***** Official Football Manager 13 Thread *****

Awww... That's a hilarious condition though! :D Should be able to find someone comical to sign...

*coughs*



Most unbelievable win this season/game/fm13 considering we lost to the 3-2 away at the start of the season and they are top with 2 games in had this goes down as the best win at Bishops Stortford! 4 goals from that quick guy in midfield too! :D (plus the beast got one)
 
Clav said:
I'm still on FM12 and have avoided going to FM13 after hearing about problems with the ME and such. Now that it's had a few updates is it worth going for over FM12?
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Considering I have played 13 since release and quietly put to bed the almighty Burton fm12 save I will say yes.

ME isn't quite the same but other aspects that have been changed improve the overall game experience, main one is the way reputation works making transfers and team building just better/harder/better balanced. It's the sort of thing you end up just getting used to and enjoying.
 
toshj said:
Hit a brick wall with Brentford in the EPL - quit, took over Stockport in League Two. Spend 3 hours finding players at the start of the transfer window. Game crashes before I have a chance to save it. It took me 3 months to get offered job too.

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What happened to the 25 youth players you spent £33m on?? :p
 
utajoker said:
my macbook is a 2.4G C2D with an nvidia 256mb 320m and 2gb ram.
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£20 to upgrade the ram to 4gig and it'll play well on that :) (though I would keep the number of leagues down to say 10/15 playable divisions or so to keep it smooth)

toshj said:
Hmmm... most haven't really panned out so far. The two I spent megabucks on will definitely do very well in the game, but my plan was also to take a load of English hot prospects in order to make sure I had a decent squad registration backbone of homegrown and club-trained players. Of the UK ones, only one or two will likely do well.

It's so frustrating, you build an excellent team, leave with them in the CL places and then Nicky Barmy comes in, plays a completely different team and starts selling off your decent players...

My Stockport progress is slightly annoying. I reloaded when I'd last saved (three months before the crash), went on holiday and applied for all jobs. Incidentally I was offered the Stockport job again, however this time round they finished 10th instead of play-off runners up. They currently have half the initial budget I had, plus a much lower salary budget.

Grrr....
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Ahhh shame, hate it when all the future kids don't quite pan out right sadly.

Are there not better jobs than Stockport with no moment?
 
philstanbridge said:
Okay cheers. What is your take on this work permit business? It's really quite complicated judging by the posts I've found and I'm not understanding it. I managed to get that £4 million pound 19 year old by appealing his work permit. That's the first appeal that worked. But I don't understand this business at all.
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Getting a work permit for a non-eu footballer in the UK is a pain (if you're not premier league that is), the individual has to have played (well been involved on the bench in) 75% of that countries internationals for the past 2 years which for plenty of players is impossible. You tend to be able to appeal on the grounds of either a. injury prevented them being involved (provided they probably should have been) or b. they will provide "an exceptional talent to football in the country".

In the game appeal just does that for you but its a bit random if it comes off or not. Usually if your scouts think 4.5/5 stars and he's got a first team or better contract appeals come off (also helped by u19/u21 appearances) but its not always the case.

You can get round the UK work permit issue by buying players and registering them at a smaller club where there are less work permit limits (and short gaining nationality rules too). So for example it takes 4 (I think) years of continued residency in Spain to be entitled to a Spanish passport (and EU membership) which is how Puskas played for both Hungary and Spain in the 50'2/60's.

Anyway in FM there are simpler ways round it where you take up a feeder team in somewhere like Croatia or the Czech Republic (who are fairly new into the EU depending on what game year you are in as now countries are dynamically entered into the Euro zone, its 2018 for me and both Serbia and Bosnia have thankfully been admitted) and send the kid there to get an European passport, killing the work permit issue as it takes about 2-3 years residency to get the passport (and the standard of football is a lot lower so simpler to get an initial permit).
 
I had 12 on the phone but found it had to play on the screen, have an iPad mini now and was thinking it could be a good travel game if more has been added. Might leave it for now and try to get back into the Bishops Stortford save again. Hit the Christmas transfer window wall again and have little inspiration to play on for a bit.
 
utajoker said:
Can anyone advise on how to stop my team taking long shots. They are wasting so many chances doing so.

And how do I get the play to go down the wings and lump crosses in? All the time my ass manager says we are dominating in the air.
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Longs shot annoy me so much on the last 2, there is boarderline no way to stop them just lumping it at goal from 30 yards out 20 times a game. I wish there was an option to fine them for doing it because I basically have to fight my team to listen and shoot in the box.

To get anything to work I use the shouts work ball into box, exploit the flanks (that seems to stop wingers cutting inside and running into my forward), play through defence (to encourage the ball to get into the box in the first place) and if no one can be bothered to chase down the ball on the break get the ball forward is pulled out to get them to lump it to the quick guys at the front.

Even with all that I still get one idiot who thinks its clever to dribble past 8 people and take a shot at the back post that goes out for a throw in instead of cutting it back to the 5 players screaming for it in the box :(
 
The__Malteser said:
A-Levels :(
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They're easy! I passed 3 real ones whilst being horribly addicted to Civ 4 when Beyond the Sword was released (and Warlords and vanilla, that was a good 2 years) :D

Worked it out once that I must have put a good couple of thousand hours into civ4 whilst doing A-Levels... Therefore A-Levels are pretty easy... probably...
 
philstanbridge said:
But both of these were key positions? I'm still confused by it.
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It's potential contracts, noticed this a while back once you offer someone a contract your budget adjusts to assume they have signed so when you try and offer another (and you are at the top of your budget) you can't offer another big one.

Ruins the transfer window some times if you don't plan.
 
utajoker said:
Anyone any tactics tips for blue square teams?
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4-2-4 buy as many strong players with good tackling as possible, one good passer up front or midfield and one good finisher. Your aim is to make a simple well oiled part time team where every player has one or two big jobs to do so going forward you always look like you'll score, defending isn't as easy at that level so just focus on winning every game 5-4.
 
utajoker said:
I shall see what I can do in jan. I've got no budget and no wages free :p

Currently playing 4-5-1 with lots of short passing. It is hit and miss.
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Free loans it is :D

The__Malteser said:
What A-Levels did you have? :P

I have maths and computer at a-level, and 4 subjects we call intermediates (harder than GCSEs but not A-Level standard).

I need C-C in both A-Levels, and at least a pass in all the intermediates.

Our exams are so much harder than you exams. To give you an idea. We can sit for the AQA exams. They have 1/3rd of the syllabus we have for maths A-Level. people who get D/E/F/U in out A-Level EASILY get a C in AQA, its very simple. In our exams, 25% get a ailing mark. Only around 35% manage to get C or better. And less than 10% of those are an A (it was like 45 in 600 last year).

Maths is the toughest of all A-levels. Computer is 'ok'. Although I never had computer at GCSE, or any level for that matter, so its all 'new' to me.


Back to Fm...
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Haha! I have Politics (A) Maths (B, only because I mucked up the C4 paper, should have been an A) and History (C, high C but a C none the less). Managed to go undergrad and masters degrees with a healthy amount of FM in the background (though it was a little a tight towards the end of the masters). :p

Looking back on it a few hours of harder work and a bit more common sense from me could have really improved those grade, but civ and fm have been worth it!


And back to FM, second season of the prem as Bishops Stortford has been interesting, on the one hand lots of great wins and a run to the FM cup final (putting out exactly zero premier league teams on the way), as well as 6th/7th all but secured, sadly a push for 5th and finishing above Liverpool was ruined by going there and loosing 4-0 followed by a 4-2 thrashing away at Reading. Shouting and subbing my keeper in pure frustration of how the ball can just pass through him doesn't help...

Either way Europa League is all but secured next year as the FA cup final is against Arsenal who have pushed to 4th :D
 
Wow! doesn't that formation leave your midfield a bit empty? I have tried a few variants of it but always loose out in the midfield too quickly (so stick with 3 in the middle 2 wingers and a lone forward).

Amazingly this is the first time I have ever had a game scheduled for the day after another! Arsenal have had so many games this season that my home game against them got moved to the day before Bolton :(

Have to see how playing 2 completely different teams works out.

Turns out I lost against Bolton in the second game, who then had to play Arsenal the next day! (they won 3-0) Then had the FA cup final 2 days later against Arsenal :D won 3-2 on penalties after it being 0-0 for 120 mins :D

Next season I have to make sure I don't get bogged down by fa cup replaces, Arsenal played one for the 4th, 5th and 6th rounds causing such a fixture problem!

Played the last game instead of sleep :D

3-1 away win at Ipswich got us 6th with Liverpool drawing away at Spurs :D



Such a long season though, need to muck about with the squad a lot to get ready for Europa League, need a decent CB and maybe one or two other players if no one picks up the pace.

Very pleased with that as a season though!
 
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philstanbridge said:
Pingwing, how much is Bishop's worth now you're in the PL? I've just checked my Bournemouth save and I've gone from £8million at League 1 to £44million in the PL. As a result of that I have had a decent wage and transfer budget thrown at me, which is just as well really. I'd be amazed if I can stay in the league this season. My team were pretty naff compared to any of the big hitters! I'ev spent £8 million on transfers and a few of the decent ones were free ironically. Hope it works out!

Here is my best transfer, recently acquired for zilch. But I have 4 others who were also free, now worth 6 figures each. I hope to god they are worth it! ;)

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They are worth £141m now :D (that's just from finishing 6th, wont know a better value till I get Europa League money)

He's pretty good! On mine he hasn't had enough games but should be a good prem winger.

Iv already spend 14m on the first day of the transfer window... Have to strengthen for Europe... (or ruin my self one or the other)
 
Take the frees! Kagawa always annoys me on fm, never as good as his stats suggest. Home grown always has way around it... Never should be a reason to hang on to players who are on the way down.
 
Egon said:
Oh the woes of lower league management. Nearly all my contracts are up at the end of the year and everyone seems to want double the wage they are on now :(
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Happened to me loads, if they aren't on pro terms you can just not renew them and the hang about on non contract terms on the old money (bit of a strange cheat), everyone who thinks they can get better money choose to leave or get better ones with other clubs
 
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