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#364945 Graphics Help!
Chewy92
The downloaded graphics are not loading on to the game. I'm stuck with the default logos and blacked-out faces still atm!
#364922 Graphics Help!
Chewy92
This is what i've got
#364911 Graphics Help!
Chewy92
So this is my data folder & launch info. The graphics folder has a face & badge pack but the game is only displaying the default logos. Hope this helps!
#364905 Graphics Help!
Chewy92
I'm still struggling, Mons. I've followed the guide, changed the launch folder, merged all my folders and got everything in the right place - as far as i can tell - and the graphics still won't load
#364849 Graphics Help!
Chewy92
WRONG! I've unpacked the zip files like I normally would, just on a different drive but for some reason they just won't load onto the game, any ideas as to why?
Much appreciated
#219597 Southampton - The European Dream
Chewy92
January - March 2016
Sorry for the lack of updates, barely played in the last week or two, been manic at work! So, last time we parted, it was the end of 2015, so there should be no better place to start than the ins and outs of January 2016:
Leaving for pastures new were:
We let a fair few people go in January. Most were dead wood, others were just to try and help keep the wage bill down, with the club's finances being in horrific condition. Disappointed to see Bojan & Jay Rodriguez go, both players I've a big fan of in the real world, and both did excellently for my Saints side. I've no doubt I'll be able to buy Bojan back in a season or two though, most decent players that go to PSG will be in the reserves inside a year so I might try and bring him back! Chris Wood has generally been cack for me since I brought him in my first season. Bruno Manga wasn't getting enough games, so made sense to cash in on him, same for Antonelli, Vorm & Singh. Will Hughes, who normally is superb on the FM games, hasn't really shown it for me so far (Avg. rating of 6.73 in 19 apps), so I loaned him out to Stoke, but he's injured himself 3 games in to his career there and is likely to miss most of the rest of the season.
So, joining the most popular team on the South Coast were:
Jan Kirchoff is a decent centreback, good ratings and a solid scout report, so got him cheap to replace Bruno Manga. Ravel Morrison has been an inspired signing, since his £850k move, he's scored 5 goals in 6 games, 4 in 4 in the PL. He looks like he can be an absolutely stonking player, looking forward to watching him develop. Seb Driussi is a highly-rated AM/ST from River Plate, got a 5-star potential and is a steal at under £200k, also got a work permit at the first time of asking. As for Zlatan Ibrahimovic, well, you can't NOT sign him if you get the chance can you?! He's boosted shirt sales, thus bring us in some much needed extra moolah, and has netted 3 times in his first 6 appearances. All in all, a decent January.
Here's our run of form since the last update:
As it has been for most of the season, a rather mixed bag. The 4-2 defeat against Bradford City in the FA Cup and the bizarre 7-3 tonking we got from Arsenal were the lowest points. We were level at 3-3 against Arsenal with 20 minutes to go, then we just got absolutely fucked, horrendous. The 5-2 win over struggling Everton was a high point, especially after I turned them down for the manager's job at the end of last year. Always nice to get through the Europa League rounds, we've got Zenit in the 2nd knockout round. Very satisfying to turnover a 3-1 deficit in the League Cup semi final, especially against Stoke. The final put us up against Arsenal, still floundering at 13th in the Premier League, but just 26 days after they netted 7 against us. Could we do the unthinkable and retain our Capital One Cup Crown...?
Course we could! A good victory in a game Arsenal probably deserved to win. Theo Walcott came closest to stealing our victory away, he smashed a shot off the post in the 92nd minute, but we hung on to get European football for another season, and a second consecutive League Cup crown!
Stay tuned for the next update!
#213955 In the shadow of the Yankees
Chewy92
#213851 Southampton - The European Dream
Chewy92
Ocotober - December 2015/16
So, here we are at the end of 2015. As the streamers settle and the champagne flutes go away for another year, let's see how the mighty Saints have been doing since our last update:
Overall, not bad. A few dodgy results, the 3-2 defeat against a considerably weaker Red Bull Salzburg was a lowlight, as was the 4-1 hammering against Stoke City. Losing 5-4 to United was a tough thing to take, we played really well, but were done over after Bjoan's 94th minute equaliser was ruled out - unfairly I might add - for offside. Nice to end the year with two decent wins against Man City and QPR.
