[New Ground ?]

I asked the board in my 5th season for a new Club Stadium and after a conversation they accepted it . But after that not ather messages came inbox for the new stadium (except the invterview question) nor a sign on the board vision or somewhere that we are moving to a new stadium (currently about a month later)
Is it a bug or ??

 

[[FM21] Derby County - Why manage the Rams? / How are you getting on?]

A mini update on my save , currently on 5th season ,
The big moves in the summer were 3
Jeremy Doku joined in for about 55M in order to have good depth in the wings , Dodo from City also joined us for about 45M (we sold Bogle at Arsenal for 35M , i think Dodo is much better for rotation in the RB with Lamptey )
And also i found Neymar was free and wanted to have a really big name joinning us , so we moved for him and managed to sign him for a 4M wage per year(!!) (2year contract) in order to help our youngsters develop and have a team leader in locker room . He had a big injury at mid season (out for 2 months ) and generally didnt have a real impact on our season yet .

We didnt start too good loosing both cups (European Super Cup , Community Shield) and as for the League we are currently giving a fight to secure a Champions League position this year .
In Champions League we managed to secure the 1st position in our group (Juve , Frankfurt , Shakhtar) wining Juve both Home and Away. Our next opposition for knockout matches is Liebzig (Played the 1st match away 0-0)
Highlights so far was the big win against Blackburn in Premier League with 9-1 and beating Charlton 8-1 for the Fa Cup



Hope to secure the 4th position althought it will be a really hard fight !

Also , all these years i tried to keep player wages in a low level and i think i did it with success (having in mind that we currently are Premier League Champions)
We currently are 8-9th in the league as for player wages 



And BIG news are that in January transfer window we managed to sign (best regen currently on my save) Rodolfo Balvidares from Chelsea for a really big amount (80M potentialy can reach 164M) and everything shows that he is a really perfect talent already having top stats for his position and he remembers me Messi in a lot of aspects (Argentinian left foot , kinda low height , started from Spain) . Having played some matches with him in the right wing , his moves reminds me the Argentinian legend a lot !!







I dont know why Chelsea let that player leave , and i am really exciting having him in my team !!!

[[FM21] Derby County - Why manage the Rams? / How are you getting on?]

@Stuniverse Really great run having in mind all those limits u set at the start of the season for the players ! Congratulations and i really hope this run continues !!

Also , i forgot to mention that i had a takeover at the 3rd season . A French business man bought us and he is doing really well about the club finances .
I also asked the board at the start of 5th season (June) to build a new stadium . They accepted it , but i currently am in start of Octomber and still not a message in my inbox and not a sign  in club vision that we are moving to a new stadium . Is it a bug ? Or they will anounce it later ??
I was sure that they will not accept it and i am not even sure if we need a new stadium as we expanded Pride Park 2 times (currently 50.000 capacity) with state of art Youth and training facilities .

[[FM21] Derby County - Why manage the Rams? / How are you getting on?]

So having played 4 seasons and a bit on the 5th season i am tottally amazed with how this save evolved .
My last update was the end of the 2nd season where we managed to get a Europa League place (7th)

In our 3rd season things went really good and we managed to finish 5th (Having the same points with 4th Man City but they were better at Goal Difference )
Armstrong again managed to become 1st scorer of Premier League banging 25 goals and generally i was happy with all of my players 

 

And now we go to our 4th season where things went really exciting . We did a great run from the start beating almost everyone (includin top 6) So we were in top 3 teams in all the season .
In Europa we managed to get 6/6 at groups and finished 1st and finally we managed to win it finishing the Europe season Invicible !!


And now the end of Premier was really intense , We were at 2nd position 1 point behind Liverpool and 2 last matches were remaining . One was at Anfield and the last one at Stamford Bridge .
So we went at Anfield with a big confidence , we had nothing to lose as the pressure was on Liverpool . So , the match ended 0-0 and we go  at the last fixture in a really hard match at Stamford hoping for Liverpool to lose to an Aston Villa who hadnt any point interest.

Things went incredible crazy , Armstrong scored for us at 35 min while Aston Villa was 0-1 ahaid and we moved up in 1st position .
0-1 was remaining at Stamford and Liverpool managed to go ahaid wining 2-1 with Keita scoring at 79 min.
And at the end the miracle happened !!! Sikan scored for Aston VIlla at 89 min bringing the Premier League at Derby after almost 50 years !!!!!
A really intense ending with so many mixed feelings !!!



