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FM2011 is out on the 5th of November \o/

Fucking hell they must have put the release date back a week.

What a waste of a week off work im gonna now.

Selfish bastards

I didn't know they'd announced a date?

FIFA11 out next Friday, Football Manager 2011 out 5th November and the new World of Warcraft expansion means this could seriously disrupt my jobhunt

Yea i have it pre-ordered and originally it was for 29th Oct, your right though it now say 5th Nov

If it's any consolation, the game is usually pretty buggy on release...

Yeah. It will be almost unplayable until about Christmas whatever happens.

I remember reading that there is going to be a demo download coming next week some time, was expected 29th Sept for demo download but that may well have been put back too.

What's the main new features of FM11?

I might just skip it this year, I haven't finished the current one yet.

(I think I say that every year)

- Improved training options
- More complex module for searching new players
- Improved graphics and 3D view of the game
- Introduction of football agents to the game
- Playing games in evenings (so called night effect)
- Differentiated weather conditions
- Create your own free-kick/corner routines from scratch, similar to the tactics creator

If anyone else is after one, the latest transfer update I could find just now is here:

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/downloads.php?do=file&id=3304

The demo for 2011 comes out tomorow if your registered on mirrorfootball :) cant wait :D

Where do you register for this matey?

Yer tis

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/blogs/football-manager-2010/Exclusive-Football-Manager-2011-blog-with-Miles-Jacobson-day-14-How-to-get-your-FREE-demo-of-the-world-s-greatest-soccer-simulation-video-game-with-MirrorFootball-co-uk-article602883.html

Cheers

just downloaded,

1st thing im checking is how much money man city get

55mil for title challenege of 72 for winner.

Dissapointed with that :-)

Now to swindon

Grrrrrr.

What are swindon like then? What is Austins value out of interest?

I won't download it until its not on Steam, when it gets the standalone download then I will give it a go, I dislike Steam.

Apaprently the non-steam demo is out tomorrow.

Not played for more than 10 min yet, but austin is valued at £950,000,
Cuthbert looks immense.

Put a screenshot of Austin's stats up if you can mate..

cant right now, will try later

Ace, enjoy the demo!

[url width=900 height=697]http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a251/jehst/austinfm11.png[/url]

[url width=900 height=697]http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a251/jehst/finances.png[/url]

Whats the TEF'ers first impressions of the game? are our players attributes accurate in your own opinions? Think Mcgoverns attributes very much represent his last season form rather than this seasons, Cuthbert looks very good, and it seems that Dougie and Austin look like our best players, which is accurate to real life :p

Austin looks decent from those stats

A tad boss eyed though. You'd have thought they would have used a better photo.

4% more and ive got it

ive not played enough to say but obvious additions to the game are you deal with players agents when negotiating contracts, and the player interaction to me seems a bit childish

The game will be out by the time my demo has downloaded..

The game will be buggy and shit until the third or fourth patch is released around february. I'll pirate it then.

Yea its buggy as hell, cant get past the Cirencester friendly on the 30th now :(

http://www.footballmanager.com/demo

Shame it hasn't got the proper badges and kits. Hopefully that will come in the proper version.

I have been playing it for 5 or 6 hours now and in the 4th league game of the season, not found any bugs or errors so far here, playing really well, couple of nice new additions like the private chats, Agents and set piece makers, a bit better graphically but overall not a huge difference from FM2010

Yea the little chats are a great addition and make man management an important part of the game, already told timlin to grow Up :p

Im loving it...negotiating new contracts is a b*tch though

Dossevi is ace, Cuthbert is too. Got Jonjo Shelvey and Bebe on loan, both come highly reccommended. Sir Charles is revelling in the lone striker role as well!

Scouting seems difficult though ?!

Just signed Jeff Hughes from rovers for 180k as Swindon, thats left wing sorted

4 games 4 wins
charlie austin 4 games 7 goals His value is up to 1.3mil now
ins
Fabien Brandy- free
Aaron Cresswell (Tranny) 200k
Frank Nouble(West ham)- Loan
Shane Lowry(Villa)- Loan
Adam Bogdan(Bolton)- Loan
Also a few prospects for the future on free's
All my signings have been for back up as i feel the current squad is strong enough

and i just beat wigan in the 2nd round of the league cup. 2-0

I just beat Bolton in the 2nd round of the LC, and have signed Bogdan on loan too.

just knocked out scunny in 3rd round of LC

Still undefeated in the league.

austin is on fire, dossevi and o'brien on the wings are killing it

Played 20. Won 15, drawn 4, lost 1. 10 points clear at the moment.

dossevi great for me but austin not so good - what role shall i play him ?

