The march goes on.
Loving the attacking wide centre backs!
The march goes on.
Loving the attacking wide centre backs!
During a 3am, the baby won't sleep, youtube hole, I found this. Something I'll be doing after a few seasons I think.
I've used that. It's a bit mongy for lower leagues, but good for top leagues.
FFS
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Doesn't it give you an option to moan?
Nope.Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
Kind of Mainz to loan him back to me.
Time for a new save, I think. I was only managing them for him.
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Anyone else have a hard on for bringing in old players to see out their playing days? I have just had Van Dijk retire at Ajax and now Mo has joined the club for his last hurrah.
I remember the heady days of Del Piero celebrating his 40th birthday by watching Cov draw from the bench in L1. I can only assume his real 40th was as glamorous
As soon as they hit 30 they're dead to me.
The oldies have grown on me. I'm a particular fan of getting players to rack up high counting records - goals, appearances and so on.
I'm going into my Championship return with a big time Charlie problem. In my optimistic days of Premier League pre-season I nabbed Adam Hlozek from that next gen 50 list for £7.5m in the hope he'd be my talisman to safety as a minimum, instead he spent a year doing fuck all while not being match fit. Now I'm relegated and he's got a £75k a week contract that could fund an entire bench, yet when I offer him to other clubs he's kicked off massively and started an insurrection. He can't be happy with second tier nonsense surely, I'm dealing with a squad of dimwits.
Depends on who I am for me. An almost 40 year old Tevez to Latvia…. Heck yes. No way I’d sign him or someone like that for a proper team though.
When I do, I then do everything I can to keep them on as staff. I had a save with Del Piero, where after making me his last club (I forget who) he then followed me everywhere I went as my assistant manager.
Ye in small clubs you don't really have an option. At bigger clubs I only do it with proper big stars, or good free transfers. I actually had the option to leave Feyenoord for Juventus but declined seeing as like 7 of the first XI were 32+ and I just couldn't bother.
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Just bonkers. I am at the end of December and he's on 36 goals already this season.
I've started a new save.
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I did something similar where I had a 37 (?) year old Alessandro Diamanti join my Hibs side to sort of walk around the pitch doing what he fancied for his final season, including scoring from the halfway line in one game, as we finished about 5th in the SPL, then had him as my U21 assistant manager or something for the next 20 seasons as we won a billion trophies. In my sort of imaginary one-man role playing way of immersing myself in the game (like @Smjffy spoke about a bit), the fans had almost as much affection for him as the 50m champions league winners.
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@Baz why is your press officer a Troll Doll?
I'm on the verge of financial ruin but still spent 45 million on this lad:
I don't get why my transfer budget is still so high with that financial outlook.
Forgot about Brexit and that he wont join until 18.
Make it your goal to get him some England caps. Nice little challenge.
Season 2032/33 Update
One more season done and honestly, it was just more of the same, which really means it's probably time to move on. There were a few players to join the club, but once again it was mostly youngsters, with only two players coming in to play an important role in the squad:
With Grahovac "stolen" from us last January and with the rest of the squad being at a very good level, I decided to go all out of a world class attacking midfielder. So this guy came in for a ridiculous 75m. To my defence my scouts told me he was a 5-star player and his stats are pretty good, but his crappy finishing really came back to haunt us. Worst transfer I've made in ages, given the price.
Not necessarily a player we needed but when you get the chance to sign this guy for 15m, you just do. He was an upgrade on our backup defenders anyway.
Not as many points as last year, but we scored more goals and conceded fewer, so it was just a case of us having a few more off-days in an overall better season. This was coupled with a very easy cup win:
And a pretty good European run:
A fairly tough group draw, given that we were first seeds, but we remained unbeaten and Atletico didn't make it through so I count that as a massive win. The knockout draws were also pretty harsh, but we completely outclassed Dortmund. As we did Chelsea, so it was a complete travesty that we needed penalties (and 11 of them) to get past them. Then we got Bayern and while the home result really didn't do us justice, we got completely demolished in the return fixture. Still, a semi-final appearance is a great result, so I am happy with that.
