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Hi guys, merry xmas
This is the first year that I can remember not getting FM on release,, I checked in a day or two after it came out and saw lots of similar threads on the match engine and that it had some issues with crossing and that they were working on an update. As I had not long started a new save on FM19 , I thought I would just hold on a couple of weeks to buy.
Being off just now for xmas got me wondering if there has been an update yet? Or will it likely be after the winter upgrade now?
Cheers
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League won with the first game after the split,, beat Killie 2-0 ,, but then the following day Celtic lost 4-1 away to Hearts , Job Done. Didn't even have to do the old editor or sugar daddy thing,, although might later on for fun if I start to get bored.
Transfer budget has been slashed tho for next season. Only 3mil or 5mil if I adjust the wages,,,, money back from transfers also down to like 30%,, gues Dave King is just content now he has stopped 10IAR. Tbf its probably to be expected after what they gave me last season and we are expanding the stadium,, due to be finished in the summer,,, so guess that needs paid for, but should provided more funds in the long run.
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Just played celtic at theirs in the last game before the lg split. Won it 3-1 and am now 12 points clear at the top going into the last 5 games. Have only lost one game all season and currently on 90 points. Also in the semi of the cup.
Looks like their 10 IAR dream is over lol
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Just played the 2nd OF at Ibrox and returned the favour and beat them 3-1.
Thats us 7 points in front although they have a game in hand.
I tried a few times towards the end of last season bringing on Dapo and a couple of starts in europe in last couple group games once qualified. Got to be honest he was fairly anonymous,, never really did anything. This season i decided to send out on loan to kilmarnock and he has 8 goals by December for them. His stats are rising as well,,, maybe just kind of player who meeds steady game time. As i play one up front I was never going to drop morelos ,, esp this season of all seasons lol. Im keeping eye on him tho. Was really disappointed with Rudden this year,,, tried him few times too and nothing, sent out on loan season 2 and was ineffective there too,,, shame was a beast in previous FMs
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Must have clicked on something without realising as it says he is joining in January but unable to play,, great 5 mil wasted . Will try again then but may have to loan him out,,, has over 21 caps for serbia now as well so no idea why he getting rejected. On another note tho,, the young Serb defender I picked up for a snip the season prior , Svetozar Markovic has just turned 20 this season and has become a Wonderkid,,cost about 2mil in season 2. That makes 3 wonderkids in the squad this season now,
3rd Season very tight so far,,, lost the first OF game away 3-0,,, but other than a draw with Killie and one with Hibs , full points from there on now in 17 games. Celtic have a game in hand and are 2 points behind me having had 3 draws against the other teams,,and our goal difference is more or less identical,,,, not much room for error this year
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4 hours ago, mikenevo said:
That's weird, it's costing me £38mil for exactly the same 7k seats, I wonder why it's costing you more? I'm pretty sure it gets wiped off. Luckily for me I just sold Morelos for £36.5mil so that almost covers the cost. Bit disappointing to lose him though...
I thought I'd check out Gravenberch, he looks really good, but not for £72mil...
See if you can sign Predrag Rajkovic from Maccabi Tel-Aviv, he's also Serbian
That is who I have been trying to buy,,, he's at Roma in my save but wants to come,,, cant get a work permit tho. Have tried a few times, and have even got the board to agree on signing him only for the work permit to get in the way
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My only concern for this season is i let Alnwick leave and was going to just get another back up keeper.
On deadline day i had offers and contracts accepted by Aberdeens joe lewis and some other European keeper,,, then at last min I got approached by agent of that young serb keeper at Roma that I really wanted, in a come get me plea. I knocked back the other 2 deals and went for it,, only for after bid and contract accepted for him to be refused a work permit. Now i only have one keeper and a couple of kids in U18s , even the reserve ones are out on loan lol. Might have to look at free agent if my main picks up injury.
