Football manager 2016

molinari said:
I did the first time I started the demo last year, but in each of the 4 games I've started since, my injuries have been fairly low.
Although people appear to get a lot of injuries, it's usually fairly accurate compated to the real world.
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I am using Newcastle so I guess it could be :P

Still incredibly frustrating, especially because I rotate players to rest them
 
I find I tend to have injury "peaks" as apprised to just consistently having players out I'll have a fully fit squad then I'll lose 5 first teamers at the same timed for long periods. Rinse and repeat. It is frustrating but I saw the real world comparison in the past and it does kind of stand up to scrutiny.
 
Footyslayer said:
I'm also getting a ton of Injuries at Liverpool, I have the best medical team in the league, a fantastic coaching set up and I never play a player below 90%...

Odd.
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The medical team has zero effect on whether players get injured - all the physio does is predict when the player will return (the better the physio, the greater his accuracy), so in reality there is no point in having more than one physio, and you probably wouldn't suffer from not having a physio (though I've never tried that).

Aggressive coaching is usually the reason for injuries, particularly in pre-season or if an injured player is thrown straight onto your standard coaching instructions. I always used to have an intermediate level where the players would sit for a week or so before returning to the full set up, and of course don't throw a player into the first team after more than a month or two on the sidelines - play him for 45 mins in the reserves, then bring him on a sub for a couple of games, then take him off after 60 minutes for a couple of games. It's a pain in the backside, but it's always served me well.
 
Injuries are fine, imho. I have never had an entire squad out, but I do pick up injuries throughout the season whomever I manage, that's just how football works. If you are getting a high number at one time, it is either poor luck, poor rotation, playing unfit or tired players, or training.

Finished the season top of the table ;), 106 points (joint highest ever in the Championship, Reading in 05/06), won the League Cup.

Hopefully can bring in 8-10 players of significantly better quality to improve the first 11, and squad.
 
Well, despite all the injuries and strange results, I have finished my first season with Wrexham. It was nail biting near the end. Tranmere and us were neck and neck since the end of February. The lead was changing every game and mostly on goal difference. It was building up to an exciting end to the season as my second last game was against Tranmere!! They collapsed and I won 4-1. But, all that meant was that I was 3 points up and had a 3 goal advantage in goal difference going into the last game.

And I lost!! but, thankfully Tranmere had a boring 0-0 draw.

Won the league and got promotion to league 2. The board only expected a mid table finish, so they were happy.

And isn't amazing the satisfaction that you get from bringing in a player that turns things around? I mean it's only game, but, It's a great feeling when you buy a player, or change a tactic or do something and it all works out!!

I have a few questions though. The manual is pretty bad.

The director of football? do I need him? I handled all the contract negotiations and transfers myself. Is it a waste of money having him there? Can you give him other duties?

I have the touch version of FM16, how do I assign the assistant manager to arrange friendlies? I couldn't find the option anywhere.
 
melmac said:
nobody has any idea about getting the assistant manager to arrange friendlies? Maybe it's just not possible.
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It's possible. Go in staff, in the small menu bar chose staff jobs/roles (something on those lines) then chose personal roles (iirc there is first team, reserves, U18s etc.) and chose arranges friendly match. Chose Ass. Man.

Been a long time since I played it so I don't remember.
 
The__Malteser said:
It's possible. Go in staff, in the small menu bar chose staff jobs/roles (something on those lines) then chose personal roles (iirc there is first team, reserves, U18s etc.) and chose arranges friendly match. Chose Ass. Man.

Been a long time since I played it so I don't remember.
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Thanks, but that's the instructions for the full version. Can't find anyway to do it in the Touch version.
 
ok, just in case anyone else is interested. In the touch version, 5 teams offer you a friendly game. So you don't have to arrange any. Of course you can arrange your own, but you will still get offered 5 more.
 
Starting off my 18/19 season as Newcastle and finished 3rd last season winning the Europa League. I came 5th the previous two seasons narrowly missing out on top 4.

My team at the moment is:

De Gea
Cancelo
Jose Gimenez
Balanta
Willems
Goretzka
Tielemans/Sturaro
Bale/Willian
Ozil
Reus
Gabriel Barbosa

Managed to sell quite a bit to fund deals for de gea and reus, both costing 60m each. Seemed a lot but thought it was the next step I needed. Got Ozil for a bargain £17m last season and Bale cost me a bargain £32.5m.

I'll be honest, I'm really struggling for quality defenders. No idea why I can't attract Hummels or another cb like him when I have Bale, Ozil and Reus in the team? Maybe it was because they were unhappy at the time of bidding.
 
Well I began a new save with the latest official 16.3 database. Started out as unemployed, with very little experience. Have managed to get a job with Bishops Stortford and won promotion in my first season. :-) I won the playoff so dead chuffed with that. Unfortunately my best players would not renew their contracts so I lost them but I've been given a relatively healthy £6,000 a week wage budget to find replacements.

This is where the game is at it's best. Right at the bottom.
 
Meh, I get bored when you start right at the bottom. League Two, maybe conference is my limit. I'm really enjoying trying to dominate with Newcastle. Trying to get them to the top of everything for now.
 
philstanbridge said:
Well I began a new save with the latest official 16.3 database. Started out as unemployed, with very little experience. Have managed to get a job with Bishops Stortford and won promotion in my first season. :-) I won the playoff so dead chuffed with that. Unfortunately my best players would not renew their contracts so I lost them but I've been given a relatively healthy £6,000 a week wage budget to find replacements.

This is where the game is at it's best. Right at the bottom.
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Well done. It's gives great satisfaction to get promoted from a lower league.

And yeah, I agree fully, right at the bottom is the where it's at :)
 
felton1592 said:
Meh, I get bored when you start right at the bottom. League Two, maybe conference is my limit. I'm really enjoying trying to dominate with Newcastle. Trying to get them to the top of everything for now.
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The only BPL team I've ever started a save with was as QPR. I've never played with any of the big clubs. I don't know why it is - maybe I'm worried about the board expectations expecting to win everything in the first season. It takes me a good 12-18 months to get a feel for the club and to develop it with an excellent back room and youth setup. I would feel under too much pressure.
 
philstanbridge said:
The only BPL team I've ever started a save with was as QPR. I've never played with any of the big clubs. I don't know why it is - maybe I'm worried about the board expectations expecting to win everything in the first season. It takes me a good 12-18 months to get a feel for the club and to develop it with an excellent back room and youth setup. I would feel under too much pressure.
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You started as QPR? :(.

Brave, or stupid :p.
 
I prefer lower league to the top than taking a top team and dominating. I rarely last more than 2 seasons with an already established team but coming from the bottom up I will play for ages.
 
Has anyone playing as Man Utd managed to get the board to agree to a stadium expansion? If they have what size stadium did you get and how much more money did the club bring in from gate receipts?

On my save Old Trafford is being expanded from 75,635 to 91,635. Last season my highest gate receipts was £2.4m and the club brought in £27.7m in total.

Just wondering how much people have seen their gate receipts for the season go up by following a stadium expansion at Old Trafford as I'd like to see if the board uses some of that money to pay off the loans or whether it stays in the kitty for me to spend!
 
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