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  1. 2 hours ago, IbrahimAliMaher said:

    Lol I got £35m when I went up with Bristol City, that's with £6-7m left over from last season too

    How do you like managing Bristol City? I took them over in 2028 in Championship and promoted to PL within 7 seasons. I'm finding that their owner, Stephen Lansdown, is one of my favorite chairmen I've had in the game.

  2. I had a similar experience jumping from CM 01/02 then FM 2007 and finally 2020. My advice would be to start with a much smaller team and in lower leagues. Dutch or Belgian second divisions are a great place to learn basics of managing a reasonably sized squad, staff and youth teams. The expectations are typically much more progressive and don’t require almost immediate success. 

    I’m having a much better time managing a large club now after really learning the ropes with smaller clubs first. 

  3. On 02/06/2020 at 20:10, Dantè Hicks said:

    Managed to get Limerick promoted. Finished 2nd to Drogheda, who were undefeated all season. I finished 3 points behind them. Defeated Finn Harps in the promotion series. 

    I now actually have a bit more money. 890K to spend on wages. A huge boost from the 30-odd thousand I had for the opening season in Div 1. 

    It has now ticked over to Jan 1 2020 in the game though, and it looks like semi-pro status of the club has not been upgraded, which is deflating. 

    Are you requesting professional status from the board?

  4. On 15/05/2020 at 10:11, Hovis Dexter said:

    I've decided to use my present DoF to negotiate any and all future contracts. The reason being that in my present save one of my top player's contract was due to expire at the end of the current season. When I tried to negotiate an renewal of his contract he would not accept anything less that being a star player and refused to accept anything less than about £260k per week. I didn't have a DoF so hired one and got him to negotiate the contract. The player then signed as a regular starter on £170k pw! To put things into context I  don't think it's me as my reputation is world class, determination and man management are 20 and level of discipline is 22 (that's not a typo) and our relationship is very close.

    I noticed that DOFs with a negotiation attribute of 20 are able to renew a contract with the same wage and bonuses as the player’s current contract, something I’m unable to do as a manager. Does anyone know if managers have a hidden negotiation attribute?

  5. 2 hours ago, takeballpassball said:

    Yeah that was my concern. Beating teams purely because I have better players, nothing to do with tactics. 

    Can anyone recommend a mid-table team in a decent league with a decent squad? 

    Hmm I quite fancy the Dutch league actually! Surely I could find a mid-table team with some good, technically gifted players and go from there?

    Could you recommend any teams? 

     

    Thanks for the replies! 

    Another benefit of the Dutch leagues are the lax rules. 12 subs named on the bench and if I recall correctly no player registrations or foreign player restrictions.

  6. Having 2020 as my first FM game since 07 (have been primarily playing CM 01/02 over the years) starting with a big club was somewhat overwhelming. Managing large staff, reserves, finances, board expectations, contracts, training etc can be quite a task initially at a large club.
     

    However, after starting a new save and spending a handful seasons in the Dutch 1st & 2nd tiers with SC Cambuur and Groningen, where the expectations were reasonable, stepping up to AC Milan and then Atletico was a smooth transition and felt like natural progression. My suggestion would be learning the game at a smaller club, but not necessarily in the very lowest divisions. 

  7. On 16/04/2020 at 16:26, saintrainhard said:

    I thought Stadia should connect personal directory for games with google drive. 

    Etc : Google Drive > Folder Name Stadia > Game Name > Game Data. So it will be GDrive > Stadia > Sports Interactive>FM2020>Game Data

    So this way Stadia will connect to Google Drive to read game data, so user can apply mod,packs,icon kit etc in this folder. And the this will drive Google Drive subscription too

    Since your post, google has implemented the ability to download saves on Stadia, so having a folder directory structure is clearly possible. I hope that means that at some point we're able to modify the items you mention.

  8. Here are my main drawbacks with Stadia version of FM -

    - unable to download and apply any mods or skins.

    - also unable to download tactics, so if you find a killer tactic you’d have to recreate it manually and hope that someone also includes the individual player instructions.

    - unable to use “real name fix” as there aren’t any files to edit so Juve will remain Zebre etc.

    - there are no pre-game editors, only the same in-game editor you can purchase for the Steam version. 

    - you’d also have to purchase another copy if you want to play it on Stadia.

    - each of the updates came much later (sometimes weeks) after the Steam version.

    Positives -

    - it does run better (but not necessarily smoother) on Stadia. I have a good laptop with 1 gbps interned and while the steam version was snappier, Stadia FM won’t get bogged down many seasons down the line. 

    - super extended laptop battery life. Since playing FM on Stadia isn’t much different than browsing the internet with Chrome, I can play FM for 5+ hours on a full battery.

    - flexibility of playing in anywhere just by logging into your Stadia account.

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