***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[justblaze09]

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I can't wait til next week when I get my Mac and can actually play this game faithfully

[rsnomar05]

Yeah, 5's are disastrous. Especially having two. I've found having players great at aerial ability is huge in this game. I score a ton off corners and before, when my team's heading was poor, I got killed on set pieces. I would definitely say goodbye to one of the 5's.

[BunnyHardaway]

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Another chokejob completed. I was sitting comfortably in 2nd place with 10 matches to go, proceed to lose 5 or 6 of them and fall to 3rd. Draw Norwich in the first round of the playoff, lose the first leg 4-2, win the second leg 1-0. Stuck in League One hell.

I think I gotta call this save quits.

[jesmith29]

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Playing the 11 demo and received a backroom advice msg of, player x and y's salaries don't match their abilities and the money could be better spent elsewhere.

Their contracts run until 2012 or 13 and one of them is on loan. Do you redo their contract or release them outright?

[rsnomar05]

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Another chokejob completed. I was sitting comfortably in 2nd place with 10 matches to go, proceed to lose 5 or 6 of them and fall to 3rd. Draw Norwich in the first round of the playoff, lose the first leg 4-2, win the second leg 1-0. Stuck in League One hell.

I think I gotta call this save quits.

Why not add some better players and win the league next season? You shouldn't bag a save just because you lose. And making the playoffs was still a successful season, since you can build on it.

[Mo]

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anyone try out this Premier Manager game for the PS3? I DL the demo and holy crap is it brutal to navigate through the menus.

[Mo]

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Um

[OSUFan_88]

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Mo, to be honest, I'm more interested in the Man City takeover talks there...

[BunnyHardaway]

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Why not add some better players and win the league next season? You shouldn't bag a save just because you lose. And making the playoffs was still a successful season, since you can build on it.

I'm gonna give it another season.

Unfortunately because of my financial situation I had to ship off a few players. The chairman went above me and sent Shelvey to Ajax for $2.5 million, and I had to send Roberto Colautti to Bolton for $4 million. I don't have any money to spend on transfers so I'm stuck searching for free guys. I did manage to get Neil Eardley from Blackpool to help out my defense, though.

[Rexis]

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anyone try out this Premier Manager game for the PS3? I DL the demo and holy crap is it brutal to navigate through the menus.

I just dl the demo as well, messed around with it for a while. It' not bad; would buy if it's less than $20.

[rsnomar05]

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I'm gonna give it another season.

Unfortunately because of my financial situation I had to ship off a few players. The chairman went above me and sent Shelvey to Ajax for $2.5 million, and I had to send Roberto Colautti to Bolton for $4 million. I don't have any money to spend on transfers so I'm stuck searching for free guys. I did manage to get Neil Eardley from Blackpool to help out my defense, though.

That sucks. Maybe you'll get lucky and a rich consortium will come in and buy the team. And if it's not going well in the next season, you can always resign and holiday until you get a new job.

[Perceptor]

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Any tips to a noob? I chose the worst Polish team in the lowest division they have available. The only team I was able to beat were my U-21 team...otherwise I suck.

Any tips at all I would love guys. Just started playing this and love it.

My tips for starting off as a new player:

1. Start with a good team. Man City, Man Utd, and Barcelona are my top 3 choices to start with. Their infrastructure is excellent and their squads are rich and strong. As mentioned before, you have more margin for error. Once you know the game well enough, then challenge yourself a little more.

2. Go to the official game forums and do some research. There are lots of threads there to help new players as well as managing lower division teams

3. Before you hit continue after you start the game, decide your philosophy. How do you intend to improve and build your team? What style? If you have a clear idea of what you want to do and stick to it, you'll have a good chance of succeeding in the game

[BunnyHardaway]

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Bad news: my Charlton save got deleted
Good news: luckily there was another copy of it that stopped right before my two promotion playoff games...lets try this again.

[Bruins]

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Bad news: my Charlton save got deleted
Good news: luckily there was another copy of it that stopped right before my two promotion playoff games...lets try this again.

Convenient.

[Whitesox]

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So I'm going to put my long save on the backburner, maybe permanently.

Instead, I might pickup a Serie C2 team and see how far I can get them by signing only Italians, or something similar in a different nation. I haven't got it all worked out yet, but I want a challenge to tide me over to FM12.