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#328182 Adventures Through Time and Space - Recreating History
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Aye Batistuta is a monster, I'm hoping to get him at somepoint too. One of my all time favourite players

you have to sign brazilian ronaldo at some point surely
#327844 Adventures Through Time and Space - Recreating History
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this is the first fm i ever played, that man utd squad screen brings back the memories. i hated sheffield wednesday, alexandersson and benito carbone always seemed to turn into god mode against me, you better watch out for those two
#327658 1 year contracts only
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Hi all,
I'm managing gibraltar phoenix and have progressed from amateur and am now a professional club in my first season. I have offered players contracts but can only offer one year deals. Is this the normal or will this increase as my club improves? Hard to keep squad players for longer than a year and no point in paying transfer fees if a player can become a bowman after a few months

i will quote one of the mods from the SI forums:

''One of the changes that has been made to this area of the game this year is to restrict the contract lengths the user is able to offer to players depending on a number of factors. This is to prevent scenario's where the user was previously able to offer longer term contracts to players who perhaps shouldn't have been able to get long term deals.

There are a number of factors taken into account when determining the contract lengths the user can be offered. These can be seen below.

Board attributes - Depending on the board attributes of your club, the length of contracts to certain players will be affected. For example a sugar daddied board will be more likely to allow longer contracts than a more prudent board.

Club size - Bigger the club the longer the contract that can be offered, A Premiership club is more likely to be able to offer a 5-year deal than a League 2 club for a Rotation player

Player age - The board should be more willing to sanction a longer term contract for a 26 year old in their prime opposed to a 34 year old coming towards the end of their career

Player injury proneness - The board should be more reluctant to allow a 5 year contract to be offered to a player with 3 previous cruciate knee ligament injuries than a player with a relatively clean bill of health. The players injury proneness stat is what is used to determine a players injury proneness.

Squad Status - A key player is more likely to be able to get a longer term contract than a backup player.

It might be worth noting that as you are playing in a low division, then it would be expected for the contract lengths available to be restricted.''


#327399 Coaches getting blocked by the board
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have you checked the staff limit on coaches? you can ask the board to increase staff limit on coaches. if you have plenty of space then it must be related to the fact that you promised the board you would work with the staff already there instead of hiring new staff, the board hold you to the promises that you make, you should of told them you wanted to hire new staff instead. you might be able to add the staff using FMRTE, but i haven't used it myself so i am not sure about that.....
#327362 FM Game Collectors
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Javier Pastore was like that for me back on 09/10. Always my first signing from Palermo. God-like AMC.
But yeah Riquelme was a must-buy on any of the mid-2000's games. What a player

yeah i remember when pastore was a monster at palermo, i signed him from them myself, he hasn't lived up to his potential at psg really...
#327335 FM Game Collectors
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You're making me tempted to dig out my FM07 game now.

haha you and me both, so much nostalgia
#327320 FM Game Collectors
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It was class, its fun to go back now and just build an awesome team as the top players are so young back then¬

May have to crack it out soon

yeah i am tempted to go back and play it myself, i have fond memories of that particular version in the series. i don't know if you follow stephen howsons channel, he mainly does videos talking about manchester united, however he has a save going where he plays championship manager 96/97 and he ends up signing loads of legendary players, definitely worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLElhAWJ0PpNq2E7-7X-Cq6Hx5MTyOmQp1
#327309 FM Game Collectors
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I bought FM 2005 and 2007 recently, love the simplicity of the older games!

ac milan's midfield in FM07 i remember playing a lot as ac milan in FM07, i sold kaka to chelsea for like £65 million and replaced him with riquelme for like £30 million, then used the rest of the money to strengthen the squad. riquelme was an incredible player in FM07, his through balls were godly. pirlo and riquelme in the same midfield was just ridiculous
#327299 A great city, needs a great club.........#LFC
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i agree with the statement that a great city needs a great club, i am not sure what that has to do with liverpool tho

The aim of this save is to reinstate Liverpool football club to England's Ellite club, once again. For me as a Stoke City fan there is no place in the world better then Enfield to watch football, it is a great club, with both an incredible and sad history (#JFT96) with unbelievable fans, in a great city.


