YEP its ****ed. ive got this with my new foreign striker. No Idea how its happenedQuote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
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YEP its ****ed. ive got this with my new foreign striker. No Idea how its happenedQuote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Got a loan GK in... who is far superior to the guy I was signing. Unfortunately he is costing 2k a week... so only on loan till the window arrives.
Oh and all backup squaddies wanting close to 4k a week
Boogaard and the Hoff were both happy to take reduced salaries with one week left before departure. Hoff was a good option to keep, Boogs is now FA.
Will Keane after his top scorer year (19 in all comps) has just been called up to and scored his first goal for Northern Ireland. Not bad for a Man Utd prospect, I guess.
Changi Airport is a great layover spot for a few hours of FM.
Mali won the African Nations Cup in 2019, qualifying for the 2021 Confed Cup. Unfortunately, it's on at the same time as the 2021 ACN, so Mali B will be playing in the Confed Cup.
I left the jets and now manage st Mirren in the SPL
I'm now the Socceroos manager. Albert Zaccheroni was sacked after a 0-0-3 confederation cup, including an 8-0 loss to Brazil.
Arnold left Socceroos after first season when Muscat got the sack and took over MV
Your kidding Albert Zaccheroni that bloke coached the socceroos in my save as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
It's amazing how good Jackson is in game.
AgreedQuote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
the whole trasnfer window registration is a little bit screwed with me at the moment too...
I.e Transfer window is closed, I sign a free agent, yet he doesnt sign on until january.
However the competition final registration window is then afterwards... Annoying...
Its a bug I thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by goaliepersempre
Just had this guy come in through my youth intake. Instantly into starting line up next to Jackson.
https://i.imgur.com/1bhevQu.png
And instantly upgraded to senior contract for 4 years. He has the highest potential in the squad according to my Ass Man and is also good enough to go straight into Socceroos.
WTF
holy shitQuote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
I won't get to see him develop as I have accepted a new roll at Preston North End, battling relegation in the Championship. Zero transfer budget for January window, £70k over wage budget, £10m loss season to date.
Nigel Clough was the manager. He had a decent start, unbeaten in the first month but then a bit of a roller coaster... 5 losses, 2 wins and a draw to end of September 1 win, 2 draws and 2 losses for October... and then winless till sacking in January. I've gone 3 wins, 3 draws since taking over so out of relegation zone for now.
Letting the club captain go as he appears to have pissed off everyone in the dressing room and the fans, so my first act was to punt him and receive a huge boost to fan and dressing room approval. I then managed to galvanise the support of the squad after one player tried to force a move to the Prem League and the rest of the squad supported me over him. Hoping that getting upper mid table might be enough to satisfy him as he looks to be pretty great.
4 games to go, safety confirmed. 14 points clear of relegation, 13 points behind the playoff spots. Firmly entrenched in mid table, one spot behind media prediction at start of season but hopefully can crack top 10 with a strong final 4 games. Two against relegation battlers, two against teams pushing playoff spots.
Comfortably securing promotion in second season.
At Asian Cup now... SF against SK.
Starting line up
Ryan
Jets Regen - Sainsbury - L. Jackson (yep) - Gersbach
Luongo - Adelaide Regen
Arzani - Rogic - Mabil
Jets Regen
That Jets regen DC would be starting too but is suspended. There's Victory, Glory and two City regens on the bench as well.
Am almost certainly going to lose. Scraped 1-0 against Japan, got thrashed by Qatar and smashed Palestine in the groups and snuck by Saudi Arabia in the second round before destroying Syria.
Picked up FM2020, having a mess around in the beta.
Turns out all the Jets need to be decent is to sign Tom Adeyemi on a free transfer and not have any injuries.
Also Jowic is "on sabbatical" till 30th June 2020 but was somehow eligible to randomly play in ONE of the FFA cup fixtures.
Did you start in the ACL, I did and had all our good youth players as different roles. Langois was a strikerQuote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Nope, listed as Knocked out in Group Stage for ACL qualification.Quote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
Langlois was absolute garbage and got released.
Yeah The Jets as well as the Aleague need new researchersQuote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Started another game with maybe 15 countries and 30+ leagues loaded, get a better feel for things in a grander game and as Socceroos manager.
Langlois is a right winger now and much better. Clearly random position and random ability.
Missed on Adeyemi - with a bunch more leagues loaded, he signed for a League One team :(
Yeah the Yoof being random roles is a bug and has been for years. Need to edit him in the editor when it comes outQuote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Day before transfer window closes, Arroyo gets a 6 week injury. Got Toure on loan from Adelaide - they clearly don't rate him in FM land.
Day after transfer window closes, Wessi gets a 2 month injury. Now playing Fitz in the middle with Petratos and Millar as wingers. Fitz has been amazing on the wing... even after missing 4 weeks with a thigh strain, he is top scorer with 14, one ahead of Arroyo.
Should just add clarification... that's including cup games whilst Arroyo was still not part of the squad, including a pair of 4 goal games in 10-0 and 14-0 wins against Quinns FC and Wollongong United in the FFA Cup. He only has 6 goals that mean anything in the league.
I was really looking forward to attempting the San Marino challenge again this year but turns out the club, San Marino Calcio, folded and was reestablished outside of San Marino. That means no Sammarinese club to develop youth in to one day win the world cup :(
However, it looks like there might be a ready made replacement with FC Andorra in the Spanish Second Division B3 being a decent gateway into the Andorra Challenge. That's significantly easier (ha) as they are a solid 70 world rankings ahead of San Marino, so should only take 25 or so years to achieve instead of 40.
