Football Manager/Worldwide Soccer Manager 2006 Fans

[BBC_]

-If you choose Arsenal who do you normally buy or sell?
-what season are you in?
- what good staff do you have
(I just felt to have a thread about FM)

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[bigp]

I sell Cygan.

Buy Tomas Sivok and Daniel Agger. Sometimes Nicola Zigic.

[BBC_]

I sell Cygan.

Buy Tomas Sivok and Daniel Agger. Sometimes Nicola Zigic.
First two are good bargain Buys. Agger at only 1million

[Teso Dos Bichos]

What are your finances like at the start?

[ArsenalTexan3]

What are your finances like at the start?


I had 24 million Quid to start with.

Went and bought Kompony, Donovan, and some other fill in players plus a good number of youth players.

[BBC_]

I had 24 million Quid to start with.

Went and bought Kompony, Donovan, and some other fill in players plus a good number of youth players.

Your not serious are you? lol

[Cannon]

Your not serious are you? lol
Donovan and DMB were pretty highly rated in FM05. I had both on my team at various clubs. Not top quality but good squad players at a club like Arsenal. Haven't looked at them yet in FM06 though.

[KevTheGooner]

Went and bought ...Donovan.

Did he move back to California yet? ;)

[Teso Dos Bichos]

Yeah, you Arsenal fans must love bottlers. :D

[TheImposter]

As I've said elsewhere, I usually play LLM, but decided to play an Arsenal game precisely to see how the finances went as we moved into the new stadium. My transfer budget has generally been in the 13-15 mil range, but then sometime in August the board usually makes extra transfer funds available. When my contract comes up for renewal I usually take the option with the highest transfer budget, as I'm always way below the wage limit they set.

I bought Mahamadou Diarra right out of the gate, and he's been solid but unspectacular. Tried like hell to get Kompany and DeJong from the beginning, but lost out to Liverpool on Kompany, and after a couple years finally got Ajax to agree to an exorbitant fee for DeJong, but he refused to come. I did have Donovan for a year or so, and he had a knack for scoring key goals. Sold him for a tidy profit to Everton or somebody like that. I bought Marouane Chamakh as a target type guy, and he's kept pace with Henry, both of them scoring about 35 to 40 goals a year. I'm now in April 2010. I've won the League Cup twice, the FA Cup twice, the League twice, and finally won the CL last year -- just got roundly bounced out by B Munich this year. I'm currently 3 points out of first with a game in hand -- I've got the best attack and best defence in the league, but every time I'm about to overtake Chelsea and 'Pool I'll lose to somebody like Lincoln (who just came up this year).

One of my beefs about the CM/FM series is that fatigue is unrealistic -- nobody can play 2 full matches a week except keepers and defenders without dipping into the 80s at kickoff for the second match -- so I've gone for depth rather than huge splashy signings. My current lineup looks something like this:

Chamakh----Henry

Reyes/Ben Arfa------Hleb/Cesc-----Barreto/Govou

Mascherano/Diarra

Evra----Senderos (c)----Kolo----VandenBorre
Frey (with Akinfeev now pushing him hard)

On the bench I've got RvP, S. Kalou, Hubschmann, Clichy, Tevez, and a bunch of squad players. Tevez I bought as a replacement for Henry, but TH14 shows no signs of slowing down -- at 33 (I think) he's still scoring tons of goals (though he's kind of streaky now, and disappears for long periods), and all my coaches assure me that he has his best years ahead of him. Bendtner developed very nicely, but just as he was breaking into the first team he got pissy about playing time, and I got Everton to pay well above his value. We just played them in the league, and VandenBorre broke his (Bendtner's) leg. I keep saying I'm going to resign at the end of the season and take a job with a lower club, but I just can't tear myself away yet.

[Teso Dos Bichos]

Akinfeev now pushing him hard

How much did you get him for and how much did Kompany move for in your game?

[TheImposter]

How much did you get him for and how much did Kompany move for in your game?
I signed Akinfeev at the end of his contract, but had to pay a pre-determined fee of 4.1GBP, I guess because he was a young player developed by another club? I didn't really get it, but he turned down Juve and Inter to come to me on a contract labeled "rotation". One of those clubs had had a higher bid rejected while he was still under contract, which seems kind of unrealistic to me -- he had been rejecting his club's new contract offers for a couple years. I don't remember Kompany's fee -- I want to say it was in the neighborhood of 7 mil, but it was several years ago. I know both my and Liverpool's offers were accepted, but he wanted to go there.

[ArsenalTexan3]

Your not serious are you? lol


I am and no he has not become home sick. Funny thing is I boiught him for only 7 million.

Oh forgot to mention I was able to convinve Bergkamp to stay for another few years and told him to get his ass on the damn plane. :D

[BBC_]

I want to experiment and sell Henry(also I can get my best price because of his age) and Reyes at the Beginning of my new game. am I mad? lol

[Cannon]

I want to experiment and sell Henry(also I can get my best price because of his age) and Reyes at the Beginning of my new game. am I mad? lolI've sold JAR plenty of times. I've got some crazy offers for him and used the money to buy a few great players for the price of one. However, I've never sold Henry.

[BBC_]

I've sold JAR plenty of times. I've got some crazy offers for him and used the money to buy a few great players for the price of one. However, I've never sold Henry.
ok.cool

[TheImposter]

I've sold JAR plenty of times. I've got some crazy offers for him and used the money to buy a few great players for the price of one. However, I've never sold Henry.
I have never had any offers for big players, and none of them have ever made any noise about leaving. I part-exchanged Cole for Tevez because Ajax were interested in him, but hadn't made an offer, and lots of clubs were coming after Clichy, who wasn't playing at all (with Evra having displaced Cole), so I decided to cash in on Cole and give Clichy a new contract. I have people all the time wanting to loan Sol, Hubschmann, Gilberto (who I finally sold), Mannone, always my marginal players. I think Donovan was actually my biggest sale in the game, through 5 years so far. Oh, and I remember now it was Werder Bremen he went to -- back to Germany, LOL!

Reyes has been a very interesting player -- he almost never scores, but is one of my highest rated guys. I play him on the left wing, where he creates all kinds of havoc, wins MOM awards, and is described as causing problems for the defense with his pace and creativity. He's finally figuring regularly for Spain. RvP had an awesome first year, matching Henry goal for goal. But since I brought in Chamakh, who I figured as a plan B guy but who is now the one scoring as many goals as Henry, RvP has been more peripheral. Robin never complains about playing time (no one has, except Bendtner), but if I say something nice about another manager he'll have a PR in which he wishes I had more ambition. The one time I slagged somebody (Jol) he had a PR where he figured that "he and his manager will make a good team both on and off the pitch".

[splara10]

Not sure if this is Kangaroo Court worthy, but I never manage Arsenal in CM/FM - I'm too superstitious to manage them. Stupid/silly I know, but true.

I started a game with Liverpool when FM05 came out, and have managed them to 5 straight Prem titles, 3 Champs League titles and 1 each of the FA and Carling Cups. I think I'm up to 2011 in the game.

Big signings for me have been:

Deisler from Bayern
Van Der Vaart
Kompany
Vanden Borre
Mascherano
Ledley King
Carlos Tevez
Ibrahimovic

[BBC_]

I've sold JAR plenty of times. I've got some crazy offers for him and used the money to buy a few great players for the price of one. However, I've never sold Henry.
Cannon? Whats the Highest and Lowest you've got for Jar if you can remember. Just so I know how much I should be getting for him

[ArsenalTexan3]

Trying to get rid of gilberto. Flamini has had a better season and has been called up to the France NT side(as oppose to the U-21).

Also have a load of players who are coming on free during the summer. Now to get ballack to sign with me.