Champions to relegation candidates in 1 year :(

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I'm currently managing Fulham in my 8th season with them. I have been very sucessful before this season (won the premiership, champions' league, league cup and FA cup runner up last season) but have taken a complete nose dive this season. We're currently in 16th with only 11 games left so i'd say even a top 10 finish is out of the question. Still in the champions' league with a decent chance of getting to the 1/4 finals.

Just wondering, what could cause such a massive change in form? Obviously teams go through bad patches, but this is crazy! I even signed some very big players over the summer. I have been playing similar tactics for a long time (4-4-2 with attacking wingers/playmakers) but even changing to 4-5-1 or 4-1-3-2 hasn't really worked.

Any ideas on what I can do to get the team back on form? I'm mostly trying to build for next season at this stage...
 
get the tactic you used for your success! and criticise the players, make them train harder, and put their workload to very high
 
Go the rest of the season without using the 'successful' tactic, and try another tactic, but when you are creating your tactic, keep checking match preparation, and click the tab that has your tactic's name, and there it will tell you how familiar you squad is at playing the tempo, formation, strategy etc. and if they are awkward, change it... once you've made your tactic, give it at least 5 games, i have 2 tactics and i use one tactic until the end of december, and the second tactic until the end of the season.
 
prow07 said:
Go the rest of the season without using the 'successful' tactic, and try another tactic, but when you are creating your tactic, keep checking match preparation, and click the tab that has your tactic's name, and there it will tell you how familiar you squad is at playing the tempo, formation, strategy etc. and if they are awkward, change it... once you've made your tactic, give it at least 5 games, i have 2 tactics and i use one tactic until the end of december, and the second tactic until the end of the season.
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he doesnt have 5 games to do it..he needs results fast
 
tejas2603 said:
he doesnt have 5 games to do it..he needs results fast
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If he creates his tactic how i said, so that his squad are familiar with the style of play, then he may get results straight away... but you can't guarantee this, with the team being in poor form, morale is likely to be low, therefore confidence and motivation will be low as well. When changing tactic you always give your team a few games using it before you change it again.. it's common FM knowledge
 
prow07 said:
When changing tactic you always give your team a few games using it before you change it again.. it's common FM knowledge
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yes...but there isnt time to change a tactic and get familiar with it, when he is battling out relegation.
 
Thanks for the two options! I don't really know what to do, on one hand I know I'm not going to get into Europe so I might as well experiment but on the other hand that could make things worse so might be better to wait till pre-season friendlies.

I think I'll try my 4-5-1 again as it's not very different to what i was using before (just removed a ST for a DMC). At least that's different but not drastically different & I can increase the training workload. I tried a 4-1-3-2 before but went 2-0 down within 15 minutes at home against man city so gave up on it!

Thanks again for the advice!

Has this happened anyone else btw? Seems like a massive drop...
 
tejas2603 said:
yes...but there isnt time to change a tactic and get familiar with it, when he is battling out relegation.
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Oh dear..... if he does what i said in my first post, his team should be confident with using the style of play i.e. formation, mentality, passing style, creative freedom, closing down, marking, tempo, width... you always check these in match preparation when making a tactic, especially if he needs quick results.

Using the current tactic, the AI are obviously too used to it, that's why he's 16th in the first place, so you have no choice apart from changing the tactic.
 
can you please post a screenie of you squad and starting 11 please im really curios in seeing it!
 
Don't fix something that isn't broken, Barcelona never changed tactics when they signed new players after dominating europe.
 
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