Sixty-eight goals. Sixty-eight fucking goals. Hands down the best striker (given the level of the club) I've had since the days of abusing the match engine of old. In three seasons, he has scored a total of 172 goals and created another 51, in a total of 150 appearances. The rest of the squad was also pretty strong. Just to reinforce the point I made about Mathieu being my worst transfer ever, he finished with the lowest average rating despite his 75m transfer fee. At least he did improve throughout the season finishing with a respectable 21 goals and 7 assists, which is honestly pretty close to Grahovac's first season, so maybe I am being a bit harsh, although we bought the latter for just 14m back in the day.
Anyway, the season is done and I've already moved on:
After missing the title by a single point last season, they only mustered a 5th place this one, which means no Champions League football. Might be a blessing in disguise not having to face all those big clubs while we are rebuilding. The squad is massive and has some really good players, but it's very uneven with the central defenders being decent at best. The star player is also joining Bayern on a free which really sucks. Still, I am excited to have a project in my hands, after 4 seasons at Olympiacos and Feyenoord where I really just took over the best club in the country.
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8.33 average rating.
Big fan of this Zealand skin.
Definitely.
The saved game is called “Bailey Ballon d’Or” but I’ll settle for a World Cup cap.
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Have you seen his facepack?
It is incredible.
As good as it is, I prefer knowing a player is a regen.
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Checking their history should do that anyway.
That's an extra click on already bloated mess.
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Any tips for lowering the 'intensity' of a tactic without losing performance?
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I have everyone on tackle harder and mark tighter. Knocking that off/switching to ease off tackles might make my pressing a waste of time.
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Will you be able to nick Satriano for Leipzig, Adra?
He's 32 and I'd have to pay big money so probably not.
Another huge moment for the Abel Garcia world domination train.
Also, 3 in the top 10.
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Thats madness. Best feeling in the game
I love it. I think I posted a few pages back there were things I wasnt sure on but its grown on me massively.
Been using it for a while. So much better than the shit they have from SI.
Zealand skin without Zealands shite all over it: https://www.reddit.com/r/footballman...tm_name=iossmf
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Tested the Zealand skin myself. The lineup bar at the bottom during the game no longer shows if a player has picked up an injury and you have to rely on him getting the ball during highlights and seeing the orange cross next to his name.
Also this alignment is making me ill:
Will try the Rensie skin..
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That's pretty insane @Bernanke. You must feel like a proud dad or something.
Absolute legend.
And then there's this guy:
He's getting paid for this. It's because of their preferred foot, but still.
Mbappe is absolutely disgusting on this.
As is Fruno Bernandes.
Half way point
Loving this. I only did for me but I love the home and away kit. 3rd might grow on me
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Crazy that you can buy Haaland at the start of the first season and get Mbappe on a bosman at the end of it.
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I asked my board for Mbappe first season for bants and they bought him. Haaland went to City start of second season. I've got Moukoko though.Crazy that you can buy Haaland at the start of the first season and get Mbappe on a bosman at the end of it.
I really don't understand why my board is giving me such ridiculous transfer budgets with this trend. I'm tempted to just spend it to see what happens, but then I'm sure they'll force me to sell one of my star players for a crap bid all of a sudden.
What's even more surprising to me is that wage budget. All the top clubs in my save are at the 5.5m euros p/w spent. I don't think I've seen a wage budget higher than 7m ever. How have you been doing in terms of results out of curiosity, seeing as you are pretty deep into the save?
Pretty much walking the league with Barca occasionally providing a challenge (maybe won 7-8 of the titles over the past 10 or so).
Couple of CL titles too.
