Well I'm off work this week so need to rinse it as much as I can before I go to Xmas do's on Friday and Saturday - those days could possibly wiped out due to hangovers so need to get it in now!

Lion-el

Must post how you get on.

I haven't played for the last few days, but I got the message from my board about the new stadium they would like to build.

It will be a 129,000 stadium which has a cost of 1.09b which they were taking out a loan for (odd as I had 900m in transfer funds accumulated and 1.9m in free wage budget) and it will be finished in 2021. They will get circa 50(0?)m for selling 100K seater Old Trafford and will have a stadium sponsor paying 17m or so for rights.

I've finally gotten the hang of the game. I have a fairly rich talent of youth, albeit in positions I have no need currently, a fairly young 1st team(average age around 25) and a new stadium to look forward to. As of 2020, Man United are valued at 2.0something billion, thanks to my astute dealings in the market. Will probably look at venturing to the Serie B when my stadium which will be named after me is built.

129,000?! That is going to make about £6m per game in gate receipts!

I'm about 12 league games in to my second season. Being fiddling around with the tactics a bit to try and get them playing better - didn't realise there was a 'complete wing back' option which explains why my full backs were a bit shoddy last season! Eriksen is on fire, already got about 10 league assists, khedira is quality and lewandowski is doing alright, 7 in 15 all comps.

This is probably something really old, but I was browsing at the transfer rumours on deadline day, and I found the top English clubs being linked with various unknown players.... Turns out they're all 15/16 year old potential wonderkids so snapped up a couple!

Got my 56,360 stadium being built for 2016

Lionel



One criticism over the years I had of FM is that you really cannot do much when you accumulate alot of money. In FIFA Manager, you get to set up youth camps, design your stadium, send your coaches on courses, invest in stocks, buy your own club, develop the area around your stadium...unfortunately though, that game's interface & game-play is lacking, when compared to FM.

I wanted Lewa back in my first season, but he chose Barca and is ripping up La Liga with Angelo Henriquez. You should start looking for potential talent around March, when you get your intake of youth...sometimes I can poach the youngsters before they sign pro-contracts.

Something I noticed with Spurs is that they were playing in the Olympic Stadium and then got a New White Hart Lane, is that the one you're talking about?

Yeah I'd agree with that point regarding the money. I had about £320m to spend by the time I'd finished with fm12, but with a complete squad I had no use for it. Could have easily taken £250m off me and increased stadium capacity but they wouldn't do it.

I'll have another talent hunt soon though as I usually pull out several gems which allows me to sell established players in due course. Got Carlos fierro on loan at Ajax at the mo and he's doing alright, hopefully he's ready at the end of the season so I can flog adebayor (who's actually decent, just not willing to she'll out that sort of wage on a 3rd choice striker rated at 2.5 stars)

As for the stadium, they haven't named it yet (probably be the hoddle arena like they did in fm13).

I just finished my first season and Im recruiting for the new season ahead. What is annoying me, is that the young playes that I have scouted that are 5 star potential, I cant sign them. Most are valued at 250k max, but their clubs are rejecting offers of 2-3 million for them. Can anyone help?

comment by KennysHeroes (U1935)
posted 9 minutes ago
I just finished my first season and Im recruiting for the new season ahead. What is annoying me, is that the young playes that I have scouted that are 5 star potential, I cant sign them. Most are valued at 250k max, but their clubs are rejecting offers of 2-3 million for them. Can anyone help?
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5 gold star potential is the best - not surprising the clubs are rejecting 2 or 3 mil for them - would you expect anything different in real life?

comment by KennysHeroes (U1935)
posted 40 minutes ago
I just finished my first season and Im recruiting for the new season ahead. What is annoying me, is that the young playes that I have scouted that are 5 star potential, I cant sign them. Most are valued at 250k max, but their clubs are rejecting offers of 2-3 million for them. Can anyone help?
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Load a large proportion of the fee with add-on's. For example:

£1m upfront
£3m over 36 months
£2m after an international appearance
15% sell-on clause

Sounds like a lot of money for someone who's worth £250k, but it's probably about 2/3 home games revenue

Just started my summer dealings and signed Holtby from spurs as they have way too many midfielders. Got him for £8m - Bargain!!! Also bought Munian from Bilbao for £11m as he was coming to the last year of his contract. My assistant isnt happy with the wage Im offering, says its too much for his limited skill- Its only 40k.

Can anyone recommend a good CB? Im a bit short in that department. Ive got quite a bit to spend but I hate parting with mega bucks unless its really worth it. I ultimately want to sign a young-ish CB that will develop into a monster but who is also ready to step into the first team when called upon. Any recommendations?

Balanta at river plate. Decent now, turns into a beast apparently. My scout says he has 5-star potential, I've got a deal worth £10m lined up for him

Eder Alvarez Balanta

have him in my team. A beast

2 things need sorting out.

1) Shots - I quite often have 30 or even 40 shots on goal in a game . Not very realistic

2) Corners - anyone else conceding a lot of corner goals?. Especially rebounds, defenders do not seem to move.

Yeah I'm sure there's some sort of bug....

The amount of times I'll have my striker in space waiting for a through-ball and my midfielders take an eternity to decide what to do before being tackled, and I tend to have about 10 shots blocked per game.

