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JustJeff88 posted:I just caught up on this LP. I always enjoy FM LPs, but I think my favourite ones are those where someone starts out with a tiny little semi-pro piss squad in Ramsgate and makes them competitive against All the Money In the World Ever. Yeah I did this because its a bit more discrete, and I've never done an LP before so I wanted something that I know I can finish! To me the magic of FM is in the stories and the stories have more time to breath when you literally play for.. more time. Season 2 - Feb  That's a lot of football. The schedule is absolutely crazy.  I want to renew his contract to get rid of the minimum fee release clause, he wants to leave for a bigger club (lol) so he won't negotiate.  We didn't really do anything in the window, but you can see that the biggest spending clubs in other leagues are not that far away from the top of the premier league - but the overall spending is a lot higher.  A very big game for our title chances. We are both in from and they are storming back up the table so I want to put space between us and them.  gently caress. They absolutely blagged this one - check out the xG - though we played like total poo poo. Tripper going off injured so soon really hurt us because we didn't have subs later on to put on for the underperforming squad members. Its not fatal because we had such a big points cushion, but drat this isn't a result.  FA cup against Fulham, our weird bogey man team. They are even in form, but we are a lot better and should be winning handily.  You can see from the xG chart are are overrunning them the entire game but we only finally break through after the subs come on towards the end. I was deeply worried they were going to get a lucky goal and knock us out, we were cruising by the end.  Bristol City are in the championship - the league below. They are not going to win this but thats one for next month.  Away at Leicester, but we should be looking pretty good.  Uggghhhh, this wasn't a good result. We were unlucky not to win, but not that unlucky. The team just wasn't firing.  Next up relegation battlers West Brom Albion and a chance to come back to form, but I forgot the match preview, so have us trying to expand our marketing affiliate situation.  A very handy 2-0 victory powered by Haaland. When we play well these weaker teams cannot really do much. Concerningly we're not really threatening from set pieces which sucks.  Next up, Spurs. Again, I forgot the match preview but we're consistently selling out the stadium so I want to get it expanded to increase revenues.  The St Maximin game! He did everything - he scored a hat trick, he had two goals disallowed by offside, he got a yellow card, he gave away that penalty to Kane, he was here, he was there he was every loving where. And he just put spurs to the sword - their XG is very inflated by the penalty.  The league table - Liverpool has caught up and we only really have a 4 point cushion. If we had of won that game at the start of the month I'd be much happier.  We've played Man city man times, and they are really struggling now. They are still under caretaker management.  A dominant performance with a perfect 10 rating from Musiala, a Haaland hat trick and we only allow 4 shots. Only concern is Adeyemi gets stretchered off, but its only a minor injury. NEXT UP BAYERN MUNICH IN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AT THEIR PLACE. One of the biggest teams in Europe and a real threat to our aspirations. Lewandowski, the 2nd best striker in the world, fronts up a formidable team.  I forgot the match preview again, but we have a marketing affiliate in china now.  We absolutely blagged that one, we did not look good but Donnarumma came up clutch making 8 great saves including a miraculous 84th minute save of Lewandowski's penalty. They now need to beat us by 2 goals at our place to progress now - no-one has done that all season.  Our first final! Its the mostly pointless milk cup but I still want to win to get things continuing the right way. It also gives the team experience at playing in big matches at a big neutral ground (Wembley has almost twice the capacity of our home ground St James Park) and winning a cup is a good morale boost.  Its only our 2nd appearance in the final, and we've never won before.  loving HELL YEAH  DONNARUMMA COMES UP CLUTCH AGAIN! Another penalty save against another world class striker, St Maximin bags the winner and we squeak home - that Havetz disallowed goal in the 92nd minute was really, really close.  We are the champions!  Donnarumma wins the man of the match for two penalty saves and two clean sheets in two critical cup games in a row. I'm happy with the 235 million dollar transfer fee at this point lol.  Yeah no-one cares about this cup.  Well the board does! Huzzah! We've won a cup, we're alive in all competitions, and we have a modest cushion in the league. Storming season. Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Mar 12, 2022 |
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By the way, Mr Dreams, no judgement... I've been wanting to do an LP of a very good Final Fantasy 1 hack for a year, but due to lack of experience and the self-imposed shame that I would feel if I didn't finish I've never tried. To put it another way, you're a braver man than I.
