Anyone play this? Where's everyone up to with their save currently?

 

I've bought each new release of the game since 2010, and I absolutely love it. I think 2013's is naturally the best one yet. Not allot of difference in terms of the game-play per-se, but the navigation is greatly improved and plus, I don't think it's as "easy" as games of the franchise gone by.

 

 

Well I started as Bolton, target was promotion. My only signing was Craig Eastmond from Arsenal on a loan deal. Mainly due to the fact that there was sod all money to barter with, and we were already over the maximum wage expenditure so I had to sell Chung-Yong Lee to Everton for £6m. I thought that was a pretty good deal, however I had no time to bring in a replacement, but no big deal, I felt had good cover on the right in the names of Eagles and N'gog. (Yes, N'gog!).

 

The season did not go to plan at all though. I lost my first four matches including a spectacular drubbing at the hands of our rival, Blackburn, which the fans obviously loved, and the pressure was on straight away. (On a seperate point, I like how if your first job in management, is at the top end of the leagues (Premiership / Championship), the board, and to a larger extent the fans are more demanding for results, as the fans didn't want me as the manager in the first place!.

 

So yeah, I was on a horrible run, I then was knocked out of the Capital One cup by Bristol City and then the pressure was really on. In the end, after 10 games, seven losses, 2 draws, and one win, I was relieved of my duties as Bolton Wanderers Manager.

 

Now, I'm the new manager of Bristol City, the expectations are allot more "secure" (fight bravely against relegation),and we've won our first two games against Leeds United and Bolton (ha!), so looking good at the moment. (Marlon Harwood is my key man!).

 

So where's everyone up to with their save?

Oh no! Not City?! Anybody but them! As a gashead I will have to bid you good luck for your next job!

I've had every Championship/Football manager since about 2001. Every year I moan about the new version when it comes out, and then by about two weeks it seems perfect. Currently in my third season with Spurs, after winning the league in both seasons so far, but no cups sadly. It's really easy to win the league with them, and they always get a boat load of cash. Lewendowski has been a monster for me.

 

Looks like I might come second to City this year though.

Had every one since fm07 and my 13 season with Aberdeen was glorious. Won all titles and even Europa league! :)

 

Now I'm trying for another challenge but can't think what

I actually prefer FIFA MANAGER, much more realistic :).

 

FIFA MANAGER: Arsenal. Vs. Tottenham Hotspur.

 

FOOTBALL MANAGER: North London Red Vs. North London White.

Whatcha on about Ryan?

Im currently Andorras manager my highlight so far being when my Under 21's drew 1-1 with their Scottish counterparts.

I last got a PC version of FM back in 2008, ever since they started getting paranoid about piracy and making Steam a necessity to download it.

 

On the other hand I loved FM Handheld on my Android, it harkens back to the old days of Champ Man (97/98 is one of my favourite ever games) and I managed to get Salisbury City from the Blue Square South to the Championship with four consecutive promotions. I haven't played in over three months for fear of jinxing my most successful ever game.

I've bought it/Championship every year since about 1998. Ever year I go Hearts and play it for about ten seasons,pretty sure I have a total play time of like 170 hours for this years. Yeah Ryan what are you on about? Chris I agree 97/98 was the best with great players like Denilson,Erik Nevland and Ibrahim Bakiyoko who were excellent in the game but amounted to nothing in real life.

Edited April 26, 201312 yr by GENE

I actually prefer FIFA MANAGER, much more realistic :).

 

FIFA MANAGER: Arsenal. Vs. Tottenham Hotspur.

 

FOOTBALL MANAGER: North London Red Vs. North London White.

isnt that pes?

Last time i played FM, years ago, didn't you have to download patches to have teams realistic names and actual badges, because they didn't have the rights to use them in the game like FIFA does? Last i checked that was the case anyway.

Ryan are you sure your not thinking of Pro Evolution Soccer? Which is not a management game?

 

Every version of Champ/Football Manager since at least 1996 has had real team and player names.

No I'm pretty sure it was a management game, i could be wrong though.

