Eternal /trb/ - HC possibly dead edition

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Features announcement? October.
Beta for pre-orders? October.
FM 17 release ? November.
And remember, no pre-orders.

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I don't understand how you guys can play this game so much... it's literally just FIFA manager with worse graphics.

>best I could do
>couldn't even get a transparent fm logo

2/10 just because of that

I'm not a clever man.

You need to be autistic to properly enjoy FM. That's why we spend so many hours on it.

here friend, have this.

>responding to boring, played out, trite bait

U say "boring, played out, trite"
I say "classic, vintage, timeless"

Are you the britbong on holiday or an actual chinaman

I'm the bong. My dad is Chinese if that helps any. I do like roleplaying as a real Chinaman though, so please do not blow my cover when I am expertly trolling Cred Forums. Thank you.

p.s. i'm studying here, in Hangzhou

ni hao

Was just wondering because you can actually speak English.
Spent a year with a Chinese roommate at uni, and even after 6 years in the US he could barely speak English enough to order food. Would frequently call Chinese takeout restaurants and order in mandarin, I'm assuming.

haha kill me

你好

This situation is the reverse of my first 2 months in China. I would just order food online where I had a safe, translatable menu to click on. Chinese people are shy, have an intense fear of failure (so don't try) and don't make any friends when they go to the west. I also studied in Wales where there pockets of Chinese, Malaysians (and Chinese-Malaysians) and Koreans who wouldn't interact with anybody else.

thats what you deserve for managing narrch

Eternal /trb/, Asian Edition.

NO

Time for a euro invasion

>only one (1) domestic player in the starting eleven of a league game

Whoops

Who you got?

England to choke against france in the final

Croats 3-0 Scotland
Croats 4-1 Belgium
Croats Pens(1-1) Spain
Croats 2-1 AET Germany

>final
Damn I must be getting tired

switzerland to win all games on pens

This guy went from being one of those frustrating underachieving strikers to the best fucking CWB I've ever had.

Anyone got success stories from retraining a player's position?

Typical European imperialist attitude.

Holland looking stronk

Also I want to retrain this lad, he's got good b2b stats but I don't want an utter pussy playing such a central role. Ironically has the Argues With Officials PPM too.

Wingback would be the obvious choice, but I already have one in Atilla. Any suggestions? Meme roles very welcome.

>tfw Indonesia isn't red, yet

>be Nelson
>try to conquer Tenerife
>lose an arm and flee
1797 best year of my life

>mfw ive got enough current and ofrmer players in the golden ball shortlist to field a team

...

...

>receive bid
>way too fucking low
>player mad I don't accept
>say I'll accept if the finances are right
>receive next bid
>non-negotiable lower than first with some league installments and payment after goals
>reject
>player mad
>whole dressing room mad

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Shove your monopoly money up your arse

>Europe
hmm

Never say that you'll accept a better bid, Europe. It always backfires.

FM 17 INFO WHEN

I CAN'T WAIT ANYMORE

>gazillion new media interaction shit
>new hairdo's (probably)
>shittier match engine than 16 (probably)

PREORDER NAO

That map is as dead as Queen Victoria.
Although most Indonesian wish that we were colonized by the Brits instead of the Dutchies after seeing how much better Malaysia and Singapore is.
Even I think of that sometime.

>refuse to accept another bid
>ask him what it takes to keep him here
>he wants titles
>he's 17
>tell him to wait until the youngsters develop
>"I can't wait for these youngsters"
>"I'm extremely displeased with how you've handled this"
>dressing room revolt

REEEEEEEE

>taking vacations to sim stuff will now cause your assman to sell off your entire team
>now possible to post stuff directly to myspace

RARE
A
R
E

same here

>somebody posting rare while surifuck is around
>it's not a surifuck post
wow

Man those Dutchies sure fucks up big time.

There's like four porn threads on spee right now. Fuck I hate Australia.

We'll do better next time

you even had us m8, holland just fucked up and traded NY to you for Suriname.

...

what do you expect from a bunch of inbred farmers la

The purest possible (emphasis on "possible") genetics, born from intense and selective breeding.

>about to celebrate a win on my first ever champions league game
>169cm japanese midget heads in a goal from a cross against my 3 tall strong centre-backs

fuck this game

>youtube.com/watch?v=fVUQgHwaKU4

real talk here, i was thinking about using the 4-2-4 for my next run

any tips?

i don't get the point can't you just do 4-4-2

efef

mate the 4-1-1-4 is where it's at

i want to change formation and work with something i never used

got it, gonna check that

bbm and anchorman my friend

Don't listen to anything mitch says

>tfw been watching luxury air travel videos to Europe lately
It sure is nice to have tons of money.
But at least I'm pretty loaded in FM with 20k/week.

This. Always do the opposite of what mitch says.

>total career earnings >200k yuros
>been at the club for something like 6 years
>try to negotiate my wages up every time, but they insist on letting me raise them only one tick
too much like real life 2bqh

what can i do with my wagecuck money anyway?

not be embarrassed by mediocre squad players making far more than you

Nothing. Only thing your wage affects is job security. The higher your wages are the less eager the board is to fire.

