*** The Official Football Manager 2009 Thread ***

OMG, how!???!
I'm playing a match against my relegation teams around me, Boro, and I go 1-0 up until the 75th min, then they get 2 goals in 3 mins!:mad:

The thing I hate about this game is that it can allow you to completely dominate the game, then slap you in the face:confused:

EDIT-Sigh, got knocked out of the cup by Pompey, it's not happening this season, might get relegated, might just survive, either way, its not going to be easy, so I need to offload and onload some players...
 
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4 days since someones posted in here!!! thats shameful!! i just finished my first season as AC milan came 2nd in serie A, my transfers were:

IN: vagner love, velosso and sakho, Paloschi(bought out the co-owner)
OUT: Pirlo, Emerson and a couple of others i forget the names of

I quickly terminated schevshenko's loan and some other loans and cleared out the some of the reserves and youth teams worst players to clear wages.
 
4 days since someones posted in here!!! thats shameful!! i just finished my first season as AC milan came 2nd in serie A, my transfers were:

IN: vagner love, velosso and sakho, Paloschi(bought out the co-owner)
OUT: Pirlo, Emerson and a couple of others i forget the names of

I quickly terminated schevshenko's loan and some other loans and cleared out the some of the reserves and youth teams worst players to clear wages.
How much did you get for Pirlo? I tend to get £20-30m for him, then use £10m of that for Veloso. :p.
 
IN: vagner love, velosso and sakho
Apart from Srna probably the three most essential buys for me. Sakho is more long term really with Rio/Vidic and Evans being better than him and as he can play DL he's more a squad player for me.

Veloso I like to get to improve my midfield but he's averaging 6.94 at the moment. No idea how to improve his instructions to get him performing. Any suggestions? :)

And Vagner Love, what can I say about him? How about this. He's scored more goals than he has made appearances! And that includes subsitutions as well! :eek::cool:
 
Second season as Manchester United, Signed a couple of youngsters.

Won everything in my first season, signed Ashley young this season for 30 million :(
came close to selling Ronaldo for 70 million, turned it down and now he's unhappy.

Got Sakho, Johnson, Mattock, that black guy from inter who's like 18

Sold Berba.
 
Veloso I like to get to improve my midfield but he's averaging 6.94 at the moment. No idea how to improve his instructions to get him performing. Any suggestions? :)

My suggestion is use Carrick instead :p He makes tons of assists for me.



I started another new game as Utd, I can't seem to get past three or four seasons without thinking "I want to start again so that I can do it differently", mainly because I always end up buying way too many players and can't decide which ones to get rid of, and because by that time all the fantastic youngsters I buy are near fully developed and I can't bring myself to get rid of the players they start as understudies for.
 
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My suggestion is use Carrick instead :p He makes tons of assists for me.
Same kind of ratings. :( I can make Vagner Love score but can't get Veloso/Carrick to play well. Anderson/Kroos/Hargreaves are OK. :confused:

I started another new game as Utd, I can't seem to get past three or four seasons without thinking "I want to start again so that I can do it differently", mainly because I always end up buying way too many players and can't decide which ones to get rid of, and because by that time all the fantastic youngsters I buy are near fully developed and I can't bring myself to get rid of the players they start as understudies for.
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You as well! I like to get things perfect. But me being me I never get it right. :( I like to buy in good players but I can never sell my players off to make room for them. Apart from Wes Brown, the sale of whom normally causes Hargreaves to go atmospheric. :D:confused:
 
The mistake I made with Veloso was making him sit back in a midfield anchor role. Get him making forward runs, taking long shots and freekicks and he easily gets 10-15 goals a season for me. I think the rating system is broken for defensive midfielders though, they always seem to get low ratings when played purely defensively, don't seem to get much of a boost for clean sheets or tackles.
 
The mistake I made with Veloso was making him sit back in a midfield anchor role. Get him making forward runs, taking long shots and freekicks and he easily gets 10-15 goals a season for me. I think the rating system is broken for defensive midfielders though, they always seem to get low ratings when played purely defensively, don't seem to get much of a boost for clean sheets or tackles.
I use Srna for free kicks. :cool: Srna is right-footed and Veloso left-footed so I could have Srna take free kicks from the left and Veloso from the right to use the advantage of their respective foot preference.
 
Can anyone help?

I haven't played for a couple of months but wanted a quick game tonight, trouble is after loading it up (via steam, which is where I purchased them game) it is asking for the cd key for online activation, not a problem I've got one so i copy it from steam and enter it into the boxes, now here's where the problem is, the game tells me the unlock key is already active and to purchase one from sigames.com. I know the key is active, it's mine!

I didn't have to faff around with all this before, any ideas what's wrong with it?
 
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Err, what? They won't let me sign a Forward because I already have an assistant manager....
 
Having an injury nightmare atm!

Nevland - 2 weeks (been 2 already)
Etuhu - 2 months (been 1 1/2 already)
Stockdale - 1 month
Davies - 2 weeks
Kamara - 2 weeks
Dempsey - 1-2 weeks
Iversen - 1-2 weeks
Zuberbuhler - 2 weeks
Gera - 2-3 weeks

So thats my 2nd/3rd choice GK, 2nd/4th choice ST, 1st/2nd choice AML, 1st choice AMR, 2nd choice MC :( oh and Schwarzer is on international duty :/
 
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