Football Manager 2011

[Peter Venkman]

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.

[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

[Peter Venkman]

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!

[Chubbs]

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.

[Peter Venkman]

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:

[Bennett]

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

[Bogus Dave]

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

[flammableBen]

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.

[Chubbs]

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

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.

[Peter Venkman]

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.

[santasdead]

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.

Eyjolfsson is ace.

[Chubbs]

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

[Peter Venkman]

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.

[Barry Scott]

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.

[Peter Venkman]

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.