***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[doyce7]

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So there I am, minding my own business after a wildly successful first season at Wrexham when my boss Ryan looks over at me and says "hey wouldn't it be funny if I sold the club to a tycoon?"

Before I could protest that I took this job specifically to work for him, he follows with "cause I sold the club to an American tycoon."

Dumbfounded, absolutely dumbfounded. My first ever natural tycoon takeover and it happens on the save where I literally chose the team based on the owners. Now I really get to play on easy mode. The guy pumped $30 mil into the club on day 1. He also agreed to immediately upgrade the facilities, both main and youth, and increase youth coaching budget. Also agreed to give me a new 3 year contract. Lucky me I guess. I'm about to be a League 2 club with a $20 mil balance.

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[doyce7]

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So there I am, minding my own business after a wildly successful first season at Wrexham when my boss Ryan looks over at me and says "hey wouldn't it be funny if I sold the club to a tycoon?"

Before I could protest that I took this job specifically to work for him, he follows with "cause I sold the club to an American tycoon."

Dumbfounded, absolutely dumbfounded. My first ever natural tycoon takeover and it happens on the save where I literally chose the team based on the owners. Now I really get to play on easy mode. The guy pumped $30 mil into the club on day 1. He also agreed to immediately upgrade the facilities, both main and youth, and increase youth coaching budget. Also agreed to give me a new 3 year contract. Lucky me I guess. I'm about to be a League 2 club with a $20 mil balance.

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Well I may as well provide an update. Wasn't actually given much money to spend in League 2, I mean more than anyone else in the league but Wrexham was already spending like a League 2 team in the National League. Think I was given around £200k and a wage of £78k per week. I still did my usual free transfers and loans. Upgraded all the facilities and youth stuff. Facilities are now at state of the art/excellent for training, exceptional/good for youth coaching and recruitment.

Still in the second season but confirmed promotion on March 8th and lead the league by 14 with 8 games to go. Still £20 mil in the bank. Honestly if you take away investments and spending on upgrades, the club is running at a small profit. New budgets for League 1 are £9.9M and £236K. Probably won't get close to either of those, I don't usually start spending money or bringing in players with an eye for more than 1 year until I get to the Championship.

Been a really fun save so far. Look forward to catching up with and passing the other Welsh clubs and might even turn this into a club and country save and try to win the World cup with Wales and will win at least 1 Champions League with Wrexham.

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[Krebstar]

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After never getting far into a save in 21 without leaving it after rushing into it, I'm really enjoying going nice and slow so far in 22. Started with Arsenal, as its traditional for me to try and clean up that mess, and I know the players, etc.

Finally worked my way up to the first of seven preseason matches I've scheduled and called it good for the night. I'll go and review the match in detail tomorrow and play around with some scouting and tactical adjustments, but I'm enjoying the slow pace I've set for myself so far. It could be several real-time weeks before I get to the regular season at this rate, and I'm quite alright with it.

Anyone else play at a rather slow pace?

[Matty Aqua]

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After never getting far into a save in 21 without leaving it after rushing into it, I'm really enjoying going nice and slow so far in 22. Started with Arsenal, as its traditional for me to try and clean up that mess, and I know the players, etc.

Finally worked my way up to the first of seven preseason matches I've scheduled and called it good for the night. I'll go and review the match in detail tomorrow and play around with some scouting and tactical adjustments, but I'm enjoying the slow pace I've set for myself so far. It could be several real-time weeks before I get to the regular season at this rate, and I'm quite alright with it.

Anyone else play at a rather slow pace?

maybe not that slow!, but I don't rush anymore

[Krebstar]

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maybe not that slow!, but I don't rush anymore

Haha, I might have been exaggerating, especially now that I'm actually in preseason games and not playing around with staff, training, etc. But playing on comprehensive highlights and looking at deeper stats during halftime definitely made one friendly take fairly long.

[Matty Aqua]

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what stats do pay most attention too at half time?

[Krebstar]

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what stats do pay most attention too at half time?

As I'm trying to 'impose my tactically philosophy' or whatever silly way we want to look at it, I've just been checking to see if play is occurring how I want it to. Pass combinations, where players are receiving passes, who has the most passes overall, average positions, dribbling movement, etc.

So, really, I'm more looking at 'analytics' and not just stats.

But that's mostly due to me want to really get a tactic working before my opening league fixtures against Liverpool and Man United hahaha.

But even watching comprehensive highlights, it's nice to check those analytics (to me, at least) and be like whoa, why is Tomiyasu dribbling so damn much? (I didn't see it often in the highlights) Better go tell him cut it out and move the ball on instead.

Another good example is in my first game I had Lacazette as my striker and I got feedback that he wasn't having a good game. Well, when I looked at the pass map (after the match) I saw he was basically entirely isolated and was not receiving passes at all. Immediately made me realize I better change how that position is playing, etc.

