Just set transfers to "reject all offers", they want a player, they'll have to activate his release. Obviously, some players might get in a huff about rejected bids, but that'll happen anyway so feck'em.
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Started a save as United last night, Offered Valencia out (valued at £20 Million) for about 12-15 Million and the best offer I got for him was £3 Million, non-negotiable 
I mean WTF
I mean WTF
Started a save as United last night, Offered Valencia out (valued at £20 Million) for about 12-15 Million and the best offer I got for him was £3 Million, non-negotiable
I mean WTF
Valencia is quite a good back up to have at RB or even RW.
What I have noticed though is that it helps playing them a bit before trying to sell them.
Did you offer him out early on in the window?Started a save as United last night, Offered Valencia out (valued at £20 Million) for about 12-15 Million and the best offer I got for him was £3 Million, non-negotiable
I mean WTF
First day on the job.
Wait till the window officially starts, should work then.
As Akash said though, unless you're signing a rb, he's quite good there.
DM now I kept him, its mid October now.
Valencia is decent anyway, keep him for a season as 2nd RB where his pace and strength will do well, then some team will likely chuck 15m or so at him. Even seen him go to Real Madrid...
He keeps on asking to leave in my save and I keep on telling him that his experience is useful. Ends up saying sorry to me everytime
I have a lad asking me for a new contract once a month "feck off, ages on your deal yet", "Cheers boss", month later, "money, money, money" "feck off" "cheers boss".
2nd week of the month, every month, without fail.
Does anybody else have a united board who refuse to negotiate on their 100k a week contract offer? This is my second renewal and its still take it or leave it.
Seems legit
But not as legit as Mourinho still managing Chelsea and Benitez still managing Real Madrid in 2022. David Moyes is currently gracing Atletico Madrid with his presence, after a 5-year spell at AC Milan.
Superb. I've done this for my whole squad and a number of my promising youngsters in the U19s. Saves time having to respond to bids and remove all the clauses and respond with the clause fee as non-negotiable.
I rejected a bid from Chelsea for one of my youngsters, and they're now getting revenge by picking apart my backroom staff. They've offered contracts to two of my coaches, a scout and my chief scout. I've asked all of them to stay, and they get proper arsey. "Thanks, but I'm capable of making my own decision" they all say. Prissy little cnuts.
If Chelsea pull this off, I'm opening up the live editor and putting them in administration. Wankers.
Had (what I thought) was a pretty decent save going last week. Was playing as United on the full version which I don't often do and I was struggling to find a working tactic. 4th place in the first season after getting some semblance of a run going with a 4-2-2-2 formation.
Got to about Feb in season two and I was around 7/8th place when I got the dreaded "Impress us next match or you're a goner" from the board. Turned out to be Soton away in the league. Was going well, team responded brilliantly to me pumping them up before the game and went 2-0 in the first 15 minutes. Disaster then struck as Smalling was sent off and I ended up getting beaten 4-2
Took me ages to find a new job then and after months and months of nothing I received a few interviews. One from Championship based Middlesbrough and also Bilbao. TBH I was excited about taking on Bilbao and careful selected my answers and to my delight they offered me the job. Which I then duly accepted.
I have no idea why but the first thing I wanted to do is check that they hadn't sold guys like Laporte or Munain so I rushed to my squad page to track them down and to my horror I found neither of them. I checked transfer history to find no record of them ever being sold
It quickly dawned on me at that point that something was not right in Basque country and to my dismay I'd agreed to take charge of Bilbao's second team in the Adelante and not the full team
Never mind though, still considered it to be an interesting challenge so I got to work. After leaving United I had kept an eye on things after they appointed Ancelotti as my successor and I became interested in testing out the 4-1-2-1-2 formation, the narrow diamond. So the first thing I did when I became manager of Bilbao was to implement this system. My predicted finish was 12th place IIRC and I smashed that target pretty well considering I couldn't really buy anyone and now and then the real Bilbao would take my best players from me and promote them to the first team.
I quickly grew tired of conditions at Bilbao and decided to leave once the season had finished and look for something better. Now I'm left in a bit of a situation and don't really know what to do, I'm not getting any offers from anybody at all, not even interviews and it's been a year. I'm not sure whether to retire and start with a better rep or not...
