I saw one floating about. It had two versions. Which do you use?
Gaming Football Manager 2024
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I started a DoF save with Everton.
Basically setting up my scouts who can add players to lists and then making them a transfer target for my DoF to sign. The only input I will have is choosing who to add as a transfer target from the list given and if the contract is rejected I'll renegotiate that with the player and agent. Makes it a bit more tricky as they tend not to do the installment cheese.
Basically setting up my scouts who can add players to lists and then making them a transfer target for my DoF to sign. The only input I will have is choosing who to add as a transfer target from the list given and if the contract is rejected I'll renegotiate that with the player and agent. Makes it a bit more tricky as they tend not to do the installment cheese.
I can't remember where I got it from but it's named Amorim's Sporting (AM)
Ah right. Thanks. Yeah it was an AM version and also an IF version.
Yeah that's the one.
Yeah, it does like to do that!
It was just really weird. I thought I was short of numbers going into the season. Like to have a 22 man squad, 2 for every positiion but because I was restricting myself to Welsh only players I couldn't find what I wanted and went with 20.
I don't get why they waited until right near the end to complain. If we'd have just sold someone then fair enough but we hadn't. Only thing I can think of is that at level the transfer window stays open until some time in March and it wasn't far off closing so maybe they wanted re-inforcements before it did.
Maybe a few players dipped below the standard/reputation or something like that. It seems to a very thin line what quality of player is deemed an option and who isn’t.
Would you be able to possibly drop a link, tried twice to make my own, first WB then Defensive Wingers but not had much luck so far.
Unsure what to do. Sold Casemiro for 90m to Saudi Arabia in my second summer window, well first actually because I played it with real world transfers for the first season. Won the league and Champions League. I've signed Amrabat for 17m, the loa clause, to be backup to Mainoo. He'd cost much more in the game without it.
Varane has had offers accepted but his wages are too much for Saudi clubs somehow. Unbelievable. Signed Yoro and sold Lindelof so unless Varane leaves in the winter window then he'll be leaving on a free sadly despite me getting offers up to 70m for him with 1 year on his contract.
My real issue is Bruno. I can get 150m for him. I'm not trying to sell him but I did a trial run and he's getting 1m a week from the Saudi League so he's forcing my hand.
I'm seeing which player should I use to replace him. Mount plays as a CM for me in a 2 with Casemiro who's now gone so Mainoo will be there and Bruno in the hole. I played around and can buy Bellingham for 220m, Simons for like 80, Wirtz for around 91 and Gavi for around 125m. Should I just go all in and pay that whack for Bellingham? My playstyle with Man Utd is basically to buy high potential youngsters after going big in the couple seasons so my highest transfer in has been the FM when I bought Haaland in the summer City bought him in real life so it's not a case where I'll have ever really have transfers this high. I usually sell high for my extra talented youngsters who I can't fit into my team. Paying more than 100m for a player I've never done.
Should I just go for Bellingham?
Varane has had offers accepted but his wages are too much for Saudi clubs somehow. Unbelievable. Signed Yoro and sold Lindelof so unless Varane leaves in the winter window then he'll be leaving on a free sadly despite me getting offers up to 70m for him with 1 year on his contract.
My real issue is Bruno. I can get 150m for him. I'm not trying to sell him but I did a trial run and he's getting 1m a week from the Saudi League so he's forcing my hand.
I'm seeing which player should I use to replace him. Mount plays as a CM for me in a 2 with Casemiro who's now gone so Mainoo will be there and Bruno in the hole. I played around and can buy Bellingham for 220m, Simons for like 80, Wirtz for around 91 and Gavi for around 125m. Should I just go all in and pay that whack for Bellingham? My playstyle with Man Utd is basically to buy high potential youngsters after going big in the couple seasons so my highest transfer in has been the FM when I bought Haaland in the summer City bought him in real life so it's not a case where I'll have ever really have transfers this high. I usually sell high for my extra talented youngsters who I can't fit into my team. Paying more than 100m for a player I've never done.
Should I just go for Bellingham?
Just had one of those nightmare scenario games where your goalie gets injured after 4 minutes with no 'keeper on the bench. We won anyway, proud of the lads! Did a good job of controlling the game.
What was particularly fun was that I put a striker in net and the guy who came on up front scored a hat-trick.
