Gaming Football Manager 2016

Burrow said:
Ooh boy, I managed to qualify for the African Cup of Nations with Egypt, which apparently was the first time in their history!.
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Erm, bug?? They've won it 7 times, making them the most successful side in the competition's history!!
 
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Champions of the South African 2nd division with 2 games to spare :D Now for the semis in the South African Cup, and I'm on my merry way onto another continent!

Edit: Oh, I guess I'm off to the World Cup as soon as the season ends. This is honestly the longest, continious season I've ever played in FM.
 
Earthquake said:
Kind of a content aggregator/twitter-ish thing just for the FM community. I've stuck my nose in, and it seems quite good if you're into FM, it's only live with a day, though, so it should pick up quite a bit more yet.
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Yeah saw StatApp tweeting about it the other day, looked interesting. Plus Doc Benjy was botching about it and anything that pisses that dude off is fine by me.
 
My success in South Africa and with Egypt has certainly not gone unnoticed!

Whilst the board of my current club keeps texting me "You up? Whatta'bout that new contract?" and "We gave you two badges because you promised us a new contract!?", I've been called into 4 interviews. I might've applied for about 20 jobs, but atleast I'm getting interviews!

Granted, 3 of those were for semi-pro teams in the French 3rd division, but I even got an interview for a Greek premier division side! I'll be facing the greek giants PAOK, Olympiakos and.. ehm. If I get the job, that is. Which is not certain, as I was quite bullish in the interview. He asked me about the lack of experience, I said my standing in the game should outweigh experience. Which doesnt really make any sense.

Oh well, we've seen plenty of clubs being lured by my charm and guile. Why not the Greek? Lets wait and see.

Edit: As I was typing this, I was actually in an interview with a French team. I guess the poor director just sat there waiting for me to answer his question whilst I was typing away on my phone.
 
Knocked out in the World Cup semis with Egypt, after getting a player sent off in the 11th minute :( France won the game 2-0 with a brace from Martial, the bastard..

Still, amazing to get that far with lil' ol' Egypt :D

Edit: I forgot it was a playoff for 3rd place, and we beat Chile with a goal in the 120th minute :D :D God damn!
 
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Oh well, this ended up quite quiet.. :(

Anyways; Got out of South Africa right after the WC ended, as I had 15-17 offers. All of those were shite clubs though, and I basically chose the one with the highest tranfer budget.
Which is what plenty of the other ones did as well I reckon, as I got the job for Rehne in China! I figured the Chinese league would be a fun challenge with all that money to spend (£4m...) but alas. Not a single player wanted to join me, except a 18 year old colombian midfielder for a small fee and some African dude on a free transfer. Some sort of silly transfer rule made sure that I had to wait 6 months for any player to join me though, and I was already bored with the shite in China.

Not more than 42 days after I got the job, I started applying like a mad man for all available clubs. My rep is up to 2 and a half star, so you could say I'm a household name all over the world. Which is why I didnt really get any offers from anyone... they must think I'm way out of their league. I just want to get to any other league but the Chinese... :(

Luck would have it, I got an interview in Portugal! And gosh darn it, the mighty Sporting wants me! Cant be?!

Nop, Sporting B wanted me though. And I accepted, because it seems like it would be an easy job to get some wins and my Continental A license. One game in and I'm not really sure what to do. It's not possible to buy any players, and I cant get promoted. Motherfeckers.
 
Your updates :lol:

Nice job with Egypt.

I resigned from the Belgian 3rd div to move to fancy Singapore. Bloody hell, it sucks so far. Sucks bad.
 
My God, I cant figure how Warren Joyce dont go off on a rampage at some points in his career as Reservers manager.

First of all, buying players for Sporting B is a complete clusterfeck, as I dont actually have a transfer budget.
Second of all, I can only offer players contracts where their squad status will be "backup" or "youngster". With £500 max wages. Neither really encourages top players to join me, which is understandable as I'm just a reserve team manager.. However, I managed to fetch a few amazing youngsters who played in positions where I needed it most. What happens? Sporting, the motherfeckers as they are, ships them both out on loan about a week after I sign them.

