football manager 2012 (release date is 21st oct)

ok i cannot sell kaka for the fucking life of me. he has another 3 years left of a 10m/per year contract, at which time he'll be 34. he already cannot make my first team and offering him to clubs for £0 has... everyone going 'ummm we have a wage structure, plz stop bugging us'.

i mean i can afford to keep him around, the money isnt the trouble. but he's good enough to not put in my reserves, not good enough to make my first team and just in the way of lots of youngsters like canales who i should play more but i am busy trying to put kaka in the shop window/get my moneys worth.

just fucking leave already ricardo.

2 solutions use fmrte to swap him with someone.
or
Add new manager and choose man city and buy him for shitloads and swap deal including silva and aguero at the same time

i used to do that in championship manager days i assume you still can?

or use fmrte to end his contract or use fmrte to add to your balance and wage budget etc

when I had a world-beating team of 23-year-olds in FM09 I did the thing of spending tens of millions on a youth team, but that game's combination of it being so difficult to loan out players and top players not really declining until their mid-30s kind of ruined it.

This thread is making an entry into FM12 so very tempting, but aaaah I'm already ridiculously busy without adding the required five hours of FMing a day to everything.

Sam, can't you kick up a controversy, speak to him and tell him he sucks, transfer list him, offer him to clubs every week etc. Make his life miserable. If he's still pulling a Bogarde and is fine with being benched for years to come raking in the cash, go for the editor and injure him for life imho

seems easier to add a 2nd manager and go city. make some cash and swap a few players

he's cool to go, just no-one will bid for him.

still don't vibe well w/ easy cheating. maybe i'll do it with a club who deserve to get rid of a shitty manager (jose went to city and won the league.)

also half the fun of fm is feeling sweary until you figure out a way to sort things out.

just noticed that last season spurs bought eboue for 15.75m and now he is transfer listed. lols.

also first time i misspelt it sours, which i like.

mata is unhappy at chelsea, and i think i can pull off 30m+kaka to get rid of him.

did you?

http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm12-training-and-match-preparation-guide.html
looks great

ended up being 43+kaka and 9m p/y AND then he got injured for 4 months, but i already prefer mata. he can play anywhere, he counts towards my homegrown which is v. precious considering i'm going to let adan, alonso and arbeloa go at the end of the season, he scored 1 v. barca and 2 v. valencia.

i wish there was a way i could abolish my c team. i have absolutely no use for it. i have a first+second team, then castilla for guys 17ish-20 and an u19s for players 17ish and under.

my yuts just came back from 2-0 in the cup to win 4-2 so fuck it, this is too easy and i'm just gonna sell di maria, benzema, alonso, surin etc. and try to work towards something. i am 9 points ahead of barca, who have cocked right up this season (they have had 1 big signing since i started and that was a forward, no forward looking to replace puyol or abidal or xavi etc.)

lol i just assumed barca were second. 18 games in I AM 17 POINTS AHEAD OF BARCA. I think i'm gonna go ask Ozil and CR7 if they wanna go on holiday for a couple months and play more 16 year olds.

still on FM10 so not the right thread, but just wanted to congratulate myself on clinching the lge with LFC after just 29 games! A feat unprecedented in my FM career. Won 27 drawn 2. I did get knocked out of both the League and FA Cups by Chelsea at the first hurdle mind you which the board isn't letting me forget.

Man City spent £113m in the close season. Currently 6th. I spent £1.7m on a back up RB whilst selling them a DM for £40m

Just over half of the first season with PSV. Second in the league, 5 points behind Twente. Ajax is only 7th though ~ biggest evidence of the great realistic improvements that were made! ;)

I'm really struggling against the small clubs in the league though, like the bottom six I can only win 1-0 or 2-1 if not drawing or even losing. Effing annoying. I know I'm doing something wrong tactically but I can't figure out what it is.

what r yr current tactics?

do you have full familiarity? until you do players may not respond

Like once a month (well not now my laptop hates me) when my familiarity takes an obvious bump up is when I change one thing to my tactics, and then try to get it to move back up so i can slowly turn them into a pass-and-move demon.

currently wondering about playing just one centre half. i think, given time and full backs who know when to stay back, i could make it work and put a guy in the hole behind my 2 forwards.

"full familiarity" I don't even know what that means tbh

I just have a tweaked tactic. Playing 4-2-3-1 mostly, 4-1-4-1 against the weaker ones. But even with the former they still can't break the defensive wall down.

Maybe my players are just twats.

oh the left hand side of your tactics screen, where you can save and change between set tactics, it will have a blue bar saying how familiar your team is to that set tactic, depending on how often they play that tactic and what they do in training/match preparation.

Ohh right, thanks! Will have a look at that!