What was particularly fun was that I put a striker in net and the guy who came on up front scored a hat-trick.
Smashed Vanarama North, Champioons with 8 games to go.
Think this is the most dominant league campaign I've ever done.
Reached the FA Cup 4th round, a lovely payday at West Ham. Lost 2-0 but I don't care, 48,000 in attendance and we now have over £1m in the bank.
Think this is the most dominant league campaign I've ever done.
Reached the FA Cup 4th round, a lovely payday at West Ham. Lost 2-0 but I don't care, 48,000 in attendance and we now have over £1m in the bank.
Smashed Vanarama North, Champioons with 8 games to go.
Think this is the most dominant league campaign I've ever done.
Reached the FA Cup 4th round, a lovely payday at West Ham. Lost 2-0 but I don't care, 48,000 in attendance and we now have over £1m in the bank.
Very nice. What are you tactics/what is your tactic?
A downloaded one I'm afraid - https://fm-arena.com/thread/11120-442-holographic/
Did try to use my own 4-4-2 with a flat midfield first season of the save but I couldn't quite get it to work. I don't think the match engine likes you having CMs only, much prefers DMs.
We did alright but we were so open, scored 116, conceded 76 and finished 2nd, losing in the playoffs. Since switching to this things have been much more solid, even though the DMs are Segundo Volantes on attack. Their starting position is deeper than you get with CMs so give more control and it's been back to back promotions with it.
There were other diffences, I was playing wide attacking width, this is narrow. I was playing direct, this has shorter passing. That's another thing I think the engine likes - players closer together linking with each other. The way I went at first was more kick and rush or hoofball 4-4-2 which was intentional and I really wanted to make that style work but I don't think I can.
The aim was to hit lots of balls into channels/space/balls for target man to compete for, isolate fulll backs one on one with my wingers with the maximum attacking width spreading everyone out as far as possible. Was scoring loads but because everyone was so spread out it was hugely vulnerable to counters when losing it, especially with no players in the DM line.
Erm, wtf just happened here?
I'm not managing either team and it seems like PAOK has normal players, not greys. Earlier they conceded 10 at Dortmund and 7 at Villarreal...
I'm not managing either team and it seems like PAOK has normal players, not greys. Earlier they conceded 10 at Dortmund and 7 at Villarreal...
Feel like I've put similar numbers teams once of twice, but they'd normally be about 3 divisions below. Never seen the AI do it. 
Erm, wtf just happened here?
I'm not managing either team and it seems like PAOK has normal players, not greys. Earlier they conceded 10 at Dortmund and 7 at Villarreal...
They must have a greyed out keeper in nets letting every shot in!
100% to all this. The DM Segundo Volante role works excellently - the cornerstone of any successful tactic. I play two of them with wing backs in my Brentford save combined with either 2 CAMs or a CAM with two strikers.
Yeah, the game definitely prefers short passing on high tempo. I’ve had success going direct when chasing a late goal, but that’s about it.
Nope, checked it, keeper's okay. Not world class or anything but a normal player you'd expect at a Greek CL club.
I've been playing the console version on the portal as it's one of the games offered on the Streaming Beta. It's actually not too bad. Kind of an in between the phone version and the PC version but there are some really silly elements involved that you can add if you want to.
I started a game with Salford and we have just got promoted to League 1, after finishing 2nd in the league. One of my players won YPOTY. Due to this I've now unlocked "no loan restrictions". You have the choice to apply it or not but seems weird that they've added cheats to the game if you achieve certain things.
There are also micro transactions to be able to boost your bank balance.
I started a game with Salford and we have just got promoted to League 1, after finishing 2nd in the league. One of my players won YPOTY. Due to this I've now unlocked "no loan restrictions". You have the choice to apply it or not but seems weird that they've added cheats to the game if you achieve certain things.
There are also micro transactions to be able to boost your bank balance.
I've been playing the console version on the portal as it's one of the games offered on the Streaming Beta. It's actually not too bad. Kind of an in between the phone version and the PC version but there are some really silly elements involved that you can add if you want to.
I started a game with Salford and we have just got promoted to League 1, after finishing 2nd in the league. One of my players won YPOTY. Due to this I've now unlocked "no loan restrictions". You have the choice to apply it or not but seems weird that they've added cheats to the game if you achieve certain things.
