I started it yesterday got through a year. Going to do at least 5/10 seasons.
Gaming Football Manager 2024
- Thread starter Berbaclass
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ridiculous that they can't fix this stuff.
Oh, how I wish this happened in real life too.I don't see any issues. They are just trying to imitate Arteta who'd rather kill Saka playing him through injury everytime than rotate him.
Early access beta works really well for me. I'm playing Brighton and my scouts keep recommending me Greenwood who is a steal at ca. 25 million pounds and such potential
I think the positional football change deserves a lot of praise. I'm just tinkering around for fun, but I'm currently playing a 4231 with 2 Segundo Volante in the double pivot and it actually works kind of well. Looks to me like this might have opened up a large variety of funky tactical ideas or at least it made the implementation of them much clearer.
I am hearing very good things about the match engine.
How much better than FM2020 is it? That’s my last one
Don't do it. He will never reach it. He has 5 professionalism and 20 controversy. All the remaining hidden attributes are fine though. SI actually tried to be as fair as they can be without getting into legal trouble.Early access beta works really well for me. I'm playing Brighton and my scouts keep recommending me Greenwood who is a steal at ca. 25 million pounds and such potential
Not sure which game mode are you playing but I'm playing the real world mode with United and he's auto set to go out on loan again to Getafe for a 2nd year(I didn't even accept the bid, it was automatically accepted) and he's leaving on a free at the end of the season.
And I've also released Martial on a free so yea welcome to van Persie's son for being a backup striker.
Don't do it. He will never reach it. He has 5 professionalism and 20 controversy. All the remaining hidden attributes are fine though. SI actually tried to be as fair as they can be without getting into legal trouble.
Not sure which game mode are you playing but I'm playing the real world mode with United and he's auto set to go out on loan again to Getafe for a 2nd year(I didn't even accept the bid, it was automatically accepted) and he's leaving on a free at the end of the season.
And I've also released Martial on a free so yea welcome to van Persie's son for being a backup striker.
Same save. Though Van Persie coming in 2025 and I'll probably loan him out.4.5+0.5 star potential for him and an A+ rating so guessing he's got a pretty high PA in my save.For all the new tactical implementations, I think gegenpress will still be one to choose.
It's nice to see set piece stuff work + the inverted tactics in the match engine.
Do find it a bit odd that you start the game with Everton and DCL wanting to leave, doesn't feel that realistic.
Do find it a bit odd that you start the game with Everton and DCL wanting to leave, doesn't feel that realistic.
That's the point of beta, to iron out these issues.
If they're fixed by the full release I'll be shocked. The beta just exposes broken things in the game as it does every year.
Last year's beta someone realised the game struggled to generate good full-backs. Whenever they went far into the future there were only about 4 or 5 top level standard full-backs. That was never fixed.
The classic ex-players having their best game of the season against you is apparent as usual too.
Enjoyed my first season with Chelsea. I think the ME has been great so far.
Not sure whether I want to continue with them for a second year though or try something different.
Not sure whether I want to continue with them for a second year though or try something different.
What were Liverpool like in your save? Every save I've seen so far (including mine) they're City-like.
Pretty ridiculous. I did beat them at Anfield though.
I finished 3rd behind Liverpool and City.
United were 17th in November and sacked Erik too. Hired Conte…
Will probably pick this up through gamepass. Last played 2022 and before that 2020. Two year gaps seem to showcase enough progress and improvements for me to notice and appreciate.
Reading through the thread it's a shame some of the old issues are still prevalent but hopefully there's enough time to make some fixes.
Reading through the thread it's a shame some of the old issues are still prevalent but hopefully there's enough time to make some fixes.
Been playing this in a gegenpress and is working well. Beto is performing better than DCL and I will probably sell the latter in Jan as he wants to leave.
25 points after 12 games. Liverpool are top with 33 points after 13 games.
I haven’t really found a way to properly make the IFB and IWB combo work yet. Probably just don’t have the right players to make it work.
I might have a proper go after giving it a full pre-season as when I tried to implement it I chopped and changed a little.
I might have a proper go after giving it a full pre-season as when I tried to implement it I chopped and changed a little.
I only play with one as inverted and the other as normal or both as wing backs.
Been playing this in a gegenpress and is working well. Beto is performing better than DCL and I will probably sell the latter in Jan as he wants to leave.
25 points after 12 games. Liverpool are top with 33 points after 13 games.
Unrealistic
Are there any new roles this year?
Unrealistic
I don't disagree! Danjuma should be nerfed a bit as he's much better than he should be and Branthwaite is a bit too good in terms of set pieces (He already has 4 goals and 3 assists including one bicycle kick assist...)...