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When Cthulhu calls it the Milk Cup, he's not kidding. Back in the 1980s the cup was sponsored by the Milk Marketing Board. It's been named after a number of things since then, from Coca-Cola to the current Carabao (apparently a Thai energy drink?).
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habeasdorkus posted:When Cthulhu calls it the Milk Cup, he's not kidding. Back in the 1980s the cup was sponsored by the Milk Marketing Board. It's been named after a number of things since then, from Coca-Cola to the current Carabao (apparently a Thai energy drink?). It was previously the Carling Cup, wasn't it? I can't possibly care anymore about millionaire players and billionaire owners, so I don't follow.
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Honestly it's no stranger than the top prize in NASCAR previously being known as the Winston Cup, after Winston Cigarettes A little shocked that PornHub hasn't tried to secure the sponsorship, it seems like the kinda thing they'd try
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Honestly it's no stranger than the top prize in NASCAR previously being known as the Winston Cup, after Winston Cigarettes They would never let that happen. Booze that destroys your judgement, reason & liver and cigarettes that cause cancer and pollute the environment are okay, but sex is absolutely unacceptable.
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Season 2 - March Relatively calm month, though if we progress in the FA cup we will have another match.  These guys are in the Championship, the 2nd tier of English football, are in terrible form, have an injury problem and are totally mince meat.  DESPITE THAT THEY ARE STILL TALKING TRASH.  Lol, shame Fofana bricked the penalty for the hat trick. Both of his other goals were near post headers from set pieces.  How many times in one season can we play Liverpool?  They are currently outside of the relegation zone, but this will be a cake walk and not going to be good for them regardless.  Uhhh, that was a pretty determined effort to bottle it from us, Donnarumma has a shocker, but offense bails our our defence for a change.  League standings  The league is us, Liverpool, and some other teams that exist  HOW MANY TIMES ARE WE GOING TO PLAY LIVERPOOL THIS SEASON  WHAT A COME BACK. Honestly impressed with the grit we showed to tie that up. A tough game and we were fighting uphill the entire time and could never take the breaks off. Next game is against Bayern Munich - the champions league games are two legged knockout games played home and away with the score summed over both legs. We are at home for the 2nd leg, and because we won the home leg 1-0 due to the penalty save we have a hefty advantage. However, I forgot the match preview so have this picture of our youth intake.  I actually considered terminating him just for the name alone, but he's actually decent.  We win on the day despite Haaland bricking a penalty. Moriba scored an absolute banger that probably should have been Adeyemi assist when he picks up a lose ball spilt from a tackle at the top of the box and slams into the top bins because there is literally no-one within 5 meters of him to try and contest the shot. Then to try and recover the 2-0 aggregate deficit they have to They have to try and come out at us all game, and we repeatedly rob them and hit them on counter. Thats, what, our 3rd pen bricked in a row? I start scheduling penalty taking sessions....  The u18s are doing pretty well as well despite me gutting the squad.  This is about the best draw possible...  Because despite us giving them hundreds of millions of pounds, they haven't really spent it. What are they doing?  To be honest, the defacto final is whenever we draw Liverpool at this point.  HURRAY, ITS LIVERPOOL AGAIN. Atleast we are at home.  Wow. We were 4-0 up by the time the red card came down. Surgical finishing and elite goalkeeping make this a blowout.  So in FM you can develop rivalies with other teams as a mechanical effort. Makes your players more aggro in matches, more fans turn up to see the games, everyone gets hype for the big match etc. That has well and truly set in for Newcastle v Liverpool. One of the other effects is that they massively crank up the price and players are less likely to want to transfer to you.  SIGH Overall, a great month. We've progressed in all competitions, we didn't blow the league to liverpool, quality game. Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Mar 14, 2022 |
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Season 2 - April And we're back, this is the final turn before the home stretch. The incredibly packed schedule is also back.  This is absolutely an absurd amount of football to play in one month.  First game is against Southampton who are in the relegation zone, but we're really just racing Liverpool at this point.  Frances gets sent off via a dumb tackle in the 54th minute, so I sub Tripper on and he leads us to glory. He drew the foul that let Demir score from a free kick, then just put the second free kick home himself.  I'm trying to spend the rest of the budget, but Liverpool has the players I want and they will not sell. Ricci here is available for 70ish million to the rest of the league...  At home vs Dortmund. As mentioned before they haven't spent any of the money we've given them, and have lost three of their best players.  