Football Manager 2017

Paully D

Less than €34 on CD Keys with the beta. It works perfectly, the code arrives instantly and it appears to include a copy of the Touch version too:

http://www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/football-manager-2017-beta-pc-steam-cd-key

Mc Love

Knex. wrote: »

My team is just being crippled with injuries. Common for everyone else?

Reported it on the beta feedback and they are reviewing it

Knex*

Mc Love wrote: »

Reported it on the beta feedback and they are reviewing it

Will do the same so. Consistently have 6-8 first team players out with 4-5 week injuries. Tedious.

Kal El

So enjoying the game, fixed the slowness someone had set the aul laptop to battery saver, must have been someone else, Im not that stupid :pac:
Took over Villa thought theyd have loads of money, they didnt midfield is really costing me, got James from Leicester he hasnt really improved us though. Hanging around 3rd after a 8 game winning streak though

Mc Love

Was having a good game with Blackburn Rovers, so thought I'd try a save game with Limerick

Paully D

How much time, if any, do you dedicate to the training side of things guys?

I've just realised I've spent most of today divising training plans for each position and trying to sign coaches and have barely even advanced a few days. :pac:

Mc Love

Paully D wrote: »

How much time, if any, do you dedicate to the training side of things guys?

I've just realised I've spent most of today divising training plans for each position and trying to sign coaches and have barely even advanced a few days. :pac:

I do about the same tbh. I normally do two weeks fitness, two weeks team cohesion and balanced once tactic is fluid.
I assign players to their individual team positions training.

Uriel.

Training has always been my least favorite part of things.
I generally only dip in and out of it and leave the majority of it up to my coaching staff.

Mc Love

Exactly - if your assistant manager is good, I'd leave training to him, same with teamtalks, although I'm quite good at them now.

Unearthly

Is it normal to be waiting a half hour for code from FM scout?

Uriel.

Unearthly wrote: »

Is it normal to be waiting a half hour for code from FM scout?

got mine in about 4 minutes... check your spam folders

Unearthly

Uriel. wrote: »

got mine in about 4 minutes... check your spam folders

Arrived now. Took around an hour.

Think I might be Newcastle. Get an easy promotion as first game*

*clearly going to flop now

markcahill1985

Looking for a bit of advice on a decent laptop to run this this year. Love the game but my old laptop is in bits and I am not a bit tech savvy.

The attached link is what Im looking at and would be my max price to be honest.Is this likely to be decent enough to run FM for the next few years.

http://www.dell.com/ie/p/inspiron-15-5567-laptop/pd?oc=cn55705&model_id=inspiron-15-5567-laptop

Appreciate the help lads and apologies if a little of topic.

Rebel Rebel

After been fire from Everton in Jan, i got offered the Wigan job in April with 2 games left in the Championship, and got 1 point from them, which was enough to stay up. Roll on to june and the club is target of a take over, so transfer embargo imposed. Club gets a new chairman around the end to june, tells me he will get back to me, 1 week into the transfer window he sacks me, wanting to point his own manager.

So far my managerial journey is not going well.

Uriel.

My first job was FC United of Manchester.

Got sacked in November of the first season which I felt was very harsh. P16, W5 D8 L3 (got the team through to the FA Cup 1st round and one of my losses came against a team 2 divisions higher).

Unemployed for a month or so and took over at Gosport Borough in the National League South. They had 2 wins in the season up to that point and lay in 19th place.

Finished the season in 9th - P26 W10, D15, L1 (my only loss coming on final day of the season against the 2nd placed team - setting a club and league record unbeaten run.

As you can see closing out games, winning matches was the biggest problem - too many dropped points in draws - largely because I couldn't hold onto a lead.

Started season 2 in charge and so far I have P7 W7 which is great including two tricky games on the road.

Biggest issue is finances though... trying to find free transfers and develop some youth but any decent players demand high wages or large appearance fees. Monthly losses of about 13k at the moment - so I am not sure how that will play out with the Board in he long run.

I have skimmed my team down to a bare minimum to the point that any bad run of injuries and my league campaign will completely fall apart.

Mc Love

Uriel. wrote: »

Biggest issue is finances though... trying to find free transfers and develop some youth but any decent players demand high wages or large appearance fees. Monthly losses of about 13k at the moment - so I am not sure how that will play out with the Board in he long run.

That is always the hardest bit unless you are super wealthy, have a big ground/attendances. i'm nearly always in the red and overspend on wages.

The_Kew_Tour

Make sure you're not giving them their offer they demand. Reduce the wages appearances fees they demand. Lowball and work your way up

Not sure if can do it on Fm17 but arrange friendlies against Bigger clubs during summer

Was Cork City and lucky to get friendly against Liverpool and Barca after couple of seasons and got 1.2m.

Always found money easiest part of the game for me.

Uriel.

