***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[Zac]

Welcome to the Championship. We hope you enjoy your one season stay.

[raiderz4eva]

Things can change rather quickly. Well let’s begin. I decided to get rid of Ashely Cole. And ibrahimovic decided to get angry. Apparently they slay the la night life together and his wingman was now gone. And said he had serious doubts about his future. In a rush to fix things with my star I promised him the trade was to get better players. The problem was, none of the players I acquired within a 12 day span before the transfer window made the team better according to his standards. I got three players, one starter and two bench guys and he decided to start practicing like crap and was terrible in games.

The whole team fell once I traded our vice captain away in cole and our captain was mad.
The downfall was incredible. We had 3 losses in a row where we got blown out. I decide to call him out on his training to spark things up and hopefully lead to some motivation and he said” check my stats”. Baby back bi**h. Then the board decides to meet with me and give me the 10 points over 5 games or else ultimatum. Despite being number 1 in the western conference. I drew the last match at 5 and got sacked like some potatoes. I tried really hard to apply for every mls team in playoff contention but I was not so lucky. Atlanta United didn’t even want a interview with me. I was frustrated.

Lone behold hulls city offered me and after not getting a mls job doing a interview with realistic answers of expectations . I decided to concede to whatever they had in mind. One of those things was playoff contention with a 287k transfer budget! Boy they are bad and I am currently 22nd. And on a 8 game skid of losses and draws. I have successfully hit rock bottom. I’ve tried changing things but nothing appears to work for my squad. Every person wants playing time and gets mad. I keep praying I’m going to find a free agent who is good with 287k but it’s just insane. Trying to maneuver the older players off the roster and every team is trying to get me to pay a bunch of their salary and low ball me. The group cohesion is in the middle but they can’t win. I fear this save is done. But with the new update maybe a fresh start is needed. One helluva run.

Trying to debate if I should do a journeyman save or a vanarama national team next.

[NoDakHusker]

Quote: Originally Posted by raiderz4eva

I decide to call him out on his training to spark things up and hopefully lead to some motivation and he said” check my stats”. Baby back bi**h.

"Check my stats," that's great

It's definitely tough when you lose the locker room, as it can easily snowball out of control. LA Galaxy have some big personalities though, so that doesn't help.

[jb12780]

By the way you Mourinhos, the 19.2 update dropped yesterday. Here’s the change list:

https://community.sigames.com/topic/...-1920-out-now/


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[jb12780]

Idk if it’s because Brexit is coming down the pipe, but 4 of my players have became British citizens to help with foreign player limits.


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[Suntan Superman]

A tale of two halves




Secured a 10th place finish after struggling with relegation for much of the year.

If the board don't turn the club professional, or start allowing me to offer more than non-contracts, I've decided on leaving.

[raiderz4eva]

Quote: Originally Posted by Suntan Superman

A tale of two halves Secured a 10th place finish after struggling with relegation for much of the year. If the board don't turn the club professional, or start allowing me to offer more than non-contracts, I've decided on leaving.

That’simpressive. What made the difference? Cohesion, in match adjustments, better players via non contexts, utilizing tactics a little better?


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[Suntan Superman]

Quote: Originally Posted by raiderz4eva

That’simpressive. What made the difference? Cohesion, in match adjustments, better players via non contexts, utilizing tactics a little better?

Basically all of this, mostly it was the fact that I made my first signing a Defensive Midfielder, Octavio Dominguez. I promised him the world to get him to sign, as I wanted a strong defensive midfielder because the available centrebacks were comparatively weak. After signing him from the Revolution Academy, he turned in an amazing performance against NY Cosmos.

Spoiler

Well after that performance, I realized I was probably relying on him too much, and tried to bring in a slew of players that could surround him and at least try and keep us up, I played a defensive 4-1-4-1, trying to grind out results. After the first month I realized that the person I had put in front was just under too much pressure to get goals by himself, and I moved some players around tactically, we started scoring goals, but were still giving them up. In November, USL Championship teams started coming in for Dominguez, and when I realized I was going to lose him, I switched tactics entirely.

Hartford City was the last game I played in the defensive 4-1-4-1, switching to a short passing, possession-based 4-2-3-1. I started signing the personnel to join in January and rounded up a good bunch of midfielders that all had 8+ passing attributes. Training the tactic hard through the winter break, and testing it in our frigid winter friendlies(all of which went very poorly, mind you) we had gotten to 80% familiarity by the beginning of February. It obviously worked though.

The cohesion aspect also came in to play over the winter break, as I ended up editing training to always have the two "team building" options used. For a Semi-Professional team, this was difficult as we have limited training sessions, but it worked, very obviously.

The final key cog in all of this, was Wyatt Omsberg joining us on a non-contract after spending the first 6 months of the season without a team. He was well above everyone else in the league, and will almost certainly find a new team higher up this summer, but he provided a strong centreback to take control of the defence.

So it was a little bit of everything, but mostly me not being an idiot relying on a single player to be the fulcrum of the team.