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Add Norway as a league and you can start from March 2020. Just don't add USA and you're good to go.
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On 18/01/2020 at 10:04, MrPompey said:
Possession stats are the same/similar as posted on multiple sites. Perhaps its the way they are currently calculated, that would be interesting to know, same for FM
Possession is calculated by the number of passes the team makes. I'm not sure if it's completed or attempted passes. It saves someone having to use a stopwatch for each time the team regains the ball
I am now curious if FM uses the same method...
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One of the big reasons for playing football manager (for a lot of us I imagine) is the story that we are creating. Whether it's turning a homegrown youth talent into a Ballon d'Or winner, taking Colchester up the leagues or configuring a complex formation that makes us feel like tactical Gods...we are each driving a story and we are the main focus. If it helps your 'story' to do a little editing I say it is fair game. Just be careful not to fall into the same trap many writers do and use overly thick plot armour
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7 hours ago, sporadicsmiles said:
They did. Possession as a defensive tool (endless fast sideways passing). Pressing intensely when lost the ball. Very high defensive line. Occassional bursts of very direct football. They played pretty much the same style, and differed mostly in Barcelona being able to do it better because they could choose their players and train them to play this way all the time. Spain had less flexibility and played a little toned back Tiki Taka.
Personally, I find all Tiki Taka to be boring. Whether than is Spain or Barcelona or whoever. The endless sideways passing is dullness personified to me. Sure, the players are super technically proficient to pull that off, but that does not make up for it. Tiki Taka was a defensive strategy at heart, and the endless recycling of possession. Ugh. No thanks. I'm very much a direct incisive fast paced football kinda guy. I very much like watching Jurgen Klopp's teams, for instance. This is all personal preference though, we can happily agree to disagree on this one.
Pep's Barca played in a similar vein to Klopp's Liverpool i.e. an incisive, fast-paced brand of football with an intense and high press that fully utilised their world class wing backs. Barca were technically superior, hence the extortionately high possession, but both teams were and are exciting to watch. Barca may have moved the ball sideways but it was always with an intention to disorientate the opposition with zipped passes before identifying opportunities with quick one-twos and slide rule passes; when they were slipping Messi et al through on goal they were simply delightful to watch. This is why Messi managed to score 40/50/60/70 goals a season.
On paper, Barca's tiki taka looks similar to VdB's Spain due to the high possession, lots of passes and of course, the trophy cabinet bulging. But Spain were nowhere near as interesting to watch as Barca. Slow sideways passing, keeping possession for the sake of keeping possession, endless recycling etc. Exactly as you stated. Yawnfest! Spain played the boring (but effective due to the highly technical players) tiki taka. Barca did not.
All my own personal opinions of course. I may even have rose-tinted glasses on!
I don't want to get off topic for the thread so I will leave it there, but all I can see is that we're not really disagreeing
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On 11/01/2020 at 12:20, sporadicsmiles said:
Del Bosque's Spain played like Guardiola's Barcelona.
Lol. No they didn't. Maybe at the start of his reign but that was fleeting and they have never been considered on par with that Barca side. I remember at one point Spain were being labelled as boring under VdB. Barcelona were never boring, especially during that period. Just ask Valverde what happens if Barca play like Spain were
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When I was particularly drunk one evening, I went all out to sign Neymar as Spurs. £200m, extortionate appearance, goal, avoiding relegation fees etc. The lot. I was suspended from Europe for at least a season after that episode! Lol
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It's also done it for Gibraltar! Aarrgghh!
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8 hours ago, Jamie Aubrey said:
Might be depending on what skin you have, some of them iirc include them, check the graphics folder in what ever skin you are using ( if its a custom skin )
3 hours ago, vonreichsm said:Or the config in your logopack.
I don't have a custom skin but have downloaded a bunch of logos. I looked in every folder and this does not exist anywhere! It's so strange. I did once have the national team emblems instead of flags but I even deleted that (and even the entire graphics folder at one point) but the flag still does not appear. I edited the config file with some other teams and they all changed...but this one just disappears, which to me indicates that it is picking it up from somewhere.
I'm assuming from your responses that this logo does not appear in your games? i.e. it is not hard coded to appear instead of the Dutch flag?
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Does anyone know why this
is not this 
? And how do I change it? It appears in the fixtures as well. Tis annoying!
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If I am to change interface etc will this be reset when the full game is released? Thanks.
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Back in the CM days, there was a Saudi Arabian left back, Sualamaini (I think that's the spelling) he was amazing in the game
Hussein Abdul-Ghani Sulaimani.
I think.
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Sharbel Touma (although he did go on to get a couple of caps for Sweden).
Emmanuel Osei Kuffour. AM/FC.
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is not this 
? And how do I change it? It appears in the fixtures as well. Tis annoying!
How we're introducing women's football into Football Manager
in Football Manager General Discussion
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Are you referring to my question? I see it has been deleted. Didn't think it was that inappropriate. Apologies if it offended anyone.