***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[gopher_guy]

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The more of you guys who pick up St. Pauli saves the more I want to abandon mine...

Are you gonna be an FM hipster?

"I was playing with St. Pauli BEFORE it was cool..."

Haha

[Bruins]

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LOL, I guess. Part of what draws me to teams is that I haven't seen other people playing as them in a while. Which is why I haven't managed in the Premier League for like 4 years. I'm gonna stick with St. Pauli, it just lost a bit of its appeal now, that's all. Nothing against you guys.

[Anners]

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Are you gonna be an FM hipster?

"I was playing with St. Pauli BEFORE it was cool..."

Haha

Think I had a save with St Pauli that I posted on here last FM. Can I now be called an FM hipster!?

There seems to be a list of sorts that everyone here has a save with. Arsenal and St Pauli are the two that spring to mind straight out.

[ImTellinTim]

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The only one I do every year is Liverpool.

I've been all over the place with my other saves. I'm really tempted to get into MLS. However, they took away the option to start in January 2014 for some reason. I wanted to do that with the transfer updated database. Last year you could choose to start in January 2012 or 2013 in the US.

[ubernoob]

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The only one I do every year is Liverpool.

I've been all over the place with my other saves. I'm really tempted to get into MLS. However, they took away the option to start in January 2014 for some reason. I wanted to do that with the transfer updated database. Last year you could choose to start in January 2012 or 2013 in the US.

Just load up another country that does it. South Korea, Norway, Peru, Japan, and China (and possibly a few others, those are just the countries I have loaded up for this game) can all start in Jan 2013 or 2014.

[studbucket]

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If you do an MLS save, make sure to add the South American countries to the DB, so you can sign young Colombians and Brazilians for <$1m, then sell them for $10m+ to European teams. You can even keep some of them and compete in the Club World Cup.

I also manage the USMNT in one of my saves, and I get Brazilians on the Sounders who just aren't quite good enough to get called up, and after 5 years (so age ~23) they can play for the USMNT

[ImTellinTim]

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Just load up another country that does it. South Korea, Norway, Peru, Japan, and China (and possibly a few others, those are just the countries I have loaded up for this game) can all start in Jan 2013 or 2014.

Didn't know that. Wonder why they would restrict the US start dates like that.

[cubsfan128]

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Two years in a row, a playoff spot has slipped through my fingers...

Playing as Vauxhall in the Skrill North and I just can't seem to break through, take a look at how I finished the past two seasons:

Year 1:


Year 2:


Both seasons came down to my final game, all I needed was to win and I would have qualified for the playoffs with that 5th spot.

Now, it's time to solidify the squad, I have my sights set on a first place finish next year.

I really don't wanna spend another season in the Skrill North.

[Anners]

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So I've been quietly playing a save with Leeds, and I'm hopelessly stuck in mid-table. 12th first season, followed by 11th in the second season, I'm half-way through my third season and, funnily enough, I sit 10th.

I'm horrific with tactics on this FM. I dare not change anything now as I've at least got a tactic that doesn't see me being consistently poor. I think all I've done in this thread for the past year is moan. I'm not as grumpy as I seem, honest!

[Omar_Coming]

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I've been doing one with Red Bull in Germany. They are in the 3rd division but play in a 43k stadium so there is big time room for improvement. Got them the top level in 4 seasons.

[Cabke]

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So I've been quietly playing a save with Leeds, and I'm hopelessly stuck in mid-table. 12th first season, followed by 11th in the second season, I'm half-way through my third season and, funnily enough, I sit 10th.

I'm horrific with tactics on this FM. I dare not change anything now as I've at least got a tactic that doesn't see me being consistently poor. I think all I've done in this thread for the past year is moan. I'm not as grumpy as I seem, honest!

Just keep playing and by year 9 or so you should be in a promotion battle.

[Suntan Superman]

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So after dabbling in Eastern Europe, I decided to start up my usual future save, 10 years into the future in 2024, i start unemployed, and see where the world takes me. In 10 years, here's some interesting things that happened in those 10 years:

Arsenal, City, United, Liverpool, Chlesea and Spurs have at least one BPL title, and each year the top 3 was composed of 3 of those 6 teams.

Sheffield United and Nottingham Forest have had 7 and 10 year runs in the BPL respectively, and have each qualified for Europe. Bolton on the other hand managed to go into administration falling all the way to the Skrill North, and have managed to find their way back to League One.

Moyes is still at United, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is at Arsenal, Stefano Pioli at Chelsea, AVB at Liverpool, and Mancini got rehired at City when Pellegrini retired.

In Spain, Atletico Madrid has taken over, winning 5 of the last 10 La Liga titles, with Barca taking 3 and Madrid taking 3. Zaragoza has fallen down to Segunda B, and last year was on the verge of going down from there as well. Malaga was also relegated from La Liga twice, but is safely back home. Gerardo Martino is in charge at Barca, Michael Laudrup at the helm for Real Madrid,

Germany is relatively boring, Dortmund and Bayern dominating the early portion of ten years, the last three titles have been split between Leverkusen and Schalke. Klopp is now at Leverkusen, Guardiola still at Bayern, Laurent Blanc at Dortmund.

Italy has shared titles between Inter, Roma, Lazio, Napoli and Juventus, with AC Milan in second every year except one. Fiorentina also headed into administration, falling down to Serie B, but recovered pretty quickly, and are back in top flight. Frank De Boer has been hugely successful at Roma winning two league titles, and reaching Champions League final twice. Allegri is still at AC Milan, Devis Mangia at Inter.

I thought Germany was boring, 9 out of 10 years Monaco took the title, the one year they didn't normally second placed PSG took the title. There has been consistency in the teams going up and down, in that the teams that go up one year, go down the next, and no team has really even posed a threat to the PSG/Monaco monopoly.


France, Italy, Spain are the Euro Champions, England x2, and Germany as the World Cup Champions

In charge of the World Champion England squads? None other than the Special One, Jose Mourinho.

If you have any questions about anything else that happened, i'd be happy to give you the answer.

[ImTellinTim]

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It was going so well until England 2-time WC champions.

[Perceptor]

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I'm starting a new save with the transfer updates. I still have my Everton save running, but after they mopped the floor with my team, I'm too bitter to play as them right now.

[Suntan Superman]

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so close, yet so far :/