Football Manager 2018

Sin City · 24-02-2018 9:34am

Update Burton Albion sit in first place all games played
Man United lie behind me by 2 points with a game in hand
They play Spurs

Anything but a united win and Burton have achieved the unthinkable

They were tipped to be relagated

This would be a bigger achievement than Leicester

Sin City will be expecting for Burton to change the name of the city to be named after him

Free man of the city beckons
Will never have to pay for a pint again in his lifetime

Cmon Spurs do us a favour

fermanagh_man · 26-02-2018 10:28pm

Sin City wrote: »

Update Burton Albion sit in first place all games played
Man United lie behind me by 2 points with a game in hand
They play Spurs

Anything but a united win and Burton have achieved the unthinkable

They were tipped to be relagated

This would be a bigger achievement than Leicester

Sin City will be expecting for Burton to change the name of the city to be named after him

Free man of the city beckons
Will never have to pay for a pint again in his lifetime

Cmon Spurs do us a favour

What formation are you playing with Burton?
Do you have home and away formations?

hots · 27-02-2018 9:34am

fermanagh_man wrote: »

What formation are you playing with Burton?
Do you have home and away formations?

I always run the full 3 formations, normally one "good" football one (used against similar and smaller teams and then two defensive/long-ball ones when I'm playing someone decent. Always make sure I have one formation that only uses 1 striker and normally try for one with a 3atb too, both to help in an injury crisis.

My second season with Sunderland is over now, scraped into 14th or 15th in the end which should avoid too much discontent, promised mid-table for next season to pretty much all my decent players so decent challenge for season 3.

Sin City · 27-02-2018 2:43pm

fermanagh_man wrote: »

What formation are you playing with Burton?
Do you have home and away formations?

Usually attaching 4 -2 -1-2-1
But if playing bigger teams i might switch to either a wing back 5-3--2 or a 4 -1 -3-1

Though now im in the chapions league i can attract bigger player's so it's mainly the first formation but i tweak it depending on who im playing in my team and against

Atticus Jung · 27-02-2018 8:26pm

Must unfollow this thread before i buy the game

Rebel Rebel · 28-02-2018 10:11pm

anyone else get memory error crashes, been getting them a lot over the last 2 weeks,

fermanagh_man · 02-03-2018 9:04am

fermanagh_man wrote: »

Had a 5 hour blast when I got home, managed to get to end of the season, finished 2nd, the team in 1st ran away with it by 11 points

Back to back promotions

Now to convert my loans to permanents

Snow days allowed me to have a right good FM session

I jumped ship from Halifax 6 games into my L1 as Notts Forest came and offered me an interview they were also in L1.
They had zero money to spend and over the wage budget also, I missed out on the playoffs by 2 points on final day.
I resigned straight away - I wasn’t feeling the forest project.
Halifax were eventually relegated

Had a new job within 2 weeks with Burton as there manager replaced me at Forest.
Burton already feels like a much better club

Mc Love · 02-03-2018 2:48pm

Lads the new scouting thing is a joke! Have no transfer budget so no budget for scouting. fecking disgrace

Sin City · 05-03-2018 9:01am

Back again after being on lockdown with the blizzard

So after winning the title with Burton and the Champions League I have taken Burton as far as I can and AC Milan came calling

AC Milan have a had their squad decimated by the bigger teams and so I had to rebuild and try and convince a wantaway Bonnuci to stick around for another campaign

The Italian rules on Non European players is head wrecking but a better challenge

Cant get a Spanish feeder club which would be handy for getting my Latin Americans EU nationality

Have two South Americans who are ridiculously good but cant be registered as they are non EU and even when Seville came calling for a loan move my two decided to reject the loan offer and train with my club

The Director of football again is being used and Massimo decided what the Milan team and public wanted and needed was Man Utd and Swedish center back Victor Lindleorff and spent a lot of the clubs money on him

Massimo though did redeem himself though as he spotted some French wonder kid regen who could be pretty handy in the future

Seria A has been dominated by Juve the last few seasons, with Napoli Fiorintina Lazio and even Inter coming in as runner ups, Can my new AC Milan cause an upset and dominate again

Time will tell

Mc Love · 05-03-2018 11:42am

Started using the DoF myself to try and find players. So far signed two players they've suggested although I dont know why they've gone straight into the reserve team

Sin City · 05-03-2018 12:20pm

Mc Love wrote: »

Started using the DoF myself to try and find players. So far signed two players they've suggested although I dont know why they've gone straight into the reserve team

I suppose it can depend on the age and current ability
They may not be good enough yet for the first

Did you check their coach report?

