******* Official Football Manager 2015 Thread *******

this_is_gav said:
Good way of showing it, yes. So I've just started a new game as Sunderland manager, then added another manager at Man City and transferred him across.

Here is John O'Shea at Sunderland.
johnoshea-sunderland.jpg

Here he is a few days later at Man City.
johnoshea-mancity.jpg

Edit: I tried a scout report from Man City too and their report was the same as the Sunderland one (3 1/2 stars). Slightly odd. That might have changed the longer they scouted him though.
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That's helpful thanks. It's what I am seeing. But factor in that your reports are from coaches/scouts with different abilities.
 
Baloteli is insanely good in my save atm, Still in first season but bagged 23 goals just reached jan window shame he doesn't do this for us in real life mind.

Playing as LFC really struggling to off load Lambert even at below 1m mark
 
How do you "up" your world coverage for scouting?

Got gateshead in the EPL now so need to expand IT a lot. Also, what is a good way of finding potential quality players with your scouts?
 
No1newts said:
How do you "up" your world coverage for scouting?

Got gateshead in the EPL now so need to expand IT a lot. Also, what is a good way of finding potential quality players with your scouts?
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Okay, there are a number of ways but the easiest way to is to employ coaches with wide coverage of several countries. You do need to leap frog a bit though. For example, a English coach may have some experience in Ireland. From there you could hire an Irish coach, who may have experience in Northern Ireland. You get the point. It can take many seasons to expand you knowledge but it is worth it. In my current save I have 25 coaches, and only one is English, to give you an idea of how diverse you can be. I've now got a 75% worldwide coverage. From there you can hire scouts and providing you have worldwide scouting you can send these dudes all over the place.

You can write a book on scouting in FM. It's a massive part of the game. For me, I take control of the scouting and I send my guys out to the 'key' areas. For example, I've a British scout with a good coverage of UK. I send him to find first team players within the UK, permanently. I use as many as i can field.
 
Anyone link/recommend me a decent icon pack? hate not having BPL and Bundes badges unless ive missed something and managed to change a setting somehow.
 
eviljester91 said:
Anyone link/recommend me a decent icon pack? hate not having BPL and Bundes badges unless ive missed something and managed to change a setting somehow.
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Pretty sure the megapacks on SortItOutSI will have those logos.

http://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/style/3/metallic-logos

Mark1989 said:
Any tips to off load players? Besides terminate contract? I'm offering at low prices e.g. 3m on average and they just won't shift
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Obviously make sure they are listed and not available for loan. Sometimes you get the opportunity to speak to the player and ask them to find a new club. Sometimes they want to stay regardless, sometimes you can make them see they won't play and they accept the need to move on.

It is a rather fine art to selling a player but getting a fair transfer fee for them.
 
philstanbridge said:
Okay, there are a number of ways but the easiest way to is to employ coaches with wide coverage of several countries. You do need to leap frog a bit though. For example, a English coach may have some experience in Ireland. From there you could hire an Irish coach, who may have experience in Northern Ireland. You get the point. It can take many seasons to expand you knowledge but it is worth it. In my current save I have 25 coaches, and only one is English, to give you an idea of how diverse you can be. I've now got a 75% worldwide coverage. From there you can hire scouts and providing you have worldwide scouting you can send these dudes all over the place.

You can write a book on scouting in FM. It's a massive part of the game. For me, I take control of the scouting and I send my guys out to the 'key' areas. For example, I've a British scout with a good coverage of UK. I send him to find first team players within the UK, permanently. I use as many as i can field.
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Would it not work with scouts with different country knowledge as opposed to coaches?
 
this_is_gav said:
Good way of showing it, yes. So I've just started a new game as Sunderland manager, then added another manager at Man City and transferred him across.

Here is John O'Shea at Sunderland.
johnoshea-sunderland.jpg

Here he is a few days later at Man City.
johnoshea-mancity.jpg

Edit: I tried a scout report from Man City too and their report was the same as the Sunderland one (3 1/2 stars). Slightly odd. That might have changed the longer they scouted him though.
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I have it on good authority (trust me on this :) ) that the the star ratings on the coach report screen are relative to the other players in your team, which explains the discrepancy between the 2 teams. Man City clearly have a better 'top' player than Sunderland so O'Shea is worse in comparison.

Other star ratings in different places work slightly differently, it's somewhat confusing I admit.
 
So I'm playing this for free this weekend as it's on offer on Steam, with the possibililty of buying it if I enjoy it. Started my first game as Bristol City, and within 4 game days, I have 5 first team players out injured for between 3-7 weeks :eek:. Is there an injury issue with this version of FM, or is it just a spot of bad luck???
 
molinari said:
So I'm playing this for free this weekend as it's on offer on Steam, with the possibililty of buying it if I enjoy it. Started my first game as Bristol City, and within 4 game days, I have 5 first team players out injured for between 3-7 weeks :eek:. Is there an injury issue with this version of FM, or is it just a spot of bad luck???
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I don't think there's an issue as such but injuries are playing more of a part in the game. You need to make sure you have backups.
 
I'm having quite a lot of success in the buying low, selling high game at the moment - could be that somehow I've just won the Premiership with Exeter City having only just been promoted the year before (2026/27 season) and everyone is buying my players at a premium?

Looking at my transfer history from £8,054,500 spent on players over the last couple of seasons, I turned £87,750,000 of revenue over the present summer window. Most of those players I'd only owned for one season. The summer before that I hit £23,250,000 from £1,900,000 of fees on previously bought players!

I've gone big though and have dropped £125m on transfers this summer, including £51m on this guy:

 
I think that must be the case. If you are a less successful club you have all sorts of hassle selling players. But having said that I've never known so much income from player sales. Incredible stuff isn't it.

I have a couple of saves going but my latest one is starting out unemployed with sunday league experience; I'm very much a tracksuit manager. I was approached by Eastbourne Boro as soon as I started the game and have so far managed to win the Conference South and am now lying in first spot in the Conference. I'm a tiny club though, with just a rented 4000 seat stadium. I have very little in the way of sponsorship and a tiny wage budget. If I get into League 2 I will have to turn professional and will need to enhance every part of my club in order to be competitive. It's probably my biggest challenge to date.
 
Had a very strange moment today. My centre back, who has been out for two months, scored five in his first game back! Not only that, but he'd scored four within 28 mins, and the fifth was also in the first half. Four from corners, and one penalty!? He'd also not scored for five season :D

Four


Five
 
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