Football Manager 2026

[Beliall]

5 games to go and its tight but not impossible. 1 major thing going against us is the teams around us having a game in hand. we had a dip in form but a change in tactic has brought us a much needed and hard earned win against bournemouth. losing to leicester was a critical point as well, at that point a win would have taken us out of the drop zone at least for a while. the run in looks hard as well, we need to be safe before arsenal to have a chance. fingers crossed 



 

[moore_94]

Would not be surprised at all if at least 5 of these pretty much go straight into my senior international squad 

 

 

This guy is definitely the pick of the bunch

 

[Finnegan]

2 hours ago, Beliall said:

5 games to go and its tight but not impossible. 1 major thing going against us is the teams around us having a game in hand. we had a dip in form but a change in tactic has brought us a much needed and hard earned win against bournemouth. losing to leicester was a critical point as well, at that point a win would have taken us out of the drop zone at least for a while. the run in looks hard as well, we need to be safe before arsenal to have a chance. fingers crossed 



 

 

How close did your computer get to mysteriously crashing after that Everton 6 pointer? 

 

[shen]

3 hours ago, Beliall said:

5 games to go and its tight but not impossible. 1 major thing going against us is the teams around us having a game in hand. we had a dip in form but a change in tactic has brought us a much needed and hard earned win against bournemouth. losing to leicester was a critical point as well, at that point a win would have taken us out of the drop zone at least for a while. the run in looks hard as well, we need to be safe before arsenal to have a chance. fingers crossed 



 

Losing three out of four against direct rivals, and by the odd goal only. That hurts. You must have felt pretty confident going into that Everton game. Did you win 6 on the bounce before that?

[Beliall]

8 hours ago, shen said:

Losing three out of four against direct rivals, and by the odd goal only. That hurts. You must have felt pretty confident going into that Everton game. Did you win 6 on the bounce before that?

nothing as good as that, heres the wins after my 10 game losing streak from the point i took over. io had actually put this out of my memory,. ref gave 8 mins added time, played 10 and conceded in the 6th, and it was utter bullshit

[moore_94]

Hmmm annoyingly I think I may have to start my Andorra save again

 

Done some testing and it looks like their B team is not setup properly to be added into a league, which is one of the best bits about managing in Spain

 

Edit: done some more testing today and I just cannot get their B team to get promoted into a league

 

Having to start a new save, found a database that adds the 5th tier so I can add them into there

Edited Sunday at 19:36 by moore_94

[Beliall]

i couldnt quite do it, down with a game to spare. if only i had got this team playing earlier than i did , that run in absolutely killed us. brighton up next , and then the championship with rumours of a tycoon coming in to take over i hope i get t ostick around, and i hope the takeover is done either before or after the transfer window, either way, im going to be scrambling to sign players early just in case. thats if they dont sack me

[Beliall]

**** em then. i got called to a board meeting, told them to shove it. im not starting a new season under a cloud and anyway ,realism wise its common for managers to get sacked following relegation. it was a fun little holiday though, i quite enjoyed it

Edited Monday at 08:53 by Beliall

[Beliall]

QPR has ruined this pentagon save for the foreseeable future, after having fully licenced visual and stuff i dont want to leave england, got job offers from 2 clubs almost immediately after my sacking, Watford and Lincoln, both just got relegated from the champ, so im dropping to league 1 and finally getting a coaching badge. 

Watford refused coaching badges, Lincoln didnt. I've always liked Lincoln anyway

i did apply with sundown in SA prem and 2 clubs in mexico who all told me to get ****ed. the thought crossed my mind of restarting the whole game, focusing more on england early and doing badges, and if this goes badly i might do that but the game gets so much better when you are deeper into the save, especially true of this version of the game. fortunately i decided to make my manager a lot younger than real life me to give myself more time

[moore_94]

46 minutes ago, Beliall said:

QPR has ruined this pentagon save for the foreseeable future, after having fully licenced visual and stuff i dont want to leave england, got job offers from 2 clubs almost immediately after my sacking, Watford and Lincoln, both just got relegated from the champ, so im dropping to league 1 and finally getting a coaching badge. 

Watford refused coaching badges, Lincoln didnt. I've always liked Lincoln anyway

i did apply with sundown in SA prem and 2 clubs in mexico who all told me to get ****ed. the thought crossed my mind of restarting the whole game, focusing more on england early and doing badges, and if this goes badly i might do that but the game gets so much better when you are deeper into the save, especially true of this version of the game. fortunately i decided to make my manager a lot younger than real life me to give myself more time

I haven’t done a pentagon save myself but on this game (and 24) I found with an unemployed no badges save the best “entry point” was Japan / South Korea

 

Within a few seasons you can usually be in the top division at a decent sized club and they usually have decent money as well

 

Might have to give the Pentagon a go if I get bored of Andorra 

[Lineker's Lugs]

My latest FM doing FM things experiences:  I've been struggling to get a decent international job, but I was finally offered what I hope will prove a decent entry level role as manager of the Great Britain women's Olympic team, though a wage of £15 p/w suggests it probably doesn't have the prestige I was hoping for!

