alyxmelia

I did my Searchiest Searchy McSearchenstein and couldn't find an FM12 Thread

I'm pretty sure I'm not breaking any rules, and searching through some of the offical FM12 blogs for something is akin to trying find your longest pubic hair in the dark. So all things FM, UG it is.

Just somewhere to post problems, share tactics, brag about how Putting your FM achievements on your CV worked etc etc.

I'll go -

Manager - Alex Melia

Teams -
West Ham United (2011-Present Day)
England (2018-2022 - Resigned & 2024-2025 - Resigned)
Spain (2022-2023 - Resigned)
Mexico (2023-2023 - Resigned)

Career Highlights -
2011-2012 - nPower Championship Play-Off Winners (vs Brighton - 3-1)
2013-2014 - FA Cup Runners up (vs West Brom - 0-0AET - 4-3p)
2014-2020 - Nothing, just nothing, I think I kept my job through "almosts"
2020-2021 - FA Cup Winners (vs Liverpool - 3-0)
2020-2021 - Europa League Winners (vs Liverpool - 4-0)
2021-2022 - Charity Shield Winners (vs Manchester United - 2-0)
2021-2022 - European Super Cup Winners (vs Inter - 3-1)
2022-2023 - League Cup Winners (vs Aston Villa 2-1)
2024-2025 - League Cup Winners (vs Arsenal 2-0)
2025-2026 - League Cup Winners (vs Arsenal 3-1)
2025-2026 - English Premier League Winners (101 points)
2026-2027 - League Cup Winners (vs Aston Villa 2-1)

Went 27 games unbeaten with England until Euro 2020 Semi-Final vs. Italy (Lost 1-0)

England Record - 35W-3D-1L

100% Win Record in all qualifying competitions.


Tactics

4-1-2-2-1 - Attacking

Full Backs - Full Backs - Automatic

Centre-Back 1- Ball Playing Defender - Stopper

Centre-Back 2 - Central Defender - Stopper

Defensive Midfielder - Anchorman - Defend

Central Midfielder 1 - Advanced Playmaker - Support

Central Midfielder 2 - Box to Box Midfielder - Support

Wide Attacking Midfielders - Inside Forward - Attack

Striker - Poacher - Attack

Team Instructions -

Drill Crosses
Zonal Marking
Slow Tempo
Short Passing
Never Time Waste (If you can't see a match through without time-wasting, you don't deserve to win)
High Defensive Line


Senior Squad

GK
Ashley Lloyd (Age 29) (Wales) (Regen) (3 Star Current, 3.5 Star Peak)
Rachid Haiji (Age 18) (France) (Regen) (2 Star Current, 3.5 Star Potential)

CB
Izudin Hodzic (Age 28) (Germany) (Regen) (3.5 Star current, 4 Star Peak)
Trevor Taylor (Age 22) (England) (Regen) (4 Star Current, 4 Star Potential)
Nicolas Laurent (Age 20) (France) (Regen) (3.5 star Current, 4 Star Potential)

FB
Right - Adria Carrion (Age 21) (Spain) (Regen) 3 Star Current, 4 Star Potential)
Right - Frank Straus (Age 27) (Germany) (Regen) (3 Star Current, 4 Star Peak)
Left - Christophe Leveque (Age 28) (France) (Regen) (4 Star Current, 4 Star Potential)
Left - Pau Herrera (Spain) (Age 19) (Spain) (Regen) (2.5 Star Current, 4 Star Potential)

DM/CB/CM
Niels Menzo (Age 24) (Holland) (Regen) (4 Star Current, 4 Star Potential)

DM
Simon Wrobelski (Age 19) (Germany) (Regen) (2 Star Current, 4 Star Potential)

CM
Juan Carlos Villaronga (Age 23) (England) (Regen) (4 Star Current, 4 Star Potential)
Joao Basse (Age 26) (Portugal) (Regen) (3.5 Star Current, 3.5 Star Potential)
Eddie McNab (Age 22) (England) (Regen) (4 Star Current, 4 Star Potential)

CM/DM/AMR
Jose Radafison (Age 19) (England) (Regen) (1 Star Current, 4 Star Potential)

AMR
Francisco Mazzini (Age 23) (Italy) (Regen) (4 Star Current, 4 Star Potential)

