***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[Hunkerdown]

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At the end of last season, Bayern came in for an interview, they didnt like my philosophical suggestions, so they passed.

Fast Forward to this season, and they want another interview, I told them to **** off.

Also Madrid have come a calling.

We call this classic.....Mo

[rsnomar05]

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So I face a bit of a dilemma. I have a fairly small first team (but an insane amount of good youth who I have been giving appearances here and there). League, cup, and Champions League is starting to take its toll. I did qualify for the knockout stages with a game in hand, which is all the board are wanting. I find myself in second place in league, but it's going to be a tough fight to stay in Champions League qualification. Board wants me to make the cup final, and I passed a very tough test in the second round, beating rival Dortmund on the road.

Which brings the question, do I field a weakened team for the Champions League knockout stages so I can try my best to keep the squad fresh for the league and domestic cup?

Winter break can't come quick enough.

I would not worry about the domestic cup. If you meet or exceed expectations in the more important competitions, the board won't care about the cup.

[rsnomar05]

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I haven't posted many updates to my Roma save recently as I've been swamped at work, but things have lightened up and I'm getting back into things. I just signed a world class 20 year old wonderkid. This guy only cost me $20 mil USD:

[rsnomar05]

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Coming off my WC win and UEFA Nations League win with England, the team wrapped up UEFA Euro qualifying in style. With 1 assist and 4 goals, Ross Barkley had a perfect 10 match rating. Patrick Roberts had a 9.7, amassing 5 assists and 1 goal. Lithuania's worst performance was Edvinas Juozalitas who had a hilariously low 2.3 match rating.

[Suntan Superman]

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So I was pretty thrilled to get into the group stage of the Europa League, but I had never expected this



We beat Rangers in the 2nd qualifying round, then FK Austria Wien in the 3rd qualifying round, then took out Marseille in the playoff.

[Mo]

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Madrid said no to me. They better hope another la liga club doesnt come a calling.

Anyways, won the League and Champions League double again.

My 63K new stadium is about to open. No new players in. Sold a couple of players for a total of £52m. Finally have a youth system producing where I dont need any established players to buy.

[Kobalt]

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In a span about 4 days, I lost to the 20th ranked team and 18th ranked team. Also lost both of my top 2 strikers for like 2 months, I hate this game.



Went from 2nd to 8th.

[jasontoddwhitt]

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Glad I left a lot of payroll budget unused. Cause when young players play well, they want to be PAID.

Julian Draxler: 5 years/$53.25 million
Max Meyer: 5 years/$39 million

And after winning the European Golden Boy and seeing his attacking teammates get a pay raise, Andrija Zivkovic wanted to be paid more.....5 years/$39 million.

Edit: They have Jose modeled perfectly in this game.

Edit: Then apparently he went on to say we constantly get gifted decisions like that as I got a question about it asking if his claim was justified. My response: "Of course it's not justified, it's just Jose talking nonsense as usual."

[rsnomar05]

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Group B turned out to be more difficult than I had anticipated, but I won the group thanks to a win in the final match against PSG.

[BengalTiger]

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I pretty much rage uninstalled this game after i lost my ENTIRE DEFENSE, that's cb's and fb's for 2 to 3 months in the span of 2 weeks.

[gopher_guy]

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Well, after my AFC Wimbeldon disaster, where I pretty much lost every game I played and got fired right away, I picked Oxford United to start a new game with.

This one has been going much better. Right after the calendar turned to 2014, I reached the top of the table.





And I'm currently on a 9 game unbeaten streak. (8-1-0)

[Suntan Superman]

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I pretty much rage uninstalled this game after i lost my ENTIRE DEFENSE, that's cb's and fb's for 2 to 3 months in the span of 2 weeks.

I had my RW go out on 6-8 month injury a week into the season, his direct backup got hurt in the same game going out for 3-4 months, took two wingers on loan, both of which got hurt in the first game they played for more than 2 months, then finally got my fifth winger in after terminating the previous two loans.

this was all before the first international break.

[rsnomar05]

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I drew LOLSPURS in the CL knockouts.

[jasontoddwhitt]

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Had a bit of a dip in form in the second half. Started losing some ground to Bayern, and Leverkusen is streaking up the table, causing my hold on second to become a bit precarious.

Then I snapped Bayern's 26 match unbeaten streak dating back to last season. Refs tried to let them back into the match with a bogus penalty, but we hung on thanks to some gutsy defending. This with one of my starting center backs out because he caught a cold the day before the match.

[Kobalt]

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World Cup 2034 in Argentina.



Not a bad group.

Edit: L vs. Brazil, W vs. El Salvador, got blown out by South Africa and didn't make it past the group stages.