Re: Football Manager 2010 : Sun Feb 21, 2010 1:44 pm  

Sussed it, went on holiday by the manager menu. Lost 2-3 in the end.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:44 pm  

I didn't even know you could manage the U21s. I always thought it was odd that it kept telling me that Venezuela were looking for an Under 21s coach.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Sun Feb 21, 2010 3:21 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

I didn't even know you could manage the U21s. I always thought it was odd that it kept telling me that Venezuela were looking for an Under 21s coach.

Aye i applied for the England job when Capello got sacked in 2012, but Psycho got promoted and made me U21s gaffer. Got a great team!

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:03 pm  

I know i said that i would compete for the league this season, but no way did i expect to be top of the table after 31 games (on level points with Chelsea - 73). United are on 70 and after that the rest are miles behind so i definatly have a great chance of winning the league. I also play Inter in the Champions league quarter final. If you would have offered me this at the start of the season i would have snapped your hand of. I've signed Riquelme and Demba Ba on free's for next season, just to give me a bit of depth but also because one or two players look like they will be leaving and Ba offers me a bit of versatility and Riquelme offers experience and would also act as cover for Modric for a season and could be a great tutor for Verratti.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:16 pm  

Well i managed to secure the league title, after a very close run in with Chelsea. Both finished on 90 points, but obviously i had the better goal difference so won it. I got beat by Inter in the quarters of the Champions league. I'm looking to make quite a few changes to my squad this season, and i feel i have too many players and the youngsters i signed in the first season are now looking ready to step up.

Half way through the transfer window before the new season:

IN:

Sniejder, Riquelme, Demba Ba and Zapata.

Out:

Bentley, Crouch, Verretti (Loan - with re-call), King (Despite him being constantly injured and the fans still moaned) Hutton, Palacios and dos Santos.

I don't think that is the end of my buisness this transfer window with a couple of players looking to move clubs, but i will have to see how things go.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:18 pm  

9 games to go with Stoke, i'm 3rd in the table [2 behind Man City, 10 behind Arsenal and 11 ahead of Chelski] and got Man City in the FA Cup Semis.

I might be taking Stoke to Europe.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:07 pm  

V For Vendetta wrote:

In the 2012-2013 season with Stoke now.

09 - 17th
10 - 11th
11 - 8th

Obvious improvement for me so far, after 6 games this year i'm top with 6 wins. [Man City, Newcastle, Tottenham, Blackburn, Liverpool, Wigan] and beat Coventry in the CC.

My team is pretty damn good i'd say

GK 1. Sergio Romero

RB 2. Jesus Gamez
LB 23. Christian Ansaldi
RCB 17. Ryan Shawcross [HG]
LCB 3. Mamadou Sakho

RW 14. Aaron Lennon
LW 7. Frank Ribery
RCM 25. Steven Defour
LCM 11. Ibrahim Affelay

RCF 10. Mirko Vucinic
LCF 8. Marouane Chamakh

Bench:
GK 13. Mickael Landreau
CB 16. Gabriel Milito
MF 15. Renato Augusto
AMC 19. Marco Verratti [HG]
FW 18. Romelu Lukaku
FW 9. Yannis Tafer [HG]
MF 27. James Rodriguez

Also in my squad:

CB 4. Robert Huth
MC 12. Matt James
FW 21. Artem Milevskyi

Regens:

LW/RW 22. Luke Cairns [ENG] [HG]
MC 6. Ronnie Botha [RSA]
RW 20. Nestor Ubeda [ARG]
CB Chris West [USA]

How the hell have you got a squad like that together with Stoke - some serious money there, plus it's (no offence intended) Stoke.

Just finished my third season with Everton, finished 4th after 5th place finishes the previous two seasons.

I'll put the squad in later - when i've added a couple more players (and sold some by the looks of it)

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Tue Feb 23, 2010 8:10 pm  

saint billy wrote:

Well i managed to secure the league title, after a very close run in with Chelsea. Both finished on 90 points, but obviously i had the better goal difference so won it. I got beat by Inter in the quarters of the Champions league. I'm looking to make quite a few changes to my squad this season, and i feel i have too many players and the youngsters i signed in the first season are now looking ready to step up.

Half way through the transfer window before the new season:

IN:

Sniejder, Riquelme, Demba Ba and Zapata.

Out:

Bentley, Crouch, Verretti (Loan - with re-call), King (Despite him being constantly injured and the fans still moaned) Hutton, Palacios and dos Santos.

I don't think that is the end of my buisness this transfer window with a couple of players looking to move clubs, but i will have to see how things go.

With the transfer window now shut, my team looks like this:

Gomes

Srna
Zapata
Thiago Silva
Bassong

Sniejder
Moutinho/Veloso
Jovetic/Hazard

Modric

Keane/Pavleyechnko
Defoe/Kadlec

Subs:

Dawson
Rodwell
Moutinho/Veloso
Jovetic/Hazard
Gourcuff
Keane/Pavleyechnko
Defoe/Kadlec

Cudicini
Bale
Assou-Ekotto
Zucilini
Lennon
Demba Ba
Buonanotte
Riquelme

This means that i have also let Woodgate go for £8.5million, despite him being 31 and valued at £2.5million. Plenty of depth and quality.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:46 pm  

Gaz_E wrote:

:shock: How the hell have you got a squad like that together with Stoke - some serious money there, plus it's (no offence intended) Stoke.

Just finished my third season with Everton, finished 4th after 5th place finishes the previous two seasons.

I'll put the squad in later - when i've added a couple more players (and sold some by the looks of it)

Consortium's are your friend =D

Ended up coming in 2nd in the league, won the FA cup too.

Activity over summer:

Sold Shawcross & Verratti for good sums of money, gave me enough to bring in Zapata & Joe Mattock. Botha is now my #1 reserve midfielder after impressing hugely in preseason.

Looking to challenge for title again this year.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Wed Feb 24, 2010 1:13 pm  

I'm on the up with Arsenal. Finished 3rd after taking over in 19th or so. Won the league the following season, then dropped to 6th after a horror season, finishing with just 3 defenders at the club. On course to win the league now though and in the final of the UEFA cup against Spurs.

Talking of Spurs I haven't beaten them once. Is it possible?

But I've spent the past 4 months under a transfer embargo, being told almost daily that I will be replaced by some Portugese manager once the consortium takes over the club. Unbelievable.

One thing I hope they tighten up on FM is the use of delayed payments and the resulting financial meltdown. If you go on the FM forums everyone's squads, right from the first season or two are filled with megastar names. They've sold a few then bought loads of players with little up front and then ridiculous fees over the next few seasons. The game allows you to do this and you can make virtually unlimited signings using it. For example if you have £10m, you can buy 4 players for £2.5m up front, then £10m over 2 years. So a club with a budget of £10m can spend £40m on players. All the people playing it just exploit it to almost instantly assemble ridiculous squads. It's all "I'm Everton and first season I bought Akinfeev, Jovetic, Pjanic, Van Der Vaart, Hazard, Renato and Welliton. I sold Tony Hibbert and Phil Neville".

But what happens on the game is that the club then loses tens of millions per season, the chairman keeps injecting money to 'help with running costs' and when it gets absolutely stupid in terms of loses and debts the club ALWAYS gets taken over. You then get the debt written off and another large wedge of transfer money to spend.

What should happen is the club gets into a mess, points docked, players leaving etc. You should be punished for financial stupidity on the game. Finances are a mess on the game. At Arsenal I've got a net transfer spend of £102m in over 4 seasons (I'm tight) and always a couple of hundred thousand inside the wage budget, yet the club loses £60-70m per season.