Football Manager 2012

[Cymbols]

Right. So I'm playing as Palermo against Stoke in the Europa League and they appear to be having an injury crisis. They have 5 subs (3 of which are keepers), no strikers at all and for some weird reason, Robert Huth is their starting keeper.

[Berober]

Got promoted to the Premier League!

I'll probably keep Kevin Phillips around one more year, he's deadly as a sub, and if I can lead him into becoming a coach at Blackpool, then all the better.

[Gazz]

Anyone want to take a wild swing at who won the 2026 World Cup?

[EddieG]

Portugal?

[If_You_Wanna_Be_The_Man]

Mexico often get stupidly good as time goes on, and i find my scouts finding more and more mexican players

[Jimmy]

It saying "Holders - Mexico" kind of gave it away. :/

[supergrass]

I don't think it was ever a genuine quiz.

[Jimmy]

Wait, so there's no prize for getting it right?

That's the worst kind of quiz.

[Lineker]

What transfer updates are people using?

[Berober]

So I got bored, and decided to remove all players from Wigan, and replace them with 21 James Mann's.

[stokeriño]

Pondering on possible diary subjects for the next season...

Newco Rangers would be too obvious, huh?

[Cymbols]

Portsmouth. You have 8 days to sign a squad with almost no budget. Would make a good challenge.

[Berober]

In my first loadup, 7 James Mann's are all fighting to be strikers and none of them are a goalkeeper.

I fear I may have to sell a Mann or two

[Guest mr. potato head]

Latest inexplicably-available-on-a-free player to sign for Toulouse: Daniel Sturridge

Set up the Chevalier goal too!

[Lineker]

That is really disturbing, Ben.

Stok, recreate AFC Pompey in the very bottom tier possible and build them back up to glory!

[Pesci]

I bought this game like 6 weeks ago and I've really struggled to get into a game, but I've got a Spurs game going on at the moment that will hopefully last longer than like 2 months. Just about figured out team talks too after my players seemingly looking at eachother as if to say "who's this prick?" whenever I said something during friendlies.

Playing a staggered 4-1-3-1-1 formation. When everybody's back I shouldn't be too bad in terms of depth but a couple of back-up full backs would be nice so I guess that's what I'll be looking for in January.

I've managed to keep it going a fair bit but haven't had much time to play over the last few weeks. In late November at the moment. Joint top but third on goal difference, five points in front of Chelsea in fifth, who unfortunately have a game in hand. The Kaboul and Dawson have been pretty decent at the back, but I'm still gonna look for a centre back with more pace. My ultimate aim will be to slot Caulker in Dawson's position but I'm not sure he'll be ready just yet, so might look for a decent 26/27 year old centre back to get me by for a couple of seasons. I'll need to bring in quite a few anyway, as Gallas is too old, King too unfit, Nelsen a combination of both and Khumalo is just a big question mark. Walker's been decent on the right and he's chipped in with a few assists but I'm unconvinced by BAE and I've bought Diego Renan for 9m to hopefully grow into the left back role in January. Also coming in will be young Argentinian winger Roberto Pereyra for 4.7m from Udinese to hopefully provide competition to Aaron Lennon, and I'm also in negotiations with Villarreal for fellow young Argie and centre-back Mateo Musacchio, because I need new CBs as I mentioned earlier, he's young and good, and I like the realism of bringing in multiples of foreigners whose nationality I don't already have at the club so they have somebody to talk to! Solid defensive stats, decent pace and passing too - the only downside is his aerial ability but hopefully I'll be able to make a profit on him in a couple of seasons anyway.

Stand-out performers so far have been Bale and strangely Defoe, who leads my scoring charts by some distance. Adebayor is okay I guess but inconsistent. The only major weakness in my staggered formation seems to be VDV's AMCL role, because he does fuck all every game. Kranjcar's managed to knock out quite a few assists from there but not VDV. I may start to experiment in games against weak opposition with Dos Santos there, because he's strong at the areas VDV seems to be lacking in.

[Mongrel]

So, um, Tony Mowbray has basically resigned as one of England's most successful managers after taking them to a World Cup final and winning Euro 2020.

After winning the Bundesliga with Stuttgart, I resigned to accept a job with Belgium. They are so old!

[Hobo]

Holy shit we are through to the Europa league quarter finals :-|

But Simon Cox is banned for them.

[Cymbols]

ergh, 5 players get injured in one match. Ended up down to 9 men and only two defenders against Manchester United was never gonna end well. Nani, Rooney and Neymar ripped me to pieces.

[supergrass]

I had this with Coventry in a game with Plymouth late in the season as the 2 clubs battled for promotion. I beat them in the game, but had 5 or 6 players injured, all with 3-4 week minimum absences, all key players for me, which eventually saw them get automatic promotion over us. We went up in the end through the play-offs, in the Championship next season against I set my tackling to hard but didn't quite get the Leeds-Derby level of vengeful violence I was hoping for.