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This game is so sick! I play 4-1-4-1 and both Borini and Marquinho play on the wings. Against Juve Marquinho gets red card, so he cannot play for 3 matches. After the match Borini gets injured on the training for 2 weeks . Next match is against Viola. Obviously, I needed some injuries. So they injured both Bojan (6 weeks) and Lamela(2 months) who are able to play on the wing. WTF FM!?
 
When selling a player, they sometimes ask for part of their contract still to be paid until their current contract with you would expire. Why cannot this happen when buying someone that has wages that are above what you can afford?
 
mld81 said:
When selling a player, they sometimes ask for part of their contract still to be paid until their current contract with you would expire. Why cannot this happen when buying someone that has wages that are above what you can afford?
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That's a reaally good point actually
 
****** chairman cancelled upgrades to my facilities even though I became champion and had 10m balance!
 
Taking the Great Britain U23's job as well as being Celtic manager and then having to play 6 games in 11 days at the start of August
 
1. Not being able to sign Beckham, Juninho Pernambucano or Thierry Henry!!
2. Always getting very big teams in the first round of FA and Carling Cup
3. AC Milan get 3 red cards against me but my team still somehow fails to win and lose 3-1
4. I take control or Argentina two days before the final in Copa America against Brazil and I lose the game and get sacked
5. I hate when all my subs are used to take injured players off the field

there are many more things that i hate about this game but i just can't remember it rigt now
 
I've played football manager and before that championship manager for a decade but today I've decided I'm done with it. I've registered here to just vent my frustration that something that was such a large part of my life has now become nothing but annoying.

Many times in this thread has it been mentioned about the bizarre bad luck that seems dominate the game unless some kind of wonder tactic is used. And I just can't cope with it anymore. It's realistic that once in a while a team will dominate a match and not win. Of course, that's football. But it happening every other week is just preposterous.

My players are not taking ridiculously long shots. I have world class strikers. I'm using attacking movement training and employing expert shooting coaches. So to go through your first three games of the season, having a total of 77 shots, 40 on target, and losing all three, 1-0, 2-0 and 1-0 despite the opposition having only a combined 4 shots on target is ridiculous. I lost to Reading in my second game 2-0 and they didn't even a shot on goal! In the meantime I hit the woodwork about a dozen times, my defender narrowly missed 5 or 6 headers from corners, I had two dissallowed goals, a penalty claim turned down and Leandro Damaio missed numerous one on one chances.

If I was going through a barren spell I could understand it. But this is the beginning of my third season and I've missed the title by a couple of points in both previous seasons. It's almost as if the games is making sure I don't win it this season by fixing results. For two seasons I've watched world class performances by opposition goalkeepers. I've tried on occasion to tweek my tactics to get around the bad luck but generally my philosophy throughout years of football manager games is 'let the opposition worry about my team.' I've now realised they don't have to. They could just rock up with a goalkeeper and **** striker and they'll stand a good chance.

Last season, I put a 16 year old in goal for two months because whoever I play in goal, they don't save anything anyway. In one game i put Yaya Sanogo in goal to get him some match fitness. Whereas the opposition seem to have some god-like hero between the sticks every week. I have a wealth of attacking talent but rarely score more than 3 a game, and even on poor days I'm having 10 shots on goal. And at no point in the two full seasons have i had a lucky result go my way. Never. If the stats are even, I lose. If a team dominates mine, I lose. If I dominate them I'll get a draw or scrape a win.

So, for me this game is dead. I've had spells in previous versions of the game where bad luck has affected me, but not for over two years! Add this to the other annoyances mentioned here, particularly players asking for sky high wages and then signing for someone else for a pittance and you've got a **** game.

I don't want someone to say 'Oh just use this tactic' because thats not the way I roll. For me, they have just arsed up this game. The teamtalks are a shambles. The options do not include what needs to be said, or have the opposite affect to what you're expecting. Too much emphasis has been put on this in the match engine along with tactics. A lot of football managers still believe you win games by having the best players. Not with this game though. As I planned my pre-season transfers, I thought 'what's the point?.' The quality of the players doesn't seem to matter. I'd happily swap the opposition goalkeeper with mine before the match starts every week. I could have 21 year old Pele and Van Basten up front, but the game would find a way to stop them scoring. At the other end, the ball would ricochet off Heskeys **** past my keeper who would be in some kind of trance, and i lose again. Or do I? Ten minutes left. I'l put on another striker, and hit the bar a few more times...

Adidos Football Manager. Time to check out how LMA has come on in the last decade. When games are once more decided by the quality of your players (think the last one was football manager 2006) I might try it again....
 
HadEnough said:
I've played football manager and before that championship manager for a decade but today I've decided I'm done with it. I've registered here to just vent my frustration that something that was such a large part of my life has now become nothing but annoying.

Many times in this thread has it been mentioned about the bizarre bad luck that seems dominate the game unless some kind of wonder tactic is used. And I just can't cope with it anymore. It's realistic that once in a while a team will dominate a match and not win. Of course, that's football. But it happening every other week is just preposterous.

