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macktheknife wrote:
Spain destroy Australia.

The 2-0 scoreline barely reflected the complete and utter domination Spain put Australia through. After scoring twice early, it was almost a case of "how many" for Spain, but they took the foot off the pedal and Australian never got the engine started. Spain had 16 shots to 2, with neither of them on target for Australia.

Spain take on Germany in the final, whilst Australia take on the old enemy England for the 3rd place, and Commonwealth bragging rights.


lol c-mon Socceroos!!!!!
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Fail. 2-0 Ingerland.

Still, 4th place is outstanding.

In other news, I love the AI's transfer fee expectations.

Arsenal offered 13 million for a CB who I paid 9 for, and is worth 7 (and was a vital part of my campaign to secure 4th in the EPL last season). Rejected and the player gets angry.

I try to sign a 6 million rated left winger, Koln want 40 million for him, and reject 20 million. Go jump. Player doesn't even blink, despite me having gotten on his favoured personel list by tapping him up.
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Currently managing Barca. Hoping to peg down Real as the most successful club in La Liga.

That's only going to take some 20 successful seasons :lol:

mack - I hear you on the transfers. I have that problem all the time. SI need to address it ASAP.
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FUCK YOU BARCA.

I finally found a good DR, offered him, about a week after I'd offered him a contract (40k a week + key player), Barca decide to make a bid, he signs with them on 45k a week and first team. Fuck. That's like the 4th DR I've missed now.

It's nearly impossible to find a good player under 30.

This is pissing me off, I need to get the DR before I can move onto other targets.
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got Nigeria into the world cup after a 4-1 win in my last game.
after 10 games in the league with southend im first with 7-2-1 on 24 pts.
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afromanGT wrote:
marconi101 wrote:
Currently managing Barca. Hoping to peg down Real as the most successful club in La Liga.

That's only going to take some 20 successful seasons :lol:

Piece of cake. 8-[

Signed Andres Guardado and Joao Moutinho. Moutinho is fantastic, he is keeping Iniesta on the bench, which is very difficult indeed.

Edited by marconi101: 23/5/2009 02:23:07 PM

He was a man of specific quirks. He believed that all meals should be earned through physical effort. He also contended, zealously like a drunk with a political point, that the third dimension would not be possible if it werent for the existence of water.

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I finally found a good DR, offered him, about a week after I'd offered him a contract (40k a week + key player), Barca decide to make a bid, he signs with them on 45k a week and first team. Fuck. That's like the 4th DR I've missed now.

Havign a shit rep will do that...perhaps you need to go the 'developmental' path.
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Signed Andres Guardado and Joao Moutinho. Moutinho is fantastic, he is keeping Iniesta on the bench, which is very difficult indeed.

I prefer Veloso and training him up to be an AMC, much more dangerous I've found.
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Got sick of the bullshit (I found another right back, but his argentine club wouldn't accept 14 million when he was only rated at 4 million,) fuck that went and used Genie Scout and found a DR, I normally don't use fmscout, but whatever, this was pissing me off.

I probably would have found him eventually (I was filtering with 15's for the important positions, he only had a couple of stats at 14), signed him for 12 million.

Also stole a keeper from Liverpool, scouts say he's rated leading potential, so now I have 3 keepers with that rating.

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I had four previously and they ammounted to nothing. You need to be careful of that, sometimes competition for position (especialyl keeper) can be a bad thing.
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Yeah, they are all pretty young. So young I'm signing a proper backup. My new left winger and the new right back both scored in their first app for the club (5-2 win vs Palermo in a friendly). Have the Charity Shield, followed by the CL 3rd stage Quals vs Udiense.
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afromanGT wrote:
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Signed Andres Guardado and Joao Moutinho. Moutinho is fantastic, he is keeping Iniesta on the bench, which is very difficult indeed.

I prefer Veloso and training him up to be an AMC, much more dangerous I've found.

Veloso was unavailable (went to Real after they failed to sign Moutinho), another super midfielder in my current game is Lucho Gonzales. Tearing it up for AC Milan.

He was a man of specific quirks. He believed that all meals should be earned through physical effort. He also contended, zealously like a drunk with a political point, that the third dimension would not be possible if it werent for the existence of water.