So here is the Barclays Premier League table as of December 31st,2015 -
Currently sitting 10th in the table, but it's so tight around the middle that a win in our game in hand could take us up to 4th, so there is still all to play for as we had in to the New Year. In other BPL news, Arsenal got rid of Carlo Ancelotti back in November, and now have mental former Zenit coach Luciano Spalleti at the helm. Still bottom half of the table though. November was a tough time for a lot of PL managers, Pellegrini was sacked by City and replaced by Spurs' Bernd Schuster, who Pellegrini replaced at White Hart Lane. Everton sacked Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at the beginning of December and replaced him with former Barcelona midfielder Luis Enrique - incidentally, Everton came chasing me without me even applying for the job!
Here's the Saints team stats as of the end of the year -
First thing you'll notice, a fair few injuries in midfield. Lallana, Rodriguez, Ramirez, Hughes, as well as Luke Shaw, are all out for a number of weeks. Fortunately I can dig into my reserves and replace them quite easily. Despite a few weeks out himself, John Guidetti is still my star performer, notching 16 goals in 24 appearances in all competitions. Followed closely by Nathaniel Clyne, who is consistently fantastic.
In other club news, Southampton's finances are not in completely tickety-boo shape...
So I'm currently doing everything I can to bring the money back in to the black. It doesn't help I've got players like 33-year-old Joleon Lescott, pocketing £99k p/w with another 3 years left on his contract for doing fuck all, and I'm struggling to sell anyone. I might have to let one of my big name players go, Bojan is attracting interest and if I can get £15-20m for him, I'll be a happy man.
So there you are, full up-to-date with life on the South Coast. I'll update again soon!
#212742 Bayern and Beyond
Chewy92
Surprisingly poor wages and transfer budgets from Monaco, but fair play for rejecting the Riviera life in favour of another year in Munich!
#212727 Journeyman
Chewy92
#212591 In the shadow of the Yankees
Chewy92
#212585 Southampton - The European Dream
Chewy92
August - October 2015/16
Right, so last time I updated, we had just played out first Premier League game of the season, drawing 3-3 with QPR. So, here is our fixtures since:
As you can see, not bad at all; 10 wins in 14 games in all competitions by October is a fairly good return! As a team we are still shipping goals, something still not going quite right with my defensive tactics, even after spending £18m on this lad:
But we are looking good. We've got a large squad, with plenty of quality in all positions, and very good back up options. John Guidetti has been my star performer so far, netting 10 goals in 13 games. Jay Rodriguez and Bojan also performing well:
So here's the PL table as of October 2015:
Arsenal floundering down the bottom of the table in 18th, I've got them in a fortnight after the international break so if ever there was a good time to play them, it's then! Manager Carlo Ancelotti under a lot of pressure! Reading also a surprise package, up in 4th. Down the other end, both Merseyside clubs not having the best of starts.
Sorry for the briefness of this update, lack of game-playing means I'm still trying to get back in to the game, next update will have a lot more detail!
#211911 Southampton - The European Dream
Chewy92
#166902 Project Bilbao
Chewy92
#166900 [FM14]Johno's career
Chewy92
#166755 Southampton - The European Dream
Chewy92
Haha! That's sort of why I signed him, he's my mancrush
#166724 Southampton - The European Dream
Chewy92
Pre-Season & Early Games - 2015/16
So, here's our pre-season and early season games. Some good performances, barring the games against Sivasspor & QPR. The opening game of pre-season was really encouraging, a 4-2 victory over the newly-crowned Champions of Europe, Porto. and two solid wins over Vaduz in the Europa Legye qualifying should've set us up for a good start to the Premier League season. But, FM can be a harsh mistress sometimes, and we ended up shipping a 2-0 lead against QPR and needed a late goal from Bojan to snatch a 3-3 draw.
Here's the new additions to the squad so far this summer:
As you can see, not a lot of major investment. I've got a big squad, and have decided to try and adopt the Louis van Gaal approach and focus more on the youth squad rather than blowing money on big foreign names. Will Hughes was a no-brainer of a signing, Derby are now floundering in League 1, and were more than happy to cash in on Hughes, who has always been brilliant for me on the FM games. Tom Huddlestone was also a smart signing, adding some more bite to the my midfield, as I decided not to take up the buy option on Nemanja Matic's loan deal. Andrea Pirlo was a bit of an impulse buy, at 36, he's probably only got one decent season left in him, but he's a big-name player, and for £600k, you can't really argue. Connor Wickham, Yann Sommer & Elliot Hewitt were all free transfers just to help bulk out my squad, and Tomas Kalas was a cheap buy to help provide cover for my slightly injury-prone centre backs. Zakaria Bakkali has a 4&half star rating, and has played a lot for PSV, so he's providing competition for Lalla/Rodriguez/Ramirez/Bojan out wide.
