Gaming Football Manager 2014

Joemo said:
I was thinking that earlier.

Especially if Balanta goes to Barcelona, or West Ham (was linked with a £6m this week). Angel Correa going to Athletico too, there'd better be some brand spanking new South American wonderkids :(
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Jesus, Barcelona or West Ham, how will he choose?! :lol:

Quick googling, and their vice president said Juventus have made contact, but not West Ham, and if they did with the numbers the English media say, it'd be considered.
 
In 2026, and Moyes has just retired from management after a 13 year reign at United. He won;

4 league titles, 3 Champions' League titles, 4 Capital One Cups, and two Community shields as well as numerous Club World Championships etc.

Who knows, maybe we should have given him a chance after all? Although he didn't win his first Premiership until 2020, at which point the regens coming through at United were incredible.
 
Joemo said:
In 2026, and Moyes has just retired from management after a 13 year reign at United. He won;

4 league titles, 3 Champions' League titles, 4 Capital One Cups, and two Community shields as well as numerous Club World Championships etc.

Who knows, maybe we should have given him a chance after all? Although he didn't win his first Premiership until 2020, at which point the regens coming through at United were incredible.
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Most of my saves have him being sacked at the end of the first season finishing outside of champions league, with Liverpool winning the title, and then avb taking over and winning loads. Moyes always ends up at like Blackburn or something for me.
 
Earthquake said:
I'm unsure if 2015 is going to be a brilliant game for Man Utd, or awful. All the FM/muppet signing will already be here.
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But if Kroos doesn't leave Bayern he'll have one year left on his contract = cheap :devil: although I expect the transfer kitty to be small if in real life United do spend 100m+.

But no more 6m Balanta anymore :(
 
Mel_F said:
But if Kroos doesn't leave Bayern he'll have one year left on his contract = cheap :devil: although I expect the transfer kitty to be small if in real life United do spend 100m+.

But no more 6m Balanta anymore :(
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Depends on Madrid too, if they don't spaff another 80m on whoever, should be pretty easy to ship Rooney in their direction for 40-50m and hoover up all the wonderkids.
 
I won the fecking World Cup with Japan!

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But then my save went and corrupted so I had to restart from where I had and got dicked by Spain in the semi's upon replaying. :( Beat the cnuts 3-1 first time round aswell. Got sacked after losing to them (in the semi's, even though the Japanese FA's expectations were to 'be competitive in the group:confused:) Given up on that save though, got too pissed off with it after my save fecking me over like that. :lol:

Started a game in Mexico as Chivas, got bored and just wanted something different. We're expected to finish 5th in the league but we've been punching above our weight so far for sure. Hoping I can keep it up. Had a game in Mexico before though and the league system's a bit weird iirc, not got to that stage yet though. The usual's like Fierro/Marco Fabian/Jorge Enriquez are as great as ever :D. Erick Torres has been a bit shit though.

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Definitely going to have jinxed my unbeaten run by posting that. I'll lose my next game now.

edit: Yep. Went and fecking lost :lol: Was the cup though so I'm still unbeaten in the league.
 
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Don't you save before or after every game!?
 
Lay said:
Don't you save before or after every game!?
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Feck that, have an single file autosave every 6 months, my laptop's so turd it takes about 5 minutes to even save the game

Think I'm cursed with injuries on this game, don't even have players on any heavy training and all my physios are great but my first teamers always wanna pick up injuries still. Normally only like having a small squad but feck me it's a pain when 3 of your 4 centre backs are out.
 
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Santos J said:
Feck that, have an single file autosave every 6 months, my laptop's so turd it takes about 5 minutes to even save the game

Think I'm cursed with injuries on this game, don't even have players on any heavy training and all my physios are great but my first teamers always wanna pick up injuries still. Normally only like having a small squad but feck me it's a pain when 3 of your 4 centre backs are out.
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I think physios only determine how long a player will be out for.

Do you play a high energy tactic?

Also did you download a Japanese players pack? I want to manage them myself :D
 
Lay said:
I think physios only determine how long a player will be out for.

Do you play a high energy tactic?

Also did you download a Japanese players pack? I want to manage them myself :D
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I thought that at first, but I read that the better they are will speed recovery time etc, dunno though. :lol:

Yeah I do so that definitely doesn't help, works wonders for me though.

Aye, everything I got's from here: http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/downloads.php?do=file&id=8184

J League's good fun to manage in, especially at teams who already have some decent players in from oversees like Cerezo with Forlan etc. :D
 
Mexican league system is weird as feck. Played the first 17 games of the 'Opening Stage', won 15 and drew the other 2 so I finished top and now I'm in some sort of knockout stage for the opening stage along with 7 other teams. The 'closing stage' starts in January. Haven't a clue how it all works but I'm performing above all expectations so it's alright. :lol:

ffs 6 first teamers on international duty for the first leg of this quarter final
 
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Earthquake said:
Depends on Madrid too, if they don't spaff another 80m on whoever, should be pretty easy to ship Rooney in their direction for 40-50m and hoover up all the wonderkids.
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My finest save still remains the one where I sold Rooney to Barca for 50m.
 
Decided to do a quick few seasons in classic, taking a break from my current long slog saves.

