Football heritage. I understand him now
Gaming Football Manager 2022
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
I would love to see this presser
Way back in FM07 my best midfielder for over a decade was a player who was supposedly unable to play in midfield: he was, by trade, a wing-back/AML. He got put in central midfield because of a massive injury crisis and remained there because his performances were just insanely good.
Basically sounds like Mourinho's post-Sevilla press conference.I would love to see this presser
It basically is. Looking back, it’s insane he stayed in the job after that!
I would love to see this presser
Tbf, it's Wolves, and I just beat Spurs 3-0 before losing 4-0 to Arsenal. Give me a break! Pitch forks out already when I took a big step down in managing them!Just beat Atletico in style in the Super Copa semi final. Shades of Guardiola's Barca.
Pay close attention to Gavi. He assists 3 goals and wins the ball for a fourth goal. It's unreal how good this kid is for me.
Ahahaha just had a look through my older FM Videos, my god Wellbeck was so realistic in FM13.
Absolute howler.
Pay close attention to Gavi. He assists 3 goals and wins the ball for a fourth goal. It's unreal how good this kid is for me.
Ahahaha just had a look through my older FM Videos, my god Wellbeck was so realistic in FM13.
Absolute howler.
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Something that annoys me. I have Martial on trial.
Says on his info that "he's pleased to have joined" my club.
His agent says he is interested and says how much wage he wants.
Guess what, he won't enter into contract discussions
Says on his info that "he's pleased to have joined" my club.
His agent says he is interested and says how much wage he wants.
Guess what, he won't enter into contract discussions
Classic FM logic.Something that annoys me. I have Martial on trial.
Says on his info that "he's pleased to have joined" my club.
His agent says he is interested and says how much wage he wants.
Guess what, he won't enter into contract discussions
What I really love? Loan offers for my players, with no wages being taken over and promised playing time "fringe player". Yeah no, you know what I'm good, but thanks for asking.
Got the Lokomotive Moscow job, they have 1 central defender who is an 18 year old prospect
Have £25m to spend. There’s some good Russian players transfer listed and willing to join even though the club finished 11th last season. The league is now ranked 16th!? And will fall behind the Croatian league this season. So getting into group stages in any of the European competitions will be difficult.
No idea why they’ve fallen so badly, Scotland is 11th, Ukraine is 10th. Think I’m allowed 8 non Russian players in the squad so will sign some outcasts from the major leagues
Have £25m to spend. There’s some good Russian players transfer listed and willing to join even though the club finished 11th last season. The league is now ranked 16th!? And will fall behind the Croatian league this season. So getting into group stages in any of the European competitions will be difficult.
No idea why they’ve fallen so badly, Scotland is 11th, Ukraine is 10th. Think I’m allowed 8 non Russian players in the squad so will sign some outcasts from the major leagues
I always found the initial squad building in Russia to be a bit of a pain due to the registration rules and general lack of player quality.Got the Lokomotive Moscow job, they have 1 central defender who is an 18 year old prospect
Have £25m to spend. There’s some good Russian players transfer listed and willing to join even though the club finished 11th last season. The league is now ranked 16th!? And will fall behind the Croatian league this season. So getting into group stages in any of the European competitions will be difficult.
No idea why they’ve fallen so badly, Scotland is 11th, Ukraine is 10th. Think I’m allowed 8 non Russian players in the squad so will sign some outcasts from the major leagues
Yeah 4 star Russian regens would barely be 2 stars in other leagues. Even the centre back is potentially 4 stars but he is a long way short of Championship quality. The best player in the squad was signed from the Spanish second division
It's crazy how many problems this game has every year. I feel like in the latest patch their solution to teams scoring too many headers from crosses wasn't to have less crosses but to just have your players hit the fecking crossbar 50 times a match.
He is reborn!
AwesomeHe is reborn!
I currently have two players who appear as Ronaldo and Romario on the pitch.
I still score most of my goals from headers. Despite playing with 0 wingers.
Near corners are still so strong. That being said, my Barca side doesn't even score much from corners, actually mostly from open play and with their feet. Last season, it was 12 goals from corners, which was pretty much the same as the best AI team, but I know you can artificially ramp that up with better working corner routines than mine.
Oh yeah, and of course FBs are excellent at crossing as well, don't need any wingers to cross.
Gone for the full Barca rebuild. Shipped out Pique Busquets and numerous other older players on terrible deals and replaced them with youngsters like Alvarez, Badiashile and Almada. Playing a pragmatic 5 3 2 and sometimes 4 2 3 1 when we are the stronger team. Second in La liga in the first year and out to Bayern in the qf of the CL. If they don’t sack me I still need to trim the squad of coutinhio, aguero, greizmann, pjanic wages. Hopefully that’ll let me get haaland eventually and then game over.
Barca should just hire me.
Barca should just hire me.
Far corners are also strong.Near corners are still so strong. That being said, my Barca side doesn't even score much from corners, actually mostly from open play and with their feet. Last season, it was 12 goals from corners, which was pretty much the same as the best AI team, but I know you can artificially ramp that up with better working corner routines than mine.
Oh yeah, and of course FBs are excellent at crossing as well, don't need any wingers to cross.
