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5 minutes ago, rp1966 said:
Weird manager movements still going on. Guardiola left (not sacked) Man City at the end of the 2022/23 season without moving to another club - fair enough, maybe some code triggered a 'new challenge' resignation. However, the team he's gone to for the start of the 2023/24 season is Chelsea who finished 3 places lower than City. If he'd moved to another league it could be rationalised, but to leave for a team lower in the same league makes no sense when that team does not have greater prospects than the one he left.
To me, Man City and Chelsea look the same in terms of prospects. It's not like he's gone to West Ham. Also, there aren't that many places that Pep could possibly go to as he'd definitely not go to a team without money. What's left, Real Madrid???
I think he's going to Chelsea as a "new challenge" to see what all the fuss about Sterling is about!
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I usually sell them, as when managing a smaller club, the money coming in is usually worth it and I may find someone better. I actively start looking for someone better right away. The money may also help me in better squad building too.
I never offer them out, but I'll accept a request to leave. Still, I won't accept bids that I don't deem to be worth it, though I'm never unrealistic and I'm willing to negotiate.
If I really want them to stay, then I don't offer them out and I don't accept their request to leave. I carry on playing them and I'm hoping that success on the field and the time that lapses will eventually calm them down to the point where I can offer them a new contract. If the board intervenes then I surrender and just argue their value with whoever tries to get them, so I can get as much as I think they can afford to separate with.
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I've made my peace with the ME years ago, so I don't let it frustrate me.
I know when I get a corner that there'll be one opposition player unmarked outside their penalty area who will get the ball to his feet nine times out of ten and drive straight through my defence, but not always scoring - I keep 3 players staying back at all times (and make sure that none of them are taking the corners). I know my players will walk the ball out of the pitch, while the opposition player will manage to get there and in one go send a curling ball across almost half the pitch to land perfectly at the feet of one of their attackers - never seen any of my players do that. I know the long kick of the ball and over my defence will be perfectly controlled by an onrushing attacker driving unopposed right through the heart of my defence to score a goal - but that happens for me too, though not as often. In this version, in my beta save, I lost 3 games on the run by one crazy shot in each from outside the area and the other team had an xg of 0.01 at the end of the match and I had xg of over 3.00 and an average of 3 CCCs & 5 half chances from around 12 total shots (no penalties) - such was my luck.
Even though I know some things will happen in a certain bad way for me and I experience new ways that things go bad for me, I still just roleplay it in my mind as a misunderstanding, bad luck or something else and move on - I ain't got time to lead myself into a negative place.
I understand football, tactics and movement when I see it live or on TV and I can talk about them for hours, but I know that I'm terrible at being able to recreate anything from scratch in the FM tactics board, so I just stick with the presets and occasionally I win. What I find works for me is that if I persist with the tactic and the familiarity and team cohesion increases then eventually my team will get better in winning - this seems to work better when playing with teams that are predicted to finish middle of the table and lower than what it does with big teams - more forgiving I guess. And then when I gain in reputation I join a big team and carry on with the success. I'm lenient with my team when it is building on familiarity and team cohesion, so I don't let the bad results get to them, while still telling them it's unacceptable when I really think it is, but I always defend the team and myself with the media. It's a strategy that seems to be working for me.
My irrelevant opinion is that the ME will never be as perfect as I would like it to be and nobody else will ever come close to what SI is achieving with it. They've entertained me for more than 25 years and I can play the game, so I'm happy with it!
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On 18/11/2022 at 08:24, Dutchy1983 said:
So many screens I'm in, I click back and it never goes one screen prior, takes you way back every time.
You may wish to un-tick the option "Leave player (or staff) screen when you click Back" in Preferences under Interface (Player Screen). That may solve some of the issues you have there.
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8 hours ago, rusty217 said:
Ah, you're one of those that gets all pedantic about the word "champion". You'd prefer the champions of the Faroe Islands or something to be in the tournament than a quality team like Napoli?