A few big-name exits this summer, Victor Wanyama has flown off to Gladbach, Fernando departed to Inter Milan after just a season, and Jeremy Menez was sold to Cardiff. All had become a bit frustrated with lack of playing time and poor performances, so the smart decision was to sell them now.
We've got Hamburg SV in the Europa League Play-off game next, a tough ask, but I'm confident we can beat them.
So now you're up to date with the beginning of the 2015/16 season, I'll update again soon!
#165356 Southampton - The European Dream
Chewy92
March - May 2014/15
Well, safe to say I'm glad this season is over. It has been the most frustrating last few months of a season I've ever had on FM. Here's a quick look to see why
So, since the last update, we only managed to win 3 games. THREE GAMES! IN ALMOST THREE MONTHS! And perhaps even more infuriating than that, the games against United, QPR, Liverpool, Arsenal, Stoke & the FA Cup semi-final against City were all drawn or lost from me being in a winning position. Most of those games I was 2-0, or 2-1 up, and yet we didn't manage to win a single one of them. Unbelievable. But on the plus side, we got to another cup semi-final, and despite spunking away a lead, reaching the FA Cup semi was a big task, and we took a few scalps along the way. Despite our poor run of form, our final day 2-1 over Villa gave us enough points to finish in the top half of the table.
A bit of a disappointing season, especially after finishing 5th last year. But we've got European football for another season, so that's a bonus.
As far as the squad is concerned, there will be a big overhaul in the summer. Boruc, St. Ledger, Schmid, Matic & Jovetic will all be leaving due to the end of their contracts/loan deals. Fernando has already agreed a deal to move to Inter Milan in the summer, and Jeremy Menez & Victor Wanyama will probably also be on their way out, as they don't like my methods! I've already arranged the transfers of Will Hughes from Derby and Zakaria Bakkali from PSV, and I'll hopefully get the funds to improve the squad even more!
Here's to a more successful season, and I'll update in pre-season!
#164080 Southampton - The European Dream
Chewy92
January - March 2014/15
So we've had a mixed couple of months. One of the highlights obviously was the 4-0 drubbing of Everton to end a run of 5 PL games without a win. We were desperately unlucky to drop out of the Europa League on away goals to Spartak Moscow, two gash goals in injury time, one of them an OG from Johnathan Schmid, in a game we absolutely dominated was ridiculously harsh. On the opposite end of the performance scale, we were horrendous against Newcastle, completely fell apart in the 2nd half, despite going in level.
Oh, and I completed my 2nd objective, as we lifted the Capital One Cup after a 3-0 win over Spurs in front of a packed Wembley.
This also means that we've qualified for the Europa League for next season, which is a bonus as I don't think we'll finish inside the the qualifying places given our league form.
Our January transfers...
Sean St. Ledger was brought in just as back-up as Dejan Lovren went to Bayern Munich for £12.5m. Luca Ante is a highly-rated Italian u-21 centre back, looks an exciting prospect. As does Solly March, a bargain signing from Brighton, got a 4-star potential. Steven Jovetic on loan has been a good little signing, out of favour at City and with an agree future fee of something like £5m so he could be a great signing. My Brazilian attacking midfielder Diego has departed back to Brazil with Gremio until the end of 2015. Had a bust up with him on the final day of the transfer window so he was out on his ear. Jeremy Menez on the other hand, has come into his own over the last few games. I transfer listed him back in November after a poor run of form, but I bought him back into the first team with Diego departing, and his put in some cracking performances.
The PL table as we go in to March. Not having as good a season as we did last year, but a good run for us over the next few games could really boost the players to finish on a similar level as we did last year!
#162050 Rules are made to be broken.
Chewy92
#161993 Southampton - The European Dream
Chewy92
October-January 2014/15
Right, first off, let's have a look at the Premier League standings a few days in to 2015...
A fair bit of improvement since the last update! After the 0-0 draw with Huddersfield, we were floundering 18th in the table, struggling to play any form of attacking football. Now, as we enter the New Year, we're 11th, 2 places behind our predicted finish of 9th, and playing some good football.
Some real stand-out performances in this run. The 3-1 victories over United & Arsenal particularly satisfying, as was the 2-1 win over Liverpool at in front of the Kop in Rafa Benitez's first game back in charge at Anfield. Thanks to the extra-time win over Arsenal, we've got ourselves in to the Semis of the Capital One Cup, where we'll face Man City. The 3-0 win over Celtic means we finish top of our Europa League group, and we've drawn Spartak Moscow in the first knockout round, with a potential trip to either BATE Borisov or Atletico in the next. The hard-fought FA Cup game against local rivals Brighton was something special, as it was won by a 92nd minute wonder-goal from 16-year-old debutant Chris Haddow, one of my re-gen youngsters.