Haaland is benched due to be tired, but we smash them anyway. The scoreline is very flattering to their efforts, we could have easily won by a lot more.  I regret everything with this signing. He's really good but hot drat does he break a lot.  Leeds are out of sorts but are only just out of European places after being in Champions league spots for most of the season, so they are a threat for an upset.  And they get it after another disastrous red card from our right back. What are they doing back there? This is actually the first professional foul I've seen in a game of football manager, Mbabu drops his elbow into the dudes face and deservedly gets a straight red. Was totally zany. We have chances throughout, but Leeds do enough to keep us down.  Leave table after that loss - Liverpool are only 1 game behind us and are absolutely a threat to catch us.  2nd leg against Dortmound. They need to beat us by 2 to go to extra time and score 3 to win. I'm fairly confident that won't happen, but I play the A team to make sure of it.  LOL. The lads decide to put on a show and we are scoring goals for fun. Haaland has racked up a hat trick by half time, and we have a 10, 9.9 and 9.5 rating when the whistle goes. This is the highest scoring competitive match I've ever played in FM.  Well, so much for not playing Mbappe.  More must win single elimination action - we're off to the 90k seater Wembley stadium to play Man City who have an interim manager after firing Klopp. Man city have one of the best squads in the premier league, so they are always a chance to win even if the managerial turnover has left them at sea. I'm going to be playing as close to a full strength best 11 as I can (Fofana is out)  It really has left them at sea. A 4-4-loving-2 from Man City? What the hell? Why do they have Martial upfront? Why are you using maybe the greatest attacking midfielder ever as a deep lying playmaker. This is just squandering talent.  They never get going, we are firing on all cylinders, Haaland opens the scoring with a great solo goal and we never look back.  Man city for the final!  He's real good - everyone else is a dynamic attacking talent who regularly scores goals, and the voters really like goals. To overcome that deficit requires massive impact.  I need to spend the rest of the transfer balance before the season ticks over, and Ryan Gravenberch here is going to be the backup defensive midfielder behind Rice. The next game is important  It's vs Manchester United in the league who are the only other title contenders outside of us and Liverpool. I hate team meetings, its so risky that you might just blow up morale. I do it anyway.  We're rolling over Man U and Everton might do us a massive favour. Even a draw there helps a ton, and it's the 88th minute!  Nothing really to say here, Manchester United never seriously threaten us. For the Moriba afficandos he scored that one by running from the midfield at the half way line through their defensive line onto a pass over the top into space from Camavinga and slots it home in a one on one with the keeper. We go down to 10 men at the end because someone takes a knock and I pull them off as a precaution.  YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. REFS?!? To add insult to injury it's Ricci who scores the hero goal in the depths of injury time. Would be scenes at Anfield Park after that one.  We are down to a game in hand in the league standings against Liverpool. Everyone else has fallen away, Chelsa are 'only' 7 points away but we have 2 games in hand, and Man U is now 13 points off the pace. Two horse race now.  Oh no  This is a really big loss, the dude is the best secondary scorer on the team and really helps the offense function by punishing teams that lose one of our centre mids at the top of the box due to his combination of 'gets forward whenever possible' 'shoots with power' and excellent technique.  Look at that Bravery hit to from the injury 2 points lost.  Wolves away in the league. They have really tanked their standings to be in the bottom half after a good start to the season. A win is essential due to the Liverpool situation.  SURELY THEY BOTTLE IT THIS TIME  We nearly bottle it too! We let them score on their first shot of the game to go up 1-0, and its only clinical finishing that bails out our defence from an ugly game and ugly performance. If you take out the penalty they scored two goals on an xG of 0.4. I fine Donnarumma half a weeks wages which he is not happy about.  I'm not really reporting on it, but TFLama my assistant manager in this game is a psychotic disciplinarian. More than one goal per 72 minutes? That is the best scoring rate of anyone in premier league history. The current record is Sergio Aguero who's career rate is 1 per 108 minutes. This season Salah is having one of the greatest scoring seasons of all time at 1 goal per 118 minutes. I expect more, LOL. He does this all the time! It's crazy.  Arsenal manage to upset Liverpool and probably hand us the title, though still 7 games to play and we only have a 3 point lead.  He's in the bag.  Time for Real Madrid - we're playing away at the famous Bernabeu, and we'll need to be lucky to win. Ideally I just want a draw to set us up for when they come to our place.  At half time, it is not going very well for anyone, just been a defensive slog fest and they converted one of their crap chances and we didn't.   I did not want to concede two goals.  