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We have to move out of our new stadium whilst it's expanded. We're moving into Wembley Should be class for the revenue next year.
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I made a database for FM23 that gave them 100 points deductions every year until they dropped out of the National League North, as well as a 20 year transfer ban.Is it petty that I give City a 100-point deduction in every game I start?
Not routinely, but I want to try a save with some self imposed rules at some point this year.Anyone have any weird & wonderful self imposed rules when they play?
Mine is no Brazilian wonderkids. It’s been like this for as long as I can remember for me, it always feels a bit like cheating for whatever reason.
I’ll farm a wonderkid from Brazil every now & then early in a save but they’re not playing for my first team. I’m looking for loan fees & a payday then once my team are doing well financially I just ignore any recommendations.
I’ve always preferred scouting that random wonderkid from Albania otherwise I go for a homegrown feel, I won the World Cup with 13 of the squad playing for me. I’ve set a target of going into a tournament with all the players from my squad.
Anyone else?
I like the tall player idea. On FM22 I managed HSV & went for players over 180cm only. I massively believe that physicals overpower technicals in this game. If your player is 180+ with a decent set of physicals he’s going to score crosses for example. Same with a big energetic midfielder, he’s going to crash the box better.Not routinely, but I want to try a save with some self imposed rules at some point this year.
It's likely to be based off only signing players from a certain nationality or a bit of a weird one - tall players only, preferably while playing hoofball although the game engine really doesn't like that style at all.
Some way off doing as I'm still happy with my current save but already thinking about potential clubs. I want the save to have a story.
For the nation only thing it's a case of finding just the right level of challnge. I'm sure it's easy to win the Brazilian Serie A and Libertadores with Brazilian only players, that wouldn't take much. Some other challenges might be too difficult. Was thinking of seeing how far I could go with one of the Welsh teams based inside the English league system while only using Welsh players but I'm hugely doubtful I could ever win the Premier League or Champions League with those restrictions. Even a domestic cup might be too optimistic.
For the tall players save I'm on the hunt for teams nicknamed the giants, or giant iconography in their club crest referencing local folklore etc.
In both cases I have a huge preference for teams in low divisions.
Why? I was at school with a lad who was 6ft8. Not that unusual probably.Talking of tall players I've just had a 15 year old midfielder come through my youth intake and he's 6ft7. Feels a bit ridiculous.
They really do need to incorporate a ‘growing’ aspect to height in the game.Talking of tall players I've just had a 15 year old midfielder come through my youth intake and he's 6ft7. Feels a bit ridiculous.
That height at 15? That’s a fully grown Peter Crouch. If he reached it at 18/19 that might make more sense.Why? I was at school with a lad who was 6ft8. Not that unusual probably.
I think I’m going to reduce his height using the editor. But I’ll have to try and block out anything else so I don’t accidentally see his PA.They really do need to incorporate a ‘growing’ aspect to height in the game.
Per above you get the odd anomaly but it’s really annoying when I get a 162cm regen that’s just going to be that height forever regardless of statistical growth.
Yeah, when I was in secondary school. He was so much bigger than anyone else and the teachersThat height at 15? That’s a fully grown Peter Crouch. If he reached it at 18/19 that might make more sense.
Yeah, you get the odd lad in probably nearly every school who is really early into puberty or has a big growth spurt or something. Don't think it's that unusual.We had a lad at school that was 14 but had a full beard, was crazy.
Have you nuked City?Snuck into 3rd in the end. What a weak league. I should be winning it next season.
I won the FA Cup as well to add to the Carabao I won. Knocked out Chelsea, Utd and Soton on the way so I only had to beat Championship Sheffield Utd in the final.
Yeah think they got relegated from the Championship this same season.Have you nuked City?
Also, Spurs surviving by one goal and Liverpool in the bottom half.
Yes, the tall player idea is tempting in the future. Probably being silly wanting the club name or crest to fit in with the theme but I think it would make the save more meaningful on some level.I like the tall player idea. On FM22 I managed HSV & went for players over 180cm only. I massively believe that physicals overpower technicals in this game. If your player is 180+ with a decent set of physicals he’s going to score crosses for example. Same with a big energetic midfielder, he’s going to crash the box better.
