FM 2016

DualityNSNO · December 15, 2015

Just noticed that your manager avatar automatically participates in Movember, which is great if only my "avatar" didn't look like a rapist now.

FFS.

Blue Cheese · December 15, 2015

For the first time ever, I actually feel ripped off. Nothing substantial has been added to the game, yet we have been given an utterly pointless avatar. £34.99 a joke, For the first time ever next year, I will be debating paying good money for a set of transfers.

FM is losing it's soul and trying to keep people happy with completely irrelevant things. Ditch the shiz and go back to a bar flashing at the bottom of the screen, great fun.

Efcjake · December 15, 2015

Here's my list of players worth buying with Everton:

Gabriel Barbosa ST
Breel Embolo ST
Hirving Lozano RW
Pablo Sarabia LW
Emmanuel Mammana CB
Jesus Vallejo CB
Lincoln!!! CAM - He's a must buy
Youri Tielmans CM
Geronimo Rulli GK

That should sort you lot out.

jal123 · December 15, 2015

luimneach said:
Just finished first season

Very realistic Kenwrights a knob and we're practically bankrupt even without spending money :-(

Barry, Howard, Osman, Hibbert etc refuse to leave and won't go on loan so your stuck paying their bloody wages until their contracts are run down :-(

Starting in Champs League with massive transfer budget of 0

Play the mobile version myself and got offered £6m budget for European qualification or £7.5m if I think I can win the league in the first season! Realistic.

Jags..class · December 15, 2015

Blue Cheese said:
For the first time ever, I actually feel ripped off. Nothing substantial has been added to the game, yet we have been given an utterly pointless avatar. £34.99 a joke, For the first time ever next year, I will be debating paying good money for a set of transfers.

FM is losing it's soul and trying to keep people happy with completely irrelevant things. Ditch the shiz and go back to a bar flashing at the bottom of the screen, great fun.

It's lost it spark about 2 years ago, don't why tho

DrEFC · December 15, 2015

Efcjake said:
Here's my list of players worth buying with Everton:

Gabriel Barbosa ST
Breel Embolo ST
Hirving Lozano RW
Pablo Sarabia LW
Emmanuel Mammana CB
Jesus Vallejo CB
Lincoln!!! CAM - He's a must buy
Youri Tielmans CM
Geronimo Rulli GK

That should sort you lot out.

Barbosa went to Benfica the blurt. Embolo and Lincoln are immense. Andrija Zivkovic is pretty good too. Maximiliano Romero may come good but very raw.

Efcjake · December 15, 2015

DrEFC said:
Barbosa went to Benfica the blurt. Embolo and Lincoln are immense. Andrija Zivkovic is pretty good too. Maximiliano Romero may come good but very raw.

These were a few off the top of my head.

Holgate, Galloway, and Garbutt are all decent enough if you develop them right. Dowell and Ledson can be as well but usually the team has progressed ahead of them for me.

Zatara · December 16, 2015

I got it a couple of years ago.

Enjoy the management side but most of the time just let the assistant take care of matches...anyway to do that now or have to just skip a day?

One weird thing though, on championship manager you could start with totally random players and managers...so a new dimension.

On FM when i tried that it just gave the same players with fake names....?

detroiturk15 · February 4, 2016

Does anyone know how to organize a defense in this game?

I usually keep things standard in terms of line and closing down, but a Baines-Mammana-Stones-Coleman backline routinely conceded 1-2 goals a game last season. I finished last season in 11th, which was tough given the only season I completed in FM 2014 involved me going unbeaten in the league.

l4toffee · February 4, 2016

I bought this in December . Played one season on classic mode . Haven't bothered since. Waste of £30 .

carlos21 · February 4, 2016

DualityNSNO said:
Just noticed that your manager avatar automatically participates in Movember, which is great if only my "avatar" didn't look like a rapist now.

FFS.

Afternoon duality how are you today mate

neil999 · February 4, 2016

think being able to find lists of the best players to buy sorta gets rid of the whole point of the game...

Fearthainn · February 4, 2016

detroiturk15 said:
Does anyone know how to organize a defense in this game?

I usually keep things standard in terms of line and closing down, but a Baines-Mammana-Stones-Coleman backline routinely conceded 1-2 goals a game last season. I finished last season in 11th, which was tough given the only season I completed in FM 2014 involved me going unbeaten in the league.

Better than Martinez. Well done!

DualityNSNO · February 4, 2016

detroiturk15 said:
Does anyone know how to organize a defense in this game?

I usually keep things standard in terms of line and closing down, but a Baines-Mammana-Stones-Coleman backline routinely conceded 1-2 goals a game last season. I finished last season in 11th, which was tough given the only season I completed in FM 2014 involved me going unbeaten in the league.

What roles you have them on? Focus on defensive positioning more often than not if you're good going forward, seems to make a slight difference.

detroiturk15 · February 5, 2016

DualityNSNO said:
What roles you have them on? Focus on defensive positioning more often than not if you're good going forward, seems to make a slight difference.

Full backs are on full back automatic and then I have Stones on Ball Playing-Defend and Mammana on Ball Playing-Cover. When Funes Mori comes in he's Limited-Cover.

I agree with you that focusing on defensive positioning pre-match makes a difference but I can never keep a clean sheet against any of the top 5-6 sides it seems. I play on standard with one defensive midfielder and two central mids but who knows.