Gaming Football Manager 2010

PREM !!!

An AWFUL second half was erased with a three win streak going into the playoff, I finished 5th, 4 pts above 7th placed West Brom and drew Saints... after winning the first leg 3-2, I went ultra defensive and drew 0-0.

In the final, the Wembley crowd was small (55K) but they were treated to a peach of a match... Gai Assulin score early and I held on until the last minute, when Bostock (Loanee) got his second yellow in the box for a shirt pull, knotting the match up at 1.

Extra time was hard with only 10 men, but I stuck by my guns and made it to a shootout.

All 5 of my shooters made it, Alex Smithies made a save on their 3rd shot to seal the victory and promote me to the Prem !!!

I'll let you know how my first off-season is, Notts County, hurrah !
 
Anderson Searl said:
PREM !!!

An AWFUL second half was erased with a three win streak going into the playoff, I finished 5th, 4 pts above 7th placed West Brom and drew Saints... after winning the first leg 3-2, I went ultra defensive and drew 0-0.

In the final, the Wembley crowd was small (55K) but they were treated to a peach of a match... Gai Assulin score early and I held on until the last minute, when Bostock (Loanee) got his second yellow in the box for a shirt pull, knotting the match up at 1.

Extra time was hard with only 10 men, but I stuck by my guns and made it to a shootout.

All 5 of my shooters made it, Alex Smithies made a save on their 3rd shot to seal the victory and promote me to the Prem !!!

I'll let you know how my first off-season is, Notts County, hurrah !
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Give your "scouts" a raise?


What's everyone's addiction level? I had an FM09 game where I was in 2045-2046 and I got to something like: "What is(sic) humans?"
 
hungrywing said:
Give your "scouts" a raise?


What's everyone's addiction level? I had an FM09 game where I was in 2045-2046 and I got to something like: "What is(sic) humans?"
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That's just scary.

I think the most I did was 7 or 8 seasons with Fiorentina in FM09. I always thought FM09 was a bit easy though if you had a team with any sort of a budget at all, considering you could get the likes of Bojan, Obertan, Sakho etc for just about nothing and they all ended up being ridiculous. Bojan regularly got me 40+ goals a season, and he cost me 3 million.

I like that FM10 has far less -10 PA players and they're much more expensive to obtain for the most part.
 
FM10's regens are stupidly good. Etsaz Hussain is supposedly a decent player in our Academy but when the next batch of regens is generated, you easily get tons of players with 20-30 CA higher than him, able to get into League One squads from the start! Getting solid youngsters is far too easy. Plus youngsters don't develop much on Youth contracts at all - they're just basically waiting to turn professional before you see green arrows.

I've just managed to single-handedly replace my whole Academy with compensation contracts and they're running away with the league. My Under-18s finished the season with a 100% record - the hardest match that season was the Youth Cup final against Arsenal, which went into extra-time (I won 3-1).

The whole game seems terribly imbalanced in the future and I find it hilarious how some people on the SI forums whine about how regens aren't good enough.
 
Why do the board always have to find something to be disappointed about? I'm top of League One by a mile and got to the 4th round of the FA Cup before losing to Wigan and they're disappointed by it. Spastics.
 
FAO anyone who has played United far into the future:

Is it possible to pay off the Glazers debt in this version?
 
Solius said:
Why do the board always have to find something to be disappointed about? I'm top of League One by a mile and got to the 4th round of the FA Cup before losing to Wigan and they're disappointed by it. Spastics.
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My board/fans were 'devastated' because I drew with Liverpool away from home o.O
 
It does have a few silly bugs like that. In my second season I was leading the table one point ahead of Spurs, with three matches to go, went to White Hart Lane, won 2-1 with a last-minute Machede goal, and I get the 'You should have won more comfortably' as if I was facing Hull or something.
 
Crustanoid said:
FAO anyone who has played United far into the future:

Is it possible to pay off the Glazers debt in this version?
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I'm in 2018 and the loan debt is still £519m

The club pays over £3.7m a month to service the debt. Over £48m last year.
Every month the club loses money because of this unless there are payment because of tv revenue or players sold.

I've seen in season 2045 or (something like that) that the club has much smaller debt but there are no Glazer there so maybe someone has bought the club by then.
 
Often, though, it usually gets shorn off through takeovers.