They move a few of my great, in-form players up to the first team squad and dumps a bunch of pussies on my front door. What am I supposed to do with that garbage? I'm certainly not going to develop them. What do they think I am? A reservers manag...oh right.

Anyways, looking good in 2nd place after a great run. Hopefully I'll win the league, get my badge and feck off out of there. Or take charge of the main team as an interrim or something like that, that would be a cool FM-experience as I've never had that happen to me before. Heres hoping that the first team goes down the shitter.

Edit: There we go, they've loaned out every single player I brought into to the squad. A position has opened in the Portugese Premier League, and I'm tempted to apply for the job simply to knock Sporting off their fecking perch.
 
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Burrow said:
My God, I cant figure how Warren Joyce dont go off on a rampage at some points in his career as Reservers manager.

First of all, buying players for Sporting B is a complete clusterfeck, as I dont actually have a transfer budget.
Second of all, I can only offer players contracts where their squad status will be "backup" or "youngster". With £500 max wages. Neither really encourages top players to join me, which is understandable as I'm just a reserve team manager.. However, I managed to fetch a few amazing youngsters who played in positions where I needed it most. What happens? Sporting, the motherfeckers as they are, ships them both out on loan about a week after I sign them.

They move a few of my great, in-form players up to the first team squad and dumps a bunch of pussies on my front door. What am I supposed to do with that garbage? I'm certainly not going to develop them. What do they think I am? A reservers manag...oh right.

Anyways, looking good in 2nd place after a great run. Hopefully I'll win the league, get my badge and feck off out of there. Or take charge of the main team as an interrim or something like that, that would be a cool FM-experience as I've never had that happen to me before. Heres hoping that the first team goes down the shitter.

Edit: There we go, they've loaned out every single player I brought into to the squad. A position has opened in the Portugese Premier League, and I'm tempted to apply for the job simply to knock Sporting off their fecking perch.
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These write up are amazing. I have had a really fun time following your FM story/career. Also, you bring up a great point about the position of a reserves manager in real life. I can't help but think that these scenarios must occur in for Warren Joyce/Nicky Butt. Imagine about to play the title decider for the reserves league only to find out most of the stars are required for the FA cup tie and you have to play 4 first team players making their return from injuries.
 
Boris Derp has just started his second season with Santos FC, having got them promoted to the South African top division via the playoffs. He's also somehow managed to complete and hand in the paperwork for his National B licence - AND his handwriting was neat enough to be read and help him pass! The examiners must've been paid off with his new contract funds. He straight away applied, and was granted, approval for a National A so Boris is currently doing very well for himself. Surprisingly.
 
Away from all of these amazing adventures im reading most of you are experiencing, i have just completed my first season in the premier league with Watford (as a recap i left United after 3 succesfull seasons, took over newly relegated watford and instantly got them promoted again as well as winning the fa cup).

To start with we won the community shield against City :), then the Carling Cup against Chelsea, lost our final game of the season to surrender 4th place to Arsenal - which was a gutter, but all disapointment was soon forgotten after winning the Europa League against the Gunners themselves 3-1 after going 1-0 down.

My whole squad pretty much consisted of ex united players i brought with me. Rashford dominated the Prem in his first season, leading the goalscorers table for much of the season before he inevitably hit a dry patch and finished behind Kane (utd) and Beradi (spurs). He scored a hatrick in the europa cup final cementing himself in Watford history as a true fan favourite. I adored him, he adored Watford. His rise to stardom in real life recently somewhat felt normal given his incredible season with us, so it came as a real kick in the fecking teeth when the fecking cnut put in a transfer request after i rejected WEST BROM. Lucky bitches just got taken over by an oil tycoon.

