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  1. https://community.sigames.com/forums/topic/579179-fm24-backgrounds-by-stevemc-full-downloads-available-now/
  2. Following on from here... Manchester United: Season 2034/35 - Complete I've had a career spanning Chesterfield, Burnley, Tottenham, Real Madrid and West Ham before joining Manchester United in 2034 after Luis Enrique was sacked. Thankfully, the Glazers have sold-up, they are owned by an Australian consortium currently, no real debt, just £115m for transfer debt, so they're in a good place. Still having issues with the stadium though, they won't upgrade or build a new one. The team finished 7th last season so no Champions League, squad was bang average bar 3-4 world-class players, but they've been handing our ridiculous contracts so as part of my summer overhaul, I also aligned everyone to new long-term bonus enhanced contracts, there's couple still on £700K p/w + insane bonuses which I'm not happy about, so might try to move them on after a season or so. Staff were also all over the place. First port of call was sacking the majority of the staff and bringing my own in, Dan Ashworth came in as Director of Football (who I worked with at Tottenham) with Darren Fletcher and Nick Cox retaining their Technical Director and Head of Youth Development roles. Kieran Trippier came in as my Assistant Manager, who was also my under 21s Manager at West Ham for 4 years. First team staff are all quality now, with notable ex-professionals joining like Danny Welbeck, Mile Jedinak and Robin van Persie who are now have excellent staff profiles and personalities. For under 21s and under 18s I'm big on the correct personalities for staff like, Model Citizen, Model Professional, Professional etc so brought Phil Neville in as U21 Manager and Louis Carey as his assistant with Kevin O'Connor (Manager) and Brian Kerr (Assistant) taking up the U18 roles. Scouting department was overhauled too, with Giuseppe Lupo heading up a 25 strong team of scouts. Into transfers, we sold off 12 players, most notably Mason Mount and Rasmus Højlund raising £416m, bringing in 8 players of my own including previously managed Dennis Seimen (£55m) from West Ham, 25-year-old elite striker Martin Šindelář (£250m) from Tottenham, 25-year-old elite right-back Batata (£107m) also from Tottenham and world class, model professional centre-back David Braddock (£63m) from West Ham. Picked up a late bloomer gem in 26-year-old Guilherme for a £14m release from Flamengo too, followed by a couple of highly rated youngsters in the shape of Luca Femia (£23.5m), Osian Thomas (£23m) and Patrick Meeth (£24m) to try and bring the age and contract size of the squad down. January also saw a further 9 player leave, including Valentín Carboni, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Claudio Echeverri, Destiny Udogie and Noah Atubolu. We went back to my former club West Ham to sign world-class Brazilian defensive midfielder Erivaldo on deadline day for £116m having already secured wonderkid left-back Ron Peretz (£95m) and a couple more highly-promising youngsters Alejandro Ivars, Germán Morales and Fábio José. Premier League Rather surprisingly finished as Champions, board wanted top 4, I felt I'd built a top 4 squad, but the rest of the big clubs dropped so many points we ended up winning quite comfortably in the end. Manchester United's first title in 6 years and only second title in 27 years, but we are still just out in front on 22. Martin Šindelář hit 24 goals in 29 games finishing just 2 goals shy of 34-year-old Erling Haaland in the golden boot. Carabao Cup Made it to the final knocking out Everton, Watford, Sheffield Wednesday and Manchester City along the way before losing the final to Liverpool 0-2 after extra time, I felt like we were going to knick it before Batata's red card, then it was an uphill task from there. FA Cup We came unstuck away at Tottenham in the quarter-final, losing 2-0 having previously knocked out Hull City, Blackburn Rovers and Crewe. Europa League Farce of a competition this, it's so easy to win We won EVERY game against the likes of Lazio, Legia, Beşiktaş, Derry City, Freiburg, HJK, Slovan Bratislava, Anderlecht, U Craiova, Fenerbahçe and finishing off with a win against VfL Wolfsburg at Celtic Park in the final. We already made a start on Summer business with the signing's of 18-year-old fullback Florian Tuba from Bayern for £76m and 21-year-old centre back Jorge Linha from Wolfsburg for £69m and adding a couple more highly rated youngster; Kady Maxted, João Serrador, Gaz Gowshall and Luis Pérez. We've probably got one more in us, I'm chasing just one world-class players and have my eye on Chelsea's left-footed inside forward Michael Siller.
