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I've been playing this game since late 90's, starting with an old copy of cm2. Since the release of the first fm classic I haven't gone back to the full game, because touch was simpler. I'm not that good at the game and don't have to much time on hand and touch provided all most everything I wanted. Transfers, tactics and youth development, and the last one is the one area where I missed little bit more flexibility. Since fm22 touch isn't an option for me anymore, I'm going to have to switch to full. I'm curious if there are other players that have made that step and what where there experiences. What have you done to make full more like touch or have you gone all out? I'd like to keep this thread positive, so please no frustrations or rants 😅

For what it's worth this is also how I play, only difference is I use 2 wingers. I started using this formation in Argentina, first time and with an unbalanced team. So didn't work very well. Since I'm not really good in creating tactics, or knowing what attributes fit to a particular playing style, I fired up another save. In that save I have one of the best teams around and got it to work reasonably well. Now third team, predicted to be 12th and in religation battle when I jumped in. There philosophy is play with high tempo and high pressure and they have a lot of players with lots of aggression, stamina and work rate. And now this formation works really well with the vertical tiki-taka preset (tweaked though, some instructions didn't make sense)

Hey guys, I've been playing with an 42dm31 for a short period, eventually I went back to a traditional 4231. The reason for the switch is that I can't perform against a 442,and in my save that's a pretty common system for top teams. I'm a CL contender, used to be the biggest club but my focus is more on youth which has it downsides. My question is, how do you setup against a 442?

I would love if there was an option to set the level of difficulty like you have in Fifa (or any other skill game). And then at the highest level you could have a realistic transfer system. Not the way I would play it though, not that good at it. Even after all those years 😅

After touch 21 they killed this version

Or go to transfer history tab at atalanta

Unfortunately that option is removed. Or at least it hasn't been on untill fmt 20, I haven't played another version after that.

Championship manager 2. With only the English and Scottish leauge playable, I just found out there where more options 😅. I also played a lot of fifa manager back then, with Bobby Robson on the cover. Another milestone was the inclusion of playable Scottish leagues, albeit only in the PC version. For the first time in the series there was a selection of leagues to choose from at the start of the game - only one could be run at a time, however.

I like stuff from @Ö-zil to the Arsenal! It's a nice combination of building a club and following the progress combined with really inside full information.

I've had a CL winning squad with a third of the players coming thru my youth system. I'm still on fm20 and I didn't savescum. I did have to learn to be patient with my talents. Because next to all the top wonderkids from all around the world they didn't look as exiting. But when they where old enough the where good enough. (edit) had only 1 or 2 real star players though. And funnily enough not a single centre back that was good enough in 25 years.

I have had many players (mainly strikers) that don't perform well on there preferred side. Simply because my tactic worked better when the where on the other side.

This is gold 👊🏻 I've read a lot about fm, a lot, but I've never understood passing completely.

For me it's also about testing the water a bit. If they ask a rediculous price but are willing to sell they usually come down to a more reasonable price when the negotiations start. If they don't, they don't want to sell

Between 200 and 300. I used to have a talent list and a short list, before that I had a short list per position (because I regularly retrain). Over time I just put it all in one list which contains a lot of players

I can't watch full matches, I find it extremely boring. Beginning of a season with a new team I might do it to really see what's going on. But after that I watch everything in highlights, I do watch the full highlights though. To be fair I can't watched a regular game of football for the same reason.

I can do this in FMT, so there's a difference in how these versions work

Have you checked if some of them have a second, Mexican nationality??

Some do, some dont. I always sign with the intention to sell and do take their salary in account with the selling price. And there are a couple of tricks to lower the salary, don't know if they still work in fm22 though. But a percentage of the transfer usually cuts a decent bit for example

I've seen this happen a lot in FM too though. Buying a high performer for a high fee and then that player doesn't perform anymore and gets sold in 1 or 2 years. I've made a pretty penny with buying these players (back) for a small fee and selling them again for big profits.

I can't recall which CM's I've owned but from the FM's I stopped buying every version after 2008. I've played FM08 Fm13 Fm15 FMT17 & FMT20. FMT21 will probably my last version, so I'll play that one forever 😁 But I'm still enjoying 20 a lot. But to be honest I really start enjoying the game at the point where there are all most no real players. Don't know why, but there's something about newgens that I enjoy more then real players. So I to holiday until 2040 or something like that 😅 The only reason I update is because of new features. Not the database.

I usually try to beat records ingame, in real life or my own. Increase the leagues position in Europe.. Trying out systems, roles etc. Getting a new stadium and offcourse let it be named after me (never happend) Retiring regens from my own youth academy Building a squad around youth products. Not the ones I bought very young, but who came from the youth intake.

I'm playing a really long save atm where I've made Feyenoord one of the biggest clubs in the world. It's a fun distraction from my really hectic life and most importantly not to difficult. Got enough real management puzzles in reality 😅 The thing that keeps it interesting is switching up systems. And your thread sparked an idea. I won't hijack your thread because I'm going to use it in a different way, more possession oriented. But I've used your formation and a lot of the instructions as a starting point. Have to say I like the early looks of it. I will use a counter attacking version for the later CL stages and if you're interested I will drop in an update here.

Just tried it out (1 one game). 1st half of a wc game against Real Madrid, was completely blown of the pitch. With the exception of a player with good flair in the regista spot I do feel I got the right personnel. Since I did wanted to win the game I switched to a much higher dline and LoE combined with counterpress. And then the tables where turned. (Lost however to a 90+3 corner 😅) I got some more experimenting to do in the upcoming pre-season. I like the idea a lot for my CL games, just need to figure out how to make it work with my players. Did you had any PI installed other the the one on the left back you mentioned?? Oh and I added pass into space, have you ever tried that?

He's currently getting his first full season, last year he was a rotational player. Switched to a two striker formation to make room for this guy. First matches he's banging in goals like there's no tomorrow 😁 I'm also using an attacking inverted wing back who's going to contribute with assists and long distance shots. He's got the look for killer pass and I'm thinking of adding shoot from distance.

I have a fantastic talented dlf, has all the qualities of a playmaker. Also possess the traits comes deep to get the ball and tries killer balls, but unfortunately has only 11 for passing. I got him at the age of 17 and really hoped to get this developed to 13/15 but he only got two points 9->11. His mentals are very good so I'm gonna keep him as a mentor for the next wonderkind I found with a nice pass rating of 14. I never had this combination for that role but what I see in game it's a really nice combo. I wonder what will happen if I get a striker with really high passing ratings