Haaland is clearly being affected by the pressure and isn't at his best here.  TFLlama has completely lost the plot here. What the gently caress mate? Replace Haaland with our backup right back? Just No.  I am a bit bitter over this one, everyone played like hot garbage (check out Adeyemis 6.1), and we just didn't convert while letting through two bad chances.  The title race! I think we are strong favourites to win given the game in hand and 3 point lead, but nothing is certain as Liverpools schedule is quite soft (though so is ours)  They suck, we don't, I need a win, lets go.  The attempted 'comeback' by Burnley at the end is a bit flattering as I told the lads to stop pressing at half time which let them back in a bit, but you can see they didn't really have a chance to close the gap when we started defending again.  A big milestone for a big month! We're favourites for the league, have won the Carabao cup, are in the FA cup final, and are still alive in the Champions league though Real Madrid are not going to roll over and die... and then we still have to beat whoever wins the other bracket (It's inevitably going to be Liverpool again). Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Mar 16, 2022 |
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Did Dortmund's manager get sacked after that abomination? I recall that being possible like a decade ago, in FM 12 or 13 I beat Benfica (I think) 11-0 in the second leg of a continental tie and they just fired everyone. It was amazing and one of my biggest moments of video game pride.
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habeasdorkus posted:Did Dortmund's manager get sacked after that abomination? I recall that being possible like a decade ago, in FM 12 or 13 I beat Benfica (I think) 11-0 in the second leg of a continental tie and they just fired everyone. It was amazing and one of my biggest moments of video game pride. No, for some reason they had hired Wigan Legend Roberto Martinez at the end of Jan, so I doubt he was in any danger of getting the sack. It's still possible if the manager is in danger for other reasons and the terrible match rating plus getting set back in whichever competition is enough to shove them over the precipice.
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And we're back for maybe the biggest month in the history of Newcastle United Season 2 - May  Another ridiculous month with lots of stuff happening. Three priorities: A) Win the league B) Win the FA Cup against Manchester united at Wembley C) Take out Real Madrid so we get a ticket to the champions league final Fans would probably put the Champions league game ahead of the FA Cup Final, but maybe not? I get the impression that the order of events for the average fan is Premier League > Champions League >> FA Cup >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Carabao Cup.  First up, Real Madrid at home.  If we win this leg by 1 we go to extra time, if we win by 2 we win outright. I really don't want extra time to help keep the legs fresh for the rest of the season, so the fullest strength squad is in from the jump.  My notes for this just say 'what a squeaky bum game.' Mbappe bagging another goal on a beautiful tap in gave put us in a big hole to get out of. Fortunately from then on the boys started to dig upwards and we rallied to tie it up on aggregate and then the game just completely bogged down - there were only 2 chances created for a 20 minute stretch. Then Renan gives away a free kick in injury time on the edge of the box which Real Madrid try a clever trick play on and the ball ends up in the back of the net but is disallowed by VAR to absolute madness. Then Adeyemi and Haaland combine to work a beautiful 1-2 to put Haaland in the box IN THE LAST MINUTE OF INJURY TIME on the penalty spot with the ball before he gets upended by a Real Madrid defender which the ref gives us a penalty for. This 'obviously' wins us the match so the tension is immense but he slots it home to put us ahead. Immense show of character by the team to come back and the injury time penalty winner after a disallowed injury time winner for them was absolutely insane.  Liverpool or Juventus for the final. Of course we all know that Liverpool are going to win.  This gets us a spot in the Club World Championship at the end of next season.  Cha-ching.  I immediately start trying to spend the money.  What an (un)surprising turn of events. This is almost the mathematically most times we can play Liverpool in one season: The only things we are missing are: A) A community shield game - an exhibition game between the FA cup winner and the premier league winner, and if that is the same team first vs 2nd in the premier league. B) A european supercup game (which would require them to have won the Europa league which isn't going to happen because they will never be so bad as to get into the Europa League) c) A FA cup replay after the first leg is tied. I forgot the match preview for the Aston Villa game so have a league table view..  I think we're definately going to win the league now. Aston Villa are mid table only a modest threat.  We bury them in an exciting attacking effort. Was unfortunate to concede a goal but they didn't really have a chance of winning - they only had 2 shots for a good 60 minutes of the game.  To mathematically secure the league we need to win 2 more games.  Oh noooooo  Should be a nice breezy win even with Freddie Woodman between the sticks.  