How good is your DoF at scouting players?

Sin City · 07-03-2018 1:25pm

Getting to the stage now where I have more new gens than real players
Some of these new gens are amazing but costly
and some are lazy constantly complaining about high training

Welcome to the big leagues lads
None of your old clubs mickey mouse training

You train hard and play hard or you can go back to some obscure team in the back arse of the globe

Non EU signings rules in Italy really suck though

I could find the new Messi but cant play him until a year later or until I can get him an EU citizenship by loaning him out to Spain..... If he agrees to it

Kerrydude1981 · 07-03-2018 2:47pm

After getting promoted with Everton,the start to the PL has being a roller coaster,shipped heavy beatings to Utd and Liverpool,then went on a run of winning games,beating Arsenal 3-1 and Chelsea 2-0 during this run,Swansea brought this to a halt losing 3-1

Have been floating around 10th place,so not too bad so far

Sin City · 07-03-2018 2:57pm

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

After getting promoted with Everton,the start to the PL has being a roller coaster,shipped heavy beatings to Utd and Liverpool,then went on a run of winning games,beating Arsenal 3-1 and Chelsea 2-0 during this run,Swansea brought this to a halt losing 3-1

Have been floating around 10th place,so not too bad so far

Give it a season or 2 and Madrid will start sniffing around Sandro
Should give you some transfer money to play around with

When I played as Everton before my new save Madrid took him and PSG took Micheal Keane for crazy money and I brough in some South African Defender called Coaetze or something who was even better than Keane

Plus raid South America before Brexit kicks in
if its a hard Brexit like in my game its gonna be impossible to sign forigners unless they have plenty of international experience

A Brad Maddox Guy · 07-03-2018 8:00pm

Which is a hard Brexit? The one I got in my save that's is the maximum of 17 non-UK players but I've had no issues signing South Americans. I've even got an uncapped 19 yr old Colombian striker joining from the MLS in January.

Second season in the premiership with Luton is going even better than the first so far. It's Christmas, we're in 5th and through to the Europa League knockouts. Had a really tough run in December so far against Chelsea, Leicester, Liverpool, Arsenal & Man City while having loads of injuries. Chelsea hammered us, we beat Liverpool and drew the rest so it went better than expected. In that time everyone I've played up front also got injured so I had to go with the Chelsea approach of no strikers against City. My keeper Joel Perreira was a man possessed.

One team I cannot play against though is Man Utd, in 3 league games against them there's a combined score of 13-2. Their team is ridiculous and they're starting to dominate England again with 4 titles in the last 5 seasons and over 90 points in 3 of those. In 16 games this season they've conceded 6 goals.

Sin City · 08-03-2018 10:01am

A Brad Maddox Guy wrote: »

Which is a hard Brexit? The one I got in my save that's is the maximum of 17 non-UK players but I've had no issues signing South Americans. I've even got an uncapped 19 yr old Colombian striker joining from the MLS in January.

Second season in the premiership with Luton is going even better than the first so far. It's Christmas, we're in 5th and through to the Europa League knockouts. Had a really tough run in December so far against Chelsea, Leicester, Liverpool, Arsenal & Man City while having loads of injuries. Chelsea hammered us, we beat Liverpool and drew the rest so it went better than expected. In that time everyone I've played up front also got injured so I had to go with the Chelsea approach of no strikers against City. My keeper Joel Perreira was a man possessed.

One team I cannot play against though is Man Utd, in 3 league games against them there's a combined score of 13-2. Their team is ridiculous and they're starting to dominate England again with 4 titles in the last 5 seasons and over 90 points in 3 of those. In 16 games this season they've conceded 6 goals.

The game has a few Brexit scenarios
A hard a medium and a soft
Id say you have the soft one where you can sign anyone

Always Be Closing · 08-03-2018 10:10am

If I delete a saved steam cloud save is it gone for good? No way of getting it back?

hots · 08-03-2018 11:01am

A Brad Maddox Guy wrote: »

Which is a hard Brexit? The one I got in my save that's is the maximum of 17 non-UK players but I've had no issues signing South Americans. I've even got an uncapped 19 yr old Colombian striker joining from the MLS in January.

