Football Manager 2017

[Benji]

Career game season three with Kidderminster Harriers... did not start off well. We have lost 3 out of 4 matches, two due to a lack of finishing where we should have walked away with draws at the very least, one was a thrashing we deserved to lose (though it was to Boston Utd, who are top of the league after four games), and one was a well deserved win over a team predicted to be fourth this year. Rocky start for sure.

I managed to find that midfielder/replacement captain, but I feel like I'm going to need to loan in some more clinical strikers after last night. On the positive side, a lot of the reason we lost is that my ideal starting XI had six absent players across those four games due to injuries. Three of the injuries across all four games (one of them being my new top quality keeper too), so there's definitely more positive results to come.

So season goals for 2018/19 are 2 out of 4 achieved:

1. Get a new superstar centre midfielder
2. Get a fitness coach that's up to scratch not yet achieved
3. Find a new captain (if he can be said superstar centre mid, all the better)
4A. Get minimum of 50 points to beat relegation 3 points out a possible 12 (126 available in remaining games)
4B. Make a top half challenge, maybe even play offs based off of last season's cup run looking less likely after four games

[Arjen Robben]

Have gotten bored of my save, so have decided my next venture will be to Red Bull-ify some Vanarama side via the editor and watch the drama unfold.

Currently I am thinking Red Bull Darlington, or York City Red Bulls. Maybe I'll just create a team. RED BULL LONDON. Probably won't do that, effort.

[Benji]

Go unemployed and join the first team that offers you a job. Far more fun.

[Arjen Robben]

That's what I always do anyway, that last game I waited and then started at Sao Paulo when they sacked... whoever it was (Ricardo Gomes?), forgetting that the Brazilian football system is fucking sludge. 

[TCO]

We need to do another run Ernesto running wild in Peruvian football again or any random location. That was cracking fun back when!

[Gazz]

We did. He went to Norway and no one cared.

[Benji]

I always wondered how many people save scummed on that.

[MDK]

Started an unemployed game and got stuck with Cardiff Met Uni. An amateur team. Bloody hell. I've just stuck my DoF with all of the responsibilities just to see what will happen.

[stokeriño]

Having played half a season as Chelsea just to get back into the swing of things, I started up a new Unemployed game (English leagues only) and have been handed the reigns of Tranmere Rovers in early November 2016. They're 18th in the Vanarama National League and they want a top-half finish.

Since they've just had two successive relegations, they seems like a solid opportunity to rebuild. Unlike most of my past career games, I'm not going to change clubs unless I get sacked...so that could be fun. Or it could be an endless purgatory of League 1 mid-table finishes. One of those.  

[stokeriño]

FFS...it still pisses me off that you can join a club mid-season and they're all like "We don't know any tactics at all! Up until now, our match preparation has involved spelling out YOLO with training cones every day".

[Gorka]

17 minutes ago, stokeriño said:

Having played half a season as Chelsea just to get back into the swing of things, I started up a new Unemployed game (English leagues only) and have been handed the reigns of Tranmere Rovers in early November 2016. They're 18th in the Vanarama National League and they want a top-half finish.

Since they've just had two successive relegations, they seems like a solid opportunity to rebuild. Unlike most of my past career games, I'm not going to change clubs unless I get sacked...so that could be fun. Or it could be an endless purgatory of League 1 mid-table finishes. One of those.  

Or you'll win the FA Cup with them and then jump ship to Chelsea 

[stokeriño]

Just now, Gorka said:

Or you'll win the FA Cup with them and then jump ship to Chelsea 

Only if they sack me for winning the FA Cup. :/

[Kyle]

Tranmere? Good luck @stokeriño, you're going to need it.  

[Gazz]

2 hours ago, stokeriño said:

FFS...it still pisses me off that you can join a club mid-season and they're all like "We don't know any tactics at all! Up until now, our match preparation has involved spelling out YOLO with training cones every day".

I see you've done the FA Level One course.

[MDK]

Being the only amateur team in the league is a bit of a pain. How do you become semi pro? You used to be able to ask the board but I guess they decide now.

[Arjen Robben]

Does anyone else find that on this version Everton seem to struggle right from the off every time? They're always getting relegated in the first season on mine and just becoming a yo-yo club.

I've also started a new game, holidayed to the new year and taken over a team newly promoted to the Brazilian third division. Will I ever learn that Brazilian football is not the place to be? In any case, I am managing Nautico FC, or Nautico (RR), whichever they prefer, and they are garbage.

[DavidMarrio]

15 minutes ago, Arjen Robben said:

Does anyone else find that on this version Everton seem to struggle right from the off every time? They're always getting relegated in the first season on mine and just becoming a yo-yo club.

I quite enjoyed seeing Everton get relegated in my first season,... 

[Whisper]

Just picked this up because I have no will power.

Any decent badge/kits/faces packs out yet?

[Meacon Keaton]

I'm still on FM2015, but I just fired up a new game and got hired by an Icelandic First Division team. Not sure how to pronounce the club name or the majority of the players names. Should be interesting.

[Arjen Robben]

How do you get the option that comes up asking if you're sure you want to proceed to the match to come back? I accidentally turned it off, and it's not ideal when you find yourself starting games with a winger in goal really.