shantanu_rooney
Chairman of Selectors
Which database are you using??
Planetcricket FM Monthly Challenge
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Which database are you using??
mattfb
Chairman of Selectors
FM2008 Data Update Season 09-10 : sortitoutsi - Football Manager Downloads
He just released and even newer one on September 2nd. Might download that a little later.
blake
School Cricketer
Completed a pre-season rout, with an aggregate of 49-0 from the six games I played - averaging a little over an 8-0 win each time. However, the ineligibility rules cost me in the EURO Cup as half my squad was ruled out and after a 1-1 draw at home Olympique Lyonnaise knocked us over in the away leg to send us out of the cup.
I won my first two league games 1-0 and 5-1, and then it was time for the derby with Spartak. Spartak were a confident team, but thankfully my guys played superbly and we finished up 2-0 winners in our first rival match to take the 1st place in the Russian Premier Division.
I won my first two league games 1-0 and 5-1, and then it was time for the derby with Spartak. Spartak were a confident team, but thankfully my guys played superbly and we finished up 2-0 winners in our first rival match to take the 1st place in the Russian Premier Division.
mattfb
Chairman of Selectors
You're really really good Blake! Nice start to the season there!
blake
School Cricketer
Thanks FB. Don't get carried away by the pre-season friendlies - I am only using the 9.2.0 database so all my friendlies were scheduled against weak minnows from various countries - they were honestly terrible. I'm assuming in the newer database it gives you tougher friendlies.
Anyhow, I'm still happy about the 2-0 win but I have to continue my season now.. I have Zenit coming up soon which will be very tough.
Also - has anybody encountered the rule where you must play an Under 21 who has trained with the club? This seems like a ridiculous rule.. I am forced to get around it by playing some weak player and then substituting them in the first minute..
Anyhow, I'm still happy about the 2-0 win but I have to continue my season now.. I have Zenit coming up soon which will be very tough.
Also - has anybody encountered the rule where you must play an Under 21 who has trained with the club? This seems like a ridiculous rule.. I am forced to get around it by playing some weak player and then substituting them in the first minute..
Burnsy1
Club Cricketer
- Joined
- Jan 29, 2007
- Online Cricket Games Owned
Found my copy and reinstalled it now. So far I've signed Davids on a free, add some experience to the midfield, and sold Vagner Love to Tottenham for ?10.7M so I'm now looking for a replacement and maybe someone to strengthen the defence. Played my first friendly beating Shlake 1-0. Wasn't great but couldn't be bothered to sort out the tactics. will post back on any transfers and my results.
treva
ICC Chairman
That rule isn't so bad for me because I've got a home grown Russian international at right back who is awesome. The more annoying rule is only having 7 foreign players in the starting 11. I have something like 6 Brazilian's that would make the starting line-up!
Ahh well, played my first game of the season after letting my assistant finish off the friendlies (Two wins) and we played FC Moscow. Alex, on debut, bagged a hat-trick as we cruised to victory.
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mattfb
Chairman of Selectors
I reckon something like this; FMF World Tour - Football Manager - FM2009 - FMFormation might be fun to do sometime.
Transfer window has passed;
Those duders have some amazing stats there.
My results in the preseason;
Dinamo St. Petersburg 0 - 1 CSKA Moscow (Friendly)
CSKA Moscow 2 - 1 Paris Saint-Germain (Europa League second leg [First leg was 0-0 which I didn't play]
Groclin 0 - 2 CSKA Moscow (Friendly)
FC Kobenhavn 2 - 3 CSKA Moscow (Friendly - they were favs)
CSKA Moscow 3 - 1 Schalke (Europa League first leg)
Schalke 2 - 1 CSKA Moscow (Europa League second leg - I go through on a 4-3 aggregate win)
EDIT: Just drew Stuggart in the Europa League quarter finals. If I manage to get through that I'll face either Valencia or Fenerbache in the semi. The other side of the draw is a lot easier so if I get to the final I will play Fiorentina, Dinamo Kiev, Udinese or Austria Wein.
EDIT again: Had a nice start to the season here:
And check out these results:
That win against Zenit Peterburg was a good one. At home I went down 1-0 after 7 minutes but drew it back to 1-1 at the break. Scored the winner in the 77th minute. Not the most convincing results but wins none the less.
Transfer window has passed;
Those duders have some amazing stats there.
My results in the preseason;
Dinamo St. Petersburg 0 - 1 CSKA Moscow (Friendly)
CSKA Moscow 2 - 1 Paris Saint-Germain (Europa League second leg [First leg was 0-0 which I didn't play]
Groclin 0 - 2 CSKA Moscow (Friendly)
FC Kobenhavn 2 - 3 CSKA Moscow (Friendly - they were favs)
CSKA Moscow 3 - 1 Schalke (Europa League first leg)
Schalke 2 - 1 CSKA Moscow (Europa League second leg - I go through on a 4-3 aggregate win)
EDIT: Just drew Stuggart in the Europa League quarter finals. If I manage to get through that I'll face either Valencia or Fenerbache in the semi. The other side of the draw is a lot easier so if I get to the final I will play Fiorentina, Dinamo Kiev, Udinese or Austria Wein.
