Your team in FM08

Red-Devil

Real Madrid - STRICTLY ROTATION

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ROBINHO

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ROBBEN-

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SNEIJDER

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GUTI

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HEINZE

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SERGIO RAMOS

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Regulars - Raul, Diarra, Metzelder, Gago, Julio Baptista, Drenthe

Bought - Benzema (Lyon), David Villa (Valencia), Barzagli (Palermo)

Won all games so far!

besty

Do you concede many?

Red-Devil

No not too many. A usual score for me is 3-1. I beat Barcelona 6-2 which shows how the persuasive attacking trio of David Villa, V Nistlerooy, Benzema or Raul pays off. Ive won 11 on the trot now (season games), havent drawn or lost any it seems to be working. I would not advise using that 3-4-1-2 formation with many teams because it really only works with teams with lots of talent. I think that the progressive attacking structure is the reason why teams dont get a chance to attack my 3 man defence.

Lafortezza

I conceded 11 goals in the league with Barce in the most recent season.

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Valdes

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Alves----M Richards----Millito

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Bale

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Lucas

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Fabregas----Xavi

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Ronaldinho

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Etoo or Bojan

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Rotation: Puyol/Chalme/Taye Taiwo/Breno

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Zapater/Toure/DosSantos---Vela/N'Gog.
84 games unbeaten, no reloads.

flyswatter

I'm deciding what new game to start at the minute. I think I'll go for something more challenging than Real or Barca..............

Lafortezza

French league is good, I've got a second game running as Marseille, the league isn't too difficult but competing in Europe is tough. Biggest problem is holding on to your star players.

Red-Devil

I started off with a very challenging side.. Celta Vigo. After a while I got a good feel of the team and with difficulty got them promoted. Its always fun playing with a lower division team and bringing them up.

Pat Short

Restarted game with Liverpool on sat.

Although some players need sold and replaced i've had no problems so far with

Reina
Finnan Hobbs Carra Riise
Gerrard Masch Alonso
Huntalear Crouch Torres#

Hope to replace all starting XI except
Hobbs
Gerrard
Masch
Hunt
Torres

TheDoc

totenham in first season, did well in europe and cups, currently 3rd in league with few games to go

GK: paul robinson
LB: Bale
RB: paul staleri
CB: ledley king
CB: michael dawson
DM: Ever banega
DM: Jermaine jenas
AMC: Rafeal van der vart
AMR: Georgio wijnaldum
AML: Alex
FC: Darrent bent

Rotation of strikers
boromir kastidanov
berbatov
kikan fonsesca


I'm tweaking tactics cause i do have a devastating team that isnt really doing as well as i would like, not banging in goals like they should

also have jack hobbs and ezequel garay on the way

besty

Celtic, 3rd Season:

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Boruc

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Wilson---Breno----Kennedy--Santococcino (youth,sp?)

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Kaboul

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Brown

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Nakamura

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-Adu

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Duff--

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Vennegor of Hesselink

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Devestating team. Have a good crop of youngsters on the bench and coming through the ranks too, e.g. Evander Sno, Jack Hobbs etc. I want to think about bolstering my striking options but am finding it very difficult to attract a big name star to the club. E.g. Walcott keeps rejecting his Arsenal contract renewal but not a hope of him accepting a bumper contract from me!!!

kaimera

I tinkered a bit with my db before starting with York [ie. I added myself into their CM]

Ha>< I know but I wanted a bit of craic before I started a season for serious.

westhamtilidie

im west ham

i won league twice in row and cup once

Gk Francisco Guillermo Ochoa 11mil America (Mex) Amazing
Dr Dani Alves
DL Giorgio Chielleni 10mil transfer by request
DC Carragher Free Out Of Contract
DC Micah Richards £30mil Worth It
MC Arouca 10mil Fluminese BARGAIN
MC Gerrard 30mil Liverpool Not Worth It
MC FAbregas 35mil Worth It
AML Jeremy Menez 10mil Bargain
AMR Ronaldinho 14.5mil out of favour and was transfer listed by request bargain!!!
FC Christian Benitez 4mil Audax Italion (dont qoute spelling) Biggest bargain of the lot!!!!!!!!

SUBS
GK Rob Green
DR Valon Behrami 25mil waste of money
Dc Anton Ferdinand good
FC Bojan Free not good at start but will become quality
AMR Giovanni Dos Santos Free out of contract i think he is better than bojan!

DSB

Derby County
GK Lewis Price
DR Joey O'Brien
DL Martin Cranie
DC Claude Davis
DC Andy Todd
RW Giles Barnes
LW Stephen Hunt
MC Miguel
MC Tomas Sivok
FC Kevin Davies
FC Kenny Miller

Subs
Stephen Bywater
Robert Earnshaw
Guilherme Siqueira
James McEveley
Matt Richards

Starting second season. Finished 17th in first season, stayed up by a point.

