppen-Walter moved to the SPL for £500k. Three players asked for moves, but no-one came in for them.

I was flying after 10 games in the Championship, but a shoddy run left me mid-table and starting to get questioned for the first time (Insecure job status and the players were asking what I was going to do to change our fortunes). I've sinced changed my tactics from 3-4-1-2 to 4-4-2 Diamond, and we're back up to 5th, but I'm still not convinced by it, it seems to leave the DM totally exposed.

I've agreed to sign two Celtic youths (their contracts running out in May instead of June gives you a proper one-up, don't they? They're all usually 4* potential as well) to add to the squad, so I think I'll probably sell one or two to rebalance, regardless of which division we're in.

Smiffy

04-01-2016, 12:43 PM

I'm not an accountant or anything, but I think you're fucked.

I have no idea how either nor how to fix it. Anyone make sense of this?

You can see I've been reducing things but it doesn't make much sense.

http://s19.postimg.org/g171nskmr/Finances_Finances_Debt_and_Loans.png
http://s19.postimg.org/l2efp5s37/Finances_Finances_Expenditure.png
http://s19.postimg.org/rhdgltysz/Finances_Finances_FFP.png
http://s19.postimg.org/ps4ddrj3n/Finances_Finances_Income.png
http://s19.postimg.org/6s4vdobqr/Finances_Finances_Projection.png
http://s19.postimg.org/9xph3vucz/Finances_Finances_Sponsors_and_Other.png
http://s19.postimg.org/inmk4qbub/Finances_Finances_Summary.png
http://s19.postimg.org/9c0i7rzar/Finances_Finances_Wages.png

Mazuuurk

04-01-2016, 12:55 PM

Smiffy that sounds a little insane. What's your current wage bill then?

EDIT: Nevermind just saw your post, will look at it.

Smiffy

04-01-2016, 01:06 PM

Cheers Maz. The ground maintenance is only that big this season because we increased the capacity which IIRC cost around £40m. I try my hardest to ensure most players earn the bulk of their wage in bonuses too as I've tried capping the wage.

This is my squad at present, I'm going down the youth route now.

http://s19.postimg.org/424q7yttf/Squad_Players_Players.png

Whereas this is what it was prior to selling the club legends etc.

http://s19.postimg.org/ulxba3ucz/Squad_Players_Players_2.png

Mazuuurk

04-01-2016, 01:13 PM

Smiff, couple of things:

Expenditure:
- Your Loyalty Bonuses seem very high. With Arsenal in my 2nd season, I had only about 7M in Loyalty Bonuses (our finances seem generally comparable).
- Your staff wages are a little high
- You also paid about 10M more in bonuses than I did, but at the same time I didn't win much this year.

Income:
- The only thing that sets you apart here is your Season tickets, they fucking suck. Yours are about 30M anually while mine are 70M anually. Your Gate receipts are only about 15M above mine, so there's a good 25M difference there.
- Your sponsorship seems to suck a bit. Mine are at 90M anually, yours only 36M.

Now, Arsenal are a fucking minted club, as well (richest in the world on my save at least), so it's a little tough to compare with, but still might give you an idea.

My wage bill is 9.6M monthly, and that includes the monster wage 350k/week for Neymar, and yours isn't much lower even though you're not making at all as much as I do, so my guess is you still are spending too much on wages, to be honest, and you have contracts with some serious Loyalto Bonus problems in then. Try to rejuvenate your squad even more.

Mazuuurk

04-01-2016, 01:16 PM

BTW I'm about 600k/week below my wage budget, which I reckon is probably a healthy thing. If you're stuffing your contracts with extra bonuses because you can't afford the wages, then there's obviously your problem. That's like buying stuff you don't really afford on your credit card, basically.

Smiffy

04-01-2016, 01:30 PM

Smiff, couple of things:

Expenditure:
- Your Loyalty Bonuses seem very high. With Arsenal in my 2nd season, I had only about 7M in Loyalty Bonuses (our finances seem generally comparable).

I figured I would have paid most the loyalty bonuses out when selling the big earners? I am right in assuming that's only paid out if we sell or have I completely got that wrong?

- Your staff wages are a little high

I have 38 coaches at the club, the highest weekly wage being £15,000. And 22 scouts with the highest wage being £10,000 a week. How many do you have?

- You also paid about 10M more in bonuses than I did, but at the same time I didn't win much this year.

I won the Premier League, FIFA Club World Cup, Uefa Super Cup and the Community Shield last season. I'm pretty sure I had the bonuses for the league as the maximum.

Income:
- The only thing that sets you apart here is your Season tickets, they fucking suck. Yours are about 30M anually while mine are 70M anually. Your Gate receipts are only about 15M above mine, so there's a good 25M difference there.

This one is a bit of a pain tbh. Average price of a season ticket is £878 for me. Arsenal's who is the most expensive in the game is £1.57k. I don't know if it's the area maybe? Minus Man United who are the 6th highest, the top five are Arsenal, Tottenham, Chelsea and PSG. We're the 4th most expensive. Fulham, Everton, West Ham and Liverpool make up the top ten so that's a lot of London clubs.

- Your sponsorship seems to suck a bit. Mine are at 90M anually, yours only 36M.

I don't think I can do anything about the sponsorships, can I? Sad thing there is most have 2-4 years remaining whilst the stadium sponsor doesn't expire until 2043.

Now, Arsenal are a fucking minted club, as well (richest in the world on my save at least), so it's a little tough to compare with, but still might give you an idea.

Our turnover according to the list is the 12th highest at £85m which is only £10m less than 8th place Dortmund, below them are Chelsea, Man United and Bayern them us.

PSG, City and Madrid smash £200m+ whilst Arsenal's is £136m on this.

We are the 26th richest club in the world apparently yet the 4th highest valued behind Madrid, Chelsea and Arsenal.

My wage bill is 9.6M monthly, and that includes the monster wage 350k/week for Neymar, and yours isn't much lower even though you're not making at all as much as I do, so my guess is you still are spending too much on wages, to be honest, and you have contracts with some serious Loyalto Bonus problems in then. Try to rejuvenate your squad even more.

I've got the loyalty bonus wrong, haven't I? Here's a little list of the highest.

Jorge Aguilar - £5.75m
Ibrahima Diallo - £2.4m
Michael Geerts - £1.3m
Manoel - £1.8m
Cristian Piriz - £2.6m
Daniel Riffo - £8.5m
Aad Schoenmaker - £3m
Bogdan Ungureanu - £2.3m

Have we sussed it? :uhoh:

Smiffy

04-01-2016, 01:32 PM

Mazuuurk

04-01-2016, 01:49 PM

No, maybe you're right about Loyalty bonuses actually. I don't actually know how they work?

If you're wage spend is only about half of your budget you shouldn't be leaking money like that really, seems kind of odd.

Smiffy

04-01-2016, 01:53 PM

Would you mind if I uploaded the save for you to have a look? If so, which service? I'm working tonight so there's no huge rush.

Mazuuurk

04-01-2016, 01:57 PM

Smiffy

04-01-2016, 02:06 PM

Sorry mate, won't have time for that. Don't think I could figure out much more than I can see in your screenshots anyway.

Try to get Commercial Partner clubs if you haven't already, and work on improving your reputation (which basically is: win more shit). That should help with sponsorships eventually. In the meantime, only sign youngsters.

No worries. I've stuck all those listed above on the market now. I haven't had the option to have an affiliate for a long time now and reputation wise I'm 15th in the world, 14th in Europe and 2nd to only Man City in England. Worldwide reputation too.

I get it's going to be a complete clean slate. :moop: Goddamit.

igor_balis

04-01-2016, 02:08 PM

I'll av a look Smiffy if you like. Got fuck all else to do.