Inverted full back
Was that not on last years?
think that was an inverted wingback.
I was trying to do the IWB and IFB combo with a half back I think.
Spent 50€ on it last night. Straight into Utd mode. Sold Varane to Saudi for 52 and that gave me a kitty to grab Diomande, Marcos Leonardo, Andre and Barco with instalments. I’m comfortably in third playing a 4-2-3-1 with automatic fullbacks. Hopefully I can sell Casemiro to Saudi next summer because Im finding it really hard to get rid of players at all so that’s realistic I guess? It’s all loan to buy for McT Martial and Maguire with really low future fees. I’d say I win the league in 3 seasons and CL in 3-5. Lacey looks unreal!
No you’re thinking of the inverted wing back. The IFB is a fullback that acts as a third CB out of possession. The inverted wingback tucks into midfield more
The little I played with united I found it quite difficult to shift Sancho.
Takes time to adapt but it's a staple for me. Though I set the wide players as normal wingers (ML and MR) to keep the width still.
AF (a)
W (a) - BBM (s) - CM (a) - W (s)
IFB (d) - BPD (d) - BPD (d) - IWB (s)
SK (d)
Hojlund
Rashford - Mount - Bruno - Nico Williams
Casemiro
Shaw - Martinez - Diomande - Dedić
Onana
Garnacho
Antony - Mainoo - Eriksen - Johan Bakayoko
Amrabat
Fernandez - Senesi - Lindelof - Dalot
Altay
W (a) - BBM (s) - CM (a) - W (s)
IFB (d) - BPD (d) - BPD (d) - IWB (s)
SK (d)
Hojlund
Rashford - Mount - Bruno - Nico Williams
Casemiro
Shaw - Martinez - Diomande - Dedić
Onana
Garnacho
Antony - Mainoo - Eriksen - Johan Bakayoko
Amrabat
Fernandez - Senesi - Lindelof - Dalot
Altay
How I have it so far after finishing the 2024 summer transfer window. Had to make some budget purchases after spending big on Nico Williams, but he's been class in the few games I've used him so it's worth it (and given that Martinez and Diomande are young and excellent, no need to spend big there). Garnacho was my starter the previous year and did really well, won the FA Cup 5-1 vs Liverpool, made it to the CL semi final but lost away vs City ultimately after winning the first leg, and finished 3rd in the league.
Arghh, thought Id seen an inverted something on there.
Ye I think you’re right. I knew there was something inverted.
Just totally unrealistic in every way. I mean Tottenham, second? Come on...
Sold low on Varane. I got like 80m after installments in January. Summer 2024 I got an offer of 80m for Casemiro from a couple of Saudi clubs but I kept him as he's still a quality DM and there weren't many other good options to buy. Almost caved to buy Kephrem Thuram but decided against it (he ended up going to Bayern so maybe I missed out).
McTominay I got 30m for in summer 2024, Sancho was 15m loan in January 2024 with mandatory option for another 15m to Spurs (though I just stopped playing him after he complained about a team talk ... Realistic...so I probably could have played that differently and got a good chunk for him, as the first few games he played he was actually doing well). Maguire i got 15m for in January from Newcastle. Martial left on a free, couldn't shift Antony, got 25m for Amad from Luton Town, Donny left on a free, Pellistri 10m. Pretty happy with my turnover. 3rd goalkeeper is a problem though now as we don't have any good young keepers.
I sort of stumbled into a decent working tactic.
I played a bog standard 4-3-3 for the first half of my season with mixed results then for some reason I moved my LW to a LM (S) and my attacking CM to a CAM (SS) which ended up being well suited to my players as Cucurella was decent as a LM as was Sterling and Mudryk. The shadow striker role was also quite good at getting the best from Alvarez or Nkunku too.
my first XI was probably this
———————Kepa——————-
James—Tomori—Ake—Mendes
—————————-Caicedo—————
————Mount——————Cucurella
Jackson—————Alvarez—————
———————Gyokeres——————-
GK - SK(A)
RB - WB(S)
CB’s - BPD(D)
LB - WB(S)
DM - DM(D)
CM - MEZ(S)
LM - W(S)
RW - IF(A)
LCAM - SS(A)
ST - PF(A)
No Enzo? Did you pick the save where you start from scratch but then still sign Caicedo and Jackson then, given you have mount and Kepa there?
Though yeah it's been a few years now where I've found much better success as a team balance dropping the wide players to be in "ML and MR" rather than "AML and AMR". Just gives a better balance. Thought about pushing my CM attack to be a support striker too, have it as my goal chasing tactic as a slight change and works pretty well but didn't commit to doing it fully.