Second season in the premiership with Luton is going even better than the first so far. It's Christmas, we're in 5th and through to the Europa League knockouts. Had a really tough run in December so far against Chelsea, Leicester, Liverpool, Arsenal & Man City while having loads of injuries. Chelsea hammered us, we beat Liverpool and drew the rest so it went better than expected. In that time everyone I've played up front also got injured so I had to go with the Chelsea approach of no strikers against City. My keeper Joel Perreira was a man possessed.

One team I cannot play against though is Man Utd, in 3 league games against them there's a combined score of 13-2. Their team is ridiculous and they're starting to dominate England again with 4 titles in the last 5 seasons and over 90 points in 3 of those. In 16 games this season they've conceded 6 goals.

Hard is no non-UK players unless they are getting massive wages or have played substantial portion of international games for their country. That's what I've got

ELM327 · 08-03-2018 11:06am

hots wrote: »

Hard is no non-UK players unless they are getting massive wages or have played substantial portion of international games for their country. That's what I've got

Is that the one with the points score for incoming transfers based on experience and transfer fee?
That's what I got in my recent Celtic save.

hots · 08-03-2018 11:37am

ELM327 wrote: »

Is that the one with the points score for incoming transfers based on experience and transfer fee?
That's what I got in my recent Celtic save.

Yup, mine defintiely had a category for salary too but I'd say it's the same. Missed out on a load of gems already in the first window, very curious to see how it affects english player prices too.

ELM327 · 08-03-2018 11:56am

It hasnt happened yet, I'm just at the end of the 3rd season so it's implemented shortly.
Stacked the team with as many prospects as I could in anticipation!

hots · 08-03-2018 12:00pm

ELM327 wrote: »

It hasnt happened yet, I'm just at the end of the 3rd season so it's implemented shortly.
Stacked the team with as many prospects as I could in anticipation!

Got me at the end of the second season and I wasn't so well prepared!

Sin City · 08-03-2018 12:13pm

ELM327 wrote: »

It hasnt happened yet, I'm just at the end of the 3rd season so it's implemented shortly.
Stacked the team with as many prospects as I could in anticipation!

Bare in mind when your reneweing their contracts you could be caught out aswell if its a hard brexit

ELM327 · 08-03-2018 12:21pm

I've got the most important ones on 4 year contracts with a 3 year team option so hopefully that should go through!

Sin City · 08-03-2018 12:39pm

ELM327 wrote: »

I've got the most important ones on 4 year contracts with a 3 year team option so hopefully that should go through!

As long as they can get some international games in the 4 years you should be alright
Can be hit and miss if they are playing in their countries underage teams though

Plus their national team has to be of a certain ranking

A Brad Maddox Guy · 08-03-2018 3:06pm

I may consider myself lucky so cos the British regen talent in my game hasn't been great and they're priced ridiculously high. Brexit struck when I was in league 1 so I didn't really pay attention to it much until now.

IvySlayer · 12-03-2018 9:29pm

A Brad Maddox Guy wrote: »

Which is a hard Brexit? The one I got in my save that's is the maximum of 17 non-UK players but I've had no issues signing South Americans. I've even got an uncapped 19 yr old Colombian striker joining from the MLS in January.

Second season in the premiership with Luton is going even better than the first so far. It's Christmas, we're in 5th and through to the Europa League knockouts. Had a really tough run in December so far against Chelsea, Leicester, Liverpool, Arsenal & Man City while having loads of injuries. Chelsea hammered us, we beat Liverpool and drew the rest so it went better than expected. In that time everyone I've played up front also got injured so I had to go with the Chelsea approach of no strikers against City. My keeper Joel Perreira was a man possessed.

One team I cannot play against though is Man Utd, in 3 league games against them there's a combined score of 13-2. Their team is ridiculous and they're starting to dominate England again with 4 titles in the last 5 seasons and over 90 points in 3 of those. In 16 games this season they've conceded 6 goals.

