Football Manager - Weekly Help Thread - Ask your help requests here | Week Commencing 12/01/2020

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• Weekly Help Thread - Ask your help requests here | Week Commencing 12/01/2020
• Cheers mate I'm sold
• I turned Millwall into the most aggressive team in the world - Part VI
• When you realise you spend half your gaming time looking for young boys
• Was delighted with my 88th minute winner and then...
• [OC] Brought Eastleigh F.C. Save to Premier League - Made Some Rebrand Concept Art
• This caused a troubling moment of self-reflection
• Looks like Harry isn’t the only one stepping back from royal duties
• Arsenal: "We are the masters at finishing 4th" Marseille: "Hold my Champagne"
• Marquee signing, averaging 6.69 and 4 goals in 17 games, proceeds to destroy my star midfielder.....cheers Mitrovic!
• This lad looks more like a regen than a regen does......
• With essentially zero experience/reputation, I managed to be hired at a relatively big club (Denmark 2nd tier)
• Was on edge for the season finale
• The most genuinely heart-wrenching moment of this game is a glitch.
• Finally won the Scottish Premiership
• Beating Man Utd in the FA Cup as FC United of Manchester. Bruh
• FB or WB?
• So long, captain...
• First ever regen Siblings I've seen
• Just Won Serie A in First season with Parma!
• This happened 2 years after Guardiola took over Pool
• An assistant manager in the making.
• That Was Fun
• June 2021 : Manchester City paid Arthur's clause, € 217 million. He is now evaluated at € 152 million. He's now the most evaluated player in the game. I've never saw such a big purchase.
• First time managing in Croatia, started in the second division with Sibenik. This man right here...31 goals in 34 games lead us to winning the league (only losing twice), gaining promotion and somehow winning the Croatian cup! #PraiseThePrince

Weekly Help Thread - Ask your help requests here | Week Commencing 12/01/2020 Posted: 12 Jan 2020 01:17 AM PST 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. submitted by /u/FMG_AutoModerator [link] [comments]

Cheers mate I'm sold Posted: 12 Jan 2020 07:20 AM PST submitted by /u/RugbyTime [link] [comments]