So i shipped him off and signed Vietto instead to please the fans despite me being pretty sure he won't suit my style of play at all. I signed Callum Gribbin for £25m after having him on loan for 2 seasons, he's an amazing player. Im trying to convince Sampdoria to sell me their wonderkid defender but despite him handing in a transfer request I can't seem to get them below £49m, which my board is currently shitting themselves over as im getting pretty close to offering it anyway over 48 months :lol:.

My team consists of Me in goal, Oxford, a wonderkid DC from utd, a spanish wonderkid left back I signed for £25m too this summer, wilshere and Gribbin, Periera, Hallovic, Vietto and a wonderkid English striker who just returned from
Newcastle on loan after having an amazing season with them.

This season bring the Champions League. Shame none of my squad believe we can do anything in it or the league, believing last season was a fluke. The board pretty much says the same and almost sacked me last night because i moaned to the press about them not expanding the stadium despite it holding only 20k fans. No one in Europe wants to join me because im little old Watford :mad:. feckers won't even listen to the mountains of cash im prepared to give them. Oh well. Onwards and Upwards.

First game of the new season, only Real Madrid in the Super Cup!
 
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fanutd said:
These write up are amazing. I have had a really fun time following your FM story/career. Also, you bring up a great point about the position of a reserves manager in real life. I can't help but think that these scenarios must occur in for Warren Joyce/Nicky Butt. Imagine about to play the title decider for the reserves league only to find out most of the stars are required for the FA cup tie and you have to play 4 first team players making their return from injuries.
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Thanks for the kind words, makes the write ups even more fun for me! And tell me about it... poor guys.

No big update right now, but I'm just pissed off.

Ok, so I'm in the African Nations Cup (the real one) and just got knocked out in the semis. 3rd place playoff is at the exact date as my game for Sporting B against some shite in Portugal. I guess I did the Sporting game by Skype, as my damn Pharaoes failed to win a trophy for the first time during my reign. Idiots.

Still, while I was gone, Sporting more or less destroyed my great squad. I was currently top with a few players doing really well. Deadline day arrives while I'm in Africa and behold:

I get back to Sporting, and I'm missing 9 of my first XI players. 4 was promoted (yay for them, feckers that they are..), 2 loaned out to my rivals in Div2 for some reason and my 3 biggest stars were sold. What could I do about it? Not a damn thing. Not a new contract, not able to reject any requests or even add my opinion on the matter. Now to see how far I'll fall with the complete pile of shit they've left me. I'm without ANY fullbacks in the squad, and my only striker left is a 17 year old charity case.
 
Yeah, the update is out. Changelist as follows:

FOOTBALL MANAGER 16.3 - WINTER TRANSFER WINDOW UPDATE
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DATABASE
- Updated 'Winter Transfer Window' database included

STABILITY & PERFORMANCE
- Fixed crash on Linux when using multiple monitors
- Fixed rare crash during processing
- Fixed rare crash with Dutch league play-off match
- Fixed rare crash with Belgian European Play-off match

MATCH ENGINE
- Stop keepers punching the ball when making a save from a penalty
- Prevent a player from taking a throw in from behind the goal line
- Give more time at the end of the match when a team wins a competition
- Fixed missing commentary for competition win at the end of a shootout
- Fixed throw in issue which caused dead time

USER INTERFACE
- Fixed 'Potential' and 'Ability' filters showing incorrect players on Scouting page
- Fixed use of Match Analysis time bar during a match
- Fixed code showing in calendar when using Greek language
- Fixed rare issue where no conversation options presented when interacting with homesick player
- Fixed rare warning popup when interacting with player
- Fixed player faces sometimes appearing blue on Competition Stats panels after a match

COMPETITIONS & RULEGROUPS
- Fixed issue where user was not asked to name their Copa Sudamericana squad
- Fixed issues with removing players from the Disabled List in MLS
- Fixed incorrect generation of Under 19 teams in MLS
- Fixed rare instances of User not being able to participate in the MLS Superdraft
- Improved AI squad building and Designated Player signing in MLS
- Fixed issue where Yellow Cards in Brazillian leagues were incorrectly counted towards Brazilian Cup suspensions

