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What's New With Football Manager 2009?

On September 3rd 2009, an official Sports Interactive video revealed that a number of feature changes have now been made for inclusion with Football Manager 2009. The game will be released on November 14th 2008 and the following are officially features that will now be present with FM 2009:

- There will now be in-game Assistant Manager feedback providing information about player motivation, and general feedback about tactics; how your tactics are working, how they could be improved, and what you can do to exploit the tactics of the oppostion.

- An improved press element will now be present in the game.

- Transfer rumours will now be spread - some will be made up, others however will be entirely accurate.

- For the first time ever Press Conferences have been added to the game. Press Conferences will be held before and after matches, and also when you first become manager of a new club. Interview answers will need to be carefully considered as they may later come back to haunt you; journalists will remember what you say and potentially use your answers against you at a later date.

- You will be able to request that your players learn special moves. Sometimes it will work, others it will not. It's another excellent way of grooming new talent (and old talent alike) and readying players for fantastic first team action.

- When you begin the game you can play as a female manager. As there are a percentage of female gamers that play the game, this change has been implemented to allow you to choose your sex at the start of your career.

- The board confidence feature has been improved.

- There will be 350 000 players and staff included in the database.

- The user interface has been modified. Widescreen support has been added for the first time ever.

- The transfer system code has been completely rewritten, the shortlistings feature has been improved to be far more efficient and accurate.

- There will now be a 3D Match Engine for all those that wish to use it. The 2D engine will still be available to use if you'd prefer it/your computer is not strong enough to run the 3D engine; a 3D engine has been worked on for the past 3 years however and SI are now fully confident that this feature will be faultless.

- Whilst watching the game you'll be able to rewind the action to watch highlights whenever you want.

- There will now be a 'TV View' when playing matches so that the match action takes over the full screen and it's therefore easy to see what's going on on-field. You'll be able to use the old panel display if you'd prefer, or you can choose to use the TV View and choose exactly which information you wish to be displayed on screen (player ratings etc.).

canny friggin wait.

anyone catch page 45 of Sunday's Oserver Sport Monthly? article about being addicted to FM while being the manager of Swindon Town.

Ha Ha Champ Managers better.

Ha Ha Champ Managers better.

Fuckin'ell, I ain't finished 2008 yet.

AFAIK, Football Manager will never have the club badges etc. because they down have the rights or licenses.

Anyone d/l this yet? Im working so cant

If so whats it like?

Would it work on my laptop?

Specs are:

CPU Intel Celeron M 450 (2.00 GHz)
BIOS Phoenix BIOS. Press F2 to enter
Chipset Mobile Intel 945GM Express
Memory 1GB DDR2 533MHz PC2-4200 SODIMM (2x 512MB) ****
Hard Drive 100GB
CD Drive Dual layer DVD±RW
Screen 15.4" TFT WXGA (1280x800)
Video Card ATI Radeon Xpress 200M (256MB shared) **
Sound Card Realtek High Definition Audio
Modem Agere 56k *
Network Card Realtek RTL8139/810x
RaLink RT2561/RT2661 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN ***
PC Card 1 x ExpressCard/54 slot (also supports ExpressCard/34)
Ports 1x Microphone
1x Headphone
1x VGA
3x USB 2.0
1x Kensington Lock
1x LAN
1x Modem *
Battery Simplo SQU-528. Battery life approx 1.5hrs
Dimensions 36 x 357 x 266 (HxWxD in mm)
Colour Grey/Black
Weight 2.7kg
Made By Quanta PL5C

Except i upgraded the ram to 2gb.

Its just i dont want to d/l it for fuck all

Obvioulsy not.

I'd imagine any laptop will struggle to run the 3D engine, you just can't get that kind of visual processing power in a laptop.

what do you think of the 3d match engine?

Laptops aren't really meant for games.

I think there should have been an option to have a 2d or 3d match engine. this would enable it to work on most PC's

i downloaded it and the speed of the game was awful. and whenever i tried to type something into the press conferences iiiitttt aaalllwwwaaayyysss cccaaammeee uuuuppp llliiikkkeeee ttthhhhiiiisssss

for some reason about 3 games into pre-season of the second season, the game cuts out.

for some reason about 3 games into pre-season of the second season, the game cuts out.

i just signed collins john on a free aswell.

Yet I replaced all my backroom staff with 10 coaches (using the assistant manager flaw)

Are you using a cracked version?

how can you sign Owen on more than what your wage budget is?!

the minute i go near my wage budget it limits what i can afford to key players being offered approx £500pw.