We score 5 goals, Woodman does great, Madueke gets stretched off with YET ANOTHER INJURY, just a typical WEdnesday night at St James Park.  Just need 1 more win.  It really is a joke at this point.  Away at Everton - while we only need 1 more win to clinch the title should be a relatively easy win but I'm rotating the squad with a view towards the FA cup final next week.  It's not convincing - we score two goals in injury time to make an unsatisfying 1-0 win into a very good looking 3-0 win. St Maximin gets a big injury which is not ideal.  AND WE'VE WON THE LEAGUE. We don't get a cup ceremony because it happened before the Everton kick off. However, they are giving me 276 million pounds? There isn't 276 million pounds of players to buy!  Cup Final - We've bagged the Caffine Cup and the League, just need the Champions league and the FA cup to clinch almost everything. You can see we have quite a serious injury issue with two of our best midfielders being out of action. I'm going to have to start Araujo (who's really a centreback) at Defensive Midfield.  We have a team meeting and everyone is fired up. Musiala and Adeyemi are grumpy about their desire to move to as bigger club, everyone else is in the game.  We get off to a hot start in a near mirror match in the formations. However we've scored two goals and they haven't had a shot through 30 minutes.  And that hot start is enough to bag another big piece of silverware at Wembly. I like to imagine all the Manchester fans are politely applauding our victory  We were very good - they didn't get a shot away until 60 minutes into the match. Putting Araujo at Defensive Midfield turned out to be more effective than I expected, because we had 4 centrebacks on the pitch (Rice, Araujo, Milenkovic and Fofana). This made our press suffocating as these guys are all very capable defenders and at tackling with also a high turn of speed. Man U had so many turnovers in dangerous places due to being pressed high and hard.  Old Man Paulinho is the one doing a cartwheel here, which is funny.  Bam, the treble! Only two bits of Silverware to go: The Champions League and the Club World Cup.  Man of the match goes to Donnarumma with a brilliant assist to Haaland to create a goal. Part of the reason they didn't get shots away was also that Donnarumma was excellent in commanding the area and just caught a number of crosses and corners before a shot could happen.  Money!  Xavi to Barcelona is a move that has been mirrored in real life. I'd definitely consider selling Mbabu to them as I want to bring in a new Right back, so Tripper can become the backup.  This doesn't matter to us at all, so normally I'd play the kids but everyone is a kid I guess. Basically I'm just rotating people now to ensure we're match fit for the Champions League final next month.  Well, we kind of got away with that one, St Maximin came back from injury with fire in his belly and Woodman did very well to limit the damage to 1 goal from 2.16 xG!  West ham, again, I don't care just getting people fit.  West ham are doing a lot better than Manchester United on both sides of the ball - we have a nearly full strength squad in the field as well.  Its still not enough, but a respectable performance from them. Not good that our main attackers have gone a bit cold before the big match.  End of season league table. We ended up with a comfortable lead as Liverpool bottled the last couple of games with rotated squads. What a vomitous result from Man City.  Next time, on Newcastle - the BIG ONE.  I need some Audience Input So if we win the Champions league here, I've done almost everything I wanted to with the save (just missing the Club World Cup and the pre-season silverware). In an interesting turn of events, the Atletico Madrid job is open. Assuming we win the Champions league (for which we are like, 60:40 favourites) my questions are: The job at Newcastle: Do we: A) do B) Call it here, spend the money and simulate 10-20 years into the future. That Atletico Madrid job looks interesting.... Athletico Madrid are the 3rd biggest club in Spain with a good team. I'd start a new thread for it as this is about Newcastle but is there interest in taking the save forward to a new goal - winning all of the top 5 domestic leagues (France, UK, Germany, Italy and Spain), and winning the biggest domestic cup in each of those leagues, as well as the World Cup and the European Championships? If so, what should I do when I leave Newcastle A) Spend the money smartly, and don't spend money you don't need B) Spend all the money as smartly as you can within the context of of spending 800 million pounds on what is already the best squad in the world. C) Spend all the money, and spend some of it on giving yourself a boost at Atletico Madrid. D) Edit: Poison Pill newcastle with signings that make sense, but also cause huge problems Thoughts in the thread or hit me up in discord. Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Mar 17, 2022 |
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Not sure what to do at Newcastle. Tempted to say call it there. Either way I definitely want to see how things look in a decade or so. I'd also love to see you do a glory seeker type save. Absolutely no clue what you ought to do with the money, though. If you do want to move on to another club it might be interesting to see how the AI manager would spend all those millions.
