***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[ImTellinTim]

In addition to all those things, the best way to start it all is to straight up go to the press and declare interest. Go to the player's screen and under the Interactions menu there is an option to declare interest. This will prompt a reporter to ask you about the player immediately.

[jasontoddwhitt]

Decided to start a journeyman save.....National A License....Sunday League Experience.

Who would be willing to give a job to an American like this?

Worcester in the English Vanarama National League North...that's who.

This squad is loaded with a bunch of has-beens milking the wage bill. Hell, the board favored signing high profile players (In the National League North?!?!?!?!). I said "nope, we'll sign young players for the first team".

Yeah...this squad was ****.

However, a team meeting with six games to go, a board demand that I score six points in five games, and I just pulled off a great escape. Won five of my last six to stave off relegation, including wins against three teams in the top half who had nothing more to play for. Even won a manager of the month award for that achievement.

Now to rebuild this squad.

[Kobalt]

I got annoyed with my fullbacks so I sold all of them and is just going with 3back until the next transfer window.....I feel like I overreacted but oh well.

In national team news, I managed to get 6 wonderkids from my academy. 1 already declared with Italy and got in a game, 1 got called up but hasn't gotten a CAP because of Donnarumma, 3 plays for Italy's youth squad and last one with my national team. I'm hoping the other 4 doesn't get a CAP with Italy in the next few years and plays for my team.

[JHedges2]

Things are looking good, just got to hold this form (won 7 in a row I believe).

Got Atletico Madrid in the knockout stage this week, followed by West Ham in the FA Cup.

I'm also in the EFL Cup Final vs Manchester United; and JUST lost Cech for 2-3 weeks. He'll miss the Atletico 1st leg and the Man United EFL Final. Boo.

#ThatGoalDifferential

[Kobalt]

my god

I hate this game


Went from 3rd to 6th to finish the season, which means going from CL to no Europe next year because the two teams playing in the Coppa Italia are midtable teams. Brutal way to finish the season

[NoDakHusker]

Starting a save with a fantasy USA and Canada database found here. Complete with kits, logos and MLS rules are no more!

I've decided this is an alternate universe where the only professional sport in the US and Canada is football. In this world, the NFL was struggling due to player shortages, as safety concerns reached an all-time high. Additionally, the Browns won the Super Bowl - otherwise known as the secret NFL kill-switch. The NBA became so corrupt and scripted, that it led to boycotts of the league. The NHL had enough of Sidney Crosby monopolizing their precious Stanley Cup and opted to close their doors before he could commit any further crimes against humanity. The MLB slipped quietly into the abyss, though baseball fans - as superstitious as they are - claim the Cubs winning the Series was actually the kiss of death.

All the franchises from these fallen leagues formed football clubs and thus joined the newly re-structured US 7-tier pyramid. It's a brave new world.

I definitely wanted to build a team up from a bit lower down the pyramid, so I took over Sacramento Republic FC in the 5th tier. We'll see how this goes..

[Kobalt]

Guess I'm playing in Europe after all

[ImTellinTim]

What did the final table look like?

Did they all miss out because of FFP?