I have an FM 2008 game and Manchester United spent most of the last decade in the Championship but "Rich", despite still having around 12 years of debt to be paid (had a takeover but the debt stayed). In the same game, Liverpool are in the final years of debt but in the Championship and are struggling - but the debt is going down steadily.

From what I've experienced, the first few years are alright - you can spend and if you do well in the first season the Glazers will expand the stadium which adds a couple more million. But the wage bill does need to be trimmed for you to have presence of mind.
 
Anderson Searl said:
Assulin was actually strangely in the Championship with Newcastle.

I don't understand what you mean though?
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Oops. I was implying you'd just acquired the prospects that get bandied about by the current media. Saivet, Assulin, Bostock, Wilshire, Sakho, Santon, blah blah. Get them all, hire some good coaches and in five years you're a force to be reckoned with in the Prem.
 
8th in league 1, within touching distance of the playoffs. Cannot defend a lead at the moment though, and largely getting twatted away from home. My attack is great, but my defence is dire, and the loss of Graham Stack my first choice keeper for a few months has had a huge impact. He's back in the next week or so, and I'm hoping I can perform a free transfer miracle and bring in better quality at the back

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hungrywing said:
Oops. I was implying you'd just acquired the prospects that get bandied about by the current media. Saivet, Assulin, Bostock, Wilshire, Sakho, Santon, blah blah. Get them all, hire some good coaches and in five years you're a force to be reckoned with in the Prem.
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Ay, well I jumped ship and joined United after Fergie retired :lol:

Left Notts in good hands with Sam Allardyce, ill post the United squad Fergie left me with and the players I added in soon.
 
fecking Steam installed the newest patch automatically for some reason, even though when I checked the settings I DID have it set to not install new patches immediately. I can't stand the consistent 9.0 goalie ratings.

Guess I'll be taking a hiatus until another patch comes out - maybe play a bit of some FM08...
 
B Cantona said:
8th in league 1, within touching distance of the playoffs. Cannot defend a lead at the moment though, and largely getting twatted away from home. My attack is great, but my defence is dire, and the loss of Graham Stack my first choice keeper for a few months has had a huge impact. He's back in the next week or so, and I'm hoping I can perform a free transfer miracle and bring in better quality at the back

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Apparently closing down too much causes this.
 
To defend a lead, you do need to stand-off a little more (press higher up though) - to prevent your defenders from being dragged left right and centre, in the knowledge that the opposition will be playing higher up and quicker.

Usually though I make no changes except tell my players to keep possession a little more (touchline instruction/reduce passing + play narrower). Don't fix what's not broken.

If you're conceding from free-kicks, consider telling your players to stay on their feet (i.e. no Mascherano rugby tackles) which reduces these, or tackle hard further up the pitch and close down a little less at the back (matches what I said above).
 
This is my side incidently, thought I'd post it because it has a fair United influence in it with Johnson, Eikrem and Norwood. Prijovic is better than a goal a game right now (I do have a good striker called Ashley Barnes too, but hard to fit him in right now!), and Topp scores a lot from that attacking midfield role too. I also have Salifou from Villa who was on the Togo bus in real life t'other day. Only player I don't own in that line up is Mahoto, on loan from Pompey

I usually use that formation and tactic at home, and sometimes away, I do have a few different ones I rotate to keep things fresh though. Doesn't matter what I play at the minute, even tried deeply defensive formations, I'm just conceding far too many. Window opens soon and getting £160k for Butler who's out of contract in the summer, so I might have a little to play with, but it doesn't get you far! Hard work managing Dale

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I joined Man Utd from AC Milan in the 4th season and despite being given a £55 million war chest and flogging some players for £40 odd million the club now loses atleast £10 million a month and my current balance will go red next month. I am trying that win 5 domestic titles in 5 different countries achievement I managed the first with Milan after 2 seasons.
 
Oh and Foster broke his leg. :mad: 5-6 months out. van der Sar is back as the number one but I don't have a third registered goalkeeper - the youngsters are terrible. I've signed Dean Kiely (of West Brom in real-life) who was without a contract as backup and he's kept 4 clean sheets in the cups - emergency stuff, Andy Goram-like, if you will. So now I have two 41-year-olds between the posts and 7 outfield players on the bench in the Premier League. :nervous:

Thank goodness Evra and Rafael have been immense at the back for me. Ferdinand is having one of those periods of bad form, and Vidić and Evans have had a slow start to the season. My whole midfield barring Fletcher has been poor, although all my strikers (Rooney, Berbatov, Welbeck, Macheda) are into double figures in spite of it. Macheda is incredible.

