How Are You Doing On CM?

[flibbertyjibber]

Yeah it is much slower on match day this time. Like you I never bother with the highlights as it takes too much time and the pre match and after match thing takes more time than going through a week of the game.

 

[Cabinet96]

Imagine not watching the highlights on comprehensive. It's not Director of Football 2017.

 

[cpr]

Annoyingly this is the first version where I have started to watch bits of the game, however its not worth making every match last 30 mins to do so (its really got that bad, though I've a feeling its more of a windows 10 update/Toshiba compatibility issue as one or two other things have gone a little off recently, and I've only noticed this happen in the last week or so - it was fine at first)

 

[Furball]

Finally got a new laptop.

Quite enjoying it, although 3 at the back doesn't work properly in the match engine which is annoying.

 

[andruid]

Does this have an app?

 

[Cabinet96]

Yeah there's pretty much always a tablet/mobile version. Think the mobile version came out recently actually.

 

[Furball]

I don't understand Arsene Wenger in game.

• Rebuffs my enquiry about Gedion Zelalem, telling me he's not for sale at any price.
• Allows him to come on loan to me, while paying his wages in full.
• Continues to rebuff transfer advances.
• Allows contract to run down so I have now snapped him up on a Bosman.

Cheers Arsene!

 

[sledger]

Finally got a new laptop.

Quite enjoying it, although 3 at the back doesn't work properly in the match engine which is annoying.

Yeah, I tried experimenting a bit more with this in my save but had to go back to 4 at the back.

Anyway, won the Prem and CL two years in a row as Arsenal, and now looking to do it a third time. Will probably resign and take a new job when an appealing opportunity comes up, but at the moment I am quite enjoying overseeing the development of all the regens that I have coming through, and curious to see how they go.

Edit: Thomas Lemar is such a cheat player on this game.

 

[sledger]

Hmmm, ok, my save seems to have screwed up.

I'm down to play in the Club World Championship semi-final on Christmas day, and then have to play Liverpool away on Boxing day, having not played a Premiership game since the end of Nov. Hmmm.

 

[Furball]

Yeah, I tried experimenting a bit more with this in my save but had to go back to 4 at the back.

Anyway, won the Prem and CL two years in a row as Arsenal, and now looking to do it a third time. Will probably resign and take a new job when an appealing opportunity comes up, but at the moment I am quite enjoying overseeing the development of all the regens that I have coming through, and curious to see how they go.

Edit: Thomas Lemar is such a cheat player on this game.

I've got a decent 3-4-3 on the go, problem is the wide players don't defend properly so any decent team who plays with 2 wingers absolutely kills me down the flanks.

Did manage to beat Arsenal 1-0 at home to qualify 2nd in my Europa Group though.

 

[cpr]

Hmmm, ok, my save seems to have screwed up.

I'm down to play in the Club World Championship semi-final on Christmas day, and then have to play Liverpool away on Boxing day, having not played a Premiership game since the end of Nov. Hmmm.

Mine goes to pot in January, where i don't end up playing the FAC 3rd round until after most 4th round games, and that just carries on for the rest of the comp. Hoping this season where I'm not in the CWC is different (damn you PSG denying me a hattrick of CL wins)

 

[sledger]

In danger of being sacked due to being 10th in the league, but with a whopping 8 games in hand on almost every other team due to the bugged out fixture scheduling... Bloody game.

 

[sledger]

Now Wendel is demanding a new contract but when I go to offer one his agent refuses to talk to me.

 

[Firebreaker]

I enjoy it for first few months but once I sign all the young bright players I stop playing it

 

[sledger]

Finished 8th in the league after some disastrous away form.

Won League Cup, FA Cup, World Club Championship and was runner up in Champions League.

Seem to have lost the magic touch here, so might be time to move on.

In other news, Felix Passlack is demanding a raise to £350k a week! Madness.

 

[King Pietersen]

Just bought FM18 in preparation for a flight to Mexico next week. Started a game as Everton this morning and despite a good pre-season it's not going well early on. Scraped by Red Star Belgrade in the Europa League 3rd Round of Qualifying 2-1 on aggregate. Then first game of the season happens to be at Anfield - where we get comfortably trounced 6-1. A combination of the wing-backs and Salah making us look like idiots. Now off to Sweden to play Norrkoping in the Europa League Playoffs with a slightly adapted tactic. If that doesn't work I fear it's going to be a long season. Spent a little bit of money bringing in the following:

Santiago Arias - £7.25m
Dominik Livakovic - £3.1m
Leander Dendoncker - £16m
Alexis Filips - £1.1m

Arias was bought in to cover Coleman who is injured for the first 8 months of the season and should offer a solid rotation option when the main man is fit again. Livakovic replaces Robles and Stekelenburg as back-up keeper - both have been sold. Robles for £8m to Benfica and Stek for £1m to Zenit. Dendoncker looks a very good young prospect and will offer a good rotation option for Gueye in DM, and then Filips is a paceyish young winger from Lille who looks a solid prospect for the future.

With those signings made the current XI looks like:

--------------------------Pickford--------------------------------
----Arias-------Jagielka------------Keane-------Baines-----
---------------------------Gana-----------------------------------
----------------Klaassen-------Rooney---------------------------
----Walcott-------------------------------------------DCL----------
---------------------------Tosun-------------------------------------

Fingers crossed the squad will start to gel soon and we'll start getting some decent results. If the Liverpool result is anything to go by though, the league is going to prove very tough going.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

This random to say the least and must be linked to the data thingy on facebook etc...

Had a game going with Shrewsbury Town and a few of the players I signed in that game have appeared on my phone in Stories You May Be Interested In in the last few days as they may be getting transfers or signing new contracts at their current clubs.

 

[Furball]

Can anyone who's run a reasonably decent career (3+ years) tell me whether Liverpool tend to hang on to Harry Wilson, and if not what he tends to get sold for?

I've got him on loan, when I tried to extend his loan for a 2nd year and put in an option to buy Liverpool quoted me £55m. So I currently don't have an option but I fancy keeping him around.

I'm hoping as he'll be 23 when his loan ends he'll be deemed surplus to requirements and I'll be able to swoop in and sign him.

I don't fancy my chances of extending the loan further as Klopp seems to be under the impression that I'm playing him in a different position to what was agreed.

 

[cpr]

He did 3 years out on loan in my game, Norwich, Wigan then Reading, before West Ham paid £3.6m for him. Spent most of Season 4 as a fringe player (16 league games,mainly from the bench), but at Dec in s5 he's starting without a huge amount of impact.

His stats look pretty good for an inside forward, though his lack of workrate would put me off. Still only has 2 caps for Wales which surprises me.

 

[King Pietersen]

3 striker formations are ridiculously OP on this years FM. Did a bit of testing the last week or so running a save as PSG using 2 CF's and an AF and this was the result at the end of season 1: