Make My Decision For me!

Here is the story. I am in 2015 with Bayern and I have never been able to win the Champions League although coming close on almost a yearly basis, but I am becoming bored as I win all of the other in Germany easily.

What should I do to rejuvenate some life into my game before FM 09 comes out? Vote in the poll above.

There is no poll attached. Unlucky with that one. I'd 've gone for option 3, though

you didnt add a poll mate. but i think you should try oxford or arsenal.

Now vote. It posts the message and then asks for the poll options........

Don't be a quitter - stick it out for one last season!

Try your hand at LLM.

Don't give up.

You will eventually win the CL sooner or later

I voted for you to stay with Bayern and try to win the CL, but that's only because I did something similar and it took me until 2022 (i think) to eventually win it

I'd say give it one last try and whatever happens (even if you win it or not) move on to a lower rep top division team.

You've been there for 8 years so far - stick at it, it takes time for even the best managers to win the Champions League.

It took Fergie over a decade (13yrs?) to win his first with Man Yoo.

Mind you - Rafa did it in one!

Manage tranmere

Manage tranmere

Stick it out, took me 8 years to do it with Ajax (I think, it might have been 12 actually) but the feeling you get when you finally do it will be worth the effort

Urggh! Bayern Munich!

It wont be the same winning it with another club. Stick with it. You will eventually do it and it will be all the sweeter.

give some of your fave players new contracts with lowish release clauses then resign then take over some1 who finishes like 4th/5th and sign them then try see how well you can do with them instead!

You seem to look for a new challenge. So leave Bayern. Big teams in other leagues are just the same challenge with different players.

So go for a real challenge and take a smaller team to the top, whereever (maybe stay in Germany as it is rather easy, if you like quick success).

I would stick. Im in the same process with Rangers, although im in 2012

(maybe stay in Germany as it is rather easy, if you like quick success).

Disagree with you there jayahr. It's very difficult to break Bayern's strangle hold on the Bundesliga, expecially if you leave them stronger than they are at the beginning of the game.

Disagree with you there jayahr. It's very difficult to break Bayern's strangle hold on the Bundesliga, expecially if you leave them stronger than they are at the beginning of the game.

In my games they usually drop way more than ever expected irl (current rl struggles seen as temporary only).

However, of course also depending on how far down you start off, I find it rather easy to achieve constant CL participation in Germany. I didn't mean you'll necessarily become champions too soon, especially after you yourself handled bayern better than the AI would have before.

Bayern haven't shown any signs of dropping away in my Werder Bremen game Not that I'm bitter and angered by that at all of course :o

Stick it out mate!!! It'll be quite rewarding when you do win the Champions League with your Bayern side!!

I can think of few things I'd find less rewarding than winning the Champions League with Bayern Munich

In my games they usually drop way more than ever expected irl (current rl struggles seen as temporary only).

However, of course also depending on how far down you start off, I find it rather easy to achieve constant CL participation in Germany. I didn't mean you'll necessarily become champions too soon, especially after you yourself handled bayern better than the AI would have before.

Well I suppose one of the problems in my game was that I had managed to create a balance of about £300m and rarely spent much money so when I left they had a fortune to spend and have created an immense team, that my poorly VFB (average age of 20) are struggling to topple.

I've created a balance of about -£5 million at Werder Bremen and losing between 3 and 4 million per month currently. I'd say I's quite talented really

If it makes you any happier, I'm currently playing HSV and fighting with VfB for the title, far ahead of Bayern (in the first season )

How on earth did you get £300m in the bank? How many years in were you?

If it makes you any happier, I'm currently playing HSV and fighting with VfB for the title, far ahead of Bayern (in the first season )

How far into the season are you? Top teams drifting around 7th at Christmas and then going on a mental winning streak and lifting the league title is a regular occurance in my game.

Glamdring, the worst thing about your debt is that Mario Gomez caused it Ouch!

How on earth did you get £300m in the bank? How many years in were you?

I have two saves, one where I left Bayern in 2015 and one where I still manage them in 2024. I have more than £300m in the 2024 game I operate a number of strange rules in my game though, and this helps me build up a lot of money that will never get spent. I have a wage structure and no player is on more than £45k and the most i've ever spent on a player £9.75m, the second highest transfer spent is only £7.5m so i'm rich because i'm stingey.

How far into the season are you? Top teams drifting around 7th at Christmas and then going on a mental winning streak and lifting the league title is a regular occurance in my game.

Glamdring, the worst thing about your debt is that Mario Gomez caused it Ouch!

Aye, although that on its own we could have coped with. It's piling a £152 million loan for a new stadium that I didn't want (they're going to turn my lovely Weserstadion into a supermarket ) with monthly repayments of over 2 million on top of the Mario Gomez() fiasco that is starting to cripple us and we won't be seeing any increase in income from the new stdium for another 18 months yet and even then ticket prices are dirt cheap in Germany anyway. I doubt I'll play that game another 18 months anyway though so it doesn't really matter!

I have two saves, one where I left Bayern in 2015 and one where I still manage them in 2024. I have more than £300m in the 2024 game I operate a number of strange rules in my game though, and this helps me build up a lot of money that will never get spent. I have a wage structure and no player is on more than £45k and the most i've ever spent on a player £9.75m, the second highest transfer spent is only £7.5m so i'm rich because i'm stingey.

Oooh! But Diego is on £45.5k for me at Bremen...I'd have to sell him if I played by your mean-spirited greedy Munich anti-Diego rules!!

How far into the season are you? Top teams drifting around 7th at Christmas and then going on a mental winning streak and lifting the league title is a regular occurance in my game.

Glamdring, the worst thing about your debt is that Mario Gomez caused it Ouch!

Oh, just in the winter break. That winning streak however would really need to be mental if they or Bremen wanted to come back.

There is no poll attached. Unlucky with that one. I'd 've gone for option 3, though

Ha. As it turns out, I did go for option 3, even before I knew what it was

Stick it out with Bayern until you win, then leave on a high.

Stick with Bayern! Mind you, I'm in the exact situation as you (even the same year:D), but with PSV. I'm still sticking with them and you should too.

Un-install, make a pot of tea and wait for FM09 in a trance-like state to pass the time.