[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)

btw FM/WSM Fans

FM 2006 and WSM 2006 Patch 6.0.2 is now available, for both PC and Mac.

http://www.sigames.com/downloads.php?type=view&id=365

Available mirrors for FM PC 6.0.2 patch as follows:

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http://www.fmdanmark.dk/index.php?pageId=27&id=42

http://www.sortitoutsi.net/getfile.p...wnload&id=5975

and Mind Compression Brought out the Save Game Editor today
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[bigp]

I sell Cygan.

Buy Tomas Sivok and Daniel Agger. Sometimes Nicola Zigic.

[BBC_]

Originally Posted by bigp

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]

Originally Posted by Teso Dos Bichos

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_]

Originally Posted by ArsenalTexan3

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]

Originally Posted by BBC_

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]

Originally Posted by ArsenalTexan3

Went and bought ...Donovan.

Did he move back to California yet?

[Teso Dos Bichos]

Yeah, you Arsenal fans must love bottlers.

[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.