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    Football Manager - When you lead 1-0 but you have to substitute your central defender with a youngster with no experience.

    March 04, 2019

    Football Manager - When you lead 1-0 but you have to substitute your central defender with a youngster with no experience.

    When you lead 1-0 but you have to substitute your central defender with a youngster with no experience.

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 12:30 PM PST

    Every time

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 02:08 AM PST

    it do be like that sometimes

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 07:05 AM PST

    Competitive league game. Their goalkeeper only got a 7.3 rating...

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 11:36 AM PST

    Well this wasn’t enjoyable...

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 06:56 AM PST

    To my unsung hero, the best backup player I've ever dealt with, I love you.

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 12:00 PM PST

    The hardest UCL group I’ve seen in a long time.

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 01:05 PM PST

    There's only one job for you when you retire son.

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 03:49 PM PST

    I feel that there could be an easier comparison made here...

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 07:40 AM PST

    Wait, What?

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 02:51 PM PST

    193 CA 21 year old, this guy is a walking cheat code

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 05:44 AM PST

    First successful overhead kick Ive seen in game, won goal of the season

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 05:50 AM PST

    [FM 16] Football Manager 1991-92 - Version 5.0 - Out Now

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 11:57 AM PST

    When you have a scout who define players based on their star sign

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 11:01 AM PST

    AssMan sacked himself

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 07:18 PM PST

    Vive la fuckin France.

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 04:13 AM PST

    I've written a couple of times about my hellscape of a save in FM, the club teams I manage. I haven't really talked much about the other team I'm managing, France. I got the France job after the 2028 EUROs where the international management community in Europe was decimated. Almost all the jobs came up, bar Scotland, and I applied for the France job almost on a whim. I didn't really expect them to offer me the job. Am I the first foreign coach to manage France? Fuck knows, I'm too lazy to find out but I'm going to go with yes, yes I am. What an honour! Auld alliance baby, alive and well.

    What a fucking mental choice for them and I struggle to get my head around it properly. I most defo take FM too seriously, not in a throw a fit if we lose kind of way but more in a pretending in my head kind of way. How the fuck would I manage the French dressing room? What would Mbappe and co make of an angry Scotsman screaming at them to run through walls? "Get right intae these fuckin cunts lads, fuckin destroy these Belgian pricks. Pull every shirt, gouge every eye, smash every nose with your elbow, every tackle is ball and man, man first. Fucking wreck em boys, let them fucking know who the fuck you are! Vive la fucking France, motherfuckers!" My assman is in his 70's and from a different age. He tells me to politely remind the players of their responsibilities at half-time. "Fix fucking bayonets lads, I wanna see your war faces! WAAAAAGGGHHHH!!" Yeah, I'm not the most natural fit for them. Fuck it, doesn't matter, this team carries me anyway. I'm just there to call players when they're injured and tell them not to worry.

    If you haven't managed an International team yet in FM, I can thoroughly recommend it, it's fun and something new to do. There are some different options and some different interaction mechanisms for you to play about with. It's not that much of a hassle either, it's just some extra messages you get and a few more games a season. I'm also managing some players that I'll just never get to mess about with otherwise. It's 2029 and Mbappe is in his pomp, fuck he is glorious. He thinks I'm a dick, obvs, but when he turns it on, he's great. If you get a chance to sign him, take it. The WC qualifying group I have is easy, the hardest team in it is Northern Ireland. I drew nil nil with them over at Windsor Park, they were fantastic. They set up to absorb and try to nick one from a set piece and they very nearly did, they really should have won it. We had fuck knows how many shots but it was just one of those days, they frustrated us and defended magnificently. One of their centre halves was just a colossus, throwing himself in front of shots and cutting out passes, great stuff. I looked up his profile and he wasn't quite there for Arsenal but I would defo have had a look at him if I managed a smaller team.

    That's the other thing I like about managing France, finding players. I've been playing games for quite a long time, for the last few years online ones. I know how to minimax and I know how to do it in FM but I kinda don't. I balance out the elements I know are the key to building a club up with enjoying pretending to be a football manager. I don't search for players in the list. I could punt in stats at the search window to find players but I kinda just don't want to. I think the scouts in this game are cunts who steal my shortlist and hope I've forgotten about most of the players on it. I reckon these fuckers just go on a jolly with the missus for a few days then use a player off my shortlist in the meetings. I'd want to see all their expenses claims tbh, some of these fuckers are on the fiddle for sure. I started this list when I was at Shrewsbury and I'm a right lazy fucker, some players from that time are still there. Oh aye, I should sign this 34 y.o right-back that's been at Yeovil the last 9 years for Arsenal? Why's that Frank, what makes you say that mate? Got a bit of a tan there, you were scouting at Yeovil aye? Ya fuckin lying bastard!

    Saying all that though, they absolutely spot some gems for me and are essential. Even if it's only a handful a season that's more than enough. The other sources of finding players for me are; spotting them during a game, someone gets a MotM against my reserves/unders, just plain luck. I love doing it this way, even if it isn't optimal. I love spotting some guy during a game then getting the scouts in. I really really want to find a player that'll spend his whole career working for me and if it came about by a fluke, fuck yes that's great. Find a kid, have them play for you their whole career, move them to the backroom staff. I love watching folks careers develop it's why I keep so many plums about on my shortlist. I have one already but he was hardly unkown or a kid, Juan Cuadrado. He was there at Celtic when I arrived and he was fantastic. When he retired he became a scout and has been with me at every club since then, when I leave a job he resigns and I just fucking love that. As an aside, he's a smashing signing for the first few seasons, a really classy player on the right wing. I want to find that player though, someone I sign as a kid who I watch grow up and stays with me the whole save, that's the dream. Well, one of them anyway.