And Berbatov is now a club legend, joining the ranks of George Best. Oh I wish... (He's been my second-worst striker this season though and unlike Rooney, who has been the worst, doesn't have injury to explain it.)
 
B Cantona said:
This is my side incidently, thought I'd post it because it has a fair United influence in it with Johnson, Eikrem and Norwood. Prijovic is better than a goal a game right now (I do have a good striker called Ashley Barnes too, but hard to fit him in right now!), and Topp scores a lot from that attacking midfield role too. I also have Salifou from Villa who was on the Togo bus in real life t'other day. Only player I don't own in that line up is Mahoto, on loan from Pompey

I usually use that formation and tactic at home, and sometimes away, I do have a few different ones I rotate to keep things fresh though. Doesn't matter what I play at the minute, even tried deeply defensive formations, I'm just conceding far too many. Window opens soon and getting £160k for Butler who's out of contract in the summer, so I might have a little to play with, but it doesn't get you far! Hard work managing Dale

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What are Norwood and Mahoto's instructions? I'd make sure one of them is playing deeper (ball-winning midfielder/defensive midfielder) as even in a 4-4-2 you generally want someone dropping deeper to shield your back four as well as bridge the defence and midfield.

Neither Johnson nor Eikrem are terribly good at defending, I think? It means that your full-backs will have little protection.

4-2-3-1 is rather offensive as the full-backs make the width, so I'm not really surprised goals aren't a problem. But I think that Norwood and Mahoto's instructions, tweaked slightly, could help a ton.
 
After suffering my second defeat of the season, in my last game, my Palermo slipped down to third position - with Juventus leap frogging us on the last day. Inter Milan ran out clear winners by eight points or so.

So after achieving my aim of reaching Europe (well, the CL) I assumed I'd be getting a nice sum of money to throw at a top class signing or two... Instead I got one measly million pounds. I've flogged off all the dead-wood, and a decent back up player or two so my squad's down to the bare minimum. I was able to bring Neymar into the fold, though he'd signed a deal during the last season. Ah well.
 
B Cantona said:
Where have you got that from? Is that a known bug?

I have only been playing a few games at a time

I really think the standard of my defensive players has quite a lot to do with it, albeit goals conceeded is starting to border on the ridiculous
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I had the very same problem a while back. Too many goals conceded after the 75th minute. I was asked to stand off more and play narrower. All this while changing the mentality to Standard or lower.

Helped me a great bit.
 
B Cantona said:
This is my side incidently, thought I'd post it because it has a fair United influence in it with Johnson, Eikrem and Norwood. Prijovic is better than a goal a game right now (I do have a good striker called Ashley Barnes too, but hard to fit him in right now!), and Topp scores a lot from that attacking midfield role too. I also have Salifou from Villa who was on the Togo bus in real life t'other day. Only player I don't own in that line up is Mahoto, on loan from Pompey

I usually use that formation and tactic at home, and sometimes away, I do have a few different ones I rotate to keep things fresh though. Doesn't matter what I play at the minute, even tried deeply defensive formations, I'm just conceding far too many. Window opens soon and getting £160k for Butler who's out of contract in the summer, so I might have a little to play with, but it doesn't get you far! Hard work managing Dale

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Might i suggest Niflore from Litex? A very very good striker fit enough for the championship. You'll get him on the cheap.

Smithies is an option with regards to goalkeeper. Don't know how much he costs though.
 
I signed the Diouf last night. 4 goals in 4 games so far in the Championship.
 
My Nott County game is now my United game, 2012/13 season, Fergie made ALOT of moves but he kept the key players intact.

He left me QUITE a transfer kitty, 53 million leftover, which i spent so it didnt carry over into the new transfer period, and then I picked up a HUGE 83 million for that summer.

Here's my squad:
(Bold = my signings, Italics = Fergies signings)

GK - Adler, Foster
LB - Evra, Baines
CB - Shawcross, Evans, Ferdinand, Vidic
RB - Rafael, Breia
LM - Jovetic, Young
CM - Sissoko, Carrick, Anderson, Fletcher, Asamoah
RM - Valencia, Ljalic
ST - Aguero, Rooney, Baby Kroos

I have Fabio & Macheda out on loan, but my choice, to Rubin Kazan.