I think he generally plays best as a striker.

sooooo funny ! seriously though target man ,poacher , what ?

im using dossevi as my right winger. he's killing it

Dossevi for me is awesome as a striker, hes not bad as a right winger but hes much more effective alongside Charlie for me.

Poacher seems to be working well for me. 

Woohoo just won 2-1 away at Everton in the 3rd round of the LC Dossevi and Wesley Ngo Baheng scoring.

Corry Evans on loan from Man Utd and Andy Butler at CB have been brilliant for me so far.

Also signed Sam Sodje but hes a bit hit and miss.

£27.97 in asda. But you need to ask for it behind the games counter.

Got a productive day ahead...

on my way out now, not much is going to happen this weekend, apart from swindon being promoted with an influx foreign players. That an some drinking

Just won the league W28, D12, L6.

Productive day indeed.


Work done, dinner in the oven and a weekend of FM is ahead of me. Not bad.

Is this much different from FM2010?

I found FM2010 really fun until the third patch and it then it got a bit boring.

Any decent shouts for a AML

Also, where are the stands in the match?

Myrie-Williams has been great for me. Bebe on loan from Man U too!

myrie-williams requested a transfer from me  :(

got my new laptop, this should run a dream, unfortunately my STFC save is on my works pc.

This is a nice little feature

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA8qNZafePU

Crap game and goal though  :)

How have you got the stands? Or more to the point, why havent I?

It's in the preferences settings under the display and sound option, you need to tick 'show stadiums'.

Only had a little bit of a play around thus far, I think the subtle tweaks are really good. The only thing that has annoyed me are injuries to Austin and McDermott. McDermott especially as he's had to go back to Man City and I have to find a replacement.

Cheers Si. McDermott has been good for me so far. Got Szcescny (sp), Mark Randall and Mcdermott on loan, Pele, Kali (Both CBs) and Brandy on frees and Macdonald (Scottish ST) for a small fee. Only played 3 league games, 6 points and through to the 2nd round in the Lge Cup. Really impressed with it so far, but very early.

I'll enjoy it until SI patches it and my Andy King style of management won't wash and the crappy boring Mourinho tactics will.

Personally I think it's a lot of old bollocks(2010) But that's probably cos I'm not very good at it and Town are only mid table

Anyone else having problems with it crashing?

no, but I've got SIX players away on international duty, is there any way I can get games like this called off in the future?

I've had similar to that. Frustrating when my best players are the only ones missing.

Having a lot of problems with scoring, just lost 3-0 to Sheff Wed despite dominating in every department and creating six clear cut chances... It's a similar trend in every match

Whats the specs for this?

Will it run kn my celeron 2ghz with 2gb of ram?

Probably, but very slowly

Yeah, easy. Only got 1gb and it goes along ok, long you've only got English Leagues and a small/medium database.

It's the lack of processing power which slows the game down. It's within the minimum specs, but my celeron computer struggled with older versions.

Managed to get promoted via playoffs (beating dongs and southampton)
Can remember now which players i brought in but i'll update later

One thing i have noticed is its near impossible to get rid of players even if you offer them out for nothing

Not entirely, I got rid of Phil Smith to Preston for £35k. Thought that was a good bit of business. :)

I've also sold various players.

Into my third season now, after a respectable 10th finish in the championship.

haha, true, but when i started with man city i was offering out players like SWP and lescott for 750,000k and no one would want em

just about to finish my 3rd seasons as champions on the championship. wooo

How do people play these games so quickly? I used to spend hours and hours scouting between games. Sometimes weeks in the close season.

My FM is now fucked. I can't open the game at all. When I try to, I get a windows error meassge saying FM has stopped working. 11.1.0f157094. Windows will close the programme and try to find a solution.

Tried reinstalling it, tried googling it. Not a fucking clue. Fucking pissed off.

Can anyone help?

Try this panda

neoseeker.com/forums/45152/t1441307-official-football-manager-start-up-fix-steam/

because im lazy and ive played it so much i just know which players to buy and how to play.

1st game in prem, 0-0 with liverpool and was playing with 10men from the 20th min, ill take that, the only remaining players from town i have are cuthbert, caddis, austin, ferry and douglas
the fist XI looks like this
Fulop

caddis
cuthbert
nortviedt
w.bridge

donald mcdermot (ex man city youth)
cory evans
douglas
zamani (regen)

xisco
frazier campbell

This is gonna change as im still trying to bolster the squad

Nordtveit  8)

Im trying to get cheik tiote (sp) of newcastle on a free, we agree a contract but cant get a work permit. is there anyway of getting him a work permit easier?

