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Post by The Quito Diet on Apr 27, 2020 13:13:36 GMT
As a national team manager is it ever possible to select a squad that doesn't end up with the media moaning about a players exclusion?
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Post by FL on Apr 27, 2020 14:45:58 GMT
This Crewe game has got mad. Won League Two, League One, Championship, finished bottom of PL and then won the Championship again now i'm back to PL. Norwich have a Saudi owner, £100m+ transfers are quite normal now and WBA spent £65m on some geezer and they're in the Championship still.
I can't compete and i've spent £47m this summer, the gap is huge.
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Post by Steven on Apr 28, 2020 19:18:52 GMT
Just had a weird bug, my left back got sent off so I subbed an attacker off for another LB. I checked again a second later and the attacker was still on but it said i'd used all my subs. Then looked at the formation which said we were playing 3-2-3 so I was somehow down to 9 men.
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Post by Steven on May 4, 2020 15:56:58 GMT
Let me think about going from 2nd in league one to Bolton 22nd in league two for one milisecond. Feck that.
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Post by The Quito Diet on May 4, 2020 16:54:13 GMT
Got this on mobile the other day expecting to have a fair bit of free time in the next few weeks. Never know how low to pitch it to start off but went for Oviedo in the Segunda division. Missed out on the playoffs in my first season but met my mid-table expectations, then next year exploited the loan market by bringing in a load of La Liga and PL youngsters on loan, walked the league. Next season the board were arses and wanted me to at least finish mid-table - achieved it after going mad in January and bringing in an entire new defence as I was leaking goals. Went on to fluke a Copa Del Rey win after a piss easy run to the final which has got me into Europe this season. Fortunately they only want a mid-table finish again and I've been able to upgrade all the facilities to a good standard. Just bought my first £30 million wonderkid and I'm torn between trying to move on to a bigger club or sticking around and hoping I can break into the top six in Spain this year and keep progressing without the board getting ideas above it's station. Oviedo sacked me after winning the Champions League on my first bad run of form and I walked into the Milan job. Won three league titles and two CL's, my last season was unbeaten too. Got three wonderkids upfront and my academy is doing bits. Managed to win the Copa America with Brazil too but I've got literally no defenders coming through in the game for them. Meanwhile Oviedo haven't won a thing since I left I think now I'm starting to get bored of winning easily I may keep this save separate and apply for a lower league job again and see what I can do
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Post by Steven on May 7, 2020 20:02:34 GMT
Two promotions in a row and this is my reward
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Post by Steven on May 11, 2020 22:11:31 GMT
Has anyone ever had a manager performance rating better than a B+ because I'm pretty sure this is a conspiracy designed to manipulate me Got Raith rovers into the Scottish premier league, finished 7th when we were expected to finish last. Spent fuck all on players and selling youngsters for cash, meeting the competition requirements. B+? FUCK YOU Third season at Salford, currently in the Championship playoff positions after 20 games. Lost 6-2 to fucking Stoke 5 games ago as well but still just increased to A+.
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Post by Steven on May 13, 2020 17:15:27 GMT
About 10 games after that screenshot i've gone 15 games without a win FFS. Luckily only ended up down in 11th.
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Post by #FreeBTS on May 31, 2020 22:39:12 GMT
Still on my UK-only Newcastle game (10th season), getting difficult now, I'm obviously fairly limited in who I can actually sign to improve, which means I'm mostly paying over the odds for promising youngsters. Got a very good starting XI but fairly weak behind it and I can't get an elite striker in. The only real players in my starting team are Declan Rice, Nohan Kenneh, Karamoko Dembele, Phil Foden and Troy Parrott. Normally don't mind selling players for big prices but I literally can't get decent replacements in so I'm having to reject £100m+ bids for the likes of Foden, which usually just pisses them off. Came 3rd in the league last year and lost both the FA Cup and Champions League finals to Liverpool who are just ridiculous on my game, need a couple of years to pass so I can improve my young players enough to properly compete. Fun game though I'm bad for making transfers for the sake of making transfers so I'm enjoying keeping the same team and bringing youngsters through, routinely getting around 12-14 players in the England squad now as well. The other UK nations are fucking useless though I've got Parrott and that's it (counting Ireland as well before anything is said), just seems to never be any decent youngsters from them.
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Post by constant on Jun 10, 2020 23:18:02 GMT
I really need to vent because in the past three seasons of my game I've interviewed with Wednesday because they have fired their manager every single year and they have rejected me to hire Tony Mowbray (understood because I didn't have much of a resume yet), Nigel Pearson (which I at least understood, club icon and all), and now most infuriatingly Tactics Tim Sherwood. I'm a shambles right now.
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Post by Heung-Min Pleat on Jun 11, 2020 15:26:49 GMT
Tim Sideways + Atdhe Nuhiu is a match made in heaven tbf
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Post by constant on Jun 16, 2020 0:13:02 GMT
But I don't want to play Nagoya Grampus every week!
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Post by Maskya Yoshida on Jun 27, 2020 14:27:31 GMT
So all my years playing as Boro on FM I can't remember a time where the board have decided to build a new stadium.
Two seasons in, after getting promoted to the Premier League. Gibson has now decided to build the Juninho Paulista stadium.... With a capacity of 29,300 and a cost of £50M.
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Post by constant on Jul 1, 2020 19:24:08 GMT
I typically hate national team management on FM but given my staggering amount of free time I thought that I would give Jamaica a go and it's actually been quite enjoyable. I've managed to get 15 players now to switch to Jamaica including Michail Antonio, Lewis Baker, and Ravel Morrison and hopefully soon I can wear down Troy Deeney and Reece Oxford too and that's more than enough to bully the Caribbean and North America. Who knew that begging for scraps would be so much fun?
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Post by Ryan on Sept 17, 2020 15:40:06 GMT
FM 20 is free on Epic Games if anyone is interested
Have to get it before 24th though.
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