Football Manager 07

I brought a guy Alexandr Geyrinth. Uzbekistani international and really stil young to my knowledge scored a good amount for me when i was the knights.

Thanks Hard News, I will go have a look at a few of them.

Scott McDonald and David Williams did wonders for me, also as Australian they don't take out a foreign spot in the ACL. After a season or two Brockie becomes a valuable asset, if trained well. His only problem is constantly being out on International games for NZ.

This is who is in my Euro 2008 Group.

Austria
Serbia
Turkey

Should be interesting i do expect to go through though. One group which is certainly the group of death is Group C which features:

France
Italy
Germany
Sweden

Looking forward to the challenge of managing in a major international  tournament for a change.

I haven't attempted being manager of a Country yet.

It's mean as man you gotta give it a go sometime just to vary your game a little.

I might try it out on the weekend.

I never get to play on the weekends anymore or well only if i stay in on Sat nite or go on Sunday nite cause i have football all weekend and after football hang out with mates, so i usually play during the week whenever i get a chance.

Been playing Football Manager for years now, since back in the CM days. My wife always knows what to get me for Xmas and then I speak to her about a month later lol

Well now i have my chance here's how i've gone tonight in Euro 2008.

vs Serbia 3-1 (Crouch 2, Gerrard)
vs Turkey 2-3 (Gerrard, Joe Cole)
vs Austria 2-0 (Lita, King)

playing Holland in the QF's in a few mins

..or not. Will have to put this one on hold.

If you're going to do what I did and try and win games with American Samoa, make sure you have another job or club to manage in the same game. I didn't, and would play perhaps 1 organised friendly with St Kitts & Nevis or someone like that, then wait out half a year for the next one. That was before Olympic, OFC and WC qualifiers.

I don't think I will even attempt to be American Somoa, I will probaly be a smaller European country, since they have the most World Cup spots.

Play with Djibouti in Africa. Nobodys even heard of that country.

Lol.

Have been able to play again today due to day off school for exam week.

QF v Holland - 3-0 (Crouch 2, Terry)
SF v Czech Republic - 1-0 (Crouch)

Final v Spain - will be played very shortly. Crouch is on fire for me very realistic i feel because in real life he scores regularly for England too.

England 1 Spain 0
Gerrard 45'

Gerrard scored with an injury time header in the 1st half to give me the win. I have to say i'm pleased about this Gerrard played well but being a bit biased i felt the Man of the Match was super keeper Paul Robinson who made about 5 world class saves.

CAMPIONE CAMPIONE OLE OLE OLE

Gratz on winning Euro 08, I might not even qualify for it. xD

Like a few people here in this thread here if been addicted for years.  Got into it with CM99 and have "pinched" (when I was a poor uni student) or brought every release of it since.  In 2002 it sigle handedly helped me to fail a semster at Uni, it can be like a drug. 

Spain v England - Euro 08 Final

...If you have 10 mins.

Do you guys have any recomendations on good free players on this game that can go to the      A-League. Or good loans.

Nope, if HN comes here he will offer some good tips or a few other guys on here who know more than me about the game, hopefully they will check the thread and help you out.

I'm currently enjoying the 2010 World Cup with England, having completed the group stage.

4-2 v Croatia (Crouch 2, Owen, Joe Cole)
3-1 v Paraguay (Owen, Sinclair, Wright-Phillips)
3-0 v Australia (Owen, Sinclair, Crouch)

Have drawn Belgium in the Round of Sixteen.

Sorry mate havn't played in the A-League yet ;)

Ecuadorian defender - Caciedo.  Positively superb.

i always start my games with a random conference league club, cant see the point starting with a club which already has stars, money etc

Same here.

I've played the Knights for the challenge, but normally it's Nuneaton, or Alto Adige.  Currently I'm playing as Skive in Denmark.  2nd in Div 1 after promotion from Div 2 West.  Looking for promotion to the big time.

