Poll: The official Football Manager 2008 thread
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Working fine here, make sure you did make the correct directiories, should be:
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2008\graphics\players\
The two bold folders are likely to be the ones that you have to make. If you have made them then make sure that you have named them correct, and that you have extracted them properly. Also go into the game, then into preferences and under "Display & Sound" and untick "Use Skin Cache" and make sure "Always Reload Skin On Confirm" is ticked.
Hopefully that sorts it.
how can you work out there ability ?
Erm, is a league playing all teams twice? I'm only up to the 12 match!
Also can someone give me hints on training, I've removed the ticks from the particular coaches weak points and split the ticks evenly-ish between the three guys strong points, is that right?
Should I look at hiring a really good assistant manager?
Are footballers that ridiculous feeble that they should get injured all too often, had 5 men down at one point even this early in the season.
Also can someone give me hints on training, I've removed the ticks from the particular coaches weak points and split the ticks evenly-ish between the three guys strong points, is that right?
Should I look at hiring a really good assistant manager?
Are footballers that ridiculous feeble that they should get injured all too often, had 5 men down at one point even this early in the season.
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Yeah should be 2 games for each opponent in your league, one at home (for you) and one away (for you).
So 20 teams in a league means 19 opponents and 38 games. Not playing the demo are you?
That is a good start. You also need to make sure that each training area has as many stars as you can get. The more stars the higher the quality of training.
Yes. You'll want someone who is maybe pretty good on judging player current and future ability although scouts do this for you. Tactical knowledge and determination are good for an assistant manager in case you get a touchline ban and they have to manage the team for a match.
Not playing the demo, retail copy.
One thing that bugs me is we average 2 goals per game, very good, we are unbeaten, 2 draws 10 wins and 0 losses, however we concede on average 1.3 per match. Surely they are odd stats, I'd like a bloody clean sheet for once!
Perhaps it's my interesting tactics, telling two key players, mid captain and striker to be creative whilst playing a stacked midfield 2 1 2 1 4, perhaps my defence get muddled? lol
One thing that bugs me is we average 2 goals per game, very good, we are unbeaten, 2 draws 10 wins and 0 losses, however we concede on average 1.3 per match. Surely they are odd stats, I'd like a bloody clean sheet for once!
Perhaps it's my interesting tactics, telling two key players, mid captain and striker to be creative whilst playing a stacked midfield 2 1 2 1 4, perhaps my defence get muddled? lol
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Not really. When you start off you can find that you'll leak goals unless you have a really superb defence or have the money to buy a superb defence.
Some scouts you have tell you how good they are/will be.
Can always use the FM Genie Scout..but thats not really advised. I always sign the same scouts, so they're good.
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You might need to increase the club reputation.
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Lorik Cana is excellent, Ever Banega is good and becomes world class.
You tried using the FM Modifier instead..can do it inside the game, adjusting when you want to. Much easier.
Yep, he rocks.
Other than that maybe check out Cigarini, not sure how much he'd be though, I picked him up for 10 million in season 5.
can you recomend some good scouts, i still have my basic ones from when i was in the championship
Staff in FM are not as demanding in attributes as players, therefore you just need a couple of certain stats for particular staff and your sorted, the only other difference in a scout is how much knowledge they carry which can be appealing, but otherwise just get a scout that has the highest "Judging Player Ability" and "Judging Player Potential" as possible. Wouldn't bother with these fancy scouts that cost you an arm and a leg for wages.
this sounds strange! but how do you seach for staff?
In game search tool, just go to "Search" and instead of the normal "Players" option, just choose "Staff". Then click the filter button and if you are looking for a Scout, add the attributes: Judging Player Ability, Judging Player Potential and Job Role... reset player ability and player potential to 18+ and set the job role as Scout, see what comes up. If nothing looks appealing, drop the 18+ down to 17+ and should be loads more.
Just sign the cheapest one with the lowest wages, it's all you need.
Just sign the cheapest one with the lowest wages, it's all you need.