******* Official Football Manager 14 Thread *******

WROhj3P.jpg

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSS!! GET IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OLDHAM LOST TOO!!!

I have been throwing away so many points! Lost to Yeovil, BARNSLEY and BRADFORD amongst other losses! I REALLY want to get promoted.

EDIT: FOR THE LOVE OF ****ING GOD FM!!!!!!

WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME?!

zCXbZta.jpg

I should be happy. We were 2-0 down and I got it back to 3-2. BUT THEY THEY SCORED AND I COULDN'T SCORE AGAIN! Derby hadn't won in like 5 games.

Oldham lost so I am first. I should be happy right? or not?

I NEED TO WIN FFS!
 
Last edited:
Double post. I appologize!

VhCV3os.jpg

I managed to win the league! That was one of the only positive things of the season though.

I lost in the semi final of the St. Johnstone Paint Trophy on penalties, Lost 1st Round of the Capital One Cup to Birmingham and I lost in the FA Cup 3rd Round on penalties.

Quite disappointed with my cup runs but what can you do?! I did a healthy profit this season, which is always good.

I managed to keep many of my best players. I sold Situ for 375k, Webster for 475k and McLaughlin for 1M. Strill trying to sell some players, but there are no offers (btw, really finding it hard to sell players, even on loan and at heavily discounter prices).

I signed some great players. Adam Campbell on loan from Newcastle, Ibrahima Toure, Willy Boly, Bryan Dabo (all on a free with some 10k/w wages :eek::eek::eek:), then I got 4 more loan players. One of them is a SICK DM I got from Chelsea on a 100% free loan (I am their feeder club). I think I ofered him 10 times to join me and then he accepted. I had already bought another DM so I have to now play some players out of position to fit.

I need a GOOD CB and a reserve LB.

The board wants me to just be competitive this season but I feel i can do more. Mid table/top half seems achievable. Still, it is not looking good.

Lost 2-1 to Watford and 3-0 to Bolton in the league, and lost on Penalties to Clethenham (league 2) in the Capital One Cup. My keeper just passed to their striker who scored. FFS!
 
Andybtsn said:
12th season with City...

1.3 Billion to spend.

No one to buy to improve the team, the rejens just aren't coming through
Click to expand...

Sorry, but after 12 seasons at City I would assume you have the most amazing team in the history of football :D

i finished something like 15th with Portsmouth. Not too bad I think but I should aim higher.

Now my players all wanted HUGE raises, from like 3k/w to 10k/w :O The highest player is on 9750k/w (and they are good for Premier league teams too). I am left with a grand total of 12 players (after the free transfers joined!!!), 1M transfer budget and only 48k/w wages. That gives an average of 4.8k/w per player available, assuming I buy 10 more players.

Not looking good at all. Need to find some free loanees but it ain't gonna be easy.
 
It's never got bored as I just buy youngsters and hope they reach their potential, I've won the league every year of course but the average age of the team is around 22/23. Ter Stegen brings it up being about 33!

Real Madrid job is available so may jump ship now, ha.
 
Andybtsn said:
12th season with City...

1.3 Billion to spend.

No one to buy to improve the team, the rejens just aren't coming through
Click to expand...

This is a significant problem I have found. When you get to that level you will struggle to find any 4-5 star potential players, particularly youth. It's very frustrating and needs looking into if you ask me. I got to that point in my last save (after getting Dover into the BPL) so it took a number of years. But even with 80,000 players to scout there are only a handful of players who show up as 3 star potential! The rest are 2 star or less. I can't imagine that is realistic, oh and that's with almost 80% worldwide scouting coverage too.
 
Andybtsn said:
It's never got bored as I just buy youngsters and hope they reach their potential, I've won the league every year of course but the average age of the team is around 22/23. Ter Stegen brings it up being about 33!

Real Madrid job is available so may jump ship now, ha.
Click to expand...

I would tbh. Looks quite interesting (assuming Real have not become a 3/4th position club).
 
Go for it. But make ridiculous offers for Real players that you don't think you'll need first and delay the move until the deals are sealed (provided they want you of course)
 
Bickaxe said:
Go for it. But make ridiculous offers for Real players that you don't think you'll need first and delay the move until the deals are sealed (provided they want you of course)
Click to expand...

Haha nice idea! :D

I've got Concord to the Prem and got them to FA Cup final in promotion season and got a Europa league spot as runner up, fun times next season. New stadium in the works too, 15k cap.

240k and 12mil, quite a nice bump, wages are suddenly massive though for similar players as I have, will be mad, have some players on 1k p/w from league 2/1 days who are 4 star, luckily I have I give them 5 year contracts so I can keep there wages down despite how much they moan ;)
 
REALLY managed to stretch my budget and complete a decent team. I have 21 players up to now, but I'll get the last player soon.

