Football Manager 2014

Thats alright he has just joined udinese ?!?

To be honest that always happens when a consortium takes over, do thry have cash though ?

Ah yeah, didn't see that he joined Udinese. Kept the job anyway, new board more lax and given me more feeder clubs...Cortese et al only would give me 4!!

Oh Adam retired at 30!!

Looks like you're using the Metallic Badges/Logos pack and the real names fix?

What is this modosupergeeks and how do I get it, plse?

Depends how you look at it. Saints have spent £36m this summer and you will have Wanyama, Lovren and Osvaldo in your squad. How much more do you suggest I give you to spend at the beginning of FM14 ontop of the £36m the squad has already benefitted from? If I give another £36m then you will get double the benefit, which isn't right.

 

 

 

I do, and its a hard call to make.

I think it's about right

What the f*ck do you have to do at Saints to become liked by the fans? I've just finished my 3rd season in charge having just won the Champions League for the second season in a row as well as winning the Capital One Cup, the European Super Cup and the Club World Championship, and guiding us to a comfortable 5th placed finish in the league despite suffering crippling injury problems and a nightmare start to the league season.

The club made a profit of £81.4m this season, the squad is full of world-class players and there's a core of young academy products in the team. I have spent £97m on players in my 3 seasons at the club, but have brought in £60m from player sales, meaning that our total transfer outlay is only a little over £10m a season on average. We have lost only 29 games of the 169 games we've played while i've been manager, winning 97 of them. The club is now worth over £1bn. I am already the 10th most successful Scottish manager that there ever has been, despite this being my 3rd season in management.

Yet with all of this, Nigel Adkins and Gordon Strachan are still more favoured by the fans. How the f*ck does that work!? Something for SI/MLG to look at I think.

What the f*ck do you have to do at Saints to become liked by the fans? I've just finished my 3rd season in charge having just won the Champions League for the second season in a row as well as winning the Capital One Cup, the European Super Cup and the Club World Championship, and guiding us to a comfortable 5th placed finish in the league despite suffering crippling injury problems and a nightmare start to the league season.

 

The club made a profit of £81.4m this season, the squad is full of world-class players and there's a core of young academy products in the team. I have spent £97m on players in my 3 seasons at the club, but have brought in £60m from player sales, meaning that our total transfer outlay is only a little over £10m a season on average. We have lost only 29 games of the 169 games we've played while i've been manager, winning 97 of them. The club is now worth over £1bn. I am already the 10th most successful Scottish manager that there ever has been, despite this being my 3rd season in management.

 

Yet with all of this, Nigel Adkins and Gordon Strachan are still more favoured by the fans. How the f*ck does that work!? Something for SI/MLG to look at I think.

What fans are we using as the benchmark? If it's alpine I would say that's realistic.

What fans are we using as the benchmark? If it's alpine I would say that's realistic.

That's true, I could imagine Alpine on here going on about how we should be doing better in the league! We're going for the title next season, honest

I mean, even though WGS is one of my favourite Saints managers and was very popular with the fans, he only had a couple of seasons in charge and got us a cup final and an 8th placed finish. I've won 6 cups and got us 4th, 3rd and 5th placed finishes in my couple of seasons in charge so far. Bit of an odd flaw in the game I think.

what tic-tacs you use Mikey?

I'm now in 2021. Update on starting players still with me.

Boruc now a scout at the club.

Clyne still playing well although nearly 30 now and a few bad injuries means stats wise he is declining a bit.

Shaw regular left back for Saints and England, started the first few seasons playing average but picked up a lot since I gave him a bit more attacking duties.

Wanyama, monster in midfield, never sell! Quality ratings all the time.

JWP, club captain - 26 years old, 56 caps and regularly in the votes for player of the year, although Messi seems to win everytime.

I lost in the Chanmpions league final 3rd season in a close game with Madrid, board still only satisfied with my performance. That same season got 3 players from the Italian league (2 were frees so not sure that counts other than in MLGs arguments) and board still not satisfied with the number of pasta eating signings. WHAT DO THEY WANT FROM ME??

