Football Manager - Why do you enjoy staring at Microsoft Excel smh

Why do you enjoy staring at Microsoft Excel smh
And then i see first place score
Best way of ruining a player?
Retiring FM17 save
After all these years �� finally after playing every FM since 2007 I’ve got a new stadium built!
Trotter’s Free Transfer Co. | Can you succeed in FM on free transfers alone? - Part 7
So I skipped a pre season friendly and this happened.
Imagine AFTV...
I have no words
Finished my first season with Roma! (Recap in comments)
Retiring the man who built the Luxembourgian Football Empire...
Managing Manchester United to a 100 point league finish in Peramos Greece. What's the best place you've played football manager?
Cristiano Ronaldo to Leyton Orient is something I thought I'd never see
2020 gets weirder as my academy keeper scores 2 goals in 1 game
Villarreal are invincible! Easily my best season ever.
Love a good buy back ��
Fresh out of the regen oven and he's already the 2nd best player in the National Team
Bargain for 15.5 mil?
What is an unknown or underrated feature that a lot of FM players might not know about?
Wow, don’t go too crazy with all that money now......Man City & PSG better watch out
Not a bad result if u ask me...
New to FM. need to know if I should buy FM20 now, or wait for FM21.
Bellini sets a record for shortest loan ever
Kloppo doing a London trip

Why do you enjoy staring at Microsoft Excel smh

Posted: 05 Aug 2020 05:41 AM PDT

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And then i see first place score

Posted: 05 Aug 2020 05:22 AM PDT

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Best way of ruining a player?

Posted: 05 Aug 2020 01:14 PM PDT

I've had a fairly decent regen demanding a new contract and mouthing off that he's going to turn the squad against me after I refused his frankly ludicrous request. Now naturally I don't have time for players like this so he's off to Man City for a decent fee but the move won't actually go through for an entire year.

My question is this - how can I assure that this lad doesn't develop whatsoever in the next 12 months and I can hand him over to Man City as a shell of his former self who will never set foot on a football pitch as a professional? Is there any way to take him completely out of training and U19 games?

For anyone who thinks this is a bit over the top, I run a tight ship, not a shite tip, and this play-dough faced cretin has enraged me.

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Retiring FM17 save

Posted: 05 Aug 2020 03:49 PM PDT

I had nobody else to discuss this with. I am a few months away (in game time) from retiring in my FM save.

I am on my 38th season and about to hit age 65. I have decided it's time to finally retire and end my career.

Started the 16/17 season with Leeds United in the Championship and got promoted through the playoffs that year. Hung around midtable and won 2 FA cups before accepting a job offer to move to a struggling Bayern Munich. Spent 5 season with Bayern turning them into an unstoppable force before Real Madrid came calling.

I had plans to win in Spain with Real Madrid and move on to another league but became attached to some of the players there and stuck around to see a new 139,000 stadium being built.

In total I won;

2 FA Cups
1 Community Shield
5 Bundesliga titles
4 DFB Pokal
5 German Super Cups
29 La Liga titles
24 Copa del Rey
1 Euro Cup
18 European Super Cups
26 Spanish Super Cups
19 Club World Cups
1 Confederations Cup
1 World Cup
1 European Football Championship

I am hoping to add a few more as I finish this final season. I saw some insane players come through. Most of all Francesco Milanesi who became Real Madrid's most capped player.

It's a bit sad ending this save as I have invested almost three years into it. It is probably time to move onto a newer version of FM.

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After all these years �� finally after playing every FM since 2007 I’ve got a new stadium built!

Posted: 05 Aug 2020 11:16 AM PDT

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Trotter’s Free Transfer Co. | Can you succeed in FM on free transfers alone? - Part 7

Posted: 05 Aug 2020 05:18 AM PDT

[Profit so far: £4.4 million / £10 million]

[Staff members signed named Rodney: 7]

[Staff members signed named Dave: 5]

[Staff members named Albert: 0]

Barnsley are in the Premier League. Mental. Three seasons after Del Boy's yellow van parks up in the manager's spot the Tykes have made it to the big time by signing free players and nothing else. No loans, no handouts.

