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  1. Following on from here... Manchester United: Season 2035/36 - Complete Summer transfer business was busy with the signing's of 18-year-old fullback Florian Tuba from Bayern for £76m and 21-year-old centre back Jorge Linha from Wolfsburg for £69m and adding a couple more highly rated youngster; Kady Maxted, João Serrador, Gaz Gowshall, Torben Epp and Luis Pérez. We did manage to wrap up Chelsea's left-footed inside forward Michael Siller for £205m along with world-class midfielder Hristo Vandev joining from Fiorentina for £175m. To offset those, we did sell off the likes of Kaiky, Noah Atubolu and arguably the best striker in the world, Prasert Nimkul - I felt I needed to sell him as when I joined he was on one of the craziest contracts I've seen, with his basic pay at £700,000p/w + 25% yearly rise onto of ridiculous bonuses (like £1m for 5 goals etc) - he had no interest in negotiating a new contract, so shipped him out, which free'd up the finances. January was supposed to be quiet, but we received bids of £50m for Nicolás Herrera, £100m for Antony Arévalo from Atletico and £134m for Songül Delibalta from Real Madrid, the later two I was happy to accept due them having wages higher than I thought they were worth, and they didn't enjoy big matches. To replace, I signed my number one target, who I tried to sign when he was 21, Jonathan Maes for £300m from Tottenham, slightly overpaying but he's THE best midfielder in the game currently. Then on deadline day, my ex-West Ham striker was transfer listed for £105m, Simone Bindi. Premier League Winners, by 8 points. Lost 5 games though which I was dissappointed with but I was tinkering with a new tactic until January, which I ended up binning and reverting back to my trusty 4-2-3-1. Martin Šindelář was second in the goalscoring charts with 24, but Michael Siller was sensational with 21 goals and 13 assists in 30 games. Champions League Winners! Beating Liverpool 4-2 in extra time at my ex-teams stadium, end-to-end game with Dimitris Masouras having the game of his life! Thought we'd blown it when Evan Ferguson equalised in the 95th minute, but extra time a no contest, as I'd used no subs up to that stage, I completely refreshed the team and Liverpool couldn't keep up. We topped the league phase too, beating the likes of Tottenham & Juventus twice, Barcelona and Monaco along the way. FA Cup Winners! Tricky run too, beating Manchester City, West Ham and Arsenal (all away) along the way to playing out the most one-sided final against relegated Brighton, running out 3-0 winners Carabao Cup Made it to the Quarter Final before Arsenal dumped us out on penalties, again, a tricky run having beaten Manchester City away in the previous round. Still have not won this cup for United yet. FA Community Shield 3-2 win in the curtain-raiser against Leicester City: UEFA Super Cup 3-1 win against Arsenal: Just wanted to finish this post with a mention to Alfie Hudson, came through the youth intake, 16 years old, looks legit - dropped him in the first team, mentoring off a Model Professional, but he's scored the winner in the Champions League Semi Final and also scored off the bench in the Champions League final against Liverpool. Also picked up a goal in the FA Cup final. He's been dubbed the new Paul Gascoigne. 5 goals in 2 starts (9 appearances total) from inside forward. I'm now 2nd in the Hall of Fame behind Pep Guardiola.
  2. Alfie Hudson, came through the youth intake, 16 years old, looks legit - dropped him in the first team, mentoring off a Model Professional, but he's scored the winner in the Champions League Semi Final and also scored off the bench in the Champions League final against Liverpool. 5 goals in 2 starts (9 appearances total) from inside forward.