Has there ever been a real season that went down to the wire like this?
I had a chance to go top, completely dominated Sydney but lost in typical Jets fashion. 63% possession, 470 completed passes to their 250 attempted, 23 shots... only 7 on target. Looking at stats, had 12 shots from midfield with only 2 from Dimi being on target.
https://i.imgur.com/rw8xHPV.png
Final round of games is Jets vs Western United and Nix vs WSW. I can go top even if Nix win, just by winning by a at least one more than they do as my Scored is better than theirs.
Also a battle for the spoon in the last round with Perth hosting Mariners.
I just got flogged against WSW 4-0 in my 3rd FFA Cup game, Should've been 6 or 7 nil. Couldn't do anything Jets squad is rubbish this season which reflects real life I guess
All the goals I concede seem to be long hoofs behind slow defenders or bombs from outside the box. Never seem to concede well constructed football goals.
What formation are you playing? I was going to say I don't understand how you are getting flogged but I was on the end of a 4-0 thrashing at home against Victory. But still, the FM squad is nicely built, I reckon. Only signing I have made is a central midfielder. Playing a 4231 like we would be without injuries with Wes in behind Arroyo and Fitz/Dimi on the flanks. Fullbacks on attack, overlapping with the wingers playing narrow. Burns and Hoff are top of the assists with 11 and 10 each respectively. And that's why Dimi and Fitz are scoring so many for me because they are coming late on the far post. And Arroyo's main source of goals is getting onto quick breaks behind defenders.Quote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
Anyway... job done. 3-1 win on Friday night, helped by Kone getting sent off around the hour mark.
4-2-3-1 both CMs and DMs with similar tactics to you but no idea what happened. it was like 3 shots to 17 I couldnt do anythingQuote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Yeboah scores in the second minute, Hooper and Conway score for Nix to make it 2-1 after an hour. If they had scored one more, I was done but thankfully some WSW regen scored in the 89th minute. Premiers, woo... and on 49 points. That's less than we got two years ago when we were miles behind Sydney. Would have only got fourth spot last year as well.
I don't play with DM's unless Wes is out or defending a big lead. And even when he is out, I played Fitz at AM a bit. And even if I played with a DM, it was only ever one and still hard pressing, high tempo counter. Never played defensive.Quote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
I reckon the squad in game is just a quality CM away from being good. Ugarkovic and Adeyemi were fantastic in first save, Ugarkovic and Alexandre Vincent were fantastic in current save.
2-1 win in the semi final to set up a home grand final... which I am not confident about, regardless of who wins.
Lost Boogaard and Millar before the game. Boogs out for 3 weeks, Millar for 2 months. Burns got murdered in a tackle in the win, out for 3 weeks.
Back line is going to be Hoff/Kanta/Topor/Jackson :(
Edit - nope. Kanta has suffered an injury. Might be Topor and some youth player. Or maybe move Hoff to the left and Ridenton on the right.
Beat the gypos round 1 which is all that matters 3-1. Fitzy and Millar could be a dangerous combo
I won 3-0. Arroyo, Wes and Fitz with goals.
Extended Burns for a second year, Arroyo declined extension though. Kept Theoharous.
Dimi feels he needs to move to a bigger stage so if anyone comes in with $1.5m, he can go. Jowic can play there now anyway.
Italiano and Langlois released plus a bunch of youth.
Hoping to offload Ridenton, Koutroumbis and Maki Petratos plus two youth players.
Upgrading Ridenton to Melling who will compete with Ugarkovic and be DM preference over Kanta.
Really need to get a striker in. Hoping to get a decent loan signing in. About to pass 30th June so should be a lot of free agent strikers available.
Jacob Melling? GEEZUS. Also how does Thurgate develop for you? And sounds like your in season 3 alreadyQuote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Thurgate is trash. So bad I think I released him very early before the first window closed.
And yes, Melling. He's miles better than Ridenton and Kanta. Better defensively than Ugar.
Full game out, started off my long term unemployed nuffy game. Mid July, a club in Swedish Second Division South Svealand offers me a gig. They tell me that I just need to survive relegation and stay within the wage budget. Easy peasy.
I take the job without looking... they are 3-1-13, just one point adrift of safety. Easy peasy.
Except the squad is 1 GK, 4 DC, 5 MC, 1 ST and they are all complete and utter shit. And they are already over wage budget of £235 per week. I figure if I am already going to blow the wage budget, I might as well get an entirely new team... which I do. But that destroys any sense of team cohesion and I come to the last game of the season with my record at 1-1-7. Despite that record, I have still maintained my third last position and though I can't get automatic safety, a win in my final game will at least lock me into a playoff spot against some non-league team. I could even get it with a loss as the teams below are playing 1st and 4th on the ladder. The squad is utter trash, even with the new additions. My top scorer has THREE... the entire club has 12.
Don't see my contract being extended though, regardless of results. I have blown the wage budget by a whopping £101 per week and the club is in £10k debt. So.... farewell AFK Linköping. Thanks for a less than auspicious start to my career!
And yep. Lost 2-0 to seal relegation and immediate sacking. 1 shot on target... story of the half season.
Wow that's rough. Players not listening or just shitQuote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Players shit... but I also jumped into it ready to use my successful tactic from the Jets game in beta. Apparently you need to be able to hit a 5m pass though for that to work and this lot were terrible. After 6 losses, I switched to route one but my striker couldn't score in a brother with a fistful of fifties.Quote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
Some astoundingly bad tactical nous on my behalf though.