Season 2033/34 Update
As I said in my previous post, I decided to join RB Leipzig after spending (a record for my career so far) 3 full seasons at Feyenoord. True to form, Leipzig have seen very little success despite all the money they have thrown, with their only relevant trophy being a Europa League win back in distant 2024. The squad was ridiculously bloated when I first joined. One of the reasons was that the club inexplicably lacked a reserve team, so that was my first order of business. All the filler players were moved there, but the squad was still really big, with loads and loads of central midfielders so there was a lot of change to be done from the get go. Thankfully, I had a massive 160m transfer budget and the players that I didn't want should add a very decent amount on top of that. As has been my habit so far, a total of 18 players joined the club for a (ridiculous) total of 311m euros, with 10 of them getting to play in the first team and the rest either being loaned back to their clubs or playing in the u19s. On the other end, 10 players left the club permanently with us receiving a total of 189m euros. The club had 3 world class players, with 1 of them sadly going to Bayern on a free at the start of the season. The other two were the following:
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That's not to say that there weren't any other good players in the club, just that those two would be irreplaceable in a sense. As for those who joined, the following were the top picks:
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The board expected the following of me: Champions League qualification (so top 4) and semi-final appearances in both the cup and the Europa League, all of which was very reasonable. The league would definitely be my focus as I'd like to get back to CL football:
Weird season really. I definitely felt that Bayern were the better team, but we threw so many points in all them draws (and most of them being in the typical FM way of us missing a gazillion of easy chances), otherwise we would have actually won the league. If that's not enough for you to get the full picture, Bayern scored 114 goals from 82.64 xG, while we scored 78 from 82.54 xG. Pretty frustrating to watch, I can tell you that much. We were really solid defensively though with just 23 goals conceded. Still, not only did we meet the board's expectation, we also went two years ahead of schedule by "challenging for the title" and "becoming the best of the rest". That latter part hit a bit too close to home as Bayern did look really strong (even though we did beat them at their place), with their striker scoring 47 (!) league goals. They have won 3 out of the last 5 Champions Leagues after all, while also reaching the final once more. They were the only team to beat us, by the way.
Not sure why that screenshot doesn't show extra-time results, but, for the record, we beat Hannover 2-0 and Wolfsburg 4-1. Overall I'd say we got really lucky with draws. Not to the point of getting lower league teams, but the only proper big team we met were Leverkusen in the final, in a game that we dominated and they only really managed to grab those two goals from two shocking errors from my players. First silverware for the club in 10 years. Exciting!
I am basically Unai Emery. That's my third Europa League win in 6 seasons, with three different clubs. Our group stage and second knockout draws were really easy, but then we basically had to beat the biggest teams in the competition (unlike my other two EL wins), so it definitely feels well-deserved. The Benfica and United ties look much closer than they were as we were by far the better team in both. On the other hand the Villareal result probably flatters us a bit. We were the better team, but it was a close contest and we only really edged it with two goals in the last 10 minutes of the game.
For those of you keeping track, the Bayern loss was our only loss in the season and it came early on, meaning that we are currently on a 42-game unbeaten run across all competitions.
Turns out I don't really need Satriano. Sergio was honestly just as good. Sure he didn't score 68 goals, but he was in a harder league and he also wasn't our penalty-taker (which accounted for 14 of Satriano's goals last season). Queiroz was a perfect foil for him and while he didn't score as many, he created a ton. I should also give a mention to Nagy, Cris and Flessman who were very good and consistent throughout the season (half-season for Nagy).
Before I finish this post, I have a grievance. What annoyed me the most by far in FM21 (and possibly FM20?) was this "ball over the top" sort of playstyle the AI teams used. It was absent from this version, until the recent patch which sadly brought it back. It's just so annoying to watch and really soured my experience.
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Not on par with the Satrianos and Sergios of the world but Mo Salah at 37 years of age did the below for us, whilst playing every single game with his 18 for Natural Fitness.
This cm 0102 fm21 database is a laugh. I'm about 7th in my first season up in the prem with the mighty baggies.
This is definitely a thing on this version, and something tells me it's linked to rep or some other non-logical factor. That Bayern figure is absolutely absurd in terms of how much you would outstrip xG by - just incredibly ruthless finishing to be over 33% up over the course of an entire season.
They have an absolute monster of a striker that I linked a few pages back, in fairness:
lol. I like to imagine this universe's Cristiano Ronaldo watching in tears as he munches through his Portuguese record.
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