[Gosens6]

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Major update released this morning..
Changelist 22.2 (including, but not limited to):

Stability and Technical:
- Stability and crash fixes
- Optimisation improvements
- Fix for Macs launching game without correct zoom display settings
- Sound ‘Test’ button fixed within Preferences

Match Engine 22.3.0.0:
- Near post corners made less effective
- Various fixes in different areas to defending teams keeping possession too well and inflating possession stats to unrealistic levels
- Fixed goalkeepers not being marked during attacking set pieces
- Tweaks to throw-ins
- Number of other improvements to overall engine balance

Gameplay:
- Tweaks to the rate of young player development
- Tweaks to the rate of older player decline
- Tweaks to newgen staff generation at game start
- Improved distribution of newgens in inactive nations
- Player knowledge to remain for a longer period of time once player trial finishes
- Logic work to stop players complaining about lack of playing time despite starting nearly every game
- Deadline day experience added for top division in Norway and Denmark
- Improvements to loan demands and negotiations
- Improved logic distribution of preferred formations for AI managers
- More realistic job security pressure for newly appointed international managers
- Fix to board illogically becoming concerned about playing time of new signing
- News item no longer incorrectly states player wants to join club because they’re a bigger club when they’re not a bigger club
- Squad registration fixes
- Fixed issue in Argentina, Romania and Denmark where Club Vision wasn’t being recorded correctly
- Manager morale no longer incorrectly displayed as abysmal
- Positive reaction from an interaction now always shown correctly
- Fantasy Draft improvements to initial budget options, how continue waiting is displayed and auto pick
- Number of other improvements and fixes

Competitions and Rulegroups*:
- Croatian Second Division number of matches correct from 2022/23 onwards
- Fix for Turkish Newgens now appearing as HG players for registrations
- Using auto select no longer incorrectly counts as new registration changes in China
- Canadian team qualification added for 2024+ NACL
- Canadian team qualification added for NAL
- MLS DP and YDP rules now assigned correctly
- Number of other fixes, updated rules and scheduling changes across numerous nations/leagues

Art & Animation:
- Fixed multiple issues with players sliding/teleporting during animations in the 3D Match Engine
- Fixed player names not always appearing in the 2D Match Engine
- Multiple kit clashing issues fixed
- Multiple 3D background environment fixes, including team boardrooms and kits/badges
- Improvements to how hairstyles and eyebrows are chosen for newgens

UIUX:
- Fixed issue where action buttons on Scouting Meeting Inbox items would overlap or be cut off on some resolutions
- Fixed issue where scrolling the Player Search list with keyboard arrow buttons would cause the highlighted item to reset to the top of the list.
- Fixed issue where dugout notifications regarding substitutions were not showing player shirts
- Fixed issue that caused the player transfer values to be difficult to read on some screens
- Fixed issue in Data Hub where analysis pop-ups would close unexpectedly when highlighting certain items
- Fixed issue in Set Piece creator where the instruction marker would obscure the player position
- Fixed issue in Staff Search where the Realistic Hire checkboxes would sometimes not function
- Fixed issue where resizing a custom column containing a player's transfer value could make the value unreadable.
- Fixed issue where training individual panel would reset to the top of the list after selecting a player
- Fixed issue where team stats view on touchline tablet would reset between matches
- Added a counter to show remaining entries in a scouting update
- Resolved errors in displaying numerical units in Korean currency
- Opposition shirt icons now appear consistently after a substitution
- Cut off on Club Info > Profile now has a scrollbar
- Loan Match Report now shows the Monthly Fee instead of ‘valued at £0’
- Morale icon no longer showing for non-players
- Number of other improvements and fixes

Pre Game Editor
- Start dates now appearing for basic rules files made with Pre-Game Editor
- Unassigned created players now appearing in edited databases
- Fixed ability to add lower division cups and divisions in certain nations
- Number of other editor specific improvements and fixes

*For competition specific changes to take effect a new game may be required.

[JHedges2]

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Major update released this morning..
Changelist 22.2 (including, but not limited to):

Saw this. All sounds fantastic. Man I love this game so much lol.

It literally kills my interest to play any other games.


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[Gosens6]

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Saw this. All sounds fantastic. Man I love this game so much lol.

It literally kills my interest to play any other games.


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Same! Haven't touched FIFA since FM dropped

[JHedges2]

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I know a few of you liked the Tad skin.

Y’all need to scope out the Tato skin, based on Tad Twenty and Tato21 skins! On FM Scout

Love it.


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[Matty Aqua]

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I've recently switched over to using a skin instead of the default! - Using the Rensie skin is nice!

[Matty Aqua]

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Writing a little blog on my Everton side save which has consumed me last few days!

Andre Gomes curling this one home!



Take a bow lad!!

[nukapop92]

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I was able to go on a spending spree by getting Gareth Bale and David Silva to further bolster my team. I am primarily looking for Spanish talent and build a good Spanish Barca side.

[jb12780]

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Ended up finishing 3rd with Arsenal, even after the worst December I can remember. However, my winter transfer window was the difference maker. After that awful slide I won 10 matches in a row.