Nottingham Forest Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 I don't remember getting players to sign new contracts being this hard. So far I've managed to persuade Camp, Morgan and Chambers all to cut off negotiations. This could be an interesting season. Big Wes and Luke Chambers both leaving, possibly . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richjb78 Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Tried to sell Lynch on a free but he wouldn't accept the wage offers from interested clubs. I found Lynch to be pretty good back up tbh, can cover LB which is needed as well as CB. Also doesn't get too unhappy if he only gets 15-20 apps a season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 I found Lynch to be pretty good back up tbh, can cover LB which is needed as well as CB. Also doesn't get too unhappy if he only gets 15-20 apps a season. Me too, I rate Lynch anyway but he's a good squad player to have. The only issue is his £5k a week wages. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richjb78 Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 I don't remember getting players to sign new contracts being this hard. So far I've managed to persuade Camp, Morgan and Chambers all to cut off negotiations. This could be an interesting season. Big Wes and Luke Chambers both leaving, possibly . I think it needs tweaking tbh. I've found serveral times that although I have more than enough in my wage budget I can't offer more than a couple of thousand to some players, even if I put them as a key player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 I think it needs tweaking tbh. I've found serveral times that although I have more than enough in my wage budget I can't offer more than a couple of thousand to some players, even if I put them as a key player. I don't mean that. I'm just being too tight with my funds. There's also a thread in bugs forum iirc explaining it all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richjb78 Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 I know, I just meant I think quite a few aspects of wages/ wage budgets need seeing to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayzie Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 I think it needs tweaking tbh. I've found serveral times that although I have more than enough in my wage budget I can't offer more than a couple of thousand to some players, even if I put them as a key player. From what I could gather when trying to buy players last night, you can only actually offer out to your wage limit before this comes in. Gone are the days of making bids and contract offers for several players, then deciding which you'll sign when you see who agrees. Load of bollocks it is, I couldn't sign that CB I mentioned above because I was waiting on a work permit to be rejected on a player. What if I want to sign over the budget, then offload players? :/ But yeah, I agree Nottm Forest (**** name btw lol). Why are my players asking for almost double wages? I let Morgan and Boateng go for free and ended up paying Chambers a lot more than he was on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent End Tree Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Me too, I rate Lynch anyway but he's a good squad player to have. The only issue is his £5k a week wages. In the real world I like Lynch and in FM I think he's okay backup but as you say it is that £5k a week contract that i'm not liking. i can get a backup defender for a lot less than that. It seems odd as well given that it puts him on a fair bit mroe than Chambers and Morgan at the start of the game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 I'm struggling to get into a game full-stop. I don't think I'll be Forest again yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryano Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Season 3 finished, again with inconsistent results and a 17th placed finish. Brought in a young brazilian called Leandro, scored 17 goals in 34 games. Daniel Sturridge backed 10 and a few young upcoming defenders and midfielders were blooded but nothing of any brilliance to report. And so boredom is now kicking in, can't seem to get anywhere. Like I say inconsistent results, smashed by lesser teams like Sunderland and Bolton at home then go and beat Chelsea away and Liverpool at home. Can't get settled on a consistent starting XI and seem to struggle with keeping players fit, loads of injuries. Not sure if I will carry on for another season or to restart with a different challenge. If I don't restart, I hope I have contributed well and will no doubt return to my beloved Forest in the near future and try and take them on to better glories! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayzie Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Pfft. Part-time Forest managers. I've only finished one season, starting season two tonight so maybe tomorrow my attitude will be different lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Last year I had about 9 Forest saves. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
footballhead Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 3rd season complete. 8th in the prem. Getting enough goals to compete for European places but Cathcart and Chambers just don't cut it at CB for this level. Conceded far too many goals, only got 8 league clean sheets despite Smithies playing at a 7.07 average. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
footballhead Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Ohh, quick reply. Both the Liverpool and Man U jobs have become available...I've already turned down the Chelsea job (Amongst others) Should I take either? I think I want to build... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Stayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
