The FM Thread

[English Freak 456]

with Portsmouth atm. No money, no prospect of money. just 18 guys in the squad but it helps that few of them are utility players who fill more than 1 position

anyone know great players for less than 250k? (FM 12)

http://www.fmscout.com/a-free-players-in-fm-2012.html

Have a look through the list..

[Strike 7,486]

Counter-attacked with authority. Won with relative ease with Nwankwo Kanu, who was awful all season pitching in as lone-striker

Promoted to the Premier League and board gives me 20mil to spend. Not very realistic but yay! 20 mil

[NiclasCFC 2,582]

Counter-attacked with authority. Won with relative ease with Nwankwo Kanu, who was awful all season pitching in as lone-striker

Promoted to the Premier League and board gives me 20mil to spend. Not very realistic but yay! 20 mil

is this FM 12?

[Strike 7,486]

is this FM 12?

yep. 12.

Is Demba Ba any good in the game? Newcastle got relegated and I signed him for 5mil.

[English Freak 456]

yep. 12.

Is Demba Ba any good in the game? Newcastle got relegated and I signed him for 5mil.

Depends on how you use Demba Ba...I remember Demba Ba doing well as a poacher with 2 attacking midfielders just behind him in my Lyon save..

He's also decent as a left-sided forward.

[Jype 6,398]

Haven't had the time to play much in the last month or so but I finally finished my fifth season with Schalke. Here's how my season was:

Won the Bundesliga title with record-breaking 88 points and a goal difference of +85. A bit too easy for my liking, seeing as Bayern Munich were second with only 63 points.

Won the DFB Pokal, beating Bayern Munich in the final on penalties. Oh how I love beating Bayern on penalties.

Runners-up in the Champions League. Lost the final to Liverpool, the team my brother manages (this one's a network game with me and him as the only two players).

My standout players this season:

Cavani with another hell of a season. The other two are the regens I've already posted here before, both have developed massively over the season and cemented their places in my starting lineup. It's scary how good they both are already at the age of 19, I can't even imagine how good they'll be when they're fully developed.

The Ballon d'Or runner-up Rodrigo was injured for much of the second half of the season but still managed to get 26 goals and 17 assists with an average rating of 8.06.

Juan Mata hasn't exactly been at his best during the three seasons he's been in my team so I decided to get rid of him for next season and replace him with Eden Hazard, who just so happened to request a transfer away from Chelsea after they finished only eighth last season in the Premier League. Mata looks to be on his way to Real Madrid for a fee of around 25 million and Hazard will cost me £53m. It's a lot but considering my club just made a profit of £50m last season I think I can afford him. Hazard will be my first big buy since Cavani, will be interesting to see how he'll fit in. I may have to start training him for a right wing role as Rodrigo will definitely be playing a lot on the left wing and I don't have any central attacking mids in my tactics.

[Weckerz 3,781]

Have they overdone the difference in home and away ties this year or is it just me? Not the end of the world because I end up winning most of my away games as well, but at times my Chelsea team (2028, overpowered regens) struggles away versus the likes of Swansea, Stoke, West-Ham etc.

I realise the AI counters your tactics better than in previous editions, but silly things happen away, chance conversion seems a LOT higher when they play at home. I lost vs Stoke earlier, 2 vs 12 shots on target. Lost 2-0 and they weren't even CCC's. No fluke either, happens quite often.

Stuff like your worldclass CB regen (18+ marking/tackling/heading, 20 jumping, 19 concentration, 17 acceleration) who is out of this world at home, enables retard mode away, making costly mistakes way too often.

Anyone else notice the difference between home/away? And how do you counter it?

[Strike 7,486]

Have they overdone the difference in home and away ties this year or is it just me? Not the end of the world because I end up winning most of my away games as well, but at times my Chelsea team (2028, overpowered regens) struggles away versus the likes of Swansea, Stoke, West-Ham etc.

I realise the AI counters your tactics better than in previous editions, but silly things happen away, chance conversion seems a LOT higher when they play at home. I lost vs Stoke earlier, 2 vs 12 shots on target. Lost 2-0 and they weren't even CCC's. No fluke either, happens quite often.

Stuff like your worldclass CB regen (18+ marking/tackling/heading, 20 jumping, 19 concentration, 17 acceleration) who is out of this world at home, enables retard mode away, making costly mistakes way too often.

Anyone else notice the difference between home/away? And how do you counter it?

away from home i set deep counter-attacking tactic. at home, slow control tactic to retain possession

[AndersonBLUE 819]

Managed to get top 4 with Swansea 1st season. Sold Pablo Hernandez to Liverpool for 20million start of 2nd season, absolutely ludicrous, and 9 million for Swansea's aging Spanish right back, couple of my best sells in this game. I love selling average players for loads of cash.

[Santiago. 1,500]

Never had the patience for this game

[manpe 10,861]

Still no working release for FM13? This is just bollocks, complete bollocks.

If somebody would be kind of enough to provide me with files and instructions on how to get the latest rosters on FM12, I would appreciate it and happily start playing it again, because I don't really like playing with old line-ups.

E: Nevermind, found it.

[dumps 284]

For those interestd, im still palying my FM 11 file (HSV) the year is now 2036. im still with Hamburg but i feel i have ahieved all i can. keep winning the league, keep winning the champions league. gone a season unbeaten. and still ahvent loss (45 games without a loss in the league). But the only thing id leave for would be for Chelsea. and ive been offered the chelsea job many times, but i dont want to go to them whilst they are still powerful, itll be the same situation im in now, just a different league.

Currently they are finishing around 10th in the league, ideally i want them to be relegated then set my self a challenge of getting them back to the top club they should be but i dont know how long ill have to wait. I finish uni soon and i plan on just nailing out 5 more seasons with HSV (want to get to 2040) so ill re assess it then.

I will give you one tip that i think is what made my team: i rarely spend huge amounts on players. the average wage at my club is £70,000 and im the best team in the world. Barcelona and real madrid who are outside the top 10 best teams in the world have the majority of their players on £125,000+ a week. What i do is 1. get youth, and pretty much wait till they hit 20 years old before gradually getting them in to the first team (buy a lot. its hit and miss with them and you can just sell/release the useless ones. 2. this helps with the youth as well, get a couple of incredible scouts (judgement of potential and actual ability both to be 20 if possible).

with the scouts i then get them to scout players from average teams that look half decent. by looking at average teams, they are cheap. go to clubs in portugal, turkey and teams that finish 7th-10th in big leagues (BPL, Serie A, La Liga), teams there will have 2 or 3 players that are top class. the best ones are usually 20-22 yrs old and have come through their youth, they are on low wages and becuase of the team they play for they are not too expensive/you wont need to offer too much to persuade the club to sell them.

the problem i had, when i wasnt the best club in the world i was able to get these players, bring them to a top 6 team in the german league, theyd get noticed then huge clubs came in and bought them. yes i made a profit but it was frustrating as tits! I have bought a player in the summer before, then man city would offer 3 times what i paid, my board would overide me and accept it and hed be sold in the winter transfer window! now i dont have that problem as everyone wants to play for me.

im the best manager in the world so id advise you to take my advice.

[JDY 1,290]

Ouch.

[Madmax 9,219]

For me, FM is all about exploring exotic leagues once I grow tired of the customary first Chelsea save. Currently I'm at Wellington Phoenix, a club from New Zealand that actually plays in the Australian league. In it for a few seasons, will leave when I win the league (won the cup in the first and only season so far). Hope to do a pan-Asian save with this one.

[Jype 6,398]

Now continuing my Schalke save after a little break, interesting to see how well Hazard will fit into my team.

Cavani - Esnault ®

Rodrigo Hazard

Ayew - Genctürk ®

Prukner ® - Marín ® - Papadopoulos - Schelotto

Ter Stegen

On the bench: El Shaarawy, Pukki, Strootman, De Bruyne, Nainggolan, Höwedes, Fabio

® = regens

Chelsea just offered £40m for my young Colombian centre-back / full-back Carlos Marín, rejected it immediately as this guy is immense: