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    Football Manager - My new assistant manager assessing my tactics. She decided I was being overwhelmed in midfield.

    February 25, 2019

    Football Manager - My new assistant manager assessing my tactics. She decided I was being overwhelmed in midfield.

    My new assistant manager assessing my tactics. She decided I was being overwhelmed in midfield.

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 02:01 PM PST

    My 30 Year old ex-captain when I try and seek him to a second division side

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 04:44 PM PST

    [FM18] First ever game after starting a new save, my U23 keeper decided he wanted to become a meme

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 01:39 AM PST

    When your star striker turns down an offer from PSG and stays with your midtable club

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 05:41 AM PST

    When you add your 1 star PA youth to the unwanted list

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 08:35 PM PST

    It's payday fellas

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 01:01 PM PST

    My transfer strategy to pull Rostock out of the relegation zone

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 06:07 AM PST

    Quite the schedule!

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 02:03 PM PST

    Dunkirk FC - 10 tier to EPL + No transfers Challenge (introduction + season 1)

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 09:38 AM PST

    Never shared my FM gameplay before so bear with me.

    First of all I'd like to write an introduction to why I play with no transfers and if you want to skip this part just start reading where my SEASON 1 DUNKIRK FC paragraph starts below. Also feel free to ask for screenshots that involve the season I'm presenting.

    I've been playing various football manager games for 2 decades now and I believe I've been through most if not all stages of it. When I was a kid I used to cheat. I used to add a new manager then buy my then tier 3-4 Huddersfield player for 50 million euros.

    I used to create an all star team in the World Cup with Ronaldo (the real one :D), Zidane, Carlos, Cafu, Totti, Beckham etc... all in one team. I've done LLM's zillion times (no cheating), I've picked top tier teams such as Barcelona, Bayern etc (haven't done that in a decade at least)...

    I've brought Ireland, Finland, Bosnia, Wales to have multiple starting slots in the CL, sold my best players to my own rivals in the nation just to make them better... but it all ends up the same.

    I end up winning the top league year after year, sometimes even without defeats and even draws and that's usually when I quit, I don't find pleasure in winning or cheating, I find pleasure in the journey... but the thing is, FM is built in such a way that eventually, whatever you do, you'll end up at the top and I want to find a way where I can play FM with having an uncertain end of the journey.

    No transfer challenge is one way I believe I'll eliminate that possibility of Dunkirk ever winning the EPL 10 times in a row. I know that eventually I'll win it once or twice, but it will be a hell of a battle. I want to experience the real struggles of IRL teams such as Everton, Leicester, Wolves etc. They can win it once in a lifetime, maybe twice... without tycoons meddling of course.

    That's my end goal with this save. I want to be ecstatic to even qualify for Europa League, let alone having a fraction of a chance of winning it all. So that's my intro to my familiarity with the game and what my goal is.

    One more thing, I play FM18 and there is a reason for it. I (almost) never buy a single player game until the final updated with no more DLC version comes out. I stopped buying new iterations of FM I believe 7-8 years ago simply because I want to play the fully updated game and not the buggy state it comes out in every year. I always buy the next FM sometimes in spring which is usually when the last update gets out.

    SEASON 1 DUNKIRK FC

    Criteria I used to pick a team was, 1. not have a silly name such as "Blaby and Wheatstone" or "Kimberly Miners Welfare", 2. not have a logo made in paint. Basically that's it. I chose Dunkirk FC because it seems like an ok name, a not amazing but not terrible logo either and I watched a movie of Dunkirk last year https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5013056/, so that's basically it.

    Never looked at the facilities since they're almost identical across the board, never looked at the players since they're all garbage anyways and near identical in all teams.

    Here are some screenshots I made just now, I created a new game to make screenshots of how the team looked like when I took over Dunkirk FC.

    Here are the players attributes if you'd like

    1. https://i.imgur.com/1jPhY1U.jpg

    2. https://i.imgur.com/tEXnqBJ.jpg

    3. https://i.imgur.com/Da592Df.jpg

    4. https://i.imgur.com/fVlQ47z.jpg

    5. https://i.imgur.com/ldCrKqR.jpg

    6. https://i.imgur.com/HAkPscF.jpg

    Since I'm already at my 5th season, I can't show you finances, facilities and other stuff what they looked like at the end of each season, all I can is to post the results. This will however be different once I start posting my "live action" and the future posts will be more personalized i.e. I'll be talking more in detail about my finances, outgoing transfers, injuries etc...

