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7 minutes ago, Spanner said:I am not negative. I am netrual...its just i don't understand how you play or why you play that way based on the basic ideal of the game and what you are changing.
Anyway, i am going to play call-of-duty and be invisibile and guess what!?... you can't kill me .....great fun, awesome.
Completely absurd comparison. CoD is multiplayer, which means cheating comes at the expense of other humans. In a singleplayer game like FM, no one else beyond the player is affected (unless he starts bragging about how well he does while cheating, which is not what's going on here). There's no need to play the fun police.
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When do you get to play the clubs in the relegation zone? Quite the front-loaded schedule you've had.
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Linetty for me is the engine of a midfield three. He's not your holder but he's not the creative force or the major goalscorer either. I also agree with @coady that you might be better off trying to counterattack with your front 4 or 5, and leaving the rest to sit back and provide a solid foundation.
I like a 4-3-3 for that personally, because I think it works well with the split block for a more front-foot counterattack. You give your front three plus two of your midfielders PIs to close down aggressively, and the rest default to a calmer overall setting. So you can start counterattacks by winning the ball with quick pressure in the other end, or, if they get past you there, by turning them over in your end once they've committed bodies forward. That's how I understand it at least.
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Solid away point there against Lazio, and I bet it feels even better given the late equalizer. Judging from the match stats (which isn't always advisable) it looks like you were good value for it too.
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I love the sentimentality of the old Derby players showing up in these threads. Makes the save feel more real. Shame Baiano isn't a better coach though.
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I tried to make heads or tails of it and couldn't. You ought to be able to sign three with no restrictions, since you only have one non-EU player. But your DoF is talking as if you signed Shelvey this season. You're definitely OK to make two signings, but beyond that I really don't know.
On a different note entirely, I see why that squad finished 14th in Serie A last year. Not great with the mental stats, not a ton of pace, and not terribly creative either. I think Riedewald is actually a pretty shrewd signing by your predecessor, because he can at least pass and defend (in FM anyway). You've certainly got work to do.
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I really enjoyed the update style during the job search--very engagingly done.
I'll be interested to see the quality of the side you've inherited here. Not sure how much poaching from your old club you'll be able to do this time though.
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Shame about the Marseille job. Looked like they had a pretty congenial and realistic vision too.
Was there anything about Marseille or the French league that piqued your interest specifically, or was it just that the job happened to come up while you were thinking about greener pastures?
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Mochrie looks a tidy player. Shame about the workrate and strength, but pretty good spread of traits otherwise. Hope he fills out that room to grow!
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A bit demoralizing to lose to PSG and United like that, but you're going through to the Europa so that's something. Not sure what you could have done without really shutting up shop in all those games either.
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United beat Olympiakos 15-1? Yikes.
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Completely understandable that you might not have the mental wherewithal to write up those narrative posts these days. It's supposed to be fun, so don't do it if it isn't, particularly in these times.
My deepest sympathies to you and yours.
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I don't like taking over the big dog in a league in which I'm already managing, which in my mind would militate against Celtic. I also dislike the club IRL and so wouldn't manage them in-game.
But I think, as has been said, that it really depends on your aims. If you go to Celtic it can't really be about just winning the league. You've got to have some other aim (European glory, totally homegrown squad, etc.) or else I fear it might get stale. Of course a season or two smashing everybody is often really good fun. On the other hand, if you're looking to knock Celtic off their perch you obviously can't go manage them.
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Sorry to be late replying, @Stuniverse. Having looked over your squad, I don't really like them that much for a 4-1-2-3, it must be said. Sam Field is basically your only player I'd feel comfortable dropping into that anchoring role, though he would do it well. You have some decent options to put in CM in front of him, so that wouldn't be a worry. Curtis Jones I think would do really well cutting in from the left to chip in with the attack, but I don't see a left back who's going to do a very good job overlapping him. Middleton I think would do decently cutting in off the right--he's got some dodgy mental stats but this is the Scottish Prem so nobody's going to be perfect--but again there's the issue of who's going to overlap him and take advantage of that space, and I don't really see anyone. If you didn't want to play Liverpool-style, but wanted one cutting in and one running down the wing, say, the issue would be then I think that you don't have a really good right winger yet--since Jones is the one who makes sense to me as your inside forward/inverted winger. Nicholson I think is going to be really good for you next season, but he has a little growing to do before he's indubitably the main man there.