Man Utd are insane in my save too. It's always me and them for the title. They won 2 and I won 2. They won 2 CLs, I won 1. Lewandonksi, Griezmann to name a few, and they are scouting Hazard who is at Real Madrid. City are useless and always unsettle my players.

Meanwhile at Tottenham my board won't budge on the transfer or the wage budget

OptimusTractor · 14-03-2018 2:15am

No more yearly wage rise, appearance or unused sub fees for my players.

ELM327 · 14-03-2018 8:48am

OptimusTractor wrote: »

No more yearly wage rise, appearance or unused sub fees for my players.

Is that by choice, or?
I usually give 10% annual increase and a 3 year club option. Essentially a 7 year contract, only for when players become too good for the club. So I can keep them for 6 years then sell, instead of 2.5

Like Dembele/Kluivert at Celtic for instance.

Mc Love · 14-03-2018 9:44am

I'll have to look into that 3 year club option, I do, do it for my good youth players.

Won two straight promotions, two league titles with Blackburn with little to no money for transfers, got surprised by the board when they offered me 32 million for transfer meaning I could finally scout players. Due to receive over 90 million in TV funding for the season which is mega! Didnt realise it was that much these days.

We've been predicted to finish dead last, but I think we're going to surprise a few.

ELM327 · 14-03-2018 9:49am

Mc Love wrote: »

I'll have to look into that 3 year club option, I do, do it for my good youth players.

Won two straight promotions, two league titles with Blackburn with little to no money for transfers, got surprised by the board when they offered me 32 million for transfer meaning I could finally scout players. Due to receive over 90 million in TV funding for the season which is mega! Didnt realise it was that much these days.

We've been predicted to finish dead last, but I think we're going to surprise a few.

The option is great. Means your players can't be stolen as easily because you know when their 4 year contract is winding down you've got another 3 years in your pocket.

At Celtic I only sign players either below 22 (club philosophy) or as older free agents. The option keeps a 22 year old at the club till 29/30, so it ties down the contract and keeps Real Madrid/PSG at bay.

OptimusTractor · 14-03-2018 10:35am

ELM327 wrote: »

Is that by choice, or?
I usually give 10% annual increase and a 3 year club option. Essentially a 7 year contract, only for when players become too good for the club. So I can keep them for 6 years then sell, instead of 2.5

Like Dembele/Kluivert at Celtic for instance.

By choice. I find them to be needless clauses.

tvercetti · 14-03-2018 2:40pm

I go for all 5 year contracts, No Annual Increase, No Release Clauses, No Wage Increase after a set number of games.

I flat out refuse to discuss New Contracts until they are down to 2 years remaining and when they come looking, I tell them they're "an Influential member and we wont be discussing a new contract" and they seem to drop it straight away.

After reading it here last week, I did add a 3 year option to a young player. If I had known about it, I would have added it to more players when I first started as I'm 4 seasons in now and having to give alot of new contracts.

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I'm 4 seasons in and dominating. I planned on making no signings this summer as I have pretty much 2 equally talented players for every position. But I'm after realising I cant register them all due to only 5 being trained in England.

It wasn't an issue last season due to a couple of players being still U21. Signing Christensen at Chelsea would solve my problem by selling on a foreigner and they have accepted a £17 million offer from Barca but still want over £70 million from me.

Chelsea have a beast team in my game, alot of the best young players in the game, Asensio, Dybala, Barca's Dembele, Fiorentina's Chiesa, Alex Sandro, Bayerns Sule along with Courtois, Hazard, Morata, Kante, Babayoko.

OptimusTractor · 14-03-2018 2:58pm

It's ridiculous though. Am I paying someone 70+ a week to train only. Next they'll want compensation for wearing the away jersey.

ELM327 · 14-03-2018 3:01pm

OptimusTractor wrote: »

It's ridiculous though. Am I paying someone 70+ a week to train only. Next they'll want compensation for wearing the away jersey.

But sure it's the same with the first team squad players. You'd generally have a squad of 20-25. Only a max of 14 can get a game each week.

Mc Love · 14-03-2018 4:54pm

I've noticed it's easier to buy players now, often for less than their value, which is a great feature. Players still complaining about not playing even though they didnt convince me last time I gave them a chance. I tend to make more available for reserves has reduced the amount of moaners.

TheDoc · 14-03-2018 6:51pm

Hmmm.