There are also micro transactions to be able to boost your bank balance.
This is quite a scary message to read so close to 25 images. If they go in this direction, I would be so disappointed. I have so many hours in FM, it’s almost like my stress reliever.
I just know I wouldn’t enjoy this.
I wouldn't be surprised if they do add this stuff to the PC game in future but it would be like the in game editor tool. You can pay for it if you want to or use it if you want to but you can also choose to turn it off.
I will say it also seems far easier than the PC version which is perhaps more worrying given that the PC version is already quite easy.
Won the Vanarama National League at the first time of asking with an all Welsh Merthyr. Tend to overestimate how hard a new league will be and that was no exception.
Currently just inside the top half in League Two 9 games in.
Not sure how the season is going to go from here. We started appalingly, lost the first 3. Since then it's 6 unbeaten. Scored 20 and let in 18 in those 9 matches.
Had a bit of discontent over the summer when I 'sold' our captain for £0, who was second-choice left winger after I upgraded him. That might have been part of the bad start, as well as lots of new faces fitting in, we were signing players quite late.
Also panic signed a couple of players on transfer deadline day, and the squad is bigger than I'd like. Got quite a few players now who won't be getting the game time they'll want or expect and I see trouble brewing at some point unless I talk them into lesser roles. Might also be hard to renew their contracts should I need to if they get pissed off. Not a problem if we got promoted as I'd be looking for better anyway but I think that would prove to be a hard task right now.
Glad I signed them anyway, one of them is now our best player who went from wanting £2.6k a week early in the summer to £1.8k on deadline day but agreed to join for £1.3k as that's all we could afford to offer due to financial fair play.
I'm fine with this being a slow burn save from now on if that's what it becomes seeing as I'm going Welsh players only. It was the whole point of the save in a way.
Can already say confidently we won't get relegated which is a positive.
Might have stunted our progress a bit by upgrading the training ground (£750k), youth facilities (£250k), more money for junior coaching whatever that costs, and the ground needed upgrading for league requirements (£267k). Went from £1m in the bank to now being in debt. Will see how that pans out, facilities were rubbish and still are.
Currently just inside the top half in League Two 9 games in.
Not sure how the season is going to go from here. We started appalingly, lost the first 3. Since then it's 6 unbeaten. Scored 20 and let in 18 in those 9 matches.
Had a bit of discontent over the summer when I 'sold' our captain for £0, who was second-choice left winger after I upgraded him. That might have been part of the bad start, as well as lots of new faces fitting in, we were signing players quite late.
Also panic signed a couple of players on transfer deadline day, and the squad is bigger than I'd like. Got quite a few players now who won't be getting the game time they'll want or expect and I see trouble brewing at some point unless I talk them into lesser roles. Might also be hard to renew their contracts should I need to if they get pissed off. Not a problem if we got promoted as I'd be looking for better anyway but I think that would prove to be a hard task right now.
Glad I signed them anyway, one of them is now our best player who went from wanting £2.6k a week early in the summer to £1.8k on deadline day but agreed to join for £1.3k as that's all we could afford to offer due to financial fair play.
I'm fine with this being a slow burn save from now on if that's what it becomes seeing as I'm going Welsh players only. It was the whole point of the save in a way.
Can already say confidently we won't get relegated which is a positive.
Might have stunted our progress a bit by upgrading the training ground (£750k), youth facilities (£250k), more money for junior coaching whatever that costs, and the ground needed upgrading for league requirements (£267k). Went from £1m in the bank to now being in debt. Will see how that pans out, facilities were rubbish and still are.
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Won the Vanarama National League at the first time of asking with an all Welsh Merthyr. Tend to overestimate how hard a new league will be and that was no exception.
Currently just inside the top half in League Two 9 games in.
Not sure how the season is going to go from here. We started appalingly, lost the first 3. Since then it's 6 unbeaten. Scored 20 and let in 18 in those 9 matches.
Had a bit of discontent over the summer when I 'sold' our captain for £0, who was second-choice left winger after I upgraded him. That might have been part of the bad start, as well as lots of new faces fitting in, we were signing players quite late.
