Gaming Football Manager 2009

Errr. Ok. That screenshot wasn't any sort of cheat. I just started a United game, saved, and first tried to offer Fletcher to clubs for £20 million. Sure enough, City wanted him. Then I loaded and tried £40 million. Yep.

Right. I just tried offering him for £60 million, thinking it would never take. Well, I was sort of right. They offered £12 mill up front and £45 million over 24 months. I'm going to try £55 million to see what their limit for up front money is.

Yeah, they'll take £55 million. They'll also give you at least £50 million for Carrick, I just offered him for that thinking they'd never do it. Well, if they want Fletcher for £55 million..
 
niMic said:
Errr. Ok. That screenshot wasn't any sort of cheat. I just started a United game, saved, and first tried to offer Fletcher to clubs for £20 million. Sure enough, City wanted him. Then I loaded and tried £40 million. Yep.

Right. I just tried offering him for £60 million, thinking it would never take. Well, I was sort of right. They offered £12 mill up front and £45 million over 24 months. I'm going to try £55 million to see what their limit for up front money is.

Yeah, they'll take £55 million. They'll also give you at least £50 million for Carrick, I just offered him for that thinking they'd never do it. Well, if they want Fletcher for £55 million..
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:lol:

SI apparently rewrote the entire transfer module!
 
:lol: It's true I just tried it, offer Fletcher to clubs for £40 million and sure enough up pop Man City with a bid.
 
Leg-End said:
:lol: It's true I just tried it, offer Fletcher to clubs for £40 million and sure enough up pop Man City with a bid.
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I think you meant 55 million pounds. :lol:

Some of the odder ones on the SI forums:

Michael Owen for £30m in 2012 when his contract was already almost expired
Carlos Cuellar for £38m :lol:
Darren Fletcher for £50m
Lucas for £40m :lol:
Jonas Guttierez for £50m :lol:
Obafemi Martins for £13m
Fabio Aurelio £39m :lol:
Glen Johnson for £14m + Elano or in another case £29m
Arbeloa and Benayoun for £20m each
Dirk Kuyt for £20m :lol:
Xabi Alonso for £50m :lol:
Valencia (from Wigan) for £20m
Aaran Lennon for £40m :lol:
Carrick for £55m
Skrtel for £55m :lol:
Gary Cahill for £12m
Frazier Campbell for £40m
 
Does it ever change how good your team is perceived to be?

For example I'm 3 seasons in with Portsmouth, I've finished 5th, 3rd and am currently 2nd in the Prem over 3 years, so I've broken the big four. I've also won the League Cup twice and become runner up this year.

At the same time Liverpool are now a mid-table side, yet still every time I beat them it's a surprise result. Does that ever change?
 
Solius said:
Does it ever change how good your team is perceived to be?

For example I'm 3 seasons in with Portsmouth, I've finished 5th, 3rd and am currently 2nd in the Prem over 3 years, so I've broken the big four. I've also won the League Cup twice and become runner up this year.

At the same time Liverpool are now a mid-table side, yet still every time I beat them it's a surprise result. Does that ever change?
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It's probably down to club reputation, and theirs is probably still bigger than yours. Unless you win anything big, it might stay that way for a few more seasons, as they started quite a lot higher than you.
 
Solius said:
Does it ever change how good your team is perceived to be?

For example I'm 3 seasons in with Portsmouth, I've finished 5th, 3rd and am currently 2nd in the Prem over 3 years, so I've broken the big four. I've also won the League Cup twice and become runner up this year.

At the same time Liverpool are now a mid-table side, yet still every time I beat them it's a surprise result. Does that ever change?
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I think it's something to do with reputation and when you win stuff your rep goes up, but i think its harder for a big team to lose reputation. It doesn't seem like you've won anything big enough to compare to their previous achievements. Maybe if you won the premiership / champs league it would be different.
 
Ah ok cheers, well I've no chance of winning the Prem this year but I'm in the quarter finals of the Champs League after beating Marseille, got Real next though :nervous:
 
Sometimes I really feel like the game cheats. After dominating the entire game, I got an 87 minute goal against Boro, and then I changed to a very defensive tactic. No such luck, they scored an offside goal right from kick off on their only chance all game.
 
niMic said:
Sometimes I really feel like the game cheats. After dominating the entire game, I got an 87 minute goal against Boro, and then I changed to a very defensive tactic. No such luck, they scored an offside goal right from kick off on their only chance all game.
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Funny you should say that. Just now 2-0 up in injury time with my Villa side at Man City, 1st season, up pops Gareth Barry who I sold to them with 2 inury time goals to make it 2-2. feck this game.
 
A cool £49.5 million, I then went and picked up Veloso for £12.5 million. :lol: Techincally its cheating to let City buy players like that but thought I would rebuild Villa with youngsters. One thing I do hate though, if you buy a youngster that you hope will come good in a season or 2 the fans moan about a dissapointing signing, I mean how is Fabian Delph for £2.8 million and Fedor Smolov for £425K dissapointing?
 
Veloso > Messi, anybody that can style their hair like that deserves recognition.
 
That's the slather your hair in styling gel and then stick it in the toilet for the perfect swirl.
 
Standard 4-3-3 seems to be the only tactic that works for me.

Anyone stumbled over any good ones?
 
x42bn6 said:
Are you sure you can't sell more players to meet Messi's release clause?
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No, actually, I had a problem with my "sell-stuff-to-City" plan. I had agreed £55 million for both Fletcher and Carrick, but as soon as they confirmed Fletcher they didn't want Carrick anymore. I'm going to try to sell them Berbatov in January for obscene amounts of money, I really can't make him play well in my tactics. Maybe replace him with Aguero.
 
I sold O'Shea for 10 million!
 
Yeah but i'm trying out a whacky formation, where he wasn't really needed, plus i needed the money.
 
Has anyone yet managed to engineer a United side which scores a lot of goals? I'm doing alright, getting a bunch of points, in reach of #1 (which belongs to Blackburn), but I've scored 1.3 goals per game. I don't concede a lot of goals at all, but when I score so few goals the risk is great that I'll suddenly start drawing lots of games because that elusive one goal isn't there anymore. Rooney has scored 1 goal in 12 games (7 league games), Tevez 3 and Berbatov 4.

Players equalling Rooney's goal tally:
Hargreaves
Vidic
Ferdinand
Anderson
O'Shea

I'm not looking for a complete tactic, as I feel that takes away some of the game for me. I could probably go find some super-tactic and win everything, but where's the fun in that? I could do with some pointers for this game engine, though. I haven't usually had this problem in my United games on previous FM's. More of the opposite, rather, I used to concede a lot of goals.

When I do score more than a couple goals, I look decidedly unimpressive (like just not against Fiorentina).
 
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