Football Manager 2015

Mars Bar

I thought Richairo Zivkovic was the one ye were talking about!

CSF

Mars Bar wrote: »

I thought Richairo Zivkovic was the one ye were talking about!

No. Andrija is mighty impressive too in my limited experience with him.

TimRiggins

OptimusTractor wrote: »

My current Malmo squad etc. (Sadly tactical instructions are remaining a secret)

How is two stoppers working for you? Been mulling over it for awhile.

OptimusTractor

TimRiggins wrote: »

How is two stoppers working for you? Been mulling over it for awhile.

Setting up CB as stoppers was the missing piece of the way I wanted my teams to play. I initially went for "defend + cover" but I noticed because they were ball playing they were prone to go out of position like there was no commuication between the 2. Stoppers has made the back four a more solid unit while ensuring the team keeps the ball on the on the ground and moves it quickly for the majority.

My only problem now is teams seemed to have figured out how my midfield works. More tweaking.

OptimusTractor

In terms of facilities is great and well established for Malmo on the same level as bigger clubs. I imagine reputation affects how they wok.

CSF

After a 7th place finish and a massive shakeup. Change in club ownership led to finally getting a 550k transfer budget and 5k extra onto the wage budget. Nothing huge but with the retiring players and 1 or 2 extra off the wagebill, I was able to make 5 budget conscious but significant improvements.

With the continuity going into my 4th season with Orebro and the big 3 not starting anywhere near their best, I'm currently 2 points ahead of my first club Helsingborg after 8 games (5 wins and 2 draws).

AIK are currently third from bottom and Goteborg 7th in the league. I can see a vacancy freeing up this year but I honestly don't know whether I should want to push for it.

OptimusTractor

CSF wrote: »

After a 7th place finish and a massive shakeup. Change in club ownership led to finally getting a 550k transfer budget and 5k extra onto the wage budget. Nothing huge but with the retiring players and 1 or 2 extra off the wagebill, I was able to make 5 budget conscious but significant improvements.

With the continuity going into my 4th season with Orebro and the big 3 not starting anywhere near their best, I'm currently 2 points ahead of my first club Helsingborg after 8 games (5 wins and 2 draws).

AIK are currently third from bottom and Goteborg 7th in the league. I can see a vacancy freeing up this year but I honestly don't know whether I should want to push for it.

You should start self scouting African clubs, it's a goldmine for Scandanavian teams.

CSF

OptimusTractor wrote: »

You should start self scouting African clubs, it's a goldmine for Scandanavian teams.

Why Africa in particular?

OptimusTractor

CSF wrote: »

Why Africa in particular?

Always a chance you'll find a gem or 2 for next to nothing.

CSF

OptimusTractor wrote: »

Always a chance you'll find a gem or 2 for next to nothing.

Don't have that sort of scouting means at Orebro. Madly enough I'm still a point clear at the mid-season point. I may actually genuinely be in a title race here

OptimusTractor

Bit of a change. I'm gunning for the Partizan job hopefully a successful stint here will help.

CSF

I won the league by 2 points with Orebro. I could have went on and gone for the CL campaign and defending the title, but the club is in debt, I'll have no money to spend, the club is losing 2 crucial loan players, and nearly my whole team wants to leave because of the high interest from bigger European club.

So I've taken the AIK job, a club who finished only 8th last year, so I've foregone my first season in Europe. But with a 6 million positive bank balance, a 2.7 million transfer budget, 20000 extra wage budget and the board being happy enough to accept a title challenge, I think I can quickly exceed my ceiling of potential with Orebro.

Rebel Rebel

Can someone direct me to a fix for the Fake names, clubs and leagues in FM15,

I am thinking of starting a new save and would like the fixes

RossieMan

I'm guessing you're playing the hacked version if you haven't got updated?

Rebel Rebel

nope real deal, bought on steam

Guffy

Rebel Rebel wrote: »

Can someone direct me to a fix for the Fake names, clubs and leagues in FM15,

I am thinking of starting a new save and would like the fixes

German fix? Just google german fix fm 15. On phone so can't link atm

IvySlayer

You guys talking about the Swedish league makes me want to start another Djurgarden game

Rebel Rebel

Rebel Rebel wrote: »

Can someone direct me to a fix for the Fake names, clubs and leagues in FM15,

I am thinking of starting a new save and would like the fixes

never mind, i see they look correct

elefant

OptimusTractor wrote: »

You should start self scouting African clubs, it's a goldmine for Scandanavian teams.

I do the same when managing lower-league English teams. You can find some pretty decent youngsters who can qualify for work-permits because their national teams are so poor that an 18 yr old can be a star player and gain enough caps to qualify for a move to Europe.

