***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[Whitesox]

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If you get out of that group, you should consider yourself very lucky. Germany and Serbia is enough, but adding Chile...yikes.

I think he can do it. The biggest challenge is going to get a much needed win against Chile. If it's anything like real life, they're sure to throw a very interesting (and different) tactical challenge at you. But maybe I'm underestimating Serbia.

[Hunkerdown]

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Terribly unlucky to not be pot one in that case. And Colombia were pot one, weird.

yes, was wondering this as well, actually i was in 4th pot???

[Whitesox]

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yes, was wondering this as well, actually i was in 4th pot???

After the first pot, the rest of the pots are divvied up based on confederation. Besides the 1st pot, pot number is not indicative of quality. This way, you don't have groups like USA, Mexico, Honduras, and Brazil.

[Hunkerdown]

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After the first pot, the rest of the pots are divvied up based on confederation. Besides the 1st pot, pot number is not indicative of quality. This way, you don't have groups like USA, Mexico, Honduras, and Brazil.

I understand, was just referring to Colombia getting into pot 1, and I 4th.

[Hunkerdown]

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I made my move from liga postabon, joined npower champ with 9th place bristol city.

[OSUFan_88]

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So I made my way back to the Prem with none other than Aston Villa! They were in some pretty dire state with no creativity and Bent being isolated up front. The only creative players on the roster were Ashley Young, who they somehow managed to keep, and Gio Dos Santos, who isn't really good enough to start over Downing.

Anyway, my first few players that I signed were strikers, a young...I think Mexican, Chicquino or something like that, and a huge hulking ST from Argentina, 197 cm with some great skill.

After managing them out of the drop zone and getting them all the way up to 14th at the end of the season, I saw something about Sir Alex Ferguson was on the way out, and declared interest in the job. AF stayed and the fans wanted my head. I managed to smooth things over...and thank god I did. My offseason was highlighted by the board negotiating for me at the end when I had no money and got Yaya Toure for $7million. Yeah, that was awesome. Also totally revamed the defense too, getting rid of 3 of the 4 and keeping Warnock.

I'll give you guys the list of guys I bought when I reboot the game up again but, yeah this team is going to be a beast in a few years.

Oh, and that moron who took over for me at Leicester City got them relegated a year after I left. Moron. Leighton Griffins not enough for you?

[Hunkerdown]

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all i got to say is really??? classic name

[Hunkerdown]

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Another good one, I know where Bob ended up........

[Hunkerdown]

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and I welcome him to league...........

[Hunkerdown]

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I beat West Ham 1-0 in npower playoff to get bristol city promoted!!!!

[ImTellinTim]

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It's been far too long since I played some FM.

I feel a good session coming up this weekend to get me fired up for the upcoming European league starts.

[Whitesox]

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It's been far too long since I played some FM.

I feel a good session coming up this weekend to get me fired up for the upcoming European league starts.

That seems to be a common path. Play for a long time once the game comes out, stop for a while, then pick it up as the seasons/transfers start.

My career has had nothing exciting happen since joining Corinthians. I left there shortly after joining, only to do the same thing with Vitesse in the Dutch Eredivise. Right now I'm focusing solely on South Korea. If a job opens there, I'll gleefully take it and start developing youth there. Other jobs I'm linked to that I would take if offered- Bordeaux, Rangers, and a few Russian ones.

[OSUFan_88]

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Just curious, how does everyone focus on developing the youth? Just letting them go out there an play? Is that the best way to do it?

[Whitesox]

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Just curious, how does everyone focus on developing the youth? Just letting them go out there an play? Is that the best way to do it?

Ideally, they would get plenty of first team experience with my team. Sometimes, though, it's good to have a feeder club to send them to, where they can get more first team time.

[Hunkerdown]

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Ideally, they would get plenty of first team experience with my team. Sometimes, though, it's good to have a feeder club to send them to, where they can get more first team time.

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