And none of your strikers look to me like they'd do great playing by themselves up top. Shankland I think needs close support, since he's not fast and not a great dribbler. Incidentally, his Plays with Back to Goal and Comes Deep to Get Ball don't seem to work with the kind of player he is all that well. Hornby is physically a good target man, but he's not got either the touch or passing capability you'd want from a target man in a 4-1-2-3. Idah might be your best bet if you were playing a counterattacking style, since he's quick and can finish.
Anyway, those are my thoughts. Your other option for a little more defensive solidity when you need it might be a 4-4-2 in which you drop the CMs back to DM, and then really go in for direct counterattacking football.
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On 31/03/2020 at 02:38, Stuniverse said:
Thank you, @Tajerio. Funnily enough, usually 4-1-2-3 is one of my go-to systems on FM along with 4-2-3-1 as this is what Derby have played over the last few seasons in real life. I can’t remember if I tried 4-1-2-3 while at Falkirk but I definitely haven’t tried it at Hibs.
Is the squad set-up for it would be the question. I tend to play 4–1-2-3 with a wide front three so one out-and-out striker and two wingers, but the wingers aren’t the strongest area of my squad and also in the 4-4-2 the wingers / wide midfielders is where I get the most inconsistency and chop-and-change the most. Central midfield is one of my strongest areas, and I do play a DLP on Su in central midfield (Sam Field, usually) but haven’t tried dropping him back. I don’t think I have an out and out DM or BWM as when I put a man in front of the back-four to shore things up, on the rare occasions I did that, it was usually a DC I put there.
We’re also very strong up front with Shankland, Hornby and Hepburn-Murphy. Does 4-1-2-3 work with three out-and-out strikers?
I remember 4-3-3 Narrow was a bit of a cheaty tactic a couple of FMs ago. Nobody really plays with it in real-world football, so it ought to get exploited, but I don't know how it works with FM20 really.
Now, depending on how your strikers dribble/cross and how they move, you could shunt a couple of them out to the wing. If I recall correctly Shankland is a poacher type and Hornby's something of a TM, which makes getting them into a 4-1-2-3 a little tricky, but it's doable. I'd have to see their stats to say anything else reasonable about it though.
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On the tactics point--without really knowing your squad, a 4-3-3 (or as FM sometimes calls it, a 4-1-2-3) can provide a flexible defensive base while still letting you have some punch up top. The quality of the DM is obviously key, and I don't know what sort of quality is available in the squad/on the transfer market, but it might be something to ponder.
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17 minutes ago, Stuniverse said:
What is the Euro Cup II?
I hadn’t heard of the Euro Cup II until I was managing in it with Hibernian in the fourth season of this save. A search on Google led me to this BBC article which suggests it’s a new competition that UEFA will introduce from 2021 and will directly affect countries outside of the 15 top-ranked countries which, at the time the article was written, included Scotland. I’m still a bit confused as it reads like a competition to qualify for the following season’s Europa League. Let’s hope I can manage Hibernian to success in the Euro Cup II so that we can find out together how it works.
BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46421656
This article from FM20 talks about it in FM20: https://www.fmscout.com/a-new-fm20-competition-europa-league-2.html
Has anybody got their head around what the Euro Cup II and how it works yet?
It'll be called the Europa Conference League in real life. Basically, UEFA are trimming down the Europa League to 32 teams in the group stages, like the Champions League, which will get rid of one round of knockouts in the Europa League. But they're putting the excess teams into a third competition (the Conference League I'll call it), in order to get more teams involved in the later stages of a continental competition (as opposed to having lots of minnows get knocked out in qualifying rounds for the Europa League proper). There will be very few spots for teams in higher ranked associations--the top five only send one team, and the next ten only two. Everybody goes through playoffs--nobody goes straight to the group stage.
