Football Manager

[Bigpapa42]

Shit. Just went and check the German team and it's locked. Do they make a new folder after the update because I know I checked that fake.inc file and it was cleared.

Yeah, the new data is a new folder. So you will have to change, delete, and add whatever files you had before.

[Fappin Raptor]

It's to much damn work with these games to get everything right the first time around. I always spend so much time editing everything and then by the time I can play I lose interest. With that said, I could care less about Germany.

[calgaryballer]

I think it was the Oberliga DB update I had that was f'ing things up. Turned that off and it seems we are good to go

[Fappin Raptor]

My first match with APOEL is a victory against Skenderbeu in the UEFA CL Second Qualifying Phase.

[Fappin Raptor]

My hopes of a dream run with APOEL in the UCL end in the third qualifying phase against Genk. We went up 2-0 in the first leg that was at home. Then we went up 1-0 at half at Genk. Then our dreams were destroyed as Genk put up 5 goals and we lose 5-3 on aggregate. Oh well. Now I'm just going to run through the Cyprus league for a couple years and hope to get a call to another club in England or Spain.

[BigHouseUSA]

Managing Newcastle, bought Yanga Mbwia for 9mil and Diame for 5.25. Fortunately Senegal didn't qualify for ACoN, so I'll have Dembai and Diame for January. Started a little rough, but haven't lost in nine games, had four straight convincing wins before I went 2-0 up at Old Trafford, they came back for a draw though through a nice free kick. Currently have Yanga Mbwia at left back, my long term goal has him at CB, but he's playing so well there. I have some cash to spend in January and I couldn't resist buying Dempsey, probably could've gone for another younger playmaker on the continent, but I'm sure it will work out. Probably going to sell off Best and Obertan to free up wage space and I'll use the last of my cash on a left back, a CM, or possibly some youngsters. Sitting seventh in all this, Sunderland are around second or third right now, I would expect that to change.

[calgaryballer]

I've been fooling around with First Vienna in the Austrian Second Division. Trying to instill a W-M formation on them, based on Cleon's tactic's thread at SI

[kyhadley]

Bought this on March 1st. Since then I've played for 5 days and 5 hours.

Addicted rating: Better order another takeaway pizza.


Planning on doing some sort of report on my first two seasons (and counting) with Chelsea once I stop playing for some amount of time.

[Lanteri]

Decided to go with Bolton to try and save them from relegation and get out of this financial awfulness they're presently in. A lot of the older players' contracts expire in June as well so I'll be able to build them my way provided we avoid relegation.

I'm presently 25 games into the season, with 30 points coming on 8 wins, 6 draws, and 11 losses with 22 GF and 32 GA.

In January I sold Mark Davies to Blackpool for £3.5m and future incentives and Steinsson to Hull for £1m. Let Mears go on loan as well with the hope that he signs permanently. I bought James McArthur from Wigan for £1.5m and £8k p/w wages as a rotation player, and brought in Jake Livermore on loan from Tottenham.

Formation-wise I've stuck with a flat 4-4-2.

Starting XI when everyone's healthy is:

GK: Bogdan (Jaskelainen (sp?) is leaving on a free transfer at the end of the season so I've elected to give Bogdan the starts).
LB: Marcos Alonso
CB: Tim Ream (Set to BPD-D to utilize his passing ability)
CB: David Wheater
RB: Nigel Reo-Coker (Retrained)
LM: Martin Petrov
LCM: Jake Livermore (AP-Support)
RCM: Fabrice Muamba (BWM-D)
RM: Ryo Myiachi
STL: Kevin Davies (TM-S)
STR: David N'Gog (P-A)

N'Gog has spent a lot of time injured, so Sordell has been getting his share of starts as well, and is actually my leading scorer with 6 goals. Klasnic rotates regularly with Davies as well. Klasnic, Davies, and N'Gog all have 4 goals.

[Lanteri]

10 matches to go and morale is in the shitter as I've hit a really rough spot at the end of February/start of March. The biggest morale hit was losing a relegation battle at home to QPR, 2-1. Dropped to 18th, still on 30 points. Below us are Sunderland with 26 and Norwich with 8 points.

[BigHouseUSA]

My computer's getting fixed currently, but I've got three games left and in the FA Cup against Liverpool. My only goal was getting in Europe so I can have enough matches for my abnormally large squad, so I've got that done. Sitting in fourth, so I should be able to get CL. I've got to work in Ba, Cisse, Ben Arfa, Jonas (who has been great), Dempsey, Hoilett, and Maveaux. Plus I have five defenders good enough to start.

[Lanteri]

Narrowly escaped the drop. Finished the season on 42 points. QPR, Sunderland, and Norwich went down.

N'Gog wound up leading in goalscoring with 9, Sordell followed with 7, Petrov and Davies with 5 a piece. Petrov was my highest rated player on the season with a 6.95.

There's a lot of players leaving in June. Here's the list: (All listed are free transfers)

Jaasekalinen, Gardner, Petrov, Davies, Klasnic, Ricketts, Blake, Paul Robinson, and Sean Davis.

So, needs-wise, my main one is going to be at left midfield with Petrov going. I'll probably look for a natural right back as well, and possibly an upgrade over Eagles at right midfield. Ditto for center mid as McArthur isn't much of a player. Holden isn't much either as he spent the whole season hurt and regressed quite significantly. I'll probably try and move Holden and Reo-Coker if possible. Lee Chung-Yong returns as well from his injury at right mid, so I might give him a shot until January.

Current projected starting XI pre-window:

GK: Bogdan
LB: Alonso
CB: Ream
CB: Wheater
RB: Reo-Coker
LM: Eagles
CM: McArthur
CM: Muamba
RM: Lee Chung-Yong
STL: N'Gog
STR: Sordell

Pretty ugly squad.

[Lanteri]

Alright, here's how we're looking heading into the season.

In:

RB - Mikael Lustig on a free from Celtic (£18,500 p/w wages)
CB - Matthew Upson on a free (£6,250 p/w wages)
CM - Ross Jenkins from Watford for £1.5m (£5,250 p/w wages)
LM - Royson Drenthe on a free from Real Madrid (£48,000 p/w wages)
ST - Sekou Cisse from Feyenoord for £775k (£12,750 p/w wages)
CB - Ivan Marcano from Villareal on loan for £110k

Out:

All the aforementioned free transfers.

I tried to sell Holden and Pratley, but no one's interested currently.

Squad for the opening weekend of football:

GK: Bogdan
LB: Alonso
CB: Ream
CB: Wheater
RB: Lustig
LM: Drenthe
CM: McArthur
CM: Muamba
RM: Chung-Yong
STL: N'Gog
STR: Sordell

Bench: Lainton, Reo-Coker, Upson, Jenkins, Marcano, Cisse, Eagles

[BigHouseUSA]

What's wrong with Holden? He should be pretty good when healthy.

[Lanteri]

What's wrong with Holden? He should be pretty good when healthy.

He spent the entire season injured. Attributes steadily declined over the course of last season. He's no better than Darren Pratley at this point. He's ok all-around and would be semi-useful if I had like a B2B CM, but my midfield combo right now is a BWM and a playmaker, of which he's neither.

Holden