Fm08

[Asshole]

Anybody else playing it yet ?

[dave]

still playing with you momma...

yeah i got it, still playing 07 tho, really into my game atm, il play it soon...

[Mitch]

I'm playing it at the moment. Gone alright with Arsenal in my first two seasons, got the Treble (no carling cup) in the 1st and only the Prem and the FA Cup in the 2nd.

[steff]

I'm bored of it now to be honest.

[Buckledmac]

ive been playing champ/fm since Eric Cantona was at Leeds :hehe: i dont think you can ever get bored of it, i mean thats over 15years ago now :S

[Nazkyn]

I'm still playing CM 03/04 :hidey: Can't beat being rich as fuckkkk after seasons of winning everything with an Arsenal team... using the diablo formation :hehe:

[Buckledmac]

ah the infamous, unbeatable diablo system heh heh think we've all profited off that

[Mitch]

What's the Diablo formation?

[dave]

it exploits a big in the game and helps you score tones of goals, i play that game sometimes when im bored, start with a shit team and build them up

[Buckledmac]

its a formation you certainly dont need mitch, you're too good at the bloody game anyhow :argh:

[Mitch]

My 1-2-2-2-2-1 works just fine. :D

[Smokie]

february of my first season, thought i would give it ago with liverpool until i get the hang of things, sitting in first with a point lead over EVERTON! :|, out of europe (1-1 at anfield and then 7-6 to inter in milan) out of fa cup and out of carling cup.

Brought in

Sergio Ramos - £15.75m
Aaron Hunt - £7m
Franco Baresi - £1m compensation (youth coach)

And a shit load of scouts, a new assistant Joop Hiele i think and a few coaches

Sold

Yossi Benayoun - £10m
Jermaine Pennant - £8m
Harry Kewell - £7

Top Goalscorer

Andriy Voronin 34 in 39 games :|

[steff]

You got £7mil for Kewell?! You're a fucking legend lol. My mate was offering him for free and nobody would buy him pmsl

I'm bored of FM and here's why:

1) International management is retardedly easy and club management of semi-big to big clubs is rather easy too
2) Spanish registration bug
3) Mini match bugs (closing down, build up play, missing sitters etc...)
4) Unrealistic transfers (£45mil for Rooney? £52mil for Silva? Behave ffs!)

My last game I decided to test international management as it had been "revamped". The only thing I noticed that's major is how easy it is lol. I'm British, and only England have a hope in hell of doing remotely well in the cups so I went them. Won the European Championships, was winning 2 nil in the Confederations Cup Final after 24mins against Argentina, they came back with 2 then scored a 30 yard screamer in the 93rd minute. Then won the World Cup... far - too - easy.

I started unemployed at club level in that said game and the first club to pick me up was Hibernian. I took them to 7th place in the first season (I should have been 4th but there was a bug that left me out of the championship group) and that was with taking over them in 10th place. The season after I came 3rd with most assists and most goals. I destroyed the regular clubs and gave the big clubs a run for their money when I played them. My players let their egos get in the way though and started to want to leave so I did what any good manager would do: jump ship to Zaragoza. :) First season they were 17th when I took over but there was like 12 points between that and 4th place and I eventually got us to 4th place. I drew a horror group in Europe the season after... but I never got that far. The Spanish registration bug hit and unregistered all my players so I would be getting fucked 15 nil every match. I waited for the patch to come out to see if it fixed it and it didn't. So I did what any good manager would do... add manager at Rangers then retire and apply for it (hey, Zaragoza are bigger than Rangers anyway :P). Celtic spend £50mil a season and I get like £2mil to spend. Anyway, I never even finished the season, just too bored because of the minor-bugs. I'll go back to it eventually.

My Current Career :)

[Mitch]

He was probably injured.

[Buckledmac]

maybe i just miss all these little things cause ive never noticed any bugs playing champ/fm:$

[Smokie]

Update.

Won the title with a game spare after chelsea blew it away at Arsenal, who un characteristically finished 9th.

Watched Steve McClaren take England to the semi finals of the European Championships only to be beaten on penalties by France, with yes you guessed it, Wayne Rooney missing the fucking penalty.

