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With regards to transfers I stayed with my current cb in the first season and started salliba in the second so can't really help out. I found robin gosens to be a player who could compete with tierney, he was around 20 mil. backup gk was a brazilian gk called hugo souza. has seemed pretty good when played and is still very young.
Other transfers were getting rid of the deadwood: chambers, mustafi, sokratis, kolasinac, getting a combined 45 million for elneny and xhaka, selling an injured bellerin for 41.5 million (more on that in my update, it was hilarious). bringing in tonali is a good deal especially if brescia don't go up again, and I signed max aarons as a bellerin replacement. don't need many transfers in if you get a good youth intake and are able to develop the youngsters like saka, martinelli and nelson.
The tactic looks very good, although I would set out of possesion high line instructions, tell your team to counter-press and prevent short gk distribution.
wouldn't use 4-5-1 counter. tried to use it v top teams like city liverpool, united and my win rate is 2 out of 7. Other than that, everything looks good!
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1 hour ago, ajw10 said:
Martial had a mad season, although DCL missed the last 6 games through injury.
WHAT!!!??? please, can fm fix how good united are. especially martial
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Another Mini update.
After United blew their chance to go top and drew to west brom, we blew our chance to extend our lead and drew with aston villa. Swansea are on 3 points and look a dead cert for relegation. We went top of our champions league group after beating roma 5-0 and valencia lost to bayer leverkusen. Pepe got a 10/10 match rating for 2 goals, 2 assists and 9 key passes. He was amazing throughout, and I was pleased balogun got an assist. A hilarious thing was a social media fan said after that was 'loooool, people wil overrate pepe for anything nowadays!', which is EXACTLY what spurs fans would say if this happened. Tierney has been great, as we haven't lost or conceded when he was in the team. I think I might drop Gosens
Also, smith-rowe is complaining that I didn't offer him an improved contract, despite me giving him a new contract, and even worse, WON'T SIGN AN IMPROVED CONTRACT???!!! what Kind of logic is that? I was wondering if this happened to you and I also have no clue how loyalty bonuses work.
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Mini update
We beat leeds 2-0 in the final match of november. Saka mirrored his performance v burnley by missing a sitter. a cross came in, meslier came out far too late, presenting saka with an open goal and all the tima and space in the world. he hit the crossbar. Bellerin scored a very similar goal to the one he actually scored against leeds, and tonali scored his first goal, after pickng up a ball cleared out from 25 yards, controlled it, let it bounce once, and hit a dipping volley into the top corner.
In the FA cup, we got the easiest possible draw. we will play daghenam and redbridge, the only non-league team still in the competition.
We also beat leicester with 2 extra time goals after miranchuk (dont ask who he is) got sent off. gabriel and guendouzi got their first goals this season. Xhaka has now been sold for 20 million pounds , with the possibility of it rising to 25. Not great business, but it was the best we were going to get. A fan on social media said 'I can't wait for him to be someone else's problem'. after burnley, I agree. Torreira wants to stay, which is a disaster. I think I will have to demote him to the u-23's.
We are top of the league by 1 point but united have a game in hand
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NOVEMBER UPDATE - 2021/22 - ARSENAL
Transfers
IN
Sando Tonali -20 million
Don't know what happened with this, massive bargain for a player who should be going for around 50 million. will probably be snapped up by ac milan in real life though
Terry Griffiths - Liverpool- undisclosed
Undisclosed because I overpaid massively. That being said, he's a 16-year old english right winger/attacking midfielder and his notable stats are 16 passing, 17 technique, 16 determination, 16 off the ball, 16 vision, alongside 13 dribbling, 14 flair and 14 balance. AT SIXTEEN! Already scored his first goal for the club v wolves in the community shield (penalty), and is listed as 2-star current ability
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Catalin Cirjan - Fulham - 175k (230k)
Not a player I saw developing into the first team, and was slightly obstructing other youngsters, so I sold him
Sokratis - Wuhan - Free
Self-explanitory
Zech Medley - Derby - Free
Another one I saw not getting into the first team, and his contract was expiring. I hope I got this right.