No reason as well why that keeper should get permit refused,,, has 11 caps for serbia and the young serb defender i got had only 3 caps
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1 hour ago, Rino72. said:
Aye the board defo seem to be very generous money wise this year!
After selling Barisic I signed Rafa Soares and Ryan Gravenberch and still had £10m plus to spend. Also got something like £60k free for wages.
I think King has found some extra cash down the back of his couch...
How much did gravenberch cost you? I was tempted to go in for him too,,, but as my midfield was the area i really needed to improve i was worried about spending so much and then relying on a young kid
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3 hours ago, Rino72. said:
So I'm a month into season 3 and after selling Barisic (£28m) and Xadas (£11m) my bank balance has shot up to £50m.
I've asked for a stadium expansion which the board have agreed to but it's going to cost £42m and it'll only be an additional 7k seats.
Once this is complete next year, will that figure be wiped off my balance? Pretty annoying if it does as I've wheeled and dealed some amount to get it to where it's at!
Happened to me also. When Dave King told me that we had sold 40k+ season tickets for the year ahead I cheekily requested a stadium expansion ,, thinking he would tell me where to go. He has approved it,, and I had already talked him into upgrading the youth training facilities as well. A lot of my transfer deals are over 2 or 3 years too. Plus just after spending all I have ,, as the season started I got another msg off him saying due to an increased bank balance he is upping the money avail from transfers from 80% to 100%.
Not sure where all this money is coming from,,, maybe its EBT's again lol.
I have had in other saves before tho,,,where you get so far into building work then they run out of cash and put a stop to it,,, so guess we will have to wait and see.
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Well,, havent used the editor yet to bring in my fantasy sugar daddy rescue package lol. Finished 2nd season just 5 or 6 points behind celtic,,, had the better head to head just my squad wasn't enough to cope with the full season and injuries etc caught up with me and we dropped points to some of the others. Still got to the Quarter final of the Europa and only just went out to Dortmund to an injury time goal.
Third season , (and the one that counts) with with 10 IAR to be stopped,,, some major changes to the squad,, a full overhaul.
No prisoners taken this year,,, 10Mil transfer Budget and :
OUT:
Barisic - 24.5mil to Bournemouth
Katic - 15Mil to Stoke
Jamie Murphy - 1.3Mil to Aberdeen
Joel Pohjanpalo - 3.5Mil to Frankfurt
Luanzinho - 3.5Mil to Mareille
Also cut loose a lot of reserves etc that would never make first team and freed up some for wages
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Ryan Fraser - 6mil
Lasse Vigan - 2mil
Joe Bryan - 900k
Jordan Rhodes - Free - and only 3k a week, so no risk deal
Scott McKenna - 22mil - hated giving that to Aberdeen but they would have got maybe as much eventually from someone and I need the home grown players for euro reqs as well.
Franck Rivollier (Lyon) 4mil
Thiago Almada - Velez Wonderkid 14.5mil
Ruben Loftus Cheek - 21mil - the Marquee signing
In addition managed to extend the loans for Harry Wilson, Phil Fodden and Eddie Nketiah
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and also sometimes the other club surprise you and come back with way more than you thought they would lol
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yeh I would have sold if they hadn't come in a week from the end of the January window. At that point I was only 5 points behind Celtic still with 2 old firm games,,, so was afraid to risk it and get nobody to replace him with, esp in January. I have found if you reject the bid the player always gets unhappy / unsettled,,, however if you do want to keep the player just counter their offer with something way above what you think they will pay... the players are less likely to kick off with you after, its as if you make the other club the bad guy for breaking off the negotiations and they blame them.
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5 minutes ago, mikenevo said:
Back down to earth
We put up a good fight though! Ter Stegen was just awesome for them though, gulf in class...
Yeh I lost the quarter final to Dortmund ,,, 2-2 at home then 2-1 to them away,, buggers scored in the 89th min to kill it,, still a good run tho
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Tbf Dorrans has been fair for me,, not so much scoring but has average rating for season of 7.4, and has remained fit for most of the season,, has bagged 5 or 6 from CM and a few assists. He was only supposed to be a backup and was planning on using more Arfield and Jack with Fodden or the brazilian lad ahead of the mid two in my 4-2-3-1,, James Morrison was brought in as a free to more or less do the same as Dorrans and pass on some experience ,, was good for a few games (scored x2 on debut) then faded off and eventually became a resident at the Physio Dep lol
McCrorie also stands into the holding midfield role and pretty decent there and in CB,,, coming along nicely stats wise too.
An area that I know needs looked at,, but I only got around 4mil this 2nd season and spent elsewhere along with what I made from a selling candeias and Lafferty .
Like I said If Milan come back in for Barisic then I may be tempted,,, as good as Barisic is for me (2nd top scorer season 1) ,, he has some stamina issues,, and is always down at 90% if I try 2 games in a row. Beside I spent fairly big on another LB as knew Wallace was finished and brought in a young Danish LB Andreas Poulsen, cost me about 4mil from BMG but a few months later now worth 6mil and only 20yr old
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26 minutes ago, mikenevo said:
I know how you feel Trueblue when it comes to attracting decent players, really struggling in this transfer window despite our rise in reputation following last seasons success. I've made several signings so far and still have £8mil left to spend, but I just can't see who I could spend it on. I'm really happy with a few of the signings though; Predrag Rajkovic for £2.4mil is an absolute beastly steal at that price and has the potential to be one of the best in the world. I also had to take a serious look at the central midfield positions because we had two loan players there last season other than Arfield, so I bought Sergi Samper for £2.6mil and Julian Baumgartlinger for £3.7mil!
yeh same here,,, have heavily relied on my 3 loan players, fodden, ollie burke ( pre winter upgrade b4 he went to them irl ) and Harry Wilson. Lost Arfield almost as soon as season started for the whole year and have a mid centre pairing of Jack and Dorrans,, and then Morrison got injured and when I lost Jack I have brought back in Greg Docherty from the cold. Have even used McCrorrie as a CDM as well and had to recently bring in youth players like Jack Thompson just so could put out a team. Definitely my main area of concern in the summer.
On the plus Morelos has been good this season with 27 so far in about 40 all comps,,, strangely tho he the one player I expected to get requests for that nobody seems to be interested in lol.
Middleton has come on leaps and bounds tho up until his injury that is,,28 games and 11 goals and 10 assts and worth more than Morelos at around 8mil
Even Grezda (I know) has had a fairly decent run lately 11 goals in 23 and worth around 5 mil. Investment wise I bought a wee cheapish Brazilian in my first season ,,player called Luanzinho for around 1mil paid in instalments ,, loaned him out to nimes in France and played off the bench a few times this season,,, scored the goal that knocked out Schalke and his value shot up to over 5.5mil lol,, got pretty average stats but plays ok,, might cash in on him with a sell on clause
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Yeh cheers,,, just knocked out Killie and correction that was the semi,,, so another scot cup final against celtic to look forward to ,,, beat them last season so here hoping can make it 2 in a row in the cup at least lol
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On 19/02/2019 at 17:53, Geordieboy52 said:
Just hang in there mate, dont fiddle with the game. I've broken their monopoly and looking strong again. I plan on making Rangers a force in europe and then heading for pastures new
I never have fiddled with the game before witch is partly why I am curious on what would happen,,, tbh I think if Celtic win 10IAR then my save would be as good as done. I know it just a game but I just couldn't stand watching them take 10 lol. Kind of torn,, as much as I want to stop them on my own its a gamble,, only got one more season to do it,,, and beside I actually might do a sugar daddy save anyway even if I could stop them. Make a change from doing a rich save with a team like Barca or Man City that I care little for,, and bet it wouldn't make a difference right away as top players still wont want to come play in the SPFL.,, but it might be fun.
