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Season 3 beginning

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 09:31 PM PST

Hello dear readers, Today I am going to tell you about start of the third season which, I can forestall, became a bit disappointing and worrying. Some starting optimism and quite good football style in almost all matches were broken by squad blending process and poor efficiency in attack. As a result: Unlucky defeat in the first round of German Cup 6th position in the league after 8 fixtures (5

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Game Diary: Episode 1

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 04:11 AM PST

So I’ve decided to start a new feature on the blog which highlights certain games I’ve been playing lately. These aren’t necessarily new or anything like that (as sometimes I like to go back to some old retro classics), but …

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Transfer campaign, pre-season 3

Posted: 27 Jan 2014 09:52 PM PST

Hello dear readers, True Football Manager blog post No.775 today. A huge one that describes whole transfer campaign in in summer of 2015. I am beginning with season expectations finalized after board talks. I promised to promote and was given pretty decent transfer and payroll budget for that.   Team report: Before transfers The following screenshot was made just right before transfer window

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Some words about training and youth facilities in FM 2014

Posted: 25 Jan 2014 01:32 AM PST

Dear friends, Thanks for joining True Football Manager blog again. It –17 degrees behind the window, meanwhile I continue to write about Dynamo Dresden and express impressions sitting in a warm kitchen :) Whilst summer transfer campaign is in progress (actually it's coming to an end) I would like to share news about Dresden training and youth facilities. The last season was successful and

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Season 2. Totals of the tournaments

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 10:13 PM PST

Dear readers, While Dresden story was slowed down due to my summer transfer window, I can show you results of all important tournaments. It was season 2 in FM 2014 for me. Germany First of all, let's look over results of Germany where I manage Dynamo Dresden. Season summary shows Stuttgart as the most surprising club in the Bundesliga. Its footballers Timo Werner and Nicusor Stanciu became the

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Xbox One Apps with Achievements

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 02:01 AM PST

Here is a list of Xbox One apps that include achievements. At the moment this includes Netflix, LoveFilm, 4oD, Machinima, Xbox Video, Xbox Music, Twitch, Crackle and TED.

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Squad review after season 2

Posted: 19 Jan 2014 09:07 PM PST

Dear readers, I could have started this article with thoughts about strengthening before first Bundesliga season. But unluckily we didn't manage to promote and took the 4th position. That's why I have same but may be not so tough task. Dresden squad needs to improved to ensure a promotion next year. And I am ready to share my thoughts about current first team and its problems. The last Dresden

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Current Dresden squad published

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 10:48 PM PST

Dear readers, Blog post No.771 today, and it makes serious addition to the site. I've just made available all current Dresden players.  There are 4 new pages at the right FM story widget: Goalkeepers Defenders Midfielders Forwards Thusly, you can review my squad in any moment of Dresden story. At the same time I promise to update these pages after every transfer campaign. So it should be more

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Last season match: Dropping down from 2nd line to 4th line

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 10:15 PM PST

Dear blog readers, While Ukraine (my native country where I live) is turning to dictatorship :(, I am ready to tell season 2 is completed. Unfortunately, Dynamo Dresden didn't promote this year having all chances to make that. Last fixture against Greuther Furth… It was a kind of season final when victory would guarantee promotion from the 2nd place.   Season finish So after all Dresden appears

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Max: The Curse Of Brotherhood Review (Xbox One)

Posted: 14 Jan 2014 02:51 AM PST

So I finally got around to playing Max: The Curse of Brotherhood, a cartoon-styled puzzle/platform game from Danish developers Press Play on the Xbox One. The game starts off by Max getting home to find that his brother Felix is basically …

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Still having promotion chance after 2 defeats

Posted: 13 Jan 2014 08:43 PM PST

Hi everybody, True Football Manager blog post No. 769 today and it is about Dynamo Dresden. Just three matches covered with today's report but I feel I want to share that intrigue level I am experiencing in the promotion fight right now. Bad results certainly. I expected to get 7 points in these three matches but failed. Anyway the question about the 2nd and 3rd league positions are still opened

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The blog is ad-free now!

Posted: 11 Jan 2014 11:01 PM PST

Dear friends, True Football Manager blog has just become absolutely ad-free. At first in its whole history since 2007! I decided to reject from decent monthly income (~$350 per month) produced by True Football Manager blog making it more fast and more usable. I bet those who follow my blog on a permanent basis should be happy about this announcement. It's unprecedented for FM community where

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Among promotion contenders. Season 2, March

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 10:20 PM PST

Hi guys, Thanks for joining me again. Luckily, I had quite much time to play FM 2014 this week. So I can report about the latest matches and events in Dresden story. Season 2 is coming to an end and soon it will reach its apogee. Dresden has to play 7 fixtures to figure out how real existing chances of Bundesliga promotion are. Bundesliga 2   Struggle in the league is very tight, complicated

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Xbox One and Xbox 360 Dashboard Differences

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 01:51 AM PST

With the new Xbox One there appears to be a lot of features that have either been renamed or removed entirely. As I haven’t had it for even a month yet (and have been distracted by so many other games …

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Season 2. Right after winter transfer window

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 09:29 PM PST

Hello readers, It's Dynamo Dresden story. Blog post No.766 at True Football Manager! Today I've prepared some news about the latest results and even winter transfers. Transfer deadline has just been passed in my game. Dresden matches Five last matches of 2014 brought some kind of mixed feelings. From the one hand we managed to beat stronger Dusseldorf in German Cup. From the other hand: two

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FM14 Custom Views: Player Search

Posted: 05 Jan 2014 03:48 AM PST

Hello dear readers, First of all sorry for the delay in blog updates, I travelled to home town where I had no good Internet connection. Not long ago I published my custom squad views used in Dresden story which have already  been downloaded by more than 400 people so far. So today I would like to continue sharing customised views I created in Football Manager 2014. I'm sure some of you will be