Thought I found a tactic which worked for my team, but the same problems persist.

My team is more or less okay at home, but the majority of our away games are hit and hope...regardless of the position of the team. Quite a few times I've been dominating only to get a red card and in the 80+ minute, the game gifts the CPU an easy run on my goal to make it 1-0 with no time to respond. I think something is definitely wrong with the match engine as I find it ludicrous that so many things can go wrong so frequently, with players playing in their favored position. Sometimes I swear I play Barca, Bayern & Real rolled into one every game

It's weird. I've rarely had such consistent form in my first season (25 wins from 32 league games, including 12 in a row) yet the performances haven't always been great. Winning games at times with my highest-rated player being awarded 7.6 and the lowest 6.4.

I had similar...17 wins 24 or so unbeaten, and then we had a freak show at Derby losing 0-3 and since there it was either draw...loss away or win, draw at home, as of now I'm 7 pts. off the top, but i have 1/ 2 games in hand. Man City isn't dropping any points but my team seems intent on throwing away the league. Are you playing with update 14.1.3?

Got through the season and finished relatively well, won the League, FA & CC, but lost the CL to Chelsea on penalties.

I've noticed some odd things, in the UEFA U-21 competition for the clubs, United were to play Marseille, but on the calender it showed them playing Moldova After winning most of the competitions running, Luke Shaw comes to me basically saying that the squad isn't ambitious enough and needs assurances that we would win the league next season (imo, the greedy git is upset because I've been rejecting big payday moves from Monaco, Dortmund, PSG, Madrid, Bayern, Barca, Shaktar for around two seasons running)...seems he doesn't appreciate that if he were to be sold, he would have to go for upwards of 70m to compensate for the 40m transfer fee I paid, his wages as well as a profit.

I'm at the stage in my career where I'm looking to develop my own players from the academy, while giving the Glaziers enough money to pay off their debt. What I've done is look to sell my 29 going 30 players(bar Rooney) and also scouring the market for contracts which are expiring and getting those players, either loaning them out or integrating them into my team until the following window when I try to sell them. My first window of doing it, I made close to 75m.

One player you should look out for is Rodrigo Gomez (19/20 yr. old starts the game at Argentinos) an AMR, got him for free in January and sold him for just short of 40m + 40% next sale to Madrid. Was quality for me, and was only sold because I have Januzaj to play his position and didn't want to sell him.

I’m really getting into this now. Although I cant really get playing for much in a single sitting, I’m unbeaten in my last 8 now. Beat both Spurs and Chelsea. The CoC draw has been extremely kind to me and I’ve been drawn against minnows so far, so that's been a real plus.

I brought Carragher back as a youth coach. It would be rude not to, and it worked out to be quite a shrewd move. The fans are loving it and the players have all picked up.

Denis_Law - I’m going to try and pick up a few youth gems because I blew my entire transfer budget on Sven Bender and my team is threadbare with injuries. I’ll keep a look out for Rodrigo Gomez. Can you suggest an others?

Sven is a solid buy, I have him and he does what he's supposed to do, bar gift the opposition penalties

What I do is bother my board for scouts & coaches until I cannot get anymore...think I have 26 of each now, and I also play with a DoF. Walter Sabbatini from Roma was my 1st and now I chose the Juve one as Walter was getting old. He occasionally links me with players I would have missed and sometimes are available at basement prices.

I then set my scouts to at least one region in the world, with places like S.A & Europe getting two. I add all the players they recommend to my shortlist and just before the window opens in December & May, I add a constraint where it shows only players younger than 19 and sort by star ratings - for potential gems, or show players with 6 months to a year left on their contract - for potential profit in the future. It also pays to have good feeder clubs to send the free transfer players to, so they don't depreciate on your bench.

Other top players so far I've "found" are mostly known already, your Iker Munain (Althletic), Lazar Markovic(Benfica), Viktor Fischer(Ajax), Aleksandar Mitrovic (Anderlecht) all of which I believed I payed 20m+ each.

