Dodgyknees Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Cracking result as part of my rebuild: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 What formation are you going with? Impressive amount of shots! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdistheword Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Main problem will be the media prediction being first so may well end up being sacked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 What formation are you going with? Impressive amount of shots! Benteke - RVP Kagawa Honda - Fellaini Carrick Shaw - Vidic - Mangala - Raphael De Gea I play possession and attacking football, passing ball through the middle, Benteke as CF, RVP as DLF, Kagawa with a free role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 After selling Rooney, I brought in Klose as a stop gap and found an italian youngster who was highly rated by my scouts, Klose has 3 goals in 5 games (3 sub), so quite happy there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avfc96 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Don't know how to take and post screenshots to put on here, so here goes, Sold: Valencia Young Anderson Rooney Fabio Bought Gil Romero Jese Ocampos Rulli Silva Balanta Team looks something like this, RVP Welbeck Kagawa Ocampos Carrick Fellani Evra Vidic Jones Rafael De Gea Results so far, N Community Shield, Wigan 4-1 H Premier League, Swansea 1-1 H Premier League, Chelsea 4-0 A Premier League, Arsenal 2-3 Unbeaten start, not bad at all. Van Persie is still yet to score. Welbeck is my top scorer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MessiWillSignForVilla Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Just loaded up my Villa save after not playing on FM for a while, and beat WBA 3-0 to go top (albeit after 5 games) But then got reminded I'm playing at the Ricoh Arena as VP is being expanded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Got relegated first season with Palace, but completely smashing the Championship and into the final of the League Cup. Lost the first leg 3-0 against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, they over-rotated their squad in the second leg and I subsequently battered them 6-2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Lost on penalties to Everton, was the better side too. Anyways, completed smashing the Championship and now have about 10 points from 10 games in the Prem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 First season with VIlla, I used the Benteke money to buy an attacking mid and a defensive mid, won the league cup and FA Cup. At the end of the season I sold off a lot of players and raised 35m, used this to build again. Currently sat 5th, in FA Cup final and in the later rounds of Euro Cup. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harris21 Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Each time I manage Villa I'm just terrible! Think I let bias get in the way of making important decisions. Do Villa get relegated ever time on this? I've had 3 saves that I've not been Villa manager and the go down by the 3rd season! Currently managing a french second division team (something about crocodiles) no money, low wages, whole first team squad over 29. Manged them for 3 seasons now, improved on positions every season. Now have no player over 25... all on free transfers and all 4-5 stars. Find a tactic that works well... but then all of a sudden can buy a win, only start winning again when I mix it up. Happens over and over, anyone else get this? EDIT: Nimes Olympique Got Nimes Olympique promoted to Ligue 1 as champions... was sitting 4th half way through my first season in the top flight. Villa then offered me job as manager... they are a crap Championship team atm... So I jumped ship to re-build my beloved Villa... lost my first 6 games in a row. Can't by a win, players all old and crap. Going to take a lot to sort this out. Keep your fingers crossed!Bit of an update... Finished mid table in the championship, not bad considering the mess I walked into. Second season I signed young players with big potential (like I did with Nimes) got promoted as champions! First season in the prem I cleared all deadwood (PL would be proud!) and signed more young players with big potential (part of my promise to the board), no player over the age of 26 in my entire squad. Finished 2nd 2 points behind Man City, only had to win my last 2 games to win the league, Man Utd destroyed me 4-0, then drew with Watford away (who were already relegated). Currently half way through my second season in the prem, mid table, out of the CL.... not looking too good Play a 4-1-2-2-1 all with support on (even striker who is a false 9)... Keep possession loads and have loads of shots, but only get like 25% on target, frustrated. Go from winning 5-0 to losing 1-0 with them only needing one shot on target Another update... although getting knocked out of the CL was depressing I went on to win the League Cup but finished 9th. Next season I won the Euro Cup and finished 6th. Just started my preseason, 6 of my players are wanted by barca, man city etc. Keep bidding over £30m for each but they are all wonderkids and I want to mount a title challenge so they can do one!! Will be hard to keep them if I don't finish top 4 next season at the least. Fingers crossed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyBM Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 (edited) im back into this game now, admit though to a little cheating ;-) with villa, sold all the crap players to raise about £80m, bought in players in a free who are england based, and spent a bit on a couple of foreign players, in the same file im also playing with blues to make sure they lose every game and get relegated, im aiming to win everything with villa and lose everything with blues, so understandably, the game is taking much longer villa team IN - Hennessey, Bertrand, Defour, Vydra, Dost, Saunders jnr, Bellamy jnr and a few joungsters from albion, wolves, walsall and blues to bulk the U18s OUT - Guzan, Given, Hutton, Bennett, Stevens, El Ahmadi, Ireland, NZogbia, Johnson, Bent, Bowery, Delfouneso clearly, the controversial decision there is guzan out and hennessey in, i decided i wanted someone younger and british, and we have no decent young english keepers defour, yes, a typical buy, he supports the english lads in delph and gardner, with vlaar supporting the lads in lowton, baker and bertand, made sense really also appointed spink, saunders and daley as coaches, was considering changing culverhouse as assistant but hes doing a brilliant job, did want brian little but he wont sign lol Edited February 5, 2014 by AndyBM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Is this worth getting? I always toy with the idea and I am kind of itching for it again but I can't decide if it is worth the money or not, FM13 I played for a week (clocked up a crazy amount of hours in that week though) and then never played it again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Less than £20 on CDKeys.com and Play.com now, definitely worth diving in if you don't want to have a life anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 My VIlla squad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 My VIlla squad Jesus, great squad, only Grealish left I see - what season are you in now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 2016-2017 Barry is a right old man now, but a lot of my younger players are learning from him and like him, so I am keeping him on till he retires. Also got Jordan Graham in my reserves. I am pretty much a selling club, sold Romero (the guy somebody mentioned here?) for 20m, Zivkovic for 30m, Daehli for 25m and a few others on top... Romeu for 7m... With this I bought Barkley, Wanyama, Bakkali and a few youngsters who are on loan at my feeder club or in u21s. Next up I hope to sell Silva, Dragovic and maybe Campbell for around 40m (for the lot) for another set of purchases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadlyDirk Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 I've just got this incarnation of the game, and am so far finding it much easier than the 2013 game, it's much more enjoyable too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 2016-2017 Barry is a right old man now, but a lot of my younger players are learning from him and like him, so I am keeping him on till he retires. Also got Jordan Graham in my reserves. I am pretty much a selling club, sold Romero (the guy somebody mentioned here?) for 20m, Zivkovic for 30m, Daehli for 25m and a few others on top... Romeu for 7m... With this I bought Barkley, Wanyama, Bakkali and a few youngsters who are on loan at my feeder club or in u21s. Next up I hope to sell Silva, Dragovic and maybe Campbell for around 40m (for the lot) for another set of purchases. Sounds like you're creating a stable Villa set up. Would you like a job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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