EDIT again: Had a nice start to the season here:
And check out these results:
That win against Zenit Peterburg was a good one. At home I went down 1-0 after 7 minutes but drew it back to 1-1 at the break. Scored the winner in the 77th minute. Not the most convincing results but wins none the less.
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treva
ICC Chairman
I have a big feeling I will be bottom of the table after this challenge. Spartak are a lot worse than CSKA on FM09! Still, I shall do my best. I at least want to beat CSKA in one match.
mattfb
Chairman of Selectors
IIRC Spartak were the favourites to win at the start in my game, but they are lingering at around 7th or something with 9 points from 7 games. I recently had 2 disappointing draws and I'm 3rd - but I've played a game less then the teams above so a win can put me to equal first. Hopefully you can take them to the top though, Treva.
Anyway, I lost on aggregate 1-0 to Stuggart in the Europa League
Trev, what do you think of doing a challenge like the link I gave in my above post?
Anyway, I lost on aggregate 1-0 to Stuggart in the Europa League
Trev, what do you think of doing a challenge like the link I gave in my above post?
treva
ICC Chairman
I like the idea but it would take more than a month to do. We have a fair few interesting challenges to come so we'll see how they go first.
Started mine the other day, ended up going with 9.3.0 instead of the new weegie update as it had a few major transfers missing anyway. Played 4 friendlies as CSKA:
Beat Ceahlaul 2-0
Drew 3-3 against Rapid Bucharest
Beat Korona Kiece 4-0
Draw 1-1 against Wisla Krakow
Not too bad, managed to keep Vagner Love despite interest from Liverpool and Chelsea and Zhirkov despite a 25 million bid from city, so far that is.
Signed:
Got a couple more pre-season friendlies before Uefa Cup games against PSV and then the league season start, Spartak away three games in.
Beat Ceahlaul 2-0
Drew 3-3 against Rapid Bucharest
Beat Korona Kiece 4-0
Draw 1-1 against Wisla Krakow
Not too bad, managed to keep Vagner Love despite interest from Liverpool and Chelsea and Zhirkov despite a 25 million bid from city, so far that is.
Signed:
Miguel Torres from Madrid for 1.7 million, bargain, was on transfer list and leading star in Russian league.
Stephen Appiah on a free
Ouwo Moussa Maazou who was already arranged when I came in, wouldn't have paid the 4 million for him
Stephen Appiah on a free
Ouwo Moussa Maazou who was already arranged when I came in, wouldn't have paid the 4 million for him
shantanu_rooney
Chairman of Selectors
My Transfers:
In:-
*Hernanes - 9m Sao Paulo
*Leo - 7.75m Gremio
Mark Viduka - Free
Ivan Helguera - Free
* Monthly instalments
Out:-
Sergrey Ignashevich - 4.5m Shakhtar
Artur Nigmatullin - 20k Shinnik
Veniamin Mandrykin - 650k Nancy
Vasily Berezutskiy - 2m Reading.
My Pre-Season Results
Unirea Urziceni 1-0 CSKA Moscow
Austria Wien 1-1 CSKA Moscow
Lech 2-2 CSKA Moscow
Belchtow 0-2 CSKA Moscow
Legia 1-3 CSKA Moscow
Benfica 2-1 CSKA Moscow(1st Leg UEFA Champions League Round of 16)
Rubin 0-0(5-3 pens) CSKA Moscow(TransTeleCom Supercup Final)
CSKA Moscow 1-0 Benfica(2nd Leg UEFA Champions League Round of 16) - CSKA Moscow progress on away goals. :happy
Prem'er Liga
CSKA Moscow 3-0 Amkar
Lokomotiv 0-0 CSKA
Note:- I face Juventus in the Champions League quarter finals, first leg at home. :doh
Nice i added Hernanes and Leo in the team they are really great players and hopefully they can do the job for me. Not a great pre-season but was delighted by the Champions League win over Benfica the goal came in the 93rd minute, and that made me really celebrate. Decent start to the season and hoping for getting better when I face Spartak in some matches time.
In:-
*Hernanes - 9m Sao Paulo
*Leo - 7.75m Gremio
Mark Viduka - Free
Ivan Helguera - Free
* Monthly instalments
Out:-
Sergrey Ignashevich - 4.5m Shakhtar
Artur Nigmatullin - 20k Shinnik
Veniamin Mandrykin - 650k Nancy
Vasily Berezutskiy - 2m Reading.
