***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[jb12780]

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19.3 Changes:

19.3.0 Changelist

- Fully updated Winter Transfer Database (19.3.0 Database)

- Stability Fixes

- Fixed rare issue where some promises would incorrectly complete or cancel immediately after being made

- Happiness changes regarding players wanting new contract too frequently

- Travelling tweaks with regards to training schedules

- Fixed cases of certain facilities or youth levels not upgrading correctly

- Toned down the extent to which players pick up traits from methods outside of mentoring

- Tweaks to AI injury numbers

- Tweaks to training ratings

- Fixed case of FFP failure being reported incorrectly

- Continue Game Timeout fixes

- Various UI fixes

- Various competition and rule group fixes including (but not limited to):

- French Ligue 1 prize money corrected

- English FA Cup 5th round replays scrapped from first season (18/19)

- Belgium Home grown issues addressed

- VAR changes for European competitions

- U23 only rule applied to Dutch Jong teams

- Danish leagues' substitutes rule corrected to "7 subs named, maximum 3 used"

- Can now play players registered for Portuguese senior teams in B Team 2nd tier games

- Italian title and relegation decider games being played simultaneously

- Italian Serie B expanded to 20 teams from 19/20 season

- Licensed Northern Ireland PIL fixtures corrected

- Greek National B Division Maximum foreign player rules corrected

- Various Match Engine (version 1930) tweaks including (but not limited to):

- Fixed bug with keeper reach on some high shots

- Improved keeper reactions to free kick and penalty shots

- Fixed rare instances of keepers picking up back passes or not reacting to them

- Fixed keeper controlling ball then never moving to pick it up or kick it

- Removed a restriction on striker and creative attackers offering out ball

- Fixed incorrect offside example

- Fixed couple of issues related to VAR

- Adjusted attacking player marking when preventing GK distribution at goal kicks

- Adjusted marking of players coming short for throw-ins

- Fixed instances of central midfielders bunching close to ball

- Made players cross slightly earlier when possible

- Slight encouragement to pass ball forward more when optimal

- Fixed issue where player marking edge of area at set piece doesn't always engage ball player who receives it outside area

- Fine-tuned shot and pass accuracy



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[NoDakHusker]

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Overhauling my squad for season 2 at Albion Rovers, spent a lot of this past season trialing in players as scouting is super limited. So...many...trials, only to find out 90% of these guys are straight garbage.

Scotland is tough, I found Northern Ireland to be easier than this when I managed there a few years ago. The player pool is not very deep, you either have players who are good enough to play in the Prem or players who would be lucky to be a backup in League 2. Not much middle ground like you see in England or Spain where some of that middling talent can be scooped up by lower sides(obviously Scotland is much smaller than those countries, but I need to complain). I'm banking on some loans going through to get this team where I want it.

Also, my board decided to listen to me and get an affiliate, so I've got Falkirk as a parent and will get to loan in players for free. It's a step in the right direction.

[BunnyHardaway]

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Finally got Forest back to the Champions League. Thankfully my last four matches were against West Ham/Fulham/Burnley/Southampton, and I was able to win all of them while I got a bit of luck in the form of both Arsenal and Liverpool dropping points late in the season.

Leicester won the Europa League and Liverpool beat Chelsea in the Champions League final, so we have six EPL teams representing next year.

[Kobalt]

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****ing PSG




Also my board sold my starting GK for some reason.

[Velocityy]

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First regular season as Truro City finished! We were projected as the 19th best team preseason...think we did pretty well.



Kinda don't want to go up through the playoffs, as I'm not sure we're anywhere near good enough talent wise to not go right back down. But, we shall see what happens. Maybe it would convince some of my better players to re-sign, because currently they have no interest (including my striker Louis Rooney who leads the league in goals, as you can see above).

My defense is horrific though, so that's a place to look at in the offseason, plus better wingers/depth...as I'm running a strange system this year.



EDIT

Welp

[Velocityy]

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Not only has my start been bad....but it's been the most frustrating start I've experienced. I've blown 3 games in late stoppage time (2 for draws, 1 for a loss). I've had halftime leads in most games and only won once (and that win was a 3 goal comeback late).

Almost no one was interested in joining my team in the offseason due to financial reasons. I'm struggling. My team isn't bad, but it sure isn't playing well.

ALSO: Has anyone been seeing this? I'm giving up an obscene amount of long shot crazy goals. It feels like almost every goal I give up is from outside the box between 3 defenders and just barely by my goalie. I'm in VNS, I feel like this shouldn't be happening.

[jasontoddwhitt]

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Yes, I'm still on FM18.

Yes, I've ended up with another Rangers save.

Yes, I'm in a title fight with Celtic.



Both of Celtic's losses are to me at Ibrox. I have a loss to Celtic at Celtic Park and then an inexplicable loss to St. Johnstone.

Update: F*** Hearts. Celtic drops their first game to Hibernian, but then I lose to Hearts and then lose at Celtic. Go into the final match and I blast Hibs 5-1. All I need is Hearts to get a draw or win. They lose 3-1, and hell, they score two goals for Celtic.

It's like they placed bets on who wins the league title.

[jvalverde88]

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Waiting for the inevitable 2nd half crash and burn

[Suntan Superman]

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After taking two weeks off of Football Manager to win a bet, I'm finally back, and it feels like it's a brand new game.

I did have that feeling when I loaded up my last save that I just had no idea where I was or what I was doing, so we're taking it a bit slow re-introducing myself to the squad.

EDIT: That didn't last long, on to a new save!

[jvalverde88]

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Good news: I didn't crash and burn.

Bad news: Ajax remembered they were ****ing Ajax.

[Kobalt]

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I have no idea how he's doing so good with these attributes.



PSG poached another high potential regen from me, seriously **** them.

[Kobalt]

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This is how you go from fighting for a European spot to relegation battle.



I don't know what to do

[cranes74us]

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Started a new save next to my Journeyman one , managing Maidenhead down in the Vanarama National league. Most of the teams are Pro while mine is Semi-Pro, how do I make my team Professional? Do I save up money or something?

[Zac]

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Started a new save next to my Journeyman one , managing Maidenhead down in the Vanarama National league. Most of the teams are Pro while mine is Semi-Pro, how do I make my team Professional? Do I save up money or something?

You first have to have the money. I can't remember if its 500K or 1M. I think this depends on the board maybe. Then the board has to agree to do it. There are a few factors if they will agree to this. Wages, fan support, the boards ambition, your determination and a few others I think. Also getting promoted to League 2 will auto turn you professional if they refuse to let you at that level.

[coach422001]

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here's a relative noob question

Is it possible to create a new team that is filled with entirely created players? I started to create my Camelot Dragons (which I think I last had on Fifa 04?), naming the stadium and picking the colors etc, but when I started to add created players I'm basically over writing players from the team I'm replacing and have had a heck of a time in editing skill attributes. Basically I'd like to be able to go to a drawing board, create the team, create the players and then just plop that into an existing low league/non-league structure replacing a club and go from there. Any help or pointing to a post that answers is appreciated.