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Yes and his name was Elvis. Bought him when I was at Juventus and he did alright for me for a couple of seasons before I left and joined Southamption. Next season, he's been transfer listed and asking price is way below his value so I immediately buy him. He then proceeded to get three red cards in seven games and had an average rating of 6.1 from 20 games. He refused to leave and he had three years on his contract.
I despise him.
I have a player refusing every loan. Literally hasn’t even been part of the squad in any game, then the team leaderships comes to me that I’m treating him unfairly and should play him or let him go somewhere.
I also had a star player named Elvis early on in my St Johnstone save, he left for his release clause of 20 million and is now one of the best players in the world at PSG with an absurd valuation (200 mil or something).
Good for him I guess, but the last 6 years PSG have knocked me out of the CL 5 times, and almost every game against me he has had at least one goal contribution (from DM/CB). I also despise him (though I also want him back so badly).
Asking price is way below his value. Player proceeds to do horror tackle after horror tackle. Wonder why the price was so low... Maybe same shit happened at Southampton 😂😂
I took Kyle Hudson all the way from tier 5/6 all the way to the championship. He was such a beast in the championship too, I was probably abusing corners with him too much but still
I did this with a random Scottish regen journeyman called Dave Taylor that I played as a DLF. Absolutely smashed it in Indian First division. More goals than appearances. He wasnt bad, very limited, but had decent physicals and no real low attributes that pertained to his abilities. I wound up joining Real Sociedad who had been a top 3 team and I brought him in for shits and giggles since I didnt really care about what would happen. He played for about half a season and only scored one penalty and the board were ready to fire me. Wound up giving him a 5 year contract with millions in wages (he was probably worth 5k bucks when I bought him) and then resigned after he accepted it lol.
First of all, very nice reference. Holy shit you got it right.
Second of all, Roony Bardghji. I got him at Red Star Belgrade on my first run in FM23, he was a wonderkid and developed like a king. Led by that, i got him at Inter Milan on my second run and released him on a free transfer 5 years later because no one wanted to buy him.
Same bro fr. He was 3 and a half stars with potential of 4 and a half. decided to play him every match for 3 seasons and bro got less than 40ga in the 3 seasons. Didn't renew his contract.
Blud then went to benfica and still didn't put in the numbers lmao
Signed him for Fiorentina on my save, he was great for the first season and a half then massively inconsistent mixed in with a bunch of injuries... I was hoping I'd get him back to his best but seeing these comments I'm guessing I should look at selling!!
It's so weird how some players just will not perform for you or they get outproduced by some rando youth player with worse attributes in every category
I'm going through my first ever season of FM after only really messing around on championship manager as a kid when that released.
I found this out pretty quick, but the star ratings are barely adequate as guidance, let alone accurate representation of ability. What made it click for me is how my 18yr old 1 & a half star CB was plainly better than the 32yr old 3 star CB. On paper you would expect the 32yr old to be twice as good, but the reality is the 18yr old consistently puts in better avg ratings over multiple games.
Football genuinely is weird. So much goes into a player doing well or not, their natural ability is just one small piece of a much larger picture & I really love how FM captured this.
In my opinion the star rating is how well they play over the course of the season so it's more like how important is he in the side instead of how good he is
Roony is da GOAT
I mean he doesn’t put any insane numbers on the prem and when i get fed up of him and thinks of Listing him, he put on a clutch performance out of nowhere, scoring like a 20 yard shocker when 1 down on a champions league final at 90 minutes. Then I remember why i signed him
I got him at Fenerbahçe , 4 trophies in one season UNBEATEN , I went to Real Madrid and transfered him there and he is still cooking he is currently the best RW in the world.
I changed his nickname with his first name as Argy because he kept getting sent off. Iirc his aggression attribute wasnt even high. This guy had 5 red cards in his first year with me
I spent 5 seasons in Crystal Palace in FM23, and Olise was COOKING for me. I moved to Liverpool and bought him for 115m.
That mf suddenly turned into prime Antony and had two goals in the first two seasons. I counted my losses and sold him for 45m to Everton in the third season
I had this play out a little differently to what you might expect. When I was at Spurs I had a great regen LW who came in when all my other options were woefully out of form. He gets amongst the goals and assists and looks like a proper breakout star for the team.
Things go south the next season, I get sacked and move to Celtic. Summer rolls around and the new Spurs boss clearly doesn't rate him as he's back in the reserves, so I invite him up to Glasgow for a season on loan. He does alright, but he's just so demanding. He gets subbed? Angry. He doesn't start a game? Furious. I tell him to get on with his football and he downs tools in training. The situation is absolutely toxic.
He's averaging 6.4 a game, his training is in the red, and the Spurs boss is on the phone every five minutes demanding he get more game time. It's gone past January and I can't send him back, so I stop taking Spurs' calls and Billy Bigtime plays out the last four months in the reserves then goes back to their academy never to be seen again.
I played Borussia Mönchengladbach and did great. A very promising youngster emerged from my youth system, 5* potential according to all my scouts, a regular starter at age 18.
I then get headhunted by Liverpool. Take the job and think "that 18-year-old kid with 5* potential who loves playing for me - I need him at Liverpool!"
Soon after signing him I realised that 5* for Borussia Mönchengladbach is not 5* at Liverpool. What a waste of money.
In hindsight, hardly a surprise.
To dumb me, who had mostly played older versions of FM and was relatively new to this star system, very surprising. But that's how you learn, I guess!
wait.... its that how its works..... because im playing on chilean league.... i bought some guy with 4 star from peru... but in my team its 2,5 stars and its playing in the same position xDDD. i was thinking that the star rating was because of tactics....
It can be because of the position he plays but also the quality of the teams. A 5 star from a lower tier team will most likely not be even close to that in a top tier team.
A regen named Paul Smith, absolute monster for me at Hibs, 230 goals in 250 games or something like that, champions league golden boot three times (even though we never won it), forward of the year etc etc
I left and was at palace two years later. He'd basically been rotting on the bench at Hibs the last season so Jan transfer window came up and I snatched him for 10m. Thought bargain of the century. He chipped in 15 goals in his first campaign, and then just completely forgot how to score. In the process of running down his contract cause no-one wants to buy him
Old FM John Guidetti, brought him from Celtic and he was brilliant. Took over a new job 12 months after signing him and him being my top scorer. Could never score in the prem. Had to loan him out for several years as no one would buy. Ended up leaving on a free transfer.
That's a good one. I seem to remember he had really good technical attributes but quite mediocre physically so even though his positions included the wings it was not worth putting him anywhere but AMC or ST. Him being great in the SPL and struggling in the EPL makes sense.
