Re: Football Manager 2010 : Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:00 am  

Well after three mid-table finishes with Wigan Spurs offer me a job. In the 3 years i've been running the game they have finished 4th, 3rd and 4th. Despite being Wigan through and through some things are just too good to turn down.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:33 pm  

Not posted on here yet but i've had FM10 for a few weeks now. Just about to go into my 3rd season as Liverpool. First year i won the league cup and came 2nd in the league, year two i won the league and retained my league cup and made the semi final of the champions league.

What i find infuriating about the game is when i bid for players in order to get them i have to double or triple the market value, yet when i'm selling players even if they are wanted i have to sell them for less than market value. Really annoys me.

Anyway i've got £43million transfer budget but i'm not sure on who to buy. I need to replace the likes of Aurelio and get some decent depth if anybody has any names. I tried to bid for a kid called German Pacheco from Athletico Madrid who had a market value of £750K and they would accept no bid of less than £17 million (i tried to bid for him about 8 times) which i refuse to pay. I like to promote my youth and some of the kids are turning out pretty good after a few first team games and being loaned out.

My team (4-3-1-2):

Reina

Johnson
Carragher
Skrtel
Insua

Lucas
Mascherano
Aquilani

Gerrrard

Defoe (£10million - replacement for Kuyt who i sold for £18million to Athletico Madrid)
Torres

Subs:
Ngog
Dalla Valle
Plessis
Benayoun
Monnin (£3 million from France (only 15))
Kyrgiakos
Bouzanis

My bench is horribly light but i refuse to pay extortionate amounts for players just to be back-ups.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:11 pm  

Right my squad is:

Kirkland

Morgado - 21 year old with hopefully a big future ahead
Pulido - 20 year old from Atletico. Not sure if he is good enough to make it but Bramble has been making too many errors.
Jorgensen - Top class. Think someone on here recommended him. Man Utd and Arsenal tracking him
Naughton - Should turn into a very good player as he is already premiership standard

Fleck - 20 year old with good speed attributes and a reasonable cross
Sokolowski - Steady away CM
Smiljanic - The weak part of my team though Koke will replace him eventually
Oscar - Exciting youngster who takes a while to settle in. Man Utd tracking him

Fonseca - Can't rate this guy highly enough. 38 in 75 after 725k transfer.
Owen - Picked up on a free. Started quite well with Capello watching him last couple of games.

On the bench:
Smithies - 21 year old who could turn out very well
Bramble - Wrong side of 30 now. Juve and Inter tracking him. Will let him go in january
Poulsen - Poor mental attributes let down an otherwise great player
Pitbull - Bargain. Free transfer last season. Hit 16 in 32.
Wilson - Cheap player bought for cover. Reasonable at DR or DL
Vingaard - Ok winger
Nordstrand - Bit of a letdown this guy. Only hit 3 last season. Has good pace and finishing attributes.

Reserves:
Stuart Taylor
Magnin
Amaya
Koke - Exciting CM prospect. Will ease him in throughout the season.
Watson
McCarthy
Cohen - Cost 75k, now worth 1.6mil. Top end Championship standard player who is useful as depth.
Gomez

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:09 pm  

Conroy wrote:

Well after three mid-table finishes with Wigan Spurs offer me a job. In the 3 years i've been running the game they have finished 4th, 3rd and 4th. Despite being Wigan through and through some things are just too good to turn down.

Tough Champions League group with Barcelona, Juventus and Leverkusen. Managed a draw in Turin though so here's hoping.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:03 pm  

Now that the new patch is up and running, thought i would start a proper career type game and start in the lower leagues. Chose to go for Southampton, purely because they are called Saints. Although, looking through it is quite a challenge. They are on -10 points and the board want promotion. I've played 4 league games and won 3, drew 1. Currently on 0 points and off the bottom of the table. It would also mean i will only be 7 points off a play-off place so there is every chance of promotion and maybe even automatic promotion if things continue the way they are.

I've made a few signings, but i haven't really heard of any of them apart from Viduka (free) and Gavin Mcann. also signed Ali Karimi and John-Baptiste. Got a reasonable squad for this standard and won all my games comfortable, apart from the first game of the season i drew 0-0 to Millwall.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:14 am  

With the new patch out, I've starting a career as Wigan, which will now take up the majority of my time of FM10. I'll update on my progress.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:48 pm  

saint billy wrote:

Now that the new patch is up and running, thought i would start a proper career type game and start in the lower leagues. Chose to go for Southampton, purely because they are called Saints. Although, looking through it is quite a challenge. They are on -10 points and the board want promotion. I've played 4 league games and won 3, drew 1. Currently on 0 points and off the bottom of the table. It would also mean i will only be 7 points off a play-off place so there is every chance of promotion and maybe even automatic promotion if things continue the way they are.

I've made a few signings, but i haven't really heard of any of them apart from Viduka (free) and Gavin Mcann. also signed Ali Karimi and John-Baptiste. Got a reasonable squad for this standard and won all my games comfortable, apart from the first game of the season i drew 0-0 to Millwall.

First season over and done with. Won the league easily by 9 clear points (despite starting with 10 points deducted). Had a points difference which was miles better than anyone elses. Had a big clear out in the Summer, although i kept a few players that will give me some depth. To my amazement, i managed to get Patrick Viera, Belletti, Zaki, Dindane and David James on free transfers. I also got some great players in (for the championship anyway), such as Arango, Stoor, Matic, Da Costa and Bjorn Helge Riise all pretty cheap. They made me favourites to gain promotion so i should be in the premiership next season if all goes to plan, which will be a great achievement and turn around for the club. Not counting my chickens however, but i definatly have a great squad for the championship, and probably even better than a few Premier League clubs.

My current squad is as follows:

David James
Brian Murphy

Fredrik Stoor
Alex John-Baptiste
Manual Da Costa
Jose Fonte
Radhi Jaidi
Havard Nordtveit (Loan)
Graeme Murty
Juliano Belletti
Dan Harding

Gavin McCann
Patrick Vieira
Simon Gillett
Nemanja Matic
Joseph Mills
Bjorn Helge Riise
Andy Van der Meyde
Juan Arango
Adam Lallana
Jason Punechon
Daniel Pacheco
Ali Karimi (Long term injury)

Maicon (Loan)
Aruna Dindane
Amr Zaki
Rickie Lambert
Lee Bernard

Thats a pretty big squad, but i feel that i need a big squad with playing a lot of games in the championship, that will be trimmed down next season, if i gain promotion.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:24 pm  

Lookin for a PL challenge, thinking either Sunderland or Blackburn perhaps? Done Stoke already and got bored of it

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:22 pm  

Looking at saint billy's Southampton game, I think I may join him in trying to bring The Saints back to the premiership.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:51 pm  

Rughead wrote:

Looking at saint billy's Southampton game, I think I may join him in trying to bring The Saints back to the premiership.

The only reason i started with them is because there known at 'The Saints'.