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Lost the community shield. Scored first, gave up a moronic penalty in 1st half injury time, Tottenham came off the top of us with 2 goals in the last 5 minutes to win 3-1.
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Gonzalez is a brilliant one, but I've never signed him because he's a bit too old for my FM transfer policy.
Normally once one of Veloso and Moutinho leaves sporting they wont let the other leave for anything less than a king's ransom.
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I was just cruising around the search function, and stumbled across this 16 year old playing for some surburban club, put him on a youth contract with the Victory - best 16 year old I've ever found:

http://picasaweb.google.com/pippinu24/CarterFoschini#5338922705775574594

First two shots I compare him to the 21 year old Foschini that Afro and I have mentioned recently - chalk and cheese!

The 3rd shot is of Foschini, compared to another 19 yo LWB I have (just to show how average he is).

But get this - Foschini recently got a MoM with a 7.9.

Not only that, I recently was surprised to see he had risen in value from $350,000 to $625,000; didn't think nothing of it; then I noticed it was up to $650,000 - now it's up to $725,000!!

Why??!!

It doesn't make any sense - he's about my 30th best player, and yet he's something like the 8th most valuable - what's going on????


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It doesn't make any sense - he's about my 30th best player, and yet he's something like the 8th most valuable - what's going on????

Value is dictated by form and how often a player is played. Ie value to the club rather than the value of his stats. For some reason, probably form, the game thinks he's valuable to your club.

Btw, sign up John Carter ASAP.
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Almost finished season 19/20, with QPR. Only been here for two months, but I already know whose staying and whose not. It's going to be a busy transfer window. 10th with 7 to go, which is about where the club was at when I joined. Where we're expected to finish too. Will push for a Europa League spot, but unlikely. Lost that first game to Bristol too. 2-1, with a late winner for them. Kinda stung. They're in 15th though. I'd almost be happy to see them go down.
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raid your old bristol team for their best players...
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Plan to. At the very least, I'm getting that keeper back. I raised him into a World Class player, and I'll be damned if anyone else is getting him.
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One of the better aussie regens i've come across in this game in a while:
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/33/picture2iut.png
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/711/picture1mzm.png


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Plan to. At the very least, I'm getting that keeper back. I raised him into a World Class player, and I'll be damned if anyone else is getting him.

Yeah, he really was something special. He's got to be worth at least ten points a season.
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Did some major recruiting in the staff department. Realised I only had about 5 coaches and the maximum i could have was 17.
So now i've got no training schedule under 5 stars. Actually i've got one on 5 stars and the rest are all at least 6.
3 games to go and i've got Chelsea, Manc and West ham. If i can grab a point against Chelsea and a point at old trafford and the win against west ham i should stay in 11th.
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Ok i've kicked off my Australia career quite succesfully with friendlies against Sweden (Won 1-0 away), Croatia (Won 2-1 away), Tunisia (Won 6-2 home) and Israel (Won 4-3 home).
Got an asian cup group of China, Uzbekistan and Kuwait. I should progress easily along with China.

Ended up finishing in 13th position with Fulham...not 11th. Poor form at the end with a 1-1 draw against West Ham who were last and we were at home. It's still a good position though considering we came up.
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Finished 10th with QPR. Not the best form, but I wasn't really pushing for results, merely just waiting out the season. 5 players are on their way, with another couple to probably come. Bringing over 2 players from Bristol, that star keeper, and another player I found and groomed, a stunning right winger. QPR squad is actually pretty good, so just need to bring in a few top quality players and we should be top 5 material.
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QPR squad is actually pretty good, so just need to bring in a few top quality players and we should be top 5 material.

tbh, you could almost have said the same thing about your Bristol team.
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afromanGT wrote:
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QPR squad is actually pretty good, so just need to bring in a few top quality players and we should be top 5 material.

tbh, you could almost have said the same thing about your Bristol team.


Because you know what my Bristol team looked like? Tbh, I was very happy with my squad at Bristol when I left. I still don't know what wrong.
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You posted your entire squad on here and asked where needed to be improved FFS.
I couldn't work out why things weren't working for you, probably down to a hidden attribute somewhere.
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afromanGT wrote:
You posted your entire squad on here and asked where needed to be improved FFS.
I couldn't work out why things weren't working for you, probably down to a hidden attribute somewhere.

#-o #-o

That was my squad was from 4 seasons ago, when we got promoted. Current when I posted it, but the squad I left, I think about 3/4 players from that remained.

EDIT: Actually, I lie, about 10 remained. Only 2 of them were still first team players when I left though.

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You've shown me a fair few of your signings on MSN too...
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So at most, you've seen two thirds of my squad, but I don't remember showing you many from that team. Either way, I was more than happy with my squad, and my Tactics. The problem was either something I did, or players wanting to leave, the Morale was constantly sitting at a very low level.
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Blame your ass man....
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