Football Manager Society II

Oh, I've been given the opportunity to choose a commercial link feeder club. They're "letting me choose" meaning that I can pick any club and they will try to arrange feeder status with them.

I've heard that if you buy a Japanese bench warmer and get a japanese feeder club you make millions from it. I do however have 2 solid and capable US players in my squad but I hear they don't care so much about that. Which nation should I go for? and which club?

Presuming you've already done this by now, but personally I like to have 2-3 feeder clubs from the nation of the club I'm managing because I sign a huge amount of talented regens and I need to send them on loan for experience but keep them in the country so they get home grown status.

This season I sold practically all of my experienced players over the age of 25 who weren't amazing and replaced them with all my youth players under 21. Currently 5 games from the end of the season with a 6 point lead and a semi final to look forward to in the CL after knocking out Barcelona.

I think you just need actual wonderkids to blood in rather than generic youth players with potential. The likes of Scipio, my Argentine regen, has kept 1 of Hamsik or Gerrard out for the whole season and my oldest central defender is Ryan Shawcross. Even Reina got dropped for Areola for a few games!

Not much of a problem if you know how to use the wonderkids properly. I buy romario every season for peanuts, I shuffle him around with carlos martinez, when martinez is surplus to requirements I get rid. I got 8 two seasons in a row, despite having a good start to the first season and bottling top 4 and doing an everton the next season and finishing 8th again.

Presuming you've already done this by now, but personally I like to have 2-3 feeder clubs from the nation of the club I'm managing because I sign a huge amount of talented regens and I need to send them on loan for experience but keep them in the country so they get home grown status.

The only reason I don't like doing that is that there is no guarantee that they will play so their progress will be stunted. I just loan them all out for free to any club in my country that will have them and has valuable first team member in the description.
Otherwise it is better just having them at your club with your training facilities.

He's immense!

It’s not about not buying wonderkids, it’s balancing it when you can usually buy superior, cheaper, older players who can immediately fill a role. For the most part I buy wonderkids to bolster the size of my squad or to give rest to ageing players with the hope of eventually replacing them.

Damn this thread. I give up, I'm playing some FM.

Haha you say to yourself I'll only play for an hour, you'll end up probably three hours or more on it.

Nah!

Simple answer? Spend your ****ing cash first so the owners don't have any to divvy up amongst the suits. The way business works is that when a company makes a profit, some profit will be re-invested into the business and whatever's left goes in the shareholders' pockets. If all of your profit is being gobbled up by the shareholders, the owners presumably feel you've got adequate resources available in the club coffers and don't need further investment, so they'll gleefully pocket the lot. As a random side-point, only major shareholders actually make any real money from it, of course. Before the bastard Glazers came along, I had a single share in Man Utd that my parents got me as a present for my 18th birthday and at the end of the season I got a little shareholders report booklet and a dividend cheque for a penny


I felt rather attached to the Wolves team I played in the older game, but I decided I would start a new game once the January patch came out...so I've decided to have another shot at bringing a bit of glory to Wolves in a season where it looks fairly inevitable that they'll be getting relegated in real life Rather depressingly, Leigh Griffiths who I relied on so much in my original game has been nerfed - compared to the 17 finishing, 17 acceleration and 16 pace he had in my old game, which made him absolutely lethal in front of goal, he's now got 13 finishing, 15 acceleration and 13 pace. In his time on loan at Hibs, rather than getting a goal a game like he did with me in my old game, he played 33 games and scored only 7...in the SPL. I'm not exactly optimistic about his chances in the Premiership Might keep him in the reserves for now and loan him out to a Championship side, see how he does there and then re-evaluate him.
Transfers haven't been too major. They sold Ronald Zubar (who in my old game was a backup anyway) and brought in Steven Whittaker, so I'm sure that between him and Foley I'll have no issues at right-back. More interestingly, they also brought in Jordan Rhodes (who in real life has been damn near unstoppable at Huddersfield in League One), who's been doing pretty damn well, too - 21 games and 11 goals. Aside from that, it's the rest of the real-life Wolves squad, though I'll be losing a bunch of reserve players in a month when their contracts run out (the only one I may regret losing is Jody Craddock, but I'm sure I can find a better and much younger DC for the eight grand a week he's on)

So, in 2011/12, Wolves finished 15th but were only 4 points above the relegation zone, they conceded more goals than any other team in the league by quite some way and had the third-worst goal difference (ahead of Blackburn and Swansea in 19th and 20th respectively). They don't seem to have a big problem with scoring, but I need to decide whether or not they need further investment in the defence. I don't quite understand why Dorus de Vries played nearly half the games in the season rather than the much better Wayne Hennessey, and that likely contributed to the high volume of goals conceded, but I need to look at the defence in general, to see if there are other obvious issues.