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Just had to sign him. For some reason I have a feeling he'll be good. =D
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1 hour ago, Neckzz said:
But is there a chance that the AI Teams can catch up on you and start beating you?
Not really. Much more likely that you will only become more and more dominant over time (due to AI's horrible squad building). Anything can happen in individual matches of course, so you may not win the CL and other cups every year, but the league is quite certain to become rather boring.
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No, In FM, once you've gotten to the top, you'd have to mess things up on purpose to fall back. It's time to start a new save at that point imo.
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2nd season over. Nice improvement, finished 4th, annoyingly lost to York City in playoff semi-finals. We managed to improve in the key areas of weakness (CD, CM) and did a lot better. Tommy Stevens couldn't stop scoring and ended up the division's top scorer with 39(!) in the league.
Most important additions to the team were Connor Stevens, a solid CD who came on a free from Wealdstone:
Ben Stevens finally provided some creativity at CM, on a free from Luton:
I was happy with our goalkeeper last season but when we had a chance to sign Jack Stevens from Oxford Utd on a free I couldn't pass it up, and he was really solid.
With some further improvements, perhaps we can really challenge for promotion next season...
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Some of our current key players.
First up, Steven Hood, a 17-year-old goalkeeper who was solid all-year round, most likely our number 1 next season too. Personality is bad but I'm trying to improve it by mentoring.
Next, Stephen Akbas, a 22-year-old RB released from Hull . One our most important Steves, solid both defensively and a key threat going forward with his 12 assists.
Steven James is a centreback we managed to steal from division rival Eastbourne Borough for a hefty £675 in January in an attempt to improve our horribly inadequate defence. He's not great but he's the best we've got.
Steven Nolan is a left winger who had decent season with 13 goals and 6 assists.
Jack Stevens is a young striker/AMC who arrived after Christmas having being released by Oxford United. One of our best players perhaps attribute wise, scored 7 with 5 assists in 20 matches.
And finally, Tommy Stevens, another young striker, released by Reading. He was our top scorer with 20 goals in 40 league matches.
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Finished 1st season with the Steves. Difficult year with some rough spells. Early on it seemed we might challenge for the playoffs but a decline in form saw us finish in a comfortable mid-table position. I'm quite satisfied though, since we were predicted to be bottom and have the worst squad in the league by almost any attribute. Next year we'll try to improve the squad especially at CD and CM position, we desperately need defenders who can head and tackle and midfielders who can pick a pass every now and then. Youth intake was no help, not a single Steve in there so had to release the whole lot.
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Don't hold your breath waiting for that invitation. 7th season in the PL with Chester, won three consecutive titles and 1 UCL, no league invitation for U23 team in sight.
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No. Experience has zero value in the game and no amount technical or mental brilliance will compensate for waning physicals. This is one of the biggest reasons why human players enjoy enormous success in the game by playing a squad of 18-year-old inexperienced kids with pennies for wages while AI stacks their squads with established players who are useless by 32 but on huge wages.
I've experimented with several aging stars over the years in lower leagues but they are almost always failures and never worth the wages. The best I've actually seen was when I signed 40-year-old Aaron Wilbraham on a free for Chester in the Vanarama North. He bagged 19 goals that season before retiring at end of it. But even then most of his goals and good performances came during the early months, as his physicals were plummeting very fast during the season, and by the end of it he had gone from being the best striker in the division to utterly useless.
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3 hours ago, kevhamster said:
I find encourage is quite useful for keeping morale up if you go one goal down against a team you're expected to lose against.
That's true, I was using encourage quite lot when we still had a lot of matches where we were the clear underdogs. If your team is beginning to be the top dog it's much less effective.
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Throwing the water bottle has actually worked pretty well for me when losing at HT in match where we're the clear favourites. =D There may be one or two negative responses but those can usually be turned around with a more supportive individual pep talk. I also like the small bit of satisfaction it brings by rather accurately summarizing my actual feelings at such a moment.