I am near the end of my second season and about 9 points behind going into the break,, managed to win against them at Ibrox and draw the last one at parkhead,, but after clawing back to 5 point gap my limited squad have become ravaged with injuries,, Arfield been out all season, Jack just got crocked and is out for the rest, Morrison too is out for season, ,, I lost Middleton and Harry Wilson for the last couple of months along with Goldson McCrorie and Barisic.
So far still in the Cup got Killie in the Semi,,, and have got through to the quarter of the Europa,, got Dortmund in the Quarter after Knocking out Schalke,,, just played them at Ibrox in first leg and finished 2-2,,, so prob go out on away goals lol.
I honestly not sure what to do for season 3,,, really fancy just having some fun,, but would also like to try stop them on my own too. I just turned down an offer from Milan for Barisic for £20mil up front ! So if I was to get that offered off them again in the summer I might just wait it out,,, the Board have just given me £10mil and have a few players worth way more than what they should be .
Might just give Season 3 a go and if its not going well by Christmas ,,, sugar daddy to the rescue ,,, but then might do it anyway at end of season 3 even if I do them over
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Had a not bad first season with Rangers,, won the Scot Cup, hammering Celtic 5-1. Unfortunately was unlucky in the lg and lost out by 4 points. Ultimately it was drawing both my home OF games in the end that cost us as we finished with a better goal difference. Also got to the last 16 of the Europa cup too.
This season tho Celtic seem a lot stronger and consistent. They knocked me out of the Lg Cup and have beaten me home and away in the lg,, although the game at Ibrox was a farce as I had 65% and most of the chances,, just couldn't get the ball over the line. They are now 6 points ahead with a game in hand with 20 games played,,,and just not dropping any points. They have spent big and just received another bid from Dortmund for Ajer of 18mil,, I just dont have those kind of funds.
My Transfers this season have been mainly loans,,
Loans - Eddie Nketiah (Arsenal), Harry Wilson (Liverpool), Oliver Burke (West Brom), Phil Fodden (Man City)
Ins - McGreggor retired and left me in the lurch with barely any time or money to get a replacement in,, ended up with American Keeper Ethan Horvarth (Club Brugge) 2mil.
Andreas Poulsen LB , 4mil (BMG) ,, Svetozar Markovic 2mil (Partizan) ,, Joel Pohjanpalo 2.1,mil (Bayer o4)
Out - Lafferty - 2.2 mil Zurich ,, Candeias - 2.8mil Sunderland
Free - James Morrison
Having read how everyone seems to be suffering to Celtic I might for fun sake , use the Editor and give Rangers a Sugar Daddy at the end of this season . The scenario being that a rich rangers supporting businessman steps in and takes over in order to halt Celtic from getting their 10 in a row. Have never used the editor before but got it so I could change the strips this year, as was fed seeing us wearing all blue in Old firm games,,might as well use it lol.
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Still on FM19, first year haven't upgraded but was supposed to deploy and was planning to get FM20 prior to leaving,,, then one thing after another with whats going on kind of got in the way. Anyway,, gone back to my Athletico Madrid save, and went to start 3rd season. Although was only playing season 2 on and off,,, so by their standards probably wasnt a good one. Finished outside champ lg places in 5th,, although did win Euro Super Cup and got to semi final of Champ lg.
I thought that now some of the younger players I have bought and brought through are starting to get somewhere, with a couple of additions this season might be one to look forward to, and winning Europa would definitely be doable.
I made the club from the season previous a 195mil profit. So was excited to see what they would give me. In previous season most my buys have been funded by sales of some key players like Saul etc (Board accepted bid).
They have just given me the budget going forward. 780K !!! I mean seriously,, beyond a joke now. 3mil for wages but only allowing 30% of sales as well. If I try to use some of the wages I can raise a whopping 3mil.
Really, they are consistent I will give them that. My very first season was only around 250-350k as well,,, bought next to nothing first season and like I said only bought players with money from sales last season and still made them profits.
Seems very tight for a club like Athletico Madrid playing in La Liga.