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    Football Manager - Weekly Help Thread - Ask your help requests here | Week Commencing 22/03/2019

    March 22, 2019

    Football Manager - Weekly Help Thread - Ask your help requests here | Week Commencing 22/03/2019

    Weekly Help Thread - Ask your help requests here | Week Commencing 22/03/2019

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 10:12 AM PDT

    Please use this thread as a place to ask questions that are specific to your save, such as:

    • "Why is my tactic not working?"

    • "What role should I play this player in?"

    • "I have £xxm to spend, who should I buy?"

    If you are asking for tactical help/advice, please post an image of your formation and what insutructions/roles you have set.

    As a rule of thumb, if you ask a question, answer a question. This is what keeps this thread alive and useful.

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    When you lose to your title rivals because of a 95th minute penalty but you're a save scummer

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 09:27 AM PDT

    Procrastinating

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 03:25 PM PDT

    When you find a player who has the same first name as you and the scout report hits home

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 06:52 AM PDT

    When it's 1942 and you're trying to be a lowkey undercover agent

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 03:11 AM PDT

    My star regen pulling a Maradona in the 93rd minute of the 2022 World Cup Final against France

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 04:54 AM PDT

    Decided to give a 16 year old hot prospect a few games at the start of the season and...

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 12:37 PM PDT

    Mark's right, that doesn't sound like the best match preparation.

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 01:38 PM PDT

    Crouchy's has done himself proud there

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 10:06 AM PDT

    Benfica's youth academy is insane...

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 10:27 AM PDT

    Such a long and fruitful career. Wait what?

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 09:02 PM PDT

    As someone who never wins anything. My Greatest season in 10 years of FM

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 10:40 AM PDT

    I've never had more stress during a playoff semifinal in my life.

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 06:47 PM PDT

    Hard to imagine a worse way to lose your third CL final in a row

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 10:41 AM PDT

    FM19 YouTube Journeyman Save - Started with no club, coaching badges, experience, or reputation, and I'm working my way up to the top!

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 06:31 AM PDT

    Hi!

    Since the release of FM19, I have been doing a "Starting from the bottom" Journeyman on Youtube, where we began with no club, no reputation, no coaching badges, and no footballing experience, essentially the very lowest that you can begin. From there we try to work our way up to the big time.

    Videos go up every day at 5:30pm, with 2 games in each. I show every league game, preferring a slower, more personal journey as opposed to blitzing through season after season.

    If you are interested in giving a look from the beginning, a link is here. Any feedback would be hugely appreciated

    If you want to start from a more recent episode, but want to be caught up with what has happened so far, read on, although there will be spoilers.

    We started our career at Berwick in the Scottish Fourth Tier, managing to find a job relatively quickly. The results, its fair to say, were underwhelming, and we struggled to get anything to click. 15 games in and with only one win to our name, we were sacked, and its safe to say our managerial career had gotten off to a poor start.

    With things looking grim, we took a job at Swedish 4th Tier outfit Torslanda IK, which had the expectations of finishing 9th, just outside of the relegation zone. Expectations were blown out of the water, and midway through the season we found ourselves battling for the top spot, with star striker Anton Salihu scoring for fun, and when the mid season transfer window rolled around, we added the leagues top goalscorer Marcus Kettler to our lineup, and the 2 formed a wonderful partnership finshing on 24 goals each in a 26 game season, and took us all the way to the top of the table, clinching the title on the final day of the season in an incredibly close fashion.

    This earned us promotion to the Swedish third tier, and once again we performed excellently. Despite struggling to have a consistant goalscorer throughout the season, and the expectation to have a relegation battle, a strong squad performance saw us battling towards the top half of the table, occasionally vying for playoff spots, and ultimately finishing 6th, massively overperforming once more.

    At this point I had grown very fond of Torslanda, and so had the fans, after watching both us and a manager, and the team, defy all odds and achieve success, which is why the decision to leave was a very difficult one to make. 2 major issues caused this decision to be made. Firstly, the club lacked the funding to let us study for our next coaching badge, and secondly, although the club had came a long way, its reputation had not followed, and finding players who could elevate us to the next level was borderline impossible.

