Football Manager 2014

[MDK]

Go home gazz, you're drunk

[Gazz]

No no, when not in possession, Anita drops back into a back three with the wing backs protecting the flanks. Tiote drops into the DM position and the front three stay forward as an outlet fed through Cabaye. HBA drifts around doing whatever the fuck he likes, Remy (who usually plays as a false 9) pulls the opposition defenders out of line and Zaha sweeps in behind them for HBA's through balls.

It's basically a 3-4-3 on attack and a 5-3-2 on defence.

[Nerf]

The Half Back is probably my favourite thing in the world right now.

[Nerf]

Where on earth is the option to have the board negotiate a transfer for you? I've never bothered with the feature, but I don't have the budget to meet this asking price.

[TCO]

There should be a transfer target section somewhere, where you can add players to it.

I've only ever found it useful when I couldn't negotiate an absolute tit of an agent down, not much of a help on transfer fees. This is all on 13 though!

[Liam]

Asking the board to negotiate usually comes up on the top right of the contract negotiation screen - this is usually when you don't have enough money to buy him.

[Liam]

I've put together a pretty competitive Fulham team in the two seasons I've managed them.

GK: Stekelenberg/Ruffier

DR: Adam Smith/ Dja DjeDje/Jebbour/Andre (only have so many because they are versatile - most play more than one position)

DC: Hangeland/Burn/Vergini

DL: Malone (doesn't often play - my DR's can often play DL)

DM: Defour/Mulumbu/Krychowiak

MC: Hughes/Chantome (and any of the DM's, as they play both positions)

AMR: Pizzi/Plumain

AML: Alvarez/Kacaniklic

S: Guidetti/Zivkovic/Dembele

Guidetti is a beast. Have won the FA Cup first season and the League Cup second season. Just tonked Real Sociedad 6-0 in the Europa League, which has spawned this post. 6 goals, 6 different goal scorers.

[Baddar]

Defour.

How much did you pick him up for?

[Gazz]

I'm letting Kinnear handle all the signings.

Imagine my horror when his agent offered us Rob Hulse.

[Liam]

Defour.

How much did you pick him up for?

Picked him up for free - although I'm fairly sure I still had to pay to get the 40% owned by the agent. A fairly nominal fee though.

[Liam]

Had Guidetti go down for 3 months, and then Zivkovic for three weeks.

Moussa Dembele then scores a hat-trick against Watford.

Striker crisis, what striker crisis?

[Nerf]

4-1-2-1-2 (or, if you'd prefer, 4-4-2 Diamond) is fucking useless this year

[Berober]

Got bored, so I decided to take all Premier League players, number them, and pick out a team of 24 from them all. I'll replace Palace, and see how well I do. Here's the team:

Julián Speroni
Anders Lindegaard
Michel Vorm
Joe Bennett
Ashley Cole
Aaron Hughes
Matija Nastasić
Dedryck Boyata
Fábio
Maya Yoshida
Ben Davies
Gary Medel
Michael Essien
Michael Carrick
Darren Fletcher
Steven N'Zonzi
El-Hadji Ba
Roland Lamah (on loan from Osasuna)
Kevin Nolan (captain)
Gabriel Agbonlahor
Fraizer Campbell
Luis Alberto
Luciano Becchio
Dani Osvaldo

Aside from Osvaldo, I may need a few more strikers, but I'm happy that I can get mid-table quite easily here. We'll see.

[Benji]

Anyone played any of the challenges yet? Do you get to pick your team in each one, or is it decided for you?

[stokeriño]

Haven't played any in FM14 yet, but they let you choose your team in FM13 and I would be surprised if they'd changed that.

[Cheeky Hughes]

Left Stoke after two years. My first year with them involved winning the Championship, and the second year led to a nice midtable finish in the Prem. Man City finished just above me in 8th which led to Pellegrini's sacking, and in the inevitable managerial merry-go-round I took over the reins at Arsenal. Got them at the top of the table after 12 games, things are looking good!

And it's really nice to see Stoke building on what I started. They've made a few decent signings and are currently 6th. I'm proud.

[Gazz]

Eat your heart out John O'Shea

[Lineker]

Eat your heart out John O'Shea

1) Using the internet to find good players, ARE WE GAZZ?

2) Internet Explorer? Ew.

[stokeriño]

1) Using the internet to find good players, ARE WE GAZZ?

EXPOSED~!

[Gazz]

No, I stole that screenshot off of the SI forums. Look at the manager name dipshit.