Luckily most of the promotion-winning team were locked down into long contracts, so they haven't got a leg to stand on in negotiations. That leaves me with plenty of money to recruit for Barnsley's first PL campaign since 1998.

Players Incoming - 24/25

The players coming in to prevent relegation

The issue in FM for teams promoted to the PL is that no players expect them to stay up, so you're forced to insert tiny release clauses to win deals. Alternatively, most good players don't want to sign in case you go down.

Barnsley were predicted to be a mid table Championship side last season and now they're in the PL. That makes things hard. Luckily the budget Del Boy is given is gargantuan. When filtered 80/20 towards wage budget Barnsley have £380k p/w spare to pay for players.

Some free signings leave before the season starts. Roberts Veips, Luigi Mendola, and Nika Bedoidze are off for a combined £9.5 million. None were really PL quality, so they won't be missed.

Ryan Bertrand is the first player I sign with proper PL experience. He joins on £25k p/w for 12 months. Next up is 35-year old Idrissa Gueye from Everton. He costs me £44.5k p/w and didn't have a fantastic season last year, but I need cover at DM.

Joining to bulk out the squad are Fiorentina's Kevin Ackermann, Manchester United cast-off Charlie mcCann, and former Lazio 'keeper Marco Alia. I also grab prospects Miltos Lapeas and Jose Ruiz.

Season Results - 24/25

It's a predictably rocky start to our first campaign in the top flight. No wins in August is followed by an unbeaten September. Wins, draws and losses come and go but Barnsley are holding their own with the big boys.

We pick up most of our points against mid-table and lower league opposition, reflected in Del Boy's attacking style. Since we refuse to shut up shop against the big boys we tend to get pumped 4-0 or 3-0 against better teams.

December is a rough month, with Barnsley only winning one game in a packed eight-game schedule. Del Boy decides to switch things up and bring more bodies into midfield and defence with a 4-1-3-1-1 formation (the image helps visualising this one). It's an esoteric tactic.

The 4-1-3-1-1, or 2-3-2-1-1, or 5-3-2 if you're feeling adventurous

It also kind of works? It becomes quickly apparent that the players are just not cut out for this level of competition. Barnsley's main striker is a guy who was at the club when Del Boy joined. For me it's just about seeing out the season and getting one more pre-season. I'm planning a revamp unlike any revamp before it, believe me.

It comes down to the wire, as usual. Watford are in 18th, Barnsley in 17th. A win on the last days secures Barnsley's status. The lads do well and keep us up with a 3-0 win. Now we're going to replace them all.

Squeaking survival by the seat of our pants

Incoming Players - 25/26

Six players are gone as their contracts expire, including Bertrand. Gueye is off too as he's retiring.

Manu Garcia heads to Wolves for £10.75m and Kevin Ackermann to Leicester for £11.75m, which keeps adding to my profit total nicely.

There are a lot of holes in theis squad that need filling, and boy do I fill them. We've been taking young cast offs and rejects for nearly eight seasons now. It's time to get some experience:

Alfie Mawson
Joel Veltman
Gini Wijnaldum
Javi Manquilo
Thomas Delaney

All five join before pre-season starts. They don't have much resale value, all of them being past 30, but if they keep Barnsley in the PL then they're worth their weight in wages. Non regen prospects Billy Gilmour and Curtis Jones also join our crew, as well as regen players Bheki Mchunu and Jan Petrus.

Season Results - 25/26

Everything goes horribly, awfully, terribly wrong.

We just can't win games. At all. The new players seem out of their depth, the old ones roll over and capitulate. Between August and December Barnsley win just one game. One game. I hit that classic FM panic button and try every formation under the sun I can think of. Nothing goes right.

January arrives and Barnsley are rock bottom of the Premier League with just eight points. Then it happens. After a run of six straight defeats I'm pulled into the boardroom and sacked.

When Del Boy joined Barnsley they were £2 million in debt. Now the club is valued at £108 million. The word "ungrateful" comes to mind very sharpish. We stand here amidst my achievements, not the board's!

It's a shock for me as a player, to be honest - it's been a while since I've been fired in FM. Yet here we are.