    With this in mind, we left Sweden, and took a job at Osasuna B, who were struggling in the 3rd tier of spain. Despite some wonderful performances and some titanic wins, we were unable to cement our place in the league, and following confirmation of the clubs relegation, we were released from our role as manager. Leaving Torslanda was beginning to look like a mistake.

    Finding a new job proved extremely difficult, with every opportunity either being too much of a step down, or too much of a step up to actually secure the role. This was until we found Finnish 2nd tier side Jaro FF, who were tipped to finish in the playoff places, however found themselves 6th in a 10 team league. With the promise to guide the board to a top half finish, we landed the job during a transfer window. A thin squad and poor scouting setup led to me tapping into my previous knowledge, and bringing in some of our old Torslanda players to help us in the battle, which resulted in a successful top half finish, allowing us to remain manager.

    During our second season with Jaro, we regularly found ourselves in the upper spots in the league, and regularly in the top spot! Come the end of the season, we found ourselves top of the table, and secured the title with 3 games remaining, dominating the competition, and winning promotion to the top tier of Finnish football, the Finnish Premier League, resulting in our first opportunity at managing in a top division.

    Despite an extremely promising pre season and some good players joining the side, its fair to say The Finnish Premier League proved to be quite a step up. We spent most of the season struggling to pick up anything, highlighted by a 13 game streak between our first and second victories. A late transfer window before the final third of the season gave us a good opportunity to turn things around, and, thanks to a system change to incorporate wingers, Including Sherwin Seedorf, a distant relative of Clarence, we were able to string together enough results to finish 11th, one place off of the bottom, and end up in the relegation playoffs

    This is the biggest set of games of our managerial career so far, and it's fair to say that the stress levels were running extremely high. A defeat could result in a relegation, a sacking, and a huge hit to our reputation, knocking us back years in terms of our progress. So much riding on a 2 legged relegation playoff tie.

    The game could not have been closer. The first leg was a relatively standard affair, with us coming out ahead 2-1. Things were looking good as we headed towards our home fixture. Things got off to a sensational start, and within 40 minutes we were 4-0 up. Then, disaster. Just before half time, defensive midfielder Alex Mcdonald picked up a red card, leaving us with 10 men. They quickly bagged a goal thanks to a catastrophic error from our young goalkeeper, and the bad luck continued as we miss a penalty, our main penalty taker having been substituted to allow for another defensive midfielder following the red card. They manage to secure not one, not two, but three more goals in quick succession, and the aggregate score now saw us leading 6-5. Seconds remain in the game, and they find a break. Sprinting at our keeper and leaving defenders in the dust, the opposition striker hits the ball... and it flies wide, seeing us pick up a win in the most dramatic of circumstances

    We had done it. We had stayed up. Despite throwing away a 4-0 lead to tie the second leg 4-4, we went through on a 6-5 aggregate and remained in the Finnish Premier League to fight for another season

    A few changes were made to the squad, and after the worlds longest pre season, we got underway, getting off to a much better start and sitting around the mid table positions, desptie the fact that our strikers were struggling to score, we were boasting one of the best defensive records in the league, a huge turnaround from last season, and therefore we found some success.

    This was the general tone for most of the season so far. A very solid defence, but no clear goalscorer, although Sherwin Seedorf has started to come into it lately, we are still lacking much end product at all from our strikers.

    This caused a late transfer to be made in the mid season window. The options weren't great, but I felt that if we couldn't get a consistant goalscorer, I wanted a target man who could facilitate our wingers and provide some good hold up play, and provide a bit of a plan B in games where we lacked physicality.

    Ultimately, we finished the season in 8th, and although it was not spectacular, it was a vast improvement to the previous season, and overall Jaro were now a competent side, with a good set of young players and some experience mixed in, which should be stable for the foreseeable future.

