***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[Suntan Superman]

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FM in a nutshell:

Beat Man City 6-1 at home, only to turn around and lose to Burnley 6-2 away.


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I beat 2nd place Liverpool 4-0, then lost 1-0 to 18th placed Wolves.

[Zac]

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I just noticed in my save that Liverpool have won their first league title in 34 years (2024). And under the helm of Arsene Wenger no less. Who is 74. Who then immediately retired.

[Kobalt]

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Finally got out of CL Group Stage and then pulled this amazing choke job

[Zac]

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Teddy is about to become my all time favorite player in FM.




He has scored 126 goals in 168 games in all competitions under me. And he always seems to step up in must win situations.

[UPgamer]

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I've had the AI train my players for most of my save, but the more I've been playing the more I've wanted to handle things myself. But player training and team training is something that I don't have a handle of, especially at the youth level. How do I best improve my youth players so that I'm spending less on incoming transfers?

[jasontoddwhitt]

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Got bored with my Rangers save. I think it's just the SPL in general. I get bored playing the same teams over and over.

So it's on to my journeyman, no badges save. Loaded up all leagues from USA, Mexico, England, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Sweden. Why Sweden? I don't know, they show up as a nation of interest when you have the USA selected as the main league. Call it the Zlatan effect.

Last year, I started with FC Hollviken in Division 1, where I got relegated to Division 2, hung around for six seasons before taking the Amiens job in France, where I stayed for 13 seasons (some journeyman save lol).

Speaking of FC Hollviken, they no longer exist. The club actually had two senior teams. FC Hollviken and BK Hollviken. FC dissolved after the 2016 season when they got relegated. BK still exists in Division 4.

This year, an American with no coaching badges goes abroad and takes over....Nybro IF. Halfway through the season, sitting dead last in the Swedish Division 2. But, we are only five points from safety.

Time to get to work.

[Kobalt]

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I've had the AI train my players for most of my save, but the more I've been playing the more I've wanted to handle things myself. But player training and team training is something that I don't have a handle of, especially at the youth level. How do I best improve my youth players so that I'm spending less on incoming transfers?

After every youth intake, I just train the players into specific roles that fit with my tactics. IE: CBs to BPD or CB, CMs to AP or B2B, etc.

Make sure to max out your Youth Facilities and tutor them with senior players that have great personalities. There are a lot of Youth Development guides that go way more in-depth if you search for them on Google.

First FM19 Teaser

https://twitter.com/FootballManager/status/1026363108724551680

Comes out Nov 2nd

[Zac]

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Its really weird leaving Malmo after almost six seasons. We won 4 cups and 5 league titles. And the team is on track to win the league this season for a sixth, and fourth in a row. We made it out of the CL group stage once, only to be knocked out by Atletico 8-3 agg. Made it to the EL semi's twice (on super lucky draws), and a EL final once where we lost to Dortmund 4-1.

I kind of regret leaving. But I feel like I could be there for 10 more years and never win the EL. Our rep never increased enough, so it never got any easier to bring in good talent in their prime. We were above Scotland for three years, and Celtic could still bring in a much higher quality of player than we could. So I had to keep relying on signing amazing kids who then be leaving after 1 or 2 seasons of being stars for us. My turnover was insane.

So I took the West Brom job. I'd sold them six great young players over the years, who are all still at the club. And they finished 10th last season. With Pardew. Who then retired. I'm going to struggle and hate it probably.

Oh and I spent every penny of the 20M in transfer funds on one player (including 20M of incentives from next years transfer funds). And then made outlandish promises, and threw every possible over priced option in his contract I could. And it worked. We stole him away from signing with Bayern. And hes already scored 10 goals in pre-season. Come on 7th place finish!

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[ImTellinTim]

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I've had the AI train my players for most of my save, but the more I've been playing the more I've wanted to handle things myself. But player training and team training is something that I don't have a handle of, especially at the youth level. How do I best improve my youth players so that I'm spending less on incoming transfers?

Do we have another Yooper here?

[jasontoddwhitt]

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Well, we went 3-5-5 over the second half of the season.

We needed to go 4-5-4.

Relegation and I've been fired by Nybro IF. This journeyman save is off to a great start.

But I've already landed somewhere else. So let's take over St. Albans in the Vanarama National League South. And I got my first coaching badge while I was bagging groceries in between jobs. Of course, St. Albans was all "why would we fund you a coaching course so you could use that to leave us?" when I asked to get sent on a coaching course.

Oh well...another relegation battle. Four points from safety, but we have more than half the season to go.

[Suntan Superman]

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I sometimes want to do a save where all I do is save teams from relegation with 10 or less matches to go. That's what really gets me amped up in the game. Winning titles and cups can get stressful with expectations, but lord if there isn't anything like the pressure of a relegation 6 pointer.

[jvalverde88]

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Beating Man United to escape the relegation zone and afterwards taunting Mourinho in a press conference got me like:

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[gopher_guy]

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The Football Manager subreddit has been pumping out some real quality memes lately, lol

[jasontoddwhitt]

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As soon as I got to St. Albans, I stopped the sinking, but it took a while to get us out of the relegation zone. A five-match unbeaten streak in February got us into the safety zone but then our form went back to being dreadful, winning only one match in eight. It looked like we were going to bottle our safety.

A resounding 6-0 victory over Hampton & Richmond (who ended up advancing to the promotion playoffs) gave us some breathing room sitting in 17th, but we were still not safe and it was going to come down to the final game of the season, and we were playing the league champions (Bath). A look at the table made me feel a bit better. Two of the teams below me were playing each other, which would mean it would take a perfect storm to knock me in the relegation zone.

I lose
Havant & W/Concord win
Eastbourne Boro win
Truro wins and makes up a 7 goal differential

Of course, Truro is playing Hampton & Richmond, who I just throttled, which is good because that's what gave me a cushion on goal differential. All I got to do is keep it tight against Bath.

We give up two early goals, but that was all Bath could muster and we got a consolation goal late and we went down 2-1.

Havant & W defeated Concord 3-1.
Eastbourne Boro drew Chelmsford 1-1. Which means we are safe.
But to drive the point home, Truro got blown out 1-5 against Hampton & Richmond.

We stay up! I get a contract extension! And a pay raise! And they will fund another coaching course!!!

[Suntan Superman]

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After playing Norwich once, and having one of my coaches do the Press Conferences, this happened in the pre-match build-up






Well, we sure found out what you can do...





A strange battle to pick.