***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[rsnomar05]

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It's totally normal that I want to buy a jersey with the name and number of my favorite FM regen right?

My guess is the second you get the shirt he'll request a transfer.

[ChubbyBanana]

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It's totally normal that I want to buy a jersey with the name and number of my favorite FM regen right?

How many goals has he scored in his career for you? I'm curious.

[Mo]

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How many goals has he scored in his career for you? I'm curious.

He has 290 Career Goals with me as his manager.

38 while being loaned out as a youngster.

41 International Goals as well.

[MindBeats]

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I'm in the 2nd year of my tenure with Racing de Santander. First year was a success as we finished 7th in the league, clinching a spot in the Europa League.
Highlights from last year included winning at the Mestalla and securing a draw with Valencia in the home fixture. We also took a point from Real Madrid in a 1-1 draw at a stadium but lost 2-1 at the Bernabue on a late goal from Kaka. My keeper ran out of the box to clear a through ball, but instead of waiting for the ball to get in the box to headed it back in play right to Kaka. We lost the games against Barcelona with a combined score of 11-2.

The new season has kicked off and we're sitting pretty in the 8th spot with 7 points out 12.

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We drew FC Bayern, Young Boys, and Sint-Truiden in the Europa League.

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EDIT: ... five league games later I am canned.

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What's your skin?

[ronaldo9]

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I'm managing Brazil and obviously have a team with skill; I've got them rolling and won the gold by beating Spain and then crushed France 4-0 in Paris. But I played Team GB twice in the Olympics and struggled (with a 4-3-3, and Neymar ran up against a wall in Phil Jones) to a 3-1 and 3-2 win (many set piece goals thanks to Thiago Silva), now I play England. England, first of all, is far better on this game than in real life, and doesn't sit back. The flat 4-4-2 is where I have problems with, and even in switching to my preferred 4-1-2-2-1 formation, against England I'm not really creating many chances, not really owning the midfield even though I have a 3 v 2 situation and having no luck having Ganso and Lucas Moura cutting inside and with Neymar running the channels. My passing is set to short, my tempo is medium and I want my fullbacks bombing forward when they can, yet for some reason my defenders and GK (Gomes...ayy) kept hoofing the ball down the wing, where my smaller guys had no chance at winning it.
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Any advice vs these dogged Three Lions? It pisses me off because, I hate them, and I should be eviscerating them - esp since they have Crouchie and Caroll up top, and aren't playing route 1 like they should be. I like to play shorter, quicker football, and I have Moura set to mark Ashley Cole, which kept him back and out of the attack, but kept Moura occupied and tired him out.
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Current team:
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GK- Gomes (I know...everyone else is hurt)
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RWB- Dani Alves (Attack)
BPD- Thiago Silva (Cover)
CD- David Luiz (Defend)
LWB- Marcelo (Attack)
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DM- Sandro (Defend...also, Sandro is a curious case; I like him, but he always is either uninterested or complacent)
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BWM- Ramires (Support)** CM- Lucas Leiva (Support)
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Right AM- Lucas Moura (Attack)*** Left AP- Ganso (Attack)
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P- Neymar (Attack)
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My bench consists of: Breno (the arsonist), Miranda, Maicon, Alex Sandro, Luiz Gustavo, Willian, Danilo (sick at the moment), Robinho, Hulk, Leandro Damaio (who might be useful as a TF)
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I've beaten Spain, Italy (twice), Portugal and others with no problems, but have a tough time vs England. I might try my 3 at the back to solve the problem and just cram everyone into midfield.
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England's strength is the flanks - currently they have Cole and Young on the left, Lennon or Walcott on the right, and I want to try to push their attack to the middle as much as I can

[Rexis]

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What's your skin?

Fahrenheit

[MindBeats]

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Fahrenheit

Thank you

10char

[Altimus]

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Just had my worse loss ever as Real coach and it came in the CL. Probably my worse CL loss ever of any team. A 5-1 loss to Shaktar in the first leg. Di Maria who I sold to them destroyed me for 2 goals and 2 assists. Second leg I came back and won the game 5-2 but obviously wasn't enough. Total fail .

[theaub]

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So many injuries

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Also its 2049, Wimbledon is set in the PL and Toronto FC plays in an 80,000 seat stadium. Good times.

[Kobalt]

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Just spent the highest transfer fee on a player, got this Striker for 28M.

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Update on this guy, I've been playing this save lately and the striker is amazing.
He has 13 goals in 9 games so far in Bundesliga, has 23 goals in 13 games total.

[rsnomar05]

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So many injuries

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Also its 2049, Wimbledon is set in the PL and Toronto FC plays in an 80,000 seat stadium. Good times.

Down to 8 men. Ouch. I'm guessing you let in a few goals in those final 7 minutes.

Did you think about running two AMC's instead of MR/L to avoid players being out of position?

[jb12780]

Started a few save using weegee's summer update. Splashed 28 million on Fellani.

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[HKPound]

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Just started a game with Madrid. Benzema and Higuain are doing amazing but Ronaldo hasnt done anything. Any ideas on what to do to get him going?

[Altimus]

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Just started a game with Madrid. Benzema and Higuain are doing amazing but Ronaldo hasnt done anything. Any ideas on what to do to get him going?

He seemed to do best for me when I played him IF and attack out on the wing.

[HKPound]

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Thanks. I've so many chances but just horrible misses by each of them lately. It's pretty frustrating.