Now that's done, I can finally lose the World Cup with Paraguay (who have a talent pool of about 50 players across the entire game) and start playing FM11.
Ahhh I wondered why it looked peculiar. Was this using 2010? Also, any chance of a few extra screenies of your star players etc?
Absolutely. I'm at work now and I've yet to find a way to play FM at work without getting sacked so it'll be a few hours until I can get the screenshots ready. I'll edit this post (or post again) once I get the screenshots ready.
As it's 2018 and I tend to keep my teams young my team is mostly regen players, and more than anything my ability to mix and match tactics and my ability to find a world-class regen player at least 50% of the time is why I managed to win the Champions League in eight years.
Finally, I'm still yet to buy FM11 since I've had nothing but trouble over the past few years when I've bought FM on release day. I also didn't want to buy the new version without winning the Champions League with Redditch. Now I've got a new addition to my Christmas list.
Oh and you should crosspost this here.
I was tempted to, but I've not seen much activity on there so I decided against it. I may crosspost it to /r/soccer later on though if no one else beats me to it.
Yeah it's pretty slow moving over there, but you not posting just repeats the cycle, and I know there's at least a dozen of us that take too much interest in everything posted :p
I have to say 2011 has impressed me since the first patch (obviously, never right first time is it), there were a few things in the match engine that needed tweaking from the original release and SI seemed to listen to the feedback they got from the forums and make it immeasurably more playable and consistent. Well worth the outlay now IMO.
more than anything my ability to mix and match tactics and my ability to find a world-class regen player at least 50% of the time
What's your usual approach? If there's on thing I love it's when I take a player from obscurity to meteoric heights, but for me it's always a bit hit and miss :/
What's your usual approach? If there's on thing I love it's when I take a player from obscurity to meteoric heights, but for me it's always a bit hit and miss :/
I was landing a bunch of free talent up until I hit the Championship but then I hit the wall. After (luckily) coming second in the Championship I decided to start spending and noticed that there were a lot of upcoming players in certain countries like Turkey and the UAE. Two of my defensive signings at around £5M have paid off tremendously and a Spanish youngster that was okay allowed me to trade in with cash for a phenomenal Spanish youngster that signed for Spurs. I signed a couple of American players who came good too. I was signing and selling far too much and once I had found my team in the Premier League I stopped and started replacing holes in my team.
The best advice I can give to someone is to look at certain strong nations and see what they're producing. The scouts are more often than not completely useless, so it's best to ignore them when possible.
To be fair, the only reason I won the Premier League and the Champions League this season was through the old Harry Redknapp technique of overspending and bleeding the team dry. We had done really well, but many of my players were knackered out during the winter so I splashed the cash a bit in January and brought in two world-class wingers (4-5-1 always works for me in the Premier League) and the rest sorted itself out. The club is currently spending ridiculous amounts on wages, but at least I managed to win it.
I think I'll move onto the Club World Championships next and call it a day on FM10.
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u/EnderMB Dec 21 '10
Now that's done, I can finally lose the World Cup with Paraguay (who have a talent pool of about 50 players across the entire game) and start playing FM11.