Basically, corners are strong. Crosses are strong. Anything near to any part of a players head is a bit too strong.
Still, some of the goals scored are occasionally surprising and bemusing. Sometimes the match engine comes up with some real pearls.
The AI seems to like to exploit that against me.
Fecking van Dijk. He is a monster on the near corner.The AI seems to like to exploit that against me.
I’m having real problems getting anyone decent to come in at Arandina. Even now, as a Second Division team, everyone is refusing to come in on loan, and the scouts keep sending me players that “could be league below quality”.
Have manually sifted through leagues and youth teams and just can’t find players.
New season is 30 days away and team is worse than last season, as loanees didn’t want to come back.
Worrying times.
Have manually sifted through leagues and youth teams and just can’t find players.
New season is 30 days away and team is worse than last season, as loanees didn’t want to come back.
Worrying times.
4th Barca season heading into the hot part of the season. Match day 29 and we win 6-1 against Mallorca with Moukuku scoring 3 and assisting 3 goals. He is in absolute beast mode right now.
Oh yeah, we also trashed Bayer Leverkusen 8-0 in the first leg of the CL, with only 10 shots on target.
Oh yeah, we also trashed Bayer Leverkusen 8-0 in the first leg of the CL, with only 10 shots on target.
Won the Serie A again with Inter and did the CL double too. Resigned quite soon after to try and win La Liga / Bundesliga with someone.
Just got in. Hopefully will battle Bayern and BVB with my Eintracht Frankfurt team. I took Rene as my assistant manager.
I think I can get into the latter stages of the UEFA thursday night cup anyway.
I think I can get into the latter stages of the UEFA thursday night cup anyway.
New patch has absolutely killed my tactics, doing awful as Newcastle with 2 wins in 20.
I'm also struggling. Spent ages tinkering with things and working on set piece routines. Sitting 8th at the moment just outside European spots.
I love his videosJust came across this gem.
Alright, is that a new thing? Agents coming to me after their client just having a shite game and demanding a new contract seems like something that has only been around since FM22.
yeah, this version isn’t great sadly.
Were your tactics 90% based on corners?
I actually like it since the last patch, feels like it's the first time you are able to actually have meaningful possession without completely blunting yourself, but it is worrying that the rest of the game, especially the interaction and game logic seems to be deteriorating year after year into absolute oblivion.yeah, this version isn’t great sadly.
I can't stop but wonder and think that their game logic codebase is probably an absolute mess by now, and they have to build module upon module without ever cleaning up their game engine. So essentially, the game has to display much more complex logic than its engine is actually capable of handling, which means they have to take a lot of shortcuts and thus certain aspects of the game can not be factored in when it's reaction time. One of the reasons why I got this impression was the team meetings in last year's edition, where players would claim it was unreasonable to demand a league win after having won the league two years in a row. Either that or the factors that all play into the pc interaction contradicts too often and thus leads to random, unpredictable outcomes.
It just feels messy like you say. Before I left Inter at the end of the season 2 or 3 of my players complained about not starting enough games because they were rotated when we had 3 games in a week. They only missed about 4 or 5 games in the season but it’s that kind of interaction that’s just daft. The whole promise and interaction system just doesn’t work in its current design and it is really frustrating as it actually has an impact on the matches because of how important morale can be. Couple that with a match engine which can be broken with ease until it’s fixed with a patch that doesn’t actually nerf the meta tactics properly and in a way you’d like and you just have a game which is really suffering and stagnating. I’m really interested to see if anyone has done a save yet where the dynamic youth rating takes place because that’s one of the only things that could save them this year. They need to work a lot on current features instead of looking to add more for the next game.
I totally agree, and a lot of people have been saying that on SI's forums as well, but SI isn't really listening to them because, well, they probably need new features for the marketing to sell their game.
Tactical wise, I would actually love to see a big change, which might also help with balance tactics a lot. Get rid of mentality. All tactics are on balanced and the risk you take is solely determined by your other team instructions and the roles and duties, and how you distribute them across your formation. I feel this would be easier for users to understand and easier for them to balance, currently there are so many factors that go into making a tactic that some minor changes can throw your entire tactic out of whack, which means it also happens whenever they change something on the ME. Even though such a change would probably not go down well with the tactic gurus on there, I feel like it could benefit the game in the long run.
Seems like my youth work is starting to pay dividendes.
5 of the top 10 young players playing for my club currently.
Interesting though that Moukuku isn't listed here, he is only 19 but maybe he is already listed with the grown ups?
5 of the top 10 young players playing for my club currently.
Interesting though that Moukuku isn't listed here, he is only 19 but maybe he is already listed with the grown ups?
I think they need to change from Miles to someone who's more open and connected to the fans. Miles seems like he cosies up to the people that will suck him off in the media but crumbles when he's challenged by the average fan.
I agree in a way that they've made it a bit too complicated for no reason when the tactics can be influenced by morale so much. Streamlining the tactic like you say and having performance being more emphasised on that might help a bit.
What is it with players refusing moves. 4 months ago you were requesting a move due to lack of game time, you’re the third best right back at the club, you can move to Serie A (I’m in the Slovenian league) and they would probably double your wage.
The obvious answer is to reject the contact of course!
The obvious answer is to reject the contact of course!