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habeasdorkus posted:Look, this team still needs Neymar, Mbappe, Messi, TAA, De Bruyne, etc. A quadruple with no-names like "Eduardo Camavinga" does nothing for the House of Saud's reputation, does it? The 'problem' is going to be that there just isn't enough minutes to give everyone if I spend the 276 million as aggressively as possible and get in another 800 million of players. The locker room will absolutely explode due to playing time problems. Which will definitely be funny to watch if people want to see that hahaha. I keep going to sign De Bruyne but he just does not fit the system, I'd need to play a 4-2-3-1 or a 4-4-2 narrow diamond. apophenium posted:Not sure what to do at Newcastle. Tempted to say call it there. Either way I definitely want to see how things look in a decade or so. If I move on and don't spend it the AI won't spend the money on installments so will probably make 1-2 big signings and call it there. For example it will sign Mbappe and like, some random old guys. Then it will farm out the dudes like Sesko, Madueke and Demir on loan. Edit: The other thing I forgot is I can poison pill Newcastle on the way out. This would probably be by signing Ansu Fati, who is a great young striker who wants FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS A WEEK. This would trigger Haaland's match highest earner clause, then cause everyone else to kick off about how they are not getting paid enough. Newcastle can cover the costs, but it would cause problems. Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Mar 17, 2022 |
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A, B. It's the spend silly money thread but no reason to not leave a terrifying colossus to have to contend with.
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goatface posted:Can you spend it all on under 18s? U-18 signing are wonky. In most EU nations the youngest a player is allowed to leave is 17 or 18, so trying to sign a player that young from a foreign nation usually means that they don't leave until they're 18. Except FM knows that a player is leaving and then just never actually plays them again, so signing a 16 year old who isn't allowed to leave until he's 18 usually leads to getting a player who's no better than he was at 16, and most players can't afford missing 1.5-2 years of improvement. You could theoretically try to sign english kids, but that's gonna lead to paying millions on millions of pounds for kids who frankly probably aren't remotely worth that much money because all the money/transfer fees in england are inflated to gently caress because of premier league money For signing actual 18 year old kids, the issue is that you either have to immediately find them loans to go play somewhere, because at 18 game time matters more than training, or they have to be good enough to play for your team, which is frankly super unlikely if you're good enough to steal them from whatever (likely good) team they were previously at TheFlyingLlama fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Mar 17, 2022 |
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Can we sign every single English under-18 and completely ruin English Football for a generation?
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it's technically possible. It'd just require probably more money than even newcastle can spend on top of enough scouting to find every single english player who might end up remotely good, which would require not only scouting every english league down 6 divisions, but also every welsh, scotish, irish, and northern irish league, but also enough good luck that a random french/german/spainish top league team with an english feeder also doesn't get lucky enough to get a reasonably good english newgen. also you'd need to be that lucky/spendy for probably 4-5 years at minimum. In other words, technically doable, practically impossible because FM's engine likes england too much for it to be remotely doable. EDIT: This assumes you sign every english U-18 newgen who's like, remotely good, not "every single one of them" which is just like, explicitly impossible
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Yeah FlyingLlama is right. I've had my scouts out looking pretty intensively because I need 1, maybe 2 more home grown club players so I've got a good idea of what's out there. That said, shortlisting isn't hard for English prospects imho, you just sort by value and all the good ones cost a billion quid. That of course neatly leads to the problem. Because all the best English prospects belong to Premier league clubs, and clubs that perceive you as a rival jack up prices when selling to you, I'd have to spend an absurd amount of money to just get 1-2 seasons of prospects.  Leriaka here is Man United's golden prospect, and the club wants 90 million plus addons for them to sign. Then Leriaka doesn't want to leave Manchester so wants a bonkers amount of money . The next three best prospects are all with Liverpool, including a guy amazingly named 'Renaldo' (sic). Seriously, 'Renaldo.' I had a good giggle that. Dude is from Merseyside, and his parents called him 'Renaldo' with an E. I don't even. He's a striker to boot. It's just mind boggling. Anyway, yeah, they want something like 150 million for 'Renaldo' alone.