>the opposite of 4-1-1-4 is 4-1-1-4

He got you this time senpai, fucking genius

>tfw shitposting from work
Feeling adventurous today 2bh lads

fun fact: i remember the best personal wage i reached was like 50 million at year, i pushed every time a new deal was made just to see what was the max contract in this game for a coach. I think there was still room for more money for me

surely it's 1-4-4-1

----------------F9
-IF------AP-------AM------IF
-WM-----------------------WM
---------BWM----HB

----------------SW
----------------GK
devilish

makes u look hard as fuck n all

I always negotiate my wages to the minimum possible so the club saves more money

the fucking state of journalism in 2033

twitter.com/Soccerex/status/780774518663118848

>implying FM gks are unrealistic

as stupid as the initial rush out was, all he had to do was not slip
fuck me

>all he had to do was not slip

It was a fixed game.

Fucking hell. Has Sam given his name up?

you're right, it was pre-determined to be terrible
some corrupt officials and gangsters collaborated to set it as an "AFC u16 international"

I feel like the fallout from this could be entertaining as fuck if Big Sam is giving up names

>every team but Arsenal is implicated
>Arsenal can't be because they never sign players

If he knows he's getting sacked he'll give up as much as he can

hey lads, thinking of getting OOTP17

have any of you guys played it?

is balance important ? my goat regen striker has 4 should i put him on individual training for it he does seem to fall over a lot

I actually don't know but it's important to me. On 16 I always get CB regens with like 4 balance so I bin them.

>Sunderland have a manager they are hapy with and able to avoid relegation with
>He gets poached to be England manager
>They get Moyes instead
>Big Sam gets sacked from England after 1 (one) game
>Sunderland go down under the tactical expertise of Moyes

Please make this all happen, would be so amusing.

FM17 needs to hurry up and come out. I feel like playing FM for the first time in 2 months but I don't want to continue my saves or start a new one.

Toughest part of the year for those reasons.
Beta should be out in about 3 weeks though

Yeah but the db editor won't come out until the full launch, which bugs me.

>Wanting to fuck with db immediately
You gotta at least try it out first.

I don't necessarily want to fuck with it, but I want to see the numbers behind the scenes to decide if I want to change them.

But then you need to wait about a month before the inevitable game breaking bug is fixed

Nah senpai, I wanna actually play the American leagues without needing a bacherlors in capitalistic socialism

Are they playing North Korea?
Slippy keeps is clearly getting executed when he gets home

MIKE ABSOLUTELY BTFO

Kenny is /ourguy/

Which one of you is Kenny?

Will bungs be a part of FM17

You're looking for USM98

Wishlist:

1) Bungs
2) Racism
3) More violent conduct red cards

Bugs? Definetly. Plenty of them.

Top game
>tfw offered bungs despite not having a clue what they were

jej I did the same. Also once I did know what they were I usually found the cost of the bung was not worth how little you'd save on their players.

>give assistant manager highest possible wage
>he starts paying the club for his job

SAM GONE

F

>You now realize that Big Sam will forever be known as England's winningest manager

Can he still make it as a CWB?
Also how do I make my league more competitive without buying shit players, I always turn wherever I am a borefest with my team winning it all after a few seasons

I think its time Moyes becomes England manager and we go full meme

>AS English @English_AS 29s29 seconds ago
>Benzema with what can only be described as a comedy fall, when he was one on one against the keeper.

lel

>Clattenburg not giving that handball against Ronaldo
It's like the final all over again

>sacked from a lebanese club
>hired in a fijian team

I love how nonsensical, but incredibly epic this game can get sometimes

>'Our best chance of winning is with 11 men on the pitch'

This. Only reason I want the db editor is so I can make myself in the game though.

Plymouth players playiing like they have a stylish, tie-like bullseye on their backs

RIP Dempshit

soundersfc.com/post/2016/09/27/clint-dempsey-ruled-out-remainder-2016-season-due-irregular-heartbeat

First red was first min according to twitter

CAN'T FOX THE FOXES

>Southgate will be in charge for the next 4 matches
ugh he will be shit but get the results and then get the job and it will be terrible

>Slimani scored
Like pottery

>your captain will never get a 10 match ban for twatting a 3.0 ref

>that fucking dortmund goal

>navas
you fucking idiot

Will Big Sam retire now? I want to see what jobs he gets in the next FM.

Big Sam to Juve

>16 year-old youth intake pull scores 24 minutes into his senior debut in cup semis

Neat

Season starts here!

>Tom Ince from Will Hughes
2muchcheese

>not Real Madrid after Zidane gets sacked for not winning the league

>implying zizou doesnt win la duodecima

nah mate, real are average, zidane got really lucky last year

>posting midmatch

>group stage matches
nigel pls

Ill take another average CL win thank you

>Villa dropped points after the 80th minute again
I really hope Phil has gone to a few matches this year, I swear they've dropped points in the last few mins in literally half of all matches

based miles

Hmm...

Pulisic is the best impact sub I've seen in a while, and Schurrle is literally why Chelsea should've fired it's entire scouting division with Mouyes

>that efficiency
thanks

>tfw your star DLP who's been in the first team since he was 16 is now 36
>he's been captain for 18 years
>won the league 16 years straight, 2 CLs, 2 ELs
>have to watch his physicals slide off a cliff
>trying to find excuses to put him back into the team
>coming up on 900 apps in all comps
Feels like I'm watching my grandpa die in front of my eyes. If he decides not to stay in coaching afterwards I'll probably delete the save out of grief

You made an 18 year old the captain of your team?

It's the welsh league so the regens were better than the defaults at the start

I missed out on Dybala, so I'm going down the absolute madman route of training Herrera as a False 9. I don't expect you to understand my decision, but I want your support nonetheless /trb/.

