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    Football Manager - Got to love those 19 year old Brazilians

    December 20, 2019

    Football Manager - Got to love those 19 year old Brazilians

    Got to love those 19 year old Brazilians

    Posted: 19 Dec 2019 11:55 PM PST

    Guardiola has absolutely no regard for rivalries

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 05:36 PM PST

    How it feels like...

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 03:44 AM PST

    Going that extra mile to keep the ball in play

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 12:28 AM PST

    Who prefers 2d over 3d?

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 07:43 PM PST

    When my player says "I'm not pleased with the way you've handled this"

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 02:38 AM PST

    Me: leading 1-0 with 3 minutes to go. FM: I'm about to end this man's whole career

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 05:01 PM PST

    Well fuck

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 08:20 AM PST

    Lads...

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 03:08 PM PST

    First game back in the Prem since getting relegated. Despair, then hope, then heartbreak.

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 10:52 AM PST

    All 11 of my starters in the team of the week

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 12:22 PM PST

    Things you only see in the Serbian league: a 17 year old regen CB playing LW (he got an admirable 6.2 rating)

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 03:06 PM PST

    Lost the Title on the last day :(

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 02:14 PM PST

    Naturally...

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 02:34 AM PST

    What will I do with all this money?

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 09:10 AM PST

    Behold, the most insane own goal I've ever seen!

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 07:07 PM PST

    that was... hard

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 12:43 PM PST

    I was like okay? Do I need an update every week or something?

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 03:20 PM PST

    The Nothernmost Challenge - Part 2: Making it Snöw

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 10:26 AM PST

    Part 0: Presentation of IF Alta

    Part 1: Season 1 - Defenders in the North

    Welcome to Obos-Ligaen gentlemen! After our promotion last season, we have to gear up Alta in order to stabilize at this level in the immediate future. That will be the goal for this chapter. A lot of scouting and tacticking ahead.

    Øffseason

    Things start up with a lot of hope in Alta. After a bit of contract house-cleaning, my salary mass is actually lower than it was last year at the start of the transfer window. Even better, I am being given some very significant financial leeway by the board. I did not expect to have that much margin to work with for our very first season in Obos-Ligaen.

    The beginning of pre-season is basically Christmas as we even get the professional status which should allow us to go after some juicy targets, additional staff, additionnal scouting range, and an improvement in our youth recruitment to boot! I am one happy Snöw!

    Because of the norwegian calendar, we get our youth intake before the start of the season. Which means I'm happy to present the most promising young lad this year: Terje Andresen. I'm not disappointed because I expected nothing.

    On a positive note, the mad lads at Baerum did it! They got the promotion and we even start the season against them. The rivalry is alive!

    Jön Snöw welcomes Baerum into Obos-Ligaen after their promotion playoffs victory (colorized)

    After two days of maniacal scouting, here's what I've come up with!

    • Daniel Ravneng: 22 years-old norwegian Goalkeeper. Bought for 180€ from FK Mjolner. I have considered a lot of options for my new starting goalkeeper before settling on Ravneng who was the right-mix of everything I was looking for. He's dirt-cheap, got the basic attributes I need and some room to grow.

    • Markus Bay: 22 years-old danish attacking midfielder. Signed as a free agent. That is one hell of a steal! By far our best signing of this offseason. A former product of the Ajax academy, Bay is a top-class player who was incomprehensibly released by his Danish 2nd division side. I will train him to be our starting right-winger, anticipating the decline of Magnus Nikolaisen because I'm an ungrateful bastard.

    Jön Snöw replacing his reigning Player of the Year with some Danish teenager (colorized)

    • Frederik Nielsen: 21 years-old danish central defender. Signed as a free agent. Markus BAy was not the last danish quality player released from the Danish 2nd division. Nielsen is a towering young central defender who has done most of his training in the rough english Championship.

    • Oliver Sigurjonsson: 24 years-old icelandic midfielder. Bought for 17 000€ from Bodo/Glimt. Oliver was put on the transfer list by Bodo/Glimt in Eliteserien and I did not pass on the opportunity. A solid midfielder which should provide us with a significant upgrade at his position, coming with Eliteserien experience for cheap.