    It was at this point we had a decision to make. Do we remain at Jaro, where we have had an incredible story so far, or do we look for a move, and maybe land ourselves a job at a better club? I looked at the available options and saw where we could potentially move, and made the difficult decision to move on, as we looked for a new start somewhere else.

    A lot of applications were sent out and we had a lot of interviews, taking us all the way to late January, before we eventually found our move. We found ourselves travelling to France, to take over struggling Ligue 2 side, Troyes!

    This felt like quite the step up, and the squad was packed with talent, both young and old, and seemed like it should not be in the position it was - down in 18th - in the slightest. With our mission to avoid a relegation battle firmly in our sights, we began our new challenge.

    It's fair to say we were not given a nice honey moon period to adjust, with all of our first 5 games being against teams in the top 10. Walking away from the initial run of fixtures with 4 points from 15 felt like far more of an accomplishment than it should, especially considering one of our defeats was a 6-2 Thumping at the hand of Reims. I was still confident that things would turn around once this run was out of the way, and it turns out I was right.

    Results soon came in thick and fast, and we managed to climb out of the relegation zone, and from there we were able to keep climbing upwards, securing safety with 2 games of the season remaining, and finishing in 14th, as well as securing our next season at the club!

    In the transfer window, we were able to bring in some very good signings, including Dorian Marietti, a young attacking midfielder who looked like a fantastic purchase, despite the fact that we already had a top class young attacking midfielder, Gregory Burger.

    Due to injuries, we began the season playing both of these players in a narrow 4-3-3 formation, and it worked fantastically, picking up 9 points from our first 3 games. From there, things went a little bit south, as our wingers returned and we moved back to a more standard 4-3-3, we picked up two draws and a defeat in our next 3 matches. Realising that this obviously just wasn't working, we went back to the initial system which was working excellently, and went back to winning ways. 2 Wins in 2 games later, and I think I have just experienced a prime example of "If it isn't broke, don't fix it".

    From here, things continued to go very well, not only in the league, where we still sit on top of the table, but also in the cup. After beating a lot of teams in lower divisions, we find ourselves in the 10th round, drawn agains Toulouse, by far the biggest team we have played so far in our managerial career.

    Unfortunately, despite a very tight game, we ended up falling to Toulouse in the cup, although not before Thomas Eriksson, our former player at Jaro, bagged an excellent goal for himself. From here we took a bit of a wobble in the league, with form taking a turn for the worse

    Despite being top of the table, we were dropping points in almost every game, and things didn't look secure. Fortunately, Nancy, the team right behind us, also hit a poor patch, which allowed us Secure promotion with 3 games remaining in the league. We would be playing the next season in a top 5 league, the Ligue 1.

    With one game remaining we managed to secure the title, and managed to end on a high note winning our last two games. Not only would we be promoted to the French top tier, but we would do so as champions, after taking over when the team were in the relegation zone less than 18 months earlier. This is by far the biggest achievement of the series, and is an excellent way to reach a new height in our managerial career!

    It's safe to say that the step up would not be easy. Season predictions had us finishing dead last, and unfortunatley we were unable to retain Gregory Burger, who was our player of the season, who left on a free transfer and ended up at Hamburg in the Bundesliga. It wasn't all bad, however, and we managed to bring in a lot of good players to add both strength and depth to our side, despit having a limited budget to work with.

    Safe to say that we didn't get off to an easy start, having Marseille, St Etienne and PSG as our first 3 games, however we looked strong in all 3 matches, and managed to pick up 3 points from St Etienne, which was a massive result. From here things only continued to get better, and despite the predictions to go straight back down, we never even looked close to doing so. We had poor performances, but also some extremely strong ones, and were able to maintain a "Consistent inconsistency", never managing to win too many games in a row, but also never going long without one, and avoiding any major losing streaks.

    For a team expected to go straight back down, we have performed excellently, and have spent most of the season in around 10th-11th place, right in the middle of the table

    One issue where we were having trouble was in the striker department. Noe Stephan, our young striker was bags of potential, was doing wonderful things. Great movement, lovely passing, excellent pressing game, crucial in the build up, great at carving out space... however he could not score. No matter the situation, nothing he shot would go in to the net. It was a tough choice, but he had to be dropped for a string of games, just to try to get him to find a run of form. His replacements, mostly youngsters who looked like they may develop into promising players, were equally as underwhelming, and this was looking like it may become a serious issue.