    Basically the board expectation was to finish at the top of the league and considering that the quality between the teams does not differ that greatly, that was bad news for me, since failing to do so could get me fired before I even started. I had only 6 playable players as well, which meant that if one got injured, I would be seriously handicapped. Pair that with my team having an amateur status, any player could get poached really easily and I could not get a new replacement.

    Also I was unsure of how to plan my journey. What should I focus on?

    The only way I can bring in new players would be to focus my youth facilities and recruitment, but that's a double edged sword, even triple edged if I may so. Basically if I get new players in, I can't train them properly due to having terrible training facilities. So even if I manage to improve both youth and training facilities there is one more thing, my team is an amateur team which means players do not have contracts and can leave whenever they please. So should I focus on facilities or should I focus on improving my status thus preventing whatever players I have from leaving then focusing on the youth?

    I was also unfamiliar with what I should expect of my financing? How am I going to make enough money to improve the facilities. What are the sponsors like, season tickets, tv rights etc. I had no clue. So I started playing basically blindfolded and went on with it, see how it goes.

    Well at start I got great news. While the season tickets in the first season were miserable, sold 15 for roughly 400ish per ticket IIRC, sponsors were terrible as well, got like 5k I believe, the FA CUP TV rights were amazing. Even from the very first game I got roguhly 80-90k for one single game which dwarfed all my other income. So my initial goal was to play as many games as possible in the FA CUP.

    I started not that great in the league though, had 3 defeats in my first 5 games. The board was already unsure of me. While I managed to draw my first game in FA CUP (+80-90k profit), which meant I had to play a rematch at my home ground (another 80+90k). I barely won the game on penalties which meant 1 more game in the FA CUP (another 80-90k). Sadly, Wivenhoe proved a better opponent and I was out. A 3-1 defeat.

    As you can see I did okayish in the league https://i.imgur.com/eOq95dI.png using my 4321, possesion-short pass tactic https://imgur.com/a/uSJnIfU. But I was unhappy and decided to meme my tactics to a 442 just for the heck of it and watch what happened https://i.imgur.com/kU10Lx2.png :O

    Finances Season 1 As you can see, most of my income was from the tv rights. The rest were negligible. The expenses were almost non-existent. Basically taxes, other costs, matchday costs. No salary since all of my players and staff were amateurs.

    Transfers Season 1 I had 2 Quislings abandoning me in 2 days, leaving me with 4 playable players :(. Basically playing as an amateur club, my players receive offers from other teams almost daily. I have to renegotiate with my own players giving them 0 euros every time they get an offer or they leave. Those 2 leaving made a huge dent in my team.

    Youth Intake Season 1 Basically the end of February is like a birthday to me. New fresh playable players meant more quality, more depth and more security. I can't show you them individually since I'm far gone from season one. I can show them to you when we come to my current season.

    To sum up my season 1:

    • Had massive income from FA Cup TV rights. Which made me enough money to upgrade 1 facility (cost was roughly 200k IIRC). Decided to upgrade youth facilities so I could have a greater depth next season. Training facilities won't matter for a while since I don't have good coaches nor will the current youth players be really good to train.

    • Had massive issues due to having only 6 playable players which 2 of them left in October :(. Made my life so much more difficult.

    • Ended up winning the league mainly due to switching to a meme 442 generic formation. Next season was going to be difficult, facing relegation battle according to the league odds.

    • First youth intake was a success. Honestly any youth intake was destined for a success since my available players were not that good. At this level most youth intake players are actually better than what you have. So imagine playing as Everton and getting each year a new Messi or a Buffon. This will exponentially decrease as I advance in the tier system. This will be impossible to maintain in higher divisions even with top tier youth facilities.

    Feel free to make suggestions, ask for screenshots etc...

    submitted by /u/fplbosnia
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    Regen Worship Is Out Of Control

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 11:34 AM PST

    How Football Manager influenced my life ... in a positive way

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 03:13 AM PST

    I always had a thing for football even though I was very bad in playing it. My passion really started to kick in, in 2014 with the World Cup and Fifa 14. I played hundreds and hundreds of hours in Fifa 15 in career mode and a couple years later I wanted to play something with more complexity. I started playing the EA Managers and then got Football Manager 2015. Even though I was very bad at the game, thanks to Internet tactics, I played a couple of hundred hours in FM 15. And then FM16 came out. I put more than 1000 hours into this game and hundreds of other hours into FM 17, 18 and 19.

    ​

    So how exactly did this excessive playing of a video game influenced my life in an extremely positive way?

    ​

    Even though it was my literal dream to work in a professional football club my situation with 18 years looked like this:

    I am pretty bad in actually playing the sports.

    I don't have a coaching licence.

    Therefore I don't have any experience aside from playing football when I was a toddler.