Smiffy

04-01-2016, 02:09 PM

I'll av a look Smiffy if you like. Got fuck all else to do.

Happy days. Which service do you want me to use, Igor?

igor_balis

04-01-2016, 02:13 PM

Wherever you can upload it, yo.

Smiffy

04-01-2016, 02:28 PM

Hmm...am I paranoid here...?

http://s19.postimg.org/lj8u32ulv/Inbox_Inbox.png

Ungureanu, Aguilar, Piriz, Porras and Schoenmaker were all put up for transfer only a few days earlier whilst our goalscorer Nkunzimana is also listed because we fell out after I warned him for not scoring goals (over 10 hours without) and he couldn't see where I was coming from.

:sherlock:

P_3

04-01-2016, 02:31 PM

I think you are worrying about this too much. But if you are uploading it up, I'll have a look too.

Charlie

04-01-2016, 03:22 PM

P_3

04-01-2016, 04:26 PM

Can't find the original now, so have one I've uploaded. I alternate between Clough and Clayton up top. Wellington Silva on right, Ian's man crush Rolando Aarons on loan from Newcastle on left. Vela and Davies in middle with Spearing behind. Promoted Finney to play alongside Wheater, but Dervite is fine too. The foreign chaps as full backs. Amos in goal. Simple but effective.

https://www.mediafire.com/?87glnd5aad2wfz1

Lofty

04-01-2016, 05:21 PM

Is FM16 any good then? Didn't buy 15, clocked a few hundred hours on 14. Any shouts on a discount?

Reg

04-01-2016, 05:26 PM

Is FM16 any good then? Didn't buy 15, clocked a few hundred hours on 14. Any shouts on a discount?
I haven't played it much, but I'd say have a look at the tactics screenshots and see if you like the way they've modified that part, because I'd guess that's the only thing you're going to really notice (apart from the skin - so I guess have a look at as many screenshots as you can).

Smiffy

04-01-2016, 05:51 PM

Is FM16 any good then? Didn't buy 15, clocked a few hundred hours on 14. Any shouts on a discount?

Bite the bullet and just get it from CDKeys, Lofty. Absolute value for money.

P_3

04-01-2016, 06:43 PM

Done. :cool:

https://i.gyazo.com/2726ca2bc6238c285fc6fbca4882b09e.png

Problem is I now have lots of contracts to renew. Clayton on £8k at the start has just signed a £28k contract, Vela on £3.5k has gone up to £32k. :uhoh:

EDIT: My pleasure Newcastle fans.

https://i.gyazo.com/ad29e43ad1848068850f32d083757cb3.png

Charlie

04-01-2016, 07:04 PM

TG09

04-01-2016, 07:25 PM

Bite the bullet and just get it from CDKeys, Lofty. Absolute value for money.

What is the difference from FM15 to FM16 apart from the player update. Is it worth me changing?

Raoul Duke

04-01-2016, 08:08 PM

Re: loyalty bonuses - I think they work like this:

- You agree to pay a player the bonus over the length of their contract
- If they hand in a transfer request then this is invalidated and you stop paying them it
- If you accept an offer for them, you have to pay them the full amount on completion of the transfer
- I think if you get them to sign a new deal in year 3 of a 5 year contract then you pay them the outstanding balance on the initial contract. Not 100% on that though.

Jimmy Floyd

04-01-2016, 08:41 PM

I've finally got Rangers going with basically a load of academy kids in a 4-2-3-1, and after a complete wank start that had us 7th after 10 games or something, we now look set fair to win the league pretty comfortably.

I'm finding a lot of joy with the Poacher role, or maybe it's just that I have one particular 18 year old who is godly at it, but he's getting a goal a game without even trying. I suppose playing Dumbarton and Alloa every week probably helps too, but when he missed 2 months at the start we couldn't score a goal for love nor money. I also have Gedion Zelalem playing like Zidane behind him, which will need replacing in the top flight as he's signed a new deal at Arsenal.

Jimmy Floyd

04-01-2016, 09:13 PM

Also, I'm sure I haven't seen a winger cross the ball yet. You can only get it delivered in when the full back overlaps, the winger always just blats it into the side netting from a silly angle.

Raoul Duke

04-01-2016, 09:20 PM

Right backs are the most important position in the game. The ME definitely favours that side of the pitch (although I've had pretty decent success from my wingers too).

Jimmy Floyd

04-01-2016, 09:22 PM

Yeah, my right back is always steaming on and has about 300 assists, but my left back (with the same instructions) has two and visually hangs 20 yards further back on the pitch.

Yevrah

04-01-2016, 10:01 PM

On the Loyalty Bonus stuff, I think Raoul is on the right lines with his assessment, but I've never been 100% sure as the game just doesn't give you enough information to be able to work it out.

And I say that as someone who ran spreadsheets during the Eibar game.

Danny

04-01-2016, 10:17 PM

http://www.guidetofootballmanager.com/transfers/contract-negotiations

5.1.7, pretty much what Raoul said.

TG09

04-01-2016, 10:22 PM

I hate the agents, if they ask for too much I dont bother offering the player a contract. Sell him and get someone else in. Harsh I know!
Well saying that depends on the player and how good he is. If it was Messi I will keep him, if I can afford him.

Yevrah

04-01-2016, 10:23 PM

I'm similar, in that I play to a ludicrous set of self imposed financial restrictions, particularly at smaller clubs.

Yevrah

04-01-2016, 10:26 PM

http://www.guidetofootballmanager.com/transfers/contract-negotiations

5.1.7, pretty much what Raoul said.

I don't think it's complete though, as it definitely affects the wage budget in some capacity, which would make the third and fourth lines of that incorrect.

Raoul Duke

04-01-2016, 10:44 PM

It comes out of the transfer budget I thought?

Which would in-turn affect the wage budget.

TG09

04-01-2016, 10:50 PM

It comes out of the transfer budget I thought?

Which would in-turn affect the wage budget.

That is what I thought it did.

Yevrah

04-01-2016, 10:57 PM

If you've still got surplus transfer funds how would it coming out of the transfer budget affect the wage budget?

In any case, it definitely affects the wage budget, or at least it did in FM15. Add up all your players wages - they won't tie back to the total stated in your finances.

Baz

04-01-2016, 11:00 PM

Confused.

Won the playoffs with Luton and the board are chuffed and that, but then call me in for a meeting where I'm informed they plan to buy the stadium. Ehhhh, I advise them not to bother and to just let me spend that money on transfers. Initially, Mr Burton isn't keen but I advise him other teams in the Championship (now I've got us in a big league, mate) will beat us to all the best players. He is sold! Agrees with me.

I leave his office and my next piece of news is about Luton buying the stadium. :confused: Transfer budget is still £1.7m and I can't adjust the sliders.

Turned it off cos it's bedtime. If that budget doesn't change in a few clicks of continue, I'll be mad.

John

05-01-2016, 12:14 AM

I'm finding a lot of joy with the Poacher role, or maybe it's just that I have one particular 18 year old who is godly at it, but he's getting a goal a game without even trying.

Ryan Hardie?

Yeah, my right back is always steaming on and has about 300 assists, but my left back (with the same instructions) has two and visually hangs 20 yards further back on the pitch.

Right backs generally seem to piss it in terms of average rating, though assists seem to elude my current one completely. In my Maritimo game my right back was only not the leader on average rating in two out of seven seasons.

John

05-01-2016, 12:23 AM

I've reached a bit of a sticking point in my 'Academy Only' Dinamo game. Man City have just bought my left back for £14.5m and I have noone even close to capable of replacing him. There's a kid in the youth team who I reckon will be up to it one day, but he definitely isn't now.