Sam Parkin a tad over-rated. "Top player in League One" Maybe 5 years ago.

After a complete nightmare, reinstalling steam and FM 6 times, deleting all kinds of shit and downloading and installing all other kinds of shit my FM is now working again, and even my save it still valid somehow, so I can get back to winning promotion in my first season.

And for anyone just starting, sign Febian Brandy, he's mint. 18 goals in 26 games and an average rating of 7.45, 8 MOTM

I signed Febian Brandy on FM2010 in the first season and he was awful for me!

Think i'll wait until i get FM2011.

Has anyone found any bugs with the new one yet?

He was mint for me on FM2010 too, a poacher playing off Neil Mellor,  who was my first signing and played for me for 6 seasons, until I got to the Prem. Became a club legend too.

Or not.

I can start the game but it crashdumps on the first match, within seconds. Fucking shit

Have you reinstalled directx?

Also try windowed mode as well.

Yep.

Will try windowed mode, and may just resort to txt or 2d

Getting bored of swindon now, the board are shit in the game. Wages are shit, get a bit of transfer money but end up having to adjust the budget for more wages, have to rely on frees and loans no one wants to come to me.
Survived my first season in the prem, just went to the wire and did a west ham, im gonna go on holiday for this season se if anything changes

this game is shit, as if it was bad enough with fitton in charge, i was getting money for transfers but shit wages, so had to use the transfer budged for the wages, and was relying to free transfers, good ones at that, then a consortium decides to take over fronted by andrew black, and now im getting neither. all my players are leaving and my team is full of 34 year old has beens. im getting relegated this season

 :(

Swindon are shit in this version, Fitton doesn't ever increase the wage bill or give extra money for transfers....moving on.

Once you get into the prem you will get about 10mil, but no wages.
I got to 2018 (i went on holiday a lot towards the end) and got fed up with not getting any money after andrew black took over so i quit, and now have been offered the man city job

havent got the game yet but will download the demo which will keep me going until pay day! :)

David Prutton sexy football...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Aidi5eDRIE

Prutts got one from 45 yards in one of my games, his long range shooting is very good, Douglas is unstopable and I have turned down bids from Blackburn and Blackpool for him.

How do you play Douglas? I have mixed success using him as a Deep Lying Playmaker and also Box to Box Midfielder.

I always play him as a centrral midfielder with a duty to defend, I have played him as a defensive midfielder and set to defend too and thats pretty effective.

Oh and also, in the first 5 games of this new game I have just started from that position he has actually scored 2 and had 2 assists already!

I sold Charlie Austin to Blackpool for £1.8 million and JPM to Doncaster for £250k and went out and bought Alex Smithies from Hudderfield for £375k and Leigh Griffiths from Dundee for £700k and both have been totally awesome first 7 games Smithies averages 7.2 and Griffiths 8.42 and hes scored 10 goals in 6 games including 2 hattricks, well worth the gamble.

Playing a 4-5-1 very successfully (in the proper game not the demo when it just wouldn't work properly for me)

Joe Keenan is a great LB/CM for £5k from South Melbourne.
Richard Smallwood from Middlesboro for £22k and Tom Boere from Ajax for £40k are great prospects for cheap.

Doing well, won the first 7 games including a 3-1 win over Brum City in the LC.

Found a great little add-on for the game. It adds 700+ lines of new commentary.

http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/236642-%E2%80%A2%E2%80%A2%E2%80%A2-FM-2011-Commentary-Pack-%E2%80%A2%E2%80%A2%E2%80%A2

If you want a direct download - http://www.filefront.com/17509119/FM-2011-Commentary-Pack.rar/

I did notice on mine the other day that it flashed up with a continental style "GOOOOAAAAALLLLLLL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL!". I liked that.

Yeah I just had that one too!

Doing very well, been playing all day and now am sitting 4th after 14 games with 8 wins and 4 defeats scoring 26 goals and conceding 13, area semis of the JPT and into the quarter finals of the LC after beating Birmingham, Sunderland and Stoke at home.

Leigh Griffith has scored 13 in the 18 games.

Anyone know if it is possible for me to play Premier Manager 3 on a mac? I think its a dos game so assume I would have to download something.

Any geeks or non geeks able to assist?

DosBox should do the trick. I presume there's a mac version.

http://www.dosbox.com/

Thanks guys. Got it working! This takes me back to my school days!

I think I played that fairly recently. If I remember the trick is to use your scout (over the phone?) to search for players with really low amounts of handling (fair *+) and then look out for ones with high other stats on 0 years left on their contract. Sign them up on a free.

