football manager 2012 (release date is 21st oct)

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

like only feed him once every other day or something

How goes it on the Welsh coast, NV?

Wheels well and truly coming off the Villa project now. A shock 1-0 defeat in the league to Birmingham City had the fans up in arms, swiftly followed by a 3-0 capitulation to Schalke away in the Champs League, leaving us dangerously vulnerable to the dreaded head-to-head rule.

Gave the team a good tongue lashing both at half- and full-time, only for my star signing of the summer, Lucas Ocampos (who had been injured in pre-season and was making his full debut) to complain about it to the press. Told him where he could go in a fairly boisterous one-to-one meeting and he skipped the next training session. Back on the transfer list with ya.

Injury list is now looking totally absurd, including my main striker out till the end of the season.

And I've alienated my first-choice goalie as well. He disappeared halfway through last season for the Cup of Nations so I gave my 19 year old wonderkid a run in the side. Did so well that he's remained in the side ever since and now my proper first choice has handed in a transfer request and been banished to the reserves due to lack of playing time. Predictably the bottom has fallen out of the wee lad's form and my other guy won't even talk to me.

No money left to strengthen in Jan because my eyes were bigger than my bank balance and it's all gone on lovely little regens who are nowhere near ready for the big time. New tactics not sitting well with the lads at the moment.

I'm moaning but this is probably all motivated by the death drive that always kicks in when this game gets too easy, start roleplaying at the expence of trying to win games

i'm right at the beginning so i don't know yet, but my wage cap starts nearly maxed out and i've got a usable squad of about 16 players. looking to offload one particularly overpaid back-up at centre half and get some loans in, then i'm planning to go with an aggressive-ish 4-3-3 or 5-3-2 for more defensive games with a couple of swashbuckling wing backs and a stodgy-looking midfield 3 covering for them.

tbf all the board have asked is that i stay up first season, reckon that's eminently doable

Jack Wilshere's agent just asked for £4.3m in order for him to re-sign. Ta-ra hope he's happy at Chelsea.

Inside the Cult of 'Football Manager'

http://i.imgur.com/LX8EA06.jpg

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/11/football-manager-2017-review/

http://i.imgur.com/iwXRSo7.gif

Lmao

holy shit

any cunt moaning that FM is too real for them doesn't deserve to call themselves an FM player

now i just need to go and rob a post office so i can upgrade my computer

35% approval rating on Steam but I haven't come across any Brexit moaning in the reviews yet, most of the complaints are about the AI and the match engine

the 35% was from chinese people who were upset there was no chinese language version so they had websites troll SI boards and steam to make them change their mind (they did)

the game wasnt even out and they were giving it low ratings.

http://www.pcgamesn.com/football-manager-2017/fm17-chinese-localisation

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-10-31-football-manager-trashed-on-steam-by-angry-chinese-fans

http://www.pcinvasion.com/football-manager-2017-death-threat

i dunno man, games journalism, *shrug*

i read a bunch of reviews today and they were the standard complaints that i see every time there's a new FM: the game engine's broken, the AI cheats, too many injuries etc. i never buy FM until the price comes down, and by then it's always patched, but most of these complaints are just losers who don't want to put the work in. i didn't notice a bunch of angry Chinese gamers any more than i came across any butthurt Brexiteers tbh

because all the negative reviews were before the game was officially released forcing sega to agree to a chinese language version. There was thousands of bad reviews then.

25% off FM 2019, *finally*

here we go again

considering it