Also panic signed a couple of players on transfer deadline day, and the squad is bigger than I'd like. Got quite a few players now who won't be getting the game time they'll want or expect and I see trouble brewing at some point unless I talk them into lesser roles. Might also be hard to renew their contracts should I need to if they get pissed off. Not a problem if we got promoted as I'd be looking for better anyway but I think that would prove to be a hard task right now.
Glad I signed them anyway, one of them is now our best player who went from wanting £2.6k a week early in the summer to £1.8k on deadline day but agreed to join for £1.3k as that's all we could afford to offer due to financial fair play.
I'm fine with this being a slow burn save from now on if that's what it becomes seeing as I'm going Welsh players only. It was the whole point of the save in a way.
Can already say confidently we won't get relegated which is a positive.
Might have stunted our progress a bit by upgrading the training ground (£750k), youth facilities (£250k), more money for junior coaching whatever that costs, and the ground needed upgrading for league requirements (£267k). Went from £1m in the bank to now being in debt. Will see how that pans out, facilities were rubbish and still are.
He is absolutely quality for that level!
I don't know if you are from Merthyr but I am sure if you are then you heard about the FAW's offer to bring them over to the Cymru Premier, might be one of the last FM's that you can do an Exiles save on.Won the Vanarama National League at the first time of asking with an all Welsh Merthyr. Tend to overestimate how hard a new league will be and that was no exception.
Currently just inside the top half in League Two 9 games in.
Not sure how the season is going to go from here. We started appalingly, lost the first 3. Since then it's 6 unbeaten. Scored 20 and let in 18 in those 9 matches.
Had a bit of discontent over the summer when I 'sold' our captain for £0, who was second-choice left winger after I upgraded him. That might have been part of the bad start, as well as lots of new faces fitting in, we were signing players quite late.
Also panic signed a couple of players on transfer deadline day, and the squad is bigger than I'd like. Got quite a few players now who won't be getting the game time they'll want or expect and I see trouble brewing at some point unless I talk them into lesser roles. Might also be hard to renew their contracts should I need to if they get pissed off. Not a problem if we got promoted as I'd be looking for better anyway but I think that would prove to be a hard task right now.
Glad I signed them anyway, one of them is now our best player who went from wanting £2.6k a week early in the summer to £1.8k on deadline day but agreed to join for £1.3k as that's all we could afford to offer due to financial fair play.
I'm fine with this being a slow burn save from now on if that's what it becomes seeing as I'm going Welsh players only. It was the whole point of the save in a way.
Can already say confidently we won't get relegated which is a positive.
Might have stunted our progress a bit by upgrading the training ground (£750k), youth facilities (£250k), more money for junior coaching whatever that costs, and the ground needed upgrading for league requirements (£267k). Went from £1m in the bank to now being in debt. Will see how that pans out, facilities were rubbish and still are.
Haven’t played fm in a long time, does it let you see the annual turnover of your club? (Random one I know)
Thinking I might get the one that comes out next season to get United back to being the best and richest team again
Thinking I might get the one that comes out next season to get United back to being the best and richest team again
Yup, he's mint!
No, not from there, always wanted to do a save with players all from the same country and that's all this is. Toyed with the diaspora type teams idea before, a team full of foreign players from one particular nationality in another country. This is not quite that as they're still British in terms of passport but still kind of that by signing Welsh players only in the the English league system. I like starting in a lower division so Merthyr seemed like more of a fun pick than the other more famous Welsh clubs although I did consider Newport too.
Could be a really fun save once we move up the leagues. No doubt Swansea, Cardiff and Wrexham will have good Welsh players that I want but won't be able to sign from them at first if we end up in the same division as them, and if we make to the PL I'll be pretty much attempting to own the entire Wales national team squad to be competitive. If someone like Bale or Ramsey pops up in terms of ability I'm going to face competition to buy them or keep them if I already have them from some of the biggest clubs in the world. Will try and get the youth system rolling at some point and produce our own Welsh newgens too.
Didn't know they were possibly going to join the Welsh league, interesting.
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Promoted, going up to League One.
Not sure what the deal is with FFP, we're failing it but all it seems to do is create a transfer embargo. Was bricking it, expecting points deductions.
Don't understand it at all anyway. We were compliant at the start of the season then part-way through the season it said we were failing it. Loaned someone out in the January and we were passing it again only for us to fall into failing it once more for the last couple of months.