Got to about Feb in season two and I was around 7/8th place when I got the dreaded "Impress us next match or you're a goner" from the board. Turned out to be Soton away in the league. Was going well, team responded brilliantly to me pumping them up before the game and went 2-0 in the first 15 minutes. Disaster then struck as Smalling was sent off and I ended up getting beaten 4-2
Took me ages to find a new job then and after months and months of nothing I received a few interviews. One from Championship based Middlesbrough and also Bilbao. TBH I was excited about taking on Bilbao and careful selected my answers and to my delight they offered me the job. Which I then duly accepted.
I have no idea why but the first thing I wanted to do is check that they hadn't sold guys like Laporte or Munain so I rushed to my squad page to track them down and to my horror I found neither of them. I checked transfer history to find no record of them ever being sold
It quickly dawned on me at that point that something was not right in Basque country and to my dismay I'd agreed to take charge of Bilbao's second team in the Adelante and not the full team
Never mind though, still considered it to be an interesting challenge so I got to work. After leaving United I had kept an eye on things after they appointed Ancelotti as my successor and I became interested in testing out the 4-1-2-1-2 formation, the narrow diamond. So the first thing I did when I became manager of Bilbao was to implement this system. My predicted finish was 12th place IIRC and I smashed that target pretty well considering I couldn't really buy anyone and now and then the real Bilbao would take my best players from me and promote them to the first team.
I quickly grew tired of conditions at Bilbao and decided to leave once the season had finished and look for something better. Now I'm left in a bit of a situation and don't really know what to do, I'm not getting any offers from anybody at all, not even interviews and it's been a year. I'm not sure whether to retire and start with a better rep or not...
Quite a ride thatHad (what I thought) was a pretty decent save going last week. Was playing as United on the full version which I don't often do and I was struggling to find a working tactic. 4th place in the first season after getting some semblance of a run going with a 4-2-2-2 formation.
Got to about Feb in season two and I was around 7/8th place when I got the dreaded "Impress us next match or you're a goner" from the board. Turned out to be Soton away in the league. Was going well, team responded brilliantly to me pumping them up before the game and went 2-0 in the first 15 minutes. Disaster then struck as Smalling was sent off and I ended up getting beaten 4-2
Took me ages to find a new job then and after months and months of nothing I received a few interviews. One from Championship based Middlesbrough and also Bilbao. TBH I was excited about taking on Bilbao and careful selected my answers and to my delight they offered me the job. Which I then duly accepted.
I have no idea why but the first thing I wanted to do is check that they hadn't sold guys like Laporte or Munain so I rushed to my squad page to track them down and to my horror I found neither of them. I checked transfer history to find no record of them ever being sold
It quickly dawned on me at that point that something was not right in Basque country and to my dismay I'd agreed to take charge of Bilbao's second team in the Adelante and not the full team
Never mind though, still considered it to be an interesting challenge so I got to work. After leaving United I had kept an eye on things after they appointed Ancelotti as my successor and I became interested in testing out the 4-1-2-1-2 formation, the narrow diamond. So the first thing I did when I became manager of Bilbao was to implement this system. My predicted finish was 12th place IIRC and I smashed that target pretty well considering I couldn't really buy anyone and now and then the real Bilbao would take my best players from me and promote them to the first team.
I quickly grew tired of conditions at Bilbao and decided to leave once the season had finished and look for something better. Now I'm left in a bit of a situation and don't really know what to do, I'm not getting any offers from anybody at all, not even interviews and it's been a year. I'm not sure whether to retire and start with a better rep or not...
If you aren't getting offers, no choice but to fire up a new game with a high rep.
I assume you have been applying for jobs in the lower divisions? The 4222 (with inside forwards) does work by the way. Im finishing my second season with United with it. I cheated in that i copied a tactic off some site but it needed tweaking. The main gist of it is super narrow, direct passing, fastest tempo and high closing down. Slightly high line. All mids and attackers on support (1 cm as adv pm and 1 cm deep lying) and attacking full backs. The occasional game i do need to drop a striker for a ball winner, especially tough away games. Oh, and always counter mentality. Never change that unless you have to overload in the final minutes and push a cb forward. Thats what won me the champions league when i equalised with the last kick in 90 mins.Had (what I thought) was a pretty decent save going last week. Was playing as United on the full version which I don't often do and I was struggling to find a working tactic. 4th place in the first season after getting some semblance of a run going with a 4-2-2-2 formation.