I turned Millwall into the most aggressive team in the world - Part VI Posted: 12 Jan 2020 01:50 AM PST Links to Part I / II / III / IV / V Previously, on "I turned Millwall into the most aggressive team in the world" Season II of the project saw the wheels come off results-wise, but the squad's aggression levels are through the roof, seeing us receive a record 172 yellow cards and nine red cards, once again exceeding a thousand fouls on the way. Can I do the impossible in Season III, and keep up the fouls whilst challenging for promotion? ​ Millwall Season III: Legends of Shithousery The transfer everyone's been waiting for finally goes through at the start of the summer. Lee Cattermole is poached from VVV-Venlo on a free. Some of our fans think having eight ball-winning midfielders is a bit excessive. I try to reassure them. ​ https://preview.redd.it/0ra6q9hihba41.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33c2239ce4942158d5f9f9bb110687fad7c080a0 ​ Despite failing in our approaches for centre backs Matty Pearson and Darragh Lenihan, we do land full back Joe Rafferty from relegated Luton for half a million. He was sent off twice last year, and I expect great things from him. ​ https://preview.redd.it/nm1626okhba41.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ea863fe6eddc00787fecf910374270137d9ca66 ​ Then, disaster strikes. West Brom meet Ben Pearson's £9m release clause. I'd had no choice but to agree to one, and hoped that he would be suspended too often for anyone else to actually want him. I'd thought wrong. I offer him a new contract, but it's to no avail – the allure of playing for an ex-Pulis team is obviously too much. ​ https://preview.redd.it/o5j1ljbmhba41.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=796218a5f713f6bdc689ce651e3abacd0d6ea842 ​ It's a huge blow. But I cannot let this setback define the season. I go all out to sign Blackburn's Lewis Travis as a direct replacement. In one of the most complex transfers ever created, with a million clauses to help us afford the deal, we do it. £7.5m potentially rising to £13m. I can only hope he's worth the money. We save the best 'til last. Burnley, in a post-Dyche stupor, inexplicably place Ashley Barnes on the transfer list! This kind of opportunity doesn't come around very often. We pounce. At 31-years-old, he's somehow only our third oldest forward. ​ https://preview.redd.it/itd2lj8shba41.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=64f2d1c3235c231c55a2c18da597c4c1af5d0746 ​ Further Departures (Or: A 32 Player First-Team Squad is Absurd) With Barnes joining strikers Edmondson, Toney, Garner, and Smith it's surely too much for two places. Despite the average age of the squad already being far too high, I opt to sell 20-year-old Edmondson. Leicester offer us £15m – and for a player with zero cards and five goals in two years I bite their hand off. I realise that I need to cull more players, but can't bring myself to sell the likes of Tomlin, Garner, Fletcher, Pearce, McShane, McClean, or Smallwood. They're all over 30, but they have so much shithousery they can teach our youth… Fletcher has even signed a new contract as a player/U18 coach – my long-term plan is for the entire U18 backroom staff to be made up entirely from our ex-pros. Needs must, though. In the end I sell Ofosu-Ayeh, despite his admirable nine yellows and one red last season, due to Rafferty's arrival. He's been a good servant to the cause, and I'm sad to see him go. Richie Smallwood draws the short straw from the midfield army, though only departs on loan. More on him shortly. ​ Season III: Kick Off We kick off the season at home to Reading. Lewis Travis is booked 34 seconds into his debut. Ashley Barnes puts us ahead early on with a penalty, but we crumble to a 4-2 defeat. Barnes cements himself in Millwall folklore with a straight red in the very next game, a 2-0 defeat to Hull. ​ https://preview.redd.it/h3fx2rt2iba41.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=666bcf9eaecaacee6db841681b7f6c01faa363ea ​ I'd been trialling a more open 4-3-1-2 in pre-season, with mixed results, but after we're dumped out of the League Cup by Cambridge I'm forced to change it, dropping the AMC back to a DM. We stabilise the ship, winning the next three games, including a 2-1 victory against Huddersfield that sees our first disciplinary fine of the year. Cattermole starts the season slowly, without a single card in his first three games (in fairness all substitute appearances). But our Huddersfield performance reignites the fire in him. He's booked twice in successive games, before a straight red against Sheffield Wednesday. I knew he wouldn't let us down. Unfortunately, any hopes of us finding our first season's form soon fade. From September to October we win just twice – one of these after we injure four of Bristol City's players. The games are all tight, gruelling affairs, but we struggle for goals. I try my best to tweak the tactics to get things to click, even trying a classic 4-4-2 hoofball strategy, but nothing seems to work. Our fouls count is also down on last year, as is our card count – we're on course for a pitiful 150 yellows at this rate, the loss of Pearson affecting us more than first thought. ​ https://preview.redd.it/jkkqdl46jba41.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef3c2117a654cb245d74bd7121f31596faa4d244 ​ ​ You Can Take the Man Out of Millwall My scouts, in addition to their ongoing attempts to uncover the next Diego Costa, have been keeping tabs on our sole loanee Richie Smallwood. He's making a hell of an impression in Bristol. ​ https://preview.redd.it/9bbqe0z6iba41.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8291f80678348b5f4802699544e9caaf5c514fe5 ​ https://preview.redd.it/j7h3au68iba41.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59c30c8c315d7773ccc9a981c0ab7748455c9b66 ​ https://preview.redd.it/eufic28aiba41.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb8354386a202998e11db9c46807120be8605182 ​ I Have No Good Segue for this Paragraph Thus far, I've run a tight ship wages-wise, save for the odd luxury like McClean. But as time goes on some of our better players realise their importance and ask for new deals. For a while I stave off the revolt by asking Darren Fletcher to convince the likes of Thompson and Ferguson that they don't actually want a new contract. Despite his own lack of playtime, the rest of the squad happily drop their concerns after a single conversation with him. I don't ask any questions about his methods. Karamoko, however, is more concerning. His contract is up in June, and his agent insists on a release clause in any new deals. After losing Pearson this way, I refuse to negotiate. For once the footballing gods are on my side, as just as he approaches six months left on his deal his agent drops his demands. I waste no time in tying him down for the next four years. He's amassed 53 yellow cards in 2½ seasons, and losing him would have been devastating. ​ Red Cards, Red Cards Everywhere Our season looks to be heading towards disappointment on all fronts (points, fouls, and cards), but one aspect of this changes on 30th October, better known as Ashley Barnes' birthday. Seemingly in honour of our new vice-captain we hit double digits for bookings for the very first time, with two players dismissed! Had Barnes himself not missed a last minute one on one we'd have stolen a draw too. ​ https://preview.redd.it/czp3k0ndiba41.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=00bdedb7337d029872df9180d7d746fdfc41cb40 ​ Murray Wallace adds to our dismissals tally in the next fixture, consigning us to another defeat in the process, before we then lose 3-1 at home to Rotherham. Sitting 17th in the table, I'm summoned to a board meeting… Though I don't even believe it myself, I assure them things will look better in a month. I'm somehow let off the hook. Whether the board consider our Crystal Palace match an improvement I'm not sure. Travis is suspended for four games as a result of his second red of the year, and, as exciting as it is, finishing multiple matches with nine men isn't making my life any easier. Or ten men, for that matter – Hutchinson also seeing red a couple of games later. ​ https://preview.redd.it/lgjsyy8qiba41.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=818ad2b7e5c4a1fb54949e34d9dcf9189204137c ​ https://preview.redd.it/zoybyycujba41.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3c68ebc206370c321c80fae7e4af0c55f03f878 ​ https://preview.redd.it/3mz5x6n7lba41.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fe1ce769d8ea2243c1a1f6bb5c4b81e7144f89e ​ Despite the huge improvement in bookings, our form remains mediocre, and after a dire loss to Blackburn I find myself in front of the board yet again, for the third time in my Millwall career. Grasping at straws, I claim we were simply unlucky, fully expecting this to be the end of the road. But today is not that day! ​ https://preview.redd.it/do0ufrpyjba41.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=031f5dbd083f07e4bceaff5139553b63daefeb3d ​ It's a generous reprieve. Inspired by this, we hack the shit out of Barnsley in our next game, picking up another FA fine in an entertaining 3-3 draw, closing out the first half of the year in true Millwall style. ​ Season III: The Half-Way Point As the first half of the season draws to a close, I'm concerned. We've devolved into a basket case team, and try as I might I cannot find any consistent solutions – our LWDLD form is testament to this. Our fouls count is markedly down on last season and unless things improve we won't even break 1000 fouls this year, but in better news our card tally has been improving, giving us a fighting chance of beating last season's record. Eight red cards, in particular, is great work, though this is certainly not helping our league position. With January approaching, I need to continue the good work we've done so far in the transfer market. But, more pressingly, I desperately need to find a winning formula again very soon. ​ https://preview.redd.it/chzqw6i2kba41.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2e1d07f75b1836ae7b4fcab571ef4b1ab9f2e91 ​ https://preview.redd.it/fctqk6v3kba41.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69c0cacf29ca2da822527bae35f2f544a5b887e4 submitted by /u/Hurball [link] [comments]

When you realise you spend half your gaming time looking for young boys Posted: 12 Jan 2020 07:56 AM PST submitted by /u/jarde [link] [comments]

Was delighted with my 88th minute winner and then... Posted: 12 Jan 2020 12:45 PM PST submitted by /u/Newtman1 [link] [comments]

[OC] Brought Eastleigh F.C. Save to Premier League - Made Some Rebrand Concept Art Posted: 11 Jan 2020 11:39 PM PST submitted by /u/MightyMiami [link] [comments]

This caused a troubling moment of self-reflection Posted: 12 Jan 2020 09:33 AM PST submitted by /u/War_King_123 [link] [comments]

Looks like Harry isn’t the only one stepping back from royal duties Posted: 12 Jan 2020 09:29 AM PST submitted by /u/Lukey-Lightning [link] [comments]

Arsenal: "We are the masters at finishing 4th" Marseille: "Hold my Champagne" Posted: 12 Jan 2020 06:15 AM PST submitted by /u/MrUnderlay [link] [comments]

Marquee signing, averaging 6.69 and 4 goals in 17 games, proceeds to destroy my star midfielder.....cheers Mitrovic! Posted: 12 Jan 2020 05:24 PM PST submitted by /u/J492 [link] [comments]

This lad looks more like a regen than a regen does...... Posted: 12 Jan 2020 01:54 AM PST submitted by /u/pmak13 [link] [comments]

With essentially zero experience/reputation, I managed to be hired at a relatively big club (Denmark 2nd tier) Posted: 12 Jan 2020 09:07 PM PST submitted by /u/ODMtesseract [link] [comments]

Was on edge for the season finale Posted: 12 Jan 2020 06:49 PM PST submitted by /u/gambit700 [link] [comments]

The most genuinely heart-wrenching moment of this game is a glitch. Posted: 12 Jan 2020 01:42 AM PST I'll preface this story quickly by saying that the events of this story take place on my still ongoing FM18 'from player to retirement' campaign and I don't know if this glitch has been removed from later versions. For a game which is basically an interactive EXCEL spreadsheet, I think we can all agree that the game has some genuinely emotional moments; a testamonial match for a young wonderkid you brought in who's not a grizzled club veteran, the retirement of a legend, a glorious cup win after many seasons of building towards a single aim. However, for me, the most hear breaking moment of my FM18 career has come from a glitch. I started a campaign and decided I would play it through from a young 35 year old recently retired player all the way through until I was roughly 70 years old to simulate the experience of a full managerial career. I am now 68 in the game and am the manager of Barcelona. The experience has however taken me around many clubs across Europe, with my second club being Monaco. Managing Monaco was so much fun and I was there for 8 largely successful between 2018 and 2026. My team was a mix of plucky academy graduates, Barcelona rejects (Mina, Deulofeu, Gomes, Alcacer, D. Suarez etc) and reunited former Monaco players (Mendy, Bakayoko, Kondogbia etc). It was a strange, but pretty special team for me and was really the first major success I had gotten in the career so far. Had it not been for my enjoyment of Monaco I might not have followed this campaign idea through like I have done. I liked Monaco so much that after I left managing Arsenal in 2046, I decided to go back. This was where the glitch came in... You see, when you leave a club in FM, the game file seems to keep a last final bit of data about what your formation and team lineup was at the very moment you leave, and when you join back to a club after leaving it in the same career mode, this data is restored. The result of this is that when you rejoin a club and go to your tactics page, your old squad is still there fully preserved for you to look at, but only as 'ghost' players (Similar to what you get when a player from another club joins your team for a testamonial match). Having been 20 years on in the campaign, it was genuinely emotional to see this snapshot of what my old team used to be, and knowing that all of them had now since retired. One by one as you replace the ghost players with your actual modern day squad members the game corrects itself and removes the ghost forever, which is strangely symbolic as you literally replace the old with the new. I'd love to know of anyone else has had this same experiance in their game, and if so- what it was like for you to get it. submitted by /u/ThePirateWhoSaysArr [link] [comments]

Finally won the Scottish Premiership Posted: 12 Jan 2020 08:37 AM PST submitted by /u/LilJoey69 [link] [comments]

Beating Man Utd in the FA Cup as FC United of Manchester. Bruh Posted: 12 Jan 2020 07:18 PM PST submitted by /u/realKeirStarmer [link] [comments]

FB or WB? Posted: 12 Jan 2020 06:09 PM PST Which do you guys feel does a better job? I heard they nerfed WB's a little while ago but they both feel pretty much the same to me. submitted by /u/USAF_DTom [link] [comments]

So long, captain... Posted: 12 Jan 2020 10:47 AM PST I hope that someone remembers me - just like most of you, I am a football manager. I joined this subreddit a few months ago and one of my first ever posts was on this subreddit, in which I talked about my beloved 37 year-old captain, Roman Prochazka, from FM17. I was enjoying my successful run in the local First League, when the heartbreaking news struck me out of nowhere... My captain, who has been with the club even before I joined, announced that he will retire. I was in shock, as I thought he would stay for at least 1 or 2 more years. Of course, I tried my best to talk him out of this nonsense, but to no avail... He is simply the greatest player I've ever seen and will ever see. He was the perfect role model captain - many youths adored him. He was always up to talk with the squad, to fire them and cheer them up. He always tried to help the team in any way he could - hell, he even refused to retire from International soccer at the age of 38, because his national team (Slovakia) had a shortage of good midfielders and defenders. I will never be able to replace him, because he was truly One and Only. I want to share his story with this subreddit, due to my real appreciation of him. I will also be making a compilation of his crazy goals on YouTube soon, so expect me to share a video link eventually too. At least there are some good news - I managed to make him the Head Coach of my Reserves team, so he will still be around the club! The shocking news My last hope The sad reality The good news His final stats Thank you Roman Prochazka, and Only Levski! I will miss you </3 submitted by /u/JamesCena456 [link] [comments]

First ever regen Siblings I've seen Posted: 12 Jan 2020 08:59 AM PST submitted by /u/JackMinzo [link] [comments]

Just Won Serie A in First season with Parma! Posted: 12 Jan 2020 07:44 PM PST submitted by /u/beware171 [link] [comments]

This happened 2 years after Guardiola took over Pool Posted: 12 Jan 2020 10:05 AM PST submitted by /u/Alien_reg [link] [comments]

An assistant manager in the making. Posted: 12 Jan 2020 11:41 AM PST submitted by /u/tjforzamilan [link] [comments]

That Was Fun Posted: 12 Jan 2020 12:46 PM PST submitted by /u/scrumhalfnine9 [link] [comments]

June 2021 : Manchester City paid Arthur's clause, € 217 million. He is now evaluated at € 152 million. He's now the most evaluated player in the game. I've never saw such a big purchase. Posted: 12 Jan 2020 03:15 AM PST submitted by /u/Vlt1 [link] [comments]

First time managing in Croatia, started in the second division with Sibenik. This man right here...31 goals in 34 games lead us to winning the league (only losing twice), gaining promotion and somehow winning the Croatian cup! #PraiseThePrince Posted: 11 Jan 2020 11:30 PM PST submitted by /u/LayupBoyJK [link] [comments]

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