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Why is it that every non-rich club that I join is immediately in debt whether I buy staff or players or not? And then half of the squad's contracts are set to expire and their agents demand all this shit that I cannot possibly afford to pay? Basically you start with a half assed team and have to get rid of half of that team by the 2nd season.

Has anyone ever successfully appealed a ban? I have never been successful.

ahlycotc wrote:Has anyone ever successfully appealed a ban? I have never been successful.

Same, it never seems to work with me either.

One of my biggest wins with Southampton...



Faure Easily the best regen I have ever seen on one of my saves...

Schnix wrote:!@#$%T^U&^%$#@ you flipping complacent kunts! i was winning 4-1 away vs bayern then i concede 3 goals in the final 25 minutes



omfg. this is brutal. i wasn't expecting to win this match. i'd rather lose 0-1 than lose a 3-goal advantage like that. i think this was the first time i yelled at my screen while playing FM

I do it all the time.

Started a save with Lazio.

I get emotional on FM too. Sometimes I get as emotional as I do watching real football.

ahlycotc wrote:I get emotional on FM too. Sometimes I get as emotional as I do watching real football.

I always end up swearing at the top of my lungs at the shitheads in my team.

I celebrate every goal too, do a little dance.

The Bat-Man wrote:

ahlycotc wrote:I get emotional on FM too. Sometimes I get as emotional as I do watching real football.

I always end up swearing at the top of my lungs at the shitheads in my team.

I celebrate every goal too, do a little dance.

Me too Great fun.

The Bat-Man wrote:

ahlycotc wrote:I get emotional on FM too. Sometimes I get as emotional as I do watching real football.

I always end up swearing at the top of my lungs at the shitheads in my team.

I celebrate every goal too, do a little dance.

On last years FM, I was England and Rooney scored a 90th minute winner against France in the World Cup Semi-Final for me!
Needless to say, I did dance.

Had to be done.

ahlycotc wrote:So FB(A) or FB(auto)?

For me, FB(A), that is what I used on previous successful tactics, though currently I am using a classic tactic so I don't give my players direct roles like Full Back Attack, etc.

BTW, what patch are you playing with?

The_Quilo wrote:

ahlycotc wrote:So FB(A) or FB(auto)?

For me, FB(A), that is what I used on previous successful tactics, though currently I am using a classic tactic so I don't give my players direct roles like Full Back Attack, etc.

BTW, what patch are you playing with?

Don't recall. I started my Southampton save on March 31 of this year.

ahlycotc wrote:

The_Quilo wrote:

For me, FB(A), that is what I used on previous successful tactics, though currently I am using a classic tactic so I don't give my players direct roles like Full Back Attack, etc.

BTW, what patch are you playing with?

Don't recall. I started my Southampton save on March 31 of this year.

Do you guys tend to share tactics on here? Because I've got a beaut.

Go ahead and share. I don't like using other people's tactics though. You have to take into account the players you have at your disposal. But I could learn something new.

ahlycotc wrote:Go ahead and share. I don't like using other people's tactics though. You have to take into account the players you have at your disposal. But I could learn something new.

Right. I frequent FM base, and I found this tactic.

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/football-manager-2012-tactics-training/86187-4-2-2-2-il-devasto-untick-target-man-xd-9.html

The link is for page 9 of a tactic where, 3 posts down a user 'tomiblaougrana" posts a tactic '4-2-4 il devasto clock movement'. Its an absolute gem of a tactic. Scored me 200 goals (in the prem alone) in one season. Got me to the final of the CL hwere I played Fiorentina (who were by the time one of the best teams in the world) and beat them 6-2. Scored an average of 5.1 goals a game, and it is the sole reason I became the 10th best (3rd in England) manager of all time.

It is a classic tactic, so it might look weird at first.

Notes:

-Minimum pitch size helps, though it doesn't matter all that much.
-If you are starting preseason, put training focus to Very High and Individual focus to Teamwork. After preseason (or generally after 2-4 games) change the individual focus to attacking movement. In the first few games where the focus is teamwork, don't expect straight away 7-0's, as your team is getting used to the tactic. When you change it to attacking movement, then you can expect the big results.
- I've tested it with all kinds of teams in all kinds of leagues. Arsenal, Newcastle + Liverpool in the EPL. Juventus in the Serie A. Real Madrid in La Liga. Montpellier in Ligue 1. Even Zenit in the RPD. In every single case I have had tremendous success.