The FA being a ruthless bunch sacked McClaren and decided to offer the job to me....i turned it down and they appointed Rafa Benitez, currently in the first week in October having lost against Roma and Bordeux in the Champions League and beating Everton at Goodison Park 2-1.

Players Brought In:

Robin Van Persie - £13m
Joaquin - £17m
Raul Albiol - £6.75m
Vagner Love - £6.75m

Players Out:

Aaron Hunt - Arsenal - £11m

[Mitch]

My Current Game

Arsenal

In: Sergio Aguero
Felipe (GK)
Daniele De Rossi
Andres Guardado
Rafinha
Karim Benzema
+ Various youth players

Out: Emmanuel Eboue
Eduardo
Robin Van Persie
Rosicky
Gilberto Silva

Date: 6th Feb 2008

Position: 1st
Played: 25
Won: 16
Drawn: 8
Lost: 1
Scored: 50
Conceded: 14
Points: 56 (Chelski 2nd on 50 points)
Top Goalscorer: Sergio Aguero - 25
Most Assists: Andres Guardado - 16
Most Man of the Match: Sergio Aguero - 9
Most Yellow Cards: Daniele De Rossi - 18 (This guy is one of the dirtiest players i have found in the game. And I love it.), 49 for the team.
Red Cards: Team - 3 (De Rossi, Fabregas and Karim Benzema)
Best Average Rating: Sergio Aguero - 7.48


Team Competitions:

Still in: Champions League - 1st Round Knockout vs. Lazio
Prem - 1st
FA Cup - 5th Round vs. Chelsea (Got the worst draw ever this season, 3rd Round vs Man Utd at Home, 4th Round vs. Tottenham Away, 5th vs. Chelsea at Home. Although if i beat Chelsea it's an easy run to the final, with Liverpool already knocked out by Portsmouth.)

Knocked Out of: League Cup 4th Round vs. Chelsea. (Game finished 2-2 and they won 4-2 on Penalties.)


Got a piss easy Champions League group this time. I played off against Sparta Prague in the 3rd Round of Qualifying and beat them 3-0 on aggregate. Then drew CSKA Moscow, Benfica and Levski Sofia. Ended up first on 16 points (5 wins, 1 draw) with CSKA Moscow finishing 2nd on 10.

Liverpool got knocked out in the 3rd Qualifying phase by Toulouse 2-1 on aggregate.

[Smokie]

Further Update.

Stopped the rot and have now won 4 on the trot, with Fernando Torres replacing Andriy Voronin as leading goalscorer with 20 in 17, all competitions.

Looking forward to a successful November and to closing the gap on Chelsea who lie in 1st5 points above me, but i have 2 games in hand :D

Current Lineup:

Formation 442

Pepe Reina - GK
Felipe - DL
Daniel Agger - DC
Raul Albiol - DC
Sergio Ramos - DR


Ryan Babel - ML
Javier Mascherano - MC
Wesley Schneider - MC
Joaquin - MR

Fernando Torres - ST
Robin Van Persie - ST

Substitutes:

Scott Carson - GK
Steven Taylor - DC
Steven Gerrard - MC
Vagner Love - FW
Andriy Voronin - ST

No before you say why is Gerrard on the bench theres a perfectly good reason as to why him and Jamie Carragher are not in the starting lineup,

Gerrard has just come back from a torn hamstring and isnt fully fit, the reserves is doing fuck all to help him so iam giving him 20-30 mins per game to rebuild his fitness.

Carragher on the other hand is STILL injured and remains so until the start of December with a broken fucking metatarsal so fortunately the two centre halfs i bought in the close season were well advised. :D

[Mitch]

Update for me as well.

Won the league with 2 games to go, with Chelski coming 2nd, Man Utd 3rd and Tottenham 4th.

Got to the FA Cup final and lost 1-0 to Aston Villa.

Got to the Champions Cup Final and beat Inter Milan 4-0. (Even better as i couldn't use Aguero as i'd bought him after he'd played a Euro Cup game for Atletico..)

Lost the last 2 games of the season, 1-0 Man utd and 2-1 Birmingham. We played well considering the average age of my starting line-up was about 18. I just played my youth team. My 17 year old Keeper got Man of the Match.

[Smokie]

November Update.

Ok so November didnt go as planned,

Drawing 2-2 with Arsenal at anfield, beating Roma away 1-0, being beaten by Villa 1-0 away then demolishing Wigan 5-2 at the JJB after suffering a humiliating 0-0 Draw to Hull in the Prem.

