Football Manager 2024: General Discussion Groups

[Tom]

Wow the step up to the Premier League is a big one, isn't it?

Haven't played any games yet, just going through the transfer window and it's hard to get my head round these wage demands and transfer fees. I've been in for some players wanting £40k-£60k a week, was reluctant to pay it because I don't know if we're staying up or not and don't want to ruin us financially if we go down. The same players then sign for Championship teams on £10k-£20k.

Don't know if I should just splurge every last penny we have or not.

Been very frugal so far, paying fees for 5 players that have cost £12.5m combined and one on a free. Two are on the £30k, the rest under £20k . Sold off 5 for £18m. We should have another defender coming in soon for £6m from Sheff Wed who have just been relegated to League One.

The players we've brought in are better than we had, but not by big particularly big margins and I don't know what to expect when the season starts.

I always love getting promoted from Championship to Premier League. You can relatively easily build a solid team that should finish like 15th-ish and pretty cheaply too.

In the summer you're properly scouring the market for cheap deals but it's made so much easier by the fact you're in the PL and the reputation bump you get from it.

 

[Dylan]

Wow the step up to the Premier League is a big one, isn't it?

Haven't played any games yet, just going through the transfer window and it's hard to get my head round these wage demands and transfer fees. I've been in for some players wanting £40k-£60k a week, was reluctant to pay it because I don't know if we're staying up or not and don't want to ruin us financially if we go down. The same players then sign for Championship teams on £10k-£20k.

Don't know if I should just splurge every last penny we have or not.

Been very frugal so far, paying fees for 5 players that have cost £12.5m combined and one on a free. Two are on the £30k, the rest under £20k . Sold off 5 for £18m. We should have another defender coming in soon for £6m from Sheff Wed who have just been relegated to League One.

The players we've brought in are better than we had, but not by big particularly big margins and I don't know what to expect when the season starts.

Don't think I've handled this the best at all so far.

Was a bit confused as to who we could get with normal work permits and who would need ESC slots. We already had 2 players on ESC from last season, but they're about get full work permits. After using up what was our last 2 ESC slots all the while being reluctant to increase the wage budget by much I went British with a lot of the signings we've made so far and they're not the best at all.

As soon as these 2 get full work permits I'll make at least 2 key foreign player signings. Just upped the wage budget by a lot, from £350k a week to £525k.

 

[Best]

Second season at Milan and I won the double, beating Inter in the league by 19 points and 4-0 in the Coppa Italia final to assert my dominance but I'm struggling to make big progress in Europe. I beat Real Madrid in the Champions League before losing to PSG in the QF, but I also lost to 3 English teams in the group stage. They're so overpowered.

I planned to only make 2 transfers but things ended up a bit different. My main target was to get a top striker in and I planned this one in my first season and waited until his contract ran out. He was unsurprisingly brilliant, averaging a goal per game.



My other aim was to bring in a strong centre back to replace Tomori and I spent £50m on Antonio Silva, the Portuguese international from Benfica.

Then I began some player trading, trying to move on some fringe players and sort out my squad on registration rules. I started by selling a Nigerian winger to Dortmund and an American defender to PSV and spent £30m of the £40m made to bring Zaniolo in from Galatasaray. A good winger option who is home grown in Italy. Then I swapped Bennacer (Algerian) and got £7m in exchange for Manuel Locatelli. He's a back up DM but is Milan home grown so helps in Europe. I sold another 5 or 6 fringe squad players and was going to leave it there and then this lad became available...



He's not played much for Barcelona in this save but once he got a consistent run of games, he's developing well. I cleaned out my transfer budget for him.

But then in January, the board decided that the bank balance looked good and gave me another £50m to spend. I stretched that to £70m to bring in one of my former Torino players. This lad has developed so well that he's actually my best player so truly World Class:

 

[Franco Pinion]

Finally got into this Clyde save today, things going great.

They had a very competitive squad already and was able to add 5 players to it, 2 of them on just £10 a week.

Feel a bit like Chelsea as we have 27 players now but it can be the case first season in, can't sell off the guys that were just signed in real life. Will trim down for season 2. The board only wanted playoffs which was top 4 out of 10.

Currently huge favourites for the league at odds of 1-91. Reached the Viaplay QF where were knocked out by SPL St. Mirren 2-1 aet, so close to a trip to Hampden Park. Got Championship Ayr United away in the SPFL Trophy 4th round, that will be tricky. As far as the league goes I'd be hugely dissapointed if we don't win it even at this early stage.



This Codjovi lad I signed on a free has been on fire.