Aside from one youth player signed right at the beginning which prompted me to change the staff responsibilities the only signing I've made who wasn't a product of the Dinamo youth system is Mario Gomez, who I could justify as a tutor for a German who'd come through the academy and looks like becoming a player. There is no such player available at the moment, so I either have to play a pathetically underprepared kid at left back or break my own rules to bring someone in short term.

Now I know the initial plan was a bit ambitious, but I'd quite like to stick to it. I also suspect that after thirteen consecutive titles a season without one might kill me in the board's eyes, and this might be my last season with Coric, Davor Lovren, and Domagoj Pavicic, my three best players, and I'd quite like to make some impact in Europe.

I think I'm going to have to break my own rules. :moop:

Yevrah

05-01-2016, 12:31 AM

Stick the pathetically unprepared left back/kid in. It's Croatia right, how hard can the domestic competition be/how much will doing so matter?

Dark Soldier

05-01-2016, 12:49 AM

I'm similar, in that I play to a ludicrous set of self imposed financial restrictions, particularly at smaller clubs.

I just go ballistic finance wise. I think in about my 8th season on my now dead Watford save, I spent almost £400mil and made about £600mil back due to insane regen hoarding. It was also the point I gave up as it did get a bit daft.

John

05-01-2016, 12:50 AM

He's fifteen, which seems a bit young even for a game where youth is the point.

As for the league, the scheduling is so bonkers that I regularly have to rest almost my entire first team for the games immediately before and after European games, and it's a bit harder than I expected as a result, with my winning margins so far being three points, nine points (Pjaca at his best smashing everyone), and three points again. It's not the piss case I signed up for.

It's struck me that there's another entirely inadequate left back knocking around who's a bit older though so I might throw him in and hope the game's natural bias towards full backs takes the baton.

The left side is going to be hilariously weak for now, with another child lining up on the left wing. :drool:

Yevrah

05-01-2016, 12:53 AM

The save lives on though, the save lives on. :drool:

John

05-01-2016, 12:58 AM

The players in question.

http://i63.tinypic.com/25tyet5.png http://i68.tinypic.com/2q07jq1.png http://i68.tinypic.com/10wtutz.png

Look at the fucking state of that.

P_3

05-01-2016, 01:01 AM

That determination. :drool:

John

05-01-2016, 01:06 AM

The left back Man City nabbed, for comparison.

http://i65.tinypic.com/29by0l2.png

The price obviously owes loads to the aforementioned game bias towards full backs, but he's still a hundred times better than what I can replace him with. His contract was up in two years so the plan was to have him there this season while that fifteen year old played in the cups and the last fifteen of the odd big win before I sold Mamic and brought in Maglica for next season. It wasn't to be though, as Mamic inexplicably took 'we'll qualify for the Champion's League this year' as 'I'll improve the club's stature this year' and decided he was off a year ahead of schedule.

The Merse

05-01-2016, 01:14 AM

Glad someone else picked up on the full back bias.

Aside from that which I've come across in regular saves, I've been testing the new version of my YDWAWK database, which I'm expanding to SPL and ECL this time around, and top full backs in shit leagues (Baines for Wigan, Walker for Sheffield Utd) are scoring 10-15 goals a season.

Browning

05-01-2016, 01:20 AM

My attempts to bring Cian Mahoney, the young irish CM I signed for Gillingham and tried to poach off them in the summer, to Crystal Palace are still failing miserably. Just like in the summer they agreed to sell him to me for £3.5m, which is an utter rip off but I am willing to pay it because I signed him myself and saw him break into the first team and I want to continue developing him. However they wanted me to loan him back to them and he refuses to do that, so the deal died for the exact same reason it did in the Summer. I then had an idea... why not offer £3.5m but set it to go through at the end of the season. Nope... Gillingham reject that, despite the fact it's the exact same deal for them. I mean, I guess it stops them spending the money in this window, but they have 1 win in 30 games and are 20 points from safety.... they're fucked whatever they do. Oh well, maybe when they go down I'll have more luck.

The one player I did poach from them, Tarique Fosu, was rated by my scouts and coaches as 2 star current ability but 4.5 stars (yellow stars, not black) potential ability. After a failed loan spell at Swindon where he barely got a game, he's now rated as 2 star current and 2 star potential.... fuck sake. What a waste of space.

I returned to them again in January and poached Jake Kean, making this the 2nd January in a row where I've signed him. Sure enough Wayne Hennessey went down with a training injury days later, and Jake had to play, but he's been fantastic so far. We're slowly becoming another Gillingham though as we now have Kean (until Hennessey is fit), Dowell and Wells all in the starting line up, all players I had at Gillingham (albeit the other 2 were on loans there, and I own them at Palace). Dowell was slated by the fans to begin with but he's picked up hugely lately and become a regular starter. Wells has cooled down a bit from his huge success when I had him on loan, but is still decent, and recently scored an 84th minute winner at Gillingham. Legend.

We managed to avoid losing any players in January, although some of the ones I wanted to move on refused terms after I accepted bids. Van Aarnholt, whose desire to leave really split the dressing room in the early months, didn't attract any bids, but as soon as the window shut he got himself injured for 3 months. Useful.

We're digging out results at the moment and currently sit 2nd in the table with 58 points from 30 games. Huddersfield are top with 62 and Luton are 3rd with 55. Fucking Luton could be a premiership side soon....

We also beat Premiership side Brentford 5-2 in the FA Cup 4th round to set up a 5th round tie at Tottenham. This is the 2nd time we've reached the last 16 of a cup this season after Everton beat us 4-2 at that stage in the League cup.

Can't complain with how things are coming together, I just hope some of these youngsters I've signed for their potential and loaned out actually work out for me. My favorite transfer story was probably Quique Fornos, a CB I signed from Deportivo. He made his debut for us in the FA Cup 3rd round (Vs York) and then after a shit 1-1 draw, he was loaned out to York. He didn't play in their next league game and then I got an injury to a CB and with no decent cover and my better CB who I loaned to Gillingham also being injured, he was recalled from them and put back into our line up to face them again, all in the space of about 4 days. :D

Oh well, here's hoping we can carry this on and actually get promoted. I didn't enjoy the first few month's of the season so much but I'm loving it now. Would be nice to catch Huddersfield but they smashed us twice and I can't see anyone stopping them.

John

05-01-2016, 01:23 AM

First game of the season and I've just shat myself upon seeing the message 'Marko Pajac is an accomplished crosser of the ball.' The last thing I need when I'm struggling for a left winger is to think, even momentarily, that Marko Pjaca has been up for loan from Inter and fucking Osijek have ended up with him.

TG09

05-01-2016, 01:30 AM

I bought in some experience with Samuel Eto'o, from Sampdoria for 96k, got Vidic for 5.75m, Daniel Alves from Barca for 375k. Some young talent with Lucas Ocampos for 2.6m and Abdelhak Nouri for 11.25m.

Board still wont let me bring in my own staff, just signed a new contract with them as well.

Yevrah

05-01-2016, 02:01 AM

Having seen the screenshots, I'd play the 15 year old. He could be(come) genuinely good.

John

05-01-2016, 02:13 AM

He'll be sixteen soon so I'll throw him before long and see if he at least floats but I like to have a run of form up before risking youngsters. I know we're in extremis here, but even still a right footed fifteen year old a bit too much of a risk at left back.

I haven't gone back to my Maritimo game to check if he's on a Huge database game started elsewhere, but if he is you should all be looking at Davor Lovren from day one. He's been extraordinary in this game. Add him to the Andrija Zivkovic, Kristoffer Ajer sort of list.

John

05-01-2016, 02:42 AM

It's taken me into the fourth season to realise it, but the affiliate agreement between Dinamo and Lokomotiv Zagreb apparently allows any player to move from the latter to the former for nothing on a permanent basis. The very fact of that agreement means Lokomotiv have a fair number of players who've emerged from the Dinamo academy, so this is interesting news. There aren't many who'd improve my own side, but there are a couple. There's also a fucking rapid winger who emerged from what amounts to a farm club for Dinamo, so I'll be keeping an eye on him just incase I ever to decide to abandon that founding credo and go for an all-Croatian side or something.

