Hello everyone, another FMSlack Tactics Challenge is here. This time with Portuguese side Sport Lisboa e Benfica and 3-4-2-1 formation which was selected by Daniel Gear who is our boss in #fm17tacticschallenge Slack channel.
If you are interested in previous two I participated in you find both there & there.
Introduction
Transfers do not happen by mistake. For me, they are the effect of fastidious scouting, aided by a comprehensive collection of filters and shortlists.
This is a guide to filters and shortlists in Football Manager 2017. In this piece, I will talk through a crucial set of in-game tools at my disposal to help with one of the most significant tasks I have as manager; strengthening my squad through thoroughly scouted acquisitions.
Some time ago I wrote a post about things I do before every pre-season in Football Manager for thehighertempopress.com. One of them were Set Pieces and theirs review after the end of the season.
I wrote about my successful Short Corner Kick Routine a couple of months ago on my blog and this routine is still very effective. As my save with Reading continues I like to try new formations and things in overall. I also decided to create a new Corner Kick Routine called “False Short Corner Kick Routine”.
I think all of us know this situation. You have an average Youth Intake with one or two players with some potential, you are disappointed you don’t have a new wonderkid in your youth team and you decide to not offer contracts to almost all of new young players because they are not good enough.
I had it many times in my saves in the past and this year’s save with Reading FC is not different.
It was the thirteenth season with Reading. And I thought I need to change something. I didn’t want to change my players so I decided to try another formation. As you maybe know I used and still use 4-3-3 and 4-3-1-2 formations during this save.
I didn’t make some radical changes but there were some. Mainly the player roles. What was the reason? The main of them were my own players.
As I still have a lot of players from the original squad and they are older and older I wanted to change our style from higher tempo to something calmer.
If you follow my FM17 journey with Reading FC you know I decided to stick with many players from the original squad. Two of them are defender Jordan Obita and striker Dominic Samuel.
I reached the year of 2029 and I knew just before the end of this season it will be sad summer. These two players decided to retire from professional football at the age of 35.
Hello everyone, welcome back to the virtual world of Reading FC. If you read the previous parts of my Football Manager 2017 save with this English club you know I won the Champions League for the fifth time in a row in the 11th season.
I also wrote about the development of players from the original squad as some of them reached their thirties.
We can’t keep a clean sheet for love nor money and our normally reliable goalkeeper has made more mistakes than a Hans Segers/Bruce Grobbelaar hybrid. New blood is needed.
The 11th season of my FM17 save with Reading is over and I decided to make another update of players who are in the club from the beginning. Some of them already left us in previous two seasons but it was not a huge exodus. But some them wanted to go for a new challenge and I decided to not stay in their way.
I wrote “Stick with the team” at the end of the January this year and this part was after the seventh season with Reading.
After many trophies in the previous seasons, the eleventh season was not the same. In many ways. But despite we did not win seven trophies again, this season was successful. In many ways.
“In many ways…”
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