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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2020 13:26:16 GMT
Because Liverpool are properly good irl now I didn’t see any merit in starting a save with them this year so I went with Sunderland at first (which ChappyHova made his feelings clear about). Got them promoted first time of asking and was only supposed to keep them up in the Championship but ended up leaving in April and was unemployed until November when I took over Montpellier which were 3 depressing months so I resigned and sat round for a bit to take over Nice who were in relegation trouble after having been in the Champions League earlier that season. Turned it round in the last 8 games for them and finished 9th, started setting up for my first full season with them but the Southampton job was available and I wanted the chance to manage in the Prem. Took the job, signed wonderkid Pedri from Barca for £22m because he wanted to leave because Setien was being a prick. For whatever reason though I could not get any kind of performance from key players like Redmond and ended up getting sacked just after the World Cup winter break. Somehow, after multiple failures managing in the top flight, I’ve fallen upwards into the France job.
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Post by FL on Apr 5, 2020 13:43:58 GMT
My game at the minute was going back to an old version of FM for nostalgia's sake. Picked a small team with the hope of becoming all homegrown and a future Champions League winner and in that I ended up choosing Dinamo Zagreb in Croatia. Got a few good youngsters in Domagoj Vida, Sime Vrsaljko, Milan Badelj and Mateo Kovacic.
I've bottled CL though, reached the Group Stage and finished bottom of the pile on head-to-head in a group topped by Marseille feating Udinese and Porto also. Praying for good youth now in my intake in a few months. League will be easy work and I bottled the Croatian Cup playing youngsters in the QF ffs.
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Post by #FreeBTS on Apr 9, 2020 19:21:16 GMT
Enjoying the new Football Manager patch, I feel like they’ve changed transfers to not make them quite so ridiculous. Started a Newcastle game as always, was trying not to make too many daft transfers and mainly keep a British squad together, as well as the players who are at Newcastle to begin with, but then Wolves offered £55m for Almiron. My team is Dubravka - KWP - Schar - Lascelles - Willems - Sean Longstaff - McTominay - ASM - Barkley - Daniel James - Josef Martinez.
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Post by Stu on Apr 14, 2020 19:24:14 GMT
I fucking hate Arsenal on FM. No matter who I manage, what tactic, how well I'm currently doing, I always get smashed at the Emirates. 2nd season with Saints, played 7 won 7 in the league, 6 clean sheets in the league. Turn up at Arsenal and lose 5-1 lool keeper and defenders suddenly play like retards.
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Post by ic on Apr 15, 2020 17:04:03 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
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Post by ChappyHova on Apr 17, 2020 9:48:17 GMT
I’ve had A before, even A+ but it doesn’t last very long and as soon as you move on to the next season with the new goals it’s like the past gets forgotten about.
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Post by ic on Apr 17, 2020 11:11:41 GMT
I’ve had A before, even A+ but it doesn’t last very long and as soon as you move on to the next season with the new goals it’s like the past gets forgotten about. At least I know it's not a myth World cup 2022 totally fucks your season up eh, shat myself when I saw my next game was a cup semi final in December, 47 days away
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Post by ChappyHova on Apr 17, 2020 13:27:51 GMT
I'm in that season now and had the exact same reaction hahaha.
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Post by Olivier on Apr 17, 2020 21:18:28 GMT
I didn't notice the Europa League knockouts revert to 1 leg that season and sat back to earn a proud 2-1 defeat at AC Milan.
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Post by FL on Apr 19, 2020 11:56:11 GMT
That EL 2 shit is weird aswell, didn't even know that was a thing.
I've gone into the PL with Crewe having won League Two, League One and the Championship consecutively in my first three seasons. Took it upon myself to go into the Premier League season only signing young regens (spent £3.7m since the start of the save, recoupling nearly £10m). My wage per annum is just over £4m, the next lowest in the PL is Preston on £20.44m lol. Gonna be a long old season.
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Post by constant on Apr 19, 2020 21:07:27 GMT
Playing through a 1995 database recently for nostalgia's sake, it does make scouting proper easy if nothing else.
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Post by Maskya Yoshida on Apr 19, 2020 21:35:38 GMT
Playing through a 1995 database recently for nostalgia's sake, it does make scouting proper easy if nothing else. Got a link to that? Was looking for a 1996 one earlier just to write the wrongs of us going down with Rav and Juninho so this would do
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Post by constant on Apr 20, 2020 15:58:24 GMT
Playing through a 1995 database recently for nostalgia's sake, it does make scouting proper easy if nothing else. Got a link to that? Was looking for a 1996 one earlier just to write the wrongs of us going down with Rav and Juninho so this would do It's for FM18 and some of the player ratings are a skosh high so I had to tune some of them down a little bit but it's been quite a bit of fun. Man United are right bastards and I can't beat them, Arsenal fired Wenger first season and are just falling apart, and Wimbledon exists and just hack my players to bits when we play. The db has England, Spain and Italy all as playable and pretty much done through the top two divisions with noteworthy lower leaguers plus the French, German, and Dutch top divisions are all largely complete as well. Here's the linky or you can just grab it through Steam
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Post by ic on Apr 25, 2020 10:20:45 GMT
Var on FM is exceptionally pointless
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Post by #FreeBTS on Apr 25, 2020 15:27:57 GMT
Has anyone ever had a goal referred to VAR and it still be allowed?
Still going on my Newcastle season, finally making a breakthrough into the top 4 in my 4th season, wasn’t planning on making major changes but then Hudson-Odoi, Foden and Reiss Nelson were all transfer listed. Now got a completely English starting XI of Henderson, Ethan Laird, Godfrey, Holgate, Luke Thomas, Sean Longstaff, Bellingham, Nelson, Foden, Hudson-Odoi, Abraham. Tammy has scored something ridiculous like 32 in 30 games or something.
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