That Welsh one in England would be difficult. You’d have to scout every regen immediately & get them young. I’ve noticed, even though managing in Italy, that Citeh seem to regen lots of talented Welsh players.
For me though, it’s usually start at the lowest playable league in a country then dominate. I’d love to start a journeyman save but I get too involved with my club to the point I can’t leave.
If I was back playing on PC I’d download a massive database then start somewhere like Indonesia looking to work my way up but with FM touch I generally start as far down the pyramid in a country with a fallen giant.
Same here,I found a skin on FM24 that closely resembles a little bit of CM 0102 and it's just about finding a team I can settle on, too much information kinda bores the crap out of me but last time I got into it I was RB Leipzig so I may goto Anderlecht or RB Salzburg then build up and join a bigger teamJust spent an enjoyable hour catching up on some of this thread - especially the exploits of St Margaretsbury and Fairford Town.
I used to play Championship Manager (as it was then) obsessively when it first came out and up to the mid 2000''s.
But by then it had started getting increasingly more detailed and taking longer and longer to play seasons - and crashing more often on my computer. So I just stuck with one of the best versions prior to all the additions - the 01/02 season (Maxim Tsigalko, To Madeira, etc) - whenever I played it. But then it started to feel outdated in terms of the squads, and none of the newer real life star players were in it, so I gradually stopped playing it. And by then it was pretty much the only game I was still playing so that factored into it to I suppose.
But reading this thread always makes me nostalgic and tempted to play it again - though it seems the games carried on getting ever more detailed and convoluted and sounds like it requires even more of a time commitment to play it!
Love to see it.Yeah think they got relegated from the Championship this same season.
Left Dortmund after 3 seasons (2 titles) and joined PSG after Enrique retired. Currently tearing up French league so will hopefully win everything I need to and keep hoping United sack Enzo Maresca as they’ve win feck all and are currently 10thTrying my own little experiment to see if I can win the league in each of Holland, Spain, France, Germany and England.
Started off jobless and took over at Ajax where I won the league and Conference league in my first season. Left to go to Madrid after they potted Ancelotti for finishing 3rd and promptly won 2 leagues and a couple of cups in 2 and a half years. Took the Newcastle job when it came up half way through the season while they were 16th seeing if I could keep them up then build, but the fans never took to me and I got sacked at the end of the season for not qualifying for Europe.
took the vacant Dortmund job in pre season and won the league on the last day by a point and then did the double beating Union Berlin in the cup.
waiting for the United job to come up so I can bring the glory days back before heading to France to complete the set.
champions league is on my list but should’ve won it with Madrid as I’ll never have another team that good again.
Won the treble with PSG to complete France and then noticed that Uniteds manager was “insecure” so I basically registered my interest to oil the wheels of his departure. PSG then sacked me for flirting with United but then once I was free they binned off the manager and now my career plan to bring United back to the top after winning a league title in Holland, France, Germany and Spain is almost done within 10 years.Left Dortmund after 3 seasons (2 titles) and joined PSG after Enrique retired. Currently tearing up French league so will hopefully win everything I need to and keep hoping United sack Enzo Maresca as they’ve win feck all and are currently 10th
I put them in the championship and they spent like 400 million on players like Jota and Marcus ThuramLove to see it.
I'd like to create a database where they've just been dumped in the lowest possible league (Manchester League Division Two or something) as a phoenix club. Probably do Chelsea too.
Just seems a right faff sorting out all of the various division rules, so it's easier to just strip all their income, load them with debt, give them a 10 year transfer ban and slap them 100 point deductions every season until they get relegated into oblivion.
Is that the Ben White? Also Bacary Sagna's cousin or something?Almost halfway though the season in League One with Fairford and we've hit a sticky run of form. We're playing ok, just keep running into opponents who are more clinical than us in front of goal. The xG gods are hating us in general, and then we find silly ways to throw away points. Slight cause for concern regarding relegation but hopefully we'll be fine.
Had a takeover go through after rumours about it going on for years. No tycoon, we got a £140k investment into the club. I'm fine with that as the the other proposed bidder was talking about replacing me!
It's not The Ben White! A newgen striker on loan from Middlesbrough Not a very imaginitve name for the algorithm to spit out.Is that the Ben White? Also Bacary Sagna's cousin or something?