Good news everyone! It's a long-awaited Joe Steinberg's FM12 Pentagon Challenge Update! [pause for applause] I managed Forest for 5 seasons from 2025-30, got them into the Champions League for the first time, and then accepted a job offer from Sao Paulo! I take over with the club expected to win the league, and already in the semi finals of the Copa Libertadores. So, hopefully, I can tick off the South America part of the challenge in my first season there. Anyone know anything about being successful in Brazil? The tactics are weird down here.
Play 3-4-3 and keep the ball, i managed a Brazilian 2nd division team for a while and left them in 1st place.
I started a new save, semi-pro rep and Preston come in for me with three games left of the season. Bad news is they're second bottom and destined for League Two. Seems a good challenge though and a reasonable sized club too. Financial issues may be interesting.
I also started again, With pro rep. Cardiff came in for me whilst they were mid-table. 2 years later i'm now top of the league with 54 points after 22 games. We do also have financial issues though.
Jack Stephens has finally come of age, and will replace Maya Yoshida in my side, Maya is off to either WHU or Everton.
Neither Shaw or Stephens have made it for me, instead I've got Owen King who is worth £8.5mill at the age of 19.
I'm annoyed at the fact I'm gonna miss out on 8000 ticket sales a match, as the Madejski is only 24k capacity. Shaw is very good on my save, easily filled the hole Santon left.
Still not sure what to make of McKimm, the newgen striker that I posted a while back. Just turned 19, his pace is now 14, dribbling/finishing/off the ball all at 17, and his mental stats are great. But with his middling pace and poor technique/first touch, he's still frustratingly poor against good opposition...absolutely slaughters people in friendlies and cup ties, though.
Doesn't really suit my team, as my best players are full backs and I have two brilliant DMs. I'm trying to get used to the traditional Brazilian 4-2-2-2 formation, but I know nothing about it. I spent a good half hour reading up on it yesterday. Now I'm playing Boca in the Copa Libertadores semi final. Possibly the most important game of my 18 year career so far! Hope this goes well.
play with 2 CB's, 2 WB's, one DM, 2 cm's, AMR, AML, complete forward. Beast formation, great for keeping possesion.
Lost to Boca on pens. The league seems so pointless when my only aim is winning this cup. Might as well holiday for a while.
I just had an amazing idea for the next FM - being able to import your save from the previous year's game into the next version. All the data is in the save file so no reason it couldn't work fairly seamlessly, and it would increase the interest for year to year players (= more sales) and result in some epic saves.