Red-Devil

Celta Vigo - Central Destruction

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JORGE

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RODRIGO FABRI

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VITOLO

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LEQUI

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ESTEBAN

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Regulars - Jesus Perera, Guayre, Contreras, George Lucas, Manchev

Bought - Rodrigo Fabri (Paulista)

Diego Costa, Canobbio and Vitolo are my best players.

Peyton Manning

Spurs, just into January in my first season. 3rd in the table, out of the league cup but won my first 4 games in the Uefa Cup group stage

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Berbatov is on fire, despite a 2 month layoff. 14 goals in 11 games. Kaboul has 7 goals after I perfected the art of scoring corners while fiddling about it with my tactics. Lescott, Woodgate and Hutton have a lot of goals because of this. Bale is top of the assists chart with 9 assists.

kramerica

Heres my Nottm Forest team, just finishing up the 2010/11 season, my 2nd in the Prem after successive promotions! Finished 14th last year and lost FA Cup final, this year knocked Barca out of the UEFA Cup but Spurs did me 6-2 in the last 16, bah...8 games left, 7th in the league, go on you Tricky Trees!

GK: Joe Hart
DL: Julio Arca
DR: John Halls (ex Crewe)
DC: Julio Cesar Caceres
DC: Andrei Cordos
DM: Ever Banega
MC: Julian De Guzman
MC: Stephen Ireland
AMC: Daniel Montenegro
AMC: Luis Jimenez
FC: Branimir Kostadinov

Subs: Sinan Bolat (GK), Michael Rigione (DC), Kelvin Wilson (DC), Jamie Adams (DM), Theo Janssen (MC), Chris Cohen (MC), Jonathon Perreira (AMC/FC), Tim Matavz (FC)

Play mix of 4-3-2-1, 4-3-1-2 & 4-1-3-1-1 depending on opposition...

Pat Short

Started from the beginning again with the patch download.

Chelsea in first season,

GK: cech
LB: Cole
RB: Beletti
CB: Terry
CB: Carvalho
MC: Essien
MC: Mikel
AMC: Lampard
AMR: Higuain
AML: Aimar
FC: Drogba

As i say only started the game again so am midway through season.
Come the end of the season hoping to sell
Carvalho
Belletti
Mikel
Anelka
and a few more subs.

Players to come in
Zaccardo -RB
Villa - Valencia
Ramos - DRC
and promote a few reserves.

besty

My Celtic team has graduated a bit after making some sales, e.g. McGeady - Liverpool for £9m.

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Gelson Fernandes

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Scott Brown---Banega

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Adu/Duff--

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Vennegor----Lita

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Not actually working that well for me so might revert to four at the back and one up front. I'm not happy with my central midfield and am looking for a top class attacking midfielder for the Scott Brown position to score goals and someone in the Iniesta/Fabregas mould for the other position to create. Any (realistic) suggestions?

MrJoeSoap

Midway through my first season with Basel in Switzerland. 14 points clear after 18 games going into the winter break, thanks to unlimited loan signings from French sides. Recalled a striker worth 600k from loan and sold him on during the winter break for €7.25 which should allow me strengthen about two or three positions. I've signed Luizao, the young Brazilian centre-back and have a few more coming in the summer. I've also invested heavily in some quality 16/17 year olds for the future.

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Fofana

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N'Daw

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Streller

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Gomis

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Bench: Melli, Fernando Couto, Josse, Malick, Erding, Degen, Carlitos

SantryRed

I'm Watford and just finished my 3rd season.Slowly making me way up to European places. Finished 10th in the Prem this season.

My team is:

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****tu

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Distin

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McCartney



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Ponzio

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Mvuemba

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Murphy

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Harewood

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Henderson

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Subs:Poom, Sadler, Bromby, Mariappa, Eustace, Williamson, Smith, Ellington


Harewood was a great buy for only 3mil. Hm and Henderson got 35 goals betwee them in the season just gone.

The future's bright.:D

SantryRed

SantryRed wrote: »

I'm Watford and just finished my 3rd season.Slowly making me way up to European places. Finished 10th in the Prem this season.

My team is:

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Lee

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****tu

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Distin

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McCartney



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Ponzio

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Mvuemba

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Murphy

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Harewood

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Henderson

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Subs:Poom, Sadler, Bromby, Mariappa, Eustace, Williamson, Smith, Ellington


Harewood was a great buy for only 3mil. Hm and Henderson got 35 goals betwee them in the season just gone.

