Recent content by lessthanjake

This is an old thread, but this is the way to do it with United in the first transfer window: Buy: Luke Shaw, Timo Werner, Eder Alvarez Balanta, Lucas Romero, Aleksandar Mitrovic, Will Hughes, and Juan Fernando Quintero. Sell: Cleverley, RVP, Valencia, Javier Hernandez, Smalling, Büttner, and...

Wait...this has NEVER happened to me. If you get a tycoon takeover, how much of a transfer budget do you get each year on average? From those pictures, it looks like about 120 million...

I won the CL final against Barcelona 8-0 with a Man City team. I also won 21-0 with that same team in a friendly against Hyde. While those scorelines are shocking, I suppose they aren't exactly what you're asking for because it's not a shock that my team won either game. In that sense, I one...

Just started my first Manchester United game in FM13 and had a monster first transfer window. I managed to get Mario Gotze, Gareth Bale, Marouane Fellaini, Sandro, Steven Taylor, and two promising wonderkids (Maximilian Meyer from Schalke and Timo Werner from Stuttgart who were scouted at 5 and...

So, if trained to be a striker, it sounds like Fellaini could be an excellent target man. With an 18 in bravery, 17 in determination, 16 in aggression, and 18 in work rate, he will definitely look to get involved in as many aerial battles as possible. With a 19 in strength, 18 in balance...

I am trying to create a tactic that focuses on using pacy wingers to get in floated crosses to a couple tall strikers who will head it in (I've never been able to get consistent heading goals with any tactic so I'm trying to see if I can). My question is whether the finishing attribute also...

I have had this problem as well. Using midfielders like Xavi, Iniesta, Fabregas, Pastore, Hamsik, Ozil, Lampard, etc etc I have been unable to get them dominating games. Granted, I almost always use a 4-2-4 which means the midfielders are outnumbered (making it much harder for them to dominate...

As far as I know, flair is a player's ability to do unexpected things (conversely, a defender's Anticipation skill is his ability to anticipate such things). Creativity determines how many options a player has in a given situation. The higher the creativity, the more options a player has to...

Ever since FM10 (the first FM I played), I have played a 4-2-4 almost exclusively. It works extremely well; you can get an insane amount of goals and actually let up surprisingly few goals. However, I still feel as though there is room for improvement in the tactics I use because the midfielders...

Your midfield is gonna be amazing soon. Ramsey, Wilshere, Hamsik, and Eden Hazard. That's awesome. Around 2018 or 2019, you will have all of those guys in their prime and it will be fantastic. You do need some sort of DM though if you want to run a tactic that requires such a player. I'd say...

I play almost exclusively with inside forwards on both sides so I have run into this issue as well. I find that players still perform quite well even if you put them on the same side as their foot (ie. left footed player as an AML inside forward). Obviously it's not ideal, but if you really want...

Bump. I was wondering this myself, so I created a game, set Aaron Ramsey's PA to 200, and then vacationed until he hit his peak. Obviously, he can be trained to go a lot of different ways, but this is what Arsenal created while left to their own devices with a 200 PA Aaron Ramsey: I put it in...

So I meant to put this in the tactics section, not the players section...

I think the title pretty much explains my question. There are some CBs like Pique and Lucio who have the PPM "get forward whenever possible." I am wondering if pairing two CBs like that is totally foolish. Here's the main reason I am curious. I always play a 4-2-4 formation. The formation is...

Bump. I'm playing as England manager now and Defoe currently has 18 goals and 6 assists in 12 matches. He's unstoppable! I think he has scored in every match I've played him in.