Yeah, I'd much rather see good teams playing each other, eg. the matches between Liverpool and Napoli this year rather than Real Madrid spanking semi-pro teams every other week.
Nothing I've said has "proved your point". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hypocrite this link might help since you apparently don't know what the word means.
Being in favour of a competition where teams have to prove their worth on the pitch every year to qualify while being against the super league where teams have guaranteed places and can't ever miss out on the competition isn't hypocritical at all.
It's all Greek to you, isn't it?
So, you want to see the best teams play each other rather than seeing Real Madrid spanking semi-pro teams every other week and, let me think, oh yeah, the best teams are the same teams that play in the group stage of UEFA's Super League every year - then yeah, it is hypocritical to claim that the two are somehow different.
Also, have you noticed how your words are so close to how the Super League was promoted? "The best clubs. The best players. Every week." Those are all your arguments in favour of UEFA's Super League, aren't they? Oh, and in UEFA's Super League almost all clubs from the top 4 leagues are guaranteed a place in the group stage every year, making it 16 guaranteed places --- oh, all of a sudden it doesn't sound so much different from the Super League promoted philosophy of 15 founders and 5 annual qualifiers, does it? Imagine 193 matches between the best 20 teams every year rather than just the paltry what - 40/50 matches now. Doesn't it just make you salivate!!!
What did you say, there are around 16 other clubs in UEFA's Super League- not just 5? But didn't you say you wanted the best teams to play each other... erm, wouldn't that make you an advocate of the Super League, too? Why play against these other 16 teams when you can guarantee to play against the best teams every week rather than spank "semi-pro" teams every other week, huh?
Is your problem that maybe Leicester, Real Sociedad, Atalanta or Hertha Berlin do not get a chance to play in this? They've hardly played in UEFA's Super League in the last 30 years, have they? That is why you're insisting with this? Because one privileged team is not as privileged as the top teams are? And your argument is that this one privileged team should get a chance, but not the ones less privileged than it?
Yeah, right! Hahaha!!!
I'm a "champion" pedant, oh yeah! Not a "super" freak like Gary Neville, Sky & the rest of the hypocrites who freak out every time they hear the word "super" in football! Thank you for the laughs!!!
Good night and good bye! *mic drop*
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1 hour ago, rusty217 said:
It doesn't prove your point. UCL places are earnt. The top countries have earnt more places than the other countries, they earnt them on merit.
That's not like the super league at all.
Hahaha!!! Half the teams that play in the group stage of the "Champions" League are not "Champions", just UEFA's way to reward the money "earnt" from the teams of the top 4 leagues and therefore a Super League.
The basis of UEFA's structural changes to the Champions League since its change from the European Cup is exactly the same as the one the Super League envisioned - it's the same teams and national football associations that influence UEFA after all. Money, money, money!!!
I think we've established as clear as a sunlit day that I hate the new Champions League format, but I hated all its iterations too - while you just love it to bits! Money, huh?
I have now said the same thing three times and each time your reply has proved my point! You can have the last say, bye!
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10 hours ago, rusty217 said:
Not really. Basically everything you described there shows how the UCL is based on merit. The biggest criticism of the super league was that it was a closed competition with teams guaranteed places, ie. not based on sporting merit. It's not at all hypocritical to complain about that while liking the UCL since it's not really an issue in the UCL. It's important to note that it's the top 4 leagues that get 4 group stage places, not England, Spain, Germany & Italy. Theoretically any country could be among the top 4 leagues, they aren't fixed.
You could certainly argue that the UCL is a bit too biased towards the stronger leagues (something I'd agree with), but you certainly can't claim that it's similar to the super league in that regard.
I stand by all I said, because "a bit too biased" is still biased. Also, all the things you said just prove my point.
You've got a weird definition of the word "merit" when you also say that you see the UCL is a bit too biased towards the stronger leagues. Most (if not all) of the rules are made in such a way that they only benefit the few.
So yeah, I can certainly argue that the UCL is similar to the SL because... money rules!
I just can't stand the fake romanticism of some people, particularly those that don't see that their teams are benefitting enormously by either of the two systems because deep down they are one and the same! Well, UEFA has fooled them all by further enhancing their own SL while they feel they beat the big enemy away! Hahaha!!!
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4 hours ago, HighFlyingDwarf said:
I just played the Europa League League Phase for the first time. I have two main points.
1. The diversity of matchups does create a certain degree of excitement.
2. There will be major blowback from people who see the Champions League as turning into a Super League via the backdoor, just owned by UEFA.
UEFA announced this monstrosity in May 2021. The Super League was announced in April 2021. People were too blinded by Gary Neville and Sky to realise that they are being played and the Super League is happening. The big teams and the top 4 leagues want a bigger cut and UEFA is giving it to them, as they have always done, because their monopoly is seriously challenged.
The 4th team in almost all of the top 4 leagues could go straight to the group stage of the Champions League thanks to its country's co-efficient, while the champions of the 12th best league in Europe may have to play 3 or 4 qualifying rounds in the Summer when they build their teams and pre-season gets squeezed by international competitions. Tottenham have never won a Premier League and go straight to the group stage while Olympiakos Piraeus who's won 17 of the last 20 leagues in Greece almost always have to play in the qualifying rounds (3 this year from mid July).
And by opening up the other European competitions to those that fail in the one above, makes sure that the teams from the top 4 leagues that failed in the previous ones and those that finish between 5th place and 8th place in the top 4 leagues can win those too, therefore making it even more difficult for teams from other countries in Europe to win any of them. It's almost certain now that teams like Steaua Bucharest, Red Star Belgrade, Panathinaikos (boo!), Goteborg, Dundee United will never play in a final again.
The next time you hear a fan from any of the top 4 leagues complain that the bigger teams are benefiting by UEFA or cry about the Super League call them hypocrites and laugh at their face because they are too part of the problem.
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On 15/11/2022 at 17:47, thehig2 said:
well in game I like it, scraped in to knockout round with Everton finishing 24th
I'm glad you like it!
And thank you for proving my point that the change only benefits the top 4 leagues in Europe, while my team in Greece (being the champions) have to play 3 or 4 qualifying rounds in the summer with no chance of a pre-season (and even worse if there's an international competition taking place too).
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It's a terrible idea! They just changed it to make sure that all the teams from the top 4 leagues make it to the next round and get all the money, i.e. a Super League!
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Choose the option tangfu or tangfu2 to see them in percentages as shown below:
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I'm really enjoying this skin and it's easy on the eye.
Thank you for sharing it.
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Have you seen Adama Traore's shoulders - they extend to almost half the pitch!
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Oh, I was expecting a diatribe on how the Germans were actually behind Brexit
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I'm very frustrated with FM20, much more than any of their previous iterations (including CM4).
I have played this game for more than 1100 hours already and my average for each year runs to more than double that.
I've had success, but mostly failed in most of my objectives in every save I started - and I still carry on playing.
Maybe the next (last?) patch will make me happy again and maybe it won't - if it doesn't then I'll cross it off as a failed attempt by SI for this year.
Still, when I calm down and think about it overall, I really don't care if SI fail every now and then, because of what they've given me in the past and hopefully in the future too.
I'll keep on supporting their independence as much as I can because I trust them - you know, they're much like "family" now... and if I don't support family then who would I support? [EA?
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That's just how I feel and I think SI should hear from everyone, not just the moaners.
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3 hours ago, bossland said:
If i understand you right, find: "YACS > panels > match > fixture details panel.xml"
On line 8 edit " layout= " and change the numbers to, for example, "-3,-1"Awesome! Thank you thank you thank you
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I'm really enjoying the darker skin, thank you!
