Ye thats what I've kind of done with Barcelona, signed all the best young players in the world for a few million each, then made a top team out of them all.
Did a similiar thing with Southampton first off, but it's easier with a foreign side as then you can easily sign players without getting a work permit.
It's easier with a foreign side as then you can easily sign players without getting a work permit.
No!! Buy English!!! English youngsters are actually good on computer games and early exposure to the first team usually makes them world beaters.
I'm Scottish so generally doesn't matter to me! Although whatever team I am like to have mostly players from that country.
But nearly all my players are HG regardless of nationality anyway!
I'm Scottish.
Oh...I hardly ever find decent Scottish players. Sports Interactive must hate Scotland.
You know your addicted to FM when....
One of your favourite all time football players never actually exsisted....
Damien Morello... I miss you...
I tend to buy less established players, find there hardly ever anyone worth bringing through my academy, I think once in a 6-8 season game on FM 10 I brought through an academy player...
Would sign loads of youngsters from other sides, once bought a player of United for £5 M a couple of months after they bought him for 500k. Arsenal bought him 2-3 years later for 16M so it was okay...
Always keep wages as low as possible as well... aforementioned best player in the world Morello was on 60k a week, joint highest earner I think, missed out on players like Ozil because of it, Fulham's sugar daddy was willing to pay 160,000 a week so no way was I competing with that....
my favourite FM player name Hyacinth Die
the funniest moment was when in 2023 i saw a news bulletin saying Rafa Benitez has been sacked as Liverpool manager. i checked his history and he hadn't won a single trophy in that entire time finishing 3rd, 4th pretty much every year had kept him in a job.
Sergio Collado The perfect combination between Iniesta and Scholes.
I know my mate was addicted when I got home and found him sat at the PC in a suit and tie playing FM:
Me: You had a job interview or something?
Him: Nope. I'm in the FA Cup final.
Milan Milanovic was a kid I brought into my Barca team when he was just 16 years old and I had to sell Iniesta the next year.
I haven't played since 2007, because it got waay too hands-on, but now i want to get back into the swing of things
I have been known to play with various self enforced rules to spice things up a little. Over the years I have done sign only players below 20, only players over 30, only home nation players,only players from lower leagues etc etc. adds a little something to the challenge.
My favourite games though have all been ones where i have brought a few through from the under 18's, signed up a batch of other youngsters and built a team of superstars over the course of a few years.
On my current one, Norwich City are the dominant team in europe, with a team of galacticos that have pretty much been together for the best part of a decade, developing into monsters. I could name some of them, but as i'm in about 2030 they're all invented within the game and don't exist lol
You know ur addicted to fm when.....
A. U manage to negotiate a retired 55 Diego maradona out of retirement to play for league two side shrewsbury town (fm2002?)
B. Ur missus has gone to a new yrs eve party alone becuase uve gone to argos to pick up ur newly delivered hd tv, soley for the purpose of playing fm, in hd! Naturally dumped 10 days later...
B. Ur missus has gone to a new yrs eve party alone becuase uve gone to argos to pick up ur newly delivered hd tv, soley for the purpose of playing fm, in hd! Naturally dumped 10 days later...
You do have a problem mate.
I started playing Player Manager in 1990 and have been playing manager games ever since. I always used to buy some guy call Kavalashvilli or something like that, which I now guess to be a Georgian name, which is sort of strange as I married a Georgian girl and she took away that little joy in my life.
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posted on 7/9/11
Ye thats what I've kind of done with Barcelona, signed all the best young players in the world for a few million each, then made a top team out of them all.
Did a similiar thing with Southampton first off, but it's easier with a foreign side as then you can easily sign players without getting a work permit.
posted on 7/9/11
It's easier with a foreign side as then you can easily sign players without getting a work permit.
No!! Buy English!!! English youngsters are actually good on computer games and early exposure to the first team usually makes them world beaters.
posted on 7/9/11
I'm Scottish so generally doesn't matter to me! Although whatever team I am like to have mostly players from that country.
But nearly all my players are HG regardless of nationality anyway!
posted on 7/9/11
I'm Scottish.
Oh...I hardly ever find decent Scottish players. Sports Interactive must hate Scotland.
posted on 7/9/11
You know your addicted to FM when....
One of your favourite all time football players never actually exsisted....
Damien Morello... I miss you...
I tend to buy less established players, find there hardly ever anyone worth bringing through my academy, I think once in a 6-8 season game on FM 10 I brought through an academy player...
Would sign loads of youngsters from other sides, once bought a player of United for £5 M a couple of months after they bought him for 500k. Arsenal bought him 2-3 years later for 16M so it was okay...
Always keep wages as low as possible as well... aforementioned best player in the world Morello was on 60k a week, joint highest earner I think, missed out on players like Ozil because of it, Fulham's sugar daddy was willing to pay 160,000 a week so no way was I competing with that....
posted on 7/9/11
my favourite FM player name Hyacinth Die
the funniest moment was when in 2023 i saw a news bulletin saying Rafa Benitez has been sacked as Liverpool manager. i checked his history and he hadn't won a single trophy in that entire time finishing 3rd, 4th pretty much every year had kept him in a job.
posted on 7/9/11
Sergio Collado The perfect combination between Iniesta and Scholes.
posted on 7/9/11
I know my mate was addicted when I got home and found him sat at the PC in a suit and tie playing FM:
Me: You had a job interview or something?
Him: Nope. I'm in the FA Cup final.
posted on 7/9/11
I do that.
posted on 7/9/11
Milan Milanovic was a kid I brought into my Barca team when he was just 16 years old and I had to sell Iniesta the next year.
posted on 7/9/11
I haven't played since 2007, because it got waay too hands-on, but now i want to get back into the swing of things
posted on 7/9/11
I have been known to play with various self enforced rules to spice things up a little. Over the years I have done sign only players below 20, only players over 30, only home nation players,only players from lower leagues etc etc. adds a little something to the challenge.
My favourite games though have all been ones where i have brought a few through from the under 18's, signed up a batch of other youngsters and built a team of superstars over the course of a few years.
On my current one, Norwich City are the dominant team in europe, with a team of galacticos that have pretty much been together for the best part of a decade, developing into monsters. I could name some of them, but as i'm in about 2030 they're all invented within the game and don't exist lol
posted on 7/9/11
You know ur addicted to fm when.....
A. U manage to negotiate a retired 55 Diego maradona out of retirement to play for league two side shrewsbury town (fm2002?)
B. Ur missus has gone to a new yrs eve party alone becuase uve gone to argos to pick up ur newly delivered hd tv, soley for the purpose of playing fm, in hd! Naturally dumped 10 days later...
posted on 7/9/11
B. Ur missus has gone to a new yrs eve party alone becuase uve gone to argos to pick up ur newly delivered hd tv, soley for the purpose of playing fm, in hd! Naturally dumped 10 days later...
You do have a problem mate.
posted on 8/9/11
I started playing Player Manager in 1990 and have been playing manager games ever since. I always used to buy some guy call Kavalashvilli or something like that, which I now guess to be a Georgian name, which is sort of strange as I married a Georgian girl and she took away that little joy in my life.
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