What a cheat code Haaland is in this game. He just scored 40 goals for me at 37 years of age and, even though he's lost some speed, he's still a beast.
https://i.gyazo.com/05a96a3c2f2cfef7...11fe3ba9dd.png
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What a cheat code Haaland is in this game. He just scored 40 goals for me at 37 years of age and, even though he's lost some speed, he's still a beast.
https://i.gyazo.com/05a96a3c2f2cfef7...11fe3ba9dd.png
He's no Ioan Jenkins.
Well I don't think I could afford a Ioan Jenkins or any players of that quality so I just have to make do with Horseface.
What a way to finish my save:
https://i.imgur.com/2u9JHSl.png
:drool:
Haji Wright scored 25 in the first season to get us promoted first time, then the Saudi league came calling and it risked a revolt if I turned it down so he went for £53m. Just over a year later for some reason his contract was mutually terminated so I was back in for him, but with the contract he'd just had being for massive cash he was looking for £450k p/w which was about three times my upper limit. In the end he went to Marseille
https://i.imgur.com/PKXZPPd.png
Can't blame him, assume they must have stumped up the fat sacks of cash he was after
https://i.imgur.com/vwYlKrH.png
What the fuck? My guess is in reality he just didn't like Leamington Spa. His loss
https://i.imgur.com/XcJIdhs.png
The game REFUSES to give me a Premiership side in the FA Cup.
Oxford are in the Championship (22nd) and Bristol also in the Championship (8th)
Found myself in an interesting situation: I had a player injured in the dying minutes of a game with no subs left. It being a knockout game, it went to extra-time where I am afforded an additional sub, but I couldn't then replace said player. Now, don't get me wrong, I didn't really expect FM to let me do it, but I do now wonder what the actual rule is in regard to that.
Speaking of bugs, I loaned a player to PSG and kept getting news reports that PSG staff had been spotted in the stands watching him play, with a view to signing him.
I had that scenario a few days ago too. Surely in reality you’d just drag out the treatment on the side of the pitch for a few minutes & then sub them before ET, but even if you have to take them off you’d think they’d just let you count them as your ET sub rather than forcing you to play a man downQuote:
Originally Posted by Adramelch
Can’t be arsed to fuck about with links on my phone so here’s an old FM thread on it where they looked at the rule & seem to think it’s correct but it seems vague to me:
https://community.sigames.com/forums/topic/431314-does-bringing-off-an-injured-player-count-as-a-substitution/
Also saw a discussion about it among refs which suggests they think the FM way would be wrong:
https://refchat.co.uk/threads/extra-sub-extra-time-player-injured.15628/
He proceeded to score 36 the next season, including 5 in a single game plus a goal in the CL final and then retired at the age of 39 because he was "not up to the same standard".Quote:
Originally Posted by Adramelch
https://i.imgur.com/bWZfoj8.pngQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
Chesterfield who are bottom of the Championship now, lol.
There are only THREE Premiership sides in the Quarter finals. Tottenham, Man City (who play each other) and Brentford or Newcastle (they haven't played their match yet). The other sides are Charlton, Millwall and Wolves who are all in the Championship.
https://i.imgur.com/NpEwLLZ.png
Damn, so fucking close.
Vision 6
https://i.imgur.com/p8Gu61K.png
We've lost 3 of our last 4 (keeper has been wank letting in so many poor shots and our strikers went shy) which put us in a nervy spot. Annoyingly we had the better xG in all those games.
On the final day we play Crawley at home. Bradford play Southend at home who are in 12th and Crewe play 14th Morecambe away.
Edit: Game crashed a day before the final day, ffs.
https://i.imgur.com/EIVTXSM.png
We still won our game but we tried to throw it.
Hitchin Town 2042/43 Season Update:
League:
https://i.imgur.com/OJVjfJF.png
https://i.imgur.com/Xz1dbFx.png
https://i.imgur.com/7HaYfY8.png
Feels a little bittersweet after Bradford got fucked by the crash as they lost a point in the re-done 45th game. However, the xG table makes me feel a touch better:
https://i.imgur.com/0tn8Hth.png
And ultimately we'd have been automatically promoted no matter what due to the win over Crawley on the final day.
Cups:
https://i.imgur.com/atu8FXR.png
https://i.imgur.com/nEGPutI.png
Absolutely bonkers across the board. It's the best/worst FA Cup run ever though and I'd have probably taken a 3rd or 4th round exit had we faced a big Premiership team away from home but I'm not complaining.