Nicky C is never happy toks, NEVER!!

And Mikey, have you read this place, the fans will never be happy, just dewy eyed for the past.

Had a shocker with Ipswich, board sold my 2 best players and gave me no money, eventually got sacked - that hasn't happened in a long time!

Started a new game with Derby, came second first season currently very stable in the Prem second season. Though predicting where I will finish is nigh on impossible, tightest league I have ever seen bout 28 games in and something like 5 points seperates 4-13!

How do I post a screenshot?

what tic-tacs you use Mikey?

Created my own one, I can upload it if you like. The best formation to use with Saints seems to be a 4-2-3-1 with DMs and attacking wingers.

This is my Starting XI going into Season 4:

---------------BEGOVIC----------------

CLYNE----LOVREN----BALANTA----SHAW

-------WANYAMA----ILLARRAMENDI-----

OCAMPOS-----PROWSEY-------BERNARD

--------------GABBIADINI---------------

Subs: Beswick (NG), Shawcross, Papadopoulos, Pavelka, Villagarcia (NG), McManaman, Mitrovic

How do I post a screenshot?

Print Screen, then save it onto your computer and upload it using photobucket.com or a similar site.

Also I managed to get the board not to judge me on signing players from Italy. I am a god.

Print Screen, then save it onto your computer and upload it using photobucket.com or a similar site.

Cheers Mikey, couldn't get printscreen to work on my laptop, just kept on screenshotting what was behind FM, which was odd.

Gave up and carried on playing. Currently 6th with 5 games to play! Come on you rams!

Also I managed to get the board not to judge me on signing players from Italy. I am a god.

Just done this. Now they have changed the patch and my tactics that were working wonders before have suddenly stopped working. Damn you SI Games, Damn you MLG, Damn you NC Damn you all to hell!

Just done this. Now they have changed the patch and my tactics that were working wonders before have suddenly stopped working. Damn you SI Games, Damn you MLG, Damn you NC Damn you all to hell!

Not Jose short corner Mourinho anymore eh?

You can come be a coach for me @ Derby if you want mate? I'll help you back on your feet.

No worries Kelv, I changed it around a bit and am now top 4 again. I like to think of it as an evolution rather than a revolution or perhaps it's the other way round. Anyway, things are changing.

Are we gonna have to start signing players from Switzerland now on the latest update?

Eder Alvarez Balanta is an absolute beast on my latest save playing alongside Dejan. Has anyone tried the game with Coventry yet? Seems like their whole situation could be an interesting game

What is this modosupergeeks and how do I get it, plse?

http://sortitoutsi.net/graphics

I have started my annual Regional Leagues game with my hometown team. Breezed through first season and won the title by about 15pts after a rough start, beat Brentford 4-1 in a pre-season friendly and sitting top of the Isthmian D1 Southern table going into November. Premier League, here we come! Got to League 1 last year and lost interest, wonder whether I can better that this year...

Bought FM14 around Christmas, but I have this awesome save of 6-7 seasons with the Saints on FM12 which I just can't stop playing

Taken a break from my Saints save...started with Dover Athletic, currently top of the CCC ....although im losing tons of cash and not going to make the Financial Fair play thingy so waiting for the points hit!

Best Agent to have?

Who's looking forward to starting a new Southampton save with the next update?

Who's looking forward to starting a new Southampton save with the next update?

Will we have to buy Swiss players in this one or the owner gets ****ed off again if we dont?

Is Cortese still "loves the club and would never leave?"

Who's looking forward to starting a new Southampton save with the next update?

Quite excited then!

Will we have to buy Swiss players in this one or the owner gets ****ed off again if we dont?

No.

Is Cortese still "loves the club and would never leave?"

Umm... no.