    ​

    By constantly thinking I could never work in a football club and therefore diminishing my hopes I started an apprenticeship with 18 years (In Germany we call that "Ausbildung") in a large shipping company. I was never interested in ships nor really interested in working for a ship company. I have to admit that it was a largely money based decision.

    So I did two stressing assessment centers and job interviews and got accepted by a company in which I was doing absolutely nothing for 9 hours besides some tasks that were extremely unchallenging.

    1 month into the Apprenticeship and I realized that it is pretty much a waste of my own life and time to do something I really don't want to do and at the same time bypassing an attempt of pursuing my dreams and goals.

    ​

    After 2 months I quit my apprenticeship and started a study called "Football Management" or Sport Management still dreaming about landing in the football business.

    4 months later, with only 19 years, I am working for my absolute dream team,FC St. Pauli, for the youth academy as a dual student until the end of my studies. I am surrounded by experts and ex-players from St. Pauli and I am in a constant touch with coaches and sometimes even players.

    ​

    As cheesy as it sounds but you should honestly at least try to reach your goals or dreams you have no matter how tiny the chances are in your opinion!

    I hope there is at least one person who found this story interesting. If so, I am very glad!

    submitted by /u/1910erFCSP
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    What’s worse here, the keeper or the attacker?

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 03:43 PM PST

    I've been waiting for this moment for years

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 06:14 PM PST

    Title run in and you go away to the bottom club in the league

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 04:20 AM PST

    Happens way too many times (especially when I bought him from Barca for 59M Ligue 1 defenders are brutal assholes)

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 03:16 AM PST

    When you play your youth team in the cup and premier league opposition batter you with a full strength side

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 04:22 AM PST

    Ambitious effort...

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 01:10 AM PST

    I've got this. No way they'll actually win by 7

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 06:19 PM PST

    Some things I've never been able to answer about gate receipts and loans... maybe you can?

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 07:18 PM PST

    Sup FM Reddit,

    I've clocked up about 5000 hours of FM overall since 2012, but some things have eluded me - despite my best efforts to see for myself, it has always been inconclusive.

    Firstly, do reserve team and youth team games give gate receipts? I've tried looking closely at my finances at the start of a month with youth/reserve games that got a couple hundred in attendance, and saw my gate receipt income for that month trickle up a fair bit. But then my seniors played and the number didn't change at all - so I reasoned the ticket sales had already been done in advance, or something. Either way, it seems practically impossible to tell. I would assume that they do.

    Second, do reserve players and loanees have their contractual bonuses - goal bonuses, clean sheets etc - applying in non first team games? Like, if my loanee striker has a £20k goal bonus, do I still pay that out when he scores? If the loaning club pays 100% of his wages, do they also fulfil his other bonuses? Or do they negotiate their own bonuses when he agrees to join them on loan? Equally, do youth/reserve players that bang in 5 goals in an U18s league game or U19s Champions League semi final get paid their goal bonuses if they have them?

    I've tried to really look closely at my finances but my seasonal income/expenditure is often over £800m and it's nigh impossible to pinpoint any one day/one event's incomes and outlays.

    Thanks in advance, if anyone does happen to know, or wants to offer speculation!

    Oh, and in case it has been changed/added, I'm on FM13, enjoying a successful Chelsea career in the year 2075.

    submitted by /u/DasGleiche
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    My first player to ever score a double hat trick :D

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 02:07 PM PST

    Wonder what he is filming in Crewe?

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 01:26 PM PST

    Yeah, thats defenitely an 18 year old..

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 06:23 PM PST

    What tactics do you use?

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 12:36 PM PST

    I'd be interested in hearing what kind of tactics others use. It's not that my tactics don't work I'm just interested. I recently started using a 3-2-3-2 with low tempo and short passing (aka possession football) and its early days in the season but pre-season was good and started with a win in the league. So what tactics do you use?

    submitted by /u/MiroNaukkarinen
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    Hope someone can help

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 04:39 PM PST

    ~Second time posting this,

    I want to know how the "Legends" system works.

    I am manager of Blyth Spartans, in the year 2033, now a regular in the Premier league. I took the club from vanarama national north, al the way to the prem, and i ofcourse am a club legend (for about 6 or 7 seasons now).

    Now the board agreed on the build of new stadium. Finally the plans are done and the name shows: "Robbie Dale Stadium." This is a player that played a total of 400 matches for Blyth which is a lot, but ALL in the national league north! So then why more then 10 years later after his (not very impressive) career. Does he get the stadium name?

    (Hope you can give me clarity, was it because he was first on the Legend list, or is there something else?)

    submitted by /u/IsenSam
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