FYI, if you play as B'pool you get an extra £12mil put into your transfer budget when November comes around.

Started as Rodos Diagoras in the Greek 2nd Division. It's so technical this game, love it!

Didn't sign him, but Matty Fryatt as an AF has got me 23 in 33 so far for Hull City, Chester, Hobbs, Cairney and Evans have all had top class seasons too, but not sure how much they're worth on the game as I'm not interested in selling on my save!

Any real world reason why? That seems a lot for a club like that?

Cos we have about £45mil sat in the bank, but the chairman is too much of a tight wad to spend any of it.

I'm still on FM2011, but in the 2018/2019 season with Bristol City. Been there since the start of the game, and been in the Premiership for the majority:

2010/2011:
Npower Championship: 5th (won playoffs)
FA Cup: 4th round (lost to Tottenham)
League Cup: 2nd round (lost to MK Dons)

2011/2012:
Premier League: 20th
FA Cup: 3rd round (lost to Norwich)
League Cup: 3rd round (lost to Ipswich)

2012/2013:
Npower Championship: 6th (won playoffs)
FA Cup: 4th round (lost to Tottenham)
League Cup: Quarter Final (lost to Manchester United)

2013/2014:
Premier League: 14th
FA Cup: 3rd round (lost to Chelsea)
League Cup: Quarter Final (lost to Manchester City)

2014/2015:
Premier League: 12th
FA Cup: 3rd round (lost to Manchester City)
League Cup: 3rd round (lost to Middlesbrough)

2015/2016:
Premier League: 8th
FA Cup: 6th round (lost to Manchester City)
League Cup: Winners (vs Liverpool)

2016/2017:
Premier League: 8th
FA Cup: Winners (vs Tottenham)
League Cup: Winners (vs Chelsea)
Europa League: Winners (vs Monaco)

2017/2018:
Premier League: 1st
FA Cup: Winners (vs Tottenham)
League Cup: 4th round (lost to Manchester United)
Europa League: Quarter finals (lost to Porto)

Very happy with how everything has gone, currently 34 games into the 2018/2019 season, I'm 1st in the league needing one more win to claim the league title. Won the League Cup against Nottingham Forest and went out of the FA Cup to Manchester United. I lost the charity shield to United as well. I am in the semi finals of the Champions league, set to play Atletico Madrid.

My team at the minute:

Formation (2-4-1-3):

GK: Kevin Bell (regen)

CB: Marco Rossi
CB: Chris Smalling

RWB: Serge Aurier/Christian Ribeiro
CDM: Lucas Leiva
CDM: Fernando Gago
LWB: Patrick Van Aanholt

CM: Tom Cairney

STR: Michael Burton (regen)
STC: Fabio Vianello (regen)
STL: Bram Huizinga (regen)

Subs:
Adam Lallana
Walter Gargano
Tranquilo Barnetta
Stephen Richardson (regen)
Jose Nogueira (regen)
Paul Pogba

First season done, finished 10th which I was pretty pleased about, but my board has just sold Jack Hobbs who would have become my captain this season for 3million, when I turned down 4million in January, and there's no money in the kitty to strengthen over summer either.

Played a season as Everton, and finished 3rd. Lost the Title on the last day by drawing with Norwich. Even so, was very pleased with the new boys (Drenthe, Stracqualursi and Vellios was fantastic) and have agreed a deal to bring Raul in for next season.

Liking the game - especially the new Team Talk system and Tactic Creator. Think the Interviews could have been edited though.

Ahh well - will be hooked for a few months anyway.

Just started on the full game with Wigan. Signed Federico Macheda on loan and some Israeli called Cohen (not the one at Bolton).

Beat Sunderland with a late goal 1 0 and then came from 1 down to beat Blackburn 4 2 after I gave them a rollocking.

Ended up walking the league and won the Champions League on penalties against Mille.


For next season I've signed Hulk on a free from Porto (now 32) and Ibrahim Affelay on a free too. Looking to win the league again and retain the CL. Also England manager so qualifying for the Euro's and hopefully win that (as unlikely as it is).

