Football Manager 2010

[METALMAN]

bah. Josep Guardiola was the ultimate free transfer on that game.

[King Ellis]

I used to sign him and West and Kiko as well. I'd normally sell Kiko immidiately and get like 5-6m for him.

Thomas would spin in his grave.

[METALMAN]

hahaha I did that too!. except I'd get £10m

[hugobomb]

I remember buying Marcelo Salas on a free transfer and flooging him for 15mil to Juventus a week later after I jokingly put him on the transfer list.

Taibi was always a beast of defender for free

Edited June 26, 2010 by Hugobombski

[Gazz]

2032 on FM08

Yeah, I'm not really a fast player.

That was from the day 08 came out until 14th January this year...

[Hobo]

I'm not going to be able to keep hold of Joe Cole

[The Quasi Juice]

I just signed Milner for 40 million euro just because I needed another "trained in nation" player, preferably for the wing positions, while he's going to be a back-up

[Hajjhowe]

Can anyone tell me which file to delete so Japan can have real players and other such stuff?

[Hobo]

Newcastle stole Joe Cole from me for 14 million dollars. Because the chairman was all "YOINK" still because of the MLS and it's crazy rules I end up with an allocation of just 2 million out of that

Oh and it is the nleague file, Haj.

[Meacon Keaton]

What MLS team are you using?

Nevermind. I see you have Vancouver.

[METALMAN]

Can anyone tell me which file to delete so Japan can have real players and other such stuff?

Go To > C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009\data\updates\update-930\db\910\lnc\all

Locate the two files ‘fake.inc’ and ‘nleague.inc’

Delete the ‘fake.inc’ file

or replace "update-930" with whichever one you happen to be using

[Colossus]

I'm starting to get bored of my Benfica save. Going for my 6th title in a row, the only thing missing is a Champions League. I think that if I win that, I wait until the World Club Championship and I move on with my career

[Meacon Keaton]

I'm curious as how to everybody manages. When you take over a new team, do you guys tend to clean house? Or do you build from what you're given? What about your staff?

I've caught myself keeping a good core of players around when I take a new job. Obviously it depends on your transfer budget, but even when I have deep pockets, I tend to spend on two or three top flight guys, and keep chugging with what I inherit. But I'm usually the opposite with the staff. I get rid of everyone, and bring in a new staff completely.

What about your styles of play? I spent seven seasons in Barnsley, and by the time I left, I had us as basically an all-out attack squad. But I took the job at Q.P.R. (after failing to get a National job) and right out the gate, I attempted to use my all-out attack style and we got walloped. So I have tweaked quite a bit and now I have my guys playing more conservative and slow. We're a horrid team, and neither style is really helping, but we tend to lose 1-0 or 2-0 as opposed to 3-0/4-0.

[Meacon Keaton]

I'm curious as how to everybody manages. When you take over a new team, do you guys tend to clean house? Or do you build from what you're given? What about your staff?

I've caught myself keeping a good core of players around when I take a new job. Obviously it depends on your transfer budget, but even when I have deep pockets, I tend to spend on two or three top flight guys, and keep chugging with what I inherit. But I'm usually the opposite with the staff. I get rid of everyone, and bring in a new staff completely.

What about your styles of play? I spent seven seasons in Barnsley, and by the time I left, I had us as basically an all-out attack squad. But I took the job at Q.P.R. (after failing to get a National job) and right out the gate, I attempted to use my all-out attack style and we got walloped. So I have tweaked quite a bit and now I have my guys playing more conservative and slow. We're a horrid team, and neither style is really helping, but we tend to lose 1-0 or 2-0 as opposed to 3-0/4-0.

[Colossus]

It depends. If I go to a big club, I tend to stick with the core of the team, and improving in what is needes. If I go to a smaller club, I keep 1 or 2 guys, and I try to build my team

And I tend to play all out attack, with fast defenders helping in that

[Rocky]

I'm only just getting back into FM and I'm taking a slightly different approach.

I'm going to take over Chelsea, I'm a fan but usually choose not to use them.

I'll be holidaying through 5 seasons unemployed then I'll take Chelsea as they are on June 30 2014

And I'll try to continue on from where the previous manager left off.

I just done a post-3rd season check and It's not looking too different.

A few new faces in and a few gone, Drogba the only staying Striker.

Good to see a few faces moving into the first team, but we'll see in 2 more years...

[Pesci]

I usually stick with as many players as I can, apart from useless twats who've been there far too long without contributing much and I don't feel bad about selling. That's if I even have transfer budgets on in the first window, though. Then I like to build my team around a 4-2-3-1 or 4-1-2-2-1, when I have players who can pass the ball about and a fast striker to task with chasing down my through balls.

[Hajjhowe]

I find that the better my team is (IE: Top Premier League teams) I will play a more flashy attacking style. The lower I am (IE: Bath City) I will try a grinding, defensive counter approach. I never seem to end up with a really balanced style though. It's odd.

As for players & staff, I tend to overhaul a lot. I'm almost never satisfied with the team and when I have tons of money I feel like adding some sort of gimmick to the squad. Not the best way to manage, but still

[Hobo]

I tend to play depending on how the team is. In my current game with Vancouver I played a 4-5-1 in the first season. If I'm a smaller team in league, a newly promoted one for example I will play with a 5-3-2 and defend rigorously. My true preferred formation is a 4-2-1-2 or a variant of that.

So I replaced Joe Cole with Roman Pavlyuchenko which means we now have to play 4-4-2.

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

Hobo prefers to play a man down?