Vitinho from either CSKA Moskow/ Gremio is a useful player, Handanovic from Inter is a solid player as well. It really all depends on the status of your team and what you want. If you are in your 1st season, attempt to sign Honda when you start, and Lewandowski in the January window.

Yeah I've got the 14.1.3 version.

Just drew 0-0 with Chelsea and the fans were devastated at "losing to one of their closest rivals"

Hmmm...... Player performance is still inconsistent as anything I've ever seen on any fm in all the years I've played them.

I don't think anyone can tell me now this game isn't buggy.

Played Cardiff away, somehow it felt like it was Madrid. I took the lead, and they responded after Doria watched as some parttimer strolled pass him into space to get the ball...it seemed like the game was scripted from the beginning. As soon as I scored, I went counter, that didn't stop Cardiff from picking a pass through my defence immediately

Eventually when I went in front, I went contain, again, my CB's were conveniently placed for a through ball for their striker to score.

This went on until the match finished 6-5 to them. Needless to say, I'm replaying that game.

Another thing I noticed is that if I have a domestic Cup draw prior to a PL match, I always get the team that I'm due to play in the subsequent PL match, provided that said team is still in the competition. In this save, I had Cardiff(A) in the PL before the draw and unsurprisingly I got Cardiff(A) in the CoC. Last season it was Tottenham & Norwich

Champione champione, ole ole ole!!!!!

Won the league by 1 point from united (despite my teams best efforts to choke) while city and Chelsea claim the champs league spots.

Still have never won the UEFA cup/Europa league as Chelsea knocked me out in the semis.

Ok season but if I'm being overly picky I'm not happy with the actual level of performance from my players. Highest average rating in my squad was 7.26 (eriksen and chadli) while naughton finished with 6.67. Need to look extensively as to why they're not playing at their best and see if I've issued them with the best team/individual instructions. Usually got most of them at least at 7.2 going up to about 7.6

On the lookout for a ball-winning CM/DM as capoue is on the transfer list after he objected to his 2 week fine for a rash challenge got him sent off in a game where I was trying to possibly seal the title. Any recommendations/approx prices I'll have to pay? Will go upto £20m max

Started playing it today as I finally got a PC that runs it nicely!

Started off as AFC, similar to OP once I get to grips with it I'll start another game as a lower league club and play them simultaneously.

Not going well so far at all. Simmed one season unemployed so I could start next season, rather than the beginning of this one.

Played 10, won 5, d 1, lost 4. Seem to be winning the big games (CFC at home, United away (5-2) ) , yet losses against WBA and Southampton. More work on tactics needed!

Got bored of Arsenal after winning the treble 2nd season .

I am now at Palermo in Seria B. Think it will be more of a challenge. They have a very nice squad to get top spot and promotion back to Seria A.

If anyone is looking for bargains 1st season, look at Abel Hernández, Ezequiel Muñoz, Armin Bačinović and Édgar Barreto from Palermo.

So far played 18 and I'm joint top

On the lookout for a ball-winning CM/DM as capoue is on the transfer list after he objected to his 2 week fine for a rash challenge got him sent off in a game where I was trying to possibly seal the title. Any recommendations/approx prices I'll have to pay? Will go upto £20m max
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hmmmm first season? You could try for Verrattti but highly doubt PSG will sell. Banega is also worth it

This is whats working for me at the moment

GK (D)
FB (S)
CD (D)
CD(D)
WB(A)
DLP(D)
BBM(S)
W(A) at AMR
AP(S) at AMC
W(S) at AML
AF(A)

Balanced Philosophy
Counter Style
Shorter Passing
Pass into Space
Work Ball into Box
More Roaming
More Expressive
Drop Deeper & Stay on Feet

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On the lookout for a ball-winning CM/DM as capoue is on the transfer list after he objected to his 2 week fine for a rash challenge got him sent off in a game where I was trying to possibly seal the title. Any recommendations/approx prices I'll have to pay? Will go upto £20m max
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hmmmm first season? You could try for Verrattti but highly doubt PSG will sell. Banega is also worth it
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Saw that Real Madrid were overloaded with CM's and DM's as they had bought Schneiderlin from Southampton so made a cheeky enquiry for khedira - ended up getting him for £16.5m!