As for corners, eriksen kept hitting them low-ish towards the near post which vertonghen kept tucking away, so I switched lewandowski and vertonghen's corner positions around for lewa to get some cheap goals, and eriksen hits the corners deep

Ill check him out later. I noticed that my academy had its rating downgraded. My youth teams got tanked week in week out because most of my players were out on loan. Is this the reason?

I think those results are randomly generated, as I had 5* and 4.5* players aplenty and any and every one used to spank them, even after they won the Uefa U21 league, the U18 Cup and the Reserve League the prior season. Either that or your youth head coach may be a bit lacking in things like Motivation, Working with Youngsters, Tactical Knowledge etc.

For CBs you should look to South America, as someone rightly said, Balanta is a monster. Doria is also pretty good. In my game, someone got Kurt Zouma for 8m or so.

HK

I have those figures for total shots, but for SoT I usually get between 15-25.

I also concede a fair bit of corners, but I cannot say it is more than normal. It is gifting penalties especially in the early parts of the season that annoy me. Do you sometimes do pre-match training - Defending set pieces?

What I do is Tactics & Teamwork with the occasional Defensive positioning in preseason, and then I do Attacking movement/ Defensive positioning for the league Attacking Setplays/ Defending Setplays in Cups with some Teamwork especially against the lesser teams I'm expected to beat.

Signed Grant Hanley and Paco Alcacer for Arsenal, Giroud scoring a bucket load of goals. 4-1-1-3-1

Managed to come 2nd on H2H in a group including:

Gala, Rapid Wien(they came 1st) and Hannover 96

Somehow we surrendered a 2-0 lead away at Wien and lost 2-1 at Old Trafford

WTF is my keeper doing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV-8ybvnft8&feature=youtu.be

HK

What is his eccentricity at?

14. He must have been scared of the striker

I've always wondered, what is the actual definition of eccentricity?

Always knew the match rating system was flawed, and now I've seen proof...

Just played a match where soldado played 90 mins, completed 6/8 passes, 0/3 shots on target and got 1 assist..... He got rated 8.3 simply because I won 6-1. Had that been a draw he'd have got no more than 6.7 no doubt.

HK - Ozil's Sexy Eyes (U8418)

I read somewhere that it is how prone your Keeper is to making an error in a game...similar to the CBs concentration & composure, though it is inversely related to the two. You want a keeper with a low eccentricity rating.

Update 14.1.4 supposed to deal with incidents like that though here's the fix notes:

The list of changes includes bit is not limited to the fixes below.

STABILITY & PERFORMANCE
- Fixed rare crash/freeze during processing
- Fixed rare crash when using edited data
- Fixed rare crash in backroom advice
- Fixed rare freeze when processing

COMPETITIONS
- Prevented teams from entering both Champion & EURO Cups
- Allowed overage players to feature in Swedish Reserve league* (You will need to start a new save for this fix to be in your game)

CONFIDENCE
- Fixed user being sacked for not dropping a player they already sold

PROGRESSION
- Adjusted Free Kick attribute progression

TRANSFERS & CONTRACTS
- Lower league players now more willing to negotiate contract renewals

EDITOR
- Prevented IGE use in network game
- Fixed free agents being unable to transfer in IGE
- User can now activate Italian Serie D

MATCH ENGINE v1433
- Some important improvements to the engagement of the ball player with reduced slide tackle count
- Fixed under hit near post corners that caused too many easy chances
- Fixed the worst examples of wild off target shots and passes
- Reduced long shots
- Fixed bug causing some deflections/blocks to be potentially missed
- Reduced directional change on regular player collision avoidance
- Fixed metrification bug causing full back to run to centre of pitch when overlapping
- Fixed bug where keeper storms out too fast when narrowing angle and risks overshooting target point
- Increased fouls at lower levels
- Pushed d-lines ups a bit when ball not in attacking third
- Fixed some headers being directed higher than intended
- Fixed keepers not reaching some obvious balls above their head
- Fixed some instances of players not closing down ball player including at short corner
- Fixed some instances of players not making no-brainer tackle attempt
- Tweaked default cross aim point slightly
- Some further tweaks to kick/header inaccuracy
- Improved player blocking of shots and crosses
- Fixed some minor bugs in ball deflection code
- Some general improvements to engagement of ball player
- Reduced instances of tackles leading to corners
- Some more tackles made in danger situations
- Improved detection of Clear Cut Chances when player behind defence
- Slightly more opportunistic shots taken especially when chasing a goal
- Small tweaks to some shot velocities
- Minor tweak to pass AI reducing any risky short ones under no pressure
- Full backs come a bit deeper to offer keeper pass in 4 man defences when long kicks not instructed
- Reduced instances of keeper handballs outside area
- Fixed red cards being displayed for these handballs outside area
- Stopped players running through nets
- Fix for some issues with high d-lines not positioning correctly
- Fix for some issues with clearing header direction
- Reduced instances of clearance kicks in unrealistic areas
- Fix for keepers not saving some shots dipping and hitting woodwork
- Fix for players not leaving obvious ball for keeper
- Made keepers make use of their area better after catching ball
- Reduced some long shots in deeper central areas
- Fixed some examples of Clear Cut and Half Chances being missed
- Tuned player match ratings