Football Manager 2023

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Finally caved and upgraded from FM20 to FM23, someone suggest a first save.

[JasonM]

3 minutes ago, Brandon Cutler Fan Account said:

Finally caved and upgraded from FM20 to FM23, someone suggest a first save.

Slough.

Although I am currently doing a save with LKS Lodz, and I am absolutely loving managing in Poland. It's less hectic than the big leagues where you have three matches per week for months on end.

[9 to 5]

7 minutes ago, Brandon Cutler Fan Account said:

Finally caved and upgraded from FM20 to FM23, someone suggest a first save.

Halifax.

@TEOL

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Halifax it is (one league less work)

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

FFS I forgot about the need to add graphics, everything is hideous.

[hugobomb]

Won the title in my 2nd full season with Viborg. Only had to make it past the Play-offs to make the Champion's League League Phase, where we beat APOEL 8-2. Got a decent set of fixtures with two or three winnable games, though I admit I wasn't expecting to start by beating Inter 4-1 at the San Siro!

[Captain Kirk]

On 19/08/2023 at 20:53, Brandon Cutler Fan Account said:

Finally caved and upgraded from FM20 to FM23, someone suggest a first save.

98/99 mod clearly. 

[Lineker]

Very solid shout.

[hugobomb]

Some iffy domestic form early on means we come back from the winter break 3 points off the back of Midtjylland but the main focus was the Champions League, I'd bought some good young Danish players to fill out the squad and cover for domestic games after European ones and the game time they've been getting it means we now have 5 players under 21 with 2 1/2 to 3* current ability and plenty more room to grow (including a defender I found for just over £1 million who has Model Citizen and didn't want a release clause so he'll see plenty of minutes). After the Inter game we drew our next two again Mainz and Galatasaray before losing to Man City, fortunately we followed that up with wins against Malmo and Club Brugge before losing to Barcelona and beating Ajax to finish in 14th and easily make the knock out round.

 

Our reward for not only making the knock out round but being seeded in it? Chelsea 😨. To the surprise of no-one, they beat us. However my main take away was the money involved. Last year we made the last 16 of the Europa League and in total made £8.5million from it. Making the knock out round of the Champion's League brought in £33.4million! And thanks to moving into 10th in UEFA at the start of this season the league winners will go straight into next years league phase so we can now concentrate on that.

[Benji]

Has anyone had a problem loading the game? First time I did it I had no problems, but since then no luck. I've treated verifying game files and uninstalling the entire thing, removed all workshop content, but it just loads the game and gets stuck on the loading screen even before the main menu.

[Twist]

On 24/08/2023 at 19:00, Benji said:

Has anyone had a problem loading the game? First time I did it I had no problems, but since then no luck. I've treated verifying game files and uninstalling the entire thing, removed all workshop content, but it just loads the game and gets stuck on the loading screen even before the main menu.

Do you use Steam?

If so Steam > Settings > Downloads > Clear Cache.

That tends to fix games not loading up all of a sudden.

Edited August 27, 2023 by Twist

[hugobomb]

At the end of the season (won the league and cup again) I moved on to Rangers, wanted to avoid England so Scotland seemed like a decent idea. 

 

Raided Viborg for my young Danish goalkeeper who comes in as the long term replacement for the current keeper and since the Danish lad is 3* current ability at 20 with 5* potential I could be tempted into selling the current keeper who is 30 and apparently worth £18-20million.

 

Managed to make the League phase through the qualifiers (since they finished 2nd last year I had to start in the 2nd round, Molde, Antwerp and Sporting were negotiated), 4 games into the league phase we are 2nd (home wins against Sparta, Benfica and Chelsea plus a draw away against Dortmund) but have played three home games so expecting to slip into the 8-24th range by the end with games away to Leverkusen, Rosenborg and Real Sociedad and Porto at home.

 

Domestically we are top but Celtic are only three points back. We also have Celtic upcoming in the Premier Sports Cup semis, the amount of games we are playing is really stretching my squad.

 

Not helping is my decision to revamp the squad mid season. Got some big bids for a couple of fringe/aging players from Saudi clubs and sold them to fund the purchases of some wonderkids (2 from Argentina since their players are cheaper than Brazil, plus one from Man Utd and a winger from Partizan) along with a 26yo from Argentina who will come in as our best midfielder (and had better be since I'm paying him £76k a week), all arriving on the 1st Jan. The sales plus a few injuries left me with a bench consisting of FOUR players for one of my Champions League games. Fortunately there is an International break after the following domestic game, so 2/3 of the injuries should be back for the next European game.

 

This should be the only season I have this problem since I've moved on most of the aging players and have four of the highest earners contracts (all 30+ and only 2 1/2* to 3* at best so not convinced about offering contracts to them) ending at the end of the season so can free up almost £160k a week from the wage budget

[hugobomb]

Heart leading head is always a mistake. As I was finishing the season with Rangers (Won the league, League Cup, knocked out of the Champion's League in the Knock Out Play-Off by Spurs), Birmingham got themselves relegated for the second time in four years to drop into League Two. So, charging to the rescue, I resigned from Rangers the day after winning the title in order to get the job. After getting my feet under table in bringing in some of my old Rangers staff and releasing everyone whose contracts were expiring (no-one who was in the starting line up), and moved some more youngsters into the first team squad to save money, Blues facilities are still in good shape so can rely on decent youngsters.

 

However, a couple of weeks into pre-season I noticed the pre-arranged transfers and the season ticket money wasn't making as big of a difference to the club balance that it should have done and looked into the club debts. Turns out six years ago the club took out a £97 million loan which still has four years of repayments before it's cleared. Repayments that are costing the club £825,000 A MONTH. So I have to get promoted out of League Two while trying to find almost £10 million a year to keep the club solvent.

 

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Sounds like a decent challenge, good luck!

[Cymbols]

Last training session before the Champions League final and both my striker who scored 63 in 47 games, AND my keeper who conceded 18 in a 34 game season pick up injuries. So much pain. 
 

EDIT - Was 3-2 down in ET, scored in the 116 and 119 minutes to beat Real Madrid as Ajax 4-3. Replacement striker was a 20-yr-old I nabbed from Milan five years ago, and he scored two. 
 

Back to back Champions League wins with Ajax in 2040 and 2041, maybe I’ve completed this save. Then again my team could still do with a better LB before it is complete…

[hugobomb]

We pissed the league as expected. Finished 1st with a record setting 113 points. Financially we were in rough shape come November/December, £4.3million in the red and rumours of administration but the combination of the board selling our youth facilities for about £7million (we're renting them so still have access to them thank christ, my heart almost stopped when I saw the inbox item) and me setting up a sale on our best young player (18 year old winger, already Championship quality by the time new year was coming) to Fulham, £7.5million up front, another couple of million depending on appearances, a loan back until the end of the season, a friendly for next season and most importantly 25% of their profit on him. My thinking is that depending on how the money goes we can cash in that sell on early to keep us ticking over and since he's now worth £25-35million as a Fulham player means we should get a good deal for that sell on. There's another player who had a sell attached to him when he was sold before I arrived, 40% of next sale and now worth £20-25million so hopefully those two will keep us going.

 

Youth intake was nothing special but thanks to all the minutes the more talented ones got this season I have more than a few players ready to make the step up to League One. With the board expecting a top half finish I need to bring in few player but only 3-4 first teamers since most of the starting eleven are of League One quality. The extra money we should get in League One, season tickets, TV money and increased attendance should mean that so long I don't go crazy with the wage budget we should cover £2-3million of our loan payments right there. 

[Hobo]

I'm fiddling around with the FM16 editor just to see if I can work out how to make relegation happen between the League of Ireland First Division and the third tier.

I can get promotion/relegation between the first division and the regional divisions below it but I guess I have to figure out how to set it so that the game understands where to relegate a team to as on my first test Shelbourne, UCD and Waterford got relegated. Also while IRL there is a Leinster, Munster and an Ulster Senior Division - there is no Connacht one. So this database update makes the local leagues of various west of Ireland counties part of the de facto third tier.

All these teams are in the Leinster region and therefore should go into the Leinster Senior Division. However, the game just decided to put them all into either the Sligo Super League or the Roscommon District Premier Division which are both the complete other side of the country. I had not set them to have promotion so those three teams were now forever locked into those leagues.

Now I'm just googling around trying to see if I can find out how to set up a region-based promotion/relegation system. It may never work out because the editor is just complicated.

[Hobo]

On 03/09/2023 at 19:57, Hobo said:

I'm fiddling around with the FM16 editor just to see if I can work out how to make relegation happen between the League of Ireland First Division and the third tier.

I can get promotion/relegation between the first division and the regional divisions below it but I guess I have to figure out how to set it so that the game understands where to relegate a team to as on my first test Shelbourne, UCD and Waterford got relegated. Also while IRL there is a Leinster, Munster and an Ulster Senior Division - there is no Connacht one. So this database update makes the local leagues of various west of Ireland counties part of the de facto third tier.

All these teams are in the Leinster region and therefore should go into the Leinster Senior Division. However, the game just decided to put them all into either the Sligo Super League or the Roscommon District Premier Division which are both the complete other side of the country. I had not set them to have promotion so those three teams were now forever locked into those leagues.

Now I'm just googling around trying to see if I can find out how to set up a region-based promotion/relegation system. It may never work out because the editor is just complicated.

Yeah, this is complicated and I can't figure it out. Any of the mods that add promotion and relegation to the LOI.

I'm getting tempted to upgrade to a newer FM game and... just do the same game over in a new game 

I haven't touched an FM game since maybe 2017 though.

[Lineker]

3 minutes ago, Hobo said:

Yeah, this is complicated and I can't figure it out. Any of the mods that add promotion and relegation to the LOI.

I'm getting tempted to upgrade to a newer FM game and... just do the same game over in a new game 

I haven't touched an FM game since maybe 2017 though.

I presume that this is true? If so give it a go on this year's game. 

[Baddar]

Checked this out and it'll be an Epic Store key. Not sure how easy it is to add graphics to that version.