My Pre-Season Results
Unirea Urziceni 1-0 CSKA Moscow
Austria Wien 1-1 CSKA Moscow
Lech 2-2 CSKA Moscow
Belchtow 0-2 CSKA Moscow
Legia 1-3 CSKA Moscow
Benfica 2-1 CSKA Moscow(1st Leg UEFA Champions League Round of 16)
Rubin 0-0(5-3 pens) CSKA Moscow(TransTeleCom Supercup Final)
CSKA Moscow 1-0 Benfica(2nd Leg UEFA Champions League Round of 16) - CSKA Moscow progress on away goals. :happy
Prem'er Liga
CSKA Moscow 3-0 Amkar
Lokomotiv 0-0 CSKA
Note:- I face Juventus in the Champions League quarter finals, first leg at home. :doh
Nice i added Hernanes and Leo in the team they are really great players and hopefully they can do the job for me. Not a great pre-season but was delighted by the Champions League win over Benfica the goal came in the 93rd minute, and that made me really celebrate. Decent start to the season and hoping for getting better when I face Spartak in some matches time.
pingusten
Club Cricketer
Even after my 6-1 thrashing of CSKA in the Super Cup, I was still skeptical of my chances in our first league meeting, just the second game of the season. However, a 2-1 victory away at Zenit had increased my optimism.
I had strengthened my already strong midfield with Nebojsa Marinkovic, a Serbian U21 who cost 2.1m. My weakest area, in defence, saw me bring in Calisto, a pacy Brazilian wing back who got more than 20 assists for Rubin the following season. His cost of 650k pretty much took up my budget of ?3m, and I was therefore left with what I had.
CSKA on the other hand had spent ?8m on talent such as Piero Alva, who had scored 22 goals last season from Right Wing.
The game started slowly, with little to no action until the 19th minute, when disaster struck; Martin Jarinek was sent off for what was described as a 'horror tackle' on Alva. With my right back gone, I had to switch around formation. I moved my three remaining defenders in CB positions, with Mozart, my Defensive Midfielder, staying back to cover.
In doing this, it meant I could push forward my pacy wingers to support the two strikers. It worked a treat up to half time, where I praised the team for there efforts, despite little way of chances being created. It obviously had an effect, as 12 seconds after the restart, Bystrov unleashed a thunderbolt from the edge of the box to put me 1-0 up. Straight away we were pegged back, and I brought off Marinkovic and replaced him with the industrial Titov.
After numerous saves from Khomich in goal, the inevitable happened, with CSKA equalizing after a failure to clear a corner fell to substitute Vagner Love, who smashed it into the net. At this point, I was hoping for anything from the game, so pulled Titov into a more defensive position, and replaced Bazhenov with the young Pjanovic up front. The change worked better than I had expected, as a long clearance fell to Pjanovic, who held it up for Bystrov to break through the defence, round the keeper, and put Spartak 2-1 up on 81 minutes.
The next 9 minutes were all displayed on the pitch, with no less than 14 shots reigning in on my goal; but Khomich was equal to everything. Then, deep into the 5 minutes of stoppage, we broke, and after a fumble by the CSKA keeper, the ball was put into his own net by CSKA's right back, securing 3 points for Spartak.
Final score; Spartak Moscow 3 - 1 CSKA Moscow
I had strengthened my already strong midfield with Nebojsa Marinkovic, a Serbian U21 who cost 2.1m. My weakest area, in defence, saw me bring in Calisto, a pacy Brazilian wing back who got more than 20 assists for Rubin the following season. His cost of 650k pretty much took up my budget of ?3m, and I was therefore left with what I had.
CSKA on the other hand had spent ?8m on talent such as Piero Alva, who had scored 22 goals last season from Right Wing.
The game started slowly, with little to no action until the 19th minute, when disaster struck; Martin Jarinek was sent off for what was described as a 'horror tackle' on Alva. With my right back gone, I had to switch around formation. I moved my three remaining defenders in CB positions, with Mozart, my Defensive Midfielder, staying back to cover.
In doing this, it meant I could push forward my pacy wingers to support the two strikers. It worked a treat up to half time, where I praised the team for there efforts, despite little way of chances being created. It obviously had an effect, as 12 seconds after the restart, Bystrov unleashed a thunderbolt from the edge of the box to put me 1-0 up. Straight away we were pegged back, and I brought off Marinkovic and replaced him with the industrial Titov.
After numerous saves from Khomich in goal, the inevitable happened, with CSKA equalizing after a failure to clear a corner fell to substitute Vagner Love, who smashed it into the net. At this point, I was hoping for anything from the game, so pulled Titov into a more defensive position, and replaced Bazhenov with the young Pjanovic up front. The change worked better than I had expected, as a long clearance fell to Pjanovic, who held it up for Bystrov to break through the defence, round the keeper, and put Spartak 2-1 up on 81 minutes.
The next 9 minutes were all displayed on the pitch, with no less than 14 shots reigning in on my goal; but Khomich was equal to everything. Then, deep into the 5 minutes of stoppage, we broke, and after a fumble by the CSKA keeper, the ball was put into his own net by CSKA's right back, securing 3 points for Spartak.
Final score; Spartak Moscow 3 - 1 CSKA Moscow
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Dr. Pepper
Chairman of Selectors
Can I still sign up? I'm still playing FM08, haven't got 09. This is a great idea btw, it works really well if executed properly. Lol that's another game save added to my long list.