Got to about Feb in season two and I was around 7/8th place when I got the dreaded "Impress us next match or you're a goner" from the board. Turned out to be Soton away in the league. Was going well, team responded brilliantly to me pumping them up before the game and went 2-0 in the first 15 minutes. Disaster then struck as Smalling was sent off and I ended up getting beaten 4-2
Took me ages to find a new job then and after months and months of nothing I received a few interviews. One from Championship based Middlesbrough and also Bilbao. TBH I was excited about taking on Bilbao and careful selected my answers and to my delight they offered me the job. Which I then duly accepted.
I have no idea why but the first thing I wanted to do is check that they hadn't sold guys like Laporte or Munain so I rushed to my squad page to track them down and to my horror I found neither of them. I checked transfer history to find no record of them ever being sold
It quickly dawned on me at that point that something was not right in Basque country and to my dismay I'd agreed to take charge of Bilbao's second team in the Adelante and not the full team
Never mind though, still considered it to be an interesting challenge so I got to work. After leaving United I had kept an eye on things after they appointed Ancelotti as my successor and I became interested in testing out the 4-1-2-1-2 formation, the narrow diamond. So the first thing I did when I became manager of Bilbao was to implement this system. My predicted finish was 12th place IIRC and I smashed that target pretty well considering I couldn't really buy anyone and now and then the real Bilbao would take my best players from me and promote them to the first team.
I quickly grew tired of conditions at Bilbao and decided to leave once the season had finished and look for something better. Now I'm left in a bit of a situation and don't really know what to do, I'm not getting any offers from anybody at all, not even interviews and it's been a year. I'm not sure whether to retire and start with a better rep or not...
Spent two years of a save at Barca B once, obviously easier with their reserves, but I smashed the 3rd(where they had been relegated to before I joined) and then the Adelante. Ended up doing well enough to get an offer from Espanyol in La Liga. Went there and took Alex Grimaldo, Dani Suarez and Rafinha with me.Had (what I thought) was a pretty decent save going last week. Was playing as United on the full version which I don't often do and I was struggling to find a working tactic. 4th place in the first season after getting some semblance of a run going with a 4-2-2-2 formation.
Got to about Feb in season two and I was around 7/8th place when I got the dreaded "Impress us next match or you're a goner" from the board. Turned out to be Soton away in the league. Was going well, team responded brilliantly to me pumping them up before the game and went 2-0 in the first 15 minutes. Disaster then struck as Smalling was sent off and I ended up getting beaten 4-2
Took me ages to find a new job then and after months and months of nothing I received a few interviews. One from Championship based Middlesbrough and also Bilbao. TBH I was excited about taking on Bilbao and careful selected my answers and to my delight they offered me the job. Which I then duly accepted.
I have no idea why but the first thing I wanted to do is check that they hadn't sold guys like Laporte or Munain so I rushed to my squad page to track them down and to my horror I found neither of them. I checked transfer history to find no record of them ever being sold
It quickly dawned on me at that point that something was not right in Basque country and to my dismay I'd agreed to take charge of Bilbao's second team in the Adelante and not the full team
Never mind though, still considered it to be an interesting challenge so I got to work. After leaving United I had kept an eye on things after they appointed Ancelotti as my successor and I became interested in testing out the 4-1-2-1-2 formation, the narrow diamond. So the first thing I did when I became manager of Bilbao was to implement this system. My predicted finish was 12th place IIRC and I smashed that target pretty well considering I couldn't really buy anyone and now and then the real Bilbao would take my best players from me and promote them to the first team.
I quickly grew tired of conditions at Bilbao and decided to leave once the season had finished and look for something better. Now I'm left in a bit of a situation and don't really know what to do, I'm not getting any offers from anybody at all, not even interviews and it's been a year. I'm not sure whether to retire and start with a better rep or not...
I managed to bring Juan Mata home in my Oviedo save. Nabbed him on loan from United as the newly appointed Ryan Giggs (who has United in 17th place in January) doesn't play him. They're even paying half his wages. Idiots.
The fans are absolutely ecstatic. Juan is equally chuffed to be home, and he's already back in the Spain team, which he was constantly omitted from since he wasn't playing. I've made him captain, and I play him in central midfield, where my assistant manager and the game itself continuously tells me that he is totally ineffective there. feck you, game. Juan is bossing it, playing my grotesque, leg-breaking direct football. 5 games in to the loan (with 5 assists to his name!), he got a straight red for a late cruncher. Very out of character, but he's adapted quickly. One of us! One of us!
I didn't even warn or fine him. Covered for him to the media. He'll be back in the side as soon as the ban is up. Opposing managers keep crying to the media that my style of football is probably going to get me sacked, but the board keep telling me I'm untouchable. Quite rightly. I'm 3rd in the league behind Madrid and Sevilla. Barca are 10th, Atletico are 12th. Both are shit for some reason.
Ugly counter attacking football is far too overpowered.
The fans are absolutely ecstatic. Juan is equally chuffed to be home, and he's already back in the Spain team, which he was constantly omitted from since he wasn't playing. I've made him captain, and I play him in central midfield, where my assistant manager and the game itself continuously tells me that he is totally ineffective there. feck you, game. Juan is bossing it, playing my grotesque, leg-breaking direct football. 5 games in to the loan (with 5 assists to his name!), he got a straight red for a late cruncher. Very out of character, but he's adapted quickly. One of us! One of us!
I didn't even warn or fine him. Covered for him to the media. He'll be back in the side as soon as the ban is up. Opposing managers keep crying to the media that my style of football is probably going to get me sacked, but the board keep telling me I'm untouchable. Quite rightly. I'm 3rd in the league behind Madrid and Sevilla. Barca are 10th, Atletico are 12th. Both are shit for some reason.
Ugly counter attacking football is far too overpowered.
I don't think you can fine loaned players, can you?
I didn't actually realise that. I didn't even look into it. It's Juan. The man of the people. Oviedo's people. The town would burn me alive and catapult me into the sea. Is Oviedo near the sea? I don't know.
How could you give that face a bollocking?
He's incredibly effective in this game. I can play him in positions he's supposedly not comfortable in, and his traits not only do a job, but he's consistently my best performer. I've had him in defensive midfield and even centre forward, and he's great. Dunno why Giggs wasn't giving him a game, the daft shite. Hope I can get him to sign permanently in the summer.
Yeah I'm surprised so many sold Mata in this. He's amazing for my Utd team. Borders on an 8 average every season.
My Utd after 3 seasons are already too good, though, and all I've done is spend big money on teenagers, except for Pogba, who is outrageously good tbf (26 goals last season). He bangs them in from 30 yards constantly. Helped me beat Barca, PSG and Real on the way to the CL final where he scored 2 30 yarders against Juve.
As usual the other teams AI is awful and they're already getting crap. Barca and Real spend most of their summer trying to buy my players and end up with none.
Might already be time for a new challenge.
My Utd after 3 seasons are already too good, though, and all I've done is spend big money on teenagers, except for Pogba, who is outrageously good tbf (26 goals last season). He bangs them in from 30 yards constantly. Helped me beat Barca, PSG and Real on the way to the CL final where he scored 2 30 yarders against Juve.
As usual the other teams AI is awful and they're already getting crap. Barca and Real spend most of their summer trying to buy my players and end up with none.
Might already be time for a new challenge.
It's a shame he was only on loan, probably deserved a rise.I didn't actually realise that. I didn't even look into it. It's Juan. The man of the people. Oviedo's people. The town would burn me alive and catapult me into the sea. Is Oviedo near the sea? I don't know.
How could you give that face a bollocking?
He's incredibly effective in this game. I can play him in positions he's supposedly not comfortable in, and his traits not only do a job, but he's consistently my best performer. I've had him in defensive midfield and even centre forward, and he's great. Dunno why Giggs wasn't giving him a game, the daft shite. Hope I can get him to sign permanently in the summer.
I only sold him when I was managing Man Utd because he was 29 and Barca offered me like 50 or 60 million.
Never really been offered anything for Mata, funnily.
Barca and Deal regularly try get the likes of Embolo and Martial off me for 60m+ though and considering my budget is 200m+ I always say no, and they end up not really signing anyone.
It's a pretty shit FM though, I mean they haven't fixed any of the fundamental problems of the game at all. Poor match system, terrible AI, weird transfers and wages etc. Shame there's nothing on the market to challenge it cause I suspect nothing will change with FM17.
I sold Mata as he was 29 and I had a few youngsters coming through that needed his minutes. I looked like a mad man selling him to be replaced with Meyer, Lincoln and Gribbin. Two years later and I'm a genuis, Meyer left for £40m meaning I made almost £100m selling him and Mata. Lincoln was signed for £1.6m and Gribbin came through the academy they are two of my best players. Gribbin is really kicking on now, he just needs to sort his consistency out apparently, which I dunno how to do in this one. I've never seen anyone have the coaches say they need to be more consistent and them actually become more consistent.