NO

Sorry butters, but what else do you want me to do? My hand has been forced.

big sam is innocent

legally sure, morally no. and I'm sure he has done plenty of illegal shit even if they didn't prove it.

All that matters is legally. Like how Mouyes legally wasn't the reason Casillas, Fabregas and PigMan went to shit. Or how he legally didn't have anything to do with Chelsea's youth never coming up to play for the senior team.

Does a Wide Playmaker work?

>All that matters is legally.
I keep seeing people argue this but if you were to criticise the company you work for and your predecessor and to leak information on how to circumvent rules and regulations put in place by your employer for the good of others working in the industry then you can be damn sure the minimum that happened would be a suspension and most likely you'd be fired/demoted.

Wingers do.

>creating goals from things that aren't crosses

>rareflags being shit at managing

Ive always told the dressing room to go fuck off when they come talk to me about denying transfer bids and they all leave happy that im such a fucking man.

CB just two assists, a goal and injured Atletico's captain. So happy lads.

Gave Darren's Devastating 4-3-2-1 a go for a season lads. Walked the league with about 10 games to spare and also won the league cup easily, but fucked up in the semi-finals of the Champs League and the final of the FA cup. Disappointing end to what should have been an easy quadruple. I blame Rooney desu, which is why I sold him to Everton as soon as the season ended.

>playnig manure

Also, you cant say 4-3-2-1 and not specify if you use DMs, wingers, etc

>tfw was supposed to walk this group

The formation uses CWBs, a HB just in front of the defence, two attacking CMs, two IFs, and a F9. My standout performers for the season were Depay (absolute GOAT on FM2016, something like 30 goals and 10 assists for the season), Schneiderlin (chipped in with 10 goals and 12 assists), and Pogba (average rating of ~8.00 for the season). Biggest problem was the F9, Rooney was pretty unspectacular as I said (~10 goals and 5 assists despite playing 35 games), and Rashford is way too young in the first-season, although he did show promise (15 goals, mostly from bench).

>engaging the obvious b8

>Mouyes legally wasn't the reason Casillas, Fabregas and PigMan went to shit

He *really* wasn't tho. Casillas went to shit because he never cared about his fitness, Cesc was already mediocre at Barcelona and Schweini was already done. If you want to blast Mouyes for any of these, do so because he spent that money on Fàbregas.

>HC possibly dead edition
Don't get my hopes up like that

Rude

youtube.com/watch?v=YcBwp8WOVlI

>big sam
>large samuel
>humongus sammy
>sizeable s-dog
>enormous sammy-D
>sammy sam and the lunchy munch

Legitimately was looking forward to England under him. Actually feel bad for the bloke but without knowing all the details not sure if he had this coming.

That being said. Sam is the only manager with a 100% win ratio.

>2D, 1L
>GD 8

Did you just molest Lech each time?

Just the once. I had a barrage of shots, but no goals episode in the first match. Had to have a team meeting after that match since we were losing in the league as well.

Turned out allright since we havent lost in the league after that team meeting.

The most frustrating was the BMG loss since it came of a direct bicycle kick on a corner and I lost three key players to injury.

how do I play pressing possession play ?

it fucking sucks against hoofball and/or anyone

i've basically got on like close down a lot, be expressive, roam from positions, sit high line and high tempo in a 4-2-3-1

l somehow manage to beat Gladbach 3-0 in Europa league then lose 5-1 to Brighton next game with the exact same players and tactics

Couldn't make heads or tails of it, in large part owing to the fact that I know fuck all about baseball and how they analyse and sort their stats, so if you're into baseball and understand that complicated bullshit go for it

Post tictacs for us to laugh at

no laugh pls

also i lied it's a 4-4-1-1

its very nice and i recommend it if you like baseball.

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It's one of my experimental tactics to say the least

Play balanced width with mixed passing for more effective passing.

Not sure I like your midfield roles, but that's debatable.

yea me neither, what should I have instead?

what should I do with opposition instructions?

all set to close down? lol

What's your recommended squad size for playing in Brazil anyone? Starting a save to bring Botafogo back up.

nightmare tikitakenaccio mode:
draw as many triangles as you can on the tactics screen. I usually go for something like

-------X
----X----X
-------X
-X--X--X--X
----X----X
-------X

adjusted as suits your players obviously, and pick roles that suit your players, but try to balance out closing down/position (ie forward/backward)/creative freedom around the pitch
and then engage no-fun-allowed mode
>retain possession
>shorter passing
>sit narrower
>highly structured
>be more disciplined
>close down more
>push higher up
and whatever else your players need not to fuck it up (if your players suck, you might need to add "lower tempo")
you won't create much, but you'll keep the ball pretty well. if you a) have world-class players that can create something out of nothing, or b) regularly have the opportunity to play on the counter due to low club rep, then it's a good base to build from

Set your wingers to attack and play a BBM for another body in the box.
Personally I prefer to move my AP to the mid and play a 4-4-2 attack/high press control and swap into a 4-1-4-1 to protect a lead late. But that's whatever
Other than that, set the overall tactic to close down normal aND have your individual players close down so your CBs don't get pulled out of position.

all of them

If you dont have one you should maybe look to aquire a decent ball-winning midfielder.

Is it really worth to have a trequartista if you want pressing football?

Attacking wingbacks maybe so you can have le overlap diamonds?

BBMs are better from my experience since they don't just sit and just acquire cards when they get beat

Why not both

I actually just bought it two weeks ago.

I like being able to manage games (when to walk a batter, when to steal a base, etc), it makes the game feel more immersive. Similar to FM it's definitely not set up so retards can win.

There are some things I don't like, but this could just be preference. First off there's no way to tell who is actually a good coach or not. Aside from scouts, all you have to judge off of is their reputation which means absolutely nothing. I'm sorry but picking coaches shouldn't be more difficult than drafting players. Scouting is way more of a pain than in FM too, there's no scout this player for a month option or knowledge levels so I never feel like I truly know how good a prospect is.

Yeah I prefer bbms as well, but I play a completely different style than what söda bror here wants to accomplish.

It seems he wants stylish tiki-taka-goals. While I'm content having a 100+ GD at the end of a season from 90% crosses

>in game birthday

i hope my party doesnt turn out like essiens

Yea have similar issues with it also found the baseball minor league management to be a bit of a pain. Some people probably love it but not me.

Be sure to check out the OOTP forums they have a done of great ideas on how to set up and customize a save. One that I should really try is Stats only.

I disagree on the two first things.

The one other issue I have is trading players. I started a save as the Mariners and decided after 30 games to sell off everyone and rebuild. I quickly realized it was going to be impossible because I couldn't trade away Robinson Cano or Nelson Cruz for $1, I was expected to give away some of my best prospects in order to even be able to trade them.

THEN I made a new save and on day 1 guess what, I can actually acquire prospects for those same players. ?????

>mfw a team brings four of your academy products and this happens

at least one of them scored

Actually think they do a very good job with trading, personally turn up the difficulty to make it harder to sell because after you figure it out a bit it can be easy to fleece teams. Personally also turn up how the game values prospects over aging veterans.

The differences probably came from performances, becoming a neutral team to a rebuilding team, and timing. Its easier to blow up and rebuild near the trading deadline and if older players on large contracts are either preforming poorly-average teams arent going to want to blow their farm system 30 games in until they figure out where they stand in the league hierarchy. If Cano was having a typical Cano season you could've probably played a bit longer and sold him for a good bit of prospects on the deadline to a team weak at 2nd where they would've declined at the 30 day mark.

OOTP avoids a lot of criticism for its faults as you can pretty much customize settings to your liking so if you dont like how vets are getting valued turn up certain options/settings. The OOTP forums would be better at directing you at this as I haven't played in a few months, think FM is just better.

Start of a new season is a nightmare where lower league clubs take all my staff and hire them as managers

I've still never seen any of my staff come back to haunt me. Though I do wonder if any have been fired yet

who /ac london/ here?

I'm really confused at this post

why a Israeli communist crest?

L O N D O N

problem with the logopack I guess? wikipedia claims they have a pretty mundane logo

actually I'd like to change
>pretty mundane
to
>soul-destroyingly mundane

>you will never won 30 titles in your life
>you will never be a legend in a club somewhere in the world
Feels bad man.

Yet for some reason this local lad isn't considered a legend despite spending his entire career there and also born and raised there.
Kinda wonder what kind of algorithm is used to determine club legend,

>tfw your avg but you want him to be great regen scores a blooter and celebrates

>painfully average youth intake kid who was born in the city and supports the club scores 2 goals and wins PoM
he may never amount to anything, but I'll keep him

I don't know how it works exactly, but players who are voted "fan favourite" or are "the pick of the players" inducted into the team of the year at the end of the season tend to end up as favoured personnel. and when that happens to them multiple times, I think they'll usually end up as icons and then legends
extremely good performances in crucial games seems to influence it, too

welp. maybe next season.. ;_;

Apparantly only I hate my painfully average yet over achieving youth players
Though I do admit, the Stockholm syndrome is starting to set in with Parker Brindley

drunk

Buy a player

very

I did that before and ended up with 10 sudacas arriving in 2 years, IIRC one or two of them were good enough to be developed into profit/first team

one of them is turning into a nice DM tho

Credit to my 5th choice striker putting on these numbers.

Mine somehow won USA player of the year over my two regulars.

Mine has also done that for iirsh player of the year.

Just noticed this. Good for them.

How much do you reckon I can sell this guy for?
His contract ends in a year and a half and he is refusing to sign a new one.

60m maybe 70 if the right club offers.

£50M at least mate, I've got £70M for a similar player (manlet with great everything else), but his contract was like 3-4 years

He's 20, so go 50 with a 50% sell on

>implying he wont sit on the bench for barca and go for £12m to seville

>Not buying him for 12m so that you only pay net 6m.

This sounds really brutal after a while

>tfw you will never have a club song as good as this

youtube.com/watch?v=_rp3toJ9cAQ

Am I the only one thinking that Big Sam realized after getting the England job just how bad the team is and orchestrated all this so he could get the fuck out?

He's been taking bungs for years, this was just business as usual for him.

He was making £3m/yr

whats up with all these players saying "I am not interested in joining your club" what the fuck football players are slaves to the highest bidder, hired guns, even from clubs with the same rep status as mine.

I'm really struggling to think who'll get the England job now.

Like, I know the usual options (Pardew, Southgate, Bruce) but fuck me surely it can't be that predictable and bland.

based HC

In FM (at the very least in FM15), staff/players value reputation over everything else, in ridiculous proportions even. Even if your rep is the same, if the reputation of your league/country/continent and competitions you play is slightly worse that what they'd accept or than another club (star ratings are just gross approximations), it can and will be your undoing.

