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Looking for a database or save file that is designed only for testing tactics.
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On 10/02/2023 at 10:41, Shirts said:
Burnley under Dyche in comparison:
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Passing into space works fine regardless of what pressing and defensive lines you have. It can also work even if your striker is slow and tall, I've had Weghorst score plenty by chasing passes that went into space.
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Suggestion in title. Having specific positions trigger pressed and marked is a very important part of certain tactics, but won't work if you change to a different formation/tactic. Having to manually change this every time is a hassle and unnecessary. Opposition instructions by position should be saved with the tactic.
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while they have troubles making the team gel in real life, some of the players brought in look very good on FM imo. Best of luck.
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I'd imagine having 1xstrikers+2xAMCs would be more viable in defense than 2xstrikers+1xAMC? Experience from my current Burnley save is that the TF usually head backwards after the ball is cleared to him.
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Looks promising, have you tested it in higher quality leagues?
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I'll be following. I think Grazianno Pelle would also be available on free from the start, shame you didn't get him.
Regardig your PF(D), I doubt he presses the opposition CBs much with such low LOE?
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5 hours ago, Branst23 said:
Yes think it will be more challenging as I get up the leagues, luckily my players are so bad that no one is interested in them yet! As I am still amateur it's about keeping a big squad at the same time incase players want to leave or free transfers come through.
Not a Norwegian expert but love the scenery around some of the stadiums! Future holiday booked if I can convince the missus haha
Don't think we have much scenery around any pitches here in Oslo. There are some great ones up north.
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Didn't know Bjørndalen was that far down the leagues, I guess Holmlia and Nordstrand take all the good local players.
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I wanted to have a save that revolves around importing african talent to a club in the EU. Kinda like what Beveren did in 2003, I think they started several matches with up to 11 players from the Ivory Coast. This obviously narrows it down to leagues with less strict registrations rules. I tried starting in Finland since they count african players as EU players, but they requite a bunch of HG players in the match squad.
Any advice appreciated.
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On 22/10/2022 at 13:32, BJT said:
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Tony Pulis Styled Hoofball - Defensive Mentality (Beta - Released 22.10.22)
I've tried various hoofball tactics that have been shared here and on other forums, and while they seemingly get results in lesser leagues, they don't perform very well when I test them in the PL. Have you tried yourself?
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Will be 2 weeks before I update on the last season, I prob won't continue the save after that. The reason is that I'm not capable of getting better results with pulisball than I already have, and I've had to play more and more "proper" football in order to win, which is the opposite of what I want.
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For myself, the biggest switch in creating tactics that workes was when I started thinking of FM tactics as something separate from real life football. FM has a meta, especially when it comes to mentality and pressing. As a result, certain settings will work better than others almost regardless of what formation you use and player materiale.
Downloading tactics can actually help in this regard, as you will quckly see common denominators in the tactical settings in tactics that consistently bring good results.
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48 minutes ago, karanhsingh said:
Wow he looks great. Is the real Pulis your DOF?
sure is:
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I asked Tony Pulis for a defensive fullback, and he recommended this young unit of a mexican. Pulis usually stick to buying senior players, but I made an exception for this guy.
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7 hours ago, DavidBeckham said:
Sesko is better than Lucca in my opinion! I wanted him but he refused to join me in my save
And I'm not your rival haha!
Any manager who brings tiki taka to Stoke is a rival of mine
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The Potters are going to Europe!
Despite not being in our best form it was enough to get into Europe in the end.
The season was, in terms of points, a disappointment. We ended the season with 1 point less than last, so the league was a lot more even this season than the last.
On the bright side, we conceded only 32 goals, giving us a solid foundation.Liam Delap was brought in on loan during the January transfer window, hoping that he could score some crucial goals.
He spent more time in the stands because of a few horrific tackles from behind. I was very impressed.While we did lose more matches than I wanted, it was mostly against better teams.
Josh Tymon proved to be our most important player in the run up.
With Tsygankov out with injury for large parts, Tymon stepped up and scored several important goals, mostly by making runs towards the back post during counters.
