Football Manager 2008 [PC/Mac]

[PEM]

Nice.
What formation are you using?

why? so you can use it and cheat like on all of your games.

 

[Wan]

No, I'm just asking mate.
In my game Birmingham was great, being 6th at December on my first season.

 

[PEM]

Joking wan. Birmingham are last in mine and derby are 8th Atm. i got Liverpool man united Chelsea as my next 3 fixtures. going to be tough.

 

[Cali]

Started a new game with United although I shall keep my Sampdoria one, too. I'm doing great with United at the moment, currently joint first in the Premier League with West Ham. Both of us are on 18 points.

Pre-Season I bought two players. One was Ryan Taylor, and he's performed brilliant for me. In my 6-0 win against Elfsburg in the Champions League, he scored two goals. Which I was shocked at considering that he was playing at Right Back. I also snapped up highly talented Giorginio Wijnaldum, for the future. He's been playing classy in the Under 18's. Here's my formation, and it's very dominant if you ask me:

--------------------Van Der Sar----------------------
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------------Ferdinand---------Vidic-------------------
--Brown----------------------------------------Evra--
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---------------Fletcher-----Anderson------------------
--Ronaldo---------------------------------------Giggs--
----------------------Tevez----------------------------
------------------------Rooney-------------------------

Brown's practically semented his place at right back since Gary Neville was injured, and also Taylor is just warming the bench at the moment. Brown has outplayed both of them all season. Fletcher has been one of if not my most consistent performer in the team, keeping Hargreaves out of the starting line-up takes some doing, and Fletcher is perfecting it. Anderson is first choice to partner Fletcher, he seems to play a lot better with Darren by his side rather then Hargreaves. Scholes isn't even on the bench, I have Hargreaves on the bench and of course, Anderson starting. Scholes won't take Anderson's place that easy, as Anderson has put in some quality performances.

Tevez, Ronaldo, Giggs and Rooney are of course the first four names down on the Man Utd Squad list. Tevez is top scorer with 8, Ronaldo and Giggs have put in some fantastic performances, and Giggs got his 100th Premier League goal for United at White Hart Lane. Ronaldo is though infact, yet to score in the Premier League. Rooney hasn't been on top of his form and has most recently been swapping places with Louis Saha.

My results so far this season are very impressive:

Charity Shield: Manchester United 0-1 Chelsea
Manchester City 0-2 Manchester United
Manchester United 3-0 Reading
Sunderland 0-3 Manchester United
Manchester United 3-1 Derby
Middlesbrough 1-0 Manchester United
Manchester United 2-0 Birmingham
Champions League: Manchester United 6-0 Elfsburg
Tottenham 1-3 Manchester United
Carling Cup: Carlisle 0-3 Manchester United

As you can see all is going good at the moment. I expect to win the League.

 

[Barry]

Just bought transfer listed Diego from Werder Bremen for 7.5 million plus one of my youngsters :laugh:

'What a steal. Just wait a bit Cali, Juventus bought Rooney in my Ajax game for 108 million :mellow:

 

[spoonzwba]

Good defensive record cali

 

[ads]

I've not played much this year but I'm currently riding high in league 1 with Brighton, only signed one player, Aaron McLean from Peterbrough who's performing absolutely shite.

It's always tough when you have hardly any money to spend, but makes it a bit more satisfying when you pick up wins...although I wouldn't say no to a £10m transfer kitty

 

[Stella Artois]

For some reason they under-rate certain players.

McLean is the top scorer in the league. :erm:

I remember when I was the Grays manager in 07, players like Kightly were absolutely fucking toilet...now he's getting in the England U21 squad!

 

[ads]

For some reason they under-rate certain players.

McLean is the top scorer in the league. :erm:

I remember when I was the Grays manager in 07, players like Kightly were absolutely fucking toilet...now he's getting in the England U21 squad!

haha! they were my team mainly for 07 too. Dennis Oli used to score hatfulls of goals, but Michael Kightly was always completely shite.

Remember Lionel Morgan in Champy 4? He was a fucking world beater on the left wing.

Other names that spring to mind...

Alessio Cerci and Daniel Braathen were absolutely brilliant.

 

[Dan]

Why can't Buonanotte get into Accrington's team? :erm: I've loaned him to them twice since buying him at the beginning of the game and half the time he's in their reserves. I've probably ruined the poor lad's career. :/

 

[ads]

I noticed Buonanotte isn't that great this year :mellow:

Maybe thats why...oh and Rommy Boco :wave:

 

[Keyser Soze]

haha! they were my team mainly for 07 too. Dennis Oli used to score hatfulls of goals, but Michael Kightly was always completely shite.

Remember Lionel Morgan in Champy 4? He was a fucking world beater on the left wing.

Other names that spring to mind...

Alessio Cerci and Daniel Braathen were absolutely brilliant.

You could buy him for 60k and within half a season he was valued at 14m - what a player, man. He'd even go to Div.1. :w00t

I really would recommend loaning Spurs' Simon Dawkins for anyone lower than the Championship - I got him on a free FSL for my Brentford side; paying none of his wages, and he's almost hit the 20 goal mark before Christmas!

 

[ads]

You could buy him for 60k and within half a season he was valued at 14m - what a player, man. He'd even go to Div.1. :w00t

I really would recommend loaning Spurs' Simon Dawkins for anyone lower than the Championship - I got him on a free FSL for my Brentford side; paying none of his wages, and he's almost hit the 20 goal mark before Christmas!

Really? I remember blowing my budget with Shrewsbury on him last year and he was totally useless. Oh no, i'm thinking of Andrew Barcham, apologies :mellow:

But yeah Braathen was something else, but where is he now? Warming the bench at the Reebok!

 

[Rangersman]

Started a game with dunfermline, after 3 seasons due to Scotland being higher in the co-effecient table I finish 3rd and qualyifiy for the champions league ! Also won the Scottish cup in the last min against Dundee Utd. All this success is down to one man - Juho Makela. Here is his stats after the 2009/10 season, speaks for itself to be honest:

 

[Preki-USA]

sweet jesus. hows that all work out!? :huh:

 

[Dan]

Proof any fecker can score in Scotland. :erm:

I finalised the deal for Aguero a while back, since then, Kuyt has about 12 in 8. :doh: I probably should of held out until the summer..

 

[Diao]

Torres in his 2nd season completety dominated.

23 in 23 Prem games (he is top scorer despite missing a month and a half with strained knee ligaments)

He has like 35 in 37 in all competitions :laugh:

 

[PEM]

just finished 8th with man city. Elano was on fire through the season. will post pic's later.

 

[L . F . C]

Started a game with Liverpool.
Just finished pre-season.

Players In:
Quaresma - £10'000'000
Owen - £10'000'000
Addo - Free
Pako Ayesteran - Assistant Manager

Players Out:
Voronin - £5'000'000
Pennant - £5'000'000
Kewell - £500K
Sissoko - £4'500'000

Friendly Results:

Liverpool 6-2 Prato
Babel
Torres x4
Crouch

Sassuolo 1-6 Liverpool
Benayoun x4
Torres
Hyypia


Liverpool 3-2 Inter Milan
Torres x2
Lucas

Liverpool 3-1 FC Porto
Crouch
Kuyt
Hyypia

Bohemians 0-7 Liverpool
Torres x5
Kuyt
Crouch

Crewe 1-3 Liverpool
Torres x2
Mascherano
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[Diao]

Man you should of sold Sissoko for more, I can sell him for 15m in 08-09 lol