Most difficult League in CM (any version)?

In CM1 play with Chievo in the Serie A. I won 7 straight to start the season then didn't win another game for the rest of the game.

 

It gets hard when the schedule gets heavy...
Its impossible to keep the players 100% when you play twice a week ,every week....
I reckon the english league is to hard win..
due to the tough schedule and work permits...

 

The lowest Chech league is hell. Pure hell.

Worst players on the face of the earth (in CM anyway). Absolutely no money, no prospects for making any, and the worst dregs of european football would rather retire than play for you.

Getting promoted is hard enough, but then god help you if you actually qualify for Europe.

Give it try, its loads of fun.

 

CM '01/02

I will stomach my pride and admit that I have had fits with St-Etienne in the French Second Division. The team is full of talented players, but they have terrible consistancy/loyalty and get happy immediately. Even selling a number of players - it can be tough to shore up a pretty awkward backline.

I ended up trying with the team twice, and even when I could keep them well up the table (4th or 5th position) half of the players feel the club is underachieving/want to move to a bigger team/etc.

There is always some team that starts off the season without losing - Le Havre went 16 straight wins in my first attempt, so you have to be almost perfect to keep up.

Anyway, I would regularly dominate possession, put 20 shots on goal and score 1 or 2, while the other team would score 1 or 2 on five shots. I would have a goalscorer get really hot, then the next game he would take five shots and miss badly on them all.

Finally the board fires you - even when you are in a good position. The transfer windows, EU player requirements and money problems just complicate matters.

Not sure this is one of the toughest leagues, but I have had clubs promoted to the EPL and won the league within two seasons and won the SPL with Kilmarnock (without even replaying any games), so I can't be all that bad.

I am currently playing NAC in the Eredivision. So far a piece of cake.

 

as silly as this sounds, MLS in the 99-00 game is difficult. You seem to get fired if you win. plus no one wants to go there usually, and the americans in the game are so bloody bad. English league is tough becuase most players don't want to play for you unless you are one of the big names (man u, arsenal, liverpool, chelsea) but i'm doing alright with boro. got them promoted to the premiership and finished second last season!! Still can't get players though they all want more money than i can give. can't wait for the new version to come out, mine is a hand me down. Just ordered the EA sports game too, should be here next week sometime have old hand me down versions of that one as well.

 

MLS is tough because the parity is so extreme and the foreign player/roster limitations make it really tough to do what you need to do without hacks. The one time I tried an MLS team, my game crashed. It is also a pain, because there is no easy way to create a league setup that closely resembles the current article (post contraction draft).

Another "problem" I have noticed. I can hardly ever get consistant results from a formation unless I incorporate man-marking. I might have a sensible defensive formation (say a 4-1-3-2) with players who have great positioning, anticipation, tackling and physical ratings. And yet they bleed goals. But if I set them to mark the striker(s) and or dangerous winger(s) - even if the personnel are not particularly strong in the marking rating - the goals stop.

It frustrates me, because most of the successful teams in today's game play zonal defensive schemes or at the very most just keep a closer eye on certain players.

Sort of OT I suppose, but a frustration nonetheless.

 

Serie C2/C is brutal, no one comes to your games and everybody that's on your team that's any good will want to leave ASAP and nobody, I mean nobody, wants to take their spots. You don't have the hopes of getting a lucky draw with a Serie A team because you're stuck in the C Cup playing teams just as sad as you are. You get no TV money unless you get promoted about 5 times and most of the teams start in the red anyway.

Although for a different challenge try managing one of the lower league basque teams in Spain. Since you can only sign players with Basque nationality you have a very small talent pool and anytime you get somebody good Athletic Bilbao will try to buy them cause they're in the same boat as you are.

 

I successfully promoted Crystal Palace to the Premier League and started off decently including a win at Liverpool. 23 straight losses later I did everyone a favor and 'retired.' But hey, they said I set some kind of record. That's cool right?

 

I don't know about Serie C2 being the most difficult in the game - if anything, it's fairly even, cause even though it's a very frustrating league to play, all the other teams are as crap as you are.

The most difficult league in the game to win as far as I'm concerned is the Serie A. Most of the other top leagues in Europe have only two or three teams that can simply steamroll you. The Serie A has a good five or six, and one of them (Roma) is virtually unstoppable for the first couple of seasons.

 

MLS in any versionbecause no one that makes the game knows how to program it right...

 

This will give you a laugh but I think that the Dutch League is one of the harder ones. I am Feyenoord and first year we win the championship on the final day on goal differential over Ajax. PSV and Twente were less then four behind. And in this season I won the Champions League also. I finished the season with 77 points in 34 games. I won 24 games, drew 5 and lost 5. A though league if you ask me... because there is not quite as much money to be found although we have made a good amount of money on tranfers 16.25 million for Partick Paauwe (Real Madrid) and 20 million for Johan Elemander (AS Roma).

Second Season I finished third behind PSV and Ajax.

 

That has more to do with the way the Dutch clubs are balanced, I think. CM rates Feyenoord as by far the weakest of the Dutch big three.

 

I think that one of the tougher leagues is the Argentine First Division. Boca, Velez and especially River are so much better than the rest of the teams. They have a bunch more money and have great youth development. The best chance you have is to not qualify for a south American tournement so you play less games and have better stamina. I have had some good success with Newell's Old Boys but I cannot seem to get anybody to come to the games, even after we won the closing championship. We average 15k in a 50k stadium. Oh well.

 

I really dont want to sound ignorant, but......

What game are you talking about?

 

The J-League is a tough especially if you don't pick Jublio Iwata, Antlers, or S-Pulse. They are all stacked compared to the rest of league. I picked Yokohama F Marinos. They had two quality players and a decent goalie. I ended up winning the league by by one point and there were five points seperating me and tenth place. Now, the teams that were relegated had 15 points and 7 out of thirty games. In general this is a tough league if you pick a crap team. If you pick one of the pick three that you are almost guranteed a championship if you are a manager of course, .

 

Re: Re: Most difficult League in CM (any version)?

Ah, Japan's DC United/Joe Public