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Football Manager 2011 - General Discussion
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Crazily unexpected lads. I'm going to go into a bit of depth here. For those of you that have followed my posts over the last week or so, I downloaded the San Marino leagues for my FM game. I've taken control of SS Cosmos who, like the rest of the San Marinese teams are pretty dire. There's also no youth or reserve team which is irritating.
I've been able to win the league and cup double twice in a row and then just the league in my most recent season. Very few of the players cost anything and many have no contracts with their teams so it's relatively easy to put together the best side in the league.
The fun bit for me is trying to increase the stature of the club, the league and even the national team. To do this, I need results in Europe. My first European adventure with Cosmos saw us progress past Luxembourgian opposition before being hammered by Viking in the 2nd Qualifying Round. The following year we went one better and squeezed past Elfsborg on away goals. We were no match for Steua in Qual Round 3 though and likewise with Bursaspor in the Europa League playoff round.
Bring on this season. My team is primarily made up of young Italians who have been released and settled for the modest surroundings of a stadium with 80 seats in it. The money that I had gotten from previous European campaigns has improved the training facilities slightly, this will need to continue. I brought in a new goalkeeper Luca Quadroni and a left winger Giovanni Barone. If my training facilities continue to improve, these guys should earn me more cash down the line. My talisman is Gionatha Spinesi, he's getting on now but he's by far and away my best player which says something for the quality of the league (which has moved up to the 841st ranked league in Europe as of this season).
Our performances last season in Europe allowed us to begin in Qualifying Round 2 which I was actually slightly disappointed with as I enjoyed getting the match practice in over the Luxembourg/Andorran Champions. We came in unseeded, as expected and were drawn against Jablonec. I hadn't loaded the Czech leagues so they had a lot of decent generated players. We shocked them with a fantastic 1-0 win away from home to progress to an equally tough tie against Zilina of Slovakia. I did not expect to progress past this one as we had a huge slice of luck against Jablonec. The first leg was nail-biting stuff, we barely got out of our own half and only managed one shot on goal. For the second leg, it was hard to do much different to my tactics only to make sure that we kept it equally tight and hope for the best.
What transpired was incredible. We went to Slovakia, won easily and deservedly so. I've taken advice off some of ye lot here about keeping things simple with limited players and that's paid dividends, along with some reading up I did about defending set pieces which has stopped that rot. As you can see from the players I've shown you, we're a pretty abysmal lot that any self-respecting Czech/Norwegian/Slovakian team should be ripping into. That certainly won't be the case anymore. We're now guaranteed at least a place in the Europa League group stages which is plenty of €€€€€€ for my board to go and do up the youth/training facilities again. We've been seeded for the draw but Rapid Vienna should prove a bridge too far.
So San Marinese football is on the right track now despite only boasting a population of 30,000 or so. Other sides will benefit from much improved co-efficients and it may take 20/30 seasons but the national side may boast some household names some day
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Don't want to post on this page now because everything will seem weak compared to Voltwads achievement :pac:
Signed this fella in January for 30k. It's now August and he's worth 210k with a few teams showing interest in the window..Ajax..Dortmund..Lyon among others. He's improved a good bit in the last few months.
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Make sure you renew his contract ASAP with a release clause. With good training facilities he'll develop nicelyDon't want to post on this page now because everything will seem weak compared to Voltwads achievement :pac:
Signed this fella in January for 30k. It's now August and he's worth 210k with a few teams showing interest in the window..Ajax..Dortmund..Lyon among others. He's improved a good bit in the last few months.0 -
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Ended up losing that South African lad. Wolfsburg offered 650k, 25% from next sale and a friendly and the chairman accepted. He was upset after I rejected a bid from Hamburg so he would never have signed a new deal even if he qualified for a permit.
Now I need to find another AML
Won the league again last season. 3 in a row!. Starting to get linked with some decent jobs. Was one of the favourites for the Anzhi job after they were relegated but I told the media I wasn't interested. Think I'll bow out of Sligo after this season if I don't get to the Group Stages of a euro comp. I keep getting f**ked over in the draw. Got Young Boys last season and I was all over them in the first half of the first leg. Deservedly had a 1-0 lead then stupid Jay Tabb went and got himself sent off. Ended up losing 2-1 then 4-2 on aggregate after the second leg!