There's also a playoff after the group stage in which the second-ranked teams in the Conference League play the third-ranked teams from the Europa League to decide who joins the first-ranked teams from the Conference League in the knockouts (confusing enough?). The winner of the whole thing goes straight to the Europa League group stage the next year, just like the winner of the Europa League goes straight to the Champions League the next year.
The Wikipedia article on it gives a decent breakdown I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Europa_Conference_League.
There's also UEFA's own info: https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/0256-0e9a05634e35-236276d37822-1000--uefa-europa-conference-league-what-is-it-when-does-it-start-who/
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4 hours ago, Baodan said:
It seems obvious that there is in fact more to it, but I'm not gonna press it any further.
Can't people just like something?
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43 minutes ago, themadsheep2001 said:
I'm being light-hearted here, but if you want massive graphical leaps, and also AI leaps, stop playing on machines slightly more powerful than a toaster
(this is obviously not possible and the ability for almost anyone to play is part of the appeal)
I am never giving up my dual-potato core processor, thank you very much!
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I managed both Spurs and Dortmund--on different saves--back in FM17. The Spurs save was enjoyable until I won all the trophies there were to win. The Dortmund save stayed enjoyable because I got invested in my players, and I ended up playing the game more to see my individual players do well than anything else. But I don't think I'd do a "big club" save again, unless I did a journeyman save and put some signing restrictions on myself.
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23 hours ago, FrazT said:
I understand where you are coming from and of course it probably wouldn't be in a real life situation. This , however , is a computer game and there will need to be some parameters that are taking into account when trying to calculate a result. Luckily it is only one of many that are used.
I was under the impression that reputation was only used as a direct factor in calculating results in AI vs. AI matches in competitions not set to full detail. I know it has an indirect effect--reputation is the main way the AI measures how good a team is, and, therefore, how attacking or defensive to be--but I didn't think it would ever matter as a direct input into the simulation in a match in which the human player is involved.
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4 hours ago, _Ben_ said:
Transfers: Marquee signing
I've gone completely like for like here - replacing a right back with a marquee signing in the same position. Outgoing is Jacopo Valentini - a hugely physical full back, who really doesn't offer much going forward, yet has always chipped in where possible:
He moves on to Spurs for £12m after nearly three hundred games for us.
Incoming is Argentine Alexis Orellana for a fee of £22m from Real Sociedad:
Similarly physical and decisive, yet utterly brilliant in a couple of necessary areas - crossing, technique and work rate and, skewing his attributes further, he is two footed. We are really trying to build a team of superb footballers and having this kind of offensive quality playing so deep means that we have yet more options. I won't even go into too much detail about the personality and media handling too, as they are a dream! Hopefully he can add the final piece to our jigsaw!
What an funky player--half attacking wingback, half midfield playmaker. Very interested to see how he gets on.
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13 minutes ago, WojciechZed said:
Not really, since I mentioned 'whacky' and also wrote the word 'conspiracy' in brackets, to show it wasn't actually that serious. Most of the time, the word conspiracy theory is associated with people who make stuff up, not that I was, but I am well aware that this theory I made, all those years ago, seemed daft, if nothing else because why would the creators follow such a weird pattern?
Sounds like you're trying to have it both ways there. If it was a dumb theory why'd you spend any time spinning it out for us? Or did you just want to have a ridiculous moan but then be able to hide behind "lol jk I said it was wacky though"?
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I are going to suggest that maybe your squad has mediocre values for Pressure, but it's not really close enough to the run-in for that I wouldn't think. Are you perhaps falling victim to the old "teams changing approach due to midseason reputation recalculation" swoon?
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(this is obviously not possible and the ability for almost anyone to play is part of the appeal)
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Hopefully this time through the tough run you can pick up a few more points. European football seems like a bit of a stretch given the clubs above you, but you're certainly in a solid position to fulfill the board's expectations for this year.
You have that striker from Serie B joining you in January, I remember--do you have your eye on anyone else?