FOOTBALL Football Manager Discussion

[Ollie_H]

it's not that hard though either.

starting in lower divisions is a nightmare, getting promoted is far harder than trying to win the league, if you don't manage it one season then your best players all want transfers to go up a division, then when you get promoted trying to keep all your players happy and the better ones from leaving as you get taken apart week in week out is another nightmare. Buying players with a 100k transfer budget is so hit and miss, you have to be prepared to blow half your budget on some idiot that can't get a game at middle of the table team, don't even bother looking at picking up players from the good teams. they all price them way too high. then when all that's done, if you've taken on a team in a lesser league you'll struggle to keep your best players from leaving to play in spain or england.

I'm all set in my game, massive stadium, worldwide rep, oodles of cash. but it's taken like 20 seasons to get anywhere near that.

I started in the jupiler league in holland with helmond sport, 3 seasons to get promoted, bit lucky in the play offs, if you've seen how the dutch promotion system worked you'd see how mental it is.

5 seasons to get near the top of the table, and then an almighty crash as my first season in europe stretched my squad to breaking point, another 3 seasons to recover. Then no money because the board took out a huge loan to upgrade the 4000 capacity stadium to a 17,000 seater one. picked up a serbian guy in january who despite not having the best stats scored for fun. finally won the league on the last day of the season due to a surge sparked by the serb.

Then we got taken over and the guy pumped in 6m to take our training and youth academy up from average to absolute top of the range. First two seasons we brought in two brilliant youngsters. I already had a good goalkeeper and striker. sold the goalie for 24m and the striker for 15m, gave the youngsters the place in the team. The goalie that came through our youth academy was probably the best goalkeeper in the game I've ever seen. Started dominating holland but struggled in europe in the knock outs, and had to sell the serb to real madrid.

about 6 seasons later, after winning 5 more titles and beginning to waltz through defenses in holland for 3 seasons I had a horror season, and changed the way we played to a more physical, defensive way. 2 seasons later got to the final of the CL, came back down from 1-0 with a goal in the 88th minute and won in extra time. The best of the team was poached but the foundations were good and several players were youth products and extremely loyal. re-built and 3 seasons later started a run a 7 consecutive CL finals with 5 of them won. then the board built a mega stadium, everyone kinda decided we were worth staying with and now I'm pretty much the dominant team... and aged 66 so I'm really near the end and will have to start again soon. sigh.

That.Was.Epic

 

[treva]

Instantly love the new layout. The tactics screen is beautiful.

 

[Themer]

Instantly love the new layout. The tactics screen is beautiful.

Barstard. I'm at 92%.

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starting in lower divisions is a nightmare, getting promoted is far harder than trying to win the league, if you don't manage it one season then your best players all want transfers to go up a division, then when you get promoted trying to keep all your players happy and the better ones from leaving as you get taken apart week in week out is another nightmare. Buying players with a 100k transfer budget is so hit and miss, you have to be prepared to blow half your budget on some idiot that can't get a game at middle of the table team, don't even bother looking at picking up players from the good teams. they all price them way too high. then when all that's done, if you've taken on a team in a lesser league you'll struggle to keep your best players from leaving to play in spain or england.

I'm all set in my game, massive stadium, worldwide rep, oodles of cash. but it's taken like 20 seasons to get anywhere near that.

I started in the jupiler league in holland with helmond sport, 3 seasons to get promoted, bit lucky in the play offs, if you've seen how the dutch promotion system worked you'd see how mental it is.

5 seasons to get near the top of the table, and then an almighty crash as my first season in europe stretched my squad to breaking point, another 3 seasons to recover. Then no money because the board took out a huge loan to upgrade the 4000 capacity stadium to a 17,000 seater one. picked up a serbian guy in january who despite not having the best stats scored for fun. finally won the league on the last day of the season due to a surge sparked by the serb.

Then we got taken over and the guy pumped in 6m to take our training and youth academy up from average to absolute top of the range. First two seasons we brought in two brilliant youngsters. I already had a good goalkeeper and striker. sold the goalie for 24m and the striker for 15m, gave the youngsters the place in the team. The goalie that came through our youth academy was probably the best goalkeeper in the game I've ever seen. Started dominating holland but struggled in europe in the knock outs, and had to sell the serb to real madrid.

about 6 seasons later, after winning 5 more titles and beginning to waltz through defenses in holland for 3 seasons I had a horror season, and changed the way we played to a more physical, defensive way. 2 seasons later got to the final of the CL, came back down from 1-0 with a goal in the 88th minute and won in extra time. The best of the team was poached but the foundations were good and several players were youth products and extremely loyal. re-built and 3 seasons later started a run a 7 consecutive CL finals with 5 of them won. then the board built a mega stadium, everyone kinda decided we were worth staying with and now I'm pretty much the dominant team... and aged 66 so I'm really near the end and will have to start again soon. sigh.

