So, now folk have had time to digest it...

I've got FM11 updated to the end of the transfer window in August 2011. Is it worth moving to FM12 just to experience the new features etc, or am I better off keeping my money in my pocket and sticking with FM11?

i won the league with liverpool by 3 points results include getting beat by city 4-1 away and lost 4-0 away to spurs i tend to loan martin kelly jay spearing young jack flanagan out who are good barca seem to wanna buy jack robinson for some reason but wont sell tempted to get rid of carroll as he isnt scoring but gonna stick with him for now incase suarez gets injured and also won the olympics u23 games which was good

Get fm 2012. Move with the times Gilder.

We can play online. Can you still do that?
I will be Boca, you can be River Plate. We will send each other threats throughout the whole game, and make it as 'real as possible'. I will also throw anything I can get my hands on, and the riot police will be outside my house viewing the computer at all times just making sure the game passes off peacefully.

Anybody still playing?

Occasionally......I'm in my eighth season with Chesterfield, third season in the Premier League, semis of the FA Cup, semis of the Europa League, about to play Inter!!

Biggest problem is getting the real top players to join me.....Most won't even discuss a contract, never mind turn it down!!.....Any advice?

FM2010 and FM2011 were far easier than FM2012. In 2011, I managed to win the Premier League, League Cup, Carling Cup and Champions League in 2019/20, and I had the best squad in the world by far. Yet in 2012 I have really struggled to get into a game. I've been sacked a couple of times (my defenders can't seem to defend, which means that I ship far too many goals) and atm I am currently playing as Shorpe in League One. The chances of being sacked are once again pretty high due to the lack of available goalkeeper or strikers. I have a good midfield, and a solid enough defence, but my keeper is awful and my strikers can't score. After being so addicted to FM10 and FM11, I am very disappointed with 12.

Have you got that important Champions league spot yet? IMO, It's like the holy grail of getting top players to join you. Failing that, get some really good scouts and start developing your own. Get some newgens as soon as there countries intake is, should get a few potential wonderkids that also have the potential to become world class players. Hang in there.

On and off.

I won the Championship with Swansea with over 100 points and over 100 goals, and am currently 4th in the PL having won all but 1 of my opening 6 games which was a 3-2 loss away at Champions Man City having led twice.

Play the iPhone version a lot. In 2023 with Villa at the minute. Started with Liverpool and made a greeat eam,., but went through a rough patch and got sacked.
Won the Europa League in my first year with Villa and now currently top in the prem after 4 games. Winning 3 and drawing 1.

How big is the database on the iphone#?

Currently Huddersfield, 6th in Championship after 1st season promotion.

Playing a lot more now that I've got my new computer, it's definitely more addictive when the game is running faster.

In 2019 with Everton, just retained the Premier League so 2 in a row. I've got through to the Champions League Final (due to play At. Madrid) and FA Cup Final (due to play Man Utd) got to get revenge against United for knocking us out of the League Cup in the Semi Final.

Still got a lot of debt but while the going is good that is being reduced. Due to that debt I've needed to rely on signing promising youngsters and developing them, which has worked well. Of course I've had some that haven't lived up to their potential.

Unfortunately lost in the CL Final and FA Cup, oh well always next season and I'm sure the team will be better for the experience. Also turned down Chelsea who wanted me.

Stadium currently being expanded to 50,000.

Big enough, have pretty much all the leagues that the PC version does, it's just not got all the players from the foreign leagues.
Has all the Premier League players, all Championship and Leagues 1+2 and Conference leagues too.

Cool, shame you lost. Ive been reading a blog recently called footballmanager story and there is a guy on there that talks about something called a youth to gold system, it basically involves signing promising youngsters under the age of 21 preferably and grooming them into wonderkids and potential world class players. These should be ready to step up as 1st choice players are being sold, right in the middle of their prime, to guarentee maximum value from them. It's worked for him, he's got 120mil in the bank and he's just won the Champions League final with Scarbrough Town. Good reading, and I'm hoping to implement something similar with Huddersfield Town shortly. Need to get to Premier League and consolidate first though.

Currently in the 2013/2014 season with Basingstoke Town and have got them into League Two. Helps that Pablo Counago is willing to sign in Conference South and then bang in 25 goals a season.

Just lost out on b2b promotions, lost to Leeds on final day and Boro overtook me by 1 point. Beat them previous week too.

Love playing with the latest patches. Blackpool was easymode anyway, as they give you 15mil just after September so you can splash the cash on loans + Jan window, but the updates for the players means you can sign no-one and still go up easily.

Wilfried Zaha is a beast as well.

Gone a bit old school whilst i decide whether or not to buy FM12, I am playing FM 2009.

Thing is, i get impatient easily, so i create a new user as manager of Man City, buy all of my teams transfer listed players that dont get bids for lots of money, and then its easy! I cant help it!

Going to buy FM12 and start from the bottom and not cheat though

Lol. Thats funny. I hated FM09

Yeah i do at the moment, still really addictive though. Its just that I know all the decent players at the start:

Lewandowski, Mascio, Marquinos, Sakho etc etc

Do need a challenge, found the new one for £12.99 online so think i might just get it!

I think everyone's done it at some stage.

Football Manager is one of those games where most people that play it only enjoy when they are winning. I know I can win 28 games on the spin and I'll love the game. But when I fail to win, drawing at home to a poor side, I get really frustrated with it and end up exiting mid match to avoid a defeat.

The current FM is too easy however, success is inevitable rather than achievement based. I started my latest game as West Ham, got promoted in the second season after a play off defeat the first year, but left to join Everton instead of taking the Hammers up. I then finished 16th in my first season as the squad was simply awful. But I won the double in my second season, with a team that isn't that brilliant:

GK Courtois
DR Romario
DL Fabio
DC Abdennour
DC Mbia
ML Ljalic
MR Veiss
MC Rodwell
MC Poli
AMC Wilshere
FC Rossi

I signed Courtois, Romario, Fabio, Abdennour, Mbia, Ljalic, Viess, Poli, Wilshere, Rossi and a few more squad players in the one pre season all on £0 up front and big money over 48 months. That kind of payment structure might well happen in real life, but it wouldn't be allowed to the extent above. I'm Everton, £16m overdrawn and with £230m being paid off on transfers over 4 years. Completely unrealistic. What happened on the game is the club lost £8m a month and the balance went down until it triggered a purchase of the club. That then wiped out the debt and gave me another £230m to spend

This always happens on the game.

There should be some form of financial responsibility put into the game, based on the personality of the Chairman or owners. So some wouldn't permit such silly spending, whilst others would do a Leeds but based on you achieving something. I was allowed to spend that money based on promising mid table and there were no repercussions of the club going £200m in debt by the end of that year at all. Because I'd stayed within the salary budget the club were delighted with my financial prudence

I wonder how they will build the financial fair play system into future versions

To be honest, that sums up most video games (and most things in general really)




Easily the best signing a lower league manager can make on the game, as well as Samba Kanoute.

Took the plunge and bought FM12 for £12! Bargain!

Gets delivered tomorrow so got 24hours to decide on which skins to download, facepacks, kit packs etc.

Will probably start with Man Utd for a season just to find my feet on the game again, and then move on to lower league side - Huddersfield or Crawley I think

Poached from Fleetwood by Palace, struggling near the foot of League One. £25m transfer kitty to spend in Jan though