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He looks like a keeper /\ what a great find.

Hmm I've got a weird thing going on here, and slightly disconcerting.

Have won the first season of the SPL (first time for me) as Kilmarnock. Now doing really well in my second season, managed to get to the knockout stages of the CL and doing okay in various local cups. I have earnt the club £12 million in one season basically, and put them in a very comfortable position financially. They were borderline broke at the start of the first season! To put this into perspective, the winner of the SPL receives just £2.7 million and there is very little money in the league. So £12 million is a huge sum for the club.

I reach the January transfer window in my second season. This is the first season with the cash behind the club so I expect a healthy transfer budget - but I am awared zilch. Absolutely nothing for my troubles. In fact, it's worse than that. They have cut my wages budget and I was £1k a week in the red until I sold a player. What on earth is going on?? I have amassed a small fortune for the club, and was expecting perhaps a million pounds to squander in the January window. That's less than 10% of their income. But I have nothing!!

My question is, do you think this is a bug? How is the transfer budget handled? Does each board have various pre-requisites or something.
 
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pingwing said:
Sounds like you need to do an 'Arry and bang on the chairman for more funds ;)

Malt that guys is an amazing find!
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I have and they say it's not necessary etc etc :( So I'm hoping come end of the season they will give me something decent. I did manage to upgrade the training facilities mind you, which cost nearly £3 million.

At the mo I'm splashing the cash in installments. It's the only way I can buy players apart from frees. I find talented youth potentials with release clauses - most are from Brazil and south america, and because they have clauses they don't have to accept anything upfront. So they accept the full amount in installments. It's a bit bizarre most of my shortlist is made up of players from Brazil considering I have no way of gaining permits lol.. Only a select few are granted visas, and for those i have to wait at least 12 months.
 
So with Napoli, I managed to win the Serie A (just!) and Coppa Italia (very close too). No N.American team was free, so I signed a 1 yr contract extension.

Finances ain't great, but the board invested an extra 16M to help with the runnings. I have 45M to spend.

I do not like wide formations, and I always constructed my fortunes on narrow formations (4-1-2-1-2, 4-3-1-2 mainly) as they seem to work best. This 4-4-2 worked fine, but the wingers were not too great.

I want to make my team younger (many 30+ players) and try to save more money on wages. I managed to sell a lot of fringe players, with a total of 45M. Now I have around 60M to spend. I only spend 1.3M (and thats getting players from co-ownerships) and got a few frees. I sold 2 backup wingers, so I need to buy those 2 definitely.

I am trying to sell Pogba, as although he is pretty good, he is 33, and has a wage of 94k/w. I can get 7.5M for him, but he wants me to pay him 37k/w for one year! Obviously I rejected.

Now, after laying down the foundations, I need your help. I offered this player for 30M, just to see if I get any offers, and I did. he agreed to go to Arsenal.

Now here is what i can do

- Sell him. Switch to a narrow formation, playing pogba as a MC
- Sell him. Keep a 4-4-2 buying 3 wingers with the money earned. (prob won't happen, if I sell, I switch formation)
- Keep him. Convert him into an AMC and play him there. You won't find many as good as him.
- Keep him and keep an already working 4-4-2 formation. Buy 2 wingers and you are set.

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The__Malteser said:
[...]- Sell him. Switch to a narrow formation, playing pogba as a MC
- Sell him. Keep a 4-4-2 buying 3 wingers with the money earned. (prob won't happen, if I sell, I switch formation)
- Keep him. Convert him into an AMC and play him there. You won't find many as good as him.
- Keep him and keep an already working 4-4-2 formation. Buy 2 wingers and you are set.
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For 30m I'd sell him.

Apart from the new position training time [and associated PPM training, don't forget], I imagine you could buy/find better for an AMC/AP position.

If he was a few years younger, I'd say otherwise, but for me he's lacking the top-end Long Shot, Passing, Acceleration, Creativity and Flair attributes to make him a truly effective AMC. His natural fitness ain't so hot either.

