Gaming Football Manager 2010

Never mind, just realised you get a registration window. Trying to lure Rafinha to Notts County!

My defence is terrible, let in 40 goals. Worst in the league. I'm in 2013, any decent defenders worth signing?

My back four currently is:

Danny Simpson - Craig Cathcart - Michael Dawson - Mane

Keep Cathcart. He's ace. Mr reliable for me. He's got an average rating of about 7.4 so far this season. He's a beast.
 
Ferdinand's been ace for me. United's player of the season along with 10+ goals.
This year he has already scored an hat-trick against City averaging about 7.4-7.5.

A defender with 10 goals? You haven't, by any chance, been exploiting the corner glitch have you? :)
 
Started another United game that i'm into. Playing it realistically (ish) as always. Signed Ozil and Rodwell first season and offloaded Park, Gibson and a few reserves to basically cover my net spend. It's at about £5 million now but i plan on clearing out Berbatov, Nani, Anderson, Hargreaves and Valencia in the summer as my formation doesn't cater for them and my youngsters are coming up with the goods.

Meanwhile i'm gonna get Veloso in for hopefully around £5m (he wants to be transfer listed, won't be much more than that when he gets his way), bring in some youngsters and splash out on Sneijder or Pato, depending on which one i see more fit for my formation. All the while i hope to keep my net spend at around £0.
 
A defender with 10 goals? You haven't, by any chance, been exploiting the corner glitch have you? :)
No mate.
As for the corner glitch, its to do with a player being placed on the edge of the box with good long shot attributes, and other modifications which frankly I haven't looked into.
Tbh, the defense is set for many years to come: Rio, Vidic, Evans, Evra, o'shea, Brown, Rafael, Fabio, Dodo, Cathcart and couple of regens. But Rio at 32 has been absolute ace as i said.
 
Otamendi!

Otamendi has the best stats of any defender in my game, near perfect, but year after year he's been average for me at best, and always makes a shitload of mistakes. I'm not sure if it's a bug or something but at half time he usually always has a rating of 5.5 to 6 even if I haven't conceded any goals. I've basically dropped him to the bench now and I'm using 2 awesome regens instead.
 
Waaaaaaaahhhhhh its April and I'm 19th, 5 points away from safety :( My defence is fecking shit.
 
Probably, I've always been fecking shit at tactics. My assistant suggested a 4-2-3-1 and it worked in every league but this one, so I've been adapting it match by match but ehhhh. Just ground out a 2-2 draw away to Fulham, ITS ON!
 
Probably, I've always been fecking shit at tactics. My assistant suggested a 4-2-3-1 and it worked in every league but this one, so I've been adapting it match by match but ehhhh. Just ground out a 2-2 draw away to Fulham, ITS ON!

My tactic that I use with Burnely and that has won the Champions League and is about to win the Premier League is:

ST ST

CM CM CM
DM
LB CB CB RB

GK​

All my defenders are on default settings.

My DM is set to "Defensive Midfielder" on "Defend".

My Left CM is set to "Advanced Playmaker" on "Attack".
My Central CM is set to "Ball Winning Midfielder" on "Support".
Mr Right CM is set to "Centre Midfielder" on "Support".

I have 1 of my strikers set as "Poacher" and one as "Deep Lying Forward" on "Support".

It's basically just the default 4132 formation with a few alterations.
 
My tactic that I use with Burnely and that has won the Champions League and is about to win the Premier League is:

ST ST

CM CM CM
DM
LB CB CB RB

GK​

All my defenders are on default settings.

My DM is set to "Defensive Midfielder" on "Defend".

My Left CM is set to "Advanced Playmaker" on "Attack".
My Central CM is set to "Ball Winning Midfielder" on "Support".
Mr Right CM is set to "Centre Midfielder" on "Support".

I have 1 of my strikers set as "Poacher" and one as "Deep Lying Forward" on "Support".

It's basically just the default 4132 formation with a few alterations.


Cheers mate, I'll give it a go.
 
Remember that the tactic Carl has given you may not fit your strikers. Try tweaking it a bit :cool:
 
I agree it's probably your tactic - Dawson-Cathcart is a good set of central-defenders while Mane and Simpson are pretty good too.

How are you conceding goals? Set-pieces? Strikers waltzing through your defenders? Missed headers? Long shots?

The infamous SI forum reply to every problem :D
 
Any good tactics?4-4-2.

Have bought Ozil,Rodwell and Wilshere.

I also have Rodwell and Wilshere. I trained Wilshere up to play CM. It took 2 seasons but he's quality now.
 
Does anyone have a link to where I can download a database with the latest transfers?
 
Had a bid of £5m + Berbatov accepted for Defoe start of second season, and he finished the leagues top scorer in the first season. Personally think it's a quality deal, but i have a feeling Berbatov is gonna ask me to pay the bulk of his wages till his contract expires. Hate it when that happens.
 
Had a bid of £5m + Berbatov accepted for Defoe start of second season, and he finished the leagues top scorer in the first season. Personally think it's a quality deal, but i have a feeling Berbatov is gonna ask me to pay the bulk of his wages till his contract expires. Hate it when that happens.

You're going to buy Defoe for United? Why on Earth would you want to do that?
 
You're going to buy Defoe for United? Why on Earth would you want to do that?

He finished top scorer in the league, i'm getting him for next to nothing, and he's English....

It saves me spending £30+ million for some foreign tosser.
 
He finished top scorer in the league, i'm getting him for next to nothing, and he's English....

It saves me spending £30+ million for some foreign tosser.

But you've already got Rooney, Welbeck and Macheda who are all better.