[Football Manager 2019 Pre Release Beta *Official* Feedback Thread]

Does seem to have a little lag while in the inbox etc on my laptop but in matches it runs nice and smooth. Had the same issue on and off in FM17 & 18 though and it's not too much of an ordeal, haven't encountered any gamebreakers as yet so all good

[Wonderkids from minnow nations]

My best was a North Korean CB back in FM14, one of my first transfers once I arrived at Man Utd and had 8 years of joy until he screwed his ligaments, ended up selling him off to Sevilla after a homegrown player took that role and did well.

 

Also have a yemeni CM in the same save, Ahmed Al-Yazidi, English dual nationality though so not sure that counts but he's an absolute machine for club and country 

[The Ultimate Football Manager Challenge - Silver Age Archive]

19 hours ago, vikeologist said:

Welcome to the challenge.

I suppose now it would be possible to do what I'd call a moneyball approach to FM, which would be to only use your data analysts. No scout reports at all. 

The approach you describe is kind of what Zhejiang Greentown (Lucheng in the game) were trying in China, though I'm not sure how much the game reflects these philosophies. But basically their aim was to have a team made up entirely of U23 footballers, because they could sell them on to other teams needing to make up their quotas. 

Thanks @vikeologist, funnily enough my first job is in China at Baoding Rongda - surprising amount of resources for a team fighting relegation so hopefully a good grounding to kick off the challenge

[The Ultimate Football Manager Challenge - Silver Age Archive]

Now it's been a long time since I took on a challenge (or even contributed to the forum in all fairness!), but this challenge looks like a good bit of fun!

As an additional challenge to myself, I'm going to play this using a moneyball mentality, no signings over 25, low transfer fees etc

Just set up my game, hopefully have a decent-ish job soon - league setup is:

*Brazil
*China
*England
*France
*Germany
*Italy
*Mexico
*Norway
*South Africa
*Spain

All to the lowest available division (vanilla, no downloaded leagues) 

 

 

Here goes....