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to go into further detail; in most leagues other than england, a prospect like Leriaka would be...probably somewhere in the 5-20 million pound range? I've gotten better players out of croatia, serbia or the nordic countries for half that, and no more for a league outside of the top 20 in the world, 20ish for most of the top ones. In Germany, Italy or Spain he'd probably be closer to 30, unless he was at a bad club or especially mad and demanding a transfer. In England? yeah 90-100 million pounds no question. england fees are loving insane man EDIT: In my Feyenoord save, I signed this kid out of Uruguay for 1.2 million pounds. While I can't say for 100% certain he's better than Leriaka, I'd bet money on it, and he's costing me 1/80th up front and making a 10th a month Leriaka is. 
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I would actually enjoy seeing you try to get Athletico to rise up against the unholy duo of Barca/Real, presumably without the infinite money. Having infinite resources has made this LP very short, and I think it's about the chase, not the destination. By the way, do you have any video of that keeper assist that you mentioned? Those are very rare and I would like to see it. Also, is there any way to force Madueke into retirement for his own preservation? He gets hurt so often that I am honestly worried that he will burst into flames on the pitch at some point. I feel sorry for the poor bastard and he's not even self-aware.
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Mar 17, 2022 15:02
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I remain a luxury few can afford. 
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Mar 17, 2022 15:31
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A, A
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AB Edit - Depending on how interesting the world turns out, it oculd be cool to see an LP 20 years in the future
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D,D I want Galacticos Newcastle, and all the attendant ego problems that come with it. Sign those famous players with promises that they'll get starring roles!
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Season 2 - June Only one game that matters - the Champions League  Haaland wins literally every end of year award he is eligible for. Given the boost for goal scoring, look how good Jude Bellingham is!  He had 10 less appearances than Lukaku to boot.  Thanks mate, love you too. Unlike these guys.  gently caress you  gently caress you too  Like who you gently caress wit.  Unsurprising, though will be awkward if I bottle the Champions league.  TheFlyingLlama is convinced that Camavinga and Fofana are not the best options in midfield and defense respectively, but you can see we have a very dominant team.  The tactics and lineup for the final match. Musiala is going to be home grown at club, so this will be the first of many, many champions league appearances for him unless he decides to leave.  The scouting report. You can see their tactics are very similar to ours.  Hopefully Madueke will be back.  gently caress.  Match day! You get these cool licensed graphics that are lifted from the actual TV presentation.  Our lads, looking for a big performance from Haaland, but we're juist very good alway the way across the park.  Like 50 seconds after kickoff. I tell him to get back in there.  First 25 minutes are a very nervy match, we look better but not by much  I didn't get a great screenshot, but Davies is about to recieve a bone crunching tackle.  RIP Davies. Renan is going to get a go on the biggest stage of his life.  Just not much happening. Then Salah scores a beautiful goal in the 62 minute  But we have an oppotunity to hit back immediately from the kickoff. Bellingham puts in absolutely beautiful cross from the touchline.  Musiala has jumping reach like 8, but the cross is aimed squarely at him.  Somehow it gets past Liverpools centrebacks an Alisson is caught flat footed to equalise almost immediately.  The next highlight is Camavinga putting in an absolutely ridiculous pass into space for Maximin to run on to - look where all the Liverpool defenders are!  One touch volley and ...  BOOM! 2-1 Newcastle.  And that's all she wrote.  We run out deserved winners.  And that's everything that we could win for the season.  Our team is pretty good - gotta say Moriba and Fofana are hard done by.  11 goals for Mbappe, lol.  And that's a wrap on season 2!  Haaland is signing of the season, but everyone has worked out pretty well. 19 goals for Moriba is absolutely insane I reckon.  19 goals, 7 assists, 35 appearances, very disappointing. Board are mad about all my signings as I spent to much money.  A great league season, 96 points is good, 11 points clear is better. Shows hard hard it is to get an unbeaten season in the premier league though, even the 'bad' opponents like Spurs are very good compared to whatever PSG is playing against in France.  Only two hiccups along the way. We got very lucky to get past Real Madrid there.  Fofana is tied for our leading goalscorer in the cup, which shows what a threat he is from set pieces. I don't have a great corner taker to feed him balls at the moment which would boost this even further.  MORIBA IS THE LEADING GOALSCORER.  In summary, lol. That Blackburn game was fun, but not really memorable.  Check out that growth in totally legitimate sponorship revenue.  The best 11 with Fofana deservedly in his spot. Amazing that Reyna is in despite not being half the season.  End of seasons award! Haaland gets even more of them! This is all so skewed towards scoring goals that it tends to override everything else. Fofana has the most passes completed which is cut off.  And that's a wrap!  Wait, if he's left...  Absolutely lol, that is so much money.  And an stadium expansion which is good to boost match day revenue. Next LP steps Seems like people want a victory lap season so I will get on that. But I will fork the save here - I'll do the victory lap, simulate 10-20 years into the future so you can see what happens, and then come back here if I start a new thread to do a slightly different take on the save.
