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45 minutes ago, the_hdk said:

yeah I agree and during transfer periods...dealing with all mad people becuase you declined offers....yeah I'm going to agree to 400k offer for someone who is worth 1-4mln. sure..its boring and takes away a big part of the fun for me. its a chore.

in other news....today full version is lauched? what time do we expect it?

4 pm UK time 

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I feel like this game is 50% football manager and 50% dealing with crazy behaviour. Players are complaining about everything, way more than previous versions.

My set piece coach got an offer from another club. I told him that I appreciated him and wanted him to stay. He got absolutely furious.... OK! 

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Energie Cottbus

Season summary 2028 - 2029

An unexpected promotion! 

 

Our fourth season in the 2nd Bundesliga and the last for at least a year! We secured promotion through play-offs, beating Union Berlin on away goals (2-2 on agg). We were really good this year and compared to last season we finished really strong, winning some key games at the end to stay in the promotion spots. 

Our young striker went from scoring 5 goals in 27 games last year to scoring 17 goals on 33 games this year, making a huge difference in our ability to win evenly played games. 

A big worry though is that big clubs are starting to bid heavily for our players, not suprprisingly they are very interested in Michael Greif. 18 years old with 11 goals and 11 assists from a CM position says it all, he is the heart and soul of this team! 

I am very worried about us in the Bundesliga next season. We are far from ready and to be honest I think I would have preferred another year in the 2nd Bundesliga. Hoepfully we can put in a decent battle and not losing any key players along the way. 

We had a medium/medium minus youth intake. After a poor intake last season I hope we are due for a golden generation again soon! I still cant get any upgrades to my youth training facilities, even though the club now has producing players from our academy as a strategic goal. This game really doesnt make sense sometimes. 

 

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1 hour ago, Perre8 said:

Oooh yes you need it a tool that changes your newgens faces to real ones in a few clicks depending on what region they come from

Am I an idiot? The answer is probably yes.

I have downloaded the tool and installed it. I have moved the "filter" and "views" file into the the fm24 folder in documents. I have also downloaded a newgen facepack and moved it to the fm24 folder under documents. I have also reloaded the background in-game, but not working. 

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6 hours ago, Winski said:

No, it's a fantastic facepack. They release a new facepack update quite often. You can use it with NewGan Manager, so it's very easy to use.

What is newgenmanager and do i need it?

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9 hours ago, Winski said:

I'm using the facepacks from "View From The Touchline".

Thanks! No bugs?

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I am sure this has been discussed, but are there any good facepack for regens out there? 

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Energie Cottbus

Season Summary 2027 - 2028

A solid, but uneven season

 

Our third year in the 2nd Bundesliga. We finished 7th place, which is our best result yet. I moved four players from the U19 team in to the starting 11 which also forced me to change tactics. This led to some uneven performances, but this is part of the challenge! 

We started the season poorly, really struggling to find any form what so ever. This changes around October and all of a sudden we played like an experienced top-tier side! At one point we found ourselves in a promotion spot, which made me very optimistic! The good times wasnt going to last though and the last couple of months of the season we played very poorly. 

A big highlight of the season was the performances and development of Michael Greif, by far our best player at 17 years old. I just fear the day that Bayern or Dortmund come knocking at the door..

We had another good intake, maybe without any standout players, but plenty of potential and good personalities. 

 

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Energie Cottbus

Season Summary 2026 - 2027

Another solid 2nd Bundesliga season

 

Our second season in the 2nd Bundesliga. We didn't repeat last years 8th place, but I wasnt expecting to either. We finished in 11th place and relegation was never an issue. In fact we started the season absolutely brilliant and after 8 games we were sitting top of the table! Things quickly settled down and we found our place in the middle of the table. 

In the last few games I promoted a couple of our biggest prospects to the first team. In doing so I made the decision to also overhaul our tactic, going from a flat 4-4-2 to a 4-3-3 with a DM. I did this to gain more flexibility with the players available, including our biggest talents. This was an absolute disaster and now I am a little bit worried on how to attack next season..

Our youth intake was very good. Not as good as the outstanding intake last year, but still very good. Unfortunately the personalities weren't that great, so it will be exciting to see how they get on. 

 

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The board refuses to upgrade our youth training facilities, as they want to focus on improving the team via transfers and not youth development. This wasn't  a big issue on FM22 and its really frustrating, but its way more realistic! 