TRANSFERS & CONTRACTS
- Fixed issue where some nations would start qualifying campaigns without a manager in place
- Fixed instance of sacked manager remaining in role
- Fixed instances of players not being removed from the transfer list after the player has requested to be removed
- Fixed instance of staff rejecting transfer offers for user's player despite not being instructed to do so
- Improved manager hirings in leagues that have been activated via the editor
- Improved the retention of goalkeepers by the AI throughout different squads
- Improved AI transfer & contract negotiations
- Fixed issue where Individual training for players returning from loan could be forgotten

TRAINING
- Improving effectiveness of Positional Training
- Fix for Allow Rest Before/After Match re-selecting itself
- Fix for Position/Role field returning blank

BOARD
- Improved long term board confidence to update club expectations
- Fixed issue where multiple ëBoard return feeder club verdictí news items were generated into the users inbox

STANDALONE EDITOR
- Fixed various crashes on specific Editor files
- Fixed specific instances of competitions not scheduling correctly in edit files
- Improved several error messages to be more helpful

IN GAME EDITOR
- Fixed issue with background kit not updating quickly enough to show the change when edited

NETWORK
- Fixed match score divergence between PC & Mac
- Fixed Must Respond timer issues
- Fixed Break Request issues

TOUCH MODE
- Fixed rare example of save game failing to load
- Fixed rare crash accessing in-match Tactics screen
- Fixed rare crash with Dutch league play-off match
- Fixed rare crash with Belgian European Play-off match
- Fixed rare crash with Italian Serie C playoff match
- Fixed Belgian Pro League fixtures not being scheduled in second season
- Fixed user being able to take control of Reserve teams
- Prevented job adverts for coaches and physios for national teams
- Removed age restrictions from Swiss Reserve Teams
- Ensured Austrian Premier Divisions enter into Reserve Competitions

VERSUS MODE
- Fixed issue where imported teams use incorrect badge

CREATE A CLUB
- Fixed reserve and youth teams not using the correct create a club kit colouurs
- Fixed issue where a created player could be cup tied indefinitely.

UNLOCKABLES
- Fixed issue where Design a Son could be applied when cancelling

LEADERBOARDS
- Fixed issue where Create a Club team names would be used instead of the userís club that earned the score

STEAM CONTROLLER
- Improvements to Steam controller functionality
 
Okay, you feckers have convinced me :lol:

Just loading up a save with ~40 shitty leagues loaded. Going to start one of those 'journeyman' careers, as I have never really ventured below league 2 before.

Wish me luck :D
 
Burrow said:
My God, I cant figure how Warren Joyce dont go off on a rampage at some points in his career as Reservers manager.

First of all, buying players for Sporting B is a complete clusterfeck, as I dont actually have a transfer budget.
Second of all, I can only offer players contracts where their squad status will be "backup" or "youngster". With £500 max wages. Neither really encourages top players to join me, which is understandable as I'm just a reserve team manager.. However, I managed to fetch a few amazing youngsters who played in positions where I needed it most. What happens? Sporting, the motherfeckers as they are, ships them both out on loan about a week after I sign them.

They move a few of my great, in-form players up to the first team squad and dumps a bunch of pussies on my front door. What am I supposed to do with that garbage? I'm certainly not going to develop them. What do they think I am? A reservers manag...oh right.

Anyways, looking good in 2nd place after a great run. Hopefully I'll win the league, get my badge and feck off out of there. Or take charge of the main team as an interrim or something like that, that would be a cool FM-experience as I've never had that happen to me before. Heres hoping that the first team goes down the shitter.

