football manager 2012 (release date is 21st oct)

all 3 are well worth it but esp the 1st 2. its easy to install but i'll help if you need it. it just looks so much better.

youre stuck arent you?

lol no i was just doing my nut in as my back 4 ignored all tactics to let spurs beat us 3-1 on the opening day of the season. half tempted to sell the fucking bunch of them and theo after such a shit game and just play regens. forgot it had downloaded while this happened.

hah, well now you can install them. Which ones did you get?

the first one, if it works i'll get the 2nd and then 3rd. patience scot.

the 2nd one is a tiny file and will take a second to d/l

it worked.

hurrah! looks good yeah? you will like the next one with the real strips.
3rd one will give all leagues/cups their proper names as well as the clubs

2nd done..

cool. What do you reckon then?

kinda cool i guess. any more i should give a toss about?

did you get the 3rd one? and the championship strips?

check http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm12-essentials.html the training ones look great. could be very handy. The barca tactics looks awesome tbh wanna try that in my next match

Training http://www.fmscout.com/c-training12.html <---- looks very useful.

Tactics http://www.fmscout.com/c-tactics12.html

other database stuff http://www.fmscout.com/c-data12.html

other skins http://www.fmscout.com/c-skins12.html apparently these can be customised so that it will contain all the info you want on 1 page rather than clicking thru stuff but i dont know how difficult that will be to use. Probably beyond me.

ok i dont understand how to set training schedules. i downloaded the schedules and installed it ok. but i dunno how to implement it. Anyone know?

ok that 4gb pictures file has downloaded overnight. just installed it.
still no clue how to use these training schedules

ok lol did you hack my game?

http://i43.tinypic.com/33tlafs.jpg

nah if that was me it'd be a lb

...in the dressing room?

oh holy shit!!!!!!!!!!!! i downloaded the barca tactic and fuck me its absolutely amazing. I had 80% posession. Messi (yeah i signed him for £100m) runs riot dribbling round everyone,the passes are superfast and movement is amazing and im tanning teams 7-0. Sam you NEED to get http://www.fmscout.com/a-barcelona-style-in-fm-2012.html

oh and theres a new version of that 3rd download you were going to get http://www.fmscout.com/i-1387-FM12-Susie-Real-Names-for-Clubs-Competitions-and-Awards-Fix---BETA.html

No! I am cool with my own 65% poss and organically getting there. I am refusing to buy anyone (incl. regens) who doesn't have a MIN of 16 first touch, 16 passing and 16 technique anyway, so in 5 years I should be there. Valencia was the only exception. Well him and any other 4 star players under 10m.

where tf did you get 100m from? at Liverpool? Bankrupting the place?

http://i43.tinypic.com/24mffbp.jpg

adam in xavi role and henderson as iniesta lol

you bojan?

what is aoc like in a couple years time?

why do you have messi and suarez in each others positions?

messi is 'fake #9' he drops deep and dribbles from everywhere suarez is villa and attacks by cutting in to right foot. Gerrard is shit hot in that position scoring loads. if he retires i'll put messi there and put carroll up top i guess unless Bojan is a better option. Bojan is quite effective in the RW position if i change things about. AOC ,Bojan are developing well and are ready for some 1st team games according to my asst manager who also says i change their squad status from back up to rotation.. Josh Mc is developing well and will be ready for some 1st team games soon according to Tito.
Got bojan for £7m as his 2 year loan at roma ended and barca didnt want him. Got the other 2 for £6m at the start of this (my first season at liverpool). Contracts were due up i think.

If you were going to use that tactic. How would you line them up with your players?

oh yeah bale fell out with spurs. £13.5m bargain. He's amazing in the suarez position too as is downing. Well covered for that position.
Sold joe Cole for £10m lol and Dirk Kuyt for 20.(to bayern)

carragher is past it lol. Wigan offered to buy him but i decided to keep him and offer a player coach role. His coaching attributes are pretty awesome. Only thing is he will bugger off to the first managers role he gets.

and obviously i sold pretty much all of my reserve side. Got decent money for them all. my unused subs can play in the reserve games along with the best under 18s, who i have FIVE regen wonderkids. Worth having a top top youth system as long as you scout allover the world. By getting foreign coaches you get better knowledge. lots of obscure rated scouts with pot ability ratings of 19/20. Try get them from all over.

i know this from playing previous fm games rather than reading about it. think ive gave you similar advice in previous fm threads

btw james mccarthy has great stats but wigan wont sell him.

obv i wanted him as an ex accie but no dice so far. only got a transfer budget of £25m left. Want to keep that incase some highly rated youngsters show up.

this is the susies screenshots btw

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/4329/awardsnames.jpg
http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/648/germanyyi.jpg

i didnt even know the fa cup was budweiser now LOL

James McCarthy was p much my first big signing once I got the sugar daddy money at Leyton Orient on the last game.

LOL you don't need to tell me about scouting knowledge, I have that game DOWN.

If I was to go into that formation, it'd be:

Chesney>Reina
Sagna>Johnson
Gibbs>Bale (more attacking than Vermaelan)
Kos>Kelly (how is he in the future btw? Same for Wilson, Flanagan and Robinson? Worth trying to get?)
Alder>Wilson (feel like pace is important in your defending, so Merte and Juhasz wouldn't work)
Bender>Lucas
Ayew>Adams
Wilshere>Gerrard
Kagawa>Henderson
Gervinho>Suarez
RVP>Messi

Di Maria, Valencia, Ramsey, Song, Theo, Verm and Arshavin not really fitting in. :S

oh man that formation would work for you. Why not import it as your 2nd or 3rd tactic and try it in a game against someone.

i taught you all you know about scouting son, the threads are still in the archives!

Kelly (how is he in the future btw? Same for Wilson, Flanagan and Robinson? Worth trying to get?)

Oh yes. Season or 2 in reserves with cup games in 1st team and a few league games then chuck them in the deep end. Worked well for me. Especially when tactical familiarity is 100%. (i used fmrte to getTic-Tac krunccrni standard to 100% as season had started (i won 1st 9 league games)and dont have pre-season to work on it) but keeping fmrte to bare min atm. fitness/injuries only.
Won every game since i got this tactic and im 100% in march for wins. left it on holiday for 3 months overnight just to see how it would do and it won every game so decided to save from there and keep going lol.

just about to play man utd in champs league quarters.

how the fuck is tim wiese still making the germany squad??
AG you are welcome to take over from Dalglish when the time comes.

also ahoy have you got sven or lars bender?

Ramsay is always awesome against me. as is wilshere.

bender?

Sven

i thought sam was using that as a nickname for someone, lol

I bought him at the start of the game for 6.75m to sure up my midfield post-Cesc, p good- not amazing tho. Tried to get Mascherano this summer but couldn't agree terms (because fuck agents.) and then Barca changed their mind and took him off the TL.

lol kerr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borussia_Dortmund#First-team_squad

i'll tell you who is really good. Thiago of Barca. he was great when i was there. if he becomes available i'll maybe go for him.

everyone keep http://www.fmscout.com/c-files12.html bookmarked

this http://www.fmscout.com/a-football-manager-2012-wonderkids.html list looks pretty accurate. The ones with gold stars all have great stats.

best young keeper ive come across is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thibaut_Courtois signed him for barca. When reina is past it i will try sign him for liverpool.

signed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mateo_Musacchio for barca too. He's a great prospect.

how is wellington silva doing for you?