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Everything carries over, aside obviously from the updated database. So with stuff like set piece coaching, all coaches will get a set piece rating and the game will slowly start generating newgen set piece coaches, so it might take a bit to get some really skilled personnel in that regard (or maybe you're lucky and one of your existing coaches rolls a 20 and you can just put him on set piece duty).

Step 1: Go here https://www.jleague.co/clubs/ Step 2: Look at the logos until you see one that makes you think "that's a damn cool logo". Sagan Tosu maybe? Step 3: You found your club! That's about as serious as you have to be when picking a club to manage.

If I wanted a Wagyu Steak Sandwich they'd better be making it fresh the moment I order it! Who knows how long those things been lying out there, bloody hell, what a waste of good steak.

Remember, 8445 posts. Haven't quite broken the record yet!

Remember, the real advanced access are the friends we made along the way.

The exact record to beat is 8445 replies. Still not there yet.

169 and a bit. So keep going.

Tell him to wait an hour, we haven't broken the FM21 record yet.

Ajax fans around the world rejoicing.

Almost at 169 pages, you can do it guys!

Keep it up folks, we gotta beat those 169 pages.

Just post multiple players who'se shirt number total 100.

Alright, now find me some Norwegians that prefer this over Fanta so I can tell them their taste is bad! Even though I have no idea how Norwegian Fanta tastes. Not really my go to beverage when I went to Norway on vacation.

I don't know any of the brands you guys just mentioned. Neither do we have them in the main stores here in the Netherlands, except for apparently Miranda Sodastream syrup? Oh and page 99

Actually, now that I think about it. There's Cola and Pepsi, Sprite and 7Up, where is the Fanta counterpart? How are we supposed to argue what horrible taste someone has for not preferring Fanta when it has no counterpart?!

"Beta is not happening today"

FM21 reached 169 pages. It was a very nice thread.

7Up or Sprite?

SI blessed us with some numbers! Alright guys, time to figure out what these mean.

https://community.sigames.com/forums/forum/22-good-player-team-guide/ Personally I never look in that section, to me it's a lot more fun to find exciting prospects and bargains I didn't know about yet myself, rather than being told about them. Especially considering that with some general football knowledge a lot of them aren't really new names anyway. As for the journeyman, it can be whatever you want it to be, the only core principle is to not stick with a single club too long. Whether you do that by aggressively approaching any potentially better vacancy (and get fired for expressing interest ), by simply resigning once you meet an arbitrary goal you set, by signing a single contract and letting it run out, or any other way you can think of to switch clubs doesn't matter. Same goes for the scale, you could theoretically do a journeyman in a single country, constantly switching between clubs in the same nation and becoming that guy clubs go to when they need to be saved from relegation danger. Or you could set the grandiose challenge XaW pointed out of winning every intercontinental competition. Or you could do anything in between like loading a lot of leagues in one continent and slowly working your way up until you're one of the great managers within that continent and whether you want to start with no badges, no experience and get approached by some amateur club in the 5th tier or set some basic badges/experience and start somewhere on the 2nd or 3rd tier where you at least have a professional squad is all up to you in the end.

Because they don't offer a direct Steam key, they offer a FM redeem key you use to get an universal key from the boxed FM editions for any of the platforms FM is available on. The same thing shopto.net has been offering the last 2 versions.

In the end, when you have thousands of hours put into something, you kinda get good at it. Generally. Just look at any other game out there, no matter how hard they supposedly are, at some point people will start playing them with their own house rules because they get to good at the game. People do no hit runs in Dark Souls, people start Civ 6 a whole technological era behind against Deity AI, naked Rimworld starts in a biome that instantly starts killing you and I'm sure most people here can think of a whacky challenge run or two they've seen for games they enjoy outside of FM. At some point you simply can't look at the developer to make things harder, as there simply are limitations regarding what AI can do, what you want AI to do and limitations you will have because in the end it is a game where you have to make decisions how certain stuff is coded and the players will figure that stuff out. At that point it's up to the player to make his own difficulty and FM has plenty of options for that and this forum has plenty of examples of what other players do to make things more challenging. All you need is the restraint to actually stick to your rules.

Except, isn't that exactly how things work in real life? Look at the Eredivisie, Ajax was massively dominant (and financially still is) until some serious mismanagement happened. PSV during that period failed to get through CL qualifiers and didn't really show all that much in the EL either and if it wasn't for teams like Feyenoord and AZ going deep into the ECL scoring lots of points the Eredivisie would look much worse coefficient wise and this is already one of the best leagues outside the top 5. Even with Ajax being a solid team in the CL for a while the other teams didn't come close to matching their performances and financially the league is still miles behind the big 5. If you look at other even smaller leagues a lot have extremely dominant teams over the last couple years as income from continental football increases and this wealth compounds their dominance. Dinamo Zagreb missed one title in Croatia since 2006, TNS is massively dominant in Wales, Legia is pretty dominant in Poland, Copenhagen is the big fish in Denmark and I can keep going. These small leagues simply can't sustain multiple big fish as the big fish are way too reliant on money from European competition and the biggest fish will hover most of it up, especially when you as the player don't heavily mismanage things, which generally is the only thing that can slow these clubs down in real life. SI already has added a lot of things over the years to ensure that smaller competitions can grow, such as dynamic reputation, dynamic TV deals, dynamic youth ratings, but in the end the assumption that a nation like say Denmark should become a giant in world football because Copenhagen manages to build itself up as one of the big clubs of Europe is completely unrealistic. As rusty pointed out, even with the French league having someone like PSG, the league having a much easier marketing potential as France is one of the biggest countries in Europe and France having a massive amount of talent already available to them the French clubs are doing so poorly in Europe they actually dropped behind the Netherlands on the coefficient ranking (admittedly, almost certainly not for long, but that it even happened is pretty nuts).

Well, the AI plays their strongest teams in the EL, while in real life you'd often see these kind of clubs focus on the league. With Liverpool qualifying for the EL this season I wouldn't be surprised if they're gonna win it in the first season quite frequently. No idea how Bayern managed to mess up the CL first season though, did they get some group of death with Real, Milan, Newcastle or did the AI just potato? Once you get deeper into a save you frequently see these big clubs mess up either the CL or the league and then wreck the EL a season later as their strongest teams are pretty dominant in the EL. Had these absolutely insane EL quarter finals in my save at some point.

Eder Balanta, when he was still playing at River, is probably the only player I really bought in several different saves. Relatively cheap, good jumping and because of that a guarantee for goals from corners. Then he actually moved to Europe in real life and never came close to reaching his FM potential (which wasn't ever that high in the first place). Nowadays there aren't really that many "under the radar" players any more and you definitely won't see a completely random super star like in the old CM days.