I'd like to be half as successful as that in my Yeovil game. Although mines a career game so I will move clubs but I'd love to reach Europe way way in the future.

That said with the new FM it might be the end of the road for that save

 

[treva]

Barstard. I'm at 92%.

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I'd like to be half as successful as that in my Yeovil game. Although mines a career game so I will move clubs but I'd love to reach Europe way way in the future.

That said with the new FM it might be the end of the road for that save

Worth the wait of the download. I'll leave you to discover the new features dotted around the tactics set up.

 

[Themer]

96%. Not in at work tomorrow till 1 so I think I might make it a long night tonight.

 

[Dr. Pepper]

Only took me 25 minutes to download.

The new features make the game so much better. The new layouts are great. The depth of the team talks is great. Having a great pre-season with Man Utd so far. Won all my games with some pretty great scorelines (7-0, 5-2, 3-1, 8-0).

Welbeck and Hernandez are forming a fantastic partnership. They're in such good form that I've had to bench Rooney. Cleverley has been very impressive but can't last the full 90 minutes unfortunately. Smalling, Evans and De Gea have also been really good.

 

[Themer]

Only took me 25 minutes to download.

I'm downloading it off wireless and I think I'm getting interference from next door as its been a bit dodgy since they moved in.

The new features make the game so much better. The new layouts are great. The depth of the team talks is great. Having a great pre-season with Man Utd so far. Won all my games with some pretty great scorelines (7-0, 5-2, 3-1, 8-0).

Good to hear. Nearly all reviews/user feedback has been good so far.

Its done! Hurrah!

 

[treva]

So happy to see more in-depth team talks this year. Really adds to the 'manager experience'. Love what I see so far.

 

[treva]

Just seen one small thing that really does add a lot of realism to the game. Modric is on a hat-trick, we win a penalty and despite him not being in the top 3 penalty takers, he takes it and gets his hat-trick (only 11 minutes in).

 

[hedger_14]

Just seen one small thing that really does add a lot of realism to the game. Modric is on a hat-trick, we win a penalty and despite him not being in the top 3 penalty takers, he takes it and gets his hat-trick (only 11 minutes in).

Didn't that happen in previous games anyway? Or is it just that my decent players never have the chance of scoring a hattrick from the spot.

And bloody hell, I hate downloading off steam. It goes 20 times slower. Guess I'll be waiting for the full version.

 

[Themer]

And bloody hell, I hate downloading off steam. It goes 20 times slower. Guess I'll be waiting for the full version.

Have you tried changing you download location? People are getting significantly better speeds downloading from the German server as the game isn't available there. Not sure how much your location will affect it though.

 

[treva]

Didn't that happen in previous games anyway? Or is it just that my decent players never have the chance of scoring a hattrick from the spot.

And bloody hell, I hate downloading off steam. It goes 20 times slower. Guess I'll be waiting for the full version.

If it did happen on the old game, I never noticed it. The camera angle for replays of penalties is also brilliant. Does make it TV-esque.

 

[Dr. Pepper]

Lost the community shield 1-0 but should've won considering the chances we had.

4 games into the season though and I've won all 4. Welbeck and Nani have been in incredible form and Welbeck's the top scorer in the league. Unfortunately he's now out for 7 weeks, but I've got Hernandez ready to come into the first team.

Been drawn with Marseille, Olympiakos and Dortmund in the Champions League which isn't too hard considering what I could've had.

 

[Manly]

Just seen one small thing that really does add a lot of realism to the game. Modric is on a hat-trick, we win a penalty and despite him not being in the top 3 penalty takers, he takes it and gets his hat-trick (only 11 minutes in).

That happened anyway; my 2033 Barca side had a hat-trick every 2 games or so, usually with a penalty too.

 

[iridescentt]

Bah! I need a defensive-minded centre mid' who has a good passing range for my Chelsea save on the FM12 demo.

Only got 14 million, I already have Ramires and Oriel Romeu injured and Obi Mikel is my only option at the moment + he is getting bogged down tired at the moment. Any suggestions in that price range?

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Another thought, anyone else finding it hard to get the right team talk options? Quite a handful of my players are getting 'angry' by what I say though I am praising them after a good performance.