Gaming Football Manager 2009

I left Sporting after six months.

What a shit December for me, 14 points behind Benfica, fifth in the table :wenger:

My biggest achievements:

- win against Benfica away from home in the league
- manager of November

That says all.
 
I've always wanted to try Sporting... maybe in FM2010. Usually i load the Portuguese leagues as view-only, so they never properly produce lots of regens. Would be great fun losing money every year, fighting to keep my best players and end up selling them anyway , then nurturing local lads from the academy.
 
anything about now said:
I've always wanted to try Sporting... maybe in FM2010. Usually i load the Portuguese leagues as view-only, so they never properly produce lots of regens. Would be great fun losing money every year, fighting to keep my best players and end up selling them anyway , then nurturing local lads from the academy.
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They have some amazing youngsters, I gave some minutes the bests of them, but it cost me results.

I don't have experience yet ;)
 
After 6 seasons, i'm finally in the Premier League! :D

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Davide Petrucci, Danny Welbeck, Ryan McGowan, Loic Guillon, Mauricio and Nicolas Medina will be joining me in the summer.

I think I need a new challenge now though.
 
After one hard season (No trophies) I decided to re-build United, selling the likes of Nani, Contract/Sold Tevez, Brown, Ferdinand, Berbatov, etc and alot of youth stars, bringing in nearly 120 million in transfers and now my XI is 11 wins on the trot to start the new season

It's a sexy styled 4-3-3, and the squad only cost about 100 Million on 3 players, you'll see the difference.

Aguero
Rooney----------------Ronaldo
Anderson Fabregas
Carrick
Evra---Evans-----Vidic---Rafael
Akinfeev​
 
I want to start it again.

Any advices which team should I start?

Want to have pretty good squad in a good league, but they can't be favorites to win trophies. A good team to build a hegemony :devil:
 
Anderson Searl said:
After one hard season (No trophies) I decided to re-build United, selling the likes of Nani, Contract/Sold Tevez, Brown, Ferdinand, Berbatov, etc and alot of youth stars, bringing in nearly 120 million in transfers and now my XI is 11 wins on the trot to start the new season

It's a sexy styled 4-3-3, and the squad only cost about 100 Million on 3 players, you'll see the difference.

Aguero
Rooney----------------Ronaldo
Anderson Fabregas
Carrick
Evra---Evans-----Vidic---Rafael
Akinfeev​
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May I ask why? Tevez, Nani (after 2 seasons) and Ferdinand are absolutely incredible in the game, I think Tevez was netting me 30-35 goals a season by my 3rd season. I can understand getting rid of Berbatov though, he never really cut it for me either.

Good call on Akinfeev, he's immense, as is Frey.

I haven't played my Man Utd game in a while, as I'm still trying to guide my Reading team to the top (finished 6th in my first premiership season and won the FA cup!) but as I recall I'm in my 4th season and my first XI is:

Rooney Tevez
Nani Anderson Ronaldo
Cana/Hargreaves
Evra Vidic Ferdinand DeSilvestri
Frey​

Won the Premiership every year, 2 FA cups, 1 League cup and 2 champions leagues. Loved that game.

Then I moved on to Reading, and my fecking god is it difficult, I breezed through the Championship but I really had to up my tactical use in the Premiership since then, you really, really notice the difficulty of the game with teams like Reading. I'd literally be modifying my tactics 8-9 times some games.

Unfortunately I'm in my 3rd season and not doing especially great at the moment, in comparison to last year. Sugar.
 
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Two things:

Yellow: He wants £120, i offer £575 ..

He rejects due to low basic salary ... :s

Red: WTF .. ? :lol:

Anyone get some weird shite like that happening in FM 2009?
 
Maciek said:
I want to start it again.

Any advices which team should I start?

Want to have pretty good squad in a good league, but they can't be favorites to win trophies. A good team to build a hegemony :devil:
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I pretty much always start out in the lower leagues in England, usually a team in League 1, but I also start a game soon after it comes out, giving me a year to play it. This year I started as Southampton, as I knew that they were in trouble, so it wouldn't be easy to turn them around, but from past experience, I had never had enough time to bring through any of my young players to become first team stars. So, I decided to start in the Championship, this season, although I hadn't realized that the time between games is much shorter in this years game, so I've managed to play through several seasons, as opposed to 3/4 in previous games.

As to what team you should start as, just have a look at the squads of each team in the major leagues, and then check the information page to see where the media predicts that they will finish. That should give you an idea of how good they are in comparison to the rest of the league.