Elneny - Valencia - 15m
Not a player I think I can develop, and 15 million seemed a good price. Am also trying, and failing, to sell torreira and xhaka.
Kolasinac- Sociedad- 10m (12.75m).
Not good value, but I couldn't see him going anywhere, and I wanted him off our books.
Maitland-Niles - Benfica - Loan, up to 2.7 million
Mirroring real life, and I think cedric will last as the backup right back for another season
James olayinka - Aston Villa - 300k.
300k for a player who is not particularly good is a good deal I think. didn't see him developing much
Paul Owosu - Nottingham forest - 155k
Same as above.
Bunch of players got loans for their development
TEAM
Slightly bloated squad, and am trying to get rid of defensive midfidlers, but I am pretty happy with the team. david luiz is still here. Key players will be aubameyang, tonali, partey, tierney, pepe, saka and martinelli. nelson is also a prettty important player
TACTICS
Same old. 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 custom vertical tiki-taka. sometimes switch to a more pressing game.
FIXTURES
After a shaky start to the season, drawing at liverpool and sheffield, we then went on a winning streak, until we lost 1-0 to chelsea mid september. continued to do well, until we played man u, losing 2-1. We beat valencia and tottenham, but we had 1 day between spurs and united in the carabao! So I had to rest half the team, and we got thrashed 4-1. griffiths got an assist, nketiah scoring. We have continued to do well, losing to valencia before bouncing back and losing to leverkusen again.
COMPETITIONS
After united beat chelsea, they went 2 points clear at the top of the table, with us just behind, and Chelsea 1 point behind us. spurs, are 6 points off city in 4th, but have 3 games in hand on them. We got knocked out of the carabao to united, aren't in the fa cup yet, and beat wolves in the community shield.
In the champions league, we are doing alright in the group of death with leverkusen, valencia, roma and us. We are second in the group on 8 points with 1 game to go. Anything is possible except valencia not qualifying for anything and leverkusen getting through. we face Roma soon, and a point would secure safe passage. If leverkusen draw or win v valencia, and we win v roma, we finish first. If we lose to roma, we are out.
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3 hours ago, Mike_barry said:
Did you just bit southampton 8-0? they can't catch a break. In a scrapped save I did, they were a bit of a thorn in my side, holding me to draws twice and forcing me into extra-time in the fa cup.
In terms of standout players, most of the hale end boys where outstanding for me but particularly Nkeitah, who went on to break Thierry Henrys record of 39 goals in a season with 43.
How did you get the best out of nketiah? I have been struggling, especially as I prefer martinelli, auba and balogun as actual players. was he an advanced forward for most of the season?
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16 hours ago, whispers said:
As someone who almost only plays with spurs in FM. you arent missing out. His stats is way better on paper than his performances.
I had an interesting thing where kane barely scored or assisted all season and still won player of the year over all of my invincibles, where my defense hardly conceded and auba scored 22 goals. tottenham didnt win a trophy (obviously), finished 5th or 6th and yet his rating was still miles clear of everyone else.
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16 hours ago, hasdgfas said:
Bye Spurs! Enjoy the Championship!
What happened to spurs? did they sell all their best players or did loads of players get injured, or did jose just mess up his tactics. I guess the only downside to that season was the loss on hte penultimate matchday
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18 hours ago, Swills417 said:
Half inspired by Cancelo at Manchester City in real life, we have Bellerin joining a midfield 3 and even pushing on. A few quirks need to be worked out with regards to individual instructions (Pepe needs to stay wider, Aubameyang needs to be further forward and Partey needs to fine tune his positioning.
I played cedric as an IWB at left back in one game, and the role descriptor says that they join the midfield rather than staying wide, man city style like you said. He was unspectacular, and I prefer the full back stretching the play system, but I was wondering if I should start playing with an IWB rather than full back attack. How has bellerin been performing for you?
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1 hour ago, bigman said:
have Utd had any reduction? Martial is a goal
machine in my games but inconsistent in real life.
same problem here, man u's entire squad is ridiculously good.! need to be really on form or have spent LOADS of money to beat them . often title condtenders. its a bit strange, because it has been this way in fm for the past 3 or 4 years I think.
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7 hours ago, hasdgfas said:
Please hide specific CAs/PAs of players in this forum, either with spoiler tags, or leave them out entirely. They are not allowed in here as per GPTG rules as lots of people don't want to see them.
removed the specific ca/pa entirely. thanks for letting me know
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I am still really annoyed with fm's rating of saka.
his potential is ridiculous, considering he finished inside the top 10 (i think) of the golden boy award. despite finishing equal on points with szboszlai, and beating loads of players like vinicius, rodrygo and gravenberch, pretty much all of them I see ending up better than him on my svaes. I expect a massive upgrade to both him and tierney next year.
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AUGUST UPDATE- TROMSO IL
We are going up!
FIXTURES
Dissapointing defeat mid-september, but we went on a win streak, are 11 points clear at the top and playoffs are confirmed. We have fixed the problem of conceding late on.
PLAYERS
A big part of not conceding late on was oumar diaby, who impressed in his performances, and now karlstrom is injured, diaby is set to play for the rest of the season. Discovered sigurd gronli, a young attacking midfielder who has been pretty good so far. He was a fm hidden wonderkid a few years back, and has helped form an attacking 4 of kitolano, gronli, azemi (who signed on a permanent deal), and michael noro ingebrigsten. Lasse nilsen has forced his way in at left back, lars saetra has come in at centre-back and there is a new right back whose name I can't remember. Azemi has scored some goals for
TACTICS
Keeping with the gegenpress for now, but I am beggining to wonder if we should start to stifle opposition opportunities, and get it to the attackers using the double pivot of yttegard jenssen and Opsahl.
TRANSFERS
We signed a player from ostersunds. I can't remember his name.
On another note, the actual elitsieren is starting soon, so I will be tracking tromso's progress in real life
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On 12/02/2021 at 14:43, PopSmokePercs said:
In the winter transfer window of my second season I signed a 18 year old French CB from Bayern named Bright Arrey-Mbi. 2 star CA and 5 star PA. Got him for just 1m because his contract was expiring in 6 months. I could have tried to sign him on a free but there were other clubs circling like sharks.
I immediately loaned him out to one of the best teams in the championship as a starter.
I think he starts the game as 17 years old so you could keep him for a year and play him in cup games or you could loan him out for 1-2 seasons. If I recall correctly, the mechanics behind young player development make training the most important factor until they turn 18. And then once they turn 18 it's game time.
Couldn't find this guy, but I suddenly remembered Mavropanos exists, so I promoted him to the first team and sent ballard out on loan to derby. I don't expect mavropanos to get many games though, as I already have gabriel, salliba (who was ridiculous on loan), mari, holding and luiz, so I made him available for u-23 games. Meanwhile, I got a group of death containing Roma, Marseille (I think) and leverkusen. Its our first season in the champions league for 4 years, give us a break!
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1 hour ago, PopSmokePercs said:
In the winter transfer window of my second season I signed a 18 year old French CB from Bayern named Bright Arrey-Mbi. 2 star CA and 5 star PA. Got him for just 1m because his contract was expiring in 6 months. I could have tried to sign him on a free but there were other clubs circling like sharks.
I immediately loaned him out to one of the best teams in the championship as a starter.
I think he starts the game as 17 years old so you could keep him for a year and play him in cup games or you could loan him out for 1-2 seasons. If I recall correctly, the mechanics behind young player development make training the most important factor until they turn 18. And then once they turn 18 it's game time.
thanks I will look at this
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I was wondering if there was a cheap young centre-half I could sign, as I only have 5 players there in the senior team. Should I sign someone like fofana and then have mari and salliba (who was SUPERB on loan) get less game time or start easing luiz out, get an relatively unknown player, or just promote daniel ballard, who has just been offered a loan from palace (I think this indicates he is suitable for upper-table championship)?
