Topic: Football Manager Series

[Elzar]

Feyenoord is turning into a great game. Basically keeping my team low aged and massive  fund being raised as a result. Now got 4 wonderkids (including 2 dutch ones) in my team. Making huge amounts of money, balance last at £156million. That's after upgrading the training facilities twice and the youth facilities to as good as it can possibly be. Consistently making the quarter finals of the Champions League and was 7 minutes from a Semi Final last season.

The only issue with a few changes every summer is that is disrupts my team and flow and I can often start badly. I was 16 points behind 1st place before winning every game but 2  in the second half of the season and winning the league.

The best part of my save is Mourinho taking over an Ajax team that had just won the league (they won by 1 point over me) and dragging them to defensive route one football and he got sacked after 7 months sitting in 8th position.  I made sure a couple games before he went, when I faced them, I highlighted how he should be doing better and added "Specialist in failure" to the comments.

[Something Worse]

Started a Barcelona game to try and rebuild them once you get Messi's insane wages off the books - what a mess.

Injuries to Dembele, Griezmann and Phil meant I needed to bring in an attacking reinforcement with about 11 pence to spend.

Enter the Divock. 9 goals in 7, top of the league, beat Liverpool at the Nou Camp. Easy money.

38 in 40 for Divock as my battered squad of mediocre cloggers scraped a treble.

Out with the deadwood - Griezmann, Coutinho, Busquets, Messi, Umtiti, Alba, Firpo.

In with the new generation - Alaba (50k a week less than Alba!), Foden, Chukwueze, Garcia, Camavinga, Neves, Greenwood and Esposito (thanks Andy)

The youngsters are almost a team in themselves - Fati, Pedri, Todibo, Moriba plus a couple more who probably aren't quite good enough but can do the job.

[Garrus]

The new update has brought Moukoko into the game and safe to say he is pretty special:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaXnya-1Rx0

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The new update has brought Moukoko into the game and safe to say he is pretty special:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaXnya-1Rx0

It's out? Time to play this again then!

[Garrus]

It's out? Time to play this again then!

We're blessed with CBs in the game as the long term injuries to Virgil and Joe aren't in since they happened during this season!

[Something Worse]

He looks good but he's not getting in my West Brom team ahead of 35 goal monster Karlan Grant

[klopptopia]

The new update has brought Moukoko into the game and safe to say he is pretty special:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaXnya-1Rx0

poor mans tonton zola

[ToneLa]

Little hack that lets you perve at the stadiums properly.

You know at the end of the match? When your little manager fella lifts his arms in celebration at battering Everton

Press F2 to take you back home, then click Continue to go back into the match

The UI will now be hidden, and the camera panning around the stadium with unblocked views

[Welshred]

Does anyone have any decent tactics? I'm struggling to find something consistent

[ToneLa]

Does anyone have any decent tactics? I'm struggling to find something consistent

 Knap does the best. Preaching Blues for example
https://www.fmscout.com/f-knap-tactics-for-fm21.html

Like Preaching Blues. There's sound tactical decisions behind it, FM is a game of players and roles, don't get too obsessed with things like partnership lines, if a tactic isn't working consider a different player for the role before changing the role

My steady tactic is a back four with ball playing CBs and a DM holding position, the midfield is actually two Mezzalas allowed to roam from position and Inside Fowards set to cut inside, on Slightly More Direct passing this creates chances, I prefer my striker to be an AF who Moves Into Channels, but chose an AF because the role makes them chase down balls and can even press decently, and they can create opportunities with layoffs as well as score

I tend to have one steady / defensive tactic, a very high Tempo one where one of the midfielders becomes an Attacking Midfielder to create for the striker, and typically a mental experimental tactic, usually two strikers. There is no failure in FM but the failure to adapt!

[Hedley Lamarr]

We're blessed with CBs in the game as the long term injuries to Virgil and Joe aren't in since they happened during this season!

I've been able to play Henderson and Fabinho in midfield, it's a brave new world.

[Wullie160975]

Has anyone come across this before where a team is wearing 2 strips?



I assume it's a bug

[Welshred]

Ok so VAR and offside, has anyone ever had a goal NOT be disallowed following a VAR check? Every single goal that I've seen on the game that's gone to VAR has ended up being disallowed.

[Garrus]

Ok so VAR and offside, has anyone ever had a goal NOT be disallowed following a VAR check? Every single goal that I've seen on the game that's gone to VAR has ended up being disallowed.

It's been the case since VAR was introduced in the game. Just far too predictable when it comes up.

VAR check for a foul on the edge of the box = free kick.
VAR check for a foul in the box = penalty.
VAR check for a goal = offside/foul.

Although theoretically I suppose, VAR is checking all goals in the background without the specific text coming up for goals that are allowed.

[ToneLa]

Ok so VAR and offside, has anyone ever had a goal NOT be disallowed following a VAR check? Every single goal that I've seen on the game that's gone to VAR has ended up being disallowed.

it's a bug

[Dench57]

Was looking through my Steam library and this caught my eye, the peak of my FM career. Jheeeeeezus christ 




Anyone better worse?

[naYoRHa2b]

Still probably pales in comparison to champ man but this is my longest steam related save. Year on year the hours start dropping though, to 500 to barely a hundred.

[ToneLa]

[Welshred]

My highest is 1263.7 hours on FM 2018 for me on Steam but I know for sure that I played 2009 for much, much longer. I got to something stupid like 2053 on one of my saves.

[Wullie160975]

Bunch of lightweights 

FM10 - 612.9
FM11 - 1,381.9
FM12 - 797.5
FM13 - 142.7
FM14 - 525.1
FM15 - 994.8
FM16 - 8,174.8
FM17 - 5,559.9
FM18 - 5,235.7
FM19 - 5,424.9
FM20 - 4,450.3
FM21 - 879.3

By my maths, a total of 34,179.8 hours over 12 years

I do leave it running on my PC though when I am playing it, even when I'm away from the computer so I assume that's the reason for the ridiculous count, not my sad life

[Welshred]

FM13 - new relationship
FM14 - relationship going well
FM15 - relationship not going well
FM16+ - relationship fucked

Am I right?

[Wullie160975]

FM13 - new relationship
FM14 - relationship going well
FM15 - relationship not going well
FM16+ - relationship fucked

Am I right?

Nope - married in 2005 (2 days after Istanbul), still married - kid in 2009 - no real logical reasons for the hours other than it must count the hours the game is on regardless if I'm awake or sleeping

[naYoRHa2b]

Bunch of lightweights 

FM10 - 612.9
FM11 - 1,381.9
FM12 - 797.5
FM13 - 142.7
FM14 - 525.1
FM15 - 994.8
FM16 - 8,174.8
FM17 - 5,559.9
FM18 - 5,235.7
FM19 - 5,424.9
FM20 - 4,450.3
FM21 - 879.3

By my maths, a total of 34,179.8 hours over 12 years

I do leave it running on my PC though when I am playing it, even when I'm away from the computer so I assume that's the reason for the ridiculous count, not my sad life

I imagine that's the reason yeah otherwise you spent 340 days in a year on fm16 and only 16 days sleeping?

[Wullie160975]

Of course, some of those hours will be in the years since - not all just within 1 year.

[Elzar]

Ok so VAR and offside, has anyone ever had a goal NOT be disallowed following a VAR check? Every single goal that I've seen on the game that's gone to VAR has ended up being disallowed.

I was getting quite a bit of variation. One game I had 9 VAR checks for penalties and got 3 of them given. (My winger must be a diving c*nt)

[JerseyKloppite]

Anyone know any particularly good deals for this? Best one I can see is CD Keys for about £26 or (for some reason) Waford FC's club shop for £23 with postage

[ToneLa]

Anyone know any particularly good deals for this? Best one I can see is CD Keys for about £26 or (for some reason) Waford FC's club shop for £23 with postage

Usually goes on sale after the season, I'd wait a couple weeks

it's on Gamepass though which is cheapest (and you can mod the Gamepass version the same way)

[Elzar]

Started a game as England u21 to waste some time.

Playing Gibraltar and Malta is a bit of a laugh. Won 11-0 vs Malta with 78 shots on goal. 14-0 vs Gibraltar with 57 shots on goals. Also beat Bulgaria 6-0 and they didn't even have a shot all game.

[ToneLa]

  it might be a hilariously difficult to do the San Marino playthrough (you have to mod it to do it these days) while also managing the Gibraltar national team

Find it funny when people say it's easy. Then they say they're managing City or Real Madrid..

[ToneLa]

Is that the one where you start as that San Marinan team in the 4th div of Italy, that only make San Marinan players, and try and win the top div, or something like that?

yeah. Fucking solid.

The challenge is two-fold looking to achieve domestic success in the Italian leagues with a Sammarise club whilst also developing exciting players who can help lift the National Team up. Throughout the save I'll be focusing on a number of 'achievements' listed below as a measure of success.

Rules
1. No save scumming
2. No custom tactics - everything will be designed by myself (this includes abusing set pieces)
3. I will start with no coaching/managerial experience and will need to complete my badges along the way
4. I won't start as the San Marino national coach and will apply for the job off my merit
5. If I am sacked by the club/national team I will have to wait until I am re-employed by them


https://fm-base.co.uk/threads/the-great-san-marino-challenge.165226/

[Garrus]

I think a lot of the San Marino players that come through will likely have Italian citizenship too. If you get a world beater there's a chance he never plays for your NT.

[please, I have my reasons for it but...]

It's been the case since VAR was introduced in the game. Just far too predictable when it comes up.

VAR check for a foul on the edge of the box = free kick.
VAR check for a foul in the box = penalty.
VAR check for a goal = offside/foul.

Although theoretically I suppose, VAR is checking all goals in the background without the specific text coming up for goals that are allowed.

