MoM in the League Cup final.
MoM in the League Cup final.
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Taking penalties ahead of Salah. Sweet.
97% completion rate though. Dude's the british Roberto Carlos.
Staying for an extra season before I move on.
Superb moustache.
Looks like Amazon Support Mumbai.
Got to play a team I've heard of!
"why you doing Movember?"Originally Posted by Manc
"It'll make my FM manager look funny"
Got thumped
Honestly 3-0 and 3-1 are both respectable scores given the difference in level.
Wasn’t too upset, played our normal game which involves attacking mentality. Can’t help but wonder if we could have done better if I’d have parked the bus or something. Ah well. Hopefully a league win is on the way then another crack at Europe next season.
I always play my tactic regardless of the opposition or home/away. And it's been a successful strategy so I can't see me changing it.
Having had a play with the first full fat version I have played properly in years I decided to go for a Newcastle save opening gambit. However, rather than the predictable angle of trying to buy the best and brightest I am instead trying to go for a more realistic approach and bring in players who will improve the squad but are more likely to sign in real life. Looking to make a team from 'the best of the rest' poaching the better players from the rest of the league and hoovering up useful players who are transfer listed.
Expected Isco to mug me off. Lolled when Ross Barkley did the same. Currently lining up the likes of Chambers and Kolasinac to join already recruited Mcginn and Tarkowski. David Neres poised to be the Geordie Robinho
Get big Divock in up front.
I tried but he thinks the Toon are beneath him. He would have started every game the pleb.
Season 1 complete:
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As you can see by the 'form' column, the 2 defeats came very late on when everyone was shattered. Also won the League Cup, as previously posted.
But how did our Bailey do?
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Evidently out of his depth in the Champions League but held his own elsewhere.
His attributes have mostly declined.
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Finally up and running on a new laptop so am getting stuck into my first FM proper since Touch 17 (well, not quite FM proper, Touch 21).
Has anyone ever seen a better 15-year-old?
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@BazFinally up and running on a new laptop so am getting stuck into my first FM proper since Touch 17 (well, not quite FM proper, Touch 21).
Has anyone ever seen a better 15-year-old?
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Good one.
Affiliate link reference next and it’s bingo for the day.
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For any Haaland fans out there, here he is in my 2029, fresh from sticking seven past Malta in an 11-0 Norwegian triumph.
I had two years with Colombia, which didn't really go as well as planned, a Copa America quarter-final defeat the only spoils. I'm now trying to take Austria to World Cup 2030, spearheaded by this legend:
A rare sight, an actual wide midfielder.
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I love the idea of a coach looking at his jumping reach and attempting to retrain him as a centre-back.
This is fun.
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Ok, here is the dilemma. I have £9m to spend. I can either buy these 3 players or the 1 guy at the end. However, worth noting that the first 3 guys all have £5m or £6m release fees (and only 2 can be registered, 1 will be loaned out). The last guy, clearly the best, agreed a deal with no minimum release clause - but only 11 for shooting.
Thoughts?
These 3
Or this guy
I'd buy the trio, he's not that much of a step up.
Yeah you are probably right, I particularly like the look of Tonkovic. I think I'm just second guessing myself as last year I cancelled a deal to sign this bloke for £6m. 6 months later he joined Man Utd for £30m :/
Please tell me he was injury ravaged or something?
I'm assuming you're still in Qatar, the answer is always to buy the first 3. You want to essentially turn your club into Dortmund. Hoover up all of the young talent and you can develop them because your league is bad enough that they can start every game, but still good enough that they can develop. Bring them in, play them for 1-3 years, then sell them on for profit. Use said profit to upgrade your facilities and better develop the prospects you buy after that.
At the time I already had 7 foreigners, in a league with a 5 foreigner quota, so I didn't want to sign him and then fuck around trying to offload more players that I had just signed. But yeah, it was a fucking stupid decisionPlease tell me he was injury ravaged or something?
I'm assuming you're still in Qatar, the answer is always to buy the first 3. You want to essentially turn your club into Dortmund. Hoover up all of the young talent and you can develop them because your league is bad enough that they can start every game, but still good enough that they can develop. Bring them in, play them for 1-3 years, then sell them on for profit. Use said profit to upgrade your facilities and better develop the prospects you buy after that.
I'm taking the approach of signing youngsters, however, as noted previously, 99% of them have a locked in 5-6 million release clause request, so the actual profit made on them is pretty low - it's not really a decent way of making genuine bank.
Ah I thought you meant those release fees were for you to activate.
If it's still profit you should do it. There's always a chance a year in that they tear it up and are willing to sign a new deal.
Indeed - release clauses they want in the contract with me. The good thing is that most clubs seem to accept bid of around 3m-7m for them - in previous FM's they would be wanting 15m+ for that type of player.
