Morph 31 Posted September 6 For those armchair managers FM2024 is currently free from Epic Games for a limited period. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/football-manager-2024 You can also find a database update to handle the various squad changes for the current season from https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-data-update Apologies to those who couldn’t care less, I did try to find the old thread. 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JonnyJonnyRowe 974 Posted September 6 Legend, just grabbed it, I'm still playing a long FM23 save. Very almost bought FM24 the other day! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Morph 31 Posted September 6 39 minutes ago, JonnyJonnyRowe said: Legend, just grabbed it, I'm still playing a long FM23 save. Very almost bought FM24 the other day! Ironically I did buy it at a reduced price through CDKeys just recently. Obviously nowhere near the full price. Currently top of the Championship with four wins from four. Drop me a PM if you’re interested in the 4-2-3-1 tactic I’m playing with Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mason 47 1,925 Posted September 6 I think I'm still on '23. Can anyone suggest whether or not the step over is worth it/ offers much difference? My current career went a bit flat because I lucked into a relegated Crystal Palace in the second season and became utterly unstoppable. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JonnyJonnyRowe 974 Posted September 6 21 minutes ago, Mason 47 said: I think I'm still on '23. Can anyone suggest whether or not the step over is worth it/ offers much difference? It costs £0 to find out right now so I'd jump at that, its still £44 on Steam 🤣 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man 4,620 Posted September 6 1 hour ago, JonnyJonnyRowe said: Legend, just grabbed it, I'm still playing a long FM23 save. Very almost bought FM24 the other day! Me too. I don't often manage Norwich on FM as I always like to pick smaller teams, but I took over Norwich in March 2028 just as they were about to be relegated from the Premier League. Fast forward to 2038 and I've won the Premier League six times in a row with three Champions Leagues, plus several other trophies. In the 2035/36 season I achieved the holy grail of winning every competition I was in (Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup, European Super Cup, Community Shield). I've got a ridiculous squad which is becoming too dominant to be enjoyable, so I'll probably move to a team in another European league when my contract expires in 2039 for one more challenge on FM23 before moving onto, in all likelihood, FM25. It's looking like FM24 will become only the third ever version that I won't play, because I'm still enjoying my save on the previous version. I can't help but get the feeling though that FM23 has been the easiest one ever, unless I've just 'cracked it' after two decades... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Virtual reality 860 Posted September 6 Can’t beat the perfection of championship manager 01/02. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Old Shuck 291 Posted September 6 Thankyou. Utter legend! That's my weekend gone. Question-am not, nor have ever been, the best at the game-what is the best formation for us at the start? I'm looking at 4-2-3-1 & maybe not bringing in that many players in the first window, see what we've got, game wise. I was a slave to 4-4-2 for many years and will always be grateful to some of the players who I signed, time and time again in various versions of the game- Kasper Hämäläinen, Patrik Lomski, Gabriel Torje and Michael Duff amongst them! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mason 47 1,925 Posted September 6 21 minutes ago, Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man said: Me too. I don't often manage Norwich on FM as I always like to pick smaller teams, but I took over Norwich in March 2028 just as they were about to be relegated from the Premier League. Fast forward to 2038 and I've won the Premier League six times in a row with three Champions Leagues, plus several other trophies. In the 2035/36 season I achieved the holy grail of winning every competition I was in (Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup, European Super Cup, Community Shield). I've got a ridiculous squad which is becoming too dominant to be enjoyable, so I'll probably move to a team in another European league when my contract expires in 2039 for one more challenge on FM23 before moving onto, in all likelihood, FM25. It's looking like FM24 will become only the third ever version that I won't play, because I'm still enjoying my save on the previous version. I can't help but get the feeling though that FM23 has been the easiest one ever, unless I've just 'cracked it' after two decades... RE your last point, I jumped from '19 to '23 and found my first few months (fired by Lincoln, 16 straight losses) impossible. Somehow got in at Palace in free fall from the PL, made £150m in the transfer window and then became an unstoppable juggernaut of a team. Never sure if that was down to me. The debate was- is the game easy, or did I just have a squad containing Ryan Sessengnon, Eze, Olise, Doucoure, Ndombele, Zaha, Cole Palmer, Joachim Andersen, Mudryk and Victor Gyokeres in the Championship? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JonnyJonnyRowe 974 Posted September 6 43 minutes ago, Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man said: It's looking like FM24 will become only the third ever version that I won't play, because I'm still enjoying my save on the previous version. Until you find out that you can now load your FM23 save on FM24 😉 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hogesar 10,766 Posted September 6 FM25 is looking poor so far so take advantage of this peeps! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hogesar 10,766 Posted September 6 28 minutes ago, Mason 47 said: RE your last point, I jumped from '19 to '23 and found my first few months (fired by Lincoln, 16 straight losses) impossible. Somehow got in at Palace in free fall from the PL, made £150m in the transfer window and then became an unstoppable juggernaut of a team. Never sure if that was down to me. The debate was- is the game easy, or did I just have a squad containing Ryan Sessengnon, Eze, Olise, Doucoure, Ndombele, Zaha, Cole Palmer, Joachim Andersen, Mudryk and Victor Gyokeres in the Championship? FM has got considerably easier over time, in my opinion. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man 4,620 Posted September 6 9 minutes ago, JonnyJonnyRowe said: Until you find out that you can now load your FM23 save on FM24 😉 Yeah, I'm aware of that, but I never thought it justified buying FM24 to do that, and even though it's free at the moment, I'd rather just continue as I am. 24 minutes ago, Mason 47 said: RE your last point, I jumped from '19 to '23 and found my first few months (fired by Lincoln, 16 straight losses) impossible. Somehow got in at Palace in free fall from the PL, made £150m in the transfer window and then became an unstoppable juggernaut of a team. Never sure if that was down to me. The debate was- is the game easy, or did I just have a squad containing Ryan Sessengnon, Eze, Olise, Doucoure, Ndombele, Zaha, Cole Palmer, Joachim Andersen, Mudryk and Victor Gyokeres in the Championship? Maybe. The relegated Norwich squad which I inherited contained lots of saleable assets, so I sold two-thirds of the squad, including all the best ones, for about £280m and built a Championship monster for around £90m. The excess cash was used to build a strong Premier League squad within a year or two of promotion; I finished second in my second season and won it in the third. But before taking over at Norwich, I took Gloucester to the Championship with not just four consecutive promotions, but four consecutive title wins in my first four seasons. That's something I've never achieved before on FM. On a separate save, my only other one on FM23, I managed to do something I'd never done before as well, which is win the second tier and top flight in consecutive seasons, which I did with La Serena in Chile. That's in addition to going on a 21-game winning streak with Norwich in the Championship and winning all six trophies in a season, as I mentioned in my previous post. These are things I'd never managed before, so I reckon FM23 is/was just a bit too easy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Christoph Stiepermann 1,261 Posted September 6 Think my win % on football manager must be sub 10% over the years, I always really like the idea of getting into it but I'm so bad at it 😂. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Feedthewolf 5,885 Posted September 6 1 hour ago, Virtual reality said: Can’t beat the perfection of championship manager 01/02. Still playing it now, with an updated database from about 2019. The modern ones just have too much detail for me, I can dip in and out of 01/02 and always know what's what. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man 4,620 Posted September 6 8 minutes ago, Feedthewolf said: Still playing it now, with an updated database from about 2019. The modern ones just have too much detail for me, I can dip in and out of 01/02 and always know what's what. Agreed, I have dipped into older games before because the new ones take too long to complete a season. Persistent press conferences are a right pain the backside. Up until FM22, you got a free copy of the watered down FM Touch, which was nice if you wanted to fly through a save more quickly, but they don't do that any more, which is a shame. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Morph 31 Posted September 6 1 hour ago, Old Shuck said: I'm looking at 4-2-3-1 & maybe not bringing in that many players in the first window, see what we've got, game wise. I was a slave to 4-4-2 for many years and will always be grateful to some of the players who I signed, time and time again in various versions of the game- Kasper Hämäläinen, Patrik Lomski, Gabriel Torje and Michael Duff amongst them! Pull down the DB update from the other link I provided to bring the City squad up to date, though note that Montoia is still in the squad. That does get you all the recent changes with Forson, Crnac, Schwartau and Slimane in the squad. As for formation, I’ve been playing 4-3-2-1 with a single pivot. Take a look for the Loki tactic online which seems quite effective. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulfotto 800 Posted September 6 2 hours ago, Feedthewolf said: Still playing it now, with an updated database from about 2019. The modern ones just have too much detail for me, I can dip in and out of 01/02 and always know what's what. If you struggle with the detail or simple don’t have enough time. The handheld and touch versions are pretty similar to 01/02. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wr4sb 66 Posted September 6 6 hours ago, JonnyJonnyRowe said: Until you find out that you can now load your FM23 save on FM24 😉 Guessing I can't load my FM19 save in though...😉 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