AML
Jiri Latal (Age 27) (Czech Republic) (Regen) (4.5 Star Current, 4.5 Star Potential)
Mick Casey (Age 22) (England) (Regen) (2.5 Star Current, 2.5 Star Potential)

AMR/ST
Mohammed Diallo (Age 32) (Cote D'Ivoire) (Regen) (2.5 Star Current, 4.5 Star Peak)

AML/ST
Neymar (Age 35) (Brazil) (Santos) (2 Star Current, 4 star Peak)

ST
Abdramane Montcho (Age 26) (Regen) (3 Star Current, 3.5 Star Potential)
Ion Costache (Age 23) (Romania) (Regen) (2.5 Star Current, 3.5 Star Potential)
Faruk Guletkin (Age 21) (Turkey) (Regen) (2.5 Star Current, 4 Star Potential)
Reiner Romminger (Age 24) (Germany) (2.5 Star Current, 2.5 Star Potential)*

EDIT: All star ratings based off a club predicted to finish first in the EPL

Feel free to share your own, give opinions, advice anything, just get this going.


Problems

No problems right now, feel free to ask for any of your problems to be quoted in to this section.

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New Single Prometheus Coming 25th August 2012

Nobody says anything sexy enough to get in to my signature anymore.

slash_GNR666

I wanna play FM now

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padgea7x

I prefer to play football.


But I did lead Everton to the title without buying anyone. Fellaini got young player of the year, despite being better than everyone else

alyxmelia

Me too, I'm in work, and doing forums as part of my qualification, thought I may as well do this, now I'm regretting it as I'm all sad that I'm not prepping for the FA Cup final

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Nobody says anything sexy enough to get in to my signature anymore.

SMH07

We have an FM group if you're interested. Got made because people complained about too much FM talk in the football thread: http://groups.ultimate-guitar.com/footballmanager/

Hasn't been used in ages though so it probably isn't even worth it.

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alyxmelia

I never get money, so I survived my first 3 years on free transfers, managed to snap up Michael Owen, Andy Carroll, Pepe, Angel Di Maria, Clarence Seedorf and Daniel Van Buyten all on frees.

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alyxmelia

There's some decent pages on facebook -

"Putting your Football Manager Achievements On Your CV"

"Giving A Random Young Player a Pay Rise Because You're A ****ing Top Bloke"

"Rejecting Your Offer From Barcelona Because You're Happy At Barnet"


They're all top class if you bother with pages on Facebook

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Nobody says anything sexy enough to get in to my signature anymore.

sam b

Best thread on UG.

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McTodd

Not as good as http://notdoppler.com/newstarsoccer.php

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alyxmelia

Best App


as opposed to the FM12 App, wanky wank wank.

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New Single Prometheus Coming 25th August 2012

Nobody says anything sexy enough to get in to my signature anymore.

padgea7x

I can never get many players I want on frees (I do play on the psp though >_>)
I saw that Kakuta's contract was like a month from expiring, but it wouldn't let me offer him one so I kept trying then, Chelsea gave him a new contract. Had to settle for Thiago, who decided to get injured for like 8 months

SMH07

I never really play it now. I had a season going with some National League French team, was on my way to Ligue 2 then my laptop died. Installed it on my new one but I haven't started anything properly yet.

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raoooos

Don't even have the new(est) game, I still play FM10 achieved an unprecedented streak of success as Arsenal from 2009-2026. They built a new stadium and named it after me. Then I got bored.

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DIRTSMUGGERS

alyxmelia

Recently transferred my saves on to my fiancee's laptop... mine was Windows XP, hers is windows Vista... It's like playing a whole new game, it's spectacular with half-decent softward :')

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New Single Prometheus Coming 25th August 2012

Nobody says anything sexy enough to get in to my signature anymore.

alyxmelia

I did that once... CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER 4 for PS2!!

Urawa Red Diamonds in the J-League <3

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New Single Prometheus Coming 25th August 2012

Nobody says anything sexy enough to get in to my signature anymore.

alyxmelia

What's it like on Handheld? The iPhone app is ****ing dreadful.

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Nobody says anything sexy enough to get in to my signature anymore.

sam b

This thread is getting a link put in the OP of the Club Football thread

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alyxmelia

LAD

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Nobody says anything sexy enough to get in to my signature anymore.

JohnnyGenzale

Soon finished my 4th season with Dortmund. 77 games unbeaten in the league the two past seasons. 6 draws and won the rest. 3 draws per season.

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