1st game of the season against recently promoted Bournemouth... I need to have at least 6 home grown players...I have 4 in the team. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. WHY DO I NOT READ THE ****** RULES?!

I can take at most 5 subs now ffs.
 
The__Malteser said:
REALLY managed to stretch my budget and complete a decent team. I have 21 players up to now, but I'll get the last player soon.

1st game of the season against recently promoted Bournemouth... I need to have at least 6 home grown players...I have 4 in the team. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. WHY DO I NOT READ THE ****** RULES?!

I can take at most 5 subs now ffs.
Click to expand...

hahaha its a pain
 
The__Malteser said:
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. WHY DO I NOT READ THE ****** RULES?!
Click to expand...


hahah I love this bit.

It's a pain in the rectum alright. I managed to achieve miracles with Dover however. I managed to find some very decent youth whilst I was going up in the leagues. Within 3 seasons they were home grown, and I used them in rotation in the first team. Apart from my GK they were never really good enough for constant first team stuff, but if you don't do this they will get red up real quick.
 
Hank_Marvin said:
hahaha its a pain
Click to expand...

philstanbridge said:
hahah I love this bit.

It's a pain in the rectum alright. I managed to achieve miracles with Dover however. I managed to find some very decent youth whilst I was going up in the leagues. Within 3 seasons they were home grown, and I used them in rotation in the first team. Apart from my GK they were never really good enough for constant first team stuff, but if you don't do this they will get red up real quick.
Click to expand...

My youth recruitment produced ONE (one, uno, wiehed, un ......) player with 4* potential or above...and he is in my team. My U21s and U18s has literally NO players at all (I only sign the decent ones).

The thing is that my Portsmouth is still in debt, so I can't afford to splash the case on youngsters who are not ready for the first team. I practically always use up all my wage budget, and leave little to no transfer budget (most of it goes to wages).

I spent less than £2.5M on players, and sold a total of over £8M.

I should have quite a good team, and I think I can fight for promotion. here is the comparison of my defence

OWUwHDq.png

I won the first game against Bournmouth 4-1. Easy. Won the Capital One Cup game 9against a lower league side) 2-0, then I lose to newly promoted Yeovil 3-0!!!!!!!

SERIOUSLY!

I even played good players.

This year I will clear all my debt. I still have to give a total of around 500k for two of my transfers (20k for around 24 months). i will only get some 6k for some 12 months in transfer clauses :(

I need to get promoted. only then will I (maybe) start improving my finances.
 
So those gits at the Spanish FA have nicked my U21s manager. Currently looking for a replacement for him. I'm finding it hard to search the list of staff by just U21s managers. Anyone who is a HOYD will not accept a U21s manager post. I could promote my U18s manager or perhaps Giggs from U18s coach or just a coach I have at the club already. Any suggestions for people to check out for the post? I'm in July 2016.
 
ive always just searched for coaches with good attributes in the filter

as a start you could set the filter to around the same attributes as your old coach. bound to be someone similar or better at a lower rate team or even unemployed
 
"andy" said:
ive always just searched for coaches with good attributes in the filter
Click to expand...
That's what I did but I found that unless a coach just happens to be an U21s manager or wants to be one, they won't accept the offer of the U21s manager's job. HOYD/coach/goalkeeping coach etc, they all want to stay as what they are.

"andy" said:
as a start you could set the filter to around the same attributes as your old coach. bound to be someone similar or better at a lower rate team or even unemployed
Click to expand...
Going to give that a go. :)

Edit: Found and signed Gontzal Suances. Looks OK. :)
 
Last edited:
7JezdNv.png


DRvzNIh.png


l1pdyIe.png


ALG2n55.png

Roller coaster of emotions.

PREMIER LEAGUE HERE I COME!

EDIT: Amalfitano leabing on a free :( I got an offer of 2.7M in January, but I decided to reject it so that MAYBE he signs a new contract and I sell him for higher (plus I needed him for the second half of the season. My reserve AMC got a 3 month injury). He wants 25k/w, and I can give at most 13k/w. LOL.
 
Last edited:
Guys,

I need to hire in some additional coaches to boost my training, but I need some advice please?

I need extra help in a both 'Shot Stopping & Handling' with my GK's, but these stats are not shown with coaches, so what stats do I need to look for to increase these?

Also, if I've given my Assistant Manager control over training in the opening section of a new game, how do I gain back control so I can make the changes needed?

This is the first time I've been able to play this game properly so please forgive me if these are basic questions?

Thanks :D
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom