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Really? Is that new in FM15? I'm sure they had an effect previously. The fitness coaches won't directly reduce injuries but will return players to fitness quicker thus reducing risk of injury surely?
 
robmol said:
Really? Is that new in FM15? I'm sure they had an effect previously. The fitness coaches won't directly reduce injuries but will return players to fitness quicker thus reducing risk of injury surely?
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Physios have always been that way, to the point where there's no point in having more than one good physio.

Fitness coaches don't have anything to do with returning to fitness either - they're all about coaching the physical side of the games - speed, strength and stamina.
 
philstanbridge said:
Can you share pics of your best players? I am enjoying this a lot. But I haven't had a lot of experience in the top tier due to it being somewhat more of a challenge than before. As a result I haven't spent a lot of time with wonderkids or such like.
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I'll try next time I gather the courage to go on.

I'm frustrated with the game, transfers are pretty ridiculously buggy.
Clubs want world record breaking amounts for players who'd actually get into my starting team (We're talking 200M outright) it's very rare I'm able to buy a player, and even then I'm paying like 90M (Not all in one go) for a player who *may* become a star PL player.

Only time I'm actually able to make a solid investment is players on a Bosman.

I'm struggling to get any English players at all. My youth has been dire for years now. I'm having to drop main players in my registration to register an English player.

Southampton have a kid who looks "okay" he's 22, English, Defender. No better than who I have now, and they want 200M. We're talking 2-3 star ability defenders here (Because that's all that's in the game, I'm lucky to have some 3 stars and a potential 3 and a half!)

But contracts are ridiculously messed up. I signed 2 world class left wingers on a bosman. 1 world class striker, 1 world class AMC. And they were kids when I signed them, 20-23 and only after 50K etc.

In the summer at the moment I was trying to sell my 2 and a half star 23 year old central defender to get a 3 star defender. He was 48M outright (Which is a lot in real life for a 21 year old defender central defender) and then it was going to cost me like 20M in fees (Loyalty/Agent/Agent ownership) That's 68M to buy a player who will only slightly improve my team. And teams would only pony up 17.5M for my player outright! (Despite being wanted by a ridiculous amount of clubs).

And the fact I got rid of Will Hughes for 30M at 29 shows how messed up things are. Hughes is good don't get me wrong, that's not the point. But a player of identical ability from any other team would probably cost me 3 times that.

I got rid of my RB (2 star) for like 25M (17.5M cash upfront, 7.5M over 12 months) to buy cover on my LB which cost me like 60M, for a player who only has the potential to become a star player. (I'd retrained a CB to get a decent RB out of him, better than the player I sold).

It'd probably be possible to live off Bosmans (Some English club let go a 21 year old MC at the end of the season, and he'll easily go for 25M in the summer of next year) and players being let go. But you'd never have sustained success.
 
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I can't say I have experienced the buggy transfers but as i mentioned I haven't had a lot of time in the top tier. There *could* be a number of explanations other than bugs although those figures are steep for sure.

First of all, your youth setup. I know your club is successful but how good is your youth setup? Do you have the relevant coaching staff/facilities? This does make a massive difference I have found. Having said that, in all my games I have only once ever generated a worldclass potential English wonderkid.

The transfer business is iffy but if you are that successful you will struggle to find any players worthy of your first time after a while. A lot of this depends on your reputation. If you look at the hidden attributes of your players you should see that your first team will be between 150-200, (200 being the max). If a lot of your first team is made up of top class as I expect it will be, then you will struggle to find players regardless, and moreover, clubs will stall in selling to you. That said, if you have a scouting setup worthy of a world class club, and by that I mean 75%+ coverage around the world with as many scouts as you can afford then you will find the free transfer wonderkids. I have found a few that way myself and from the smallest countries in most cases. I love it when they appear as they seem completely out of the radar of other clubs. It doesn't happen very often though.

I've also discovered that if you grow too quickly as a club transfers become much harder to negotiate. It's tricky and there's a definite fine line. You need to try and balance the squad and I think it has something to do with wages and transfer budget and perhaps the FFP too.
 
this_is_gav said:
Physios have always been that way, to the point where there's no point in having more than one good physio.

Fitness coaches don't have anything to do with returning to fitness either - they're all about coaching the physical side of the games - speed, strength and stamina.
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I've always had this site bookmarked and refer to it for staff information since FM2012/13 http://www.guidetofootballmanager.com/staff/staff-roles/scouts-and-physios I guess it's all poppycock then cheers!
 
philstanbridge said:
I can't say I have experienced the buggy transfers but as i mentioned I haven't had a lot of time in the top tier. There *could* be a number of explanations other than bugs although those figures are steep for sure.

First of all, your youth setup. I know your club is successful but how good is your youth setup? Do you have the relevant coaching staff/facilities? This does make a massive difference I have found. Having said that, in all my games I have only once ever generated a worldclass potential English wonderkid.

The transfer business is iffy but if you are that successful you will struggle to find any players worthy of your first time after a while. A lot of this depends on your reputation. If you look at the hidden attributes of your players you should see that your first team will be between 150-200, (200 being the max). If a lot of your first team is made up of top class as I expect it will be, then you will struggle to find players regardless, and moreover, clubs will stall in selling to you. That said, if you have a scouting setup worthy of a world class club, and by that I mean 75%+ coverage around the world with as many scouts as you can afford then you will find the free transfer wonderkids. I have found a few that way myself and from the smallest countries in most cases. I love it when they appear as they seem completely out of the radar of other clubs. It doesn't happen very often though.

I've also discovered that if you grow too quickly as a club transfers become much harder to negotiate. It's tricky and there's a definite fine line. You need to try and balance the squad and I think it has something to do with wages and transfer budget and perhaps the FFP too.
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I don't use the editor or anything like that.

And I don't think my players are all that either. Zouma from Chelsea eclipses all my defenders still.

The funniest thing is I'm scouting the PL and La Liga.

My scouts have requested multiple times if they can stop scouting as there's not enough good players.

The transfer figures of my players aren't right as it doesn't show the potential total value. Some say like 35M when it can rise to like 80M.
 
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Martini1991 said:
I don't use the editor or anything like that.

And I don't think my players are all that either. Zouma from Chelsea eclipses all my defenders still.

The funniest thing is I'm scouting the PL and La Liga.

My scouts have requested multiple times if they can stop scouting as there's not enough good players.

The transfer figures of my players aren't right as it doesn't show the potential total value. Some say like 35M when it can rise to like 80M.
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So you are only scouting the two divisions? What about other countries etc? What is your scouting coverage? How many scouts do you have and are they 20/20? If you look at it logically, you are only scouting two leagues fully. This means that only the players in those two leagues will have any bearing on your scouts reports. If you are at the top of your league then I can see why your scouts are telling you to get stuffed. You need to be searching hot prospects from around the world at this point. South America is always a good place to look as it Central Europe and the Middle East.
 
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So you are only scouting the two divisions? What about other countries etc? What is your scouting coverage?
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Oh, I'm scouting lots of places. La Liga and the PL being two of the biggest leagues, my scouts telling me there's no good players thought it was funny.

They're doing it to every league pretty much.

Athletico etc keep putting ridiculous 80M release clauses on their players etc (We're talking 20 year olds etc).
Pogba's 31 at Barcelona and his release clause is 160M. He'd be an immense addition to the team, but meh. Who can afford him? No one.

Most of the players I end up bringing in are Brazilian or Argentinian.
What's hilarious is my best wingers have been from Argentina. On the left I had Federico Cartabia (Although Southampton bought him off me for 31M when he was 27/28 because he always had a release clause) but on the right, I got two world class RM's on bosmans. There's a bug with loans where clubs don't seem to care what happens with the players. Contracts run down, then I just get them on Bosmans, although I've only done that twice.
 
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That sounds quite terrible to be honest. I must admit I have run into similar issues but only when I was world class. Then it got tough to find anybody. But this was in 14. I'm not seeing any such problem in my current save but then I'm only in the Scottish champs so there's lots of talent flying around.

Out of interest what is your scouting coverage? Nice and high?
 
I couldn't tell you to be honest.
I have 20 scouts and they're all around 20/20.
Maybe some 19/20 20/19's.

I like to get different nationalities too. English/Spanish/Italian/Brazilian etc and so on.

Ronaldo went to Liverpool on a free at 36/37 at like 120K a week, he was smashing in 3 goals every 4 matches. Did it will he was 39 and retired. Joined me as an under 18 assistant manager.

Suarez is 37 and on 240K at PSG, his mental stats are very good, but physically he's meh.

I've got a CM rated "World Class" and frankly his stats aren't all that. He's a CM, scoring maybe 2/5 games. In his first season he was 1 in 2. Takes my penalties though, of which I'm getting quite a lot.

Broke goals scored record in the PL in a season last season too. I'm hitting the woodwork loads too.

I get some really odd results too. In a first leg against Barca in the CL, I got beat 3-1. Thought "Okay", that's fine. I then turned them over 6-0 in the second leg. Did the same thing to As Monaco too.

In my first premiership winning season I broke the record for points in a season, setting the new record at 99. Hilariously before that season I couldn't even break into top 6.
 
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I feel team talks do nothing in this game, everytime I lead a game going into the last 10 minutes and I tell the team to tighten up, concentrate or courage I just concede anyway! It happens often now!
 
I had a hilarious own goal. Recently I've noticed the ball getting "stuck" on the line. Keeper saving it and not reacting, and usually my player blasts it in to score. Anyway, I was against Barcelona it happened. But it was their player who got to the ball, he just smashed it straight in his own net. It was hilarious.
 
Martin are you using 15.2.1? Some of these things are mention were bugs in earlier versions of the game.

Scouting yeah - dead important. If you look at your scouting network it will tell you in a percentage how much of the world you have covered by scouts and coaches. It may just be that you don't have coverage in some areas which will help your ability. Also, when you look at your player abilities, is the coach a 20/20 or thereabouts? This matters loads too. If you have a coach with lower judging abilities you will receive the wrong information for your players.
 
I'm on that.

My scouting could be better to be honest, but alas, here's a player I got on a bosman.

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Look at all he achieved in 2024, and look at his PL appearances (I rotate heavily with my other MR). Broke 3 records :p
 
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Just been promoted to the Premiership with Bury (3 promotions in 5 years).

Title odds this season are 2000-1, you never know though I might get lucky :D

Can't bring in any decent players though as the clubs reputation is still awful. My best player is probably my keeper who is an international for French Guiana of all places.
 
robmol said:
I've always had this site bookmarked and refer to it for staff information since FM2012/13 http://www.guidetofootballmanager.com/staff/staff-roles/scouts-and-physios I guess it's all poppycock then cheers!
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I saw it from one of the mods on the sigames.com forums (can't remember if he actually worked for SI or was just a mod) about 5 years ago when they were much more active on the forums, and all I can say is that I've never experienced what I'd consider extended lay offs to suggest they've changed it since.

The beauty of a strategy game is that you can approach it in different ways, so basically stick to what's working for you. :)



Martini1991 said:
I had a hilarious own goal. Recently I've noticed the ball getting "stuck" on the line. Keeper saving it and not reacting, and usually my player blasts it in to score. Anyway, I was against Barcelona it happened. But it was their player who got to the ball, he just smashed it straight in his own net. It was hilarious.
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:D
 
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I play 4-5-1 with 3 cm's. Two playing the advanced playmaker role and one playing the central midfielder. I was Southampton second season (they finished 16th season before) so had to sell and redo their squad. First three games were Liverpool away, Chelsea home and Arsenal away.

I usually have my tactic set to "control" but decided to change my style this year and play the counter in the first two games. Ended up drawing 2-2 to Liverpool and beating Chelsea 3-1. Still have Arsenal to go, but happy with results so far.

My team is: Begovic, Clichy, Rafael Toloi, Inigo Martinez, Clyne, Pereyra, Schneiderlin, Sigurdsson, Yarmolenko, Long/Tadic, J Hernandez.
 
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