Recent content by Tyrone Slothrop

I had some success on 15 with a similar set up to your 1st tactic, but with DM as anchor & CM as DLP. Also had one WB with IF ahead of him, one FB with winger in front, & moved AMC slightly closer to winger, with DLP covering the side that the WB bombs forward on. But so far this tactic...

Tactics: the 4-1-1-3-1 with staggered, asymmetrical CM that crushed 15 doesn't seem to work here. Get totally overrun in midfield without 2 players in proper central area, so been alternating more conventional 4-1-2-2-1 & 4-2-3-1. Only found one bug - keeper was shepherding a ball out of play...

What a bizarre discussion.... There's no way that forcing a striker take corners makes any difference, and its going to be really counter-productive for a target man type. And the magic set-up is: far post, challenge keeper, lurk & all the rest default? For short corners?? Come on guys, at least...

Nope! Corner accuracy is just awful at the moment, for me at least... Even a straightforward near post delivery (with decent corner takers - Eriksen / Gerrard) seems near impossible.

You know there could be an even simpler answer to this - that the odds are buggy. Hard to imagine a 2nd div Romanian side is that big a favourite... That being said, it does take a while to figure out tactics, high scoring games are a distinct possibility when you play attacking, and the AI...

I'm having the same issue with training. At Spurs, I have a specialist for each category & one backing up every category except GK & Fitness - and the workload is still 'heavy' & players are unhappy (that they're not getting enough attention). There doesn't even seem to be a board allocation for...

Around £9-10m. Ended up getting Maher instead. Tomas Martinez doesn't seem quite as good this year by the way.

Need someone to deputise for Eriksen (as Advanced Playmaker - Attack) & wonder if anyone's tried out Fulham's Patrick Roberts yet? Great technical stats (and will help to fill my home grown players quota), but his mental stats seem pretty weak for a playmaker, esp. 'decisions' being (I think) 5...

Didn't use shouts much on FM13, and am losing a bunch of away games - "Control" tactics not really working, and don't feel like I've got an effective counter-attacking set-up. Playing as Spurs, mostly using a 4-1(DM)-2-2(IFs)-1. Feel like I definitely need the DM in there for away games as I've...

Ecc. 11; Kick. 12. Not the greatest mental stats either. Otherwise technically sound (Reflexes 16, One on Ones 17). Might just try defender collect & let Brayford or someone get us going. Will probably go for Horn. Thanks, Raik.

I haven't really tinkered much with goalkeeper player instructions before, but let's say you have a keeper who occasionally strays 20 yards or so out with the ball at his feet, often down the flank, and then hits terrible passes straight to the opposition, leaving them an open goal to have a...

Unlike Fm12, where my players loved to grumble about too much training, I'm now getting quite a few messages about them receiving too little. I definitely feel that I haven't mastered training on FM13 yet - maybe someone can offer some general advice on how you decide/set you own workloads...

I'm trying to find a stopper to deputise for (or even become number one choice ahead of) Ryan Shawcross. Start of 2014/15 season, Spurs. I should be challenging for the title (won champions league last year) and have up to £30m to spend . Generally play stopper/cover combo, sometimes just both...

I've tried and failed to replace Modric in that position myself, and now prefer to get a DLP for that spot instead. Quite often your new signing may just get in Sigurdsson's way. For DM - fairly obvious choice, but Fellaini should do well if he's available for a reasonable price.

There's usually some flexibility. Have a look at which attributes are highlighted for each role in the "player instructions" - "show attributes" section of tactics. As long as your player has decent ratings in the categories highlighted he should be able to play that role. Use individual...