  3. A couple more from me... And these 3 pre-agreed to arrive in the Summer...
  4. For what it’s worth I think FM24 good and value for money (£35) however I don’t think it’s the “most complete edition” we’ve had, it’s still littered with bugs and niggles from previous editions, the kind of stuff seasoned FM players are sick of not being fixed and being rolled over to the next FM. IMO The Winter Patch felt like a quick fix patch too rather than a comprehensive detailed patch, presumably because focus is on FM25 and the new graphics engine, for that reason I’m expecting big things from FM25 however I don’t think this is going to be a smooth transition… but fingers crossed it is - I’d like to see more information on FM25 start to come out during the summer to build excitement rather than the usual September too. My biggest request for FM25 is to improve newgen faces, they’re terrible, no two ways about it - and I don’t see why AI can’t be used in the area to generate real faces. I wrote my Steam review about 3 weeks after launch and won’t be changing it as I do think SI need to do better with the launches for FM titles, launch should be more complete than it has been, feels like a second Beta phase for us to raise further bugs and wait for another patch in December, a day one launch patch should be capturing the majority of that. Still, overall, I’m enjoying FM24
  5. Yeah that works but you shoudn't have to do the extra click, it should just appear in order - was fine prior to the update so it's a definite bug. Just a frustration.
  6. Weird bug since the update, when you go tot make a sub in game, the whole team line up isn't in position order, and is mixed up... been fine prior to the update...
  7. Did Jim Ratcliffe miss the data-lock to be included at Manchester United as a co-owner?
  8. Done, thanks - it was a "full disk access" issue on Mac Sonoma 14.3.1
  9. Following on from here I've just resigned from West Ham United in season 2034/35 and been offered the Manchester United job. They finished 7th but the club is a mess The Glazers have sold up, and the only two players remaining from the original squad are Mason Mount and Rasmus Højlund. They have a small squad, barely any academy graduates and few in the HG quota. Average squad bar 2-3 world class players, but they have the best centre back in world football - most the squad are unhappy too as they're not in the Champions League so this will be a bit of a rebuild to get United going again. One league title in 22 years...
  10. West Ham: Season 2032/33 - End Following on from here once again we've had a season of winning basically everything Started off as Community Shield and Super Cup winners... Followed up by retaining the Carabao Cup for the third time on the bounce: The Premier League was closer than it looks, Arsenal folded with 3 games to go which opened up the gap: Retained back-to-back FA Cups with a win against former team, Tottenham: Followed up with with our third Champions League in a row with a win against Atletico: I knew I was going to leave at the end of the season as I've achieved all I can here, but stayed around to pick up the World Club Cup, and another Community Shield and Super Cup After stepping down, Manchester United sacked Luis Enrique so I've applied for that job, as I aim to top the Hall of Fame - currently 4th behind Carlo Ancelotti, Alex Ferguson and Pep Guardiola...
  11. Meet 18-year-old Ron Peretz, currently plying his trade in Israel on his measly £200 p/w contract - agent says he wants a massive increase to £60-72k p/w - after negotiations he wouldn't actually go less than £90,000 p/w: But look, signs for PSV for just £31,000 p/w: My issues with this are: 1. Why would an 18 year old player on £200 think it's acceptable to want an insane wage jump to £60-72K p/w? 2. How the hell did PSV get him to negotiate on £31,000 p/w when the lowest he'd settle with me was £90,000 p/w? 3. Why is the agent wage quote of £60-72K p/w still so far off the £90K he actually wanted? This has been going on for multiple FMs, but I just don't think it's realistic, he doesn't have to sign for me, that's fine - but why the vast difference in salaries and negotiations...
  12. Continued... And finally, I'm close to bringing in Ousmane Ouédraogo who I found for Tottenham when he was 17, he's now 24 and Tottenham have done a decent job of letting him stagnate so he's handed in a transfer request, so I'm going to get him back to fulfilling his potential:
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