A team like Villarreal would be interesting, because they are a fairly small club, so they shouldn't be able to spend a fortune on new players, and they have to compete against several teams that are much bigger than they are, but they also have a good squad. The new game will be out in October/November, and if you want to start a game soon after it comes out, giving you a year to play, you should probably not start too low down the food chain with this years game.
 
Start with Racing Santander and see if you can win La Liga before 2013/2014. That's how long it took me, also got second the season before. Barca and Madrid are just so feckin good on the game though, La Liga is probably harder than the Premiership to win because United just seem to turn to rubbish in the Premiership. Think they were finishing about 6th or 7th every season on my game
 
cina said:
May I ask why? Tevez, Nani (after 2 seasons) and Ferdinand are absolutely incredible in the game, I think Tevez was netting me 30-35 goals a season by my 3rd season. I can understand getting rid of Berbatov though, he never really cut it for me either.
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It's always been habit of me to give Fergie's squad a year, and if I can't find the right mix for my players both tactically and so on, then I do alot of shopping... I have the best players for my mix now, and it's showing with my awesome start.

Ferdinand was an "offer too good to turn down" at 34 Million :eek:

Right now I have Saivet on his way up and will probably be my key man in my front 4 rotation alongside Welbeck
 
Anderson Searl said:
It's always been habit of me to give Fergie's squad a year, and if I can't find the right mix for my players both tactically and so on, then I do alot of shopping... I have the best players for my mix now, and it's showing with my awesome start.

Ferdinand was an "offer too good to turn down" at 34 Million :eek:

Right now I have Saivet on his way up and will probably be my key man in my front 4 rotation alongside Welbeck
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Saivet is poor in the game in comparison to 08 though, you should get Balotelli off Inter for about 15-17m, he ends up being on par with Aguero, Tevez etc.

Welbeck isn't great either, I'd go for Campbell instead myself.

Also, to anyone starting a new game, get Vela, Arsenal will sell him for about 15m and if trained right he ends up with higher ability than both, in my Man Utd game Arsenal usually take me to the wire every season (along with Chelsea) because he scores about 35-40 goals for them and always wins WPOTY.

I just bought a regen with a potential ability of 195 for 600k, mmm.
 
Q80 said:
Which April fools day message? :eek:
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When it's April 1st in real life and you reach the same date in your game, you'll get a news message, which will say your club has been taken over and you've got a ridicolous amount of transfer money.
 
Epic said:
When it's April 1st in real life and you reach the same date in your game, you'll get a news message, which will say your club has been taken over and you've got a ridicolous amount of transfer money.
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Do you actually get the money though?
 
Twigginater said:
How do you get into the database of FM09. I want to edit Ronaldo to Madrid?
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Football Manager -> Sports Interactive -> Tools -> Data Editor.exe

Alternatively, and more fun, is a real time data editor available on www.fm-base.co.uk/ which you can use to edit stuff during the game, and has features such as "destroy team" which sets all players in a teams conditions to 1%, it's very fun :D
 
On another note, 5th season with Utd, and I've been given a transfer kitty of 130m pounds, and I've no idea what to spend it on. The most I spent on a player was Sebastian Frey for 12m.

Maybe I'll get Aguero or something, he has a 38.5m release clause, but Rooney and Tevez are so brilliant together that I don't really need him. Tevez netted me 39 goals last season, and Rooney got me 14 goals and 18 assists playing behind him.
 
The next installment of Footy Manager is fecked. Madrid are gunna be dominant, but worse than that, if you have a big kitty at the start, you're not gunna be able to buy the likes of Kaka, Ronaldo and whoever else they sign, because they won't leave a club they've just arrive at
 
cina said:
On another note, 5th season with Utd, and I've been given a transfer kitty of 130m pounds, and I've no idea what to spend it on. The most I spent on a player was Sebastian Frey for 12m.

Maybe I'll get Aguero or something, he has a 38.5m release clause, but Rooney and Tevez are so brilliant together that I don't really need him. Tevez netted me 39 goals last season, and Rooney got me 14 goals and 18 assists playing behind him.
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Start building your next side ala Fergie, bring in loads of Brazilian and Italian kids.
 
I have a nice game set up that I'm about to begin. Have spent ages taking 15/16 year olds from around the world and changing their stats to make them 199 potential superstars, and arranging transfers for them across around Europe to all kinds of teams. Given the teams a lot more cash and reputation in the hope they can hold onto these players for longer. Tried to make it so every major country has about 20-30 odd youngsters with 199 potential around the pitch, and also so that developing countries in Africa and Asia and Eastern Europe start producing a few major talents. Also started them all on 165 current ability so they may actually develop and reach their potential. Should be fun.
 