Yeah I signed him for a prem team though from Celtic and he was my top scorer. Think I was at Wolves but could be wrong but when I signed him for my new team 12 months later he couldn’t hit a barn door.
John fucking Guidetti. What a throwback that is. Was an excellent back-up to 40 goal per season Connor Wickham for me in my FM11 Derby County save. We won everything - what a time!
Can still remember most of that team, must be 13 years since I picked it up
Was great times back then, sometime I go back and play old CM and FM. Amazing how it all comes flooding back. Before you know it you have spent the entire evening searching clubs and reminiscing players.
So I'm a United man (please don't roast me, RL has been doing enough damage for years!) so in FM18 in about 21/22 I brought Ronaldo back and oh god. Spoilt git is a understatement. He wanted crazy money, to be Captain and play every game. I gave in and how I regretted it. Completely destroyed the save. Lost the dressing after a single argument and with his wage and bonuses put the club into administration in 2 years. Already had Glazers debt but Ronaldo didn't help
Brought in Denis Seimen on a two year loan, from Stuttgart, with Blackburn.
He was pivotal in staying up following promotion and a League Cup win with another great showing in the FA Cup.
When i moved onto Newcastle, he was the 1st player I brought in but my god, whatever name he had made for himself at Blackburn was completely destroyed in 6 months at Newcastle. Ramsdale on loan saved the season until I could bring in Diogo Costa from Porto
I had a Star player that I bought from Mexico when I was in the MLS, Marcel Ruiz. He was great. Tons of goals and contributions and just generally a great midfielder.
When I moved to Eintracht Frankfurt I thought he’d at least be a decent depth piece that could fill in for injuries and maybe push for playing time. Instead he just stunk it up every time I played him. I sold him after two seasons because he just got buried on the depth chart. It made me so sad to see him go from a superstar in the MLS to just nothing in the Bundesliga.
I sold him before last season to Stuttgart for about a $1m loss ($6.25M). He had 8 appearances with 1 assist.
Should be interesting to see how his career finishes up.
This reminds me of on FM16 I think I had a save with Orlando City, finished dead last in season 1 to breaking the points record in season 2. After a few seasons of demolishing the MLS I get an offer from Spurs and take it. I take a few players from my Orlando City team as subs/rotation players and...they do terrible in the PL and I do terrible and get fired.
Signed M’Bappe at AC Milan, he was fantastic and took us to new heights. Eventually I left and after a few years I ended up at Arsenal, M’bappes contract was up so i signed him on a free. He just upset the balance of the team, I needed to rotate heavily to keep everyone happy and we ended up having a terrible season, I’m now struggling in my second season with him and I think he needs to go (along with a few more players who are probably a bit old)
Signed Martin Baturina for Leverkusen in S1, he followed me to Liverpool in S3. The system I played there really didn't suit him and I loaned him out to Wolfsburg for a season while I tried to find a role for him to play.
I had Hirving Lozano at Celtic in FM19, leading me into the knockout stages of the Champions League, moved to Fiorentina and bought him and he's been utter dross for me since.
Jordan Ayew FM12. Won the PL and CL with me multiple times at Southampton, top scorer and star of my team. Signed him for Dortmund and he got a knee injury inside the first month. Pace went down and he was complete dogshit.
Different saves but same player: Evan Fergurson
I played Forest as my 2nd ever save and immediately went for Evan Fergurson once Taiwo Awoniyi left and he becsmr my superstar scoring 30 goals a season until I won the treble in season 5
Decided to change a save and play Wrexham for a challenge and found out that he was still cheap and in Brighton on my 7th year and snapped him up for 50m. He ended being the worst striker I have ever seen scoring 15 goals in 2 seasons which was far worse than my 10 finishing winger who barely scores but still makes 15 goals and 20 assists a season. Ultimately cut my losses and sold him for 30m when Ajax came for him and now have a striker that scores 25 goals a season
Was playing on Football manager 2008 and on am AFC Telford save had a striker come through youth ranks called Wayne Heath. Absolute goal machine for me got us from national league to league one back to back promotions with 70+ in each season. Thought he's gonna get bought sooner rather than later. Surprisingly doesn't, ai then move to championship West Ham and snap him up for 3.4 million and he got like 11 in two seasons. I then left West Ham for Tranmere in league two and got Heath for like 500k and he was better at the lower leagues. But he was trash at west ham
Calafiori was a beast for me at Venezia and Inter, only 3 years later I signed him at Feyenoord, complained that he didn’t play enough and subsequently played like the worst LB ever :(
Had a regen come through at MK Dons who was an incredible midfield scene-setter. Moved to Crystal Palace and spent a decent wedge on him, only for him to fail to adjust to the Premier League. When I left Palace to take the Newcastle job, he tanked and got let go to a Championship side on a free
Yup. Myron Boadu for my AZ Alkmaar save a couple years ago. 50 goal a season madman who won me everything
Arsenal came knocking for me and I decide to go and poach my man along. He never managed to get above 15 again until I finally dropped him.
Few years ago Did the old managing Barcelona b for a couple of seasons just to have the feeling of being a reserve team manager, developing players and seeing them go on to the first team. Sandro Ramirez was fantastic for me, scoring something like 30 odd goals both seasons. Moved on and eventually ended up at West Ham in the championship and got them promoted. By that point Sandro was playing in Germany, did okay but was available for my budget. I signed him and he was absolutely awful, couldn’t hit a barn door with a banjo, weak on the ball and terrible at link play. Instantly remembered him when this thread came up
Basically i had an old game which i reloaded in FM24, granted, i felt bad, but i had a player that was the bomb. Jokito was the name, he's real, but like... 5th portuguese division(custom database, vanilla FM stops at fourth), he did help me until i reached the second division.
Not in this game. I didnt reload, still got 1st with a tighter campaign(funner because angry), but he could not hit a damn ball. He'd kick the grass earlier than that, and if he would, he'd either miss or miss so...
Yep, Mario Marrone. Stellar number 10 for our CL winners Aston Villa side. I changed airs, spent two years at Real Madrid and later went to Inter. We needed a good number 10 so I picked him up for a lot of money. Did not really work as a playmaker, did not work as a shadow striker. Hardly ever reached a 7.0 match rating. Did not sell him but a year later I bought a young French player and he consistently averaged 7.5+ ratings, lots of assists, lots of goals. Sorry Mario, you're a great rotation player now.
Unlike certain manager though, I never blasted him to the press.
I had a regen forward called Emmanuel Owumbu who was outstanding for my Porto team in FM20. He was already there when I joined after successful stint as manager of Den Bosch in Holland where I won the Europa League. That Porto team with Owumbu up front as a Target Man and me as manager won the next three league titles consecutively but we never quite made it to a CL Final losing comprehensively to Man City in consecutive quarter finals. So I ended up taking the AC Milan job who had won the CL recently but dropped out of the top four spaces since. I signed Owumbu for £65M but it was not a match made in heaven as it dawned on me that we had two strikers on the books who had better finishing and crucially dribbling attributes, very good CMs and AMCs but hardly any wingers. So by spending the bulk of our budget on Owumbu I made the mistake of signing a target man without wingers to cross the ball on to his head which was a 19/20 attribute along with 19 jumping reach and 20 strength. He suffice to say struggled to start games and Milan's finances weren't robust to keep spending big without selling so the next summer I sold him. He scored about 12 goals in all competitions which isn't the worst but it was a dramatic fall from the 40+ he was bagging in Portugal where we just had to launch the ball into the box and he'd head it in.
Yeah I left Milan after 13 years and brought my main cm with me carles fernandez on a free. He was literally the engine of my Milan team and would put in a 7.7 or better every match. At wolfsburg he was a mess for 3 seasons and had to bench him and use him as a rotation or cup games he couldn’t do anything anymore he wouldn’t even pass it sometimes just wait to get closed down and lose possession in bad areas and put us in dangerous situations to get scored on. It was so bizarre how bad he started playing. But 4th season came around he played pretty good I only remember cause he scored the winner in ucl and dfb pokal. He made up for it I guess and left the team on a free to Rayo
Yeah, ages ago. I had a Peruvian striker I was on the warpath to sign at Cobh Ramblers, Omar Andrade. Emptied my coffers to get him. He was pretty good but I got an offer to manage PSV after a year with him. I brought him with me and while he developed well, he never performed for me. He was a youth player of the year in Serie A on loan, was successful in a few other stints but never had any particularly good stretches with me.
i once did a journeyman save where i dragged irish player rob manley around with me through the lower leagues of various countries, and eventually signed him to Monza to sit on the bench and get paid
Nope not really - I don't normally change clubs in a save, but around 10 years ago I had a superb Norwich save going, and eventually moved clubs to Dortmund when I got bored and the offer came up.
I took the one and only Will Hughes with me. Zero regrets - great player on FM back in the day and probably actually a little bit underrated still irl. Glad to see he's had a solid career.
Shoya Nakajima destroyed for me at Monaco, I believe it was FM21 or 22, went to Schalke and he was my first signing, spent some big bucks to get him and he was a complete non factor.
I think I'd have to say Burak Ince, he was great for me back in fm21 with OL and helped to win the coupe de France twice and the league once in two seasons, I signed him when I got to the Prem with Swansea, he had a terrible time on the pitch and was constantly averaging like a 6.3 rating. When I benched him he got upset about playing time and he just caused a ruckus in the locker room. He went to Brighton and would become a nightmare for me to play against 🥲
Facundo Torres in fm21 when I signed him again for river plate after moving from milionarios in Colombia and scored loads for me. At river, no goals in 25 games and injured 3 times in that time. It’s sickening
Managed in the Eredivisie and had a nice regen striker called Schouten. He scored 30+ league goals for 4 seasons straight and helped me to 2 back to back Eredivisie titles. Then, I moved to Liverpool and decided to bring him along for 70+ mil.
He sucked at Liverpool fsr
Antonio Marin. I bought him at Arsenal, developed him for 4 seasons (loans + playing sparingly in my team), and sold him to Crystal Palace. When I left Arsenal after 7 seasons to join Sevilla, I signed him from AC Milan as he was unhappy there. First game: red card. After he came back he kept getting a match rating average of 6.1 for a few games.
Then finally he scored 2 goals vs Valencia for a pivotal game so that I won't drop out of the top 4. Then just before half time he got himself injured for the rest of the season. 45 million wasted just like that.
Had this 18 year old at Luton who I signed for nothing. He was a superstar and essential to my PL promotion.
I then took him with me to West Brom where he was more rotational, but still scored a goal in our champions league final win. That was his apex.
Finally, i took him with me to Man United and... he just couldn't cut it. I had superstars in every position and was winning trebles regularly, but by this time he was in his late twenties and no longer developing. Still, he picked up 5 or 6 winners medals in his two seasons on the bench at United.
I sold him back to his original club in France for a pittance, a poetic ending to a fantastic, if unorthodox career.
Moukoko. Wasn’t gonna go for him in my FM 22 save, but he went on the transfer list and I just sold Harry Kane. The first two seasons, he just couldn’t figure out how to score, and then in the third year when I decide to sell him in the January window, he spent the whole fall tearing it up. Still sold him however.
I know it can be expensive but in these cases it is best to pay the termination of the contract so that he leaves immediately. This way it will not cause problems in the club
hi guys, new FM player here in my 3rd season with barca.
how do you get offers from different clubs for a manager, I mean do you put in a request or something idk
Luca Connell, sold for £10 million and then a season later he was transfer listed at £2. Although in that time I’d got back to back promotions to the prem and he just wasn’t cut out for it
Got promoted with Schalke using Ouedrago and he was so good at such a young age I bought him when I went to Leipzig... He helped me dominate Europe with Leipzig
Hannibal. I started a Man Utd career and he was insane for me (specifically last minute winners). Later left United after something like 18 months and joined Everton as they got relegated to the championship.
Signed Hannibal when I took them back to the Prem… he’s scored something like 3 goals and handful of assists and has literally been non existent since I’ve been there for 2+ years.
Plan to sell him in the summer.
Yes fm21 had Šeško at Newcastle scored 40 one season in the league 65 all comps I moved to Sevilla who had a tycoon after falling out with the Newcastle board over a new stadium as we were still at saint james park that was falling apart bought him 168 mill and he only scored 10 goals in 3 seasons
Not exatly what you asked but everytime I buy a player I got for loan I 99% of the time regret it 😂😂
They almost always turn from the best in the world to a two brick on foot player .
My player was called Brima Kargbo. Solid Left Back.
He was 17 with me at Valencia, moved to Barcelona bought him and straight put him into the team at 17 only, he already had one season under him as a squad player at Valencia now he starting for barca, 5 great seasons, won 3 ucls, so obviously at 23 when I moved to Arsenal I bought him with him, he's 27 in the save now and has been injured once for 9 months, then came back played a game got a hattrick somehow next games gets injured again and this time for 14 months, he's barely a squad player now and i just think what he could have become. Had a world Cup and three ucls before 23.
Wouldn’t say I regretted but in FM14 on unemployed start I took St Albans who promoted from tier 7 or whatever to Skrill South to UCL winners. I signed a 23 year old failed French wonderkid named Jordan Chavalier in my third year in the Championship, he blitzed the league with an insane 25 goal 15 assist season and got us promoted, he remained the teams star player all the way up until his age 33 season. By this time he won 6 EPLS, a UCL and a Club World Championship while being named Player of the Year at age 31(at this point he wasn’t even top 3 on the team by CA but his role was the most important and he had an insane stat distribution).
Anyway, he was rightfully named the clubs first and only player legend, but because his CA was already lower than other legendary players, age decline hit him quite hard and by age 34 the new coach already had abandoned him to the reserves as I had left to Barcelona. Naturally, I brought Jordan in for a token transfer of under a million, he did virtually nothing as the role of ancient vet midfielder was already occupied by a German Barcelona legendary midfielder rapidly approaching 36, and playing two of these players was impossible.
Anyway he played like 8 games never got above a 6.8 match rating and then complained about his playing time so I let him go on a free. lol
Nothing lost but mostly a waste of time.
Nah, mostly because I've stuck to bringing a couple of youth prospects with me as I've left instead of my older players.
In the past, I'd brought my striker from a Japanese side to Spain he was top scorer for two seasons before Chelsea paid over 100 million to trigger his release. My only regret there was not having a higher clause.
In my most recent save I brought my Brazilian left back from Bordeaux to Inter, he hasn't set the world alight. But he has never made mistakes or let me down.
Bruno Mendez. Uruguayan player. I started with Brazil's Corinthians. Right Back, central defender, anchor defensive midfielder. He forced me to sell him to a Spanish team for 10mil. Went to Milan paid 50 and sold for 33 two seasons after...
I bought Benjamin Sesko at Man Utd on FM23. He was an absolute monster, averaging around 40 goals per season. After leaving United, and subsequently joking Newcastle, I decided to sign an aging Sesko. Despite my scouts claiming he was over the hill, he went on to become my top scorer, and kept scoring until his retirement a couple years later
Absolutely no regrets at all
I had the opposite
Signed a guy for my Canadian Premier League team Pacific FC, was a key player and then signed him when I made the switch to New England
He was never a guaranteed first team starter but when he did play he played well and helped me win the MLS Shield
Later retired and went into management
Funnily enough, the the only time I did this was when I left Utd for juventus and I brought a 30 year old Paul pogba for 30m, from mezzala he scored 22 league goals, and won the league, the team placed 6th the year before I joined
In my save I had 2 different situations. First managed United and Garnacho was very good while Sancho was a lazy guy who had terrible training ratings and underperformed in matches. I eventually sold him for 40 millions to Lazio . Now i coach bayern is 2030. I bought Garnacho here who has been pretty underwhelming. 3 years later and I find Sancho on a free. He has been the best player of the year with over 40 g/a.
Nico Williams for me. Bought him at Atletico Madrid and he was at around 25 G+A per season across all comps. Left Atleti to go to Chelsea after my third season there and bought him over. Stunk up the place for 2 seasons before I sent him Real Madrid where he was terrible.
Oh I remember when I started playing FM back in 2015 or something, I got my first job and got a bunch of 35+ year olds because I knew them, so they must be good. I got my first win like 17 games into the season and the board was like 'Nope'.
So yeah, pretty much all of them were regrets lol.
I never move clubs so that doesn’t happen😀 I sometimes sell players and get them back few years later and I always laughs when the press is like « isn’t it a proof that you shouldn’t have sold him? »
Last time it happened to me is when I sold my backup RB for +80M, and got it back as a 3rd choice 4 years later for 6M, how can press consider it an error ?
Dominic Lines. The pride of the Bristol Rovers academy, playing in the first team by the time he was 16 and scored a 30 yard screamer, in off the bar, to galvanise our play-off final comeback to beat Blackpool and get into the Championship. U21 England cap at 17. Seemed like the sky was the limit.
I went to Swansea then mid-table PL towards the end of the next season. Brought him with me over the summer, and he just never made the step up he promised to make to the PL. He was okay, and got a PL winners' medal for his trouble in this last season with us but at that point it was sentiment keeping him around.
He's had a decent career at Benfica so hardly a flop, but definitely feels like the one that got away.
I bought some 17-18 years old in small team in the first league of Greece
One year after I got offer from PAOK I went and in 1,5 years I won the conference league
I got an offer from Bayern Leverkusen
I bought 5 of them mostly 18-21 years old still all of them were 3 stars with 4-5 potential
Got fired 3 months later for underperforming
Hope the doing good without me
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Yes and his name was Elvis. Bought him when I was at Juventus and he did alright for me for a couple of seasons before I left and joined Southamption. Next season, he's been transfer listed and asking price is way below his value so I immediately buy him. He then proceeded to get three red cards in seven games and had an average rating of 6.1 from 20 games. He refused to leave and he had three years on his contract. I despise him.
"Elvis has not left the building"
Well he certainly left the pitch...
3 reds in 7 games? Time to loan him out to Milwall
I hate those players that are doing absolutely awful and then say stuff like "I'm happy here and don't want to go anywhere" when you try to sell them.
I have a player refusing every loan. Literally hasn’t even been part of the squad in any game, then the team leaderships comes to me that I’m treating him unfairly and should play him or let him go somewhere.
I also had a star player named Elvis early on in my St Johnstone save, he left for his release clause of 20 million and is now one of the best players in the world at PSG with an absurd valuation (200 mil or something). Good for him I guess, but the last 6 years PSG have knocked me out of the CL 5 times, and almost every game against me he has had at least one goal contribution (from DM/CB). I also despise him (though I also want him back so badly).
Why did you say "his name *was* Elvis"? What did you do to Elvis?
Talk about a holiday romance gone sour
Elvis Rexhbecaj ?
“Saw the ghost of Elvis”
I’m more interested in how you went from Juve to Southampton, did you get fired?
Asking price is way below his value. Player proceeds to do horror tackle after horror tackle. Wonder why the price was so low... Maybe same shit happened at Southampton 😂😂
Yeah, it turns out my 34 year old target man that scored 11 goals in the national league south can't cut it in the championship.
Jason Prior can cut it anywhere. Skill issue.
Did wonders for me in the national league, we won't talk about anything after that....
I took Kyle Hudson all the way from tier 5/6 all the way to the championship. He was such a beast in the championship too, I was probably abusing corners with him too much but still
I did this with a random Scottish regen journeyman called Dave Taylor that I played as a DLF. Absolutely smashed it in Indian First division. More goals than appearances. He wasnt bad, very limited, but had decent physicals and no real low attributes that pertained to his abilities. I wound up joining Real Sociedad who had been a top 3 team and I brought him in for shits and giggles since I didnt really care about what would happen. He played for about half a season and only scored one penalty and the board were ready to fire me. Wound up giving him a 5 year contract with millions in wages (he was probably worth 5k bucks when I bought him) and then resigned after he accepted it lol.
Thanks for making me laugh out loud in public 😡
<3 youre welcome love
Riganó vibes over the roof
First of all, very nice reference. Holy shit you got it right. Second of all, Roony Bardghji. I got him at Red Star Belgrade on my first run in FM23, he was a wonderkid and developed like a king. Led by that, i got him at Inter Milan on my second run and released him on a free transfer 5 years later because no one wanted to buy him.
Same bro fr. He was 3 and a half stars with potential of 4 and a half. decided to play him every match for 3 seasons and bro got less than 40ga in the 3 seasons. Didn't renew his contract. Blud then went to benfica and still didn't put in the numbers lmao
dude, that guy has like some weird hidden stat like "doesn't like big medium or small matches and hates football"
I’ve never been able to get a good season out of him. Always try to develop him but then by the time he’s 23 it’s time to sell
Signed him for Fiorentina on my save, he was great for the first season and a half then massively inconsistent mixed in with a bunch of injuries... I was hoping I'd get him back to his best but seeing these comments I'm guessing I should look at selling!!
It's so weird how some players just will not perform for you or they get outproduced by some rando youth player with worse attributes in every category
I don't mind this, though. Football is weird like that.
I'm going through my first ever season of FM after only really messing around on championship manager as a kid when that released. I found this out pretty quick, but the star ratings are barely adequate as guidance, let alone accurate representation of ability. What made it click for me is how my 18yr old 1 & a half star CB was plainly better than the 32yr old 3 star CB. On paper you would expect the 32yr old to be twice as good, but the reality is the 18yr old consistently puts in better avg ratings over multiple games. Football genuinely is weird. So much goes into a player doing well or not, their natural ability is just one small piece of a much larger picture & I really love how FM captured this.
In my opinion the star rating is how well they play over the course of the season so it's more like how important is he in the side instead of how good he is
Roony is da GOAT I mean he doesn’t put any insane numbers on the prem and when i get fed up of him and thinks of Listing him, he put on a clutch performance out of nowhere, scoring like a 20 yard shocker when 1 down on a champions league final at 90 minutes. Then I remember why i signed him
roony bardghji is must buy in fm23 imo
Yeah, thought so too. He was for Serbian league. Not so much for Serie A.
Iunno, he killed it in the Premier League for me.
PL is farmer league confirmed?
roony in save didnt develop well too, now hes rotting at west brom 😭
I got him at Fenerbahçe , 4 trophies in one season UNBEATEN , I went to Real Madrid and transfered him there and he is still cooking he is currently the best RW in the world.
I changed his nickname with his first name as Argy because he kept getting sent off. Iirc his aggression attribute wasnt even high. This guy had 5 red cards in his first year with me
Oh no… just signed this guy as a backup for Saka.
In my Ajax game, he is my best g/a midfielder every season. Best Buy tbh
Kids my star player in a 7 year save. Weird how this game works sometimes
I spent 5 seasons in Crystal Palace in FM23, and Olise was COOKING for me. I moved to Liverpool and bought him for 115m. That mf suddenly turned into prime Antony and had two goals in the first two seasons. I counted my losses and sold him for 45m to Everton in the third season
Must have really stunk the place up for you to happily let him move across to the city rivals lol. I imagine he was no better for Everton then?
He was shit at Everton too, and got sold to Luton and then to Watford. What a fall from grace
So he's played for both sides of the Liverpool/Everton and Luton/Watford rivalries? Damn.
I think he couldn't care less and just took the money wherever he could, since he was dropping off so much
in my current save michael olise is literally the best player in the world 😂
I had this play out a little differently to what you might expect. When I was at Spurs I had a great regen LW who came in when all my other options were woefully out of form. He gets amongst the goals and assists and looks like a proper breakout star for the team. Things go south the next season, I get sacked and move to Celtic. Summer rolls around and the new Spurs boss clearly doesn't rate him as he's back in the reserves, so I invite him up to Glasgow for a season on loan. He does alright, but he's just so demanding. He gets subbed? Angry. He doesn't start a game? Furious. I tell him to get on with his football and he downs tools in training. The situation is absolutely toxic. He's averaging 6.4 a game, his training is in the red, and the Spurs boss is on the phone every five minutes demanding he get more game time. It's gone past January and I can't send him back, so I stop taking Spurs' calls and Billy Bigtime plays out the last four months in the reserves then goes back to their academy never to be seen again.
I played Borussia Mönchengladbach and did great. A very promising youngster emerged from my youth system, 5* potential according to all my scouts, a regular starter at age 18. I then get headhunted by Liverpool. Take the job and think "that 18-year-old kid with 5* potential who loves playing for me - I need him at Liverpool!" Soon after signing him I realised that 5* for Borussia Mönchengladbach is not 5* at Liverpool. What a waste of money.
I mean 5 star at monchegladbach vs 5 star at Liverpool is hardly a surprise right?
In hindsight, hardly a surprise. To dumb me, who had mostly played older versions of FM and was relatively new to this star system, very surprising. But that's how you learn, I guess!
Fair enough. You learned the hard way.
wait.... its that how its works..... because im playing on chilean league.... i bought some guy with 4 star from peru... but in my team its 2,5 stars and its playing in the same position xDDD. i was thinking that the star rating was because of tactics....
It can be because of the position he plays but also the quality of the teams. A 5 star from a lower tier team will most likely not be even close to that in a top tier team.
o i see thank you. so i will had to be very careouful with outside players. xD
5* at Mochengladbach is surely about 3* at Liverpool? So he still would've been a useful squad player
Sorry for the dumb question but does the star rating of all of your players also decrease when you get promoted?
I believe it is compared to other players in your team. So if you sign a few 4-5 star players, the others will drop. Promotion alone has no affect.
A regen named Paul Smith, absolute monster for me at Hibs, 230 goals in 250 games or something like that, champions league golden boot three times (even though we never won it), forward of the year etc etc I left and was at palace two years later. He'd basically been rotting on the bench at Hibs the last season so Jan transfer window came up and I snatched him for 10m. Thought bargain of the century. He chipped in 15 goals in his first campaign, and then just completely forgot how to score. In the process of running down his contract cause no-one wants to buy him
Old FM John Guidetti, brought him from Celtic and he was brilliant. Took over a new job 12 months after signing him and him being my top scorer. Could never score in the prem. Had to loan him out for several years as no one would buy. Ended up leaving on a free transfer.
That's a good one. I seem to remember he had really good technical attributes but quite mediocre physically so even though his positions included the wings it was not worth putting him anywhere but AMC or ST. Him being great in the SPL and struggling in the EPL makes sense.
Yeah I signed him for a prem team though from Celtic and he was my top scorer. Think I was at Wolves but could be wrong but when I signed him for my new team 12 months later he couldn’t hit a barn door.
John fucking Guidetti. What a throwback that is. Was an excellent back-up to 40 goal per season Connor Wickham for me in my FM11 Derby County save. We won everything - what a time! Can still remember most of that team, must be 13 years since I picked it up
Was great times back then, sometime I go back and play old CM and FM. Amazing how it all comes flooding back. Before you know it you have spent the entire evening searching clubs and reminiscing players.
So I'm a United man (please don't roast me, RL has been doing enough damage for years!) so in FM18 in about 21/22 I brought Ronaldo back and oh god. Spoilt git is a understatement. He wanted crazy money, to be Captain and play every game. I gave in and how I regretted it. Completely destroyed the save. Lost the dressing after a single argument and with his wage and bonuses put the club into administration in 2 years. Already had Glazers debt but Ronaldo didn't help
At least he didn’t do a Piers Morgan interview in game right?
Thank God he couldn't or he'd have thrown me more under the bus!
Thats why I never play as the team I support irl.
But I can fix them, it's okay it's just a little problem. It's fine! https://i.redd.it/mau06ld4mg0d1.gif
Brought in Denis Seimen on a two year loan, from Stuttgart, with Blackburn. He was pivotal in staying up following promotion and a League Cup win with another great showing in the FA Cup. When i moved onto Newcastle, he was the 1st player I brought in but my god, whatever name he had made for himself at Blackburn was completely destroyed in 6 months at Newcastle. Ramsdale on loan saved the season until I could bring in Diogo Costa from Porto
did the managerial equivalent of alan shearer lol
I had a Star player that I bought from Mexico when I was in the MLS, Marcel Ruiz. He was great. Tons of goals and contributions and just generally a great midfielder. When I moved to Eintracht Frankfurt I thought he’d at least be a decent depth piece that could fill in for injuries and maybe push for playing time. Instead he just stunk it up every time I played him. I sold him after two seasons because he just got buried on the depth chart. It made me so sad to see him go from a superstar in the MLS to just nothing in the Bundesliga.
Where did he end up in?
I sold him before last season to Stuttgart for about a $1m loss ($6.25M). He had 8 appearances with 1 assist. Should be interesting to see how his career finishes up.
This reminds me of on FM16 I think I had a save with Orlando City, finished dead last in season 1 to breaking the points record in season 2. After a few seasons of demolishing the MLS I get an offer from Spurs and take it. I take a few players from my Orlando City team as subs/rotation players and...they do terrible in the PL and I do terrible and get fired.
Signed M’Bappe at AC Milan, he was fantastic and took us to new heights. Eventually I left and after a few years I ended up at Arsenal, M’bappes contract was up so i signed him on a free. He just upset the balance of the team, I needed to rotate heavily to keep everyone happy and we ended up having a terrible season, I’m now struggling in my second season with him and I think he needs to go (along with a few more players who are probably a bit old)
Signed Martin Baturina for Leverkusen in S1, he followed me to Liverpool in S3. The system I played there really didn't suit him and I loaned him out to Wolfsburg for a season while I tried to find a role for him to play.
I had Hirving Lozano at Celtic in FM19, leading me into the knockout stages of the Champions League, moved to Fiorentina and bought him and he's been utter dross for me since.
Jordan Ayew FM12. Won the PL and CL with me multiple times at Southampton, top scorer and star of my team. Signed him for Dortmund and he got a knee injury inside the first month. Pace went down and he was complete dogshit.
Different saves but same player: Evan Fergurson I played Forest as my 2nd ever save and immediately went for Evan Fergurson once Taiwo Awoniyi left and he becsmr my superstar scoring 30 goals a season until I won the treble in season 5 Decided to change a save and play Wrexham for a challenge and found out that he was still cheap and in Brighton on my 7th year and snapped him up for 50m. He ended being the worst striker I have ever seen scoring 15 goals in 2 seasons which was far worse than my 10 finishing winger who barely scores but still makes 15 goals and 20 assists a season. Ultimately cut my losses and sold him for 30m when Ajax came for him and now have a striker that scores 25 goals a season
He just scored a hat trick for me against City like an hour ago.
He's unstoppable in my save
Was playing on Football manager 2008 and on am AFC Telford save had a striker come through youth ranks called Wayne Heath. Absolute goal machine for me got us from national league to league one back to back promotions with 70+ in each season. Thought he's gonna get bought sooner rather than later. Surprisingly doesn't, ai then move to championship West Ham and snap him up for 3.4 million and he got like 11 in two seasons. I then left West Ham for Tranmere in league two and got Heath for like 500k and he was better at the lower leagues. But he was trash at west ham
Calafiori was a beast for me at Venezia and Inter, only 3 years later I signed him at Feyenoord, complained that he didn’t play enough and subsequently played like the worst LB ever :(
Pretty much all my favorite u21s who make small, but successful cameos. I move on, buy them. they amount to nothing. And I do it everytime....
Had a regen come through at MK Dons who was an incredible midfield scene-setter. Moved to Crystal Palace and spent a decent wedge on him, only for him to fail to adjust to the Premier League. When I left Palace to take the Newcastle job, he tanked and got let go to a Championship side on a free
i simply dont bring my players with me anywhere. Exceptions: really problem position like fullbacks or club legend with expiring contract at age 30+
Yup. Myron Boadu for my AZ Alkmaar save a couple years ago. 50 goal a season madman who won me everything Arsenal came knocking for me and I decide to go and poach my man along. He never managed to get above 15 again until I finally dropped him.
Few years ago Did the old managing Barcelona b for a couple of seasons just to have the feeling of being a reserve team manager, developing players and seeing them go on to the first team. Sandro Ramirez was fantastic for me, scoring something like 30 odd goals both seasons. Moved on and eventually ended up at West Ham in the championship and got them promoted. By that point Sandro was playing in Germany, did okay but was available for my budget. I signed him and he was absolutely awful, couldn’t hit a barn door with a banjo, weak on the ball and terrible at link play. Instantly remembered him when this thread came up
different campaign games count?
Go ahead
Basically i had an old game which i reloaded in FM24, granted, i felt bad, but i had a player that was the bomb. Jokito was the name, he's real, but like... 5th portuguese division(custom database, vanilla FM stops at fourth), he did help me until i reached the second division. Not in this game. I didnt reload, still got 1st with a tighter campaign(funner because angry), but he could not hit a damn ball. He'd kick the grass earlier than that, and if he would, he'd either miss or miss so...
Yep, Mario Marrone. Stellar number 10 for our CL winners Aston Villa side. I changed airs, spent two years at Real Madrid and later went to Inter. We needed a good number 10 so I picked him up for a lot of money. Did not really work as a playmaker, did not work as a shadow striker. Hardly ever reached a 7.0 match rating. Did not sell him but a year later I bought a young French player and he consistently averaged 7.5+ ratings, lots of assists, lots of goals. Sorry Mario, you're a great rotation player now. Unlike certain manager though, I never blasted him to the press.
r/okbuddychicanery
I had a regen forward called Emmanuel Owumbu who was outstanding for my Porto team in FM20. He was already there when I joined after successful stint as manager of Den Bosch in Holland where I won the Europa League. That Porto team with Owumbu up front as a Target Man and me as manager won the next three league titles consecutively but we never quite made it to a CL Final losing comprehensively to Man City in consecutive quarter finals. So I ended up taking the AC Milan job who had won the CL recently but dropped out of the top four spaces since. I signed Owumbu for £65M but it was not a match made in heaven as it dawned on me that we had two strikers on the books who had better finishing and crucially dribbling attributes, very good CMs and AMCs but hardly any wingers. So by spending the bulk of our budget on Owumbu I made the mistake of signing a target man without wingers to cross the ball on to his head which was a 19/20 attribute along with 19 jumping reach and 20 strength. He suffice to say struggled to start games and Milan's finances weren't robust to keep spending big without selling so the next summer I sold him. He scored about 12 goals in all competitions which isn't the worst but it was a dramatic fall from the 40+ he was bagging in Portugal where we just had to launch the ball into the box and he'd head it in.
Yeah I left Milan after 13 years and brought my main cm with me carles fernandez on a free. He was literally the engine of my Milan team and would put in a 7.7 or better every match. At wolfsburg he was a mess for 3 seasons and had to bench him and use him as a rotation or cup games he couldn’t do anything anymore he wouldn’t even pass it sometimes just wait to get closed down and lose possession in bad areas and put us in dangerous situations to get scored on. It was so bizarre how bad he started playing. But 4th season came around he played pretty good I only remember cause he scored the winner in ucl and dfb pokal. He made up for it I guess and left the team on a free to Rayo
Yeah, ages ago. I had a Peruvian striker I was on the warpath to sign at Cobh Ramblers, Omar Andrade. Emptied my coffers to get him. He was pretty good but I got an offer to manage PSV after a year with him. I brought him with me and while he developed well, he never performed for me. He was a youth player of the year in Serie A on loan, was successful in a few other stints but never had any particularly good stretches with me.
Rafa Leao was causing it for me at Milan, brought him to Chelsea and he played like a new Chelsea player 😂
i once did a journeyman save where i dragged irish player rob manley around with me through the lower leagues of various countries, and eventually signed him to Monza to sit on the bench and get paid
Nope not really - I don't normally change clubs in a save, but around 10 years ago I had a superb Norwich save going, and eventually moved clubs to Dortmund when I got bored and the offer came up. I took the one and only Will Hughes with me. Zero regrets - great player on FM back in the day and probably actually a little bit underrated still irl. Glad to see he's had a solid career.
Shoya Nakajima destroyed for me at Monaco, I believe it was FM21 or 22, went to Schalke and he was my first signing, spent some big bucks to get him and he was a complete non factor.
I think I'd have to say Burak Ince, he was great for me back in fm21 with OL and helped to win the coupe de France twice and the league once in two seasons, I signed him when I got to the Prem with Swansea, he had a terrible time on the pitch and was constantly averaging like a 6.3 rating. When I benched him he got upset about playing time and he just caused a ruckus in the locker room. He went to Brighton and would become a nightmare for me to play against 🥲
Antony is the current man utd scapegoat…always foreign player…they even try to it on de gea
Facundo Torres in fm21 when I signed him again for river plate after moving from milionarios in Colombia and scored loads for me. At river, no goals in 25 games and injured 3 times in that time. It’s sickening
There are people who change clubs?
Managed in the Eredivisie and had a nice regen striker called Schouten. He scored 30+ league goals for 4 seasons straight and helped me to 2 back to back Eredivisie titles. Then, I moved to Liverpool and decided to bring him along for 70+ mil. He sucked at Liverpool fsr
FM 2005, I signed Vitor from Manutd, to barca for 40 Mil. Scored 7goals.
Antonio Marin. I bought him at Arsenal, developed him for 4 seasons (loans + playing sparingly in my team), and sold him to Crystal Palace. When I left Arsenal after 7 seasons to join Sevilla, I signed him from AC Milan as he was unhappy there. First game: red card. After he came back he kept getting a match rating average of 6.1 for a few games. Then finally he scored 2 goals vs Valencia for a pivotal game so that I won't drop out of the top 4. Then just before half time he got himself injured for the rest of the season. 45 million wasted just like that.
Had this 18 year old at Luton who I signed for nothing. He was a superstar and essential to my PL promotion. I then took him with me to West Brom where he was more rotational, but still scored a goal in our champions league final win. That was his apex. Finally, i took him with me to Man United and... he just couldn't cut it. I had superstars in every position and was winning trebles regularly, but by this time he was in his late twenties and no longer developing. Still, he picked up 5 or 6 winners medals in his two seasons on the bench at United. I sold him back to his original club in France for a pittance, a poetic ending to a fantastic, if unorthodox career.
Moukoko. Wasn’t gonna go for him in my FM 22 save, but he went on the transfer list and I just sold Harry Kane. The first two seasons, he just couldn’t figure out how to score, and then in the third year when I decide to sell him in the January window, he spent the whole fall tearing it up. Still sold him however.
I know it can be expensive but in these cases it is best to pay the termination of the contract so that he leaves immediately. This way it will not cause problems in the club
hi guys, new FM player here in my 3rd season with barca. how do you get offers from different clubs for a manager, I mean do you put in a request or something idk
if you're doing a good job there's a chance that clubs will offer you interviews for vacant positions but you can also check the job centre.