If I had one suggestion to make for your next update of this amazing skin then that would be for the "opponent details" part of the Schedule page to be a tad smaller, so one can see more of the fixtures. I've seen this done on another skin and I liked it a lot, but it's not a biggie. It may not work for you so please don't feel obliged.
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19 hours ago, deauvillais said:
on the competition summary page, no match appears after match
please help me
Isn't that when the World Cup is on in Qatar? I think the draw for the next round of the European competitions is made after the World Cup.
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This poll makes 30 year old's feel really old!
I love it!
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11 hours ago, DoQmentz said:
Phillistine underdog story mod
Best description ever!
I leave both lines (defensive/engagement) on standard and don't press as much in order to lure them out a bit and I seem to enjoy a bit of success against them now.
Unfortunately, I still see very low conversion of big chances by all sides compared to real life, loads of missed penalties (8 consecutive by Messi in an abandoned in rage save) and idiotic defending movement. The representation of my team's tactics on this ME is making the match very confusing because it is very difficult to read. Most of the conceding seems to come through set pieces, over the top balls of immense accuracy & when under pressure where world class defenders first instinct is to split apart and then chase after the ball and all of your wide players crossing plays exactly the same way (they dribble past their man and rather than crossing they wait for their man to come back and knock it on him to win a corner) irrespective of whether I told them to go to the byline or hit early crosses.
My assistant manager at Liverpool once advised me to start my next match against Dover Athletic (from the conference league) on a cautious/defensive mentality. I feel like the game is trying to tell me that absolutely everything it taught you in previous versions on how to win is now completely worthless.
However, I watch every match now from beginning to end and act on what I see all the time because I don't trust my players anymore to act as per the roles insinuate they would act. I'm only using basic roles/duties and very basic team instructions and then during the match I make the changes I would have made when creating my tactic and it's working a lot better.
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The only way I can think of to achieve this, besides Quick Picks, is to create your second tactic from the template of the first. This is good if your formation sort of compensates for the capability of the same players playing in different positions in the different tactics.
The reason the players get moved about is because the positions in each tactic don't follow the same order. So, for example, if you have a tactic with 3 midfielders, all playing in the centre of the pitch, and you decide to create a second with two and one in the DM position, you don't know which of the 3 midfielders will drop back. This is why I feel creating your next tactic from the template of the first one is advantageous because it allows you to change them quickly.
I have a tactic that has 3 players in the AM positions (AMR, AMC & AML), so when I created my second one that has two in the AMC positions and two strikers I just loaded my first tactic on the second slot and dragged the players around as my AMR can play as a striker and my AML can play as an AMC. Then I go on about changing any other team/player instructions etc.
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All this talk about statistics does not hide the fact that the ME is way behind logic and it makes it feel like the whole purpose of the game is to satisfy the statistics. It feels manipulated to prove them!
I've played this game since the early 90s and with FM20 and the way it is it makes me long for the commentary-only ME which left all to the imagination, because this ME is not just hurting my imagination it's messing with my eyes (and I already wear glasses).
I understand how difficult it is to have a 3D ME and I appreciate the effort been made and so I will continue to support this company. Nothing will ever change my love for this game and what this company has achieved.
So, patience it is! Good luck!
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18 minutes ago, bossland said:
Find: "YACS > panels > client_object > client object browser.xml"
Find Line 277 (ish) "<widget class="icon_button" id="INST" ..."
Delete the lines down to line 301 (ish) "</widget>"The lines my differ by version.
If you use Transparent skin, do it in that skin folder instead. Reload etc.
Fab! Thank you!
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Is there a way that I could safely remove the "Instant Result" button & functionality from this skin without breaking it? Not a biggie in any way.
I love this skin!
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I think this may depend on the team IRL, but at Liverpool I'm sure I've seen Henderson been given the armband by both Van Dijk and Milner several times, even when they haven't come off themselves at the same time.