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#255325 Corner Setup
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Going short seems to generate a lot of great chances. Not sure if it's on the exploit level though.
#255299 Zpanizh Adventurez
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Had a crash dump after a match, my most recent save was 3 weeks back, before the Munir signing and before I dominated Valencia in three matches.
#255245 Zpanizh Adventurez
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The signing of the century?

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/Z3snL0sfnXJn63macD7KnBJtf20vsG9flUjuZ4RR.png

€4m for a player who could very well become world class, can it get better than that? Munir got lost between all the talent at Barcelona and only appeared in 4 league matches the last year and a half and didn't sign a new contract with them as a result. When he became available for a future transfer I offered him the best I could, turns out it was enough to convince him to move. Once the deal was done Barca were willing to let him go early for €4m. Munir might be the saviour who leads this club to glory, or he becomes the big transfer fee that lets us build a team that will, either way these are probably the best €4m I'll ever spend. Had to cancel Jaime's loan deal early to open up a registration spot, but that's hardly any loss.

A sceenshot of the man:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/okmxDVJqJ8GklfUiFQpQQOb8z19U5BPRKKBcCk9y.png

Obviously hasn't developed optimally given his lack of playing time, but still a very, very good young player. Two years with us and he'll be world class, no doubt.
#255239 Zpanizh Adventurez
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And some less good news:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/Yzi5QAkDjKbpANBeNjkcVcYcprucEriAYxwU0KgH.png

That's a really, really tough draw. Will need some very good fortune to make it through that one.
#255238 Zpanizh Adventurez
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https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/hlUaEZaunHEWCrWaIznPeNOGDe8sGsg7pVdN4vR5.png

More experience!
#255233 Zpanizh Adventurez
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https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/cGOMK0to2OxLn3NWZcR8OMYMaAD9D0r5xEozJ5Zl.png

Well the group stage wasn't too difficult!
#255227 Zpanizh Adventurez
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Good news!

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/JloMmNgbFEmsqYkgJ0E5sPCsHwaAx0j0Bk1PFgoh.png

Having first options on one of the best clubs in Argentina could be huge for us. Looking at their squad there's at least 5 players I'm interested in.
#255213 Zpanizh Adventurez
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My Europa League group:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/Z4cXWfao7vaa3ejLvkeRsfkkqJbA2Z32Fqp8d1ME.png

Could just as well be a weak Champions League group. On the tougher side for the Europa League, but there aren't any real giants in it which is in my favour.
#255210 Zpanizh Adventurez
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Transfers, Summer 2016:

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I put the big spender pants on for the first time this summer, spending a total of €18m. Gabriel Barbosa and Adam Maher were planned signings but Alcácer came to us by chance, he had been glued to the bench at Atlético for the entire season and the opportunity to buy him so cheaply was too good to pass up.
Manquillo and Martínez were loaned to fill the void after the loans of Reznik and Bellerín expired, Grimaldo is in on a two-year loan and will push Rúben into a backup role. Already mentioned Zapater earlier in the thread, one of the few times that I'll ever sign someone for purely sentimental reasons.

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/SEXhLE6ngeiQVsxVVkTnlnW7zvcPtfdYF6jJgurj.png

Not much to report here, especially given how dependent on loans the squad has been the last two years. Parted ways with Willian José as he couldn't carry on his great play at La Liga level and asked for more than double his wages. Padoin wasn't the right player for us and only made 4 appearances last year, so no big loss there.
#255203 Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise
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Good luck! Beating PSG for the title really would be quite something!
#255200 Zpanizh Adventurez
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Are you going to try and get Neves on permanent deal?

I'll try, but someone like him will undoubtedly cost north of €20m. He's going to be absolute world class.
#255127 Corner Setup
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Are you looking for an exploit, or just one that'll give you a handful of goals per season?
#254978 Fola's Career [FM15]
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That fullback is absolute class. Looks like Maicon at his peak.
#254955 Zpanizh Adventurez
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/17/Real_Zaragoza_svg_logo.svg/282px-Real_Zaragoza_svg_logo.svg.png

Real Zaragoza

2016/17

Squad:

Goalkeepers:


_1. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png Nicola Leali___
13. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png Pablo Alcolea_
25. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png Oscár Whalley_

Defenders:

_2. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png Javi Manquillo__
_3. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/23px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png Rúben_________
_4. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Uruguay.svg/23px-Flag_of_Uruguay.svg.png Leandro Cabrera
_5. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png Karim Rekik____
12. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png Carlos Martínez_
16. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png Álex Grimaldo__
23. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png Jésus Vallejo___
24. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/23px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png Edgar Ié_______


Midfielders:

_6. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/23px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png Ruben Neves (c)__
_7. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png Ante Rebic______.
_8. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png Vincent Pajot (vc).
10. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png Adam Maher_____
11. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png Jaime___________
14. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png Álvaro Medran__._
15. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png Pedro_________.._
17. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png Alberto Zapater_._
20. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg.png Amer Gojak____:_
21. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png Virgil Misidjan___
22. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Slovakia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Slovakia.svg.png Patrik Hrosovsky_

Forwards:

_9. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png Paco Alcácer___
18. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png Gabriel Barbosa
19. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/23px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png Enes Ünal_____

#254923 Zpanizh Adventurez
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Brought in a new assistant for my u19 team:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/pzxb7doACDKyUni6aBlbSpllaEkkGfY7f2kM6OVU.png

And I did my best to right a wrong:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/Nf0i1jmypBryfBWiLI3HDxlJhZyshvqNtQDc9IQz.png

Zapater is barely a shadow of his former self at this point, but I really want him to retire with us. Will hopefully become a member of our backroom in some capacity after that.
#254909 Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise
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Not a bad wee player that kid, he's no Guillaume Henry of course, but then, who is?
#254898 Zpanizh Adventurez
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Say hello to our new Director of Football:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/Lt7BNRAndE2x2fhageW9YH8K4v68B49q2iNIgf59.png

#254889 Zpanizh Adventurez
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Financial Report:

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#254883 Zpanizh Adventurez
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End-of-Season Report:

Fixtures:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/BQRcAJwjgEwEcnKwz4chATX0KF98oEGPbbEbu0o0.png

League Table:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/sPdjOU9aJH5x6rIpiDGSghiQAq75d84cAqtRyJCZ.png

Incredible season for us. 19th in wage spending, 6th in the league, says it all really.
Proud as fuck to be the only team to have beaten a Barcelona side that steamrolled all opposition too!

