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#284362 FM16 Discussion Thread
Sheriff Skacel
If they can chuck in the Gibraltan second division and the third tier in Indonesia I'm sure they can bang in the top flights of some of the biggest African leagues, especially Tunisia and Egypt. It can be a solid mix of real players and regens if they really are that short.
I'd say there is potential for return, there's a tech scramble going on in Africa, the tech footprint is being laid down. Ride the wave SI. Give me my African adventure.
#284359 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
Fully expected, pain as we've only clawed up to 85k in the black.
As Fola said above, the Grahovic deal worked a charm. £670 a week cheaper than Duda and he's 23 league goals up.
#284358 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
Aye I can definitely see some bids coming in from a few of my promotion rivals, don't think they have the cash to interest me though. Could see some loan bids with an option to buy being put forth, no time for that shit.
The clubs getting relegated from the top flight could however twist my arm, especially in regards to Petrovic. He's just turned 18 and has just base stats for a winger in Serbia, hopefully this season wasn't just a flash in the pan.
#284352 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
Good season overall, board wanted us to avoid relegation and at the end of it all we were only a few off promotion. The leaky defence and lack of consistency killed us in the end, but as I said before, that's for the better. We aren't ready to go up
Just look at how great we were going forward, sadly its a team game and we can't expect to give sole promotion responsibility to two or three great attacking threats. Efforts will be made this summer to solidify our defence and give us more options from the bench, I'm looking for a mix of academy promotions, young talents on frees and a few experienced old heads to pad out the numbers.
Lots of contract decisions to be made, I may retain some of my weaker players solely for the responsibility of being our experienced heads. I don't want to hit the detonate button but at the same time change will occur because of me not wanting to meet certain players' demands.
#284343 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
The promotion push looks to be dead. I think this is a blessing in disguise really, we would have got slaughtered getting promoted this early. Need time to build and consolidate.
FM is a war of attrition.
#284342 In Pursuit Of The American Dream
Sheriff Skacel
Braga B was an experience in itself, was always an uphill challenge because of the setup but the rate the A team took your players was a joke. SI need to look at it, we need some proper use of B teams in Spain, Portugal and Holland. They operate nothing like real life
#284313 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
Youth batch is in, I can dig. Some good prospects in there, would have liked a few players capable of immediately coming into the setup but that wasn't to be. Hopefully come the start of next season after some time in the reserves and training I'll be able to promote some of this lot into the first team fold.
#284309 FM16 Discussion Thread
Sheriff Skacel
None announced so far, wouldn't expect any either. I'd kill for some proper representation for North and West Africa, as well as the NASL in America.
#284302 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
First game back from the winter break and we dismantle the league leaders. My starting team featured all 5 of my loan players and also 4 17/18 year old youth products. For the long term that's not totally ideal, but for now I have to be happy with it. Squad building doesn't take place over night, my moves for next season will be fully dictated by this years youth batch. I want it in asap, let me run rule
#284289 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
Almost signed him in the summer, was put off by his wages though. Will come in as a starting MC/AMC
A backup pacey option for AMR, will mainly come from the bench to start with
Starting RB, would have liked someone older but my two targets both got long term injuries
#284275 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
This is the problem with being at a club with no steady income from TV, ticket sales or season tickets. Once I can get the squad settled and my better youth players tied into long term deals I reckon I'll be able to find some success in raising the money we need to stay in the black from player sales.
Its hard now to raise any sort of money as many players are entering the last few months of their current deals, that Algerian CB is a great example, he's now worth under 10k as his deal is up in six months.
#284274 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
#284267 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
Halfway stage, really happy with the season. Early doors we came out like a house on fire, had an unbelievable start and then things started to slow. If I'm being honest I don't want to get promoted this season, I want to get my feet under the table properly and build my squad up. Top 2 go up, 3rd goes into a playoff, so we're only six points off top but also only five off going down.
I'm not too worried about that at this point, injuries have decimated us and I've had absolutely no joy with anyone I play at DMC. I thought Predojevic would be my best player coming into this season but he's been a total flop to date (6.64 in seven starts), his shit form and anyone else I've put at DMC has forced me to move to the 4231 in certain games.
I may look to add some players in January, we now have a 4 month break so I have plenty of time to plan. A starting RB, starting MC and possibly another option at AMR would be my main targets. Most likely all loanees.
#284263 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
He's worth just under 20k so I'm hoping in Jan I can pull at least 10k for him, at this level its hard to shift players with little interest in them and you also have to take into consideration the money of the potential buying clubs. Will a first division team buy him? No, so I think I can rule out pulling in 30k+ for him
#284247 Adama Traore Monaco midfielder not in FM15
Sheriff Skacel
Cutout; https://sortitoutsi.net/forums/topic/361/megapack-missing-image-request-thread?page=444 Request him in there and one of the guys will be more than happy to help out
#284214 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
Look at that though, just shows the power of the cup for clubs like ours. Takes my balance up to 160k, essential money as beyond that and our sponsorship deals we are making nothing.
#284210 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
#Golhovac
#284206 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
Business is done, Luptak was agreed prior to me even joining the club, a backup CM at best. On the outs the 26k lad was a backup GK and the 4 loanees are my better youth products who are just shy of being in the first team, looking to promote them potentially next season. Duda also went, couldn't justify spending £700 a week on him in the end. Happy enough with the business, as I said before, I'm turning to our academy products to get us through this season.
Straight in as the starting ST, £670 a week cheaper than Duda and I like his pace and finishing stat. Easy as that, need a big season from him.
Starting AMR, wanted a pace option for my right wing and he will definitely offer me that. Petrovic will be my starting AML (2nd from bottom in the post above) so I think I have a good front 3 for this level.
Wanted to sign him permanently but I didn't fancy forking out 50k, will just have him for the season and see how things go.
Season-long cover, I'd have liked two permanent CMs so I could build but I couldn't find anyone on the cheap. Gives me some flexibility and some quality at my core
#284195 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
All of them will either be first choices in their position or 2nd, so they will all get game time and a great chance to develop
#284172 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
Lots of injuries for the start of the season, already committed to loaning out my better youth players who aren't involved in the first team. Other players will now get a chance to step up.
I'll be starting with a 433, mainly because I have a badass DMC (Predojevic who is out injured for a month) and I want a bit of defensive stability in light of our youth. The 4231 is plan B, Predojevic or no Predojevic, lets get some flying wingers up in this mug.
#284157 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
I'm looking for some CMs at this point but I'll probably just get some in on loan as I can't see much talent about at CM, just in the process of sorting out our pre-season. Want the players to be fully match fit come day one as I want to hit the ground running. No idea what to expect for the season, our media prediction is 12th out of 16 teams.
#284149 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
With former regime players just keep offering them out, do it daily, maybe even try dropping the asking price to 0 to just try and get some sort of interest in them. Towards the end of the window I normally get to the point whereby I'd rather have those players gone rather than them rotting in the reserves, getting paid a shitload and disrupting my squad.
Who are you managing?
#284136 Money issues
Sheriff Skacel
#284135 best regen you've ever had?
Sheriff Skacel
#284133 Money issues
Sheriff Skacel
You can hover the mouse over it and the definition will pop up
I'm managing in the Serbian 2nd division and 'Other' made up for about 8% of my total expenses last season. It was 10% for you last season so round about the same
#284132 Quick question about Asst.Managers
Sheriff Skacel
#284085 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
Stood my ground on prices I thought were fair, there were a few players who I ended up hanging onto for too long and missing out on bigger fees. Martin Wind was a good example of that, think he went for 14m to Chelsea but at one point he was valued at 24m. His form slipped and his value went with it, I should have sold him a season earlier.
I set an asking price for every single first team player, if he's a star I normally put an asking price of more than double his value, if its a rotation player I normally ask for about 50% of his value and for backups its normally just slightly more than their value. I made a point of signing young players as I knew I'd always be getting sell on value. When clubs would bid for my players (I never offered out Assas, Casella, Meurs, etc) I would remove as many dodgey clauses as I could and target on getting a decent fee upfront but also good money set out over 12, 24, 48 month. Then I'd just keep hitting suggest terms until the club backed out or we settled.
With players entering the last year of their deals who I did want to shift (Neto and Sneijder) I just offered them out for double their value and waited to see what clubs came back with, if no club came back with a bid I liked I'd either lower the asking price or just wait a few days and try again. A lot can change over the course of a few days in FM, asking prices can drop, wage demands can drop, clubs can have new needs, etc
#283913 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
My first big decision will be as to whether I will renew this guys contract or not, he's gonna cost me nearly £38k a year in wages and right about now he accounts for about 16% of my wage bill. He has great physical stats for this league, is the right age and his pace will be a god send for my poacher role. However, is he worth the cost? Am I not better off going out and getting a young Serb who could potentially get me 20/25 league goals for £50-100 a week? There's no guarantee a cheap Serb will get me those 20 goals, but Duda is also an unknown commodity in my system.
Just look at the wage distribution in the squad, its skewed. Duda is a big part of that, I could really free up some money and get a more balanced squad if I do let him go. However...
Uptop we have nothing, I need two STs even if Duda stays, if I let him walk then I'll have a whole new strike force at the club. The squad also needs a rehaul at MC and down the wings. This is going to be a very busy summer, going to make an effort to minimise the disruption as possible through promoting some players from the reserves and under 18s.
#283864 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
Always the first port of call for me at clubs, getting some investment into the junior coaching. I've found this is one of the best ways to get a decent youth batch in, it won't guarantee stars, but it helps.
#283709 Addickted To Winning (A Charlton story) IIIIIIIIIIII
Sheriff Skacel
Staff wise what we have is semi-acceptable, what is available to me is atrocious. No staff replacements at this point, hopefully once this season is officially wrapped up a few Serbian players will retire and add to the pool of potential staff signings for....drum roll......please........BORCA. Hooray. The vote is in, I counted it, counted it again and then announced the result that I wanted anyways.
What else have I looked at in the last five minutes? Did a player search for Serbian players, 1300 in the player search, 300 interested in joining, 23 currently free agents, a further 54 due to have their contracts expire at the end of this month. Gotta get my scout out and about in his Honda civic and scouting these Serbian back villages.