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Tyrannosaurus Dan said:
If you are any good at the new game, please feel free to share your tactics.

With Wolves, I am 3rd from bottom with one win in my first 11 games. This is a bit different for me as I was used to dominating on both FMM22 and FMM20. My trusty tactic from previous games either doesn't carry over as well or I need to be a bit more patient with it.

The team selection screen is annoying me too. I prefer the old way of picking my team.
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Well, I'm in January in season two and I've just beaten PSG 3-1 away in the Champions League :cool:

Nothing groundbreaking tactically

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WB/CB/CB/WB
BBM/CM
IF/SS/IF
CF

Overload/Narrow/Fast/Expressive
Balanced/All Over/Normal/No/No
Overlap/blank/Run At Defence/Short/Centre/Short

Signed a lad called Steve Mariette who is ridiculous. 27g14a in 31 on loan out last season, 18/8 in 20 at Celtic this season, rought him back in November and he's 14/2 in 11 games so far at Wolves :ROFLMAO: Pedrola on a Bosman summer 2 is a cracker too
 
Playing my first FM since 2020 as my wife has brought me a steam dec (impressed so far with it). Starting in the National League with a custom team (1-47 for promotion) before I start a Premier League save playing against my wife.
 
Well it's May 31st, 2031, I've just had an utterly remarkable and frankly insane season, best I've had had in the 30-odd years I've been playing the various iterations of this game.

I've won every single game. Like every game, in all competitions. Both legs, no extra times, just a sea of green. My goal difference in the premier league was 103 (121 for, 18 against).

I'm on a current streak of 73 consecutive wins, and 153 games without defeat. In the last five seasons in the league I've drawn 16 and lost 4 out of the 190 games played, scoring 92, 93, 95, 107 & 121 goals, conceding 16-20 in each of them.

Didn't get our first European trophy until 2026, having lost successive finals in the Europa and then the CL, but since then we've had 5 successive Champion's League wins. The last 4 community shields (lost the first), the last four Super Cups, the last 4 FA Cups and the last 5 Carabao Cups, and the Club World Cup this season too, to make it the Magnificent Seven in this historic, unrivalled season.

I'll have to quit the save now and look at a non-league thing for a different/longer term challenge Plus it's pissed me off that I came THIRD in the manager of the year contest
 
Tamworth Football Club have just won the World Cup. Not the club world cup, the FIFA World Cup 2034, held in the footballing powerhouse that is Morrocco.

With SEVEN Tamworth players in the England starting the line up and 3 more on the bench, this is a new world record for World Cup winners from a single club team.

Not only that, but it was achieved in some style, with Richie Legend’s England side scoring a phenomenal 30 goals in the tournament, breaking Hungary’s record of 27, scored in 1954. No side had scored more than 20 goals since France in 1958.

The highlight of the tournament came in the round of 16, watched by nearly 80,000 people in Casablanca, as England ROMPED to 8-2 victory against old foes Argentina. What’s more remarkable is that all 8 goals were scored by Tamworth players – 21 year old Hugo Lawton with 5, equalling Oleg Salenko’s forty year old record. The match was the highest scoring knockout game in World Cup history.

(it’s at this point I feel that football is coming home and start writing live)

The quarter final against Egypt was, perhaps inevitably, something of an “after the lord mayor’s show” affair. A number of changes and instruction to play with less intensity, England made it through with a 3-1 win that – whilst not at their swashbuckling best – was comfortable. Again, all three goals scored by Lambs, with 19 year old Luke Ismali scoring his first two goals for his country, three years after being poached from Boreham Wood for £1.1m.

The semi-final saw England, on the favourable side of the draw, face South Korea in Casablanca. The Red Devils didn’t read the script – going ahead in the 4th minute before Hugo Lawton equalised in the 19th minute, bagging his 9th goal of the competition. Just when you think England are in control, South Korea re-take the lead in 1st half stoppage time. Legend was understandably furious with his side at half time, and was forced to ring the changes on the hour as the dominance wasn’t translating into goals. Playing a 3-2-1-4 formation and throwing everything at the South Koreans, it looked like the dream was over until that man Hugo Lawton popped up in the 5th minute of injury time to poke in the equaliser.

The three lions reverted back to their 4-2-3-1 formation for extra time, but disaster struck just before half time when Jamie Corbett was forced off with injury – and with Legend having used all his subs, England had to play the last 15 minutes down to ten men. In a show of remarkable mental strength, England took the lead in the 117th minute, with Man City’s Elijah Parsell scoring his first England goal, before Tamworth’s Phil Doughty added his 6th of the competition to make it 4-2 in added time of extra time. England fans were very relieved to see the final would be played in 7 days time, allowing plenty of rest after what was an incredibly demanding semi-final.

Sunday, 23rd of July 2034 – 68 years after their last world cup final – England were ready to face off against Spain, who were overwhelming favourites for the match.