Where are they now?
Since the save is now going into season 5, I'll take a quick look at how i went with some of the players that helped us up from the championship.
Yaya Sanogo:
The former Arsenal striker was brought on a free as a first choice TF. He only had a one year contract and was forced to find a new club at the end of the season.
After a mixed spell with AFC Wimbledon, he has decided to retire at the age of 32y and is now an unemployed coach.
Tyrese Campbell:
Our young star was sold for a record fee to Crystal Palace after being promoted from the Championship.
He didn't take his chances in his first season and has failed to become a regular since. He was part of an exchange deal with Everton and plays for team now.
He didn't impres for Everton either and is not transfer listed for £8.5mill.
Jordan Shipley:
Shipley wrote himself into the hearts of all Stoke fans when he scored the deciding goal in the play off final. He struggled for playing time in the first PL season and left in the January transfer window.
He has since been a solid player for San Jose in the MLS.
Summer Transfers
After reading that our rivaling save signed Lorenzo Lucca, we had to get the second best option, Benjamin Sesko.
With him and Sasa in the box, our wingers should have enough to aim for.Robert Skov was brought in to have a wide midfielder option on the flanks, he is also very good at taking set pieces.
Lewis Cook is a very capable in terms of defending and stabilizing the midfield. He will compete with Grimes for minutes.
Our young talented GK, Tomlin, has gone out on loan. Nick Pope has joined us from Man City and has agreed to be a backup option behind Joe Bursik.
Transfers out
Not much to mention, Lewis Ferguson has been on loan to Bologna and make the move permanent.
Joe Hughil and Jebbison are out on loan in the championship.
Jed Wallace is loaned out to Sunderland after being a very important player for us in several seasons.
Joe Tomlinson will be between the sticks for Luton on loan.
Diangana is once again out on loan, this time to SwanseaIn other news, we have had to fend off several clubs that wanted Kalulu, Real Madrid made an offer just short of his release clause at £44mill.
Fulham offered £46mill for Dovbyk, but he refused their contract offer.
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No idea how you pulled Lucca, he still has no interest in joining me
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2024/25
DoF Tony Pulis and manager Tony Pulis have been given a huge budget to bring in new players to the club.
So when we have the money to buy good players, and still have to stay true to the Pulis way, how do we do it?
We buy players who can play football, who also happens to be tall, strong, hardworking and aggressive.
Sangare was suggested by DoF Pulis
With really high work rate, strength, and height it's hard to argue he doesn't fit the plan.
He can also be retrained into a very good CB for us.Being Norwegian myself, I remember this guy dominating in the norwegian league as a DM, CM, AM and even ST.
He was retrained as a CB after going to Celtic.
As a former midfielder, he has good passing and technical attributes, combined with being 196cm.Our most expensive signing by some margin.
The Ukrainian can play on both wings, but will primarily play for us on the left as he is left footed.
He's an overall solid player, and can be used as a set piece taker.We needed someone to be a backup TF after Benteke left to Russia, and in comes experienced TF Chris Wood.
Having experience from Burnley under Dyche he will have no issue adapting to our system.
Wood came for free from SassuoloAfter this we still have some money left in the bank and a very healthy wage budget.
Not much have changed in terms of tactics, we more or less always start with a low block and adjust from there depending on how it goes.
We started the season in good fashion, conceding few goals despite playing top teams several times.
A lot of narrow results in October and November. this is as expected, since teams tend to play more cautious after you have proven yourself in the PL, we are no longer the underdogs they want to attack.
This leads to a lot of games vs similar or weaker teams with very few highlights, making us even more dependent on set piece goals.
The results indicate that we are capable of playing in Europe, time will show if we manage to carve us a top 7 finish come the end of the season.
What happened to the goals?
By the end of january our top goalscorer is Tsygankov with only 6 goals in 19 matches, followed by Sasa and Dovbyk who have only scored 5 and 4 goals each.
While this may not be a problem given that our league position has improved, it indicates that we can strengthen or changes things up for the better up top.