So we are the CHAMPIONS !!!!!!!
All season was great , all players contributed , we made many transfers spending a kinda big amount of money (also we sold players for a lot of money )
Madisson (who we bought for about 30M from Leicester as they relegated to Championship the previous season) was sold for 97M (!!) at Newcastle (they have new Chinese owners spending a lot of money )

The big Contributors of this success were Adam Armstrong who became for 3rd season in a row first scorer of Premier League (!!!) and became Derby's Legend !!!
Also our GK and CAPTAIN Maximenko was really really good ending the season with an average 7.15 and i really love him !!!

After all these i was in a doubt if i continue the save , but i rethink about it and i will continue and make Derby a real Dominating team in England and i will try to win their first Champions League !

For the end , i have a real dilemma and i really want ur oppinions ..
As u saw we have Maximenko who is also our captain at Goalkeeping who made 3 brilliant seasons in Derby .
BUT , we had a GREAT regen GK (also born in Derby) who has GREAT potential and his stats are already enough for a first choice GoalKepper and i am really sure he is the best Regen GK currently in my save .

ADAM MOORE 


MAXIMENKO 


So , id really want to make Adam our 1st goealkeeper as he is from English and also from our academy but Maximenko is our captain and he is really a beast and having 5 more years at his peak for sure .
So what should i do ?? I am using Adam in all Cups but i am sure if i keep Maximenko i cant bench him .

For last , i show some great Regens (from our academy , or bought from others )

[[FM21] Derby County - Why manage the Rams? / How are you getting on?]

On 30/12/2020 at 21:49, Stuniverse said:

You’re welcome, @AbRaiN. I put a lot of time and effort into the research for Derby County on FM so it’s good to see people enjoying managing the Rams on FM21 and interacting with each other on here.

Congratulations 🍾 on your promotion and 🏆 league title. Adam Idah appears to be a good signing in the first season. Who were the main players, other than Idah, in your promotion winning campaign?

After Idah , id say Clarke and Marshall did a great job at our defence keeping us solid through the run . Also Rooney was pretty sold too finishing the season with 20 assists

 

 

Season 2 Update

We made a very good first season in Premier League managing to take the 7th position on the table and qualifying for Europa League (Althought tis position was for Conference League after some days there was a message that said that we were qualified for Europa League)
The crazy thing is that Liverpool won the League with an Invincible season (!!)

We owe this great run especially to 2 players .

Frist Adam Armstrong was a really killer up front as Advanced Forward , managed to become 1st scorer in Premier League banging 27 Goals !!
This is insane because Adam was 1st scorer at Championship the previous year with Blackburn ! (I dont know if this ever happened before in Real Life )

Secondly our "angel" at goalposts Alexandr Maximenko did a great season and was 2nd behind Alisson and the Golden Glove !!!

Generally we managed to take good results against lower-mid teams and loosing/drawing almost all matches against top6 teams , which i really liked cause the team played very good against teams in our Size . I am very happy with this season and i hope we will do a same and even better 2nd season at Premier League !!

As for the transfers , i spent a kinda big amount but i am very happy because at the end of the season we will need to make 2-3 big moves to complete our roster .
Lamptey also had a decent season but i really liked his develpoment and he shows to be one of the best RB in this game !

For the end , we had a very good youth intake with 1 GK showing a great potential and 1 CM seems to become really great !! Also i bought a Scot MC from Motherwell (for 650k only ) who seems to become a real beast at the midfield !!

All screenshots are above (Those from the regens are from my 3rd season in the time which i am currently , ill do an update later (the faces were put in) )

Edit : Atm in my 3rd season (end of Octomber ) i am impressed with Bobby Duncan whom i didnt gave chances on first 2 seasons , but he shows to be a really good Goalscoring Forward (also dubbed as the new Ian Wright ) 
How is he developping in ur saves ??







 

[[FM21] Derby County - Why manage the Rams? / How are you getting on?]

Hello everybordy and for start great work @Stuniverse for this topic and i really like your commenting on everyone's save.

I started with the Rams cause i find it a really interesting save this year . We managed to get an easy promotion the 1st year winning the Championship and playing really good and defensively solid football which i didnt expect . Idah was our top player scoring many goals and being 2nd scorer at Championship with Armstrong beeing 1st .

So now our 1st year in Premier League with a decent transfer budget (about 50M) . We made many transfers and i hope my team is complete and ready to fight for a mid table finish i hope . I spent 38M to get Lamptey (brighton was demoted to Championship) and i hope i dont regret it .
You can see my tactics and my players above .

