Daniel

Fair few people in Aldi today getting told to put things like toilet paper and kids nappies back as they were trying to buy too many.

Woman in the queue was rummaging through her purse, she takes a £5 note out and puts it in her mouth while she counts the rest of her money. Some people just won't change their bad/poor hygiene habits.

I think as you get a better team together the mentality of the other teams change. I noticed when i started with Villa, teams would attack me to hell. Now when i play Liverpool or City, they sit back abit more. Teams lower down seem to be super defensive.

I have gotten pretty lucky with free transfers. I got chiesa and Havertz on free transfers. I sold Havertz for £200m and Chiesa for £150m. I just keep picking up any half decent players on free's and sell them off after a season or two. If any players are transfer listed for cheap, ill snap them up, either loan them out for a season and sell them or just rotate them with my squad and sell them off.

Haaland wanted out on my save. Was complaining about me selling a player and wouldn't sign a new contract. He was on his last year so i cashed in and bought it this guy on a free. He's not the best, but decent back up and free. Also just hit £1b bank balance.

I'm thinking about cashing in on Haaland. He's my club top scorer, but the regens are so much better

2030, that is a new stadium with an upgrade just completed. At max capacity I think I can make it biggest in the league. 

Second biggest stadium in the league now. Think i can upgrade it once more before its at max.

Budget was tight in my first season. So didn't have much room to let players go without leaving the squad pretty short.

Second season is where i started to really change the squad.

I've fallen into my old habit of buying too many good young players. I have 3 right backs, all could walk into any team. Two I've been trying to rotate and the other has been out on loan at juve for a few seasons. 

18 hours ago, Hornso said:

Having you guys been getting Haaland straight away? I'm playing the Switch version and I can agree to a fee with Salzburg but he won't even enter negotiations with me.

I was in my second season. Lucky for me he was still at Salzburg

Did you see the angle on the second goal? Crazy.

Also check this offer i got from Barcelona. £2m under his value. Roles reversed and id get quoted near 200m

48 minutes ago, Dante_Lockhart said:

I haven't got a drop down menu on mine. Just says NONE: Opt out of all Betas and I can't change it.

Make sure you have exited out of the game before selecting the beta option from the drop down menu

2 hours ago, villan-scott said:

Can’t seem to see it, am I being daft?

You have to opt in to get patch betas.

- Open Steam
- Go to 'Football Manager 2020' within your Steam Library
- Right-Click on the game and select 'Properties'
- Select the 'Beta' tab
- Via the 'Select the beta you would like to opt into' dropdown, select 'public beta'
- Click 'Close'

New patch beta is out on steam. Seems like they have fixed the over the top balls and players missing 1v1's

I have managed to get a few youth players, but have to pay compensation. I just have to be lucky that they're available when im searching. If they're at a foreign club i just keep low balling the offer in hope the player gets unsettled and i can pick him up for a more reasonable fee rather than something stupid like £130m they keep offering.

I have been using him as target man. He misses loads of 1vs1's, but that's because the match engine isn't the best.

What a thing of beauty.

1 hour ago, bobzy said:

 

(I prefer all the newgens anyway!)

Oh yeah, 100%. Most of the fun comes from finding those hidden young players with amazing stats. I think most my time is actually spent searching for players rather than playing games.

Easy money.

This var shit is making me hate football

20 hours ago, Farlz said:

1v1s on this game oh my god, don't think I've ever been as frustrated with an FM game as I have with this at times. 

Yeah, i think they said they're looking into it, but don't expect a patch till new year.

36 minutes ago, villan-scott said:

Had a poor start to my second season, which is only just picking up now. I’ve been conceding for fun, so dropped Mings for Engels to play alongside Alvarez, I’ve also put Konsa into DM instead of Nakamba and Luiz, and had 3 clean sheets and won 3 in a row. 

Finding myself enjoying this years version, and getting into it properly which is good. Planning long term with Villa, all being well! 

Still in the market for a good keeper to displace Heaton if anyone has any good suggestions?!

I signed Wuilker Farinez for £2.5m