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It looks to me like you lucked out on the winning goal. From the screenshot, and I know that it's a fairly crude match engine, it seems that the Liverpool keeper didn't play his angle well. The entry pass was peerless, but with three defenders back like that and the striker on the touch line, I would not have let him go post side on me.
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JustJeff88 posted:It looks to me like you lucked out on the winning goal. From the screenshot, and I know that it's a fairly crude match engine, it seems that the Liverpool keeper didn't play his angle well. The entry pass was peerless, but with three defenders back like that and the striker on the touch line, I would not have let him go post side on me. Yeah I agree - Alisson misplayed it pretty badly. Its hard to show in screenshots and I need to figure out video recording, but he half came out to try and grab the ball, decided that was a bad plan and starts retreating back to his crease but its to late and St Maximum can slot it in behind him. Was a xG 0.11 chance. I dont know what Liverpool's defenders were doing. They all seemed to think he was going to pass it back to Haaland or something. Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Mar 18, 2022 |
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 e- voting for poison pill Captain Foo fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Mar 19, 2022 |
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Season 2 - Goon Bonus Update Okay so what I'm going to do is A) Fork the save B) do the victory lap season, C) simulate 10-20 years into the future D) Come back with a new thread for the glory hunter idea.  Summary of where the various goons are at.  Surprised Alikchi hasn't had any recognition from the Italian youth teams yet, though competition will be stiff.  Average Lettice has been playing for the u21 team as a 17 year old, which is a good sign, but he was absolutely poo poo in the European u21 championship which is a concerning sign. Flip side: 8 appearances and 3 goals for Benefica's B team is promising.  Frankenfreak has been playing for the Algerian u23 side at age 17, which is a great sign. He also made a start for the Algerian u23 team at the African Cup of nations and did very well. A winger with 16 acceleration,14 pace, dribbling 14 at age 17 has a definite floor to his capability and he will be able to carve up lower league teams. He's also been on the pitch for his clubs B team and scored a goal, but no senior league appearances yet.  Nifty bottle has been playing for the german national team but hasn't got a look in at the Bundesliga yet. I think they've grown since their last appearance, almost 2 meters tall now.  Leriaka has been playing for the English U21 team and has been decent. I'll expect them to get a loan spell somewhere in about a year.  Lynneth has been playing a lot for the German national team - 8 appearances, 3 yellow cards and a goal so far. I'll expect them to get a loan spell somewhere in about a year.  Captain Foo has actually made 4 appearances for river plate's senior team! And played really well! If only they'd learn how to jump. Next time on Newcastle: 
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white man can't jump, checks out
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I'm going to ask a question that may embarass me... does this name assign honours to players based on some criteria, or was that added by the player for giggles? Harry Kane does not have a KBE in real life, of that I am quite confident.
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JustJeff88 posted:I'm going to ask a question that may embarass me... does this name assign honours to players based on some criteria, or was that added by the player for giggles? Harry Kane does not have a KBE in real life, of that I am quite confident. They won the cup, so he got one. e - in the game obv. England don't win cups. goatface fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Mar 19, 2022 |
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More! More!!! Septuple or bust. 
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