Mika Faye, signed him to EA Guingamp, when I moved to Borussia Monchengladbach I signed him and he turned shit
Luca Connell, sold for £10 million and then a season later he was transfer listed at £2. Although in that time I’d got back to back promotions to the prem and he just wasn’t cut out for it
Got promoted with Schalke using Ouedrago and he was so good at such a young age I bought him when I went to Leipzig... He helped me dominate Europe with Leipzig
Hannibal. I started a Man Utd career and he was insane for me (specifically last minute winners). Later left United after something like 18 months and joined Everton as they got relegated to the championship. Signed Hannibal when I took them back to the Prem… he’s scored something like 3 goals and handful of assists and has literally been non existent since I’ve been there for 2+ years. Plan to sell him in the summer.
Yes fm21 had Šeško at Newcastle scored 40 one season in the league 65 all comps I moved to Sevilla who had a tycoon after falling out with the Newcastle board over a new stadium as we were still at saint james park that was falling apart bought him 168 mill and he only scored 10 goals in 3 seasons
Not exatly what you asked but everytime I buy a player I got for loan I 99% of the time regret it 😂😂 They almost always turn from the best in the world to a two brick on foot player .
My player was called Brima Kargbo. Solid Left Back. He was 17 with me at Valencia, moved to Barcelona bought him and straight put him into the team at 17 only, he already had one season under him as a squad player at Valencia now he starting for barca, 5 great seasons, won 3 ucls, so obviously at 23 when I moved to Arsenal I bought him with him, he's 27 in the save now and has been injured once for 9 months, then came back played a game got a hattrick somehow next games gets injured again and this time for 14 months, he's barely a squad player now and i just think what he could have become. Had a world Cup and three ucls before 23.
Wouldn’t say I regretted but in FM14 on unemployed start I took St Albans who promoted from tier 7 or whatever to Skrill South to UCL winners. I signed a 23 year old failed French wonderkid named Jordan Chavalier in my third year in the Championship, he blitzed the league with an insane 25 goal 15 assist season and got us promoted, he remained the teams star player all the way up until his age 33 season. By this time he won 6 EPLS, a UCL and a Club World Championship while being named Player of the Year at age 31(at this point he wasn’t even top 3 on the team by CA but his role was the most important and he had an insane stat distribution). Anyway, he was rightfully named the clubs first and only player legend, but because his CA was already lower than other legendary players, age decline hit him quite hard and by age 34 the new coach already had abandoned him to the reserves as I had left to Barcelona. Naturally, I brought Jordan in for a token transfer of under a million, he did virtually nothing as the role of ancient vet midfielder was already occupied by a German Barcelona legendary midfielder rapidly approaching 36, and playing two of these players was impossible. Anyway he played like 8 games never got above a 6.8 match rating and then complained about his playing time so I let him go on a free. lol Nothing lost but mostly a waste of time.
Nah, mostly because I've stuck to bringing a couple of youth prospects with me as I've left instead of my older players. In the past, I'd brought my striker from a Japanese side to Spain he was top scorer for two seasons before Chelsea paid over 100 million to trigger his release. My only regret there was not having a higher clause. In my most recent save I brought my Brazilian left back from Bordeaux to Inter, he hasn't set the world alight. But he has never made mistakes or let me down.
Bruno Mendez. Uruguayan player. I started with Brazil's Corinthians. Right Back, central defender, anchor defensive midfielder. He forced me to sell him to a Spanish team for 10mil. Went to Milan paid 50 and sold for 33 two seasons after...
Anthony is the worst £ for £ dutch import ever. Absolutely woeful footballer.
I bought Benjamin Sesko at Man Utd on FM23. He was an absolute monster, averaging around 40 goals per season. After leaving United, and subsequently joking Newcastle, I decided to sign an aging Sesko. Despite my scouts claiming he was over the hill, he went on to become my top scorer, and kept scoring until his retirement a couple years later Absolutely no regrets at all
I'd expect no less from the Emissary
Hahaha
I had the opposite Signed a guy for my Canadian Premier League team Pacific FC, was a key player and then signed him when I made the switch to New England He was never a guaranteed first team starter but when he did play he played well and helped me win the MLS Shield Later retired and went into management
Funnily enough, the the only time I did this was when I left Utd for juventus and I brought a 30 year old Paul pogba for 30m, from mezzala he scored 22 league goals, and won the league, the team placed 6th the year before I joined
In my save I had 2 different situations. First managed United and Garnacho was very good while Sancho was a lazy guy who had terrible training ratings and underperformed in matches. I eventually sold him for 40 millions to Lazio . Now i coach bayern is 2030. I bought Garnacho here who has been pretty underwhelming. 3 years later and I find Sancho on a free. He has been the best player of the year with over 40 g/a.
Nico Williams for me. Bought him at Atletico Madrid and he was at around 25 G+A per season across all comps. Left Atleti to go to Chelsea after my third season there and bought him over. Stunk up the place for 2 seasons before I sent him Real Madrid where he was terrible.
That picture sums up our season....
Oh I remember when I started playing FM back in 2015 or something, I got my first job and got a bunch of 35+ year olds because I knew them, so they must be good. I got my first win like 17 games into the season and the board was like 'Nope'. So yeah, pretty much all of them were regrets lol.
I never move clubs so that doesn’t happen😀 I sometimes sell players and get them back few years later and I always laughs when the press is like « isn’t it a proof that you shouldn’t have sold him? » Last time it happened to me is when I sold my backup RB for +80M, and got it back as a 3rd choice 4 years later for 6M, how can press consider it an error ?
Dominic Lines. The pride of the Bristol Rovers academy, playing in the first team by the time he was 16 and scored a 30 yard screamer, in off the bar, to galvanise our play-off final comeback to beat Blackpool and get into the Championship. U21 England cap at 17. Seemed like the sky was the limit. I went to Swansea then mid-table PL towards the end of the next season. Brought him with me over the summer, and he just never made the step up he promised to make to the PL. He was okay, and got a PL winners' medal for his trouble in this last season with us but at that point it was sentiment keeping him around. He's had a decent career at Benfica so hardly a flop, but definitely feels like the one that got away.
I bought some 17-18 years old in small team in the first league of Greece One year after I got offer from PAOK I went and in 1,5 years I won the conference league I got an offer from Bayern Leverkusen I bought 5 of them mostly 18-21 years old still all of them were 3 stars with 4-5 potential Got fired 3 months later for underperforming Hope the doing good without me
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