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17 hours ago, Mr. VerticalTikiTaka said:
PLAYERS AND AWARDS
Manager of the season
Auba scored 22 prem goals for the 3rd consecutive season and won the golden boot. Got in the prem team of the season
Our ENTIRE back line got in the team of the season, so Leno, Tierney, Gabriel, Holding and Bellerin all made it
My team was the aforementioned back 4, then ahead was partey/xhaka, szboszlai/partey and ozil/sboszlai/ceballos and the front 3 of Auba/Nelson Martinelli/Lacazette/Auba and Pepe/Saka. Willian had a few good games
and leno won the golden glove for the prem
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SEASON REVIEW 20/21
A dissapointing season in many ways, but incredible in others
COMPETITIONS
Premier league
We won the premier league on the final day, beating wolves 2-0 thanks to goals from Aubamayang in Nelson. We finished level on points with Man City, but we were well clear on goal difference, and the final game was comfortable. Unfortunately, I am very dissapointed with my team's habit of collapsing and conceding late goals, which often resulted in dropped points. We finished on 88 points, which is the lowest points tally for a champion in the last 5 years. Chelsea were outside challengers but never really stood a chance, and my one regret for the premier league, apart from the low points tally, was not beating tottenham at their stadium to lift the premier league. Nevertheless, we made history by becoming the first team to go unbeaten on 2 separate occaisions.
Europa League
We got to the semi's and were knocked out and outclassed by Lazio, losing 4-1 on aggregate and getting embarrased 3-0 at home. we were lucky to draw the first leg, and it took a late equaliser from dani ceballos to get a draw from that game. Dani ceballos had a pretty rubbish season, appearing only 3 times in the premier league. he was good when he played, but got 2 separate major injuries. We never really looked comfortable in any of the knockout rounds, requiring an incredible comeback against leicster from 2-0 down in the first leg. ozil scored a brilliant 90th minute equaliser while willian got the winner in injury time. we werent convincing there at all, and I hope to give a good account of ourselves in europe next season.
FA cup
Knocked out in the quater finals by man u, although it was quite simple up to there. it was a tight game, with rashford getting the winner
Carabao cup
Beaten in the final by man city, who also won the champions league. They completely dominated, scored, went ahead again late in the game through a ruben dias header, and then were hit on the counter in the last minute.
TRANSFERS
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Lacazette-35 million to PSG. had many young talents who could play there, and I just didn't want to impede their development, especially with the return of Martinelli, who may recieve the no. 9 now
Kolasinac- Everton Loan with an option to buy for either 17.5 mil or 22.5 I cant remember which.
Chambers- Dortmund 17.5 mil with a couple of clauses. he was never going to get into the team. However I am happy he went to dortmund as he seems to be starting most games and it will be a chance to revive his career
Runarsson- Loan. will probablyspend the next few seasons on loan too. his stats just dont seem good enough, and if there is an injury crisis I will recall him.
Macey- Free. 26 and nowhere near the first team.
Mustafi- 500k to a french team. wanted to get some money for him before his contract expired, and I did it in the summer window
Sokratis- Free. contract was ending, wasn't getting used, has gone to someplace in china.
Saliba- Loan to young boys. 7.98 average rating. expect him to be an important player next season
A lot of young players who need experience to develop- Loan to various lower league clubs. some will break into the first team now, others probably not. I will add a screenshot of the loan reports later.
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Szboszlai- 25 mil and future incentives. He is very good. scores wondergoals every 3 weeks and has made an instant impression. I still can't write his name.
Robin Gosens- 22 mil with not many incentives. versatile down the left, and is there to offer a more attacking left-back option as I see saka as a winger.
