February 2015 - Addicted to FM

#FM15 Baggies Calling – The WBA save begins!

February 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

A new patch means a new season. My time at Sporting and Atletico was getting a tad bit boring, after flirting with Liverpool for one game and deciding I needed something [...]

#FM15 Starting Anew…stayed at Liverpool for 1 day only…and ended up with..

February 27, 2015 // 3 Comments

WEST BROM! The storied history of the club grabbed my interest, plus the challenge. It was them or QPR, West Brom won out, only just. So what were the first few things I did [...]

FM Managers Obsession with Imitation

February 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Arrgo Sachi’s 442 arose at a time when defensive systems were the rage in Italy, Sides we still using a libero, but he was probably the first to deploy a 442 with a [...]

FM15 Atletico First Season Update

February 25, 2015 // 2 Comments

As my experiment with replicating their 442 is coming to an end, here’s a recap. Essentially we have used 3 different versions of the 442, each trying to maintain the [...]

FM15 Evolution of Simeone’s 442

February 24, 2015 // 5 Comments

A friend on the forums, suggested it would be more helpful for me to detail the process on how the system evolved. I wanted to stay true to the spirit of Simeone’s [...]

FM Tactics – Atletico

February 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Well this has certainly been interesting, trying to replicate Diego Simeone’s 442 into Football Manager, whilst maintaining the level of aggression and dependance on [...]

FM Atletico Madrid

February 19, 2015 // 7 Comments

3 hrs before I fly off …dead of the night…we’ve settled on a system for Atletico Madrid. This is my reinterpretation for FM. I wanted to maintain the [...]

#FM15 Atletico feedback please

February 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ok I need some feedback, the challenge in recreating Atletico lies with translating Koke on the pitch. He appears to play like a Box to Box, but he is more creative and he [...]

Football Manager Tactics – Atletico Update

February 18, 2015 // 6 Comments

Ok, so there I am with my wife at church, I ain’t even a Catholic, but I thought I’d hang out with her keep her company, and who knows I may find some [...]

Don’t reinvent the wheel, add another

February 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

I have started this project which deals with explaining how we can get more out of Football Manager. The goal is to cover as many aspects of the game. And one of those was [...]