Man City facing Charlton in the final.
Ioan was the top scorer in the league btw on 29 which is light for him but you can't knock that return.
How are your finances doing?
https://i.imgur.com/KG4XXCa.png
I believe we were -£250k at one point.
Our youth setup was manageable before we turned pro, now it's nutty. We spent £2.6m this season on it compared to £740k the season before.
FA Cup run really helped us. £571k in prize money, £120k in TV money plus a lot from gates.
Big fan of that font in your game, lovely and clean.
That FA Cup run was indeed clutch. Going into League 1 in the black is nothing to scoff at, especially when you're not going to be spending money in transfer fees.
Not sure we'll be in the black by the time we're a League 1 club.
No matches mean the club is bleeding money.
Edit: Scratch that. We've just been given £482k for participating in League Two.
Edit: https://i.imgur.com/8Al3jtt.png
Ioan with a slightly longer contract with no more release clause to teams in a higher division :cool:
I remember the days of yore where I would only arrange friendlies against the biggest clubs possible just to limit the bleeding. I wonder if that method still works.
It does. I've been doing that and I think my record was 20 in one season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adramelch
In terms of cash we've also just been given £250k for playing in the FA Cup so we're minted now with just over a mill.
https://i.imgur.com/2MP2fJ5.png
RIP.
Also, Everton winning isn't a big thing in my save now. This is their SIXTH title in a row. They had a tycoon takeover in 2030 and even though he's scaled back funding 3 times they're still banging.
Yeah, what skin is it?Quote:
Originally Posted by wullie
WTCS Gold.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
I use it every year.
https://i.gyazo.com/089b2fc4c47c3e8c...1472d53733.png
Second time this has happened to me in this save (the other one in Serie A, so not even the same league). It's funny how they haven't managed to fix the simplest stuff (games every 2 days? sure!) in decades and have instead just managed to break the basics. They're genuinely stealing a living at this point.
Guerra squared it to the player in the middle, who apparently wasn't offside according to the game:
https://i.gyazo.com/7d7df8c5fcf09846...0d5937f3ec.jpg
I believe offsides are only actually exactly correct on the 2D pitch view.
Yeah 3D is off on a lot of things.
FM being janky? Miles wouldn't allow it.
Although I suppose they could market "CORRECT OFFSIDE DECISIONS IN THE 3D ENGINE" as a new feature for 25...
https://i.imgur.com/izBw896.png
Our first Premiership scalp in a cup competition!
Idiot CDM picked up his second red of the season to make me nervous.
Toning down a bit the "we spent a gazillion tetrallion pounds to build the strongest squad" type of updates that my save has devolved into, here's a shorter update. My City stint lasted three seasons, with me spending a measly 1.3 billion in transfers, thought we did also sell 500m worth of players to make up for some of it. This translated to three Premier League titles, three FA Cups and two League Cups. It also resulted in us making the Champions League final all three times, though we only won the first one. Ironically it was the only one we didn't dominate. We found ourselves in a very precarious position when Liverpool got the lead in the 2nd minute of injury time, but we equalised 5 minutes later and then scored twice in extra time to win my third Champions League in a row (and fourth overall). The next final was against Inter and even though we dominated the game and grabbed an early lead through a 39-year old Haaland, two defensive lapses meant we lost the game 2-1. The third one was against Real and that was the more annoying one of the lot as, in true Real fashion, their first shot on target was in the 89th minute and it just so happened to be the equaliser after we squandered chance after chance. They even got the lead in extra time, but we managed to grab an equaliser ourselves, before losing the trophy on penalties. That's 6 Champions League finals in a row for me, with a 50% success (4 won out 7 finals overall).
In terms of transfers, my strategy practically devolved into me signing players that had played for me in previous clubs, as we ended up signing a total of 5 of my former players at Real and 3 of my former players at Milan.
I could have stayed for a season or two more at City to get more shots at winning the Champions League again, but one job that would keep me on target for winning the league and champions league with a club from each of the five big leagues became available:
https://sortitoutsi.b-cdn.net/uploads/team/868.png
That said, the Champions League win won't be an easy task, as PSG have suffered from at least a decade of blatant mismanagement and find themselves with a fairly average squad, and a small one at that (22-23 first team players), as well as bad finances. I was given 55m to spend on transfers and a 6.7m p/w wage budget. For reference, my budgets at Real and City were typically at 300-400m for transfers and at 10m p/w for wages, so that's what we'll have to compete with. I do, however, fancy the challenge as those last 6-7 years have been quite easy, with me paying ridiculous money and attracting the creme de la creme. This past season we paid 325m to bring Rydlewicz to City, to give you an idea.
https://i.imgur.com/hnUBMTK.png
My team are still fucking thugs.
Le Havre currently the frontrunners of the "Worst kit ever" race:
https://i.gyazo.com/7d4eeb8f6415d320...cf0660a49b.png
Screenshot doesn't even really do it justice. They looked like 5-year olds that had spent all day playing in the mud.
Point of discussion: My usual MO when I'm at a big club with adequate squad depth is to essentially have a First-XI and a Second-XI, playing the first in most matches and the second in matches that I think they can handle as well as matches that don't matter. At some point players from the Second-XI typically impress me, especially since it's often youngsters that are developing and get their shot at First-XI.
My question is how do you guys typically compare say one winger vs the other when the former is facing the Reals and Cities of the world, while the second one is consistently facing relegation fodder at home.
It's not a big deal, it's just a thought that has occurred to me a few times and I was wondering how other people feel about it.
Finished my 5th season with Spezia. We reached the cup final, which went to penalties, with Pafundi pulling this off.
https://streamable.com/io2gia
Sadly, we didn't win.
https://i.imgur.com/cM2MkYw.png
The league went right down to the last game of the season, mostly due to October being the worst month anyone has ever had, after Inter dropped points in game 37, seemingly giving us the league, we lost our fixture too, so to the last days it went.
https://i.imgur.com/W3H5gvm.png
Fixtures:
https://i.imgur.com/ctyUkSJ.png
https://i.imgur.com/gywF92c.png
https://i.imgur.com/aql6rlN.png
The Lad: (sorry for the small font, was to get them all in.
https://i.imgur.com/1TP8rRb.jpeg
Transfers:
https://i.imgur.com/X4EHuml.jpeg
Made me chuckle.
https://gyazo.com/1549dac4a55a24d6413285ce78f58766.jpeg
New Stadium day!
https://i.imgur.com/mUB677z.jpeg
Boring answer is that unless you're trying to RPG it, an impressive performance against crystal palace in the league cup is practically irrelevant, and it's entirely about the attributes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adramelch
I wish I had the imagination to play the game as a genuine simulation of being a football manager, where you could spot greatness in your u21 striker banging in 7 against ebsfleet, but the fm gods don't work that way. It's excel spreadsheet simulator bro, you compare them by their attributes.
Started a new Crewe game on CM01/02 (Division 2 (tier 3)) . Needed a striker after Hulse got injured for3 months.. and for some reason Tottenham agreed a 6 month loan with just 10% wage contribution, and Iverson agreed immediately. Way above my level :D
https://gyazo.com/df9561c9cefa740de0371ba929001d28.jpeg
Paired him up front with Indonesia legend Bambang Pamungkas
https://gyazo.com/07429a98df4df695287af394ddc31538.jpeg
With a young Dean Ashton rotating in and out.
https://gyazo.com/4c3d704fd7f66b5dc4bdf3ec2e88db31.jpeg
Loving how quick this game is.
Set the aim of signing a 30 goal striker to help finally win the league with little Spezia.
Think I've found him
https://i.imgur.com/5IDxjEB.jpeg
And always love to see 01-02 screenshots.
Keep the updates coming, chaps. I enjoy reading them.
I'm still playing me FM11 save. Think I'm in the year 2091 at the mo. Smashing it with Gillingham, winning everything. But no other club will take me as I'm over 100 years old on the game. :(
A player that was at the club before me, and was the star in our promotion in the first season still plays most games. He's getting interest from Man United and Atletico Madrid, I don't even look at the bids, just hit reject :D
He's not even that amazing, but I bloody love him
https://i.imgur.com/eLNpxJ8.png
Aim is to get him a testimonial.
Would you ever get a new FM?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dquincy
Or is your FM11 save the only one for you for the rest of your life?
It's an incredible feat, no idea how you haven't got bored of it.
Probably autism.
Trying anything long term in 01-02 either stops from boredom or the game itself actively starts making it difficult. I've not played enough FM to test it out but I reckon it's less likely to buckle like that.