Is it just me or is Rooney absolutely shit in every version of FM? Every version of the game I've had he's not scored, not contributed, not performed, sulked, wanted a transfer or just been downright crap. I think the most I've got him to score is 15.
Gaming Football Manager 2015
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Is it just me or is Rooney absolutely shit in every version of FM? Every version of the game I've had he's not scored, not contributed, not performed, sulked, wanted a transfer or just been downright crap. I think the most I've got him to score is 15.
I was just coming in to complain about how atrociously shit Rooney is in this version. Like, properly bad. He has twenty appearances, six goals in my game (and three of those came in one match). Falcao has twelve in eighteen and RvP eight in nine.
I also just lost 2-1 at home to Stoke, who are in fifteenth, after going unbeaten for more than ten games. I see FM still has the old "it's about time you lost because you've won so much recently" algorithm. It's always done that - when you go on a decent streak of form it'll end in the most hilariously unrealistic and abrupt fashion because the game realises you're doing overly well.
I usually try sell Rooney pretty quickly, he's crap, causes a fuss and his wages are silly. I think I still had to pay him 80k after selling him because no club would pay close to what he wanted, fecker.
I recall RvP being pretty good in his first season for the entire 8 games he wasn't out injured for in the season. Falcao was a bit of a beast for me but I didn't pay up for him after, I just got Barbosa and Aboubakar instead for the same price.
I recall RvP being pretty good in his first season for the entire 8 games he wasn't out injured for in the season. Falcao was a bit of a beast for me but I didn't pay up for him after, I just got Barbosa and Aboubakar instead for the same price.
I always turn the first transfer window off, so I didn't have the option of selling him early, and I refuse to do major business in January. He'll be right out the door come the summer though, along with RvP. And I have no intention of paying up for Falcao even though he's been great.
I think RvP had 5 goals in 8 games for me in his first season, I managed to get £16m for him the next summer off Juve, and the fans went mental that I sold him.
Such a dumb, buggy game.
Such a dumb, buggy game.
Taking a break from my Man Utd save, team is ridiculously good.
- Falcao
- Rafael
- Shaw
- Hummels
- Jones
- Strootman
- Gundogan
- Pogba
- Falcao
- Cuadrado
- Di Maria
- Balanta
- Romero
- Odegaard
- Mata
- Januzaj
- RVP
- Wilson
If you were our manager and sold RvP this forum would go mental too.
Rooney's been good for me. Played 3 seasons so far and he's got over 20 goals each season and into double figures for assists too. Had to get rid of Van Persie when he started asking for a wage increase even though he was 33. He went back to Arsenal for £18 million. Wilson, Rooney and Fierro are my three strikers now and all almost guarantee a goal a game.
Rooney can be a good Trequartista or DLF, in my experience, but he declines so incredibly rapidly.
Just had this again. Was beating Burnley in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley 2-0, when in the 80th minute they pull one back -- "it's his first goal of the season!" -- and then two minutes later equalise -- "it's his first goal of the season!" -- and then five minutes after that they score the winner, after RvP has missed two open goals in between their second and third -- "he really should have scored that!". This match engine is the worst one I've played with, it's atrocious. It's my own fault for buying it before the February update, which is usually when I get them because it's only then that SI actually bother to fix all the fecking bugs and they become playable.
I don't tend to restart matches, but that one I did because it was just so utterly beyond stupid. Tom Heaton finished the match with a rating of 9.5. I'm enjoying the game so far, but moments like thta just make me want to uninstall the fecking thing.
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Won my 4th CL title in a row with Sampdoria. Also won the league for the third time. Declined many job interviews. Thinking about starting a new save. But United just stole my best young CB so maybe I knock them out of the CL again before I leave it.
De Gea just scored an own goal by catching the ball and then walking slowly backwards over the goal-line 
Do strikers ever score 1v1's in this, ever? I'm convinced they don't. It never happens. Barbosa (17 fin and composed) literally just rounded Courtois in my game and smashed it against the crossbar from six yards. Feck off.
Just got dicked 5-1 agg. in the CL with Roma against Bayern.
Bah.
Bah.
How many Falcao's do you want?
I wonder that too. I've also never had someone score from a direct freekick, either for me or against me.But you've seen plenty of indirect freekick goals being disallowed for offside or goals where someone hit's the post or crossbar from a free kick and another person taps it in.
I have had one. One. In about six years.
Italian reserve squads. Feck sake..... feck sake.
I get about 7-10 a season.
If I concede many more goals from near post headers from corners the lap top may end up out of the window. How the feck do I stop this from happening?!
You need to sign Depay or Lucas Ocampos, they both bang in about 4 or 5 a season for me.
How's your corner defence set up?
Fellaini might as well start each game with his name written in yellow I really need to work out a way of stopping him getting booked all the time.
I really need to work out a way of stopping him getting booked all the time.Bench himFellaini might as well start each game with his name written in yellow
Whatever the default settings are. Haven't touched it.
Can't you give him a warning if/when he gets a ban? If you warn a player about their conduct their aggression lowers a little iirc.Fellaini might as well start each game with his name written in yellow
Try switching to a zonal marking system, works much better.
Didn't know you could. Will give it a whirl, cheers.
Hope it helps!
Manchester United won the Premier League. I Won the Championship with Fulham and beat United 3-0 in the Fa Cup strangely enough.
Alright, new save game #3745 starting with MK Dons. Let's se how this goes.
It's ridiculous. I get bored playing a save for too long, but it feels pointless to start new ones all the time. Yet I love playing it. 
I know what you mean. I think i've started 3 separate United saves, then various ones for Liverpool, Barca, Leeds, MK Dons, TNS and I don't think any have gotten past the 3rd season before I just lose interest.Mild case of FM ADHD
Yep, I'm exactly the same. Keep trying to find something new enough that I'll stay interested, but it just doesn't work. I even tried to start a save the other day with every country in the 74 league megapack loaded, it got about 10% through creating the database in about an hour and a half so I gave up...
Mild case of FM ADHD
I think part of it is because I get success too quickly, and because i always end up buying the same players.
I'm hoping this time by the time I get to the big leagues, all the usual suspects will be unattainable.
Yep, definitely. I've tried buying different players though, but even that doesn't seem to help much. :/
That's the one thing. You want to play, but feck it's the same thing, the same wonderkids.....
In my current save, I'm trying to win the CL with Roma, but only using Italian players, for a change.
In my current save, I'm trying to win the CL with Roma, but only using Italian players, for a change.
Create a game with no real names, holiday for twenty years, voila. No one in the game is a real person so it's a clean slate.
In light of the Spurs game... here's Kane for me this season. Got rid of Rooney to Arsenal for 18.25m and stopped loaning Falcao.
Player awareness in this game is shockingly shite. It's probably just the 3D engine being unable to properly represent what it's trying to, but the number of times players just stand there whilst the ball dribbles past them, or miss a blatantly obvious pass to instead turn around and pass backwards, or run through treacle when chasing a cross or a through ball allowing all the defender to catch up and overtake them is ridiculous.