delboy Posted February 20, 2012 Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 didnt play much over the weekend and was a bit squiffy when playing sat night due to vodka consumption but I do remember beating Barcelona 4-0 at home in the first leg of the champions league semi final! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted February 20, 2012 Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 I havent played much for the past week or so but picked it back up last night, walking the SPL this year with my new German striker beating all scoring records in the mickey mouse league, but got completely humped by Barca in the champs league 2-2 at home with them having 34 shots on my goal and then 2-1 to them away with them having a similar number of shots again, one of those games if you were playing as Barca you would have no hair left by the end, got humped but always looked dangerous. New plan has been formed, no longer will i just have players i know will do well enough in the SPL, its time to build a team of superstars who will walk the SPL without thinking and hopefully take me home a champs league trophey.Some strange managerial appointments cropping up tho. Rooney was just sacked as Chelsea manager to be replaced by Paul Lambert who Killie sacked last season, Bilic left table topping Westham for United. Leighton Baines is Arsenal manager and Rio is Westham manager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted February 20, 2012 Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 Do people begin dying as you go through the years? Also, some chump in my backroom staff keeps going on about match preparation before every match. I normally have a look at it and choose the workload and focus on a strategy, but he still keeps cropping up to say he's worried about our lack of match preparation. I might sack him. How long does it normally take for a team to get good at new formations? Does this just come by using them in matches? People keep telling me to use 442, but I'm like: "This isn't the 90s. I am a visionary. We will play 4-2-2-1-1." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted February 20, 2012 Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 No one dies in FM, they just retire and the human manager gets to 100 years old then stops ageing.Have you got three formations set up in the MP? If not he will keep coming back, also if you keep changing your formation or roles it will reduce your tactical familiarity a bit.If your using a new formation i would suggest setting MP to team blend and put it up to full until your team has properly learned the new formation. Mines is set permanently to defensive positioning because my strikers are so good i dont need to worry about that side of things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted February 20, 2012 Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 Yeah, 3 formations set up and ready to go (4-2-3-1 (generic formation), 4-2-3-1 deep (for superior opponents) and 4-5-1 (for lesser opponents)). I bloody hate playing two strikers, which makes me wonder why I bought 2 of them and now have 5 senior strikers... I’ll try the team blend thing you said though. I do tend to change individual roles in the same formation in almost every game depending on the opposition and the players I put out. I like to rotate the squad quite a bit to keep a’body fresh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted February 20, 2012 Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 A decent young right back for free/cheap/loan? I have £300k... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted February 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 Sell one of your 5 strikers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted February 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 Also look at your coaches, if they are telling you to play 4-4-2. They might specialise in training 4-4-2, so your team may never be fully comfortable playing 4-2-3-1/4-5-1 as a result, unless you ship them out and bring in staff who specialise in 1 up top.I second Miner's suggestion. I said it to Team Work every time until it's near full, and set the work rate to high. With the right coaches, and rotating the focus of the prepartion (though mostly opting for Teamwork) I'd say it takes about one season for the familiarity bar to get to full Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted February 20, 2012 Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 bloody hell I only went and won the Premier League, hit a good run of form at the end of the season and pipped Liverpool to the title last game of the season. Barcelona gave me some nervy moments in the 2nd leg of the champions league semi final, I lost 5-2 to go through 6-5 on aggregate. At 5-1 down with 10 mins to go I really thought they were going to get the 6th they needed to progress. Lost the final to Real Madrid. So taking a break from that game as need a new challenge.I took advantage of being able to add and remove leagues and once I got Cambridge promoted, I saved the game with loads of European top flight leagues. Quit Cambridge, went to the Bahamas indefinitely stuck it on apply for any jobs and waited for the phone to ring... after a couple of months Borussia Monchengladbach came calling so took the job. Lots of work to be done, no money to spend on players as had to use my 5 million transfer budget to help reduce the wage bill. Six games into the season and 7th