footballhead Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Ohh think of what I could do with that budget I've declined it... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robterrace Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Goals in a season again.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donoccetti Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Finally finished my first season! Don't know how some of you get through it so quickly haha. Pretty good season, won the league despite a stupidly poor finish (only won 3 of last 13 games, still won the league by 9 points!) Miller (24 goals) and Anderson (14 goals from midfield!) were my star men and Lascelles ended up playing about 20 games which was nice. Now to try and survive in the Prem! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Has Lascelles improved for you at all Donocetti? I'd love to see if he has? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donoccetti Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Yeah his stats have improved quite a bit and he's rated at 4.5 stars potential. Gonna be hard to keep playing him in the Prem so not sure how it's gonna go from here. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/194/jamaallascellesoverview.png/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayzie Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Finally got my second season underway last night after spending probably the best part of a night and a half scouting & securing signings through pre-season. I got thumped 5-1 by Chelsea first game and thought that was a sign of things to come, then drew 1-1 with Everton and 2-2 with Wolves. I started to think this new defence I'd bought was **** but the next three games I beat Wigan 3-0, Leicester 4-0 and Stoke 3-0, which has threw me up into fourth place with 11 points from six games. No way I'll keep it up but I figure I'm already about a quarter of the way to avoiding relegation lol. El Kaoutari out for five weeks now though. Players in Robert Hall (yth) Free Joan Angel Roman (yth) Free Tom Horton (yth) £60k - This guy is a newgen, my scouts found him at Walsall and at 16 he's already down as good League 1, potential leading Prem. Youngest player to play at Forest so far (league cup) 16yrs 24 days. Joe Lewis GK Free Pablo Contreras CB Free Sebastian Boenisch LB Free David Hubert DM £500k Kyle Naughton RB £1.5m Wilfried ST £2.5m - Found his name on here, he has a £2.5m release clause and has scored 6 in 6. Filip Duricic AMC £3m (20yo, good player already) Abdel El Kaoutari CB £5.25m I've done a lot of scouting (routing through teams and asking my scouts to scout certain players) to find some of these and had to adjust my budget like crazy to allow me a big enough wage budget but it seems to have paid off. OB (Danish side iirc) have some really good, young and cheap players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuck60 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Am in January during my first season and currently second. Mostly play with an attacking 442. Signings are Stuart Parnaby and Simon Cox on loan from West Brom. Had Danny Rose for a while but he went back. Miller scores a lot of goals but no else is so i have just brought Cox in and he has 2 in 2. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayzie Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I think the problem with Forest's forwards is almost all of their preferred position is down as Poacher and playing two of them doesn't work imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
footballhead Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Current Squad Bannan is a key player for me but is currently injured. I'm trying to build a team primarily from the UK national teams. Got Barry & Foster for nothing - Jordan, Mullgian, Hamilton and Barret are all newgens with potential of 4* or above. Got a few more newgens in the reserves that should become key players in the next few years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richjb78 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 So, finished my 2nd season, 1st in the prem. Pretty happy overall although I conceded a shed load of goals which is quite worrying tbh. Money to be spent on defenders for next season I think These were my transfers which I have to say didn't turn out particularly well. Squad needs quite a big rebuild I think. Looking forward to it though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richjb78 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Not sure if that's a record. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donoccetti Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 So, finished my 2nd season, 1st in the prem. I thought you meant you finished 1st in the league in until i saw the screenshot, was very impressed!! haha well done for staying up though, how much money did you get to spend after the first season? I've got nothing, finding it hard to sign anyone!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richjb78 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Yeah it's difficult. A lot harder to sign quality players this time. They must have tweaked the transfer system. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donoccetti Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 So how did you manage to get £15m or so? They've given me £350k and sod all wage budget Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
forestfan6 Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/5282/nottmforesttransfershis.png These are my transfers for first season. Started about 10 times trying to find the right size database that would let my computer run at a decent speed , currently running with 50000 players loaded. Halfway through october sitting top of the league and still in the league cup .... Quintero is on fire 23 in 15. Still got £2m to spend , i've found that doing transfers over 48 months seems to stretch the transfer budget alot further. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richjb78 Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 So how did you manage to get £15m or so? They've given me £350k and sod all wage budget Did you get promotion? Thats what I was offered for 1st season in prem, and that was just to aviod relegation. My wage budget wasn't massively increased after current players had contracts increased. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richjb78 Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 I only ran my database with about 30000 players, which was a mistake I think. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donoccetti Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Did you get promotion? Thats what I was offered for 1st season in prem, and that was just to aviod relegation. My wage budget wasn't massively increased after current players had contracts increased. Yeah i won the champ. Never mind, just having to find plenty of freebies! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richjb78 Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Seems rather strange that they wouldn't give you in the region of at least 10 mil to spend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donoccetti Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Yeah i was a bit surprised to be honest. I've managed to generate a bit of money through selling some players though and i've signed Hernan Crespo so things are looking up! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Decided to start again as Forest but I'm going to try and play good. Offering all players I want to keep, new contracts and Wes and Lewis both have the same agent. Wes' negotiations took a little longer and this made the agents willingness go down by one from 2 to 3. I've also managed to get the board to give me more transfer percentage(85) and more scouts(10) and look for a parent club. Smith will leaving and McCleary probably will too along with McGoldrick. In the left back position I'm tempted to move Gunter across and try and bring in a RB called Angelo from a team called ADAP in Brazil if he's on my game(Brazil leagues loaded for him). I may look at bringing in another left back too. At CB I'm tempted to look for some frees. Not sure who except I don't want Campbell. I want to loan out Lascelles for 6 months. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhawk Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 I'll leave this here without comment... Did it in 2012 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donoccetti Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 A tricky first summer after promotion for me with no money to spend. Still managed to sign loads of players though and plenty were sold. http://imageshack.us/f/715/nottmforesttransfershis.png/ Also signed Zac Fagan from Asenal 90k and a young regen for 60k but they didnt fit on the page haha Will be delighted to finish 17th! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danger_mouse Posted October 30, 2011 Author Share Posted October 30, 2011 Nottingham Forest - My board only gave me an increase to 25%, 6 scouts and they refused a parent club. Donoccetti - I dont understand how the board didn't give you any money for promotion, are the paying for transfers you made in the first season over 48+ months? This is the only thing i can think of. Ill try and get the Records updated asap, if anyone has any records for me please post a screenshot. Hopefully ill get quite far into the 1st season today so ill get you all updated Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donoccetti Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Donoccetti - I dont understand how the board didn't give you any money for promotion, are the paying for transfers you made in the first season over 48+ months? This is the only thing i can think of. No i haven't used monthly installments at all. There's about £20m in the bank now and my budget is 1.7m, i guess they just don't trust me with the money haha Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
footballhead Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Best Regens, all brought in - nothing good from the Academy yet. 4.5* rating, has killer balls & dictates tempo as moves 4.5* rating, has killer balls 4.5* rating, places shots - He's a bit rubbish technically but his mental & physical stats make him worth playing on occasion Currently sat 6th in the league with 6 games remaining. Biggest club i've got left to play is Everton. I've only won half my home games this season, however i've only lost 1 game on the road (so far). 6th spot is very safe (11 points clear of Everton & Sunderland, both of whom have a game in hand) I can realistically only catch Arsenal but it's a case of watching them mess up and winning all my games. Looks like Europe next season though! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danger_mouse Posted October 30, 2011 Author Share Posted October 30, 2011 No i haven't used monthly installments at all. There's about £20m in the bank now and my budget is 1.7m, i guess they just don't trust me with the money haha Have you increased your revenue? I think at the start of the game its only 10%. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richjb78 Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 So finished my 3rd season, 2nd in prem and it was a slight improvment from the previous season, still cant defend though League Table. Added some quality though, with Jonjo Shelvey and David Goodwillie, who both had good seasons. Transfers. Also had a job offer which I turned down. Imagine having a budget like that with Forest! Man Utd Offer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
forestfan6 Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Had a amazing game going until my save got messed up , so deciding to start over. Do any of the forest players make the step up to the premiership? ... if not then i'll think about changing whole squad. One player i will deffo get is Darwin Quintero , he had 35 in 24. This is him at the beginning of game:http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/20/darwinquinterooverviewp.png/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richjb78 Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Miller,Camp,Cohen,Gunter and maybe Moussi can all do a job when you first get promoted and when you progress they wouldn't be bad backup. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donoccetti Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Have you increased your revenue? I think at the start of the game its only 10%. Yeah i did at the start but at the end of the season it was only 20% and they wouldnt increase it, bastards! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
forestfan6 Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Cheers , think i will keep the first 4 unless money gets tight ... just signed Jali from Orlando Pirates so might let moussi go. Another quick question , is it easy enough to sell greening,reid,boateng and derbyshire in the 2nd transfer window .... i didnt get that far in my other game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donoccetti Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Another quick question , is it easy enough to sell greening,reid,boateng and derbyshire in the 2nd transfer window .... i didnt get that far in my other game. I sold Greening for 1million in Jan. I had to wait until the end of the season to sell the others, although i did send derbyshire out on loan for a fee in Jan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danger_mouse Posted October 30, 2011 Author Share Posted October 30, 2011 I was thinking of letting Greening and Reid go asap as they dont justify there wage, and ive signed Daniel Jensen on a free. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
footballhead Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Danger, it's worth getting rid of Reid as soon as possible. Greening can be useful, if you set him more defensive you can give Cohen more freedom going forward. It does however have to revolve around McGugan; he scored scored 20 from AMC in the first season for me so make sure you keep him fit! Basically grabbed my team by the neck and got them promoted. It's worth trying to get Delfouneso on loan if you can. His pace destroys most of the championship sides. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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