Is it only me that likes to do the odd cheating on Football manager?

yes. why play if you're not playing properly? you're only cheating yourself.

the fact i saved the game before the champions league final means nothing. it was late on. there may have been a power cut in the next 15 minutes. or a herd of wild elephants may have stormed through my room destroying my pc and costing me the game.....

I hate it when that happens

Taken my Forest team from 22nd place to joint 1st in 12months with hardly any changes. Level pegging with Wolves and 5points clear of third.

Got a budget of £925k which still remains in January.

Team of:
Fielding (LOAN)

Kyle Naughton (LOAN)
Chris Gunter
Kelvin Wilson
Sam Hutchinson

Charlie Adam (CML)
Paul McKenna (CM)
Luke Chadwick (CMR)
Lewis McGugan (AMC)

Dylan McAlistar - Bought from Australia
Dexter Blackstock/Joe Garner

Very happy with myself and the progression!

going to have a bash on my old sporting game i think. tenth season so game is full of regens.

No, the FM forums are full of cheats. Everyone has ridiculous threads and make truly impossible signings.

I posted a thread about my lack of ability to sign pretty much anyone unless they were transfer listed. I got loads of messages back saying it was really easy.



Now, the only ones on there which are achieveable on the game are Neville and Pienaar.



Now, even with £0 up front and those figures over 48 months, they are way off. I bid £25m up front for Cardoza for example and it gets rejected and he signs for Chelsea or Barcelona every time. I bid £15m for Di Maria and again, no.

I hope in FM11 they remove the AI's liking of silly deals like £0 up front and £xm over 5 years. It's football not sofa retailing. There will always be the ability to 'add new manager' then transact between the two. For example adding a manager as Chelsea and signing Phil Neville for £45m and so on, but I find that one I did that it totally devalued the game and I lost interest in it.

Having said that, I understand why people do it. As Everton for example there is no quick way to succeed. To improve the squad you need to either play the extremely long game and sign future stars or sell your better players. I've found I'm able to add one or two better players per season.

I can see why you fooked it off for a bit after that. It's bad enough once but happening twice is not on, I'd have probably snapped the disk in frustration

(not that it would be needed if playing through steam!) I've never been lucky enough for a takeover so I've never come close to that experience. You pluck up the courage to get going again?

Yeah, I'm struggling along as Everton, hence the post above. Going alright, slowly (very) assembling a decent team, but I've just not got the finances to compete really. I might start another career lower down so at least I can achieve something and try to build up to a bigger club.

Saddened, I have started a few games on the original database, no patches

Van der Vaart - 9.75m
definitely available for around that price, bought him on one of my games at the start fora similar sum.

Cardoza - 9.75m
Signed Oscar Cardozo for less than that in the first January window with Bayern Munich.

Sessegnon - 13m
Don't know at the start but Sessegnon usually goes for over 20m in the second or third season, every game I've had

Jovetic - 13.75m
Got him for around 12m at the start when I was Barca

Kjaer - 5m
They're having a laugh

Schweinsteiger - 5m
They're having a laugh, he loves Bayern and the club regard him as a key player

Di Maria - 3.5m
As Barcelona, I managed to get him at a similar price, with a few additional add ons.

Dzeko - 15m
With City I paid around 13m for him



When I look through the list of players they said they had sold though, and the fees, it does look very dubious!

20 games into my first season with Darlington.
Played 20 Won 20 with a goal difference of +48.
I've managed to get Rhys Williams on loan from Boro and he's having a wow of a season so far. The little money I had went on the coaching team and a scout and most of my players have already improved quite a bit.
Highlight of the season so far has to be taking Leeds United to a replay in the 1st round of the cup then beating them 5-3. Hoping I'll get some money to spend when I go up (yes I'm that confident) and bring in some great looking youngsters my scouting team have recommended.

Champions

Well I'm in my 4th season with Liverpool. 3 Premiership titles so fair, 14 games in and 6 points clear at the top of the table with 11 wins, 3 draws and no losses. 41 goals scored, 9 conceded.

However, beyond my success in the league has not been replicated in cup competitions.
1 FA Cup, 3 Community Shields, 1 Champions League, 1 Super Cup, 1 World Club Champions.

But still a fair haul of silverware