    I'm supposed to be writing about the France job here and I've become sidetracked, a common theme for me. I can find myself wasting hours just clicking through screens cause my mind drifts, fuck, gotta focus more. Press conferences are an odd experience, managing a club and nation. I could take one press conference where I call Mbappe a total dick, an absolute fanny that I wouldn't waste a tear on if he retired, a waster who would be better being a fucking barista than a footballer. Five minutes later I'm taking a call about the upcoming internationals where I talk about my admiration for Mbappe, how I hope he plays for as long as possible and how proud I am to have him as captain. I try to avoid doing that though, what the game ignores the living room press gaggle pick up on and give me a hard time about. I find it bizarre to watch my BWM crack some fucker only for me to phone them after the game to see how they're doing and wishing them well. "Fuck is this, a joke? You sent that prick out to break my fucking leg!!" click, burrrr. Yeah, I try to skate the fine line between the game twisting reality and my brain's desire to right it.

    There seems to be an endless supply of past it players I need to talk about getting a call up. Chris fucking Hughton at Watford has been talking up Lenglet for a cap the whole time I've been with France. He's 35 now, hasn't been capped and while a smashing player in his prime, has less pace than an Austin Allegro. No, of course he's not getting a fucking cap, are you mad? There's so many players in their late 20's or early 30's that have just never made it but are thinking of switching allegiance. "Le Harve's Lamine Dioppe may switch allegiance, causing a headache for the Les Blues manager" the inbox screams at me. Oh right, sadtimes, that average lower league player won't be available for France, we're fucked now. Sometimes these players call you up to talk about it, it's nice to see how many options there are to interact here. I tell them all to do what they like really, that they're better off playing for Algeria or Ivory Coast, fuck it son good luck to you. You ain't getting a game for France, nothing personal kid. The ones that hurt are the kids I've had at Monaco, the ones that made a move to a bigger club and get wrecked. I know why these clubs sign them, just as surely as I know they'll get ruined. The game is a sophisticated statistical engine and no matter how sophisticated the AI is, it's a slave to stats. The brutal truth is, some of these players are only going to play well for me. The AI will see the playing stats and sign the player based on that, they're never going to get a game tho. My save is littered with players around 25 who have spent most of their careers on loan. It's sad really but a limitation I don't see changing. I'm not signing folks for my club side based on who would help out the national team, I'm not that much of a bellend yet.

    The game seems quicker in internationals. There's more zip and some of the moves are more intense than I see with club teams. Man, it's really fun. I use the same tactics I always do, fuck it, seems to work. This team should make the 2030 world cup, we're top of the group and it would take a total fuck up for France not to make it. They'll make it despite me, no matter what I do. I very much enjoy calling up folks that would never usually get a cap, I like thinking that I'll help some of these lads careers. It's an old team and there's just nothing great in some positions so it's easy to justify. I've given a cap to a few young keepers, for example, as there's only 2 good French keepers anyway. One lad I find at Inter, poor fucker has a hard enough time being at a shite club like that, might as well give him a leg up. It's not purely altruistic; I really fucking need some of the younger French kids to be getting games. There's perhaps 7 first team players and the majority of the squad over 30, if France want to continue to hire anyone they like and still be good, they need these youngsters to be playing.

    It's likely I'll be the only Scot at the 2030 world cup, Scotland have a total cunt of a group. Sadtimes lads, chin up though, keep fighting! I hope they do make it but I also know if they do, they'll be in my group. I don't want that man, I don't want to send a team out and beat Scotland, fuck man Mbappe and the young striker from PSG would wreck them. Just this once champ please don't do it, don't give me a terrible fixture like that to play. I know I'll get Shrewsbury in a cup this year at Arsenal, I know that if I make it back into Europe next year that I'll get Monaco, Celtic and Leipzig in my group. Please though, don't make me play Scotland, that's a bridge too far.

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    Such a long & distinguished career

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 10:18 AM PST

    I haven't clenched this hard through a second half in a long time

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 03:43 PM PST

    Signings That Didn’t Work

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 01:23 PM PST

    Fairly simple prompt, what signings were you excited to make that just didn't quite work? Bonus points if it comes with a transfer saga and/or greatly impacted the performance of your club in the short or long term.

    My signing was Ruben Neves for Manchester United. He came in for a staggering £80 million after performing superbly for Wolves in the first season. I set up with a 4-1-2-2-1 with a deep lying playmaker at the base and a box-to-box midfielder (Herrera, David Alaba, youth players all used) and Pogba (Pereira when injured/rotating) just ahead. I signed Neves with the intention of easing him into the system at the base of midfield and Matic out of it. However, after Matic was sold and Neves became the man for the job, his performances became very mediocre and even poor at times. No matter the approach I take, he still ends up putting in very lackluster performances. He also has some seasons struggled with injuries, likely due to the demands of my high press tactics. But even when not playing the high pressing style, he still seems to be anonymous in a playmaking sense and only just competent in defense. In recent times, youth players, Pogba, Alaba, and a handful of others have come in and outperformed my once most valuable signing. It is increasingly looking like he may leave the club should one or more of the youth players find more consistency and as Alaba becomes older and less able to play box-to-box midfielder and wing-back.

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    Look at the state of this table with one game left - top 3 go up

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 04:04 PM PST

    ouch... imagine being in Monaco's shoes

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 02:58 PM PST

    Okk that's my opponent for fa cup final and champions league final. They already won quadruple. I'm Newcastle what do i do now?

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 02:22 PM PST

    Courtois with some expert ball handling skills

    Posted: 04 Mar 2019 01:08 PM PST

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