in the league so a decent enough start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOX Posted February 21, 2012 Report Share Posted February 21, 2012 I've won the Premier League 7 times on the trot now, still not boring - in all honesty I'm playing that game to see how the youth develop into first-team players. Will probably try quitting from Chelsea in a new save and just apply for everything and see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted February 21, 2012 Report Share Posted February 21, 2012 I've won the Premier League 7 times on the trot now, still not boring - in all honesty I'm playing that game to see how the youth develop into first-team players. Will probably try quitting from Chelsea in a new save and just apply for everything and see.Do you mean Roberto Di Matteo has won the Premier League seven times on the trot now? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOX Posted February 21, 2012 Report Share Posted February 21, 2012 Do you mean Roberto Di Matteo has won the Premier League seven times on the trot now? ...................yes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 After a few games in Germany I thought fuck it, it would be more fun to quit whilst boss of Premier League Champions Cambridge, add a load of European league and try my luck in the murky waters of continental football as a self-made world class manager who started out in the BSP with only the experience of playing Sunday football. I duly quit whilst ahead and waited for the offers to flood in whilst I tanned myself in my remote hideaway in the Bahamas. Cliff Richard and Cilla Black are friends and neighbours you know. Loaded up the top leagues from France, Belgium, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Scotland, Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Germany and Holland. Turned me back on mother England, it has served it's purpose.I waited in anticipation for the phone to ring (yes I do take my football manager way too seriously I know) and the first offer came from a small club in Portugal... P Ferreira. To put things in context just before I left Cambridge I was offered a new contract on 45k a week, P Ferreira were offering me 3.6k a week but hey a chance to expand my football knowledge. If its good enough for Steve McClaren its good enough for me! Playing in an all seated stadium that holds less than 5,000!Transfer budget not bad 1.5 million. Media prediction is 14th so expected to battle against relegation. Great a good challenge. 7 games into the season won 5 drawn 1 lost 1 and just beaten the mighty Sporting Lisbon away when 9/1 outsiders... this is gonna be fun I think! Portugal are one of the few leagues to have a league cup and top six can qualify for europe so objective first season is to avoid relegation and qualify for europe... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltz Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 By the by: TORNADOI got a player called Tornado as well. He's amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 Finally finished season 2 as Arsenal. Glorious season spearheaded by my disgusting front 3 Hulk RVP Neymar. Won a cup treble Lager cup, FA and Champions league. Champions league was done the hard way as well Barca in the quarters, Real in the semis and Bayern in the final.Still can't win the fucking league though, manyoo won it at a stroll only conceded like 15 goals. The Sir Alex retires and I'm getting touted for his job. Wont be taking it mind but it's nice being mentioned. My board are still only "satisfied" with my performance somehow. Must need more than a cup treble to please Stan. Sigh, I feel like Wenger. Thankless job this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted February 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 I haven't started the second season in Bundesliga 2 with Wehen Weisbaden yet. I keep putting it off because I know it's going to be a struggle, and there's been loads of European football on the telly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrr Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 I've pied my Palace game. Got into the Premier League via a 2nd-place finish (Pompey bossed the league and were champions by 12 points), but that's when shit started going south. City, United and Arsenal had all been buzzing around my young guns (Zaha, Scannell and Clyne) who all took massive strops when I rejected their derisory offers. I had little choice but to let them go, and, as the whole point of the game was to develop them into top players at Palace, I decided to give-up. So I've started yet another bloody game. This one will hopefully be a keeper. My choice:-Juve Stabia are back in Serie B after a sixty year absence and have acquitted themselves quite well. In real-life they're 13th despite a deduction of four points for failing to make tax payments (they're basically Rangers Lite without the cunts, I guess). They play in a small (12k) but awesome little ground:-Loads of terracing and an all-weather pitch. Quality. The best bit, however, has got to be this:-Two bloody apartment blocks with perfect views of the pitch. Absolutely fantastic. I'm going to buy a couple of top-floor apartments for my digital family, and one for myself so that I can step out onto my 1'x2' balcony every morning and gaze upon my kingdom. Mmmm, smell that fresh plastic turf-tinged morning air.More things that are cool about Juve Stabia include the kit:-And the location:-How amazing does that