Or something like that anyway.

Actually that might have been pm 1 or 2.

Good tip, will have a look out for that one. Bit of a problem now in that I don't seem to have a right click option on the mac so I can't change my bloody team!

I'm sure there'll be something in the dosbox config file to set a key as right click. Bit of a pain though!

If I hold down the command button it seems to work.

Anyone else discovered a scouting bug? I've employed a new scout but cannot give him any assignments, and he cant even do scout reports. Thought that maybe I had offered him the wrong contract or somethng so fired him and got someone else but still the same issue

maybe its the board stopping me come to think of it

I'm playing PM2 because swindon are in the premier league.

I must say I am enjoying PM3 more than I enjoyed FM2010. I think its the basicness I enjoy.

You can burn through a season well quick

I don't think Telford were ready for my sexy passing style of play so I'm going to start again with Bath.

Began as Swindon Town in the demo, will get full version to carry on.
Signed ST Stern John (Free), D Gavin Hoyte (on loan from Arsenal), D Andy Hughes (Loan from Leeds), D Joel Ward (16k From Pompey for the future), MF Anthony McNamee (Loan Norwich), ST Fabio Borinin (Loan Chelsea), ST Liam Hnderson (Free Watford for the future)  and a couple of half decent looking trialists on one year contracts to just top the squad up. Tried to sign Demerit he wanted more money and ended up at Barnsley.

Sent Callum Kennedy on loan to Cheltenham.

Anyone know any decent strikers available on frees/ Stern John is doing a job but will he last all season being a pensioner need to look at a striker for the future. Rotherham wouldn’t accept £100K for La Fondre which is a shame.

Only 5 games in but lost to Franchise in Carling Cup on penalties 7-6 GRRR, and 8th in League One, I seem to go through spells of scoring loads but conceeding a few as well, almost true to life.

Omar Koroma is a great free signing.

I've been playing FM10 with a 10/11 season database.  started unemployed and got given a job at shrewsbury.

got promoted 1st season, just missed out on play offs following season and 10 games in top of L1 unbeaten with 8 wins.

don't know if he will be available in the actual FM11 Gaz but Nathan Tyson was available for £275,000 in the 1st season - unstoppable, play him as a tranqualista and change run with ball to often.  if you can get him Bebe on loan is also a good one.

was going to play a career game for once and try to move up the leagues with a few different jobs but once again I have got very fond of my squad and will probably stay with the 'salop' untill i can be bothered to get FM11.

had barry bannan on loan for 3 straight full seasons now, brilliant on the left!

Steve Howard on a season long loan is also very good signing, a brilliant target man, febian brandy is also useful coming off the bench

I solved my own L1 left wing problem with Leon Kantellburg on a free, he's from the Dutch Antilles (sp?).

A succession of loan strikers including Louis Moult and Rhys Murphy done well in short spells for me, and managed to get Adriano Basso on a free, he's decent.

KT where did you get this download?

Ha! This made me smile...

What's the bottom option that we can't see?

Add your own additional comments

Well that's not exciting.

does the add additional comments feature have any impact on gameplay?

Nope. Essentially you tag something onto one of the pre-prepared lines.

I like to add things such as "...because he's a cunt". It amuses my simple mind.

I won in the playoffs to gain promotion to the premier league. Can't work out how to do screen shots on a mac so you'll just have to believe me.

Can't remember exactly but I have the zip folder still - just had a look, this looks to be it:

http://www.4shared.com/file/lORx2QrO/Summer_2010_Update_by_LFCMarsh.html

That's the name i have on the zip folder so must be it, have a look, if it's not i could email you, i could just email you direct anyway if you prefer?

I won the world cup in my first season with swindon. I can't do print shots, you'll just have to believe

I fucking hate having to deal with agents. £15k just to get them to sign a new contract - fuck off!

And the wage demands are stupid. Cuthbert wants £4.5k a week!

Classic goalkeeping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSL3f1HaAyM

I offered him less and he accepted. Just have to be clever with the other parts of the contract.

KT - can you email it to me please?

I know you're all waiting to hear about how my premier manager 1 game is going.

I won the premier league with Wycombe and then broke the game with a variable overflow by buying loads of lower division players and then selling them on for mediocre profit. I went on to the finance screen and it turns out that the screen was broke because it all totalled up to so much.

Shame. I think I could have won the European cup. My team was all 99's anyway.

Into the 5th round of the FA Cup after thrashing Man City 3-1 at the CG in the 3rd and then Wolves 3-2 away in the 4th round.