Is it just simple data update with Osvaldo at Juve and other transfers or is is a full data update with players ability changed etc? Also will this bugger up the match engine again like 14.2 did for a bit?

i was playing the other day right, and there was a goalscoring chance and when it cut to the animation thing i saw with horror that boruc was up in the opposition penalty box shaking hands with petr cech! This was only in the first half at 0-0 i have no idea what the dumb pole thought he was doing but Gary Cahill got the ball and thudded it into the empty net from fully 60 yds. I was v.angar bout this. i dropped boruc for next game.

Did similar thing at Arsenal away this season. I think it is game just trying to be realistic. Well done MLG.

Is it just simple data update with Osvaldo at Juve and other transfers or is is a full data update with players ability changed etc?

Lots of changes to player abilities and other things.

Also will this bugger up the match engine again like 14.2 did for a bit?

It'll come with match engine improvements and bug fixes in other areas.

Ok, thanks. Will these 'improvements' stop my tactics from working? Cause at the moment I am spanking it.

Cause at the moment I am spanking it.

yehj mmee t'o

You play on windowed mode bear, I can tell.

Ok, thanks. Will these 'improvements' stop my tactics from working? Cause at the moment I am spanking it.

If they do, think of it as a new challenge.

I don't like new challenges MLG, I like spanking PSG in champ league finals and then making unreasonable demands to the board.

Do you know if steam updates automatically again or can I opt out?

You can change your Steam settings so it doesn't automatically update. But I think you should let it update, it'll make the game better.

You said that about changing from 2012 - 2013. I should never have left championship manager Italia.

Who's looking forward to starting a new Southampton save with the next update?

When is this released? I don't seem to have it yet if it already has been...

Which Saints players are changed and how?

When is this released? I don't seem to have it yet if it already has been...

Its not out yet and no release date has been confirmed. When it does come out Steam will update automatically (unless you've turned that option off) and on the start screen you'll see its version 14.3 in the bottom right corner, plus give you the option to use the 14.3 data when starting a new game.

Which Saints players are changed and how?

A huge number of changes have been made to the Saints data, far too many for me to list. A lot more players getting increases in CA than those getting decreases.

Fonte and Rodriguez greatly improved I'd imagine.

Its not out yet and no release date has been confirmed. When it does come out Steam will update automatically (unless you've turned that option off) and on the start screen you'll see its version 14.3 in the bottom right corner, plus give you the option to use the 14.3 data when starting a new game.

 

A huge number of changes have been made to the Saints data, far too many for me to list. A lot more players getting increases in CA than those getting decreases.

Can you comment on the rumour that a new hidden stat, "Likelihood of lamping team-mate", has been added in honour of Osvaldo? If so, is it a 1-20 stat or one of those bigger ones?

14.3.0 is now out on Steam.

DATABASE

- Updated to January 2014

PERFORMANCE

- Fixed rare crash related to city inhabitants in edited save

- Fixed rare crash when holidaying to next fixture

- Fixed rare transfer deadline day crash

- Fixed crash related to Turkish player names

- Fixed rare crash when histories have been corrupted

- Fixed rare crash when recalling players from loan

- Fixed rare issue occurring during and after matches

COMPETITIONS

- Fixed State leagues not being scheduled when adding Brazilian leagues

- Fixed past Winners screen for the Polish Ekstraklasa using positions from the Regular Season and not the positions from after the Split

- Bulgarian and Romanian Players no longer need a Work Permit for British Clubs from January 2014

- Fixed user not given opportunity to Postpone Premier Division match due to International Callups

- Improved scheduling of domestic fixtures before/after European matches

- Fixed user not being asked to set length of End of Season Break after last match of season

- Fixed MLS teams being unable to register players for Club World Championship

- Improved the selection of players in the MLS Draft pool

- CFA League Schedule now correctly matching other French Leagues

- Improved A-League AI teams' signing of Marquee players

TRANSFERS & CONTRACTS

- Relaxed some German transfer preferences to allow users to sign more players from outside of Germany

- Prevented AI managers from leaving jobs before playoff finals

- Increased amount of international management sackings

- Prevented the AI from signing a player on loan when the player has already played for two teams in the current season