  3. https://community.sigames.com/forums/topic/579179-fm24-backgrounds-by-stevemc-full-downloads-available-now/
  4. Following on from here... Manchester United: Season 2034/35 - Complete I've had a career spanning Chesterfield, Burnley, Tottenham, Real Madrid and West Ham before joining Manchester United in 2034 after Luis Enrique was sacked. Thankfully, the Glazers have sold-up, they are owned by an Australian consortium currently, no real debt, just £115m for transfer debt, so they're in a good place. Still having issues with the stadium though, they won't upgrade or build a new one. The team finished 7th last season so no Champions League, squad was bang average bar 3-4 world-class players, but they've been handing our ridiculous contracts so as part of my summer overhaul, I also aligned everyone to new long-term bonus enhanced contracts, there's couple still on £700K p/w + insane bonuses which I'm not happy about, so might try to move them on after a season or so. Staff were also all over the place. First port of call was sacking the majority of the staff and bringing my own in, Dan Ashworth came in as Director of Football (who I worked with at Tottenham) with Darren Fletcher and Nick Cox retaining their Technical Director and Head of Youth Development roles. Kieran Trippier came in as my Assistant Manager, who was also my under 21s Manager at West Ham for 4 years. First team staff are all quality now, with notable ex-professionals joining like Danny Welbeck, Mile Jedinak and Robin van Persie who are now have excellent staff profiles and personalities. For under 21s and under 18s I'm big on the correct personalities for staff like, Model Citizen, Model Professional, Professional etc so brought Phil Neville in as U21 Manager and Louis Carey as his assistant with Kevin O'Connor (Manager) and Brian Kerr (Assistant) taking up the U18 roles. Scouting department was overhauled too, with Giuseppe Lupo heading up a 25 strong team of scouts. Into transfers, we sold off 12 players, most notably Mason Mount and Rasmus Højlund raising £416m, bringing in 8 players of my own including previously managed Dennis Seimen (£55m) from West Ham, 25-year-old elite striker Martin Šindelář (£250m) from Tottenham, 25-year-old elite right-back Batata (£107m) also from Tottenham and world class, model professional centre-back David Braddock (£63m) from West Ham. Picked up a late bloomer gem in 26-year-old Guilherme for a £14m release from Flamengo too, followed by a couple of highly rated youngsters in the shape of Luca Femia (£23.5m), Osian Thomas (£23m) and Patrick Meeth (£24m) to try and bring the age and contract size of the squad down. January also saw a further 9 player leave, including Valentín Carboni, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Claudio Echeverri, Destiny Udogie and Noah Atubolu. We went back to my former club West Ham to sign world-class Brazilian defensive midfielder Erivaldo on deadline day for £116m having already secured wonderkid left-back Ron Peretz (£95m) and a couple more highly-promising youngsters Alejandro Ivars, Germán Morales and Fábio José. Premier League Rather surprisingly finished as Champions, board wanted top 4, I felt I'd built a top 4 squad, but the rest of the big clubs dropped so many points we ended up winning quite comfortably in the end. Manchester United's first title in 6 years and only second title in 27 years, but we are still just out in front on 22. Martin Šindelář hit 24 goals in 29 games finishing just 2 goals shy of 34-year-old Erling Haaland in the golden boot. Carabao Cup Made it to the final knocking out Everton, Watford, Sheffield Wednesday and Manchester City along the way before losing the final to Liverpool 0-2 after extra time, I felt like we were going to knick it before Batata's red card, then it was an uphill task from there. FA Cup We came unstuck away at Tottenham in the quarter-final, losing 2-0 having previously knocked out Hull City, Blackburn Rovers and Crewe. Europa League Farce of a competition this, it's so easy to win We won EVERY game against the likes of Lazio, Legia, Beşiktaş, Derry City, Freiburg, HJK, Slovan Bratislava, Anderlecht, U Craiova, Fenerbahçe and finishing off with a win against VfL Wolfsburg at Celtic Park in the final. We already made a start on Summer business with the signing's of 18-year-old fullback Florian Tuba from Bayern for £76m and 21-year-old centre back Jorge Linha from Wolfsburg for £69m and adding a couple more highly rated youngster; Kady Maxted, João Serrador, Gaz Gowshall and Luis Pérez. We've probably got one more in us, I'm chasing just one world-class players and have my eye on Chelsea's left-footed inside forward Michael Siller.
  5. A couple more from me... And these 3 pre-agreed to arrive in the Summer...
  6. For what it’s worth I think FM24 good and value for money (£35) however I don’t think it’s the “most complete edition” we’ve had, it’s still littered with bugs and niggles from previous editions, the kind of stuff seasoned FM players are sick of not being fixed and being rolled over to the next FM. IMO The Winter Patch felt like a quick fix patch too rather than a comprehensive detailed patch, presumably because focus is on FM25 and the new graphics engine, for that reason I’m expecting big things from FM25 however I don’t think this is going to be a smooth transition… but fingers crossed it is - I’d like to see more information on FM25 start to come out during the summer to build excitement rather than the usual September too. My biggest request for FM25 is to improve newgen faces, they’re terrible, no two ways about it - and I don’t see why AI can’t be used in the area to generate real faces. I wrote my Steam review about 3 weeks after launch and won’t be changing it as I do think SI need to do better with the launches for FM titles, launch should be more complete than it has been, feels like a second Beta phase for us to raise further bugs and wait for another patch in December, a day one launch patch should be capturing the majority of that. Still, overall, I’m enjoying FM24
  7. Yeah that works but you shoudn't have to do the extra click, it should just appear in order - was fine prior to the update so it's a definite bug. Just a frustration.
  8. Weird bug since the update, when you go tot make a sub in game, the whole team line up isn't in position order, and is mixed up... been fine prior to the update...
  9. Did Jim Ratcliffe miss the data-lock to be included at Manchester United as a co-owner?
  10. Done, thanks - it was a "full disk access" issue on Mac Sonoma 14.3.1
  11. Following on from here I've just resigned from West Ham United in season 2034/35 and been offered the Manchester United job. They finished 7th but the club is a mess The Glazers have sold up, and the only two players remaining from the original squad are Mason Mount and Rasmus Højlund. They have a small squad, barely any academy graduates and few in the HG quota. Average squad bar 2-3 world class players, but they have the best centre back in world football - most the squad are unhappy too as they're not in the Champions League so this will be a bit of a rebuild to get United going again. One league title in 22 years...
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