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[Sheriff Skacel]

Anyone out there? Someone reply and lets talk, I'm in the mood to talk about FM and I can't remember my MSN details.

Someone, anyone.

[Joaquin Bibi]

"Champions League Final. You're regular striker has come back from a two-month knee injury. His young replacement got 7 goals in 6 games but was poor last time out. Do you bring in your regular striker or leave in the young replacement?"

[Sheriff Skacel]

I set the topics of discussion.

For FM12 I want to load weak leagues and have a long career, my problem this year was that when I got to the top of world football my career couldn't evolve further, so next year I want my strongest league to be other peoples weakest league, that way my career will always have room to evolve as I'll never, ever be at the top, but I'll always be striving for it.

So I want to load leagues like Paraguay, Costa Rica, Uzbekistan, Bosnia, what other leagues do you reckon could be good? Unfancied leagues( I would create or download those not in game) that could offer a good challenge, something different.

[Joaquin Bibi]

Liechtenstein. It'd be impossible which should keep you happy.

[Michael]

What would your best European league be? Wales? Israel? Slovakia? Something like that I assume?

[Sheriff Skacel]

Bibi - We're both aware of the impossibility of that.

Ac - Was thinking of somewhere like Bulgaria, the biggest Euro nation I want to load would ideally have no real pedigree in Europe but the clubs still stand a wee chance of a Uefa Cup run.

[Michael]

Oh right, seems like a decent challenge, and one with alot of longevity, especially if you plan on winning the Champions League in a country with that sort of rep. Maybe the Cypriot leagues could be a decent challenge, as they go in at the 1st qualifying round of the Uefa cup.

[Game]

Let's talk FM. So, I hate the 3-5-2 and I hate how six months of good work went to shit in the space of two months. I also hate Inter Milan, their board, Italy, Barcelona, the Champions League, all of my under-performing over-paid players, their agents, the Italian press, the Inter fans, AC Milan, Juventus and Napoli, and all of that which has forced me to return to England where my old 4-3-3 remains exotic and I am to be cherished once more for my tactical brilliance.

[Sheriff Skacel]

Cyprus did cross my mind, what attracts me to countries is the clubs I could manage, so Costa Rica appeals because I could manage Alajuelense, Paraguay appeals because of Libertad and Cyprus would appeal because of APOEL.

I also love the idea of dominating Uzbekistan and trying for ACL glory with Bunyodkor, but I'd want to work my way up to the Bunyodkor, I wouldn't just want to start with Bunyodkor as that would be boring.

I'll also probably be abandoning Nationalistic Management, one of the things I've always enjoyed about FM is scouting, but with Nationalistic Management I can't really set up scouting networks. So next year I want to have a scouting network that covers my immediate area really well so I can snap up the best regional talent and sell them on. So if I manage in Costa Rica I want North and Central America covered by my scouts and hopefully some of South America.

I'll also avoid scouting regions, after some fannying on I've been having better results spreading a region's countries out across my scouts, so my scouts will be scouting two or three countries each that I choose, that way they don't waste their time scouting nations of little use.

TG - WHAT ARE YOU DOING? We'll get onto your problems later, this is the order of debate;

Skacel's leagues ideas
Skacel's scouting ideas
Skacel's transfer ideas
Skacel's tactics ideas

[Game]

I'm holidaying my game until happier times decide to arrive and now I'm going to get some food. Fuck FM.

[Sheriff Skacel]

I've got one to get you interested. Realistic transfer deals.

In real life 99% of clubs pay transfer fees over X amount of months and make full use of buy backs and sell on fee percentages.

In FM I never use monthly installments and I hardly ever make use of buy backs and sell on percentages. I want to change that just to make things more realistic. It will also allow me to make better use of my money, instead of blowing my budget on two or three players I could bring in five or six due to payments being stretched out.

And when it comes to selling players I could get a better deal. If I have a younger player who won't get games for me and who won't go on loan/clubs aren't bidding for him on loan, then I could sell him with a buy back, that way he could get games and I could bring him back if I wanted him. Sell on fee clauses would be of great use here as well as if I buy the player back he'll be cheaper than the agreed price(as I'll be saving X%) or if I choose not to buy the player back then I could make some money off any potential deal.

For too long my transfer dealings have been X amount upfront and that's it. I want to dabble in clauses a lot more.

[Michael]

Yeah regarding the scouting of regions, I sent one of my scouts to do Southern Africa, and he was scouting places like Namibia and Lesotho, and I don't know about you, but I can think of many footballing great's to hail from those countries, it would appear scouting seperate countries would be the way to go.

Also SI need to implement more African leagues in general, places like Egypt, Nigeria and the like. Egypt is probably too big of a league for what you're aiming, but still, only giving us South Africa is a fucking pisstake every version.

[Sheriff Skacel]

Leagues like Egypt would be of use, there's a demand for African leagues so I don't think that its lack of demand that puts SI off incorporating those leagues, I think its more due to a lack of researchers and available data.

Africa doesn't really interest me much right now, in a few months time that may be different though. Inspiration can come from some funny places.

Edited by Sheriff Skacel, 15 August 2011 - 11:55 PM.

[Sheriff Skacel]

http://loswonderkids...it-of-a-genius/

http://loswonderkids...of-a-genius-ii/

Inspiration from the strangest of places.

Iran makes the cut because of Zob Ahan and Persepolis.

[Michael]

Reading through both of them now. Quality reads so far.

[Zinedine Zaiddin]

I love your ideas of loading leagues of Mexico, Chile and etc..

[Melmmer]

Best league should be Romania or a Croatia in terms of Europe I reckon.

Include India and as well as Indonesia and make it your aim to reach the peak of the Asian world with a club from one of those two nations.

Nigeria is a must as well in Africa as well.

[Jackk!]

If you go to India you can only sign people who work in call centres or like curry,

[alilane4]

Was that meant to be funny?

[Sheriff Skacel]

Mexico and Chile are too big, clubs like America(MEX) and Colo Colo can be corrupting, I don't want a taste of the big time otherwise I'll always want a taste of it. If Bunyodkor is the club with the biggest budget available to me then I'll have done well.

I thought about Romania but again I think they might be too big, its not really a big deal when a Romanian team gets to the CL Group Stages, I want the best teams from my nation to make a huge deal out of getting to the CL Group Stages. Croatia is a maybe but I don't want too many Eastern European countries.

Nigeria caught my eye in Hendo's career, don't just want to load one African nation though, will look to load two or three if they catch my eye.

India holds no appeal, I loaded it this year, had a season and then realised that it still feels like I've done India to death even though the last time I played in India was FM06 or FM07 with East Bengal, but I did play quite a few seasons. It feels like I have no unfinished business there so there's no reason to return.