Is this a good tikki takktic?

>DM as DLP

>WB+W
And DLP (D) is an useless motherfucker in the DM strata because it plays absurdly low. Switch >Wengers to IF/RMD and DLP to HB/AnchorMan/DM (D). Which allows for a BBM instead of a BWM.

thanks

>Have 15M€ Minimum Release Clause for a key player
>Get 900k offer for him
>Counter with 15M€
>They bail
>"Player asks to discuss future"

Fuck this, where is the option to say that he isn't leaving until the Minimum Release Clause is met?

There is none. And even if there was, it would count as a promise so you better forget about it. Just put his asking price at 15M or even higher.

I haven't played in my home ground for 3 seasons now.

Every season the board extend it by 3000 seats or something and we have to play at a local stadium.

Fucking bollocks I don't want to play in Blackburn when I'm in Barrow

The demand grows faster than your stadium. Eventually you'll hit the maximum expansion size and they'll stop doing that.

I put his asking price at 30M and still get some 200k-900k offers.

He whined some more, I demoted him to U19s, he whined some more, I took 2 weeks wages. The team got pissed, told them to fuck off and at least they listened.. Fucking Russkies

Would have just been easier to build a new one desu

Are you still playing in your initial stadium?

2000 capacity Holker Street, the reason it's getting upgraded over and over is because the board had no money until we had gotten to the premier league to be able to upgrade it, so we went from Conference North to Championship with a 2000 capacity stadium.

It has something like 15-20k capacity now

USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA

>6.3 keeper
FM15 I suppose.

Well he saved 6 shots at least

how much could I get for this chap?

>30+ game undefeated streak bets broken by the team on the last place
This is the most typical FM result I've had in a while.

get your bets in

holland

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>bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37493165

!

how am i supposed to handle my koreans going away to military service?

I thought the link had something to do with your comment

>Spider bites Australian man on penis again
>AGAIN

Australians love to try and fuck spiders

would you take eleven spider bites to your willy if it meant Derby staying up in the PL?

>Turks in charge of good features

...

>FA's new points system condemned as bizarre and out of touch with football

And Australia's wildlife loves to try and fuck humans up.

>Not a household name
maybe if you live in a household of plebs

>McClaren
>Capello
>Hodgson
>Allardyce

Half of the England population would get a heart attack from Bielsas formations alone

the players would explode

Why would he want the England job?
Why would anyone want the England job?

>Why would anyone want the England job?
Money

>corner defense matches up with other team's corner attack
>literally 15 minutes worth of corners
Anyone ever have this problem?

> portugal winning back to back european championships
> crash dump after crash dump
> fm17 still months away
dark times

buy the game maybe?

>tfw cant choose a club to manage
>tfw only play a few pre-season games and get bored

i-i already did

>recommend me a lower league club to take to glory in any of the top leagues

>for extra appreciation explain why you have chosen that team


Pic is my arsenal career I'm hanging up because it got way too easy in the 2nd season.

>midfielder wants more playing time after the injured GOAT comes back
>Threatens to leave
>Tell him to go ask teams to buy him
>"Let's not get carried away boss, I was actually pretty out of line. I can wait"
Leverage is amazing

Dartford
because you seem a lot like mitch

>kind of want to go to italy desu

I got a couple mates who grew up in China (I'm a bong abroad)

They all went to British international schools in Shanghai and I imagine if that was a thing in the UK people would kick the fuck up it's kinda funny actually

Imagine Farage if Chinese International schools were all around London

how low you thinkin?
what's the nearest club to you irl?

your greentext skills are deplorable

Pro Vercelli. They have won a the Serie A a bunch of times, but the last one was in 1921.

try Palermo and see how long you can go without getting sacked by their shitty chairman

Italy is boring btw I did a few seasons in 3rd div and by the time I got to 1st div I was bored out of my brain

not looking forward to getting constantly fucked on the right there

also
>English
Premier League

Apple so expensive Andy Carroll can't afford a new iphone on 90k/w

He spends it all in partying and hamburgers.

Can you believe he had 44 apps for Liverpool and only scored 6(six) goals

just finished my /comfy/ save

what team should I start now?

None, you just keep FM installed for all eternity without ever doing anything with it, start it up on accident once in a while.

Alternatively you can start a save with a club that's in the same country so you will meet once in a while, have reasonable amounts of fun with it before doing the first thing i mentioned

Fool proof plan, trust me

>"If you want a new contract, do something that separates you from the pack."
Well he's done it right?

w-will you be back regularly when 17 comes out?

French league? maybe strasbourg-alsace?

F
If he had a good showing for Bayern he would've been in my first team plans too.

fuck lol

Why does "Match Highest Earner" even exist the amount of times shit players' shitty agents have wiggled that one in there without me noticing is insane.

Got 3 2* kids on 100k p/w and obviously they refuse to move to any smaller club

>Player good enough for Buyern isn't good enough for your first team
>In New-York
What the fuck does your first team look like?

>agents have wiggled that one in there without me noticing is insane.

who is really at fault?

what do you want to see in FM 17 and what do you think they NEED to add?

the agent's fault for putting it in there in the first place

Soviet track stadiums

>what do you want to see in FM 17
The possibility to delete a country in the Editor.
>what do you think they NEED to add
Too many things. Like things that are supposed to work but don't.

A mixture of too many CMs and slav wingers taking up my non domestic slots.

