The Football Manager Chat Thread!

Inb4 the turks ruin a treble after knocking out Madrid and Bayern.

Did you win?

Nearly blew a 3-0 half time lead.

BUT I DIDN'T, OHHHH ROBIN VAN PERSSIEEEE

Treble, not quite sure how that happened tbh.

Brilliant stats for my players:



Robin's are sexy as fuck, if only he didn't pick up those few injuries to halt his appearances.

3 players with 20 assists, 6 players with 10 goals or more, that's what I'm talking about.

If I bought this, I will fail Uni.

Decisions.

Worth it



Well done Kemal i hope to emulate you soon.

kyro7 wrote:Brilliant stats for my players:



Robin's are sexy as fuck, if only he didn't pick up those few injuries to halt his appearances.

3 players with 20 assists, 6 players with 10 goals or more, that's what I'm talking about.

That's pretty insane. Congrats

Get 2 penalties against West Ham in the first half. Van Persie scores one, smashes the other well wide then they equalise from a corner.

Just been awarded another penalty.

OK. Delayed it long enough.. time to take on the Manchester United job, and fail miserably of course.

Carroll ended up getting sent off in the last minute. I won 3-2, incredible game.

Doh, I forgot to download the badges, kits and faces

I hate free downloading sites. Why can't people just use torrents! argh...

Which ones are you downloading?

kyro7 wrote:Brilliant stats for my players:



Robin's are sexy as fuck, if only he didn't pick up those few injuries to halt his appearances.

3 players with 20 assists, 6 players with 10 goals or more, that's what I'm talking about.

Nice

Kagawa named Asian player of the year, Rooney player of the month for December, and I'm manager of the month.

Danny wrote:Which ones are you downloading?

Trying to get a hold of the facepack updates (currently downloading) and waiting to be allowed to download logo packs (wait at least 180 minutes) With torrents I'd be done by now...

Danny wrote:Kagawa named Asian player of the year, Rooney player of the month for December, and I'm manager of the month.

Can't wait to play a Kagawa, Van Persie, Rooney trio, should be great fun. I'm wondering who to put on defensive midfield though. I'm thinking Luiz Gustavo or N'Zonzi could do a job there, but I'd rather not spend too much in my first season, as I'm totally getting Bale when I can

I usually rotate between Carrick, Fletcher, Cleverley and Anderson. They seem to be getting the job done.

Yes, but you do not play with a DMC who just runs around and stops attacks and makes sure that quicker players can't do anything at all. Makelele style.

My plan is to play this:

City just lost 3-1 at Everton. Really need to take advantage by beating Chelsea.

Laurencio wrote:Yes, but you do not play with a DMC who just runs around and stops attacks and makes sure that quicker players can't do anything at all. Makelele style.

Every FM save I play has that type of player. Just someone to break up attacks and dominate the midfield.

Jord wrote:

Laurencio wrote:Yes, but you do not play with a DMC who just runs around and stops attacks and makes sure that quicker players can't do anything at all. Makelele style.

Every FM save I play has that type of player. Just someone to break up attacks and dominate the midfield.

Me too.

Mine is Fellaini.

BWM defensive.

Gets a few goals too.

Jord wrote:

Laurencio wrote:Yes, but you do not play with a DMC who just runs around and stops attacks and makes sure that quicker players can't do anything at all. Makelele style.

Every FM save I play has that type of player. Just someone to break up attacks and dominate the midfield.

Same, I find it essential in order to let them folks further up have their fun and enable me to play the way I want (fluid posession with lots of attacking). It can be done without one, but it's almost always a better idea to have that guy in the middle cleaning up the pitch. Had great success with it in FM2011 and FM2012, as well as with Stoke in this version (N'Zonzi is great). All my "great" sides from the past versions have all had "makelele" type in the DM position, who is always underpaid and always under appreciated by the media. There's no way I would have won the WC with Denmark without William Kvist cleaning up and making sure Eriksen had the space to do what he does best.

William Kvist, he was the final piece in the puzzle for my title winning Aston Villa team

I'm really struggling to get Cavani scoring, maybe just needs to settle in first season...

Giroud is a great impact striker, he's like my Dzeko.

City lose, Stoke draw, I come from behind and beat Chelsea 2-1. Up to second, 2 points behind City. Title race ON.

Laurencio wrote:

Jord wrote:Every FM save I play has that type of player. Just someone to break up attacks and dominate the midfield.

Same, I find it essential in order to let them folks further up have their fun and enable me to play the way I want (fluid posession with lots of attacking). It can be done without one, but it's almost always a better idea to have that guy in the middle cleaning up the pitch. Had great success with it in FM2011 and FM2012, as well as with Stoke in this version (N'Zonzi is great). All my "great" sides from the past versions have all had "makelele" type in the DM position, who is always underpaid and always under appreciated by the media. There's no way I would have won the WC with Denmark without William Kvist cleaning up and making sure Eriksen had the space to do what he does best.

In my FM save with West Ham I rotated between Beram Kayal and Jack Collison for that position. It was perfect and both of them played fantastic. Also if I wanted to park the bus I just played them both at the same time and the midfield was solid.

GAH waiting for these damn packs is incredibly annoying. No one have a couple of torrents I can use or something?

I have 4 good holding mids, mainly because I've had a load of injuries there this season. Yapi yapo, Gether, Toko and Cabral, then I have Kovac who is shit, old and whom I plan to sell.