Of course, that still leaves you with a mardy old Pogba. Again, I'd sell him even if he has got your back up by going 'The Full Adebayor'. It's less expenditure for the club in the long term, plus you don't get his sulking negatively impacting on squad happiness.
 
Interesting how you prefer narrow formations - I have found a solid 4-4-2 works best for me in all my saves. I did try a narrow formation and had some wins but it was very inconsistent. Having said that, even though I play a 4-4-2, the tactic they prefer to play is still narrow. So they focus in the central areas rather than the wings. But it seems to work :confused:

I've just won the SPL for the second time in a row - in my second season :D Result! It was a difficult run with Celtic only 2 points behind. But the best bit, I now finally have the budget I desire. £5 million for transfers and my wage budget has jumped from £29k to £45k.
 
Malt sell him, there will be plenty of better players in the roles you described with reasonable wages/prices. Plus he has no flair for the AMC role, would be a decent midfielder though who can intercept and recycle possession (though completely hampered by poor tackling)... £30m is borderline robbery...
 
simisker said:
For 30m I'd sell him.

Apart from the new position training time [and associated PPM training, don't forget], I imagine you could buy/find better for an AMC/AP position.

If he was a few years younger, I'd say otherwise, but for me he's lacking the top-end Long Shot, Passing, Acceleration, Creativity and Flair attributes to make him a truly effective AMC. His natural fitness ain't so hot either.

Of course, that still leaves you with a mardy old Pogba. Again, I'd sell him even if he has got your back up by going 'The Full Adebayor'. It's less expenditure for the club in the long term, plus you don't get his sulking negatively impacting on squad happiness.
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Pogba is good mind you. If I don't manage to sell, he will definitely play 20-30 games in a season, because he is still good. Yeah, he is a good player for 15M, but not 30M :D:D
philstanbridge said:
Interesting how you prefer narrow formations - I have found a solid 4-4-2 works best for me in all my saves. I did try a narrow formation and had some wins but it was very inconsistent. Having said that, even though I play a 4-4-2, the tactic they prefer to play is still narrow. So they focus in the central areas rather than the wings. But it seems to work :confused:

I've just won the SPL for the second time in a row - in my second season :D Result! It was a difficult run with Celtic only 2 points behind. But the best bit, I now finally have the budget I desire. £5 million for transfers and my wage budget has jumped from £29k to £45k.
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I know its funny. This is the worst time in some 3 years that a wide formation is working (King Jassar V2). The only 'wide' formation that worked is 4-2-3-1 with an AMR/L.

Well done for winning the league :D
pingwing said:
Malt sell him, there will be plenty of better players in the roles you described with reasonable wages/prices. Plus he has no flair for the AMC role, would be a decent midfielder though who can intercept and recycle possession (though completely hampered by poor tackling)... £30m is borderline robbery...
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I thought that 30M was close to robbery, in fact I only got 2/3 offers. There are quite a few frees who seem decent enough to play AMC. I'll look into them.

Napoli are going to have a whole load of case :D
 
Just missed out on 2 good players because of Italy's 2 non-EU players per season rule :mad::mad::mad: One was gonna cost around 10M, and the other around 25M (with some 160k/w wages)

Not too arsed about the second guy, due to his high price, but the first one was pretty good.

team is shaping up nicely. Got a 36 y/o Szczesny on a free with 55l/w wages. He is AMAZING. Top teams like Dortmund, Bayern and Real Madrid were in for him. 2 more guys and I am done. Only spend the grand total of 1.3M until now, and thats all co-ownerships, lol.

EDIT: Ugh, I hate these types of decisions.

I managed to sell Pogba (7.5M transfer fee, 94k/w off the wage budget, and I have to give 0 contribution).

I need 2 MCs, and I found one Italian guy who players for B Munich. He costs 11.5M, so not too much, but his wage will be 105k/w. Now I know that big teams need to spend big money, but I find it hard to justify spending that money after doing all I can to sell Pogba.

He's a good player, but it seems like he is not 105k/w good. I think I will pass.

I can get two guys on a free anyways.

