football manager 2012 (release date is 21st oct)

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?

oh cool http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm12-stadium-backgrounds.html has just been released

I sold him cheap to Bayern for the 50% sellon fee. Overloaded with attacking flair players and he has a shitty attitude.

Musacchio imo is exactly why I don't like those lists. Refuse to buy any wonderkids that won't potentially end up on an All Time Players list, as opposed to 'well if Baresi got injured, I guess he'd do alright' types. Baresi or gtfo.

Courtois is the guy Chelsea signed and loaned to Athleti, right?

i got him from chelsea yeah. He's #1 ahead of Valdes now at Barca. So im guessing i wont get him back

Musacchio is playing alongside pique. He might not be baresi but he's damn good for a cheap buy.

backgrounds

http://i41.tinypic.com/24xkoap.png
cool, huh?

not my pic btw. lol at the guys name though

i was gonna say, "Julio?"

another fucking year, another fucking fm game where print screen seems to not work for me.

I thought his name was Señor Squad for a second there

here is mine

http://i41.tinypic.com/15wlydh.jpg

im on a laptop so it took me ages to work out how to print screen when i got it last year.

So do I get this straight: do I need to install a shedload of add-ons and patches for this to become playable?

Why can't they include all this stuff and let you tick boxes? Idgi. I'd like to play the 2012 version but it's such a hassle to do all of this.

btw i use it as 'windowed' if that makes any difference

yeah to get the stuff we're discussing here you need add-ons but its dead easy to do. get them here http://www.fmscout.com/c-files12.html

if sam and i can do it so can you. its well worth it. im enjoying it even more. it just looks so much better. Why didnt anyone tell me before that there was an in game editor to do all this?

I know I can do it, I just think I can't be bothered. Is it so hard to release this game with all of this, or most of this, included? It's not like the game comes on 40 3.5" floppy's.

you really dont need add-ons. they are alright but dont in any way effect the game. unless you are kerr.

i hate backgrounds. they make the game slower and esp w/ ones like yours, the colours make it hard to see certain things.

repost for you G

here are the ones i got and say are essential Grab them all.

http://www.multiupload.com/3V5RWAGFQ7 d/l it really quickly via megaupload and about to install it

You don't need to search the internet any further. AT FMFormation we have the perfect solution for you. The always expanding FMF Exclusive logos contain more than 10,000 club, nation and competition logos from all around the globe to add the extra something in to your game.

Last Year our megapack had 4000 logos, this year it has 10,863 logos and we are still working.

How to Install
After the download just extract the file to the following file: "Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012"
Once you have done that go to your preferences tab and untick the ''Skin Cache'' box and tick the ''always reload skin'' box, then confirm.

create a graphics folder in "Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012" ie "Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012/graphics "
then extract to there then do the skin cache stuff and bingo.

2) real kits download both http://www.fmscout.com/c-kits12.html instructions on the page or copy them to
Win Vista/Windows 7: C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\graphics\kits\
Win 2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\graphics\kits\

if kits and graphics dont exist create them.

3) http://www.fmscout.com/i-1387-FM12-Susie-Real-Names-for-Clubs-Competitions-and-Awards-Fix---BETA.html

Extract the files and save them to this folder: Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\football manager 2012\data\db\1200\lnc (actually go in via program files/steam etc. its different to where the 1st 2 apps listed above.
follow the instructions on the page carefully. 1 & 2 before you get this one.

once you have them all

Run Football Manager 2012 and go to: Preferences > Display and Sound
Make sure that you tick the check box on the page called 'Always Reload Skin on Confirm' and un-tick then box saying 'Use Skin Cache'. Hit Confirm.
There should be a box that pops up saying 'loading image data for the new skin'. Once this is done your graphics should be working within the game.

easy! (it must be, i did it, and im computer illiterate)

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 31 October 2011 23:42 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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.

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker,

oh cool http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm12-stadium-backgrounds.html has just been released

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker,

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

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker,

yeah none of that is essential, it is just fm-nerd shit and you can ignore kerr.

Yeah, I've always played without extra kits/logos/player photos/backgrounds etc.

been reading this thread both with interest and a deep underlying fear that I am on the cusp of diving into this yet again and wasting three months of time... :-/

Kerr please, that's just not healthy anymore, it's overload

the pictures package that was 4gb that we spoke about earlier is great btw but id get the ones i posted above first

but honestly, theyre great! if you get them you wont regret it.

Sam theres other skins optimized for these backgrounds. Just not tried them yet. Game isnt any slower either

http://i43.tinypic.com/303ajk0.jpg

that looks horrible imo.

first four games of the season 3-1L v. Spurs, 5-0W v. Leicester, 3-3D which had to be save from going 3-1 down v. Pompy, 0-0 draw v. Newcastle.

Deserve to be fired if this continues.
Got the players and the tactics to suit them, they are just aren't listening to them.