Edit: There we go, they've loaned out every single player I brought into to the squad. A position has opened in the Portugese Premier League, and I'm tempted to apply for the job simply to knock Sporting off their fecking perch.
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Yup, had the exact same problem when I managed Bilbao B. So frustrating at times :lol:
 
What the absolute flying feck. Went on steam to play it today and got a message saying it was removed from my library.

Bought it off G2A but I've never had an issue with keys they've given me before..
 
So my first job is with Icelandic second division side Fram (incidentally they appear to appear to be some 'fallen giants' of the Icelandic leagues).

I took over with 8 games left, in 8th place out of 11. I finished 8th with a record of 3-2-3. Some of the many highlights include beating top of the league 2-0 and losing to bottom of the league 2-0. I asked for money to complete my coaching badges, and my request was granted. I'll be a changed man after 4 months with my National C license!

Conveniently we now don't have a game for 150 days. Guess I can twiddle my thumbs for half a year while my half a star game speed rapidly simulates through the next 5 months.
 
Right, my assistant just took over for a game (while I was serving an undeserved touchline ban, we won't get into that) and absolutely murdered the current league leaders for me. Is there any way to find out what tactics he conjured up so I can shamelessly imitate him? All I know is he put Smalling at left back over Shaw, which seems wrong...
 
Ryan's Beard said:
Right, my assistant just took over for a game (while I was serving an undeserved touchline ban, we won't get into that) and absolutely murdered the current league leaders for me. Is there any way to find out what tactics he conjured up so I can shamelessly imitate him? All I know is he put Smalling at left back over Shaw, which seems wrong...
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Haha, how do you even get a touchline ban?
 
Ryan's Beard said:
Right, my assistant just took over for a game (while I was serving an undeserved touchline ban, we won't get into that) and absolutely murdered the current league leaders for me. Is there any way to find out what tactics he conjured up so I can shamelessly imitate him? All I know is he put Smalling at left back over Shaw, which seems wrong...
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Go into your schedule list, click on the match to watch it, save it, and open it up on the games home page with the view match button, will show you the formations and roles of both teams along with all the analysis stuff.
 
Earthquake said:
Go into your schedule list, click on the match to watch it, save it, and open it up on the games home page with the view match button, will show you the formations and roles of both teams along with all the analysis stuff.
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Genius!

iammemphis said:
Haha, how do you even get a touchline ban?
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Look, sometimes in life your centre half is going to perfectly legally shepherd the ball out of play in the 89th minute and the ref is going to give a penalty. There are certain ways to react to that situation and I did not react correctly, apparently.
 
Alright, it's me again (sigh, I know.. Shut up already, ammirte?)

Only a few months have passed ingame since my last update, but what a few months. No, not really.

You know how I said that I might aswell quit if I ever joined a club in the top 5 leagues? Well guess what, cockface. I didnt. Barely.
After the press made it clear to me during a press conference that I couldnt win a promotion to the Portugese Premier Divison due to me managing a Reserves-team, I figured I might as well look for another job. They made things very easy for me though, as I suddenly became under pressure for failing to develop three of my players properly to make them ready for the first team. Despite them never being available to me, because they were in the first team. And out on loan, which was out of my hands.

I figured the ungrateful cnuts could manage without my help though, and started to apply for all sorts of jobs. I've noticed that I've become quite picky after all my "success", and I even turned down a job in the Bulgarian first division as well as some other job that I would've accepted only a few months ago.

Stade de Reims in the Ligue 1 was struggling though, and were doomed to relegation when their manager was sacked because of his terrible transfer record (what a board, eh?). I figured I might as well apply for the job, simply because I applied to every single job out there. I would've applied for jobs as a U19 physio if possible. I'm just making sure that you guys understand how shitty a job it is to manage a reserve side where you cant do shit and all of your players are out of your control.

I got the job though, and somehow made sure that Reims didnt get relagated. Angers did though, which is awesome cause they laughed in my face when I declared interest in the job. Boy, revenge sure does feel sweet.