- Prevented players loans getting extended automatically when being loaned to South American sides

- Tweaks to transfers made by the AI for users players

- Prevented recently relegated side from the lowest playable league from entering a loop of hiring and firing managers on a daily basis

INTERACTION

- Fixed backroom advice not appearing for some clients online

- Fixed Youth Setup Category not upgrading despite request being accepted

- Fixed player wanting to discuss failure to qualify for Champions Cup despite having qualified

- Fixed irrational response to player being congratulated on first international cap

- Fixed a few issues of strange/contradictory responses in team meetings

MEDIA & NEWS

- Fixed transfer records being incorrectly broken with lower fee when using South Korean Won

- Fixed manager to go odds displaying already sacked manager

- Fixed backroom advice link allowing user to repeat private chat

- Fixed remove Offer from Backroom Advice not functioning correctly

- Fixed Champions League top goalscorer record broken shows previous record as -1

- Fixed code displayed in news item when international team changes national captain without a current manager

- Fixed incorrect calculation for number of players signed in transfer window press conference question

- Fixed sextuple news item not generating

- Fixed press conference question considering league to be a close run contest incorrectly

- Fixed press Conference question incorrectly referring to non-striker as striker

- Fixed missing headline on AWOL news item

- Fixed duplicated information in player debut news

- Fixed league specific question being asked in post-match press conference

USER INTERFACE

- Fixed user's ability to select different player roles on the Player Coach Report screen

- Prevented Nations duplicating when user changes Match Detail on Detail Level screen

- Fixed sorting of club scouting assignments

- Fixed filters resetting on the Team Selection Overview screen

- Fixed Opposition Instructions clearing when user uses the Set Piece Wizard in Match

- Fixed Match widgets staying faded out after highlight has played out

- Fixed Home and Away Team stats switching in Match Overview

- Fixed Assistant Manager Advice automatically updating in Match Overview

- Fixed Important Attributes panel in Player Tactics not updating

- Fixed Scout Report Training Development & Happiness displaying blank bars for player out on loan

- Fixed Cup tied players not appearing on Fixture Details panel

FMC SPECIFIC

- News Item priority improvements to Manager News Website

- Assistant Training will correctly update the training pie chart

- Stopped players learning new positions when subbed into that position for very short periods of time

- Improved player training when user changes tactics frequently

MISC

- Fixed double prize money payout in Norway

- Fixed rounding issue in Sponsorship news item

- Fixed issue with illogical stadium completion date

- Fixed issue with £0 Sponsorship

- Improved newgen creation in View-only leagues

- Fixed issue where proposed plans to improve a stadium had fallen through and weren't explained to the user

- Fixed issue where a board only increased a transfer budget from -£2k to £0

- Adjusted the creation of African and Albanian newgens created in Italy

PRE-GAME EDITOR

- Fixed a number of unique crashes when verifying files in Advanced Rules

- Restored a number of verification warnings that were previously not generating

- Fixed an issue where fixture rules were removed when adding lower divisions to existing structures and converting to Advanced Riles

- Fixed an issue where certain leagues' default rules appeared with no dates or promotion/relegation information

- Improved the functionality of average points tables in custom nation rules

- Fixed a rare issue where a player would be given a positional rating of 20 and it would not extract into the game properly

IN-GAME EDITOR

- Fixed an issue where a player's unhappiness was removed, only for it to return the next day

- Enabled the editing of nations

MATCH ENGINE v1454

- Increased dribbling speed at higher end

- Improved pass and shot accuracy slightly at higher end

- Improved goalkeeper save AI

- Fixed keeper trying to pick up ball at feet but not being able to hold it

- Fixed some instances of unrealistically dreadful poor touch

- Fixed some full backs going forward too quickly off the ball

- Increased likelihood of certain attacking roles dropping deeper to look for ball

- Improved destination height of headed clearances

- Fixed up "Mark six yard area" at corners to mean zonal marking of the edge of the six yard box

