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#762757 Everton -10 points deduction
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By Bielsa is a Legend 18 November 2023 - 23:06 PM UTC 

Sporting advantage of staying in the PL by paying crazy wages

 

bramley dock will be a mil;stone for decades

 

lets see how it pans out,  relegation is a real threat this season

 

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 relegation is a “real threat” if you think 2 of the (former) bottom 4 are going to have a massive uptick in form over the rest of the season. Everton were 8pts clear prior to the deduction. And that’s assuming the deduction doesn’t get reduced On appeal.

#762752 Everton -10 points deduction
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By Bielsa is a Legend 18 November 2023 - 22:44 PM UTC 

Read the Phillips decision. Everton lost the judgement

 

You… you don’t say!!!

 

 I didn’t say they don’t have the right to sue if they want to. But they’d have to prove direct causation of their loss. Which they will struggle to do since the committee stated that Everton gained no sporting advantage, and did not intentionally breach the threshold.

#762746 Everton -10 points deduction
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By Bielsa is a Legend 18 November 2023 - 21:41 PM UTC 

Looks like Leicester and Leeds have already instructed lawyers based on the Phillips decision

 

will be interesting how that pans out, the PL didn’t help Everton there

 

Good luck proving that their loss was down to an overspend of <£5m a season, which only happened due to building a new stadium, when the commission has already said there was no sporting advantage. 

#762740 Everton -10 points deduction
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By Bielsa is a Legend 18 November 2023 - 21:15 PM UTC 

Let’s see…..

 

city, Chelsea’ and wolves have been at it for years

 

evertons downfall could be admitting it……

 

I fear for an old traditional club, the dubious owners etc, I suspect 777 are no better, their track record is not what the fans deserve

 

I'll certainly be curious to see what happens with City and Chelsea (don't think there's really any whispers of Wolves facing any charges).


So far as Everton are concerned I'd imagine there'll be a significant reduction in the (frankly ridiculous) deduction on appeal. 

 

Only positive is that the bottom 3 or 4 (before the deduction) are so bad that survival is still very much attainable.

 

Atmosphere vs Utd next weekend will be a sight to behold.

#762735 Everton -10 points deduction
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By Bielsa is a Legend 18 November 2023 - 20:48 PM UTC 

They haven’t been punished yet

everton have, and are about to get 3 seperate legal referrals based on the May 23 judgement before David Phillips 

 

https://lnkd.in/eGVG52i5

 

And yet the commission asserted everton had obtained no sporting advantage from their breach, nor was the breach intentional.


So good luck with that.

 

#752930 Are SI testing the waters for a £60 year subscription for Football Manager? FM Mobile is about to go up in price 500% unless you have a Netflix subscription
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By Footygamer 14 September 2023 - 19:24 PM UTC 

Stuck up a poll:

 

 

Out of curiosity, why didn't you include an option of “continuing to make FMM as a standalone product is no longer financially viable” as this is probably the actual answer.

#745452 SI announcement - the future of Football Manager
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By Lilly# 27 July 2023 - 14:11 PM UTC 

the hope and a certain anticipation always aroused in me for years the time before the new game appeared. When the game appeared, this joy always gave way to the life that I have less and less fun playing the game. So I'm not at all full of confidence or anything like that that this time will be different. For me, the SI company clearly acts on a principle. Only offer morsels and always leave the customers hanging on the long arm. Offering scraps every now and then, but only enough so that not too many customers leave, but a certain amount of customers remain stable. This is not about heart, courage, passion or the joy of the hobby. It's about a company, about money and about jobs. We consumers look at the scenario with different glasses than the company itself. 

 

This simply isn't borne out by any facts or data. Pretty much every version of the game outsells the last.

 

And indeed the last two parts of your post contradict each other. If it was solely about business (which, being realistic, is what both SI and Sega are) they would have no interest in simply maintaining a user base, they'd grow it as much as possible as fast as possible. They'd probably also add in all sorts of features that go against the ethos of FM (I'm thinking designing stadia, setting merchandise prices, choosing kits etc… things that get asked for EVERY year, but have nothing to do with management). They'd also likely have dived into microtransactions way, WAY more than they have done.

 

SI have definitely made mistakes - Miles even says as much in the blog, but I don't think most of the criticisms you've made there are valid.

#553160 FM20 Hidden Regen UID Finder (Create your own Press Officer & Personal Assistant images!)
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For those who have a lot of iterations of the same image being used (I had 72 of each in my game)...

Once you've found the number for the image you're trying to change (not the UID), copy ALL the lines of the Regen UID finder config file (NB, just the lines relating to individual files, don't need all the extraneous xml stuff) and paste them into Excel (so you'll have a single column a few thousand entries long).

Then in the second column paste the following:

=MID((LEFT(A1,FIND("t",A1)-1)),FIND("""",(LEFT(A1,FIND("t",A1)-1)))+1,FIND("""",(LEFT(A1,FIND("t",A1)-1)),FIND("""",(LEFT(A1,FIND("t",A1)-1)))+1)-FIND("""",(LEFT(A1,FIND("t",A1)-1)))-1)

This should extract from the full string just the image number. Then you can turn the data into a table and easily filter by this value to get all iterations of that specific image being used in the game without having to trawl through.
#539001 SS' Fantasy Kits Request Thread (NO REAL KITS)
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Since the announcement that Everton have signed with Hummel, I was wondering if someone could put together some kits?

My thinking was:

Home:
Hummel 79
Royal Blue and white
Sponsor: Megafon

Away:
Hummel 209
Navy blue w/ Yellow stripes
Sponsor: Megafon

Third:
Hummel 210
White w/ navy blue
Sponsor: Megafon

Thank you in advance!
#498770 FM2020 Licensing and Real Name Fix File v2.3 for FM20.4.1 [released on 28/04/2020]
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I'm not aware the editor data folder has changed...

Seems to have moved on the Mac to Public from Documents.

Presumably to avoid the chaos it caused with iCloud Document folder syncing
#428796 How to add kit, logo and face packs to FM2018 Touch on iOS on iPad???
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Has anyone got a pack with updated kits?

I've tried to update myself (using the pack linked above as a base) but the kits all disappear.
#344637 England - Premier League Standard'2016/17 (12/11/16) (UPDATED)
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Also missing Everton third kit
#112217 Megapack - Missing image request thread
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Player Name: Ryan Ledson

Player ID: 28090676

Link: Link to picture

Existing Images: Search results for: 28090676


COMPLETED BY NiceLad. Cheers.
#112216 Official Teampack Request Thread - Read the OP before requesting
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Wowzers I'll take these

Looking forward to this. Be great to finally have quality updated EFC pics.

Arrghh. Just looked at the pack. Still no Ryan Ledson
#111188 ⬇️ Home Thread - Metallic Logo Megapack - FM24 Update 2025.02 Released [20/11/2024]
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Do any of you talented guys who make the logos have plans to start releasing 360x360 logos, since FM now supports hi-res displays, and the double sized assets required to display properly on them?
#111187 Metallic Logo Megapack issues
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does your Mac have a retina display?