Hugo Souza- Better than runarsson according to the DoF, who has decent potential stats. Souza is 21, and looks to be a contender for no. 1 soon. didnt play enough games for a prem winners medal
Alfie Devine- Came in with a few other youth players, but he was the most exciting and impressed alongside patino in a 5-0 win in the europa league, scoring a brilliant volley and getting an assist
Ozil- New contract worth 200k p/week. had a good season
Balogun- New contract worth about 20k p/week
Nelson- New contract worth about 50 k p/week
Tonali- 23 million and incentives i think. unbelievably cheap, and signed in the 2021 summer window.
PLAYERS AND AWARDS
Manager of the season
Auba scored 22 prem goals for the 3rd consecutive season and won the golden boot. Got in the prem team of the season
Our ENTIRE back line got in the team of the season, so Leno, Tierney, Gabriel, Holding and Bellerin all made it
My team was the aforementioned back 4, then ahead was partey/xhaka, szboszlai/partey and ozil/sboszlai/ceballos and the front 3 of Auba/Nelson Martinelli/Lacazette/Auba and Pepe/Saka. Willian had a few good games
I was wondering if you thought I should sign a striker, as auba is aging, although not noticeably declining and my other strikers are soon out of contract nketiah, martinelli and a returning balogun, all of whom are quite undeveloped.
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On 05/02/2021 at 21:39, SimpleFM said:
I think you accidentally posted in the wrong thread mate.
sorry i didnt mention i was doing this with tromso. On that note, they won a friendly a few days ago as well!
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AUGUST 2020 UPDATE
A very good start to the season. 9 clear at the top, playing a 4-3-3 gegenpress.
FIXTURES AND RESULTS
won every game except draws with ull/kisa, Lillestrom ( i think) and Ranheim before suffereing a shock defeat to stjordals-blink. We bounced back with a 3-0 win with Kitolano as a false 9. We unfortunately have a concerning habit of blowing leads late in games, often to one of the opponents few shocks.
PLAYERS
we have a very good team, with azemi and espejord the top 2 scorers in the elitsieren, Yttegard Jensen is a hero with the highest average rating, most assists, and has just generally been impressive. Our goalkeeper is a bit leaky, conceding practically every shot he faces, so I might be looking for an upgrade. Will show a screenshot of my starting XI soon.
Transfers
IN
1 player- Oumar diaby, mali international who came in on a free transfer in order to bring experience to a goalkeeper group where the oldest is 23. hes only played 1 game, but played well and got a clean sheet. he will probably start next game.
we also have some end-of-contract signings done from other leagues, which i will cover when they arrive
OUT
a couple of players on free tranfers and an old player who was never going to get into the first team
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oh poor dani ceballos. about a month or so into the save he did something nasty to his kneecap, and then about a week or 2 after coming back, he had to have a sports hernia operation. We got lazio in the europa semi-finals, and he scored an 88th minute equaliser. his first goal of the season
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17 hours ago, RossoneriGunner said:
'seized on an error by adrian' here we go again!
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On 26/01/2021 at 21:11, RossoneriGunner said:
Has anybody else suffered fixture congestion......like every other day
worst ive ever had is man u and tottenham within 2 days of each other in a save I scrapped
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10 hours ago, SimpleFM said:
Good luck!
For sure you want to load in the Scandinavian leagues, maybe Denmark and Sweden? Finland is good for cheaper players but less quality and Denmark has better players but more expensive.
You could load 3 nations then add all players from certain regions?
I ended up loading Norway, Sweden and Spain, although I may end up switching spain for denmark. I was hoping i would be able to get a reserve player off a team like alaves
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[FM 21] Arsenal - Still Waiting For Arteta's Tiki Taka!
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Yeah, that was my transfer plan, and pretty much everyone I wanted to sell except torreira, I have sold. I think maybe soyuncu for centre back would work out.
IW and IF don't make any difference. I use IF when I'm playing a striker on the wing, like aubameyang