Does it ever happen where it is actually impossible to guide your team from X division to Champions League winners? Does the game have difficulty levels?

No difficulty levels, just every man and his dog seems to have a story about guiding Barnet to the 2016 CL final, beating Barcelona in extra time.

Finished 5th in the league but got Luton promoted to League 2 through the playoffs.

On Loan Alberti was player of the season with 21 assists, 13 goals and 9 MOM. I've now managed to sign him on a free.

Now re-building my squad for League 2 with youngsters released by Premiership clubs and loan signings.

No difficulty levels as such, but if you were to take over a team like Plymouth with no money it would be more difficult to gain promotions and win things due to the fact that you're relying on signing players on frees.

Yeah but the game will eventually guide you to the Premiership, even if you are a complete imbecile. I don't see the challenge anymore. Like andym said, everyone has a tale of guiding a Blue Square North team into the Champions League.

The problem is, the free transfers you can make are pretty unrealistic......You can pick up players who in the real world wouldn't dream of joining a lower grade side on a free.

A lot of present day promising youngsters are soon available on frees and you can build an impressive looking squad, even if you are just a League 1 side.

Started playing the demo as Everton. Pretty realistic. No money, no one will loan me a player.

Any recommendations for cheap signings?

And tactics? Do normal tactics work on this or do I have to go into loads of depth moving sliders and the like?

Samuel Armenteros. Bargain. Bought him for B'Pool in the championship for about £2.2mil, play him as an attacking target man and he scores a ton, got him developed to a 4* in about a year.

Banghura from Celtic as well, although you might have to wait a year, scores bagful for about £4mil.

Gamestation have a deal on where everytime england score tonight they lower fm12 by £2, lets hope england win 10-0

Loving FM12 so far. Most of the way through the first season and third with Everton.

I'm unashamedly playing total anti-football. Defensive or counter, deep defensive line, narrow, lots of closing down, hard tackling, ultra direct. I beat Arsenal 2-0 away last game and they had 81% possession.

GK - Howard
DR - Vrsaljko
DC - Jagielka
DC - Distin
DL - Baines
ML - Zenden
MC - Rodwell
MC - Fellaini
MR - Osman
AMC - Bilyetdinov
ST - Wilfried

Top scorers are Jagielka (icon_cool.gif, Baines (7) and Zenden (7).

I signed Dos Santos from Spurs but he doesn't fit in with the negative tactics I'm playing. So he's had a paddy and is refusing to train and has gone AWOL. I've told him it's a matter of principle now so he won't play for the club again or be sold, but rot in the reserves instead.

A few of my players have handed in transfer requests because I failed to offload any of the crap I have in my team.

Aaaagggghhhhh!!!!....Need help!!....



5 years into it, my game has decided to start crashing everytime I click on ANY player in order to view their profile....Anybody got any ideas how to fix this obviously annoying problem?......I can still play the game, but its going to make signing players impossible, if it carries on....

Go on the Sigames.com forums and see if they can help. Sounds like your data is corrupt however.

Got sacked at Wigan after a shocking run. Prior to Christmas I had 31 points. After Christmas I picked up 1 point (a draw at Arsenal) and won 1 game in the FA Cup. I was sacked with 8 games to go but they still went down on the final day after losing 14 games in 15.

Taken over at relegated Swansea and after losing my opening game 2-1 at Derby, i'm unbeaten in 9 and sat 3rd. Got to the third round of the Carling Cup where I lost 1-0 to Liverpool AET with Dirk Kuyt scoring a sreamer.

I really don't see how it's possible to get sacked on the current Football Manager. It's so easy. The most important things are the press conferences and team talks. Get those right and you've done half the job. Winning the league second season with Everton is easy, which is ridiculous.

They've also not taken out the paying in installments thing, which for me completely ruins the game. It means you can spend £50-60m even as teams like Everton. It eventually catches up with you and sends your bank balance into freefall. But that just means either the board will turn it into loans or sell the club, when really it should send the club bankrupt and ruin your reputation.