Just started with Alfreton lads.

Lower league tawctics POST EM

Used this when MLS was still dependent on shitty european rejects and Sudacas in my save. So I think it'll work in LLM

Might have to try this desu

>deviating from 4-4-fucking 2
long ball to the big man who knocks it down for the poacher who scores

>tfw 64 match ban

>complete forwards playable in LLM
No.

Is that the maximum possible for a season?

Replace with TM(S) and Poacher in LLM
Though I'm sure the strikers are the last problem this formation might have

any Germanbros in here?

if I buy a key on g2a, will this work on Steam?
shit's not available in the regular Steam Store cause EA holds the licence

Nah I probably messed up senpai

Suppose your player got a red in every game.. well, in order to get a 64 match ban, he would have had to already have served a 32 match ban, 16, 8, 4, 2 and 1 match bans (not to mention the actual games in which the player was sent off). The sum of those is 63, so to get a 64 match ban you'd need like 70 games in the league

A 32 match ban is actually possible -- 31 matches suspended, plus the 6 games where the player actually picks up the reds. Then in the last game of the season, after coming back from a 16 game suspension, player gets a red and misses the first 32 games of the next season desu

>Misses 32 games next season
>first game back
>red card

I should put this in next years /trb/ league for top /trb/. Right now I think the rules are 4 yellows = 1 game, 6 yellows = 2 games, 8 yellows = 3 games or some shit like that. Reds are just straight 2 match suspensions.

>finding CFs in LLM

no fucking chance

See

fuck off pal

>LLM
>not playing 3-4-3 overload with three poachers and fast wingers and defenders good in the air
plebs

Does it actually work?

I dunno. Worked in the andorran premiership.

Probably, just depends on how many years it takes to get all of those pieces on a shoestring budget

That goal was hilarious.

Is Brendan Rodgers the maverick of our generation?

I'm currently holidaying from September to January lads. How does that make you feel?

It's a product of you making your league autoplay. How do you feel about it?

Gets me hard.

Why is Brenny going punch for punch with Pep?

so when he loses 5-3 he can say he tried to play the beautiful game

>TORRES

REV UP THOSE >TORRES

good lord torres

>All these English pacebabbies scoring
Wew

>fernando

lel get rekt farça

Doubt it

Is this Walcots year?

>PSG losing
>Barca losing
>City drawing with Leltic
What is going on?

Is it T. Hazard's year? And which team buys him and makes Chelsea's decision making look even shittier?

Meme magic.

We can only hope
yfw he wins more than his older brother

Rodgers > Pep

Magic of the cup

>tfw don't live in the timeline where Celtic and BMG go through

not with that attittude

>we live in the timeline where Rostov play Leicester in the final

...

>Shitty
Fucking hell, they not realise when to start playing?

>Poop

What a goal Dembele

who /gladbach/ here?

Why the fuck is FJ playing F9?

It's raining goals lads

>posting mid match

didn't have a better striker sub probably, only watching with one eye though.

they just conceded as well. sad.

don't know whether i should be mad or proud

I had no idea Russia was into furfaggotry

vote for kot

any way to stop my players whining about the training ive put them on ? little cunts

>Greaseman

Sell them

>Arsenal win the group for the first time in forever
>End up with Bayern in the next round

set it even higher

>buy new young keeper to compete with cuurent
> new gk immediately out for 5 months
>okay thats fine
>old gk out for 2 months a week later
why has god forsaken me

>Brenny going for it
This is one of those moments that make you a genius or an idiot and I'm thinking it'll end up the latter.

Not really, it's not like anyone expects him to actually do anything

I bet rodgers is going to masturbate to his tactical fiendery later

Who /LifelongBhoy/ here?

He took off DM to bring on a striker with 5 mins to go with the score tied against a team far superior.
Gotta give it to him for being ballsy.

We /littlegirls/ heres

proud scottish lad here

>Norwich

...

You don't even have to, just press on one of your save games and then press escape and the save window disappears...

everything went OK

Did Real sack their manager mid-season?

nope.

I had never seen a guy being on the bench and on a plane at the same time.

Does he play on the wing?

no tactic is working, i've fucked it, this is gonna be my 3rd season I finish 16th in the prem despite spending like 50m on new players

proper in a rut lads

>Based Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is getting done now by Telegraph for corruption
Balls, one of the few managers I really like and that I think is doing a great job.

>tfw just found the broken corner setup and fm17 is out soon

You were the swedbro who ran 4-4-1-1?

Either way, post tictacs

Actually lost the CL final to these shitters last year

>Cellino is involved
Least surprising thing

>Barnsleys assman is gone
of all people

turning it around lads

I was trying to replicate droghedabros tictacs and it wasn't working, so I reverted back to the good ol 4-2-3-1

do you have a fuckton of individual instructions on? I only vaguely remember your tactics post

You can just call macca macca, camwhore lover

>look up youh intake
>South African clubs
>player is 24
Bravo Miles.

My tactics? What the hell were you doing. I change between 4 tactics.

the 4-4-2 wide midfielders play narrow one, it's the only one I remember you posting

Oh
I don't even use that anymore. Now I play asymmetric possession 4-3-1-2 wide.

give me some low league team to dominate with

FK Pardubice

F.C. De Kampioenen

Mensajero

Lyn is the obvious choice here lad. They were a top tier team in norway for the longest time, but got relegated and eventually disbanded due to financial difficulties.