 

Anyway my point still stands, i just think FIFA Manager is a lot more realistic, easy to get your head around and has some pretty cool features. I haven't bought this years though, so I'll probably wait until the next installment.

Yeah FM has always been real. In my opinion the most detailed and realistic manager simulation ever, and I'll probably play it for the the rest of my life.

 

What I like about this year's version is they have made playing online a whole lot easier. Me and my mate have had some absolutely cracking two player network games.

 

On Chris2k's point about piracy, it's still really easy to crack the game, which I did for a couple of years because I'm a robbing bastard.

Yeah FM has always been real. In my opinion the most detailed and realistic manager simulation ever.

 

I think this is an understatement- it's light years ahead of anything else.

Yeah, I agree. It's scary how long I could just sit here and play this.

On the flip side that's where it turned me off a bit. Part of the reason 97/98 was so good in my eyes (and the handheld version) is due to it not being as complicated as it is nowadays. I know SI have been trying their best to simplify things but I still don't think I have the time/patience to play the full game these days.

shall we do a two prem league challenge with everyone who has fm 13?

I'd be game although I'm not 100% sure how the whole thing works.

never f*****g works most times with old ones but if we can set up network we can try fill up the spots?

Haven't played footy manager game of any sort for well over 10 years now, but when I was in Uni me and my housemates had an epic 3-way game going on which went into (at least) the 12th season.

 

Mark was Juve (although he was eventually sacked and ended up in La Liga somewhere), Sam was Liverpool and I was PSV. All of us did really well in our own leagues.

 

Mark won "a few" Scudettos and the European Cup a couple of times. I remember that he signed Pablo Aimar from Valencia for about £16m (a big price tag, even then) and had him for a few seasons, eventually selling him to Madrid for £103m. To this day I couldn't see how :lol.

 

Sam used to use PSV as his feeder club and I used Liverpool as my cheap talent pool. I took Mellor, Welsh, Guthrie, Le Tallec (and a few other of Sam's own signings like Cherno Samba and Jerome Thomas) on loan and won Eredivisie every year and in return when my own young players were 25 years old I sold them to Liverpool with a couple million knocked off the asking price. Liverpool ended up with Van Bommel, Kezman, Hofland, Bouma and Jurgen Colin in their starting line-up (on the "cheap") and PSV still made £millions each year.

 

Real, Utd etc... aside, PSV were the richest club in the world. At one point I had over £800m sat in the bank, a youth team that produced 3 or 4 £20m players every year, and I used to take cheap Liverpool loans and fading Dutch stars on cheap wages.

 

My PSV side had Cocu, Stam, Van Der Sar, Van Nistelrooy, Reuser and Overmars (all 34+ years of age), with Danny Guthrie, Le Tallec and Zak Whitbread, and some "actual" signings like Anelka and Di Biagio.

 

I won the league at a canter, because you didn't need much to win it, sold two or three stars for £20m every summer, and replaced them for free. I usually got to the QF of the CL and wasn't expected to do any more.

 

Eventually my chairman said to me, in an Arsenal fan style, "spend some f*cking money!", seeing as I was sitting on nearly a £billion quid. So I severed ties with Sam's Liverpool, released my ageing Dutch stars (keeping Stam as captain as he was beyond world class) and scouted expensive, pricey talent from South America.

 

Ended up with "Hector Something" in goal (Arsenal ended up signing him in real life, he wasn't any good), Fernando Cavenaghi up front, scouted for weeks a 15 year old Kaka and signed him for £6m on his 16th birthday (this was before he was known), had a Paraguayan called "Nelson Something" as a marauding fullback, with Cicinho as the other one. I think I signed Mascherano as my holding midfielder and Diego and Deco as my attacking midfielders (Deco cost me £40m+ from Barcelona). I think I had Sorin in there somewhere, as well as Seb Deisler.

 

In all I spent nearly £200m that summer and the boss was begging me to spend more. We won Eredivisie by Xmas (seriously) and got to the final of the European Cup, only to be beat 3-2 by Mark's Juve.

 

OMFG, I miss those days :lol

 

Cheers!