It was pretty hard to form a team with Juventude, since there were so many offers from everywhere, including Arab countries. I managed to sell lots of deadwood and make some cash for transfers. Most players chose to join another club instead, so this is the best eleven that I will use during this season, mostly from players that were already in the team (order: gk-dr-dcr-dcl-dl-dm-ml-mc-mr-amcr-amcl). Spoiler
I will use the regional league to train those players in their new positions, before the national league starts. Players are nowhere as good as those from Palmeiras or Flamengo. I would say they are the weakest in the entire league, so this will be interesting.
As a curiosity, the board set a goal for me to win some youth championship, but I definitely won't be training youth team. I would enjoy playing with youth if it was a team based on developing younger players, but this is not the case.
Gpassosbh said: Yes.. That´s the problem in Brazil also.. We don´t have a lot of money to spend. Take a look at some south american players, as they are cheaper than Brazilians.
Just started a new game with Juventus. Players are very slow and old, so my first step will be selling dead wood and trying to increase the overall speed. Unfortunately, I have a budget of 7k euros, so I need to be very creative, probably relying a lot on free players. I'll check with scouts who is interested in coming and invite 30 trialists at a time to "scout", focusing specially in Acceleration, Pace and Agility. I'll post the attributes of best 11 when I finish these initial transfers.
Gpassosbh said: There´s a very good Brazilian update. I´ll get for you and send to you in private. I´ll buy, but they start to delivery only 3PM in Brazil.. Something in about 2 hours from now. Expand
I don't mind, but no need to worry with that. There can't be much difference between one year and another. Are those teams much different from the worst from previous year?
Sorry, tried it here and it only updates transfers. Brazilian league is still like 2020. Anyway, gonna just pick ATG, predicted to finish 20th. It seems to have the worst players in the league.
Gpassosbh said: Can I suggest you to take a team n Brazil? We have a lot of games during the season, injuries, and a lot of championships... It could be nice to test with a middle to worst team in Brazil and test. Expand
Pick a team for me, from the top league (not fun to play with the likes of Palmeiras or Santos, I suppose).
Finally champions, even though predicted 20th and with weakest players in the league! I feel like many results were due to opponents getting complacent since we were never favorites. For most part, I just needed to relieve pressure from players and they delivered good results. In the last matches, I thought I could lose it since my team couldn't win, but I ended up being champion without playing because opponents didn't win their matches either.
Funny enough, I also won FA Cup, even though I played with team B until semi-finals. For reference, team B was my team A from last season, with players around 100 CA (based on players sold). Maybe I got lucky to face weaker teams until semi-finals, then I managed to win with last matches with team A.
Now, time to take a short break and test some new tactics before going for UCL. I would also like to win the league with worst team in the first season, playing something like Elche or Fulham.
Egraam said: Paulo Sousa style I've been trying to make a more faithful recreation as well, with high possesion rate, but shorter passing and lower tempo just don't really work in this year's FM. Expand
I tried 343 before, but it was not good at all. Good job making it work.
My second season in Premier League ended up in 8th, one position short of Euro Cup. Can't be helped. For the third season, I managed to hire nine or ten new players, making a first team with enough quality to challenge for the title. My prediction is still last place, but with 28 matches played, my team is currently 1st. By the way, I checked the hidden stats of players from last season that got sold. Their CA was around 80-90, so it's kinda of a miracle that I finished 8th.
Results this season have been pretty good. Most of the matches I start with players very nervous, then I use team talk to tell them to play without pressure, then individual talk that I have faith on them for the ones that didn't get motivated. This seems to work like a charm when playing as underdog. During matches, I use shouts to encourage when not winning and no pressure or praise when winning (usually alternating). Half time pep talk is usually angry if winning by less than two goals, and praise or don't get complacent when winning by two or more, depending on how hard is the match.
Below are my first team players, in the same order as when you sort for position in team selection (GK, DR, DC, DC, DL, DM, MR, MC, ML, SS, SS). They seem to be slightly worse than players from Fulham or Newcastle, but at least they started to look like players from Premier League. As a reminder, most good players don't want to join my team because of low stature. Spoiler
Zippo said: If you're talking about the 'Ineffectual' rating then sure, we'll test it too. Expand
Is it possible to test another thing? I always wanted to know if it's better to have DCL with right or left foot, as well as DCR. Same for AMCL and AMCR. I mean, everyone only cares about feet from wingers, but what is better for those central positions with two players?
Zippo said: That's a good idea. We're working on it. Expand
It would be nice to have "untrained", since we already have accomplished. I believe that's what people would like to know the most, what is the impact of directly lining up a ST as AMC.
Mark said: I am loving all this discussion. I, like many, find all these discussions very helpful. My question relates to positions. I keep finding cheap Strikers with very good Pace, Acc, Agility and Dribling but no AMC ability. I am trying to retrain them as AMC SS, but do you think they are worthwhile playing straight away as AMC SS? Expand
I never wait for them to get trained before starting using them. I just set training to new position and throw them into matches if they are good enough.