I signed an 18 yr old from Rwanda in my last save for Vauxhall Motors in League 2 who went on to be a pretty prolific scorer in the Premiership eventually.

Taylor365

elefant wrote: »

I do the same when managing lower-league English teams. You can find some pretty decent youngsters who can qualify for work-permits because their national teams are so poor that an 18 yr old can be a star player and gain enough caps to qualify for a move to Europe.

I signed an 18 yr old from Rwanda in my last save for Vauxhall Motors in League 2 who went on to be a pretty prolific scorer in the Premiership eventually.

It's great even to track the history of these lads. Even when they've went on to become a legend at the top level, they still have you as a 'favourite person'.

Mars Bar

I didn't play for about a week because I got off to an awful start in the 2021 season. I was in 11th place after 10 games or so. I got back to it last night and finished the season in 4th,won the TIM cup and I somehow got to the champions league final. It's killing me having to wait until the evening to play it! I lost some players during the January window so I'm very surprised how is all panned out.

hots

Hoping to get a good bit of time to play at the weekend, I miss the college days where I could blitz through a season on a week day! Think I'm into Feb now with Fulham sitting 4th in the playoff spots... 1st place is gone way ahead and Derby are about 7/8 points ahead so tough to catch. Nervy playoffs await and I always seem to lose in the final in extra time or something -_-

CSF

IvySlayer wrote: »

You guys talking about the Swedish league makes me want to start another Djurgarden game

Do it do it do it. I've grown so attached to my last 2 saves that I'm almost certainly moving on to Finland when I feel I'm finished this one/decide to change my misbehaving laptop.

TheDoc

Mars Bar wrote: »

It's killing me having to wait until the evening to play it! .

I've been playing CM00/01 for years via RDP. Good community keep it up to date every window, unfortunately tailed off the last two windows as people migrated over to FM full time.

I'd play FM remotely but it just black screens over RDP for some reason : /

Mars Bar

GET IN!

Mars Bar

The board have announced that they are building a new stadium. My current one holds less than 30,000.

The bastards aren't naming it after me. :mad:

OptimusTractor

Mars Bar wrote: »

GET IN!

Well done. Any chance of a Rugani screenshot.

Mars Bar

OptimusTractor wrote: »

Well done. Any chance of a Rugani screenshot.

He actually had a poor enough season with a lot of substandard performances. My best defender didn't even get to play the game because of injury so I'm glad Rugani showed up in this one!



Radoslav Vulov is my best defender. Got him from Litex in Bulgaria when he was a youngster when I was in Serie B. Bargain!

Mars Bar

My pride and joy is this kid that came through as a youth candidate. I play him as an AMR but his natural position is AMC. He's a beast!

The Moldy Gowl

After out smarting San Marino in the first game by playing my keeper in midfield, I played a midfielder in midfield this time around. They didnt stand a chance with my tactical genius.



Still have germany and bulgaria to play and Isreal have germany so good chance of getting through.

Vision of Disorder

Mars Bar wrote: »

The bastards aren't naming it after me. :mad:

The Mars Bar stadium? Corporate nonsense! :-P

IvySlayer

Tottenham left White Hart Lane to a new stadium called....New White Hart Lane!

Oat23

After I was sacked by my Serbian 2nd tier club because we were relegated, I spent 6 months looking for a new job before Soproni VSE in the Hungarian 2nd offered me a job. They were bottom of the league after 9 games (30 game season) but the squad was quite decent.

First season, we finished 8th/16th

Second season, we finished 4th. I missed out on promotion on the final day after ****ting the bed against a much weaker team. I was in a promotion spot before the games so it was disappointing.

Third season I finally managed to get promoted after winning the league comfortably. I was given a huge budget to be fair.

Currently half way through my 4th season and the first in the top division and I'm sitting 10 points above the relegation spots. I made a few signings and I still have 20k P/W free to spend, but I'm not going to use it. The club is making losses every month already.

Towards the end of my second season, an agent offered me a Brazilian striker named Cesar, who was available free after being released by Vasco da Gama 5 months earlier. He didn't appear to be anything special when I took him on trial and saw his stats, but he was 20 and my scouts thought he had the potential to be a superstar in the top Hungarian league so I signed him on a 'hot prospect' contract for pittance. He has developed quite well in the space of 18 months, and it currently one of the best players at the club.

He started off this season playing as the lone striker and scored 4 in his first 7 games. I received an offer of €4m straight up from FC Zurich, but I rejected it for some idiotic reason. I have become quite attached to him I guess.

It's now January and he has 9 goals in 15 starts. At one point (around December) there were 76 clubs interested in him, right now there are 25. Everyday I am getting offers from clubs ranging from....€155k - €200k :mad:

The club is falling into massive debt. €982k. I think I made a huge mistake rejecting that €4m offer .

