Football Manager 2008

Can anyone give me some tips:

I am in my first season with United and:
1. I keep losing money every month (below wage budget, haven't spent anything on transfers
2. Carlos won't sign a new contract - wants more than the max I'm allowed to spend on him per week (25k/week)

Suggestions?
 
Twisted_Woody said:
Can anyone give me some tips:

I am in my first season with United and:
1. I keep losing money every month (below wage budget, haven't spent anything on transfers
2. Carlos won't sign a new contract - wants more than the max I'm allowed to spend on him per week (25k/week)

Suggestions?
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Go into the board room, and readjust your budget accordingly. You will lose money with United generally due to the big loan repayments.
 
Twisted_Woody said:
Can anyone give me some tips:

I am in my first season with United and:
1. I keep losing money every month (below wage budget, haven't spent anything on transfers
2. Carlos won't sign a new contract - wants more than the max I'm allowed to spend on him per week (25k/week)

Suggestions?
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put him as a key player and they will let you give him more
 
I've just started a new game as manager of AFC Bournemouth.

I have no money to spend and a 10 point deduction.

I've just been told the odds of my team winning the league are 5000-1.

On the bright side i've signed Cherno Samba and Jody Morris on free tranfers.
 
Twisted_Woody said:
Can anyone give me some tips:

I am in my first season with United and:
1. I keep losing money every month (below wage budget, haven't spent anything on transfers
2. Carlos won't sign a new contract - wants more than the max I'm allowed to spend on him per week (25k/week)

Suggestions?
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Losing Carlos is fairly unavoidable really, in every FM game I've played he's been offered jobs as a manager for big clubs.
 
Epic said:
My game just crashed seemingly random so be on your toes. Save your game like after every match :D
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:lol: mine did too and i'd started a new game but hadnt saved. Ah well, will save regularily. Thanks again
 
uae said:
:lol: mine did too and i'd started a new game but hadnt saved. Ah well, will save regularily. Thanks again
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Did you click "player report" of a newly signed player? It happend to me when I did that, not very keen on clicking anything now :lol:
 
Started a Spurs one on the new update, pre-season was going fantastically well, bought Van Der Vaart and several other quality players. First game away at Reading, Kevin Doyle played like Romario circa 1994 and I lost 3-1, the disc was out of my disc tray and on the floor before it had loaded the next fecking screen. Cheating cnuts.
 
Epic said:
Did you click "player report" of a newly signed player? It happend to me when I did that, not very keen on clicking anything now :lol:
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not sure what i clicked. Think i may have been offering a contract.
 
Spammy said:
Started a Spurs one on the new update, pre-season was going fantastically well, bought Van Der Vaart and several other quality players. First game away at Reading, Kevin Doyle played like Romario circa 1994 and I lost 3-1, the disc was out of my disc tray and on the floor before it had loaded the next fecking screen. Cheating cnuts.
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Kevin Doyle is immense in the game, if trained properly he becomes easily one of the best strikers. I had him with Wigan and he was netting me 40 goals a season on average.
 
I'm starting to pull away at the top, still unbeaten in the league thus far.

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Twisted_Woody said:
Can anyone give me some tips:

I am in my first season with United and:
1. I keep losing money every month (below wage budget, haven't spent anything on transfers
2. Carlos won't sign a new contract - wants more than the max I'm allowed to spend on him per week (25k/week)

Suggestions?
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You'll loose money but should make it back as long as you're reasonably successful on the pitch

Tevez will sign a new contract and you can afford it, make sure that when you offer his a new contract his squad role is first team or key player, thats when you can offer big wages
 
Jacob said:
Eh? Never had that, there's not much you can do really. If the doesn't want to sign a new contract, he wants a higher role, unlucky.
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Well, he wants more than 25k/week and I can't offer more than that.
 
Have any of you got an online game going?
I'm up for one anyway...
 
advice....england, brazil, russia and portuhal just asked me to be their manager at the same time...who should I go for?
 
I've suddenly turned shite at this. Can't win with anyone, even United. Opposition constantly dominating the possesion, even rubbish teams, can't keep a clean sheet no matter what. Got a proper migrane from playing it.
 
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