- Fixed headed clearance trajectory bug

- Slight reduction in overhit passes

- Fixed potential own goal bug when player tries to stand still with ball near own goal line

- Prevented midfield players going too deep when defending own area

- Increased speed defenders will push up out of box when ball won back or cleared in deep areas

- Reduced instances of defenders turning back on ball and retreating too quickly when team is generally well positioned defensively

- Fixed error causing defenders to mark opponents and drop too deep into own area

- Tweaked pace and target point of some short passes to feet when receiving player is under pressure

- Slightly encouraged some more passes in behind opposition d-line

- Reduced some further instances of overly long first touches

- Reduced premature pot shots from distance when placed to take ball closer to opposition goal

- Encouraged taking on of opponents by players likely to run with ball more

- Some small dribbling AI tweaks

- Encouraged ball forward to target man a bit more

- Tweaked pass AI slightly

- Tweaked cross AI slightly

- Increased fouls slightly at lower levels

- Reduced mentality choice slightly for low directness AI teams

- Increased use of direct play strategy for smaller teams

- Potential fix for odd throw ins

- Fixed an issue when the subbed player doesn't drop the ball

- Tweaked pass choice AI

- Tweaked run with ball AI

- Tweaked when to cross AI

- Tweaked when to shoot long AI

- Tweaked shot choice AI for top players

- Tweaked header accuracy slightly

- Tweaked when to clear ball AI

- Fixed error causing many corners to go too close to goal line

- Tweaked off ball movement around ball player

- Fixes and tweaks to passing AI

- Fixed some issues causing poor dribbling and first touch decisions

- Some tweaks re when to shoot or not

- Increased urgency of off ball movement in some situations

- Fixed offsides being called after player has moved back onside before pass

- Fixed bug where dive by attacker could result in penalty regardless of where it occurred

- Improved keeper reactions in some situations

- Made keepers sweep up balls more aggressively when needed

- Improved keeper positioning when narrowing angle

- Fixed a pass being reported as 550 yards in distance

- Fixed unrealistic examples of keepers holding shots

- Fixed keeper making unnecessary save attempt when already letting ball run out

- Fixed keepers making buggy attempts to save ball when they have it under control already

- Improved goalkeeper distribution

- Fixed buggy offsides being given when player fouled

- Fixed some instances of players continuing with pointless attempts to intercept balls that are destined for opponent

- Made players quicker to move to slow moving ball when under pressure

- Fixed some instances of buggy poor first touches

- Less risky passes around own danger area

- Some minor general passing AI tweaks

- Tweaked long shot AI slightly

- Reduced instances of silly passes when player in goalscoring opportunity

- Made players less gung ho about drifting offside

- Fixed buggy kick offs where the 2 players get in each other’s' way

- Fixed some keeper clearances being given insufficient elevation

- Fix for some crosses not being attempted

- Reduction in dangerous and long back passes

- Reduced DFK conversion slightly

- Further fixes for keeper handling and judgement of ball issues

- Removed illogical zonal marking on free kicks around corner of penalty area

- Reduced unnaturally looped kicks from ground

- More minor tweaks to on ball decision making AI

- Fixed rare occurrence of player "teleporting" randomly on ball

- Reduced unrealistic instances of long shots

- Fixed bug causing some shot velocities to be reduced

- Fine-tuned shot and pass accuracy

- Fine-tuned player ratings

- Fixed underhit long kicks

- Fix occasional penalty awards when offence nowhere near area

- Fixed rare occurrence of match not kicking off after goal

FFS MLG! I am 5 matches away from winning the league, top by 1 point with a game in hand and along come SI and bugger up my tactics. If I fail, I will find Miles and I will kill Miles.

FFS MLG! I am 5 matches away from winning the league, top by 1 point with a game in hand and along come SI and bugger up my tactics. If I fail, I will find Miles and I will kill Miles.

Think your anger is misplaced. Is Dobs still leading the match engine work, MLG?

Paul Colleyer MBE is the key man with the match engine.