Football Manager Society II

Yeah. I had to buy a bit because I crashed arsenal style and some of my positions the youth players aren't at the required level yet plus I'm rich, I bought a player I brought through from my youth squad back, bought a defender for 5 million and bought 3 young centre backs who costed 2 million overall. I have a youngster in my youth squad as well. I think it was a kneejerk reaction to bottling 4 trophies despite being in the final of the spanish cup, first in la liga, semi finals of the CL and final of the club world championship Plus I might leave next season to go to italy so I just want to get a clean sweep this season and leave.


I know man. I just need to get an unbeaten streak down and make sure my tactics are tight though, once that's happened I think I'll solve this problem.

Bah to sign a new long term contract or not.. Might do a Guardiola and just sign one year extension at a time

Play it however you want. I've had games where I'd stick with the same team for years and years, and other games where I would never sign a new contract (once my contract was up, whether I'd been brought in for three months or three years, I left, then advanced far enough that the job I'd left was taken by someone else then went on holiday mode looking for new work (reason I go through until it's taken is that the AI's thick - if you leave a job then go on holiday with instructions to apply for jobs, the AI will apply for the job you just left...and most of the time you'd get it as well )
My personal tendency when I do jump around is to move to a club that is a totally different stature to the club I'd just left. I don't really see the point in, say, leaving Man Utd to join Chelsea - you just end up at a different club, probably with a weaker squad than the one you've abandoned (assuming you've had time to invest in the team while you were there; the AI isn't as good as the player at team-building, after all) and you're still going to be eyeing up the same sorts of players you were going after in your previous job. Half the time I see people do this and I genuinely wonder why, because they spend their finances trying to buy players from the club they left At least if you leave Man Utd to join, say, QPR...the world-class talent that you'd be wanting to sign at Man Utd are well beyond the reach of QPR, so it gives you a new challenge to work on, rather than the same challenge from a new perspective.

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I just can't get the tactics right. Any advice?

Who are you? What formation do you use atm?

I was previously Wigan. :P I just normally use a 4-4-2. :L How do you decide what tactic to use when you manage a team you don't much about?

Got Dagenham and Redbridge into the Championship through back-to-back promotions (won League Two Play-offs, came 2nd in League One).

Now the board expect me to avoid relegation on a wage budget of 40k. . Are they kidding me? There wasn't even a 'try your best' option or whatever it is these days.

Added to that, my job status at the club is only bordering on 'stable', despite leading them to successive promotions!

Currently getting slaughtered in the Championship, played 7, won 1 (beat Leicester 5-4 ), lost 6. Still not even in the relegation zone somehow!

And another thing, how come I haven't been approached for any bigger jobs? Normally with FM I'll start with a Huddersfield/Notts County and take them up to the Championship and then I'll pick up a Villa or an Everton or someone like that after 2 years of the game. Haven't even had any rumours circulating about me even though I make sure I only sign one year contracts ...

Hmm been winning left, right and centre and everyone in the squad has high morale (very good or superb) the only two players who don't are Hamsik and Busquets. I can't work out why either. Generally praise them along with the rest and they've been included in winning games. Haven't fined or told them off/said mean things and both are getting games too. For some reason their morale is low most of the time even when their information page says they're happy with my comments made in press conferences etc.

Hmm been winning left, right and centre and everyone in the squad has high morale (very good or superb) the only two players who don't are Hamsik and Busquets. I can't work out why either. Generally praise them along with the rest and they've been included in winning games. Haven't fined or told them off/said mean things and both are getting games too. For some reason their morale is low most of the time even when their information page says they're happy with my comments made in press conferences etc.

Hamsik is like that for me as well (im Napoli). Not sure on Busquets, never signed him. How much did you sign him for?

How do they feel about their training schedules?

They're happy with everything as far as I can tell Their performances have been a tad lower than the rest of the team (everyone else averages over 7.0 but they are closer to 6.7) and neither are playing in their prefered position (both playing as a midfield player with DLP compared to Hamsik preferring AMC and Busquets preferring DMC but I didn't think it would make a difference?

Everytime I say to myself, that I don't need to buy anymore regens youth, my scout then comes up with like 6 quality regens so annoying -.-