John

05-01-2016, 07:58 AM

Having mentioned last night that I needed to do something in Europe this season as I'm almost certain to lose most of my best players at the end of it, this was the last thing to happen before I went to bed.

http://i63.tinypic.com/1zd85zo.png

Goodbye European success for this decade.

Chrissy

05-01-2016, 11:08 AM

I haven't started a save yet in FM. Spend way too much time creating tactics etc. So I am going to have a crack at Scottish League 2 and load up Italy, Spain and England if I get to the Prem.

Really enjoyed reading this thread. Some good saves going down.

igor_balis

05-01-2016, 11:26 AM

My League One Crewe side just did this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3r3r1QQgRg

:drool:

Jimmy Floyd

05-01-2016, 08:51 PM

My Rangers title race has become close again after a poor run of form, sparked by my 18 year old stallion Hardie getting injured for 2 months again. The replacement is Kenny Miller, which is like taking your dad on a night out. Still, we should really keep a five point lead over a marauding Falkirk.

The slight issue is the finances are terrible because there's just no income in this league, so I'm not sure how I'm going to fund the signings necessary to make us a decent top flight outfit.

Jimmy Floyd

05-01-2016, 09:39 PM

Consecutive thrashings and we're left with this, 8 to play.

http://i.imgur.com/coJMh77.png

The form fluctuations are a complete load of shite, it's either feast or famine. I've had 11 consecutive wins at one point and also two periods of 5 games in which we've just been thrashed off the park.

Baz

05-01-2016, 09:40 PM

Roberto Martinez wants to be my assistant.

My assistant.

In the Championship.

At Luton.

My assistant. :baz:

Couldn't afford his wages though, as soon as those sliders are working I'm chucking £12k at him.

Mazuuurk

05-01-2016, 09:46 PM

John if you don't mind, could you post a screenshot of Reine-Adelaide on your save? You said he was awesome on yours, but he doesn't seem to develop that much on my save so just curious how big difference there is.

Jimmy Floyd

05-01-2016, 10:07 PM

A third defeat (2-3 final destination style at home to Morton with their goals in the 87th and 90+3rd minutes) and my job status is now insecure. Now 3-0 down to Falkirk after 38 minutes with the same players (bar one striker) and same tactics as before. Opposition teams are just strolling through us for fun, where 6 games ago we were in total control.

I've had it with several abortive games now, once you start losing that's just it and there's nothing you can do to change it. I doubt we'll get another point all season/until I'm sacked and we were 8 points clear a month ago.

P_3

05-01-2016, 11:04 PM

Half way through our first season in the big boys' league and we sit in 6th place. :cool:

https://i.gyazo.com/ee51e985683e358a6fdafefd732e8acb.png

Raoul Duke

05-01-2016, 11:26 PM

Charlie

06-01-2016, 12:35 AM

Half way through our first season in the big boys' league and we sit in 6th place. :cool:

https://i.gyazo.com/ee51e985683e358a6fdafefd732e8acb.png

You have very different luck to me.

P_3

06-01-2016, 12:40 AM

Have you tried that tactic yet? Only thing which might not be working for you is the match training might be different. I've set it to Def Positioning 4th rung from left. Pretty sure anyone can plug it in and go.

Weaver

06-01-2016, 08:28 AM

I was flying after 10 games in the Championship, but a shoddy run left me mid-table and starting to get questioned for the first time (Insecure job status and the players were asking what I was going to do to change our fortunes). I've sinced changed my tactics from 3-4-1-2 to 4-4-2 Diamond, and we're back up to 5th, but I'm still not convinced by it, it seems to leave the DM totally exposed.

I managed to nick into the Playoffs with a defeat (I was 6th on 79 points, 7th had 78, 8th had 77 and so did 9th), knocked out Nottingham Forest despite getting battered in the second leg and then won the Final on penalties to get back into the Premier League.

My tactic has changed again, now to a 4-5-1, with my midfielders being DM/CM/CM/RW/LW.

I've only signed two players so far - Jordan Ibe has joined for £2m, and a kid from Celtic. I tried to sign Nathan Ake from Cardiff but he wanted £60k a week, and I'm not having that.

I maybe need a new RB and a second striker (Assombalonga is really good on this, but Jonathan Obika is my back up) to have an alright squad - I will then decide whether I need to spend the rest of my budget on someone amazing or not. I'll probably keep the money.

Mazuuurk

06-01-2016, 02:40 PM

I don't have the game open right now, but he's a £25m+ player on my game.

Hmm interesting. He looks well average on my save so far.

Here he is on my save, still only 19 but usually players who are that good have gotten a bitt further in their development at 19 IMO. My coaches don't seem to rate his potential very highly either.

http://snag.gy/co1FL.jpg

Charlie

06-01-2016, 02:56 PM

I did try it out and it wasn't so successful. I'll give it another shot later.

Mazuuurk

06-01-2016, 03:03 PM

Hmm Milan are all of a sudden willing to sell Donarumma for 18 million. So weird, he's now 18, a Wonderkid, and a lot better than when I first bid for him.

I don't get it, it seems the AI must only be basing their prices of the PA, not really the CA, and maybe he's "lost" some of his PA or something. He still has 4 years of contract so it can't be that.

Last time I couldn't get it below 37M for him, and that was only 6 months earlier in the save.

John

06-01-2016, 06:10 PM

TG09

06-01-2016, 07:02 PM

What is the main difference between FM15 and FM16? where is a good place to get FM16 from?

Reg

06-01-2016, 07:03 PM

I'm similar, in that I play to a ludicrous set of self imposed financial restrictions, particularly at smaller clubs.
Do you set limits on wages and bonuses based on what kind of player they are (first team, backup etc)?

Mazuuurk

06-01-2016, 07:12 PM

He looks shit hot there, Maz. Good pace, plenty of flair, and decent technical ability. Assuming he still has some room left to grow he'll be amazing if you focus it properly. I said before that Adelaide was valuable, by the way, not great. He was worth near fifty million at PSG. I'll screenshot him next time I load that game up.

You reckon? I mean, yeah, he will obviously develop into a pretty good player if nurtured properly from now. He's currently on loan at Real Sociedad and playing regularly so I reckon that's decent enough. But still, he looks worse that Zivkovic (who's also out on loan) for instance, and considering my two main wingers are Neymar and Sanchez at the moment, he'll be really hard pressed to get many games in between those two, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Walcott & Zivkovic next season. I gotta sell a player or two. Probably Walcott and Zivkovic (although he's never had a chance to play at "home" yet, only been out on loan).

Browning

06-01-2016, 07:13 PM

I managed to get Palace to the Premier League last night, but we well and truly shat our way over the finish line. When Wayne Hennessey returned to fitness results dropped to a series of draws, mostly 2-2 or 3-3 and in the end I went back to Jake Kean in goal and results picked up and at one point we were top of the table. The coaches then reported Kean had improved and was now a better keeper than that pensioner Heneessey, which was nice. Same thing happened with Kieran Dowell who ended up being great for us in the latter half of the season despite the fans calling for him to be dropped half way through and despite the fact he was never that great for me at Gillingham. Nevertheless it was still infuriating when we ended up drawing pretty much all of our final games when just 1 win would promote us. This included battling to take a 3-2 lead in the 93rd minute and still letting Swindon level it despite them battling the drop, and going 2-1 up against nothing to play for Birmingham at home and then letting them score with an awful back pass. The final day we dominated Luton but couldn't beat Ben Amos, settling for a frustrating 0-0 but news that Wolves had pegged back Pompey to a 2-2 draw having been 2-0 down saw us promoted, probably undeservedly. Our performances justified promotion but our results and our inability to see out easy games really didn't.