So here's the squad going in to the New Year. John Guidetti has become my favoured striker in a 4-2DM-3-1 formation. My top scorer, he's got 8 in 20 games in all competitions. Adam Lallana & Gaston Ramirez have been in sparkling form this season, although their average ratings don't suggest that, I'd be a lot worse off without them. Nathaniel Clyne has been an absolute beast on the last couple of FM games, and on '14 is no different. My best performer this season, he was rewarded with his first England cap against Slovakia earlier on in the season. He's been the subject of a minor interest from Man City since August, but it'd take something special for me to let him go. Dejan Lovren could be on his way out in January, Bayern Munich & Juve amongst others are in for him, but again it'd take a large sum of money for me to let him go. Can't see me bringing in too many new faces in the transfer window, unless a player leaves. Unfortunately don't have the funds, but our squad is good enough to see us through the rest of the campaign.
#159840 From Hometown Hero to Managerial Greatness
Chewy92
#159787 Southampton - The European Dream
Chewy92
August-October 2014
Sorry about the lack of updates, guys. I work every weekend and last week was obviously a manic one with Easter and that so I've not had the time! Got 5 days off now so will try and get more of the season done.
Right, so we left our story at the end of a fairly successful pre-season. But disappointingly, we haven't taken any of that form in to the regular season.
Safe to say, we've had a poor start to the season. Can't buy a win and players aren't performing. Still struggling to find an XI that I can use week in, week out. Players like Diego, Bojan & Nemanja Matic have seriously struggled for form, Bojan didn't score in hist first 6 games, despite regularly finding the net in pre-season. We've scored only 7 goals in out first 10 games, with no one getting having more than one goal to their name. My tactics, which had long spells of success last season, now seem to have become obsolete. Players just aren't performing, no matter what I try and tinker & change. Because of the sqauds poor form, I've chopped and changed players almost no end, I don't think I've used the same starting XI in consecutive games so far. We're currently lying 18th in the PL table, taking just 6 points from a possible 21, with Everton up next in 12 days. I might try and work out some new formations and tactics and try and them trained before then.
I've overhauled my coaching staff, sacking off some of the coaches that we're here under Pocchetino, and replacing them with the likes of Rene Meulensteen, Pim Verbeek & Richie Williams, who all have high coach attributes, to see if that can help boost the players' attributes and confiedence.
#156995 Southampton - The European Dream
Chewy92
Haha, it's not meant to be my philosophy, but it seems to work. Might have a tinker before the European run in. Not had a lot of time this week so I'll update next week!
Cheers for the comments guys!
#156420 Southampton - The European Dream
Chewy92
Pre-Season 2014/15
So, pre-season is done. Final changes have been made to the squad and we're ready for the PL opener against Fulham. Some decent results in pre-season, 5 wins out of 7. The Carolina Railhawks was just a training camp friendly, to start to improve the fitness, and the 3 games in Japan were a marketing thing as Tokyo Metro Feliz are one of my feeder clubs. But, the 4-1 win over Copenhagen, and the 4-4 draw against a Barca side that included Messi, Fabregas, Delofeu & Pedro were both good results.
So, as of early August, these are my inbound transfers.Delighted with them, the signings of Nemanja Vidic, Bojan Krkic & Diego showing how far we've come in a season. Getting Nemanja Matic on loan was also a cracking signing. John Guidetti is a bit of FM hero for me, especially on this version of the came, he is quality, so a steal at £1.1m. Some of the bigger deals like Vidic, Bojan & Menez have messed up my wage structure a bit, as before the Board has 90% confidence/happiness with the wage structure, and it has now dipped a bit. But getting Diego for just £40k a week was a touch, as when I scouted him originally, he would've ask for £99-£120k p/w. Can't imagine I'll be doing too many other deals, maybe looking to loan Tom Ince out as I can't guarantee him first-team football. I've also decided to loan Chris Wood out to Notts Forest. He only scored 8 goals last season, and with the arrivals of Menez, Bojan and Guidetti, as well as Lamber & Rodriguez, he wouldn't be getting enough football
I'll update you more once I'm off and underway!
#155191 Southampton - The European Dream
Chewy92
April - May - The Final Run-In
"We're into the dying embers of this game here, Southampton have one final opportunity to throw players forward and look for this win. Manchester United have struggled to cope at times but it remains 0-0 here at St. Mary's as we go in to the 94th minute. Gaston Ramirez goes over to take the corner, there's a lot of pushing and shoving going on in the box, Ramirez floats the ball in, Lescott goes up... AND LESCOTT SCORES! JOLEON LESCOTT MAKES IT 1-0 SOUTHAMPTON! The former Man City defender has surely given the Saints not only a famous win over the Champions, but has booked them a place in the Europa League next season!"