Next up is Chelsea at Anfield and a must win game against Grondins de Bordeux in the Champions League with Bordeux on 12 points, myself and Roma on 9 with Roma being 2nd on Goal Difference, meaning that if Roma beat Wolfsburg in the final game, i have to score 2 more goals then they do just to qualify for the second round, which is where i got knocked out last season by Inter Milan after an epic 7-6 loss in the San Siro.

Premier League Fixtures Print Screen:

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m253/scott12uk/fixturelist.jpg

Champions League Group:

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m253/scott12uk/championsleague.jpg

Edit:

Beat Bordeux 3-0 away and with Roma getting beat by Wolfsburg, i qualified 1st in the group and have drawn Dynamo Kiev in the second round :)

[Smokie]

Well what a season, went to the European Cup Semi Finals but got beat by an impressive Barcelona side after drawing 0-0 at Anfield, everything was looking up after 25 minutes with Fernando Torres and Andriy Voronin putting us firmly in the driving seat until the start of the second half when a revitalised Barcelona came out all guns blazing scoring 3 in 10 minutes with Henry, Ronaldinho and Lionel Messi all bagging a goal.

Still we didnt roll over and die but the final nail was hammered into our European campaign on 82 minutes when Anders Iniesta fired home a penalty sending us crashing out of europe.

Bought David Silva from Valencia in the January window for £32.25m.

Won my second league title on the final day with a 3 possible teams potentially being crowned champions, Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal but with an interesting final day, Utd got beat 5-2 away at Chelsea who by this time where already out of the race meaning avoiding defeat at West Ham would send the Premiership crown back to Anfield.

Signed Michael Owen on a free transfer and Giovanni Dos Santos from Barcelona, again on a free, before splashing out £18.75 for Getafe's Italian goalkeeper Oscar Ustari.

7 games into my 3rd season, iam currently in 1st place having beaten Man Utd 4-1 on penalties in the Community Shield and then 4-2 in the league with Michael Owen grabbing a brace.

My only defeat so far coming at the hands of Arsenal who beat me 1-0 at Anfield.

Current Squad:

Pepe Reina or Oscar Ustari - Goalkeeper
Felipe - LB
Jamie Carragher - CB
Daniel Agger - CB
Sergio Ramos - RB

David Silva - LM
Wesley Sneijder - AM
Robin Van Persie or Steven Gerrard - AM
Joaquin - RM

Michael Owen - ST
Fernando Torres - ST

[Mitch]

If anyone else doesn't want to play in Fullscreen and doesn't want to change the Screen Resolution, i've got this trick off someone else.

Find your FM Shortcut, then right click on it.

Go to properties - shortcut - and in target change to

"C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2008\fm.exe" -small_screen -windowed

Open the game and make sure the Fullscreen option in Preferences is Unticked.

[Asshole]

Started a game as accrington stanley, the usual, sold a few bought in a few changed thier tactics and sur[risingly got promoted, second year of the game, sold my best players from the year before (apart from two "wonderkids") at huge profit, bought new players and got promoted again (both times thanks to playoffs) just finished the third year, sold and bought players again but egos got too big and during the january windows a few key players minimum release clauses got bought out (set at 3x what i paid for them) on being the captain, morale hit an all time low and went from 2nd place in the championship to 16th at end of season..

the only real bummer is im in the championship with a 7000 seater stadium and most of the clubs there have 20k+ so i get considered as a small club still :(

[steff]

You are a small club though. It's like Gretna who went from lower Scottish leagues to Premier League in consecutive seasons - they're still a small club though.

[Asshole]

why?? im a mid table ish championship club with the best training and youth training facilities in the league also quite well off due to other clubs being so desperate for the players ive picked iv trebled thier worth, the only "Small" thing about the club is the stadium, luckily its now down for 6 months while they add 3 and a half thousand more seats, taking me i believe to just over 11,000.. just a few more years and ill have biggest stadium too.. take that you bastards!!!

and in all fairness the Big clubs are the ones with more supporters i guess, so having a 7000 seater will really hamper that

Isnt it embarrassing that im doing a ground share with oldham athletic, and even after all the expansion they will still have a larger stadium.... oh and they are a whole league below me :(

[steff]

Yeah you've moved up leagues fast and you won't gain masses more supporters in that time.