Squad wise I'll probably need to overhaul it to have any hope of staying up. The fact we battered PL Brentford in the cup and weren't blown away by Everton or Spurs, despite losing to both, gives me hope, but we'll need to find some quality. Nahki Wells broke the Palace scoring record, but surely he can'y go from L1 to the Premier League in 2 seasons. I'll give him a chance and be praying he continues to be my hero. His partner in crime, Conor Wilkinson, was great too but seems to want to leave. Maybe that will change now, but I don't know. At least the promotion should mean we can keep hold of Joel Ward.

Considering the fact that 3 of my regular starters came from my L1 Gillingham side, I'm half tempted to stick with them just because, but that might be stupidity. We will see what I can find. I think my defenders are more than good enough for the step up despite leaking a few goals in some games where we shouldn't have, but the rest of the team probably needs quality injecting into it, particularly CM and possibly another capable striker.

John

06-01-2016, 07:37 PM

You reckon? I mean, yeah, he will obviously develop into a pretty good player if nurtured properly from now. He's currently on loan at Real Sociedad and playing regularly so I reckon that's decent enough. But still, he looks worse that Zivkovic (who's also out on loan) for instance, and considering my two main wingers are Neymar and Sanchez at the moment, he'll be really hard pressed to get many games in between those two, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Walcott & Zivkovic next season. I gotta sell a player or two. Probably Walcott and Zivkovic (although he's never had a chance to play at "home" yet, only been out on loan).

No young player in the game is getting in there ahead of Neymar and Sanchez. If that's the standard you're looking for you'd be aswell just writing off every youth player there is and wait for the academies to start spitting out little Messis.

Mazuuurk

06-01-2016, 07:42 PM

Well I mean, not straight away, but over maybe 3-5 years when those two decline a bit more, specially Sanchez who is 28 now. Point is, he will need to be one of the best wingers in my save in 3 years, or I won't keep him. He's home-grown though I think, so I'll give him maybe a season extra.

Zivkovic will probably have to go relatively soon.

Yevrah

06-01-2016, 08:03 PM

Do you set limits on wages and bonuses based on what kind of player they are (first team, backup etc)?

Not really depending on what squad status they'll get as I've no problem giving a kid who looks shit hot a lot more than they're asking for to secure them, for example.

But if I'm a club like Norwich, it makes me physically sick when it looks like I'm going to have to break the £100k p/w barrier.

TG09

06-01-2016, 08:19 PM

Not really depending on what squad status they'll get as I've no problem giving a kid who looks shit hot a lot more than they're asking for to secure them, for example.

But if I'm a club like Norwich, it makes me physically sick when it looks like I'm going to have to break the £100k p/w barrier.

I am in the same boat, i try not to give a player over $100k p/w. With my Lyon team I might have too very soon.

Giggles

06-01-2016, 08:24 PM

I had to break the €250,000 a week barrier to get Schurrle :(

John

06-01-2016, 08:29 PM

Schurrle? :D

As good as he is, he's not quarter of a million a week good. I honestly can't remember the last time I was paying a player even half that.

Giggles

06-01-2016, 08:34 PM

Schurrle? :D

As good as he is, he's not quarter of a million a week good. I honestly can't remember the last time I was paying a player even half that.

He's not even first choice now to make it worse.
Semedo has since passed him on to €265,000 a week though he's worth double. I'm still €1.2m a week under my allowed wage budget too.

John

06-01-2016, 08:41 PM

I'm spending less than half my wage budget with Dinamo Zagreb, but were I to allow myself transfers I'd eat that in about ten minutes.

Jimmy Floyd

06-01-2016, 08:42 PM

I've managed to lose the league to Falkirk, which is a fairly special effort in the circumstances. What I haven't done though is been sacked, as the players decided to bother their arses again in time for me to get 12 points from 15 after the board demanded 10 in an ultimatum.

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

As such we'll have to go through some playoffs to try and blag our way into the top flight. The other teams will be an equally bed-shitting Hibernian; St Mirren, who in all their good fortune have just been bought by Massimo Cellino after he was ousted from Leeds; and it looks as though the top flight team will probably be Dundee United.

Yevrah

06-01-2016, 09:04 PM

The Scottish season never fucking ends, does it?

John

06-01-2016, 09:08 PM

The Croatian season is good. This season my first game took place on the fifteenth of July and the last will take place on the nineteenth of May. That's a league season of a little over ten months, yet I still had to play four domestic games in a week at the end of last season.

Giggles

06-01-2016, 09:11 PM

Never knew that's how the Scottish playoffs worked.

Jimmy Floyd

06-01-2016, 09:13 PM

I don't really know how they work either but we've been drawn to play two legs against St Mirren whilst the SPL is still ongoing, so I can only imagine we're going to have to pick off all of them in turn, which we won't.

Dquincy

06-01-2016, 09:27 PM

Wheeling and dealing done for the summer.

http://s2.postimg.org/4innhodhl/Gillingham_Transfers_History.png

Tornado (a Newcastle YTS reject) is my favorite, purely for the name.

http://s14.postimg.org/lhk5q17gh/Tornado_Profile_Attributes.png

Current finance situation, and we're predicted to finish 24th this season...last :(

http://s22.postimg.org/wj6mpqfsh/Gillingham_Boardroom_Finances.png

Dquincy

06-01-2016, 09:29 PM

Good start...

http://s2.postimg.org/hayfvr1vt/Gillingham_v_Everton_Post_Match.png

Yevrah

06-01-2016, 09:33 PM

Tornado. :D

I would play him always and never sell him, now matter how good he may or may not be.

John

06-01-2016, 09:34 PM

Are you sure Tornado isn't a Gladiators reject?

Jimmy Floyd

06-01-2016, 09:59 PM

Having seen off St Mirren we then had two key men away on fucking international duty for the first leg of the Hibs tie, which against a fully rested Hibs compared to 3 games in 7 days for us was lost 2-0 and should have been many, many more. Didn't stand a chance and I'm seething.

I wonder if I'll be sacked upon completion of the second leg. I wouldn't mind another season at it to be honest as the youth setup is really good and the players are improving a lot.

Dquincy

06-01-2016, 10:00 PM

Tornado update: 3 goals in 10 starts and 1 sub. Not impressed. He's had shin splints and now just pulled his hamstring in his short stay.

Chrissy

06-01-2016, 10:07 PM

The Scottish season never fucking ends, does it?

The amount of repetition in games makes it dull as fuck as well. Twice playing a team every year is plenty for league football.

Yevrah

06-01-2016, 10:07 PM

What was the rationale behind splitting it into four divisions?

Chrissy

06-01-2016, 10:11 PM

What was the rationale behind splitting it into four divisions?

I think they never envisaged the old firm climbing up them. Three 24 team divisions or Two 24 teams divisions with some clubs punted out would be much better.

I think the 4 games a season was mainly to tap into the old firm fans visiting grounds, at least in the top flight and the other divisions mimic'd it being only 10 team leagues.

Jimmy Floyd

06-01-2016, 10:13 PM

Because the teams get very shit very quickly. The bottom half of the division I'm in would not have a prayer of being anywhere near the English Football League. And it's better for the standard at the top if they are playing better teams all the time, rather than trolling round the likes of Livingston and Raith Rovers for a laugh.

Won the second leg 1-0 to lose 2-1 on aggregate, very good effort but got superkeepered, and I still haven't been sacked. We are a million in the red and there won't be any income for at least another 12 months, so I'll have to think about whether it'll actually be possible to get the show back on the road or not.

