villa4europe Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 I'm in 26/27 on my save and Newcastle have done nothing, bought terribly and been relegated twice Hopefully it's a crystal ball... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted January 8, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 8, 2022 (edited) unboxed it today. think my game is broken. 22 games into my villa save, 2nd in the league! beat arsenal 4-0 away, city 5-0 at home, chelsea away too. job security: untouchable didn't even do much in the transfer market but newcastle are after all my players. tied emi down though on a new contract and sold el ghazi for 15m oh i'm in the carabao cup final too edit: won the carabao cup. 2 down at half time to city too, sanson with an 89th min winner. who incidentally, is a **** goal machine for me. joint highest with 12 Edited January 8, 2022 by tomav84 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCU Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 How does this play on an Xbox/using a controller? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaAlex Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 Jacob Ramsey is a revelation in this game if you give him a chance. He's not got the greatest stats but he's a massive goal threat for me as a 'Mezzala'. Like a young Frank Lampard. Louie Barry is pretty decent too in 2nd season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 4 hours ago, MCU said: How does this play on an Xbox/using a controller? 2 ways, via the thumb sticks to select menus and then d pad to move through the sub menus or press I think L3 to convert it to a thumb stick cursor with then buttons for various things Its fiddly but OK, there's a couple of stupid things but it's manageable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 3 hours ago, VillaAlex said: Jacob Ramsey is a revelation in this game if you give him a chance. He's not got the greatest stats but he's a massive goal threat for me as a 'Mezzala'. Like a young Frank Lampard. Louie Barry is pretty decent too in 2nd season. Has not been great for me but chuk has been excellent on mine. Has been scoring goals for fun. This fm 2022 is very buggy. Crashes alot and kicks you out system. I also must say i absolutely hate the tactics screen when you make a sub during a game. Its absolutely dreadful 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted January 10, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 10, 2022 14 hours ago, VillaAlex said: Jacob Ramsey is a revelation in this game if you give him a chance. He's not got the greatest stats but he's a massive goal threat for me as a 'Mezzala'. Like a young Frank Lampard. Louie Barry is pretty decent too in 2nd season. i've loaned ramsey out on mine. pretty well stacked in CM so can afford to worth bearing in mind though is that player ability/potential ability is randomized for each game (i believe). you player abilities start between a certain range, so your jacob ramsey might be a lot better and have more potential than mine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCU Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 16 hours ago, villa4europe said: 2 ways, via the thumb sticks to select menus and then d pad to move through the sub menus or press I think L3 to convert it to a thumb stick cursor with then buttons for various things Its fiddly but OK, there's a couple of stupid things but it's manageable I see what you mean, does seem fiddly but getting used to it. Using the cursor at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Yeah I'd say I'm about 90% cursor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 I got bored of my Villa game so restarted. Tried one of the challenges. It was a save the team one, started in mid feb so I think it was 15 games left. Team were bottom with 10 points, worst defence and worst attack, no wins all season. I Dodd it with Arsenal, won 13 of the 15, with 2 draws. Finished 14th. Carried on into the next season where I won the league. Saka is immense, as is Smith Rowe. I signed Adeyemi. Goal machine. 38 in 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 i've moved on to a topple fergie easy game with PSG, mainly because i wanted to sign haaland and see if he was and mind blowingly good as he was on last years game they're easy but at the same time take a lot of work, they're got a lot of shite in their squad to shift failed in the first window as i had to buy some depth elsewhere and dortmund accepted my cash + icardi deal but he refused to move, i'll get him in jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VBM Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Qualified for the Champions League in my first season. End of the season Matt Cash comes to see me, he is very annoyed that I have been playing him in the right back position, with a role of complete wing back. He wants to play full back. I tell him no. He slams in a transfer request and moves to Rangers for £35m. So yeah realism as good as ever. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 Just started my first season in the prem with Sunderland. Spurs, Chelsea, Liverpool my first 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VBM Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 Just an FYI - that Beale is one of the better assistant managers in the game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 2 hours ago, VBM said: Just an FYI - that Beale is one of the better assistant managers in the game He’s my assistant haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 On 13/01/2022 at 10:01, VBM said: Qualified for the Champions League in my first season. End of the season Matt Cash comes to see me, he is very annoyed that I have been playing him in the right back position, with a role of complete wing back. He wants to play full back. I tell him no. He slams in a transfer request and moves to Rangers for £35m. So yeah realism as good as ever. That's why I actually like touch, they can't put all of that shit in And my assistant is Bergkamp, the downside to touch is you have hardly any coaching team options Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 On 09/01/2022 at 17:22, VillaAlex said: Jacob Ramsey is a revelation in this game if you give him a chance. He's not got the greatest stats but he's a massive goal threat for me as a 'Mezzala'. Like a young Frank Lampard. Louie Barry is pretty decent too in 2nd season. Bought Ramsey for Sunderland as Villa loaned him to me, then he went back into their reserves and was unhappy so I snapped him up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VBM Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Time to give our expectations for next season. Me:I think we can qualify for the champions league. Players: OMG no how dare you. you are setting us up to fail We are sad! Shame there is no option for "lads I've been here two seasons, we've finished 4th and 3rd. We got to the quarters of that competition last year. You pack of bitches. But no, I have to back down and suggest the Euro cup. Urgh. Why can't SI sort this out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted January 16, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 16, 2022 44 minutes ago, VBM said: Time to give our expectations for next season. Me:I think we can qualify for the champions league. Players: OMG no how dare you. you are setting us up to fail We are sad! Shame there is no option for "lads I've been here two seasons, we've finished 4th and 3rd. We got to the quarters of that competition last year. You pack of bitches. But no, I have to back down and suggest the Euro cup. Urgh. Why can't SI sort this out? All player interactions are ridiculous. I often save the game before ones I'm forced to do purely as I know they're unpredictable and can easily blow up into ridiculous situations. I had a player kicking off and wanting to be sold as his contract was running down with 6 months left and he was worried he wouldn't get a renewal. He wouldn't sign a new deal because of this and eventually signed for another team. Sadly there was no option to tell him he was eligible for citizenship in 5 months and wouldn't need a work permit anymore. Player interactions generally only add negatives to the game in my opinion and I'd be happy never having to do them. Same as press conferences, which are also boring and repetitive. I'd give them to my AM but I've done that before and he upset people more then I did. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VBM Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 To be fair - I have been playing it since the early 90's. So I guess I am partly to blame for them not fixing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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