Sassuolo, a team I wanted to do with ages, low expectations, Berardi(no doubt I'll have to sell him in a season :(), should be fun.
Started with a defensive variant of the Juve system, but didn't like it, so in pre season converted to a diamond.
Budget of 2m, and 5k wages, so I asked for more wages, they kicked that to 140k, and I ditched a lot of expensive loans.
Stretching, scraping, shuffling about, and offering vast majority of bids in instalments left me able to pick up,
Yann Sommer for 6m, best keeper who'd go to Sassuolo, maybe should have tried to find a loan keeper.
Angel Correa, 2.6m, though I had to pay his agent 2.4m, had to offer him double his asking wage, as Dortmund had a bid in. Repaid me with the fastest goal in Serie A history(20 seconds) in the first game of the season. 2-3 win away to Milan, too.
Jonathan Silva for 3m, dead happy here.
and Sotiris Kyrgiakos, handy free CB, as most of my defenders are wank.
 
Lost the league title to Chelsea on the final day, due to Southampton getting a penalty they shouldn't have gotten (against my team (United)). The FA was silent after my outburst in the Press conference. Kinda sucked, but hey, Rooney is now starting to really play well in his new CM position. Second season started a lot better now that the morale in the team is good again, so should have a good shot at winning it this year.
 
Holy shit this save is bonkers. Picked up Murru and Ekdal from Genoa in January for a few hundred k apiece, as their contracts were running down.
Got Vydra, Thorne and Javi Espinosa coming end of season on frees.

That's all well and good, but I'm third in the league in January. :lol: Feck knows how, could easily be 2nd too, was first for a while but the Juve machine hove into view and dominated all round. Sampdoria currently hold 2nd place, and are good value for it.

Also, AC Milan are ridiculous. Especially Balotelli, he's not even close to this good IRL, feck sake, only for his piss weak mental stats, he's better than Lewandowski....
 
@Earthquake Balotelli & El Shaarawy are so fecking overrated in game, knocked their PA's down a bit in the editor. Their original ones are high as feck.
 
Earthquake said:
Balotelli is insane FFS.....

Whatever happened to El Sharrawy anyway, seems like he completely disappeared the last year.....
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Aye he's incredible, feck knows why.

Dunno, was in shite form and then had a big injury I think. Was talk of him being loaned to Genoa before he got injured though so he must have been shit.
 
Santos J said:
Aye he's incredible, feck knows why.

Dunno, was in shite form and then had a big injury I think. Was talk of him being loaned to Genoa before he got injured though so he must have been shit.
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It's not even potential like everyone says IRL, he's just way overpowered.

Damn, wasn't he even in the national team 2 years ago?
 
I decided to do a save where I would spend 2 years at a club, resign and then take the best offer. Spent first two at Bayern, so that I could have a decent enough reputation to get other jobs. Won 2 leagues and a Champions League. Once I resigned, the Fiorentina manager took over for me and since they just won the league, I chose them over Spurs.

Then I went crazy. I cleared out tons of dead weight, sold Gomez, Rossi and Valero and then bought a ton of players. Started by signing Matic, Dzeko, Coentrao, Chicharito and Ter Stegen. From the money I made selling, I then bought Di Maria, Dede, Batshuayi and Zivkovic. Then at the deadline a few players got transfer listed unexpectedly and by using a bunch of delayed payments, I bought Rooney, Cabaye, Pirlo, Scheletto, and Imbula.

So now my entire team is practically new and despite all my efforts on team cohesion, we are really struggling. And my Champions League group is Bayern, Monaco and Man City.
 
Finished 2nd, given a massive 25m budget, which I upgraded past 30m with season expectations.

Welcome to the club Peruzzi and Balanta. :lol:

Also, Juve put a 0 bid in for Berardi, so I got him fully under contract, for nothing. :lol:
 
Anyone else tried playing as Santander? A challenge on par with Yeovil. Start off with 40m euro net debt. Just had my wage budget cut and am now 280k/year over

Top of Segunda b3 though
 
Earthquake said:
Finished 2nd, given a massive 25m budget, which I upgraded past 30m with season expectations.

Welcome to the club Peruzzi and Balanta. :lol:

Also, Juve put a 0 bid in for Berardi, so I got him fully under contract, for nothing. :lol:
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I propose a challenge for you. Not allowed to sign Balanta ;)
 
Have any of you guy's done the online head to head matches? It might be a laugh to sort out a world cup style tournament with some of your best saves. See who has the best team ;)
 
Flying Fox said:
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...wut?:confused::confused:
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They are the club that refused to play in the Copa del rey quarter final last year as they hadn't been paid for months. They also had some players breaking into the training ground just so they had some where to sleep.
 
cj_sparky said:
They are the club that refused to play in the Copa del rey quarter final last year as they hadn't been paid for months. They also had some players breaking into the training ground just so they had some where to sleep.
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The fact that my debt is still 37m with feck all income
 
Earthquake said:
Balotelli is insane FFS.....

Whatever happened to El Sharrawy anyway, seems like he completely disappeared the last year.....
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Aye, Balotelli is medieval. I tried to sign him after my first season and Milan wouldn't fecking budge.. I'm going back now when I'm done with my 2nd.
 
Adam-Utd said:
Have any of you guy's done the online head to head matches? It might be a laugh to sort out a world cup style tournament with some of your best saves. See who has the best team ;)
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Yeah, I played a few in 13 against someone on here(could've been SirAF, cant hardly remember) to see how it worked with a view to trying to get it started if it was any use. It was good craic but we never really bothered after that.
 
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