Currently playing with Zenit and beat Napoli 6-1 in the CL.

Anyway, try it out and tell me what you think!

ahlycotc wrote:I get emotional on FM too. Sometimes I get as emotional as I do watching real football.

i've got to say, in my 4 seasons playing as Roma in FM12, i never got emotional. even when i lost 0-7 to napoli, i was laughing mostly. or when my 34-win streak ended, i was just like oh well

guess that makes me more emotionally attached to schalke than roma lol

The_Quilo wrote:

ahlycotc wrote:Go ahead and share. I don't like using other people's tactics though. You have to take into account the players you have at your disposal. But I could learn something new.

Right. I frequent FM base, and I found this tactic.

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/football-manager-2012-tactics-training/86187-4-2-2-2-il-devasto-untick-target-man-xd-9.html

The link is for page 9 of a tactic where, 3 posts down a user 'tomiblaougrana" posts a tactic '4-2-4 il devasto clock movement'. Its an absolute gem of a tactic. Scored me 200 goals (in the prem alone) in one season. Got me to the final of the CL hwere I played Fiorentina (who were by the time one of the best teams in the world) and beat them 6-2. Scored an average of 5.1 goals a game, and it is the sole reason I became the 10th best (3rd in England) manager of all time.

It is a classic tactic, so it might look weird at first.

Notes:

-Minimum pitch size helps, though it doesn't matter all that much.
-If you are starting preseason, put training focus to Very High and Individual focus to Teamwork. After preseason (or generally after 2-4 games) change the individual focus to attacking movement. In the first few games where the focus is teamwork, don't expect straight away 7-0's, as your team is getting used to the tactic. When you change it to attacking movement, then you can expect the big results.
- I've tested it with all kinds of teams in all kinds of leagues. Arsenal, Newcastle + Liverpool in the EPL. Juventus in the Serie A. Real Madrid in La Liga. Montpellier in Ligue 1. Even Zenit in the RPD. In every single case I have had tremendous success.

Currently playing with Zenit and beat Napoli 6-1 in the CL.

Anyway, try it out and tell me what you think!

I actually downloaded that tactic a while back. Used it some, but wasn't that successful with it. Maybe I just need to give it more time. I'll try it on my Barcelona save.

It's also a FM 2011 tactic, so it's kind of confusing.

ahlycotc wrote:I get emotional on FM too. Sometimes I get as emotional as I do watching real football.

Same tbh


Last laptop i had, i ended up breaking the screen because of how pissed off i was. Bad streak i think

ahlycotc wrote:

The_Quilo wrote:

Right. I frequent FM base, and I found this tactic.

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/football-manager-2012-tactics-training/86187-4-2-2-2-il-devasto-untick-target-man-xd-9.html

The link is for page 9 of a tactic where, 3 posts down a user 'tomiblaougrana" posts a tactic '4-2-4 il devasto clock movement'. Its an absolute gem of a tactic. Scored me 200 goals (in the prem alone) in one season. Got me to the final of the CL hwere I played Fiorentina (who were by the time one of the best teams in the world) and beat them 6-2. Scored an average of 5.1 goals a game, and it is the sole reason I became the 10th best (3rd in England) manager of all time.

It is a classic tactic, so it might look weird at first.

Notes:

-Minimum pitch size helps, though it doesn't matter all that much.
-If you are starting preseason, put training focus to Very High and Individual focus to Teamwork. After preseason (or generally after 2-4 games) change the individual focus to attacking movement. In the first few games where the focus is teamwork, don't expect straight away 7-0's, as your team is getting used to the tactic. When you change it to attacking movement, then you can expect the big results.
- I've tested it with all kinds of teams in all kinds of leagues. Arsenal, Newcastle + Liverpool in the EPL. Juventus in the Serie A. Real Madrid in La Liga. Montpellier in Ligue 1. Even Zenit in the RPD. In every single case I have had tremendous success.

Currently playing with Zenit and beat Napoli 6-1 in the CL.

