RedCafe FM10 Experiment

"you better mean me, or me and my death stare will get you :mad:"

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Mid table mediocrity in the championship. Not very good lads!! Sort it out.

Not happy about Cassano mind you, I think I'd be much higher if he wasnt out injured!!!

Hopefully we can go on to win the redcafe cup!! that would be the beginning of a fairytale story!
 
niMic said:
Football Manager 2010 Experiment
Season 1 (09/10) - Half-Season Update

Transfers


At the player front, there was also a surprising outcome, in that the Championship clubs as a total shopped much more than the Premier League clubs. There were a few smaller transfers at the top level, but there were only a couple decently sized ones. Halcyon had the pick of the bunch, signing striker/winger Luis Suarez from Ajax for £19.75 million. Elsewhere, Paz United signed Benfica defender Luisao for £8 million and Leca United picked up Brazilian striker Maicon from Fluminense for £6 million.
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Sounds good, hope he partners up well with Tevez...

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...At the top of the table, things were quite boring, though. 15 points separated 1st and 2nd, only one point less than separated Paz Utd in 2nd with Dalkey in 12th. There sat Halcyon Albion, with 13 wins and 1 draw in the 14 matches so far. £19.75 million signing Luis Suarez had not disappointed, and had 10 goals and 10 assists in 13 games. Marek Hamsik had been very good as well. The king of the hill, though, was captain Carlos Tevez. In 11 games, he had managed to score an amazing 25 goals. He was comfortably top of the top scorer table, though JEKS' Luis Fabiano hadn't exactly disappointed with 16 goals and 8 assists in 12 games.
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Now that's what I call management... I mean, Chairman'ing. :D

Cheers for the updates niMic, great stuff. Any chance you could post a full list of starting managers if you've got the time?
 
I have reason to believe i have the new old mourinho.

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Come on Ridgbacks! Redcafe Cup, here we come. Manager's half time talk obviously payed dividends in the quarter final.
 
I've got loveable Gianfranco Zola, but if he can't get us up from 17th then I fear he's getting the boot. My chairman won't piss about.
 
niMic said:
No one is forcing you to play. I'll happily take you out of the equation.
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I don't play though, I just observe. Hence, taking me off it would be time wasted for nothing.
 
Jacob said:
I don't play though, I just observe. Hence, taking me off it would be time wasted for nothing.
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No, it would save me the bother of reporting on a club who's "player" doesn't even care about the Experiment. You should hope I don't run the next Experiment as well, in case it's another player one.
 
niMic said:
No, it would save me the bother of reporting on a club who's "player" doesn't even care about the Experiment. You should hope I don't run the next Experiment as well, in case it's another player one.
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eughhhh, khalm daawun laikh....
 
a "chairman" mode in football manager would be great... but then i guess it would be called football chairman. Or even if you could retire from managing and become a chairman.

this experiment is a step in the right direction to football games everywhere. Developers take note.
 
Member 5225 said:
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eughhhh, khalm daawun laikh....
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The FM Experiment, it's my precioussss! I don't really think it's great when someone joins up, has me do a lot of work, and then after one update declares that it's "not half as fun as the other experiment"; which, by the way, I also set up and started.

Hmm, now where did I leave that in game editor :D
 
:lol:

Christ my boys have spent a LOT of cash. Waverley FC must be rolling in it.

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"come 'ere"

Laudrup to new signings, Taison, Wellington, Yakovlev and Rios.
 
SIXTH!

WHAT!

After spending ALL that money I'm still only sitting 6th in the FKN championship!

ANUSCAKES!
 
This is my manager:

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He's Swedish. He's probably too busy shagging to actually put any effort into managing, hence I spent no money on players, got nowhere in the cup and am distinctly mid-table in the Championship.

My chairman has a patience value of 1 and an interference value of 20, too, so poor old Roland Nilsson will probably get the boot :lol:

Great work though, niMic :D
 
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Don't like the look of my manager. Looks like some guy who would be bad in a film.
 
cesc's_mullet said:
He looks shifty.
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Shifty like a fox!

But yes, he does have the Simpsons' evil-dog looking-out-the-side-of-his-eyes thing going on:

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But as long as he continues to extract previously unsuspected goalscoring feats from Carlos Tevez he can be as shifty as he wants.

edit: turns out he may have some underworld connections - maybe that's how Tevez is scoring so many, here he is making gang signs at the opposition goalkeeper:
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niMic said:
No, it would save me the bother of reporting on a club who's "player" doesn't even care about the Experiment. You should hope I don't run the next Experiment as well, in case it's another player one.
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Take me off then, somebody else can take my place.
 
So i've got a maltese manager, who's previous jobs include Pietà Hotspurs, Marsaxlokk, Sliema Wanderers and the Malta Under 21's. How can i be so far down the table with a man of his undoubted quality?
 
He didn't have to take offense, I appreciate his work but it turned out the last experiment was much more fun, and this of course is only my opinion. I'm sure the rest of you enjoy this as much as the other.
 
Xander45 said:
So i've got a maltese manager, who's previous jobs include Pietà Hotspurs, Marsaxlokk, Sliema Wanderers and the Malta Under 21's. How can i be so far down the table with a man of his undoubted quality?
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Managers, sadly, have never really made much of a difference in this game - formation and tactics aside (i.e. no manager who favours 4-2-4 will succeed that much, even if he is Ferguson, Wenger and Mourinho rolled into one).
 
x42bn6 said:
Managers, sadly, have never really made much of a difference in this game - formation and tactics aside (i.e. no manager who favours 4-2-4 will succeed that much, even if he is Ferguson, Wenger and Mourinho rolled into one).
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That's not quite accurate. The grandest example of this is how overrated Arsenal was in the previous game. Even in 9.0.3, where the researcher had been changed and the team had been massively decreased, they were prone to win everything. That wasn't because of overrated players, though some, like Adebayor, were still overrated. This was because of Wenger. He was simply too good at making any formation work perfectly. My impression from other games, and particularly the Experiments - both the ones where we've been players and one where we were managers - suggests to me that managers do matter quite a lot.
 
I'm gonna have to teach myself not to expect an update every time I see niMic post.
 
niMic said:
That's not quite accurate. The grandest example of this is how overrated Arsenal was in the previous game. Even in 9.0.3, where the researcher had been changed and the team had been massively decreased, they were prone to win everything. That wasn't because of overrated players, though some, like Adebayor, were still overrated. This was because of Wenger. He was simply too good at making any formation work perfectly. My impression from other games, and particularly the Experiments - both the ones where we've been players and one where we were managers - suggests to me that managers do matter quite a lot.
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And in the other experiment Van Basten has made Arsenal a monster. He's the most successful manager in the games history now!
 
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