I sold Pandev, Berbatov, Nani, Tosic, Park and Welbeck which came to 85 Million in transfer revenue which helped fund the majority of my moves.

My first match was the Community Shield, lost 3-2 when Adler got hurt and I had to play Carrick in goal... Arsenal scored 2 in injury time, including a SHIT penalty call.

My second match was in the League against Arsenal again, where I tinkered with my tactics and won 4-1, with a Fletcher hat-trick and *gulp* an Anderson 30 year screamer :lol:

Rooney had been hurt, and a few players are away for the olympics, so my "Best XI" isn't for certain yet, but my 4-5-1 I worked on with Notts County worked offensively, but defensively there's some issues.

The biggest problem (Which isn't a bad problem) is picking my best CB's... Obviously Vidic and Ferdinand are aging, but Vidic is the best CB in the world and Ferdinand is still pretty damn good.

My best XI I think

Adler

Rafael
Shawcross
Vidic
Evra

Young
Fletcher
Anderson
Jovetic

Rooney
Aguero

People sure didn't lie about Anderson-Fletcher being good.
 
Both Anderson and Fletcher are amongst the most tenacious midfielders you can get - and with Manchester United they're almost the finished article and cost nothing. Neither are goal threats of course which is why you need to supplant them with a proper squad.

Anderson must be the most controversial player in the world in my game. He is so good at over-the-top passes into space breaking the offside trap. Half the time the striker is offside (once Berbatov was so blatantly offside, think 3-4 yards offside, I laughed) but he keeps trying so many the Law of Averages results in a goal. In addition both Anderson and Fletcher are capable of roaming wide - sometimes Anderson and Fletcher, for me, find themselves on the wing and both are capable crossers.

For me though, my current best eleven is:

van der Sar (Foster injured)
Rafael - Ferdinand - Vidić - Evra
Ribéry - Carrick - Valencia - Fábio
Welbeck - Macheda

Brown
O'Shea
Evans
Fletcher (returning from injury)
Anderson
Rooney
Berbatov
 
When does Fergie retire in this? And how successful do you of have to been to get the United job?
 
Sam#1 said:
When does Fergie retire in this? And how successful do you of have to been to get the United job?
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Usually around 2011 to 2012. I am pretty sure you need to be a high reputation manager to get the offer, preferably world class ofcourse.
 
x42bn6 said:
FM10's regens are stupidly good. Etsaz Hussain is supposedly a decent player in our Academy but when the next batch of regens is generated, you easily get tons of players with 20-30 CA higher than him, able to get into League One squads from the start! Getting solid youngsters is far too easy. Plus youngsters don't develop much on Youth contracts at all - they're just basically waiting to turn professional before you see green arrows.

I've just managed to single-handedly replace my whole Academy with compensation contracts and they're running away with the league. My Under-18s finished the season with a 100% record - the hardest match that season was the Youth Cup final against Arsenal, which went into extra-time (I won 3-1).

The whole game seems terribly imbalanced in the future and I find it hilarious how some people on the SI forums whine about how regens aren't good enough.
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I haven't actually played FM2010 yet, but just been playign artound with the database trying to make sure my game doesn't get bogged down with shite regens like in previous versions. Do they still end up with amazing mental and technical stats but poor - average physical stats?
 
Regens are very good with one or two issues (i.e. defensive midfielders with poor Marking, and everyone has poor Off The Ball, which will be fixed in the new patch hopefully). If anything I believe they start off far too good (i.e. 16-year-olds good enough for League One are everywhere).
 
Leg-End said:
Usually around 2011 to 2012. I am pretty sure you need to be a high reputation manager to get the offer, preferably world class ofcourse.
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I was strangely only a national manager (Which seems a bit under-rated considering what the feck I did) and they offered me the job and nobody else.

x42bn6 said:
Regens are very good with one or two issues (i.e. defensive midfielders with poor Marking, and everyone has poor Off The Ball, which will be fixed in the new patch hopefully). If anything I believe they start off far too good (i.e. 16-year-olds good enough for League One are everywhere).
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In contrary, how does three stars for a world-class team suddenly become "Potential to be leading star"? It's mis-leading, does that mean that they're -9 or -10?
 
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