**Are you Wenger in disguise? :D**

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Would you get this guy for €12M and 75k/w

needs to play as a MC, Ball Winning MC. Unsure if he is a starter or a sub. Both the transfer price and the wage aren't cheap. But I can't find many decent players.

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The__Malteser said:
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Would you get this guy for €12M and 75k/w [...]
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Wages a bit on the high side, but I guess it's relative to what your in-game budget is. Acceleration and Concentration are a *bit* less than ideal. He's also not a natural BWM.

Having said that, I'm sure that the most effective BWM I ever owned[*] didn't have some of the other lofty attributes that that guy has. And as a left-footed BWM, he's a rare and wonderful thing [because statistically speaking, you'll have the bigger right-footed pool to choose from when it comes to his more-creative midfield partner].

So would *I* buy him? Yup, it looks like he'd be great in a BWM (Support) role. He'd fit my preferred system like a glove :)



* Jimmy den Os, a Dutch regen during my FM2010 days. As I've said before, you never forget a good BWM :D
 
simisker said:
Wages a bit on the high side, but I guess it's relative to what your in-game budget is. Acceleration and Concentration are a *bit* less than ideal. He's also not a natural BWM.

Having said that, I'm sure that the most effective BWM I ever owned[*] didn't have some of the other lofty attributes that that guy has. And as a left-footed BWM, he's a rare and wonderful thing [because statistically speaking, you'll have the bigger right-footed pool to choose from when it comes to his more-creative midfield partner].

So would *I* buy him? Yup, it looks like he'd be great in a BWM (Support) role. He'd fit my preferred system like a glove :)



* Jimmy den Os, a Dutch regen during my FM2010 days. As I've said before, you never forget a good BWM :D
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Yeah, I'm gonna get him. I went through all Serie A, La Liga and EPL and I couldn't find a better wage/transfer fee/stats combo.
 
Not really sure what is happening.

Results:
4-3 Roma (Super Cup Final), gave away 1 penalty, scored
1-3 Cesena, gave away 1 pen, scored
2-1 Brescia
3-1 Atalanta
4-1 Sevilla (CL Groups Stage)
4-3 Cagliari, gave away 2 pens, both saved
0-5 Empoli, gave away 2 pens, both scored.

So after 7 games, I won 5, but lost 2. My team is so inconsistent. Sevilla are actually good, they won the league last year, Also, I gave away 6 penalties in 7 games, and tackling is set to normal. Not sure if I can blame Schezney (sp) for this terrible defensive record, as his stats are pretty good, and he pulled off some good saves, but it must be someone's fault. Even the performance vs Cagliari was embarrassing.

tweaked a bit the tactic. It better work, because I'm not liking this! The defense is being continually raped in the back hole, and the attack is trying to pick up their errors. Over 2.5 goals per game scored, the same ammount conceded. Not happy, at all.

Might have been just me being tight in the transfer season. Spent 20M, received 83M, although some of the money spent went on youngsters, and promising co-ownership deals.
 
Surprise Surprise! I started with Liverpool again.

Managed to get through the first season, finished 8th which was obviously not great. should have been 5th but went through a horrid last few games where it all fell apart.

Reshaped the squad slightly.

Team is now looking as follows.

GK : Reina
DR : Kelly
DC : Papadopoulos
DC : Alderweireld
DL : Enrique

MR : Gerrard
MC : Eriksen
MC : Coutinho
ML : Sterling

ST : Damiao
ST : Neymar

Not a bad little improvement there :D Hopefully the next season will contain great success! /borat
 
Spangles said:
GK : Reina
DR : Kelly
DC : Papadopoulos
DC : Alderweireld
DL : Enrique

MR : Gerrard
MC : Eriksen
MC : Coutinho
ML : Sterling

ST : Damiao
ST : Neymar

Not a bad little improvement there :D Hopefully the next season will contain great success! /borat
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How much did you pay for Neymar? I've never used him on FM but I'm guessing you paid a lot..Is he worth it?
 
And does anyone know how to transfer game saves across PC's? I currently play on my laptop but have just bought a new tower and want to transfer my save game across. Is it a case of finding the correct folder and transferring it across?
 
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