Back in Casablanca for one last push, England found themselves without captain Jude Bellingham, and Tamworth youngster Jason Dann, both suspended for what would be the biggest day of their lives.

The game started of cagily, with neither side creating anything of note until the 26th minute, when Barcelona legend Gavi put Spain ahead after a well worked move. England once again grabbed a vital injury time goal, with – who else – that man Hugo Lawton equalising with a piledriver from fully thirty yards out to ensure the sides went in at half time level. Spain had had the better of the half, no doubt, and England were perhaps fortunate to go in at 1-1. The second half began much as the first, with no real opportunities for either side, and as the half wore on, Spain were getting more of a foothold on the game, but unable to take advantage of their superiority. Full time came, and then a minute into extra time Spain found themselves down to ten men – could England take the initiative? It certainly looked like they would, peppering the Spanish goalkeeper with shots and then, in the 112th minute, Rico Lewis crossed to Lawton who headed home to put England in the lead…but was cruelly denied by VAR, which is obviously corrupt as fuck, even in FM land. England huffed and puffed, and it only seemed a matter of time until they found a winner – but time, in the end, was their enemy, and Spain held on, taking the game to penalties.

The shootout started with remarkable quality, the first 4 all being battered into the corner. Ibrahimovic stepped up confidently for Spain’s third and…SAVED! Advantage England! Both sides scored their next two, and captain Reece James stepped up to take the decisive penalty kick. Three steps, deep breath. The referee whistles. An eternity passes. He starts his run up…..NOOOOO! Saved! A terrible penalty, straight down the middle! More drama, as Spain’s next taker Valentin is also thwarted by England’s number one. Tariq Avery of Man City steps up, and…he’s scored! England have won the world cup! Scenes of jubilation on the pitch and in the stands, an emotional Richie Legend goes to the kitchen, puts his carrot and coriander soup in the microwave, and makes light hearted conversation to his colleague about how busy he is, whilst wondering if he is in fact one of the greatest footballing minds ever born.
 
Just ended the season with Hibernian with a league record of played 38, won 37 & drawn 1. That’s got to be my best ever record from any FM Mobile game.

The game I drew was the Edinburgh derby where ten man Hearts equalised in the 93rd minute. Bastards!

We aslo had an against the odds run to the Champions League semi finals before eventually being beaten 2-1 on aggregate by Barcelona.

I think my total record for the season was 55 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

I’m not going to top that with Hibs so it’s time to move on. Union Berlin wouldn’t offer me the job I really wanted but I’ve just been offered both the Frankfurt and the St Pauli jobs. Do I opt for the Bundesliga with Frankfurt or become a hipster in Bundesliga 2?
 
Had a little bonus at work so amongst my treats (vacuum cleaner, microwave, washing machine) I've also bought myself a new laptop so I can play proper football manager on. I'm actually a bit nervous, dread to think how much it's changed since I last played the full version, that was probably over a decade ago 😂
 
It's not *that* different tbf.

I delegate out training (dipping in occasionally for an individual player if say, I want him to retrain as a left back), youth recruitment and management, sometimes the media stuff depending how I feel. That trims it all down a fair bit.

I'm still on FM2023 so have the ballache of doing set pieces when I first set up (otherwise you will literally never score off a corner, even if you had peak Beckham swinging it in to peak Sami Hyypiä) but apparently a set piece coach on FM2024 will do most of it for you.

You don't so much get engine-breaking tactics now and you will hit a point where the AI susses you out and you have to change what you're doing, even if it's a lovely set up. Just have 3 formations permanently on the go that the players are familiar with, no need to be too radical.

Brexit makes signing foreign players for a UK club a pain in the fucking hole. I mean you could add the UK back into the EU in the editor. I couldn't possibly comment.

Tbh I tend to start nearly all my games at a very, very low level (to the point of manually adding Regionalliga to Germany, Serie D to Italy, selecting the lowest leagues possible for Scandinavian nations etc) so my experience won't be the same as someone who always starts with Wolves :D
 
This game really pisses me off. I've been having a really interesting and challenging career with Bonnyrigg Rose from Scottish L2. Obvs absolutely no money, but the right free transfers get you in a good spot. Three promotions in five years got us into the SPL, then we finished 5th, 5th, 3rd, 3rd, 3rd, 3rd and finally 1st. Champions of Scotland with a 4500 capacity stadium and a wage bill of £200k/week. Europa league runs were crucial as it gave us a massive income boost. We survived teh first season with wage bill of about £100k, which really doesn't get very far.

Now, you'd think having won the league - and hence qualified automatically for the CL League phase - that I'd get a big old bump on the finances and be able to spend some money. By wage budget has gone from £200k to £170k. I'm already spending £200k! My transfer budget is zero. WHERE'S THE FUCKING MONEY YOU CUNTS. I've got two absolutely bargain options to convert loans to permanent deals but can't afford them. Pricks. Stupid fucking game.
 
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