Poll: The official Football Manager 2008 thread

Would you buy FM09?

  • Yes definitely

    Votes: 145 40.3%

  • Perhaps, depends on the reviews/bugs

    Votes: 102 28.3%

  • Definitely not

    Votes: 113 31.4%
  • Total voters
    360
Noto said:
Yeah how odd, yours must be an act of god lol, I dont think Zola has ever done much defending. He really really should be 7* set piece coach imo maybe the patch after Transfer Window will fix him :D
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I think the game does. Some coaches (such as Ole at Utd) have 0 for most of their coaching stats so the game gives them some stats according to their CA/PA.

Would explain why Ole was a better defensive coach than an attacking coach in one of my games. :p
 
Ooh just asked the board for a new feeder club. However since I've been boss for "some time now" (18th December 2008) they have given me a choice of which feeder club type. So I can choose from:

Any type
National loan/First option
Work permit
Commercial link
International loan/First option

Which type of club link should I go for? What would benefit me/Utd the most? I have the following clubs as my feeder teams and their link type in brackets:

Aberdeen (national loan/first option)
Antwerp (work permit)
Bury (no benefit)
Connah's Quay (first option)
Fluminese (first option)
Gamba (Japan) (commercial link)
New England (USA) (commercial link)
Newport Co (first option)
Paramatta Eagles (Australia) (first option)
Shelbourne (first option)
Sporting CP (first option)
 
Anyone recommend a good young keeper, who'll be good in say 2 years? (Am in 2010), want to replace one of my keepers who is 31.
 
well guys this free transfer game has been going great guns and thrown up a number of shocks tbh.

The first season for me was always going to be an easy one especially with the big guns not signing anyone and playing with youth team players till the window. Both chelsea and Arsenal have bneen active i the window though bringing in some quality players however they are still way short of a full strength side, Liverpool, Chelsea and arsenal are all toying with relegation TBh.

The strong side is Aston Villa who like me went out and signed loads of players on frees and have a relatively strong side, Newcastle brought in about 8-10 players including tevez and cahill on frees so there doing ok other sides doing well are Bolton who are 3rd and Reading again who used there heads and brought in a lot of decent players during the freee transfer craziness.

However the most interesting thing is where some players have gone i.e Jenas is playing for Forest in league one !

Got a feeling this game really wont start till after the summer window but its been quite an enjoyable experience eventhough it has been the easy season on FM ive evcer had so far :p
 
Ive got approx 25 people out on loan at the moment, heh.

Ive signed a few promising youngsters, and some cover for the first team.

However im not sure where to sell, i have about 5-6 AMC's, which i need to sell some of, but cant decide who! And then i have only two keepers, but one wants to leave :(.

Signed;

Carlos Vela
Anderson
Toto Tamuz
Alejandro Gomez
Thiery Henry
Aleksandar Kolarov

These are good signings i recon :).

Got Vela on a free, and Anderson for £5.5m.

Most expensive was Kolarov, at £17m release clause.
 
memphisto said:
well guys this free transfer game has been going great guns and thrown up a number of shocks tbh.

The first season for me was always going to be an easy one especially with the big guns not signing anyone and playing with youth team players till the window. Both chelsea and Arsenal have bneen active i the window though bringing in some quality players however they are still way short of a full strength side, Liverpool, Chelsea and arsenal are all toying with relegation TBh.

The strong side is Aston Villa who like me went out and signed loads of players on frees and have a relatively strong side, Newcastle brought in about 8-10 players including tevez and cahill on frees so there doing ok other sides doing well are Bolton who are 3rd and Reading again who used there heads and brought in a lot of decent players during the freee transfer craziness.

However the most interesting thing is where some players have gone i.e Jenas is playing for Forest in league one !

Got a feeling this game really wont start till after the summer window but its been quite an enjoyable experience eventhough it has been the easy season on FM ive evcer had so far :p
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i don't see the point in what your doing :p - it's just like cheating, you get a pick of players as you use your head and know all the players are free and the AI welll won't have a clue whats going on! by the time the other clubs have a full team it will be 2010 and still they won't have a great team as they have had to buy from nothing...... strange man! :D
 
Gah, this is why I play this game on off on off all year round as I just get so frustrated with it.

