Football Manager 2008

Took a risk in selling off Carlos Tevez for £22m to Intel Milan, decided to gamble on taking Inter Milans out of favour striker Adriano after he returned from his loan spell at Sao Paolo. Inter Milan held me to ransom (I'd already sold Tevez and the season was starting in a week) and I ended up paying around £5m more than I wanted to, and secured him for £17.5m (a £4.5m profit over Tevez as I needed to fun the transfer of a new CB (I opted for Gonzalo Rodriguez).

Turns out Adriano has fit in alongside Rooney brilliantly, even more so than Tevez (who got me quite a few goals last season [not a many as Rooney - hence why Tevez was sold, not Rooney]) and has surpassed expectations. He's notched 20 goals in 15 starts (it's only November 4th). I now have a frontline of Adriano-Rooney-Aguero which has cost me around £55m in buying Aguero and Adriano.

To fund transfers I sold off Nani for £30 to Arsenal. David Gill automatically accepted the offer as it was too good to turn down which was kind of a shame as Nani did well in the few games he played for me last season though he spent the majority of it injured so not too bad. Sold off other players like Campbell, Dong, Eagles, Lee etc.. and made around £10m from reserve players.

Made a total of £68m in sales including a cracking £5m for O'Shea, £5.5m for Fletcher, £3.8m for Park and £2m for Simpson!

Taken gambles on some South American players such as Lulinha (Corinthians - £4.8m), Alex Teixeira (Vasco - £5m), Cristian Rodriguez (Free), Maxi Rodriguez (Free), Gonzalo Rodriguez (Villareal - £11.5m), Sergio Aguero (Athletico - £37.5m!!! :o) and re-bought one of my FM2006 favourites, Tomas Sivok for £8m from Udinese.

Most of them are only kids who I'm playing rarely, but I'm hoping they either work out or I sell for profit. Massive changes but I've sold a lot of players off to take the risks.
 
Sivok was insane on 06, pretty much guaranteed first purchase every time. Can't see him being as good on this one.

Looks like Aguero is the player on 08, almost had him but Milan swooped in at the last minute and he went there. ****'s.
 
I had him for Barcelona and he was ace, but he's done nothing for me at Manchester United so far, very unimpressed. He's my substitute striker for now.
 
dannyjo22 said:
You need to get the damn xbox plugged back into live, seriously it's about 18 months since I last pounded you at any thing online :p

If thats what happens when you have kids I dont want any ;)

Anyway nokkon can tell you if you need this game :D

Nice to see you on here again.
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Hey mate how you doing?? Long story actually, had to get a new gamertag(:o). Pain in the u know what but such is life. Promise to get live up and running soon:cool:
 
JPMslither said:
Hey mate how you doing?? Long story actually, had to get a new gamertag(:o). Pain in the u know what but such is life. Promise to get live up and running soon:cool:
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What you shouldn't need a new tag? Lost your password? Not that it matters that much to you as your not a score whore.

You and nokkon would get on well, he's another Manu fanboy that can see no wrong in the team ;)
 
Played the demo earlier and quite enjoyed it....The controls take a wee bit of getting use to but like everything it would become second nature i guess......Having the chatpad is extremely handy for typing stuff.......

One to consider, trouble is....Nokkon already owns it, so i can't flog it to him like i did with the 06 version if i can't get in to it :( ;)
 
KennyBhoy said:
One to consider, trouble is....Nokkon already owns it, so i can't flog it to him like i did with the 06 version if i can't get in to it :( ;)
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I had FM2006 too, but I punched my Xbox360 and it killed my disc, so I had to rebuy it :p.
If you don't like it I'll buy it off you again (as long as it's not too expensive) and give it to my friend :).
 
da_mic_1530 said:
honest to god I don't know why I bother, save is corrupted, and I haven't backed it up, even though this happened to me last time, I never learn
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Ah that's right, remember that.
On the Xbox360 I know you have to wait a while even after the Save bar has finished and you've gone back to the game as that happens. I always left it a few minutes.
 
NokkonWud said:
Ah that's right, remember that.
On the Xbox360 I know you have to wait a while even after the Save bar has finished and you've gone back to the game as that happens. I always left it a few minutes.
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after googling I have a very common corrupt file problem, so will look into a hotfix today
 
3 Seasons down as Man Utd and I've spent a bloody fortune! Now I have Silva/Aguero/Ronaldo/Rooney/Adriano/Teixiera/Maxi Rodriguez and Anderson as a front attack and I have Van Der Vaart coming in on a free.

I need to sell at least 2 of those, dunno who though, Adriano/Rooney/Aguero and Anderson are phenomenal, the first 3 score all the time and Anderson will get 30 assists a season.
 
Adriano is the oldest, but he's also scored 95 goals in 2 seasons (and spent months of the second season injured).

The others are all sub-25 bar Rodriguez who is 29 but scores more goals than Silva or Ronaldo :p. I tihnk he'll have to go if I get an offer I can't refuse.
 
Ack, season 4 has turned into a total joke.

Lost Rooney, Ronaldo and Veloso (all 3 are first team players) all to broken legs. As if that is not enough, I am not exagerating when I say I've had over 20 goals disallowed already this season and it's not even January yet.

Adriano got 10 goals in 4 games including 2 hat-tricks, now he's dried up to :(.
 
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