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You're not alone. I've been playing FM (or CM back in the days) for close to 20 years. And I've always started my save with Arsenal. This year however, I decided to take over Ipswich and try to bring the club to EPL and eventually winning the league or Europa/UCL. I'm in season 2024/2025 now. I managed to outperform my initial expectation. Finished as a Champion of League One and Championship, back to back and finished 11th in the EPL in our first season.
With the transfers, I mostly get players loaned rom big EPL clubs cause they normally have very good youngsters that they want to loan out. I also got few players on free (mostly older players from mid-table or lower clubs from EPL), cause they have good experience. During the early years, I do not rely too much on my scouts and I didnt ask my scouts to venture too far from England as I didnt really trust their judgement yet, and I didnt want to spend a lot of money on scouting. Another reason that I prefer players from England (EPL/Championship/League) is because I didnt have to worry about work permit.
As for which players to suggest, let me know what position are you looking for, maybe I can see how they do in my save. Few players I really like are Keinan Davis (ST from Aston Villa), Tarique Fosu (AMRL/AMC from Brentford), Conor Hourihane (MC/DM from Sheffield Utd), Rodrigo Muniz (ST from Fulham), Leif Davis (DCL from Leeds), Dujon Sterling (DRL from Chelsea), Macauley Bonne (ST/AMRL from QPR), Hayden Coulson (WBL/AML from Middlesborugh), Louie Barry (ST/AMRL from Aston Villa). I put the screenshots too below.
Good luck for your journey mate!
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After not playing FM for 2 years, I finally bought FM22 two weeks ago. I have not started with my (almost) annual Arsenal save yet, but thought I could share Arsenal's performance on my Ipswich (yes, I started my game with Ipswich, more on this later) save, managed by Arteta. Arsenal finished 6th in the first season (back in Europe , yay!) and as expected, Man city took the title. Arsenal won the FA Cup too this season. On top of the current signings, Arteta bought Joao Moutinho and Damsgaard (from Sampdoria). Had no idea who this guy is. He was decent for Arsenal.
In the second season, Arteta bought few more players. Surprisingly, he brought in Danny Ings from Aston Villa and sold Xhaka to Shabab Al-Ahli. This season, Arsenal did slightly better, finishing 5th, just two points behind Chelsea at 4th. Still no UCL for Arsenal but he was awarded with another contract, while Pep, just left Man City at the end of 2022/2023 season.
I'm at the start of season 2023/2024. Arsenal just sold Torreira back to Atletico Madrid and AMN to Fulham. No new players bought yet. That's all for now on how Arsenal on my save. If anybody is interested to know more, I'll post again at the end of this season. Enjoy your Arsenal save!
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4 hours ago, Caka said:
After a decent first half of the season, I sold him to Real Madrid like @kuraeero. I think I managed to get around 68M GBP for him.
He wanted a new challenge in 2021/22 season and sold him to Sheffield Utd (EPL team) for 41mill pound
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11 hours ago, Champfan10 said:
Same always injured for me, need to have another left back of similar quality to cover him at all times.
He was solid for me in 2019/20 season, played 35(2) with 5 assists and avr rating of 7.04. Injured few times in 2020/21 season, managed to play only 20 games, but came back and has been solid in 2021/22 season, played 34 times, scored 2 goals with 6 assist. He played as WB (Su) for my team. His back up is Alex Telles, bought from FC Porto for 23mill pound. Very good back up imo.
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11 hours ago, ImDaWeasel said:
Hes solid when hes fully fit but it's no use for 8 games out the season. Chilwell has been a disappointment so far now looking at Vagnoman at Hamburg.
Tried to buy Chilwell too to be back up for Tierney, but figured out that since they are the same age, I cannot guarantee them to have enough playing time and might risk one to be unhappy. So went for older player thinking that Tierney could take one or two years to reach his potential. So I bought Alex Telles instead from FC Porto for 23Mill pound. He was my first choice left fullback for one and half season with Tierney in and out of the team due to injuries. Now Tierney has taken over as no 1 for that spot and Telles is happy to be getting lesser games than before. And he's a fantastic set piece taker too.
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22 minutes ago, SteveUK said:
Well done on winning the Europa and qualifying for the Champions League!, that Saka and Nelson situation sounds very odd, i'm surprised they aren't interested in renewing contracts, especially considering what you have achieved, what background/career did you choose for yourself at the start? in the squad dynamics are the team fully behind you? i would assume they would be, but i know if you select a low reputation background for your manager it can take a much longer time to gain a squad likes Arsenal's full backing, also do they have any clubs interested in signing them?
Exactly, it's very odd. I chose "Professional Footballer at National Level" with Continental Pro License. Managerial support is "Very Good". I'm trying to praise them as much as possible if they play well and see if this will change their mind. And there's no club interested in the at the moment. Oddly enough, the key players like Ozil and Bellerin agreed to extend their contracts. Will update how this progresses
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Nice thread. I'm in my second season with Arsenal save. Managed to win Europa League in the first season and qualified for Champions League spot (4th place) after game no 37, finishing the season ahead of Chelsea by just one point. I turned off the transfer in the new season, so played with the players that I had at the start of the game.
Anyway, anybody is having difficulty in renewing contract for Nelson and Saka? Both are "extremely uninterested" to enter into negotiation with me at the moment, despite playing quite a lot in the first season i.e. Saka 31(10) and Nelson 16(13). Their contracts run out in 2022 and I'm in Oct 2020 but would like to extend the contract asap as they have very good potential.
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never knew Leeds is a female.lol http://imageshack.com/a/img5/5895/ojet.png
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Funny Screenshots Thread
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I'm not sure this is considered funny or not, but certainly brilliant. I just signed this guy from Man City on free. After the pre-season, I just realised that I have an extra player that I can't register for the upcoming season. So I chose to leave this guy out. He is not happy and requested for a transfer. I obliged and look what I got for him for being with us for 2 months.
and this is the club's record transfer for now