***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[gopher_guy]

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So I committed to trying a journeyman save as my first save in FM 18. Started as Sunday League Rep and National C Liscense...and only applied for jobs 1.25 stars and down. Wound up having offers from a Welsh Premier League team, 2 Scottish League Two teams, and a 4th tier Swedish team. (I also got offered the actual Team USA job which seemed ridiculous to me considering my reputation. I entertained that for a second but I didn't want to do a national team save. They had won their first 5 games in the WC qualifiers though so they def aren't missing the WC haha.).

I chose Sweden because I wanted a change from doing a save in the UK...and I will now be the manager of Nordvarmland FF! They're in the middle of their season already, and are currently in the relegation playoff spot...but are very close to the teams above them. I've also got games against the bottom 2 teams coming up, so hoping I can get off to a good start.

The one thing that I'm most confused about so far in FM18 is the scouting differences. I need a better RB...but this team has a director of football who is in charge of scouting. I had some trouble finding my way around the search function...as I only have a Division 2 scout package and it still pulled up players from outside of the division. Any help with managing the new look of the scouting side?

Giving yourself a National C License? Pssshhhh.

Looking forward to reading about it! The journeyman save I'm doing right now is the most fun I've had with FM!

[Velocityy]

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Giving yourself a National C License? Pssshhhh.

Looking forward to reading about it! The journeyman save I'm doing right now is the most fun I've had with FM!

Ha! I saw that you could choose no license this year, which (unless I missed it) wasn't an option in 16. Just clicked it without thinking truly...could have started at way bottom yes

[Zac]

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I've been playing entirely way too much FM recently. I might have to take a break for a few days.




The title was not to be. But we managed to win the playoffs and get promoted!



We won both playoff games 2-0, but we FM'd both teams. They out played us and we some how managed to win both games.

So next season its the Vanarama North. But I predict a struggle next season. Maybe even a relegation battle. Probably going to have to try to lean heavy into loans. But the ones I have now are rejecting another year.

And we are now 100K in debt. Plus we just took out a 130K loan to add more seating to the stadium because of new league requirements. The new guy got an affiliate, but hasn't put any money into the club. We aren't spending crazy wages either. We just don't make money on gate receipts or season tickets. We only average 250 people to a home game.

And for those interested, everyone's profile pages.

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[jvalverde88]

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A break, Ha!

[Suntan Superman]

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So I've decided to start a new save(mostly due to seemingly unresolvable squad registration issues in my NA Pyramid. I decided I was going to build/rebuild a club, and I pre-selected 14 clubs, and whichever one fired their manager, and didn't hire an interim in 7 days would be the first I joined.

The catch - after reading extensively about Brentford's abandonment of their academy, I decided that I would never request improvements, nor would I attempt to raise the Junior Coaching budget. Instead I'm going to focus on scouting youth players and signing/developing 18+ players that don't make the cut in the top divisions.

I ended up at Port Vale in League Two, sitting third bottom in November.

[Bruins]

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Huge win.

[Kobalt]

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I guess my RB was pretty good

[Zac]

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So I've decided to start a new save(mostly due to seemingly unresolvable squad registration issues in my NA Pyramid.

What is the issue with the squad regs?

[Suntan Superman]

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What is the issue with the squad regs?

I don't remember if I updated the file, the first file I uploaded had an issue where the squad registration dates were exclusively in the next calendar year, so teams never got the opportunity to register players during the first part of the season.

I managed to fix that, however, now AI teams simply won't register players.

[Bruins]

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And then...

[Bruins]

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Really tough loss. Odds were against us, having just played Milan two days prior. My team was gassed by the end of 90, and to give up the winning goal so close to penalties was devastating.

[Bruins]

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First season in Italy was a success. Gutted to lose to Inter in the cup final, but I'm really looking forward to the Champions League next season. I also took over Argentina U23s for the Olympics just for fun.

[Kobalt]

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After 8 games in the WC qualifiers, I was 1st with 20 points, England had 19. Faced them on the 9th match so if I won that match I automatically qualify, and well....



Edit: Did beat Hungary next match so I qualified for the WC after finishing 3rd best for 2nd placed teams.

[Zac]

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So first season in the VNLN was a shocker. These loan kids carried us.




Also to note, Bromsgrove, South Shields and Spennymoor were the four promoted teams into this division.

And we made it all the way to the playoff final, but Hereford was having none of our magical run...




So another season in the VNLN. However once again none of the five loans wants to stay for another year. And two of our players want to leave end of their contract because they are upset we didn't go up. I'm hoping we can make the playoffs again, but I'm having a hard time finding players as good as these 7 leaving right now.

Also this happened, and it confused me as to why it happened. I turned it down, but now I kind of regret doing so.

[gopher_guy]

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Also this happened, and it confused me as to why it happened. I turned it down, but now I kind of regret doing so.

Dang, that's crazy!

Is £40k/week more than your entire roster earns? Lol