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Make sure you're not giving them their offer they demand. Reduce the wages appearances fees they demand. Lowball and work your way up

Not sure if can do it on Fm17 but arrange friendlies against Bigger clubs during summer

Was Cork City and lucky to get friendly against Liverpool and Barca after couple of seasons and got 1.2m.

Always found money easiest part of the game for me.

Yeah I always low ball them as much as possible.

Had to let two foot teamers go because they wanted 3.5 times their wage in a pay rise. Had got them down from 4.5 times. Ridiculous stuff.

Yeah I managed to get a friendly with villa and St Johnstone bought a player from me and managed to get a friendly as a clause. Think I made as much from the gate receipts as I did from the transfer fee.. Less than 20k

Paully D

This is probably a very stupid question, but I want my team to press more often so how do I actually change it? I can't find anything on the tactics screen whereas in previous versions closing down etc were there and you could move the bar to the left or right.

Knex*

Paully D wrote: »

This is probably a very stupid question, but I want my team to press more often so how do I actually change it? I can't find anything on the tactics screen whereas in previous versions closing down etc were there and you could move the bar to the left or right.

Its in team instructions, which is the third button above the players names on the tactics screen.

I have closing down set to one notch below max, and also prevent GK distribution on. My defensive line is high also.

Really works well for me. Have Southampton sitting fourth after 27 games.

Kiith

I started a game with Charlton, as i wanted something a bit different from Spurs. Obviously, they'd be expected to be promoted in the first season, and i'm doing ok so far. Top of the league, though i lost in the 2nd round of the EFL to Norwich and to Leyon Orient in the other cup, which was annoying. Had no money at the start, but have around 500k now. Mostly relying on loans though, which makes things a lot easier.

Mars Bar

I started a g game with Watford. Just finished my first season and finished 9th. I'm delighted with that as we got off to a shaky start but that was to do with serious unfamiliarity with the tactics.

I'm not joking when I say I never had a season that good in the whole of FM 16.

Knex*

Update on my Southampton save where I was 4th after 27 games. Ended up tied first after Arsenal had a massive collapse, and had to play in a PL Title playoff, which I lost 3-2 having taken a two nil lead. Pretty gutted, but I far surpassed my expectations to get that far. Think there was only a 3-4 points from 1st to 6th, actually. Very close at the top.

Belotti who I signed for 16m at the start of the year scored 40+ goals in all comps. 29 in the PL. He's an absolute beast. Must say, Southampton are a ridiculously well run club, and the finances now in the PL make things a lot easier since I last played FM.

Mc Love

Started out with Limerick FC in the Irish First Division and had a rocky start to the league, even had the meeting with board and asked for a month. Luckily the tactic became fully fluid at the time and we went on an amazing run from 2nd from bottom to 2nd in the league, winning promotion in the playoffs. Won the Munster Senior Cup and Irish League Cup. Went on 15 match unbeaten run.

racersedge

Made the plunge....

It has been a few years since I played and just keep getting an itch to go back to it. Tried scratching it with the likes of FIFA but just not the same. Just something about trying to get it right (or horribly wrong) that keeps a callin' me! I have to admit, it was the Brexit permutations that really peaked my interest to buy early. I know some people in this thread were not keen on it earlier, but I find it a fascinating crinkle to have to work around - that and the fact that it may vary on each game really will make each go about that bit different.

As someone posted before, it's going to be value for money by the time you put into it. FM is the kind of game that rarely drops on price either, particularly if you are looking to secure it from a legit enough source.

So just have to wait for her to download and then it's on to Hillsborough to get the Owl's back to the promised land.

Mc Love

You'd really hate agents sometimes, one of my key players, I want him to re-sign and cant even talk to him.

Redzer7

Is this out on the 4th?

Edit: Just checked there didn't realise there was a pre purchase out. Happy days.

Kiith

****ing game is infuriating sometimes. Charlton season was going well, did really well in pre-season and won my first 3 games in the league, and then every single player decided to either get injured or sent off. 4 red cards in 2 matches (without get stuck in selected), with about 6 injuries, resulted in 7 losses in a row.

Started a new league with Reading (removed some leagues as my computer is struggling with the first season), great pre-season beating Feyenoord and Brugge, won my first two matches comfortably, and then a massive collapse with two red cards in the first 10 minutes of the next two matches and a 5 game losing streak. Bottom of the league, and probably getting sacked soon. Doesn't matter what i try, nothing is working for me.

Ugh! :mad:

Mc Love

Half my team is injured including two of my GK's and my star striker out for months.

racersedge

Occasional injury here but nothing crippling (yet!).

A good start to the season with the Owls sees me in the lofty heights of a promotion place. Forestieri started like a beast with six goals. However has August went into September seems likes the goals have dried up.

Saying decent football but the final product is poor for me. Reminds me of stereotypical Arsenal! Starting to play around with the tactics to try to develop something of my own rather than relying on online ones as I might of years in past. If I can get the lads to get them in the back of the net I'll be sorted!

Mars Bar

Finished 4th with Watford in my second season. Beginning to roll in the cash now too!