The fans went on to support one of their seventh tier amateur teams who eventually became their new professional team after tearing through the amateur divisions.

When the game starts Lyn plays in the lowest playable division in norway and is semi-professional, theyve decent talents for their division and a big stadium.

In real life they got 1 point in the first half of the season, sacked the manager and went on to "win" the second half of the season, but just getting relegated on goal difference after a 9-2 win in the last round. Much thanks to their main rivals putting u17 players in their lineup when they played Lyn's main relegation candidates.

Your job would be to bring Lyn back to it's glory days and restoring the only true permier division derby in norway.

Toronto FC

I hope fm will add the ability to invest itno esports in 17. Seems to be all the hype.

Do i have to delete my save now?

Miles is riding pretty hard on the esports bandwagon atm so won't be surprised if we see something like that in there.

>Englel

Want this lad to become a thundercunt machine.

Should I teach him to place shots or shoot with power? Or any other PPMs you think I should teach him?

Is he really? would love to see it in there

Its all Big Sam's fault

This from literally yesterday at soccerexpo
twitter.com/Soccerex/status/780774518663118848

he asked for a new contract rip the greatest bargain of all time

>tfw i accidentally thought about when i used to base my entire scouting efforts on the star rating
kms

and brexit

>tfw i accidentally thought
>kms

FTFY

>Tebow hits a dinger
GOAT

what is this ? havent messed with corners at all

first pitch, too

Against a dude that chatted shit

Penalty spot with two playmaker/thundercunters attacking from deep

This makes so many goals come from buildup play directly after a corner its so good.

Essentially my routine, have someone attack far post though. Personally have 3 tactics set one near post, one six yard box, and one short.

>Time wasting before I can see if FM17 is something
Their best results were a 1/4th lost vs. France at the Euro 2024 and a 2nd Round loss vs. Spain at the WC 2022. The 1st division is ranked 13th in the qualification places (2 CL/3EL spots with none in the group stage or playoffs) rankings with the 16th reputation. All that despite being the lone country loaded in the game with a youth rating of 150.

Hey, remember that one time Sam Allardyce was England manager?

100% win rate la
Truly the best manager England will ever have.

Mostly dominated by Dinamo, who are the best club of the """country""".

Also, all hail England's Brave John Terry!

What's a fun obscure tactic to run in fm14

lanus baka going to benultys

multi-sports.eu/56.html

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4-2-3-1

Between Palmeiras and Santos, which one gets the cheesier regens?

1-9

Santos no question, better Youth Coaching, Recruitment and facilities.

R I P sweet prince

This fucking guy

What about him?

Never actually seen a players named Fucks.

Search in Argentina, every now and again you get an Assman to show up

Wasn't it possible to get a Hitlerinho regen from Brazil?

How do I sign staff for B teams? Put adverts out but they never get answered and anyone that I approach never wants to be employed by them?

You would definitely have to edit a players last or common name to Hitler first.

Liverpool makes it out of league 1 in the second attempt.

Blunderland has to stay for their sixth season.

Probably a question of reputation or something. Do your B team plays league matches? If you're in dire need of a manager, just use a proxy manager: create a manager with the right attributes, have take him over your B team and put him on permanent holiday.

Follow the circles

who knocked your logos over

I take my screenshots at an angle

I may have figured out why my intakes have been so shit these last few years.

I may have forgotten to sign a new HOYD after the last one retired.

fookin ell

...

Delete your save now.

youtube.com/watch?v=T9oVLIL1BfI

He peaked at 19 years old, I was hoping for a goat american regen

So I'm new to FM, and I'm playing vanilla FM2016.

Is there any reason why my B-team isn't playing any matches or friendlies?

I have a head coach for my B-team, and the box is checked for arrange friendlies, but nothing is fucking happening.

B teams are broken, you have to arrange the friendlies on your own.

Perhaps in your db your B team is set to never have fixtures. Pic related. Yes it's retarded but it's a thing. Else, just try arranging friendlies yourself.

Thanks guys, much appreciated

>Get to 60 mins, desperately need a goal
>Move to an attacking formation, switch mentality to 'Overload', and instruct players to 'Take more risks'
>No more chances for either side for the rest of the game

Ahh yes, thanks (((Miles))) you fucking hack.

every single time i try overload this happens

its your tactics

>score a goal that puts your team in the lead
>put on overload
>nothing happens and the match ends
Tactical genius.

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yea that's me, I might keep that high press 4-4-1-1 / 4-2-3-1 and also make up a really simple 4-4-2

feel like a hack that I couldn't get that kloppo / tuchel style possession play to work tho

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this page would give anyone an heart attack but I think I'm doing it right when trying the pressing shit

theguardian.com/football/the-set-pieces-blog/2016/sep/29/football-manager-2017-sport-plymouth-argyle?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

>not closing down the libero

won't let you I don't think, you set it and it turns itself off even tho i kno you're joking

can we see your full team instruction?

>SI having their own in house band

Hi guys. I'm new. What's the best bargain buy in fm16?

wingers both on roam from position

AP on move into channels

fullbacks on get further forward and run wide with ball


and I just changed that AF to a CF

not sure what instructions to give my GK

Ajer.

I'm thinking some of the reason i'm doing so bad is because I'm playing a lot of brand new players who I've just bought and the team cohesion and general mood isn't so good because I've got a lot of angry shitters on the bench and a bunch of new ppl on the pitch who don't know each other

Messi

Regen

>not sure what instructions to give my GK
Don't waste the damn ball would be a good start. Usually I like to have them play to the FBs: short enough to keep the ball but far enough from the goal that a shit pass/first touch won't put yourself in immediate danger either.