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Is there ever a good time to use these shouts? I don't think I've had a positive reaction even once, even when those shouts would seem logical in the circumstances (e.g. "Focus!" after a lapse of defensive concentration during last 10 min of a game). Practically I only use "praise" and "berate", and sometimes "demand more" (although a positive reaction is also rather rare with that one).
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Loan fees are certainly tougher to receive in FM21 than FM20 and before, but I haven't really noticed any difference after the latest update-
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Wow. Corners.
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12 hours ago, sporadicsmiles said:
Not really wanting to jump in here, but you just described being good at the game as making the game easier. Which made me smile.
True enough =) but being able to create decent tactics should enable you to do ok in the game, not rocket you from non-league to the Champions League in a few years.
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2 hours ago, amadeo said:
Do you play with a plug and play tactic?
Never.
2 hours ago, amadeo said:With my CM/FM experience tactics are maybe the most important factor for good results.
Agreed, but you don't need to use unrealistic exploitative super-tactics to overachieve, any decently balanced but attacking-minded tactic that suits your players will do.
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2 hours ago, zindrinho said:
Wow, really? Do you remember ca which version this was implemented?
Not sure when exactly, but it's been the case for at least a couple of years. Tbh it feels a bit too effective, unless you fine them when they actually played ok or fine excessively (2 weeks wages) there's almost never a negative reaction. Either "accepted without comment" or the +1 boost in work rate / determination. I suppose the reaction you get does also depend on player personality.
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1 hour ago, themadsheep2001 said:
I really haven't found them to impact any of that particularly hard tbh.
My DLP getting a rating of 6.5 when he plays well allows me to fine him for bad performance after every game. Has done wonders to his work rate and determination.
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13 hours ago, amadeo said:
To those who find the game too easy...
Which team are you playing with and why is it so easy?
I'm asking because I have now played with a top side and a amateur side in Denmark. With both teams I have had it very difficult. Actually, I have struggled so much that it has affected my game experience.
Playing with Chester. Had 5 back-to-back promotions from VNN to PL, just won the PL in 2030. It's too easy due to multitude of factors, but most importantly; the AI can't adapt their tactics and is too defensive, the AI is horrible at squad building. Finding wonderkids (who somehow preferably sign for the human player) is way too easy, and their development is way too fast. The Ai stacks their squads with overpaid 31-olds who are quickly overpowered by the wonderkid army of the human player, as experience has zero value in the game world.
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It's too easy.
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8 minutes ago, Pasonen said:
Another proof there's no point going too defensive no matter who you're. If you would have let AI play your game the shot would be 25 Vs 2 4-0 lost. Just because AI tries to play the game defensive like in real world and loses because that doesn't work.
Looking at Jose Mourinho and Spurs, it doesn't work in the real world either.
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Using plug-and-play tactics of course makes it even easier, but let's be honest , it's way too easy to overachieve exactly in the same way with any decent tactic of your choice (in particular ones with higher mentality and pressing). For some reason consecutive promotions from the lower leagues to the PL are much easier though than winning the PL is. This is probably because as a newly promoted side with low rep, you are grossly underestimated by the AI managers, and it's really easy to punish them for it. In the PL it's quite easy to achieve a top-half finish in your first season, but actually toppling the big 6 does usually take a few seasons because of the huge financial resources they have.
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Deep-lying playmakers seem to struggle a lot to get decent ratings. In early versions of FM21 it was the other way around and they were almost always the highest rated players on the pitch. Looks to me like some sort of over-correction was performed to downgrade playmaker ratings in the more recent patches.
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Yep, this is the ultimate challenge of FM. Forget winning the Premier league or Champions league, getting an U23 team playing competitive matches is when you've finally made it.
(5th year in the PL with Chester currently, still waiting for the U23 league as well)
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(5th year in the PL with Chester currently, still waiting for the U23 league as well)
The Many Steves Challenge
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Good news! Steve McKimm finally overcame his anger and has now returned to the club as Under23s manager!