As mentioned earlier I started a league with Darlo, I was on a 25 unbeaten run in the league and sitting 9 points clear with about 15 games to go. Then I lose, and lose again, and again and again after nothing has changed with my squad! Not just losing, but getting absolutetly battered in the process, I try and find the cause to no avail. Now out of the play offs and the game won't be turned on again :(

I dont want an easy game obviously but it seems with all the FM games these problems just occur for no reason, I'd understand if my team were unhappy or something was going on behind the scenes but it wasn't!
 
BFCTom said:
If at first you don't succeed, quit, load game and play again :p
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aye so true an ultimate back up!. I lost 3 players in 2 days to long term injuries. 2 because the warriors at shamrock rovers wanted to kill my men! had to reload that one cuz reading cant even field more than 6 subs for friendlies let alone 12 (and they start with 3 on long term injury too) :/
 
_Jimlad_ said:
i don't see the point in what your doing :p - it's just like cheating, you get a pick of players as you use your head and know all the players are free and the AI welll won't have a clue whats going on! by the time the other clubs have a full team it will be 2010 and still they won't have a great team as they have had to buy from nothing...... strange man! :D
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for a laugh ?

I've played this game for god knows how long the right way, so I wanted to try something different :p

and what you say in terms of the other teams may or may not be true, the likes of chelsea have brought in a formidable side during the two windows, the AI that had the forsight ala Villa had a decent squad off the bat.

i knew the first season wasnt an actual season, this second one probably wont be that much better however i have been playing a lot in holiday mode just to get through the season and to the windows :p
 
16th Game of the League so far, 1st to 3rd are within 2 points, ive just taken the lead because Chelsea drew.

Sold a few players this season including Matias Fernandez to Barca for £20m.

Also Bouazza? Didnt know i had him in my team still.

Its getting hard to choose a starting 11 now :p.
 
Players to buy on a budget

They might not be the best, and will not last for ever, but some of them are good quality players, and can be good from League One to Premiership. Sorry i cant remember all the clubs for them, some of the prices might be off..and some may not be great in your particular game, but here we go;

Keepers

Bosco - Sao Paulo - Upto £1m
Roberto Abbondanzieri - Unknown - Upto £1.5m

Defenders

Jaime Correa - Chivas - Upto £1m
Waldo Ponce - Universidad de Chile - Upto £1m
Ramalho - Unknown - Upto £800k
Jorge Vargas - Not sure - £800k
Etto - Dinamo - Upto £1m
Andres Rouga - Alki? - £20k

Midfielders

Gabriel Pereyra - Atlante? - £900k
Jaime Valdes - Lecce? - £700k
Etto - Dinamo - Upto £1m
Jaime Correa - Chivas - Upto £1m
Juri Judt - Getafe? - £200k
Ze Rodolpho - Juventude - £500k

Strikers

Havent really found many for this, but ill find some for you.

Most of these players are mixed stats, but potentially, their rating is in the 80's.

Hope this helps some of you wanting budget players.

One i can recommend is Jaime Valdes.

Will add more once i remember some :).
 
Heres another list of players, who i just recommend as good buys :).

No prices or positions, but here you go;

Welliton
Naldo
Vincent Kompany
Kleber
Piqué
Asamoah Gyan
Sergio Aguero
Henri Saivet
Luka Modric
Toto Tamuz
Aleksandar Kolarov
Antonio Barragan
Rafael Van der Vaart
Diego
David Albelda
Riki
Lulinha
Aaron (young brazilian)
Guilherme - Left Back and Striker
Hatem Ben Arfa
Darjo Srna (sp)
Leyrielton
Carlos Vela
Demy de Zeeuw
Anderson
Oscar Trejo
Radek Sirl
Nicolae Mitea
Gabriel Torje
Salvador Cabanas
Afonso Alves
Yohann Pele
Ben Foster
Andres D'Alessandro
Riccardo Zampagna (also budget - £1m)
Renato Augusto
Ever Banega
Christopher Samba
Vyacheslav Malafeev
Andrey Arshavin
Cristiano Lucarelli

Hope that helps a few people, sorry for the long lists :).

Ive had them all in my current game, but sold a few.

One guy i definitly recommend is Zampagna, buy him every game i play, for the first season atleast, and bangs in 15+.
 
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