Here is an update for FM07 which replaces the Knights with the Phoenix. Forzy2007-06-12 00:07:07

Cheers Forzy, look forward to trying it soon.

Lost the WC Final to Germany 2-1 so that might be the end of that game anyway.

Had a quick look at it but i'll wait until we've signed our next few players before I start a game with the Phoenix. Everyone that we have signed is in the Phoenix squad with this update, except Smeltz, although updates for this are done regularly I think so just keep an eye on that thread on the SI.com forums.

quality game

My latest FM game needed to be a bit different, as it was getting a bit stale.

So I found an update which had EVERY player starting the game out of contract and on a free transfer!

It's been really fascinating so far. I started as Arsenal - obviously it doesn't matter a massive deal who you start with, but club reputation, wage budget, etc is important.

There are obviously some huge, drawn-out battles for certain players signatures, whilst others go under the radar for ages. But it gives you the chance to create a fantasy side, of all your favourites players, or what ever.

My squad includes:

Keepers -  Cech, Craig Gordon, Kasper Schmeichel, and Nikopolidis

Defence - Gallas, Nesta, Bargazli, Carragher, Grosso, Barry, and youngsters including Micah Richards, vanden Borre, Bale, Pique.

Mids - Italian engine of Gattuso, Pirlo, De Rossi, plus Fabregas, Kaka, Giggs, Christiano Ronaldo, Robben, Bentley, and Chris James ;)

Forwards - Rooney, Torres, Huntelaar, Podolski, plus youngsters like Higuain, Rossi, Agbonlahor, Walcott, and Vonlanthen

Obviously not just a "buy all the best FM players" effort, as that would be a bit lame. So a mix of my favourite players (eg Giggs, Gattuso, Grosso, Cech) with players I'd never managed before (eg Rooney, Ronaldo, as I would never manage Man U ;), and certified FM stars (Vanden Borre,
Higuain, etc).

Obviously, it's tricky to balance getting carried away and having too many players for each position etc.

Afterwards, I noticed I had probably been paying far too much for wages (because I was so desperate to get these players, but because they weren't contracted, it appears the computer controlled clubs are picking them up for pretty low wages).

hey lads

Don't know how you can keep everyone happy with that squad. I'm in 2011 with Arezzo won the Serie A once looking for a second. Also picked up a world cup with Italy

team is:

Biel - Piccolo Chrygrynski Talamonti Marzio - Blazysowski Gago Biglia Ruschelleda - Doudin Vitiello

Lanza  - Boesnich  - Granqvist  - Donati - Croce - Di Donato - Gaston Fernandez

I always start with Port Vale and they soon become a random conference league club . . .

Hey do any of you know where this game is stocked?

Ive played 07 for quite a while now, i reccomend Fm-Britain for Footie Manager discussions, at the moment im managing arsenal, halway into my 3rd season, currently 2nd to Liverpool and on a 7 game winning streak =]

Squad As Follows

Buffon
Mannone

Toure
Micah Richards
Gallas
Omar Esparza
Johann Djourou
Eboue
Clichy

Gilberto Silva
Fabregas
Hleb
Ljungberg
Stewart Downing
Rosicky

Walcott
Carlos Vela
Adebayor
Thierry Henry
Aaron Hunt

Incoming Transfers:
Nicolas Millan

Outgoing Transfers:
Ljungberg
Aaron Hunt

Carlos Vela Scored 15 in 20 halfway through the season =]
Thierry 19 in 21 =]

-Tip-
If you ever sign buffon for arsenal, get him to tutor vito mannone
becomes instrumental

oh yea and if anyone wants to know of any gems, feel free to ask =]

Does anyone know the reason behind the inability to manage and have players for Holland, Germany, Japan et al? Also whats with no J League. FM is pretty big in Japan. Lastly Jens Mustermann?

Copyright.  If you read the press release for 08 it expains that they are trying to get Germany back on board.