Re: Football Manager 2010 : Thu Jan 07, 2010 5:13 pm  

I apologise if this has already been posted many times but im not going through everypage (i have read the last 2) I am tempted to get the new 2010 game but i read somewhere that you cannot just have the game info bar along the bottom during the match and you have to have the 3d match engine. Is that correct as it would put me off getting it. Thanks

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:14 pm  

You don't have to have the 3D match engine at all, I run with just 2D, and if by the infobar you mean the report of what's going on (like in Champ man of old) then that's still there too.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Thu Jan 07, 2010 9:01 pm  

Drachen Feuer wrote:

You don't have to have the 3D match engine at all, I run with just 2D, and if by the infobar you mean the report of what's going on (like in Champ man of old) then that's still there too.

Yes indeed i do just mean the match report in old champ man. Thanks i will have to purchase it then i think

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Fri Jan 08, 2010 9:24 am  

tomhkr wrote:

Yes indeed i do just mean the match report in old champ man. Thanks i will have to purchase it then i think

Just make sure that under the 'Highlights' tab under the match screen you select "Only Commentary" - it will speed things up.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:49 am  

Had a massive summer going into my second season.

Sold:

Zabaleta
RSC
Bridge
Bellamy
Given (released)
Etuhu
Caicedo sp
Jo
Logan

And a few others who escape my memory.

Signed:

Lisandro Lopez
Criscito
Mathias Jorgensen
Sandro
Wilshere
Jovetic
Omer Toprak
Eduardo Salvio

As well as a load of youngsters. Things are looking good but I struggle to get the best from Tevez in the 4-4-2, anyone got him firing?

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:12 am  

[quote="Blobbynator"]Anyone know of any good, cheap buys? I've had a budget of £2m for this season and I really don't think I'll get[quote]

Sorry for deleting too much, I'm on the PS3.

At the end of the first season, you can usually get Acquafresca on a free, he is class. At the end of the second you can usually get Artem Milevskyi on a free, he is awesome. Do some searches, player's contract expiring, transfer listed, etc..

What patch are you playin, 10.2?

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:53 pm  

Robbie Rotten wrote:

Had a massive summer going into my second season.

Sold:

Zabaleta
RSC
Bridge
Bellamy
Given (released)
Etuhu
Caicedo sp
Jo
Logan

And a few others who escape my memory.

Signed:

Lisandro Lopez
Criscito
Mathias Jorgensen
Sandro
Wilshere
Jovetic
Omer Toprak
Eduardo Salvio

As well as a load of youngsters. Things are looking good but I struggle to get the best from Tevez in the 4-4-2, anyone got him firing?

Tevez does very well for me, but i just play him either just behind the striker in a 4-4-1-1 or i play him as a complete forward. Saying that though, all my strikers are a bit hit and miss, they go through stages of being fantastic, then they will be rubbish for a few weeks.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:29 pm  

Blobbynator wrote:

I've used him mainly as a back up.

I had an upturn in form when I listened to what Sammy Lee had to say about tactics. It works a treat. 4-4-2 and 4-4-1-1 seem to work very well as formations. Gerrard in particular is class in the 4-4-1-1 formation and Salomon Kalou has been a great signing for me. Him and Torres up front are dynamite as a pairing.

I've won the title after Chelsea blew it at home to Fulham in their 2nd to last game and I went into my last game as champions. Got a Europa Cup Final and FA Cup final to come. I hope I get the £20m you got pal, I could do with a good defender. Agger and Skrtel get quite a few injuries and Kyriagos is w*nk.

Do you play Gerrard just behind Torres in the 4-4-1-1 formation? Or in the centre midfield role?

Agger doesn't really play for me and Skrtel is constantly injured, ut I have to disagree about Kyriagos, he's a pretty solid centre back for me, probably helped by him being a World Cup runner up with Greece though (he scored my first goal of the season with a cracking 25-yard volley anyway, and he got another in the second game.)

The Europa league puts you too many games behind everyone else at the start of the season, I was supposed to play Bristol City 2nd game of the season but I don't play them until a midweek game after 8 games of the season. For some reason, Reina has gone Sh*t too, I have conceded 11 goals in 5 league games and he had a shocker against Chelsea when I lost 5-1...

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Fri Jan 08, 2010 3:49 pm  

oli30045 wrote:

Do you play Gerrard just behind Torres in the 4-4-1-1 formation? Or in the centre midfield role?

I normally use two formations, 4-4-2 and 4-1-1.

4-4-2:

Reina

Johnson
Skrtel / Agger
Carragher
Aurelio

Kuyt (winger)
Gerrard (attacking midfield - attack)
Mascherano (ball winning midfielder - defend)
Riera (winger)

Torres (target man)
Kalou (complete forward)

4-4-1

Reina

Johnson
Skrtel / Agger
Carragher
Aurelio

Kuyt (winger)
Aquilani / Lucas (support)
Mascherano (ball winning midfielder - defend)
Riera / Kalou (winger)

Gerrard (advanced playmaker)

Torres (Target man)

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:20 pm  

oli30045 wrote:

Signed Kris Boyd for £12m

Oli! Is that some kind of sick joke?!