***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[JHedges2]

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I am midway through the Jan transfer window in 2020 and Napoli have offered me £17.5M for Koscielny, who has 6 months left on his deal. I don't want to offer him a new contract.

He's 34 and physical attributes are obviously declining--but this isn't how I want his narrative to be written. I wanted to keep him on as a youth coach. I've already acquired his B License, and he's currently studying for the A.

Seems dumb to pass up on the money--but I am very torn on what to do. He is not "needed" at this point, but my heart is in this too much lol...

[Bruins]

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Take the money.

[Kobalt]

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Yeah, take the money and hire him when he retires.

[OSUFan_88]

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OK, I'm feeling pretty confident I'm getting a little of my FM sense back. Any recommendations for a good skin? I hate the OG skin, it's clunky and full of nonsense that I do not need.

Think I'll do a Scotland/Rangers and see where I can go.

I did try to start a career at Aston Villa but...wow did things go badly.

[Suntan Superman]

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OK, I'm feeling pretty confident I'm getting a little of my FM sense back. Any recommendations for a good skin? I hate the OG skin, it's clunky and full of nonsense that I do not need.

Think I'll do a Scotland/Rangers and see where I can go.

I did try to start a career at Aston Villa but...wow did things go badly.

I haven't found a skin I truly love yet, Andromeda used to be my go-to but it's a little too busy these days. I've been using the Neub skin, which is just some adjustments to the normal skin.

I'm off to Blackpool, I've been interested in the mismanagement of the club under the Oystons as well as the Oyston caused boycott, so I decided to wait until they get a new owner in FM and sack whichever manager is currently employed, and we've reached that point after just one year!

In a sinking ship financially, and my owner is West Brom's old owner in Jeremy Peace. Looking forward to the sack within the first 4 months!


EDIT: To increase the chance that I get fired, I've decided that this will also be the first save in which I completely control the teams training. Normally I have my assistant set it up and then I edit it from there, but we're going full in, now.

[Bruins]

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In the same boat as far as a skin. Had a perfect one for FM18, but the creator hasn't made a new version as far as I can see.

In the meantime, I've been running with the TCS '19 skin.


More: https://fmshots.com/album/5Auy

[Suntan Superman]

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In the same boat as far as a skin. Had a perfect one for FM18, but the creator hasn't made a new version as far as I can see.

In the meantime, I've been running with the TCS '19 skin.


More: https://fmshots.com/album/5Auy

The "Aero" version of the skin is real nice. I paired with a new background pack, and it feels like the old FM

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EDIT: Took charge of my first game at Blackpool. I certainly won't let this get to my head:

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[jb12780]

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The "Aero" version of the skin is real nice. I paired with a new background pack, and it feels like the old FM

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EDIT: Took charge of my first game at Blackpool. I certainly won't let this get to my head:

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Where would I be able to download that skin? That’s the best one I’ve seen so far this year.


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[Suntan Superman]

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Where would I be able to download that skin? That’s the best one I’ve seen so far this year.


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It's part of the pack that Bruins posted, it comes with three versions of the skin, I'm using the "Aero" version.

[jb12780]

***The Official Football Manager Thread***

So left QPR as the writing was on the wall with that job, as I saw Watford had an opening, and had some really interesting pieces to work with. Was in a relegation battle but ended up surviving the drop.

Unfortunately they also have a financial problem. 5 million in the hole, but they gave me a 63 million dollar transfer budget.

I may be in a position where I have to sell off some assets in order to raise some cash.

I set my scouting range to worldwide, and put the focus on young talent, in hopes of turning Watford into a Dortmund like squad under Klopp.

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[Zac]

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Ended up moving on to Dortmund. I just spent 305M. This better be a good year. Highlight transfer is Rodrygo from RM for 78M(90M).

[jb12780]

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Ended up moving on to Dortmund. I just spent 305M. This better be a good year. Highlight transfer is Rodrygo from RM for 78M(90M).

They had that available to spend? Interesting.


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[Zac]

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Its 2021, and they haven't been spending money. Had 300-something million in the bank and a transfer budget of 179M when I signed. I then sold five players for 150M. We also still have 130M in the bank. And looking at the history, they hadn't spent more than 48M incoming until me. And the season I took over (took over in May) they sold 89M, and 99M the year before. So they did really well with their money, and then I come in and just started burning money for fun.

[JHedges2]

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Just started a save with Dortmund. I want to find nothing but small price gems and sell for heaps of profit.

Assembling top notch coaching and scouting staff.


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[jb12780]

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Its 2021, and they haven't been spending money. Had 300-something million in the bank and a transfer budget of 179M when I signed. I then sold five players for 150M. We also still have 130M in the bank. And looking at the history, they hadn't spent more than 48M incoming until me. And the season I took over (took over in May) they sold 89M, and 99M the year before. So they did really well with their money, and then I come in and just started burning money for fun.

This just made me realize I should probably load the first and 2nd division of the Dutch league.


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