Your weird habits when playing FM

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Never buy players I don't like the look of.
Selective about which countries I'll sign someone regardless how good they are.
Always sub every player at half time of every friendly.
Always arrange subs GK to Strikers.
Always have mouse hovering over my Make Subs button during match.
Leave room during penalties .
Hire Roberto Baggio even though he has **** stats.
 
I create chants for my players and tend to sing to myself if they score...

My current favourite is for my Korean regen Jeong Sung-Soo... "Nanananananananana Jeong Sungy-Soo, Sungy-Soo, Jeong Sungy-Soo!"
 
naterr said:
I always sub players because they are tired rather than if they are having a bad game...doesn't always work well. I also sell players on the cheap to teams I like just to help them out. If I'm playing with the editor I usually bankrupt arsenal...no particular reason haha.
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Ha! I had a save for a while where I gave Inter $1.5 billion in transfer fees available and set their stadium to sell out every game with ticket prices that were double their norm. I then added myself as a out of work coach and simmed a season before taking over another club. It was fun to see who Inter signed over the course of a season with all that cash available and coming in. I was expecting to see a handful of top tier talent, but they actually invested in very good youth prospects instead of quick fixes.
 
If you are 30 or above, you are likely going to find yourself transferred, unless you are a DC or GK. Even then, you will probably be replaced by a wonderkid by mid-season and sold for whatever I can get for you.

If I don't like you, I will sell you for pennies on the dollar just to get rid of you.

I always have to shave salary. If I am Man City and spending $4 million a season with up to $5.5 available, I want to get it to $3 million. Sorry Yaya, I love you, but you are at my age limit and make a ton of cash. Adios.

If during a match, your health gets to 79% or below, I will sub you out, regardless of if you have scored 10 goals.

If you are a regen with a cool name, even if you suck, you will see some time off the bench with my first team. If ever there is a player named Curly Pubes, he will start every game.

The first thing I do is check out my coaches and fire anyone with less than a 3.5 star rating at their best training position. I then make offers for new staff. This MUST be done before setting tactics.
 
Dunno if its classed as "weird" but I never quit the game when I am on a winning/good streak. Even if that means going to be at 2am with work the next day.

I always seem to find I go on a horrible loosing streak the next time I play if I quit during a good run.
 
iamauser said:
Dunno if its classed as "weird" but I never quit the game when I am on a winning/good streak. Even if that means going to be at 2am with work the next day.

I always seem to find I go on a horrible loosing streak the next time I play if I quit during a good run.
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Me and my mate used to think that back in cm days, if your smashing it, next time you loaded up something crazy would happen like 2 players getting sent of and losing to bottom of the league.
 
I have to have my squad numbers right before the start of the season regardless of how long it takes. First team players will generally get higher numbers but if a wonderkid scores the winner in the cup final or another big game they keep that number even if it's something crazy like 53. It will become there lucky number.
I also make sure that I stick to the traditions/rules of the league so I won't have anything 60+ in the prem but might do in Serie A. And if I ever manage internationally the goalies get 1,12,23 but then its defenders 2-9, midfielders 10-18 and attackers 19+.

My other thing is signing foreign players 2 or 3 at a time so they can have someone to help them settle. Like signing Wilshere and Gibbs for a foreign club at the same time. I'm not sure if it has an effect but it always seems like the bigger name plays better.
 
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Always pause the game when making substitutes or changing tactics....FM13 had a knack of letting the CPU score when I was in the tactics menu....


