Gaming Football Manager 2015

Got the full game for Christmas and starting with a United save as always, can't decide who to sign though... My FM tactics for United over the years have nearly always focused on wingers but on the demo this year I could only manage to win a game by playing a midfield diamond (doesn't help that direct passing now seems to translate to 'give the ball away'), so I'm torn between Verratti+DM or Reus+Depay. Or I might just sign a load of youngsters and wait for Strootman to get fit.

I signed Verratti and Cuadrado in the 1st season and both are both excellent.
 
Cheers greg, not fussed with facepacks but I'll get the rest.

The first step is admitting the problem Earthquake :smirk:
 
I prefer getting the kits as one lump, tbh.

The hairpacks are worth it too, especially with the shoulders, makes the regens look much, much better.
 
I prefer getting the kits as one lump, tbh.

The hairpacks are worth it too, especially with the shoulders, makes the regens look much, much better.
Did you download that one? Or have you got kits from elsewhere?
 
Actually, I'm only downloading it now, up to this point I'd been using last years megapack. The kits weren't as much a priority for me as the hair, logos, and facepacks.
 
I prefer getting the kits as one lump, tbh.

The hairpacks are worth it too, especially with the shoulders, makes the regens look much, much better.

i'll have a look at that now, cheers.

only in the first few months with united... not enjoying it without the european cup. hoping for a good run in the league cup just for rotation ffs. david f**king moyes.
 
Where do you place everything? Could you write out a path for me? Not done these in ages and looking at the details, this year seems a little different to 14 & 13.

after extracting from the rar/zip, everything goes in the /graphics folder of the sports interactive/football manager 2015 folder in your documents.

you might have to create the /graphics folder though.

then under preferences > interface preferences in FM, tick "reload skin when confirming changes in preferences" and untick "use caching to decrease page loading times."
 
Got my graphics folder, so I don't need to create sub folders such as 'kits' etc?
 
Where do you place everything? Could you write out a path for me? Not done these in ages and looking at the details, this year seems a little different to 14 & 13.
Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2015/graphics/kitpack(or facepack or whatever)
i'll have a look at that now, cheers.

only in the first few months with united... not enjoying it without the european cup. hoping for a good run in the league cup just for rotation ffs. david f**king moyes.

If you're going for the hairpacks, I'd suggest downloading OLT's first(with the shoulders), the debksi's, including OLT style shoulders and the added part to overwrite the default ones(this will both neaten up the default hairs, but add the shoulders to them too.

That'll give you the best variety of hair/faces.
 
Ok, thanks guys.

Earthquake have you got the links of the stuff you used? Want to have a look at a few before seeing which I download for myself.
 
Just lost 2-0 against Stoke. Who scores a brace against me? Diouf of course.

So my 4 losses this season are against. Stoke (0-2), Burnley (0-1), Arsenal (0-1) and Hull (0-1). In all defeats I dominated the game and against Stoke and Burnley I even tried to sit deeper and play more patient but it doesn't matter. Seems as once the game decides it's time for you to lose you will lose no matter what approach you chose. It's also quite curious that whenever I have such a defeat those teams that are directly behind me seem to suffer a similar defeat as well. I lost against Stoke, Chelsea lost against West Ham and Arsenal against Everton all in games they dominated. So at least it's not only a thing that happens to player controlled teams but to every big team it seems.

Now on to play City in the CL quarter final, hope I can beat them as convincingly as I did in both league games this season.
 
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There has to be that odd knock to form I guess. Like us and Villa the other day.

Crewe news, leading the league by 3 points into January, with a game in hand.

Dilemma time, I did in the end drop my squad to the desired 14/8 English ratio, after selling Alfred Duncan, but Jason Steele is a bit average despite high attributes, and chokes in the big games. Jeronimo Rulli is leaving Soceidad on a free, interested, and afforable. It would surely be madness not to?

Clubs are eyeing Léo, so he's likely to leave this window anyway, leaving a free foreign slot too, if I replace him with Welbeck, or some Brit regen or something.

Also....
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There has to be that odd knock to form I guess. Like us and Villa the other day.

Crewe news, leading the league by 3 points into January, with a game in hand.

Dilemma time, I did in the end drop my squad to the desired 14/8 English ratio, after selling Alfred Duncan, but Jason Steele is a bit average despite high attributes, and chokes in the big games. Jeronimo Rulli is leaving Soceidad on a free, interested, and afforable. It would surely be madness not to?

Clubs are eyeing Léo, so he's likely to leave this window anyway, leaving a free foreign slot too, if I replace him with Welbeck, or some Brit regen or something.

Also....
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Yeah I guess so. I also had to rotate a lot but it's just infuriating if you try everything to prevent these games and they still happen. I guess I'm just not going to bother anymore and accept those losses as inavitable.

That newgen looks insane. :eek:

16 and already the best right FB in the world? :lol:
 
Yeah I guess so. I also had to rotate a lot but it's just infuriating if you try everything to prevent these games and they still happen. I guess I'm just not going to bother anymore and accept those losses as inavitable.

That newgen looks insane. :eek:

16 and already the best right FB in the world? :lol:
Whats insane is they just sold him to me for 4.5m, though I'll have to wait to get him.

I wanted Patrick Roberts, but Fulham are talking 30-40m for a 20 year old, ffs.
So I get Barca in the CL semi-final while Chelsea will have to play Real in the other semi-final. Will be interesting to see how my lads will handle the trio of Neymar, Messi and Suarez.
Win that CL and you'll have earned it, no doubt.
 
Whats insane is they just sold him to me for 4.5m, though I'll have to wait to get him.

I wanted Patrick Roberts, but Fulham are talking 30-40m for a 20 year old, ffs.

Win that CL and you'll have earned it, no doubt.

What an absolute steal. Be glad he came from the Turkish league. If you would have found him at some club in Spain, England, Germany or Italy he probably easily would have cost 4 times of what you payed.
 
So I lost my first leg against Barca 1-2. Not too unhappy with the result as I got the vital away goal. Still we should have gotten more out of that game but unfortunately Rooney had a nightmare performance and finished the game with a 5.9 rating as he squandered a lot of good chances. Hope he is back to his old self in the second leg.
 
Missed out on Champions league with Southampton, last game of the season vs Chelsea for 4th :(
 
FFS de Gea and Jones blew it. Jones scored and own goal and de Gea played a ball directly to Suarez who than had no problems hitting the open goal. I still won 3-2 but Barca is going through on away goals. Scored the 4-2 in the 88. minute and was already yelling "TAKE THAT!!!" when the offside notification popped up. :mad: :(

Well that still leaves me with the league and FA-Cup as possible trophies.

Edit: Feck and now Chelsea have made it to the final. I can already see those feckers going to win it again. I really need to batter them in the Cup final if they have a chance of winning the CL now and I better not slip up in the league anymore as they are only 4 points behind me. All that with 2 games now in 3 days is not going to be an easy task.
 
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Also....
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What the...

I don't know what's worse. That a 16-year-old can have stats like that or that the most technically and physically gifted youngster of all time gets played as a right back all his life.
 
What the...

I don't know what's worse. That a 16-year-old can have stats like that or that the most technically and physically gifted youngster of all time gets played as a right back all his life.
Unless I convert him, be a shame to miss out on that pace on the wing, but he could easily become a DM, or even a CM.

With 20 long shots, I could make him a CMa, and ask him to shoot from distance.
 
Well, it's one thing if you convert him, but what about all the coaches up until this point who have looked at that beast of a kid and thought "Yep. There's a right back if I ever saw one."
 
:lol:

In other news I defended my league title with a last minute (94.) goal from Wilson against Nottingham Forest. Until that winner it looked like one of those typcial games where I wouldn't be able to win despite total domination on my part. Especially considering that another one of my players scored an own goal in an important game, Blind this time and Rooney again blew every fecking chance he got. Rooney has really picked an awful part of the season to have a massive dip in form.

Unfortunately I lost Rafael, Evans and Mata all for the rest of the season but I guess that was the fixture congestion taking it's toll despite me rotating like mad.
 
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Léo is gone, sigh. Just added a few PPM's to him that had made him ridiculous. 36m to Man Utd, 16 up front, 20 over 12 months, and 20% of next transfer, tidy numbers.

Need to find a replacement. I'd go English, but I can't think of a playmaking striker besides Rooney.
 
Januzaj is impossible to keep fit, though. He had a bit of a moan about a lack of playing time, but I can never get him match fit because he keeps picking up knocks every time he's getting to the point where I can even consider him for the matchday squad.

If he wasn't homegrown I'd probably sell him and buy Kovacic or James or something.
 
How's Harry Kane and Jay Rodriguez in your game? Isaiah Brown seems decent as well.