UBERScholes said:
I have a nice game set up that I'm about to begin. Have spent ages taking 15/16 year olds from around the world and changing their stats to make them 199 potential superstars, and arranging transfers for them across around Europe to all kinds of teams. Given the teams a lot more cash and reputation in the hope they can hold onto these players for longer. Tried to make it so every major country has about 20-30 odd youngsters with 199 potential around the pitch, and also so that developing countries in Africa and Asia and Eastern Europe start producing a few major talents. Also started them all on 165 current ability so they may actually develop and reach their potential. Should be fun.
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I hope you realise the maximum is 200, not 199.
 
cina said:
On another note, 5th season with Utd, and I've been given a transfer kitty of 130m pounds, and I've no idea what to spend it on. The most I spent on a player was Sebastian Frey for 12m.
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On my 4th season i snagged the United job after Fergie retired, and i too have noticed an obscene bank balance and kitty. They haven't really sold anyone either (other than Fletcher to Madrid for 7M :eek::confused:). Must have all been through sponsorship, prize and TV money. The future looks bright, both in-game and IRL :drool:
 
UBERScholes said:
I have a nice game set up that I'm about to begin. Have spent ages taking 15/16 year olds from around the world and changing their stats to make them 199 potential superstars, and arranging transfers for them across around Europe to all kinds of teams. Given the teams a lot more cash and reputation in the hope they can hold onto these players for longer. Tried to make it so every major country has about 20-30 odd youngsters with 199 potential around the pitch, and also so that developing countries in Africa and Asia and Eastern Europe start producing a few major talents. Also started them all on 165 current ability so they may actually develop and reach their potential. Should be fun.
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You started them off way too high. At 165 ability they're already stars for any of the big clubs in Europe. And that's where they'll be soon. And at 165/199 at 15, they'll be as good as they're going to get by 18, if not sooner. That's my prediction, anyway.
 
Before I played a game like this where I started them all off at like 100 CA and hardly any of them developed into anything over 10 seasons. Hoping 165 will establish them and put them on the right path, but the game will kind of balance them off considering their age so they still develop reasonably over time. I've also been giving them 20 loyalty, 20 professionalism and all different kind of ambition, and made the clubs they're getting transferred to their permanent favourite clubs. I'm hoping it'll lead to a far more competitive Champions League and also stronger teams in International football.

Will also be trying to do this with an in game editor to keep second tier clubs competitive in the transfer market
 
Brad said:
The next installment of Footy Manager is fecked. Madrid are gunna be dominant, but worse than that, if you have a big kitty at the start, you're not gunna be able to buy the likes of Kaka, Ronaldo and whoever else they sign, because they won't leave a club they've just arrive at
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I never buy players like that anyway, no matter how much money I have. Like I said, I had 130m in my 5th season to spend, and I could've gotten Messi for 80m (his release clause) but I decided not to, though it helped that Ronaldo and Nani are already devastating on the wings for me.

FM games are all about finding unknown players who are potentially brilliant and getting them relatively cheap, and then making them brilliant by using a good coaching system (for me anyway).

I didn't buy anyone in season one, I just brought in lots of brilliant coaching staff, and by the end of the season Nani and Anderson had reached their potential abilities of 180+ and have been integral to my team since. Then I bought the right back De Silvestri after my scouts found him for 6m, and now his current ability is 184, he's the best RB in the game now. Like I said before, I've never used my full budget, and the most I've spent is 12m on Sebastian Frey (who I reckon is the games best GK)

This year, I spent 10m of my 130m bringing in a few 15/16/17 year olds who have 180+ potential, and that's it.

I dunno, I just find that far more rewarding than just going out and buying the big players for massive amounts of cash, personally.
 
UBERScholes said:
I have a nice game set up that I'm about to begin. Have spent ages taking 15/16 year olds from around the world and changing their stats to make them 199 potential superstars, and arranging transfers for them across around Europe to all kinds of teams. Given the teams a lot more cash and reputation in the hope they can hold onto these players for longer. Tried to make it so every major country has about 20-30 odd youngsters with 199 potential around the pitch, and also so that developing countries in Africa and Asia and Eastern Europe start producing a few major talents. Also started them all on 165 current ability so they may actually develop and reach their potential. Should be fun.
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Isn't that basically cheating? :p

If you have a medium sized database you'll get 10-15 regens with 180+ (about 5 with 190+) in the game every year anyway, so that seems a bit pointless. I prefer to just find those regens! And like someone said, if you start them with 150ish at the age of 15/16 they're already the equivalent of a good premiership player and they'll be snapped up by the big clubs for quite a bit of money.