My players are not taking ridiculously long shots. I have world class strikers. I'm using attacking movement training and employing expert shooting coaches. So to go through your first three games of the season, having a total of 77 shots, 40 on target, and losing all three, 1-0, 2-0 and 1-0 despite the opposition having only a combined 4 shots on target is ridiculous. I lost to Reading in my second game 2-0 and they didn't even a shot on goal! In the meantime I hit the woodwork about a dozen times, my defender narrowly missed 5 or 6 headers from corners, I had two dissallowed goals, a penalty claim turned down and Leandro Damaio missed numerous one on one chances.

If I was going through a barren spell I could understand it. But this is the beginning of my third season and I've missed the title by a couple of points in both previous seasons. It's almost as if the games is making sure I don't win it this season by fixing results. For two seasons I've watched world class performances by opposition goalkeepers. I've tried on occasion to tweek my tactics to get around the bad luck but generally my philosophy throughout years of football manager games is 'let the opposition worry about my team.' I've now realised they don't have to. They could just rock up with a goalkeeper and **** striker and they'll stand a good chance.

Last season, I put a 16 year old in goal for two months because whoever I play in goal, they don't save anything anyway. In one game i put Yaya Sanogo in goal to get him some match fitness. Whereas the opposition seem to have some god-like hero between the sticks every week. I have a wealth of attacking talent but rarely score more than 3 a game, and even on poor days I'm having 10 shots on goal. And at no point in the two full seasons have i had a lucky result go my way. Never. If the stats are even, I lose. If a team dominates mine, I lose. If I dominate them I'll get a draw or scrape a win.

So, for me this game is dead. I've had spells in previous versions of the game where bad luck has affected me, but not for over two years! Add this to the other annoyances mentioned here, particularly players asking for sky high wages and then signing for someone else for a pittance and you've got a **** game.

I don't want someone to say 'Oh just use this tactic' because thats not the way I roll. For me, they have just arsed up this game. The teamtalks are a shambles. The options do not include what needs to be said, or have the opposite affect to what you're expecting. Too much emphasis has been put on this in the match engine along with tactics. A lot of football managers still believe you win games by having the best players. Not with this game though. As I planned my pre-season transfers, I thought 'what's the point?.' The quality of the players doesn't seem to matter. I'd happily swap the opposition goalkeeper with mine before the match starts every week. I could have 21 year old Pele and Van Basten up front, but the game would find a way to stop them scoring. At the other end, the ball would ricochet off Heskeys **** past my keeper who would be in some kind of trance, and i lose again. Or do I? Ten minutes left. I'l put on another striker, and hit the bar a few more times...

Adidos Football Manager. Time to check out how LMA has come on in the last decade. When games are once more decided by the quality of your players (think the last one was football manager 2006) I might try it again....
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I also had this is previous games, more the CM than FM.

I've realized that this game is about tactic since i saw Diablo tac. BUT, if you tried to use it with **** players you would loose. The same in this game.

You need better training, better morale and better tactic, made by you or not.

If not, just buy all the keepers in the game :D
 
A new season has started for me and im just entering September and the league hasn't reset to start a new season? WTF?! Has never happened to me before.....anyone got any ideas as to why??
 
Leading cause of assists for opposition: the rebounding legs of my cm's.
 
I had a savegame where I am the manager of Indonesian national team (yes, my country :D). I managed to get Indonesia national team to qualify to World Cup 2014 (eliminated in group stage though), Asian Cup 2015 (fourth place) and World Cup 2018, apart from winning AFF Championship (ASEAN nations' championship, a rather minor tournament though) three times (2012, 2014, 2016). When the WC 2018 is only a few weeks away, I stopped this savegame because it's the same case for all three major tournaments (six tournaments in total).

The main reason I quit this is that the players in the national pool seem to be fine... until a tournament is a few months away and, as if hit by thunders in a rainstorm, there are suddenly plenty of player injuries lasting one month or more, and most of these injured players are my key players, and this happens every tournament.
 
I'm trying to offer busquets to clubs, and normally when u offer players to clubs u get a message back saying if clubs are interested, want to buy your player etc. but for some reason im not getting a message back when i offer busquets. Does anyone know why??
 
In the prem with Dover now and the board plan a stadium expansion. Obviously I am thrilled until I find out I am ground-sharing with Ramsgate for the first 6 months of the season. They are a semi-professional club with a 5000 capacity stadium however only 400 seated. Now for the first six months I will get at the most 400 fans at every home game which will cripple me financially!
 
Late goals are the biggest crippler. Play well for ages, get a good goal to 1-0 then draw from a flukey offside corner to the bottom team in the league. Just demoralises you :'(
 
Celticthroughandthrough88 said:
In the prem with Dover now and the board plan a stadium expansion. Obviously I am thrilled until I find out I am ground-sharing with Ramsgate for the first 6 months of the season. They are a semi-professional club with a 5000 capacity stadium however only 400 seated. Now for the first six months I will get at the most 400 fans at every home game which will cripple me financially!
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That is unlucky. With my dover save game we kept our stadium whilst the new stadium was built, no ground sharing. The annoying thing though is that the new stadium is completely full already (25.5k seater stadium) which means they didn't built a big enough stadium, useless.
 
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