P.S.: By the way, I almost threw my season in the toilet now. I'm currently leading Premier League with 16 matches played, but I had to play three easy matches in a single week. Before that, I went to my players for a team meeting, since we are overachieving and they could get complacent. However, I had the stupid idea of challenging them for the title. When you are predicted last, they don't take it very well and get insulted, so everyone's morale went to red. I never wasted so much time praising everything I could, like training, form, last match, conduct... but at least I managed to bring them to neutral morale before the matches. Got two victories and one tie.
By the way, look what happened to my run with Leamington. I was in 5th, dreaming about a spot in the Euro Cup. However, my team started crumbling and won only one in the last ten matches. Does that mean the tactic stopped working? Absolutely not. My team is really weak, since no good player wants to join due to low reputation. It was predicted to be relegated. We are already overachieving by a lot, meaning either they started getting complacent for achieving their objective, or they cracked under pressure because of fighting for a spot in Euro Cup. In the end, I was incompetent in holding their spirits high and they don't have the right mentality for fighting there. Yet, I'm 8th place, better than last year when I finished 14th. I have high hopes for next year since my team is only getting stronger as time passes.
Very nice post! I would just add a couple more of factors, like player mentalities (consistency, important matches and other stuff that affects matches directly), pressure for the title race, complacency for winning streaks, happiness in general (playing time, training like team bonding and match practice, pep talks, media meetings), bad individual form (which can last a lot for some players, no clue what affects it), among others. In short, managing the mental state of players is usually as important as managing their physical state or the team tactics.
Spoiler
I will use the regional league to train those players in their new positions, before the national league starts. Players are nowhere as good as those from Palmeiras or Flamengo. I would say they are the weakest in the entire league, so this will be interesting.
As a curiosity, the board set a goal for me to win some youth championship, but I definitely won't be training youth team. I would enjoy playing with youth if it was a team based on developing younger players, but this is not the case.
Yes.
Take a look at some south american players, as they are cheaper than Brazilians.
Will you use your ZAZ blue 3.0?
Yes, I will use Blue 3.0 and Light Blue 3.0.
Just started a new game with Juventus. Players are very slow and old, so my first step will be selling dead wood and trying to increase the overall speed. Unfortunately, I have a budget of 7k euros, so I need to be very creative, probably relying a lot on free players. I'll check with scouts who is interested in coming and invite 30 trialists at a time to "scout", focusing specially in Acceleration, Pace and Agility. I'll post the attributes of best 11 when I finish these initial transfers.
I don't mind, but no need to worry with that. There can't be much difference between one year and another. Are those teams much different from the worst from previous year?
Sorry, tried it here and it only updates transfers. Brazilian league is still like 2020. Anyway, gonna just pick ATG, predicted to finish 20th. It seems to have the worst players in the league.
Need an update pack for that, since they are still in the second division here. Can anyone recommend a good league and transfers data update?
Pick a team for me, from the top league (not fun to play with the likes of Palmeiras or Santos, I suppose).
Thank you for testing! Nice video there.
Thank you! It really feels good to take the weakest team from a country and bring it to the top. It took a while, but it was totally worth it.
Funny enough, I also won FA Cup, even though I played with team B until semi-finals. For reference, team B was my team A from last season, with players around 100 CA (based on players sold). Maybe I got lucky to face weaker teams until semi-finals, then I managed to win with last matches with team A.
Now, time to take a short break and test some new tactics before going for UCL. I would also like to win the league with worst team in the first season, playing something like Elche or Fulham.
I tried 343 before, but it was not good at all. Good job making it work.
Results this season have been pretty good. Most of the matches I start with players very nervous, then I use team talk to tell them to play without pressure, then individual talk that I have faith on them for the ones that didn't get motivated. This seems to work like a charm when playing as underdog. During matches, I use shouts to encourage when not winning and no pressure or praise when winning (usually alternating). Half time pep talk is usually angry if winning by less than two goals, and praise or don't get complacent when winning by two or more, depending on how hard is the match.
Below are my first team players, in the same order as when you sort for position in team selection (GK, DR, DC, DC, DL, DM, MR, MC, ML, SS, SS). They seem to be slightly worse than players from Fulham or Newcastle, but at least they started to look like players from Premier League. As a reminder, most good players don't want to join my team because of low stature.
Spoiler
Is it possible to test another thing? I always wanted to know if it's better to have DCL with right or left foot, as well as DCR. Same for AMCL and AMCR. I mean, everyone only cares about feet from wingers, but what is better for those central positions with two players?
It would be nice to have "untrained", since we already have accomplished. I believe that's what people would like to know the most, what is the impact of directly lining up a ST as AMC.
I never wait for them to get trained before starting using them. I just set training to new position and throw them into matches if they are good enough.
P.S.: By the way, I almost threw my season in the toilet now. I'm currently leading Premier League with 16 matches played, but I had to play three easy matches in a single week. Before that, I went to my players for a team meeting, since we are overachieving and they could get complacent. However, I had the stupid idea of challenging them for the title. When you are predicted last, they don't take it very well and get insulted, so everyone's morale went to red. I never wasted so much time praising everything I could, like training, form, last match, conduct... but at least I managed to bring them to neutral morale before the matches. Got two victories and one tie.