Re: Football Manager 2010 : Thu Aug 19, 2010 9:00 pm  

I have a load of games on the go, in different countries including Man City, Wolfsburg, Zenit, Udinese, Bordeaux, New York Red Bulls, Gold Coast United and Santos. Just keeping busy in the school holidays !

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Sun Aug 22, 2010 1:26 pm  

5th season Real Madrid squad.

Iker Casillas, Asmir Begovic

Segio Ramos, regen right back
Pepe, Federico Fazio, Nicolas Otamendi, Ezeqiel Garay, Martin Demichelis
Giorgio Chiellini, Jeremy Helan

Cristiano Ronaldo, Eduardo Salvio
Kaka, Sotiris Ninis, Esteban Granero, Adrien, Jack Rodwell
Cristian Rodriguez, Zoran Tosic

Marcus Berg, Yannis Tafer, Luis Suarez, Neymar, Romelu Lukaku

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Sun Aug 22, 2010 3:46 pm  

2nd season at Bradford and sat handily placed in the League 1 play-off places after 20 games. It would be even better if I could get a break from these ridiculous injuries. 3 of my first choice midfield 4 have been laid low for the last month. Just when I get a few players back more get injured.

Key signings this year are Nathan Tyson (15 goals in 18 league games) and Barry Bannan, who can play all across the midfield.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:39 pm  

Started out at City. Got bored. Went to Calagiri. Got bored.

Ended up at Southampton with a team lying in 12 with 14games to go. Pushed them to 5th and got knocked out in the 1st round.

Now i'm 1st in the league after 22 games. 3 points clear and a pretty good squad.

GK - A. McGregor (Loan)
DR - J. Ostemebor
DL - D. Harding
DC - F. Stoor (bought from Fulham £2.5m)
DC - P. Jones (Loan)
MC - M. Potts (Bought from City for £2m)
MC - D. Plessis (£800k from 'pool)
AM - A. Llana/J Puncheon
ST - B. Zamora (£1.9m buy from Fulham)
ST - R. Lambert
ST - V. Anichebe/L. Barnard

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Tue Aug 24, 2010 11:46 pm  

Started a random game with Leyton Orient in League One. Had two seasons there, finishing mid table both seasons just worked on getting my own team together and getting the club into a bit of shape and sorting the wage situation out. Never had any problems scoring goals but always conceded lots, in my third season things improved and I got them into a play off position, Bristol City came in for me just after Christmas who where 20th in the Premier League and practically relegated but I took the offer because I was scared of failing with Orient and having to spend another season trying to get them into the play offs.

I wrote off the Premier League season, got to the end of the season and released and sold the players who didn't want to be there and tried getting my own team sorted. Resigned some good players who had done well for City in the Championship before and signed some experienced players, including a 37 year old David Beckham. Life in the Championship is going well, played about 13 games in the league and i'm unbeaten at the top, pushed Spurs close in the FA cup losing 2-1. Funnily enough, Leyton Orient came 2nd in League One and gained promotion and are now in the same league, but havn't signed any new players and are using my squad in the Championship with a new manager, i'm interested to see how they get on.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Wed Aug 25, 2010 5:14 pm  

Anybody ever had a striker have a great couple of seasons, and then really, really struggle til about Febuary/March? i.e. given chances every week tried to keep his confidence up but scoring once every month or something, only to then recover and score 8 goals in two games, doubling his seasonal tally?

Just happened in my Madrid game with Marcus Berg

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Wed Aug 25, 2010 7:24 pm  

Not got the one on PC, wish I did though.

Got it for iPhone, going to start a new season/career, any tips on which team to be, players to sign, tactics, strategies etc.

Thanks.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:17 pm  

74' wrote:

Not got the one on PC, wish I did though.

Got it for iPhone, going to start a new season/career, any tips on which team to be, players to sign, tactics, strategies etc.

Thanks.

If you're a lower league side then try to get Dani Pacheco (Liverpool) or Harris Vukic (Newcastle) on loan, they'll score you some much needed goals

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:29 pm  

Kakuta from Chelsea.

Re: Football Manager 2010 : Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:25 pm  

In my 5 seasons at Madrid, got to the CL final three times and Europa final once. 4/5 seasons we have reached a final. The other time being like in real life last year and losing to Lyon in the first KO stage of the CL.

Lost every time! Why can we trounce everyone in the league, knock teams like Barca out in 1/4 and 1/2 finals yet always lose the bloody final!

Even Porto beat us in the Europa final and they didn't do nothing special in their league. We were 2-0 down at half time, two quickfire goals in the second half levelled it and we went in front in ET, only for them to equalise and then beat us 6-4 on pens!

First season against Man Utd, was a trappy game and they sickened us in extra time.
Last season in the CL, Juventus beat us quite convincingly 1-0 and were all over us so no complaints.
However, we were tat against Arsenal this year and lucky to get it to penalties, but unlucky not to win as well. At 1-1 in extra time, we won a pen, Kaka missed, they scored down the other end, we equalised to take it to penalties. Missed 2/5 pens to Arsenal only missing one!

In the final, I don't do anything differently to big game semi finals or big league games so can't see why this happens. Beating the likes of Barca and Atletico in Spanish Cup finals happens for us.