I don't find it to be too complicated. I find just being reasonable and not making promises I don't/can't keep to be the key.
You'll be grand when you've got that European money rolling in every year. Becomes easy enough once you start getting money like that.Bit of a reality check, was almost thinking I could win the league at the last update:
Rangers have Jesse Lingard, Joelinton and Hamza Choudhury as names I recognise, Celtic Alfie Mawson. Way way above the standard of players I have. We just agreed to take Airdrie's goalie on a free from Scottish League 1 when his contract expires and he wants to be backup on £475 a week but little does he know he's good enough to be first choice. Huge gulf in standards between us and the Old Firm.
Still, delighted with the way it's going, should really finish 4th at worst at this point.
Hope so! Really want to hunt the top 2 down eventually.
Thanks for this, he ended up dropping the promise just like you said, after some more playing time. It wasn't designed, just coincidence that we had some injuries, he got game time and then the January window ended. He said no club was interested in him so he was happy to stay now after the window closed. Took 4 windows to get there.
And thanks for that too! I used to have this thing, and I don't know if it worked where pre-match I'd give the whole team a calm talk then give assertive ones to groups of players. Half time would be assertive overall (occasional angry if losing) followed by passionate. Back to calm post-match most of the time.
Here you go... Click meOh, good to know if you happen to find something like this for FM21 please let me know.
The whole game works on background reputation ratings. Piss a player off & the rating drops and so on....
My rule for FM 12-20 was calm pre game, inspire HT & build up/praise at FT. Now calm has gone for 21 it's proven mildly more interesting.
Quite interesting that. Maybe it’s a reflection on the SPL more than anythingInteresting player I noticed, surprised he's scored so many. He's quick, very quick, but then there's some really poor stats too.
Might expect him to miss loads of chances with 7 for finishing but no, comfortably ahead of his XG.
Edit: 93% pass completion percentage in the league with a 3 for passing!
I was looking at signing him this year as a backup player. His stats look great and rubbish at the same time but he seems to be decently rated. I had a lad like him in my early days. Terrible stats but still scored 20-30 goals a season.Interesting player I noticed, surprised he's scored so many. He's quick, very quick, but then there's some really poor stats too.
Might expect him to miss loads of chances with 7 for finishing but no, comfortably ahead of his XG.
Edit: 93% pass completion percentage in the league with a 3 for passing!
I think I have to offload McTomminey. Pre-Season meeting goes like this.
Me: Alright well done last season on winning the league, let's do it again this year.
McTom: Are you crazy? That's way too ambitious, how do you expect us to do that. We have no chance with scrubs like Haaland and Mbappé in attack.
Me: -_- Alright, let's move on then. After we won the CL last year I think we should definitely aim to get to the final again.
Team: What? Only the Final, that's way to unambitious we should aim higher.
Me: Alright let's win it then, I like a bit of ambition.
Team: Well we are not sure about that, but okay.
Me: Oo
Me: Alright let's move on then, we won the FA-Cup last time and we should aim to defend it again this year.
McTom: Whaaaaaaaat???? Are you crazy? How in the hell are we supposed to do that? We only have the most expensive squad in the world, there is no way we could even dream of defending the FA-Cup? *breaks down sobbing* We are doomed, doooooooomed.
Me: Erm, yeah, well, that was the overall reaction I was looking for but I totally respect everyones feelings and stuff. *quitely crosses out McTom from the team sheet*
How much does that set your finances back?Finished 3rd, very happy with that:
Board gave us 28k a week for next season and 1.5m for transfers. Switched it all into wages and it almost doubles the allowable wage bill, up to 57k. Now to find some freebies.
New stadium announced too, current one only has 1572 capacity.
Expectations are rock bottom for next season, they want us to fight bravely against relegation and reach the Europa League Third Qualifying round which is what we've already qualified for. Can't really fail.
Great. Thanks I'll check it out for my next save that I'll start tomorrow I think
In other news I'm an idiot, I arranged a testimonial for Lingard but he moved before the game to Napoli on loan with the option to buy which wouldn't be a problem because usually the player that the testimonial is for will be back at your club for the game, but I move all my loaned out players to the reserve so they don't irritated my in the first team selection process, well of course I forgot to move him into the team for the game and we played his own testimonial without him.
made my evening, thank you!I don't know, I didn't advance the game yet so all was showing was our balance of around 2.5m and I can't seem to see the repayment terms of the loan. I'm sure they'll pop up when I do move the game on.
Almost typed that myself but thought better of it.Quite interesting that. Maybe it’s a reflection on the SPL more than anything
Suppose it's a bit of a lesson. Honestly wouldn't look at a forward with 7 for finishing anywhere outside of Conference North/South level or the same kind of standard. Shows what I know!
I’m waiting for the update to arrive, I had a game on the go a few weeks back but deleted it after about 7 seasons when Leeds came back to win a game 3-2 with 3 shots on target goals in the 86th & 92nd minute.
Agreed. I think good mental attributes are by far the most important part in FM. Whenever I search for newgens I set thresholds for certain mental attributes that even the youngsters need to have or I won't even look at them twice physical and technical attributes also seem to develop at a better rate than mental attributes, so it's important that they are fairly high from the start.
I tend to do that but depending on how old they are and how close they are I will allow for growth.
Any reason you don't just use the filter to hide players who aren't at your club?In other news I'm an idiot, I arranged a testimonial for Lingard but he moved before the game to Napoli on loan with the option to buy which wouldn't be a problem because usually the player that the testimonial is for will be back at your club for the game, but I move all my loaned out players to the reserve so they don't irritated my in the first team selection process, well of course I forgot to move him into the team for the game and we played his own testimonial without him.
Main reason is that I don't like how it collapses unused spaces on your bench. I'm not really sure though why I started moving them out of the first team anymore, I just remember that I don't like using the that filter because it does hide unused spots and it always felt like this was a bit buggy.
Get on that work rate. I very rarely sign anyone that's less than 14/15.Gutted at the moment. Sitting in 9th and still well in with a chance of a playoff place this season. Just finished the January transfer window and the chairman has broken my heart. I fended off Norwich all window as they persistently chased one of my CBs (A young lad I signed from Chelsea when in League 2 with the potential to be a Prem player). He's developed into a very good defender and he's still only 20 so would really have liked to keep hold of him as he wasn't foreign either. They bid 7m up front rising to 12m with add-ons and the chairman accepted it. Completely understand as that's more money than we have ever seen and will help develop the club loads but as the deal was done at the very end of deadline day I wasn't able to do anything with the 4m they put in my bank.
Thankfully earlier in the window I managed to pick up this little gem from Celtic for only 1m and he's instantly my best player at 17
Can't be too picky about that considering my rep and wage budget currently. It's hard enough to get players to join me as it is, have to try and develop traits like that if a player is as good as this guy is in comparison to the other players I could buy!
That’s cool man, it just really puts me off a player when I see a relatively low work rate/determination combo.
CoolSpent absolutely ages overhauling the squad, hopefully we can get closer to Celtic and Rangers this time.
Not that these players mean anything to people, here's the new starting XI:
