The FM Thread

[Shane 2,275]

Some of my Dortmund team. Pretty solid team, 8 titles in a row now with One German Cup and One Champions League. Had Lewandowski, Drogba, Klose and Werner as my strikers in the early years but sold Timo Werner to Bayern for 39.5 Million, and I liked the idea of being able to hate him now and interesting to see how he'll do there and might improve them as he's been a goal machine for me.

usually a play with a 4-2-2-2

Have had Perez and Klaub for years, bought both of them for 10 million each when they were 18, so its been really cool to see them develop into a world class midfield partnership, one i'll probably keep for the next 10 years, but I am thinking of changing to a 4-3-3 to accomdate Josue Silva, as he's developed with since he was 18 and is a fantastic prospect and really does need to play more.

Moving to a 104202 Capacity stadium in a new years which makes me more motivated to play the save, lost interest in it for a while.

[Jype 6,398]

Just noticed I have some kind of coupon to get 75% off FM14 when bought from Steam. I think the final price will then be something like €12,5 which is not bad at all, if anyone wants it hit me up with a PM and I'll gift it to your Steam account.

[Strike 7,478]

The new update has restored the game somewhat. Enjoying it again.

yeah? the match engine seemed pretty random at first

[EBH 283]

Started at the bottom, etc.

[SinineUltra 1,170]

Started at the bottom, etc.

what tactics are you using?

[EBH 283]

what tactics are you using?

This is on FM 12. You'd need to go back to about page 45 on this thread to see where I started from (a relegation battling club in the Portuguese Second Division). My standard tactic is a plain old 4-4-2, with the corner glitch (I don't know if that's a thing in FM 14).

[Madmax 9,219]

Oh boy I haven't posted here in ages. Screenies (FM 13):

Club History 1:

Club History 2:

Biography:

Undoubted highlight(s) of career - Back to back unbeaten league seasons:

Season 1:

...and season 2:

Hall of fame:

[EBH 283]

Has anybody here ever attempted the Pentathlon? That is, winning the Champions League in each of the five confederations. I'm having a go at it right now, starting off with Jamaica's Waterhouse FC in CONCACAF.

[Yeboii 1,844]

Has anybody here ever attempted the Pentathlon? That is, winning the Champions League in each of the five confederations. I'm having a go at it right now, starting off with Jamaica's Waterhouse FC in CONCACAF.

Wow that is a real mission lol

[Gianfranco_Z 202]

Playing a network game with some of my mates from uni. Signed Benzia, does anyone have any experience/ advice with this striker? First time I've used him.

[EBH 283]

Wow that is a real mission lol

If I'm lucky, it'll take 40 in-game years

[Yeboii 1,844]

Playing a network game with some of my mates from uni. Signed Benzia, does anyone have any experience/ advice with this striker? First time I've used him.

He didn't work out at all when I bought him. Went shit and had an attitude.

[TrueChelseaBlue 105]

Gonna get back into this soon, once I get my laptop in a few weeks! Have got FM 14. Just need the laptop and I'm sorted!

[Gianfranco_Z 202]

He didn't work out at all when I bought him. Went shit and had an attitude.

Thanks mate, I will bare this in mind

[Jype 6,398]

Started playing with Chelsea for the first time since FM11 and just finished my first season. Reached the COC Final, FA Cup semis, CL semis and finished fourth in the league after Arsenal bottled an 8 point lead on me in the last three rounds. Not very impressive but much more so when we consider the fact I sold Ba, Torres, Ivanovic, Luiz and Cole in the summer without replacing them with anyone except Ricardo Rodriguez and instead played the likes of Boga, Ake, Christensen for +15 games each and made Kalas a starter who was given 45 games. I don't really like to start with a team that can buy almost anyone but because I wanted to play with Chelsea I decided I'd start a project of promoting some youth players the club already has and try developing them.

Kalas really surprised me, didn't matter whether I played him at RB or CB and he always performed much better than any other defender I had despite most of them having much better attributes. After Hazard, who scored 24 goals in all competitions, Kalas even had the highest average rating of all my players and also won Chelsea's POTY award.

For the second season I'm planning get Lukaku, Chalobah, Zouma and Courtois back. Already sold Cech, Ramires, Willian and Salah to make room for them. Might try to buy James Ward-Prowse or Ross Barkley to play alongside Chalobah in midfield but not sure yet.