Id really want to hear about your oppinions and suggestions .

Lets go Rams !!

 

[FM24 - PC/Laptop advice thread *** PLEASE READ OPENING POST BEFORE POSTING ***]

Hp laptop with AMD RYZEN 5 3500U @2.1GHz and Radeon Vega 8 GPU

 

Or

 

Dell laptop with intel i5 10210U @1.6Ghz and Intel UHD Graphics GPU?? 

 

Same money (about 550euros)

I need a fast suggestion please

[FM24 - PC/Laptop advice thread *** PLEASE READ OPENING POST BEFORE POSTING ***]

So guys i am actually betwen 2 laptops. That which i mentioned before which has the following specs :

Dell laptop

 

Cpu : Intel core i5 10210U @1.6Ghz

Ram : 8GB DDR4

Gpu : Intel UHD Graphics 

SSD 256 GB. 

 

And in another one with the following :

HP Laptop

CPU : AMD RYZEN 7 3700U @2.3Ghz

GPU : AMD RADEON VEGA 10

RAM : 16GB

SSD 512GB

 

I am usually runing FM with 10-12 leagues with half of them on view only. I also use many graphics (full cut out facepack, kits, logos) and i am using ingame skin. 

 

The budget is ~600€

 

Whats ur suggestion?? 

[FM24 - PC/Laptop advice thread *** PLEASE READ OPENING POST BEFORE POSTING ***]

10 minutes ago, kevhamster said:

I'd avoid that.

Base clock speed below the minimum suggested by SI, and the TDP having a low of 10w tells me that's going to get throttled like mad once the CPU load increases.  What's your budget, and what else will you be using the laptop for?

My budget is about 500€ and thats the offer for this laptop. (currently it costs 1000€ without offers)

Was searching for a Dell gaming G5 series but they are out of stock for now. 

But it is i5 and 1.6 is the base speed which means it can go further more. Would it really be a bad buy?? 

What u mean with TDP? 

I want it to play FM as the main reason

[FM24 - PC/Laptop advice thread *** PLEASE READ OPENING POST BEFORE POSTING ***]

Hello guys, i am thinking of buying a new laptop and i find a good offer for a Dell Vostro with those specs :

Cpu : Intel core i5 10210U @1.6Ghz

Ram : 8GB DDR4

Gpu : Intel UHD Graphics 

SSD 256 GB. 

 

I am usually ruining FM with 10-12 leagues with half of them on view only. I also use many graphics (full cut out facepack, kits, logos) and i am using ingame skin. 

Will it gonna be ok for FM21?? I wanna enjoy the game cause in previous managers i was using old pc\laptop and the processing was really slow. 

I wanna know about your oppinion. 

Thanks in advance 

[[FM19] Sporting Clube de Portugal - ‘Esforço, Dedicação, Devoção, Glória]

Started a save with Sporting seems really interesting.
Had a good 1st season placed 2nd in the league and knocked out at 16 EL from Marseille
Had a lot work to do in the transfer window as many loan players return , so we had many sales and our balance at the start of September is 100M(!!)
Sold Rafinha at the last day of the transfer window . Didnt really want to sell cause he had an excellent season and developed really good beeing in the top15 Wingers in game (with many personal traits too) but Dortmund came with an impressive offer of 48M(rising to 62M with bonuses) and i decided to sell him.
My roster is full and i got an Ukranian wonderkid to replace Rafinha which i see 1st time in this FM .
I also had an impressive winger as a regen in the 1st season , and i declined an 18M offer from Juventus for him.
You can see my tactics and selection below , any suggestion would be usefull



 

[[FM19] Manchester United]

Had an amazing 2nd season braking almost all of the club's records having scored 142 goals (!!!!!) with both my Forwards Lukaku and Rashford having 40+ goals !!
We didnt managed to win the title though having 99pts(!!!) with Liverpool beeing the perfect team having 100 points !! A very tough battle untill the last match of the season !! 
I really enjoyed this battle and this season despite the fact that we didnt go so well in CL reaching only the QF .
No words to describe the feelings !!
 

[[FM19] Manchester United]

Started a last FM19 save with Man United in order to try my favourite 4-4-2 with a big team 
Seems its going pretty well with 2 Forwards(Lukaku , Rashford) and 2 Wingers playing as IW(A) (Bernarderschi , Martial) having a really good season till now which i didnt expect .
Rashford is really a killer playing up top , we get many goals from those 4 men and it seems to be a hard battle to win th PL cause Liverpool seems pretty strong too