John

06-01-2016, 11:35 PM

A twenty nine year old Daniel Sturridge has just fucked off to Qatar on a hundred and sixty grand a week. Interestingly he's immediately worth more than twice what Lekhwiya paid for him, making this possibly the first ever bargain signing for the Qatari league.

Danny

07-01-2016, 12:26 AM

https://i.imgur.com/ejNAKH6.jpg

Not in apparently :moop:

Jimmy Floyd

07-01-2016, 12:29 AM

The biggest problem I have with my save is that 'Queen of the South' makes me think of Judy Murray in a dominatrix outfit.

P_3

07-01-2016, 01:00 AM

Finished the season in 5th. Was 4th but lost on the last day to 10-man Ipswich, whilst Spurs won their game. We've had some stonking home results against City and Arsenal, 4-0 and 3-0 respectively, so I'm looking forward to see what we can do next year in Europe.

https://i.gyazo.com/f09e0c21330e949d43d5b731f53b2b01.png

TG09

07-01-2016, 02:43 AM

Makers of the game give the best young players
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/football-manager-boss-reveals-apologise-7122663

Gray Fox

07-01-2016, 03:11 AM

I haven't touched the game since my last update here as I was away over Christmas. I've just built myself a new PC, my first actually to have a GPU, so I turned this on to see how the 3D looks.

In my first game I noticed this:

https://gyazo.com/bf37ae35c4ebd452ef9c2a437a1b56d1.png

I knew we were having the stadium expanded but I didn't know it would be reflected in-game like that. Has this been in for a while or is an old feature I've just never noticed?

Giggles

07-01-2016, 08:13 AM

wullie

07-01-2016, 08:45 AM

At some point it's not so much a building site as an actual pile of rubble too.

Disco

07-01-2016, 08:49 AM

I've seen it in 2015.

Jimmy Floyd

07-01-2016, 06:45 PM

Transfer dealings done for Take 2 of attempting to get Rangers back into the top flight, and what I've basically done is sell anyone good (with a few exceptions) and replace them with worse players on lower wages (and Agent Orange, of course, and where better for him). I'll be playing the kids to a ridiculous extent this year but we should still be contenders.

http://i.imgur.com/9LzoyR1.png

The competition will I expect come from the relegated sides, Dundee United and Motherwell. Motherwell look the stronger of the two to me, despite coming bottom last season, whilst Dundee United are in financial mire and have had to sell half their squad, and haven't replaced them. They underlined the point by going out of the Challenge Cup in the first round to the unfettered might of Brora.

Speaking of those shitty teams, I see there's a new playoff system which has finally allowed East Stirlingshire to meet their maker in the great beyond, replaced by Cove Rangers. A nice touch.

Raoul Duke

07-01-2016, 07:44 PM

@Maz - you're mental to sell Zivkovic. He's a £50m player on my game, kicking arse at PSG.

Mazuuurk

07-01-2016, 07:47 PM

OK dam wattafak, who I sell then?

Raoul Duke

07-01-2016, 07:54 PM

Walcott, obvs.

John

07-01-2016, 08:01 PM

Croatian scheduling strikes again. After a two week break during which no international football was played followed by a full month of playing one weekend game a week and no more my second and third last fixtures of the season are being played on a Saturday and the following Monday. The next game after the Monday one is next Sunday, so why the fuck can the Monday game not be moved to Wednesday.

This is bad enough when half my squad isn't out injured. :moop:

And there's some under twenty one international football on the same night as the Monday game too, so there's another four players gone, three of whom would have started that. :D

Mazuuurk

07-01-2016, 08:05 PM

Walcott, obvs.

Yeah I know. He's HG and English though, and it's just annoying it's so hard to create a World class squad with any English players in. I did buy Eric Deir, but he's not even HG it turns out!

Foe

07-01-2016, 08:08 PM

Samadini

07-01-2016, 08:19 PM

Went on an 8 game unbeaten run with Birmingham, but then got sacked when we ended the run with a 1-0 away defeat to Villa.

I'm now at Ross County :(

Mazuuurk

07-01-2016, 08:48 PM

Actually, I just agreed to sell Pablo Dybala to PSG for 68M. Berardi has always played better than him in the lone striker position, he doesn't seem that consistent, Dybala does, even though all his stats look a lot better really.

Besides, I kept feeling like rotating those two kept putting a dent in Berardis form. Now I can play Berardi alone up front and have Walcott & Neymar for cover there when needed, which means Zivkovic should be able to fit in once he's back. Still need to sell one more player to be able to rotate in Reine-Adelaide I guess.

Jimmy Floyd

07-01-2016, 08:48 PM

Yeah - Brora were in prime position for it last year in real life and fucked it off because the chairman didn't fancy having to trek all over Scotland. Brora is about as North as you can go in Scotland.

I've won a shitty medal playing at their home park.

I've been norther than that.

Thurso :drool:

Foe

07-01-2016, 09:21 PM

I've been norther than that.

Thurso :drool:

I had to go to Caithness pretty much annually for football. Hideous.

Sama gets to toy with tony Dingwall :drool:

Samadini

07-01-2016, 09:35 PM

Prick before me had him out on loan until the end of his contract. I've offered him a new one, but it's not a good start, we're bottom in February and I've been told to get midtable. A couple of injuries and I'm going down with this ship.

Samadini

07-01-2016, 10:26 PM

Jimmy Floyd

07-01-2016, 10:34 PM

A careful summer of reworking the club leads to one point from the first four league games. It's the least plug and play version ever, this.

Samadini

07-01-2016, 10:38 PM

Might resign after one game, we are unbelievably shit. Why the hell did I take this job.

Samadini

07-01-2016, 10:46 PM

I'm seething here, proper slow, shit team, so I've tried to find some unattached pace merchant to lump it up to. Found Jordan Bowery, who only wants £2k pw, but I'm only able to offer him £140 a week :face:

Samadini

07-01-2016, 10:50 PM

Just tried to mutually terminate a few of the wankers contracts and the board has blocked them all and now everyone hates me. Been in the job two weeks.

Jimmy Floyd

07-01-2016, 10:56 PM

I was trying to get Josh King in, had £12k spare in my wage budget, he wanted £9k a week, I could only offer £4.5k.

Jock penny pinching bastards.

Browning

07-01-2016, 10:57 PM

Haven't kicked a ball yet and I've already had 6 players come and discuss personal matters with me. No fucking clue how the previous manager was able to piss everyone off over lack of first team football, given we've only got a handful of players.

Scott Parker is our captain. Fucking lol at the idea of him getting relegated with Ross County.

I had the same at Palace. Within a few weeks everyone was moaning about lack of games and supposed I'd "promised them all a run in the team" even though I'd done no such thing. It really does seem to be impossible to keep hold of any decent fringe players without them moaning.

Raoul Duke

07-01-2016, 10:59 PM

If you're having problems with keeping your squad in line it's because you haven't picked your manager stats correctly. There's one (can't remember, but it's something like 'Discipline' or 'Man Management' or whatever) that tells you in the tooltip that it's responsible for allowing you to prevent dissent and keep control of your squad better.

Mazuuurk

07-01-2016, 11:19 PM

Can you improve that in any way?

Dark Soldier

07-01-2016, 11:27 PM

Yeah I never have issues as I always set my coaching badges to max and give myself 20 in all vital attributes. I basically tell a player to stfu and 90% of the time they do. If someone kicks off, no other players seem to get involved.

Jimmy Floyd

07-01-2016, 11:34 PM

It's just a boring feature though. It should be there to penalise you the odd time if you twat about, but for me it's most non-first XI players every season and even if you sort them all out successfully, clicking through it adds 20-30 minutes to a season.

If they're going for that sort of realism they should have a section where you have to click through your wife asking what you want for dinner and have to bathe a small child at the end of each game day.

Samadini

07-01-2016, 11:42 PM

Bit of dicking around means Bowery is in.