it sounds like your more in love with liverpool then stoke, i think your supporting the wrong club i don't think I have ever visited the enfield stadium, i am a big fan of harry enfield so i must go there some time...
#327166 4-3-3 Formation Super Inti Club (Kudus, Central Java - Indonesia) By Dhony Merapendra - www.merapendracopydisc.blogspot.com
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damn i'm not opening aswell xD

i visited the website listed in the title, he is some indian dude that runs a site selling illegal bootleg games. i can only assume that he doesn't realise how serious copyright infringement for profit actually is, otherwise he wouldn't be stupid enough to display his name and photo on the site.
#327045 4-3-3 Formation Super Inti Club (Kudus, Central Java - Indonesia) By Dhony Merapendra - www.merapendracopydisc.blogspot.com
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yeah, theres no way im downloading that, looks dodgy as fuck...
#326921 A Career In Football Management - FM16 Edition
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Started reading this earlier, meant to comment but was too perplexed by @BananaRama2000 's distraction. Shakira > Man United badge in lava.

Anyway, I like the graphic used here through your updates and the little screenshots of goals

Another league I know very little about, so I hope to learn as you progress!

Keep it up

the pic i was referring to was removed by the OP after my post so i can understand why you would be perplexed, it was a massive picture of shakira's face at the bottom of every post...
#326690 FA Cup 2015/16
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Yeah he's a good player, in a shit side and hasn't scored for about 6 games. Done on confidence and not getting the service.

I'd rather sign Ibra for a season or two than have him and Rashford competing for starts for the next ten years, but I wouldn't be upset if we signed him.

not getting the service? he had loads of chances today, if everton are struggling to create chances in the league he is partly responsible for his inability to hold the ball up due to his poor touch...
#326687 FA Cup 2015/16
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He's scored 18 league goals in a Everton side thats underperformed all season, you wouldn't go far wrong with him. Not to mention he's only 22.

i can't argue with his goalscoring record but his touch is awful, he's not good enough technically to be the main man at a top club, he's also lazy and has a bad attitude when things don't go his way.
#326673 FA Cup 2015/16
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martial and rashford are fantastic, the future of our attack looks great with those two. for me lukaku is just not consistent enough to play at a top club, he's very hot and cold and his touch is often woeful. if united are planning to sign an established striker i really hope its not him...
#326475 football manager 2016
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when i play a match the arrow says live scores west brom team ratings and tottenham team rating when i click the west brom team ratings it dont work it dont show up only the tottenham 1 does any ideas suffolk

what part of post a screenshot did you not understand?
#326392 A Career In Football Management - FM16 Edition
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whats with the giant shakira pic, her giant mug staring back at me in every post is going to get annoying real quick, good luck with the save tho...
#326234 Boldklubben Frem- Fremtastic
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wow you got schweinsteiger, great signing, even with his rubbish physicals he should boss the midfield in that league, i am not sure i would play him and ben arfa in the same midfield tho
#325367 Boldklubben Frem- Fremtastic
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amazing coup getting szczesny in, i am surprised he was willing to join on such a low contract i would retrain eric kouadlo to a winger if i were you, he has good pace, dribbling and crossing abilities that can be developed further...
#325325 Work Permit Problems
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I couldn't send him back to the feeder club, they were relegated and unable to sign foreigners. It then took a while to get my board to agree to a new feeder club, is why he played u21's. And I have 2 new feeder clubs I could've sent him to, if they'd allowed me to renew the contract.