Players:

Most Goals: 12 - Rodrigo Aguirre
Most Assists: 13 - Ante Rebic
Highest AvR: 7.19 - Leandro Cabrera

Fans Player of the Year: Leandro Cabrera

Team of the Year:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/roW9M2Quavjv1DFPVMr6c3ogenn3VuqU4cEOd64V.png
#254815 How many leagues?
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I know my club gets about 25 new youth players in each season, so imagine the amount of teams that have been loaded in game, say 200, then you must times that by the 25 (5,000) each season this is the amount of new players generated in game im sure less than that have retired each season.

This only happens mostly with teams that are playable/view only. its a lot less for those clubs not in the playable/viewed leagues


The overall number of players remains fairly constant. The game only keeps the newgens that are good enough to be signed and a lot of players retire.
#254738 Zpanizh Adventurez
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https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/SAedUX4MyccSD47RybvPRT6lRVOeqShhmGsfOAYo.png

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/EjmsdsKyrak36s7OADTcocuu8o0tRBS7Lh22FHfv.png

Not bad for an 18-year-old to score on his international debut!
#254737 How many leagues?
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Loading many leagues and players adds realism and creates a greater sense of immersion, it's much more fun to meet a team with real players than one filled with greyed-out names and it's fun to look at what goes on elsewhere in the simulated football world as time passes. The new scouting system doesn't really work properly with clubs from leagues that aren't loaded either.

I usually end up with somewhere between 70 and 100k players and ~30 leagues loaded in my saves. It's not quick, but I usually do other stuff while playing FM anyway so I don't mind.

To get back to the point, like I said in my previous post, FM is limited by the fact that it is a 32-bit game and can't make full use of more than 4 GB of memory. Having lots of leagues and players loaded is much more a drain on memory than it is on processing power, which makes the limitations pretty obvious.
#254735 Zpanizh Adventurez
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It's that time of year:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/X6CMwbDQegM8AA61N9DTscODSFo3pkHipof7e201.png

And the player in question:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/mDqX1xTKPGFJ9UHSmnEWnsfSZUuphEwPk5z0aWt8.png

He might very well have a really high PA, but given how much he'd have to improve to get there I highly doubt he'll ever come close to reaching it. I really miss Lens and their incredible youth intake now.

And yes, Mesut Ünal is Enes father, he just happened to be a pretty decent head of youth development.
#254732 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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At least you're happy about it!
#254666 How many leagues?
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FM is a 32-bit game and can't make use of more than 4 GB of memory, that puts a ceiling on how many leagues you can run even on ungodly powerful systems. It simply isn't programmed for it.
#254655 Transfer Cost Question
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Nathan isn't "worth" 150k, like I said before, the "transfer value" listed in the game is meaningless. A "realistic" price for an 18-year-old AMC from Brazil with top class potential like him would be somewhere around 8-12M Euro, that's the kind of money such players cost in the real world.
#254652 Zpanizh Adventurez
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And just moments before the transfer window shut I found what may very well be our striker of the future:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/WAhA2MGOXGv9EabgnJSjMBTNpuePtNUOGJlbmuqa.png

Like Amer Gojak he was initially signed on a future transfer and then signed immediately, Bursaspor elected to let him leave for €80k. Already a fine finisher and strong on both feet, a bit lacking in ball skills and not a particularly quick at this point but I am sure with some development he'll improve in those areas in due time. I see him rounding out into one of those strikers that aren't exceptional at any one thing, but very good at everything.
#254646 Zpanizh Adventurez
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Transfers, January 2016:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/JfgZyQfYEoqWXrDXc6rPKmxiRXQbDA5VAnDXSBys.png

Screenshots:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/AzcQldQQTbJUl1TE6kdlBVgpGnPVvmVuMn70B7mH.png

Initially signed on a future transfer, Dinamo Zagreb let me sign this young Bosnian immediately for €11k, which may end up looking like grand larceny in the future.

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/rcBQgGfmOJRFyu3hzJrBX8Ef1f3LIQcVlODZVT7M.png

My most expensive signing yet, and still a big bargain. Really pleased to have signed him on such a long, cheap contract too. I think Misidjan might steal a few caps for Holland at his peak and he's definitely a valued asset on our wings.

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/xQIP4b9qWVspbE0KUWNL5lxApKnxtXn8cBJbls5t.png

Big striker with potential to become top class, only on loan at the moment but I really hope I can sign him permanently by the end of the season. Quality strikers don't come cheap, so I'll have to do my best to develop my own.
#254633 Transfer Cost Question
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Either catch them when they're still on youth contracts and can be signed for compensation, or wait until they turn 18/19.
#254626 Transfer Cost Question
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The only valuation that matters is the estimates your scouts give you. The "transfer value" you see in squad lists is basically just what the players contract is worth, nothing more.

The AI is also hard-coded to be very reluctant to sell youth team players, both for gameplay and realism reasons.