Football Manager Society II

Tbf, I think that talent in the reserves need a push in the first team as soon as possible. I had an 18 year old CB/RB. He was a talented youngster/potential world class. I played him at right back where he was ineffective but just for him to get games as he was a liability at centre back. There was an injury crisis and I was forced to play him at centre back, he then gets a rating of 7 that season and then becomes a world class player.

Now, another example, I had a midfielder with more potential than him, a 21 year old midfielder, had passing of 16, creativity 14, most of his attributes were blue, sort of like niko kranjcar a couple of years ago in FM. I had too many midfielders so I just put him in my B team where he played loads of games for a few seasons, he never made it past a squad player for my side.

This always happens no matter what.

On SI's forum there's a guy ranting about how "the AI [is] so much better at finishing", with pics showing that in a match as Villarreal against Sevilla, he had about 18 or 19 shots but failed to score, while Sevilla had one shot and scored it to win 1-0. A mod came on and said it's nothing to do with luck and winning a game isn't about quantity of shots but quality. He pointed out how a quarter of shots had missed the target completely, half were blocked and most of the rest were saved by the goalie, then he took pics from his Swansea game and posted them (showing things like a 1-1 draw with Arsenal where they had 20 shots (5 on target) and he had 1 shot). He had little captions with each pic, like "1 shot 1 goal", "Low number of shots but all quality", and then for the sixth pic his caption was "I'm the AI in your game".

This guy doesn't really take it in, and starts spamming the thread with craploads of posts showing much the same as in his Sevilla match - he has far more shots but isn't converting his chances. With one of them, he posts "Y U NO GOOD FINISHERS? Y U NO WORK, WORK BALL INTO BOX SHOUT? Zaragoza had no shots, not one shot. Is it my tactics? No. Losing faith."...along came another mod, to show that it was his tactics He's presumably spotted the exact same thing that I saw - a lot of red dots from the six-yard line, indicating that quite a large chunk of the missed shots were headers from set pieces going into row Z...so he told the guy to go look at where the shots came from, and sure enough the majority of the shots inside the box were from set pieces and the open play shots were hit-and-hope hoofs from long range without any of Peter Crouch's luck. The guy gets a little help, tweaks his tactics, and next match he beats the league leaders 8-0. Though with so many set piece shots even when he was doing poorly, I wonder who the hell he's got in the box - central defenders and tall strikers can bang in goals for fun from corners, so does he have a team of midgets?

One of the reasons I don't usually promote a player to the first team until they're about 23 is because they're pretty inconsistent before that age. Also it's perhaps possible that they'll burn out and peak too soon. I bought Miguel Angel Torren and he was my stellar right back since the age of 20 or 21, however by the time he was 28 he was Championship quality.

Did your player actually have more potential, as in the stat, or were you just judging by a few of his attributes?

Have you got a link?

Does anybody else ****ing hate this game sometimes?
I'm Real Madrid btw



I dropped 12 points all season...



I'm red, Barcelona green.

I'm really not happy right now

What doesn't that happen in real life?

How can you be second in Ligue 1 with no real players?

How do you guys play against teams who deploy three AMCs? It's a formation which always causes me problems, no matter the quality of the opposition. I just can't seem to break up the neat inter-play which occurs in the final third. I don't care about not having the majority of possession so long as I'm creating the better scoring opportunities. But I'm not; I struggle to do so in fact. I play a 4-4-1-1, mainly due to the personnel I have at my disposal. Would it help to play with two strikers, instead of an AMC? And what about pressing and closing down — should I employ a lot of both?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I'm a match or two away from finding out what happens when I have a unmoved club match and an international match at the exact same time and day.

I play a variation on a 4-3-3, with a DM and ball winner, a deep lying playmaker - then I tell the team to exploit the flanks, with full backs set to attack. Presuming the 3 AMCs are actually through the center, of course.

Yeah, I considered channelling the play chiefly down the flanks, seeing as the opposition is so narrow. I shall try it next time. And yeah — the AMCs play predominately through the middle, though sometimes they're arrowed wide. I suppose having the full backs attack will somewhat negate their influence, though. Here's hoping, anyway.

Cheers, Kev.

I'm a match or two away from finding out what happens when I have an unmoved club match and an international match at the exact same time and day.

Has anyone seen any ridiculous stadium names?

Liverpool's new stadium is called the Lucas Leiva stadium on my game