 

I had an introductory press conference and was asked if I thought it was a problem that I was English rather than being a native of Great Britain.

 

I've also been turned down for the England men's job three times despite only ever having applied for the women's team.

[Beliall]

5 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

I haven’t done a pentagon save myself but on this game (and 24) I found with an unemployed no badges save the best “entry point” was Japan / South Korea

 

Within a few seasons you can usually be in the top division at a decent sized club and they usually have decent money as well

 

Might have to give the Pentagon a go if I get bored of Andorra 

ill keep that in mind, if it all falls apart here at lincoln the save will be dead and it will be hard to get a better job so i'll restart. 

[Lineker's Lugs]

 

FM really can't cope with Great Britain...

 

 

Wait until he realises all the rest are also foreigners from England and Scotland. 

 

[Beliall]

8 minutes ago, Lineker's Lugs said:

 

FM really can't cope with Great Britain...

 

 

Wait until he realises all the rest are also foreigners from England and Scotland. 

 

glad to see international football just works. didnt expect anything less

[Dan]

I went in at Malaysia and ended up doing five seasons at Terengganu. I kind of think I'm insane.

[Beliall]

Just about to  start the 32.33 season in league 1 with Lincoln

got this guy on a free, nothing special but last season he got 6 goals and 8 assists for salford in  this league who got promoted to the champ last season



quite excited by this guy, signed him for 450k from stoke, who he only had 5 appearances for, but hes been on loan a lot in league 1, last season getting 8 goals and 7 assists for preston who also got promoted last season, via the playoffs

plenty of others comings and goings but these were my favourite finds. media has us at 6-1 for the title, but i think we can do a lot better, we also have a 33 year old harry soutts in the team, hes angling for a move away to the hibernian retirement home though









 

[Beliall]

i am russell martin 

[Beliall]

once the thought was planted in my head about restarting it was all over. lost interest in league 1 lincoln and after premier league QPR i felt further away from the pentagon than ever. so after dabbling with the idea, i deleted my save and restarted. man it hard to get a job now for some reason, especially when i demand coaching badges. didnt get a job till november the 25th, in ****ing wales  . obviously i had other offers that came in after they refused training but i stuck to my guns despite the opportunity, like torquay would have been fun but im not doing another 5 year save with no badges. 

First match is against Llanelli, it could be fun for a bit

[Finnegan]

At this point I'm more invested in Belial's management career than I am Russell Martin's to be quite honest. 

 

[Finnegan]

Oh but what do you mean "in ****ing Wales"?

 

 

[Beliall]

Just now, Finnegan said:

Oh but what do you mean "in ****ing Wales"?

 

 

*Charming. no idea why it censored it 


im glad im keeping you entertained anyway, now i feel a little bead for dropping other save, though im sure it wont be long till im somewhere else

[Finnegan]

Just now, Beliall said:

wont be long till im somewhere else

 

You could start with actual Wales tbh. I mean Connahs Quay is basically Merseyside, you might as well have just gotten the Tranmere job. 

 

You shouldn't be facing Llanelli, you should be saving them. Proper team. 

 

[Beliall]

i got offered the caernarfon town job which was hard to turn down.  but they didnt want to let me do badges. thats all i care about , even if i have to live on merseyside. 

[Lineker's Lugs]

My GB Olympics job did the trick for improving my job offers.  Before the Games I was turned down by relegated QPR (QPR relegations seem to be a recurring thing but in this case it was from the Championship) and afterwards I was approached by England men, Liverpool men and Spain women among others.  

 

I had something happen that I hadn’t experienced before in the Olympic final.  We led 2-0, Germany got one back and they won a free kick near the corner flag in stoppage time.  Their keeper came up for it and I was fully expecting an equaliser.  But Hampton punched it clear, Park passed to James and she rolled it into the empty net from just inside Germany’s half with their keeper still in the centre circle.  3-1, game over.  I might have to watch more games if this stuff happens!

 

Despite the job offers, I also decided to start a new save.  I didn’t have an end goal in that one so I was just drifting along with no real purpose.  I’m trying a one club save in England and I joined Farnborough 17 games into the season.  I had quite a few interviews and decided to take the first job offered.  Luckily it was one of the two clubs that agreed to a coaching course, although since I won’t be job hunting it doesn’t really matter.  I think I might just do ten seasons and see how far I can get, or finish if/when I get promoted from the Championship.  Realistically they might turn out to be the same thing.
 

I’m slightly distracted by the fact I’ve got a plan for the next three saves and quite fancy cracking on with them too!

[shen]

4 minutes ago, Lineker's Lugs said:

...Luckily it was one of the two clubs that agreed to a coaching course, although since I won’t be job hunting it doesn’t really matter...

It's going to improve the coaching of players and give you a boost to your rep (i.e. will help getting/retaining players of a higher caliber), so it does matter a bit