    With nobobdy capitalising on the opportunity, Stephan returned to the side, and apparantly the break was exactly what he needed. Scoring goal after goal, and leading us to multiple victories!

    League form was electric, firmly in the top half of the table and looking nothing like the bottom placed team we were predicted to be, and we progressed into the 10th round of the cup, drawing Lyon. Injuries were starting to come in, however, and one of our best players, young anchorman Ilan Bordas, was sidelined for 2-3 months, leaving us missing a huge part of our defence.

    Unfortunately, we crashed out of the cup against Lyon, however league form continued to be good, and with two games remaining of the season, we had already secured a top half finish! Despite a plethora of defensive injuries and suspensions hampering our team, we fought on well, and managed to have an extremely successful first season

    Beyond this, there was another huge development. We had a board takeover, pulling us out of financial mediocrity, and giving us some money to play with in the upcoming transfer window! This was massive, as it would give us a chance to sign some much needed depth and have strength beyond our starting 11

    The final two games were against some very strong opposition, Monaco and Marseille, and would give us a great opportunity to send off some of our players who may not be returning for the following season!

    A huge overhaul was done over the summer, and despite interest from other clubs, we managed to retain pretty much every player we wanted too. That being said, a lot of players were moved on, and a lot were also brought in, and while a lot of our starting 11 remained the same, the strength came in our depth, which we sorely lacked last season. A player getting injured or going out of form should no longer be a disaster, as there is very little drop off - if any - between our first 11 and our backups.

    Despite these improvements, we started the season in a very average fashion, throwing away a lot of results and drawing far too many fixtures. We weren't bad - far from it - but silly errors in defence were hurting us. Whether this was due to several of our senior influential players leaving, a large amount of new personnel, a poor run of defensive form, or a combination of these, we needed to turn it around to match the ambitions of competing for the Europa league.

    The last thing you want when you aren't on top of your game is Marseille, PSG, and Lyon back to back to back, however that is what the fixture list threw at us. Expectations, however, went in the bin, and had victory snatched from us against Marseille, where we conceded a 1-1 equaliser with 45 seconds left of injury time. PSG also turned out to be a well fought game for us, finishing in a 0-0 draw. Heartbreak against Marseille aside, 2 points from those two teams is excellent.

    The latest video see's us face off against Lyon, which ends our difficult patch, and starts a run of games which - on paper - should be significantly easier, and a great chance for us to make up for the points we threw away earlier in the season!

    If you want to see how this turns out, check it out here!

    Like I said, any feedback would be very much appreciated!

    Thanks

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    Tidy little profit made on this guy, thanks Chelsea

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 03:24 AM PDT

    Youth Intake problem

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 12:52 PM PDT

    So I've been playing with Benfica for like six seven years and now I've reached the point where my youth intake is utter garbage. Like I'll be lucky to get a two-star player. Does anybody know the deal with this?

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    hmmmmmm... something doesn't add up

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 07:13 PM PDT

    Has anyone every seen the Championship be the highest spending league?

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 03:49 AM PDT

    Agonizingly close to the flawless season

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 02:07 PM PDT

    Guess you cant out-FM FM

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 04:58 PM PDT

    FM things I’ll never understand.

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 07:04 PM PDT

    It's late January we are atop the EFL Championship table staring promotion in the face.

    WBA (20th in the Premier League) comes in with an offer for my best Defender. My Defender is now pissed I won't let him move to a better club.

    Even though most likely next season we will be the Premier League and they won't.

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    He's Very Superstitious...

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 04:45 PM PDT

    Well that January panic buy escalated quickly

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 08:39 AM PDT

    Sorry for the poor quality, but how is it i always get this scheduling with cup vs. league comps? every. single. time.

    Posted: 22 Mar 2019 10:28 PM PDT
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