Borussia Dortmund have become the bane of my existence in it. Every single time I try to sell a big name player for big bucks, there they are offering me half of what I asked for. "He's worth £53m and you've asked for £60m? We will offer you £30m." Assholes.
Borussia Dortmund have become the bane of my existence in it. Every single time I try to sell a big name player for big bucks, there they are offering me half of what I asked for. "He's worth £53m and you've asked for £60m? We will offer you £30m." Assholes.
I bought a 20 year old Gribbin off Man Utd in my current save for 13m. Reckon it's daylight robbery.
Is he any good in the game?
I could desperately do with some good players coming through my academy to help with the quota.
Very good, quick, creative, technically gifted and killer with free kicks and handy with corners. Also, can play anywhere from MR/L/C forward, I even played him as a striker a few times.
One weakness is Off The Ball, but if you're developing him yourself, that's easy to tackle early on.
My coaches only rate him two and half stars unfortunately. Better to send him out on loan I'm guessing?
If he's a player I have plans for, I prefer not to loan them. Also, you gotta remember your squad standard with star ratings, if you've all the best in the world, there aren't many players going to be 4* or more.
Here's how he looks in mine. Don't mind the daft club name, it's one I made myself in the editor, couldn't think of anything better....
How did you manage to get his consistency to improve? On mine he is the same age and actually a lot better than that. He was only rated at 3 stars for ages too, now he has 4 star potential. I had Felipe Anderson tutor him which got his determination up to 18 and changed his attitude to professional, since then his stats have improved quickly and significantly. His passing, dribbling, freekicks, first touch, technique and vision are all 17 at least. His pace and acceleration are 15/16. He rarely gets rated less than 7.60 per match.
I actually thought he was never going to make it as he was constantly injured for the first 2 years of the game and barely got to play at all.
I actually thought he was never going to make it as he was constantly injured for the first 2 years of the game and barely got to play at all.
It may still be shite. I only have him 4 months, so it could just be that the coaches haven't spotted it yet. Then again, he does play very well.
He always plays well for me too, but the coaches still say it.
Felipe Anderson has either started or come on as a sub 8 matches in a row. Neymar played the full 90 against Arsenal so he was left on the bench, there he is demanding to be sold because of a lack of first team opportunities. I tell him I'll bring him on a sub, he says no, I say ok I'll sell you then if you're not happy. He apologised and left. Weird dude.
Felipe Anderson has either started or come on as a sub 8 matches in a row. Neymar played the full 90 against Arsenal so he was left on the bench, there he is demanding to be sold because of a lack of first team opportunities. I tell him I'll bring him on a sub, he says no, I say ok I'll sell you then if you're not happy. He apologised and left. Weird dude.
Well final 3 games of the season. Last league game away to west ham needing a win to secure the title. City play at home to bottom of the league and they are only a point behind me so im quite nervous for this game and expecting a tight match. Then the FA cup against Stoke, should be easy. Then a champions league final at the Millennium Stadium against Barca . Kane and Memphis both injured. Wish me luck!
Edit: Won them all. 5-2, 2-1 and 1-0. Messi injured and Neymar starting on 74% fitness helped. Still only being offered a fecking 1 year contract after winning the champs and league double in my first season and then the bloody quadruple in my 2nd. Bizarre.
. Kane and Memphis both injured. Wish me luck!Edit: Won them all. 5-2, 2-1 and 1-0. Messi injured and Neymar starting on 74% fitness helped. Still only being offered a fecking 1 year contract after winning the champs and league double in my first season and then the bloody quadruple in my 2nd. Bizarre.
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FFS. Playing as United. 3rd season, not pulled up any trees (stunned I've not been sacked actually). Sold Memphis because he was awful. He scores a hattrick against me, on his debut, for fecking Leicester.
feck this game!
feck this game!
He's a wonderkid in your game? Got lucky with the DB, he's good in my save but far from wonderkid levels.
I noticed yesterday that Martial, despite being 21 years old, is now rated just 2.5 stars in my team. I did sign Pogba so that may be part of it.
When you're watching a player report you can view his star ratings compared to different positions on the pitch. Martial's star rating should not be changed much since he doesn't play in the same position as Pogba.
Also sometimes the default position shown in your scout report is not the same as the one you actually play him in.
Also depends on the staff doing this report. He needs to have high stats for JCA and JPA