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15 hours ago, GS_Ball said:

Playing my first ever youth academy challenge and I can honestly say it's the most fun I've had on a football manager save 🙂

And its also no going back to playing «normal» IMO

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Energie Cottbus

Season Summary 2025 - 2026

Great first 2nd Bundesliga season + fantastic intake

 

Our first season in the 2nd Bundesliga and we performed a lot better than I expected. We finished in 8th place, which feels strange as I was close to the relegation zone for large parts of the season. But even though we had periods in which we struggled to win games, we never really got outplayed and as the season went on we got better and better. 

In the last 14 games we won 8, and this really sent us up the table. I really hope the board doesn't expect a mid table finish next year, as even though we have young good players, no one is ready to step up quite yet, so the team for next season is identical. I do think we will survive though, we seem to good to be relegated (hope that statement doesnt come back to bite me). 

Last year, our first season, had a bad intake, but this year we had a fantastic one, almost 10 out of 10. Several positions with 5 star potential players. Michael Greif looks like a potential superstar, really excited about him! 

The board now wants to build a new stadium, but there is nothing spesific yet. At the end of the season the board granted another upgrade of our training facilities, unfortunately they declined upgrading the youth facilities. We also now have exceptional academy coaching and good youth recruitment. 

 

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1 hour ago, XaW said:

You were in the 3. liga, no?

A very good season! Hope you complete it with them, after all no West German outside of Berlin have ever won the Bundesliga! It's one of the reasons why I've tried the challenge with them so many times, but never succeeded.

Thanks for the heads up. I actually used a former excel template from my Cottbus save on FM23 when I wrote this up, and forgot to change 2nd Bundesliga to 3rd Bundesliga for the 24-25 season! 

A good season indeed, and I have now gotten promoted the first year with Cottbus on all my three YAC-saves. Both of my previous completions have been done in 2033, but this time I am sure it will take a lot longer, if at all! 

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Energie Cottbus

Season Summary 2024 - 2025

First season promotion

 

I decided to return to Energie Cottbus, a team I have completed the challenge with on FM20 and FM23. Some of the players are still there from last year and I really enjoy doing the challenge in Germany. 

I really like this new ME and I had some great success with a traditional 4-4-2 flank play-oriented tactic. Quick counters and two really good strikers built a really good foundation for a very successful campaign. We won the league, and even though the fight for the title came down to the last game we at least secured promotion a couple of rounds before the end of the season. 

I got improvements to our training facilities as well as completing two coaching badges and starting my third before the season was over. 

I signed a great HOYD, but we had a bad intake. Unfortunately I didn't take a screenshot of it, but it was very few highlights. 

I am a little scared of how we will do in the 2nd Bundesliga, I just hope we somehow can avoid relegation. 

 

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Injuries really are turned up this year. First serious goalkeeper injury I can really remember, already in the first season! But more realistic than before, even though it seems injuries in general needs to be turned down a little bit! 

Edit: Another GK injury. Crazy

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Really like the ME, really like the new set pieces, really like the processing speed. 

Basically I really like FM24

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14 minutes ago, XaW said:

It was removed because it's illegal to do so in real life. Quite a good reason! And that is also removes an exploit is fine by me.  

Agree, it's a good thing! I basically stopped using it for the last two FM's, good that its gone! 

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I see that there are no more fining players for poor performances anymore. There goes free determination skill points! 

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Another year, another thread from @darren1983, the biggest source of FM joy! 

Long time no see everyone! I am planning to return to the challenge this year, after leaving FM23 behind in February, I lost 100% of FM motivation. Great to see this challenge getting more and more participants! 

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1 hour ago, The Amazing Dale Watkins said:

Some feedback to hopefully address in FM25: I wish we could get away from the strictly binary gender system for managers. Why don't you simply provide a variety of body types (from masculine to feminine and anything in between) and pronouns and let people pick what they like? It would also make it easier to find any hairstyle you want (why is that gendered in the first place?).

I think that would be a much more welcome addition than face paint.

Is this a joke?

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Epic Store is the true winner of this ordeal

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5 minutes ago, Dagenham_Dave said:

It'll certainly be very interesting if the beta DOES drop at 4pm today. Questions will need to be asked! 

About how to decide on your set pieces?

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8 minutes ago, gunner86 said:

Is it yesterday already?

Everyday is the same on this thread

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7 minutes ago, nunch98 said:

He was letting us know he has a teleprompter 

About as funny as the FM YouTube videoes 

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Just now, tropicsafc said:

Excited for the beta this afternoon.

Who's using real world, your world etc and why?

Whats the differences?