Hopefully nothing major happens now.
That Colchester squad is insane, they've got this bloke in League Two
Not sure what the deal is with FFP, we're failing it but all it seems to do is create a transfer embargo. Was bricking it, expecting points deductions.
Don't understand it at all anyway. We were compliant at the start of the season then part-way through the season it said we were failing it. Loaned someone out in the January and we were passing it again only for us to fall into failing it once more for the last couple of months.
Hopefully nothing major happens now.
That Colchester squad is insane, they've got this bloke in League Two
Even in FM xG is far from accurateErm, wtf just happened here?
I'm not managing either team and it seems like PAOK has normal players, not greys. Earlier they conceded 10 at Dortmund and 7 at Villarreal...
Yes, you get quite a detailed finances section.
Here's the summary for my current club.
Income
Expenditure
Wages
Then there's the other tabs that all look similar. FFP, Debts and Loans, Sponsors and other, and an overall balance sheet projection for the future.
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That's pretty damning (but not surprising). The implications are numerous:
- What's the point of scouts rating whether someone's good enough technically or mentally if you should really just be looking for physically imposing players?
- Why does the game highlight certain attributes being important for certain positions and roles?
- Why not just get the best fitness coaches and leave it there? Or does coaching actually even matter aside from satisfying players' needs for good coaches?
Thank you so much. Didn’t think I would get a reply and I couldn’t find it anywhere. You not only replied but it’s an incredible reply with so much info!Yes, you get quite a detailed finances section.
Here's the summary for my current club.
Income
Expenditure
Wages
Then there's the other tabs that all look similar. FFP, Debts and Loans, Sponsors and other, and an overall balance sheet projection for the future.
Which club/league are you? Quite modest figures (in football terms)
I’m more interested in that side of it. Than the tactics. I’d rather have one tactic I never have to change and just pick players, squad build, try to buy and sell at huge profits and make the team rich.
Between this and the FM25 debacle, I wonder if the franchise is just dead in the water.
People are going to test if this has changed as soon as the new game(s) come out, and if it hasn't, word is going to get around extremely quickly.
FM doesn't have much of a "casual" audience, that's the domain of Fifa/EA FC, and if it's broken at its core, then there's no point playing it.
People are going to test if this has changed as soon as the new game(s) come out, and if it hasn't, word is going to get around extremely quickly.
FM doesn't have much of a "casual" audience, that's the domain of Fifa/EA FC, and if it's broken at its core, then there's no point playing it.
Yeah absolutely.
I feel like it actually explains a lot about some previous editions though.
There were a couple of editions where Guardiola's City would be incredibly shit and he'd almost immediately end up getting binned, and I wonder now if that's because they were full of technically gifted but not particularly physical players? Similarly, there's always a team (like Brentford, for example) who are a bit naff in real life but an absolute fecking nightmare in FM, and that's probably because they've got players with a good average of physical attributes.
No problem!
I'm at Merthyr Town, loaded up a custom database to play as them as the game doesn't normally go that low down the divisions. They were in the the 7th tier whereas normally the lowest you can go is Vanarama North/South (6th). Got them up to League One, but our finances are more in line with a bottom end of League Two club.
I'll be honest, I download tactics that you can find all over the internet as I'm rubbish at that side of the game but still enjoy playing. You make the game what you want, and there's certainly scope to play it the way you want too with a focus on finances. Have fun if you go for it!
Yeah it would mate.
Quite annoying though.Dread to think how many hours I wasted by focusing on attributes that did absolutely nothing
Yeah it would mate.
Quite annoying though.Dread to think how many hours I wasted by focusing on attributes that did absolutely nothing
I'm in the same boat. I think there's a good half a dozen FM titles in by Steam "most played" list before you get to another game.
Anyone got a TLDR version?
Did tactics matter at all? For example if I played a 4-2-3-1 attacking formation and a 5-3-2 defensive formation, would it not matter if the game was set up to have a squad with those key attributes?
Did tactics matter at all? For example if I played a 4-2-3-1 attacking formation and a 5-3-2 defensive formation, would it not matter if the game was set up to have a squad with those key attributes?
TLDR is that basically only physical attributes + dribbling matter.