Frost Posted 13 January 2015 Posted 13 January 2015 Started as Leicester. Finished 9th first season. Currently 6th, 3 points off 4th with 20 games gone. Current XI: Valdes V Der Weil Murillo Balanta Fuchs Romero Cleverly Emre Can Acosta Ulloa Dybala Notably signed Odegaard & Guidetti, as well as Forren. Spent £9m in the summer. Sold Vardy, James and De Laet combined fee of just under £10m to Burnley. Bizzare.
Dan Posted 13 January 2015 Posted 13 January 2015 i call that new staff day I call it Ricky Sappleton day.
DB11 Posted 13 January 2015 Posted 13 January 2015 Started as Leicester. Finished 9th first season. Currently 6th, 3 points off 4th with 20 games gone. Current XI: Valdes V Der Weil Murillo Balanta Fuchs Romero Cleverly Emre Can Acosta Ulloa Dybala Notably signed Odegaard & Guidetti, as well as Forren. Spent £9m in the summer. Sold Vardy, James and De Laet combined fee of just under £10m to Burnley. Bizzare. Sold James?! Crazy he stayed in my team winning the Prem and Champions League and I sold him alone for £17 million
Dan Posted 13 January 2015 Posted 13 January 2015 I have never once managed to get form from Matty James. Drinkwater & King no problem, James just never does it for me.
Dan Posted 13 January 2015 Posted 13 January 2015 I've been using that role for the first time this season as well. I ought to do it more often. Just look at this set of fixtures and bare in mind that failure to win the league game at home to Valladolid would've seen me sacked. This is my best ever turnaround, easily.
foxoffderby Posted 13 January 2015 Posted 13 January 2015 I have never once managed to get form from Matty James. Drinkwater & King no problem, James just never does it for me. I can never get any form from Drinkwater but James is very good as long as I keep him fit
Lovejoy Posted 14 January 2015 Posted 14 January 2015 Well it depends on what your junior coaching and youth recruitment levels are? They are what I focus on developing and I get fantastic potential regens in my youth team, and that's rated by youth coaches and scouts that have 20 judging PA My Head of Youth Development, who is responsible for bringing youth players in, has 19 and 20 in the PA and CA columns, as well as 20 for working with youngsters. A bit frustrating as my scouts are all hand picked as well.
Lovejoy Posted 14 January 2015 Posted 14 January 2015 I've decided that a save with Kaiserslautern is tempting me after work this evening. Anyone got any recommendations as to how to approach the 2. Bundesliga? I always use the same tactic, Ruben Jenssen is a tidy player as well.
DB11 Posted 14 January 2015 Posted 14 January 2015 My Head of Youth Development, who is responsible for bringing youth players in, has 19 and 20 in the PA and CA columns, as well as 20 for working with youngsters. A bit frustrating as my scouts are all hand picked as well. I don't mean staff wise I mean club wise. Go to Club > General (Facilities?) and see what it rates your Youth Recruitment and Junior Coaching as. You can get the board to raise these by making a board request, however it must also be part of your philosophy to sign young players for first team and bring players through youth. Head of Youth Development and Scouts are only for identifying and bringing in players that already exist to your club; the values above dictate the quality of regens that are generated at your club each year.
Stadt Posted 14 January 2015 Posted 14 January 2015 Have a look at your HOYD's personality, the more resolute/determined/professional the better.
DB11 Posted 15 January 2015 Posted 15 January 2015 Have a look at your HOYD's personality, the more resolute/determined/professional the better. All staff should have high DDM (discipline; determination; motivation) stats
Vardinhio Posted 15 January 2015 Posted 15 January 2015 Well I got sacked at Luton, that's 3 sackings in two seasons now. Cleaerly begging for my job was not the right approach! Bit gutted really as had a decent team there and was not doing too badly, just hit a ad patch of form. Don't ask me why but Oldham have just been relegated to league 2 and they want me to manage them!
Stadt Posted 15 January 2015 Posted 15 January 2015 Just try and have a solid but unspectacular set up Try something like this Standard Flexible 442 Gk d FB s Dc d Dc d FB a Wm a CM d Dlp s W s AF a DLF s It won't be amazing but it should be solid enough as a base tactic, especially at league two level. Don't go overboard with team instructions or player instructions.