Man City has agreed to loan us Liam Delap for the rest of the season, with a laughably high optional future transfer fee.
He will be reunited with his father on the training ground this season, and maybe in the future, we will see.
Conceding only 0.88 goals per game is very uplifting, we just have to increase our goalscoring. (easier said than done with our play style)
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1 hour ago, DavidBeckham said:
Congrats on the 9th place finish! Europe isn't far away now! And it will be fascinating to see the signings which Pulis is going to recommend moving forward!
One of his first suggestions was a cheap wonderkid from Uruguay who looked like a young Baggio. Would have been an incredible signing for any normal team, just not us.
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This clip shows part of how we play around the target forward. Diallo plays as a box2box CM behind Sasa (TF) who Bursik aims for from goal kicks. Grimes will mostly stick further behind since he is told to stay in position by default as a DLP(S). The point of kicking it long to a TF is to start the play high up the pitch, so the TF needs passing (heading?) options from the first touch. Usually I'm happy if we just win the second ball, but sometimes it ends up as a goal.
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The Austrian Peter Crouch
23/24 - Half way
Sasa KalajdzicHaving looked how to spend our increased transfer budget, I've decided to spend parts of it on Sasa Kalajdzic. The towering striker is 200cm tall combined with 14-15 in several creative and technical attributes, making him the closest we can get to a Peter Crouch.
Benteke has served us well but will leave on free to CSKA Moscow at the end of the season.
Pierre Kalulu joined us for as little as £3.7mill. He is perfect for Pulis football, being very athletic, a smart defender and has some technical ability.
Jordan Thompson has been an important player for us when promoting from the championship and securing a safe mid table position in the first PL season.
He has now been let go to Rapid Wien to get more playing time.We continue to gather a good amount of points, picking up several wins. We collapsed against Leeds and got unlucky against Burnley, before getting 4 out of 6 wins after that.
The trashing of Crystal Palace was a highlight, especially because of the type of goals we scored:
We have improved massively from last season and it shows on the table.
We consistently lose against Arsenal and Liverpool, apart from that we seem to be able to fight against any team in the league on our day.
Our Austrian Crouch end up getting an average rating of 7.44, scoring 10 goals and getting 5 assists in 18 matches.
Our left back Friedl got a 5 month injury in march, hopefully it's not a sign of things to come.
Kalulu has, as expected, improved us by a lot. No wingers or inside forwards seem to get the better of him.
Artem Dovbyk improved from last season, he averaged one goal every two games.
Josh Tymon has adapted very well to playing as a winger. He also contributes a lot more in defense than the average winger.
Ibrahima Diallo has not set the world on fire according to the ratings. The eye test says that he is creating chances by winning the ball in midfield
We are so close to getting European football.
Note how we have improved in defense, conceding 17 fewer goals this season than last.
I think with the type of football we play, we can't hope for much more than 6-7th place in a good year. The reason for this is that the lower table teams will probably start to be more cautious against us, which should make it hard to get "easy points".
The players are all behind Pulisball it seems. No moaning about hoofing the ball atm, as long as the results go our way.
The real Tony Pulis is now our new DoF. I'll be sure to ask him to recommend some signing.
I'm impressed by our defensive statistics. Playing a low block on the regular inherently means that we will give away a lot of shots, so having an average of 1.39 xga per game sounds good to me.
I'm somewhat surprised by how low our fouls have gotten after starting to defend lower, considering we always get stuck in and play with several very aggressive players.
The club has started to change with Tony Pulis. Before the club expected us to play modern football. Now we are expected to play on the counter and MAKE THE MOST OF SET PIECES!
Just need to get rid of that youth focus now and we are all good.
Goal of the season from Gordon
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Making Etebo a right back is clever, he has the attributes for it. August doesn't look to bad, can't expect to get many points vs top teams in the first season.
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Winter Patch Speculation Thread
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CBs scoring 20+ goals from corners maybe. The insane amount of goals in general, how easy it is to abuse the ME,