look? Stabia is located in the Bay of Naples, and that's Mount Vesuvius in the background. The commune's population is 65k, so it's not a huge football market, but my team will be world-beaters, dammit. More later when I decide what I want to do with this team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 I'm just in the home straight of an absolutely dire 5th season with Arsenal, I was knocked out of both cups in the first round, got pumped from the lager cup by Crystal Palace, the FA cup by Bolton, and went out of the Champions League againt Real at the first knockout stage, dsepite a spirited 3-1 fightback at the Bernabau having got battered 4-0 at home in the first leg. I was 3rd in the league, 12 points behind Man City at the halfway point, though remarkably now the useless cunts that I call a squad have finally hit some form after I made wholesale changes to my formation and style of play, and after dishing out 6-0, 5-0 and 7-0 hidings in the space of a month, and a dip in form by Man City, I've clawed it back to 2 points with 10 games to play (they have 9 to play). Nail biting climax to the season, though I've just lost RVP for 2 months due to injury, and he's the only one of my strikers to hit double figures so far so I might be fucked. Eduardo flatters to deceive, he'll hit a hat-trick in one game then not score for the next 7 games, and Wellington Silva is very up and down as well.Fraser Fyvie bosses my midfield alongside Fabregas. Take that Premiership. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrr Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 Here's the skinny on my new team, Juve Stabia:-Not exactly flushed with money, but better than I expected. The club currently have 12 players on-loan (12!), but most of them aren't particularly good. I'm gonna punt most of them back to their parent clubs and bring some free agents in.Media prediction: 19th, reputation: regional. I guess we're a bit like Peterborough. Looking through the squad, it's pretty poor. I usually play a fast-breaking, counter-attack style with a high-line and quick interchanges between the front four but I'm going to have to mix it up a bit with Stabia. We probably have the worst team in the league. I'm not going to resort to Pulis tactics, but something's gotta change. I'm going to try and get everyone packed as tightly as possible and build slowly from the back. The opponents can't score if they don't have the ball, right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOX Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 Looking at Murrr's posts is like watching a documentary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrr Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 Looking at Murrr's posts is like watching a documentary.I like pictures and stories and I take Football Manager wayyyyy too seriously. Just wait until I start filming myself acting out my managerial career and positing it on Youtube.Anywho... another bloody Stabia post and I've not even started the league season yet. Done a thorough examination of the squad. It's full of good-ish squad players but no outstanding individuals whatsoever. With only a couple of grand in wages to play with I had to get rid of some bodies, so I released a bunch of lads from the reserves/youth team that I didn't really fancy and terminated 8 of my 12 loanees. Two of them were on £6k p/w. £6k! This isn't Monte Carlo you twat, get lost.Spent my entire first turn wheeling and dealing and brought in a shedload of players:-11 players in. The familiar names are probably Carney, Corradi and Degen who've all played in Britain recently. Here's my team:-8 new signings in the starting XI. Badass. The idea behind the tactic is to keep tight and compressed to retain possession and make us tough to break down at the same time. Short passes, no hoofs, playing the ball out of defence, lots of backwards/sideways passes and LITRES of patience. We're gonna win 1-0 every week and there's nothing you can do to stop us. The midfielders and wing-backs are key and most of our play will go through them, especially Baronio who'll be the side's metronome. Corradi will hold onto the ball up top while Scorsza and Tarantino buzz around and drift into space. It might be a tad demanding for these players but sod it. They're totally unfamiliar with the formation (and each other), but I'm a purist, dammit. I don't plan on changing things against the bigger clubs either: we're gonna force our style on you, not the other way around.More later if I can be arsed nerding it up again. Forza Stabia. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOX Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 Oh this is so entertaining! I would do the same thing if I wasn't so shit at the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltz Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 Ah, Murrr, you've got me wanting a proper FM project now, but I always get so angry after zero time with any team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrr Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 Just signed ex-Don Karim Touzani. The league is over. Ferne Snoyl turned me down though, the twat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOX Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 Might I ask how you find your free agents? Coming up completely blank on my new Darlington save, haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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