Havn't gotten onto the latest version, always get a little buzz this time of year to play FM and do so for a few months. Not sure to just throw up 2017 or to buy 2018.

Always keep tabs with the CM 00/01 and the community that keep that updated, and I see their data update dropping soon.

Sin City · 15-03-2018 10:46am

Had a laugh with the editor yesterday
Gave all the LOI clubs excellent facilities both young and senior
didnt give them any budgets though and they have produced a number of wonderkids,
pretty funny seeing all these wonderkids being snapped up by all the European leagues

Ireland may actually qualify for tournament now

Mc Love · 16-03-2018 9:04am

Here's a question that is puzzling me, on paper my first choice keeper is much better than my second choice but my second choice always plays better and gets better match ratings.

Sin City · 16-03-2018 11:58am

Mc Love wrote: »

Here's a question that is puzzling me, on paper my first choice keeper is much better than my second choice but my second choice always plays better and gets better match ratings.

Play the second choice keeper

Sin City · 16-03-2018 12:17pm

Going back to my edited game
Ireland have unearthed a Conglese (born in Ennis) winger who after a brief look at his potential is seen as a wonderkid

Snapped up by West Ham and in hes first season is the leading assist rankings and has chipped in with 10 goals
Might have either an Mbappe or Duff on our hands

United have snapped up a young Limerick midfielder who could be the next Paul Scholes and Barcelona are sniffing around a young LOI goalkeeper

If only life came with an in game editor

Mc Love · 16-03-2018 6:03pm

Sin City wrote: »

Play the second choice keeper

I think i might have to. Finding it a lot tougher in the Premier league. Will need to bring in a few more quality players next season unless board gives me money for January transfer window

Sin City · 16-03-2018 6:23pm

Mc Love wrote: »

I think i might have to. Finding it a lot tougher in the Premier league. Will need to bring in a few more quality players next season unless board gives me money for January transfer window

Theres always a handy keeper around
usually outside of the prem for cheap

SureYWouldntYa · 24-03-2018 11:04pm

I hate when you start a new career and every time you're close to signing a player some bigger team comes in for them and takes them

I've tried to sign 5 different left wingers as AC Milan but losing heart now

threein99 · 24-03-2018 11:11pm

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

I hate when you start a new career and every time you're close to signing a player some bigger team comes in for them and takes them

I've tried to sign 5 different left wingers as AC Milan but losing heart now

Bonaventura is excellent for Milan. Jesus Corona is a really good winger.

Just finished my first season with them, finished second to Juve

SureYWouldntYa · 24-03-2018 11:22pm

threein99 wrote: »

Bonaventura is excellent for Milan. Jesus Corona is a really good winger.

Just finished my first season with them, finished second to Juve

He'll be my first choice LW but he's 2nd choice in several other positions so need another LW

Can't imagine I'll do that well, 4th is all I'm aiming for with this squad. Corona is one of few wingers left in my price bracket so I'll prob be onto him, was disappointed M'Baye Niang was an obilgation to buy as I've liked him as far back as FM10

threein99 · 24-03-2018 11:31pm

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

He'll be my first choice LW but he's 2nd choice in several other positions so need another LW

Can't imagine I'll do that well, 4th is all I'm aiming for with this squad. Corona is one of few wingers left in my price bracket so I'll prob be onto him, was disappointed M'Baye Niang was an obilgation to buy as I've liked him as far back as FM10

Jesus ended up ousting Suso on the right once Bonaventura was fit to play on the left. Silva upfront got 23 in 29 league games.

SureYWouldntYa · 24-03-2018 11:38pm

threein99 wrote: »

Jesus ended up ousting Suso on the right once Bonaventura was fit to play on the left. Silva upfront got 23 in 29 league games.

Silva does look like he can become world class as does Kessie, quite set in a few positions and I like that at the start of a career as any sort of full rebuild takes ages

Sin City · 26-03-2018 9:12am

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

I hate when you start a new career and every time you're close to signing a player some bigger team comes in for them and takes them

I've tried to sign 5 different left wingers as AC Milan but losing heart now

Suso is a decent winger for Milan

Sin City · 26-03-2018 9:14am

Still messing with my editor game

League of ireland are now producing world class players

They cant hold on to them though

Plus the league is getting premier league players going over

Football Manager 2018

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