Gaming Football Manager 2024

Christ that looks awful. Did they rebrand or did they lose the license for their old logo?
 
So being very honest I loaded up FM24 for Xbox (it’s on game pass) and I found it all a bit overwhelming in terms of what you can do.

Any tips on where I can find like an idiots guide to your first club? Right now I’m really interested in it but also a bit lost.
 
BenitoSTARR said:
So being very honest I loaded up FM24 for Xbox (it’s on game pass) and I found it all a bit overwhelming in terms of what you can do.

Any tips on where I can find like an idiots guide to your first club? Right now I’m really interested in it but also a bit lost.
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I got myself back into this by attempting a Glory Hunter. I just couldn’t bring myself to start from the bottom again so see this as an extension of my career after building myself up.

I decided to start at Monaco and after a torrid couple of years, I finally got the two trophies and resigned as soon as the trophy lift was done. It’s a real struggle and I was extremely lucky. (Left them with Antonio Silva, Sávio, Almada, Kone, Timber and an incoming Lukaku tho!)

I had myself set up as a Sunday League player with my badges, so I am only 3 star even after the Monaco league win.

I rejected returns to France, as well as Mallorca and Levante, but was starting to get worried that I would need to drop way down and cost myself valuable time.

But in December a desperate AS Roma offered me an interview and I promised them the world (including CL qualification) while they are sitting in 10th and no Europe.

It is AMAZING how bad the AI is at squad building. I admit, I was so desperate for a decent job that I didn’t even look at the squad, but I am baffled at what they have done in the first few years of this save.

Only really N’Dicka, Mancini, Pellegrini, Cristante left with any real quality.

They have signed…

Djed Spence (only RB in squad)
Longstaff (only DM in squad)
Jacob Murphy
Almiron
…And a few awful Irish regens

Their older players like Smalling, de Vrij and Belotti are gone, their speed and physicals tanked through misuse.

The clear out is actually a therapeutic part of the game I enjoy, but it’s crazy just how badly teams can be led in such a short time.
 
Just finished first season with the 07/08 retro database with United. First season league/CL double. Rooney and Ronaldo are cheat codes
 


This is huge. Finally we can see Manchester United in game and not MUFTC or MUN FC or some other random shit. :lol:
 
saik said:


This is huge. Finally we can see Manchester United in game and not MUFTC or MUN FC or some other random shit. :lol:
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I mean it’s only been like that for 2 or 3 years right?
 
Solius said:
I mean it’s only been like that for 2 or 3 years right?
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Feels like it's been more than that honestly. And our club being the dickheads they are, didn't even allow the logo packs makers to use the club logo which made it even more annoying.
 
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That's gonna save me 5 minutes of downloading the real name fix patch at least.
 
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Just seen this video and popped in to see if anyone was talking about it. There was that thing a few months ago along similar lines but at the time Zealand and others stated it was due to not playing matches on full detail or something. It's always been intuitively true though.

Never purposefully signed players who were bad in other areas that were fast although I'd always try to have minimum requirements for pace. 13 for PL, one lower for each division down plus trying to do the same for the important attributes for the position/role. For strikers in particular it would often mean having some raw players in the lower divisions that could score plenty without being great very good all-round footballers.

I don't know if it's exactly the same thing, but it's adjacent. Fast players always seemed to be rarer to find in the the lower leagues than the top-flight to a much greater extent than I think is true of real life. Obviously there's some absolute top-calss speed demons in the top flights and you can go far as footballer with it but I've just loaded up a new save and theres 347 Premier League players with 13+ pace, 81 in the Vanarama National (24 clubs).

It's as though they make the better players comparatively faster than they should be, and maybe that's a bigger part of the reason why they perform better in the match engine than it really should be too.

At 14+ pace it's 256 vs 26. 15+ is 143 vs. 5. So every Premier League club has on average 7 players who can run as fast as the 5 fastest players in that whole league? No way is that true.

Physicals is one of the few areas where crappy clubs can in real life match up better compared to good teams.

Fair enough on something like passing, an actual technical skill. For 13+ it's 286 vs 27.
 
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Chipper said:
Just seen this video and popped in to see if anyone was talking about it. There was that thing a few months ago along similar lines but at the time Zealand and others stated it was due to not playing matches on full detail or something. It's always been intuitively true though.

Never purposefully signed players who were bad in other areas that were fast although I'd always try to have minimum requirements for pace. 13 for PL, one lower for each division down plus trying to do the same for the important attributes for the position/role. For strikers in particular it would often mean having some raw players in the lower divisions that could score plenty without being great very good all-round footballers.

I don't know if it's exactly the same thing, but it's adjacent. Fast players always seemed to be rarer to find in the the lower leagues than the top-flight to a much greater extent than I think is true of real life. Obviously there's some absolute top-calss speed demons in the top flights and you can go far as footballer with it but I've just loaded up a new save and theres 347 Premier League players with 13+ pace, 81 in the Vanarama National (24 clubs).

It's as though they make the better players comparatively faster than they should be, and maybe that's a bigger part of the reason why they perform better in the match engine than it really should be too.

At 14+ pace it's 256 vs 26. 15+ is 143 vs. 5. So every Premier League club has on average 7 players who can run as fast as the 5 fastest players in that whole league? No way is that true.

Physicals is one of the few areas where crappy clubs can in real life match up better compared to good teams.

Fair enough on something like passing, an actual technical skill. For 13+ it's 286 vs 27.
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There is a lot of this sort of thing if you look for it. Reputation and continental competition blocking you from signing better players too, at times, no matter where they are playing.