Going for 8 players behind the ball, sitting deep, no one making forward runs, then hoof the fuck out of it.

Samadini

08-01-2016, 12:10 AM

Lost 3-1.

Some twat who prior to this had 2 career goals, scored a hat trick.

Samadini

08-01-2016, 02:45 PM

http://s2.postimg.org/pxro0xsy1/image.png

https://media.giphy.com/media/XreQmk7ETCak0/giphy.gif

Disco

08-01-2016, 03:53 PM

Jesus that must have been painful.

igor_balis

08-01-2016, 04:05 PM

Samadini

08-01-2016, 04:48 PM

I've bailed on the cunts.

Huddersfield have just been relegated and I've taken up the job of getting them back into the Championship.

Samadini

08-01-2016, 05:07 PM

http://s1.postimg.org/deb1bd17j/ffs.png

http://i6.ifrm.com/14553/35/emo/anguish.gif

Disco

08-01-2016, 05:29 PM

Nahki Wells used to rape us horribly in League 1.

P_3

08-01-2016, 06:30 PM

https://i.gyazo.com/d6b9510608fac516ccdbed9d788ec6d0.png

Third season with Bolton started horribly. We picked up 3 points from 5 games, a win against Chelsea, and were languishing near the bottom. Thought that might just be it for me but things turned around massively and at the half way point we are unbeaten in 14 league games climbing up to the lofty position of 3rd. Europe was a different ball game, we struggled in a shit group of Ajax, Hannover and PAOK finishing 3rd on head to head results. :wall:

Dquincy

08-01-2016, 06:49 PM

Reached the half way point. Not bloody bad considering I'm predicted to finish 24th and have a wage budget of 70k. Although 4 wins in my last 6 did take me up from 17th where I've spent most of the time.

http://s29.postimg.org/ppd8xqo6f/npower_Football_League_Championship_Information.pn g

http://s28.postimg.org/ezbwmbyal/Gillingham_Gillingham_Fixtures.png

Yevrah

09-01-2016, 02:05 AM

I've spent over an hour looking for a team to start as, to no avail. :moop:

Gray Fox

09-01-2016, 02:08 AM

Which countries are you looking at?

Yevrah

09-01-2016, 02:09 AM

Definitely European ones and leagues within that which are in sync with the Champions League.

Doesn't need to be a big club mind, just something interesting.

Gray Fox

09-01-2016, 02:12 AM

Carpi in Italy? If it's them I remember right, they've done something similar to what Eibar did and made it into Serie A and are tiny compared to most of the clubs in the league.

Yevrah

09-01-2016, 02:15 AM

I'd looked at them, but it's too similar to the Eibar game sadly.

I'm tempted by the create a club thing, but it's annoying that you can't set your own budget (to pick the initial players from).

Yevrah

09-01-2016, 02:18 AM

Some interesting ideas here.

http://www.squawka.com/news/the-8-hardest-football-manager-2016-challenges/517698

Dark Soldier

09-01-2016, 02:34 AM

Do a Bury save Yev, and I'll propose. Fallen giant, they won the FA Cup in 1903.

Yevrah

09-01-2016, 02:45 AM

Would FC Utd bring a proposition?

Dark Soldier

09-01-2016, 03:02 AM

Nah fuck that scum.

Dquincy

09-01-2016, 08:45 AM

I'm ill with a rotten cold (which apparently takes over two weeks to shift) and my wife is out all day....a day of FM and watching fa cup for me. Someone feel sorry for me.

Baz

09-01-2016, 09:20 AM

Definitely European ones and leagues within that which are in sync with the Champions League.

Doesn't need to be a big club mind, just something interesting.Do League 2 to Premier League Champions within 10 seasons.

Dquincy

09-01-2016, 09:36 AM

Well this is getting interesting...look at that league table! Our team wage is 62k with a 74k wage budget. Most expensive two players, who's not on loan, are £1.4m and 525k. In short, we won't go up, but this purple patch is fun.

http://s18.postimg.org/fmxa1uuxl/Blackburn_v_Gillingham_Post_Match.png

Dquincy

09-01-2016, 10:01 AM

Good news, just beat Coventy to get into the fifth round of the FA Cup. Bad news, it was at the cost of losing my top goalscorer for the rest of the season. Broken foot o- out for 5 months.

Slags.

Dquincy

09-01-2016, 10:18 AM

Injuries (half are long term) are mounting up. Can't put a full team at the mo. Tornado's pretty shit as well.

http://s23.postimg.org/legft7nsr/Gillingham_Gillingham_Players.png

wullie

09-01-2016, 10:41 AM

My main issue holding me back last season was too many draws and a leaky defence. I'm still drawing more than I'd like but Rudiger seems to have steadied things at the back

http://i.imgur.com/gMnXt5z.png

Samadini

09-01-2016, 11:52 AM

We've officially unofficially WON THE TRANSFER WINDOW. So if we don't walk to the Championship then I imagine I'll be walking to the Conference. Bookies have us third favourite, Brentford are our biggest challengers.

The team I've got now would beat my Ross County team about 32-0.

http://s9.postimg.org/foe23sf6n/trannie.png

John Arne

09-01-2016, 12:27 PM

I've made Crewe Alex an absolute mint. The below, plus about $17m in players sold from the youth squad.

Angel Correa
https://gyazo.com/fb31188add5affbf5417884d8307ad9d.png

Marko Grujic
https://gyazo.com/346df1b272ed493015d00aa11b9c6957.png

Flavio Henriques
https://gyazo.com/faf17c9bfe3cdf10aabacdd9c3f8fcc0.png

Jerry St. Juste
https://gyazo.com/c9709f8f49f701f7bdc726e475303b5e.png

Jimmy Floyd

09-01-2016, 12:29 PM

I was looking at that list of ins thinking you were already in the Championship, Sama, and thought 'yeah, should go up with that'. Then I re-read it.

14th I reckon.

Dquincy

09-01-2016, 12:30 PM

Top of the table...

the injury table. Fucks sake, i have the smallest squad in the league.

http://s24.postimg.org/4ouguj6dx/npower_Football_League_Championship_Stats_Inju.png

Samadini

09-01-2016, 12:48 PM

I was looking at that list of ins thinking you were already in the Championship, Sama, and thought 'yeah, should go up with that'. Then I re-read it.

14th I reckon.

:uhoh: Scraped a 2-1 win in our first match. First win on this for about a year. Andy 'Andrew' Cole's lad ripped us to shreds.

Samadini

09-01-2016, 01:19 PM

Out of the cup to the might of Stockport. Remarkably I've lost every single cup game I've been involved in on this save, spanning 3 teams. Mike Ashley would be proud :drool:

Sir Andy Mahowry

09-01-2016, 02:15 PM

Just got 2016 and downloading Claassen's league updates:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/w8m6i65myk6dhvi/Updates+by+claassen.rar

Can't wait to manage to some goat herders :drool:

Edit: 178 leagues from 97 nations if no fuck ups during set up.

162 from 87, let's see if that works.

Reg

09-01-2016, 03:01 PM

How do the user-added leagues work exactly? Do SI have the data of other African leagues for example, and it's just a case of activating them in the editor? (Plus making them more realistic if you want to?)

John Arne

09-01-2016, 03:06 PM

Pretty much. The data exists already for a lot of leagues/teams/players - and if you do choose a more random league, just make sure you tick 'add key players to playable teams' to avoid having greyed out players everywhere.

Sir Andy Mahowry

09-01-2016, 03:29 PM

http://i.imgur.com/BYsMzI9.png

Could have done more but I forgot to take out the useless media DB changes that the Susie thing added first time round.

Player count is 141k.