Anyway, try it out and tell me what you think!

I actually downloaded that tactic a while back. Used it some, but wasn't that successful with it. Maybe I just need to give it more time. I'll try it on my Barcelona save.

It's also a FM 2011 tactic, so it's kind of confusing.

I've found some downloadable tactics that work okay, but a lot are in the classic mode.

ahlycotc wrote:

The_Quilo wrote:

Right. I frequent FM base, and I found this tactic.

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/football-manager-2012-tactics-training/86187-4-2-2-2-il-devasto-untick-target-man-xd-9.html

The link is for page 9 of a tactic where, 3 posts down a user 'tomiblaougrana" posts a tactic '4-2-4 il devasto clock movement'. Its an absolute gem of a tactic. Scored me 200 goals (in the prem alone) in one season. Got me to the final of the CL hwere I played Fiorentina (who were by the time one of the best teams in the world) and beat them 6-2. Scored an average of 5.1 goals a game, and it is the sole reason I became the 10th best (3rd in England) manager of all time.

It is a classic tactic, so it might look weird at first.

Notes:

-Minimum pitch size helps, though it doesn't matter all that much.
-If you are starting preseason, put training focus to Very High and Individual focus to Teamwork. After preseason (or generally after 2-4 games) change the individual focus to attacking movement. In the first few games where the focus is teamwork, don't expect straight away 7-0's, as your team is getting used to the tactic. When you change it to attacking movement, then you can expect the big results.
- I've tested it with all kinds of teams in all kinds of leagues. Arsenal, Newcastle + Liverpool in the EPL. Juventus in the Serie A. Real Madrid in La Liga. Montpellier in Ligue 1. Even Zenit in the RPD. In every single case I have had tremendous success.

Currently playing with Zenit and beat Napoli 6-1 in the CL.

Anyway, try it out and tell me what you think!

I actually downloaded that tactic a while back. Used it some, but wasn't that successful with it. Maybe I just need to give it more time. I'll try it on my Barcelona save.

It's also a FM 2011 tactic, so it's kind of confusing.

Seriously? I had no idea. But tbh, I couldn't care less as long as the results keep coming!

Again, you have to give it at least 4 games. Also it is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to put the individual training focus to attacking movement with very high intensity. Without this, the tactic won't work nearly as good.

If I could score 200 goals in 1 season with Arsenal, I can't imagine with this tactic how many goals you could bang in with Barcalona.

I'm undecided on who to be, I kinda want to be Huddersfield. But I also want to be like Malaga or PSG

You just want money lol.

It looks fun to be Huddersfield. I want to be Huddersfield. I think I'll be Huddersfield

and I'll transfer Tommy Smith to my team

In my Southampton save, Huddersfield got promoted twice in a row and reached the Premier League. They are getting an ass whopping in the Premier League though.

Why Tommy Smith?

Thought this training discussion might be valuable. It's very well written.


Training Masterclass

because I like Tommy Smith and he is the new All Whites captain

(well he is captain until Nelsen plays, but when Nelsen retires Tommy will be captain!!!)

Schnix wrote:!@#$%T^U&^%$#@ you flipping complacent kunts! i was winning 4-1 away vs bayern then i concede 3 goals in the final 25 minutes



omfg. this is brutal. i wasn't expecting to win this match. i'd rather lose 0-1 than lose a 3-goal advantage like that. i think this was the first time i yelled at my screen while playing FM

Anyone know what skin this is ?

Mr Durmmond wrote:

Schnix wrote:!@#$%T^U&^%$#@ you flipping complacent kunts! i was winning 4-1 away vs bayern then i concede 3 goals in the final 25 minutes



omfg. this is brutal. i wasn't expecting to win this match. i'd rather lose 0-1 than lose a 3-goal advantage like that. i think this was the first time i yelled at my screen while playing FM

Anyone know what skin this is ?

champions league skin on fmscout.com, but i made some minor tweaks here and there to outfit it to my liking

I want to start a really random save at some really unusual club/nation.
Any ideas?

George wrote:I want to start a really random save at some really unusual club/nation.
Any ideas?

everyone who has tried MLS ended up really liking it

i never tried though so i can't vouch