WE DID IT! We finished 5th, and guaranteed ourselves Europa League football at the first time of asking!
First and foremost, Joleon Lescott is a goal scoring machine! The centre back notched up 4 goals in the final 8 games, and 5 in 16 overall, which is more than Demba Ba and Chris Wood managed. The whole team seemed to really pick it up in the final stretch, as we won 8 of our final 10 games, keeping clean sheets in 5 games.
Rickie Lambert was joint Premier League top scorer, along with Luis Suarez & Diego Costa, although Suarez won it on the fact he'd played less minutes throughout the season. That form won him a place in England's final WC squad, although somehow Adam Lallana, Jay Rodriguez & Luke Shaw didn't even make the initial squad.
I got set a a decent budget of £22m for the summer, although that had to be decreased due to my wage budget not being increased, but I have persuaded the board to increase my percentage of transfer revenue available up to 90%, so that's a bonus. I have already arranged the transfer of Jeremy Menez on a free from PSG, as well as loanee Luca Antonelli on a permanent deal. As well as this, I have signed Porto midfielder Fernando for a total fee of around £6m, his wages are SO low, about £11k a week, it'd be stupid not to sign him as he's a quality player. Juventus have decided to make their loan deal for Dani Osvaldo permanent, netting me £16m. I did debate holding on to him, but the bid met his release clause so it was out of my hands. I've also arranged the transfer of Jack Cork to Hull for £3.5m, and am still looking to improve the squad before our European adventure!
#155120 The thoughtful (job-hopping) Dutchman
Chewy92
#154755 The Revival Of Sheffield Wednesday
Chewy92
#154753 A Southampton Story
Chewy92
#154750 Southampton - The European Dream
Chewy92
January - April
So, as you can see from the above image, since the last update, not an awful lot has changed. Form has been mixed, we've been shipping goals, but we're still smashing them in as well. Going into the final stretch, we're well in contention for a Europa League spot, and if we win our game in hand we will go within a point of Liverpool in 5th, so I'm still confident of getting European football at the first ask. Our poor defence is still worrying me, we're still only just scoring as many as we're conceding. I've strengthened up my GK and DF, and even hired a new defensive coach in Alan Stubbs, who has a defensive coaching attribute of 18, but we're still conceding way too many goals.
My final transfers from January. Demba Ba has been poor, and Sulley Muntari has done well but is struggling to stay fit. But Benoit Costil has been a bit of a revelation. He's been quality for me so far, he's had a couple of shakey games, but he seems to have sured up my defence. As has Joleon Lescott, who was a steal at under £200k, and has an average rating of 6.89 in 11 games, contributing 2 goals. I lost Bruno Ecuele Manga for 3 months thanks to a torn hamstring after just 4 games, so Lescott was a last-minute purchase to provide cover. Annoyingly, his wages are astronomical for a player of his level, £80k p/week, which instantly made him my highest earner, £18k ahead of Gaston Ramirez, and £10k ahead of Dani Osvaldo!
Form, as seems to be expected, has been up and down. The consecutive 3-2 defeats to Liverpool & WBA were hard to take as we dominated both games and certainly deserved at least a draw in each of them, and we were also unlucky to bow out of the FA Cup at the quarter finals stage to Everton with the same scoreline. The 4-0 demolition of a a decent Newcastle side was one of the high points, as was the 1-0 win over Arsenal in the FA Cup 5th round, they sent out their schoolboy XI, so it really should've been more. The stand-out result in the Premier League has to be the 1-0 victory over Chelsea, settle thanks to a 36-yard lobbed effort from Gaston Ramirez. Incidentally, I've never played with a 'smaller' club that has totally outplayed a big team like we did vs. Cheslea. We completely dominated from start to finish, and were unlucky to only win by the one goal.
I switched up our tactics for the Chelsea game, switching to a flat 4-5-1 counter-attacking formation, which worked a lot better against one of the strongest sides than my 4-4-2 WB formation did, as it allows us to soak up the pressure and then hit them on the counter. I stuck with this formation for the trip to Goodison Park, and we tonked Everton 4-1, so it's obviously working!
So, with 7 games left, I'm hopeful that we can gain a European spot, and with the extra money that would bring in, strengthen up for European battle. But we've got 7 cup finals to play for that, so I will update you all at the end of the season!