Omnislip - Comments

Actually, the Podolski transfer is one that you do see on Football Manager, since Koln were relegated.

It might also be a part of SI's fight against monthly instalments which causes an issue, but there's a reason Chelsea had to pay around £30M each for the 'three musketeers'

I did just say frustrating - there's plenty of fun in this game. You have described the problems very succinctly, and it's just something players have to deal with.

The issue isn't with graphics here, it's with gameplay.

The best example of this was reported early in the beta, where wingers would always easily beat the full back and put in a cross which defenders would promptly avoid so that strikers could score very many easy goals.

It is frustrating, though, when animations don't match what the players are doing - for example standing tackles which leave the tackler immobile for several seconds afterwards so that the 'tacklee' can just casually reclaim possession.

So, teams are unwilling to sell their best prospects unless you offer them far more than their actual value?

Sounds like real life.

This will make transfer listed players a lot more important, now.

The x400 series is always going to be poor. You can upgrade, but just for football manager it's hardly worth it.

I would have thought that would help, but every part of the team's game gets worse, even without rotating for these games. They run in big groups after the ball (which they don't do in the PL), they don't make enough proper attacking runs, nor pass for them when they do happen. The finishing is abysmal, but these crappy teams bury them into the goal from all angles. Passes are worse and defenders don't anticipate runs as well.

All this is to a team which is only a little worse than the worst PL teams, which are easily crushed by the exact opposite of what is described above.

They did fix the crossing issue, though, so maybe this is an issue like that. Next season I play, I'll put on high squad bonuses for every tournament and see what that does.

I'm finding that the ME has real problems - I can cruise to second in the PL with Liverpool's base squad (and Wellington Nem, in fairness) but I can barely get a win for love nor money against EL group sides or in any cup match. I dominate possession in the PL games, but get dominated against these 'weak' teams.

It's either that, or the squad bonuses are waaay overpowered - I always set the league one to large.

Why sign him as your Ass Man when you can have Cruyff!

I've got him stored as my head youth guy for when Cruyff retires.