They should make a version of FM where you just sit back and watch it win every game for you. That would be the aceness.

it's a tactic which was built into a game which i adapted and i'm sure others will do the same. i don't call that cheating

This is doing my head in now.

I started of blindingly with a 442 formation, but now I am doing utter shite and can't seem to find a formation that suits my squad.

I might set up a second game with the 'sugar daddy' option to relive my fustration.

Try Magics 442 formation, I have tested it for 6 games with only 1 defeat and 5 wins, but I am tinkering around with it as we speak to accomodate 3 centre backs and 5 accross midfield.

If the are competing OF then no.

But otherwise plenty of 'chats' will be had.

do you think that 'real life' managers tell each other their exact formations, tactics and individual player instructions?

I have to agree with BR 100% on this.

I managed to create a fairly decent tactic, then spent about 10 games tinkering with it and it's gone downhill.

I don't think my players are good enough to give too many individual instructions to. I suppose that's realistic for league one.

Righty.......

So I am play-off contenders, and my next match is at home to Yeovil who are all but relegated. I lose 1-0.

Thinking that something ain't right I close the game without saving and so I play Yeovil again to try to figure it out, only this time I turn the attacking stats much higher and I get this:

[url width=800 height=600]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v490/jamiethon/yeovil.jpg[/url]

So for now I am going by the theory that I have been too cautious at home, especially against the lower teams.

What's next is to figure out the better teams, should I still go gung-ho?

Weird

Is that vincent in midfield??!

Br, i think that is what is known as cheating.

What's the point in FM if you are going to cheat?

Close-season expenses? Obivously you don't generate any income in May, June and July.

I have just been offered the nigeria job. I rejected it.  8)

I have just been offered the nigeria job. I rejected it.  8)

Bizarre, I just managed to sign Robbie Fowler on absolute pittance.

Re-install it.

porn ?

question though: during matches my assistant almost always advises me that the gap between my defence and midfield is too big, and the gap between my midfield and strikers is too big also. how do i correct this?

question though: during matches my assistant almost always advises me that the gap between my defence and midfield is too big, and the gap between my midfield and strikers is too big also. how do i correct this? do i need to correct this? i play with the slider half way between wide and narrow, and half way on defence pushing up.

This is doing my fucking nut in now.

I finish 10th in the Championship, strengthen my squad an am looking forward to a play-off push the next season.

So I start the new season, I can't play for shit, I can't pass and I am rock bottom after 6 games without a win.

Meh!.

Why did you download the Malpas patch ?

after a string of games where i got nowhere with swindon, liverpool, lillestrom, qpr, southampton and tried to make my own tactics, i decided to go for easy mode and downloaded some tactics and am playing as inter.

just won serie a with four games to go. in all competitions i've p47, w41, d4, l2.

it's quite fun :-)

I think that I may do the same, download a tactic that it.

jvc65 can go on all he likes about cheating ect. but it just ain't no fun when you are constantly playing shite and you have no idea why.

i don't see the big deal in cheating in single player games, you're not ruining it for anyone else.

the tactic i'm using is this one (http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=64672).

I survived my first Premiership season by the skin of my teeth, finishing in 17th. Now in my second season with a better squad I'm managing to do worse, and after 6 games lie bottom having only scored 1 goal! Every time I change tactic it just gets worse!

i give my first team players a rest after most matches, but its pretty excruciating right-clicking each of them to do so. there must be a quick way to do it?

on older versions there was a tick box in manager options for 'rest players the day after a match', which would be a start, but i think they've removed that?

can you answer my question please

for the whole squad? or matchday squad? i'll have a hunt

i had a look and i dont think there's a quick way to do it, you have to click each player.

I haven't changed my tactics

Every game I play, my central midfielders get awful average ratings, no matter what their stats and no matter how well the team plays. Is this normal?

I can't get a decent performance from my AMC either. I have tried 4 or 5 different players here and all of them average around 6. I have loaned in youngsters from Premiership clubs but nobody seems to play well. A tad annoying and I think it is hindering my team making progress.

i had the same problem until I recently set my AMC as the playmaker, since then he has given me me 7-8 performances for the last four games.

cheers ironside i'll give that a go

could be the problem? give it a bit of a change.

Every game I play, my central midfielders get awful average ratings, no matter what their stats and no matter how well the team plays. Is this normal?

http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=94007 (http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=94007)
I've been having the same problem, but I think SI are aware of the problem.  Should hopefully be fixed in the next patch which is due out mid-Feb

Had a bit of a nightmare in my first season, got relgated with a squad I thought was more than capable, got promotion straight away with 100 points and 100+ goals.  3rd season I struggled to start with but went on a storming run and could have been in the play-offs with 2 games to go.

