Ross-Kemp Posted 17 September 2013 Share Posted 17 September 2013 Couldn't be bothered getting Rangers back to the SPL? Nice try It's '12 pal, I've played just about every save possible and fancied a challenge. The board have sold my 3 best players, Griffiths to villa for £4.5million, a Czech regen, DRC, signed on a free, after 3 seasons he's got to Kobenhaven for £5million, 30% of the next sale and £1million after 10 international games. This season may be a struggle as no-one seems interested in joining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 19 September 2013 Share Posted 19 September 2013 Finished 8th and won MOTY. What a fantastic season. Got £1mil to spend this year. It's hard to improve on that really but I guess I'll stick with what I'm doing, bring through about 2/3 youngsters and watch them improve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 19 September 2013 Share Posted 19 September 2013 Wow, I've discovered an absolute gold mine here. Club called Marathon in Honduras, they've sold me two 18 year olds who I honestly think can play for a side in the Europa League one day for a grand total of.... £3k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinkenzo Posted 19 September 2013 Share Posted 19 September 2013 USA online game has seen me go from Dallas > LA Galaxy > NY Red Bulls > USA Manager > Chivas > Chicago. Have a front four of Ravel Morrison, Steven Naismith, Lukas Podolski & Andy Carroll. Oh and occasionally Hossein Kaebi. With Jack Rodwell joining on a free, 24yo Kalas of Chelsea joining too. All on frees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 23 September 2013 Share Posted 23 September 2013 FM has just drawn the following group for Euro qualifiers: Scotland, Azerbaijan, Finland, Norway, Wales. I can but dream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Horse's Mouth Posted 24 September 2013 Share Posted 24 September 2013 Hmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 24 September 2013 Share Posted 24 September 2013 What season are you in? Schalke aren't a bad club to manage but I was nothing special for them to be honest. Generally level with Dortmund and behind Bayern. Won the 'Champions' League in about the 7th season though. Nantes this year has been similar to last, outsiders for Europa League. Some of my signings for the money I've paid however have been incredible. £500k for some Peruvian striker who I can see being as good as Cavani/Falcao. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Horse's Mouth Posted 24 September 2013 Share Posted 24 September 2013 2016/17, ended up taking the job, was getting bored of Monaco. Already out of Champions League before I arrived. In terms of the squad, they have decent enough players. A few areas will need tweaking but this could get interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 24 September 2013 Share Posted 24 September 2013 It will frustrate you how good Bayern are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Horse's Mouth Posted 24 September 2013 Share Posted 24 September 2013 Probably, Dortmund are very strong too. Beat me to Volland the previous season. It'll be a tough job, but I like a challenge # I've got quite an interesting squad, I have Erick Lamela aswell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 24 September 2013 Share Posted 24 September 2013 I'd absolutely kill for Lamela. He'd be literally the absolute perfect player for my Nantes team. Here's to hoping PSG go and piss millions away again and stick him in the reserves. On the subject, PSG are laughable they spend literally £80mil a season and they've won two titles in my six seasons so far. They should be hitting 100 points a year for what they spend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Horse's Mouth Posted 25 September 2013 Share Posted 25 September 2013 They pretty much were dominant in my time at France, although I think if I did stick with Monaco I could have overtaken them that season. Lamela is superb, but he keeps getting injured . We've been on a superb run as of late, semi finals of the German Cup. Only problem is, I need to distance myself from Hannover who are in 3rd, because Leversuken have about 4 games in hand and they're only 6 points away from me. I worry if I don't get atleast top 3, I'll get the chop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 25 September 2013 Share Posted 25 September 2013 Doubt it in the first year considering you were only taken on during the season. I kept my job at Nantes despite coming 11th in Ligue 2 after saying "promotion" because they were "impressed with number of youth players brought through, and impressed with possession football" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Horse's Mouth Posted 26 September 2013 Share Posted 26 September 2013 Got a bad track with German teams, fairly sure it took Werder Bremen two months to sack me. Although, since January apart from our loss at Mainz we've won every match which is quite extraordinary. Marko Marin has been doing a superb job at filling in for Lamela. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 26 September 2013 Share Posted 26 September 2013 Funnily enough Bremen are the other German side I managed. Did very poorly there. Bottom half and my three 'star' players were all shite and pathetically inconsistent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Horse's Mouth Posted 26 September 2013 Share Posted 26 September 2013 Think pretty much every FM from 11 I've been at Bremen and not lasted a season there. Doing really poorly atm, in the relegation places . Only team I had really good success with in Germany was Leversuken last year, managed to win the champions league and a few division titles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 26 September 2013 Share Posted 26 September 2013 Without wanting to sound smug, I've always found the Bundesliga too easy. To the extent that, even though it's probably my favourite league, I won't manage in Germany any more. The database editors are seriously harsh on German sides, the quality drops off completely outside the top three or four and once you get Champions League revenue you can easily out-do the big clubs. Gotze has been pretty highly rated on the last few versions but otherwise the stats for the likes of Reus, Lewendowski, Muller and co' are immensely harsh. Plus, attendances are pretty good, the league reputation is high, you've 4 CL slots, no work permits, no signing limitations, no real debt compared to the rest of Europe. Compared to the Premiership where you've always got Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, City and United that are ridiculously over-hyped (and Everton, for whatever reason) or Spain where Barca and Real stay competitive throughout? Cakewalk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 26 September 2013 Share Posted 26 September 2013 Everton overhyped? Everton seem to go down on mine every single time You ever done France, Finners? A lot of the league is piss poor but Lyon are surprisingly good and PSG, there's just no logic to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Horse's Mouth Posted 26 September 2013 Share Posted 26 September 2013 Villa are usually the big ones on my save. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beliall Posted 27 September 2013 Share Posted 27 September 2013 reading this thread has reignited my FM mojo. and persuaded me to manage abroad started a new game and got a job managing AGOVV Aapelldorn in the jupiler league. really enjoying it. already qualified for the playoffs by winning period one. currently 3rd. I love this league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haydos Posted 27 September 2013 Share Posted 27 September 2013 reading this thread has reignited my FM mojo. and persuaded me to manage abroad started a new game and got a job managing AGOVV Aapelldorn in the jupiler league. really enjoying it. already qualified for the playoffs by winning period one. currently 3rd. I love this league. Think I'm gonna do this when 2014 comes out. Always get tempted to start a Leicester career though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 27 September 2013 Share Posted 27 September 2013 Everton overhyped? Everton seem to go down on mine every single time You ever done France, Finners? A lot of the league is piss poor but Lyon are surprisingly good and PSG, there's just no logic to them. I had a brief go but couldn't get in to it. To be honest, I rarely deviate from England, Spain and Germany. Hell, I rarely deviate from Leicester, Betis and St. Pauli. I've a Sampdoria save on the go at the moment that I'm enjoying a bit. My players all want to leave because we're not "big enough" despite two consecutive second places and CL qualifications. Jeez. Love Palombo and Poli, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 27 September 2013 Share Posted 27 September 2013 I've actually found French to be my favourite on 13 and it's seriously bizarre because it's in theory a woeful league to manage in I've not had a proper one in Italy on this. Had a season at Napoli but I don't know, not really managed anyone other than them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 27 September 2013 Share Posted 27 September 2013 I quite like Italy. No work permits but you have to be careful of foreign signings, you can have 12 substitutes named (obviously you still only use three) and only having 3 CL spots to start with doesn't bother me too much because if I stick it out for a few seasons I think Juve and I will drag the coef points up. Should be able to overtake the Bundesliga due to the above complaints. I must admit I went in to the database and upped the attendances of every team in Serie A, however. I couldn't stand the idea of the whole league playing in front of 30 - 60 % capacity stadiums. Especially given most of the Italian clubs are in hefty debt anyway. In my Betis save, Milan crumpled in to Serie B with money problems. **** the credit crunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beliall Posted 27 September 2013 Share Posted 27 September 2013 I usually play with the lower lower league update and manage lewes . hoping that pearson gets sacked so I can get his job eventually. I wont be getting fm 14 till its half price as usual. the updates and fixes will be out by then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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