I've thought about many signings tbh but I play like 10+ friendlies and I tend to be better in the first part of the season than the second, surely it wouldn't be like that if that's the problem? I'm leaving press conferences to assistants..
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I've thought about many signings tbh but I play like 10+ friendlies and I tend to be better in the first part of the season than the second, surely it wouldn't be like that if that's the problem? I'm leaving press conferences to assistants..
Alright thanks for trying to help. Will post screenshots in an hour or so
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Thank you very much mate, that does sound like it could be the problem, considering I always do extremely in the first half of the first season and then downhill. Will try it out later.
Actually, I've noticed that about FM14. I can go unbeaten for 10 games then all of a sudden play like ****. It's like the AI figures out the best way to counter your style and implements it perfectly. Can't usually get back to winning ways until I change the tactics I'm using.
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It just isn't fun any more. My money shall be staying in my pocket when FM15 comes out. Shame really as they've had my money every game since CM2 :'(
Have you tried what ianmauser suggested?
This is the most realistic FM to date. Why you ask? It's very reactive. Meaning if you're expecting 1 tactic to do everything without making any changes due to your opponent/ conditions all of the telling factors... you're on a losing start. It's realistic.... so stop moaning and check some of the stickied tactic threads on Sports Interactive forums.
Don't expect to win everything by plugging in a tactic and doing nothing.. that's not how management works or how this game works.
Don't expect to win everything by plugging in a tactic and doing nothing.. that's not how management works or how this game works.
Mind linking me to that thread then or where you just gonna bash me?
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I think that form counts for far more than in any previous FM. I have found that after say a 20 match winning streak with e.g. Real Madrid, everything looks great, all world records about to be broken. Then that 1 loss comes and suddenly a 10 match losing streak occurs. Downward spiral.... end up 3rd or 4th.
It happens in real life. I remember Carlo Ancelotti managing Chelsea and destroying everyone. Then it just all went wrong for no reason and he got the sack.
I also have tough starts to a season where I buy a lot of new players who need to gel and all speak different languages.
It happens in real life. I remember Carlo Ancelotti managing Chelsea and destroying everyone. Then it just all went wrong for no reason and he got the sack.
I also have tough starts to a season where I buy a lot of new players who need to gel and all speak different languages.
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You also have to be patient with this game. I finished 6th, 3rd, 6th, 6th and then 8th before I finally won the Premier League with Southampton in my ongoing save. Since then, I've been 2nd, 1st and 2nd again (...but only due to an injury-time equaliser by Newcastle for 3-3 on the last day of the season costing me a third title while my rivals Manchester United choked 0-1 at already-relegated Swansea City. I'm not bitter!). I've also won the Europa Cup and reached the Champions League semi-finals a couple of times.
I won a few domestic cups in the first five seasons, but I built and then re-built my squad before I won the Premier League for the first time when a block of promising young players reached their potential, with the likes of Tom Ince (more about whom shortly), Luke Shaw, James Ward-Prowse, Nathaniel Clyne and Jay Rodriguez as the more experienced heads in the team. But in my very first season, the only player I signed was Tom Ince from Blackpool - sending 3.2-million plus Kelvin Davies AND Guly do Prado in the opposite direction.
My tactics have gone from 4-5-1 Assymetric (which I developed in FM12) to 4-4-1-1 and 4-5-1, and now I'm using a 3-5-2 which yields goals galore but can leave us vulnerable in the defensive channels if the opposition knows to deploy a decent No.10 to exploit the space between my back three and the Advanced Playmaker who operates from the centre of my midfield five. I will experiment with pulling the two other central midfielders into the DM line and turning my existing Wide Midfielders_Support into Wingers_Attack.
None of which necessarily means very much in-and-of itself, other than to say that I have been quite successful in FM14 with my Southampton team but 10 seasons in, I'm still learning and tweaking and trying new things to suit my current set of players and to combat the teams around me - who are all capable of getting better or worse year-on-year, independently of anything I do.
I suspect that many of the FMers who are still complaining about this edition of the game are getting about as far as season 3, and wondering why they're not dominating England, Europe, the World and the outer reaches of our known Galaxy (Sepp says you can play football on Mars!) with their FC United squad! I exaggerate, of course, but you get the gist.
I won a few domestic cups in the first five seasons, but I built and then re-built my squad before I won the Premier League for the first time when a block of promising young players reached their potential, with the likes of Tom Ince (more about whom shortly), Luke Shaw, James Ward-Prowse, Nathaniel Clyne and Jay Rodriguez as the more experienced heads in the team. But in my very first season, the only player I signed was Tom Ince from Blackpool - sending 3.2-million plus Kelvin Davies AND Guly do Prado in the opposite direction.
My tactics have gone from 4-5-1 Assymetric (which I developed in FM12) to 4-4-1-1 and 4-5-1, and now I'm using a 3-5-2 which yields goals galore but can leave us vulnerable in the defensive channels if the opposition knows to deploy a decent No.10 to exploit the space between my back three and the Advanced Playmaker who operates from the centre of my midfield five. I will experiment with pulling the two other central midfielders into the DM line and turning my existing Wide Midfielders_Support into Wingers_Attack.
None of which necessarily means very much in-and-of itself, other than to say that I have been quite successful in FM14 with my Southampton team but 10 seasons in, I'm still learning and tweaking and trying new things to suit my current set of players and to combat the teams around me - who are all capable of getting better or worse year-on-year, independently of anything I do.
I suspect that many of the FMers who are still complaining about this edition of the game are getting about as far as season 3, and wondering why they're not dominating England, Europe, the World and the outer reaches of our known Galaxy (Sepp says you can play football on Mars!) with their FC United squad! I exaggerate, of course, but you get the gist.
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