Ball's loan finished and I got Zavon Hines in as a replacement who's been a revelation and is a averaging 7.93.

why the fuck has scott cuthbert scored 9 goals in 4 games in mine? odd!

In my 3rd season and with some good cheap buys have got myself into the Premiership.

So many good cheap Brazilians out there but work permits are a real bugbear, and Fitton will not expand or even buy the stadium even though I have netted the club many millions in transfer fees so the club is very healthy.

Played a very defensive 4-5-1 counter attacking formation for the first season and a half then ran into trouble around Christmas in the Championship so tried out a new 3 at the back with 5 in midfield and 2 strikers in a control strategy and it worked well in the Championship going on a run of 15 wins in a row, as yet untried at Premier level.

Had some good friendly results already though, beating Juventus and Everton and putting 12 past Cirencester and 8 past Hungerford pre season, just about to launch into the 1st full season in the Prem.

Must be a bug

Blackpool wanted but morrison after 3 games for 600k

Then thrust him straight into the first team and he consequently scored a hat trick against liverpool

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Cant get on with this at all.

13 game run of defeats

Still not been sacked yet though

My Andy King style of management is bringing great success, I can't stop winning in the league, am going well in the FA cup. Out of the league cup and JPT though.

Fuckers have sacked me now. 18 defeats on the spin
Call me Colin Todd

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

in my first season, Only got the demo, getting the full game tonight as cannot wait for Christmas. I am 4th in league One. I am out of the cups though but not bothered. Need a good left back and right back really although I sent Callum Kennedy off to Cirencester and he did well so brought him back into the first team. Looking at a right back from Gills who has 8.26 rating and only costs 14K but came to the end of the demo so no idea if I got him until tonight when I carry on. May need new center back as Cuthbert wants stupid money. Morrison has done ok. Dossevi and Stern John score for fun, Austin not as much. Pericard is pretty shit. Bring it on, cannot wait to carry on this evening!

4th in the league - dicked saints 5-0 away from home
got knocked out

Picked this up the other day and I'm loving it. Currently top of the table level on points with Peterborough. 11 Played, 8 wins and 3 draws. Shipped out Pericard and brought in Steve Howard for £20k. Got Nouble, Chris Wood from West Brom and Havard Nordveit from Arsenal, all on season long loans.

Playing a 4-1-4-1 as follows:

           Lucas

Caddis   Cuthbert   Morrison   Rose

           Nordveit

Nouble  Douglas   Ferry/Prutton  O'Brien

            Wood

Charlie boy isn't getting a look in I'm afraid as I need a proper target man in this formation, playing on the counter with  wingers set to drive crosses into the box and O'brien and Nouble are tearing it up!

Im doing the achievements at the mo, Currently doing the bottom to top english acivement with Ebbsfleet (Get them from BSS -> Prem) And im currently in league 2 with a few ex-Town players, Will Evans, Owain Tudor-Joines, and Hasney Aljofree!

Quality stadium background pack released

http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/216554-FM11-RELEASED-Stadium-Teamscreen-Background-Packs

The current line up I use is

                               David Lucas
Gavin Hoyte  Scott Cuthbert   Sean Morrison  Callum Kennedy

Paul Caddis  Johnathan Douglas  Prutton/Ferry Alan O'Brien

        Stern John     Charlie Austin

SUBS

Phil Smith
Vincent Pericard
Kevin Amankwaah
Prutton/Ferry
Dossevi
Anthony McNamee
Andy Hughes

Got to the Premiership in 3 seasons with Swindon, won the League Cup, finished 5th in the league and Fitton gave me no extra funds for players so I left and became manager of Man Utd!

They should add a mode called "reality mode" with the following modifications...

- Board sells off your best players, and you receive no funds
- Players refuse to sign new contracts
- It's difficult to sign players
- Players you do sign often underperform
- Injury rates increase
- Your team play well and listen during training sessions, then continue to make silly mistakes in matches
- No matter what you do, the fans aren't happy...

I found that when I sold players I only got a very small percentage to spend. I have done a bit of selling just to boost my defence, So had to sell JP McGovern, Timlin, Rose (for small amounts mind except JPM) just to get some money to re-sign Cuthbert although he is stalling now. I have had to rely on free's which I found one striker who is a gem scoreed 8 goals in 6 games on loan at Cheltenham or loan players.

That sounds exactly like my game!

Another slight anomaly is that Fitton in his infinite wisdom sold Dossevi off his own back for £1 million without consulting me, e.g. the board have accepted a bid etc etc.

Then 2 week later in a Board Confidence Update, bearing in mind what has just happened and the fact that I am after 23 games top of the league and havent lost in 10 games.......