Lots of bells and whistles to hide what’s under the hood and how it really works.

There isn’t a game I’ve played that comes even close to this one though. The comfort of coming in from a bad day and firing up a save I’ve been enjoying has given me so much joy over the years.

Obviously things need to be discussed, but it is a game at the end of the day. I don’t think there is anything else I spend money on that I get the value out of like FM
 
They’ve rested on their laurels for years now and this is the result. Their attitude to any criticism stinks as well and it stems from Miles.
 
Solius said:
They’ve rested on their laurels for years now and this is the result. Their attitude to any criticism stinks as well and it stems from Miles.
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Yeah, I do think that arrogance gets in the way of general debate and conversation.

I just think they never imagined what it would become and don’t have the means/ability to change the way they make it.
 
I've often wondered if the game engine somewhat tilts in favour of the player controlled team, perhaps to enhance player satisfaction over player frustration, make the player think that they won the Champions League with Dagenham & Redbridge because of their tactical prowess and tinkering, when really the game is giving them a helping hand some of the time. It might not be that way at all, but I've had some saves where winning felt a little effortless, despite there being better teams in the league. Sometimes just a simple tactic can be unexpectedly unstoppable.

I wonder if the same experiment would work if they started unemployed, but used the editor to fill up a non-user controlled team with a bunch of speed-merchants, or if that team would just tank, as they should.
 
I was curious about the above, so I'm setting it up at Forest without managing them. I've started unemployed and using the editor I've cleared out all Forest players at all levels, and signed a bunch of speedsters with a max CA of 115, and some speedy CBs with decent jumping reach. I've also signed them De Gea like Zealand did, and I've kept Wayne Hennessy on their books as a backup. I've adjusted a few players who had low adaptability too.

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I kept a close eye on them week to week during the transfer windows to make sure they didn't add any lard-arse slow coaches. I gave them zero transfer budget, and slashed their wage budget, so they shouldn't have been able to.

I also checked on them every couple of months, and if they had a build up of injuries, I helped them out a bit by bringing them back to full strength, since it's a small squad, didn't want any emergency loans creeping in.

Even with my help, they were still shit. Not worst team in PL history shit, but pretty bad:

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Though oddly they weren't getting hammered. Their heaviest defeat was a 0-3 defeat to City at home, and that was the only one. The rest were by 1 or 2 goals. And 2 of their 7 wins were against United and Newcastle.

They got knocked out of both cups in the first round they appeared in.

This was how the squads apps, goals and assists looked at the end of the season, not even close to double digits on goals and assists for anyone:

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I created a separate save point at the beginning of the season, so I can repeat this with the same squad, but I'll set me as the manager, create a simple tactic, and then go on holiday with my assistant taking control, to see if the outcome is more like Zealand's. I'll run that tomorrow.
 
I'd be interested in trying to replicate it too but I haven't played in a good while now and am keen to play for fun rather than research purposes.

We all kind of do lower CA players overperforming anyway, it's a necessity unless you're already managing one of the biggest clubs, especially when coming up from lower leagues.

It's just that instead of it being all about pace and acceleration, CA is usually spread across a few specific key attributes for the role as stated by the game. Still end up with plenty of very raw players who are extremely limited and have lower CAs than division average who are effective. It's easy to find some bad all-round footballers that have the key stats for advanced forward or poacher and can score a lot as an obvious example. Keying in on just pace and acceleration is taking things a step further.
 
Really like that you will be able to move between men's and women's football seamlessly. I was looking forward to it being added but thought it might be it's own separate mode.
New between highlights screen looks nice as well.
 
AI managers are just pure trash at this stage. Real sold Bellingham and Mbappé in one transfer window, while Bellingham went for a record breaking €325M to PSG Arsenal got Mbappé for a joke bid of €70M, what are they doing at Real? I beat them one time to the League title and they just sell all their best players, why?
 
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What a great 21 days :lol: the scheduling in this game is a joke.
 
This game is honestly too easy, the only help I've taken is for tactics online.

Fourth season in, sold Bruno, Martinez, Casemiro, Varane, Shaw, Malacia, AWB, Lindelöf, Dalot etc. to finance this:

Sold 30 year old Bruno for 105 and bought Musiala for 105.

Current XI:

Costa

Kayode -------------------------- Silva ------------------------- Nianzou ---------------------------- A. Davies

Mainoo ----------------------- J. Neves

Yamal ------------------------------------- Musiala ---------------------------- Rashford

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Bench: Bayindir, Diomande, R. Sanches, Garnacho, Sesko, Roony, Mount
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That's the thing with FM, you have to self impose rules or it will get easy within a few seasons. I very much doubt they will change the balance with their big refresh for 25, but we live in hope.
 
Currently playing a save as United and I'm at the end of the season in 2026.

I sold Bruno to Al-Ittihad for £110 Million in 2024/25 and they released him a year later. Just signed him back for free as a 31 y/o on £56k p/w :lol:
 
Rare you get a CB this good at his age, triggered his release clause straight away, think he'll be absolutely elite!

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When are they going to announce FM25 features so I can shout at them for being lazy.
 
Just completed my first season at Palace, finished 7th but we were the leagues top scorers with 82 goals but conceded 58. For the first time I have used defensive wingers rather than wingbacks. Also the first time I can remember the 3 promoted teams were the 3 that came up in real life, Leicester, Southampton and Ipswich, but Bournemouth went down and Sheffield United stayed up.
 
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