The future's bright.:D

Whoops, player with the *** is Sh1ttu.:p

DSB

DSB wrote: »

Derby County
GK Lewis Price
DR Joey O'Brien
DL Martin Cranie
DC Claude Davis
DC Andy Todd
RW Giles Barnes
LW Stephen Hunt
MC Miguel
MC Tomas Sivok
FC Kevin Davies
FC Kenny Miller

Subs
Stephen Bywater
Robert Earnshaw
Guilherme Siqueira
James McEveley
Matt Richards

Starting second season. Finished 17th in first season, stayed up by a point.

Got relegated by a point in my second season. About to start my Championship campaign with the following first team.

GK Lewis Price
DR Joey O'Brien
DL Guilherme Siqueira
DC Claude Davis
DC Martin Cranie
RW Jorge Martinez
LW Stephen Hunt
MC Miguel
MC Bruno Formigoni
FC Kevin Davies
FC Kenny Miller

Subs:
Graeme Smith
Danny ****tu
Matt Richards
Tomas Sivok
Robert Earnshaw

Edit: Season started badly, couldn't get out of midtable, my job status was very insecure, so I resigned and am now at Darlington hoping to get out of League 2. Won't post my team as Pawel Abbott, and Michael Foley Sheridan would be the only really well known players

andrewie

Into the third season with Man Utd. Won quadruple in first season and the league in the second.

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Ferdinand

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Vidic

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Carrick

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Anderson

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Ronaldo

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Subs:Van Der Sar, Pique, J Evans, Nani, Hargreaves, Benega, Tevez.

Kardec was an absolute bargain at £5.5 million. Only in Decemeber and he already has 19 goals in the league. First season he was named best signing.

ChumpStain

After 6 seasons of building a footballing dynasty at Boro I left to make Real a force in football again. But they should've been already, they had a class team. But in my third season in 2015 looks like this:

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Ramos---Barzagli

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Longhi(Regen)---Corvino(Regen)

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Maslov(Regen)

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C.Ronaldo

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Rossi

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Robinho

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Bojan

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Subs: Buenida(Regen I think), Cahais, Garay, Mauri(Regen), Benega, Raul, Guillherme

Best part is Atletico and Villareal went into administration so Rossi and Benega were free, as was Bojan but that was just cos Barca were blind to his devinity! Maslov cost £27m, Longhi £35m, Corvino £5.5m, Mauri £32m

~Marky~

You got Bojan for free :eek: I always try to buy him and he never goes to me no matter how much I offer.

leninbenjamin

~Marky~ wrote: »

You got Bojan for free :eek: I always try to buy him and he never goes to me no matter how much I offer.

in the 3 games i've played, Bojan has always been up for a free at some stage. it's a bit weird. unfortunately he would never come to my teams though.

Tusky

Ive just started my first game and am having serious trouble signing players. Whats the best way to go about it ? Also, how do I see transfer listed players and free players ?

I'm playing as Liverpool.

leninbenjamin

Tusky wrote: »

Ive just started my first game and am having serious trouble signing players. Whats the best way to go about it ? Also, how do I see transfer listed players and free players ?

I'm playing as Liverpool.

good scouts are a must. 18 plus in judging player potential and player ability. send them all over the place and just scout anyone and everyone.

to see transfer listed by going into Squad, then on the left there will be a tree. Click search, player search, then up on the top right hand corner somewhere there will be the "filters" button. click it and go into customise, then just add he filters you want. you can do the same for scouting staff etc. for liverpool though it's unlikely you'll find anyone up to the standards needed through transfers lists and free players.

Tusky

leninbenjamin wrote: »

good scouts are a must. 18 plus in judging player potential and player ability. send them all over the place and just scout anyone and everyone.

to see transfer listed by going into Squad, then on the left there will be a tree. Click search, player search, then up on the top right hand corner somewhere there will be the "filters" button. click it and go into customise, then just add he filters you want. you can do the same for scouting staff etc. for liverpool though it's unlikely you'll find anyone up to the standards needed through transfers lists and free players.

Well Bojan would be a welcome addition..!

I blew all my transfer funds on Quaresma and Rafinha. It was almost at transfer deadline and I hadnt managed to buy anyone so splashed 25m on quaresma, 15m upfront and 10 over 2 years.

andrewie

~Marky~ wrote: »

You got Bojan for free :eek: I always try to buy him and he never goes to me no matter how much I offer.

He came up for free today and I offered him 92k a week with over 10k for scoring. He chose Juve for 40k a week

besty

andrewie wrote: »

He came up for free today and I offered him 92k a week with over 10k for scoring. He chose Juve for 40k a week

Which club were you managing? In my experience, generally managing Manchester United, Barca players are nigh on impossible to sign. Often the offers are accepted but the players have no intention of joining - how odd.