***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[Matty Aqua]

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For someone who isn't that great with computers/macs...those media files were testing...luckily there's some great instructions on how too install!

Is there a way that i can confirm that i have installed correctly?

Just out of curiosity how many leagues do you guys have set too "playable" as opposed to "view only"?

[gopher_guy]

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For someone who isn't that great with computers/macs...those media files were testing...luckily there's some great instructions on how too install!

Is there a way that i can confirm that i have installed correctly?

Just out of curiosity how many leagues do you guys have set too "playable" as opposed to "view only"?

I started out with England, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Brazil, and Portugal as playable (4 tiers for England, 2 for the others). Since then I have added Denmark, Netherlands, USA, and Argentina as playable, but they still say "Pending nation" and don't appear to be playable yet, so I don't know if you have to wait until the next season for them to actually become playable, or how that works.

[Zac]

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I started out with England, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Brazil, and Portugal as playable (4 tiers for England, 2 for the others). Since then I have added Denmark, Netherlands, USA, and Argentina as playable, but they still say "Pending nation" and don't appear to be playable yet, so I don't know if you have to wait until the next season for them to actually become playable, or how that works.

If you add or remove a nation/league, it doesn't take effect until the next season for that league/nation. On the add/remove page it will tell you the date. I'm constantly changing up what I have in my saves.

[gopher_guy]

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This is one of the crazier games I've ever had on FM



(Yes, I bought Pulisic )

FA Cup replay after drawing away at West Ham.

Dier got sent off in the 26th minute, Janssen missed two penalties in the first half. Obiang gets sent off in the 72nd minute to even the teams at 10 men. Sissoko nets an equalizer in the 86th minute. Then FOUR goals in the opening 5 minutes of extra time.

End result, we win in penalties. But my players are DEAD, and we've got 4 games in the next 2 weeks, capped off by the away leg of the CL Knockout Round against Bayern.

Yay?

[Suntan Superman]

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My first staff overhaul is complete.

[Zac]

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I just saw this on the FM reddit, with title "So Glad That SI Added Match Fixing For That Added Realism".

[Suntan Superman]

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My hours played rank from FM 2012-2015

[Zac]

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I don't see how we could possibly reject this deal. I mean, $10 per month. Each month for a whole year?




Also, the math is all over the place on this. All the info is very conflicting.

[Zac]

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So I started with Vard in the lowest playable level in Norway. I started unemployed and they were the first to offer me a job. Took over mid season, did okay. Stayed up and the board was happy.

Second season we were picked for a mid table finish. Ended up being a crazy season. And battled for the title all the way until the final day. One of the most fun seasons I've ever had. The last few weeks we all kept changing spots among the top 4.




Now I'm getting ready to struggle in the OBOS-Ligaen next season. We aren't in the best finical situation. So its going to be hard to bring in anyone. So my goal is to try and stay up so we can get some better money. We are currently 355K in debt. So we need to stay up for a couple of season to get the ship turned around.

Oh and two of my key players just retired. A 37 year old fullback who scored 4 goals for us this season and had 7 assists. And our star 36 year old box to box mid who led the league in assists with 11 and best average rating of 7.84. They were both player/coaches. But are now just coaches for us. So its not like I freed up any wages, lol. Still having a blast though.

[Suntan Superman]

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So I started with Vard in the lowest playable level in Norway. I started unemployed and they were the first to offer me a job. Took over mid season, did okay. Stayed up and the board was happy.

Second season we were picked for a mid table finish. Ended up being a crazy season. And battled for the title all the way until the final day. One of the most fun seasons I've ever had. The last few weeks we all kept changing spots among the top 4.




Now I'm getting ready to struggle in the OBOS-Ligaen next season. We aren't in the best finical situation. So its going to be hard to bring in anyone. So my goal is to try and stay up so we can get some better money. We are currently 355K in debt. So we need to stay up for a couple of season to get the ship turned around.