Most regen wonderkids only start with about 90-110 ability...
 
Not sure if they've fixed it in FM2009. But I hate regens, they always had shite physical stats and only handful seemed to really develop at AI clubs. Plus I want to see developing continents producing more talent.

I ran a trial game overnight and first indications are positive. Lots of players I modified (Although there were hundreds of them so I can't remember most of them) ended up getting transferred at the first opportunity, but to all kinds of clubs around Europe, not just the big ones, so that's good. Newcastle though, the feckers, ended up getting promoted back to the Premiership (Even though I crippled them trying to stop them doing that), spent like 150m on new players and now they're 2nd :mad:

Decided that United would replace Ronaldo with Benzema and Sanchez, but Arsenal are bossing the Premiership. cnuts

R. Madrid are hopeless. Even though I gave them Kaka, Ronaldo, Villa, Carvalho, Ribery, Alonso and Clichy
 
UBERScholes said:
Not sure if they've fixed it in FM2009. But I hate regens, they always had shite physical stats and only handful seemed to really develop at AI clubs. Plus I want to see developing continents producing more talent.

I ran a trial game overnight and first indications are positive. Lots of players I modified (Although there were hundreds of them so I can't remember most of them) ended up getting transferred at the first opportunity, but to all kinds of clubs around Europe, not just the big ones, so that's good. Newcastle though, the feckers, ended up getting promoted back to the Premiership (Even though I crippled them trying to stop them doing that), spent like 150m on new players and now they're 2nd :mad:

Decided that United would replace Ronaldo with Benzema and Sanchez, but Arsenal are bossing the Premiership. cnuts

R. Madrid are hopeless. Even though I gave them Kaka, Ronaldo, Villa, Carvalho, Ribery, Alonso and Clichy
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They have a tendency to do that. They've been the only team threatening me in the seasons I've played, and it's insanely hard to beat them at times. Vela has a PA of 198 for feck sake. Fabregas, Adebayor, Nasri, Ramsey, Eduardo are all brilliant too. And they seem to have massive transfer budgets too, lovely.
 
Thing is I actually tried giving Arsenal a bit of a leg up. Made sure they signed some quality defenders and a central midfielder, and also gave 5 or 6 of their youngsters 199 potential.

I tried improving the Dippers, Everton and Chelsea the same way but only Everton really perform. Think maybe I have to go in and make Rafa and Ancelotti better managers.
 
cina said:
They have a tendency to do that. They've been the only team threatening me in the seasons I've played, and it's insanely hard to beat them at times. Vela has a PA of 198 for feck sake. Fabregas, Adebayor, Nasri, Ramsey, Eduardo are all brilliant too. And they seem to have massive transfer budgets too, lovely.
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Yea, I've noticed in my games (08 and 09), Arsenal seem to always have a large transfer budget. Seems a bit out of touch with reality that.
 
I'm just wondering if anyone is as sad as I am and keeps a (rough) tally of how many current wonderkids they have had at their club, at one time? Not former wonderkids, as there would likely be many, but players that are all wonderkids at one point in time.

My previous record was seven, on FM 2007. Believe it or not, but I currently have 19 wonderkids, either in my first team squad, in the reserves, or out on loan!

A player has to have a CA of roughly 150, though that number is certainly not exact. For instance, I have wonderkids that are 140-odd, and players that aren't classed as wonderkids, yet, that are 150-odd, but the rule is, in my experience, generally true. A player also has to be under-21, as well.

On another note, if you arrange lots of friendlies during the season for your reserves, and possibly U18's, and particularly if you have a large reserve team squad, this might be worth doing. I created a bookmark folder entitled, "Friendly Clubs", and looked through all of the clubs in leagues that I don't have running (I have England, Scotland, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Holland, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, as full leagues) and bookmarked them. I also included an abbreviation of the name of the country that they reside in, so that the clubs from the same country are all listed together, alphabetically.

Then, when you attempt to arrange a friendly, do it in the normal way, by choosing a date and selecting "Choose Club", then select "Choose Other". Rather than searching through clubs, looking for one with lots of real players, you can simply click on the bookmark tab and select the option that contains all of the clubs that have real players. It makes the job much, much easier, believe me.

I have so many youngsters in my reserve team, so I usually arrange a friendly every third day (so two days in between), or sometimes even every second day (one day in between). There is often only one or two games per month in the English reverse leagues, so I tend to play far more friendlies than league matches.
 
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