Lovejoy Posted 15 January 2015 Posted 15 January 2015 It's not everyone's cup of tea, but I buy into the "we'll score one more than you" mentality on FM. It has worked well for me, be keen to hear others thoughts. GK: Sweeper Keeper RB: CWB Attacking LB: CWB Attacking CB: Cover Defensive CB: CD Defensive DM: Anchor Man Defensive CM: Advanced PM Attack CM: B2B Support AMR: IF Attack AML: IF Attack ST: Complete Forward Support I get a lot of goals but not so much from the striker.
Stadt Posted 15 January 2015 Posted 15 January 2015 On a support duty a striker isn't meant to score the goals
Dan Posted 15 January 2015 Posted 15 January 2015 It's not everyone's cup of tea, but I buy into the "we'll score one more than you" mentality on FM. It has worked well for me, be keen to hear others thoughts. GK: Sweeper Keeper RB: CWB Attacking LB: CWB Attacking CB: Cover Defensive CB: CD Defensive DM: Anchor Man Defensive CM: Advanced PM Attack CM: B2B Support AMR: IF Attack AML: IF Attack ST: Complete Forward Support I get a lot of goals but not so much from the striker. Seems quite Barcelona-like I think. Difference being Messi would score a tonne regardless.
Finnegan Posted 15 January 2015 Posted 15 January 2015 Strikers on support duties will score for fun if you've got the right team around them. The previously mentioned 433 I've run with a couple of times. First time out, the right sided striker in the poacher role (Carlos Fierro) was my leading goalscorer. Since most recent patches, the DLF (Support) in the same system (Richairo Zivkovic) dicked all over the league with hatfulls. Always arriving in the box in the right place at the right time for a cut-back, usually after starting the move himself with a run down the middle before spreading it wide. I'm currently using my one striker system more with another DLF (Support) playing between a Raumdeuter (AML) and Inside Forward Attack (AMR.) The Raumdeuter scores for fun (seriously, if you've not made a Raumdeuter system yet, give it a go) and is the top scorer, although he also takes pens. The DLF and AMR are scoring plenty, I certainly wouldn't say my forward isn't "meant" to score goals. I'd drop the cvnt quick-smart if he didn't. All of your attacking players are supposed to score and create goals. Attack and Support just tweak how involved they should be in the build-up and their movement off the ball, ultimately. A striker is still going to be your most advanced central player so he still should be getting plenty of goals whether he's playing off the shoulder (attack) or sitting a bit deeper and arriving late (support.)
Stadt Posted 15 January 2015 Posted 15 January 2015 Support and attack also affect if a player tracks back or not, I was simplifying it because it is easy to get bogged down sometimes. You can get almost anything to perform how you want ingame, you can be a free flowing attacking side with a defensive mentality, I think sometimes the descriptions in game get taken too literally
Finnegan Posted 15 January 2015 Posted 15 January 2015 The last line is exactly right. I read a post by a guy claiming his raumdeuter was topping assists and his winger was functioning like a space interpreter, finding all the open gaps and popping up with goals. The point was made by another poster, and it's true, you have to look beyond just the individual roles you set a player but also how your tactic functions as a team. In this case, it was suggested that the guy's team was set up to create more open space for his winger (who was cutting in, with good movement) because the width of his tactic had a clear bias. In my case, my dlf gets a lot of CCCs because I make a lot of space for him, get him involved early in the move, deeper down the pitch and know that he'll have had plenty of time to distribute and get back in to the box before play hits the final fifth of the field. If I had him set to attack in a role pushed further up, he'd get less opportunities for himself as there'd be less link between my attack and supporting lines but also he'd be picked up early by the defence and marked out of the move. In this case, being on support almost makes him more prolific. Think outside the box.
Stadt Posted 15 January 2015 Posted 15 January 2015 Yeah, good post. People's logic is often flawed when it comes to fm. I set my striker to attack, the wingers on attack and the mentality to attack, why aren't I scoring??? I'm guilty of it myself but a lot of players don't watch the game well enough, they follow the ball without periodically pausing or rewinding to see if it works.
Beliall Posted 15 January 2015 Author Posted 15 January 2015 Just won the SA div 1 . Lookimg forward to the close season now
LCFC FOX Posted 15 January 2015 Posted 15 January 2015 I'm seriously so bad at this game, I can't event win with a team like Spurs. First four games and I've D3 L1 against against Stoke, Swansea, Villa and Southampton
Stadt Posted 15 January 2015 Posted 15 January 2015 I'm seriously so bad at this game, I can't event win with a team like Spurs. First four games and I've D3 L1 against against Stoke, Swansea, Villa and Southampton Post your setup
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