[Asshole]

actually you do, 1st game at oldhams stadium it was a capacity crowd, but im pretty sure it just goes on average attendance, as players i could not sign last year jump at the chance to join me now

[Asshole]

Stadium finished.. instead of the much anticipated 3500 steats they added 350.. bug?? methinks so

[steff]

I think there is save game modifiers for it, might be worth looking into. It's cheating but when it's cheating to fix a bug it's not really cheating... just don't stick £200mil in your bank. :P

[Asshole]

For anyone starting a new game. 2 players to buy bothw onderkids..


Alex, hes a brazillian.. AMRLC 17 when you start the game you can pick him up well cheap.. 3 years in i paid 24 mil...

ANd willie gibson.. DM/MC English so no permit, also a wonderkid, gets more expensive as the seasons roll by

im 3 years in was bottom of the championship with accrington, bought these two mid season and missed out on playoffs by 1 point along with the help of a player ive had for a hwile who seems to be another

another good one:

Matej Rapnik. DLC had chelsea liverpool and arsenal trying to buy him for the last two years.. been a bastard to keep hold of.

[steff]

If you're a Championship/not-so-good Premiership team, John Fleck of Rangers is a good buy and in some games (you're aware that PA changes for under 16's from load to load right?) he can have 179 PA so could be a star.

[Mitch]

Height seems to change too for some reason..in some games my youth players are giants and next they're average.

[Smokie]

4th Season with liverpool sitting in 3rd on 15 points joint 1st with West Ham and Chelsea.

Sold Joaquin as he was becoming a lazy bastard and bought Sergio Aguero for £33m and Daniel Alves for £20, had the stadium rebuilt to a 61,000 all seater and my average gate is 60546 which is bloody good, making around £2.6m in receipts per game.

Michael Owen is out for 4 months with a torn hamstring :@ and Fernando Torres is out for 2 months with a broken metatarsal which means my front line consists of Aguero and van Persie.

Line Up

GK:Carson
LB: Criscito
CB: Agger/Albiol
CB: Carragher/Ramos
RB: Alves/Ramos

LM: David Silva/Babel/Van Persie
AM: Wesley Sneijder/Iago
CM: Steven Gerrard/Momo Sissoko
RM: Ryan Babel/Gerrard/Van Persie

ST: Sergio Aguero/David Amoo
ST: Van Persie/Xisco Nadel

[Asshole]

All division 1/2 players need sam hewson too, also good for the championship.. and good backup for lower premiership teams.

[Puppy Dogs and Ice Cream]

this sounds like fun i should play it

[Jimmy James]

this sounds like fun i should play it

you should.. I feel like the only american who plays this game

[Puppy Dogs and Ice Cream]

will look into it in the morning

[Mitch]

You will support Arsenal

[/Jedi Mindtrick]

[Buckledmac]

on a slightly different note, whats everyones experience of the version update?

ive heard some say its full of bugs and not worthwhile, but then again i should proberly wait for the transfer window to close before upgrading so i have the current squads.............im sure steffy will help me :P

[Mitch]

I find that i don't get pulled up for offside 20 times a game anymore. I don't think there were any transfers from the major clubs.

[Jimmy James]

I find that i don't get pulled up for offside 20 times a game anymore. I don't think there were any transfers from the major clubs.

plus they call offsides quicker, so you're not celebrating for 5 minutes, then a whistle...

[Asshole]

And i dont seem to have more dis-allowed goals than i actually score, wether or not my team is just behaving now i dont know but seemed to happen after patching

[steff]

on a slightly different note, whats everyones experience of the version update?

ive heard some say its full of bugs and not worthwhile, but then again i should proberly wait for the transfer window to close before upgrading so i have the current squads.............im sure steffy will help me :P

The "update" contains more bugs than it fixes IMO :P that and the fact that there is no official nocd crack released for it yet means it isn't really an option. There is supposed to be an update in February and odds on someone will make a noCD patch for that then since it'll most likely be the final patch.