Colemania

@Oat23

If you were playing in the Serbian league and were then offered a job in the Hungarian league, does that mean you have a lot of obsucure leagues added as playable leagues and if so, does it not slow down your game?

Baggly

Colemania wrote: »

@Oat23

If you were playing in the Serbian league and were then offered a job in the Hungarian league, does that mean you have a lot of obsucure leagues added as playable leagues and if so, does it not slow down your game?

Even if it does, the man/woman weaves a good FM narrative.

Colemania

Pter wrote: »

Even if it does, the man/woman weaves a good FM narrative.

They do indeed! Was just wondering myself to be honest. I suppose the obscure leagues don't have much playable divisions so there isn't as much date to load as say the top 3 leagues in england

Oat23

Colemania wrote: »

@Oat23

If you were playing in the Serbian league and were then offered a job in the Hungarian league, does that mean you have a lot of obsucure leagues added as playable leagues and if so, does it not slow down your game?

I have these loaded.



21,000 players in 2020. This save is extremely quick. Having only 30 game seasons and a 10 week winter break has meant I am flying through the seasons.

Oat23

This is also happening in my game. A small team in the Romanian 2nd tier was taken over by a Swedish tycoon.
€14m spent on players in the first 3 seasons and they have not managed to win promotion yet!

They are 3points clear at the top this season after 13 games. The money they are spending is outrageous! Steaua Bucharest, the biggest team in the country, is only spending €7.89m on wages!







I want to manage them someday

Baggly

Any chance we can see the league transfers in/out screen?

Oat23

Pter wrote: »

Any chance we can see the league transfers in/out screen?

Romanian league?
19/20

Their 2 big signings this season were decent.
Diarra
Junior

Vision of Disorder

Dundalk were taken over by a group from Hong Kong in my game now. Their annual wage bill is €13.64 million, Sligo are second highest with €1.04 million.

Internet Friend

Looking forward to getting back to my Barnet save this weekend, been swamped with college work all week, things have been going well in it. Just in to our 5th Season in the PL, last 4 seasons finished 8th, 5th, 4th & 3rd respectively. Finances were terrible at the end of last season, on +6m balance. City came in and triggered a €65m release clause for a wonderkid defender I had (he was only valued at €19/20m at the time), was disappointing to see him go but made a huge profit, I'd bough him off Flamengo for ~€5m. So finances are looking good (balance of €44m+ after transfers), bought in a few decent players as backup for the first team and board have agreed to improve youth and training facilities which will get them up to their top levels. Stadium is still tiny (12.5k cap) but hopefully the board will decide to build a new one in 2029 when the current on is 20 years old. Think I'm currently in 25/26 season.

Hopefully be pushing for 2nd this year but will be happy with top 4, be hard to catch City, they ran away with it last season.

Mars Bar

I'm really struggling for players to bring in. My squad is very thin and player prices are astronomical.

Baggly

Mars Bar wrote: »

I'm really struggling for players to bring in. My squad is very thin and player prices are astronomical.

Could you focus on your youth players? Like, looking 2 or 3 years down the road....and just pay the high fees in the meantime?

Mars Bar

Pter wrote: »

Could you focus on your youth players? Like, looking 2 or 3 years down the road....and just pay the high fees in the meantime?

No my youth system hasn't turned out one gem in the past two or three years.

Baggly

Mars Bar wrote: »

No my youth system hasn't turned out one gem in the past two or three years.

Sh*te.....well beyond investing in it and hiring better scouts, looks like you gonna have to pay up.

Vahevala

I am so fed up, I can't get the game to work well on my machine. The sidelines & goalpost lines keep flashing and the text around the player game keeps blinking. I have updated my graphics card and it is still like that

This is my laptop: http://www.toshiba.ie/discontinued-products/satellite-p750-13l/

I think it should be able to play the game, I know it is getting old.. but still

Lord TSC

Been a few days since I played now, which always makes it harder to get back into things. Think I'm going to boot up a new game and go with Man United.

I'd love a game where I manage to get Ronaldo back

The Moldy Gowl

Lord TSC wrote: »

Been a few days since I played now, which always makes it harder to get back into things. Think I'm going to boot up a new game and go with Man United.

I'd love a game where I manage to get Ronaldo back

He got injured for 2 months 5 games into it. Worth it though

Sirsok

Falcoe is my top scorer this year for united, 26 goals, any one pay the 46 mil for him at end of season ? How it turn out?

Also won the league with notts. Forest with 3 games left in a 3 team similtaneous save! Fairly delighted! Calls for a beer!