>

I meant your tactical instructions to the team.

It does say on the screenshot desu but here

twitter.com/PTS_Updates/status/777416912007467008
haha oh wow.jpg

Slow the tempo way down to begin with in my opinion.

Retaining the possession is very easy in FM. The most important part is having players who don't have square feet... literally. Retain Possession+Shorter Passing+Work Ball Into Box+Play Out of Defence. How high you play, how you press, how fast you play has not much to do with keeping the ball. I don't like to press hard (I like to retain my shape) but I still play possession football.

Not really.

Play HIgher, rather than much higher, also play fairly narrow so that there's always a passing lane foor your short passes. Overlapping and working into the box is a must for pretty short passing possession games.
I have my players stick to positions rather than the opposite, they get drawn out too much chasing the ball.
If I were you I'd bring those AML/AMRs back to midfield so they do more defense and stop chasing the CBs, just force them to either funnel the ball to each other or to the shittier fullback.

Also, high line with high pressing leaves you vulnerable to hoofball to a pacebabby. Just play a normal line. And look into use tighter marking and Run at Defense

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I don't like run at defence personally

Well you gotta do something with the ball once you have 60+% possession. If you have skilled dribblers, Run At Defence is a valid option. If you have skilled passers and players with great Off The Ball and Pace, Pass Into Space also is an option.

>FA bosses are ready to speak to surprise England managerial candidate Ralf Rangnick, according to the Daily Telegraph

yeah, that's probably why it never worked for me, I don't particularly have very good dribblers.

Passing and pace is decent in the squad but off the ball is fairly average

i'll try pass into space and see what happens

If you have the dribbles for it, run at defence and short passes into space work well together, and kill low stamina defenders after 60 minutes

Yeah really, hes gonna lose the ball constantly. No reason to play anything over normal speed with that setup.

>posession football
>pass into space

pick one

Also, note that Flair is the ability to create the unexpected and is precious for >Wengers, WBs, AP (A) and the like. When a player is said to be predictable with his Dribbling despite having great Pace and Dribbling, it's often because of average or low Flair.

If you want 80+% Possession lower tempo is fine. Helps killing time when you have a lead. Else I don't like it: I prefer a bit lower possession (55/60+%) and do something with the ball than just retain it for the sake of it. I don't give Tempo instructions at all.

might just let yous argue desu and i'll make my own mind up out of the two hahaha

What are you on about, higher tempo is shit in his setup and will be the reason he isnt creating chances.

If you consistently run 80% ball posession you're allready walking the league with world class players in every position so it's no point having this argument.

For his setup, with his players which seem to not be world class he needs lower tempo so his players can actually keep up with the tactic and not just give away the ball everywhere.

i'm with norbro on this one

Basically it means he needs players who aren't retarded with actually decent technical attributes. If you want your players to follow the tactics in a more disciplined way, use a more structured formation (which isn't a bad thing at all). No need for lower tempo.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangju_Sangmu_FC

>Sangju Sangmu FC (Korean: 상주 상무 프로축구단), is a professional football club that plays in the K League Classic. The club is based in Sangju, South Korea. Sangmu (상무, 尙武) means martialism and is the sports division of the Military of South Korea

sounds pretty sick to be playing regens that will be on their way to losing their legs and being out for 8-9 forevers

I've had 60% possession with pass into space. Depends on your off ball vs opponent's anticipation/awareness

Do it, you'll have a lot of fun managing them

Just remember your regens can and will be drafted into the army. I wonder if they can die in Macca's DB

The thing is that he needs players with good technicals (first touch, technique, passing) but also really good mentals (anticipation, decisions vision, work rate) if his players in front of the back four lack in these stats then youre going to have a bad time trying to run this german setup.

I say he should try and run on normal speed for a few matches and see if there's improvements or not, I'm personally pretty sure he will see some.

Drop your tempo to normal or even slightly lower.

Pretty much what I've initially said. Keeping the ball isn't too hard, you "just" need players who don't have literal square feet. Keeping the ball and doing something with it is the kicker.

>Just remember your regens can and will be drafted into the army
Nope, total reverse

Need something to cut out the chances against me.

I had pass into space for this game with a normal tempo

forgot pic

slowing the tempo will mean your players will pass less to your opponents. As it comes to chances, you will have to see what type of chances you're vulnerable to.

If it's throught balls then you should have a deeper defensive line. If it's crosses then higher is the general rule of thumb I have.

both of them were off set pieces

Well you are going to commit a few fouls with your setup, cant be helped :P

You need to occupy the pitch better to prevent chances and defend better. In FM, a 4-2-3-1 Wide with CM means that there will be space behind your CMs (tested and approved) and that your players in the AML/AMR strata won't defend especially if they have an Attack duty. W(S) and IF(S) will somewhat close down but that's it. You could try a CM+DM duo or two DMs, but honestly I'd switch to a 4-3-3 because it's less of an hassle. Unfortunately, FM isn't real life.

If you want wingers that defend, just put the AMs in the Midfield

Once have a save as them in 11.
Shit's annoying as fuck.

The issue I have with that isn't so much for wingers, but because you lose the other roles available in the AM stratas. And nope, I tried to turn a WM into a IF through instructions and it doesn't work.

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