[Jimmy James]

The "update" contains more bugs than it fixes IMO :P that and the fact that there is no official nocd crack released for it yet means it isn't really an option. There is supposed to be an update in February and odds on someone will make a noCD patch for that then since it'll most likely be the final patch.

my nocd crack still works

[Asshole]

i got one that worked fine too

[steff]

For 8.0.1 (as in post-patch)? Last I heard all the NoCD cracks were crap. They lead to further game bugs and the like. I haven't played FM in months though.

[Buckledmac]

http://www.sigames.com/news.php?type=view&article_id=1297

okay so they released the 8.0.2 patch today with all the transfer updates, anyone know where i can download it cracked ?

thanks in advance!

[steff]

Well if you fancy trying that mini backup image. If not you could be waiting a while for a crack. :P

[Asshole]

everyone should buy alex teixera, brazilian youngster, he becomes absoloute gold

[steff]

Just finished my first season with Barcelona (started when I was bored in Uni). Cake walked la liga with 102 points. Got knocked out the CL by Arsenal. Beat them 2 nil at the Nou Camp so defended at the Emirates only to get humped 5 nil... fucking shite new match engine. They went onto win the CL. ANYWAY... I don't usually play as a big team so when I seen my transfer budget I was very :O:O:O:O:O... £138mil to spend on players :| The only position I need is a goalkeeper after I sold Valdes to Arsenal for £15.5mil (owned lol). I never realized big teams get so much. So I'm thinking Ronaldo, Rooney and Kaka :D lol

[Nazkyn]

Just finished my first season with Barcelona (started when I was bored in Uni). Cake walked la liga with 102 points. Got knocked out the CL by Arsenal. Beat them 2 nil at the Nou Camp so defended at the Emirates only to get humped 5 nil... fucking shite new match engine. They went onto win the CL. ANYWAY... I don't usually play as a big team so when I seen my transfer budget I was very :O:O:O:O:O... £138mil to spend on players :| The only position I need is a goalkeeper after I sold Valdes to Arsenal for £15.5mil (owned lol). I never realized big teams get so much. So I'm thinking Ronaldo, Rooney and Kaka :D lol

Sergio Aguero and Henri Saivet :)

[steff]

Aguero was high on my list of "must buys" too but he'll expect a game and I just don't have any room for him to get a game right now.

[Buckledmac]

Sergio Aguero and Henri Saivet :)

you can pick him up for a few 100k early on and he turns into a bloody marvel!

[Nazkyn]

you can pick him up for a few 100k early on and he turns into a bloody marvel!

Yup :) Lionel Messi and Henri Saivet probably turn out to be the two best players on there... oh, and Javi Martinez, try Antonio Cerrajero too if you can find him, you might need to use a large database or try managing in Spain.

Damn you! I wanna play FM08 now lol :hidey: Aint played it for a few months!

[Asshole]

i bought that alex guy on a season with liverpool and hes described as "the next ronaldinho"

however i get bored with big clubs, just won promotion and cleaned up the setanta shield and FA trophy with havant + waterlooville

[Jimmy James]

i bought that alex guy on a season with liverpool and hes described as "the next ronaldinho"

however i get bored with big clubs, just won promotion and cleaned up the setanta shield and FA trophy with havant + waterlooville

I did that too.. went with kettering in the blue square north, got promoted twice in 2 years.. now I'm getting my ass kicked in league 2...

[Asshole]

I did that too.. went with kettering in the blue square north, got promoted twice in 2 years.. now I'm getting my ass kicked in league 2...

lol i got alex teixera in league 2 and he almost single handedly promoted me, robert grant is a class left winger too, if you cant get alex look at james henry, cracker of a right winger, who you can buy for blue square teams.

[Buckledmac]

what are you Alex Teixera's agent or something :hehe:

[Jimmy James]

lol i got alex teixera in league 2 and he almost single handedly promoted me, robert grant is a class left winger too, if you cant get alex look at james henry, cracker of a right winger, who you can buy for blue square teams.

I have 0 wiggle room in my budget, no transfer money left, and wages are over the budget.. the team just came out of the red though, and this my last year under contract, so I just figure I'll try to avoid relegation, then move on to greener pastures

[Asshole]

what are you Alex Teixera's agent or something :hehe:

i wish.. i would be sitting comfortably waiting for the money to roll in..

Im serious tho.. you can buy him for blue square teams.. AND he becomes on of the top rated players on the game..