According to my assistant manager, lewandowski is best as a trequarista?! Not too convinced by that to be honest, seems more advanced forward or complete forward to me so I'll try and work out which is best...

No way is he a Trequarista. Advanced forward is probably his best role. You can see his profile after scouting him to see his best position

According to my assistant manager, lewandowski is best as a trequarista?! Not too convinced by that to be honest, seems more advanced forward or complete forward to me so I'll try and work out which is best...
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i play him as Trequartista, never scored less than 30 goals in the league and has got between 8-14 assists every season, my team is

----------------------------------Ter Stegen--------------------------

Danilo--------------Hummels--------Marquinhos-----Schmelzer

-----------------------------------L.Bender---------------------

------------------Gundogan--------------------Kroos---------------

Reus-------------------------------------------------------------Draxler

---------------------------------Lewandowski-----------------------

finally got Draxler after 3 seasons kept rejecting me but after 3 straight BL and CL doubles he couldnt ignore me, still havent won the German Cup yet and completed the treble, closest ive got is Semi Finals where Schalke of all people knocked me out

Hmmm, conflicting opinions..... I'll experiment with all 3 roles and see what works best.

11-1 to win the champs league at my first attempt, not bad odds at all! I did it on fm2013, surely not again?

I started a new save with Liverpool after getting a feel with an earlier game. Im doing great. Im in March and Im top of the league - with Everton of all people chasing me. I just won the CoC too. I'd just like to say that Aspas is an absolute demon. He's been banging them in for fun and he never gets injured.

I'm in my 7th season with United (2019-2020), stadium maxed out and the board is building a new one, due to be completed in December of 2019.

First youth academy players have fully been integrated into my squad, so far I have 7 players who came from my U18s to my senior squad.

Currently joint top with Chelsea after 7 games, fairly easy CL & CoC run as it seems the big clubs are drawing each other and being knocked out. If you have the money later in the game, snap up Alesksander(sp) Mitrovic (ST C) from Anderlect...He's easily the one of the best if not the best young striker in the game.

7th season?! Wtf?

Do you play it all day or not watch any of the games? I only managed 13 seasons in total on fm13!

I'm going to bookmark this thread and continue posting on here, seems like a real intellectual thread to get involved in, once I get the game at Christmas time.

In the mean time, I have a really slow PC, so my seasons go as slow as you can think. But I do have FM13 for the moment, I asked for a random team at the start of the season, I got West Brom, so I continued.

Good budget of around £7.5M with around £40,000 on my wage budget, to start with. Had plenty of interest in Mulumbu and had bids of £12.75M coming through from Arsenal and Liverpool, managed to keep him on and he was happy. In the process of the season, Shane Long has been outstanding with 16 goals in 29 league games for me and we are currently 8th going through a bit of a purple patch of form though. But we had a great start, drawing at City and going on a great run of form getting us to 10 unbeaten games at one point!

My signings have been good. Out of favour Lukaku I sent back because of how good Long was and I've bumpered the midfield massively. So many options. I signed Lasse Schone, Victor Anichebe, Miralem Suljemani, Charles N'Zogbia and Thiago Motta. Those are the more noted one's that are stronger than fringe players.

I started off playing 4-5-1 with a Anchor Man or a flat midfield 4, Brunt on the left, Morrison on the right. Can't remember my main team talks or 'Shout Instructions' though. But they worked to perfection and usually have my strategy as Balanced and Control.

As the dip in form started to come, I thought we were getting found out, so I changed to a diamond in midfield with Morison AMC and Mulumbu normally DMC and teams struggle against us now. Haven't been on though in a couple of weeks and we have the best defence in the league, only conceding 26 in 28 games. Norwich away our next game, who are 10th. Tough fixture.

Lion-el King IV - The artist formerly known as Ledley, retire the no.26 - All hail The Messi-ah..... Neymar 1-0 Bale (U9722)

not really, I play it in patches, I would play it non-stop for a few days and then other days I cannot be bothered.