Danny

09-01-2016, 04:29 PM

Scraped 17th first season with Crewe, and I've gotten into the play-offs in second season, though a bit annoyed because we were walking the division at Christmas. I won't be gutted if we don't go up, as it is proving to be more of a challenge than usual. Got the team playing very slow tempo and very short passing, and it is the first time I've ever gotten that to work.

It is satisfying seeing some of the goals we score, but also infuriating getting 67% possession, a bazillion CCCs, and losing 1-0 to a goal from a corner, something which happens fairly often.

Speaking of which, how are you getting on Danny ? How's your team looking?

Squad is very similar to how it starts with a sprinking of youth players in there.

https://i.imgur.com/6tCDDRc.png

Academy had thrown up some potentially good players over the years (its 2020 now) but until this season my side was made up pretty much just of players who started at Crewe. This being the main first XI until this season:

https://i.imgur.com/XAzG3yL.png

Took a while for players like Bailie. Atkinson and Finney to learn their new postions

John Arne

09-01-2016, 04:32 PM

I'm in the Prem with Crewe in 2020. Atkinson and Baillie are still floating around for me in the ressies.

Sir Andy Mahowry

09-01-2016, 04:33 PM

Pitched up in Congo with Saint-Michel de Ouenze.

http://i.imgur.com/gfDIt7v.png

First game is in 28 days against the team in 7th and here is our best, well he's our only non-grey player:

http://i.imgur.com/EntaJZ4.png

The team is so MASSIVE that they even have a facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/St-Michel-de-Ouenz%C3%A9-Ewawa-588788097897906/?hc_location=ufi

Here is the stadium:

http://cdn.ghanasoccernet.com/2013/02/alphonse_massamba_debat.jpg

Although it's used as the home stadium for all the teams based in Brazzaville.

Sir Andy Mahowry

09-01-2016, 04:40 PM

Oh and we have a mouth watering £6 a week wage budget.

Dquincy

09-01-2016, 04:40 PM

Getting tight this.

http://s7.postimg.org/t6u8cfydn/Swansea_v_Gillingham_Post_Match.png

Dquincy

09-01-2016, 04:52 PM

Going down to last day of the season. I'm home to 18th QPR.

http://s28.postimg.org/x9ckr528t/York_v_Gillingham_Post_Match.png

Sir Andy Mahowry

09-01-2016, 04:54 PM

Used my money on this beast of an assistant:

http://i.imgur.com/K2NuRfv.png

I also put the Chairman in charge of other staff signings so he's trying to complete deals for a physio and a head of youth development man.

igor_balis

09-01-2016, 04:57 PM

Pretty impressed by the staying power of those players, Danny and John Arne.

Also, check out the goal that sealed my place in the play-offs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7WxjoG2Y6g&feature=youtu.be

:alan:

John Arne

09-01-2016, 05:05 PM

This video is private.

Danny

09-01-2016, 05:07 PM

Giggles bought Garratt a couple of pages back and he looked like he could do a job in the Prem. Cooper has turned out well on mine too.

Dquincy

09-01-2016, 05:12 PM

igor_balis

Not working mate. Says 'this video is private'

Dquincy

09-01-2016, 05:19 PM

Bottled it against QPR on the last day of the season...but still crept into the playoffs.

http://s14.postimg.org/qhb1g7b29/Gillingham_v_Q_P_R_Post_Match.png

Dquincy

09-01-2016, 05:23 PM

Stupid pricks! Bottled the first play off legs as well. Look at those clear cut chances. 2nd leg still to go.

http://s7.postimg.org/b79fefgej/Gillingham_v_Blackpool_Split_View.png

igor_balis

09-01-2016, 05:25 PM

igor_balis

Not working mate. Says 'this video is private'

Look now!! Thanks 4 the heads up. x

Dquincy

09-01-2016, 05:27 PM

Look now!! Thanks 4 the heads up. x

Noice. Barcelona'esque. :thbup:

Dquincy

09-01-2016, 05:34 PM

2nd leg Championship Play Off

:eek:

http://s16.postimg.org/q226nj6r9/Blackpool_v_Gillingham_Information_Overview.png

MK Dons in the final.

Dquincy

09-01-2016, 06:49 PM

Championship Play Off Final:

Gillingham (Media Predicted 24th) V MK Dons (Media Predicted 21st)

:dance:

http://s12.postimg.org/6lm9hsp4d/Quincy_News_Inbox.png

Ridiculous considering the small squad and budget we have. We bossed it. Never was in doubt really.

http://s16.postimg.org/tzaallalx/Gillingham_v_MK_Dons_Split_View.png

This is the final league standings.

http://s18.postimg.org/w9u9guz4p/npower_Football_League_Championship_Information.pn g

End of season player stats. The fact that my midfielder was top goal scorer is a tad odd.

http://s23.postimg.org/ezlyaol97/Gillingham_Gillingham_Players.png

That's nice.

http://s2.postimg.org/8p4gdijah/Quincy_News_Inbox_2.png

That's nicer.

http://s15.postimg.org/9h8v13akb/Quincy_News_Inbox_3.png

We didn't own our stadium, so i couldn't expand on the 11,000 capacity. Thankfully the board bought it for £5m.

http://s15.postimg.org/xg0gtgb3v/Quincy_News_Inbox_4.png

:moop:

http://s28.postimg.org/usa1yw9lp/Quincy_News_Inbox_5.png

TG09

09-01-2016, 09:33 PM

Got a tough group, two wins so far.

http://s18.postimg.org/4057e3vix/Lyon.gif (http://postimage.org/)

http://s17.postimg.org/c2409q2r3/Lyon.gif (http://postimage.org/)

Charlie

10-01-2016, 12:16 AM

Things are getting better for me. I've drawn a third of the games so far this season, but it's better than losing.

Sir Andy Mahowry

10-01-2016, 12:33 AM

And we're done.

http://i.imgur.com/g4FvfS9.png

The losses really annoyed me, we played CARA Brassaville off the park in the first half but we went down 1-0 after we gave away a penalty and we shat the bed in the second half. With the Leopards it was much the same but it was 1-1 after we scored first only for them to score in the final minute.

This is where it put us:

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

We've qualified for the CAF Confederation Cup and, despite the fact that we wont do anything, it's making me think about staying for one more season.

Oh and here is my favourite grey player:

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

Not only because I liked saying his name but he scored 5 goals in our last 4 games including a hattrick.

Walked, we're not likely to win a game in that cup and I doubt I'd be able to unseat any of the top 3 in the league.

Sir Andy Mahowry

10-01-2016, 01:08 AM

I've signed with United, which United? Only the very best ofc:

http://i.imgur.com/I9nTNxN.png

The second tier of the Myanmar league, I think I've hit a new low which I just couldn't pass up.

This is our best player:

http://i.imgur.com/z39WgUz.png

Oh and here is a local beauty showing off the stadium:

http://hanoiswans.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/picture41.jpg

£7k transfer budget and £1200 a week free in wages, not too shabby.

Dquincy

10-01-2016, 09:28 AM

I had a really good game with Dinamo in FM14, John, but just couldn't crack Europe and eventually this, coupled with the monotony of walking the league each year, caused me to jack it in.

After three consecutive promotions (all of which were demanded by Chairman Tapas), my Stockport side found themselves in League One, where we were, for once, not expected to win the league, merely finish top half. Then this happened:

https://i.gyazo.com/bc24aa5a43bc680117d118b14fc79a3c.png

So I find myself in the Championship, where if I'm honest I need to stay for a couple of seasons. The board keep ploughing all the cash we have, which is minimal, into the facilities. I have yet to ask them to do this, they tak it upon themselves, but it means we are currently 500k in the red. As a result they then give me bugger all playing budget, so I'll be scrabbling round the free transfer and loan markets. Again.
How's your progress going? In the premier yet?

Have you kept any players throughout the whole campaign? You know, where you strangely get some sort of attachment to them,