Every few months I keep attempting to offer them a new deal to try to remove the minimums, as you suggested.
If FM22 is anything like 21, Tonkovic is the best of those players anyway. Acceleration, pace, agility, dribbling, balance and vision are your go-to stats for pretty much any position except centre back and defensive midfield. That player you didn't sign is a beast.
I've heard FM22 has more emphasis on stamina and you need to be wary of really high intensity tactics killing your players...?
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Just to add, concentrate on jumping reach for your centre backs, then look at mentals such as anticipation, decisions, positioning and off the ball movement depending on positions.
This may have changed somewhat now, but it's been a great basis for FM21. If I'd picked up on it sooner in my career save I might have won the Premier League before 2037...
Yeah, the high intensity tactics (with most of my sides I've been on a Gegenpress) smash the players' condition. To get through international tournaments with games every three days I generally have to rotate heavily, if you get a group dead rubber you HAVE to change all eleven, or most of them.
It makes sense to an extent, as the high intensity gegenpress-like tactics seem quite overpowered. As long as you rotate sensibly, you don't even need to worry too much about a players' work rate or natural fitness.
It got to the stage where building a possession based tactic is/was largely pointless - getting your players on attack duties, taking more risks, dribbling more, tackling harder was the way to go. Some of the supposed best players in the world have acceleration and pace of 13 and they're not really worth touching - give me a player with 17 or 18 in those attributes but average technicals any day of the week, as they'll have the best stats.
A bit like real football.
Only one round of fixtures to go
John Arne, It's all about Yilmaz
Love that kitbasher program, but the base team colours stay the same whatever you choose for the kit. Do you have to buy the in-game editor to fart about with that? I'm ok sticking with the set colours but it means I can't have a proper brown kit, just a lovely trim
Almost thought we'd fucked it with one or two inefficient performances too many.
I've got 8 million € to add a bit of defensive stability and a proper central forward. Otherwise I think we should be able to survive Serie A, mid-table might be realistic.
When you do the Wiki import you should see the list of clubs. You can edit the kit colours there. When I imported Crewe I had to set away and 3rd kit colours.
The menu on the right at this point in the video (5:30) https://youtu.be/SvNG3U2v68Q?t=330
Yeah that part I've done, it's in-game I mean. On my screenshot where you've got the home/away/third colour bars, they would stay the same even if I had set new orange and yellow kits. I'm not sure it actually makes much difference apart from being a cosmetic thing really
Ah, sorry. I misread that as the kits not changing. I think you are right, probably screwed there without an editor.
Does anyone know how the new Club World Cup works?
Which eight UEFA teams are selected? Is it the Champions League winners and Europa League winners from the four seasons in between each?
What if there are clubs who have won multiple times?
We won the Europa in 2044/45 so I think that should be us qualified (assuming we don't end up winning the Champions League this year). It's the last club competition on my list so I really want to make sure I'm at a club (ideally Marseille) to try and win it.
Edit: Wiki says Champions League winners & Runners up plus Europa League winners so we should be good.
Based on my game it looks like the last few CL finalists plus most recent Europa League winner.
If my experience on here is anything to go by, the 48 team World Cup is going to be an absolute shitshow when they bring it in. Some teams qualified after 1 match, some teams out before others have played their first game, two teams on 0 points locking horns in winner takes all to qualify for the knockouts.
My Austrian heroes (first Austrian qualification to the World Cup for 32 years) benefited from this shambles as, after having our pants pulled down by Uruguay in the opener, we got a 94th minute winner to beat Japan and this result alone got us into the knockouts. This is our probably doomed reward (where's your Archduke gone etc)
Vlahovic, at 30, is 100 caps / 96 goals. Love these records.
Make that 101 caps / 100 goals.
When you come up against the top strikers in the game, it's basically impossible to keep them out. For the last 20 minutes I set the team up in the shape of a gaping arsehole as a kind of tribute to the man.
Oh well, after France won their 4th straight World Cup, and I avoided what I thought might be my first sacking, I waited for the job offers to flood in.
Obviously only one winner there.
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Took over at Italy for the upcoming Euros and here is our group:
Tough but doable, I better not lose this.
First seed courtesy of our Europa League win and we get a group of Atletico, Napoli and Tottenham.
What are his stats in your game?If my experience on here is anything to go by, the 48 team World Cup is going to be an absolute shitshow when they bring it in. Some teams qualified after 1 match, some teams out before others have played their first game, two teams on 0 points locking horns in winner takes all to qualify for the knockouts.
My Austrian heroes (first Austrian qualification to the World Cup for 32 years) benefited from this shambles as, after having our pants pulled down by Uruguay in the opener, we got a 94th minute winner to beat Japan and this result alone got us into the knockouts. This is our probably doomed reward (where's your Archduke gone etc)
Vlahovic, at 30, is 100 caps / 96 goals. Love these records.
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