Here is the kicker though: France is no longer a top 5 league, and I'm still in the clear :D Funnily enough, the Portugese league actually surpassed them last time the rankings were updated, surely because of my stellar job of developing the talent over there.

I targeted a few players at Sporting during my first transfer window though, just to make sure that the entire club was unsettled to feck. Turns out that Reims isnt really that big of an attraction, and none of the players wanted to join me despite Sporting accepting every offer I made. feckers. Really, they knew how to make my blood boil. Cant wait to see the Portugese league lose their place as a top 5 league, as I'll go back there and knock Sporting off their fecking perch.

Anyways, that's it for me. Sorry for bothering ya'll.
 
Burrow said:
Alright, it's me again (sigh, I know.. Shut up already, ammirte?)

Only a few months have passed ingame since my last update, but what a few months. No, not really.

You know how I said that I might aswell quit if I ever joined a club in the top 5 leagues? Well guess what, cockface. I didnt. Barely.
After the press made it clear to me during a press conference that I couldnt win a promotion to the Portugese Premier Divison due to me managing a Reserves-team, I figured I might as well look for another job. They made things very easy for me though, as I suddenly became under pressure for failing to develop three of my players properly to make them ready for the first team. Despite them never being available to me, because they were in the first team. And out on loan, which was out of my hands.

I figured the ungrateful cnuts could manage without my help though, and started to apply for all sorts of jobs. I've noticed that I've become quite picky after all my "success", and I even turned down a job in the Bulgarian first division as well as some other job that I would've accepted only a few months ago.

Stade de Reims in the Ligue 1 was struggling though, and were doomed to relegation when their manager was sacked because of his terrible transfer record (what a board, eh?). I figured I might as well apply for the job, simply because I applied to every single job out there. I would've applied for jobs as a U19 physio if possible. I'm just making sure that you guys understand how shitty a job it is to manage a reserve side where you cant do shit and all of your players are out of your control.

I got the job though, and somehow made sure that Reims didnt get relagated. Angers did though, which is awesome cause they laughed in my face when I declared interest in the job. Boy, revenge sure does feel sweet.

Here is the kicker though: France is no longer a top 5 league, and I'm still in the clear :D Funnily enough, the Portugese league actually surpassed them last time the rankings were updated, surely because of my stellar job of developing the talent over there.

I targeted a few players at Sporting during my first transfer window though, just to make sure that the entire club was unsettled to feck. Turns out that Reims isnt really that big of an attraction, and none of the players wanted to join me despite Sporting accepting every offer I made. feckers. Really, they knew how to make my blood boil. Cant wait to see the Portugese league lose their place as a top 5 league, as I'll go back there and knock Sporting off their fecking perch.

Anyways, that's it for me. Sorry for bothering ya'll.
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Really loving reading your updates. Keep 'em coming. I think i'd rather have spent today watching you play FM than watching us :lol:
I'm going to be so disillusioned if/when you join a big club.
 
Oh well.. Only 10 games in, and I have to disappoint you all. I'm currently 3rd in Ligue 1, and guess what.

I just picked up Wayne Rooney in a free transfer :D He's 33 years old and really terrible. But still! Freaking Wayne Rooney :D
David Moyes is the manager of PSG though, and they've won the CL two years in a row. What a league. Silly, silly league.

Edit: I was on a brilliant, winning run before I bought Rooney. Literally right after I brought him in, I'm not 6 games without a win. Rooney with 0 goals obviously, and now I've dropped him. What a rip off.
 
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So I finally got to start my career after being hired by Gyeongnam FC in the Korean 2nd Division. Trying to learn all the players names turned out to be quite difficult so I've given most of them nicknames.

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I can't play any of the loan players for some reason and I need 2 under 18 players in the match day squad and one in the first eleven so I've got three 16 year olds in the squad. I've managed to win my first two games and we're up to fifth and there's about 6 games left. They've also agreed to let me take my first coaching course so all good so far.

Oh I signed a 41 year old Robert Pires too.
 
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