i understand you couldn't send him back to the same feeder club, i was talking about sending him to another one. if you keep tabs on the feeder club's fortunes and see that they could go down and will have to terminate the loan then you can make plans ahead of schedule to deal with that situation, its your fault for not planning ahead. having done a little research i believe there is a rule when it comes to contract extensions which states that when it comes to players who are not currently eligible for a new work permit the player has to have played 70% of contracted teams first team games that he was available to play in for you to be able to extend his contract. (i can't find specific information about how long a period that takes into account, is it 70% of first team games over the past year or is it over the last 20 or 30 games that he was available to play, that i cannot answer). in any case he has not achieved that 70% figure so you can't extend his contract, and he has not played the required number of international games so he can't get a work permit, your only option is to release him and move on. i hope i have managed to clear things up for you...
#325263 Work Permit Problems
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I couldn't renew. Tried for 18 months to renew, kept being denied wp. Kept playing him on rotation, but he didn't get any more international call-ups, even though he had a good run in the side when Depay was out injured just before the African Nations Cup. Just bugs me, why couldn't I sign him to a contract extension without a work permit? If you can sign players without to loan them out, why not extend contract to loan out?

players that are only playing u21 football are unlikely to be called up to senior international squad, they need to be playing regular first team football to get noticed, you yourself admitted that he was sitting in u21's for a season. he can't get a work permit because he hasn't played the required percentage of international games during the period he has been with you, i believe a player has to play 75% of international matches within the last 2 years to recieve a work permit and that is simply not going to happen when a player is only playing u21 football for a whole season. i don't think it would of mattered even if he had been called up to african nations squad, the ship had probably already sailed by that point as far as playing 75% of games is concerned. your mistake was bringing him back to your club and putting him in u21's for a season, you either play him in your first team, send him out again to another feeder club or sell him, putting him in the u21's achieves nothing. as for the reason why you can't extend his contract, you don't have an available feeder club to send him to, i believe that is the reason...
#325193 Work Permit Problems
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I signed Traore, a Newgen from Ivory Coast, no work permit. Loaned him out to Bulgaria, got work permit after first year with them (7 int caps). Then played u21 games for a season, then up to first team as back-up, available for u21s. Depay playing well, 2nd choice doing ok, not many oppurtunities for Traore. Sell 2nd choice, Traore gets a few more games, cup games, etc. He's doing well, but not getting int call-up. Now his contract has expired, and I can't get a new work permit for him, but I also can't sign him without a work permit to loan out. He's only a year away from British citizenship, which makes it all the more frustrating.

For anyone saying I should've kept him in Bulgaria to gain citizenship there, I couldn't, as my feeder club got relegated, and were not allowed to loan any foreigners.

why did u let his contract expire?
#324716 Future Transfers
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Hey,

I´m new playing FM 2016, last time I played was on 08 or so.

I have a question, is it possible to start at the beginning of the 2015/2016 Season and to have the future transfers coming in the winter transfer window?

If I start with the official updated DB the winter transfers are already there at the start of the season.

Thank you
baff

it is possible if you create your own custom database, you would have to use FM16 editor. open the original database in editor and go into the profiles of each player that moved in jan in real life, then give them a future transfer in january to the club in question, that way they won't move till jan. perhaps someone online already created this database so have a look, if not then you will have to do the work yourself...
#324381 Boldklubben Frem- Fremtastic
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that is an incredibly convoluted relegation system, i don't exactly understand how you managed to reach the play off final but good luck in the second leg
#324169 The Stockholm Syndrome
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the swedish barcelona you have done well to find a player even remotely capable of the false 9 role at that level, will be interesting to see how you get on in the top division...
#324166 Real English Premier League Fixtures & Results 2016
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people in the si forum are saying it works, people here are saying it is not possible, does this work or not???
#324165 Too many booking in 7th season
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your tactics and players are the only things that would affect how many bookings you get, nothing to do with the update as i haven't had those issues in my save...
#324054 Pre press conferences and after Match press conferences
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i don't understand, are you saying you don't get the press conference messages in your inbox? they should be on by default unless you switched them off somehow...
#323841 aston villa
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i agree there squad is not that bad although they don't have a goalscorer up front, they replaced benteke with gestede and gestede is a championship player at best in my opinion not prem quality. god knows how agbonlahor is still there, he's done nothing in years, seems like he is in semi retirement, he looked like a really good player a few years ago but seems like he don't give a shit anymore. there main problem is with the management, they have been going backwards as a club for a few years now and it seemed inevitable that they would eventually get relegated.
#323524 Real English Premier League Fixtures & Results 2016
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its a shame this doesn't work, good idea if it could be done...