To summarise, the board are satisfied with your management of the team.

The departure of Shanon Carmelia from the club has proved to be a very popular decision amongst the fans.

However your decision to let Thomas Dossevi leave the club is regarded by the fans as an abberation.

The club recorded a profit of £1.5 million last month.

FFS.

Sounds just like you're the Swindon manager huh? :P

I keep getting players sent off!!! ARGH

i've worked out what's happening - even if someone's running away from the box and a centreback holds someone back etc even if there are people alongside it's seen as a professional foul.
it's really very fucking annoying

I decided to put together a couple of shortlists.
This is really for people playing with premiership side (maybe i'll do one for lower leagues too)

Shortlist 1 = Youngsters/Wonderkids
The only criteria i have kept to with this is that they are all under 19. These players are the ones that i have come across in games ive played that have developed/are developing into world class players

http://www.mediafire.com/file/0zdsctr9yy1tcvx/djchubbs_youngsters_wonderkids.slf

Shortlist 2 = My Recommendations

No real criteria used here, just players i have come across when playing in the top flight that have really done the business.
I have not included your obvious players (i.e messi/ronaldo/iniesta/terry etc etc)
I have only included player whom i have signed/know can be signed

http://www.mediafire.com/file/nc2ooru23cfyl2n/djchubbs_recommends.slf

These are just my 1st draft, I will be adding to them gradually.

Chubbs

I loaded the 2 shortlists up in my Swindon game and only 3 in the Youngsters and none in the Recommendations are available under "realistic targets"!

Butland, Eyjolfsson and Guillherme.

Butland I have signed and he hits his peak at about 20 then stays there with my training which is about the same level that David Lucas is at for the start of the game.

There are a few crackers in there though -

Crisetig (Man Utd) is awesome after about 3 years.
Babacar (Fiorentina) great finisher.
Labyad (Man Utd) Solid midfielder.
McEachran (Chelsea) fantastic passer in midfield.
De Gea (Athletico Madrid) quality keeper.
Aurier (Lens) get him young while hes cheap hes a stunningly good fullback.

I will add a couple that I found with my extended scouting in my Man City game........

Davit Kakulia - Sfintul (Georgia) young cheap and great potential midfielder.
Darnel Situ - Arsenal - good premiership CB..
Haris Vuckic - Newcastle - turns into a real star in 3 years.
Wendel - Athletico Mineiro good all rounder.
Raufic Guarch - Estudientes (Mexico) one of the best all round strikers.
Sani Emmanuel - My People (Nigeria) see above.

A few of these struggle with work permits early on in the game but all turn into great players inside 4 years with good coaching.

A couple of them are available for next to nothing in fees and wages.

I use a huge datbase with all players loaded from every league so some of these players will not be available on smaller databases.

Haha, Yeah, These are mainly for Top Level teams.

One of my best ones in that list is Babacar...When he hits 25/26 he becomes one of the tops strikers in the game.
Another good player to get early on is Kadlec, He will only cost you 1.5mil and becomes a very good player

I will check out the players you have suggested too.

Cheers

Oh and one more Wonderkid to add to your list (I dont think he was on there) Danny Wilson (no not him!) the Liverpool Centre Back, utterly brilliant inside 2 years but very tempramental and moody and keeps asking for a transfer to move to a bigger club even though I am top of the Premier League with Man City!

Is he not in it? I must have missed him out because you are right, he turns into a hell of a CB.

Sorry Chubbs my mistake I missed him 1st time, yes he is in there, and he does turn into a beast at Centre Back.

:blind as a bat:

why is fitton such a cunt? i get promoted in my first season and sell a few players of which he gives me 25% to reinvest into the team.

then when it comes to the championship expectations he gives me less money than i had to fucking try and survive with

I downloaded the demo the other day, not gonna buy the full version till after exams. First impressions are that it's much more full on than my previous version (08), and i'm not sure if that's going to turn out to be a good thing

I loaded up fm08 the other day. Started a game with Exeter. Won or drew my first few matches before getting beat at home by Torquay. I'd been bigging up the game in the press and was actually angry with my virtual squad and fucking well told them so, both with the in game options and by shouting at my laptop. It was at this point that I decided that I could probably find more emotionally productive entertainment and quit.

Resisted temptation to get hold of fm11 so far.

This is very true, once you get into the prem, he gets quite generous with transfer funds but is still stingy with wage budget so i found myself having to fend off free transfer rejects and the only was i could afford players is to adjust the transfer fund right down to bare minimum.

Ditto.

Eyjolfsson is ace.

whats the furthers anyones gone in a game? i have a game which is in 2028, but havent played it for a while. Some of the regens are mint

in FM2011 I am 11 seasons in so its 2022, I am managing England and almost all my team is a regen team and some of them are stunningly good, good English goalkeeping regens in my game are like rocking horse shit.

I'm up to 2026 in Fm '06... I do play it very slowly though. As in sometimes hours and hours playing no games and just manually scouting, say, every player under 17 in Spain, or Argentina or somewhere. I think the game says I've been playing for over 45 days. I don't know how that stands up against someone playing it at normal speeds. Would be nice to find out if jj or chubbs could tell me what it says please on their longer games. :)

You mean addictiveness rating?

Because I have managed England for the last 5 seasons at the expense of managing a club team (just to get through the years quicker) mine still says "turning your underwear inside out saves on washing" and I am 6 days 12 hours into the game.

Hey Sports Interactive I want my week back!

Oh fuck it, I would have only wasted it anyway!

I normally play 1 day on one save then one day on the next save game etc etc I have 4 ongoing games in various seasons, nope I don't have a life.

I can never do more than one saved game at a time. Too confusing

My Addictiveness rating is 'Sleeping for Sissies'.

My game has just started telling me that my subs are outside of the match squad, so i think i am going to have to leave it for a few hours. I have stopped looking at my addictiveness rating as it depresses me.

My Addictiveness rating didn't look like it would ever change again and then it changed from, "What are humans!" (which annoys the pedant in me) to "You only go on holiday so you can read this message."

I'm on a 152 match unbeaten run at the moment, Chelsea got relegated last season and Carlisle, Grimsby and Doncaster were in the Prem. I had 1 draw, no losses and £1.1B to play with.

Barry does it not get a little boring after going that long with out losing? I usualy get fed up in season 3/4. I have stopped playing FM as it effects my social life to much, its not healthy. My house mate gets home from work starts up his p.c and we dont see him for the rest of the night.   

It does. That's why I can go months and months without playing it, I occasionally get a craving and play it for a month or so then stop again.

I'd enjoy it more if I didn't have to play games though. I enjoy finding the best players and making money. I get off on finding "world-class" players when they're still 15/16/17 and getting them for some compensation then selling them for a loads.

My biggest deal was for my Messi like D/WB/MR (Diaz) who was absolutely unbelievable. He was worth £28.5m as a 20 yr old wonderkid. I sold him at 22 for £91.2m and he only cost £140k compensation from Chilean 2nd division side, Temuco. I had to sell him though as the other right back (Juarez) I had wasn't constantly jaded (I had to send Diaz on 4+ 2 week holidays a season and it fucked me off) and I couldn't carry them both with other youngsters coming through.

I attached some shots to make my e-cock feel bigger, as well as 2 games from the Champions League. The Roma game resulted in a new keyboard being bought. (For obvious reasons.) And I think the Milan game was the one leading up to it. :)

I played a season as Toronto FC in MLS. Did alright actually. Won the MLS Cup (finished third in the league but won the league via the playoffs) Got given a new contract to 2015 after my first season and winning the league. Won manager of the season, Was sitting second in the league in my second season and got sacked??? Seems very bizarre. Apparently it was top or nothing which was odd. Was offered several championship jobs but turned them down to stay in MLS.

Now managing New York Red Bulls in MLS. Took over from Hans Backe and they were 5th now I have them up to 3rd. MLS transfers are very odd, and you have to do drafts and can release players easily enough on a free though by waving them. They have a salary cap which makes signing players difficult. You can have 3 designated players (highly paid players). Managing in the MLS is all about signing players from lower leagues and developing them. Am favourite to manage LA Galaxy now. Understand MLS a lot more now and how it works. Very difficult to hang on to some players. You can swap players with other teams (Trade) or give away draft picks. Have just signed Nick Garcia and Dwayne De Rosario from Toronto FC and am planning on signing a couple more I took there.

Swindon are in the Championship so will apply for that job if it becomes available.

I'm currently managing Sunderland.

First season I finished 7th and won the F.A. Cup which got me the manager of the year award.

Second season I finished 8th and I've only just started the third season but with a nice 5-1 win at Chelsea.

After all the recent manager doom and gloom, how about a nice uplifting story of an ex-swindon manager finally finding work again, although its quite a strange appointment. But with a towering win percentage of 28 I'm amazed he's been out of work for so long. (Its 2014 in the game)

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In other news, Morcambe's boss resigns.

im currently in 2033/34, I am the most decorated manager in history with Sevilla. Recently relocated to a new stadium with has been named "fliski staduim" hahah
The bugs are comming out now, i am unable to retrain player to different positions as i keep getting errors now
Trying to find top notch regens is fucking hard, every single real life player is now retired. im just gonna see how long i go

Dossevi scores a shedload from the right wing for me. Austin can't score for toffee though.