Oh and two of my key players just retired. A 37 year old fullback who scored 4 goals for us this season and had 7 assists. And our star 36 year old box to box mid who led the league in assists with 11 and best average rating of 7.84. They were both player/coaches. But are now just coaches for us. So its not like I freed up any wages, lol. Still having a blast though.

I'm in the OBOS-ligaen with Fredrikstad. Cash-strapped but some good youth prospects. January-April has been a chore though.

EDIT: A bit of an expansion on this, I did something I've never done before, I recruited players specifically for my system, and re-trained a few players to play as wing backs(4 months of off-season does have it's upside) I made sure that every centre half i bought had at least 10 tackling and 12 marking, centre mids had to have 8 tackling, 10 passing, 10 dribbling and 14 in work rate, wing backs had to have speed and crossing, and my strikers had to have 10 heading or 10 passing and 10 finishing.

Obviously not all of my players fit that criteria, but tha twas the baseline and so far it's done fairly well(friendlies only)

[Zac]

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I'm in the OBOS-ligaen with Fredrikstad. Cash-strapped but some good youth prospects. January-April has been a chore though.

EDIT: A bit of an expansion on this, I did something I've never done before, I recruited players specifically for my system, and re-trained a few players to play as wing backs(4 months of off-season does have it's upside) I made sure that every centre half i bought had at least 10 tackling and 12 marking, centre mids had to have 8 tackling, 10 passing, 10 dribbling and 14 in work rate, wing backs had to have speed and crossing, and my strikers had to have 10 heading or 10 passing and 10 finishing.

Obviously not all of my players fit that criteria, but tha twas the baseline and so far it's done fairly well(friendlies only)

Yeah having all that time off is kind of insane. This last season I played 10 friendlies. And even after that and the heavy training sessions, no one had more than 70% sharpness for the season. So I might have to bump that up to 14-16 this time around, lol.

Its also kind of insane the quality of players I am finding to pick up on a free. My scouts seem to find top quality players that either don't currently have a club, or are on armature contracts. Also the amount of teams that let their players get below 6 months left is crazy. I haven't paid for a single player yet. Its just my wage bill got a little out of hand.

[Suntan Superman]

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Yeah having all that time off is kind of insane. This last season I played 10 friendlies. And even after that and the heavy training sessions, no one had more than 70% sharpness for the season. So I might have to bump that up to 14-16 this time around, lol.

Its also kind of insane the quality of players I am finding to pick up on a free. My scouts seem to find top quality players that either don't currently have a club, or are on armature contracts. Also the amount of teams that let their players get below 6 months left is crazy. I haven't paid for a single player yet. Its just my wage bill got a little out of hand.

I'm over my wage bill, but I'm planning a title run to make up for it.

[Zac]

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Man, its amazing how many players in Norway have 5 or lower determination. Like, 80% of the players in the country that I've scouted.

[Suntan Superman]

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Man, its amazing how many players in Norway have 5 or lower determination. Like, 80% of the players in the country that I've scouted.

I've had that problem with workrate. Normally there's no one in my squad with a sub 10 workrate.

This is how we're set up for the first game of a team fully my own-


and here is the first half of the first real game in charge of Fredrikstad


We're doing exactly it exactly like I planned my tactic, minus our poor passing play, but hopefully that will fix itself as the year goes on. We're absolutely incisive on the counter attack. It's been a great showing, using the Behind Goal camera, I've been watching my defense stay rigid, and two mids drop back, one mid plays link up when we get the ball, the wing backs bomb forward, and two strikers await balls.

EDIT:

Result from my first competitive match in charge of Fredrikstad

[Kobalt]

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I got the tactics I wanted and wasn't sure which team to go to with so I googled bunch of things and stumbled to this, it looks fun https://community.sigames.com/topic/...m17-challenge/

Also after having this game for couple weeks now, I agree that Social Feed is awful