***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[grismosw]

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FM seems like the only game you could possibly consider playing that slow. A cool idea but I think I would have to have several managers in one save.

[gopher_guy]

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Off to a pretty decent start with my Ipswich save. 8 points through 5 games; 2-2-1. Including an upset victory over Cardiff!



One of my good friends, he's the one who got me into FIFA (and subsequently the sport of soccer) like 4 or 5 years ago. He's Indian, and once India got into FIFA (the game), he would sarcastically play as India sometimes when we played FIFA. Michael Chopra was the only decent player on the India squad. So whenever we'd talk about soccer, he'd update me on Chopra and whenever he scored, lol.

I was looking over my roster at the beginning of this Ipswich save, and saw Michael Chopra. I laughed out loud, immediately took a pic of my computer screen with my phone on Chopra's player page and sent it to him.

Chopra is a BEAST. He's got 8 goals in 6 games for me. Including these late game heroics against Millwall after they took the lead in injury time.

Spoiler

CHOPRA!!!!!

[Suntan Superman]

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Me at 2:45am: I think it's time to go to bed, last game of NHL 14 and bed

Me at 3:10am: All right, just got a few things to finish up during the pre-season for Dresden

Me at 8:52am: **** are Arsenal playing already? I've not even made it to my last friendly, c'mon Sneijder, sign for me, let my team be filled with young players and former World Class players.

Also, my coaching staff is star-studded

Director of Football - Thierry Henry
Coach - Didier Drogba
Coach - Michael Owen
Coach - Samuel Eto'o
Coach - Robert Pires
U19's Coach - Michael Ballack
Under 19s GK Coach - Tim Howard
Scout - Aliaksandr Hleb
Scout - Eddie Johnson

[cranes74us]

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Me at 2:45am: I think it's time to go to bed, last game of NHL 14 and bed

Me at 3:10am: All right, just got a few things to finish up during the pre-season for Dresden

Me at 8:52am: **** are Arsenal playing already? I've not even made it to my last friendly, c'mon Sneijder, sign for me, let my team be filled with young players and former World Class players.

Also, my coaching staff is star-studded

Director of Football - Thierry Henry
Coach - Didier Drogba
Coach - Michael Owen
Coach - Samuel Eto'o
Coach - Robert Pires
U19's Coach - Michael Ballack
Under 19s GK Coach - Tim Howard
Scout - Aliaksandr Hleb
Scout - Eddie Johnson

What year are you in?

[Suntan Superman]

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2018, as I've just managed to complete a brand new stadium for Dresden.

[Kobalt]

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Couple of things, I gave Juventus their first loss so that was awesome. Sassuolo was predicted to finish 20th in the league... and somehow made it to 2nd. Fiorentina got relegated.

I beat Holland 2-1 with Romania. Tied with them with 12 points, but behind them in goals differential. Forgot to mention that my starting CB for Romania retired from International play...he was only 26 I begged him to come back but he said he's focusing on league play

And lastly, I don't want to sell 50% of Davide Astori, so Milan, Juventus, etc. should stop asking

[Anners]

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That season looks unreal. 19 points between 2nd and 19th? Juve won't win an easier title in their history.

[jvalverde88]

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And lastly, I don't want to sell 50% of Davide Astori, so Milan, Juventus, etc. should stop asking

Told you.

[ubernoob]

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Haven't truly played this in a while, so I decided to start up a new game as Carlisle United in League One.

We'll see how this goes. Might as well as use my dynasty section for something.

*edit: Meaningless, minor, moral victories*

[Anners]

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Another year, another title. Simple enough really! We didn't win any of our Champions League Group games, which was to be expected as well.

The biggest thing to happen was the money from the European run. Getting in the group stages meant a huge payout and it's been confirmed we will spend £8.8m (nearly $14m) on upgrading facilities and expanding the stadium. When the upgrades are done, it will be interesting to see what level my facilities are at, because we had yet another year where our youth academy produced a poor crop of youngsters.

Round-up of my seasons so far:

[jvalverde88]

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I hate the Championship Playoffs





We went on a nice run, we went from 9th to 4th. We had a chance to get the 2nd automatic promotion but of course in typical FM fashion we lose to Blackpool who were 20th.



Forest somehow came back from a 4-0 1st leg deficit and won the 2nd leg 5-0. As you can see, they won the playoff final.

[jmaj315]

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Man, props to you. I could never play that slowly haha.

I think you would just need a "side save" to play in the mean time

[Suntan Superman]

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Well, my aging/declining star team is looking good in 2008. I've got Zlatan up top with Sneijder behind him, and Yaya Toure behind him. My wings are young, and I've got Podolski and Huntelaar as back ups/rotation options. Dani Alves at a wing back, and the rest is 26 and under.

[jasontoddwhitt]

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Year 2 of my Rangers save. Have to give my guys credit for refusing to lay over to Celtic in the fourth Round of the Scottish Cup. Down 4-1 at the half, Celtic took their foot off the pedal and nearly gave the game to us. We ended up losing 4-3 but luckily the board isn't as disappointed since they understand it was Celtic.

Still ticked about my first round exit and second round exit in the Ramsden Cup and League Cup, but our form was crap at the beginning of the year for some strange reason. Now we're humming along, took over first place for good on Match Day 7 (just finished Match Day 15), although we've only been able to open up a five point lead as Forfar is trying to hang with us.

Transfer embargo is finally over. Not sure what signings I'll be making during the winter period. Maybe I'll take the Dortmund approach and just look for young players as the first team is pretty solid, especially considering who we are playing. Have $921k to spend, as I sold Bocanegra (to Nancy for 325k) and Goian (to Blackburn for $800k) prior to the season starting as I couldn't afford their wages. Hopefully by the end of the season, I'll have shaved off over $2 million in wages as we are bleeding money out of the coffers despite me only using roughly 90% of the wage budget given to me.

[gomuherdclassof2k10]

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The one thing I hate about playing as my one of favorite clubs Bayern is that I can never let go of a player that is on the current squad irl even after three years in game haha. Does anyone have this problem?