4th season was a dream, got promotion no problem, 5th season managed to survive in CCC signing some real gems.  Final whistle went for the final game and I was sacked - that's gratitude...

How can you get relegated and not get sacked and I get sakced for being safe in mid-table and getting to the final of the Windscreen wipers! Not fair!

maybe u told the board u would win the title at the start of the season

JVC could have a valid point.

I always tend to understate my ambitions to the board at the beginning of the season, and so they always end up happy when I over achieve.

Br you've got two wing backs, get those arrows in for forward runs!!

Br you've got two wing backs, get those arrows in for forward runs!!

try setting his attack status lower. he might not have enough space and might not be able to receive the ball.

what's the new patch like? does it change the gameplay at all?

In my experience it's all in the team instructions. In my early years i used to be to tempted to give lots of individual instructions to players and do things like, give players with 20 for long shots, long shooting often. But in reality i've discovered it's best to base my team around a system, in my case through balls and short passing.

So i set all midfield players to through balls often, set all of my back 4 to passing direct, have mid wingers in a 442, with forward runs often, mids with forward runs in the middle and closing down often. With regard to defending/attacking apart from the strikers (set to first click attack) i set all the other players mentality by team instructions. This way my full backs over lap alot when i set the team to attacking and stay back when set to defend. The same is true of the midfield.I also use tight marking, set 2 target men, with the instructions for supply as run onto ball. I've scored over 130 goals so far this season, with 3 strikers on 25+. I've been using pretty much the same formation for 11 seasons, i just tweak it every game and 4 or 5 times per game. I am playing 2006 though... :)

Have started a game and tinkered about using this formation. So far have won all my pre-season games including beating Supermarine 7-0. We'll see how this goes when the season starts for proper!

Kermit wouldn't sign for me kept having his work permit refused....tried 3 times in 2 years to sign him so I gave up.

aaaaaaaaaaaaargh what a massive bag of cock, i'm in 10/11, currently 2nd in the league with 5 games to go, and i just lost the piss-poor paint pot on penalties to sheff weds. bumsticks!

ohh what skin is that? yes i did chuckle when i found him a few versions ago, im currently trying to sign oh bum seok from south korea.

Back to my town team i was given 12mil to avoid relegation, so many premiership players are going on a free, due to expired contracts, i negotiate contracts with most of them but then a more esta blished team pips me.
I have managed to pick up the following players on free though
Andy Carol from Newcastle
Braulio from Zaragoza (shocked he came)
Brian Howard
Charlie Mulgrew
Jo (again shocked, he wanted 40k a month i offered him 21k and he's accepted, just waiting for a work permit)

Now im spending the 12mil and revamping 1/2 the squad.

I signed Waldo Ponce and hes a real class act for Swindon in the Championship

u mean 4-1-4-1

FB, are you playing FM 1986?

1984

McKenna from spurs on loan is a good RB.

All these players on international duty:

And I still have to play? Surely that must be a glitch.

right, this might be a stupid question, but where does it show the clubs stadium capacity? i thought it was on the 'club info' screen, but its not :? any ideas?

All these players on international duty:

[url width=800 height=600]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v490/jamiethon/int.jpg[/url]

And I still have to play? Surely that must be a glitch.

You dislike English players mate? youu got about 3 tops :D

Actually I am the same, English players that are good and cheap don't come round often.

ok, another question, has anyone here downloaded the 'huge player database'? i've downloaded it, but where the hell does it go? :P

coz the english players are shit with exeption of a few, and those few soct an arm and a leg, just had to pay 10mil for andrew driver, and he's not even been capped yet at 23, same goes for joe mattock, 5mil at 18 years old.

But you cheated?

And you're not using your own tactics. I count that as cheating.

chelsea always rinced everyone on that game, SI overestimated Abramovich's cashflow to the club, they always ended up spending about 100+m a season on average players.

New update is available today:

http://weegie.fmupdates.net/

really? its unusual for SI to bring out an update so close to the release of the new one.

That's because you have to search for players/clubs etc.

the weegie update is one of the best out there. its where i get mine from

Errrrr, if you're doing what I think, you're a fucking fool.




Are you searching on the personnel or club tab? :D me thinks you're searching the former... :D

the new fm demo should be out soon surely...

according to the SI games forum they aint doing on this year

according to the SI games forum they aint doing on this year