Doesn't mean my players aren't twats though ;)

you can use fmrte to change your 3 set tactics to full familiarity btw

under 'match preparation' on your fmrte team screen set everything to 100

I have set everything to perfect. Now let me play this game and see how much fun I have.

Why even play the game?

I'm not cheating, Kerr. I find a strange satisfaction and perfect outlet of anger losing stupid games tbh

Yeah I mean an fm account managing sunderland should be given to everyone who ever attends an anger management class.

Glad i used paypal
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Glad I got it illegaly

glad i bought it in an amazon

i've just been handed a transfer budget of 274m. 274m!

like i kinda just want to spunk it all because lol why not but then i'd have genuine guilt for a computer game. wtf is rong with me

Was your wage budget equally upped though? Otherwise you'll probably find you can't even spend all that on good players even if you wanted to

then he can adjust budget

You playing w/ Arsenal? Was it a sugar daddy thing?

he said he didn't want to play with a rich club as it was too easy. So he did real madrid instead

i'm currently 40m a year under my wage budget.

i picked a team that needed a manager. usually i do a couple seasons with an easy team to get the gist of what is going on, and then i'll do something like last season where i made leyton orient champions of europe.

so far, 100m for messi has been rejected. wonder how far i'll go. think i'm gonna cut myself off at 180m if they keep saying no.

I'd be very interested to hear if Messi'd even want to go Madrid, I can't imagine he would!

i dunno, last season he had to suffer the embarrassment of coming 4th! and my press conferences have been very anti-franco and pro-pep, so hopefully things are changing (they aren't.)

in contract negotiations, for the second time, after a £45m bid for Wilshere was accepted and refusing to pay the agent a £6m bonus. so what does he do? he offers me to pay THREE MILLION A YEAR LESS THAN ALREADY AGREED AND ONE AND HALF MILLION LESS THAN HE IS CURRENTLY BEING PAID BY ARSENAL TO WILSHERE just so he'd still get that bonus. They have made football agents as cuntish on the game as you presume they'd be in real life.

at £130m for Messi now and still being rejected.

So... after a contract dispute with Barca, Celik, 21 year old with absolutely incredible stats and the player who nearly knocked me out of the CL semi-final by scoring 2 in the second leg (he didn't play in the first, thank god) was going for a pawtry 11m. He is an AMC.

I have too many AMCs. It seemingly happened out of nowhere. I've moved Wilshere to LW. Rott, a regen I bought at 17 has knocked Ozil out of the German team can also play at CM I guess. Same with Trabelsi. Germain, who I swear is better than Messi but currently out for 3 months, can't play anywhere else. *breathes* Greenwood and Goddard have *so* much potential to the point where I don't want to sell them, in case anyone else reaps the rewards. Rafael was the star of my Brazil team who lost in the WC semis and won player of the fucking tournament.

I play 4-2-3-1, with two wingers because Chamberlain has to play (he scores like a goal a game). I've given up on a DM, in part because we weren't scoring enough, partly because Ramsey/my attacking playmaker regens were too good and because Busquiets/my regens weren't up to scratch.

Celik comes in a month and considering people are already annoyed at being 8 points off the league, I expect mutiny. Maybe give up on wingers and just play with 5 different central midifielders? I've been thinking about a way I can play with one centre-half, but I don't think it will work out. Or sell someone off? The only reason my squad is half-balanced atm is because I sold off anyone over 28 and now I don't want to give up the regens I worked hard to make 3time CL champions.

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I have showered and applied for two jobs already today. Whenever I talk about meaningless hobbies I feel I need to throw these things in there.

http://www.footballmanager.com/1888/

dammit somebody make that as a mod now please

50% off in the Steam sale. caved.

Welcome back to the dark side NV. Please enjoy this motivational picture and daydream a little about the sort of malformed Eastern European regens that could be suckling from your nurturing teats any time now.

http://i.imgur.com/YtUmFSO.png

starting off my traditional "predicted 24th in League 2" team, this year it's Newport.

new tactics engine is lush

Yeah the tactics are a treat in this, easily the most fun I've had with it in ages. I've just hit a barrier, my ludicrously high intensity pressing game, suicidally high defensive line and murderous pace up front no longer cutting it against all the little teams (i.e. all of them but the top 3 or 4 in Europe) just sit deep and give me the ball. Beginning the gradual transition to a team of musclebound brutes who kick the shit out of the opposition, sit right back and rely on a set-piece or maybe one or two incisive attacks per game to get the win. Something very satisfying in watching your team bully their way to a clean sheets record. Yer man Oleg Russian in the screenshot up there is very much a harbinger of the new way.

Wish there was a way to specifically train up his aggression