Barnsley record:

Played: 233
Won: 96
Drawn: 49
Lost: 88
Percentage: 41%
Players in: 42, £0
Player out: 45, £43.7m

Barnsley took a punt on Del Boy years ago, but will a club in any of the top divisions want him now? I start looking at the jobs boards, watching as January slips by. So soon after the sacking I decide to be picky when bottom of the Championship Middlesbrough come calling.

In my wake Barnsley hire Marcel Koller, former Austria, FC Basel, and Leicester City manager, to replace me.

The tabloids spot Del Boy hopping on planes floating over the Bay of Biscay, though he swears it's just a holiday and nothing more. Yet when he comes back he's lacking his usual sunburn. Has he been in meetings?

The hubbub is answered when little more than a week after being sacked by Barnsley Dereck Edward Trotter is announced as the new manager of Real Sociedad in La Liga!

Del Boy's new team, ready to go

To San Sebastien! - 25/26

Well, here we are in one of the most beautiful cities in Spain, to take charge of a perennially underperforming Spanish club with dreams of Europe. The team only expects a top half finish this time around, though, and with only half a season sit in 9th, 10 points away from the European spots.

Del Boy flicks his polo collar up, slaps on the Union Jack shorts, and flip-flops his way down to training to inspect the boys. Sociedad's best player is ever-present Mikel Oyarzabel at AMC. They have a 19-year old named Zuhaitz Merino who is already a star.

There's also Stanley West, a Spanish(?!) regen born in Tenerife. There's certainly a lot to unpack there... Speaking of unpacking, it's time to get to grips with this new country, new team, and new hotel room, unpack the leopard print pants and get to the beach.

Live footage from Del Boy's first week in Spain with head of youth development Rodney.

Esta vez el año que viene seremos millonarios!

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So I skipped a pre season friendly and this happened.

Posted: 05 Aug 2020 02:44 PM PDT

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Imagine AFTV...

Posted: 05 Aug 2020 06:44 AM PDT

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I have no words

Posted: 05 Aug 2020 09:41 AM PDT

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Finished my first season with Roma! (Recap in comments)

Posted: 05 Aug 2020 01:54 PM PDT

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Retiring the man who built the Luxembourgian Football Empire...

Posted: 05 Aug 2020 07:56 AM PDT

After 49 years, I am retiring the man who took Luxembourgian Football from the bottom of World Football to the heights it now reaches.

Current Coefficients: https://i.imgur.com/VCd7vS2.png

Luxembourg Club Reputations: https://i.imgur.com/OBZ0Gjl.png

Summary: https://i.imgur.com/dAAmRtx.png

National Divisions: Dudelange - 18, Progres - 5, Yellow Boys - 4, Rumelange - 6. Total = 33

Promotion Division: Yellow Boys - 1. Total = 1

Divison South: Yellow Boys - 1. Total = 1

Luxembourg Cup: Dudelange - 15, Progres - 3, Yellow Boys - 3, Rumelange - 4. Total = 25

Champions League: Dudelange - 3, Progres - 1, Yellow Boys - 2, Rumelange - 5. Total = 11

Europa League: Dudelange - 1, Progres - 1, Yellow Boys - 1, Rumelange - 1. Total = 4

Club World Championship: Dudelange - 1, Progres - 1, Yellow Boys - 1, Rumelange - 4. Total = 7

European Super Cup: Dudelange - 2, Progres - 1, Yellow Boys - 2, Rumelange - 4. Total = 9

European Championship: France - 1, Luxembourg - 1. Total = 2

World Cup: France - 1. Total = 1

Confederations Cup: France - 1. Total = 1

International League: France - 1. Total = 1

CHAN: Ghana - 1. Total = 1

Hall of Fame: https://i.imgur.com/ih1runi.png

Future Plan:

Going to be doing 2 Managers.

Aims:
- Improve Reputation of Clubs and thus the league. Aiming to be #1 in Leagues
- Become the #1 Team in Coefficients.
- Win the World Cup............ FML

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Managing Manchester United to a 100 point league finish in Peramos Greece. What's the best place you've played football manager?

Posted: 05 Aug 2020 10:39 AM PDT