Wearing a suit in a cup final anyone?
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I do have some weird ones for me...
*During a game when it is a chance for the opposition i HAVE to look at it so i feel i can chance something maybe to stop the goal (this is ofc not possible when the chance plays out allr)
*At the end of the season (and i'm the leader) i cant waste to much time to look at stats etc because i think that wasting time in the managerial part of the game will get my team out of the flow and i would start losing
*(this might be the weirdest one yet) Back in Championship manager 97/98 my mom bought a ab-crunch machine (a metal thing that is supposed to give you rock solid abs) i was rolling back and forth with the thing during my season/games with Juventus. I thought that the harder i was rocking, the more goals my frontline of christian Vieri and Allesandro Del Piero scored... .... I never got the rock hard abs as those guys on the promotion movies..

and that makes me sad.... :-)
 
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My back up gk will always get the year he was born for his kit number.
Coaches get sacked if below 4 star.
Always sign 2 players for every position.
Never spend over 60k on wages for anybody and sell them when they want kore wnd wont agree New deal.
Never give yearly wage rises.
Only sign 1-2 year manager contracts.
Mouse goes to the top right corner out of view during a match.
Always save before a game because my graphics card fan stops. Even tho its fixed i still do it.
Always play 10 friendlys starting with world class teams then last 4 games are to local teams to where i live.
I always make sure my income is more than my out goings. I will sell my whole team to make sure this happens.
 
1. When I sign for a new club I go to Sports Direct and buy a relevant training jacket
2. During week days I set up cones in the garden ready for training
3. Arriving at the stadium ready for a match I will walk down the hallway with a suitcase and headphones on smiling and waving
4. After matches I rearrange my room setting up a desk with some water jugs ready for the press conference.
5. On deadline day I will drive around town stopping to talk to people out of my car window
6. If I score at Old Trafford I run down the garden sliding on my knees in my best suit
 
ArmaniGUnit said:
Always pause the game when making substitutes or changing tactics....FM13 had a knack of letting the CPU score when I was in the tactics menu....


Wearing a suit in a cup final anyone?

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Yes, however, make sure you dress like that for every game, after all, it is a well known fact: The better you dress, the better you play!
 
i listen to crazy horses by the osmonds, because i am epic.
 
*I always play with Juventus(doing this since 2006)
*I cannot play without facepacks
*If a don't like a player's face I create one myself
*I never sign regens(their faces freak my out)
*I only sign player that are linked with Juve in real life
*If a Juventus player has a good streak he will become a first team regular and take pens(just to improve his stats)
*I cannot play if my right hand isn't on the mouse
*I always pause before i make subs
*I always pause and smoke before a "big game"
*I get bored after 5 or 6 season(usually after the players get old o retire) and start over
*If I sold a player and he plays good IRL I start over
 
Hehe, same faceissues than above. Cannot play without facepacks. Nowdays almost the most disgusting things is to see a blank image. For example wonderkid has no face, first thing to do is get that right.

So, no regens. Yack.
Have bought my friend like 3 FM's in a row. He's playing at the lower league in Finland and actually has a real face also :) Then i call him IRL and announce that you're been bought by team X. Salary is always pretty similar to his normal dayjob, so cant blame me for throwing money away.

Also support long playing sessions. 6h and so on. Then you get really into game! ;)
 
- When I'm in the loading screen, I get so bored that I start watching a movie. One time I drew a stickman on my table with a knife.
- When one of my player is on a streak of playing well because I want to give other players a chance to play also.
- Into attacking center midfield position i always buy someone older and famous, like van der Vaart, Kaka or Sneijder.
- I change my position on the chair like 5 times in 10 minutes hoping to get a brilliant idea how to defeat my opponents.
- No matter how unimportant the game was and my team lost, I always tell them how ****** off I am.
 
I think I only have one and its that my best or favourite player in my squad will wear the number 21 shirt (it's my favourite number), and coincidentally my favourite player is normally a playmaker as well i.e. your Pirlo's and David Silva's who already wear the number 21 :).
 
During big games, like finals and such i play suportersongs in the background, i just played a champions league final against real madrid as liverpool so i played we won it 5 times in the background, as the game went on i changed the lyrics to "we won it 7 times" as i ended up victorious! :D
 
I will always try and get club legends as my backroom staff or player legends at least, as well as promote my older players into my staff, Yaya Toure become my Assistant Manager at one point.
 
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