littleyellowbirdie 3,140 Posted September 6 10 hours ago, Morph said: For those armchair managers FM2024 is currently free from Epic Games for a limited period. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/football-manager-2024 You can also find a database update to handle the various squad changes for the current season from https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-data-update Apologies to those who couldn’t care less, I did try to find the old thread. Better yet, you can get a refund if you don't like it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JonnyJonnyRowe 974 Posted September 7 15 hours ago, Feedthewolf said: The modern ones just have too much detail for me You can be a hands off manager and delegate a lot of it though. I get my assistant to handle first team training and individual training for example. Just occasionally take control of individual training for a few young players. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Creedence Clearwater Couto 1,633 Posted September 7 (edited) 17 hours ago, Virtual reality said: Can’t beat the perfection of championship manager 01/02. You can. Champ man 98. 😵💫 Edited September 7 by Creedence Clearwater Couto 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Old Shuck 291 Posted September 9 I'm having a torrid time! 2-0 up at Plymouth Argyle, lost 3-2., three goals in the last five minutes. Lost 2-0 at home to Leicester City, never seen such a one sided game in any version of FM, Callum Doyle was like Maldini out there. My 4-2-3-1 formation isn't working, played 4-4-bloody 2 at home to Birmingham, scraped a 1-0 win, thanks to Duffy scoring from a corner. A choice of Van Hooijdonk or Barnes up front, Sarge out for the season-its enough to make you weep. Best player has been Gibbs by a mile! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Creedence Clearwater Couto 1,633 Posted September 9 34 minutes ago, Old Shuck said: I'm having a torrid time! 2-0 up at Plymouth Argyle, lost 3-2., three goals in the last five minutes. Lost 2-0 at home to Leicester City, never seen such a one sided game in any version of FM, Callum Doyle was like Maldini out there. My 4-2-3-1 formation isn't working, played 4-4-bloody 2 at home to Birmingham, scraped a 1-0 win, thanks to Duffy scoring from a corner. A choice of Van Hooijdonk or Barnes up front, Sarge out for the season-its enough to make you weep. Best player has been Gibbs by a mile! All sounded plausible until this. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mason 47 1,925 Posted September 9 51 minutes ago, Old Shuck said: I'm having a torrid time! 2-0 up at Plymouth Argyle, lost 3-2., three goals in the last five minutes. Lost 2-0 at home to Leicester City, never seen such a one sided game in any version of FM, Callum Doyle was like Maldini out there. My 4-2-3-1 formation isn't working, played 4-4-bloody 2 at home to Birmingham, scraped a 1-0 win, thanks to Duffy scoring from a corner. A choice of Van Hooijdonk or Barnes up front, Sarge out for the season-its enough to make you weep. Best player has been Gibbs by a mile! Sounds like we have a few enthusiasts on here, feel free to post a screenshot of your setup and perhaps the council of amateurs can offer some advice? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GRB2 83 Posted September 9 Formation & tactics I use which is has been successful for me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Old Shuck 291 Posted September 9 Right, they've had a day off cancelled and we've gone for wingbacks-McCallum and Stacey with three at the back. Kenny & Gibbs as the midfield two. Front three of Sainz-Onel-Rowe (who is being tapped up by Chris Wilder) for a game at Swansea, 3-0 up at half time, Onel didn't like playing centrally & said so, but scored two; Sainz with a header too! Held on to win 3-1. Gabby and Nunez on the bench but there'll be lots of like for like changes in the games to come. Up to 10th & bottom of the table Coventry at home next, might be in the play off places if we win that. Along come Norwich? Screenshots very welcome-I am notoriously diabolical at this game although as per an earlier thread, delegating staff to most of the day to day tasks is helping. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mr Angry 2,019 Posted September 9 I’m still playing FM20, as my local non-league team starting in Tier 11. Now in League Two which is where I suspect it will be much harder. Might download the free version of FM24 but I suspect that I will have to buy a new laptop, mine is 9 years old! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GRB2 83 Posted September 9 39 minutes ago, Old Shuck said: Screenshots very welcome-I am notoriously diabolical at this game although as per an earlier thread, delegating staff to most of the day to day tasks is helping. Always schedule Match reviews after every game - keeps Team cohesion high. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man 4,620 Posted September 9 4 hours ago, GRB2 said: Always schedule Match reviews after every game - keeps Team cohesion high. Recovery and match review the day after, match preview and at least one other match preparation option the day before. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