Mc Love

In my second season with Limerick, won the Munster Senior Cup for second season in a row, in the League Cup final, and battling for top spot with Dundalk

Mitch Connor

I got Danilo in from madrid to Man United. Been first choice right back all season. Day before the Europa League final he says he wants to leave cause I haven't kept my promise to play him in the specific full back (defensive) role. Never mind he has become world class and had his best season ever (loads of assists and a few goals, rated massively) - no, he spits his dummy out cause I was asking him to attack more than he wanted.

Well Fcuk You buddy.

Mc Love

Mitch Connor wrote: »

I got Danilo in from madrid to Man United. Been first choice right back all season. Day before the Europa League final he says he wants to leave cause I haven't kept my promise to play him in the specific full back (defensive) role. Never mind he has become world class and had his best season ever (loads of assists and a few goals, rated massively) - no, he spits his dummy out cause I was asking him to attack more than he wanted.

Well Fcuk You buddy.

Haha Don Cowan is the same in my game, only here a wet week and is complaining I'm not playing him in his preferred role ffs.

Knex*

Had that issue with two players. Saved the game before one of the conversations and tried to see what happens for each answer. The one where you tell them to get over it as you're not selling them worked for me.

You can then play them wherever for the rest of their time at the club without them ever being unhappy with the broken promise etc.

Funny thing is, I had actually thought that I was playing them in the preferred position! :pac:

Mitch Connor

Knex. wrote: »

Had that issue with two players. Saved the game before one of the conversations and tried to see what happens for each answer. The one where you tell them to get over it as you're not selling them worked for me.

You can then play them wherever for the rest of their time at the club without them ever being unhappy with the broken promise etc.

Funny thing is, I had actually thought that I was playing them in the preferred position! :pac:

chelsea offered me 40million for him, i think i paid 7 so he can go. Along with Blind to 40million to PSG, Mata at 80million to Madrid and a few other sales - bringing in Renato Sanches, Fleix Passasomething from Dortmund, Douglas Costa for left back and Dybala to replace the retired Zlatan.

A lot of money passing through the United accounts this summer!

Will go for a CL win then start over with a smaller club.

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De Gea
Darmian-Smalling-Bailly-Shaw
-Pogba-Schneiderlin-Sanches
---Rashford-Dybala-Martial

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Johnstone
Passalack-FosuMensah-Keane-Costa
---Herrera--Booerz--Cook
--Memphis-Mkhitaryan-Januzaj

Mc Love

Would I could do with all that money at Limerick, if only! Going to see if I can replicate my previous glory in FM17 with Limerick winning the CL!

The_Kew_Tour

Think I'll get it on Friday.

Is it worth getting?

Mc Love

So far so good

Mars Bar

Infinitely better than 16 so far for me anyway

Rebel Rebel

Easter egg if you are playing/managing a team and its 1st of nov and the 1st in game too

Knex*

I'm enjoying it far more than I thought I would.

Mc Love

New update today folks, has made the AI defence a lot lot stronger, I've found tonight. My players look like amateurs next to them. Was doing so well too

TrustedApple

A team in my game this is FM16 called Hapoel Be'er-Sheva keep buying loads of older who have had better playing days players for some reason.

In 2020 there team
Leonardo Ulloa
Iker Casillas
Jonathan Biabiany
Salomon Kalou
Stephan Lichtsteiner
Luca Antonelli
Marko Marin
Juan Carlos Paredes
Sebastian Boenisch
Eljero Elia

Have no idea whats going on over in Israel :O.

Mc Love

Managed to win the Premier Division, although it was a close run in, lost my 4th last game against Boh's, and had to face my title challengers Dundalk and St.Pats in my last three games, and Pats had a game in hand, so we had to beat them. Won 2-0 against Dundalk, and then 3-2 vs Pats, and fortunately other results went in our favour and we won our last match.

League Cup
Munster Senior Cup
Premier Division

A_Sober_Paddy

Mc Love wrote: »

Managed to win the Premier Division, although it was a close run in, lost my 4th last game against Boh's, and had to face my title challengers Dundalk and St.Pats in my last three games, and Pats had a game in hand, so we had to beat them. Won 2-0 against Dundalk, and then 3-2 vs Pats, and fortunately other results went in our favour and we won our last match.

League Cup
Munster Senior Cup
Premier Division

Change of a screenshot of your squad?

Mc Love

Split into two, some players will leave when contract is up. But hoping to strengthen some areas

SteelyDanJalapeno

Mc Love wrote: »

Split into two, some players will leave when contract is up. But hoping to strengthen some areas

Rob Lehane doing well

A_Sober_Paddy

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Rob Lehane doing well

any chance of a screenie of your transfer in/out section?

Mc Love

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Rob Lehane doing well

He scored so many goals against me, I couldnt understand why Cobh werent signing him up. He's a decent player

A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »

any chance of a screenie of your transfer in/out section?

It's all been free transfers, raiding the bargain bucket