    • Antonio Nocerino: 34 years-old italian midfielder. Signed as a free agent. This dude popped up on my radar thanks to his agent. Nocerino is a former italian international and a consumate professional, he'll give us a year of football and a "Driven" mentor for promising kids.

    Antonio Nocerino at the new signings Meet-and-Greet (colorized)

    And that is it! In total I am only using about half of my allowed budget. This is a choice I made for two reasons. The first is that I don't trust the club's financial situation enough to condidently dive into the coffers. The second is that I want some financial flex when bigger sides inevitably start hunting for my youngsters. Bilal already got a trial offer from Udinese, and Mauno Johannessen is starting to get cuddly looks from some Eliteserien sides.

    Friendlies: https://i.ibb.co/TvJKNsS/20191220191149-1.jpg

    While I personally prefer using a defensive midfielder, the fact that both Antonio Nocerino and Christian Reginiussen favour playing as central midfielders led me to try a 3-men midfield. They will rotate alongside star recruit Oliver Sigurjonsson and promising playmaker Marco Mauno Johannessen.

    From my friendlies, it seemed obvious that my pure countering tactic was never going to work with three midfielders. They kept bothering rather than helping each other in all phases of play. Our games against Floya and Senja were comically bad. Our 3-2 win against Tromsdalen wasn't actually any better.

    As a result, I had to do an emergency overhaul of our tactic. I came up with some weird bastard version of gegenpress.

    I have asked my midfielders to counter-press normally in order to force bad passes. Meanwhile, my defense will still play with a much lower line. I'm particularly counting on the 1m99 of Frederik Nielsen to clear high balls.

    The idea is to use that weak counterpress to get the occasional numbers advantage, but not doing so high enough that the opposition is kept to their own half. I still need spaces behind the opposing defensive line, which is why I've lowered my own rather than go full-on high-pressing/high-defense.

    In short, it is to Gegenpress what a banana duct-taped to a wall is to the Mona Lisa. Uglier in both looks and principles, but apparently still worth something.

    The only friendly I played with this tactic, against Mjolner, went better than the others to an absurd degree. At this point I wish I had organized more friendlies to adjust our tactic, rather than trust that the same principle would work with 3 midfielders. As it turns out, I'll have to balance things out over the first few official games.

    Jön Snöw after creating the Bastard Gegenpress Tactic (uncolorized)

    As far as personnel goes, most recruits will make it directly into the starting 11. Youngster Hammari will also take over the starting poacher role from Mathias Pedersen.

    As a pleasant surprise, we are not being considered favourites for relegation. And apparently, Stabaek found themselves a wonderkid goalkeeper. Lucky bastards.

    This post is getting really long, and all of that was a lot of hours of scouting. I will probably play the second season tomorrow and post it as a new chapter.

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    Every good thing comes to an end

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 03:05 AM PST

    No one interested loaning my Thiago Almada

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 04:18 PM PST

    https://imgur.com/fLK67Yp

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    FM19, i need a work permit for him but no one is interested at all whole summer, now he is just rotting on my bench, what can I do?

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    Pretty interesting name.

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 12:56 PM PST

    OK, I guess I'll make a bid... (anyone ever seen this before?)

    Posted: 19 Dec 2019 11:36 PM PST

    Here we go again with the damn coaching licenses

    Posted: 20 Dec 2019 12:30 PM PST

    Three times have I asked the board and three times I have been declined. First time I can understand, we were in debt. Second time was during the off-season but somehow I was needed at practise. Third time, same thing, needed at training. We aren't even training! They send my staff on courses left, right and center but no, let's not send the manager. Im not selected in the coach assignments although that doesn't seem to matter. Any tips? Is it a bug?

    Edit: Lol, just reloaded the save to redo it in English so I could post a screenshot and it worked. Seems everything can be saved by save scumming.

    EDIT again: I edited the coach assignments and evened out the workload so that I had "light" across the board. Might be what did it, or it was the save scumming. Who knows :)

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