I fancy going to the Tippeligaen in Norway and give that a crack.
Team right now in January 14'. I'm flying through these seasons. The game is so fast because I've loaded half the leagues I usually do!
Is it just me or are not enough goals scored from direct free kicks? halfway through the season and only 4 teams have scored one.
I've scored a total of 1 free kick in 4 seasons. Joesph N'do back in 2011.
edit: Make that 2! I just scored another 3 years later
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Playing like a maniac for the last 5 hours. Time for a few days break but first..
I messed up my league standing because I have been sending out backups for the last 5 or so games in between Europe. Derry have 2 games in hand and if they win both I'll be 7 points behind them and 1 behind Bohs. Don't care though. I'm delighted to have got to the CL Group Stage. After the Lech game I was really happy because I had qualified for the EL Group stage but then I got the best draw possible in the next round avoiding Celtic, Anderlecht, Partizan etc. and I ended up in the CL!
I got Real Madrid, Besiktas and Chelsea in my group. First game was Madrid at home which I just played...
I should have won that! They had chances too of course but most were from outside the box. Beattie was 1 on 1 and Harewood was 1 on 1 and Casillas saved both times.
I also had the ball in the net after 10 minutes but it was ruled out for a foul.
Still a great result against a side that had Ronaldo, Lukaku, Kaka, Elia, Khedira etc starting!0 -
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fm2011 is on sale on steam for €12.50 if any of you haven't bought it yet
edit: also article on the ten best skins
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/06/16/the-10-best-skins-for-football-manager-2011/?ns_campaign=article-feed&ns_mchannel=ref&ns_source=steam&ns_linkname=0&ns_fee=0
Oooooh... the Steklo, Onepiece and Neue. 2 are very nice... Might try out the Neue. 2 skin tomorrow
EDIT - After downloading and installing the above three, and changing the skin to Onepiece, I know wish I had waited until tomorrow... taking ages
Also, I'll throw up a few screenshots tomorrow in case anyone wants to see what they look like, other than those in the link0 -
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Unlucky in the CL and the League
After 4 years of trying, I've finally found out how to get the real Germany team in the game... Also, after clearing and compressing a load of old college work, I downloaded a new kit and logo pack for the German league. After I finish with it :rolleyes:
Looking for a decent face pack for the German league, French league and for the EPL... if there are any kind souls out there who can help??0 -
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Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »Wont there just a be a whole new version out of the new season?
But... but that's months away! Could be October/November until you get to play it 0 -
Quick update from Cosmos of San Marino. Thanks to our European adventures, the league's reputation has gone up 314 places to 537th. Still only half a star though! Our seeding hasn't changed but we have moved up 129 places to 423rd in Europe so a similar season in European competition will be needed to progress further as a club. Updates on that to follow!
Edit - The club has just turned professional. Don't know what I'm going to do with a transfer budget of 2 million either I'm hoping we get a parent club to send us in some youth players and we'll have new training/youth facilities again by Christmas. Onwards and upwards
Euro results:
2nd Qual Rd. Leg 1
2nd Qual Rd. Leg 2
A fantastic tie against a strong side. We were excellent at home and had a bit of luck away. Next up is Bit O'Red, Sligo Rovers in the 3rd Qualifying Round. They actually beat Zilina to get this far, the side we beat in the 3QR last year. Will be a tough tie but hopefully we can progress again.0 -
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Is there any way I can remove cups from the competition rankings in the game? I'd like to see where the LOI is without the cups from other countries being included in the list. Just league v league.
If not I hope they make it an option in FM12.
I don't think thats an option but it would be a great idea.
Also, where did you get your database for the lower leagues for Germany? Downloaded one myself from sortitoutsi.com but there's an error with the file that the relegated team play in the division they are relegated from as well as the division they're relegated to at the same time.
Also tried a file from fm-base.com but there's an error in the file that there's a team missing in the 4/5th tier of the division or something so it doesn't work either 0
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