***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[Suntan Superman]

Ngl, whenever I get mad at the game, I take it out on the players.

[Cod]

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If you check the coach report or scout report of a potential transfer target (provided they have been scouted), the scout will show in his opinion how the player stacks up against the players at the same position on your club.

Thanks. When I first start a new game, is there a screen somewhere that shows my overall strengths and weaknesses? Or do I have to just go through each player and figure it out?

[jmaj315]

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Thanks. When I first start a new game, is there a screen somewhere that shows my overall strengths and weaknesses? Or do I have to just go through each player and figure it out?

If you click the pull down tab next to your team name, click on team report. Unfortunately it shows potential and not current abilities...unless there's something i missed???

[jasontoddwhitt]

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Thanks. When I first start a new game, is there a screen somewhere that shows my overall strengths and weaknesses? Or do I have to just go through each player and figure it out?

You can also go to your roster screen, and on the pull down menu next to where it says players, you can select 'Assistant Reports' and it will show the current and potential abilities in the opinion of your assistant manager.

[ImTellinTim]

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Thanks. When I first start a new game, is there a screen somewhere that shows my overall strengths and weaknesses? Or do I have to just go through each player and figure it out?

From earlier in the thread:

Since I'm at it, I thought I'd share what I like to use for my Custom View on the main squad screen. This fits nicely if you have a widescreen monitor, play windowed mode, and your resolution settings are something like 1680x1050.

Position Selected
layer Status Information
Name (Detailed)
Age
Nationality
Position
Assistant coach opinion of best position
Assistant coach opinion of best tactical role
Assistant coach opinion of best tactical duty
Assistant coach opinion of current ability
Assistant coach opinion of potential ability
Morale
Appearances
Average rating
Last 5 Games
Condition
Match Fitness
Contract Expiration Date
Value

This puts everything at your fingertips on one screen.

This custom view gives you a good snapshot of what your team looks like. I've actually changed a couple things since this. I've added Salary before Contract Expiration Date, Home Grown Status to the end, and removed Last 5 Games.

[jb12780]

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2nd season finished. 2nd place for Arsenal. In the off season, I have told the board that I can challenge for the title and they gave me 120 million to spend. Im looking to add a central defender. Is Kurt Zouma worth 63 million? That is what St. Etienne will start at.

[Kobalt]

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2nd season finished. 2nd place for Arsenal. In the off season, I have told the board that I can challenge for the title and they gave me 120 million to spend. Im looking to add a central defender. Is Kurt Zouma worth 63 million? That is what St. Etienne will start at.

Yes, he became the best French defender for me when I was doing St.Etienne save. Although 63M is a lot for him since he's not fully developed.

[jasontoddwhitt]

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Nearly caused a riot in Los Angeles when I sold Landon Donovan to Newcastle for $5 million.

EDIT: And the board is disappointed that we're not playing attacking football. We're 3rd in the league in scoring?!?!?!?!

[MachoMyers]

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Having this issue at the moment hot on the heels of asking for a higher % of transfer income. I'm in the middle of the transfer window and am frozen from making any deals?

[ImTellinTim]

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Is your Board, Director of Footbal, or Youth Development negotiating contracts on your behalf? It looks like the game is taking into consideration contract offers that are out there.

[MachoMyers]

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Is your Board, Director of Footbal, or Youth Development negotiating contracts on your behalf? It looks like the game is taking into consideration contract offers that are out there.

Got it working, I think I had too many transfer targets. Thanks.

[Suntan Superman]

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i may be relegated for the first time in my fm career.

i may break down and cry

i may resign before we seal relegation

i may just move on with life, and work even harder to gain promotion.

[Anners]

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i may be relegated for the first time in my fm career.

i may break down and cry

i may resign before we seal relegation

i may just move on with life, and work even harder to gain promotion.

Was this from the accidental promotion as well? Ouch.

Well I've got a little update with Portadown. We've managed a very good European run again and we're still actually in Europe! I went into the Champions League a round earlier, the 2nd, and faced Serbian champions Crvena Zvezda (Red Star Belgrade), who happen to be former Champions League winners. Pah, that means nothing to us! We finished the 1st leg by destroying them 5-0. Really didn't see that coming. They didn't offer anything in the 2nd leg, ending the game 1-1 on aggregate.

The third qualifying round brought easier opposition, but still tough, than last year in Slovakian side Zilina. A very tight and edgy 1st leg in Slovakia followed as we managed to take home a 2-1 lead to Northern Ireland. The 2nd leg was almost a carbon copy of the first, only this time, it ended up a 1-1 draw. This meant that we were 180 minutes from the Champions League groups, but also that we were guaranteed a place in the Europa League groups - payday secured!

In our way next were Polish champions Lech Poznan, our toughest opponents yet. Looking back at the stats, it was a game I felt we could have won, yet managed to lose 2-1 which left us a mountain to climb in the 2nd leg. We didn't play well at all in the 2nd leg and scored a late consolation to yet again lose 2-1, 4-2 on aggregate.

Our Europa League group is Athletic Bilbao, Fenerbahce and Genk. I quite fancy myself to get a result against Genk at home but it will still be a massive struggle to compete, but this team has known to throw up a few surprises.

Last but not least, I've got 2 things to finish on. Firstly, we've got over £4m in the bank, which is about £4m more than the rest of the division. Secondly, thanks to this European adventure, I've succeeded in asking the board to turn us professional, which will make us the only professional side in Northern Ireland.

[ImTellinTim]

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I finally got around to the 2018 World Cup and the group of death (Spain, Germany, Ghana). Honestly, I kept putting it off because who wants to see all that work go up in flames? Well, 1-1 draw vs. Spain and a 2-1 win against Germany. We're through with either at least a draw against Ghana or a Spain win against Germany. If ****ing Ghana knocks us out...

EDIT: We're through. 2-1. Spain were the victims of the group as Germany beat them 1-0 to advance. We draw Cameroon in the first knockout round. We beat them in Cameroon 2-1 in a warmup friendly a couple weeks ago. Captain Michael Bradley is out for 2 weeks with a twisted ankle though

I can't believe we just won that group.

[gopher_guy]

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Let's hope your save is a sign of things to come for the real life USMNT