That's what I love most. A good way to find promising talent is keep an eye on all the youngest (U20 I think) south american international teams as well as Italy, Spain, Holland and any other good ones. And whenever you see a 16 year old appear sign them up straight away.

Dunno how it works in 2011, but if a player won't sign as a youngster, try and make them a key player (offer them a new contract once signed, as youngster, and they take it) or add notes set for their 17th birthday. The day they turn 17 they'll sign for anyone so offer them at least double what they ask for and you should steal them away without issue for compo.

Im doing jobs!!

http://steamcommunity.com/id/STFCxCrispy/screenshot/577791198398431675

Holy shit, did they only field Greer?

why is it our shiity badge on 2011? i am still playing 2008, my shit computer cant handle anything else, but i have to leave it for a while or i start to feel like a hermit.

Nope.. Fuck knows what happened! Played them a few weeks later in the league cup and lost 2-0!

My sevilla game crashed in 2049  :-(

Slighty OT, but does anyone know how I can transfer a game from one laptop to another.  I do have a portable hard drive.  It's FM 2008. Ta.

Easiest thing to do is copy the whole Sports Interactive folder that sits in My Documents.

I love the little quirks you get in this game. For example, I acquired Alex Henshall on free transfer from Man City. A season later they bought him back for £3.5m.

I still don't have this.

Think I'll just wait for next season's now.

likewise. still going on fm10, started s game 2 weeks ago, woop!

I've had fm11 for about a month now, and i'm not sure I like it. Games take forever, press conferencesd get tedious very quickly, and setting up tactics seems almost nasa like with the number of different options and such

That was my problem with the last 2 versions of the game. Doesn't seem to be a problem in this one. If you change the match speed during the game it will remember it for next time. Also you can select your assistant to automatically do press conferences in team settings.

My problem is that I need a RAM upgrade

Finding bargain regens in obscure leagues is one of the best bits of the game. I can't run the huge database though so I am missing out on a huge chunk of the goodness.

How much memory have you got in your computer BR?

just the 1 gig

Memory isn't that expensive to upgrade. If you're processor is shit it probably won't make much difference though.

Press conferences and match speed are minor concerns tbh when compared to the baffling complexity of the tactics system

My processor is OK..... 3ghz dual core.

I know ram ain't that pricey, but playing games is not an 'essential' need of mine and is therefore down the list a bit.

Got this friday currently third dossevi is a machine

Just won the League Cup with Swindon whilst 12th place in the Championship  :D beat arsenal in dramatic style, jumped out of my seat when I won, Europe next year for Swindon whilst probably still in the Championship  :clap:

anyone still playing this? just put de vita in swindon team lets see how this goes  :D

I skipped this one, I'll wait for the next (usually about Octoberish innit?)

2011 was put back until early december

I've just got us into the Premiership, and signed a host of 35 year-olds to replace my definitely-nowhere-good-enough-for-the-Prem playoff winning side. New team:

R. Green

Ashley Cole
P. Jagielka
Alex
Faubert

D. Vaughan
Palombo
Diarra/Warnock
Joaquin

J. Elm
M. Fryatt

Bench of: Arnason, Greer (!), Lichaj, K.Andrews, S.Petrov, A.Nicholls, C.McDermott, Mackail-Smith

All XI are frees, except Green was £1.1m, and Vaughan and Fryatt I've had for 2 seasons. Will need to get some younger players in during the Christmas window when I can attract some bigger names, but that's what I've cobbled together so far.

I'm into my 6th season so it must be 2017, my longest ever game.

If your starting a new game try signing 16 yr old Sani Emmanuel from some african club with a weird name who's very cheap.

He will be good enough for a start in league one maybe but a good young backup player.

However give a good few years and he'll be premier league class.

Problem is is getting a work permit, i cant remember if it ws a problem.

My Peoplem, Just put in an offer for him 18k

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/downloads.php?do=file&id=5183

try that link i put a new file on there with uptodate transfers and promotions. i will be releasing another one in a few weeks

Did you manage to sign him??

Im in 2014 now, ive sent him on loan to a couple of clubs and he has a estimated of 5.25m. I brought him for 5k plus incentives  :D

nope his work permit didnt come through  :cry:

You could always use the  in-game edit FMRTE  :toocool:

either that or get an affiliated club in nigeria

newer file released now, swindon nice and updated  :D

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/downloads.php?do=file&id=5261