FOOTBALL Football Manager Discussion

[Deleted member 13648]

I've succesfully guided my beloved Newcastle United to 3rd spot in the Premiership after my 1st year in charge. I've spent my ?12,000,000 budget wisely, buying realistic targets with good reputations. My main target was a striker so I immediatley had a look at Darius Vassel. More pace up front with Martins and Owen, (who now is extremely unhappy at the club and wants to move, but I'll get onto that later), I thought could not go wrong. Unfortunately though, due to my inexperience at the top level, Vassel did not want to move to St. James'. I was stuck for ideas after being rudely turned down by Fiorentina's central defender Ujfalusi. Luckily, Shawn Wright Philips was told he could move clubs by Mourinho so I, as well as many other top flight clubs, moved in. After bidding an initial ?8,000,000 for SWP and being turned down immediatley, Aston Villa moved in for N'zogbia bidding ?5,000,000. It was a hard choice to make but in the end it came down to SWP being far more consistent than N'zogbia over the course of the season, rather than a few meaningless friendlies. With the ?5,000,000 for N'zogbia, I bumped the SWP bid up to ?14,000,000 after Man City had bid ?13,000,000. The bid was accepted and after SWP accepted the contract, he was a Toon. Even with the services of SWP, the right side of my midfield still had no strength in depth. I initially thought big. David Beckham perhaps? I put a season long loan offer up for te ex-Galactico and to my surprise, it was accepted. I made sure the signing on fees were flattering and then all I could do was wait. LA Galaxy stalled the offer which made me think I wasn't going to get my man but after a week of boring friendlies vs Cork City and the such, Beckham accepted the loan offer with the option to buy at the end of the period.

To be continued...

 

[Hooper]

Wow, looks like you are quite the thoughtful manager. Spending your money wisely while also snaring Beckham on load! Wow!

Well done on reaching 3rd place - shows you were the best of the rest. I can't wait to read more!

 

[PhilD123]

Ujfalusi is class on FM so unlucky to be missing out on him. You'd have been a fool to buy Vassell, even for back up, they're are more talented and cheaper players out there. I can't see why Owen wants to go to be honest, your in the CL now!

On my net game, I haven't started my 2nd season with Madrid great, but i've just won the 4th league game of the season at home to Valencia, my first league win! I badly needed it, I have had lots of injuries.

 

[Deleted member 13648]

Call me sad but I love this game, if I get too in depth then I'm sorry. You can just acheive so much with a bit of thought!

 

[Gilly Fan]

Beat Chelsea 1-0! YAY! Jumped up to 16th. :happy

Just a question though, how do you not lose heaps of money? I'm losing 4.2mil every update!

 

[dikon]

Beat Chelsea 1-0! YAY! Jumped up to 16th. :happy

Just a question though, how do you not lose heaps of money? I'm losing 4.2mil every update!

Have you bought a player with the monthly installments?If you have that's the problem.

 

[Gilly Fan]

Have you bought a player with the monthly installments?If you have that's the problem.

I havnt bought a single player since I started.

 

[Deleted member 13648]

Is that just the board's confidence update? If so, that's just normal to lose that much. It's basically the wages and other things rolled into one.

 

[Leicester Fox]

I've decided to manage th galaxy because they've got Becks but then I got offered 53 million by Mallorca for him, I've decided to turn it down simply because there is no way the club can attract that sort of talent or fit it into the wage budget ever again

 

[Jaztheman]

Football Manager - Your Game:

Well in my game at the moment with Lincoln in 2026 I jus tbeat PSV 3-2 and 5-3 on aggreggate so I am through to the champions league quater final.

How are you doing?

 

[Deleted member 13648]

Just put it in the other Football Manager discussion thread.

 

[Jaztheman]

Leeds 0 - Lincoln 2

Russo scores 21st goal of season as I stay 3rd after 27 games, looking for top 3 spot this year.

 

[PhilD123]

Demo for FM08 coming out on Sunday! There's a Strawberry version with different leagues and graphics and a vanilla version with just the English and Scottish league with no logo's, kits etc. Can't wait, there's a blog every day on www.sigames.com announcing all the new features, and so far, it looks brilliant!

 

[Hooper]

Demo for FM08 coming out on Sunday! There's a Strawberry version with different leagues and graphics and a vanilla version with just the English and Scottish league with no logo's, kits etc. Can't wait, there's a blog every day on www.sigames.com announcing all the new features, and so far, it looks brilliant!

Cheers for the info!

I dont know if I will buy it but. I dont think manager games improve that much over a year.

But then again - from FM06 to FM07 there wasn't a huge difference I heard. So this version might be a bit of an improvement in some cool new features.

Kinda annoying how they are going to be releasing FM, FIFA and PES all at around the same time. Fair enough they want to release them before Xmas and during the start of the EPL - but damn, people are broke these days!

 

[Mr. Kurns]

A BIT! if I were you i'd pop over to sigames and look at the screenshots, read the features and look at miles's blog!