I had one incident where VAR checked for a penalty for a foul inside the box but the tackle looked clean and they ended up giving a corner instead. It was against me so I didn't complain but it was the only time VAR didn't confirm what the on field ref gave.

[please, I have my reasons for it but...]

If anyone is looking for wonderkids, poaching Liam Delap from City is easy at the start of the game and then there's this Italian kid named Willy Gnonto who plays for Zurich and is a monster.

I started with a year off and then evaluated available jobs. Took Sunderland who were still in League 1, as the choice was between them and Cardiff who got relegated from the Championship.

League 1 was piss easy though, Championship was a bit harder and I entered January 8th in the table (which the board were content with as the expectation was to avoid relegation) but we finished the season brilliantly and got an automatic promotion spot on the final day from the hands of Nottingham Forest.

Now in the Prem, while the expectation is that I will finish 20th, I find myself in 4th place with 33 points after 15 games. Board asked me to change expectations which I declined as the game is too stupid when you raise expectations. I don't think we'll finish top four but I am targeting 55 points for our first season back in the Prem.

[ToneLa]

Some mods I use

Tato skin
https://www.fmscout.com/a-fm21-skin-tato.html

Better turf
https://www.fmscout.com/a-fez-enhanced-turf-textures-fm21.html

Better / real balls
https://www.fmscout.com/a-3d-balls-megapack-fm21.html

Trickier but well worth it, replaces the newgen faces with FIFA's versions which look miles better
https://www.fmscout.com/a-newgen-faces-script-by-krysler.html

Every game year in March I go to Scouting, All Players > right click to print (that's what this mod uses with the batch file) and EVERY new player generated in the game (you might need the editor) has better faces

[ToneLa]

Most of them yeah - all the links have how tos

The FIFA facepacks I linked are tricky. and use a script.

But all these I've listed otherwise are just into the specified folders in My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2021

Logos I like
https://www.fmscout.com/a-standard-logos-megapack-2020.html

EASY Facepack, just drag and drop top Football Manager 202X\graphics\faces\:
https://www.fmscout.com/a-scope-faces-megapack-2020.html

Modding it is generally easy. At most apart from the script one you just create folders + drag and drop. EVERYTHING is done through the My Documents folder and you clear cache in the prefs

[Garrus]

Do you just drag these into the "graphics" folder in the Sports Interactive folder for FM2021?

I just dragged over FM2020s pictures, so if you have any kit and facepacks for 2021 you could recommend I'd be grateful.

Here's the ones I generally use (and are pretty comprehensive):

Metallic logos:
https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/style/3/metallic-logos

Faces megapack:
https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/style/1/cut-out-player-faces

Kits:
https://sortitoutsi.net/forums/14/ss-kits-forum?game=12&type=download

Alternate logo styles you might like:

Steel logos:
https://sortitoutsi.net/content/57905/steel-logos-for-fm21

TCM logos:
https://sortitoutsi.net/content/50871/tcm20-logopack-by-tcmlogos

[Garrus]

Do you just drag these into the "graphics" folder in the Sports Interactive folder for FM2021?

I just dragged over FM2020s pictures, so if you have any kit and facepacks for 2021 you could recommend I'd be grateful.

The textures pack should not be put in the graphics folder. Instead it should be in My Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2021.

[Garrus]

Most of them yeah - all the links have how tos

The FIFA facepacks I linked are tricky. and use a script.

But all these I've listed otherwise are just into the specified folders in My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2021

Logos I like
https://www.fmscout.com/a-standard-logos-megapack-2020.html

EASY Facepack, just drag and drop top Football Manager 202X\graphics\faces\:
https://www.fmscout.com/a-scope-faces-megapack-2020.html

Modding it is generally easy. At most apart from the script one you just create folders + drag and drop. EVERYTHING is done through the My Documents folder and you clear cache in the prefs

These don't work anymore, thanks to a certain English club getting their knickers in a twist over licensing.

[The Real Rasta]

Although theoretically I suppose, VAR is checking all goals in the background without the specific text coming up for goals that are allowed.

When you get shown the tight offside replay from a goal that's given that is the VAR, you'll see it in the post match report that VAR was used, I do wish they would do it the same as the goals that get disallowed though.

I had one incident where VAR checked for a penalty for a foul inside the box but the tackle looked clean and they ended up giving a corner instead. It was against me so I didn't complain but it was the only time VAR didn't confirm what the on field ref gave.

I have had a couple of penalties overturned so it's definitely not like the offside goals where you know straight away.

[Garrus]

When you get shown the tight offside replay from a goal that's given that is the VAR, you'll see it in the post match report that VAR was used, I do wish they would do it the same as the goals that get disallowed though.
I have had a couple of penalties overturned so it's definitely not like the offside goals where you know straight away.

Ah, that makes sense but I play without replays.

Still, it's super annoying with the 30 seconds that the ref spends sprinting across the field because you know what's coming.